/lit/ - Literature

>>6417883
Or you could fuck off to >>>/soc/ and hang yourself.

>kik
lol

>>6417891
fuck you I'm stayin here

>>6417883

>those gaudy Barnes & Noble Collectible Editions

I always feel bad for guys like you. You are so aesthetically challenged when all you want is to have good taste.

We already have a bookshelf thread up, keep it in the containment thread you attention whore.

>>6417883
>excitableboy6778

>>6417883
outoutoutoutoutout
> wanting my boards to be separate
YOU BETTER FUCKING BELIEVE IT

>>6418002
Not a warren zevon fan are you?

>>6417883
That William Faulkner portrait is really cool.

>>6417883
>buying new books that've been in print for years
i hope you get defecated on, fucked up the ass, and killed.

i'm drunk and i know they're translations, pls be nice i need some validation

>>6418038

>the rage kid again

i bet you're so confused by this teenage angst of yours that you can't even tell if you're still being ironic about all of this anymore

What's a reliable (but affordable) bookshelf to store hardcovers on?

I thought of storing my trades and putting wordy books on the shelf but it's already collapsing

>>6418039
Don't ever let anyone on here make you feel bad for reading translations, translating is a work of art itself. How is Keith Richards' Life? Always wanted to read it.

>>6418056
Idea expedit or kallax or whatever they're calling it these days, seen in>>6417902 it's good for pretty much everything.

>>6417902
>Che Guevara
>Discarded

>>6418054
you sound like a retarded faggot. is that what you went through??? hahaha, you stupid cuck. kill yourself.

Here's an old picture of my shelf, hasn't really changed in the past four years as I've sworn off buying books (a pain to move around when you live in an apartment) unless they're titles I can't find at any of the uni/muni libraries near me.

>>6418039
Nice 20th century collection

>>6418073

>more awkward teen shit

lol

>>6418075
you're just made because I have a highly refined palate for the arts, not an old PLEB like you, and not a faggot, like you. and your dad probably ate your ass out when he was drunk. FAG.

>>6418065
Well, it's a bigger ride than I thought it was possible for someone to take. To the level of the house they took on France to avoid taxes was good since he could take a boat ride to Morocco to buy pure heroin (with his 6 year old kid abroad a boat with 5 kg of heroin).

It must be great to live like that, until you think about the kind of life you're leading. I'm still thankful for all the good shit he did, the Stones were probably the first THING (realize I'm not talking about a band, food or text, a THING) I've known I liked.

My dad is really into them despite being 100% against drugs.

(As for the translation thing, my gf is one of the people trying to translate A Void to portuguese and I know the hell translators go through, but people have dismissed my shelf in the past but I'm also drunk so I want to be ignored and etc.)

>>6418089

>you're just made

lol

>>6418038
>>6418073
>>6418089
The way your books are painstakingly uniform creeps me out, as does the way you introduce sodomy into all your posts.

R8 no h8

>>6418103
I just called you a faggot and thats your response? HAHA, you're obviously a massive CUCK.

>>6418094
I don't want to be ignored. Sorry. I just realized I'm surrounded by people (besides my gf and best friend) who are total plebs and I just feel so bad and mislead

>>6418074
Thanks, I get most classics from college (though I'll admit I've barely skimmed through pre-XVIII century stuff). For some reason I can only load the first shelf of your stuff, is Being and Nothingness worth the effort?

>>6418089
>I have a highly refined palate for the arts
>Oliver Twist

>>6418121
I'm obviously buying all the 1st edition Signet Classic books just because, dumb slut. the cover art rapes your ass.

>>6418105

>as does the way you introduce sodomy into all your posts

he's a teenager - he's not sure why he does this either.

he just needs to show the world that he is irreverent, like, so badly.

you wouldn't understand, gramps.

>>6418133

>>6418074
What did you think of Eric Foner's The Fiery Trial? I have to read it for US History and I'm still deciding if I'm going to bullshit the test or not.

>>6418133
That's like buying first presses of remastered albums (ie.: nothing)

>>6418106
>white copy of The Road
KindaNeat/10

>>6418161
i dont buy remastered albums
>pic related
thats an original pression of Eno's "HERE COME THE WARM JETS"
faglord.

>>6418116
What are you taking about 'ignored'?

>>6418164

I buy everything used from amazon, sometimes I get lucky, other times not so much. Like my Steppenwolf copy

>>6418189
>i buy everything used from amazon
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA, FAGGOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

>>6418194

You literally ruin every single one of these threads as you keep contributing pictures to them and keeping them going. I don't understand you.

>>6418204
This thread would be 1000x shittier without me, cunt.

>>6418173
I always post on these threads and no one ever says anything, no one never says anything.

And that's all. I wrote a big fucking edgy as listening to Marylin Manson whilte you shoot your colleagues saying why I was ignored but I'm not planning to shoot anyone.

I just want someone outside a very close circle to say what I should and what I shouldn't go after, since my professors clearly have no fucking idea.

As I've said, sorry, I've drank too much

>>6418212

>>6418212

It really wouldn't. But keep being weirdly hostile in book threads, I guess.

>>6418170
>>6418170
Yeah, your collection of The Stranger features 0 editions in french, therefore, they're remasters

>>6418158
It has been a while since I read it, but Foner is a top-tier scholar, it's worth reading anything written by him. Whether you should read that book through cover to cover, or just scan through it will depend on how much other Lincoln and Emancipation -related material you've already consumed, there are thousands of books about Lincoln and the issues surrounding the Civil War, odds are if you've read a few of them you'll find much of TFT very familiar.

>>6417883
Ice posted b4 in these threads but I allways like to hear what people think

>>6418218
>>6418204
Just report his posts and he'll be gone.

>>6418133
so you're collecting .... PAPERbacks? ???You DO realize those don't hold up over time, right?

And the other guy's right. You seem to care more about the appearance of the books, than the substance or lack of substance between the covers, and the fag and cuck references ... wow.

>>6418254
they've held op since the 60's so far.

>>6418214
Bro I have no idea what you're talking about, but if you wanna chat we can chat. Thanks for responding about the Richards book, it sounds cool. What song was it you heard when you were ultra little that made you know you liked em?

>>6418229
I'm diggin it. Nice little everyman's collection you have started there, and a couple of the Harvard Classics books. Can't make out all the titles.

I read that same edition/copy/publication of To Kill a Mockingbird back in the day. Ahhh, high school assigned reading, ay? Am I right? Right.

>>6418264
Well, if they actually were opened up and read occasionally, nah, they won't last. But you think 60 years is a long time, so ... whatevs

>>6418282
I guess it was either Tumbling Dice or Ruby Tuesday. Both completely different but with a sort of ring to a childhood I don't remember details of, I just know I lived it, I guess?

Sorry dude, we're dealing with a lot of material conditions against this talk, I'm not thinking propperly (in english), my connection is sucking, etc.

But you're a Stones fan too? What else do you like?

>>6418311
I'm a big but not huge stones fan. I LOVE the entire Some Girls album, though, and really like Exile on Main Street as well. Shit I like most of their stuff actually but those two are my favorites. Tumbling Dice is one of their best.
For other music I love singer-songwriter stuff, from Bob Dylan to Ryan Adams. And of course Warren Zevon.

What country you from?

>>6417883
>be me
>open this thread
>op has the movie prometheus
>he may not necessarily enjoy it but the fact that someone owns it and feels comfortable posting a picture with their personal copy in the frame registers in my mind
>close the thread

>>6418369
Nigger please, that movie was a gift. And it wasn't that bad.

>>6418229

Nice Steinbeck!

>>6418212

The Cossacks and the Raid are my favorite Tolstoys, and I've been meaning to check out Turgenev's novels

>>6418106

cool. is The Road all it's cracked up to be? I love Blood Meridian.

>>6418074

I once received that edition of Hitchhikers Guide in the mail. Somebody had it shipped to my address and i sold it back for $8 lol

>>6417890

How is Underworld?

>>6418397
Honestly I read the first chapter of Underworld and put it down (and I love baseball). I got all my DeLillo books as a lot from a store that was closing so I hadn't read anything by him before. I liked White Noise and Point Omega alot, didn't care for Cosmopolis, and the thought of meanding through 1000 pages of stereotypical postmodern drivel (all style no substance) just made me put it down entirely.

On a related note, jesus christ Im having a hard time getting through 2666. On the part about Archimboldi now and man... I just find it boring. I feel like so far the part about the Crimes was the only section of the book that should have been published, maybe with the part about Fate edited down and put in there as well or maybe as a prologue of sorts

>>6418390
I was trying to meme. You got patrician taste in other movies m8

>>6418423

your taste is great. your editions are making me jizz. great finds. I've never seen that Gravity's Rainbow and I like the Vintage McCarthy