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book shelf thread

>> No.3527772
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pic brerated

>> No.3527779

>hehe i'll post shitty books by shitty fenale authors that will tr0ll both male and female users of /lit/ hehe tr0lling the 4chinz

>> No.3527783

Are you a 14 year old girl? Can I have your email?

>> No.3527788
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>>3527779
Jane Austen is good

>> No.3527793

>>3527788
>being this edgy
fuck off

>> No.3527796

>>3527793
>calling people edgy
>2013

>> No.3527799

I demand bookshelves. I need to validate my cock once more.

>> No.3527808
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1/3

>> No.3527810

Tits

>> No.3527811
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2/3

>> No.3527816

I would, but people would make fun of me for a multitude of reasons, and I can't deal.

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3/3

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>>3527799
here you go

>> No.3527831

>>3527816
Your tits can't be worse than your book shelf

>> No.3527832

>>3527808
>>3527811
>>3527819
What's with the pages?

>> No.3527835

>>3527763
>books not all facing same way
>female authors

Pleb detected.

>> No.3527858

>>3527832
just wheat pasted them on, I thought it added some character to the shelves. But more or less it was first put to cover some tasteless art I'd done a few months back.

>> No.3527927
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Apologies for the sprawling collage....
Some of my shelves are double-stacked, so you miss out on such quality gems as Strindberg, Du Maurier, and "Drinking with Shane McGowan".

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Rate me

>> No.3527946

>>3527927
Stokoe and Self, noice.

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>>3527945

>> No.3527949

>>3527945
filthy pinko/10

>> No.3527956

>>3527949
Heh, I'm actually a political lecturer in university, focusing on Marxism and the history trade unions and such.

>> No.3527957

>>3527956
history of*

>> No.3527958

>>3527945
Do...do you have another bookshelf or do you really only read USSR lit?

>> No.3527961

>>3527956
Sounds dreadful.

>> No.3527962

>>3527946
I'm reading Self's Umbrella right now, which I got for xmas but only started 3 nights ago. I thought he'd stepped back from writing full novels and was sticking to his "collections of interlocking, thematic short story" format. But this is the opposite. A single narrative with no chapters or anything. Just endless Modernist prose.

At least Zack Busner has made an appearance already.

>> No.3527965

>>3527956
Have you read all those books in full? Also which university?

>> No.3527970

>>3527958
I've been asked to write a chapter for a book introducing the history of the USSR so this is my primary material. I focus mainly on the relationship between the trade unions and the central state during the ascendancy of communism

>> No.3527972

Interested in the de Bernières, OP. I've read a few of his books but not that one. Tell me how you liked it and about its structure, themes, and character development, please.

>> No.3527974

>>3527965
I've read most of them, and these are onl the ones I have managed to get from the library for my private reading, I have read a whole lot more that can't be taken out.

I'm not gonna say which university sorry, but it's in England

>> No.3527977

>>3527945
When I see the complete writings of Lenin, Churchill etc I always feel so sorry for their secretaries! Because there's no way they sat down and typed them: they paced around, just orating their crap, and some poor old dear had to hammer away at the machine.

If they had to do the writing by hand, I'm sure they'd have quickly learned to edit their own thoughts somewhat.

>> No.3527983

>>3527945
Have Lenin really written so much stuff? I'd imagine it's all about the same shit. Dreadful.

>> No.3527982

>>3527977
Spot on, although Lenin was fond of writing, so a lot, perhaps most, of his works are written by him, at least in their early form

>> No.3527985

>>3527927
>Drinking with Shane McGowan
god-tier

>> No.3527986

>>3527983
He does tend to repeat himself quite a lot, and his attacks on his political opponents are often very ad hominem and bordering on obsessive, but he can be very eloquent when he wants to be

>> No.3527991

>>3527985
The parts where he is coherent are the saddest parts of all, because you get a glimpse of a really remarkable mind. Unfortunately, it was a mind he didn't want to have to bear for the rest of the time so he's obliterated it for the most part.

>> No.3527996

>>3527991
definitely a pity. I love his lyrics. shame he went the Brendan Behan route.

>> No.3527997

>>3527962
I'd say Umbrella's the best thing he's ever written, along with the present-day chapters in the Book of Dave. Top class author at his best, but he runs hot and cold.

>> No.3527999

>>3527945
You are already aware this is basically Ayn Rand necon country, mate?
Just say Eric Hobsbawm and you clearly can hear how the amerifags hulk out.

>> No.3528001
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my plebe philosophy stash

>> No.3528002

>>3527999
Ah yes I realize that, that's partly the reason I chose this part of my library. I'm by no means a communist though, though I am a left-winger of the older variety

>> No.3528013

>>3528002
Fabian?

Social democrat here.
I must admit I never dare to get into the texts of Lenin after reading this:
http://www.akal.com/libros/La-Comuna-de-ParIs/9788446031833

The articles of Marx and Engels where nice but those of Lening...ugh...

>> No.3528029

>>3527974
Whereabouts does your university rank for politics?

>> No.3528070

>this far into the thread
>not one shelf with a pristine, unread copy of Infinite Jest

are you the /lit/ i know or are you an imposter

>> No.3528085

>>3528070
Shhh. Don't talk about IJ. You'll fuck up the thread.

>> No.3528092

>>3528029
Pretty high, you are likely to know some of the staff here, and there have been many 'famous' people who have taught and studied here historically.

I taught at another universit before this but thanks to a book I wrote which generated a lot of hype I had an offer to teach here, with a great salary, all based on this one book which helped me make my name!

>> No.3528095

>>3528085
I'd at least like to see one copy of Ulysses with an unbroken spine, or at least Gravity's Rainbow.

>> No.3528100

>>3528095
How do you know I didn't crack the spine of my copy of Ulysses just to make it look well worn and read?

>> No.3528101
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>having books in display
>not meekly hiding them in the back of a closet

1 Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.

2 Therefore when thou doest [thine] alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

3 But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth:

4 That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly.

5 And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites [are]: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

6 But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.

>> No.3528102

>>3528013
I'm far more interested in Trostsky than Lenin, but sadly I don't have control over what I'm asked to write about. I've written a bunch of essays on Trotsky which you might have seen in certain British left-wing newspapers, magazines, etc

>> No.3528104

>>3528100
You tricky cunt.

>> No.3528110

>>3528104
I'm just kidding.
The spine is pristine, but only because I bought it a week or two ago and have been trying to knock out a few of the shorter books in my stack of unread shit.

>> No.3528111

>>3528092
The reason i asked was because i was curious about how dedicated the staff are at university's, Do the other staff read as much of their own subject as you do? How do the staff at your current high ranked university compare to the staff at the (presumably low ranked) university?

>> No.3528118

>>3527997
That's a good sign. I'm keener on his style when he's writing short works, but enjoying this so far.

>> No.3528119

>>3528095
My copies of all three have some slight wear to their spines, i-is that good enough?

>> No.3528120

>>3528110
I've had a stack of unread classics sitting around for a while, and have been trying to read some newer ones I bought. One of the classics is Ulysses.

The thing is though, I really can't snap spines easily on my books. For some reason I get totally neurotic about it. I recently tried doing it to V. by Pynchon and it drove me half insane. I don't even know how I can keep my books looking so completely unread - I just finished Murakami's Wind-up Bird Chronicle and I swear you could probably resell it as new.

>> No.3528124

>>3527945
Where'd you get all the Lenin? Where I live I've only seen books from the works a couple of times, and only one or two volumes.

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>>3528070
here u go m8

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welp

>> No.3528136

>>3528111
I can't generalize beyond my own experience, but from what I've seen the difference between this university and my previous one where I started is significant. Here you'll find other academics are very much focused on one topic, or a subsection of a general topic, whereas in the other university it was very general, and there was no pressure to write for academic papers or journals.

Luckily there's an older academic here who hads pretty much taken me under his wing (as often happens) and gives me advice on such thing.

There's also a culture of competition here. If you do anything which gets any publicity, everyone wil gossip about it for a while and everyone seems to crave that recognition. I had that for a considerable period with my first book (interviews, invitations to lecture internationally etc) but I'm much more interested in making very abstruse topics understandable for those who haven't had the benefit of a top-class education, and who are most likely to benefit from the area I specialize in, those people being the working class, labourers, and so forth

>> No.3528142

>>3528124
My university luckily has amazing library facilities and research programs which means they tend to hoard stuff like this.

>> No.3528149

>>3528136
*laborer even

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>>3528133
Cute.

>> No.3528288

>>3528256

I would post mine on 96 GB but I won't.

You're adorable though.

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I mostly e-read so mine seems pretty lacking ;_;

>> No.3528323

>>3528314
>mine seems pretty lacking
> mine seems pretty lacking
>mine seems pretty lacking

>> No.3528328

>>3528288
How is that even possible? Ebooks are like 500k size, 2-3mb tops.

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>>3528288
qt π, seems I don't even have to include my external drive to win the pissing contest

>> No.3528336

>>3528328

HD books pleb, get with the times, each one is like a gig.

>> No.3528337 [DELETED] 

>>3528323
I don't know what your point is

>> No.3528338

>>3528330
>glib glob globbernocken vodka eat my leg Nikolai

That's what your picture says.

>> No.3528340

>>3528336
They don't exist, do they?

>> No.3528342

>>3528130
Are you British? Your copy of GR is beautiful but I can only find it for sale in the UK. Hopefully since it just came out it'll be available in the states soon.

>> No.3528343

>>3528328
>>3528336
babbys don't know about high quality PDF academic textbooks

>> No.3528352 [DELETED] 

>>3528342
He has the hideous UK Infinite Jest too so probably

>> No.3528354

>>3528343
>high quality PDF academic textbooks

You mean shit-tier scans by someone with no clue?

>> No.3528356

>>3528343

>2013
>hoarding shit you'll never use

This board is turning into Little /jp/ more each day.

>> No.3528363
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My Bookshelf.

>> No.3528364

>>3528356
>not hoarding shit before the jewpocalypse copyright tyranny hits

>> No.3528367

>>3528354
Nah son, I mean bookmarked, image-filled 800-pagers.

>>3528356
Why so mad, boy. At least I have a choice to use whatever I want, whenever I want.

>> No.3528371

>>3528364
Yeah, and this. Copyright mafia won't ever let it go. Ever.

>> No.3528385

>>3528371
This is why I need Dante in every language, P-p-p-p-lato in every language, and Aristotle in fuck off and go home.

>> No.3528393

>>3528385
Sorry bro, I don't speak le/fagddit/ vernacular.

>> No.3528395

>>3528364
>implying it could ever be made impossible to share 1's and 0's over a network connection.

Where there's a will, there's a way.

>> No.3528410

>>3528395
It's not about a lack of a way, it's about legal repercussions. There is no technology to access one's offline external hdd drive.

>> No.3528416

>>3528410
Oh and I forgot to add encrypted with a hidden partition, against more physical inquiry.

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lemme get a rate

1/6

>> No.3528434

>>3527819
>college books
>vampire books

4/10

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>>3528433

2/6

>> No.3528447

>>3528433

>Cool Boarders
2/10 would not play PS1 with

>> No.3528450

>>3528433
>shit tier furniture
>books in bad condition
>childish video game garbage
>living on the ground like a pleb
>dirty window

white trash/10

>> No.3528456

>>3528446

3/6

sorry these pictures kinda suck in retrospect

>> No.3528468
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>>3528456

fucked up

3/6

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>>3528447
yes you would

>> No.3528477

>>3528468

>doesn't separate CD's and computer games
>2013

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>>3528468

4/6

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>>3528478

5/6

>> No.3528488

>>3527808
that edition of lord of the rings.... yep im hard

>> No.3528494

>>3527763

The spine of your Arthur & George by Barnes is quite cool. Which edition is that?

>> No.3528496
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>>3528477

that's my don't give a shit paid 50 cent for it at a flea market pile

6/6

the currently reading/backlog/short stories pile

>> No.3528498

>>3527945
whats it like spending all your time reading about a failed system?

>> No.3528521

>>3528498
You mean humanity? Yeah reading about humanity is fucking retarded.

>> No.3528633

>>3527763
are you a stepmom op?

>> No.3528821

>>3528330
>polan in charge of renaming porn folders

>> No.3528870

>>3528314

I saw you post this before, I'm super envious of that Artaud you had there.

>> No.3529014

>>3527819
wtf is with your Dune? Mine looks liek the same colors and shit but it's so much fatter.

>> No.3529030

ITT: Casual readers of junk and the occasional overrated shit their professors tell them they should read.

>> No.3529035

>>3529030
Does this not describe every human's taste in books?

>> No.3529048

>>3529035
No. Just most of /lit/; the thread specifically

>> No.3529097

>>3527835

>"female author" used in derogatory context

a foreveralone neckbeard self-proclaimed intellectual "women don't appreciate my giant throbbing brain in a sexual manner since they are such whorish whores who are also whorishly stupid" detected.

>> No.3529304

>>3527819
>Vittorio the vampire

10/10

>> No.3529388

>>3527835
anne rice has good material

>> No.3529417

>>3527763
>Margaret Atwood
>No Oryx and Crake

Pleb

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>> No.3529457

>>3528433
do I spot a large black dildo there?

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>>3529455

>> No.3529461

>>3528496

>Edith Hamilton's Mythology

I will never understand why over 400 pages are dedicated entirely to Greek/Roman mythology and then less than 50 pages of Norse is thrown in at the end.

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>>3529455
>>3529458
3/3

>> No.3529505

>>3529462
...Did you actually burn your copy of Fahrenheit 451?

>> No.3529590

>>3529457
deoderant dog
>>3529461
yeah it was definately shoehorned in but i bought it because people said it covered the greek and roman myths pretty well and it did, i already had a good knowledge of norse from "nordic gods and heroes" in my second picture, highly recommended dog, it tells the myths in a chronological narrative fashion that really reads nice while still giving you the academic knowledge you want, good shit

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/lit/ needs more comics.

>> No.3529609

>>3529606
I have a lot of manga, but I never post them in with my bookshelves on /lit/. It adds too much fuel for the mockery.

>> No.3529615

>>3529505

yep.

>> No.3529633

>>3529615
not that guy but i intend on copying you how did you go about this

>> No.3529636

>>3529606

Did I completely miss it or is there no Jim Woodring there? Get 'The Frank Book' asap.

>> No.3529656

>>3529606
Is that astonishing X-men I see?

>> No.3530192

>>3529633
Submerge the book in a bucket of lighter-fluid, and drop a match into it.

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Sorry for my knee

>> No.3530309
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>bookshelf thread
OH BOY

>> No.3530336

>>3530257
That Ulysses is unread, isn't it.

>> No.3530368

>>3530336
I read two chapters and gave up

>> No.3530386

>>3530309
Is that your police mugshot on the wall?

>> No.3530423

>>3530386
Just pictures taken for a passport. I haven't had any trouble with the police as of yet, thankfully.

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Enjoy.

>> No.3530434

>>3530427
Being able to read the titles would be nice

>> No.3530451

>>3530434
Sorry. There didn't seem to be any point. They're all just the many editions of The 120 Days of Sodom, by the Marquis de Sade.

>> No.3530455

>>3530427

Can't see shit. How are we supposed to "enjoy"?

The point is not to see how many books you have and how big your collection is, we're supposed to see what kind of books you read and what you own and discuss it (alternatively berate you).

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3530458

Here's mine. However it does not contain all of my books as some are in other house.

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>>3530458
And here's my tiny manga shelf.

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>>3530458
>>3530463
>books upside down
>The complete Murakami
>Random Earl Grey Tin
>Ulysses next to a book by Time Burton
>"Manga Shelf"
>Female Anime Figurines

>> No.3530498

>>3530455
Like I said, they're all the different prints of 120 Days of Sodom.

>> No.3530556

>>3528102
I've heard professors say this shit before. 'I was asked to write a book about so and so..."

Who is doing the asking here, and how do you have no control over what you are asked (told) what to write about?

>> No.3530583

>>3527956

What do you study?!

I do American labor history.

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Frequent /DIY/er posting the bookshelf I made not too long ago. Ignore the elephant coat hooks and horrible espionage novels.

>> No.3530596

>>3527824

What's a good source for german ebooks.
I have been desperately looking for that shit, but I couldn't find anything.

>> No.3530608

>>3530556
It can be different people. Usually if you study a certain area, you'll form a relatively close circle of acquaintances with others from differnt universities who write on the same topic, then if a series wants a book written on that topic, or a specific area of that topic, they'll ask a member of that "circuit" of people. Sometimes it's the academics them/ourselves who contact publishers however.

>>3530583
I lecture. So far I've focused mainly on the history of Russian/Soviet Communism, particularly in its early stages, and I published a book on Trotsky when I was quite young that got me a lot of attention and a better lecturing post. I'm currently working on Lenin, and I'm also planning to write a book on the relationship between British and Russian/Soviet trade unions in the 20th century

>> No.3530614

>>3530608
>working on Lenin

do you agree that Lenin was a liar and a thug? Because he said something like 'all power to the soviets' and then had armed Party members attend the elections to make sure the right candidates got into the councils...

>> No.3530620

>>3530458
HUEHUEHUE

>> No.3530622

>>3530614
I lke Trotsky far more, so Lenin has never been a figure too close to my heart.

I can't really give you an answer of any depth here, but his writing on the decline of capitalism, despite leading to a false conclusion, nevertheless was ahead of his time.

On your question of being heavyhanded with the electorate, he once wrote that "one man with a gun can control one hundred without one". He obviously meant this as a critique of fascism, but of course it could be one of those quotes that comes back to bite you.

>> No.3530687

>>3530620
Not HUEHUEHUE m8, I'm from Portugal (Europe).

>>3530494
There's no consistency in my organisation as I'm lacking space. And I bought the Tim Burton book in 2006, it's a nostalgic piece of my teen memorabilia. And the books upside down passed unnoticed as I removed some portraits from the shelves and put the books in a better way so the others behind would be visible. Sorry.

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1/5

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2/5

>> No.3530705
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3/5

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4/5

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5/5

>> No.3530720

>>3527945
Get more Zizek

>> No.3530797

>>3530709
Is the top book good? I've been looking at it ever since it got a good review in The Economist.

>> No.3530808

>>3530797
Yeah man, it covers all the political thinkers from Herodotus to about Marx.

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I sold or donated all of my fiction books and got one of these since books just take up space. The only thing worth making a library out of are textbooks, reference materials, and philosophy texts.

>> No.3530861

>>3530853
when society collapses m8 ur gonna be bored as fuck

>> No.3530866

>>3530861
Nah bro, I'd rather read a history textbook any day than whatever fiction book.

>> No.3530896

>>3527763

ash?

>> No.3530904

>>3530866
I agree with you in theory, but in practice I'm with >>3530861

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>> No.3530970

>>3530257
I think I might know you. Do you live in Paris?
If so, in which district?

>> No.3531281

>>3530458

Wow. Why the hell is Jonathan Strange split into 3 parts? I have the standard 1,000 page edition. Where do you live?

>> No.3531297

I'm amazed at how pitifully underwhelming all of these are

>> No.3531408

>>3527956
So what do you make of the argument among the Left that Russia was never Socialist because they never gave over the means of production to the proletariat? Answer in depth please.

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Sorry for the image quality, had to take it with a shitty cellphone camera. The small green & white book near the start is Frakenstein, it's pretty hard to make out from the image.

Anyway, can't wait for some abuse

>> No.3531775

>>3531281
It's a special edition. It comes inside a hard box with the original book cover. This is in English.
I also have the Portuguese one and it's as yours, the 1,000 page edition. But as you might have noticed, the book itself is divided into three parts; each one of the books in my special edition is the Book 1, Book 2 and Book 3. It's kinda cool and it only cost me 10€. As I like so much that book I decided to buy it in order to read it in the original language.

I'm from Portugal by the way,

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>>3527824

>not enabling the cover view in calibre

this is like taking a pic of your flaccid tiny cock

>> No.3532571

good books, I have some of those. How many books do you have?

>> No.3532621

>>3530707
>>3530705
>>3530700
>>3530698

Those look unread.

>> No.3532627

I like how few of these books have broken spines, do you guys even read the shit you put on your shelves?

>> No.3532662 [DELETED] 

>>3528001

Dude, that's a gorgeous stack of books. Get reading! May I suggest Republic first?

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My modest collection

>> No.3532703

>>3531741
Fucking love Solzhenitsyn.

>> No.3532706

>>3532627
Yes, but some of us are fairly careful with our books. And so the spines don't seem as broken.

That kind of thing isn't always very visible in low quality low lighting pictures.

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I don't have a bookshelf you richfags, I have a floor.

>> No.3532726

>>3527808
I've got that LOTR edition. Haven't gotten through with it, but that's what this summer is for.

>> No.3532738

the rest / most of my books are at my parent's house, but I've pretty much moved onto ebooks anyways

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>>3532738
and of course, neglected to post pic.

>> No.3532764

>>3532743
In the middle of neuromancer right now any thoughts on it?

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Kinda wide, don't know if you can see anything.
Stack of bibles.
This is just the stuff I've read.
Wait, rate?

>> No.3532783

>>3532778
I like Ween too.

>> No.3532788

>>3532764
I like it enough to own it, so there's that. It's definitely an essential sci-fi read and made even more fascinating when you consider how influential it was in its prediction of how the internet works (although a large portion of Gibson's cyberspace is p hokey in retrospect). I still think Gibson is a shitty character writer, but his ideas are interesting enough to carry (most of) his work.

Get on some (Philip K.) Dick if you end up liking it.

>> No.3532803

>>3532783
Then I like you.

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Here is mine. These are all the books I own.
From what I gather around here, this would qualify me as a pleb?

>>3530309
>skjegg
Is it any good?

>> No.3534110

>>3532743
How are Nabokov's short stories?

>> No.3534167

>>3529455
That Verne collection looks tasty as fuck.

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>inb4

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>>3534200
>I'm a faggot

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>>3534201
>Fgt

>> No.3534205

way too much embarrasing shit, hence a mere overview

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>>3534205

>> No.3534219

>>3530498
And why would you make an entire collection of that garbage?

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opinions?

>> No.3534229

>>3534226
le epic trul

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>> No.3534231

>>3533423
could you please come quick to my house anon i'm having a serious breakdown in communication between me and my dining-room furniture

>> No.3534257

>>3527945
Capitalist as fuck. He or she has a lot of money for buy all that shit...

>> No.3534262

>>3528363
Good novel.

>> No.3534263

>>3530970
If you still venture by here, yes I do, 13th d.

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>>3534204

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>>3534275

>> No.3534282

>>3528363
Likin' the fiction section

>> No.3534284

>>3534275
>>3534276
History major, Russian minor?

>> No.3534286

>>3533423
Do you understand wood now? Or do you feel like you need further reading?

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>>3534284
Close enough, Russian Major, international studies minor, and then I just keep as much history as I can with me, but most of my books are in another place.

>> No.3534299

>>3534230
The one from Venice 1544 is a sexy one.

>> No.3534343

>>3533423

>tempo fart

>> No.3534359

>>3527763
I can't help to think, why do so many of your paperbacks have their spines intact?

I can't get through a book without leaving some sort of impression.

>> No.3534372

>>3534359
they've never been read

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>>3534299
agreed.

Here's some fun stuff.

>> No.3534391

>>3534359
I find that for most paperbacks I have to actually go out of my way to break the spines. How do you crease a Vintage or Penguin Modern Classics spine without bashing the book to shit?

>> No.3534393

>>3534391
By reading it properly

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1/3

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2/3

>> No.3534403

3/3 hey friends, is this good? am I doing this right?

>> No.3534405

>>3534393
That's dumb. The way you hold a book does not bear any relation to how well you read it. You're a pretentious ass just looking for another way to make yourself feel superior.

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>>3534403
pic failed

>> No.3534413

>>3534405
I have enough ways to feel superior without needing to talk about not gingerly propping books open instead of tearing though them at a serious pace.

>> No.3534417

>>3534413
>>>/mlp/

>> No.3534437

>>3534417
Now I am offended
There's no need for that sort of thing

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1/2

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>>3534482

2/2, white book is my latin textbook

>> No.3534595

>>3534482
>>3534490

U spanish (or from Latin America)?

Nice Donkey Kong in pic 2/2.

>> No.3534657

>>3534595
Mexico. You can even place any pencil-like object in his monkey hands

>> No.3534748

>>3534657
>El libro para eliminar kilos

fat mexitard detected

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Tell me what you think of my book collection?

1/2

>> No.3534966

2/2

Sorry about the large image size. I am posting camera phone pictures directly from my iPhone

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2/2 forgot pic

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>>3534748
Jealous ameritard who can't even be bothered to try and improve his weight detected.

>> No.3534991

>needing books to lose weight

Eat healthy food with a calorie deficit and get off your ass. It's that simple.

>> No.3534994

>>3534991
>Not lifting books

>> No.3534998

>>3534985

>mexilards calling anyone else fat

Both you chubs should put down the Maccas before you get the diabeetus.

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Rate my pleb books. And be honest .

1/2

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2/2

>> No.3535042

>>3535033
>>3535039
They're very white.

>> No.3535043

>>3535033
-58/2

Don't even go 2/2

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>>3535039
>ERAGON

.15/-9001

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>>3534998
13-year-olds on my /lit/?

>> No.3535061

>>3535043
Explain yourself mate.

>> No.3535078

>>3535061
He either hates philosophy from the continent or light reading from the new world.

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>> No.3535415

>>3534110
I'm admittedly only a few in. Nothing has stood out so far, but iirc they're in chronological order

>> No.3535435

>>3534482
nice, I have that same edition of R is for Rocket

>> No.3535489

I own zero books. I read all my books in HD on my 1080p LCD monitor.

>> No.3535520

>>3534230
u have a library

>> No.3535817

>>3535489
Good luck when it happens!

>> No.3535847

>>3527763
OP, what do you like about Jane Austen? I can't stand her prose and I could never understand her praise past the part of her satire/

>> No.3535849

>>3533423

>Hoadley, Bruce 2000
>mah nigga

lol

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>> No.3535895

>tfw have hundreds of books
>tfw never post in these threads because they are in boxes
>tfw continue purchasing books despite it being a pain in the ass to move 20 boxes full of books down flights of stairs.

pls halp.

>> No.3535901

>>3535895
Start reading them. You won't have time to buy more.

>> No.3535916

>>3535901
I do. I read around five hours a day. I just don't want to part with what I have.

>> No.3535920

>>3535916
What did you read on today?

>> No.3535926

>>3535920
>read on
What?
Finishing 'Searching for Cioran' and probably the Collected Poems of Rimbaud if I stay up late enough.

I usually read five books at a time. One poetry, two non-fiction/scholarly, and two fiction.

>> No.3536372

>>3532621
>not taking care reading

i dont want them to fall apart in ten years

>> No.3536392

>>3527927
Something tells me you're an English major.

>> No.3536401

>>3535152
>Tales from the German Underworld
what is that?

>> No.3536439

>>3527927

you seem pretty cool, although I don't appreciate having the manifesto and nothing else by Marx and 2x Zarathustra + BGE but not Genealogy by Nietzsche.

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>>3537071

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>>3537072

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>>3537074
keeklne 128

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>>3537076

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>>3537079

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>>3537081
sorry should've made into one picture

>> No.3537462

>>3536401

It's about german criminals, before 1900. It deals with the way crime was handled in society back then. It's left over from a unit I did in my History degree. I liked it so I keep it around.

>> No.3538088

>>3537085
>All that Waugh

>> No.3538122

>>3538088
Evelyn Waugh is one of the best English language prose stylists of all time.

>> No.3538167

>>3538122
stop repeating opinions you heard somewhere

>> No.3538203

>>3538122
>>3538088
I love Waugh; I find his prose similar to Hemmmmingway, but with an acerbic wit.
My favorite of his is Scoop, though I do love Handful of Dust as well.

>> No.3538219

>>3538203
>I find his prose similar to Hemmmmingway
Have you ever actually read any Waugh or Hemingway? How on earth are these two writers at all similar in style? Just deeply curious here.

>> No.3538237

>>3538219
I think there's a spareness in both (iceberg theory yada yada), though they apply it for different effects.

>> No.3538243

>>3538167
You, madam, are an asshole.

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>>3538237
Legit; makes sense. Thanks for the clarification!

>> No.3539541

>>3530622

Omg I absolutely lve Trotsky but is it true that he wrote 1000 page notes on the freemasons whilest he was in prison in odessa?

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My shelf of prose is enormous, but my shelf of comics I already took a pic of.

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>>3527763
I've only read like a quarter of these as my backlog has been steadily building since I started Infinite Jest six months ago. Finally finished. Just started re-reading Gatsby as it's short and I don't remember it at all from HS.

>> No.3542604

>>3527927
What's your favorite PKD novel outside of Androids?

>> No.3542609

>>3542604

Ubik. Hands down.

>> No.3542612

I'm the guy who posted the Trotsky image early on in this thread a couple of days ago.

I was just kidding about beign a history lecturer etc, I'm an autist like the rest of you. I got that image from ribbit's r / socialism page

>> No.3542616

>>3542609
Have you read A Scanner Darkly. I personally loved the movie and was wondering if the book is worth reading?

>> No.3542621

>>3534226
Not interested in the collection, but mirin those actual shelves. Where 2 cop?

>> No.3542645

>>3542616

Fuck off, pleb. The movie was shit. Just read Ubik.

>> No.3542693

>>3529633

used an open candle fire, burned the edges, inner cover and a bit on the back.

>> No.3542741

>>3534297
Where abouts do you go to school?