/lit/ - Literature

Let me guess, you’re an atheist.

>>22201742

>>22201753

Someone is really going hard with all of /lit/s most tired memes.

>>22201753
That’s Varg Vikernes, you uncultured goy.

>>22201753
Atheism is my identity. I live and breathe Atheism.

Buenos días.

>>22201881
Hey cool I own that Conan book. Just so you know it's missing the very first story. Also you are missing the complete Solomon Kane. Outside of that nice. Tolkien is great although I think his son fucked up with the weird way he's releasing his dad's stuff.

>>22201893
>Tolkien is great although I think his son fucked up with the weird way he's releasing his dad's stuff.
Christopher passed away in 2019. I believe that the History of Middle Earth can be somewhat overwhelming for newcomers. However, between 2007 and 2018, Christopher released three comprehensive anthologies, making the stories of Turin, Tuor, and Beren more accessible. I think The Fall of Númenor, which was not edited by Christopher, marks the first step in a post-Christopher world towards compiling Tolkien's work thematically.
As long as the new editors don't tamper with the stories, I'm fine with it.
>Also you are missing the complete Solomon Kane.
I'm not very familiar with Howard's corpus, I think this is all I have written by him.

>>22201753
How did you know?

>>22201881
>no elephant hide

I'm living the good life. Apart from the ugly floor, of course.

>>22202098
Get a new lamp.

>>22202107
Any recommendations? I like the ambience of my triple lamp but for reading it's useless. The one hanging there is great for reading but /lit/ always complains about how it looks on photos.

>>22202125
A big, adjustable banker's lamp would look good.

>>22202184
Meh. That's kinda tacky and my grandparents had one of those and they didn't read at all.

>>22201742
i watched this fag as an edgy teen in the youtube atheism era, god i want to go back

Progress on built in bookcase.

>>22201760
It always comes back to sexual deviance with atheists.

>>22202312
It really does.

>>22202312
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WL6bImDYhlQ&pp=ygUVQW1hemluZyBhdGh3aXN0IHBlbmlz

>>22202312
What, deviating from missionary position for the sole purpose of procreation through the hole in a bedsheet in the dark?

It always comes back to Christian incels hating sex because they can't get it.

>>22201742
>"I don't need God to be a good person!"
>Turns into a fat coomer who shills furry porn and sticks bananas up his asshole
Every time.

>>22202739
christians are the only ones reproducing you dysgenic trooncel

>>22201881
Why do you own this many sets of lotr

>>22201881
Holy fuck, what a manchild. Is it possible to read anything other than fantasyslop and angl* writers?

>>22201742
I have to hand it to the Amazing Atheist, no other Youtuber causes so much seething as him.

Truly an extraordinary historical figure

>>22201742
Keeping a bunch of books you've already read is a joke unless you expressly plan to open them again. Keeping a bunch of books you will "someday read" is delusional. Doing both to have a bunch of shelves filled with marked up paper is narcissism and using books as objects of social value to make you look smarter. Read books and get smarter, stop pretending.

>>22201881
>Genre fanatic
I feel sick

>>22202865
>seething
lolcow. The closest he comes to seething is disgust.

>>22202233
Nice fan.

>>22202780
I found them by chance, and they were very cheap.
Pic unrelated.

>>22202189
Someone with that recliner should not be concerned about tacky.

>>22202387
I'm tempted to read it

>>22202233
Give us an update when it's done and filled with books.

>>22202387
>cuckold
Of course.

>>22201881
Insufferable.

>>22202233
The window is built in, not the book case. You would need them recessed behind the windows to be built in. I hate when people do this shit with kitchens and say they have "built in" appliances but they're at the same width as counter. I'm busting out a wall to put a Wolf oven in. It will stick out on the outside of the house but it will have it's own wall containing it and a new roof over it. This is the length you need to go to to have something truly built in. It will be behind the counter in the wall.

>>22203171
Hope you named that cat Adolf with a mustache like that.

>>22203924
Not really, builtins are just semipermanent bookshelves affixed to the wall with a series of anchors and fasteners that offer a sense of purposeful intent to create stability and gemutlichkeit in a world filled with alienation and alterity.

>>22202233
Looks good, I like seeing those big levels, by the appearance, and texture of the ceiling you also have an older house. The floor looks like engineered bamboo hardwood that was the flippers special around here for a while. Mine wasn't properly installed, doesn't float, and is popping up.

Anyway, make sure to put molding in at the top. It gives the shelf a clean, intentioal look.

>>22203179
I had to test recliner chairs in seven furniture stores just to find a single one I found comfortable. I didn't care how it looked.

>>22203956
Newer pic

>>22201742
you can read while peddling a stationary bike, you know.

>>22201742
This is the ideal male body. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.

I didn’t buy the Faulkner books; I used the library. The only two books I DNF are Gravitys Rainbow and the Catholic novel. I have The Bluest Eye and Seneca Letters from a Stoic on another shelf with more Catholic stuff

Another shelf thread, another shelf.

Captcha: WMD, got that WMD.

>>22205262
thanks, I hate it

>>22201742
why are reading and exercising mutually exclusive, anon?

>>22205269
You guys always hate my shelves. Doesn't bother me any. I'll proudly display my sff without shame. I only have one shelf that you pseuds might marginally like and this thread isn't it's turn.

>>22203936
I named her Mina, after Mina Harker.

>>22205691
What's that edition of Pale Fire?

lol

>>22205701
It's the third impression of this edition, by G.P. Putman's Sons, 1962

>>22205737
Lots of academic books here

>>22205737
Color me jealous, my copy of Pale Fire is a humble paperback Vintage
I'm curious, why no Lolita or Ada? those are, to many people's opinion, Nabokov's best works
Also, where'd you even find those editions?

>>22205749
Just a couple of books.

>>22205780
Do we go to the same used book store? I saw that Walpole for .75 cents.

>>22205774
>I'm curious, why no Lolita or Ada? those are, to many people's opinion, Nabokov's best works
>Also, where'd you even find those editions?
Long story short, a bookstore in my city specializing in used books was selling a batch of old Nabokov books, but Ada and Lolita were not among them. I discovered that these books had previously belonged to a teacher and translator who lived in this area because I found notes and his correspondence in some of the books.

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>>22205795
>I discovered that these books had previously belonged to a teacher and translator who lived in this area because I found notes and his correspondence in some of the books.
You can't NOT post some of his notes and letters after posting this, please

>>22205796

>>22205799
Expensive books

>>22205802

>>22205792
Highly unlikely, I bought it at Kitazawa Bookstore.
>>22205798
I did it twice, let me see if I can find the pictures.

One more

>>22205813
And the dedk

>>22201881
Is that all the Tolkien scholarly books you have?
I recommend you get A Question of Time, The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion, J.r.r. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator, The Art of the Hobbit, The Art of the LOTR, Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth, The History of the Hobbit, The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide,
The Road to Middle-Earth. They all have original writing and art by Tolkien as well.
Also you don't have Tolkien's The Fall Of Arthur, The Story Of Kullervo, Bilbo's Last Song, A Secret Vice, The Battle of Maldon, Finn and Hengest, or his translation of Beowulf, etc?

>>22202233
Looks pretty dope. Hope it holds up.

>>22205798
Here's one of his letters, I can't find the others.
>>22205828
>The Road to Middle-Earth
>The History of the Hobbit
>The Art of the Hobbit
>The Art of the LOTR
I have those four.
>The Story Of Kullervo
I have it, but I'm missing everything else.

WE ARE GOING DOWN

>>22204712
Favorite shelf here

>>22205847
Am I the only one reading this letter? lmao damn, Saeki-sama (Born 1922) call her back desu.

>>22202885
I want my kids to have access to a library at home like I did as a kid and like my father did as a kid