/lit/ - Literature

Those are some sexy socks

>>658146
I like your collection. Not too much junk there...

Socks thread?

people shouldn't only read kafka.
there's other great lit written in German...
Perfume - Süsskind
Brecht - Galileo Galilei
Grass - Tin Drum
Böll - Verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum
Kleist - Michael Kohlhaas

What's Sans Pitie?

>>658206
A french bande dessinee about criminals in Marseilles.

Prepare for shitty pictures.

>>658225

>>658227

This is embarrassing.

These are the bookshelfs of /lit/?

At work now, but I have 3 bookcases of books at home, all read, and a half shelf under my bedside table of TBR.

Back to /sp/. /lit/ confirmed for non literate children.

1 of 3

Fiction mostly.

2 of 3

Non-fiction

>>658230
Last ones were just three of my favorite shelves because of a shitty camera/laziness.

3 of 3

Comics & graphic novels underneath. Signed , special and old editions on top.

This is all I've got so far, the rest is back home in Canada.

>>658241
Why do you feel inclined to turn covers forward like that? I mean what are you doing with that in your own home? Showing off to the cats?

I like this table, incidently.

>>658230
Well I'm only 18. (OP btw)

>>658249
Wonderful taste in Sci Fi you've got right there.

>>658253

lol there are too many comics underneath and they kept falling off each end. I put the 2 biggest and heaviest, Absolute Authority & LoEG at each end but they still would all lean and fall off. So I moved those two to the front out the way as they were the heaviest, stacked a bunch at the left to hold the straight and put Asterix & Tin Tin on the far right as the lightest.

This seems to have temporarily improved the situation :)

The sideboard was a bargain, £160 down from £350 in a closing down sale. Its repro but who cares, it looks great.

>>658270
Wow, what a reasonable answer. You're a nice guy; I like you. I agree about the sentiment on the nature of furniture reproduction as well, congratulations on the buy! I also knew you were European between the Will Self and actually keeping plants inside. Cheers!

>>658275

No probs this is /lit :) Everyone is nice here, except for the odd bit of constructive criticism...lol

Weirdly enough I have also noticed Will Self on bookshelves and thought 'that person is probably a Brit' lol

>>658231
The largest collection of historical fiction I've seen in a shelf thread yet. Nice Gemmell collection too.

needs more Orwell

>>658329

History, non-fic & fiction makes up most of my reading :) As to Gemmell, he lived about 10 miles away from me and I have 2 signed copies, White Wolf & Ravenheart really sad when he died.

Currently reading Lustrum by Robert Harris, I can thoroughly recommend it for history, esp Roman, loving /lits.

I am not working tomorrow so I might put a history fic /lit jpg together.

I have an inability to dispose of or turn books away, so I have an overabundance of them.

Here's my reading corner, behind the shelves. My /co/ collection is just off camera to the bottom left...

>>658146
>bookshelf is neat and alphabetized
>lots of Philip K. Dick
>Godel, Escher, Bach
>The Iliad and the Odyssey

OP = awesome.

>>658369

No flash on that one, I wanted to show off the poster and it was giving me nasty glare.

Anyways, here's that first shelf on the left, best as I could get with the wall so close.

>>658354
That's cool. And yeah, it was pretty shit luck that Gemmell kicked it.

I think there's one historical fiction list around. It doesn't pop up very often though. Either way, there's always room for another viewpoint, so by all means do it if you have the time.

>>658377

None of this is alphabetized, yet. Just got it all off my floor about a week ago.

shelf on the right.

>>658388

End of the shelves.

Only way I made room for everything was crammin the mass-markets in here.

>>658392

Front of the shelves. Kids books on the bottom right.

Bet you can't guess my name.

1/2

>>658397

steve?

2/2

>>658397

Headboard of my bed. Stuff I'm in the middle of, plus all my /a/ shit.

That's most of everything, anyways. couldn't fit it all into the pic due to the close wall.

Judge away.

>>658406
>>658408
Is this kinky bisexual Irish king of /lit/ again?
:3

>>658413
Yep ;3

>>658417
<3 fap fap fap

>>658413
Wat? I must have missed something. Care to elaborate? /lit/ a monarchy now?

The few I have to hand

>>658408

Lol Will Self & Stephen Fry, Britfag :)

>>658428
kinky dude is irish :P

>>658407

Ah! You've found me out!

'twas I all along.

>>658435

oops. Well Britfag in this case obviously means someone from the British Isles or the Great Britain archipelago, rather than the United Kingdom of Great Brtiain.

(think I got away with it...ssssh)

>>658446
Ireland isn't Britain :)

op are planning in getting the other volumes of the Buddha mangas?

>>658459
Thread ruined, everyone go home.

>>658446

it's embarrassing how uninformed you are about the british isles and the names of the nations therein. please stop talking before you make it even worse.

>>658464
cool story, faggot.

>>658471
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_isles

>>658369
>reading corner
>no apparent lighting

I am disappoint. But I like the tree fort quality of your lifestyle.

>>658486

Sorry, lamp is out of shot on the floor by the bench. Also have a reading light on the shelf.

Thanks, glad you like it. It's my pride and joy.

>>658410
Thank you for showing us a picture of your wank-tissues at your bedside.

Molières Ausgewählte Werke???
Viel Spass beim Fraktur lesen.....

>>658354
Here's the list. If you find it easier and comfortable to add to it please feel free to do so. I'm sure the maker of the list doesn't mind. Because I don't.

Of course, don't take it as an obligation. I'm not trying to shove it on you or anything.

P.S. Read Dunnett! I didn't see her on your shelves.

>>658504

They're actually for allergies. Who'd've thunk?

Ich sprechen ein bisschen Deutsch. Mein Deutsch ist nicht so gut.

Mother found it at a garage sale and gave it to me since I'm learning German. Been trying to work through it but it's far beyond my level of understanding.

>>658522
no pillars of heaven or world without end? lit i am disappoint

>>658529
Hey, I'm not omniscient, and at the time I made that list (first week of /lit/) there wasn't much conversation about historical fiction at all, so no pooling of thoughts.

Actually, there isn't much currently either. It's a bit odd, given how many people in yesterday's personal details thread listed hf as a genre they read, but what are you going to do. Not that I'm pointing blame or anything, I stopped doing threads about in February.

>>658231
>>658233
>>658241
More Brit/lit/s

Some nice books you got there.

>>658524

Hey, at least your trying ^^
Is it a translation of Moliere's works in an antiqua typeset or Fraktur?
Even I as a German find reading Fraktur hard to get used to. If it's a really old translation, then this is probably not a good book to train your skills, because older german is usually stilistically different from modern german and I'd even go so far to say, that it's a bit more inflected than modern german...
My first english novel was 1984, a good choice probably, since orwell tried to keep it simple.
I wish there was a german author with a similar style, but Brecht is the only one who comes to my mind and learners of german have told me that he's hard to read...

>>658564

I honestly wish I could tell you, but all I can do is pick a few words out, sorry. I'll get back to you in a few years.

I'll keep that in mind, though, and maybe find something more modern for the time being,

>>658575
fraktur

>>658575
antiqua

>>658591

Closer to this, though not exactly the same.

Here's mine, not much yet. All the classics are missing. Allthough there's von Clausewitz, Nietzsche and Sartre. I'm a historyfag, so most of it are books on all kinds of history...

Can't read the titles? Probably because I'm a Dutchfag.

>>658611
>>658611

>Scholarly books

>Tom Clancy

wat

I'll post updates after my trip out tonight!

>>658611
Dutch isn't more than an elaborate accent of German.
I can get all the titles of those books...

Why would anybody read von Clausewitz?
His writings have made my great-grandfather steal your great-grandfathers bicycle!

>>658656

>>658656

I feel the jealousy overwhelm me.

>>658656
>sci-fi/fantasy on the shelf
>classics on the floor

>>658672
Its strictly an access thing. They're quite safe in those boxes....

>>658656
dude, get a bigger place.

>>658656
*facepalm*

>>658656
OP here. I dream of a collection like that.

uno

dos

tres

quatro

cinco

the rest came out bad i'll re-take them later if it's still up

in posting all of your disheveled, haphazardly decorated rooms you have collectively proven how pathetic the average /lit/ poster really is.

please continue

>>658751

wat

>using a pokemon character to insult /lit/

Ow, my feelings!

>>658146

The first legitimately good bookshelf I've seen on /lit/.

Also, crossing your sock-wearing feet makes you seem like a casual dude.

+1 internets, anon.

>>658893
> legitimately good

I'm tired of you faggots posting your shitty bookshelves and saying LOL LUK AT WUT GR8 TASTE I HAV

if you're going to brag, at least get a decent bookshelf, like a fucking mahogany split shelf with lion's feet or something

fuck off with these clapboard contraptions full of paperbacks, let's see a real bookshelf niggers

>>658900

see >>658656

here's mine /lit/ enjoy

>>658198

word/bump for the MK

>>658966

Brother troll, I applaud you

>>658893
OP here and I approve of this post.

>>658993
nice mouse dude, same as me, your shelf was ok, nothing awesome, don't get too happy.

don't you 404 on me now

>>658142
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I'm a /v/irgin, so most of my money goes toward the vidya.

>>658656
...how do?

>>658143
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>>659538

How much did that Grimm's cost you on the Barnes and Noble discount rack?

My library - Part I

>>659670
This is the first I've ever seen elitism against a particular edition. The text inside is the same, yes?

Part II

Part III/end

>>659686

So I was right.

>>659696

I have no clue, that wasn't my shelf. I'm just speaking on principle.

>>659702

Yes, there's such a thing as edition elitism. I don't make the centerpiece of my library a faux-antique chain production.

>>659706

What's the centrepiece of your collection?

>>659711

Complete first edition set of the works of Washington Irving.

>>659714

You can afford those and you're on 4chan?

Pics or it didn't happen.

>>659729

"Pictures for 4chan!" cried the pauper.

>>659714

Hahaha, pick something believable.

>>659733

"Let's change the subject!" cried the liar.

>>659733

Meh, I admit I'm a poorfag (>>658656) but I read... I can't say I really care about anything else.

>>659739

1. I could not supply you pictures because I am currently in a college dorm, not at my permanent residence where the Irving and the rest of the bulk of my holdings reside.

2. You incorrectly assert a first edition set of Irving is cost-prohibitive. They aren't they range from a few hundred to a couple of thousand per book. But luckily for me, it doesn't matter. They were inherited.

>>659745

How unfortunate for us. Inherited? How very unexpected!

Way to ruin a thread Americunts

>>659779

As if this thread was a paragon of /lit/ excellence.

>>659786
it was ok for a while