/lit/ - Literature

>>8640666
Why don't you remove all those library stickers? It looks awful.

>>8640666

>look at all muh Greeks!
>every single one is in English

I'm not even being a dick or trolling you, it's good that you like the Greeks as much as you do, but if you like the Greeks that much you really ought to learn some Greek. It is not anywhere near as hard as most would say, easier than Latin, comparable to German. Reading the Greeks in Greek is as much of a revelation as putting on glasses for the first time for a myopic. They simply do not translate, any more than classical Chinese translates.

>>8640666
did you steal all those?

I only have 3 books on the greeks but plan to get the histories soon enough.

>>8641212
Alphabetized masterrace

>>8641212
The fact that you have to turn your head to the right to read english books in a bookshelf and left to read french books is so triggering.

>>8640819
If you look a bit closer, you'll see that I have a copy of Luschnig and a number of Loeb texts

>>8640930
>>8640791
I made them myself to organize my texts as I have many more books in storage lockers organized by Lib. Of Congress ref. #'s, everything you see on the shelf is part of the project I'm working on now

>>8641212
That's pretty autistic tb/h.

>>8640666
>Greeks edition
>less than a dozen Greek texts

would appreciate if you didn't try to meme me like this

>>8641440
>a number of loeb texts
i literally see one loeb, and there are almost no writers whose works are limited to a single loeb volume, so whatever that is it's likely not a full set

also
>dialogues of plato not next to complete works of plato
>aristotle two feet left of plato
literally why dude

>>8641457
Please expand on those thoughts. What is autistic about my library?

How much effort do you guys put into organizing your bookcases? I've tried to organize mine alphabetically in the past or by genre and then alphabetically but it's always a bitch to maintain them.

>>8640819
What text is that?
Also how the fuck is Greek easier than Latin?

>>8641602

I organise mine by how much i enjoyed the book

>>8641602
i organize by colour then height

>>8641608
That's ancient greek

>>8641457
Upvote.

>>8640819
i want to learn german or greek but not both right now. are german translations of greek works substantially better than English ones? if so ill do german first

Hi there : )

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>>8641653
You don't say you faggot. I'm obviously asking anon what book his image is from. Clearly if he knows Greek as he implies then he'll be able to answer me.

>>8641788
Not bad. Better ancient selection than usually pops up on lit.

Why the incomplete sets (like Livy)? Lack of interest in finishing and reading the other volumes?

>>8641788
Very nice shelf

>>8641807
>Why the incomplete sets? (like Livy)
I do plan on reading the rest of his extant work, but I have a long reading list and just haven't gotten around to the other volumes yet.

>>8641578
How's Anna Karenina?

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>>8641578
post better pictures so I can read the spines

>>8641814
Fair enough. Would definitely recommend finishing him, as the first few books are some of the least exciting (but still "curious"). The books about the war with Hannibal are some of the most intense Roman history I've found.

If you're up for it, check out Tacitus at some point as well. He's not particularly exciting (mostly due to subject matter) but is insightful and significant as a historian. The Annals are long and wearisome; the Histories, written earlier, are shorter and more exciting and will still give you an idea of his work.

But all in all, solid selection there; don't often see Plutarch's Moralia or the Homeric Hymns. Have you read most/all of those? Is this a pet project or for school?

Ignore the econ books. I am/was interested in monetary policy.

>>8641842
>first few books are some of the least exciting
Yeah, I enjoyed the founding myths but got bogged down in the history of the early republic which is why I didn't immediately continue with him. I really enjoyed Polybius' Histories and want to read more about the Punic Wars.
>Tacitus
He's on my reading list (pic related)
>Have you read most/all of those?
I have read most of the ancient works, I'm trying to finish the greeks/romans by the end of the year.
>Is this a pet project or for school?
As much as I'd like to study literature in an academic setting, it's just a hobby for me. It was only within the last half year or so that I've really dived in though, before that I read a few unsubstantial books a year. Now I’m working my way through a few lists taken from university courses and general western canon reading. Looking forward to reading some more modern stuff, but also enjoying what I’m reading now.

>Come in for the Greek Edition
>OP is getting roasted for being a pseud

>>8641602
A lot, comparatively. Alphabetization isn't that hard, I used to do it that way. Now I go by nation the author was born in and author's birth year, so it's geographic then chronological within that.

>>8641602
No order.

Mine are just mixed up.

It looks a lot nicer IMO, rather than autistically organising by size, colour etc.

>>8642364
It would make it almost impossible to find whatever book you want once you have 1,000+ books though.

Most of my Greek books are myth-related, top shelf. And no, I'm not going to go teach myself Ancient Greek.

>>8642441
I'm surprised your shelf didn't burst into flames when you decided to put CS Lewis on Christopher Hitchens.

>I'm not going to go teach myself Ancient Greek

Pleb

>>8641568
I'd like to see a higher-res version of this one.

>>8642655
I believe you.

>>8641602
I do mine alphabetically by author but wait until i have a new stack before arranging. Maybe once every few months. I just like to be able to find things quickly when i want them.

>>8642655
I took closer pics and combined them

>>8642845
I have a lot of duplicates because my gf and I moved in together.

I organized by country, then by author (chronologically) so from top to bottom it's the British Isles, America, Canada, France, Russia, misc. then compilation/short story books.

>>8642850
What are the duplicates? I could only spot two Frankensteins.

>>8641816
I am really loving this translation compared to P&V.

>>8641827
done

>>8642875
A lot of them are behind the front facing books. But you'll also see individual copies of Jack London's book, but I also have a compilation of all his novels as well...Things like that. I try to hide duplicates, but I plan on donating them (90% of my books I bought used) or giving them to visitors if they want to read anything.

>>8642881
Can you list all the ones you've read in alphabetical order?

>>8642845
Thank you!

>>8642886
I haven't read a single page bruh

Unseen shelf coming in

>>8642911
Part 2

>>8642911
big shout out for Sebald, Musil and Roth

How did you like Correction? I hated it

>>8642911
>>8642917
Nice collection anon, lots in there on my reading list.

>>8642911
>>8642917

tell me your top 5 books of all time please. we have a similar shelf. also how much do you squat?

>>8641310
it's mostly the same with German books

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>>8641788
anon, can you tell me about oxford shakespeare and show me some photos? Also Wilde edition. I don't seem to find it.

>>8641788
>>8644546
This one? 9780007144358

>>8640666
Is this a St. John's bookcase?

>>8644564
You caught me

>>8644081
Why do you have just Ulysses annotations and not Ulysses?

>>8640666
>starting strength

Sad to say this but most of my shelf is co or a

>>8644546
>>8644551
I got both books used, the isbn for the oscar wilde book is 1-56619-562 and 0-19-926717 for shakespeare. they're both very nice, though the text is a bit small in the shakespeare

>>8641850
>claims interest in monetary policy
>doesn't even have the original Capital

This would look a lot better if I didn't have the childish ikea bookshelves.

1/4

>>8645541
2/4

>>8645546
3/4

>>8645552
4/4

>>8645556
Hey how's heart of europe?

>>8645630
It's outlined topically rather than chronologically. To that extent he does provide a chronological play-by-play in an appendix at the back which is about 50 pages, the rest of the book is devoted to an analysis of the economy, political structure, religious structure, etc of the empire. I've only read the chronology and some of the first chapters.

If you're interested in the topic to the degree that you really want to know how the empire worked, it's the perfect book.

>> you fucking faggot

>there are still people who don't sort according to publisher

>>8645684
Can you post a picture of your shelves?

>>8645684
I do desu

>>8645693
Pics related, somewhat dated, taken sometime during summer, unsorted shelf of recent acquisitions and newer shelf of journals not pictured.
I'm not saying the system's perfect or that I have been completely strict and/or thorough with my system, but to me the best overview is provided by separating languages and then publishers. Any alphabetic or thematic distinction has ended up looking retarded and confusing the big picture because books align very poorly when mixing publishers.
I'm away my camera was too shitty and my hands too shaky for you to pick up a lot of the titles, but I hope you'll survive.

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>>8645764
Trigger warnings:
>IJ with foreword by Dave 'Turn on a Dime' Eggers
>especially shitty pic quality

>>8645745
I can honestly barely tell you're going by publisher, since you don't have huge color blocks going on (was expecting something like pic).

It looks pretty nice, anon. I don't think I'll ever change my country-of-origin->author's-birth-year method though. It's just too satisfying to casually look over the shelves and see a country's literary development.

>>8645780
It is exactly to this end that I sort according to publisher because it's impossible for books to hide behind each other in your pic

>>8645791

>>8645791
What do you mean by "impossible for books to hide behind each other"? Are you talking about double-stacking?

>>8645794

>>8645797
I mean that some books are smaller, some are larger, and larger books extend further out from the back of the shelf and end up hiding the smaller ones (unless you're standing directly in front of them with light pointing directly at them, which is almost never)
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>>8645808
I think I get what you mean, but isn't that easily solved by pulling all your books to the front of the shelves instead of having them pushed against the back? That's what I do, and no matter how long the book is, it's still even against the one next to it.

>>8645808
Like in pic related, and like I said my system's not perfect, but they'll start to align when or if I get more books from that publisher

>>8645830
I see your point, but I also like the more uniform or less wavy/rolling height you get when going by publisher. It's both more aesthetically pleasing and easier to follow because more titles and authors align this way, I say.

>>8645841
And finally my Goethe with friends and dictionaries.

>>8645846
and some course books*

>>8645841
To each their own! I do I love when bookstores go by publisher instead of alphabetical.

>>8645846
You selling Study of Language by George Yule? kek

>tfw too woke for /lit/

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>>8645862
>>8645780
Organizing books by color is YA-youtuber tier

>>8646037
this

I have a lot of those as in pic related
should I keep them in my bookshelf or in a separate place ?
You guys are the pro's. Give me your opinion.

>>8646037
I don't think anyone here disagrees with you.

>>8645896
I definitely would if I could. The outside looks and the inside reads like a book you'd have in high school. It's not even BA-tier and yet it's still on my MA curriculum, but I get the feeling with most course books from the anglophone world that they're written for high school students, Routledge books in particular seem almost patronising.

>>8642441
Hey, I've got Blue Like Jazz. Picked it up at Goodwill on a whim, is it a good read? Insightful?

>>8646037
This. Shelves look infinitely better when they are eclectic.

>>8640666
MFW have to wait another decade before my library looks like OP's

>>8645506
Where'd you get that skull? Nice org btw

>>8645630
>>8645644
based wilson

>>8645684
That's because some of us are more interested in the content than the spines.

>>8646330
Honestly, it's my wife's. She found it interesting, and suggested I try it sometime, so it's waiting for me.

>>8642850
Mah nigga. This is the correct way to organise.

>>8642911
Very nice. 2666 & collected fictions are both fucking awesome. That plus don Quixote got me a real appreciation for Spanish/Latin American whatever the fuck you want to call it literature. Borges especially is masterful.

>>8641850
>Having those 3 ugly-ass Penguins
Surely you can do better

>>8647447
what are you even on about

>>8645846
fuckin sexy

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>>8642845
>clean copy of Infinite Jest with no crease in the spine
every time

>>8641850
>>8648676
Infinite Jest was the first meme book I read since discovering this board, and the first actual piece of literature for that matter. I loved it btw.

>>8646536
>MFW have to wait another decade before my library looks like OP's
Why?

>>8648676
First of all you can hardly see wear on any of the spines because of the camera quality.

I have read about 300pages of IJ before dropping it

>>8648676
>this guy mentions unread IJ
Everytime.

Best part is i bought it used.

...or did you need to see every spine? Pretty sure this is just about proving we have books

>>8640819
>They simply do not translate, any more than classical Chinese translates.
Undergraduate studying philosophy at an Ivy League university. The value of translation is largely overstated. Besides, Aristotle is mostly translation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recovery_of_Aristotle

>>8649439
It is when you can't see the spines dumbfuck

>>8642441
>Nag Hammadi
10/10

>>8649518
>the value of translation is largely overstated

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>>8642917
Check out Dangling Man by Saul bellow if you haven't, I've read most of your shelf and I really liked that book

Does anyone else get panicked when they see books in the photos they also own? Like how does a photo of my stuff end up here in public? Have I been doxed, my house broken into or what?

>>8642911
>>8642917
>>>>>Not alphabetizing the Bible under G for God

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>>8644090
Very nice

>>8649573

Chill out tryhard, go reorganize your books by spine color.

I wondered how long this would take to piss someone off

>>8649518
>Undergraduate studying philosophy at an Ivy League university.
>The value of translation is largely overstated.

>>8649651
your bait was truly epic, u win 1k internetz

>>8648894
Well cause that how long I think it would take for me to get through all of those. I have life you know.

>>8649863
>implying having a life isn't a spook
>implying you're not just a slow/dumb reader

>>8649863
>I have life you know.
So you couldn't read much because you have a job and social events to attend to?

>>8645745
You do not own enough books for your sorting method to matter.

>>8651671
It looks like he's got about 400-500. When do you think it begins to matter?

>>8651671
I'm that very anon and there's really no reason not to use my system. Already now the titles are starting to align neatly, there's also an entire shelf of books with both several Reclams, Suhrkamps, and Penguins that need to be added, and you might as well go by publisher from the start because your library will continue to grow. You also avoid problems with alphabetisation like choosing a head word, and thematic distinctions don't really make sense, especially for a small library.

>>8641602
I organize mine chronologically, with history books grouped with the era they discuss. By year I go from non-fiction to fiction and I group authors together from their earliest book to last.

Very autistic, but I like looking at literature historically so it helps to have a nice timeline.

The only issue is that I did most of my collecting before I seriously got interested in ancient history, so it's very heavily skewed towards post-19th century lit.

>>8641850
Too bad no marx though. Should really read Marx, like why even bother with Piketty before Marx. And Bernanke? Why even read Bernanke lol

Please be nice. (1/4).

>>8653368
My science fiction shelf. Forgot to mention that this whole bookcase is my currently reading/favourites. (2/4).

>>8653373
(3/4).

>>8653383
(4/4).

>>8653389
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>>8653368
4chan is an 18+ website

>>8654615
what the fuck is up with those foots

>>8654615
Are you a monkey?

>>8654615
Would lick monkey foots

>>8640666
>Alinsky's rules for radicals

mah nigga

>>8641850
>crippled america
>ayn rand
>Piketty

one of these things is not like the other

I'm glad I never read the Greeks. Give me a healthy dose of literature post early 1700 and I'll suffice with my worldview for a lifetime.

>>8645830
>el eternauta
My man.

What's your shadow and claw edition?

>>8653383
I keep meaning to read redwall, I feel like I missed out because I didn't read it as a kid.

>>8645846
Gurte Werke
Gurte Werke
Gurte Werke

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNfH87HMqnw

>>8648994
>doesn't finish a book

>>8653368
Are you collecting editions of the book?
Why out of interest?