/lit/ - Literature

>>19009684
If you have to ask, then yes, you retard.

There is only pseudo-intellectualism

>>19009684
Dud Avacado is great

>>19010025
Thanks but honestly not a big color of the spine.

>>19010037
>not a big color of the spine

>>19009684
Worrying about such things is peak pseud, second only to someone who would judge others as a pseud over something so insignificant. Do you really want anything to do with the sort of person that would pass such a judgement?

>>19010178
I don’t really get your point. My aesthetic is usually more dark academia and there seem to be a lot of brown and maroon NYRB books so I think it could work.

>>19010197
>My aesthetic is usually more dark academia
cringe

>>19010197
It is a vein attempt at applying more meaning to something than there is and the only ones who care about such things are those that care more about that ersatz meaning than the actual content and its meaning, a pseud.

>>19010241
So why do we have book covers that aren’t completely blank then, genius

>>19010197
You need your fucking head caved-in
Imagine being you, fucking hell

>>19010257
I heard /lit/ was cool. Should have known better. Cunt.

The Daphne du Maurier story collection is excellent if you can do orange.

>>19009684
Here’s my advice. Buy some old porn magazines off eBay. Watch some bookbinding videos on YouTube and make your own book covers using much more s’est ethically pleasing covers. Plus bookbinding is more “lit” than absinthe or heroin etc…

>>19010290
Dude I’m not solely interested in the look. A lot of the books sound good and everyone’s got a boner for Stoner.

>>19010288
Never heard of it

>>19010253
Because women and fags like op wont buy books unless they are aesthetique

>>19010253
We do, but book cover art is about marketing, well documented with many books on the topic. This is why producers of hard covers which are ment to last, like LoA and Everyman just use a generic dust cover that is more about identifying the publisher than screaming the loudest. They choose to set themselves apart through quality instead of marketing and the dust jackets are just a way to insure the cloth does not get filthy from being handled in the book store and to identify the publisher from a distance.

>>19010342
LOA like law of attraction?

>>19010333
Yeah Bc having style is so bad. Fuck off

>>19010349
Library of America. None profit publisher which focuses on high quality editions and is dedicated to keeping books in print, they do not take any of their title out of print.

>>19010427
Oh. These are always in the free little libraries in my neighborhood. Probably for a reason lol Wendell Berry? Yawn

>>19010381
Old bookshelves of simple designless hardbacks are infinetly more beautiful than almost anything printed today.
>LoA and Everyman >>19010342
and Bibliothèque de la Pléiade are the most aesthetically pleasing editions.
And anyone describing themselves by using Dark Academia is a fag more enamoured with the idea of reading than with literature and learning itself.
You should want a book first, than choose the edition. You sound like you want the NYRB books because they are pretty, what they conatin between the covers is secondary.

>>19010456
>Old bookshelves of simple designless hardbacks are infinetly more beautiful than almost anything printed today.

Maybe if you have no aesthetic sense. Fortunately I do.

>>19010435
Yes, pretending to read as a fashion statement is so much more interesting.

>>19010197
>My aesthetic is usually more dark academia
>there seem to be a lot of brown and maroon NYRB books
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>>19010673
It’s so easy to bait y’all fools. Thought the 7k writing course was my masterpiece.

>>19010197
>My aesthetic is usually more dark academia

>>19010197
Colleges should do this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XF3inumRhPI

I haven’t come across one yet that didn’t seem worth reading.

>>19010548
Tell me than, which do you prefer
1.

>>19011830
or 2.

>>19010197
Lmao based

>>19011830
(Not him)
1 is objectively better. Books produced before the 1970s are the generally only books worth owning.

>>19011864
They last longer too

>>19011840
2 without the reddit collectibles infront of the books, books ought not to be heavy with thick wrapped leather and make a big deal out of looking good, they should focus on presenting the information in a neatly sized fashion, and the decoration should allow for it to blend in a bookshelf, not make every single piece stand out and look like vomit

>>19010197
based bait poster

stoner was flagrant false advertising

NYRB is a joke. Black writers are massively underrepresented.

Theyre a publisher of 6/10 or 7/10 if lucky books. Theres usuqlly a reason many of their titles were "forgotten" but yes they have a noce little aesthetic if thats what you are abput more. Nightmare Alley was a cool one I picked up not to long ago. Apparently del taco is making a movie on it.

>>19010197
If I could stomp on your face I would.
I hope I'm being trolled.

>>19014656
who cares about niggers?

>>19015046
Who cares about white writers

>>19010197
Terrible bait
Have a (you)

>>19015155
I dunno dude. I chuckled. It was pretty solid bait.

Not for pseuds. Generally good books. They also have a cool series for kids.

>>19010197
very successful bait

What’s the best brown spined NYRB book?

>>19011840
Color-based bookshelf accomodation is for posers, literal idiots and women

>>19016239
I just like the way it looks. Who cares

>>19016243
>I just like the way it looks.
- A literal idiot.

What if someone wants to find a book?
https://youtu.be/AYxmPHLU9oA

>>19016294
No one has been in my room in months. Not gonna happen.

>>19016300
My condolences

>>19016315
Don’t need them. People are usually vastly unintelligent and/or remarkably uninteresting.

This post is sorta wholesome.

>>19009684
>running the books you want to read past people on 4chan to make sure youre cool

go outside bro

>>19017950
Is that a threat

>>19010197
holy shit that's some good bait, kudos

>>19018003
Thanks lol

>>19010197
Wow, exposed a lot of midwits with that delicious Waldunian bait. Cheers!

>>19009684
I personally think it’ll look cute.

anybody else join the nyrb classics book club

my god what a regret, its literally a vehicle for unloading jewish woman coming of age books that no one would buy otherwise maybe like 2 out of the 12 books for the year looked interesting

>want to do pseud thing
>think pseud thoughts like “will doing this make me LOOK like a pseud”
>be a pseud

>>19009684
Some of the books are for pseuds like that one book by hollywood roastie. Most of them are obscure/rare gem classics, out of print classics and new translations.

They got this coming out soon and new translation of Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev.

>>19018991
Yawn.

>>19018960
>anybody else join the nyrb classics book club my god what a regret,

I'm retard and even I knew that joining was bad idea. Not every new book is worth picking up. You gotta understand that academia has been poisoned by surge of trying to be woke which includes pushing LGBT, jewish and negro writings.

Only NYBR book I’ve read was Chess Story, and that was really good. Why do people even think so hard about this stuff. It’s just a book, pick it up and read it.

>>19019124
Says someone whose house is probably beige.

>>19009684
Just read. Who cares if it's "pseud" or not. Outside of /lit/ it means nothing.

>>19010197
>My aesthetic is usually more dark academia
Do you also smoke a pipe and wear sweater vests? Read books you enjoy reading.

>>19019256
Yeah. While I fuck your gf.

>>19010197
>My aesthetic is usually
omfg the world is doomed. how did we fail the zoomers worse than the boomers failed us?

>>19019348
Eat my hole.

>>19009684
Stoner is fucking based

>>19019424
Warlock is too

>>19010197
My aesthetic is usually more hobo academia and there seem to be a lot of shitbrown and puke green books from dumpsters so I think it could work
EMBRACE HOBO ACADEMIA

>>19009684
>books
From your post why even bother?

>>19009686
Fpbp

>>19011830
>>19011840
both look fake, like someone put them together just to show them off as a decoration rather for their content.

>>19009684
literally just read what you enjoy and stop worrying its more weird to have a perfectly curated collection than to have something really ecclectic

>>19018991
Could've just learned French

>>19009684
i, as a real intellecutal , have never heard of any of those books. therefore they are pfor tseuds.

>>19009684
This may be symptomatic of some deeper insecurity.

Why do you care what other people would think?

>>19021305
Everyone cares. Nothing wrong with me reading but also caring about the aesthetic of what I read.

>>19019309
Incel hands typed this

>>19021862
Hardly bro.

>>19009684
read stoner

>>19022037
Honestly more into short novels and novellas. Trying to read 25 books this year.

>>19010197
Fucking Harry Potter-wannabe motherfucker
>Ohohoho my DARK ACADEMIA is so brooding and intense
like nigga just lmao. just fucking "flipendo!" nigga lmao wtf. lol. `just lol.

>>19022251
Idiots still falling for the bait. OP is a true nigga.

>>19021845
Buying a few Wordsworth classics might help you.

Look how shitty this Dracula looks. It made me care way less about this sort of stuff

when i first got into reading older books with variety of editions i made a conscious effort to not care about the look of editions, but as time goes on i put a little more effort in. i can find faulkner in any used bookstore in america, and i have enough other things in my backlog, so i might as well wait until i find a nice quality edition that's not written in and won't fall apart while i'm reading it. nicer books do feel nicer, figure out what you like and look for them.

that being said, don't buy a collection of books because their editions are nice lol. i have the dud avocado and stoner in this style and they're pretty nice, but if you aren't interested in them don't buy it

>>19009684
The Summer Book is excellent and can be read in a day.

>>19023509
Tove is a true nigga. Love her. W82ty

>>19010178
This.

>>19010197
you actually are dark academia, but true dark academia, not that poseur crap. welcome to the fold

>>19014656
They got a new black author out this month actually, but yeah their selection is slim
>niggers can't write tho
Adults are speaking.