/lit/ - Literature

>>2896286

Looking damn introductory, OP.

Been reading for long?

>>2896293
A couple years.

I am slowly creeping my way through all of these.I have been trying to read all of the smaller works first then moving on to the larger ones.

Can't really see that well because of the shitty pic quality but you've got some great books there, OP. Those big leatherbounds are really nice.

However, it seems like 90% of your collection is composed of fiction. You should grab some poetry and non-fiction, too.

>>2896297


Ah, the famous brand new never opened Infinite Jest. A /lit/ classic.

Mine.

>>2896301
I was going to make a snarky remark, but that really is a pristine IJ.

>>2896301
Hahaha yeah, I read about 20 pages of it, but since I had to read a bunch of stuff for college I didn't want to commit to it. That goes for most of the books I have actually. Since that it summer (almost the end) I started some bigger works. I am actually about to start Pale King now.

>>2896307

That's ok, you have apparently read Underworld and mine is in the same state as your IF. I forgive you.

>>2896301
Is that Warren Ellis book by the comic book writer? If so, is it good? And how do you like Gentlemen Bastard?

>>2896312

The book is really bad, I loved him as a comics author and I was disappointed, but it's a fun read (his agent wanted him to write a novel, he wrote 50 pages with disgusting stuff, to shut her mouth, she sold the 50 pages and he had to continue). But it's not that disgusting, he searched stuff on the internet, there are Godzilla bukkake and religious butt plugs, stuff like that. Bad literature, nice read.

The first book of Gentleman Bastards is wonderful. I'm a big fan of Arsène Lupin and it feels like it, but in a renaissance Venice settings with magic and stuff. I don't like Fantasy usually (I have to burn those Gemmel books) but it was really good, with wonderful dialogues. The second is really, really awful. With pirates and love stories.

>>2896286

Well you have the obligatory Vonnegut, OP, so I can't fault you there.

>>2896297

You, on the other hand, despite your status as a citizen of modern society, have no Vonnegut at all. Explain yourself.

ITT: People pretend to be as good as the shit they bought.

>>2896362

Nope. Just a bookshelf thread, bro.

>>2896297
nice Dick ;)

Do we really need a new one of these threads every day? It's just the same four or five of you posting every time.

>>2896387

Yes, we do. Pic related, it's mine.

I like your copy of the Iliad/Odyssey.

I want it.

>>2896362
What's wrong, babby thought he was a little special snowflake and now realized he's not?
Awwwww)-:

>>2896405
You are illogical and your shirt doesn't fit.

>>2896407
some of these people share your same tastes and this makes you angry.

>>2896414
No, it doesn't. I don't even open click on the pictures. Try again, sport.

>>2896346
hey, wtf man
your bookshelf looks exactly like mine

>>2896423
Then you're just an unsufferable faggot.
There you go.

>not keeping your black Penguin Classics together

Why would you do that, op?

>>2896297

hell yeah alphabetical bookshelf. reminds me of mine.

>>2896599

>not being alphabetical by author and not caring about the order of titles

>>2896346
imokwiththis.jpg

>>2896396
you better zoom in on those books... As of now all I think you is another western mistake who indulges in anime to desire a life he'll never live.

My to-read bunch for the rest of summer.

>>2896359
I have Slaughterhouse 5 around my house some where, I let my dad borrow it, but I think you put it down somewhere and never picked it up again since that he hates science fiction so much haha.
>>2896371
I still need to finish that too :( I read about 65% of it a while ago, but never finished it.
>>2896599
I don't see why anyone wouldn't do it that way.

>>2896297
I can only compliment you on reading Boulgakov and Dante (among other), but it's too bad you have only the Inferno. Paradise and Purgatory are part of the same book after all.