/lit/ - Literature

Just reorganized. Not sorry about the comic collection.

>>3958415
>lord of the rings
>george rr martin
>general chemistry

>>3958418
I wish that was really yours.

I would want to talk to you a lot

>>3958431
ya cuz u can tell i got mad paper which makes u a ho

>>3958431
why so he would give you money

>>3958426
What is wrong with Lord of the Rings?
Dont wave your copy of Infinite Jest and claim it's gold.

Nothing wrong with Martin either. I enjoyed it.

And someone actually dismissing a book of learning? How fucking retarded are you?
I also have books on physics ,cosmology, and quantum mechanics.
Fucking Pleb-- my interests are far more vast than whatever you see on here and think it's cool to follow the crowd.

My favorite shelf.

>>3958479
Nice. Hard covers are difficult to find in my area of the world (Japan) and the cost is 3 times as much than in western countries.

My hardback copies of Dante's Divine and Wilde's Dorian Gray each ran me for $90 each.

>>3958479
Have you actually read all these? I've only just begun on the Great Books of the Western World that my dad has had forever.

>>3958489
Damn, there aren't any book stores like half price books there? The only reason I can afford nice hardcovers like those is because I can sometimes find them for around a third of their regular price.

>>3958445
no because he probably leads a very interesting life and could tell me about the higher class artistic circles and (maybe) upper crust intellectual circles :)

>>3958499
So far only a few of them like The Brothers Karamazov and The Divine Comedy. Just kind of taking it slow and reading them in no particular order.

>>3958501
Nope. As far as English, German, or Latin books are concerned, there aren't any stores that carry them.

The majority being in Japanese are all small in any case.They aren't keen of large, hard books (floor space, earthquakes,etc.).

I want to do Amazon, but finding hardcover books for cheap can be difficult.

>>3958479
Oh shit nig I have those. Great books of the western world? So fucking useful and classy

And then sleeveless everyman's at the bottom? Sweet.

Have you used any Brittanicas yet? do the spines crack easy for you?

>>3958513
das it mane. All the spines on the great books set are pretty much in mint condition.

>>3958512
Sorry to hear that. :(

>>3958513
here are mine :)

>>3958504

Hipster detected.

It's all about those exclusive social circles, isn't it, bud?

>>3958536
baha you call that being a hipster? i call it being a snooty lamer

>>3958540

And here I was thinking 'hipster' and 'snooty lamer' were synonyms.

>>3958536
Are you a fucking retard

How would hipsters desire exclusive rich social crowds?

Hipster has become like literally the most empty buzzword usable (read that copy pasta from CLT)

>>3958527
ah you don't use them? have you read things from it?

>>3958544
fuck you

>>3958540
>snooty lamer
Are you 60 years old and fat? fuck you

>>3958547
>and fat

That didn't make snse but it did in my mind

>>3958547

Naw, somebody's full of angst.

>>3958534
I have one of those shelves from a different britannica set. I really love it for some reason.

>>3958545
Oh yeah I read them, the spines are just still in good condition. A lot of the time I just pick out random volumes and skim through them, theres just something kind of magical about it.

>>3958551
so freudian

u analyzed me

n i didn't even post the last few books i read

>>3958554

Do you watch Frasier? Because Freud is a character that appears on the show, right?

>>3958553
> something kind of magical about it.

Don't know about that but they smell nice and remind me of some Russian drawing room with drama unfurling and a sleigh riding through the cold winter and Beethoven playing

Probably just because I read my first tolstoy and dostoevsky from there lol

>>3958557
>>3958557
>Do you watch Frasier? Because Freud is a character that appears on the show, right?
epic fucking trick mate

>>3958560

Oh, that's right! He's the black intellectual with the Burt stare.

>>3958569
I took that picture *awhile* ago and thought it was funny

And he's a string theorist not an intellectual (lel)

>>3958570
a while*

>>3958559
I read my first Dostoevsky from it to. It was actually the first whole book I read in the collection.

>those memories of getting the great books as a Christmas gift and having your brother in law recommend dostoevsky to you and being opened up to a whole new world

>>3958574
>that image of reading dostoevsky from a brittanica set christmas day
>next to the fire all warm in a sweater
>listening to christmas/sacred music
>tales of russian drama and human experience that make you cry and question the nature of things
>snowing outside as you are crying with book in hand laying on a warm rug

FUCK I WANT IT TO BE WINTER

>>3958580
I miss those days. Fuck.

>>3958585
would;ve been god tier if no penguin classics or infinite jest.

>>3958585
wtf how old are you

>>3958585
decent

>>3958585
Do you arrange your books in any particular way?

>>3958425
>Not sorry about the comic collection
don't ever be

>>3958587

What's wrong with penguin classics?

>>3958595
penguin classics sully shelves.

>>3958597
idk, they seem to mostly be pretty good books m8

New to /lit/. What do you guys think?

>>3958604
i feel ill

>>3958604
/r/books

>>3958587
I wouldn't be able to get my icelandic saga without penguin tho

>>3958589
23, how come?

>>3958592
Yep, they're geographically and within that chronological by author's date of birth. The geographical part starts in African through Asia and then Europe over the Americas. Americas are just in horizontal till I get another shelf.

>>3958604
Thanks. I actually lol'd

>>3958604
top lel mate


do you shop at hallmark

>>3958604

I used to have a pretty bleak picture of reddit's reading habits until I found r/literature. Still reddit tho.

>>3958658

Is it any good?

I would probably go there because of the poor quality of this board from time to time, but their site layout really hurts my eyes to read. It's so distended and comment-bloated.

>>3958664
/r/literature actually discusses literature

/r/books is awful, go and see for yourself

>>3958667

Like I said, I would, but I find the discussions hard to follow and cryptic.

>>3958667
/r/literature is even more afwul. It's filled with sophomoric undergrads from privilege-checking colleges literally sucking each other off. It has even less useful content than /r/books, if you can believe that.

>>3958682
if /r/lit is undergrad then /r/books is highschool. i dont go to /r/lit much but sometimes theres an interesting discussion going on

>>3958708
Yeah, sometimes. Most of the time it's dead as fuck. /lit/ is better than both of the reddit subs.

>>3958682
>>3958667
Actually, I just took a look at /r/books right now, it looks like they made it pretty much self post only. I don;t remember that.

I'll post my newest haul from the book store. Just under $100 spent, a good amount of these are classic Gothic literature which has quickly became my favorite.

My OCD, which I have talked about on here before, guides me towards certain publishers such as Oxford and Penguin, though I will step out of those I prefer not to and I generally won't keep other publishers on the same shelf as the Oxford and Penguins with the exception of my NYRB Classics.

>>3958458
Your study of physics and cosmology will not help you understand practical reality.

You're a pretentious faggot who likes to think gentlemanly of himself by reading mainstream book titles to make it seem like you're educated.

You're a hipster at best. A dickhead, and fine at it.

>>3958458
>>3959489
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>>3959577
so many pleb references while trying to maintain an air of superiority. Is this what we've come to?

>>3958415
>chopping down trees just so you can have your senses stimulated with paper.
Do you also chain smoke to reawaken repressed joys of sucking on uncle's willy?

>>3959586
your hurt butt is what we've come for.

>>3959489
>Your study of physics and cosmology will not help you understand practical reality.
So much fail in a single sentence.

>>3959577
>No country for told men
leld

>>3959615
>implying physics is practical.

get a real job.

>>3958570
What does it have to imply? It's supposed to be an explanation, no?

>>3959615
>implying cosmology is practical.

get a real job.

>>3959625
>get a real job.
I have. I'm a physicist.

>>3959635

>>3959630
>Had to delete insult and make a fresh one.
Fail.

>>3959645
>implying one word arguments will deter his opponents.

the plebian is strong in this one.

>>3959645
>Fail.

books

Just sold my collection of over 500 books, because the baby needed a room and not enough space in the house.

Took them over to the used book store

>Sorry people are just not buying books anymore, I can give you a global price of $60 dollars.

Cry inside

>At least someone else will enjoy them now

>>3958604
>R.A. Salvatore
Do you play D&D?

>300
I have 16. lel

>>3959760
Pleb.

>>3959643
The richest member of our family is my uncle, a physicist who makes over 300k a year...

Books are worth nothing if you haven't read them

>>3959586
It's probably from /v/

>>3959771
That isn't true. Some books have inherent value because their age, edition, and author.

>>3959777
Fetichism. All a book is worth is the knowledge it contains

>>3959777
Monetary value I suppose

>>3959786
But some books have been touched by famous people, if I also touch those books maybe I will gain their power.

>>3959786
That contradicts your post.

>>3959767
i like your things
you know, all the junk there that isn't books

>>3959767
Are you from south america?

>>3959792
That's what lack of space does.

>>3959791
Not the same poster

>>3959786

>>3958604
>Marbury Lens
Great book.

>>3959791
A) Books are worth nothing if you haven't read what they contain
B) All a book is worth is the knowledge it contains
Contradiction? Where? -puts his fedora and leaves-

>>3959489
Actually, I am a school teacher...in Japan.
Trolls like you a fucking sad in your attempts to ruffle feathers.

Gentlemen, I would like to point out this anti-intellectual that has no sense of proper trollmanship.

A person against learning, self-improvement, and reading in general.

Don't you have some sort of high school class to attend? I know I have students like you in my class. I usually put them to the back row, which I deem the "retard corner".
>>3959577
That is just fucking sad. You copy/pasta a reddit bit? GTFO. Seriously, GTFO

>>3959489
Actually, I am a school teacher...in Japan.
Trolls like you are fucking sad in your attempts to ruffle feathers.

Gentlemen, I would like to point out this anti-intellectual that has no sense of proper trollmanship.

A person against learning, self-improvement, and reading in general.

Don't you have some sort of high school class to attend? I know I have students like you in my class. I usually put them to the back row, which I deem the "retard corner".
>>3959577
That is just fucking sad. You copy/pasta a reddit bit? GTFO. Seriously, GTFO

>>3959812
I think what that guy is the opposite of what a fedora would say.

>>3961317
a school teacher in japan? how did you score that kind of gig? honestly asking here

>hoarding objects
>2013

really guys?

>>3961358
Hoarding is part of the fun you kindle reading faggot.

>>3961358
>I'm so asceticcckkkk in my trust fund apartment ;DDD

Also, wouldn't 2013 *necessarily* be the year for hoarding objects? It is a materialistic age. Maybe if this was 2000 BC Asia it would be different.

>>3959629
It should explain the problem of quantum gravity. String theory obviously makes large strides in the answering of that question (ST being crazy is just a joke and XKCD is fucking shit) but it (well, the current most mainstream model) also adds 7 dimensions to our universe which is sort of a problem ... There's also the fact that we would need extremely high energy tests (for all quantum gravity experiments as it seems) to validate string theory which is far into the future. In the meantime, string theorists hold a monopoly on graduate and post-graduate studies, and if this theory is wrong 50 years of physics collapses.

>>3958615
>23, how come?
It's just a lot of books. How long have you been 'collecting'?

>>3961381
Right around three years. For comparison, here's small amount of mostly crap I had in June 2010.

>>3961391
Damn dude. I mean, I guess if I think about it I've bought so many books in the last three years.

Are you wealthy?

>>3958585
>>3961391

Your collection looks excellent.
I wanted to do Japanese at University but get the grades. What would you recommend someone who's only read Dazai, Mishima and a couple pulpy novels like Murakami? i've heard Soseki's books are very surreal.

>>3961414

>I wanted to do Japanese at University but didn't get the grades.

>>3961411
Not at all. I think it may look like more than it is - should be just around 700. I doubt all of them together cost more than $2,500. I know I bought over half of them through PaperbackSwap, where can buy credits for $2.20, which includes shipping.

>>3961414
I'm not the expert on Soseki here, but I do think you should read him. Grab a collection of Akutagawa's stories and something from Kawabata too, if you'd like to stick with moderns. If you want a surreal-ish author, Kobo Abe could appeal to you. Woman in the Dunes is his most respected, but if you like what I assume is Murakami-level wackiness, Secret Rendezvous is fun.

>>3961430
>PaperbackSwap
How have I not heard of this yet...

I have at least 4 times as many books as anyone else here, and I've read them all (take a close look at those with big bookshelves itt -- very few of the spines are creased).

I'd post a pick, but as a true connoisseur of literature I had to sell my camera to purchase more books.

>>3961470
epic trell bro!

so funny! you got them~~