/lit/ - Literature

>>22386686
Rate shelf /lit/

>>22386686
here goes nothing for me ;3
don't be too harsh ;l

>>22386686
>dream quest of kadath
Nice

First time shelf poster here, I’m expecting a roasting
1/2

>>22387388
2/2

I’ll bump this for more shelves to be posted.

>>22386806
Can't really see the book idiot

>>22387390
>Guide to Mushrooms
Based and automatically better taste than 99% of posters here

First shelf post on here (the censored parts are for the paranoid doxxing fear)

>>22387388
Why? They all seem well regarded books. Many seem unread. Happy reading

>>22387886
>Sven Larsson thinks someone on 4chan would know him

>CERTIFIED SPINE INSPECTOR HERE!!! THOSE BOOKS LOOK UNREAD!!!!

>>22388341
Haha I only have hardcover books Czeck made spine inspeter!

How are people not paranoid to post pictures of their bookshelves? There most likely exists exactly only one (1) bookshelf with those exact books, assuming you're not one of those chartfags and have a unique sense of taste.

>>22388412
I did it because the people visiting me does not give a shit about my shelf so there is a minimal chance of getting recognised

>>22387390
Based Laurus Chad

>>22388412
Stop being neurotic, you loser, and take your meds

>>22388412
>How are people not paranoid to post pictures of their bookshelves?
Paranoid of what?
>The government
They already knew what books I have purchased.
>People that know me IRL
They already know I own books, and have views, that run contrary to the status quo / popular opinion.
>Someone will find your social media
I don't have any social media accounts. I'm a Gentoo and OpenBSD using retard that spends most time socializing in IRC, if I even socialize at all. Half the time I post on this board to fucking piss on idiots so they might learn something if they decide to think for a moment.
There is absolutely nothing to gain from someone knowing the books I own because it's not a "personal library" it is a "family library" that I am building. The only "profile" they can build on me from this it is that I'm either unfathomably "based" and high IQ or I'm a evil esoteric nazi fascist that has non-right wing books too "for some reason". Either way, go fuck yourself, faggot.

>>22388869
>I own books, and have views, that run contrary to the status quo / popular opinion.
That sounds much better than the equivalent "I share the same views as that of half of all 14 year old boys in the west"

>>22388869
Tough guy. In a previous thread an anon doxxed himself by saying that he's from Finland and posting a picture of his bookshelf. Here, too, an anon has a Moomin hanging lynched from his bookshelf.

>>22389103
>responds exactly how I said you would
You really cannot help yourself, can you? At least the other crowd was smart enough to keep its reaction to itself.
>half of all 14 year old boys
I sincerely doubt that half of all 14 year old boys "simply enjoy learning about weird ideas / moments in history and reading books."
Anyways, don't let these fake Evolians fool you, Traditionalism isn't popular and it isn't supposed to be. Sure, third position economics is growing in popularity, but going from 13 people who know what it is to 87 people who know what it is, doesn't really mean anything, does it? Besides, most of what I have seen, the teenager perspective mostly operates in terms of aesthetics rather than actively learning about, at the very least, the foundations of these ideologies. The ones that do only seem to think national socialism and fascism are the options and don't really know about third positionism. Although, in terms of racialism and preferred-ingroup, guilty as charged and I'm not sorry. If that's become popular... Good.
>>22389282
Fine, I live in Montana and I'm working on a PhD for chemistry. I'm married with 4 kids, a fifth on the way, and I mostly only buy from NWF and the derivatives at the Farmer's Market. Oh, but just remember kids, OSINT is a funny thing.

>>22389319
>simply enjoy learning about weird ideas / moments in history and reading books."
That's a funny way to say "I'm a shitty person and try to mask it as something intellectual and all of these books I buy are written by retarded charlatans"

>>22389394
Have you ever noticed that the Gen X "snark" template is used exclusively by shitty people? Well, good luck either way.

>>22389620
The chudy posts of the other anon read as much more snarky than the posts of the anon you replied to.

>Does this place still do shelf threads?
Unfortunately, yes.

>>22387390
>Laurus
Never thought anyone outside Russia would know about this book, not to mention read it. What do you make of it?

Bumping to keep shelf thread alive

>>22389775
You will own nothing and you will proudly post your files online

>>22389972
not the shelf guy but it got quite popular on lit in the last months. i found it too because lit was talking about it.

its very tarkovskyesque if i dare to say it. a bit mythological, a bit religious, a bit slavic/ukrainian/russian fairytale... i really liked it.

rate shelf

>>22390948
Very, very basic but I'll give you a bonus point for Kathy Acker.

behold, a non english shelf

>>22387862
ich bin etwas neidisch, anon

>>22390948
based for anna karenina, but sad you fell for the infinite jest meme

>>22390983
Your shelf could benefit of a rigorous culling.

>>22391041
why?

>>22391091
Nevermind

>>22391098
its a good lp but my favorite from nirvana is in utero

Books for straight, White, Western men? Please.

>>22391102
>Germ in charge of humor

>>22391139
in fact in utero is really my favorite lp of nirvana

>>22386686
Not enough poetry, but you got Calvin and Hobbes, 7/10
>>22386794
kek/10
>>22386806
kek/10
>>22387388
>>22387390
Not enough poetry, but and the Mr. Dost is cringe, but you got Knut Hamsun.....7/10
>>22387757
Ah, some Ezra Pound, finally some poetry and Irish folklore. Lovecraft and White Power stuff brings it down a bit, but whatevs. 7.5/10
>>22387883
Not enough poetry, but you've got some mighty fine fiction. 7/10
>>22387886
Meh. Feels like an edgy 18 year old white guy trying to find his place. At least you've got Nietzsche and no Peterson. 6/10
>>22390948
Kind of normie if this is all you got. If you've read Infinite Jest and Anna Karenina, 7/10, if you haven't, 5/10
>>22390983
Some decent stuff, some not so decent. Some good literary works, some escapist. I'm giving it a 6.5/10
Here's mine 1/3

>>22391163
2/3

>>22391163
>>22391166
3/3

>>22386686
this is my shelf,i got more books but the rest is at my parents place in a box.

>>22391163
>Not enough poetry
Not enough one-page stories about someone describing how their mother was abusive but through the view of someone at the zoo!!! 7/10.

>>22390983
Dein Regal is echt Penis du Hurenbock.

>>22391361
based French degenerate

Just my on deck section. Made up my mind that I want to learn more about criticism so I’m going to focus on Baudelaire, Ulysses, Gogol, and Proust for the next little while. I love Baudelaire, Gogol, and Proust. Joyce, not so much but I’ve been reading up on Ulysses and think I’m going in better prepared than before. I also wish more anons knew Edmund Wilson. He has been a goldmine

>>22386806
Get a haircut, bro. You look like a chick.

>>22392615
You write and sound like a retard.

>>22392615
>learn more about criticism
????

>>22392759
The evaluation and interpretation of literature

>>22392774
>evaluation
What does that mean for literature?

>>22386686
>Green Day Bullet in a Bible

0/10

>>22386686
Rate my shelf /lit/

>>22387862
Beautiful. How do you plan to add more? I have about 8 bookcases and am running out of space. Does anybody store extras in boxes?

>>22387862
When you pass on donate your unread books to your local library. They might even place a bronze plaque somewhere in memoriam

>>22393373
No what will happen is they’ll go to a library sale where they’ll be sold for 1-3 dollars to Amazon and eBay resellers.

The money from the library sale will go to buy new books on relevant topics like social equity, racism and transgender story hour.

>>22393460
Obsessed

>>22392889
Go out and buy some McCarthy. That’ll raise it from a 6/10 to an 8/10.

I just moved to a larger house and I finally have a large bookshelf. I haven't been able to buy new books in a couple of years because of lack of space, so this is very nice.

>>22393357
There's still more rooms that have no shelves.

>>22393373
I'll eventually move to a small house somewhere and they can turn it into a library/museum like they did with Arno Schmidt's house.

i threw away half of them about a year ago. random shitbooks from op shops. used to be double stacked lol

anything i couldnt see myself reading again went to vinnies

>>22386686
smart keeping them in a cabinet with doors, they get pretty dusty

sometimes it would be nice with a shelf but I move around too much

>>22387886
Ganska krinsch, pysen

Moving next year, only time I regret reading physical media.

>>22395338
Posta hylla själv då din pleb

>>22395335
I've had to move a lot recently so I got rid of a little over half my collection.

>mfw no resale value
>mfw nobody reads donated books
>mfw they're probably rotting in a landfill

Yeah, I think I'll stick to my ereader now

>>22394963
what are two hardcovers black books, between Moby Dick and Nabokov Lolita? on the same shelf as marcel proust books.

>>22395763
It's Musil's The Man Without Qualities, one of my favourites.

>>22396569
very nice. i possess a gargantuan one volume english papaerback. there's a nice 2 set hardback collection in english like yours, but thats very hard to come by at my place

>>22392615
good stuff miller anon. never read any literary critiscism as such. but am a frequenter of the comics kind, there's an entire magazine called 'The Comics Jounal' that has been running for decades on it.

Been meaning to ask, what's in your opinion the best translation for Rimbaud and Baudelaire?

>>22396675
It’s hard to say because my French isn’t great, or even good. For Baudelaire I loved New Directions’ Paris Spleen but that is the only one I’ve read. The same publisher has The Flowers of Evil compilation with a bunch of translations from various translators and poets (the one in my pic). With Rimbaud it’s hard to say because what he does in the French language is very unique. I still think he’s worth reading in English because the gist and themes still shine through. I would recommend reading a book about him before reading his poetry. He lived a very interesting life and his poetry is reflective of what was going on in his personal life or what he was interested in at the time, which might not be apparent if you jump right into his poetry. For example his interest in alchemy and his “seer” letter figures strongly in his poems. I think most translators in general do a good job and it’s ultimately up to personal taste. A translation will never be perfect and some do certain things better than other translations and some things worse. The pure linguistics and language arent my main interest in literature, and what I’m interested in usually bleeds through no matter what.

>>22396761
Wow, that's a very educated response guess the reading of literary critiscism has already began to show through heh

Thanks a lot yeah. I wish to go on a poetry spree after finishing up the current novels I am reading (don quixote, man's search for meaning)

My eyes are currently set on Merrill's The Changing light at sandover, Hart Crane and Omeros by Derek Walcott. The poetry in your pic, incited to maybe add french poetry to my list as well.

>>22396789
I’ve been trying to get into poetry more recently after have ignored it for years. I find I can’t be tired, and have to be alert and focused to read it. I’ve used to think it was kinda gay but I respect it a lot more now, and view it much differently

As far as criticism goes, I’ve been trying to shill Edmund Wilson a few times. Some of his essays are great, even when I’m not interested in the writer or whatever the subject is. I never would have thought I would have loved reading an essay on Dickens, and I am much more interested in him now. I’ve only read the Pickwick Papers but I want to explore him more now. His essay on Sophocles’ Philoctetes, The Wound and the Bow, hit me like a lightning bolt. Somehow I never thought about what Philoctetes’ bow, which is godlike, and his wound represent. How one drove men away from him and led to their abandoning him, and how the other is needed by the same men, and is the reason they want to bring him back. Axel’s Castle is a whole book on the symbolist movement, and it has essays on Yeats, Valery, Eliot, Proust, Joyce, Stein, and Rimbaud. I haven’t read all of them yet but the ones I did are superb. Wilson is not a boring critic and is easy for even laymen to read

>>22396844
very cool, yeah i am in the same boat with poetry, have to be wide awake whilst reading it otherwise, it just ends up being a rhyming menagerie of sounds in my heads.

In terms of critics, ive been meaning to read Guy Davenport and Hugh Kenner, really only so i can get the complete set of their letters which seem really damn interesting. But i'm biding my time for now, currently in a busy patch of life, so not much time for reading

also, that Gaddis biography by Moore, need that as well someday

I get most of my books from the library

>>22397219
>Guy Davenport
Funny you mention him because I read an essay by George Steiner on him recently. He definitely seems like an interesting writer. I previewed Da Vinci’s Bicycle and it is a strange book. I’m not sure it would be my cup of tea but I really want to get his essay collection The Geography of the Imagination. Nonpareil is releasing it in January and I’m planning to get it. Part of the reason I want to get into criticism and literary essays more is because I think it almost unlocks a whole new world. Many times I’ve seen had writers or critics make me see things in a whole new light, not to mention getting a lot of recs
>Hugh Kenner
He’s a Joyce guy, right? I read Levine’s book on Joyce last week (except the Wake part) and liked it a lot. I’m planning to undertake Ulysses again soon and want to come in prepared and view it through a different lens. I hated it the first time I read it but I feel I’m more open minded now and understand it better, and what Joyce was trying to do. There’s so many secondary books on Joyce that it’s hard to pick one. I want to read one more before I tackle Ulysses though
>Gaddis
I’m not going to lie, I did not care for TR but it had its moments, and Gaddis certainly has a good sense of humor. I read it a long time ago so perhaps my opinion would be different now, but I’ve already got a huge backlog and TR can’t be in the works for me. I am interested in his letters though. He’s one of the group where I want to read their letters: Chekhov, Abelard and Heloise, Sevigne, Pliny, Flaubert, and Henry Miller’s letters to Emil. I was saying some weeks ago that I always like to get an inside look at the artists and connect their life to their work

>>22387886
Is homo fennicus worth read?
I am currently reading one book on finno-ugric pagan worship and other on finnish folktale creatures.

>>22387886
Gross

>>22397450
>Gorey
impeccable taste and marry me please

>>22392615
>gogol
based.

>>22397967
Gorey definitely had an impact on my pre-teen self haha. And sorry anon, I'm already married to a nerd.

>>22393489
But still true

>>22397573
I haven’t had time to read it yet but I’ve heard it’s supposed to be a pretty decent work.

>>22397584
What an insightful one-word comment, thank you.

Posting part of my electric library.
Project gutenberg is good but I prefer physical

>>22396789
Shut the fuck up, you insufferably retarded faggot. You sound literally too stupid for Merrill and Crane, especially considering you haven’t even read fucking Baudelaire and Rimbaud of all poets

>>22401005
Wow, books anyone else can download.

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>>22401074
Thanks for reminding me that 4chan functions as a release valve. If you’re not spewing venom all the time you aren’t really a modern day 4channeler

>>22386794
cotton hill core

>>22401059
“When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: the people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous and surly. They are like this because they can't tell good from evil. But I have seen the beauty of good, and the ugliness of evil, and have recognized that the wrongdoer has a nature related to my own - not of the same blood and birth, but the same mind, and possessing a share of the divine. And so none of them can hurt me. No one can implicate me in ugliness. Nor can I feel angry at my relative, or hate him. We were born to work together like feet, hands and eyes, like the two rows of teeth, upper and lower. To obstruct each other is unnatural. To feel anger at someone, to turn your back on him: these are unnatural.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

>>22401308
How long did it take you to find that quote on Reddit?

>>22401311
I have it saved. I feel that you've never been treated with geniune kindness or affection by anyone, and that's a damn shame. Remember my friend, at the end of the day, it isn't I who is affected by what you say, but you yourself. You allow this negativity, to flow through all that you say and do, and eventually compel yourself to lead a life, that could've been so much more.

You rebuke about poetry don't you, then I hope you'll recognize this, there are always two roads diverging in front of you, the path of love and kindness, or that of hate.

Choose, "the one less travelled by" and that will truly make all the difference.

Stay well

>>22401341
Nice projection and assumptions, lil’ guy. Post body

Most comfy part of my shelf

>>22391091
full of tasteless slop is why.
you only have like 5 books that are even somewhat work wasting your time reading.

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>>22401369
Not a single cracked spine in sight
This is the current state of /lit/. these are the people telling you what you should be reading/thinking.
get off of 4chan and read the goddamn books instead of photographing them wtf

>>22401827
>Not a single cracked spine in sight
Yeah, because it's all hardcovers, you dunce.

>>22401831
It’s either a troll or someone who doesn’t read. Anyone who’s ever touched a book knows they can show almost no wear with proper handling, aka not being an animal. Ignore them. Don’t feed trolls

>>22401827
funny you say that,almost all my books were bought used,did the people that had them before me not read them too ?

>>22401968
yes

>>22401831
you do know that hardcover books are made for people who don't actually read, right?

>>22402028
They are made to be read more than a single time.

>>22402035
sureeeeeeeeeeee

>>22387757
Nice Ezra Pound collection! I've got the 1954 edition of the Cantos in this shelf.

>>22401827
Sorry I keep my books in good condition and don't break the spine like a fucking retarded baby having a temper tantrum.

As you can easily tell I am still very new at literature, but I'm enjoying it a lot so far

>>22386686
Office bookshelf mostly genre fiction. Only 1-3 hours reading available per day

>>22390948
you know what? It's small, but damn if that isn't a fine collection of books, bonus points for bolano.

>>22392615
if you haven't read dubliners or portrait first, regardless of any supplementary material for Ulysses, you should read those before you dive in. Mind you, portrait is in most ways the superior novel to Ulysses, and is the greatest kunstlerroman ever written.

>>22401811
>worth reading
>wasting one's time
???

>>22403938
I’ve read both of them. I’m interested in experimental Joyce.

>>22403300
stop pretending that you read man. there's no need for it.

Bunch a pseuds itt

*hits pipe*

One shelf

No cracked spines

Fags bitching about spines being in good condition or anons having a lot of books are probably just jealous. Times are tough and not everyone has the money or space to have a collection. It’s sour grapes

>>22387886
Chud

>>22402035
they feel uncomfy in my hands.

its annoying trying to hold them open, and the ones that have a paper slip over the top are god awful. the paper always either gets all ripped up, or you take it off to read it and have to have this paper thing hanging around. they are the worst. they are more expensive too, wtf is the point.

>>22406374
Put the dustcover back on when you’re done a reading session. It really isn’t a big deal

I'm travelling so can't post my shelves. I've taken this small stack with me, plus The Judging Eye by Bakker and The Mask of the Sorcerer by Schweitzer.

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