/lit/ - Literature

Prove that's your shelf.

>>19751684
how could anyone still be stuck at the second asoiaf book?

>>19751699
I'm still stuck in the first.
Because I think they're shit and I much prefer the TV-show, because it has tits and hairy cunts.

>>19751684
Makes me wanna kms.

>>19751684
Sovl

>>19751705
based
me coom too

>tfw no Dostoyevsky funkopop

>>19751684
Anime isn't real.

>>19752959
Based

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>>19752915
Do you live in a used book store?

>>19751684
It's thread. Not bread. Thread. And before you reply, I don't want to hear about your heckin pupperino, your wholesome moment at Starbucks, or that time you were on the bus and everyone clapped. I just want you to acknowledge that it is spelled thread, not bread.

>>19753000
Ask me how I know you smoke cigarettes.

>>19752988
Blessed Marie Kondo taught me only to keep the books which sparked joy.
Everything else is digital.

>>19753104
Lol you're a retard.

>>19752966
What the fuck is that photo hanging at the top of the picture?

>>19753199
Ok hoarder

>>19752915
I like it, some nice vintage paperbacks on that left side/bottom

Don't see much of the Phillip K Dick stuff here these days, I had a few, loaned them out.

That Rabelais looks nice.

One guy on this board loves the fragile shelves I built, I post this one for him.

>>19753104
This guy must be in a seminary. With that dark stained oak trim on the left, with the large 8d traditional square cut finish nails, it's gotta be a spartan affair there.
He'd probably love my messy setup.

>>19752966
Do you live in a manufactured home? Is it what we in the South call, a trailerhome?

>>19753315
Beautiful set you have there

I have a question for you'ins with the bigger book shelves.
Do you play video games? I hardly read and I'd just like to know that it's extremely poor time management on my part. I know I waste a lot of time on this God forsaken site and on other more exotic websites. I also watch so much stuff on YouTube...

>>19753315
Some new additions of old editions include expanding the classical world section.

>>19753356
The Burckhardt pleases me like one can't imagine. I've always read his stuff online and finally found some good translations of solid, good quality hardcovers.

>>19751684
this shelf looks to either belong to a preteen boy or an adult Reddit-American

strange request, OP
>>19752959
based

Xmas villages packed up

>>19753524
so you don't about how you vicinities look
and you don't care about accessing a book easily

you're just lazy
and also poor, since this is not a bookshelf

>>19753331
glad to see you're still alive

>>19751705
its ok bro we can ur a retard

>>19753331
Extremely good taste turning the Tom Cruise book outwards.
I would put it higher up for a better shitpost factor.

>>19753561
Just barely bro, was out all day chopping fire wood and messing with the big chainsaw (full 3/8 Chain) in preparation for the snowstorm that's befalling our hamlet this eve.

>>19753584
This better?

>>19753639
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>>19753329
>>19753315

FUCK OFF THIS ISNT YOUR PERSONAL BLOG. POST YOUR SHELF ONCE AND SHUT UP

>>19753555
>so you don't about how you vicinities look
I assume you forgot the "care". No, I am not a woman.
>you don't care about accessing a book easily
how hard is it to lift the books above the one I want to get it out? You must be really weak
>since this is not a bookshelf
How is it not a bookshelf?
It's a shelf with books in it.

>>19753639
Yes.

>>19751684
Finally got a chance to separate some of the fiction from non-fiction

>>19753687
You have some lovely books there, with some unusual ones included, The Marquis de Sade I just saw for $4.00 at my used book store but hesitated, I think I'll wait for a hardcover.

Glad I finally lost interest in these threads. I'm out of these useless threads for good.

>>19753338
Yeah, I’ve been playing Chrono Trigger on my PS3. I have like 1000 books

>>19754094
It's just the same 5 people posting their shitty shelves

>>19751684
>there is someone in this world whose bookshelf this is
I wish I could look at this person in the eyes while I strangled them, to see if there was any sense in them at all even as their final moments were violently thrashed from them...I really do wonder. My idea is that this person would smile and stare aimlessly, till the very end.

>>19752966
Looks comfy

I'm a french fag so my sheklf is compulsory full white.

>>19754365
I called those things bobble heads and a collector corrected me at the used bookstore. After he spoke, I continued to lament the consumerist impulse towards replacing God and religious ornamentation with bobbleheads. He made a jocose expression as you suggest.

>>19753331
looks like a basement

>>19753639
holy shit fuck off already you insufferable cunt

>>19753329
that chair looks really uncomfortable

>>19754467
Please tell me you mean the books, nog authors.
Also i was about to scorn you for having no Camus. Nice choice.

>>19753315
You are going to ruin those stacked books.

>>19753331
Are you the anon who was at extreme risk of being killed by a falling shelf?

>>19755349
They'll be fine.

>>19755260
Best friend gave it to me when he moved, wife uses it.

>>19755472

Yes, it is the object of undertaking so grand a project. To risk the essence of being upon a notion greater than oneself for the purpose of anonymous praise or approbation.

>>19752959
Grow up

Here is one shelf. I sold off most of my manga and sent some books to random folks on book swapping websites. I need a different bookshelf, or I guess I need to give away more of my books. It's such an awkward collection all crammed in there.

>>19751684
>And this is our son’s shelf

>>19756529
IT's like I went into a tex mex restaurant that had kitsch books decorating the walls to make it feel more gemütlich

>>19751684

Books fill my entire house. I need to move. I have literally no more space for more books. Over seven shelves are completely filled and there is just no more space.

>>19757849

Only showing my SW shelf cause its the only organised one, all my other books are scattered around the house

>>19752915
what does it mean if lolita is the first book i saw in this pic

>>19757828
My English shelf is very neglected though.

>>19757828
Deutsche Kollegin, habe ich beneide über die Sammlungen.

>>19758016
In what metro do you live? West or East?

>>19758189
I lived near Berlin for a while and now I'm living in the West.
Here's some more shelf shit.

all I have with me here. Most lies in my student room

>>19758394
Pt 2

>>19754094
same lmao

>>19758407
Pt 1 again

>>19758219
I like that Jean Paul, it's more difficult to buy that stuff here.

So Potsdam? Nothing else really around Berlin. I lived in a village near Erfurt while doing research on Weimar Classicism, a neighborhood of München, a ski village near München, and Berlin for about a year. I don't really care for the West except for Bavaria.

>>19758451
You know Ian Kershaw wrote his first book on a medieval abbey, and then became a German historian, and somehow one of the most famous with Chris Clarke and RJ Evans.
Shitty shoe collection too. Why do consumers always spend so much on shoes made by children? Get some nice handmade shoes from England, Italy or Eastern Europe.

>>19758457
Ehh, I wish I had a different edition of Jean Paul but I got it for two books in a second hand bookstore. Good enough for now, I guess. That middle shelf is "books Arno Schmidt really liked" by the way.
No, not Potsdam. It was literally the opposite end of Berlin.

>>19758479
Even more shit. I can't wait to finally move and get more space for my books.

>>19758508
I haven't read any Murakami in a literal decade but I can't bring myself to get rid of it because I will probably read it again when (and IF) I reach my 60s.

>>19758476
I didn’t look into Ian Kershaw when I got the books. I just wanted to read something on Hitler and these were well received from what I saw. And yeah those are shoes I wore when I was a young teenager. I don’t wear them anymore.

>>19758542
I have the same tale of genji with 8pt fint. Was it Marzahn?

>>19758843
It was Bernau. Also, which of the shelves is yours?

>>19751684
Ishygdd

>>19752915
>ryu and haruki murakami
yea im thinking BASED

Not very /lit/

>>19751684
on which subreddit did you steal this?

>>19758853
I have the best books...with a shelf that threatens my life.

We drove through it once. Used to live in the ring near the FU in wilmersdorf. Last place around where people spoke German.

>>19756107
I used to collect manga too but it's just too much space for too little substance. A volume of manga takes up a lot of real estate but can be read in less than an hour. Ended up giving like 20 volumes to my autistic brother-in-law.

>>19751684

>>19760584
Yeah, that's true. It's good that you gifted them to him though. I only keep Azumanga Daioh and CCS since they're from my childhood and share sentimental value.

>>19754094
Yeah, time to go.

>>19761960
Based Yugo enjoyer.

>>19757828
Your books would take up half as much space if you read in any language other than German you dumb kraut

>>19757988
I read it in high school but the Darth Bane trilogy is still some of the most pleasurable reading I've ever done. Some of the EU really was based.

>>19752959
Obvious virgin

>>19762214
A lot of the EU was based. Hopefully the KOTOR remake isn't screwed up.

>>19751684
Genocides have been done for less

>>19753315
don-t put your books horizontally, that will wear away them (the presure in the paper will detiriorate them)

What’dya think? Try to describe me after seeing only pic related

René Guénon édition

>>19753851
based

especially kingdom and the garden

>>19762450
It's alright, I have digital copies of most, some of those are rare though

>>19754467
>The Holy Bible on the bottom
You frog-eaters deserve being bombed by Mudslimes.

>>19752959
post recessed chin

>>19758888
chequed quads. Bet this is same dude that always posts in /edc/

>>19752915
How was yiddish policeman union?

censored stuff is mostly games and CDs
some shelves have 2 rows, and I have books piled up in other places. how to deal with the lack of space plz
>>19754467
i fukcing hate the ugly ass white lit

>>19757060
I don't think it's a good decoration

Serious question, for those of you who aren't in school. Do you?:
>Take notes while you read? Can I see examples of what you write?
>How many books are you actively reading at once?

Post cozy reading chairs, I need ideas. I can never get comfortable.

>>19762484
Normie who thinks he is an intellectual

>>19761960
Beautiful shelf, boring taste

>>19763681
Like 10 books at once, different subjects, themes, lit and nonfiction, sometimes I grow too uncomfortable like madame Bovary or Dostoyevsky.

I take notes, after years of practice with a number to the left, the page, normally on grid paper, and I try to reduce the idea to a sentence no more than three.
Date, title, year author at top, page numbers too

>>19752966
Mental illness

>>19763993
>rétroéclairée
cringe

>>19763974
Illegible to all but me

A bit over one thousand books, huh. About half of it is in my kindle.

This wasn't some random torrent I just downloaded without a reason, I've been grabbing books that I really want to read through the years. I've never read more than 30 in a year though.

1/2
Got all my books to my new apartment finally

>>19764014
I have thousands of pages since the early 2000s. I actually reference them too.

>>19764049
2/2

>>19752993
funny you should mention that, my girlfriend seems to think we do

>>19763658
it's fine. but chabon is a bit of a wanker isn't he

>>19751684
Reminder that Rothfuss is a hack and will never finish the trilogy

>>19752959
unashamedly based

>>19758451
>Old Icelandic Dictionary
Lmao are you actually trying to learn it or was this just a random pickup at some used bookstore?

>>19763318
He could have multiple copies. I have 4.

>>19764138
I've been meaning to get a Latin Vulgate Bible to practice my reading from, I don't have any other copies though.

>>19756529
pretty good selection and editions

>>19763669
Clean your room.

>>19764154
Do it.

>>19764324
okay mum

>>19764331
You gotta pluck the dead leaves off your plant also.

>>19763998
just don't turn it on

>>19752915
What did you think of Rave? I've heard mixed opinions but it's the only Fitzcarraldo in my city I can buy in person without having to pay a stupid amount for shipping

>>19752959
hahahahahahahahahahahaha

oh no no no

>>19753851
I have the same edition of Spectacle. It's a cute little paperback that has held up surprisingly well. Only got it for AUD$8, IIRC. Nice selection overall but you need some secondary texts

>>19752959
The collection of semi-banned, watchlist books is admirable.

>>19755832
>>19763379
These two are likely subversive social justice informers who seek to undermine the quintet we have established here. The very types of people some of those books reference.

>>19757862
unfathomably based
9/10 needs more Parenti

>>19764631
The world is filled enough with proponents of censorship, a liberal-nihilistic authoritarianism that comes from the highest ideas with the most noble purposes, and despotisms of the mind dressed in pelerines, pearls, and lorgnettes. Your inestimable lack of value arises from your inability to express your opinion.

You would bring a new darkness to the world to find your consumerist comforts. You would help realize Shigalov's ambitions of evening out humanity through a selective breeding program to create docile idiots in the fashion of Harrison Bergeron.

>>19764620
Loved it. Among my favorite books I read last year (which surprised me, I am usually more of a traditional narrative guy). Expressionistic, funny, observant, crazy. I have an interest in rave/drug/dj culture and have hunted around for fiction that captures it. Too often these books are poorly observed or have a sad addiction plotline or are too experimental. For me this one gets it right, it really does feel like a fractured drug trip complete with the epiphanies, the boredom, the elliptical sense of "narrative." Of course it isn't for everyone but try going down to the store and reading the first 15 pages or so and you'll get an idea.

>>19764679
Yea you're right about the secondary texts. I'm picking up some of Fink's stuff on Lacan and Nietzsche: The Antichrist & the Antipolitical soonish

>>19765526
and McGowans book on the political project of psychoanalysis

>>19761960
I really like the look of the first shelf.

>>19752966
kino

recent very shitty pic of shelf, finally organized all the non fiction stuff, top shelf is medical with the music shelf

>>19751684
based

pseuds will seethe

>>19752966
cozy as fuck. good for you anon.

I like book shelves with nice books. What I don't like are fucking action figures and pop culture toys. People buy 200 dollar leather bound books on a nice shelf then they clutter it up with children's toys. It's the most sloppy, unclassy, and ugly way to showcase your books.

>>19764324
Post JP's room.

>>19768872
am i normie

>>19768872
>>19768877
>/lit/ recs and garbo
Not so much a normie as someone without any real personality or taste. No discernable set of interests or hobbyist indications about your reading material. Hopefully (assuming this is really your shit), you're just post-adolescent. If >30, you're probably an NPC...

>>19768903
>drawing conclusions about someones personality/persona based off a book shelf image
Speaks more about you than me anon.

>>19768915
Bitch, you're the one that asked. What did you want, praise for reading Chomsky, Jung and Sowell?

>>19768872
seems like you're 16. also that lamp is ugly as hell

>>19765844
>Kino
post criterions

>>19768872
Yikes

>>19768872
nocap you bussin frfr nigga this cap fire straight bussin be like skrrrt yee

>>19768872
That Seneca is neat. I need that one.

>>19753104
Blessed and Rutherford pilled

>>19752959
glowing

>>19756107
Based Wide Sargasso Sea fag
>>19752915
Based Cheever fag

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>>19762484
normie. probably in high school, so has potential for redemption
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>>19764049
entrenched mid. no salvation
>>19763669
Far from my taste but autistic enough to be respectable
>>19762542
le
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cool
>>19761225
I LOVE OSAKA
>>19760654
I LVOE ISRAEL
>>19759932
>only two sprangor books
>o'reilly
mid
>>19758888
cums and checked

>>19771772
Are you attempting to do a built in and going all the way to the OSB sheathing on the exterior of your house? Is there not insulation? Are you using the studs/fireblocks of your house as a bookshelf?

>>19771909
haha its honestly too complicated to explain exactly what is going on but its in a storage room, not in the actual house

>>19751699
>how could anyone still be stuck at the second asoiaf book?
The fucking writer got stuck at the sixth.

>>19751684
>no heckin Dr. Strange funko
0/10 not søy enough

Color eInk rules. BW displays are so 20th century, but thats not the only reason why the kindle is so crap.

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>>19764049
murderino/10

>>19753639
Smells of faculty faggotry. All this shit is gonna burn when The Day of The Rope comes to your neighbourhood.

>>19751684
Sick bookshelf!!

>>19775289
The guy who posted it is an academic which he admitted in another thread.

>>19775289
I can't imagine how exhausting you are to be around

>>19775356
>>19775289
Failed academic, I work outdoors and raise kids now.

>>19751684
Epic shelf

>>19752966
Very cozy, reminds me of one of cousin’s basements.

>>19758888
Nice

>>19751684
If I would visit someone and saw that in their house I would immediately think of them as subhuman. Too extreme?

>>19751684
Numero uno

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>>19779334
Numero dos

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>>19779342
Numero tres

>>19751699
stuck on the first because the prose is absolute garbage and I was tricked into buying it by normie retards

>>19757828
dude just donate what you've already read and meaningfully digested to a charity shop, if you ever want a re-read use your local library.

>>19775353
kek

>>19779348
>anti-smoking ad
>on a tin of dip

>>19782328
Welcome to the UK.
Also it's pipe tobacco, not dip.

>>19782635
i get having a few books on the topic of fascism but this is just ridiculous

>>19752959
gud authors

>>19752959
Based HH brother

I rearranged things again, got a heritage press swiss family folio too

>>19751684
You're a sad person

>>19753329
this looks extremely unstable. is it secured?

>>19758451
are you a wigger?

>>19782328
Bought 2 packs once. 1 for myself and another one for co-worker. Kept on with children dying for myself, didn't want him to feel bad about smoking.

>>19753851
Really based and nice selection of post-structualist works, I aspire to have a nice selection of philosophy books like yours when i'm older and can really grasp a book like simulacra and simulations

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>>19753555
ESL checked

Moved state and having to rebuild my collection slowly. How am I doing? Sorely lacking history books atm.

>>19752959
what makes this so funny is your probably serious

>>19752966
soul

>>19784115
Literally 1984

>>19758306
>Richard J Evans

Good taste anon. Have you read his Third Reich trilogy?

>>19783963
Good old Aussie packaging. It only took a couple of months for my mates to start asking if they could scab a "Brian".

>>19751684
Imagine going through life with this iq and mentality
Imagine how easy things would be

>You know who you will vote for
>You think you know what is right and wrong
>You think you know that god does or doesn't exist
>Can talk to normies and relate to their concerns, share their tastes
>Turn on the television and don't despise what you see
>Read a newspaper and don't loathe what you read
>Go to the cinema and don't feel that life is drained of meaning
>Get vaccinated, trusting what you are told, and without worrying about side effects
>Feel sad and take the antidepressants they give you
>Hear music played in the shop and don't want to smash the speakers

>>19784881
sounds based and gigachadpilled tbhwydesu

>>19783552
Not all all, hoping it crushes someone.

>>19784666
I know him. You can get the audio book

>>19752966
it looks like a crack house

>>19751684
1/9

>>19785404
2/9

>>19785404
Here's that nigger again

>>19785406
3/9

>>19784666
Not yet I got very much into a victorian history hype because of victoria 3. Planning on reading them thouugh since they seem all right

>>19785416
4/9

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>>19785424
5/9

>>19785428
6/9

>>19785434
7/9

>>19785416
The only salvageable thing in all of this are the chess books

>>19785439
8/9

>>19785447
9/9

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>>19764014
Wtf you write upside down ??????? Crazy bro.

>>19784115
>Twin Peaks, Shakespeare, and Catch 22
Always nice to see these, a decent enough start in my book. Where do your main interests lie book-wise?
>>19784075
>Elements of Theology, Graves' Greek Myths, Orpheus and the Roots of Platonism
based beyond belief
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>>19779342
Very nice selection ya got there, anon. Have you ever read Shestov? You might find him of interest.

>>19783524
based /lit/ lit buyer

>>19763681
>Take notes while you read?
No.
>How many books are you actively reading at once?
Two. I read one at home, the other when I'm commuting to work, during my breaks and in cafes. Usually this book is an anthology of short stories, a book with short chapters or a short book.

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>>19763379
Fuck off cucks.

>>19751684
0/10
>>19752915
2/10
>>19752959
1/10
>>19752966
Cant see
>>19753104
2/10
>>19753315
5/10
>>19753329
Cant see
>>19753331
2/10
>>19753356
4/10

>>19785476
your shelf is peak comfy anon

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>>19753331
This is the most boomer shit I've seen so far this year.

>>19751684
>more toys than books

I won’t fall for this bait sir

>>19786740
Ha! Early thirties, wife and 2.5 kids.

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>>19787113
is infinite jest worth the read

>>19787150
I don't know. I really enjoyed the Gately arc but not really anything else. If you find the subject matter at all interesting (find some synopsis or youtube review), it's probably something to experience, but I don't think I'll ever read it again.

Read his stories first, and if you're really into, you'll probably be into this.

>>19787113
Harold Bloom's Shakespeare brick is an awful, worthless book and not even heavy enough to be a doorstop. Shelf looks nice though.

>>19786945
Do you have Werner's Iliad too or just the Odyssey? I'm reading it right now. Not sure about his use of composite adjectives: "Lança-de-Longe" for Apollo and "cara-de-cadela" for Helena, for example.
Great shelf, anyway. Is that Chekhov's Sakhalin Island on the left of Tolstoy?

>>19787517
I only have the Odyssey from him. My Iliad is the Lourenço's translation, not the best one.
From Chekhov I have some books, mostly short stories collections from Editora 34 and LPM and some plays. I don't have Sakhalin Island, unfortunately.
Show us your shelf, anon.

Why do people keep their books up against the wall of their bookshelves? It looks hideous. Why not have them at the very edge instead?

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>>19787697
I have a mailing tube at the back of each of my shelves for this reason

>>19788494
Alternatively you can just use empty tissue boxes

>>19787697
For me, it’s easier. I shelve them alphabetically, and when I have to move some across shelves or cases, it’s easier for me to push them back instead of aligning them to the front.

I agree it looks nicer, I’m just lazy.

I'm not done yet, but I intend to keep them more centered

>>19788598
yoooo I have that exact couch

>>19788598
Aus or NZ?

While this thread is still here, may as well post mine

Deleted my first post to get a better angle, since the sides of my shelf obscured a lot of the books

Anyone have any suggestions for keeping a book from getting destroyed while in transport, in a backpack?
I have a sling bag I use to carry my lunch in and some other stuff for work. I kept a book in it, and it got destroyed pages and cover bent to fuck, etc. Also happened with another one I kept in there.
I want to be able to bring a book to work though without it getting destroyed.

>>19789824
I've got some high GSM paper bags that I use. Keeps corners, covers and djs crisp and no marks. Not waterproof but better than loose.

>>19787102
>>19787113
Based Barnes and Noble buyer

>>19789824
I carry a small cloth bag which covers the books, and I put both in a tote. Double layering with the inner layer being somewhat softer, the outer being a little more coarse and rigid has worked well for me.

>>19761960
>Mason's bible
>Literally everything on the second shelf

Yeah I'm thinkin based

>>19789824
the only way is to either have you backpack totally empty or totally filled with clothes or towels. Otherwise I'd recommend useing an old slipcase or securing it between two hard things like planks or something with some rubber bands. Basically preventing the book from opening is most important. Preventing the points of a paperback getting damaged is basically impossible however in a bag

>>19787102
based unashamed leftyposter. haven't tackled capital 2 and 3 yet?

also finally someone else with routledge classics on their shelf. i'm waiting on weber's protestant ethic, butler's
gender trouble and cixous' stigmata to arrive

>>19789763
Might as well replace your Oblomov with the Schwartz translation

Neat catalogue though

>>19785476
Yes indeed, I find him very intriguing.
This is only about 45% of my collection, unfortunately I'm going back and forth between two homes at the moment.

>>19792983
I have vol2 sitting in the tbr. I’ll likely do a round of economics sometime in the near future. I’ve wanted to get some more exposure to classical, heterodox, and even some ancap before culminating in piketty.