/lit/ - Literature

Fuck you consoomers fags

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>>21227963
You have weird hands.

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>>21227989
Do you even read those books

>>21227993
I’d say I’ve read about 60-70% of the books I own.

Old books

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>>21228016
>ALL translations
3/10

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>>21228067
I particularly like these shelves.

>>21228087
You’d need to know about 20 languages to read those not in translation.

>>21228067
Give me the Huysmans, please.

https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/helenair.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/d/00/d0059435-49ac-504a-8304-7a11544c63c4/6064b9ecb6fba.image.jpg

>>21228174
95% of the books on those shelves were originally written in English, French and German. Stop being lazy

>>21228087
>All Translations
>He thinks British and American authors like Asimov and Saki are translated

>>21228087
>I’d rather never read literature instead of reading it in slightly lower fidelity.

I gave away my rethinking western traditions edition of mill ordered a new one.

>>21228329
>slightly lower fidelity
>slightly
kek

>>21228067
I like old books

>>21227963
I just tried to put my fingers in the same position as you and it hurt. Why are your hands so fucked?

>>21227957
Why?

pls r8

Only started getting physical books this year.

>>21228227
What's this?

>Mogs the entirety of /sffg/

Still a work in progress

>>21228087
feel free to point me to latin translation to those modern books big guy

>>21228460
Garbage pail tastes.

>>21228479
book shelf

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>>21228596
Everything except the bottom right row is great

I've been working through the classics

>>21227963
Yup i tried also, how the fuck do you position your fingers.

>>21228619
How could it not be a work in progress? Do you intend to kill yourself when you reach some arbitrary number of books?

>>21228460
soulful. 8/10

>>21227957
How do you know if a book is worth purchasing?

I only started buying books recently after thoroughly enjoying some Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky books then started of purchasing some of those

>>21228880
Good point. I didn't think about it like that.
I suppose I've got so many more of my "To Read" books to get I'll always look at it a little disappointed.

>>21228818
It's actually fairly easy. You can even see in this pic that his middle finger is closer to the camera, and from that angle it seems like the other two fingers are shorter than they're supposed to be. Just bend your index finger and your ring finger and then bring the middle finger forward

>>21228596
Based.

>>21228980
Are those Wordsworth editions any good

shrunken heads collection of the last 400 books

>>21229017
Yes, absolutely.

>>21227963
Sir, do you have leprosy? Maybe you should ask for forgiveness from our lord and savior Jesus Christ.

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>>21229748

I'm moving to a new apartment, I will post from there, but I need to know: do you guys post all your books or just your favorite shelf?

I only read Emerson and Whitman

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>>21229751
Your shelf is kinda like an prostitute. Expensive and embarrassing, but it also makes my dick hard.
Is Matthew's King Arthur any good? I've been looking at it for a while, but the author seems like a neopagan quack.

>>21229756
I have too many books, on several bookshelves, in two countries, under a sofa and under a bed. I also have books behind the books that are in plain sight. Posting everything would be a pain in the ass, that's why I post one or two pictures >>21228067 >>21228980 these are mine.

>>21229927
Honestly I wasn’t a fan. Matthews is all over the place and his theories come off as half baked.

>>21230263
Gross old books

>>21230263
We have many books in common, a shame you like King.

Not nearly enough trash on these shelves. Where are your 70s paperbacks about angry panthers? Your unread celebrity autobiography Christmas gifts? Your definitely 100% canon TV show tie in novels?

>>21230309
I have some Star Wars novels and and a biography "written" by Sean Astin.

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>>21229743
I have 7 copies of gibbon, including this one, heritage, everyman's and modern library. I have those folio philosophers, seutonius, I wish I had the Seneca, but I don't like the 2010 and beyond folios

>>21230423
Wow, terrible pic, this one is more clear

>>21230431
Why doubles of the EL if you already have the slipcase?

>>21230440
There are 6 volumes total

>>21230444
You’re right, I knew that but I’m retarded today. Still need that other slipcase though. I wish more publishers had slipcased volumes

>>21230458
I paid 15 without the slipcase. The first three were cheap too, but the slip adds like 40 bucks. I make slip cases for the nice old books sometimes. I do have the slip for that folio anatomy of melancholy and my 1930s limited editions club Arabian nights

>>21230500
It’s crazy that slipcases are so valuable but I do like them. I’ve debated ordering a bunch for my LoA books. How do you make them?

>>21230343
What app are you using?

>>21230507
Archival quality hardboard, pva glue, straight edge, razor, and YouTube. Look up phase boxes too.

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>>21230569
looks like ReadEra

This thread is mega cringe. Just two fags posting their hardback collection, all while thinking it makes them intelligent. I don't care what your bookshelf looks like. I don't care that you're a consumerist faggot who makes a point to buy hardbacks. This is /lit/. It's for the discussion of literature. It's not a meta board for women who want to flaunt the fashionable and consumerist aspects of buying books. Why don't you two fags go fuck each other or start posting about books you've read?

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>>21229751
Damn those Folios look kinda tacky. I thought they were a haut de gamme publisher? New ownership or something?

>>21230423
Classics section and folios.nthe landmarks are on another shelf with loebs

>>21231237
Yep. Guy who'd owned it since the early 80s died in early 2015 and they pivoted immediately to selling gaudy nerd bait. More cash in overdesigned Game of Thrones sets, I suppose.

You can still get a lot of their older releases for dirt cheap on the second hand market, and they're well made if nothing else. I've bought a few printed in the 70s I'd have sworn were fresh off the press if not for the date on them.

>>21231269
Damn, that's a shame. Browsing through their current catalogue is making me nauseous

>>21230309
What are these particular editions of these books called? Its my first time ever seeing the old weird fiction bros (HPL, Machen, etc) ever gotten such nice hard backs.

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>>21231301
It's not a recent phenomenon. Their stuff was hardly ever the pinacle of subtlety. These were we early 90s, I believe, for example.

>>21231325
Not sure, but I would buy one for Walter de la Mare, if they have it.

>>21231325
Centipede Press. It's actually their budget releases, they do mostly very overpriced reprints of niche old horror and fantasy but also do these, which are pretty good for the price point.

Short print runs though. You'll be lucky if the most recent 2 or 3 are still in stock.

>>21231252
Which version of "the twelve caesars" is that anon? What's your favorite book from the picture and which one would you recommend the most?

>>21231329
Ok that looks pretty bad as well. Who was this stuff meant to appeal to?

>>21231335
Thanks bro. I’ll be looking into them.

>>21231348
http://centipedepress.com/libraryweirdfiction.html

Just Long still available on their site, unfortunately.

>>21231337
That's both modern library and folio, in have two copies, and two faves in that pic. I like the modern library giant city of god by augustine, and burckhardts age of Constantine the great.

>>21228596
Based rich /sffg/fag

>>21230309
Your shelf and some of the other folio posters make me feel a bit more sophisticated. My comment isn't meant as a slight, but rather a moment of realization that we don't share the same idea value nor do we share values.

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>>21230569
Readera for Android

>>21230263
Barrister shelves? Always wanted that.

>>21227963
I'm jealous too anon

I found a 1st edition of Silence Of The Lambs at a thrift store for about $20 but didn't buy it. Did I fuck up?

>>21232054
unless it was signed, no. they might be listed at like 50-90$ on some sites at a quick google search, but really, nobody is going to buy it

>>21232013
Found them in an old woman’s basement filled with preserve jars while on a job, made her an offer on them, then had them refinished. Got a very nice tiger oak bookcase with glass doors from her as well.

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>>21232164
Wider view of the barrister shelves.

>>21231329
ew

Rate

Brazilian pleb reporting in.

>>21228456
Faggot

>>21227957
>herZOG

>>21228456
>no Aristotle
big mistake

>>21232724
So did capitu fuck the other guy or what?

Also, what is it Assis and being a cuck?

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>>21233208
Is Lord Jim any good? I loved heart of darkness, and was thinking of picking it up

>>21233215
I loved it. Maybe not as much a HoD, but it’s a lot more complex story and beautifully written.

>>21228334
Brilliant display.

>>21228398
Do more hand stretches. You didn't learn the edgiewt way to flip someone off in HS?

Behead All Satans on nightstand
>>21232166
Beautiful set
>>21228596
How is The Devil Is Dead? Haven't made it to Past Master yet but The Ghost of Kiev recs it .

>>21233251
>you will never learn french
Why live? I want to read all their degenerate shit.

>>21232719
Found the easter egg.

>>21233458
I learned French to avoid ever using a French word.

>>21233458
Spend 5 years living in a French country then you'll be able to read

Gracq, Mauriac, Camus, Giono, Duhamel, Balzac, Stendhal, Flaubert, Proust, Beckett, Simon, Butor, etc.

>>21230343
'When we cease to understand the world' by Benjamin Labatut if you are interested in philosophy of maths and CM's new novels.

>>21233451
Lafferty is a gift. Read as much of him as you can

>>21232164
That's a beautiful cabinet, anon. Nice find.

>>21233688
You have some great books, but it's an unholy mess.

>>21233847
I've pretty much run out of space to put books, so I either have to get rid of some, or stop buying physical books altogether and stick to my kindle.

>>21233712
Thanks, I'll check it out

>>21228460
we all gotta start somewhere, I see you're big into fantasy, if you're at all interested in sci-fi definitely check out Dune and the works/short stories of Philip K Dick and Robert Heinlein, a bit more philosophical but still amazing fiction to read.

most things I've read since 2016 in the order I read them
also it's very probably sideways

>>21234274
Oh neat either 4chan or my phone fixed that annoying sideways picture thing

>>21233211
She straight up cucked the guy.

>>21234280
It doesn't rotate if you crop it first.

>>21227957
>gigantic marble cock
>owl symbolic either of moloch depravity or at least troonism satanism
i hope someone purges you from the book

>>21227957
fuck off hermaphroite lunatic freak mrable dick piece of shit daemonic worshipping trash bag i hope you are cleansed

>>21233675
Congrats, you are the first poster I've seen in a /shelf/ thread to actually have a copy of The Power Broker .
I don't understand how a literature board doesn't commonly own one of the most famous biographies of all time

>>21231915
Uhhhh, based?

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>>21234637
You caught me without even seeing what I keep on the other side of the room.

>>21227993
What? There's nothing unreadable on OP's shelves.

>>21234817
Tankie scum, gay and dum

>>21234817
what the fuck is wrong with you.

>>21234817
go enlist and die for putin already retard. the world needs less of you rats to exist.

>>21234817
fag

>>21234817
You're aware those 2 powers hated each other right? Jesus Christ there can't be anything fucking stupider than a modern day Marxist.

>>21234817
Praying you are shot.

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>>21234858
Seethe and dilate.

>>21234867
go get turned into meat-glump with your comrades faggot

>>21234817
>trans
>communist
everytime

>>21234817
Did you really pay money for a fucking Made in Vietnam plastic bust of Lenin that makes him look like George Floyd?

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>>21234817
a na drzewach zamiast liści będą wisieć komuniści

>>21234817
based comrade

>>21234258
Thanks for the rec anon.

>>21234844
That guy sure as shit ain't a marxist. Red fashies need to fucking hang.

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>>21233208
I have many of these volumes from their inception as nonesuch press books or Limited Editions club editions. I buy them for less than $10.00 at my used book store and sell them online, then take the proceeds and acquire the source book. The nonesuch dickens will likely remain outside of my grasp forever--so I've gone with a combination of the folio derivation and the Everyman's. Odd how such hight quality presses had their property bought off, and now they're sold by a series of "luxury presses".

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>>21234274
goddamn where do I get three shelves just like this....

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>>21234968
Do you really think that an oligarch born from capitalist economic shock therapy is something communists support?

>>21234909
It’s a bronze bust cast in the Soviet Union. Also, your racism is showing.

>>21235004
One day we’ll get these class traitors to stop dealing plutocrat propaganda.

>>21233451
I'd rather you read the book itself than my lame spoilers.

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>>21233208
Who is the publisher of these editions and where did you buy them?
>Balzac
Also, have you read that Pere Goriot there? How's the story and prose?

>>21236272
Easton press, Franklin library and maybe another brand.

Balzac's goriot is one of his greatest achievements, in translation, and the prose makes for a descriptive and engaging story. You get great texture and flavor. It's a timeless story about women being whores and men trying to please them.

>>21228067
Old books>new books

>>21231969
Where do you find the pdfs/files for the books?

Does this count?

>>21237086
Idk why it's sideways, makes it easier to read the spines so nbd

>>21233661
>Fanon
Based - Wretched is one of my all-time favourites. I'm biased towards the Farrington translation because it's the one I grew up re-reading. imo Philcox sounds stilted in comparison

>Crary
Cringe - 24/7 was ok up until the last third which was a trainwreck

>>21228016
You're reading Rawls, Foucault and Hegel but you also have "How to Read a Book".
Did you go through some giga-reading comprehension transformation between those books or something?

>>21237630
Gotta start somewhere.

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>>21238173
I always manage to post pictures the wrong way

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>>21238180
I am retarded

>>21238185
Don't worry, it's been happening to me a lot lately since I bought a new cellphone.

>>21238185

Protip: after a few minutes go by, it is usually possible to delete posts that you fucked up! Simply click the box at the top left of the post, then hit the "Delete" button toward the bottom right!

>>21232724
Bem variado, gostei

>>21236012
my dad made it for me out of his old kitchen worktop when my parents remodeled their kitchen

>>21229929
>the Collector
guilty faps

>>21236012
Just buy a couple of planks and do it yourself, you're not some sort of nerdy bookworm right?

>>21237086
> L&L Statistical Physics Part 2
worthless
> V1-3, 5-6
Hell yeah

>>21238430
Sounds like a project for after I have a home.

>>21233458
just download the michel thomas torrent on piratebay

books on my work desk

>>21233208
very nice

>>21232719
10/10 mega based Jane Eyre enjoyer.

>>21234797
actually im cringe

>>21228334
>Tom Cruise book
I'm glad to see you're still around, Anon. Never get tired of seeing that meme pop up.

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>>21233212

dude, put these books on a nicer shelf, jesus christ

can i have a nazi bf?

>>21240443
Is it actually any good, or is it cringe chic-lit shit?

>>21240556
Can you birth children?

>>21240655
not him, but I enjoyed it. The prose felt like wrapping myself up in a warm quilt fresh out of the dryer. It's a fun read and any girls you talk to that read it will be turned on by the fact you read it. It's a win win all around.

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>>21240681
>gobsmacked

>>21228247
>just learn two languages to read a few books bro.

I mean I'm interested in doing that, but that's only because I'm interested in learning languages. There's nothing wrong with reading translations if you're not interested in learning languages just to read a few books.

It's like learning how to blacksmith so you can dice an onion. Just buy the knife and let other people do the work, unless you actually want to blacksmith it's a pointless thing to do.

>>21240491
It gives my wife the Willie's

>>21227957
Here.

>>21227957
Books with Russian titles from left to right:
Quran, The Tale of Igor's campaign, Beowulf, Nibelungenlied, a collection of Chekhov's short stories and plays, Kafka 'The Castle', Pushkin's poems, Kafka 'The Process', V. Kulchitsky 'Code of honour of a Russian Imperial officer', Bulgakov 'Master and Margarita'.

>>21241332
Klauss 'Race and Soul', Tolkien 'Children of Hurin', 'Finnish for beginners', Gothic Language', Pathfinder core Rulebook, The Bible with Gustav Dore's illustrations.

>>21241336
Griboyedov 'Woe from Wit', Turgenev 'Fathers and Sons', Gogol 'Dead Souls', Marcus Aurelius 'Meditations', Marcus Cicero 'On pain, grief and death', Dostoyevsky 'Demons', Dostoyevsky 'Notes from underground'

>>21241201
>bowling alone
>no bell curve
Anon?

Poetry and loebs

>>21242619
Do you Loeb fuckers even know Greek and Latin

>>21236910
Libgen, thought it was common knowledge

>>21240655
It's good. Dont be a closeted homo by not reading things you find feminine.

>>21243047
Yes.

>>21242619
Post a better picture.

>>21243047
The worst is when you want something that has only been translated once and ONLY comes in facing TL. I don't read Latin, I don't particularly want to read Latin. But now I have a 6 volume book instead of three (or two), and it takes up so much space. Sad!

>>21241336
>Pathfinder core Rulebook
Uh hello, based department? It's for you.

>>21227957

I know right. They really should print translation-only editions as well

>>21234274
Noticing the Thomas Harris in there. I loved Red Dragon and plan on reading SOTL soon. Is Hannibal and Hannibal rising worth the time?

>>21244271
Meant for
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>>21244268
>World War N

>>21228456
Haven’t read any of these except the Latin one for a class but I appreciate how ”ancient” your collection is in terms of subject, it’s cool in a way

>>21232735
>hello my name is Jewish Professor, I am so angry about being cucked by my whore ex wife I am going to WRITE LETTERS to EVERYONE because as a Jew I literally believe on a genetic level that wordceling bends reality

My WHORE EX my LETTERS the THREE OTHER WOMEN I'm FUCKING

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>>21233688
Nice.

I have 3 shelves and I basically only read sff.

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>>21244345
Damn, nice collection. Lots of fiction in there I need to check out. Didn’t even know Star Wars had so many books

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>>21244353
>Didn’t even know Star Wars had so many books
It doesn't anymore. Disney decided it never happened(unless they decide it did).

>>21244353
That is just a drop in the bucket. There are hundreds of Star Wars books.

>>21243470
It's tough trying to get a good one in that room. The room itself is so dark (to protect the books) and the titles are so tiny. The camera is supposedly 50mp

On the bottom left is the Latin Portrait and Pindar both from the nonesuch press. I have almost 50 books from the nonesuch now.

>>21244667
I forgot the photo, of course, that I took a few times trying for some clarity.

>>21236012
>>21238430

These are seriously shit shelves in terms of durability. I make my own shelves and don't care that much because I hide the imperfections with a face frame and fantastic finishing abilities.

You need to cut rabbets or Dados in the sides so that the shelves sit inside a recess. This allows the wood to move during seasonal temperature and humidity changes and adds strength to the overall structure. You can also use metal fasteners and brackets, but those give an industrial aesthetic.

You can also consider a system of varying, stacked cleats and alternating butt joints for strength, mobility, durability, and ease of assembly. But you can't just slap wood together or it will warp like crazy when the weather changes.

Does anyone else see the gaps opening up on each side? That's a sign of poor joinery.

>>21228016
If my roommate had these books on his shelf I'd bully him to suicide

>>21244345
>Shelf has Memory, Sorrow and Thorn
How is the series like? I've heard that it's like the transitionary series between LOTR and GOT in terms of style, with MST involving a lot of politics. Is it worth reading?
>politics
Just how much political intrigue does the trilogy have? Is there a balance of fighting and intrigue or just a constant behind the scene bla bla bla and peopling manipulating/backstabbing each other?

>>21245216
>roommate
Gay

>>21244667
>The room itself is so dark (to protect the books)
Do you really think that makes a difference?

>>21245216
Kill yourself, namefag.

>>21245635
I have not read it yet. Most of the older books are recent purchases I'm working through. I'm currently trying Thomas Covenant, then my plan is Book of the New Sun, and maybe after that MST.

>>21227963
This site if for +18 y olds
Pay attention in class

>>21245784
I was experimenting with being a namefag, I've learnt I don't like it for what it's worth

>>21246314
>I was experimenting
faggot.

>>21245723
My wife and I are roomies

>>21245780
Yes, I have lots of 18th century books. We also have been airsealing the room. I run a dehumidifier and monitor the moisture with a rh meter. I will replace the leaky window soon. We haven't decided on the new window dimensions yet.

>>21246677
Nice anon post more wifey feet

>>21234817
you are commie and that makes me le mad!

>>21246677
I'll get there someday ha ha

>>21244345
Self-printed worm? That's really cool anon! I dream of making one for myself too one day

>>21228016
I have like 70% of the books in this pic in the same exact edition. Uncanny to look at honestly because it looks so much like my own shelf lol. Based Amazon user.

please discern who i am through this image

>>21247403
You took a picture of your wine aunt's shelf

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>>21247330
Based.
All other posts here are cringe,
Buy old books,
Stop giving money to Random House publishers through shitty overpriced paperbacks.

>>21247436
no :(

>>21247280
I built the kids' shelf from a single large oak board and some scraps.

>>21247994
Forgot the shelf

>>21248129
whats behind the fake baby yoda

>>21236262
Don't need apolers just curious how it was, he's not talked about much (that Ive noticed)

>>21248194
pictures

Picked up three Henry James loa for $6.00 at the bookstore

>>21228227
comfy

>>21227957
Think your subtle nod to moloch is cute?
Psalms 10:15

>>21234844
Only after the Sino-Soviet split. The Soviet Union backed the Chinese Communists for decades before then. And it is possible to uphold both the Soviet Union before Khrushchev and the PRC before Deng.

>>21246682
Commendable effort. My local rare books shop keeps all it's rare volumes in a leaky basement.

>>21230342
>biography "written" by Sean Astin.
Dawg, why?

>>21244282
Silence of the lambs is great, Hannibal is a lot worse but still a fun read, and Hannibal Rising is legitimately fucking awful