/lit/ - Literature

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3/3

Those look like good, sturdy shelves.

>>6645413
Mine looks similar but it's all nonfiction because are you kidding.

>>6645413

I'd fuck the shit out of those shelves

>>6645597
2

>>6645597
You look smart.

>>6645600
3

>>6645604
>>6645604

>>6645600
And you look like a careful reader. I always crack the spines. Especially on big ones like GEB.

>>6645610
5

>>6645616
6

>>6645620
7
I have some more books; physical and electronic but I don't feel the need nor do I have the desire to assemble them for a picture

>>6645616
How's that German dictionary? I need something like that to peruse to help keep my vocab in check (and keep it growing!).

Duolingo and Anki are not the best and I get tired of clicking buttons as a method learning a language.

>>6645627
Very good. Got verb tables and other intellectual haberdashery in the middle, splitting the German-English and English-German sections.

>>6645638
Nice! I'll have to pick it up at some point. Verb conjugation and the tenses fuck me up big time (probably due to my inconsistent practice, but whatever). Should be a nice tool.

>>6645649
Get the book in my picture "Upgrade your German" then. It's designed for pre-university to university level students and has a day-at-a-time program where you learn how to utilise the language not only successfully but tactfully. If you get it, don't skip anything having the mask of being "too basic" as you soon end up wading in quite deep waters for the newly initiated non-native German speaker.

>>6645413
>>6645415
>>6645421
if youve read all those then bravo

>>6645597
>Scruton
>Peter Hitchens

fucking kill yourself neoreactionary scum

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I have no idea why they are rotated, fuck

these are the only books I've ever read. I made a thread about them yesterday

>>6645413
I really hope you agree that Pulp was by far Bukowski's best.

Thank you for agreeing.

r8 plz.

>>6646479
>tumblr

>>>tumblr

stay in your containment

>>6645415
Is Wally Lamb actually good? Someone I sat next to on the bus was reading that book and it looked autistic as fuck

>>6645597
>Hitchens
>Scruton

Good lad.

>>6645604

ohhhh damn that American Psycho copy is great. I've wanted one for a long time that didn't have AMERICAN PSYCHO in huge, blood-red letters

>>6646479

oh shit. that person thinks they have good taste.

>>6645613
> I always crack the spines.

Good lord, it's like you're some kind of barbarian.

>>6646352
Did you smear lard over your camera lens before taking these or something?

Also all those bowing shelves look terrible.

>>6646479
that edition of one hundred years of solitude looks ok

1/3

>>6647053
2/3

>>6647057
3/3

>>6646352
>>6646355
>>6646366
>>6646375
>>6646381
>>6646389

That is a nice looking collection, it's clearly extensive and well loved but we can't make out the titles other than a few. I'm jelly that you have something that looks like Borges complete works. I always admire the huge multi-volume collections of Spanish language fiction at the library but I can't speak a word of it ;_; No "Cuentos Completas" for me.

>>6647053
B&N Fedoras, Check
>>6647057
Game of Musical Chairs, YA fantasy, and King Pulp Check
>>6647060
Sword/Magic Fantasy Check and a bonus shelf not being used for books.

You want all of /lit/ to despise you. And I love you for that.

>>6647099

>>6645597
You look like you might be an aspie.

>>6646479
this genuinely makes me feel a bit sick. those covers are horrendous.

>>6647135
Hey, try finding any other bind up of the entire Sherlock Holmes for a better price.
you can't

>>6645597
> scruton

get out

>>6647109
why.tiff

Currently reading Bleeding Edge, else that would be there too.

>>6647128
>oy vey he has concern for his history and culture and society and doesn't just care about his selfish individual impulses
>let's accuse him of having some kind of anti-social illness

>>6647053

Jesus Christ, how horrifying.

>>6647192
More like
>Reading reactionary neocons
>Maths textbooks

Probably a spaz tbh

>>6647249
Scruton and Hitchens are the complete opposite of neocons, you fucking dimwit.

>>6647165
The words in that Bleak House edition must be small as fuck.

>>6647262
I imagine it's more to do with thin paper actually.

>>6647278

Yeah, I haven't read it yet but it's like Bible paper, scared of tearing it when I do read it.

>>6647053
what are those tankards anyway? are they some tv merchandise or something?

Started reading a few months ago.

Please no bully.

>>6647475
I'm liking it.

>>6647475
>Ayn Rand
>Mein Kampf
>Not actually reading Capital
Retarded/10

>>6645413
yours looks juicy op, looks top notch, i actually need to just stare at these a while... no ratings to each his own

>>6645413

>>6647516
>>6647517
too much fightys

>>6645413

>>6647527
everybody fighting now

>>6645413

>>6645413
257/300 books on this bad boy

>>6645413

>>6647547
>Patrick J. Buchanan

Good lad.

>>6647561
thanks bro. i heard about him on ali. g

>>6647053
Autismus Maximus

English is not my first language.
and diary of a wimpy kid is belong to my younger brother.

How does /lit/ get their bookshelves?

Actual wood is expensive but IKEA particleboard bends too easily.

I try

>>6647528
How is Wolfe's a Man in Full? it looks interesting.

>>6647159
>>6647128
>>6646087

1/4

>>6648666
Hmmm...

>>6650013

tfw gave away like 500 books to library half year ago. started reading a month ago. fuck.

>>6650022
3/4

>>6649977
- not him
..but, fucking dreadful, srsly. And thats from a fan.
Get it on AMZ for 1c. Dont say, you weren't warned, tho.

>>6650029
3.5/4

>>6650035
4/4!
Validate me! Make me feel weak! Anything goes!

>>6650040
>translations

>>6650040
>Pushkin

I approve

>>6650053
Yes! I need to learn more languages! Yes!

>>6648666
HHMMMMMMMMMMM...

>>6650040
great selection. i see alot of things I want. Yours is one of the few that I would say have individual taste.

>>6648666
>>6650075
Hmmm...
mfw spotting one of our people

>>6649977
havnt touched it lad
>>6650030
aww dont tell me that.
i do want to read 'the right stuff' by tom wolfe though

>>6646410
You've read Prelude to Foundation and Second Foundation, but you've never read the original Foundation?

>>6650209
yeah, sorry, but.. hes def. a bit hit, or miss, is Tom.

Acid Test - god-tier
Pumphouse Gang (Published same day as above) - god-awful, honestly.
Vanities + Right Stuff - both good (when not excellent)
Man in Full - not as bad as Pumphouse, which is being damned by faint praise indeed.

- etc.

>tfw no photo of my bookshelf because I did a huge life crisis dump of personal belongings and gave about a thousand books to the salvation army.

It was pretty insane how much I had accumulated.

Now I have one small bookshelf with about 80-100 books on it. Just stuff I haven't read yet.

>>6647544
been looking for that copy of the Bachman books for forever. had it when I was in hs but my ma got rid of a bunch of books I left at home

>>6645413
Rate mine.

>>6650376
truebeliever/10 I'll see you in heaven anon

Daily reminder God is good.

>>6650392
Does heaven look like that?

>>6650411
heaven looks like this

>>6650411
>heaven is the standard XP desktop
- who knew?

The closest bookcase to me. Too lazy to get off my ass to take pictures of other bookcases.

>>6650376
Brother

>>6645413

>>6648666
Where is 'Speaker for the Dead'?

>>6650376
poserrr

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3/3

bedshelf

>>6650691
are you from australia?

>>6650702
nope, new hampshire usa

>>6650702
Lold

when your dads bookshelf is based

>>6650040
>hidden God-tier edition of GR.

1/5

>>6651126
2/5

>>6651134
3/5

>>6651138
4/5

>>6651143
5/5

To the anons out there who's autistic about sorting books by authors, alphabetical and so on: I'm sorry.


Also sorry to the anon's who's anal about reading books in anything other than the language the book was written in.

>>6651209
2/5

>>6651215
3/5

4/5

>>6651228
5/5


I have other books as well. Some of them are at my parents, and some I've lent out to my friends and gf.


r8

>>6651234
Don Quixote in german. Idk. I just don't know. I give you a solid ?/10.

I don't know what to make of these combinations. You've got Tao and you've got Kierkegaard. You've got Vonnegut wedged between german Tolkein, penguin classics and idk what else.

?/10

>>6651250
It's in Danish, but I can understand your rating. My collection is all over the place.

>>6651228

>Lin's first book

cool. read Ann Beattie.

>>6647517
Pleb historyfag
I own and have read Shirer's "history" as well and I guess it had an early influence on me and piqued my interest in history, but in hindsight it was fairly questionable.
Even the foreword is overflowing with that totally castrating university discourse that, all Zizek and Lacan memes aside, is really so disheartening

>>6651234
Why the fuck did you buy an English translation of Kafka and Nietzsche, and is Stoner in >>6651209 Lindhardt og Ringhof, ie. a Danish translation?
You're all over the place m8

My engineerfag library. Left shelf is mostly non-fiction and right shelf is mostly fiction.

>>6650523
My cousin/GF is reading it

Guess how old I am edition. In the process of throwing out pretty much everything, I'm halfway done.

>>6652598
>all the YA I read as a child.

21-22

>>6652429
>My cousin/GF

>>6652311
biochem major? I have the same analytical chemistry text. Most of my textbooks are in a bin somewhere though.

STEM-/lit/ master race

>>6652429
Noice. Hows the dutty dutty near incest sex?

>>6652429
>cousin/GF

>>6652726
>the babby-monsters brain

rate my shelf please

>>6653235
Huh, surprisingly decent taste aside from a few outliers
>Russell Brand
>The Philosophy Book

Given, it's all pretty established lit and there isn't a lot of individuality but I appreciate the adherence to classics

>>6646381
i-is that your dick?

>>6653295
>I think I'm funny.

>>6645597
>Bertrand Russel and Signet classics

>>6647165
Is your copy of 2666 in English or Spanish?

>>6653727
Where is the bookshelf?

1984
Lolita
Catch-22
Slaughterhouse-Five
Dubliners
A Portrait of the Artist
Blood Meridian
Essays and Aphorisms
The Ego and His Own
The Myth of Sisyphus
Iliad
Odyssey
Moby-Dick
The Crying of Lot 49
V.
Gravity's Rainbow
Walden and Civil Disobedience
Mythology
The Theban Plays
In Praise of Idleness

that's all my books

>>6647053
I can't stop laughing

I have 500 books on this.

>2015
>having a physical library

fuck off materialists

>>6654421
I'm so sorry

>>6654421
>Reading on an ATM

TET
E
T

>>6654421
I only use my kindle for free ebooks. Paper copies are usually cheaper, better formatted, easier to skim and take notes in, and don't disappear if the battery dies or the company that owns your digital rights contract goes bananas.

>>6654499
u can transfer ebooks via usb ya know

buncha narcissists

>>6654526
that's what I do. It doesn't solve any of the other problems.

and don't forget the inevitable solar storm

>>6654499
I only use Paper books for getting the log fire going on a cold winters eve - the rest of the time, I can snuggle with my beloved e-reader, under the blankets with the lights off, or simply, a candle or two lit in the chandelier. All ebooks are free, and I can format them however I prefer, making the text larger or smaller, which makes it EASIER TO TAKE NOTES THAN PAPER, FFS! and my ebooks, all those thousands of them - they never disappear - I can simply copy them, move them around, or have them follow me, no matter which of my most favored devices I am using that week? they always know, what page I am on. As I turn it, at will, with the merest elegant flick of a gesture.

Inserts additionally some irrelevant pish about 'books disappearing when batteries go flat' and 'The Demon DRM' - which I dont actually think has been in use for about the last decade either now, but, I digress..

>Paper? - dead and done, face it..

>>6653727
What's the mobile edition of House of Leaves like?