/lit/ - Literature

At least you have Hamlet.

>>6805840
needs a bigger shelf with more books

>>6805840
Poor bait

1/?

>>6805869
2/?

>>6805872
3/?

>>6805873
4/?

>>6805872
>memeing this hard

>>6805876
5/5

>>6805877
>if it's a meme it's bad

I need to take a pic of my shelf sometime it's all warhammer, dungeons and dragons books, dragonlance and some random scattered economic books.

>>6805869
>>6805872
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>>6805876
>>6805879
9/10 books
6/10 DVDs

Here's mine, the only book in books read is a charles bukowski and unbearable lightness of being

>i have no money for real books.

>>6805876
Nice bookshelf. Awful selection of films though. Go watch some films that's not produced by Americucks.

most of these are from my teenage years.
Horizontal books are as of yet unread.
Also game some books away (individually to people who I thought might enjoy the specific book i gave them) including some Tao Lin, On the Road, and Norwegian Wood.

Currently reading A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

Rate?

>>6805909
I do, those are just what I could get blu rays of.

>>6805896

>light smattering of generally approved classics
>you consider this a 9/10

I know these threads are always pleb circlejerks but wow lol.

>>6805898
plenty of great used books on amazon for 3,01€ bro

>>6805872
>brand new unread books in pristine condition
>paying extra for hardcover of mccarthy's inane HBO potboiler
anon to a bookstore clerk: "FUCK MY BOOKSHELF UP"

>>6806025
>paying extra for hardcover of mccarthy's inane HBO potboiler

My granddad gave that to me, I didn't pay anything.

>>6806036
>accepting granddad's gift of mccarthy's inane HBO potboiler instead of burning it

>>6805840

>404 resolution not found

The furniture itself looks good thou

>>6805879
I bet you enjoy the films of Wes Andersson

>>6806082
Dead meme

They're alright, though the more he makes the more it feels like he's become a parody of himself.

>he still wastes money on books in 2015

kek

Took out the top ones for show off purposes.

I don't know how to feel about it, I find it very 'approved'. I'd like to start discovering books for myself rather than reading something that could be considered a classic.

Not my complete collection but it consists of my favourites and books I still have to read. I'd say 50% of those are unread. I went a bit mad and bought a load of books last December and I'm still not finished.

>>6805840
Can you list what you have? I'm interested in looking for something to read. What is your favorite book or a book you recommend? I

I see that you have some of the Dark Tower books (I see Wolves of Calla, atleast), so I have already read some of those.

1/5

>>6806238
2/5

>>6806241
3/5

>>6806244
4/5

>>6806248
5/5

>>6806145
>my favourites and books I still have to read
>literally the only book with a crease in the back is the shining

Why does /lit/ like Tolkien and specifically LOTR?????? What is good about it?

>>6806109
Nice.
You need Homer and Lucan; Euripides, Aeschylus and Aristophanes.

>>6805873
Good collection, but where are the rest of Commedia? The De Monarchia? The Machiavelli's Discourses?

>>6806109
>hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy
-3/5

>>6805919
2/10 camera

>>6806277
>Commedia? The De Monarchia? The Machiavelli's Discourses?

Had never heard of any of them. Any recs on translations/printings?

>>6806286
It was a gift.

>>6806305
>not killing said person for the insult
>NOT praying to the gods of literature for forgiveness

>>6806277
Could you rec some Euripides translations?

>>6806311
I took is as a joke gift.

>friend: 'What do you want for christmas?'
>I didn't want anything, so I just told him: 'Meaning of life would be nice.'
>now I'm stuck with 42

These threads are really the epitome of 4chan culture/stupidity:
Regardless of where you go there's always a competition and an oppertunity for people to show off.
You're no better than /fa/, /tv/ or /mu/, you pathetic elitists.

>>6806262
I knew somebody would point this out. If I angled it slightly you I assure you you'd see the creases. I've read all of McCarthy three times over.

Inherent Vice is creased to fuck.

>>6806145
>"favorite" books
>claims 50% are unread
>they all book brand new
>mass hauls of mccarthy/joyce/dfw ouevres

>>6806354
>not realizing it's to receive recommendations

>>6806374
There might be a few recommendations here and there, but these threads are usually made up by judgementals refering to anything popular, regardless of quality, as memes.

The anxiety here is palpable and hilarious. "Where are the creases!" "You have Douglas Adams!" Good grief, I'm glad I'm old and can read whatever I want.

>>6805840
Only one shelf?
Come on...

>>6806387
Christ gramps, have you bought a book since 1946?

>bookshelves aren't ordered by author or title

Do you guys even take take of your cherished books?

>>6806396
Ordering by height is the best choice, friend.

>tfw you can't afford a proper bookcase

>>6806394
Ah, I posted the antique case. No, I acquire books constantly, of all types, and have no room to sort currently. Here's some random stuff, mostly comic-related.

>>6806374

m8.

this is a /soc/ tier ego stroke.
nothing more.

>>6806400
That's not how libraries and bookstores organize books though.

>>6805840
>candlestick
>chest
>retro globe
and the books in the shelf follow suit. You are around 18, and if you're not using this persona of inflated intellectuality to fuck some young, impressionable girl, give it up and use the space on top of the shelf for more books.

>>6806238
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>>6806249
nice selection, now actually read them

>>6806387
>muh antiques
I'll pull your fucking plug grandpa

>>6805872
>Fagles
I'm so sorry

>>6805869
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>>6805879
Needs more books in these deep deep shelves. All that volume, but most of it air.

>>6806145
I heard you like McCarthy

>>6805919
What are the four books in the middle on the second shelf from the top?

>>6806550
lit told me I'm supposed to like him so they're all blind buys

>>6806550
Yeah, he's alright. I never thought I'd have two copies of the same book but Blood Meridian was just that good.

>>6806374
>Not realizing recommendations are a flimsy rationalization

>>6806544
Hush, Fagles is fine for people who cannot read Ancient Greek. Lattimore is more accurate, granted, but Fagles is still functional.

>>6805840
This is from one of those book shelf subreddits, because I remember cringing at this one in particular.

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>>6806404
That shelf looks about ready to die.

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>>6806777

kek, only the first book in the Wheel of Time series.


> mfw it's the same case for me

>>6805909
None of the films are bad at all except maybe the last 3. Otherwise it's just very basic taste.

>>6806777
yup, just the bare essentials

>>6805840

>>6806387
>no partly hidden Infinite Jest among them

had potential

>>6806354
I like looking at what other people on the board are reading, stop generalizing pls

>>6806544

any particular reason you don't like it? I looked over most of them and found I liked it the best.

>>6806861
please get off the board, you are disgusting

>>6805872
How'd you find that translation of Karamazov?

>>6805879
actually this subject interests me a lot, which of those books would you recommand for a beginner ?

>>6806556
All Peter Hamilton,
Pandora's Star; Judas Unchained; The Dreaming Void; The Temporal Void.

Good sci-fi reads, although i read more lit fiction nowadays.

>>6806396
>>6806400
>>6806425

My mother and father are still happily married, and the bedroom that they share has a west wall with a TV, the rest of which is completely given over to dad's bookshelf. Old non-fiction (19th/20th c. military/transportation) dominates the collection, with a long stack of National Geographics along the top, and the odd humor book.

There's a point, here. The point is that he arranges his stuff mostly by (sub) genre, then by an ad-hoc height, usually descending from L->R. He also likes the spines to be flush with the plane of the /front/ of the bookshelf.

All of this always annoyed me a bit, but he always kept it fairly tidy. When I set up my own shelves, I modeled the basic idea after dad's shelf, but with my own more logical adjustments: put the genres where they physically make sense (he did this too, putting big heavy books along the bottom, like art books), but once the genre location is figured out, then I generally go Alpha-Author. little volume next to big, all pushed against the back of the shelf.

>>6806396
>>6806400
Autobiographically

>>6807302
pls marry me dolan

>>6807404
measurements?

Missing books:

>Journey to the east - started today
>Siddhartha - Lent to a friend
>Blood Meridian - Lent to a friend
>The Road - My mum has it

>>6806025
>brand new unread books in pristine condition


There is absolutely nothing erong with taking good care of your books. Unbroken doesn't mean unread.

>>6806025
>mccarthy's inane HBO potboiler

Is it shit? They've got it in my library and I was thinking of taking it out.

>>6807427

Not that guy, but why would you buy brand new books anyway?

if i had a good camera i would destroy you fucks

>>6807442
you would literally be gobbling dolans fat nuts

>>6807437
Because people are disgusting and bring their books into the bathroom, put them on the floor of public places, etc.

you guys like my /tv/ stand? literally everyone that comes into my apartment has commented on it
1/2

>>6807449
i wipe boogers on library books

>>6807462
2/2

>>6807462
Puts too much stress on the book bindings. Besides one day you're going to find your tv broken face-down on the floor in a pile of books.

>>6807437
I don't really have a choice. The only used books l can buy are shitty Yugo histories in Serbian.

I get my books either from Bookdepository or Amazon. They're expensive, so l like to take care of them. Why is that a bad thing?

>>6807434
Which one are you talking about again? The Sunset Limited or The Counselor?

>>6807508

I get most of my books from charity shops or an online used book marketplace.

I haven't paid more than £3 for a book in a while.

>>6807462
**nervous**

>>6807462
>>6807500

For novels, why do you need paperback? I don't get it, since there are plenty of used kindles for $30 on craigeslist and you can get a fuck-ton of books for free.

They look nice, but I guess to each their own. I just like being able to fit all my novels within my backpack any time I have to move.

>>6807575
What a lame-looking bookshelf. Who wants to gather around your sweaty ass and your gadget when they can gather around a refined physical selection at their leisure?

>>6807575
I have a kindle as well and I do plenty of fiction reading on there, especially for bulky classics that are otherwise only available in ugly penguin MMP. Agreed kindle serves just as well for reading fiction, I don't have any connection to "the feel of paper in muh hands".

But 60-75% of these are nonfiction, mostly history books, which are either not offered in ebook, too expensive to buy in ebook, or poorly formatted so as to make citation and note taking disadvantageous in comparison to physical copies. Since I have so many nonfiction hardcopies already I will also buy novels occaisionally. Like you said they are pleasing aesthetically and makes for good conversation at social gatherings (people will get to talking about a novel they see on there, people ask to borrow novels from the stack they've wanted to read for a while).

moving is awful though and I always wish i went pure kindle when it happens

>>6807640
I have a Kindle too, but I still take pride in my bookshelf. I use Kindle for hard-to-find books, curiosities, online fiction, the like. If I cherish a book, I'm going to have a physical copy.

>>6807462
>owns a television

>>6806697
Most of mine are. I've killed two bookcases so far (where a shelf collapsed and the momentum took them all down and cracked the side). Fortunately the cases are jammed so close together there's nowhere for them to go when they break. Fitting 5000+ books into a full apartment requires some unfortunate moves.

>>6807685
How that book in the top center shelf hasn't fallen is seriously beyond my comprehension.

>>6808017
This looks terribly dirty. I get that some people like to use the free space on bookshelves but this just looks chaotic. Do you not have any tales where you can put all those papers and miscellaneous stuff?

>>6808017
you really tore the Odyssey apart, huh?

>>6808017
Anglophile/10

>>6806354
If you don't want to be on a website where pathetic nerds jerk off over their taste in stupid bullshit no one cares about, then don't go on a website where pathetic nerds jerk off over their taste in stupid bullshit no one cares about

>this thread

>>6806238
you belgian? I have same edition of camus 'la peste'

haven't read it yet though. Is it worth it?

>>6807029
At some bookstore in Sydney. It should be the standard Oxford Press though.

>>6808121
Not everyone has to mutilate a book to read it. I rarely crack spines on my books unless they're very thick mass market size. And that Fagles is far from the only--or first--Homer I've had. I've been reading Greek mythology all my life.

>>6808131
Since most of my medieval is there, yes, but all the Greek & Roman, Dante, medieval, etc., is in that case too, behind the first rows, and occult/religion and some fairy tale annotated editions, etc.

>>6806386
>>6806374
I use these threads as a way to learn about new books. I can judge people's tastes by what's on their shelf and use that information to discover new things.

>>6806354
others have covered a bit, but this way you can easily reach people who have read the same stuff as you. if i was to post a thread on small is beautiful, it would likely be ignored/go unseen yet if i see someone else has it on their shelf, insta connection, potential for conversation

small is beautiful might not be the best example but i remember trying to make a thread and inevitably, zero replies

>>6806387
whats the story behind the cover of the book of practical cats

> all these book buyers

what ever happened to raiding the local library and just renewing books endlessly

I only buy pocketbooks for 50 cents when I want to write in the book (cuz when i do it's an overkill amount)

>>6809960

fuck/fuck

its my bookshelf retards

>>6809963

>>6809967

>>6805879
>tfw every time I've gone into a book store and looked for McKee they haven't had it

>>6809974

you have such a filthy room you fat fuck. clean up after yourself

>>6809974

last/fuck

see all these books

yeah im done with all of them now

yeah i dont have to hold on to them and waste space i get 2 return them

money paid : ZERO DOLLARS

"i want them again"

okay i check them out again

"but i want to write in them"

buy a pocketbook retard

"but i want to read it again"

nobody actually reads anymore i have literally 100+ books checked out right now and nobody has requested them back early and nobody has checked most of them out in 5 years

make the library ur bitch, especially if its a uni lib

>>6809977
>you have such a filthy room

nah

> you fat fuck

im still healthy weight but ye i could drop like 5-10 pounds once it cools off i can run again fuckin university food hbu

> clean up

if u want it done so bad come here and make me or do it urself

>>6809996
Uni libraries are fucking bamf.

I go to a community college, but I want to go to uni partly for the libraries. The sheer volume and specificity of what they have is awesome.

I can still use my local uni library, but I have to pay.

>>6809960
Maryland is a shit school and you know it.

>>6810064

yeah I would care about that if it mattered but it doesn't, anything a uni professor could teach me I could learn much faster in a book at -- get this -- the library

sorry but I'm really not interested in which Ivy money sink you're going to, I'm here to get my in-state CS/English degree, read all day, and get out before I'm 21

>>6810034

yeah honestly as long as you're in a top 100 university (USA that is, iunno about other countries) it's literally all the same. Harvard or whatever people might claim otherwise but really if you're a smart person all you need is a library and a cheap university nearby to supply the books. And it's not sour grapes either, it's not like I didn't turn down better unis that would've costed me a lot more. My advice is to just find any okay university that has a really great library (if it's less than say, 5/6 huge floors of books with entire levels dedicated to spanish/french literature for example and at least an entire row of books in latin and greek you're wasting your time) and make sure you somehow go there cheap (just make sure u get into the best in-state school) and just check out 100+ books and read 1 or 2 a day and get literally the best possible education

>>6805872

how much did the Picador Blood Meridian cost?

>>6807508
The Sunset Limited
Don't get me started on The Counselor

>>6810183
None, it was a gift.

>2015
>physical media

Haha, oh wow.

>>6810329
You don't even read.

>>6805840
How freaky, I have my Harry Potter books arranged exactly like that on my shelf, except that it's on the topmost on mine. Same edition and all too!

>>6806796
>mfw I only have the first half of the first book.

>>6806549
I've similar shelves and it is suffering, it just won't look right and it's not like I'm going to stack them on top of or in front of each other like some savage animal, it's like they want you to buy all those shitty decorations that a girlfriend or a mom would pick out

1/3
Main Lit

>>6811187
2/3
Paperback Lit

>>6811199
3/3
Fantasy Lit

>>6811202
I'm about to start Litany of the Long Sun, just finished Urth of the New Sun.

How do you like it and the subsequent books? As good as the first set?

>>6811209
I don't think so, but it was at least fun to return to the world.

>>6805909
> Bicycle thieves
>sergio leone
>trainspotting
>La Haine
>81/2
>bad

wtf is wrong with you.

>>6811202
ya the entire eye of jordan series called

>>6805869
Is infinite jest worth getting into? A friend said it was one of his favourite all time books, but it seems like a task just to get into it.

>>6811237
got them all for $0.00

>>6811289
yes

>>6805854
And a decent edition of Cat's Cradle

>>6811293
put your hands where i can see them

>>6805876
Pretty entry level film taste kek

>>6811456
lol i work at a used bookstore and we were going to toss them due to the limited shelf space and the fact that we had multiples of individual novels in the series.

>>6811546
i need me some free series

>>6806145
man if it turns out you dislike dfw or McCarthy you have wasted some money

>>6809974
Make your bed you scruffy bastard.

>>6811457
>all these people saying my film taste is shit
>not realizing that's just what's available on blu-ray

Sorry I couldn't get Wavelength, Zerkalo and L'age D'or. Can't even get criterions where I am.

>>6809917
First edition, with a dust jacket drawing by Eliot himself! It's a bit beat up, but was such a great find in a used bookstore.

>>6807081
Syd Field and Robert McKee

bampu

>>6806271
Premier World Building/Escapism and Fantasy Genre used as a vehicle for Political Allegory

>>6809291
I'm with you anon. I hate doing any visible damage to any of my books and read them all carefully, but then I get slack from niggers who literally read way less than me because I'm not "appreciating" the book enough. Why in the fuck do I have to bend books back and behind to appreciate them? If anything Im just showing how much more I value a book by maintaining it so well.

>>6817868
Yep, if I have a heavily worn book, it's because I bought it (or got it free) in that condition. I try to be gentle with them, and I don't write in them (my mother was a librarian). Here's a pile of my Greek/Roman myth-related books.

>>6807685
Anaconda editions are pretty shitty, anon, even if they've got cheap hardbacks and their collections look pretty on the shelves.
Also
>reading Poe in translation

1/2

>>6819351
2/2

>>6805876
>>6805879
pleb

>>6819351
what are those two 'HUNTER S THOMPSON' books?

One of a few

>>6819414
Two of a number

>>6819392
The orange one is The Great Shark Hunt and the grey is The Proud Highway.

>>6819421
Three of a bunch

>>6819436
Four like the Riders

>>6819447
Five and I'm almost done

>>6819455
Six, and the other half of my books is loccked away someplace

>>6806109
Never thought I'd see Sade and the bible on the same shelf

>>6807685
dude I recognise that chocolate bunny, where did you get it?

My little /lit/ard cant meme this hard.

>>6819658
How do you like that edition or 1q84

>>6806355
There is no way you've read any of those penguins, you probably don't even have them for so long.

Those books get wasted just by existing.

>>6817955
Is that penguin collection of The Illiad, Odyssey, and Aeneid good? I really dig the spines. How is the paper quality and the translation? Footnotes or end notes?

>>6807427
You do know Penguin and Oxford books tend to break pretty easily, right?

Whenever I see a bookshelf thread on /lit/ I get depressed. None of the books ever look read.

People are more keen to show off pictures of their books than actually read them.

>>6821220
>>6821220
Yes, they're fine work. The paper is heavy with deckle edges, all three are translated by Fagles and have decent end-notes, though not exhaustive, and name glossaries by Knox. I have the Fitzgerald translations too, which are older, and I've read Lattimore and Pope. Fagles uses a clear line, is sensitive to the alliterations and repetitions of the original, and is very readable. Don't let /lit/ trolls scare you off these volumes: they're acclaimed and widely used for a reason. I always prefer reading several translations of texts I love that I can't read well in original, and Fagles' faults are minor compared to his success.

Down the Trojans came like a squall of brawling gale-winds
blasting down with the Father’s thunder, loosed on earth
and a superhuman uproar bursts as they pound the heavy seas,
the giant breakers seething, battle lines of them roaring,
shoulders rearing, exploding foam, waves in the vanguard,
waves rolling in from the rear. So on the Trojans came,
waves in the vanguard, waves from the rear, closing.

>>6821289
Thanks for the guidence anon :) nice quote too

>>6821227
Never posted a pic here but I suspect I'd get accused of not reading my stuff either. I just like taking care of my books and being careful when I read...

>>6819536
See>>6811187
More Sade bible shenanigans

>>6821227
And there aren't usually that many books anyways. Most of the pics include maybe one small bookshelf of books. That might just be a product of the mean age on here being fairly young though.

>>6806387
Thumbs up to this fellow

>>6809960

I've got like sixty books out from my uni library but I am afraid to post them in case some cunt figured out what library it was and recalled all of them.

>>6806145
why is blood meridian on a different shelf

>>6806238
'mirin that Gaddis
>that pristine spine

>inb4 religious statutory

>>6806238
bloody hell where are the creases m8

thoughts?

>>6821932
>>6821942
>b-b-but I'm not an animal who destroys books when reading!
>I can read The Recognitions without creasing the spine!
>You guys are just savages!
>I treat my books with respect!!

>>6821974
Not even him but it's not fucking hard to read a book without creasing if you don't buy shitty copies.

>>6806145
That edition of I Am A Cat is absolutely lousy with typos, especially in the second half. It's a great book but be warned if that kind of thing irks you.

>>6808017
>that bend in the middle shelf

>>6822005
Oh wow I never read part III because it was so cozy I wanted to space it out. I should do that soon it's been almost a year.

>>6821203
Where is 1Q84 on that shelf?

>>6808017
Did the IDE usb thing work right out of the box? Did you need a separate power source to power the harddrive?

>>6822075
bottom shelf with H on top in 3-book form

>>6822101
Yep, you have to plug it in to a power source, and into whatever hd you've got, and into some working computer to access. But it works well: I can take any hd from a dead system and access it from a laptop or wherever.

>>6822005
Shit really? Are there any other editions?

1/2

>>6822201
2/2

>>6822201
Where did you acquire those fabulous cast busts?

>>6822223
>>6822223
Of all places, Barnes and Noble

Sure I look like a turd, but my goodness they are pretty

>>6822201
>wasting book space with busts and trinkets and cush

>>6822206
How tedious is the glue removal process?

Here's mine.

>>6822261
Let's just say I don't move frequently
>>6822254
Well when I don't have enough books to fill up a row, I need something to prevent it from falling. The pill bottle actually holds some rocks from Pompeii, The Colosseum and Circus Maximus, and the coin is a Constantine the Great "as"

>>6822297
Love the collected rocks (and I personally like trinkets and little objects to give a bookshelf character. Why not? It draws people in. My whole house is about bric-a-brac, though, not just shelves. Here's my dining area.

>YFW LIBRARIES EXIST YOU OWNERSHIP CUCK

>>6822511
>tfw cats would destroy carefully placed bric-a-brac

I have to have my tea sets really high on the wall. Otherwise they would think it's climbable.

>>6822292
5/5

>>6811187

How was The Familiar? I've looked into reading that one.

>>6822292
bougie as fuck tbh

>>6823228
Low brow classist scum pls go

> moving cross country
> forced to store or sell many of my books
> will take me years to rebuild
> can't post ultimate patrician collection on /tv/
i envy you guys

>>6823268
Nice moog

>>6823361
thx you too

this is the whole thing, trying to get a non blurry ass picture.

>>6806354
>he gets his reaction images from facebook

pls go

>>6808665
>>6807029

I know I'm extremely late but I'm an idiot. Didn't realize you probably meant how good it is.

It's a great translation, not that I've read the original but the prose is excellent.

>>6805869
>>6805872
>>6805873
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>>6805879
Update, few books I got yesterday

>>6823410

Your shelf looks like an evolved version of mine (save for the chinese cartoons)

>>6824110
why evolved?

>>6824092
read the fucking books you already have and haven't read yet

>>6824136
I'm trying. But what else am I supposed to do with all the money my parents keep giving me. :^)

Always kind of shocked bout how few books some of the people here have. I've never considered myself a particularly avid reader, but I have a lot of books (that I have read).

Do you guys sell them or something?

>>6824194
I only really got in to literature this year. I'm >>6805869

>>6824194

This board is so many uni freshers who are starting their own collections, because they finally moved out of their parents' houses.

>>6824205
>>6805869
Fair enough, I guess my shelf has been growing for six/seven years now.

I hope this stays alive, I'm getting my third Billy bookcase this week and I wanna show you guys.

It's a little disconcerting how many books fit on one though. I thought I had a decent library (a good 800 volumes, not counting comics and misc.), but it's only enough for three Billys. Getting in over 250 books per case. On my previous set of shelves, I had /eight/ filled! Now it doesn't look impressive at all.

I can show floor pictures from move-in though.

>>6824949
There's a high lofted ceiling in the apartment, I'm throwing around getting a shelf extension or two to make things more imposing. But that would necessitate a really tall step ladder.

>>6807462
It's almost like you're asking for that TV to be broken

>>6823262
nice PKD collection

just some random shit from my student apartment

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>>6825956
mandatory IJ

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>>6825030
It's just 3 books the rest are just the same SF release group
thx though

>>6806109
Did How to read a book help you read better?

>>6806271
Loads of people everywhere like Tolkien.

Its really pretty original for the time and has a neat and fun story.

>>6826047
>actually bought Zizek's Jokes
oh shit nigger what are you doing shit, buy Parallax View or Less Than Nothing

>>6805876
>fight club

>>6805840

Speaking of bookshelves, how does /lit/ prefer to arrange their books? Do you sort by author name? Book name? Genre?

>>6826047
>how to read a book
>it's a book

>>6821943
>that feel when no one comments on my amazing collection of books, defying genres and avoiding genre fiction.

>>6826565
:^)

>>6821943
>trotsky

purge it

>>6806271
Because mythology is /lit/ and Tolkien made a synthesized mythology.

>>6826732
You'll be surprised how common of a book title that is. I used to work in a library and "How to read a book" and "Reading a book: A guide" titles probably would have taken up an entire row by themselves.

Its because they get people to dash to open them up and shove them on their at home bookshelf to look witty and funny, they're nearly all analytical reading skills or humor books.

>>6826754
Maybe if we had more than 9 pixels to work with people would look at it.

>>6826914
Adler's How to Read a Book is extraordinarily famous. I doubt people are buying him to be funny. What other ones are you thinking of?

>>6826978
I can't say I memorized every author. Or really any of them! But I do know there were quite a few, if I had to give a rough guess I'd say we had around 5 different variations of "How to read a book" or "How to read" or "A guide to reading".

And this thread of all places is proof that people care way too much about how their bookshelf looks than actually reading whats in it.

>>6827083
Sure, but Adler isn't trying to be funny. It's a book worth reading.

I have both it and How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom. For anyone in a position to recommend books to others while not being as articulate about the uses of reading themselves, they're both valuable.

I would assume, unless you were a shelving page, that the reading lists they give would be valuable too.

>>6823268

I want to be your guy's friend

>>6824142
Give it to me.

>>6827139
What?

>>6826715
Less than 100 books: who cares
100-500: Alphabetical by author
500-1000: By genre, then by author
1000+: More orderly system necessary. My fiction is currently organized by country, then by author's DoB. Once I hit 2000/once my nonfiction section gets too big, I'll probably switch to the Library of Congress system.

>>6826715
Mine are sorted geographically and chronologically. By country of author origin then by year of author's birth.

I don't order within author by any system, usually just stick the ones from the same publisher together or however looks neat.

>>6827908
Same as this anon! I barely ever buy nonfiction that isn't by a fiction author (which I sort in by country, etc.), so I just have most of mine on shelves throughout the house. Usually its coffee table type books.

Which countries do you have the most of? Which ones are you hoping to improve?

I'm fleshing my China section out more next.

>>6827908
It's really painful to put books of the same author together even if they are totally different sizes and disrupt the order of the shelf

Even moreso if some come from a series of books you have of other author (similar vintage releases for example)

>>6828296
So do you organize by size or publisher then?

i have a lot of shit on here, but whatever.

>>6828312
closer pics incoming

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>>6828304
Puiblisher > size > author

but then same author ends up in different places so eh

>>6828312
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>>6828332
I've always liked the idea of going by publisher, because I like to collect from certain ones. Do you have any favorite publishers you collect that are lesser known?

>>6828312
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>>6828343
How'd you like The Once and Future King and/or Butcher's Crossing?

>>6828351
reading Butcher's Crossing right now, and I'm liking it a lot so far. first Williams.

Once and Future King is good, but i like it less than some people i think.

>>6828341
I don't have that huge a collection, I just went by best looking covers/presentation/translation when appropriate

Ended up having a lot of vintage,,a bit of penguin, a lot of sf masterworks gollancz, and then a lot of various ones

>>6827938
I'm getting my MA in Russian lit and I was an English major, so those are my two biggest sections. I've been getting in to Japanese lit recently, so that section is expanding the fastest. My Latin American section is embarrassing, but I'll get to that later.

>>6828423
Did you post in the thread already? Could I see your Japanese and Russian lit sections? My areas for African and Latin American lit are pretty awful too. I feel bad even separating by country for how few are represented.

I didn't post shelves yet, but my stacks are in >>6824949 and >>6824957. My research interests are in Japanese lit, so I've got a few hundred volumes there.

>>6828566
>african lit

lol

>>6806387
best

>>6824194

I have three ikea bookshelves filled, about seven tiers of books on each. I also sell books periodically. I don't know how to take good pictures of books though. tbh I also don't want people to make cutting remarks about my taste in books.

>>6826698

Now THAT is comfy

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>>6806861

You fucking weirdo, I love you.

Kinda proud of my writing space being mostly books. Good mix of lit-core, poetry, and fantasy.

>>6828876
what's weird about it?

>>6828876
thanks bro

>>6826094
I'd say yes, but you have to know how good of a reader you are. Also, you don't have to read the whole book in one go, if you don't feel like it.

Contents page is very well made, so you can read just particular sections as an introduction to a different book that you're planning to read.

Ie. - You plan to read philosophy book, so before you start, take How to Read a Book and go through sections, lets say, - Determining authors message, Agreeing or Disagreeing with author, How to read philosophy. You get the idea.

>>6826479
I went to see Zizek hold a lecture (or stand around talking bullshit, which is what he does), felt like I had to buy one of the many books of his that they had lined up

Fiction: by genre, then author, then publication date. Nonfiction by category.
That's the plan, anyway. The reality is flawed.

>>6829095
>feeling forced to buy his troll book
there is no escaping pure ideology

>>6829225
I willingly indulged in it, dear anon. Fully knowing that my desire to purchase one of his book, any book!, was just ideology, I bought it. And yes, I know this is just another expression of ideology (the ironic hipster fuck type I guess), but I don't care.

Some of the jokes are amusing.

Zizek had a very heated (perhaps passionate would be a better word) conversation with an African guy after his presentation, about Malcolm X, resentment, race and islam. Not that it's relevant.

>>6826091
Still nice though. What is the name of the SF set? All my PKD books are older

>>6806193
The books won't lean so much if you stand the shelf upright.

New thread
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