/lit/ - Literature

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>>7444130
Maugham , fuck yes

alright but boring as fuck

>>7444130
>>7444139
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>>7444152
i like this one a lot. this is a small and tight intimate little collection. I would usually be inclined to scoff at this number of books but this is very respectable.
cheers, mate

>>7444130
I love you for organizing by publisher. I don't know how I will organize my shelf when I move.

hello /lit/
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>>7444283
sorry for the mess
2/6

>>7444289
im between bookshelves right now

>>7444293
and sorry for the shitty panoramas

>>7444296
5/6

>>7444301
6/6
nothing of note up there

Only half. Others aren't shelved but am 2 lazy to take pic

>>7444130
>>7444139
>>7444143
>>7444152
nigga have you bought anything written in the past 40 years?

>>7444462
> philosophy of mathematics

I see that you too are a True master-race patrician.

Why must there constantly be one of these threads? How is the board even gaining newfags fast enough to support these threads?

>>7444483
>fiction written after the 1970s

>>7444506
great b8

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>>7444704
Gave up after Deadhouse Gates?

>>7444130
>>7444139
>>7444143
>>7444152
>>7444283
>>7444293
>>7444462
>translations

>>7444289
>Ayn Rand

>>7444462
Your Calvin and Hobbes are out of order and it really triggers me

>>7444462
>that calvin and hobbes collection
piff as hell where'd you get that?

>>7445052
instocktrades had it for REAL cheap until a few days ago, I'm not sure about now

if not, just go to amazon or something

>>7446001
eh. 75 bucks now

Just me or is the most common book in these threads Being and Time?

>>7444283
>Lattimore's

Nice.

>>7444731
Really old pic. I've read them all now.

>>7445052
I got it for christmas one year. they still sell them at my local indigo. they run for about 100 cdn

>>7445041
hahaha sry m8

>>7444497
ayyyyy my nigger

>>7444293
you need to move Ulysses over by 1. one's meme trilogy must be kept all together.

>>7444130
ay bruv we got da same turgenev n chekhov right next 2 each other

>>7444283
was the rhyming dictionary worth it?

>>7446929
patrish

>>7446939

New here, i had to compress the picture to upload it, I think I compressed it too much...

>>7446978
Is Gödel, Escher & Bach any good to someone who's awful at math?

>>7447047
it's simply mindblowing (in the best sense possible) and actually needs no math (following some logical reasoning might help thought)

>>7447047
Eh, you don't have to be good at math but you probably won't finish it unless you "like math"

>>7447210
I "like" it enough, though I do admit some stuff like Riemann, Gauss and other modern stuff goes way over my head

>>7447047
it's written exactly for that audience a la pynchon

>>7447240
That's interesting. In math generally people don't talk about who they've learned about as much as "what" they have learned. Not trying to call you dumb or anything just an interesting difference between literature/philosophy and mathematics. I think it has to do with the fact that mathematicians tend to view them themselves more of discoverers of ideas instead of inventors or author of ideas.

>>7447879

>>7447879
>no Pannekoek
>no Debord
>no Castoriadis

>>7447879
The CIA will be at your door shortly.

>>7447879
MEIN GOTT

>>7447879

>>7448072
what in the fuck is this from? peter looks like he's having a stroke.

>>7447879
>no im not a communist i just love marx and lenin
>thats cool, im not a nazi but i really love mein kampf, and goebbels's writings are appealing to me as well

go back to /leftypol/

>>7447879
>There are people on this board that unironically own this much marxist literature.

Dear. God.

>>7448076

no that's just how a prissy english boy tries to step to a nigga

This is of last week, I got rid of some manga and the extra copy of Endymion I had for some reason

>>7448460
am i being trooled

>>7448460
10/10

>>7447834
Yeah, even when approaching the story of an idea, you'll have to read very specific authors and texts, and it's much harder to study philosophy theleologically than mathematics (I suppose)

>>7447879
Shit, Lenin has more books than Joyce Carol Oates.

>>7444948
it's the postmodern era dipshit, just because I own and have read Rand extensively doesn't mean I like her

>>7448510
Don't take that bait, I've seen that faggot on every fucking shelf thread.

He's like the dolan guy, eagerly waiting to shitpost

>>7448089
I'm pretty sure someone with that much Marxist lit would identify as a communist

>>7444303
closet weeb

>>7447879
not surprisingly, this is the only copy of Capital that's been posted in one of these threads that actually looks like it was read.

>>7448460
Look, I like ironic posts as much as the next anon, even if you were actually serious (which I find bloody onlikely). Heck, I probably like them a lot more. I legitimately enjoyed looking at every single Japanese garbage item on that picture.

But that one John Green book in there just fucking pissed me off. You are a despicable human being. I would rather have Josef Stalin as my roommate than you. I would literally prefer a crazy mass murdering powerhungry commie over you for adding that book to that picture.

>>7444130

>>7451238
>>>>/pol/

>>7451246
What about my books suggests that I need to go to /pol/?

>>7451238
I'm assuming he's referencing the Trump book.

Trump actually does have books out worth reading, but that's not one of them.

>>7451176
That's actually my ex's. She tried to get me to read it. Never did, never gave it back

>>7451238
Fantastic.

My humble dorm collection. Can you guess my field of study?

>>7451526
PhD in Fedorology.

>>7451541
Hilarious and original xD

>>7444301
ayy
film art
what a fucking daaaaft textbook

>>7451526
Creative writing?

>>7451526
>Compsci master race
mah nigga

>>7451563
sarcasm?
i never cracked it
>>7449961
>former weeb
my childhood is full of shame
and i put that shame in the top of my closet
>>7446915
My grandfather just handed it to me one day, so yes, given that it was free. If you ever end up in situations where you have to make rhymes, it's absolutely worthwhile to have it, but most people don't ever have to do that.

>>7444283
>>7444293

Are you Canadian m8?

I really like Rawi Hage but I never see anyone talk about him, even in Canada threads.

>>7451731
he's teaching a course at uoft next semester

>>7446850
got that lovecraft book as well, pretty good except for the paint left on your fingers.
also got those shelves, based IKEA.

>>7451526
>The Kekoo's egg

don't you disappoint me now, world filter!

>>7447879

What I have in my office. There another few hundred books in other rooms of the house.

>>7452071
I like you, a lot.

How do you like those 'landmark' books?

>>7452221

They're really good. The translations are a bit dry (more focusing on content than any real literary value), but the layout of the books with maps and sidenotes is really outstanding.

>>7451731
416 bro
>>7451769
taking it

>>7451381
I'm an American and I felt I should read it before making any political opinions.

I always get made fun when I post my shelf, so here are new pick-ups/books I got out of storage. Please stop the bullying ;_;

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>>7452647
I also just got The Handmaid's Tale, 2666, and Mishima's Sea of Fertility tetralogy

>>7452071
nice

Just arrived.

>>7453288

>Donald Kagan
>Not Thucydides

>>7453587
I already have and read Thucydides, champ.

>>7452647
Nice Gaddis and NYRB.

Honest question as a new reader do you guys with a large collection also own a an e-reader or do you only read physical books?

>>7453755
I find my kobo good for novels etc. but usless for cross referencing and jumping back and forth. I tend to only buy hardbacks of books I really like now, books I might read over, otherwise I just pirate everything.
I wouldn't bother trying to read one of my chess books on an reader for example.

>>7453755
I use my phone (it's big enough) for short stories.

>>7453755

We have somewhere around 700 or 800 books in the house. I mostly read physical books, but I do have a kindle, which is nice for traveling and for books I don't really want on a shelf (every now and then, for instance, I go on a cyberpunk or pulp sci-fi kick and read a bunch of those for a few days until it leaves my system), or don't feel deserve the price of a purchase.

I also found it was much more enjoyable to read Infinite Jest with hyperlinked endnotes than going back and forth in the physical copy (fuck you DFW and your publisher for not using footnotes), but that's kind of a one-off advantage.

>>7452647

well shit, I don't like your taste, but you have good taste, at least. You should read John Barth, Gass, and Barthelme

>>7452647
The non-pleb Hyperion is the one by Hölderlin, m8e

>>7451526
I was trying to compile yer mum last then I found out she was already packaged with my dick

CS

>>7453619
is that a vintage print of Ulysses? I love their Nabokovs.

>>7453619
How is the Norton's Paradise Lost? I've heard the editors fucked the puntuación UP. Is that true?