/lit/ - Literature

>>6664472
War buff but no classic texts on war?

>>6664472
accidental compression on that last pic

FUCK BOOKSHELF THREADS
FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU
STOP SHOVING YOUR "FANCY" TASTE DOWN OUR THROATS
LOOK FOR THE VALIDATION OF STRANGERS ELSEWHERE
WE DON'T GIVE A SHIT ABOUT YOUR BOOK COLLECTION
YOU ARE NOT GOING TO IMPRESS ANYBODY

>>6664537
fixed this for you

>>6664472
Who the fuck needs to know this much about the civil war? Americas history pre ww1 is irrelevant or of only passing interesting/importance

>>6664560

>>6664580
>American Revolution is irrelevant.
>struggle for power between France and England is irrelevant
>civil war is irrelevant because you're not american

K

R8 please

What I don't understand about these threads is how most if you have so few books. It's pretty sad for a literature forum. I'm still in my early twenties and I have a full bookcase at my apartment and several boxes full of books back home. Did you all just start reading within the last few months?

>>6664625
Looks like a pretty generic bookshelf from IKEA.

2/10 at least it matches your baseboards.

If you want to spice it up you could put some wallpaper on the back to add a splash of colour to what appears to be a fairly drab room.

>>6664625
Your books are very organized and your decor is very choice.however your bookshelf leaves me yearning for more. 8/10 but with the shoddy bookcase 7/10

>>6664594
>passing importance

Idiot. Also the civil war didn't mean shit to the rest of the world other than Britain. There were so many colonial wars fought that the revolution and its surrounding conflicts served only as a temporary setback for them. One decent history of America would suffice for the pre ww1 era.

>>6664472
once again, here's my setup

>>6664625
>globe
>chest
>candle

Pretentious. Looks like babby is trying too hard to seem intelligent

>shitty genre fiction

Kek. Go back go r/books

>>6664711
and gfs corner

>>6664638
The boxes back home are full of what you read when you were presumably living back home right? Akin to the cat-litter-dust covered bags in my parents basement?
>Hurr fucking durr I don't have this stuff with me either but why aren't you guys posting your equivalents?

Legitimately kill yourself.

>>6664711
That Nozick book must be one of the most recognisable covers ever.

>>6664724
But what I have with me is easily ten times what most of you tards post in these threads. The boxes back home are books that I don't have room for in my small apartment so I keep them in storage. My point is that, with some exceptions, most people who post in these threads must either barely read or do all their reading at the library.

>>6664472
i support bookshelf threads even if i'm repeating myself

>>6664472

>>6664472
look how pretentious and materialistic i am for getting used books for a dollar when there's starving africans out there making do with e books

>>6664472

>>6664770
>used books for a dollar
I wish the second hand stores in my area would have something good. They only seem to stock 3 genres Christian, Romance and Self Help.

Life is suffering.

>>6664740
A lot of them probably play video games or do drugs or other things that also occupy time

>>6664686
>also the civil war didn't mean anything to the rest of the world other than Britain
Did you mean the revolutionary war?
>they were mine setbacks
Oh ok I didn't know you were a buff
>passing importance
I love that you use this as padding against refutation and still use the word irrelevant. Kek

I have over 500 books in this.

>2015
>owning physical books

fucking materialists

>>6664799
>this post
>again
fuck

>>6664806
he speaking the truth though

>>6664472

>>6664799
I just bought a Kindle.

Is Project Gutenberg any good?

>>6664799
>battery
>if you lose it or it gets broken you lose all your books
>no paper pages to flip

No thanks

>>6664840
yes

>>6664848
>battery last weeks and just need 2 hours to charge it
>whats cloudsync
>thanks

>>6664840
bookzz.org

it doesnt have everything but its a good resource

>>6664799
i'm stampeded and bewildered by your righteousness

oak master race

>>6664638
I assume these are just samples or "latest or favourites." I have twenty full bookcases, many double-rowed. It would take forever to try to photograph them all in such a manner that one could read titles (and many of the books aren't literature at all). I did it a few years back, but things have gotten worse. Pic related.

>>6664790
it does depend on your locality.
goodwill, value village and amazonians are all your friends.
buy aggressively. dont be like, oh it looks heavy

workin' on it

>>6666950
*single applause slowly followed by a thunder

>>6667023
"Hello Newman..."
UPROARIOUS APPLAUSE
I find it funny that Larry David actually told the audience to stop clapping when Kramer came in

>>6667087
lmao
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>>6667132
hm hm you go girlfriend love it like da coco

>>6667132
>Orson Welles at work
>the cinema of Orson Welles
>whatever happened to Orson Welles
>discovering Orson Welles
Anon, I

God I feel like my collection belongs on /co/.

I just barely started getting into /lit/erature this year because of all my 18 years of life so far personally I've only read 4-7 ACTUAL books that where over 300 pages if even (not including comics). Because of this it has affected my vocab & grammar skills for the worst so I said "Eh why not". I want to get better at that those errors plus I'm a horribly slow reader and I hate reading with lots of noise around me and I guess the only way to fix this is to read more, practice makes perfect :^) . I just started Douglas Adams TUHGTTG and I'm enjoying it so far.

Also any good recommendations for right now I'll try anything.

>>6667171
That's the best shelf.

>>6664733
this cunt lol

>>6667301
I just ordered that lovecraft hardcover, did I do good friend?

>>6667171
well now we know who the Wolfe poster is

>>6667120
You should read The Name of the Rose

>>6667377
Barnes and Nobles make horrible books. I bought their Dante around a year ago and it felt cheap and tacky, looked horrible as well compared to the online image.

Casual litpleb here I smugly denounce this thread as consumerism faggotry :-)

>>6667171
first person on here to have more Wolfe than me

>>6668248

oh.
:(

>>6664711
>Poe in translation
Peasant.
Anaconda "gesammelte Werke" editions seem a bit dodgy in general as well. They're cheap as shit but they also feel cheap as shit, and the Nietzsche edition I have doesn't include the Gay Science.
But on the other hand you can't have it all for 10 eurodollars, and they actually look really nice in comparison to the ugly as sin covers that Anaconda usually choose.

Also Suhrkamp>Reclam 9 times out of 10.

>>6664589
I am puzzled by this meme

>>6668267
>gormenghast trilogy
is it good anon?

>>6668645
Yeah it's really good. Peake is phenomenal

>>6667301
Check out The Little Prince if you really haven't read it yet

>>6664589
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>>6664489
I like the books on your bookshelf.
The way 'the decline of the west' faces me, I like that too.

>>6667377
>>6668281
Hey sorry about the delay but I'm the anon you asked about for >>6667301

I haven't started reading it yet, honestly I only got it for the by one get 50% off another (I wanted Hitchhiker’s in hardcover and it was the only version available at the time). Of course there are probably better ones out there and someone told me It was missing one of his story’s, but to me personally I’m satisfied even if other people say it’s bad because it has way more in it than I really expected it to have. I’m not really picky about books when it comes to these things so to me I don’t really care about it that much plus I only paid $10 for it because of the 50% markdown so It’s all good. If you really want to know what’s a good one is someone told me

http://www.amazon.com/Lovecraft-Centipede-Press-Library-Fiction/dp/1613470487/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1433108020&sr=8-1&keywords=centipede+press+lovecraft

was a good one but I suggest making a thread about it to know more

Here's what the book looks like (the one I bought)

>>6667409
That's not my shelf. I don't have that many Wolfe books.

>>6671391
wow, thanks for the pic buddy it looks great.

>>6667171
>not enderaged species

>>6664472
Filled with shit on the shelves because i'm a shitpig
1/?

>>6672811
2/?

>>6672822
3/?

>>6672829
4/?

>>6667132
>all of that anti-American propaganda

>>6672831
5/?

About to start Bellow's Augie March.

>>6672839
6/6

>>6668267
rare pepys

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>>6672829
How was Günter Grass? I'm reading through his Danziger Trilogie right now, but I haven't read any middle/late Günter Grass outside of Im Krebsgang

>>6667301
Can you show me that Gyo ?

>>6671391
Looks nice.

>>6673468
My most recent purchase, bought it 2 or 3 days ago so i haven't read it yet, seemed really interesting though

>>6673480
I like him for the most part, but at the same time he's really, really German, like Thomas Mann-levels of German, which means a lot of participles, subordinate and relative clauses, and interposed sentences. It's sometimes really great and sometimes a bit of a dirge.

>>6672846
maybe the most favorite of the shelves ive seen. so many novels, not a lot of fucking bullshit

9.2/10 would friend

>>6671867
every time anyone I saw a post talking about wolfe I assumed it meant Tom Wolfe, never heard of this Gene Wolfe gentleman

OP are you a redneck? How does it feel to worship a country who is only 200 years old? I ask seriously

>>6672846
>mfw i didnt realize the image was flipped and think that Nausea was floating

>>6672846
> Death Grips

Nice my friend :)

>>6673470
>>6673470
Here you go mate. It’s just like Uzumaki but with two short stories at the end (The Sad Tale of the Principal Post & The Enigma of Amigara Fault)

my old setup

I miss this bedroom but garden units kinda suck

>>6667189
What can I say? I'm a huge Orson Welles.

>>6664711
The fuck is your salary?

>>6664686
civil war was actually followed with interest in Europe. read up on it yurofag

>>6675104
also you're obviously confusing the civil war with the revolutionary war. but even so, the war involved spain, the dutch and france. It was massively expensive for France and was one of the reasons that bought about the beginnings of the French revolution

>>6672839
>leaking bottle to obscure book spines
either you're hiding something or you're just lazy

>>6664711
First time I've been impressed by one of these threads - and I love those lindt chocolate bunnies anon

>>6675261
nope, just lazy, behind it are the satanic versicles, a poetry book by kelly sachs, dirty hands and the words by sartre

>>6675470
nelly*

>>6664799

I have a kindle too and they're great, but I miss buying books. I've started buying physical copies of books I really enjoyed on my kindle but it's starting to be a drain on my wallet, wat do.

>>6675501
buy used books

>>6672829
+1 for the book series with Johannes V. Jensen, you should place them together

>>6674742
Amigara Fault is 10/10 disturbing
The Sad Tale of the Principal Post is surprisingly hilarious

>>6666243
nabokov high five

>>6674757
>literature by women
>bob dylan chronicles
>the only nabokov book is pale fire
>gertrude stein
>book on wagner
sup me

>>6676282
The Amigara Fault is actually the first of his works I ever read instantly became hooked. The only other one that I think is really disturbing would be Glyceride


http://imgur.com/gallery/Hn5Sb

SURPRISE MOTHERFUCKER

>>6679989
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!

>>6679992
I HAVE THE DOPEST SHELF ON /LIT/ SUCK MY COCK

>>6679992
On The Marble Cliffs was weird as shit mayne

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