/lit/ - Literature

>>5983307
a girl with shitty shelves and dandruff

>>5983327
do you think hair products give you dandruff?

>>5983397
I've never used shampoo

>>5983307
>that booklight
How long ago did you get that?

>Five Richard Dawkins books
delusion, indeed

>>5983307
I've, actually, dated a girl like you. Never again.

I-is that blue one a koran?

>>5983307
>Carl Sagan

*tips fedora*

>>5983460
I got it at a thrift store maybe a month or two ago.

>>5983484
I don't have any Richard Dawkins books, wtf?

>>5983505
Cool, what am I like?

>>5983510
Which blue one? I don't own a Koran. What the hell are you people seeing?

>>5983513
You got me.

>>5983628
That's why I said delusion

Delusion, indeed.

>>5983638
That was actually pretty funny.

Is those one of those threads where you post bookshelves from Reddit? If so, we should try to get some OC, since I've seen this before on here, IIRC.

I think that's the same chemistry textbook I used in my sophomore year of high school.

>>5983792
Here we go!

>>5983810
U-ha honey ;^)

>>5983828
this one is actually OC

>>5983854
>that cog
>those weights haphazardly spread across the floor
>fucking Master Chef movement

>>5983854
How was the baroque cycle? I stopped halfway through quicksilver to go back and brush up on english history. I read pepys and a few history texts and I'm gonna tackle quicksilver again soon. Is it worth reading all three of the volumes? You're a NS fan from the looks of it so i realize your answer may be biased, but I'm still curious.

This shelf makes my OCD cringe

>>5983943
While I do like NS I had to take a break between volumes and read something else. The baroque cycle really is long winded and complex. If you want to see how the lives of the characters all intertwine in the end it comes together really nicely... its just the middle that seems to drag. I hope you like learning about late 1600s and early 1700 european currency. Cyrptonomicon actually has the later relatives of all the baroque's characters and wraps up a better story in less pages.

>>5983977
I do indeed like learning about that time period. I think I'll do it as you did, with a break between books. I loved quicksilver, I just wanted to know more about the time period in order to imagine the world more accurately. I'm definitely ready to attempt it again.

Pepys' diary was entertaining in its own right as well, and i'm glad that Neal indirectly got me to read it.

>>5984009
yeah that 1st volume can be a little tough to keep the characters straight just because they will have a casual name like rodger but also a formal name like the ear of ravenscar but he does this with like 20 different characters until towards the end when he starts to keep it a little more simple for a casual like myself.

*side note.. have you noticed NS tends to rape the female characters in a lot of his books?

*runny farts*

>>5983307
>Paulo Coelho

>>5983792
You've probably seen this before because it's a generic white bookshelf from Ikea that cost fifty bucks. But no, this is my bookshelf from an hour ago.

>>5983802
Probably, it's the one I used in high school, too.

>>5983961
Yeah, my sister doesn't like it, either.

i'm more patrician than all u fags

>>5984068
10,000x more patrician than u fags

fuck-asses

>>5984085
>>5984075
>>5984068

>100% 2nd hand books
>translations
>only English language books

no, you're monolingual plen

>>5984097
get on my fuckin' level, pleb-fuck.

>>5984068
>>5984075
>>5984085
>Only the dead can know peace from this shitposting

fags

>>5984038
you and me, we are one

OP, are you a bipolar geisha with a hunchback? Am I warm or cold?

Rate but don't prate, knaves!

>>5984127
Pretty cold.
Also, there's nothing entertaining on your bookshelves. Are you the most boring person in the world?

>>5984097
here's a portion of my english shelf then, cunt. the rest is too patrician for your eyes.

>>5984143
yeah, i got 3 copies of R.D. Laings Politics of Experience and the Birds of Paradise, fuck you.

>>5984127
we got the same bookshelf

>>5984127
I'm digging the picture of the children.

Are they your next target?

>>5983810
b-b-but this way they'll get ruined!

Am I a patrician yet?

>>5984138

I'm in the top ten.

>>5984037
Seems like your the only non patrician-self-masturbating-pleb here anon, minus the bukowski

>>5984240
are you a 30 something housewife

>>5983810
just look at this ugly abortion

>stephen king
>ttfn
>my booky wook

Embarrassing all around.

>>5984240
not terrible, but I'm going to say that this is a mixed library with you and a so. This so is female.

>>5985151
I think it's his mom's book shelf.

>>5984037
nice DFW. The titular essay is wonderful.

>>5983307

>>5985220
used college books and stuff from thrift stores.

>>5985218
I haven't read it yet, It's the last one in the book and giving me the drive to get through the occasional 10 or so pages of mathematics related tennis criclejerk nonsense.

>>5985232
Do yourself a favor and read it, pal. It is entertaining from start to finish.

Also, don't you dare blast the mathematics and/or tennis-strategy segments.

>>5985227

Is there something wrong with thrift store books?

>>5985232
Don't trust a DFW fan. None of them have read enough to even have valuable opinions on essays--any essays.

>>5985247
>not reading every sentence DFW ever wrote

>>5983307
are you from dublin?

>>5985247
Beleive me, I don't. I started my essay fascination with Orwell and Borges but DFW has a similar style to me, or better, I have a similar style to DFW, so i was interested in reading him

>>5983307
>paulo coelho
you aren't worth more than 10 seconds of my time and I've spend it typing this

i felt so much better when i took all my bukowskis off my bookshelf

>>5985725
>>5984038
everyone is overlooking the help
>>5985220
fine
>>5984143
>"patrician"
>huxley
>orwell
>laing (yikes)
>>5984119
pervert
>>5984037
bitter n obbsessed with masculinity core

Pharmacy student?

>>5985273
No, I live in America

>>5985836
No, just interested in psychiatry

>>5985725
>>5985793
Actually, the Coelho books were a Christmas present from a close friend and I was very sad when I opened them... but not going to be rude now, am I?
Also, who doesn't like a book where somebody eats shit?

>VALIDATE ME
>VALIDATE ME
>VALIDATE ME

>>5985973

>has never had qts in his room checking out his shelf

I almost pity you

>>5985980
i miss this so much

>looking at qt's butts while they check out my shelf
>discuss literature with them a bit, joke, talk, drink, whatever
>fuck their brains out
>tfw nearly all my books got destroyed in a flood
>tfw have gf anyway

ugh, i want new women

>>5986006
sad (for your gf)

>>5983307

you're pathetic

>>5986289
>>5985973
more pathetic than any other dude who's posted his shelf with the exact same caption on here before, amirite?

>>5985980
I've never had a qt in my room checking out MY shelf. Maybe that's why I desperately need the validation of all you /lit/ studs

i know the shelves sag, i'm working on fixing that

>>5988314
manga books

i guarantee it

>>5983810
3/10, terrible looking "artsy" shelf, pleb-tier books like stephen king

>>5983307
toss all of the trinkets and clean it up a bit, and you have a decent shelf. 6/10, 8/10 with some work.

Keep alarm clocks on desks, too, not on your bookshelf.

>>5983828
Terrible book selection, 6 Ayn Rand books, seriously? The way you stacked (vertical on top) is awful

2/10

>>5983854
>gear, paintball mask and hopper, location next to television
3/10, your books are okay but your shelf looks horrible. a short step above trailer trash

>>5984037
You're too concentrated in a few authors and subjects. Why are some books stacked on top, instead of next to the others?

5/10, you can score more by having a better collection and keeping a neater desk.

>>5984127
Pretty shitty books selection (Capote? Who gives a fuck about him?) and too much theology/edgy theology (muh martyrs)

also, >coffee on a bookshelf

3.5/10

>>5984240
Your book selection is meh, and the games look incredibly tacky (board games are a middle class affect). If you toss the games and improve the collection, 7/10. Otherwise 3/10

>>5985220
Very nice-looking shelf, and a very good assortment of books. The only problem is you have a few too many books of too varying height on the same shelf, such as the thin paperbacks on the third shelf down (just group them together) and the tall books like Billy Budd on the top shelf.

9/10, 9.5/10 if you fix it up a little bit.

>>5988314
Biographies are generally plebbish. I don't see much literature. Your geology books are too scattered; they should be placed in the same area.

6/10, improve your selection and sort the shelves better.

>>5988410
Get a load of this faggot, he thinks his opinion matters to anyone.

Why do people keep starting these fucking threads and replying to them?
Why don't you just read your fucking books?
But no, you all bitches need to post here a pic of your shelves looking for the approval of strangers.

>I have good taste; people on the internet say so!

Lame.

>>5988472
quality post

mah bookshelf

>>5988472
Why do you think anyone on here reads any literary work?

>>5983307
Good selection, shows you're not narrow-minded and willing to try different books. It also shows that you're a woman. 6/10
>>5983810
Disgusting shelf - Average selection
>Stephen King
>Putting a picture of you and your gf on a bookshelf instead of putting more books
pleb/tier
>>5983828
bait/10
>>5983854
worsebait/10
>>5984037
2ndWeekOn/lit/.jpg
>I just got into reading!!
>Let me read Dosto first because /lit/ said he's cool
1.5/10
>>5984068
>>5984075
>>5984085
Notbad.jpg
7/10
>>5984127
8/10
>>5984143
>Penguin
0/10
>>5984240
What the fuck is this
0/10

>>5988499
>Why do you think anyone on here reads any literary work?
>literary
>lit

Judge me /lit/

My stash of books written by my favorite author, along with a rifle from the era in which many of his books are written.

>>5989212

>>>/k/

>>5989218
I've only ever seen Wilbur Smith mentioned on /k/ twice. I'm surprised he isn't more popular there, but then again I doubt the majority of /k/ reads anything.

>>5989212
do you like alan paton

>>5988318
I have that batman underwear

>>5989212
have you actually read those books? and actually liked them?

>>5983638
kek