/lit/ - Literature

>>1952871
Conservative.Father probably served in the military.

>>1952885
>Gotta Collect em' all faggot

>>1952871

most eclectic? Looks like all the shit you read in high school, and you are stupid enough to actually pay for a douglas coupland book.

>>1952886
eh close about conservative (I'm libertarian). father was a lawyer.

>>1952885

>no ASoIaF

I will upload two of my bookshelves (actually around 1.5 shelves).

Shelf 1/2

>>1952888
you've never been given a book as a gift? microserfs was a birthday present from my uncle. I won't use it as kindling because I don't have a fireplace.

>>1952885
there are Dexter books? 0.o

Shelf 2/2

>>1952894

When you make a list of 'what can you tell about me from my books' most people go in assuming that

A. You've read all the books you are displaying.
and
B. You are displaying books that you liked.

No pictures but I can list the titles:

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Grendel by John Gardner
A Collection of 7 Novels by Jules Verne
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Ulysses by James Joyce
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Native Son by Richard Wright
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
The Crying Lot of 49/V by Thomas Pynchon
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

A good portion of these are from a library though.

Don't have a camera:
>Sound and the Fury
>As I Lay Dying
>Light in Augst
>The Great Gatsby -.-
>This Side of Paradise
>Catch-22
>A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man
>Sons and Lovers
>Lolita
>Grapes of Wrath
I only purchase books i like, shelf is pretty small so far.

>>1952891
From the strong presence of the "Introducing" and "...For Beginners" series in your collection, I assume you are a psuedointellectual dilettante. Your greatest insecurity is appearing ignorant or uniformed. You've sought out "quick guides" so you can impress your friends with your superficial knowledge of "serious" and "important" intellectual fields. amirite?

>>1952902
>implying I would go through trouble of rearranging my books to post on some Internet forum.

anyone who owns lolita is a pedophile

>>1952891
have you read all the volumes of 'Capital'? impressed.jpg

>>1952907
you're classics-obsessed?

Recently read/recently bought shelf.

>>1952917
0/10

>>1952924
mexican

>>1952921
Yep!

>>1952910
Not right! Those were the not-technical shelf, and here is the rest of my bookcase.

>>1952940
>guiness encyclopedia

Since most ended up unreadable, list:

Long Day's Journey into Night
Doctor Zhivago
The Labyrinth of Solitude
Gormenghast series
The Oil Jar and Other Stories by Pirandello
Eugene Onegin
Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination
A Reader's Guide to Japanese Literature
The Crying of Lot 49
Some Salinger
Le Petite Prince
Outlaws of the Marsh
The Paper Door and Other Stories
The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon
The Prose Edda
The Saga of the Volsungs
The Cancer Ward
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

>>1952871
You either are, or have been, a student at Georgia Tech.

Don't Have a camera:
>Fahrenheit 451
>Animal Farm
>The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde & Other Short Stories
>Nine Stories
>Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction
>The Power of One
>Slapstick
>Travels with Charley and Later Novels (by John Steinbeck)
>The Great Gatsby
>A Tale of Two Cities
>The Trial
>The Red Badge of Courage & Other Short Fiction
>The Holy Bible (King James Version)
>Henry IV, Part I
>Mother Night
>Of Mice and Men
>For Whom the Bell Tolls
>Oliver Twist
>Breakfast of Champions
>A Confederacy of Dunces
>A Clockwork Orange
>The Grapes of Wrath
>The Catcher in the Rye
>Slaughterhouse Five
>Brave New World
>Cat's Cradle
>The Road
>Huckleberry Finn

>>1952947
nope. why'd you think that?

>>1952952
You're a socialist. You're introverted, withdrawn, even your close friends don't *truly* understand you. You don't like current U.S. foreign policy. You're bisexual.

Proof the only reason to have physical books is so others can see them.

Just some stuff I've bought, sometimes I just go and post up at a library.

Yep.

>>1952956

>>1952959
an atheist

>>1952959
Sweet, my Kindle is on the Verne screen right now too. I feel a sense of brotherhood with you because of this.

But from your pile I'd say you're male, about to enter college or just finished your first year of it, recently got back into reading seriously, and are starting with the essentials/things mentioned on /lit/ often.

>>1952959
19, college, probably female.

>>1952963
daddy complex

>>1952888

hey, why is douglas coupland so hated on /lit/. be as colourful as you need to be in your explanation

>>1952950
Anyone?

I donated my previous collection to the local library. I've started buying once more, finally reading Dostoevsky in a more up to date translation.

Sill I have these OCD issues which upset me over all the P&V translations of Dostoevsky not being done in a similar style. Yeah, it's foolish consumerism, but partially I have a difficult time remaining focused if I'm not reading from a book.

Guess I'll just get over my silly OCD tendency concerning books. I just wish I could buy everything with highly plain covers simply so they match.

>>1952963
Conservative American Anglophile

>>1952976
A person who enjoys graphic novels.

>>1952972
We're wondering why you have 'Henry IV' instead of 'King Lear' or 'Hamlet' or just about anything. But anyways. definitely male. pretty good taste. sociable. out of college. probably late 20s or 30s.

>>1952950
Just finished high school or maybe in first year of college. Still living with parents. Not too adventurous in your reading, sticking with established classics and what is popular. Possibly not adventurous in other areas as well.

>>1952978
Your situational awareness is impeccable.

They take up so much shelf space that I have none left for actual literature.
I seriously have stacks of novels everywhere, but my only shelves are dedicated towards comics.

>>1952940
>>1952900
>>1952891

Anyone?

>>1952985
hmm you're hard to read. You are pretty wealthy and pursue your interests with brio. You like horror and sci fi movies. You work in a cubicle. You live alone.

>>1952979
I had to read Henry IV in my freshman year of high school. I was actually considering getting a copy of Hamlet today, but I got the Sirens of Titan.

>>1952953
Several of those are required reading. And they were the less well known ones in the pic.

>>1952976
Someone who attempts to stand out by reading comics most others do not.

>>1952966
Did some college, but not there anymore.
>Bluejacket's Manual
>Sub qual card
obvious clues
Also Yeah, trying to not get into reading, but trying to pad out my reading history with some more classics so that I don't seem completely devoid of any knowledge on the modern english cannon. But I also don't want to be like: "Oh well, /lit/ said this book was bitchin, that's what I'll read and like.

>>1952906
>>1952906

Oh jeez, nobody's gonna make fun of me?

:(

A combination of books to read, just read, and favourites.

>>1952906
You like things that are big. You probably enjoy black penis.

>>1953004
You like obscure music.

>>1953004
Is that an abridged Brothers Karamasov? Why is it about the same size as Notes?

I've a bad camera:
>Macbeth
>Dracula
>La región más transparente
>Leonora
>Cuentos completos: Benedetti
>Levantado del suelo
>The queen of the damned
>Ulises
>Dubliners
>A clockwork orange
>La carcajada del gato
>Les miserables
>Gringo viejo
>Anthologie de l'humour noir
>Animal farm
>1984
>Other voices, other rooms
>Music for chameleons
>The Karamazov brothers
>Papeles inesperados
>War and Peace
>El principio del placer
>Inventario
>Ensayo sobre la ceguera
>Ensayo sobre la lucidez
>Perfume
>Cuentos completos: Poe
>Paz en la guerra
>Los renglones torcidos de dios
>Carmilla
>The vampire
>Thus spoke Zarathustra
>Rayuela
>Crime and punishment
>Cuentos completos: Nabokov
>Los de abajo
>El llano en llamas
>Pedro Páramo
>El viaje del elefante
>The green house
>Travesuras de la niña mala
>Candide
etc

Woah bad quality.

>>1952871
>>1952959
>>1952906
>>1952907
>The Sound and The Fury
>>1952907
>>1952952
>>1952959
>>1952963
>Catch 22
Standard male early 20s.
Pseudo-intellectual with a family involved in some way with the military. Wishes to attend college if haven't already.
Needs a girlfriend.

>>1953008
Nah, my copy of Notes also has White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and some selections from The House of the Dead.

>>1953013
wrong on 4 accounts.

>>1952885
>>1952900
>>1952924
>>1952940
>>1952976
>>1953011
>Comic books and Pulp-lit everywhere.
Boring underachievers that may or may not have girlfriends.
Get educated faggot, or be good at something.

>>1953013
>>1953013

I don't NEED a girlfriend.

;-;

>>1953020
Which is yours, by the way?

As far as comics go, those are great series.

>>1953020
>>1953013
Do >>1952945?

>>1953020
>mfw i'm an exciting overachiever with a fuckbuddy, halfway through a biotech major, write and illustrate a local comic series and work as the coffee/errand boy at a publishing firm
What now?

It's a shelf and a half (kinda), but it's made up for by the fact that you can probably only read half the titles... Shitty camera, sorry.

>>1953004
Anything else besides liking obscure music? I suppose that could be true.

>>1953010
Mexican.

No empty SD card to hand so here's a shelf and a half.

>The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevesky
>The Butt, WIll Self
>The Quantity Theory of insanity, Will Self
>The Third Man, Peter Mandelson
>The Hell of it all, Charlie Brooker
>A Journey, Tony Blair
>The Rise and fall of the third Reich, SHirer
>1984
>George Orwell collected Essays
> Europe's Left in Crisis, Fabian Society
>Letters to a Young Contrarian, Christopher Hitchens
>God is not Great, Hitchens
>Hitch 22
>How to Change the World, Eric Hobsbawm
>Communist Manifesto
>Marxism and Law, Hugh Collins
>The Revolution Betrayed, Trotsky
>Main Currents of Marxism, Kolakowski
>The Five dialogues
>An enquiry concerning human understanding, Hume
>The Basic writings of Bertrand Russell
>The Province of jurisprudence determined, John Austin
>The Concept of Law, HLA Hart.

>>1953050
I was thinking of picking up Orwell's Essays, but it's around $25 for the book, and I'm poor now. Worth it?
All I've read before is 1984.

>>1953050
Someone trying hard to be edgy.

Possibly 13 years old.

Male.

>>1953050
And here's the half

>Neoconservatism and why we need it, DOuglas Murray
>Rights of Man, Thomas Paine
>A Song of Ice and Fire 1-5
>Money
>Essays in Jurisprudence and Philosophy, Hart
>Utilitarianism, JS Mill
>The Lord of the rings

>>1953058
>too poor to afford $25
Just mow two lawns you lazy ass

>>1953068
You mean twelve lawns, with all these damned illegals around.
I do agree with you that it's easy as hell to get twenty-five dollars, especially if you've no scruples, but in many areas the choices are rather limited.

No camera.
A bunch of Terry Pratchett, PKD, Raymond Chandler, and sixties counter-culture crap. Too much of my money is going to comics, I guess I'll mention DKR, Persepolis, and Final Crisis as my favorites.

>>1953068
>>1953081
I mean $25 for a single book.
I can buy 5-6 used books in near-perfect condition for just as much.
Hell, nearly all my money goes toward tuition, just trying to be economical and all.

>>1953081
I live in SoCal, illegals everywhere. I could still go out and mow a few lawns within my own neighborhood if I'm desperate for $25 bucks. All those illegals are chilling at Home Depot anyways or selling oranges on the corner. The poor mans lawn mowing industry is still alive.

shitty picture is very shitty.

from one of our bookcases, these are the two shelves that contain mostly fiction
> 90% of these books are mine
the others belong to my SO
(guess which ones...)

>>1953093
Really? I've been pitching the lawn-mowing-for-money thing to my friends and family and they all say it wouldn't work. Guess I just gotta do things myself.

>mfw people have non-fiction and fiction on same shelf
>thehorrorthehorror.jpg

>>1953101
>>1953093
I've never even heard of someone else mowing lawns for money.
It's always a chore for whichever teen in the family, or for immigrants if you're rich.
But then, I live in Florida.

>>1953100
World War Z and House of Leaves.

>>1952924
>leyendo a Joyce y a Pynchon en español
why.jpg

>>1953108
'world war z' is 'ours', 'house of leaves' is mine

>>1953114
Was I close?

>>1953113
The same reason faggots read Bolaño and Pablo Neruda in English.

They don't know any better.

>>1953126
yeah but with books in english is easier. just borrow a credit card and use amazon; that's what I do

>>1953119
shitty aliens/predator books, not mine
'running man' not mine, but i might eventually read it
the rest are either mine or of questionable ownership

>>1953129
Amazon sells lots of books in other languages. There's no excuse, in my estimation.

By the way, can you even begin to fathom how shitty Ulysses would be, reading it in translate? Like copying Botticelli's work using a box of crayola.

> Like copying Botticelli's work using a box of crayola.

Not sure why, but this analogy made me want to high-five.

Here's one of my bookshelves. Sorry the quality's so shitty.

>>1953100
and because i'm very bored
same bookcase
two shelves of mostly fiction
bottom 100% mine
top maybe 75%?

>>1953130
Oh I didn't even notice the alien/predator books, or my mind just crammed it into science fiction and I was looking for something that stood out.

>>1953102
seriously
that shit is fucked up

>>1953159
i would have thought 'heidi' stood out most!

>>1953191
Neckbeard/10

>>1953097

boobies/10

>>1953242
asshole/10 :p

>>1953165
Well it did, but I decided that it probably wasn't going to be too obvious.

I love these threads where people are asked to survey, picture, or in some other way encapsulate their tastes, and there are a countless shit-ton of replies, and almost nobody looks at anyone else's. Does a very good job at highlight 4chan's essential masturbatory nature.

> IhavenotripandyetIpost.jpg

>>1953249
well yes
and as far as which books aren't mine, it wasn't the obvious one
'heidi' is mine
so good thinkin'

Here you go:

>>1953251
I've looked at most of them, but I haven't commented. Sometimes threads like these help me find something new to read.

>>1953259
Someone who probably has never taken a literature class. Possibly underage and unattentive in English class.

>>1953259
RAPIST !!!

go back to facebook you tards

>>1953259

There it is. That Power Book again.

An idealist's list of some pseudo Machiavellian logic that doesn't work in the real world. Even Machiavelli had a sense of humor.

Fear my B&N Classics.

1/2

>>1953336
Sorry about the dust and shit resolution.

>>1952973
All of my dostoevsky is P/V and from Everyman's Classics, which are beautiful. I reccommend them.

>>1953336
Cringe/10

>>1953336
I have that edition of the Count of Monte Cristo! I've been wanting to get an unabridged version for a while now, though. I didn't realize it was abridged when I bought it. Really wish people would put that on the front cover or something. It's just as annoying as when you pick out a book and start reading it, only to realize it's like the third in a series, even though the cover didn't mention the other books at all.

>>1953196
>>1953247
>>1953358

>>1953354
P/V - Underground
Monas - C&P
MacDuff - Brothers

>>1953381
Yeah, same. I was pissed when I finally realized it was abridged.

My shelf in its very candid state, ignore the kids books. I've read about 3/4 of the real ones here.

pic 1/3

>>1953786
dumbfuck forgot the picture

2/3

>>1953792
3/3

>>1953790
>>1953792
>>1953795

can we be friends?

>>1953807
Sure man, could always use friends.

>>1953790
>>1953792
>>1953795
>In a mess
>Folded corners
>Bending covers
>NOT ALPHABETISED

AUTISM HAS REACHED CRITICAL LEVELS

>>1953813
Everything's in sight, why alphabetize?

Come at me.

>>1953839
You probably read a lot more than whats on that

>>1953849
In college/living with roomates/crammer. Type that thinks about national cultures and how it influences people. Or thats what the books think about.

>>1953811

To friendship!

>>1953859
So, wanna go to like concerts and shit?

>>1953871

okay.jpg.

What kind of music do you like friend?

>>1953887
All kindsa shit. Seeing The Pains of Being Pure at Heart in a week, shoegaze type of band. Just went to pitchfork, animal collective, yuck, and the dismemberment plan were the best. But any music thats playing in front of me I'll usually dig.
>Implying it's not insipid pop distortion

>>1953898
>pitchfork
Pretentious imbecile confirmed.

>>1953899
"any music thats playing in front of me I'll usually dig"
Dude, seriously? I went to pitchfork because my friends were going and they had some awesome bands. Just because I was involved with a website that exposes cool music and then writes pretentious drivel about them doesn't mean I follow them at all. At the festival I mentioned to my friend jokingly: pitchforks a scam, they tell these hipsters what to like and then sell it to them. Why hate on a good music fest, troll?

>>1953913
Because I'm jealous I couldn't see Battles, Das Racist, James Blake, Wild Nothing, Fleet Foxes and Baths.

David Foster Wallace can suck it
jest cannot relate to tennis and his interminable prattling about what his parents may or may not have said 20 years ago.
Also Fuck Virginia Woolf

>>1953898

Don't worry about tom, he has some sexual obsession with robin williams (posts him everyday) and doesn't know shit.

Cool musical tastes colleague.

No camera...

>Crime and Punishment
>Notes From Underground
>The Trial
>The Castle
>The Metamorphosis
>Dubliners
>Clockwork Orange
>Homage to Catalonia
>1984
>Animal Farm
>Egils Saga
>Njals Saga
>The Prose Edda
>The Táin
>The Celtic Twilight
>A Song of Ice and Fire
>A lot of Discworld novels
>LOTR
>Chomsky on Anarchism
>Understanding Power - Chomsky
>Chomsky: Hopes and Prospects
>British Archaeology
>Richard Dawkins: The Greatest Show on Earth
>AB guide to Music Theory

>>1953945

For my part, I listen to music that sounds good when you're high. And punk.

>>1953950
For my part, I listen to music that sounds good when you're high.
>All music sounds good high except punk.
And punk.
>And there it is.

>Portable Dante
>Complete Short Prose of Samuel Beckett
>Complete William Blake
>Selected William Blake (loliusedtolikehimalot)
>The Hero With A Thousand Faces
>The Stranger
>Tales of Unrest (Joseph Conrad)
>The Secret Agent
>The Waste Land and Other Writings
>The Sound And The Fury
>The Wild Palms
>Light In August
>As I Lay Dying
>Absalom, Absalom!
>Kaddish
>Howl
>Faust
>Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
>Mythology by Edith Hamilton
>The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
>Dubliners
>Stephen Hero
>Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man
>Portable Joyce
>Essential Keats
>Visions of Cody
>The Dharma Bums
>The Subterraneans
>Sons and Lovers
>Doctor Faustus
>Love In The Time of Cholera
>Paradise Lost
>The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings
>Early Writings of Ezra Pound
>The Cantos of Ezra Pound
>The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
>Leaves of Grass
>The Picture of Dorian Gray
>Orlando
>World's Greatest Thinkers: Man and Man
>World's Greatest Thinkers: Man and The State
>World's Greatest Thinkers: Man and The Universe
>World's Greatest Thinkers: Man and Spirit

>>1953969

I lol'd.

>>1953978
Probably a chicagofag

>>1953983

Close, Michigan. Why do you say so?

>>1953989
I was just at a friends friend whose shelf looks near identical to yours. Just trying my luck. Nice books by the way.

i have no camera so i just squinted at my shelf from bed and painted a still life

>>1953992

cool guys in chicago sounds like.

And thanks.

>>1952952
>>1952952
That Edgar Allan Poe book is very attractive.

>>1953999
You put way too much effort into that. I like it.

What's in the "Brazilian Literature"?

>>1954020
I was going to ask the same.

>>1952885

Is that Shakespeare doing a facepalm in the right below corner?

>>1954020
>>1954021
Well, have a look at it:

http://books.google.com/books?id=9qpUAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

I've only flipped through it in a desultory fashion so far, haven't set to readin the whole thing yet, so I can't tell you much. Do you know anything about Brazilian literature?

>>1954033
Ask anything to a brazilian.

>>1954033
nope

>>1954044
What should be my first book(s) to read in portuguese?

fiction, nonfiction, and poetry are all acceptable.

>>1953354
Perhaps, I can only truly read when reading behind a book. Any other medium usually leads to easy distractions. I've considered then, being that I don't spend my money on much beside bills, of building myself a nice library. I guess if I want a book to last me my whole life, hardback is the way to go.

>>1954059
then again p&v have yet to translate all of Dostoevsky's works.

>>1954049
really, any cultural information you can toss my way would be wonderful. Films, songs, jokes, poems, historical figures, anything.

I watched Orfeu Negro a while back, that was interesting

>>1954049
How well can you read in portuguese? I'd recommend you the basic introductory stuff, perhaps poetry. You might wanna check out poems by Mário Quintana, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Vinícius de Moraes. Also listen to Chico Buarque. He writes a great deal of good lyrics, some of them rich in structure.
Check out the literary movement named "arcadismo", they adopted a much more comprehensible language than the baroque poets.
W/r/t prose, I'd tell you the same-ol' Machado de Assis. His prose is clean, sharp as fuck and pretty fun. Start with Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas. There is also Guimarães Rosa, he's a pretty tough read but he's awesome, and if you want to read his early short stories, they're great, not an easy read but well worth the time, and beware he mixes portuguese with latin and english altogether.
Lima Barreto's 'Triste fim de policarpo quaresma' is also a good and fun read and contains a lot of details about brazilian's sec. XVIII society (if i'm not wrong).
And there are the goold-old-classic, like Eça de Queiroz, Graciliano Ramos, Aluisio de Azevedo... All pretty much brazilian lit 101.

fuck portugese somebody say something about my book collection.

I want to post in these threads but I'm afraid my younger brother browses /lit/ and will find out not only that I do too, but that I post in these threads.

>>1954066
thank you!

With Portuguese I am reliant on the dictionary for vocabulary, but I understand the grammatical structure well enough that I am not lost. Still I imagine anything but the basics will take an effort. I like that, though.

>>1954075
You could just post the books you have and not a picture.

/lit/ will be dissapointed by the lack of classics. Well, there is the Gibbon so take that.
Some of them are in Finnish from a time before I realised I could cut out the middle-man, the translator.
Some are my gf's so if you are aghast because of a particular book, blame her.

>>1953947

Come on people. Figure me out.

i dont own a camera

vanity fair
age of innocence
middlemarch
david copperfield
plato/epictetus/marcus aurelius
the uses of knowledge
concerning the principles of human knowledge
i, claudius
asimov's opus 100
solitaire chess
the memory book
dante's inferno
wuthering heights
marcus aurelius - meditations (again)
collected stories of o'henry
history of mathematics
the clown - henrich boll
the idiot
the book of the city of ladies
hemingway story collection
of human bondage
tropic of cancer
fathers and sons
the lessons from history - will durrant
the google story

>>1954084
>>1953947
18/19 years old, music major, british

>>1954091

Close but no cigar on all 3 counts

>>1954091

Actually I forgot a book which may help:

Transformation of Ireland 1900-2000.

>>1953947

Older than 25 years of age, socialist, American

>>1954084
you are my ex boyfriend, but your hair is different since i last saw you. you're wiser now, calmer--more at ease with yourself. You've lost weight. that dreamy anarchist spark of yours still smoulders alongside your preference for metal music, but your interests have been expanding since we broke up. your lute lays untouched and out of tune beside your clothes hamper.

I am a sherlock holmes GUY, not actually sherlock holmes

>>1954103
>>1954106

Way off now.

22, N.Irish, history student.. despise metal music and not a statist socialist. Leninism is fucking appalling.

>>1954111
Well, no wonder our relationship was a disaster.

>>1952945
No one ever did mine. ;_;

Pleased to meet you, /lit/.

If you can make an accurate generalization based on this bookshelf (top shelf in bookcase next to my bed), I would be very surprised.

Apologies for shitty photograph, but if any of the titles are illegible, just ask.

>>1954103

You should have said either anarchism or specified LIBERTARIAN socialism. He's clearly too hip for the vanguard left.

>>1954118

Too hip for lenins counter-revolutionary bullshit.

>>1953153
i approve of this
except for dan brown
burn it

also reminds me that i still have not read 'death from the skies!'

'i'/'me' being...
>>1954082
>>1953100

>>1954116

Why post a mirror image, asshole?

>>1954123

you ULTRA-LEFTIST fools are the counterrevolutionary ones herp killemall herp

>>1954125
or, you know... pretend i put those reply dealies in the correct order :p

>>1953999

brazilian literature begins and ends with machado de assis. and lusitanian lit begins and ends with fernando pessoa. there are other writers worth looking at---clarice lispector, mario de sa-carneiro---but that's where i'd start.

incidentally, if you are a gay boy with a slight stammer and a reading knowledge of portuguese, can i ask you out on a date?

>>1954126

Because I'm ambidextrous, you cocksucking motherfucking imbecile. Suck on this.

>>1954131

FAGS GET AWAY FROM MY LITERATURE FAGS

>>1954134

lol 'ambidextrous' wtf does that even mean

>>1954126
>Why post a mirror image, asshole?

Well asshole, to actually answer your question, the reason I accidentally posted the mirror image is because one of the book-spines is printed in mirror image font.

But I guess you didn't look carefully enough to notice that one title wasn't a mirror image.

>>1954140

ambidextrous = "capable of writing in boustraphedon with my right hand and boustraphedon with my left hand independently and simultaneously while also fucking your mother."

>>1954146

>>1954131
thanks! I've written this stuff down. No idea when I'll get 'round to it, but it's more than a passing interest so it'll be tended to eventually.

also
>oh my gosh, Anonymous finally asked m-me out on a d-d-date!!

>>1954157

You really are aggressively moronic, aren't you.

Is that because English isn't your first language, or because you were regarded as less intelligent than you think you are by your schoolteachers?

Or both, if necessary?

>>1954159

(i've been liking your posts for several weeks. never realized you were gay until this thread!)

>>1954142

English neckbeard?

That's my bookshelf. Hope you monkeys like it.

>>1954164
I'm gay for you, Anonymous, and I have been liking your posts for years.

>>1954174
Check out the higher levels of understanding this cool guy occupies. Obviously none of us would get his behavior or humor, and the books he reads are way beyond our understanding.

>>1954160

>>Doesn't realize I already knew what ambidextrous means

>>1954174

What will you do when there is a nuclear holocaust? Whilst we read our books atop rubbles, you will have to scavenge for batteries. Sucks to be you.

>>1954191

>>1954191
Why would one use books for anything else apart from making fire in the middle of the apocalypse?

>>1954191
Well i think he's still capable of reading books should a catastrophe occur.

>>1954200

yeah but he won't have any in his possession.

I actually have two rows of books per shelf, so I just took a picture of two shelves to get the same effect.

>>1954203
So he can loot a book store.

>>1954208

And in that case who wins? Print books.

>>1954214
Yes. I'll be sure to keep it in mind if a nuclear holocaust occurs.

>>1954206

>Dan Brown
>Stephen King

Catch 22 was the only respectable one I could find.

>>1954216

And what if you get caught while looting a book store and become somebody's buttprincess?

See, in the long run, having an e-reader will get you assraped too.

>>1954217

Well that's bad news, because I don't actually HAVE a copy of Catch 22.

>>1954222

Another case of monkey logic. The need to show off with your shitty papery trinkets is so prevalent that you cannot conceive a rational human being wouldn't need to read a book more than once. Transforming written letters to lasting neural connections is the way to go. But let me guess, your shelves serve as trophies and books rest there never to be read.

Never change /lit/.

>>1954229

>he never reads a book more than once

>not keeping your books in a fridge

>>1954229
>a rational human being wouldn't need to read a book more than once
What? How being rational has anything to do with the capacity of memorizing a book by heart?

>>1954229
>>1954229

Nigga please, we be readin that shit like our eyes have taste buds and the book is roasted chicken dipped in gravy sauce. Allday, errday.

>>1954232
>memorizing
There's your problem, monkey.

>>1954236
>Transforming written letters to lasting neural connections is the way to go.
Wasn't it what you said? Or were you just using unnecessary words for "yeah, I remember reading this book"?

I'll be the first person to argue against buying books, but this is retarded.

There's nothing wrong with reading books more than once, and buying them isn't required to do that.

>>1954241
Sure, one can be inefficient in any activity during his lifetime. But why would one take it as acceptable, desirable or even as a virtue?

Limited amount of resources, infinite amount of desires. Why shoot yourself in the foot?

>>1954088
anyone?

:(

>>1954247

Are you suggesting reading a book multiple times is inefficent?

We are not talking about rereading Harry Potter here. Especially with essays and science books, multiple readings prove most fruitful.

>>1954247

I'm not sure what it is you're trying to say.

>>1954088
>no aSoLaF

>>1954254
>>1954088

British, Mathematics or History major, early 20's.

Most of my books are stored in drawers or bags and boxes spread all over the place, I don't have enough wall room for bookshelves.

>>1954160

>>Doesn't realize I already knew what ambidextrous means

Well, you do such a good job at seeming entirely ignorant, I decided to give you the benefit of the doubt and treat you like a moron.

I imagine your teachers have been doing the same for a long time now, no?

>>1954269

lol 'teachers'? more like professors.

But I guess. I'm a terrible student, that's for sure.

Oh and you're mad.

Have at it, /lit/.

>>1954420
Just realised the picture's rubbish so:
Paradise Lost
Virgil's Works
Butler's Hudibras
La Vie des Abeilles
Plautus
The Apollo
Civil Wars in Germany and England
Adele et Theodore

4 u twatty

>>1954266
math major, yes. the rest, no. choose though so good job

>>1954432
I must say I rather like the Oxford editions.

>not having new penguin modern classic editions with the old style modern classics

>2011
>not downloading books for free

>>1954434
*close, holy fuck im tired

guys i took a better picture.

(i am so proud)

>>1954441
old and rich? perhaps a lawyer/

>>1954437
this is hakas btw thats my shelf

>>1954453
nice shelf hak

You plebs are all mad fucking jelly of my Terry Pratchett shelf.

I would like to point out the majority of this bookshelf is unread, I also have a kindle. The majority of these books were bought second hand or on sale, or as a gift.

Apart from Going Postal I bought that Hardback and Pratchett signed it. Again; you're fucking jelly.

>>1954494
...why would I be jealous of your shit books?

>>1954494
i've read a fair amount of terry pratchett, and it seems like something i would or should like
but i think it falls into my 'uncanny valley' of writing
it would need to be either slightly better or slightly worse for me to enjoy it properly
if that makes any sort of sense at all

>buying books and not reading them

c/lit/ in a nutshell

>>1954524
OH BOY YOU'RE RIGHT THERE'S A TIME LIMIT BEFORE THE WORDS RUN OUT I BETTER READ IT ASAP

>>1954441
plebs are jelly of my antiquarian books.

>>1954532
Awww cute, economics ignorance at its best. I guess your mommy buys you the books?

>>1954438
I defy you to find a copy of Stephen Greenblatt's 'Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare' downloadable for free on the internet.

>>1954559
>2011
>still thinking there are more things outside the internet than there are inside
>computer and internet illiteracy as an excuse
stay classy

>>1954564
So I'll take that as a 'No, I can't'. Thanks!

>>1954566
Np, not like you would grow a brain anyway. We need toilet cleaners as well.

>>1954568
OK. I don't know if there are more things online than off. There are certainly different things online than off; some things can only be found on the internet, others only in actual books. Actual academic texts, for instance, cannot be found online nearly as often as the literature itself. I was just giving an example of something that is still worth having on a shelf. You're also ignoring the fact that a majority of my books were made/bought before the internet existed...

>>1954572
You still staying ignorant of the punch-line.

>>1954564
also the internet cannot hope to compete with books like those in:
>>1954441

>>1954584
What punch-line?

>mfw my shelf was completely ignored
so arone

>>1954677
You are supposed to remove Ayn Rand from your shelf when you take a picture of it for /lit/.

Buy books that you:

- Will need to reference alot
- Are gonna write in
- Might accidentally jizz on because it truly is one of your favorites

>>1954683
>- Might accidentally jizz on because it truly is one of your favorites
But I have to buy the book before I can judge how good it was. Because I need to read it first.

>>1954690
>anon cannot into library

>>1954690
Very well. But libraries can often be of help in these circumstances.

>>1954692
>>1954697
Buy books, read them, save the best, DONATE THE ONES YOU DONT LIKE TO THE LIBRARY

There. I win.

>>1954557
My mother probably bought the majority of the Pratchett's for me; so yeah you're right. She bought a good 90% of the ones pictured for me second hand as she encouraged me to read.

I recall buying the other ones (Going Postal was the last Pratchett I bought and that came out seven years ago), so yeah.

And if I see books on a good sale or second hand (AS I MENTIONED EARLIER) I will buy them, that makes up the majority of the second shelf.

What's the matter buddy? Can't afford to buy books?

My currently reading/to read self

>>1954704
Librarian here.
Libraries don't want your old books. They have strategies that decide which book to get to improve their collection.

>>1954704
Well, I'll concede that you win when it comes to following The Rules, but you still lose when it comes to being an obsessively thrifty hobo bastard

>>1954719
Oh wow anon, GRRM and a book by Yahtzee?

Yeah these are my most recent/next to be read books.

>>1954733
sorry about really shitty quality, laptop cam.

>>1954729
bought the yahtzee book on a whim, got boring quickly. just got the GRRM books a few days ago. Going to finish The Years of Rice and Salt before I switch over to them

>>1954721
Your library sucks balls man

This is my mid-K thru Q shelf, by author.

JUDGE ME, /lit/. JUDGE ME.

Come at me bros.

>2011
>paying for books

>>1954767
>2011
>still being poor.

>>1954764
Most of the titles are blurred.

>>1954775
>2011
>having a job

>>1954761

There seems to be a gap on your shelf between The Book of Ralph and Beloved. Did you remove a book before taking the picture out of embarrassment? Of course you did. But which book?

Can't be a big book, since the gap is pretty small, and the author's last name has to have a first letter M and a second letter between C and O, inclusive.

It's Moody, isn't it? You have that shitty God Hates Us All book and even alphabetized it under Hank Moody. What a cowardly piece of shit you are.

>>1954776
Yeah, shitty camera phone. I'd take another but it'd probably turn out the same.

>>1954781
2011 and not living off your trust fund like the hipster you are.

>>1954764

>Heart of Darkness for PS1

Don't even care about the books. Dope game.

>>1954783
woah.

>>1954789
>2011
>Using Tegan and Sara reaction images.

I hope only Tom Harper does this

>>1954799
>Implying he didn't steal the idea from me.

>>1954803
>Implying he did

>>1954803
>implying we know who you are

>>1954783
10/10

>>1954441

So you have a first edition of the third part of Butler's Hudibras, and a first edition of Maeterlinck's book about bees? And the complete works of Matthew Prior? Have you ever tried reading any of it?

I cannot think of a logic that would want to collect all that stuff together, unless you just like the look of antiquarian books. Either that, or you're a six-hundred-year-old vampire with a holiday flat in Ostend.

I'll list my most recent;

>Alexander Pope's "Essay on Man"
>Dante's "Divine Comedy"
>The Oddysey
>The Iliad
>Paradise Lost
>Gravity's Rainbow
>V.
>1984
>Animal Farm
>Zbigniew Brzezinki's "The Grand Chessboard"
>Aquinas on God
>The Book of Genesis

Do your worse.

>>1954853
average /lit/ter

>>1954809
That's because you're a pleb and not hip enough.

>>1954881
And what would that entail?

Nice pun. But not as harsh as "rubbish", or "shit".

>>1954899
Lady Sovereign is a harlot.

>>1954957
Why would you say these things TH?

>>1954845
A bit of column A and a bit of column B. Bought the Maeterlinck because it's just such a beautiful book, and got it at a real steal, but I think the Virgil's my favourite. Of course I've read the books; not the specific editions on the shelf, they're too old for reading, really, but I have read the texts in other, less valuable, editions.

>>1955014
Oh, and I read English at university, if that helps.

>>1954845
Also, it's not the third part of Hudibras, it's the first and second.

>>1954957
>>1954957

>implying she isn't one of the best UK Grime artists to date,

>>1955031
>BB liking Lady Sov
Was not expecting that.

>>1955031
>implying she's easily one of the worst

>>1955036
>>1955036

>not thinking i really like Grime

>>1955038
>>1955038

>implying you implied correctly

>>1955038

>>1955038
>he doesn't know what imply means

STOP WITH THE FAGGOTRY AND GET ON WITH THE SHELFS