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>>19434647
Why would you gather so many volumes of Ibsen?

>>19434647
What copy of Walden is that?

>>19434679
He's the greatest playwright of the world after Shakespeare
>>19434682
Book of the Month club

>>19434647
>>19434655
>>19434659
>>19434663
Did you also get tricked into buying the O'Connor collected works? I hated Wise Blood, and I wouldn't have spent so much on it if I knew I would only read her short stories.

>Thomas Carlyle
I'm related to him lol, didn't realise people actual still read his stuff though.

>>19434663
>>19434659
>>19434655
>>19434647
Catholic NRx?

>>19434838
I, too, did not find Wise Blood particularly interesting, though I will read her again. I love Southern culture and have to find a way to penetrate its literature.
>didn't realise people actual still read his stuff
They don't and that's why I do.
>>19434844
>Catholic
Yes and about to explore Platonism. I don't know if my faith will be strengthened or killed after I'm through with that.
>NRx?
I don't know what NRx actually means. Politically my beliefs are somewhat adjacent but the lines seem to blur between NRx-aries and Accelerationists and BAPers and America Firsters and straight up Fascists, with slight variations of emphasis on certain issues.

>>19434898
You sound like an absolute faggot.

I've bought a Kindle and tried to get into e-reading. It's tolerable for reading novels front to back. But when you're reading some nonfiction you really miss the ability to flip through pages and skim.

>>19434898
>I love Southern culture and have to find a way to penetrate its literature.
You should check out Carson McCullers then if you have time, she writes much better than O'Connor, and manages to write novels off her own skill rather than relying on C*tholocism for inspiration and theme.

>>19434900
Who hurt you?

>>19434905
What kindle did you get? I was thinking about, but I'm not sure if I should go for one of the expensive ones or not.

>>19434663
Great shelf

>>19434928
You and your Carson McCullers sycophancy and obsession with deriding Flannery O'Connor are the worst addition to /lit/ since butterfly. Get a life.

I'm looking at getting back into physical books so I don't wreck my eyes, but can you buy classics for cheap like with ebooks? If possible I'd prefer not to ruin my bookshelf with a penguin cover

>>19435537
Filtered

French books have better covers than any other languages.

>>19434642
Shit
>>19434663
>>19434659
>>19434655
>>19434647
Cringe
>>19434838
Tolerable
>>19435544
Based

>>19435693
Op also has a shelf

>>19434898
he's right, you do sound like a fucking faggot.

>>19435772
I can barely see any of it

>>19435279
Hey I was polite about that one! and there hasn't been an appropriate thread to talk about McCullers in for a while, and I have held back from making one myself, so you should count yourself lucky all you're seeing is a small recommendation in a shelf thread.

Had to get rid of my bookshelf to be able to fit a home office so I could work from home. Most of my books are shelved into closets now, just have some of my paperbacks out.

Had to get rid of my bookshelf to be able to fit a home office so I could work from home. Most of my books are shelved into closets now, just have some of my paperbacks out

>>19435693
Post shelf

>>19434642
You EOD or something?

>>19436303
>placing your books right before the windows and above the heater
my god anon

1/3
Fictions

2/3
History

>>19437153
>esl
dont bother with the rest desu

3/3 Philosophy
>>19437164
Whatever it means

>>19433892
>discuss or complain about why people don’t just download e-books
Why wouldn’t I want to express my interest in literature in my house? It’s like people who buy a dozen guitars, nice cars, and whatever other shit you can call a hobby but also is displayed in a household. I’d like to showcase that I’m a reader and that the literature I read is actually good literature.

>>19437140
Chad window+radiator combo vs virgin fridge user

>>19433892

>>19437206
consumerist display of goods, fetishization of the objects.

>>19437309
>you will own nothing and be happy

>>19437444
t. the bible

>>19437171
>no Proudhon
French anon, I...

>>19437259
Reevaluate you life.

>>19437479
Why would a proto marxist be of any interest?

Can anyone share a mega link with book collections?

>>19437529
no

>>19437171

Ton tonton, ton ton cul.

>>19437604
*tond to cul

>>19437900
gross

>>19433892
Unreadable
>>19434642
You finally got that other book eh? Now the shelf thread shelf is complete. Where do you keep the books you read?
>>19434647
>>19434655
>>19434659
>>19434663
An enviable shelf anon. What are the books that are turned around?>>19434838
Nice penguin collection
>>19435544
This is impossible. This is not real.
>>19436303
Nice that you get to work from home, too bad that most of the titles in this picture are unreadable though.
>>19437153
>>19437163
>>19437171
>The Prince in fictions not philosophy
>Shakespeare not in English
Ngmi
>>19437177
Really getting a sophomoric vibe here. Nice to see D&D
>>19437259
>Your country is being invade by migrants and you sit there with your ships in bottles reading?
>to the front line soldier!
>>19437308
Beautiful. Absolute flex
>>19437900
First of all, what is going on here. There is no order. Random HP editions, hardly any thought into organization. Rough.
How did you like The Poet X though? I found it was over hyped and under delivered.

>>19438353
Shelf thread shelf is for shelf threads only.

Books read are kept in Audible.

>>19438353
How come you have a massive book about Nietzsche but no book by Nietzsche? Have you actually read those books?

>>19438507
It looks like he might just be getting used books for cheap. I do see a copy of BGE in there though.

Just started reading this past year

>>19438353
>>Shakespeare not in English
Wrong it's bilingual version.
>Really getting a sophomoric vibe here. Nice to see D&D
It's all the book I have since I was a baby. Of cours it's sophomoric.

>>19438507
What do you mean? Beyond Good & Evil is on the left. I have the Gay Science in storage too. I've read 49 out of the 83 books including Beyond Good & Evil (and the Gay Science not pictured or included in the 49). I haven't read Heidegger's take on Nietzche yet, I picked that book up at the used bookstore (like almost all of my books). I am waiting to find Thus Spake Zarathustra so I can read it without having heard Heideggers opinion first.
>>19438532
Yes, exactly.
I only have 12 books here that didn't come from the used book store, all of them purchased years ago.
>>19439193
Ah, my mistake. Good to see it's in English.

>>19439048
>aircraft design
Based.

>>19438507
Oh, I also have On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life by Nietzsche in storage as well, but I haven't read that yet. I didn't find it pressing when I put it in storage, but I'll get around to it eventually.

>>19439048
Step outside this board sometime and try John Updike, Richard Wright, John LeCarre and the first 20 books by Stephen King.

>>19439688
You should check out Kaufmann's book on Nietzsche since you're reading his translation anyway.

>>19434838
Cool Pynchon printing, going to keep an eye out for those. Is the Gravity’s Rainbow Companion worthwhile?

>>19433892
7/10
>>19434642
7/10
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>>19434663
3/10
>>19434838
6/10
>>19436303
6/10
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>>19437171
4/10
>>19437177
4/10
>>19437259
2/10
>>19437308
3/10
>>19437900
7/10
>>19438353
6/10
>>19438447
1/10
>>19439048
5/10

>>19439825
Thanks, I'm not a fan of them personally, I get a bit weird about getting different publishers for the same author, so once I bought CoL49 in that edition I had to commit when I got the others. My mom even bought me the vintage classics edition of GR and I had to sneakily buy the other so it all matched.

The companion guide was also a gift, and didn't think it was too helpful. I somewhat stumbled through V, and used an online helper to get through it, so I was a bit intimidated by GR. It doesn't help with the content too much, but there is definitely a lot of the more obscure references in there that I would have missed otherwise, so if you want to autistically analyse it the companion is pretty good, but you could so without it. (Also srry for the double post, I accidentally clicked send halfway through).

>>19439870
>1/10
Did i strike a nerve, christlarper?

>>19439896
No, I'm just not a fan of bookshelves consisting entirely of translations of French """theory"""

>>19439771
Ok, thank you recommendation anon. I'll keep my eyes open for it

>>19434838
Are you the McCullers anon? I feel like she’s been memed pretty hard lately. I’m guessing you made the Sally-Rooney-is-actually-ok thread also. I see you Pete

>>19439919
It's my guaranteed replies shelf. No reason to post the others. "Theory" usually implies some convoluted political argument which is only a small part of Bataille or Deleuze and hardly what they are remembered for in any case. James and Whitehead are of course not French .

>>19439919
give us more of your commentary

>>19434900
>>19436000
That's how people talk outside of 4chan, like in real life, try it sometime, also checked

>>19439963
Yeah that's me, but the only meme is people calling me tranny and telling me to take meds when I try to have good faith discussions. The Rooney thread was also me, but I'm not so enthusiastic about her, but its is funny, I get the same sort of responses with her as I do with McCullers.

And my name isn't Pete as well lol.

>>19439930
Princeton publishes it. Wait for winter sale

>>19439986
It’s always worth a try. I do actually have McCullers complete novels but haven’t read them yet, planning to soon though. It’s just funny because I’d never heard of her when I bought the book and now she’s everywhere I look

>>19439964
>which is only a small part of Bataille or Deleuze
Hilarious. Both were 68er larpers to their cores. I'd reccomend you some books on the matter, but you only read translations it seems.

>>19440022
Bataille is dead before 1968. Deleuze's writings on Bergson, Spinoza, Nietzsche Plato etc., have little to do with electoral French politics, certainly far less than the later stuff with Guattari.

>>19440002
>It’s just funny because I’d never heard of her when I bought the book and now she’s everywhere I look
I'm not going to lie, most of it is me lol, I read her a few months ago and fell in love with her and I don't really feel like posting about anything else. I stopped myself recently though because I think I started annoying some people, and I also lost my head a couple of times and said some mean things, so I have a few anons who follow me round and insult me whenever they see me. I'm sure you'll like them though.

>>19440057
Yeah lit/4chan tends to stomp out any tripcode/non-anonymous type behaviour unfortunately. I’m guessing the heart is a lonely hunter is a good place to start?

>>19440056
The spirit of 68 existed long before the events of that year; Bateye was one of its progenitors. As for Deleuze: his metaphysics cannot be extricated from his politics. To believe otherwise is an admission of breathtaking naivety.

>>19440105
>his metaphysics cannot be extricated from his politics
Of course it can. That's the whole point!

>>19440065
>I’m guessing the heart is a lonely hunter
Yes absolutely, its my favourite novel I've ever read. The Member of the Wedding is also great, so if you liked THIALH, then I would read that one next. After that, The Ballad of the Sad Cafe is my favourite, but really you could read anything, she has some good short stories like Wunderkind and Reflections in a Golden Eye you could read as well. There is also a movie for THIALH, but it didn't really have the depth of the book at all; there is a play for The Member of the Wedding too, I read through the script but it wasn't much better than the book, so I wouldn't bother with it either. It's just a shame there are no showings in theatres near me for it and all the recordings are too old to enjoy but as I said the novel is still great.

>>19440112
Then why wasn't it? It was no accident that his politics was the way it was, and it was no accident that that brand of metaphysics was and still is highly correlated with leftist nonsense. Those seeking to extract a "based" interpretation from his work are in for a world of hurt. In any case, you should stop reading translations of French theory you silly pseud.

>>19435544
Half the fun is the book falling apart in your hands hands while you read it, then placing it lovingly back on the shelf with a few pages from the last chapters of the book missing

>>19440140
I just don't care about the politics. It makes for contextual discussion sure, but beyond that it really doesn't matter what ideas you have about politics unless you have the power/money to execute them, and I don't read philosophy to support the development or formation of a political theory. Of course they were part of a framework of marxist discourse because that was the religion of France at the time and they were on the payroll of the state, and all ideas went through that as through a matrix. Were they highly orthodox marxists I probably would not bother reading them since you can get that very directly elsewhere; they are interesting despite their marxism, as interpreters of Nietzsche especially.

>>19440116
Thanks for the recommendations anon

>>19434679
>>19434692
He's my favorite playwright. I particularly liked wild duck. It's so subtle and clever.

My kids periodically come into the office, take the books off the shelf, and my wife hastily replaces them. I'm working on a new built in to address this and we'll donate the old ikea shelves.

>>19440400
I read mostly historical monographs, although I'm a simple carpenter these days.

>>19440400
>>19440404


I think I'll have an oriental history/literature shelf, a Western Tradition shelf, and a modern monographs section.

>>19440400
>>19440404
>>19440415

I intend to make a very large shelf to compliment the living room shelf, here, which is occupied mostly by the childrens' books.

>>19440426
I will also remake the face-frame of these shelves with solid pieces. These have warped a bit.

>>19440404
>books on their sides
based

>>19440435
do you live in a shed?

>>19440438
My wife puts the books on their side sometimes, I don't care.

>>19440445
No, I live in a moderate sized, century-old house, on an acre of land, with my wife and tots. I read books in four languages, prepare articles, revise the works of my peers, and have publishers send me free books for review and prize committees. It's a pretty sweet gig.

>>19440461
Dust your shelves, they look DISGUSTING.

>>19440461
Do your tots know you're bragging on an internet image board?

>>19440461
lol did he strike a nerve?

>>19440461
I give away most of the textbooks the publishers send me.

It really bothers me that the publishers send me $50-100 books, ask me my opinion, and then try to sell them to undergrads with unique access codes to online quizzes and other BS.

It seems like a terrible waste of paper. People should only assign books in the public domain for most history, philosophy, religion, and literature courses. Students have enough bills as it is.

>>19440461
My God, a grown man with children arguing on the internet over a small comment.

>>19440461
>No, I live in a moderate sized, century-old house, on an acre of land, with my wife and tots. I read books in four languages, prepare articles, revise the works of my peers, and have publishers send me free books for review and prize committees. It's a pretty sweet gig.
ok shed man

>>19440463
It's the poly, I wasn't very talented at finishing when I applied it. this was my first project. It shames me to look upon it.

>>19440465
They struggle with most of the concepts you've introduced in that statement.

>>19440469
Yes. The depths of my shame reach back to my ancestors who look upon me with regret.

>>19440461
>No, I live in a moderate sized, century-old shed, on an acre of land, with my wife and tots. I read books in four languages, prepare articles, revise the works of my peers, and have publishers send me free books for review and prize committees. It's a pretty sweet gig.

>>19440474
>>19440479
>>19440484
Captivating my audiences with arresting statements remains a specialty.

>>19440461
Some grown ass man bragging to teenagers on 4chan because someone called his filthy house a shed. Just lmao

>No, I live in a moderate sized, century-old house, on an acre of land, with my wife and tots. I read books in four languages, prepare articles, revise the works of my peers, and have publishers send me free books for review and prize committees. It's a pretty sweet gig.

>Captivating my audiences with arresting statements remains a specialty.

>>19436457
If you insist

I also built this shelf for the kids' room with oak, walnut, cherry and a bit of cedar.

>>19440522
House of the dead left a strong impression upon me. I included references to it in a few papers. It has a timeless quality for prison-reform and discussions about the homeless.

>>19440525
You are so desperate to prove you don't live in a shed you went to the one room in your house that doesn't look like a homeless shelter to take a pic, and it happened to be the room of a literal child. Makes you think.

>>19440537
Trying to discuss bookshelves. We do have them in each room of our shed-like hovel.

Hopefully the tin siding I've Gerry-rigged to the walls doesn't come off during the next twister and ravage my piles of pulp.

I just recently got the idea of stacking some of my books sideways. I love the look of it.

>>19440553
You're pathetic, dude

>>19440567
Does that mean you don't like my bathroom bookshelf?

>>19440560
You've got some nice fiction books--the wife and I had a discussion about Wurthering Heights today. She found it more enjoyable than she had expected.
I read a great deal of dick and simmons as an undergrad. I found the third and fourth of the hyperion series to be a boring let down.

>>19440638
Please find attached the image of the bathroom bookshelf

Just moved in, still no missing about half of my books

>>19434642
>bible
>not KJV
ngmi

>>19440638
Thanks. Some of those fiction books, Wuthering Heights especially, was listed on the barnes and noble sale as "brand new" but it arrived and got fucked up in the shipping process because the dolts didn't put any protection between it and the other six books I ordered. At least consider the lobster turned out relatively okay. Haven't read Wuthering Heights yet but looking forward to it. I enjoyed the other Bronte sister's seminal work, Jane Eyre, in college.
As for Dick, yeah, he's fun. Haven't read Hyperion yet but it's on my list to read next year. I need a new copy of my LOTR though, my 14 year old freshman self wrote in the table of contents, checking off each chapter after I finished them, so they're essentially ruined by my standards.

>>19440807
>video gaymes
Cringe

>>19440807
Don’t take this wrong anon, I’m glad but this is the worst shelf I’ve ever laid my eyes on.

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>>19440461
3/10
>>19440522
7/10
>>19440560
6/10
>>19440807
6/10

>>19437177
le marvel?!?

>>19437486
t. filtered faggot homo

>>19437309
nigger you sound like you sniff your own shit

>>19440445
>>19440461

>>19440522
wow i thought you were a meanie to those other guys but here you have the same tastes as i do (not >>19436457)

>>19434663
>wagner - jesus of nazareth
r a r e
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>>19439976
You talk like a redditor, but I was referring to the content of what you were saying, not the form. I'm glad I'm not you.

>>19441652
Hello German bro with Dutch books, you have interesting btaste there. Junger is one of three Germans to have his collected works published while alive.

ESLs consistently have the worst taste in books.

>>19437164
catty nigger

>>19437259
you must be over 18 (and certainly over 15) to post here

Why are like half of the people here french speaking?

>>19441652
Is that Ben Hur abridged? I bought a copy for cheap before realizing it had been hacked.

>>19441652
>Sieferle
>Sein und Zeit
>Jünger
>Heerlager der Heiligen
>Evola
>Kaplaken
servus, neurechter anon. You just need a little more Benoist and Benedikt Kaiser

Out of my way plebs

>>19442632
Favorites?

>>19442275
I turned 18 last year but the books remain

>>19439870
No taste or lowwit

Here’s one of them

>>19441615
you cannot even begin to understand what was said.

>>19439048
Good start and great shelf
Also all nice editions

>>19443333
Checked, and a very boring and average /lit/ shelf. You should try recs from outside the board sometime.

>>19442666
Its complicated mephistopheles

>>19443747
I have 6 more bookcases. Just don’t feel like posting them all at once. And regardless, I read what interests me anyway and I don’t care what others think or do

>>19434659
>the manipulated man
King

>>19443340
>throws around hyper online phrases
>thinks it makes him some sort of a dark web intellectual
assuming you're not underage, you need to have sex or at least go outside more often

>>19443898
>I read what interests me anyway and I don’t care what others think or do
>has 7 shelves
>posts the one that would most appeal to /lit/
yeah sure you don't care

Would love some inspo for a good bookshelf design that's halfway between art deco wankery and ikea soulessness.

Something quality and not ornate

>>19437177
>donald duck comic books
based

>>19444655
You’re right. I care about it more than anything in the world

>>19443898
>I don’t care what others think
mensonge romantique

>>19442492
I've only read 'Wir und die Anderen' by Benoist. Haven't read anything by Kaiser, I'll check into that!

>>19442421
It's a Dutch translation I've had since I was a kid.

>>19442666
Checking those devil digits

Surprisingly small collections for /lit/. I've read over a 100 books since last October, and before that I hadn't read a single one since 2005.

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>>19447538
comfy as fuck

>>19447462
You aren't reading those books properly anon.

>>19434898
>People dont read carlyle
Lol

>>19437259
>Guinness World Records 2011

This boards is really just /pol/ lite isn't it? I have unbound hatred for trannies but the discourse here has grown incredibly stale.

>>19447839
>This boards is really just /pol/ lite isn't it?
lurk more

>>19441652
What kind of autism is this that let you put some books upside down?

Ansonsten sehr anständig, Kamerad

>>19434642
Honestly 'miring. Bottom right one especially.

>>19447538
2021 does not deserve this image quality.

>>19448205
I don't care about 2021.

Hi everyone

>>19447672
do you know 10 people that read carlyle? and if so where do you live

i have a virtual shelf :)

>>19448481
I've never read a Stephen King book, but I'm familiar with at least a dozen of his stories. It's pretty impressive the influence he's had on culture.

>>19440522
does that rimbaud have any selected letters as well?

>>19440522
doesn't that make it impossible to get a book?

>>19448989
the jaunt is really good

>>19448928
We have a decedent of him in this very thread idiot.

>>19449420
so?

>>19449020
Couldn’t say. I’ve never actually read a book, I just buy them to impress girls

>>19451208
2/5

>>19451214
3/5

>>19451218
4/5

>>19439048
> Just started reading this past year
no clifford the big red dog or anything? just jump straight to big boy books?

>>19451230

>>19440435
anon do you sit in that little spot? must be uncomfortable.

>>19448987
fellow calibre user

>>19451242
Did you just assume his height?!

>>19451251
is he a midget then?

>>19440522
This Anon reads
Based electricity chad

>>19439976
You sound like an absolute faggot

>>19451255
He's a shed goblin

>>19451255
everyone on lit is a manlet or an incel

>>19434659
you should lie the kelmscott Chauser down; the text block is probably sagging.

Roast then recommend please.

>>19452087
Is this a joke?

>>19452087
popular culture is gross, honestly you'd be better off being a skitzo than a normie

>>19452087
Can't spot a single book I would comfortably read.

>>19452206
>>19452199
>>19452102
You could say I’m going against the culture of /lit/

>>19452102
No

>>19452199
I bought the paper version of A Promised Land after reading it on Ebook.

>>19452206
What would you comfortably read anon, and why should I care to read it?

>>19452217
Not doing the work for you.

>>19452228
Huh so you don't actually read books you just post about it on 4chan got it.

Absolutely pathetic.

>>19451230
>karajan
>the blue danube
>several volumes on mushrooms
absolutely based

>>19451242
Built for kiddos, they sit and read dinotrux or Thomas.

I built a bigger book for a friend's kids in their bonus room.

>>19452844
The cat rests under this shelf from within the vast shed.

>>19452858
faggot cat

>>19451237
could you tell me the name of the artist of the painting on the left?
very comfy collection

>>19454675
Nice "And Quiet Flows the Don" collection. I want to read that. I watched the soviet film adaptation a couple years ago, which was great.

>>19454675
Why so many copies of the same stuff, though? Just wanted different translations?

>>19454798
shouldn't have too many? loeb homers I got because I'm interested in studying greek, and the everymans dostoevskys are in terrible translations

>>19454805
>shouldn't have too many?
There are too many books I want for me to have duplicates on my shelves (>>19442666 >>19442421). As it is I need to build more. Also need to eradicate some books by reading more of the stuff that's not as immediately interesting to me and passing it on.

Currently reading War and Peace (Rosemary Edmonds translation). The edition is ugly as hell, but it's a nice read.

>>19453732
The creepy giraffes or the people? hah, I'll assume you'd mean Mother and Child by Frances Hodgkins :)

>>19437259
>>19447771
Anon please read a funny entry for us

>>19455748
/thread

>>19455748
anon... if you really want to post a shelf at least take a picture that isn't blurry so one can read the titles

>>19455755
you should be able to tell what books i have from the colors

>>19455787
Extremely based. The red ones are always my fav.

>>19452858
is that a planter in the middle of your room? please explain.

>>19440522
what is the photo of the girl with the gun?

>>19447911
I want to have all the book titles point in the same direction

Where is the anon who always posted 16 pic of its shelf???
The one who used to post a special pic with books without context?