/lit/ - Literature

>>22270498
>translations
pleb monolingual amerishart

Shelf threads are for midwit faggots who like sucking eachother's dicks over who bought the gaudiest kitschiest Ye Olde Moderne Classicse editions in bulk, with cursive letters because they think cursive is for fancy classy people.

>>22270503
Still better taste than you. Enjoy only having read 30 books in your entire life tk0m0

>>22270518
Cope, mutt. Half of your books are (((translations)))

>>22270520
>DA JOOOOOS
Is this spooky Big Other in the room with you right now?

>>22270503
To cover all of the books on just the top shelf you’d need to learn ancient Norse, German, Koine Greek, Italian, Russian, Ancient Greek, Latin, Ancient Egyptian and French. You’re basically saying that you’d rather never read all those works rather than read them with a slight loss of fidelity.

>>22270585
>he doesn't know all those languages at least to the level that he could read them with a dictionary
ngmi

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>>22270501
disgusting leftist dilettante

>>22270517
I like this shelf. 8/10

>>22270498
Nice collection. You should check out the Oxford Myths from Mesopotamia, I think it would fit in with your interest in ancient mythology nicely

>>22270597
gonna need to hit that dictionary a lot for the adorno

>>22270503
Some french for you

>>22270503
A little Welsh and gaelic

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>>22270918
Some of those editions for every chap, even the bitter old fogies >>22270511

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>>22270518
>adorno
please

>>22270503
I'm efl, and i read almost exclusively translations

Yes I am /sffg/, but I just moved out of mommy’s place and wanted to show off my room

>>22270526
>Big Other
Peak leftist pseud
>>22270585
>he can't learn all those languages
other people have done that and even i can read most of those languages, get on my level pleb

>>22270918
Gigachad confirmed. I kneel.

>>22270518
Kys

>>22270498
>no Evola or Guénon
>Adorno
Otherwise based

>>22270501
Oops never mind, you're a pleb and a pseud. Probably a woman though so it's forgivable.

>>22270526
How low IQ do you need to be to not be redpilled on the jq while frequenting this site? I bet you are one of these idiots who just reads something because it's popular or rather kosher.

>>22271088
I wish I genuinely loved a specific niche instead of chugging away at gay "classics" frfr

>>22271088
Absolutely mirin those hardcover editions for Iron Gold and Dark Age. Where did you get them? I didn’t know they had those and now I want them. Is the Black Company good? I’ve been wanting to read it for a long time now but I found the initial writing style to be unbearable.

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>>22270517
Buys the books but doesn't read the books
Many such cases

>>22271173
I think I got them both hardcover right when Dark Age came out. Very hyped for the next one coming out soon. And Black Company is one of my favorite series of all time, it follow a mercantile company of soldiers and low level wizards in a world of overpowered insane wizards. And it gets better over time as well. The Books of the South are based as fuck, basically the first few take place in not-europe and after they finish their business up there, this mercenary company hikes down to not-africa and not-India and gets in some serious shit.

Not showing the remaining books because I have 7 more bookshelves but I just think my mess is funny as visitors are always curious about the random things I display.
Also these are the next crates of antique books I am sending off to storage, soon enough. I collect illustrated books, mostly 1st editions.

>>22271208
I might give it a try. The story and setting sound amazing but I just found the short-sentence style uncomfortable to read but maybe I’ll get used to it. Which version of the hardcovers do you have? Is it Random House?

>>22271292
I don’t know the version, but all red rising books should be available paperback and hardcover on Amazon. I like these black company paperbacks, only port of shadows has a hardcover version from what I’ve seen. These ones I like more than the old books because the first two of these collect three black company books each, the second has two, and the last two are the two long books.

>>22271283
I like your dinosaur.

>>22271283
cute Madoka

hey everyone who comes to my place i READ BOOKS hey anonymous people online i READ BOOKS did you know that i READ BOOKS and i am very smart because i READ BOOKS unlike most people who do not READ BOOKS.

>>22270711
Pretty good

1/2

>>22271627
2/2

>>22270498
1/5

>>22271639
2/5

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>>22271643
3/5

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>>22271646
4/5

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>>22271647
5/5

The books in my closet that I don’t have space for

I own some 2,000 books.
Too lazy to post pics of the whole shelves, so here's the oldest book I own, a translation of St. Jerome into French, dated 1672.

Any sci fi reader here? Currently reading Anathem, its pretty good.

>>22270517
pervert

>>22271671
Friend recommended me pretty much all of Watts books, starting with Blindsight. In the end will it have been worth the read?

>>22271755
Definitely worth it. Its also a quick read with just around 360 pages. His prose is just not the best or rather weird. Discriptions of action scenes or the enviroment are sometimes so weirdly phrased that I sometimes need a second look to figure out what is going on or is impairing some of my imagination. But overall the presented concepts and ideas are really interesting and the dialogues are also good.

>>22271657
I got some of them there fancy pants books. There's a bumpus bound Tennyson on the octavo stack next to Ronnie's opus.

>>22271894
Forgot to add the pic. Bumpus is an s&s imprint from the mid nineteenth

>>22271627
Hyperion 2 and 3 worth it? Overall I liked the first book. I am not the biggest fan of sci fi adventure, rather prefere sci fi as vehicle for philosophical conceps, but the short story was so comfy that I breezed through it with ease. Even the strories that I didnt lined at first turned out to give some nice world building and have some cool ideas. But that said, I dont know if I am so invested in the universe that I could read a full adventure narrative without any gimmick. So how are the other parts holding up in that regard?

>>22271899
The shenstone above the black Tennyson is eighteenth century. Here we have some smart books

>>22271903
A prized copy of the anatomy in vellum. This small section of books holds such value that one could easily fill a shelf selling them.

Rate me

Pls r8

>>22271920
3/10

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>>22271631
Mirin’ the setup

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>>22271131
>How low IQ do you need to be to not be redpilled

>>22271902
NTA but I would read them at least once. Father Captain de Soya is the most based character of all time. And they just planethop constantly, it’s nothing but worldbuilding

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>>22270517
Why do you buy so many books and never read them?

>>22271942
Some people don't crack open their paperbacks and tear them violently while reading

>>22271926
3/10

>>22271942
Only on this board do people question if others read. Why are you here if you doubt people read? Such a view as yours would be childishly fooled by someone buying beat up books secondhand and never touching them

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>>22272092
Why do you hate books so? Treat your shelf like you treat your cock. With respect.
>>22271671
Mirin’ Hyperion

>>22271088
There's nothing wrong with enjoying fantasy as long as you don't read garbage like Sanderson, Rothfuss and G.R.R. Martin, which you do, so please stop.

>>22272209
That's how you know anon reads. Messy libraries are a sign of use.

>>22271926
Ignore the haters. I would totally be friends with you. You seem cool.

>>22271926
Nice. Read some Bavinck.

>>22271947
Demonstrate how you would read those gaddis tomes without branding the least bit of damage to their spines.
>>22271956
>childishly fooled
I don't form an opinion on whether books have been read based on their condition, only whether they have not been read. If I see a beat up book, I make no assumption. Thus, I could never be fooled in that regard.

>>22272399
This will rustle jimmies

>>22272309
Hold the book with your thumb and forefinger just past the spine on the front and back cover, pinching the text block to keep any pressure from opening the book off the spine. Use the other hand to hold the pages open so they don’t flap shut due to the book not being fully open. I’ve read thousand page paperbacks this way with no spine damage at all.

>>22272403
I am a simple man: I see Loebs, I must rate shelf 10/10

>>22272309
i never break the spine on paperbacks cuz sure it opens nicely to the spot ur reading but then 100 pages later it's all fucked up

>>22272309
Don’t open book more than 90 degrees. I read in bed so I rest the bottom of the book on my chest. I don’t throw books around either. All mine are in superb shape

Pretty simple

>>22272284
There's a middle ground.

>>22270498
Had to ditch some of these

>>22272284
There’s a big fat difference between well worn books and having all of your shit slanted and on top of each other

>>22272284
A messy library is a sign of a messy person. Everywhere else in your place is probably a mess too. Your shelf looks like trash kys

>>22270498
Here's a bit of one
Have > 2.5 k in here..

>>22270711
Oi where's the other 2/3s of Gulag?

>>22271652
Is that the Dick with the cool drawings?

based shelfless poorfag coming through

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>>22271652
>Rexroth Chinese poetry anon is also Henry Miller/Lawrence/Emerson/Nietzsche/Van Gogh/Cellini anon
>He's also reading Keats at the same time I am

It's this kind of detailed attention to lore and slow-burn exposition that keeps me coming back to this board. Hello again, I'm stalling out on reading Wang Wei but I would like to get back to him, I still have most of a volume left and a lot of it looks like it might be even better than the first volume. Keats, Shakespeare and Spenser are all hard to put down though so it might be a little while. Keep up the quality posts, and might I say your shelves are looking quite lovely.

r8

>>22273129
Hey. Good to see you around. Regarding the Chinese poetry, I read a couple poems at a time so I don’t get burnt out. I find it’s great for me before bed as I like to chew them over a bit after reading them. I ordered another anthology that has Rexroth, Pound, Hinton, and William Carlos Williams as translators. I’m curious to see how each handle the task.

But I must admit I’m slowing down a bit on the Keats letters. I’ll always be a fan of seeing the inner workings and behind the scenes of artistic figures. I like the Keats fine enough but my interest got pulled in a different direction. I got the ballet dancer Nijinsky’s diary recently so I’ve been focusing on that mainly. After reading Miller sing its praises often I figured I’d give it a shot. It’s a strange book. Clearly the book of a man who has lost his mind. It is so simple to read but so tiring at the same time. He has a child like simplicity and nobility that reminds every reader of the prince in the Idiot. Schizophrenia had obviously hit him hard but yet there is genius underneath. His ramblings are so saintly, naive, and childish but there is profound truth underneath, like the pureness of an idealistic child that is hard to contradict because they’re right in a way even though they don’t know how cruel the world can be. It’s hard to explain. I’m not sure I’d recommend the book to anyone but I like it

Are you just focused on poetry at the moment? I ordered The Book Of Disquiet today so I was planning on digging into that next. Im probably going to read it like the Chinese poetry an I-Ching, a little at a time and ponder on it. Don Quixote is calling my name again though, so that might be my next “main read”. I hope to keep seeing you around

>>22272915
Yea

>>22273187
Are you a history student?

>>22273283
No. I'm an autodidact. This also isn't my whole collection, I got some more history books that aren't military related but most of the rest is political philosophy and some psychology stuff.

>>22273220
Yeah I'm just a bit of a spaz about how I choose what to read so I'm not always very consistent. That's a cool concept, I know there's that famous essay or whatever about all the different translations of Wang Wei, never read it but I can see how it would be a worthwhile subject, in my tiny endeavors into reading Chinese in the original I have consistently been overwhelmed by its indeterminate nature (in classical texts, at least). I know Pound is supposed to be not a "real" translator, but I read his Cathay collection many years ago and it was a revelation for me, I only wish he had incorporated that mode a little more in his own writings, so much wasted potential there.

Ah that's understandable, desu I am discovering Keats late and I'm sure I would have gotten more from him at a younger age but my tastes are still not overly refined or mature so I'm still getting incredible pleasure out of his long poems. The Nijinsky sounds very interesting though, I mostly know him from Auden's “What mad Nijinsky wrote/ About Diaghilev/ Is true of the normal heart;/ For the error bred in the bone/ Of each woman and each man/ Craves what it cannot have, Not universal love/ But to be loved alone.”, which I have always really liked even without knowing anything about the names in question. It sounds very beautiful the way you describe it though, somewhat different from Van Gogh I guess but I can see why you'd like one if you like the other.

Yes I have become a bit of a poetry supremacist over time, I still like and read plenty of novels but I consider poetry more inherently aesthetic and artistic. Book of Disquiet seems cool, I have a Pessoa poetry book that I've never opened, but I love the concept of his different personae. I have mixed feelings about DQ but I do want to revisit it someday. Same to you, your taste is very interesting even though it doesn't necessarily overlap too closely with my own current areas of interest.

>>22270498
all of my books

>>22273187
Are you a wwii autist?

>>22274146
You could say so, especially the eastern front. But I've widened my interest to WWI and military history in general.

>>22271671
>Anathem
Probably my favorite of his, great setting and doesn’t run autistically long like so much of his other stuff.

>>22270711
you expect me to turn my head? Christ Almighty

>>22273334
Yeah, I’m not consistent either. There is so much I want to read and reread and sometimes that differs day to day. It’s a blessing and a curse. Every week or two I’ll set aside books I’m interested in in a designated section

I forget if I’ve ever asked you but who are some of your favorite poets? I ignored poetry, philosophy, and nonfiction for so long that I have catching up to do. That has been my focus lately and it’s opened up a whole new world

>>22270507
Top shelf is almost entirely Jewish propaganda, impressive

>>22270501
I like the swoop in height from side to side, but why bother spending that much money on books if you’re not going to read them?

>>22276049
I still display those retarded Barnes and Noble editions I got ten years ago. They’re gaudy as hell but I like them still.

>>22276086
How are you so rich to have shelves like that?

>>22276088
I’m not rich. I got it at a used furniture store. It was an absolute bitch to move.

>>22276106
How much was it?

>>22276111
I think it was 1100 bucks or somewhere around there, but it doubles as a TV stand so it felt worth the price. Plus I’ll have it forever.

>>22275903
Very nice. I really ought to get the whole series someday, considering how often I reread them.

I just purchased 29 hard boiled crime novels. See you later virgins

>>22275670
It's really annoying sometimes, but I think it's much better than trying to force myself to read one thing, if I do that I can only think about what that thing is not rather than appreciating it for what it is. And yeah rereading is a big one too, so many classics that deserve a greater investment of time than I can give.

I haven't actually read many poets (not counting "sampling" a few poems from a given author) and many of my choices have been eclectic in a not actually very interesting way, but thus far I've probably most liked Eliot, Baudelaire, Mallarme, Celan and Hart Crane, plus the classic epic stuff like Homer, Dante and Milton. But what I most like in poetry is the idea of a coherent culture, tradition or "scene", like Greek epics/lyrics/tragedies, or chansons de geste/troubadours, or Norse sagas, or the Latin Golden Age, or the sonnets of the Renaissance, or other more loose later literary movements that still constituted some sort of unified pseudo-collaborative edifice. I also like to think of it as analogous to styles in architecture or painting that defined a common idiom and framework of meaning that constrains the author or artist even beyond the usual conventions of their medium, while allowing for variations that were significant within that constrained framework (whereas variation outside any sort of framework can quickly become meaningless). Could be done in prose too of course but the different levels of constraints (fine-grained poetic formal constraint, coarse-grained cultural traditional constraint) are born from the same underlying conviction about the importance and meaning of specific aesthetic choices. (credit to Spengler, or rather the wiki/4chan summary of him, for putting me on to this general way of looking at art/culture/culture-as-art)

Aside from that, I'm also very interested in truly eccentric authors like Dickinson, Blake, G. M. Hopkins, John Clare, etc., but I haven't really read a significant portion of any of those authors' works yet.

What authors are you looking to get into for poetry and philosophy? I agree it's an overwhelming amount of material, once you get past the tip of the iceberg in learning about any one particular part of the literary world, it really becomes clear all over again how huge and varied the whole actually is - which is surprisingly easy to *not* realize when you are in echo-chamber-y spheres like this site or even the "upper-middle-brow" academic/literary world in general which is often rather beholden to provincially modern ideas and has trouble seeing the past in a way that gets at its real worth and interest.

>>22277085
The poetry I like tends to have a touch of mysticism in it, like Rimbaud, Rilke, John of the Cross, Walt Whitman (in a way), or more philosophical poetry like Classical Chinese poetry. I also like Baudelaire, and Paris Spleen was one of the best things I’ve read this year. It’s strange because I wouldn’t describe myself as a mystic or even not necessarily believing in it but I’ve been drawn to it lately. It might have to do with my philosophic outlook on poetry in a way. I think of poetry as making the mundane beautiful, and I’ve tried to carry that outlook into real life. I definitely have a thing for how artistic personalities see the world, and that’s a big reason why I love Van Gogh’s letters (also Keats’ letters, Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet, Conversations with Goethe, Nijinsky’s diary is scratching that itch too). I have Mozart’s letters on a long list of books I want to get soon, same with the NYRB Flaubert letters getting released this year

As far as poetry I want to check out, definitely DH Lawrence. Somehow I have read much of his poetry despite him being a favorite. I want to give Pindar a shot. Novalis, too. I’d probably love Blake and he’s on my list. William Carlos Williams is someone interested in, and someone more contemporary like Berman(no clue why, I’ve never read a line, but I like the look of the Actual Air, and there has been times I’ve had a hunch I’d like something for no reason and I was right. Got that feeling for him)

Philosophy: I’d like to get into Unamuno (I have The Tragic Sense of Life and it’s been staring me down for a while, I liked what I’ve sampled), William James, a different translation of Heraclitus, Confucius, Mo Zi, Mencius, Tibetan Book of the Dead, Rig Veda, The Laws of Manu, The Life of Milepra, The Life of the Buddha, Suzuki, Master Eckhart, and pseudo philosophy like Peter Matthiessen

I always have a long list, both a blessing and a curse once again

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>>22277129
And to add on, I know what you mean about poetry and architecture. Keats gives me a sense of lush vegetation around Greek ruins, for example

And regarding being pigeonholed into a certain “type” of literature that this board focuses on, I think that’s why poetry anthologies is the way to go. Since this board doesn’t deviate too much, I try to get suggestions from Favorite Book lists where someone has a few books I really like included. I think the best way of branching out though is reading what writers thought and who were their influences

>>22270498
Where to get a good cheap shelf?

>>2227807
IKEA

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>>22277143
I really like mysticism too, I think Hopkins, Dickinson, and Celan all have those sorts of mystical vibes (Hopkins in particular being greatly interested in finding beauty in small things in nature, and in converting deep spiritual suffering into beauty), and Hart Crane's project was sort of about assigning a spiritual or mystical significance to America's turn-of-the-century progress - he was certainly influenced by Whitman and Bloom considers him to be his legitimate heir. I'm not sure what I believe, I just try to take beauty as my guide and follow where it leads, given that it is a gift from God or fate or whatever you want to call the forces that direct events.

I have not done much reading of correspondence, although the idea is certainly interesting to me - I prefer reading essays and seeing authors or critics talk about other authors, since it is another way of looking at the world of literature anew and feeling its power through their eyes, and I am perhaps overly invested in that artificial world of literature as opposed to the real world. Also, when you talk about making the mundane beautiful, and how artistic personalities see the world: Proust seems like a perfect example of this, he may not be quite so mystical but his perception of everything is so full of life and meaning that it's hard not to love his writing if you're into that sort of thing.

Pindar can be quite prosaic and caught up in worldliness, panegyric of particular people and places just because they're his patrons or whatever, but in keeping with the form his odes go all over the place and there's always some kind of interesting bit of mythical narrative and moral/existential lamentation going on.

Williams I couldn't really get into but I was quite young when I read him, he certainly has the semi-mystical aspect that all the poets of his era/sensibility had, I found George Oppen to be a better version of a similar thing but I also read him later so I was more prepared to understand, I definitely want to revisit Williams from an older and wiser perspective at some point.

Lawrence I don't know much about, but I love the concept of a novelist-poet, kinda like Hardy around the same time I guess, it has the air of an old-school generalist approach.

Great philosophy selection, I'm not much into rational philosophy but the traditional-religious/mystical angle is much more compelling for me.

>>22277143
I was more so using architecture as an example of a highly formalized artform but I love that observation, for me Keats also reminds me very intensely of pic related, I wonder if he had ever seen Boullée's drawings - his (Keats') visual imagination is just so intoxicating.

Oh yes I love a good anthology, the feeling of exploration and discovery and endless possibilities is so powerfully concentrated in that experience. Favorites threads can certainly work well, and of course a thread like this one can serve the same purpose to some extent.

>>22279163
Forgot picture lol, somehow I always manage to do that.

>>22270526
Kill yourself kike faggot

>>22271146
same here anon. I do enjoy horror though (I know) and some fantasy is alright, I just read Between Two Fires and liked it a lot. Most fantasy is unfortunately garbage though.
I'd say just give some new genres a shot, obviously don't go off what is popular or mainstream unless you have 0 taste and want something with the reading level of a sixth grader.

>>22279163
>correspondences
There is a lot of extraneous and mundane stuff in most correspondences but what I like is getting that glimpse on the other side. I’ve always seen a book or poem as just a speck end result of what a writer is. Like the world and everything filtered through one person and a book being a condensed laser beam point that is the output. Take Divine Comedy for example. The poem contains vast amounts of references to Dante’s life but how much more is there knocking around inside of him that he wasn’t able to filter through. Letters give me a taste of all that went into creating art. If you haven’t you should check out Letters to a Young Poet. I think you’d like it as Rilke is a sensitive soul and he gives good insight into the poetic faculty. It is pretty inspiring as well. My version is like 100 pages and double spaced with just Rilke’s letters (I don’t know if other versions are different) and can be read easily in a couple hours so if you don’t like it, it’s no big loss.

I think what appeals to me about literature is it can be used and interpreted in many ways. Sometimes it is entertaining (big sin on /lit/), sometimes it is inspiring, other times cathartic, informative, it can augment or give meaning to what a reader is going through, it can be aesthetically pleasing, it can expound on themes that are of interest to a reader, etc, etc. I even have very fond memories of some books I read during a good time in my life and I’ll always hold those books close to my heart. As I’ve gotten older I’ve put a bigger onus on myself as the reader. I think it is up to me to take away something from a book. There is endless potential and one internalizes what is read subconsciously. I’ve always seen literature as giving meaning to the world, life, and beauty. Literature transcends simply reading a book and even if someone has an opinion I disagree with or looks for something different in a book than me, I’ve learned to keep an open mind and ear.

>proust
I read ISOLT ~5 years ago. I liked some parts but I was glad to finish it. However it grew on me greatly over time and I’ve always seen that as a sign of a great book. I’ve been debating giving it another go but it’s a commitment and daunting. I take solace in the fact that I’ve become ok with dropping books, especially if I’ve already read them, as I don’t read to check off a title, but to take something away from the book. I can do that without completely a book. I’ll probably give ISOLT a whirl soon and if I get bogged down, I can take a break or move on

>>22270526
>Big Other
Nonsense, you have deleuze on your bookshelf, read him.
You buy so many books yet don't read them, all this shit contradicts itself.

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>>22279460
And to add:
>Oppen
He’s one of those poets who I’ve thought about getting into. In the next couple weeks I want to blindly and randomly get 3-4 of those 60-120 page poetry books that New Directions has for ~$10 so I have a chance to check out a random assortment of poets

>>22272088
Gross

>>22279636
Used book store anon?

No readable titles. Only vibes.

>>22279460
Will probably reply later when I have time, just gonna bump for now. I think the point about the different purposes of literature is great and very wise, took me a long time and a lot of anguish to learn that and accept it.

>>22272309
It's actually easy to tell if someone doesn't read by them thinking the spine will break on most books you read.

>>22270498
This is a small part of my books, I got obsessed with the Bible for the past couple of months and keep acquiring them.

>>22281476
This. Don’t be a grug caveman and they’ll look fine

>>22270501
>chomsky next to baudrillard
shameful

>>22281566
Kek. I don't think actual Chomsky-ites or Baudrillardians would mind that pairing too awfully much. Both aar were/are anti-Foucault, for instance..

>>22281566
Why?

You can't read it? Not my problem.

Also, to add to the discussion, do book shelves get you laid?

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>>22280989
Ok so: yes that is very true about correspondence, and perhaps it's why I'm not drawn to it quite the same way - I sort of like to preserve the mystery rather than peeking behind the curtain, but my reasons for that preference are probably somewhat dysfunctional. I have a copy of LtaYP, and I enjoyed Rilke's poetry (though once again I was too young to really take anything meaningful from it) so I'll definitely try to fit it in sometime relatively soon.

As I said before, the multiplicity of purpose in literature is a super important thing to be aware of - I feel like I expect both more (in terms of making an effort to see where the author was coming from) and less (in terms of being able to fit a square peg into a round hole, to make myself respond the same way to works that are fundamentally different) from myself these days, both of which changes feel like huge leaps forward for my understanding and enjoyment. But yeah just being able to see things from different angles makes the experience so, so much richer and deeper.

Apropos of that, do you think the more social/character-interaction-focused volumes of Proust succeed, at least in terms of their intended goal? It seems like people tend to dislike them for not being like Swann's Way, which I fully understand, but I've come to enjoy more "low-stakes" society novels like Austen or Henry James, so if Proust is as good at that as he is at his psychological/sensual/metaphorical vignettes then I will be able to comfortably look forward to those sections rather than wondering whether or not it's worth it (I'm currently not even halfway through volume 1 but I'm chipping away at it). I've tried to pose this question before on here but it's a bit specific/subtle so I feel more confident in getting a satisfactory answer on it from you than from a random. As for rereading, I think I could stop now and it would already be one of the greatest things I've ever read, I'd say definitely go for it even if you only read volume 1. And yeah I definitely do a lot of piecemeal, skipping-around rereading, I think it's a decent compromise.

>>22279513
He definitely has that semi-mystical quality (as does Williams of course) of finding beauty and significance of the mundane - something that comes to some extent from Blake I think, he considered Blake one of his most important influences.

New Directions is just great, I really love their whole high-Modernist focus and ethos, I could wish for them to be *maybe* a little more selective with their contemporary choices but I get it, they need to keep things going.

>>22282790
I look like this and do this. So what?

I have better taste than 90% of you

>>22283262
The most triggering part of this is you don't even have decent taste by /a/ standards. The only worthwhile things on your shelf are Full Metal Panic and Nisio Isin.

>>22283284
I thought /a/ loved Mushoku? Also this is just a random shelf I searched for.

1 of 2

>>22283407
2 of 2

>>22283407
How is Shelby Foote's Civil War?

>>22283515
I enjoy it greatly though to be honest I’m only about midway through the second volume. I pick it up read 50 or so pages then put it aside for a while.
Some people accuse him of a southern bias but I find him pretty even handed.

>>22283126
>Proust
It’s been about 5 years since I read it so my impression is a little hazy. I didn’t take away the society/character interaction as much as I felt it really spoke to an intrinsic part of the human condition, as cliche as that sounds. What I remember most is a phrase like “all that glitters isn’t gold” or “it’s always greener on the other side”, and the importance of memory, and how it shapes us and defines our perspective. The series almost became meta in a way with how it all tied together in the last book, with memory being a theme in the book, and the reader’s memory going back to the beginning. It’s tough for me to put in words as it’s been a while but I felt there was something profound in there and really astute insight on life. I need to reread it. As far as Henry James I’ve always struggled with him. I love the idea of him, and I keep starting his books, but there always comes a day where I’m tired and throw in the towel. Going back to Proust, what are some more of your thoughts on him?

>Blake
I know I’ll like him. Somehow I’ve always danced around him despite him having a lot of qualities I look for in a writer. I just need to bite the bullet but something else has always piqued my interest more

What are some other books you love or recommend? Sorry I can’t formulate a good post now because I’m on my break. I’ll try to consolidate my scattered thoughts and get back to you when I have more time

>>22282100
Baudrillard was a huge admirer of Foucault, he basically just thought that analysis from the perspective of power had overstayed its welcome. After History of Sexuality vol 1 came out, he saw that power had begun to lose its explanatory value. It was essentially Foucault's metanarrative, incapable of autocritique. He essentially felt the same way about Deleuze, and was an outcast in the french intellectual scene. I don't know that much about Chomsky, but from what I do know, I think they'd probably agree on quite a few things. Perhaps Chomsky would disdain Baudrillard's considerations on "the real," but otherwise, I find Baudrillard to be quite cogent. Still undeniably French, but not nearly as obscurantist as, say, D&G or Derrida.

>>22272399
I won't begrudge you for FS books, but I know they're not for me. I owned two and eventually sold them to get other editions because FS bindings are too stiff for me.

I've been filling this shelf with books as I finish them since 2016. I'm about to move out and dismantle it tomorrow.

>>22284408
Look how annoyingly close I got to filling it

>>22283631
Ok, I was just going by the sort of consensus view I've seen about how the middle volumes are supposed to be overly involved in dialogue and interaction at the expense of the narratorial reflection. Yes I had that same kind of meta thought, just looking at the page count and thinking "huh this will probably be very faraway and faded into memory by the time I'm reading the last volume, just like it is for the narrator". James is a little weird, I know a lot of people hate him but I've greatly enjoyed the couple things I've read by him, I wouldn't necessarily think you'd like him based on your general taste though.

On Proust more generally, I just love the psychological drama, both internal and interpersonal, I love the slow and random but not entirely disconnected flow of development of characters and relationships, I love the way he lovingly embraces the childish (and this illuminates perhaps the connection between childishness and artistic thinking) tendency to exalt the objects of one's surroundings into a network of subconsciously connected symbols, and of course I love, love, love the prose and its very transparent, very sharp but unabashedly indulgent style.

Don't have time to think about it much right now so I'll just throw out Beckett's Trilogy, Gulliver's Travels, and Donne's poetry as the first three non-obvious ones that come to mind. How about you, any others outside your main favorites?

>only have books in English
grim

>>22283284
It’s not even the good Isin stuff. Only worthwhile ones are FMP and Hakomari

pls no bully. no space for more books

>>22276086
Woah, hardback GR. That's cool

>>22284759
I’m going to try to post tonight. This is the second of 3 days in a row where I have brutally long shifts.

>>22272399
>>22272403
Most kino collection in thread

I lost all my books 8 years ago but they were

the end of faith
i don't have enough faith to be an atheist
mao the true story
the god delusion
god is not great how religion poisons everything
a generous orthodoxy
velvet elvis
modern china
beyond good and evil
"the antichrist" not real book collected writings
legacy of ashes
how to read literature like a professor
confessions of a reformission rev?
idiot's guide to buddhism

>>22286091
>how to read literature like a professor
I just got severe whiplash back to high school.

>>22271088
Your shelf is more interesting because I know you actually read your books.

>>22285620
You, kraut anon.
Do you know of any German collection following something like the Pléiade or Everyman's library?
I know that the Insel Verlag has some nice editions, but it's not quite the same.

>>22283632
Kek. B knew that the one-way transport of 'information' via modern telecomm into all /our/ faces completely dispelled the viability, adequacy, usefulness of dialectical 'argumentation'
He remains an incredibly timely thinker, especially when used as a counterpoise when attempting to 'hash out' much of Sloterdijk's neo-constructivist thinking-- as an instance.
Why /lit/ shills a volume that should be read only after one has become familiar with B's 'ways and means' is...well, not so surprising after all, I guess
Now, what's the big dealio with respect to one of his volumes 'keeping company' with a Chomsky edition?

>>22270498
Where do you guys go to buy books, especially out of print ones? There's a few books I've been meaning to acquire (I'd like hardcovers if possib) but I don't know where I should be looking for them. I don't want to buy them for $100+ on ebay either.

>>22287522
Buy the expensive ones. It should make you actually want to read the book and not buy a bunch of other cheap books you may or may not actually read in the future.

>>22287522
Of all the places where I've had accounts online, Abebooks has served me best
t. collector/trader

>>22287522
Stop being poor lmfao retarded lazy idiot?

>>22270910
Where did you get the Rousseau’s from?

>>22284759
I don’t have time to post a decent reply tonight unfortunately. Have you ever read secondary material on Proust? I’ve been thinking about that NYRB Lectures about Proust from a Prison Camp, or something along those lines. I’d like to reread ISOLT as my next big commitment in the next couple months and I’d love a primer. Either way if I’m not back tomorrow or the thread dies, I’ll try to post in the shelf threads to continue the convo

>>22287585
Stop typing without using proper punctuation lmfao retarded lazy idiot?

>>22287534
But I'm frugal, and buying books for less than $50-$60 hasn't prevented me from reading the books I've bought in the past. It's only a few I want right now anyways. It's not like I'd be stock piling a lot of them.

>>22287775
No, I don't like to read secondary lit, and like I said I'm just getting started, but the idea of that one is really beautiful. I do remember something about like "Proust's Library" (title might be totally different but that was the subject matter anyway) just talking about the books he mentions in ISOLT. Read a little more tonight, he's talking about the moon and his interest in its image in art and literature, which is a nice resonance with my reading of Endymion. And ok, I will be on the lookout for the next thread if need be.

>>22271879
>Discriptions of action scenes or the enviroment are sometimes so weirdly phrased that I sometimes need a second look to figure out what is going on or is impairing some of my imagination. But overall the presented concepts and ideas are really interesting and the dialogues are also good.
You were spot on. Just finished Blindsight and it was pretty interesting although extremely confusing during description heavy parts. Now starting Echopraxia. As I understand it it was written some years after blindsight, is there a major change in style between the two?

>>22284412
Good job anon

I want to see more esl shelfs like his >>22285620

1/2

>>22289513
2/2

I'm the arch-pleb. You won't find a single book of substance on my shelf. I didn't even bother to dust before I snapped this.

>>22270526
>Big Other

>>22289513
>>22289517
I am but a poor skitzo NEET who can afford but few books a month. These are some of my favorites tho. Used to have a lot more fiction n phil. But sold during skitz days. Have also read a lot more from libraries. Particularly in uni days. Hoping to get a job teaching classics maybe. Or do graduate school. NEEThood kinda sucks given that it doesn't pay that well. Plus I wanna get like a srs relation n kant afford that atm...

>>22284408
How’d you like Catton’s Luminaries? I dropped it after 100 pages because of studies and never got back to it.

>>22289580
i really enjoyed it. a fun pastiche that had some neat ideas and was very entertaining throughout. the whole thing accelerates throughout in a cool way

>>22287743
Germany, ebay, local bookstore. The gallimard editions came in a 5 book lot on eBay for 30 bucks that included two bernanos pleiades.

1/2

>>22290232

>>22290232
>>22290238
You might be a good anon to ask: what is some good Spanish literature that is translated into English? Out of all the major languages, that is the one I’ve ignored the most. I’m interested in Neruda, Lorca, Marias, Cela, Hernandez, Aira, and Unamuno. Any thoughts on any of these writers?

>>22282724
was dating someone for a while and every time after we fucked she would pick a book from my shelf then get back in bed to cuddle and read

>>22284759
>Henry James
I’ve actually liked what I’ve read but the issue is I always run into a wall. I find him best when read slowly and a little bit at a time. The problem occurs if he’s my main read and I come home tired from work after a long shift, he’s not very appealing, and I don’t want to go a couple days in between reading a book, especially one as intricate in James. I’m planning to read The Wings of the Dove, or The Sacred Fount this year
>Proust
He kind of ties into my philosophy of poetry being making the mundane beautiful, and making life beautiful. I’m reading Pessoa now and he is similar in that his observations are philosophically beautiful. It kind of reminds me of Paris Spleen in the disappointing living of everyday life, and what it means to dream and how we cope. Proust is a little different to me, but in the same league; he isn’t as depressing but he makes poetry and philosophy out of the mundane. I find him to give a real artistic vision to life, and that is something I love. I said in a post above that I do want to reread him soon and I was thinking about getting Czapski’s Lost Time: Lectures on Proust, as a primer
>other favorites outside of my usual
The writers that clicked for me when I was getting into literature when younger are ones that I’ll always hold close to my heart even if I haven’t read them recently and my interests have pulled me in a different direction: Hemingway, Faulkner (these two let me see the intricacies of technique, and what is possible), Mann, Germinal by Zola, Lonesome Dove by McMurtry, McCarthy, Kafka, Flaubert, Murakami(yeah, I know), Sketches From A Sportsman’s Notebook by Turgenev. I still love Dostoevsky, then and now, The Idiot is my favorite. I really like A Glastonbury Romance by Powys; I should check out Hardy but he seems depressing, though I like his poetry from what I’ve read. Sometimes a Great Notion by Kesey is a book I think is a masterpiece. I love Gogol and he always makes me smile. Nine Stories by Salinger, Flaubert, Look Homeward Angel by Wolfe, Stendhal, Cervantes are some others

Maybe I’m easy to please but I like most books I read. Like I said, I try to adjust myself accordingly to appreciate as much as I can. I probably have ~50 “favorites”

>>22290295
Did she have refined taste?

All I can say after looking through this thread is that it ought to be illegal to put a book on a bookshelf if you don't own the author's complete works. There is nothing more disgusting than incompleteness in a display, although stacking books vertically certainly comes close. The majority of people in this thread have no respect for books, for aesthetics, or for the love of collecting, and if you recognise that any of this criticism applies to you then you should scourge yourself half to death before doing your best to fix your issues. No, I will not post my bookshelves - you simply don't deserve to see them.

>>22270498
Do you recommend "the first philosophers"?

>>22290732
If you’re interested in early Philosophy, absolutely. The Atomists and the section on early Sophists were both very interesting.

>>22290725
dork

>>22270503
Good to know Americans don't need to worry about housing considering they live rent free in your skull

>>22290725
Autist, OCD, or jelly?

>>22290732
The pre-Socratics were right about everything, and philosophy has not improved on their metaphysical ideas at all.

>>22290272
Start with the argies.

>>22290348
Yeah I've only read some of his earlier stuff so I haven't come up against the true difficulty yet, I could see that being an issue.

Proust is truly great at what all the best realist novelists do which is to see little frailties in people and take them into his heart and exalt them into something beautiful. He is up there with Tolstoy and George Eliot (who was a great model for him iirc, I think I read that in the "Proust's Library" book I mentioned) in that regard. And yeah his innovation was to apply that same sort of observation to the things and places of his memory and to his own feelings. Yes, I love worldviews in which art is of primary importance and he exemplifies that sort of worldview.

I really like your list, esp. Faulkner, Kafka, Salinger and Flaubert. I will try to comment more on it tomorrow.

Totally agree, makes me think of Steppenwolf, restricting oneself to a favorite means restricting oneself to a single view of one's personality, we contain multitudes and are constantly changing.

>>22276086
post room

>>22290674
eh, not really
she mostly picked through the old Vonnegut books I got from my dad
I remember her picking out Breakfast of Champions distinctly because it was the only one in hardback
Bill Bryon was one of her favorite authors

>>22292110
Bump till I can reply

>>22292308
>Bill Bryon was one of her favorite authors

Kinda cute for some reason.

>>22290725
Powerful autism.

>>22273805
based

>>22270498
Who /calvinist/ here?

>>22295014
If those are the only books you own this makes me realize we need a religion or theology board more than I thought

>>22295029
Boston's Works goes on for another 10 volumes. Then I have my Bible. Aside from that the pic is all that is left. I downsized my library last year and sold or gave away a couple hundred volumes of Puritan/Calvinist works.

It's nice to not have to think about what to read. Anything else I need I have available to me digitally.

>>22295029
>a religion or theology board
We already have /x/.

>>22295399
>90
/x/ is controlled op and you know this JUDEN
gget in the fucking gas chamber.

>>22289513
>Aztec Philosophy

Sounds interesting, pls explain

>>22295467
>muh joos

>>22291159
Yucky.

>>22295467
>and you know this JUDEN
juden is the plural, you retarded larping mono-lingual fuckface

I do NOT have autism... do I?

>>22296014
cozy shelf

>>22296014
Best in the thread

>>22290272
Unamuno is supremely boring. Get Ortega y Gasset instead.
Neruda is very nice, but if you're that sort of philistine right-winger you won't enjoy him.
Lorca, I remember reading something from him a good time ago and that I liked it.
I don't know about the rest.
After the Spanish Gilded Age Latrine Americans kind of took over.

>>22296056
Like the way this lil fella moves his feet, heh...

>>22296014
Wow is The Trial really that short? Or does that Metamorphosis include other stories?

>>22296014
how good is Adolescent? I read all other Dosto novels, but heard some pretty bad things about it.

any recs?

>>22271088
what happened to all the first books in all of those series?

>>22297346
Way too overhated and not as boring as I thought it'd be honestly, like 3/4 of his works are still arguably better than it

>>22291159
one of the only posts in this thread where it looks like they're actually reading the books isntead of collecting them

>>22270498

>>22298062
What’s that box set by Patrick O’Brian with a ship on the spines?

>>22298076
It's the complete Aubrey maturin collection. I couldn't find them in Canada past number 5 individualy. It has the final unfinished novel included.

>>22298079
>Aubrey Maturin

Who tf is that?

>these completely unread books
lol, lmao

>>22298085
The master and commander series of novels the movie is based on.

>>22298096
Is it a S&M type of thing?

>>22283407
>>22283413
Bit too much 20th century America for me but I like it overall, it's a sensibility not represented much here anymore.

>>22283413
>Shadow Country
Nice. Wish that book got more attention
>Miller
Nice
>A Sport and a Pastime
How is it?

>>22299077
How would you describe modern /lit/ sensibilities?

>>22285535
I tried reading Hakomari and it read like a 15 year old wrote it.At least nisio stuff reads well

>>22299093
Retarded, mostly; but I’m not saying 20th century America in general is unrepresented, just the particular aspect of it I see in that shelf (your Roths, your Mailers, your Bellows and Updikes, your Millers, your Lost Generationers, etc. - his shelf is more personalized than that but you get my point). Generally it’s all the lowest common denominator topics that happen to be acceptable to the political sensibility du jour, Nietzsche Dosto Plato and McCarthy are the four horsemen of /lit/‘s demise. Not long ago there were some Evola/Guenon/Buddhist types that would make well-informed effortposts, not my cup of tea but at least it gave the board some character. Now it just feels mediocre all the time.

>>22299225
Yeah. I like this anon’s shelf a lot, I was just curious what you meant. It’s always interesting how certain topics come and go-Guenon, Evola, Buddhism, antinatilism, etc. It really shows that a single, or few, anons can really make an impact on this board.

>>22284412
infinite jest can fit in there

>>22296014
impeccable shelf

>>22299241
Yep, it's not quite a truly dead board because there are parasites animating its corpse but even taking that into account it's a very small world, the bright side being that it's not too hard to make it a little bit better.

>>22299331
It sucks I find this time the best and it’s 430am where I am(crazy work schedule so I’m only up this late a few days a week). I’ve given some thought about getting a trip so I take it more seriously and anons I talk to recognize me

>>22299354
Yeah anonymity is a blessing and a curse, personally I need it but I didn't mind, e.g., Frater, a lot of his gimmicks were dumb but he was decently well-read and sincere and had some interesting ideas.

>>22299096
> and it read like a 15 year old wrote it
Between Hakomari and Kamisu Reina I’d say that perspective is kind of his thing: precocious teenagers getting in way over their heads and fucking everything up, because being a just little smarter or more mature than their peers makes them think they’re superhuman. I can see how it comes off as insufferable if you take it at face value, but I think he writes with awareness that the teenaged characters are edgy and overly self-absorbed in their teen drama.

>>22298110
Science & Maritime combat, yes!

>>22270498

>>22300227
b..bruh

>>22299413
Frater was great when a topic was in his wheelhouse but he was too pedantic to try to understand or appreciate most literature

>>22300954
He was a genuine retard

>>22300965
There were a few poets he was knowledgeable about, but he had such a myopic outlook towards literature that he came across so pretentious and pedantic that Ezra Pound would blush

>>22300227
Basé

>>22300227
come on guy, get your shit together

>>22299088
>A Sport and a Pastime
>How is it?

Not my favorite Salter. The prose is elegant and is the main attraction. The spoiled American college boy, the lovely sexy French girl and the mysterious narrator who might just be imagining the whole thing started out enigmas and remained so by the time I finished. And the ‘tragic’ ending came out of nowhere.
And I didn’t fap to it at all. I got more boners from American Psycho to be honest.

I do recommend Solo Faces and Light Years though. I was lucky that I read Solo Faces first and decided to read more of his stuff.

>>22299077
Yeah I probably am too America-centric but that is what got me into literary reading, coming across Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Steinbeck and Twain in high school and then Melville and Faulkner in college.
What can I say? I am American.
I have tried branching out a bit with the Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Hesse, Hamsun, Mishima, Bolano, Rulfo and Vargas Llosa.
I probably should read the French more. I’ve got Death on the Installment Plan and The Charterhouse of Parma in the to read pile. And The Long Ships since I have neglected the Swedes entirely.

>>22301821
Nah there’s nothing wrong with it at all, just interesting because it’s not a taste that’s in vogue anymore either here or in the mainstream, I enjoy seeing stuff like that. Any particular favorites?

>>22301821
>>22302842
I’ve mentioned it here a few times in the past but I’ve always found the phenomenon of forgotten 20th century American writer very interesting. Guys like Cheevers, Updike, Yates, Bellow, Mailer, Roth(I think he’ll fair better) and all those guys have rapidly fading stars. I wonder if it’s the themes, setting, or what, but it must not be connecting with modern audiences. I’m not saying those are the writers you are into I just wanted to go on a tangent with 20th century American writers

>>22302842
>>22302854

To be honest I picked up on Roth because of the way they were ganging up on him when he died. It was like every feminist literary critic was posting an essay about what a bad husband or boyfriend he was. And it was like they had to wait until he died because he was too dangerous to fuck with when he was alive. But in hindsight it was probably that he was prone to litigation.
That seems to be the biggest complaint against Roth, Updike, Mailer. Bad husbands and or boyfriends.
Bellow turned conservative in his old age so he fell out of favor.
Salter’s last book pissed off a lot of women particularly one plot element (middle aged guy seduces the daughter of his ex-girlfriend as revenge against the ex). The saner reviews chided him for poor taste. The less sane acted like he had actually fucked their daughter.
I am a big fan of Yates. Disturbing the Peace is on my to read pile.
I just got into Bellow last year. I have Sieze the Day and Henderson the Rain King on the to read pile.

>>22270498
best I can do
the .zip are multiple files
size about 12.5 gb

>>22303342
You need to better label your digital library, anon.

>>22274176
Based e-readerbro

>>22300227
I want to end you

>>22285620
>chainsawman
100% a zoomer, not hating just stating a fact

>>22289517
Nice

>>22304010
>digital library
I hosted an internet version for awhile

>>22303100
I haven’t read a ton of Roth but I’ve liked what I’ve read. He reminds me of Woody Allen/Seinfeld with some Lenny Bruce. I need to get around to reading more of him

So you think those authors have faded because of how they’re perceived by women? I’ve always felt that the upper middle class WASP-esque setting just doesn’t click with modern readers’ sensibilities. It is a bygone time that isn’t so far in the past to be a curiosity. I’d imagine MFA style writers await the same fate

>>22270498
Why do people collect Penguin books? Are they that good or they just look good, cuz I haven't read much of them.

>>22280538
Yo anon. That book about Beksinski looks really nice. Would you mind sharing how I could find it? I really like his art but there is not much info on the man himself

>>22304684
They are cheap and offer a ton of good titles

I threw out all my books recently and got an e-reader instead, it's so much more convenient. These threads are just pseudo intellectual conspicuous consumption

>>22304684
>they just look good
No, they just have a ton of good classics.

>>22270498
Most of these look like they've never been taken off the shelf. How many of these have you read >50% of? No point lying on an anonymous website.

>>22304525
I think the number of male book readers had dropped precipitously with the internet. While women were the majority of readers for a long long time the male reader has become even more scarce over time.
Females are something like 80% of fiction readers
Though a friend of mine did say something along the lines of what you were saying about how hard it is for him to relate to affluent suburbanites after I tried to get him to read Revolutionary Road.

>>22304525
>>22304978
it's funny you guys say this when I got into richard yates because a girl I was dating was super into him

>>22272209
You’ve obviously never seen my cock

Yes i do have enough copies of the Iliad and the Odyssey, how could you tell?

>>22305017
No you don't, get the dolan Iliad too

>>22304986
The femoids have more problems with Updike, Roth, Mailer, Kerouac and Bukowski.
Yates usually gets a pass as being fairly femoid sympathetic

I herd you fellas like them lobes, eh?

>>22270503
>>22270526
>>>/r/ope for the both of you

>>22270498

>>22305774
nice lubes anoon

>>22305774
Clean your lens, nigga

>>22270498
1/2

>>22307124
2/2

>>22274176
same. I move around too much

>>22307124
>>22307125
Missed the middle row, *2/3

>Books aren't organized alphabetically by author then title
How the fuck do people in this thread live, fucking barbarians.

>>22298062
Clever way to set up a kino tv cabinet on the cheap, I like it.

>>22298062
>the martian

buying bookshelves is for consoomers. i exclusively use cardboard boxes with the tops cut off placed on their sides and stacked.

>>22307609
Ok, poorfag.

>>22307125
Is the Reader's Digest edition of Moby-Dick double-columned?

>>22271926
>Gregory Shaw Theurgy and the Soul
The most based poster in the thread

>>22307644
No, there is a double-column insert but the book isn’t

This is my work shelf.

There's nothing more embarrassing than a bookshelf filled with books that look like they've hardly been opened. All the effort trying to keep your books looking pristine just to look like a poseur.

>>22307609
a nice used bookshelf would really improve your life

>>22307636
>>22308027
Ok give me a job that pays well then kings?

>>22270498
my shelf is ugly

>>22307970
yea but why would you just break them up for no reason? so that people who dont know you think youre cool when you post in a shelf thread? i want my books to last they cost a lot of money

>>22307169
They're my books. I put them there, why would I need to alphabetize them to find them? It's not like anybody else is going to be reading them.

>>22308215
Prostitution.

>>22307124
Empire of cotton! Ha I saw the debut in Berlin

>>22306258
Seethe, coping amerigoblo

>>22308222
It's okay. Shelves come in all shapes in sizes. That's one of the qualities which make them so beautiful.

>>22307609
>sudafed
a true scholar

>>22270526
lol retard

>>22307609
>calling bookshelves consoomer
>buying an arcturus lovecraft set

>>22307868
what use could you possibly derive from the mla and ap books out of high school and in 2023

>>22270498

>>22270498

>>22270498

>>22310718
it was a gift from my parents whom i love very much, anon

>>22307970
Not everyone is an obese gorilla who struggles to hold a book without ripping it due to hand and forearm fatigue