/lit/ - Literature

>>3474817
Honestly, if I walked into someone's house and saw that collection, my first thought would be, 'Oh, Jesus, they browse /lit/.'

>The Karamazov Brothers

why.

Have you considered actually reading your books, OP? And maybe reading things you actually want to read and not stuff you just pick up on /lit/ to be pretentious?

>ayn rand
>dawkins
>camus
>nietzsche

and the teen choice award goes to...

>>3474830
Don't put Camus in that group, please.

>>3474817

I'm more interested in your vinyl collection.

>>3474847

I'm confused.

>>3474847
Post your body please. I like a well read, fit man

>>3474843

Mostly just 70s prog, nothing out of the ordinary.

>>3474849
im not some piece of met for you to gawk at

>>3474847

I wasn't interested in the initial picture, but this stuff is great. Good work, OP.

>>3474858
p-pls

Alright, postin' up again.

>de OCD

>>3474872
hahahaha

the amount of pop-sci trash up on that shelf. i threw up in my mouth a little.

this must be, not only the pseudo-intellectual's ultimate dream bookshelf, but the bookshelf of the average /r/eddit baby-atheist.

>>3474889

That's nice, honey.

>>3474889

there's not much wrong with popsci, and the breadth of stuff there is cool anyway. i like that shelf.

What is the correct way to store books?

Horizontal or Vertical?

>>3474901

The hell? Vertical.

>>3474889

If you're going to laugh at someone's bookshelf then at the very least have the balls to post your own.

>>3474817
>Rand and Hemingway on the same bookshelf.

>>3474901

Diagonally!

>>3474918
He's probably too rich to afford a camera.

>>3474889

hahahaha

the amount of interesting and thought provoking reading up on that shelf. i threw up in my mouth a little.

this must be, not only the casual readers ultimate dream bookshelf, but the bookshelf of the average /lit/master race

>>3474817
I have that same edition of The Idiot. It's probably the worst translation I have ever read.

Despite paying hardly anything for Wordsworth books - I vowed never to buy their cheap shit again.

>>3474901
I heard that it's better for big books (like 600 pages and up) to store them horizontally.

>>3474817
>ayn rand

>>3474920
I know right. They should be in the same trash can instead.

>>3474889
As someone who disapproved of some of his stuff last thread because of the authors, not the content, I just have to say you're a pretty big moron to complain about someone reading about science and reason.

More of this ridiculous dick-waving?

Frankly I'm disappointed in you, /lit/

>>3474980
Not so much for the dick-waving

>>3474978
You don't appear to have a copy of Infinite Jest. Are you new or something?

>>3474961
Why would you criticize something you never read?

More for the apparent lack of dick you have to wave with.

>>3474990
the people will lots of books have become sick of posting their shelves over and over again

>>3474986
I'm not going to spend money on a stack of waste paper just for an in-joke.

>>3474995
Show me.

I forgot to take photos of the shelf D - Dexter, Colin to G - Galsworthy, John

Also not shown: Shelf of international dictionaries

Also not shown: Cook books, Cabinet of misc paperpacks & art books

There are also a couple of shelves of kids books and all the books on sex missing from these photos.

>>3475001
you can just use the /lit/ archive. it saves full pictures now. but i'll dump some classics/favorites

>>3475017

So can you children please stop this awkward posturing? At least wait until you have your own house and can store them easily.

>>3475020
not dumping all the pics this guy did, but here is one

Do you even read?

>>3475020
Both of those individuals shelves together are still less than half.

>>3475025
and another

>>3475028
and here are some from that one well-off guy who had several thousand and had actual read them all

>>3475034
another from that guy, there were way too many pictures of individual shelves

>>3474997
Yet I spy some Stephen King and Larsson in your collection. Lol.

I felt like a materialistic consumer whore for having this, but looking at all you hoarders, I feel much better.

This is my library; 134,000 books for the size of one novel.

>>3475034
Don't look read to me.

>>3475038
I declare him the Jonah Falcon of /lit/, can we all stop trying to use clever photography to look like we measure up now?

>>3475038
more of that guy

>>3475040
Touché. Can you stop replying to me now? I want to drop this trip.

>>3475047
part of the set, I think this was his unread stack or soon to be read

>>3474876
>Zizek

>>3474872
>Dawkins

Trip dropping.

>>3475053
metropole at the end always brings this one together for me

>Keeping unread books in your shelf

I have a huge stack of books on an otherwise unused desk for this sole purpose

>>3475062
and a classic to finish off

>>3475070
Yeah, it feels cheap to add unread books to my shelf. I just pile them on top of my TV.

We're all very impressed with your unread books, guys.

>>3475075
what are they, trophies?

faggots

>>3475095
You say this, and then you go and chastise every picture you see containing books that look remotely un-mussed. There's no winning with you people.

>>3475072
>Fagles

>>3474990
what's your favorite Roth book?

>>3475207
What would you suggest? Alexander pope?

>>3475222
Fitzgerald
Pope
Pharr

>>3475226
Reading Fagles currently. I have a plan of getting Pope as a second.

Why are you guys so mean to each other? ;_;

>>3475243

Being mean is sign of insecurity and of a feeble mind. It's easy to spot who here are pretentious, feeble-minded and insecure, and who are nice, genuine and intelligent. Ignore the fools and engage in discussion with the nice, intelligent people, for it's always interesting to talk with an intelligent man.

>>3475243

/lit/ - Superiority complex

H-here goes.

>>3475262

>>3475266
>>3475262
Are a scholar of Greek classics?

>>3475266

>>3475268

>>3475268
Sort out that cable management immediately.

>>3475267
No just thought I'd do it proper this time around.
>>3475274
Yeah working on it.

>>3475041
Same here bro, when I'm older with more money I'll make a small reading room surrounded by nice looking books but until then its .pdf all day

>>3474817

I had the urge to scream "PLEEEEEB" when I saw your bookcase. Then I realized that mine looks mostly the same, except obviously I don't have ultra-pleb tier authors like Dawkins. And obviously I have nicer editions. I might take a picture in a bit; I'm not at home right now.

>>3475297
>ultra-pleb tier authors

Please, sir, will you kindly get the fuck out.

>>3475310
The truth hurts.

How is the Necronomicon collection everyone seems to have? I bought a bunch last month because they were $2 each but now i feel like I should have bought that instead

Here you go

>>3474847
Alpha as fuck.

fuk bukz, kindle master race

>>3475347
Stop posting this guy on here, I feel dumber even by looking at his pictures.

>>3475354

virgin beta bookfag spotted

>>3475354
Keep mirin' breh

>>3475347
>zyzz idolatry
>alpha

Pick only one.

>>3475266
What pens do you have?

>>3475368
Konrad, Parker Centennial, Sheaffer Lifetime, Pelikan 400 and some nameless shit one.

Not the best ones, but they are all good writers.

>>3474817
no worries OP, you'll have plenty of time to read all these someday while you marinate in your virginal rage over why no girls want anything to do with you.

>>3475047
Evolution S_____ what? Sucks?

I hope you all rot.

>>3474817
Did you recently just start reading, or are you just pleb as fuck?

>>3475297
>>3475426

I should just filter the word "pleb"

>>3474872
this is the most laughable picture ive seen on /lit/

OP solely keeps Barnes and Noble in business.

>>3474876
> "The essential cool shit to say about Trotsky and Marxism"

>>3475047
Carver is always a good pick.

>>3475443
DURR DURR DERP I ONLY READ CLASSICS WESTERN CANNON MASTERRACE REPORTIn In ULYZZES STRONK INFINITE JEST YOLO SWAG PATRICIAN ITT GET OF MY LIT WITH THIS PLEB SHIT

>>3475586

Thanks for the chuckle. Didn't really bother responding to him.

>>3475393
I believe that's a table tennis table.

>>3474842
Lel. Camus is like Nietzsche for edgy teens who lack vitality and enthusiasm.

>>3475592
i have precognitive dreams

u mad science fan?

>>3477277
Coming from someone who says lel that doesn't mean much.

>most people here living itt living in a tiny appartment
>"OH! I know! instead of selling my books and getting a kindle I'll put myself at an economic disadvantage and keep them and continue to stack up my massive pile of books.

>>3477644
You can't get every book as an ebook.

>>3474825

Dostoyevsky is essential, nigger.

It was essential before /pol/.

It will still be essential after /pol/.

>>3477644
Just learn to laugh at those who can't join the minimalist master race.

>having over 9000 books rotting away and decaying on shelves that you will only read once, or more probably, will and have never read

all that wasted money

>>3477277
>like Nietzsche for edgy teens
Excuse me? Then what the fuck is Nietzsche.
But seriously, Nietzsche is far more interesting, terrible fan base or not.

>>3474872

nice collection there, norwegianbro. What did you think of Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance? Remember finding it in Norwegian in some backpacker dump in Thailand ages ago.

>>3475349
I've considered getting a tablet for reading. is kindle really better than the others?

>>3475297
dawkins is under-rated. You just fear it because it is read by edgy teens

>>3475326
Dweeb.

h-here i go...

1/4

>>3477730
I'm not gonna shy away from the fact that some of my books remain unread. I can barely walk in a bookshop without a souvenir.

>>3477741
Disregard that my camera is shit in these pics

3/4

>>3477749
and 4/4. I've been moving as you can see.
Also not pictured, my kindle.

>>3477730
>The Singing Detective
My nigga

>>3477683

I liked it. Very pleasant read, although I'm sure I missed a lot of the philosophical ideas in the book that I would probably see now (it's quite a few years since I read it).

>>3477684
Get an e-ink e-reader, anything else will kill you slowly.

>>3477936

>>3475345
I approve heartily

>>3478026
i wish i had a heart...

>>3477644
You can not be rich and still have hobbies, money isn't as hard to come by as you think.