/lit/ - Literature

>>5386529
Please stop or I'll have to shitpost with reddit troll pics.

>muh materialism
fuck off

>>5386544
>faggots so mad that they're so poor they can't afford books
>faggots get into philosophy to justify their lack of existence and impact
>faggots stay faggots

the cycle continues

All I see is children books. Is this your son's bookshelf?

How do you get your books to stay up like that?

As you wish.

It's shit, I know, but at least it's better than OP's

>>5386750
The Chobits on display always gets me.

Okay.
1/8

>>5386830
2/8

>>5386830
Meager Greeks section. Where do you think you are?

>>5386830
>>5386835
>like 3 books per picture
just stop

>>5386835
3/8

>>5386841
4/8
>>5386839
Apologies, I have shit tier resolution so a photo from further away just isn't feasible

>>5386846
god forbid that we should miss the titles of one of the books you so proudly display

>buyfags

>>5386846
that said, the mitchell translation of gilgamesh is great isn't it?

>>5386846
5/8
>>5386848
As opposed to simply looking at a shit tier bookshelf, and admiring the shoddy craftsmanship versus perhaps recommendations and discussion on a literature board?

>>5386830
>>5386835
>>5386841
>>5386846
mine is bigger than yours

>>5386858
That's a bookstore, silly.

>>5386858
If I burned those would you cry/die?

>>5386856
6/whatever
>>5386852
It's a very fluid translation, and it comes with loads of side essays and notes. Can easily be read within a few hours >>5386858
>Books on the ground
Don't, you're gonna make me sick

>>5386850
Why would you not want to support publishers?

>>5386869
>Don't, you're gonna make me sick
why? because of the dust?

>>5386830
>>5386835
>>5386841
>>5386846
I wonder what you're favorite realm of literature is. Hmmmmmmmmm.

By the way, I too have How to Read Literature Like a Professor. It was better than I expected it to be, considering my general aversion to books about books.

>>5386869
7/7

>>5386870
p-uh-lease...

>>5386891
That's really no answer. Why not? I don't mean the mega-publishers who already have their money.

>>5386890
I don't really have a favorite realm, well possibly besides Russian.

What do you perceive it to be?

>>5386858
>implying you own Shakespeare & Company

>>5386830
>>5386835
>>5386841
>>5386846
>>5386856
>>5386869
>>5386892
I must admit that's a nice collection you've got here, good job.

>not being insulting, strange feeling

>>5386904
exactly.

who's your boss now?

>>5386900
I thought that it might've been Greek, but now that I've seen more of your collection I think that the cluster of Greek literature may've just been a product of your organization.

>>5386830
>>5386835
>>5386846
>Translated Epic Poetry
>a translation of Caesar so bad it doesn't even get the translation of Bellum right
>Translated Chaucer

y

>>5386909
Post something on the FB page to prove it?

>>5386911
I'm learning Latin at the moment. Although
>Not reading every book/poem ever in its original language
Kill yourself you smug cunt

>>5386893
If I can can download something for free there is no way I'm buying it.
And I don't care enough about the state of publishing to not use my money for different things in these cases

>>5386957
Makes sense, I just don't see why you'd fault others for having different values. If they have the money, if they care about publishing and have those they wish to support, what's the problem with that? Especially for works that you can't pirate.

>>5386930
prose not so much but if you are reading translated poetry you might as well just read the sparknotes

also what books/course are you using

>>5386990
Combo of Latin guidebooks from seminaries, The Great Courses' Classical Latin and some hand offs from a buddy in a Latin class. All of which were free, so it's a nice gig.

>>5387028
nice Folios

i read that memoirs of a mercenary recently, it is absolutely fucking hilarious

>>5387028
>Dem Folio books
Jesus are they beautiful, but I would never spend 300$ on the complete Lord of the Rings

am i doin it rite?

>>5387063
Dude, you might have a humidity problem.

>>5387069
You realize everyone in this thread also owns ebooks, and we're completely capable of downloading them?

There is no rule against owning an e-reader and owning books simultaneously. Hell, you can use the library too. No one is against it.

>>5387063
>cozy den

If anyone lives there they should be ashamed of themselves. Look at the state of it. Fucking mess.

Disgusting. 1/10.

>>5386996
interesting

does your course involve learning accidence by heart or is it more like the Cambridge Course?

>>5387063

you would literally be breathing in giant swaths of concentrated mould every second of the day

doesn't seem very "cozy" to me

here's one of my Folio Society shelves

i only ever buy them secondhand, most were <£5

there's not much /lit/core stuff on this one but i have another couple of shelves full of them. they're just nice books to have even though i also like ebooks etc.

apologies for shitty picture. i'm drunk

>>5387117

No offense but most of these titles are trash.

It seems like you care more about setting up the appearance of a fashionable collection than actually looking for quality literature.

This is the equivalent of those plens who collect a bunch of that Barnes and Noble leather bound shit because they think it makes them look cultured.

>>5387135
no offence but you are a fuckwit

it seems you like to make snap judgments about others, based on one tiny picture of one shelf amongst many, while knowing nothing about them

this is the equivalent of being a worthless piece of shit because you think it makes you look cultured.

>>5387127

Awful and clumsy.

I could really use some recs /lit/

1/2

>>5387187
2/2

>>5386790
Chobits had some surprisingly interesting insights into the trend of emotional bonding with machines or illusions of life and rejection of real human interaction (which is a massive issue in Asia today--the marriage rate has plummeted). Of course it had the usual endless embarrassment/fanservice/nosebleed/ junk, but the fact that it was all about the allure of sculpted toys rather than humans gave it a twist. The children's book subplot/reveals were fascinatingly weird, even when the art got too sparse for me. When we talk about posthumanism and AI in my SF class, I mention it. It's a weirdly philosophical manga.

>>5387187
>recs

buy a proper bookcase

>>5387155

>endless tears

Any discerning reader would look at that shelf and laugh. You're a little boy playing pretend right now. Accept this and grow past it because no one here is going to coddle and placate you.

Dad's, don't have enough stuff of my own that isnt textbooks.

>>5387183

Well, that's not fucking nice.

>>5387231

>>5387236

>>5387222
>endless fuckwittery

most discerning readers look at it and go "ooh, is that edition of Pepys any good"

you're a little boy and you always will be, no matter how many grown up books you pretend to understand

accept this, but also accept that you will never grow past it, so you'd better hope someone coddles and placates you otherwise you will always be the same washed up cynic you are now


well that escalated quickly

>>5387246
>most discerning readers look at it and go "ooh, is that edition of Pepys any good"

Lord.

>>5387250
>Pepys
>Lord

no he was a commoner dude

>>5387246
>>5387222

Stop trying to validate yourselves through 4chan acceptance. If you like your books that's cool, if you don't too. You're gonna be the same person when you go to sleep whether you keep making this a shittier thread getting mad at each other or not.

>>5387246

Look I know you've been drinking and you're extra emotional right now. But no one here is going to hold your hand and tell you that you have good taste. You don't.

Stop posting your shit shelf if you're going to get upset that people point out its blatant shittiness.

You collect matching editions for the look of them and you have toys on your shelf.

You're a manchild. I know this is hard for you to come to terms with, but you're a manchild.

>>5387272
you are both being manchildren

>>5387286

Zero tolerance for plebs has always served this board well. He can take this shit to /r/books.

>>5387272
wow you really are relentlessly tedious aren't you? one picture makes you this abusive? seek professional help.

i don't want anyone on this site to hold my hand, especially you since your hands are probably sticky from wanking over your copy of mein fucking kampf or something

how can i stop posting something that i already posted? einstein said time travel is not possible

there are no matching editions on that shelf. pay attention. those little tintin things are from a trip to belgium. they are not really toys but so what if they were? your life must be as dry as dust if you think that "toys" make any difference

you're a dick. i know this is hard for you to come to terms with, but you're a dick.

>>5386529

All those fantasy series and you don't have fucking Gormenghast? You utter vile being.

>>5386764

+1 for Lattimore's translation of The Odyssey. How's that edition of Gravity's Rainbow? I heard a lot of people are pretty anal about certain versions of it.

>>5386830
>>5386835
>>5386846

Starting with the Greeks I see

>>5386856

Nice collection. Really love that edition of Les Mes which i've been meaning to buy myself lately but I am not sure if I should get the Everyman edition or another version.

>>5387028

Those editions of Gormenghast are absolutely fantastic. I would love to own them.

>>5387063

Clean it up you filthy degenerate hipster.

>>5387197
>>5387187

Buy a bookshelf from Ikea since they are about £25 and pretty decent.

>>5387231
>>5387236
>>5387245

Medical family I am guessing?

Mine needs updating since I have installed a new shelf and have added some more books onto the current ones along with remodeling the entire layout.

1/5

>>5387296
yes but you getting buttflustered and trying to look cool to people on 5chins makes you as big a if not greater manchild

>>5387312

>more tears from the manchild

Enjoy your toys, lol.

>>5387316
>Medical family I am guessing?
not really my dad used to be a fireman and EMT for 11 years before I was born, and he was just really into fitness and weightlifting

>>5387316
I highly doubt there are IKEA stores in Brasil, and even if there are, none are in my area, and EVEN if there were, shelves would be way more than 25 pounds, for a number of reasons.

Also, I don't have space to put said shelves.

>>5387296
Shitposting isn't zero tolerance for shit.
If you don't add anything then just shut up and lurk in silence like an adult.

>>5387318
sage or don't answer, no one will care who you showed what, just try keep page 1 less shitty.

>>5387325
i do. "lol". playing with my online toy right now! i just wind him up and watch him go!

>>5387336

>tfw this 404s and you still have toys on your shelf

>>5387336
4chan is 18+ kiddo

you people are hilarious

>>5387316

2/5

Red vintage titles are: War and Peace, Swann's Way, The Complete Short Stories of Franz Kafka, Sound and the Fury, Spring Snow, The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea, Tender is the Night and Slaughterhouse 5.

Black penguin books are: Brothers Karamazov, The Idiot, Crime and Punishment, A Study in Scarlet, The Republic, The Last Days of Socrates, The Epic of Gilgamesh, Jude the Obscure, Arthur Machen's The White People and Other Weird Stories, Descarte's Meditation and Other Metaphysical Writings, The Nicomanthean Ethics and Thus Spake Zarathustra. Also have The Trial in there next to the white book which is The Castle next to the complete short stories of Kafka but The Trial isn't a penguin edition.

>>5387357
wait... waiit..is that a.. a.. a TOY

> ENDLESS IMPOTENT RAGE

>>5387374

The bear? No it's a money box that I use to keep loose change in.

Also missed out Rousseau's Discourse on Inequality from the black penguin books which is in there.

3/5

The two silver penguin books in the corner are Brideshead Revisited and A Clockwork Orange, the book in between Metropole and Brave New World is Valerie and her Week of Wonders. William Hope Hodgson's The House on the Borderland and The Book of Five Rings are on top of Metropole. No Longer Human is on top of the Murakami books and ontop of that is a Hemingway short story.

The white penguin books are: Atlas Shrugged, Nausea, Homeage to Catalonia, In Cold Blood and Steppenwolf.

The two Everymans are an Albert Camus collection and 1984.

>>5387374
No it's clearly silver, possibly a coin-jar. I keep two (from my Christening) on my television stand. Fuck off and play with tin-tin and the gang kiddo

I only have art books.
Just got a book from Hogarth, good shit.
Too humble and small for a photo though.

>>5387117
>the shorter pepys
>not having his entire diaries
>accidentally revealing your tiny penis

>>5387028
Beautiful editions, plus largely good taste as evinced by Eco and an extensive Gene Wolfe collection, so I'll forgive the fact that you have R. Scott Bakker on the same shelf as those three other great authors. Nice shelf.

my favourite books on the right

on the left: some boring books i will never read

>>5387374
>>5387396

>wait... waiit..is that a.. a.. a TOY
>>ENDLESS IMPOTENT RAGE

>The bear? No it's a money box that I use to keep loose change in.

lol this toy manchild got so btfo itt hahah

>>5387396

4/5

Book that was missing is Journey to the End of the Night which has now been read.

On top of my His Dark Materials collection are my Nabokov books but I only have The Luzhin Defense, An Invitation to a Beheading and Lolita. The big black book on top of those is Unfinished Tales by Tolkein the short books on top of that are: Catcher in the Rye, The Prince, The Machine Stops and Song of Roland. The big hardcover in the corner next to The Hobbit is an early edition of The Silmarilion. I have been meaning to buy a new edition of the LOTR trilogy but I can't bear to throw the one I have away since it has too much sentimentality attached towards it even though it's all dog eared and the spine is pretty much falling apart.

>>5387432
>making an assumption
>accidentally revealing your tiny brain

>>5387456
dude it's time for your meds

>>5387481
If you had the entire Pepys diary you would have showed that off before this drivel.

>>5387463

5/5

The book next to The Chronicle of Jazz and Gulag Archipelago volume two is Ernst's A Week of Kindness, on top of Under The Dome I have Hunchback of Notre Dame and next to the Stand is The Japanese Brain by Tadanobu Tsunoda, a biography of Charles Yeager along with Bank's The Wasp Factory.

And I am off to bed.

>>5387490
*shown
Damn, I accidentally revealed my tiny brain.

>>5387053
Unlike the majority of the collection they were gifts. Almost everything else was bought second hand for under £10 a book

>>5386529
why you guys just dont read it on the computer?

>>5387509
Because finding and collecting books is a pleasure in itself. Also it is possible to own physical copies, and read e-stuff at the same time

>>5387509
eye strain

I should probably clean a bit.
1/5

>>5387487

>>>/toy/

go home, kid

>>5387531
2/5

>>5387540
3/5
I've got all of Sunday off, I'll clean it then. Jesus, I didn't realize how bad it was until I took these pictures.

>>5387543
4/5
The stuff behind the manga is a complete collection of the 1001 Nights translated by Richard F. Burton in 1885, only 1000 of which were printed. I got it as payment for helping out with an estate sale (along with ostrich skin cowboy boots, a really nice edition of The Hobbit, and $1000). These people were extremely generous.

>>5387540
>>5387531
I suspect we'd get along, anon. Nice helmet, too.

>>5387560
5/5

>>5387560
Okay, now I'm jealous. Burton's 1001 Nights is one of my desires.

>>5387069
Where did you get all those books from?

the amount of action figures in this thread is most pleasing

are they limited editions, perchance?

>>5387568
The guy who died was a well-to-do book collector, he had a diary from the seventeenth century and copy of Don Quixote from the same century, and an original voyage book by Captain Cook (they wouldn't let me take that as payment), among other things.

1/5

>>5387585
How large was his collection?

2/5

3/5

4/5

5/5

>>5387595
His centuries-old stuff was just two cabinet shelves, except the Cook book which was on display in a nice glass case, but he had an entire room filled with books from the 19th century and early to mid 20th century which was larger than my (my parent's) living room. I think I still have photos, I'll see if I can dig them up.

>>5387628
Can;t find them on the computer, I know they're still on the camera which my brother is borrowing right now, I'll upload the photos tonight prob before midnight GMT -7.

>>5387645
That would be very interesting, thanks.

>>5386841
>bud light

>>5387591
I've got that Roald Dahl set, too. A great deal.

>>5387677

>lots of fancy old editions of the pre-Raphaelites
>hiding your copy of LotR in the far corner

self-hating nerd detected

>>5387726
That's hilarious. Did you notice the huge collage I posted first that showed tons of SF, fantasy, graphic novels, etc.,, or my discussion of Chobits? The dvd case? The entire bookcase stuffed with D&D books? The dragons sitting on everything? The official Hobbit key replicas in that same case on display in the top half? I'm pretty self-realized about my nerdiness.

That specific edition is inscribed to me by my wife, so I put it down there where it's a) relatively safe and b) not very accessible (there's usually a chair in the way) because I have other reading copies of the trilogy.

>>5387497
Best shelves in thread, would hang out with.

>>5387760

I am also a fan of Twin Peaks too

That feel when they've started playing it again on Syfy.

>>5387759

nope, didn't realize it was part of a series
i retract my comment fellow old editions collecting nerdbro

>>5387834
No worries. Hey, here's my palantir: solid obsidian!

>>5387063
There's a scene in a book where a woman looks at a house and can see a brand new big screen television in the living room, while also seeing that the roof is sagging in, and she just wonders what the hell kind of messed up mindset could lead a person to making those choices. Unfortunately that scene is in Atlas Shrugged. Fuck you, your squalor me remember that awful book. Get the hell out of that room to somewhere actually inhabitable.

missing some that are in my car.
-king lear
-kite runner
-heart of darkness

>>5387591
>>5387596
>>5387604
>>5387615
>>5387623
>tfw no qt 3.14159 korean gf

>>5386846
What version of Gilgamesh is that?

O-okay..

>>5388842
Quick question though, I don't know if its just me, do you find your comprehension and reading speed is slower compared to paper? Or do I just lack discipline for e-reading?

>>5387053
Folio's aren't awful if you get them used. Lord of the Rings are one of the pricier ones and I'm looking at some online for about 160.

>>5388858
Nope, you're just dumb.

>>5388858
Depends how tired I am. Its easier to feel the strain when reading from a tablet/e-reader.
Not everyone's eyes are for reading from tablets anyway.
That or >>5388867

not like my quints

>>5388858
I'm not the person you quoted, but I can't sit down and read from my tablet for 3-6 hours the same way I can look at a properly-lit book.

That being said I probably read just as fast and the psychological reward is potentially greater, especially when I read on my phone, because I turn pages faster.

>>5387568
>That butterfly
Are you a collector, or is that a store bought one? (Nothin' against you if it is)

>>5388905
It's store-bought, a guy from the last shelf thread had the exact same one.

>>5387645
>>5387653
Nope, no can do. Sorry.

>>5386529
i was about to say mean things about your bookshelf anon, but then i came to realize i loved a whole of them when i was younger and still really enjoy some others

>>5386529
i was about to say mean things about your books anon, but then i came to realize i loved a whole bunch of them when i was younger and still really enjoy some others

>>5386529
>Narcissist thread

>>5388887
Actually if you are talking about the lcd screen tablet I can understand a bit more. If you are talking about the eink stuff then I stand by it.

>>5388979
Aw shoot. I've been trying to get into butterfly/moth collecting of my own recently, and thought I found another.

>>5389079
Middle class is gonna middle class
Consumerists are gonna consume
etc. etc.

>>5387449
Bakker's okay, though I think his depiction of magic is probably the best I've read. They're mainly up with the good stuff because of the quality of the editions, which are very very nice in the hand and to the naked eye, (they will seem plain on here.)

>>5387052
I've just started it and I'm enjoying it as well

> that cheeky dowser

>>5387127
Ужасен фокус, половината заглавия не се четат. :^)

>>5387452
hp perché

>>5387563
Hoarder level right there, clean up your mess. I worked in a book shop and we used to get so many people like this.

My camera sucks and I have problems to keep my hands still, but here it goes...

1/?

2/-

3/-

4/-

5/-

7/-

8/-

>>5389094
>>5388905
Well, I do have a small collection, but I didn't net them myself. Even if there were many nice species around here, drying/relaxing/pinning/stretching/mounting is such delicate work. I buy on Ebay, mostly from Peru. Here's my wall of butterflies.

>>5390598
9/-

10/-

11/-

12/-

13/-

what the hell is a moses tapss?

>>5390626

>>5390625
14/-

first pile of books

>>5390635

>>5390636
15/-

second pile of books

>>5390640
16/-

and a third pile of books

>>5390656
17/-

+ Don Qujote

>>5390629
where did you see "moses tapss"?

>>5390629
http://www.amazon.com/International-Top-Sprayer-Moses-Taps/dp/3939566357

>>5386529

Why are your books defying gravity? Are they that bad that even Earth rejects them?

>>5390833
I think the OP just took the picture sideways, Anonymous.

>>5390844

Oh, good that you cleared that out. Thank you, Anonymous!

1 of 3

2 of 3

>>5390917

3 of 3

>>5390919
>>5390926
>>5390932

shit, forgot this, 4 of 3
Like anyone cares anyway

>>5386916
how about you suck my dick?

>>5390656
>El Único y su Propiedad

mi negro.
¿Qué tal está "Las Palabras y las Cosas" de Foucault? He querido leer algo de él pero no sé por dónde empezar.

>>5386529

>>5391074
New house, 2 of 3 new cases, Pine stained dark. Gonna put a nice painting in the center and my all time favorite books in the center

>>5391074

>>5391092
Some of those are my wife's obv

>>5391094
Is that Gibbon on the upper right?

>>5391105
Yes, i left vol2 in a taxi in nyc

>>5386764

>pléiade

better pic pls

>>5390917
What did you make of the consolation?

Mine is small..

>>5391171
> Owning hardbacks of Eragon

>>5391194
>Owning paperbacks

>>5391150
lel, i never read that shit.

>>5391171
That powder for snorting or why do you keep spices on your bookshelf?

>>5390978
Focault es genial, seguramente el único filosófo que podría calificarse como posmoderno que me gusta.

Yo diría que comiences con el mismo "Las Palabras y las Cosas" en tanto Focault, respecto a él y que recomendaría leer antes es el libro "A very short introduction to Focault" y recomiendo encarecidamente el artículo "From dogmatic slumber to anthropological sleep: Focault's analysis of modernity" de Patrick Ryan.

El último artículo me resultó particularmente esclarecedor respecto a Las Meninas, el primer capítulo de Las Palabras y las Cosas.

>>5391529
Because I have no other place to put them...

I have other shit but it's all in other bookshelves and I'm too lazy to take pictures of them (and you guys wouldn't wanna see them)

also yeah I got YA and weaboo shit fuck off

>>5391940
Gracias m8.

rate my bookshelf. These are the only books I own.

Keep in mind I started lurking /lit/ a year ago and I haven't finished any of these

>>5392502
¿Qué te pareció leer a Pynchon en español?.

btw, de donde eres?.

1/2
Top shelf is Bulgarian, Russian and British prose, Bulgarian poetry

Bottom shelf is historical non-fiction, German prose, Camus and Sienkiewicz.

2/2

Mythology, American prose, the first 4 Harry Potter books and The History of Art.

>>5386858
Nice pic of Shakespeare & Co you dumbass. Maybe next time try not to post one of the most famous bookstores on the planet.

>>5386856
Which version of Les Mis is that?

>>5391198
> Owning Eragon at all

>>5392319
>Azumanga
>Yotsuba
>Welcome to the NHK

You're a pretty cool guy. Also, some great literature in that shelf as well.

>>5396474
It was 2002 and I was young and into fantasy, sue me.

>>5388046
don't read and drive

>>5397757
was waiting 2 days for a reply and it was this.
Thank you.

>>5397868
my pleasure

>>5386830
>>5386835
hey anon, are you in school? if so what are you studying? A few of your titles are ones I've recommended to some students of mine, so I'm curious.

plz dont h8

>>5398291
I like the Doctor Who book

If you like Doctor Who buy the novel "The Silent Stars Go By" its really good

>>5398291
I'm trying anon but I don't think I can't not hate it

>>5398291
>that everything

>>5398340

What's wrong with Leviathan?

>>5398291
Did you make a section dedicated to bothering /lit/ and snobs in general?

>>5387452

>Il giovane Holden
>The Young Holden

>>5398459
I would never do that.

>>5398551
Although I will admit I still need to find my copy of Atlas Shrugged, and my book were every page is a cardboard minigolf course. It comes with a tiny putter and little ball bearings, it's adorable.

>>5398572
> book were every page is a cardboard minigolf course. It comes with a tiny putter and little ball bearings
I need to know what this is called and where to get one immediately

>>5398619
http://www.amazon.com/The-Miniature-Book-Golf/dp/0761154132/

>>5387677
>How to Collect Books

>>5398631
There are worse things to collect.

>>5387214
Do these interesting philosophical concepts translate well to the anime?