/lit/ - Literature

le ebic bait xDDDD!

Are the people who go on to post their shelves so insecure with what they're doing that they have to start their threads with the facade of irony so they are not singled out for being the losers starting the thread but merely forgettable, even forgivable participants?

Because I think that's the case.

At least I see the Great Gatsby in there.

>>5962065

It looks more like some attention faggot took an image from Google and posted it here in the hopes of rousing some of the more autistic posters on here.

>>5962088
Baiting through the obviousness of the bait? Perhaps. If so they got me. Doubt it though. There will be ernest shelf posts any time now.

don't got a lot of money for books or space to store them. or time to read them really

here is a picture of the sunset that i took yesterday. Saigon has cool clouds.

i don't have any pictures of my bookshelf sorry

idgi do you guys think it's bait because The Man will use the pictures of your bookshelf to identify you when they kick down your door or something?

>>5962049
>Not just using an ereader

>>5962289
so you decided to buy Fusion Research 3 times or are those different editions?

>>5963649
3 different volumes covering different material

>>5962289
also copped a used nook last year but I don't use it took that much

>>5963787
and this guy

>>5963787
i want your Ligotti

patrician af

>>5965692
get on my fuckin' level

fuccboi

>>5965707
:^)

i'm so friggin' cool

leeeeeeeeeeeeel

"g"

>>5965752
lol

there's no way that's not taken in a bookstore.

>>5965864
ikr??

xdddddddddddddddddddd

>>5965752
Top-right is one of the dumbest fucking covers I've ever seen in my life. Belongs on a Wordsworth.

>>5966684
thats a picture of my mid 2000s emo band

>>5962378

oh fuck I never thought of that.

>>5965692
>>5965701
>>5965707
>>5965714

not bad
needs more obscure texts. Everyone who's not a pleb will have at least heard of those texts (though reading is another matter)

>>5966715
>needs more obscure texts
autism

Pleb 4 life

>>5967157
At the bedside right meow

>>5966684
i think it's cool, reminds me of clockwork orange, u fag

>>5967157
top kek, you have GR on penguin classics, sucker.

>>5966723
you're just a huge fucking faggot. die pls

>>5969231
You can tell I have a shit ed of GR from that blurry image?

You faggots need to get of Pynchons dick for like 30 seconds haha

>>5969231
Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition®
faggot

>>5969667
>>5969681
Lel

>>5963759
where do you work?

>>5970258
still in school

>>5967157
>>5967161
Based anon. Even for the sample of esteemed literary connoisseurs here on /lit/. Though having DFW on the shelf, even if tucked away in the bottom corner, does take away from the magnificence.
9.5/10, minus for DFW, 8.5/10. Good work.

>>5967157
ur not supposed to stack books. it causes the words to warp.

>>5965692
>>5965701
>>5965707
>>5965714
>>5965752
>trying this hard

repostan

>>5965701
>all that Dostoevsky

No, anon, you are the pleb.

>>5971802
what

>>5971859
>dat warping
you faggot, do you not make your own shelves? do you even wipe your own ass?

pls r8

>>5972025
svensk/10

>>5972025
fedorable

>>5972042
>fedorable
>Holy Bible

>>5971802
/mu/ pls go

>>5972055
>whisky
>Hemingway
>"serious books"
truly a gentleman with a hat

>>5972072
>"serious books"

Sorry for not buying all of /lit/s meme books.

>>5972072
You're retarded

What a gay thread. Unless you're a chick, then it's kind of qt.

>>5972095
All those books but no shelf

K

>>5972124
I know ivory is evil shit.. .But the one on the far left i think looks like hes holding the weight against his shoulder lol.. anyone thing there molded after any eastern ppl in particular?

>>5967157
>wooden bookshelf on tile floor
disgusting

>>5972124
>all those barely half-finished books

My autism can't handle this.

>>5972133
Their not half finished, man. I keep my receipts and i put them In a random page. As for the road, its my second read through and i got bored and the plague I have only read upto part 2 (I'm waiting for L'estranger to arrive and read it before i continue)

>>5972153
>I'm waiting for L'estranger to arrive and read it before i continue
any particular reason why?

>>5972214
Well, I heard it was a better place to start in regards to camooo. Though i will most likely flip through The myth of Sisyphus (to understand his philosophies a little more deeply), then move onto the stranger and then finish the plague.. Also, Mersault is mentioned in part 1 and other c/lit/'s told me not to start with the plague, but i couldn't put it down!

oh welp

>>5972025
Pidor

>>5972125
How is ivory evil and shit?

>>5972354
I assume he said that because the ivory trade contributed heavily to making the African and Asian elephants endangered species. Doesn't really matter unless it's brand new ivory, though, and it rarely is.

>>5972354
Because its made from the tusks of helplessly slaughtered elephants?

>>5972361
Yeah you're right. Its over 40 years old. So anon needn't concern himself with "Muh activism"

>>5972363
Not the guy you're responding to, but: Oh come on, that's a hopelessly broad argument. And, unless you're a strict vegan, it's also hypocritical as hell.

>>5972367
Kek, Tell me about it.

>>5972363
vegan femanon detected

>>5972361
Oh, I guess he's one of those moralist hippies.
>>5972363
Yes, I was correct.

>>5972367
>why even try, the world will never be perfect

>>5971859
Sagging shelves, as >>5972020 so rudely notes.

You can just get a length of solid wood, cut it to the width of your shelf, and then affix it to the underside of each shelf via screws or nails, and it would go a long way towards fixing your sagging particle-board shelves. That's what I did with inexpensive walmart bookshelves, and it works quite well. Though they are only half-height shelves, so you can't see the supports. On your full height shelves you could, but it might still be an improvement over the sagging.

Deal with it.

>>5972547

Fuck you must be boring

>>5972567
Pleb detected.

>>5972586

I´m not the pleb, you are the pleb. You are trying so fucking hard to be what others consider to be sophisticated. Just how much of these books have you read? What have you derived out of these books? What did these books do to make you a wiser person?

Give me 3 examples of something important you learned from reading any of that shit, and i can promise you that any of those examples, i already knew without reading it from the context of those books.

>>5972602
I studied classics you utter fucktard, I've read all of them.

>>5972622

You didn't answer my most important questions you wretched tool.

>>5972602
>Rule 865 of /lit/
Don't sperg out over someone's bookshelf. For all you know, they took that photo from somewhere else. Or, they are actually well read. In either case, worry about yourself and go fucking read. Get on his level if you are this buttblasted about one photo.

>>5972547
>actually starting with the Greeks

>>5972625
Some people are just interested in Ancient culture, what is your problem?

>>5972602
>>5972567
>hating on someone reading the classics

Post your bookshelf, faggot. I want to laugh at all your genre fiction.

>>5972627

I'm trying to defend my position of not having to read any of what the Greeks wrote, considering how fucking irrelevant they are, it's all irrelevant knowledge that won't help you gain anything.

I mean, it's not even fun - IS THERE ANYONE WHO ACTUALLY CONSIDERS IT FUN?

I've tried reading Plato - it's the most boring literature i've ever encountered, and everything about it was irrelevant to anything.

>>5972547
So... many... translations...

>>5972648
>reading for fun

>>5972658

Shut up - no one knows Greek

>>5972648
Obviously there are, there are people who find trains or bird watching interesting.
And history is way more interesting than either of those things.

>>5972666

Nice Satanic trips friend - i read for fun and knowledge, but i only read for knowledge if the knowledge is relevant in life.

Also, if the knowledge is relevant to people i am interested in like Tesla, Napoleon, Hitler, Cesar, Neumann - etc.

Reading about what stupid fucks with not actual knowledge about the universe around them - is simply absurd unless you have a flawless memory and will be able to live for the next 500 years.

We can only read so many books in our short lives - best read what is relevant.

>>5972648
>This post
All of this sounds like a personal problem. Not saying I disagree with you, but fuck, if it's boring to you then don't read it.
Personally, the only philosophy I can get into is literary theory stuff. Otherwise I find it boring or pointless. However, Mr. Start with the Greeks' bookshelf might find lit. theory boring and irrelevant.
Let's all just calm the fuck down and recognize that we are all here for a common purpose.

>>5972667
A buddy of mine knows Greek. He's quite patrician and browses /lit/. Complete aspie though.

>>5972666
You Sir, you got a point. XDDDDDDDD

>>5972681
I can also read Greek from my uni days, but I don't do it very often because who wants to read with a dictionary really slowly.

>>5972676

Just disregard this post altogether men, i'm just drunk and i'm babbling nonsense - go read the greeks if you're interested in them, fucking wine makes me dull and argumentative as fuck.

Pic definitely related

>>5972648
I think that if you only read for fun you have a problem .-.

I know that may be some topics won't result atractive to you and that is important to enjoy the book you are reading, but it's as important as reading something that can teach you anything. I also advice you to begin with more simple books in the topic before reading Plato.

>>5972697
still love you babe

>>5972648
Plato is boring? Dear god what shit taste.

>>5972547
>he actually started with the greeks

you absolute madman hahahahahaha!

>>5972363
>Because your clothes are made from the crops of helplessly slaughtered cotton plants.

fucking seriously, I've had it with animal rights activists, failure to see the bigger picture.

>>5972124
that's pretty neat anon, thought I was the only one to keep book receipts. which makes it easier on me.

>>5972547
meh, how long you been reading Anon, current title?

>>5972487
If you are not a vegan, then it follows necessarily that your argument against ivory isn't only that they kill defenceless animals, seeing as that is also done in many other contexts.

>>5971815
fuck you cunt, post your books, cunt. go get raped, cunt.
>>5972006
you too, go get fucking raped

>>5973528
>getting mad on the internet
Welcome to 4chan, newcomer!

>>5973540
go suck a dick, grandma

>>5973545
Aww~

>>5973563
i fucked your mom so hard last night, she cried

>>5973576
Warn me next time so I can get ready for you too, ducky.

>>5971802
KINDA POETIC!

>>5972547
>rieu iliad
>lattimore odyssey
kek you fucked up

>>5973155
I've read pretty consistently since I was 15 (now 24). I'm currently reading Roadside Picnic.

>>5972124
>he reads English versions of Camus' novels