/lit/ - Literature

ONE NEEDS TO OWN THE BOOK BEFORE READING IT.

>>19425095
>He doesn’t understand that’s how it works

>>19425095
>He owns books

>>19425188
>He owns nothing, has no privacy and has never been happier.

>>19425095
Shit up bitch

I keep telling myself, no more new books until I work the backlog down to only two or three books but I always wind up seeing something I want and either go into a shop or order it online
It’s like an addiction.
I’m like a marijuana fiend or something

>>19425143
>>19425147
never thought that I would ever see you two agree on something.

>>19425192
I used to have a truly massive shelf, but it's been whittled down to the bare minimum because of my trait of changing towns and provinces more often than I change my clothes.

Speaking of clothes, I just discovered that an entire drawer of them has gone moldy. Truly it's a wonder how I haven't even opened that drawer in months(I only have two drawers, the other one is for socks).

I guess, the mold is an ally in my quest for pure asceticism. I think the final purge of books is coming because soon I will drop everything and move again.

The finalist books are:

The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction & Fantasy
Refuge in the Black Deck
Lanterns & Lances
The Good War
Neon Genesis Evangelion - Tony Takezaki

They will stay with me for the journey because they do not exist in e-book format. Everything else is replaceable with a simple download.

>open anon's fridge
>it's full of uneaten food

>>19425095
>he reads books

>>19425390
If you have bad taste there's no reason to own physical media, so you've made the right decision

>>19425530
The Prentice Hall Anthology is something I once collected randomly from a thrift store, but it has the greatest assembly of science fiction and fantasy I've ever seen. GRRM before he was famous, Asimov, basically every short story that wound up as a twilight zone episode, that guy who wrote Lord of the Rings made it in there and so did Shirley Jackson. I've never encountered a better "anthology" type book. Stephen King's there too.

Lanterns and Lances is also an anthology, but of one author. It holds one of my favourite short stories ever(The Last Clock).

Refuge in the Black Decks is one of those typical books written from a female victim's perspective about how the Navy is evil and sexist, but it's amusing in the fact that she's wrong about everything. Very rarely do you ever get to see a first person account of someone behaving like a total moron. It was not overly popular, so it's important to keep.

The Good War by Studs Terkel was the inspiration for World War Z by Max Brooks, but unfortunately does not seem to be lasting through the ages. It's an oral history of WW2. It tells stories such as army supply truck drivers overdosing on meth so they can make the 16 hour trip from the beaches of normandy to berlin because they never got another supply port in the whole damn war.

Evangelion - meh fuck I don't have to justify myself, but again, all the kept books are great and not readily available digitally.

He owns a dictionary but hasn't even got past the first chapter yet.

This is just two pages of my prentice hall book. There is even more stories beyond what is pictured.

>>19425351
Just write it down then? That's how I do it.

Acquiring, arranging and curating my antilibrary brings me more satisfaction than reading.

>>19425580
>pirate pdf
>read it
>delete it
I do not own a single piece of media, in fact everything in my appartment can fit in a single briefcase

>>19425591
based

>>19425591
Slave mindset

>>19425147
this film was trash

>>19425591
Based anti-consumer

>>19425095
>there are people out there who buy physical books while they could get the same book much cheaper in a Kindle
>there are people out there buying books that they could get for free online
>there are people out there buying books that they won't even read

Makes one wonder why are so many millenials and zoomers crying about how the economy left them behind and how their terrible financial situation is not their own fault but the fault of boomers.

Why would I keep the book after reading it. Once I finish it, I either give it away or throw it in the trash. Rare 1 in 10 books remains on my shelf if I plan on re-reading it in the future. But hoarding read books in general is dumb and pointless.