/lit/ - Literature

>>19972128
Saugen sie mein Snitzel Hundin

>>19972128
I didn't know ernst nolte wrote on Nietzsche, thought he was busy starting shit with Western-oriented historians.

>>19972128
A couple of books just from die Amerikanische Freunden. I know how hard Fichte gets your little wee wees.

>>19972790
nice shelf sag

>>19972128
...
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I printed the full 800 pages of the Book of Rites (Li Ki), punched holes to put them in a three ring binder, slid a print out of the official book cover onto the cover, so I can have a physical copy.

>>19972790
what grain is that wood? doesn't look safe to me...

how do you guys find the energy to dust off your shelves before taking a picture?

>>19972999
>He doesn't have negative charged air filter, so he never has to dust his house.

>>19972790
If you had used that hand plane as more than a decoration perhaps your shelves would not have such a poor finish.
>>19972924
Looks like low grade walnut, but hard to say from this picture, quite a few woods could look just like that if stained. Either way they are not going to collapse.

>>19972790
how come your shelves don't have dados?

>>19972924
It's not safe.
>>19973077
I used my 13.5" shop planer, and have been handrubbing the finish. Had to put it up in a week back in December to make room for the in laws to stay with us for a few weeks.
>>19973077
It's actually ungraded walnut. My friend gave it to me. I just load up the truck with as much as I want and bring it home.

>>19973083
It's fucking hard to cut dados that long with a table saw, not fun with a router, Those boards were over 12ft each and are just about 6ft to 9ft long after milling, and 12 inches wide. If I chopped them up maybe I would have done rebates and dados. Just don't care. No one comes over but family.

>>19973139
Kids shelf has rebates. Took forever with white oak.

>>19973139
just make sure you anchor it to the studs so it doesn't lean forward and crush you

>>19973152
Should I use something like lvl compliant 3/8 structurral screws? Or should I use the headloks?

>>19973182
fucking hell lol you can literally see the wood splitting close up

>>19972905
Had a chance to crack "Traditions of the Jews"? I was thinking about getting that.

>>19973077
If you read books, maybe you'd find time to learn another language and read the classics. But you've got other priorities.

>>19973188
That's what rough sawn lumber looks like. There's no reason to sand and properly finish secondary wood unless it's something you care about doing. Those are mill marks from the bandsaw. Just what it looks like when we cut it.

>>19973221
I hope you took more finesse in clearing that building site anon than you did with you shit shelves anon. All those plastic bottles are not good for the environment.

You did clean up after yourself anon?

Every fucking shelf thread this guy has to samefag himself with questions on how he built some shitty bookcase and explain how he stained and nailed wood.

USE THAT DRILL ON YOUR FOREHEAD. EVERYONE HAS BUILT A FUCKING BOOKCASE

>>19973132
>ungraded walnut
It is ungraded because it is not worth the effort to grade, would just be throwing away money. Next time sharpen up that hand plane and install the blade upside down in the chip breaker and set for a fine cut, this will give you a ~60 degree cutting angle that will put a good finish on them with little effort.
>It's fucking hard to cut dados that long
>Took forever with white oak.
This is more an issue of your free wood and its poor grain. Both white oak and walnut work well, especially walnut, but when the grain changes direction a lot and there are knots things become slow. On both, many operations are actually easier with hand tools, a dado plane flys even if the grain is poor while the router struggles especially on white oak.
>>19973200
So I can not have any skills other then reading? I have over 30 years worth of both woodworking and reading behind me and I took the time to get good instead of just fixing on making something or finishing the book.
>>19973243
He is not same fagging, but he is responding to people multiple times. No matter how bad he is here he is no where near as bad as he was/is in every wood working thread on /diy/.
>how do i build X
>well I just get free wood from my friends saw mill
>wood.jpg
>thread derailed by neets lusting after free wood

>>19973243
Show me your shelf. My shelf isn't finished, it needs trim on the top and door side, but it's satisfying to build my own from such wonderful wood.

>>19973231
That's the mill, next to the outfeed, it's the lumber I set aside to take home when I go work there sometimes. Regular guy leaves trash there. I bring my own bottle.

>>19973279
It saddens me to see your inability expressed in anger. Control your emotions better and you'll find that this is all ephemeral, fleeting, and fun.

You're mistaken about my using diy for questions, that board and its users are worthless. It's pleasing to demonstrate the abuse of free wood.

Lastly, the wood remains ungraded for a few reasons.
The grader is the highest paid guy out there, there is only one grader, and he has a Google glass system for grading and cataloging inventory. If the guy loading logs makes a mistake and puts the wrong timber on one of the three mills, and we cut that, or if the Sawyer cuts to the wrong dimensions, it's cheaper to throw the lumber in a pile than try to move it and resort it due to manpower overhead. So we throw it into piles and try to save it for later orders. One can hardly believe the amount of waste that occurs. When half the workforce doesn't show up, the owner calls, asks me to help out, and let's me take whatever I want from these piles. Much of it goes into the chipper. Sometimes Welly finish a run of trees, have enough to make 15 packs, and still have two trees left, we saw those up and take the wood home because the next run will be white oak or cherry.

Why aren't we we showing off our handmade shelves? You guys are so good at it, eh?

>>19973367
I did not say you used /diy/ for questions, I explicitly said you derailed other peoples questions to show off you wood. You have poor comprehension for someone who was just bragging about your reading skills.

Terrible grain and knots is the lowest grade and not worth grading, your wood is filled with knots and has terrible grain.

I have shown a great deal of my work, I was the one who started /wwg/ (another anon deserves as much credit, he asked questions which he knew the answer to just to help keep the thread bumped and get interest). Generally I just showed joinery and the like since I did not want it too be about me, it was to help others get into wood working, but I showed my work from time to time. This thread is not about showing off my wood working, when I post in shelf threads I make certain my books are what are seen, not my wood working. Only a few books on your shelf can be made out, and everyone knows why that is.

>>19973416
You poorly phrased your text rendering it ambiguous. You have nothing to show.

Here's a closer picture for you. Behold my Ovid. Your argumentum ad populum are as poorly phrased as your ability to read books.

>>19972128
>platon

>>19973416
My wood is pretty clear, I milled this last September, used one of the boards for my shelf. This stack would be mostly double selects because it's over 90 percent clear. You may have less experience with wood than you think.

>>19973451
>can't parse standard greentext conventions
Considering you admitted to the exact behavior I described it is even sadder that you could not parse it. You have seen my work, we have gone over this before in /wwg/ and last time we went over this here I think you strongly implied remembering me; don't quite remember since I only deal with you when drunk. Anyone who cares to see my work can go back into the archives, won't be hard to find. I have considered doing a shelf making thread here, perhaps that will happen soon since I need to make another shelf in the very near future.

>>19973481
That is clearly wood at the mill, you can see the mill in the background. The wood in your shelf and leaned against your truck is poor grain and knotty. Now you just seem to be scrambling.

>>19973532
That's right, what I said, wood I milled (at the mill) last September. You seem confused. I used one of the boards, which I took home, for the side of my shelf, after drying it in my solar kiln.

That wood on my truck is cedar, sassafras, and other stuff that's just one of many trips I've made. Here's more wood I brought home goober. How's that grain? Why can't you show us a shelf loser?

>>19973527
I don't really drink, haven't been drunk since last May.

>>19973532
That's also not walnut in the back of my truck! If you could identify wood species, you'd know it!

>>19972905
>Look Who's Back
Enjoyed the movie in the /pol/ sense, as in the movie didn't present what the director thought it did. How's the book?

>>19973574
I never said that was walnut and you said in your previous post what they were. You sure you don't drink much? You seem to be obsessing.

>>19973611
So you don't have books or a bookshelf? Read more. May I suggest one of these?

>>19973592
Pretty good actually. The movie weakened the story just like any adaption, essentially by trying to make it a drama. Keep in mind that the novel still makes Hitler an unapologetic architect of genocide, but the important point it makes that he was not a monster who slaughtered millions in secret.

>>19973198
It was like reading a photo copy print of the KJV 1611 edition. Reading Early Modern English is a chore, but your brain learns to switch to it eventually.

only pic I have right now is from when I was cleaning but here it is
I need recs for horrific medical books

>>19973644
>drat, he corrected me again
>i know, i will meme!
Already read most of those.
>>19973681
Years ago I read the medical journal of an 18th or 19th century surgeon, that was absolutely horrific, page after page of surgeries performed without anesthetic described in great detail. That book seriously traumatized me and is one of the few books to have done so. Don't recall the name offhand, sorry.

>>19972905
How are the Holy Apostles Covenant books? I was thinking about checking them out.

>>19972790
Where does one get that edition of Moby Dick?

>>19973243
I hate him too but I'll take him over that guy who used to spam his fascist bookshelf (despite admitting to being a fucking property manager)

>>19973289
cool pictures me ole chap

>>19973289
That bookcase is going to kill you anon.

>>19973681
>peter sotos

Sorry bros, no radical lit

>>19974065
inshallah

>>19972128
Did you read it ? What do you think ?

>>19974439
Forgot pic

>>19974443
I bought it as a teenager. Pretty good introduction that gets you interested into various philosophers you wanna dig deeper but obviously it's a beginners level book.

>>19973743
>>19973416
So you don't have books, but you read all of these books, have no pics of books or shelves, can't read the titles, but can see the grain on the wood?

You aren't capable of much. Like most people on the internet, you pretend. I'll bet that your dad worked for Nintendo in school, eh?

Dedicate yourself to learning and you will be happy, less negative, and less small.

>>19973786
That Rockwell Kent edition came from a volunteer thrift shop. I volunteer there sometimes so they let me choose books in the back.

>>19973799
>>19974065
More people without books or ability to read books. Typical lit dwellers.

I was thinking of building my own bookshelf. Does anyone have any advice they would like to share?

>>19974164
I actually have 2 of his books now lel

>>19974848
Not him, but I read books. I read that edition of Storm of Steel except I ripped out the introduction and threw it in the trash first.

>>19974187
Nice collection anon

>>19974920
Old bookshelf pics

>>19974928
3/3

>>19972905
>bunch of modern reprints with fancy covers but the same shitty binding as everything else that gets printed these days
Dangerously retarded

>>19972905
Why do you have at least seven bibles? It's not as concerning as your collection of Tenchi Muyo DVDs, but I'm still alarmed.

>>19973681
>Kino
kino

Just imagine it on a shelf and you get the idea

>>19974920
This is the copy the publisher gave me when I assigned the text in class. They give you 5 copies for free each semester if you assign it. The students wont read a more expensive edition.

>>19975025
Not criticizing your ownership of that edition, anon. I own it. Mine's just missing some pages now because I assumed the introduction was gonna be apologetic for promoting a German war hero. What do your students think of it?

You'll love my ikea shelf

>>19975093
I think about 10-20 percent read any portion of the book. Maybe 3 kids read the whole thing. They thought what Wikipedia thinks.

>>19975251
You have some redeeming books

>>19973289
look at all those old ass boomer books, probably filled with false information at this point. why are you showing it off?

>>19975251
>how to read a book
Glad to see I'm not the only retard who bought that book. Au fait, vu que tu parles français, j'ai du mal à savoir quelles éditions sont meilleures que d'autres. Connais-tu de bonnes éditions françaises surtout pour la philo ?

>>19975485
Le livre vaut le coup si tu souhaites lire des livres théoriques/scientifiques.
Et non il n'existe aucune bonne traduction, il faut le lire en anglais. Enjoy my friend

>>19975485
I never take notes when reading. Notes schmotes I say.

My /lit/ annotated Moby Dick is on the nightstand.
>>19972999
No pets
>>19972905
I did that for every college book I didn't buy. Was nice having a friend w unlimited printing privileges.
Need to do that for 200 Years Together by Solzhenitsyn since it's banned everywhere.

>>19973744
Awesome read. The wacky adventures of Simon Magus being a constant thorn in St Peter's side is started to become more funny each time. It's like watching a Saturday morning cartoon.
I'm now stuck with the image of of Magus shaking his fist comically, "I'll get you next time Peter!"

>>19974964
Why not? Having multiple version of the Bible handy is good for research.

>>19975963
>Need to do that for 200 Years Together by Solzhenitsyn since it's banned everywhere.
I know that feeling all to well. Banned books in general makes me suspicious of the powers that be that don't want us to read them.

>>19974964
>>19975988
By the way, those are True Tenchi-Muyo light novels and some manga.

>>19975988
Very suspicious indeed
There is/was an audio book of 200y on YouTube so I at least was able to rip that to disk.

>>19974964
>Why do you have at least seven bibles?
Not him, but why not? A translation is still just a translation. I have the Tyndale House Greek New Testament, so I have the original text, and used Dr. R. Grant Jones's charts to find a suitable Bible that aligned closely with that text. From there, I got both prominent English translations from the Vulgate, as well as a copy of the W-G Vulgate itself; Robert Alter's translation of the Hebrew Bible, as well as Crossway's Hebrew Old Testament (companion to the THGNT); and then some Study Bibles and commentaries. As such, I have one Greek New Testament, one Hebrew Old Testament, and one Latin Vulgate of both Testaments plus additional Orthodox content (eg. Psalm 151), and then various English translations of the material. Gonna get the Rahlfs' Septuagint when it comes back in stock.

>>19973289
please get trips already so I can filter you

>>19975963
That looks yummy

>>19975354
You have nothing to show but an empty criticism that mirrors your life and soul. Are your thoughts as empty and flat?

>>19976337
You've already been filtered by your poor taste.

Here‘s my shelf faggots

>>19973289
>shoes on the book shelf
What a pretentious faggot, holy shit

>>19976498
All of my German friends have books in their homes.

>>19976514
Da sieht man mal wieder, das die Deutschen null Umweltbewusstsein haben. Wen wunderts.

>>19973289
>crooked pictures
ngmi

>>19976519
I dunno, used books are cheap there, and most of my friends are professionals...also they all love eastern philosophy books.

>>19976527
>>19976513
Sour grapes can still taste lovely.

>>19976536
Sounds like new age hipsters, no thanks.

>>19976544
Give me one single reason for boots on book shelves that isn‘t „i‘m a pretentious faggot“.

>>19974810
Almost none of the titles in that first pic are readable, the grain is fairly easy to see. When my dad was in school he worked at his father's grocery store, not sure what that has to do with anything. Also, how would a picture prove that I read?
>>19974859
Do you have any wood working experience? Tools? Do you have a design/style picked out? Do you plan to design yourself? If so what do you plan for the joinery? You did not really offer enough to give useful advice.

>>19976557
What are you in a "bookshelves" discussion? You must have some post-critical-race-theory-intersectional communist reading to do?

>>19972128
Let me tell you I am fucking jelly of that Hegel bio which will never be translated into English because no self respecting human in the Anglosphere who can't already read German would want it other than me and about 3 other pseuds

>>19974187
>Every single spine is untouched
Why buy all these books and not read any of them?

>>19976019
Hoo boy, back to /pol/ with that reading list

>>19977598
How many people on /lit/ shelf threads have even read a quarter of the stuff on their shelves?

>>19977731
I'm around around half, butslots are anthologies and collected works, and I just bought the book for one work.

>>19975325
>pop-sci
>manga
yeah, sure

>>19975963
>Aristotle and wealth of nations - unread, just for show
>The constitution - definitely unread, just for show
>Is a jungian, way too much jung - cringe
>3 copies of gulag archipelago among other Solzhenitsyn works - based and state department pilled
>Tucker Carlson - lmao
>The culture of critique - unread, just for signalling retard status to other retards
Congrats on having the worst, most pseud shelf in the thread

>>19978521
Oh and not to forgot that there's something apparently even more embarrassing that warranted censoring

>>19978527
>>19978521
You're mistaken, it's not my shelf, but it's likely better than what you have.

>>19977731
I'm also around half, but to be at ZERO?!?!

>>19978521
Aristotle was read individually, I just got the anthologies recently. I'm half way through WON
I've read the constitution more than you. Also Federalist Papers and On Liberty are in there too.
>filtered by Jung
OK now I can just call you a RETARD for not knowing Gulag is a trilogy FUCKING CASUAL AHAHAHA
Tuckers book was pretty good for a light afternoon read. It was just a 2h long opening monolog.
I read COC too
AHAHAHA FAGGOT! post shelf
>>19977723
Begone islamogommunist nignog

>>19979535
I'm not American and as such don't give a shit about reading your constitution. Your suggestion that I was filtered by jung is only a vain attempt at making yourself feel smart. Jung is babbies first psychoanalyst. Try Lacan when you feel like reading something actually substantive. I don't put stock into state department propaganda so I didn't know GA was broken into three volumes, and quite frankly, I still find it hard believe. CIA must have been paying him by the word. Imagine calling someone a 'casual' US state department propaganda enjoyer kek. Reading anything by a TV news anchor is an indefensible signal that you are a pseud. I don't care how light and enjoyable it was.
Here's my shelf. As you can see, I don't feel it especially important to signal myself to pseuds. Good day, retard. Hopefully this is all just a phase.

>>19973289
>shoes on the bookshelf
why? outside of that, the shelf looks cool and the few books i can make out look neat.

>>19979881
My wife thinks they're creepy.


We decorate with a small collection of pre 20th-century artifacts. Those shoes are new, unworn childrens ankle boots from a funeral directors estate. He had lots of kid's stuff and no kids. That copy of Scott's talisman, an 1840s edition, also came from a closed psych ward in the Pacific Northwest. Still has patients' names in it who checked the book out.

>>19972905
what are these fancy brown books on the top right?

>>19979597
Oh you're a subhuman shitskin tankie rentoid who doesn't own a home.
Should have known.

>>19975963
I can respect you, but I don't like your vision. You would probably feel the same way about my shelf.

>>19981073
further proof that you are retarded I suppose

>>19981157
An enlightened man appears in a thread filled with the uninformed rabble. Show us your books Mr. Tolerance

>>19981442
Retarded suggests that they can't learn through no fault of their own, it takes away agency. Be more clever and reveal the willingness of their ignorance. They're clearly comfortable being uninformed, uneducated, and uninspired. They thrive on their banality.

>>19981703
I am sharing only one bookcase. Top row is religious material, second row is stuff on wildlife, third row is largely weird fiction & horror, and fourth row is just miscellaneous.

My other two bookcases are full of art books, wildlife photography, nature books that were unable to fit, children's chapter books, picture books, computer science manuals, and so on. I will share those other two bookcases if anyone else is interested. However, they are much messier than this one.

>>19980262
that's actually pretty cool anon.

>>19982779
Don't encourage him.

>>19982789
i just thought that the stories behind those shoes and the book were interesting. it's better then decorating shelves with funko pops at least

>>19982828
>>19982789
>>19982779
Thanks, and I do it for free, no encouragement needed.
The vicar of wakefield book came from a defunct hospital in Illinois, with a few names of borrowers/patients and this english poetry book is filled with a freshman college students' notes, typewritten essays, and he appears to have been a student somewhere in central Tennessee.

>>19981711
Really pseuding it up here, aren't you? Got something to prove?

Last time I posted my shelf someone told me I had a "weird" amount of C.S. Lewis, so I bought more. Also if you make fun of my candles again I'm going to burn your house down.

>>19972790
actual patrician

>>19976498
Ich habe mehr physische Bücher als du. Mit digitalen Büchern habe ich über 4000.

>>19977598
Maybe the pic doesn't show but I haven't red maybe 10 of those books. I try to not rape the spines. If you zoom into the collin's, you should see heavy wear.
I haven't read some, but, for example, I lugged TBK around for a month and it shows no wear whatsoever, whereas The Scarlet Letter creases whenever I open the book.

>>19975485
L'édition dépend en réalité pour chaque philosophe. Pour la philosophie antique grecque ou latine les éditions les belles lettres sont considérées comme étant meilleures car elles sont en bilingue, mais si tu ne parles ni latin ni grec alors peu importe. Pour les classiques de philo française il faut voir quelle est l'édition de référence à chaque fois (ex: édition Villey-Saulnier pour Montaigne, celle de la pléiade pour Rousseau). Il y a d'autres oeuvres pour lesquelles il est nécessaire d'avoir plusieurs éditions pour pouvoir bien les étudier (les Pensées de Pascal par exemple).
Bref il n'y a pas d'édition meilleure à proprement parler.

>>19983292
>someone told me I had a "weird" amount of C.S. Lewis
Lol that was me. Nice to see you again anon.

>>19983976
Hello, fren! What do you think I should add to my shelf when I buy more stuff? Currently I'm going through Dostoevsky. After him I'll probably get into McCarthy, Thomas Carlyle, or Henry James

>>19982147
Based bird bro. What's the best book to learn about birds?

>>19977731
I've not, but I plan on it. My goal is to have an entire library room with thousands a books, all of which I've read

>>19975963
>/lit annotated Moby Dick
>Call me Ishmael
>>Nigger
Fucking lol

>>19973289
Absolutely beautiful shelf, anon-kun. 10/10

>>19978527
Or maybe it's a family photo album, genius.
>>19981442
Done nothing to prove otherwise mooncricket.
>>19984254
>>Call me Ishmael
>>>Nigger
First page and my sides were already gone

>>19984254
>What's the best book to learn about birds?
If I had to pick one, I'd pick Jennifer Ackerman's The Genius of Birds.

>>19983292
>lewis
>tolkien
>macMillan
Marry me!

>>19972128

>>19984594
That coaster is rancid.

>>19972128

>>19985033
what's that behemoth in bottom left?

>>19985100
Bible from 1832

>>19983609
Aber du hast night mehr als 100 gelesen :/

>>19984586
Are you a girlanon? Im not into guys, sorry if you are we can be frens tho

>>19985204
Doch, locker

>>19985204
Doch. Locker über 300. Ausserdem sammle ich um später im Leben genug Lesestoff zu haben.

>>19983609
>Mit digitalen Büchern habe ich über 4000.
Neger Bitte, jeder kann PDFs runterladen

>>19985708
Joa klar, viele davon sind aber Kindle oder Hörbücher. Wieviele Bücher hast du?

>>19983292
I see you've put your Narnia set in the correct order. Good job anon

>>19985033
Hey euro friend, not many read Leibniz these days. I've always thought he was a bit dry.

>>19985227
Fine, no homo.

>>19986889
That's a nice hume, free on their site, but the physical book is pricey. You also have a nice dover there

>>19986908
What's your favorite work by Lewis? Mine is Till We Have Faces. Absolutely brilliant. I'm planning on reading his cosmic trilogy after I finish Book of the New Sun, by Wolfe.

>>19986638
It honestly is the superior way to read them. Knowing about how Narnia was created takes away some of the mystery from tLtWatW, PC, VotDT. Plus it's much more fitting to have the story of its beginning right before you learn of its end. What's your favorite book in the series?

>>19972128

>>19973681
Nice JG Ballard stories

>>19987021
I have that colliers set of a few posts, mine is ratty. I've never heard of pinson.

>>19987040
Some modern library books that need a place

>>19987043
That's a first edition of second pressing of looking backwards. It's probably worth a fortune.

>>19987045
More junk

>>19987051
These need a place

>>19987055
Lastly, more from the crevices one seldom sees.

>>19987021
fuck that Shakespeare looks sexy

Imagine sperging out for over a month because somebody tried to give you advice about your bookshelf lmao

>>19972128
Post the rest of your shelf

>>19988254
Imagine having no shelf, no books, and ideas as empty as your posts. Imagine alide as empty as yours?

>>19983102
Hey, that's my town, Peoria.

>>19987006
I like Voyage of the Dawn Treader. I watched the movie for it recently and they absolutely ruined it.

I love the line at the end where Aslan says "In your world I am known by a different name" implying that he is Jesus.

You guys ever just feel like starting over?

>>19989228
>halo
Those books are in good company.

>>19989228
Holy soul

>>19987057
>Elements of Style
This is one of my favorites in its category

>>19988258
Here ya go. Sorry for the bad quality of the picture.

>>19974187
Nice shelf anon! I've never heard of Collins Classics but they seem cool. What copy of moby dick and what's the publisher of all the books near it? Like the master and the margarita copy. Looks comfy

Also anons why/how do you end up arranging fiction alongside nonfiction? I put mine on separate shelves. Nonfiction for different topics go on their own shelf (philosophy, history, etc.)

I don't even see alphabetical order on most of these

>>19975251
So many anons here have Atomic Habits I thought it was just the latest normie crazy

Is it good?

Also if you like Noise look at Misbehaving and Nudge. Richard Thaler teaches at my college. Also Noise can basically be summed up in one chapter it's overreated for BE imo

I intend to read these in some kind of order after I finish my thesis.
Not pictured are my three Bergson books and two other copleston history of philosophy books.

>>19980262

>marrying
>ever
I write this as a man pushing 40 btw, so don't bother with the "sensible adult" reply shtick you've been pulling throughout the thread.

>>19990199
Most great thinkers have something like that in their Wikipedia

>>19990122
This looks a lot like The cubicles at the elite inst. where I did my PhD. The graduate students have the whole fourth floor. My professors usually gave me those books, you buy them? Or were they part of your professor's stash?

>>19990145
Yes, I keep on hand a women's toilette to suit my hidden desires rather than owning a wife.

>>19990293
Same thing with my toilet bookshelf. The kids books are best for pooping.

>>19972128

>>19990274
Some of them were from professors stash, also got some Davidson and malebranche from him and which was cool.
Had to get the husserl, Sartre, and Heidegger myself though

>>19990301

>reading while pooping
ever
>siring children
ever

>>19990399
Husserl was Big when I was starting out two decades ago and a few other easterners

>>19990509

t. that one Husserl scholar guy who manages a Wendy's

My shelf

>>19990747
That always makes me kek

>>19990747
>>19990509
>>19990843
Better than me, I just tend to my property, kids, and the wife makes the bread. It relegates me to a position of semi-servility. Though it would be possible for me to work in a variety of professions, the cost of daycare for the number of kids we have, or even hiring a private nanny, would be such that it makes more sense to raise the kids myself until they go to school and then for me to get a job at a private school to protect them from the modern institutions of regimented behavioral conformity that have supplanted the traditional idea of public schools.

The idea of some vapid, emotionally stunted, instagram whore, with a 100k in college loan debt, teaching my kid math, how to read, or even how to reason, gives me a great deal of anxiety. A discussion with my professional neighbors, about brain chemistry and screen time, who, by the way, paid over $300k to send two kids to private school proved this to me. The kids in public school are being taught on tablets now. Imagine, glowing children?

>>19990895
I actually feel a little like the dainty, lispy, failed academic from the Possessed, Stepan, and need to ensure that my kids don't become Pseuds that entice the local rabble to burn down the town and ruin my name.

>>19990898

Upon the moment of your death, neither your name nor anything else matters anymore. You do not live on in your children. Existence ceases to have meaning.

>>19990122
All useless pseuds, yes even Kant and Hegel. Analytical philosophy takes honest work, but you'll gain a far more positive outlook on life.

>>19983292
Holy shit that is a bigass copy of Mere Christianity, is an expanded edition or is it just in particularly large print?

ITT psueds everywhere

>>19991868
Based except for the scifi cringe

>>19990375
do you speak chinese and korean anon?

>>19989614
Both books you mentioned are from Alma Classics - they are cheap and of surprisingly high quality (print is great and they even have endnotes explaining terms and shit and info about the book/author).

I tried arranging the books alphabetically to some extent but I also tried to make it look appealing. That's the only shelf I have haha.

Maybe Collins Classics are a European thing but they are in my bookstore and cost like 2.5e.

>>19989228
kino

>>19975498
This is what i call based

>>19991868
I had all of those star wars books as a kid, started on them in 4th grade and finished all of them, as they were being released by the start of 9th grade. Became obsessed with the game world as they released little known games like Rebellion that I played for far too long.

Our kids will never know a tentatively connected internet world in which you yearn for a replayable tbs game to play in summer during isolation...

Just started reading this year, starting The Brothers Karamazov next

>>19991879
What can I say? Everybody's got a little bit of cringe, but I don't bother to hide mine.

>>19994265
They're great for light sci-fi material. Very easy to read in between the miserably long and dull history tomes.

>>19972128
You must be a blast at parties.

>>19974187
>>19983292
comfy

R8 and H8

>>19994742
pt. 2

>>19994413
Good for you, anon. Don't become a faggot about it, but keep doing it.

>>19991868
looks like my shelf with all the hitler and star wars. you should read the new jedi order series bro

>>19994420
>Very easy to read in between the miserably long and dull history tomes.
It can be important to space things out. However I've developed a new way to space out my history books, which is to read good historical fiction on the matter first, and then check the accuracy of the supposedly non-fiction parts by pulling out the tomes. This way I already have some sort of context for the subject matter, and the facts don't just bounce off my eyes to be forever forgotten. Helps retention is what I'm saying.

>>19994742
what are you, some kind of occultist?

>>19994742
Heretic

>>19994664
I don't go to parties lol

>>19972128
thanks for the comfy thread OP

>>19994742
nice hat anon. i like that version of aeneid.

>>19994747
>achebe
dropped

>>19994863
>>19991868
based durant enjoyers, and civil war anon. some good primary sources out there for cheap.

>>19990375
an-yong haseyooo anon. love korea.

>>19989228
sometimes. i try to keep it pared down.

>>19987057
thanks for the holy war rec. also based library of america reader, i have their sherman and grant. time-life put out a rebel war clerk's diary, very cool look at the top of dixie.

>>19994768
Hitler good. Star wars entertaining. And noted -- I'll have to seek it out, but 99% of my stuff is thrifted. I grab it as I see it.

>>19994775
My problem with historical fiction is that a lot of it turns me off. I'd need to find an author who writes it in a bearable fashion.

>>19994863
The durant poster cannot think in the traditional sense. Although he may be well-read in the classics, he cannot be bothered to reason or to examine with any depth the greater unfolding of the object that is history. The cunning of it's manifold unveiling remains shrouded like a veiled woman.

I'm just joshing with ya. Nice collection except for the Durant. Also, the Tony Robbins book...

>>19996236
You might like some rosicrucian reading or some enlightenment studies done by jews that hate jesus and wrap themselves in the cloak of objective. May I suggest someone like Sheehan for the Enlightenment bible.

>>19996236
Thanks, the bookshop had the Jefferson library of America for $3 and I normally wouldn't buy one of their books, because the bookshop sells them for $15 minimum, but this was a steal. I also have a vast array of enlightenment thinkers and needed to round it off with some derivative creoles. Now that he's forbidden lit. I thought it appropriate.

>>19996259
Hajrd to see many titles, I can make out one cambridge book. Nice overall aesthetic. reminds me of Hamburg.

>>19977598
You know that you can read a book without cracking the spine... right?

>>19997679
I will crack your spine you smartass

>>19991857
facts

>>19997251
Thanks fr the rec anon.

>>19998884
No prob, I was once specialized in in the be topic, it's a little too anti-christianity for me now. Somehow you can shit on christians all day but not Muslims or Jews. The Jews writing this stuff as all claim to be aethiests or secular but still keep the holidays.

came here for all the weird meme shelves and was not disappointed