/lit/ - Literature

>>9004385
Pig disgusting

>>9004409
Well shit. Calling things reddit is overused but this is the most reddit thing I've seen. Precision crafted.

>Portal
>Eragon
>Harry potter
>aSoIaF
>Walking dead
>B&N leatherbounds
>Multiple shelves of king
>Random fantasy tat


What is it with all these leatherbounds recently? Did B&N engineer the perfect way to trick YA and fantasy readers into buying the occasional classic? Same with the penguin cloth ones.

Sup guys

>>9004467
nice guitar pick

>>9004385
I hope your shelf is in direct sunlight

>>9004479

whoa dude. nice.

>>9004475
Yeah it's Abbey road's \m/

>>9004526
Go to your fuckin /v/

>>9004385
>there are collector hardcovers of Dan Brown out there
>there are people who actually buy them
>frog with a gun.jpg

>>9004545
They only bought it because the publisher put it in the collection

I don't know which is worse. That or buying it out of interest.

>>9004385
The Lovecraft and Poe ones are the only I can see value in.

>>9004576
>being 13 in 2017

>>9004576
*throws money at the screen and has a nerdgasm*

>>9004409
>terry brooks
Mah nigga. Have you seen thr TV show?

>>9004614
it's a bait image that gets posted everytime

>>9004633
are you the guy who made the barnes and noble bait thread with all the halo novels?

>>9004576
>>9004597

wtf is this 9gag?

>>9004640
>he still doesn't know about 10gag

>>9004576
That looks like it'd be awful for the spines

>>9004640
you mean 4fun

...bringing you a /bookshelf/ flashback all the way from 2015!!

>>9004450
I feel so bad for you. You'll grow up one day.

>>9004633
>essays on embracing masculinitiy
>wrestling games
>extreme sjw fear

lmao closet homosexual

>>9004671
why do you have that big dictionary set?

>>9004597

*kills self because the west is dead*

I'm unironically considering picking up my heroin addiction again and letting it kill me because I am surrounded by these people in real life xD xD xD

>tfw no bookshelf
>Just stacks of books
I can't find one I like.

>>9004687
Also, it's a beautiful set wasted in that shitty shelf. Get a better one, anon.

>>9004671
>dictionaries in physical form
>the quintessential pseud-core

>>9004696
What's up, kiddo

>>9004693
Just buy an "invisible" one. They're great.

>>9004709
Not that anon, but I like stacking my books vertically.

>>9004713
https://www.radius-design.com/interior/shelves/books-baum/

>>9004633
>literally 4 books on Trump
>one on SJW and another one on evil-immigrants
>not a single romance or a biography of anyone remotely interesting
Why are you even here? Did /v/ kick you put because of your terrible taste too?

>>9004741
>falling for a level 0 bait

>>9004729
>they cost money
closes tab

>>9004757
Try building one from your own spit and semen.

>>9004776
>Not building your bookshelves out of pissbottles and rock hard cumsocks

>>9004729
what's the point? you might aswell stack them on a table.

>>9004815
>what is the point of buying a shelf
To put things on it.

>>9004633
>Soul Calibur IV & V

>>9004633
>>9004751
I can't tell if this image is bait desu. Buying all that shit just for /lit/ memes seems like a bit of a waste but no one is this retarded right?

>>9004909
you are a bit of a dunce, aren't you?

>>9004839
Fuck you
V is the best SC

r8 pls

>>9004671
>patrick o'brian
nice

>>9004385
you are clearly the type of individual who cares more about owning a book than reading it. a pure decorated hardcover collection is fucking dumb.

>>9006948
holes is actually pretty decent as a kids book

Quite a lot of purchases that I regret now and I haven't really bought physical copies in a while since I lived in another country for the past few years.

>>9007033
Not entirely sure why it uploaded it sideways.

>>9007036
Because you took your picture on a phone in a non-default orientation.

>>9004385
These editions are only sold at Barnes & Noble and are $20 a book.

Think about how much money this person spent to get cheaply made, gaudy editions of public domain and entry level shit.

>>9007052
>>Think about how much money this person spent to get cheaply made, gaudy editions of public domain and entry level shit.
We don't have to think about it because when the person who took this picture posted it originally they said they spent "just under $1000" on it.

>>9007069
>when the person who took this picture posted it originally they said they spent "just under $1000" on it.
>$1000
>on that
jfc and they even cheap out on the shelves

Do the B&N editions at least have like, analysis and notes and the like?

>>9007150
Some do. Most have some form of introduction or essay introducing the book/author. Some have footnotes. Some have an index.

>>9007156
Well I suppose it could be worse then. It honestly sounds like it if weren't for how gaudy those covers are, they might actually be a decent way of getting hard covers of classics.

>>9007160
It's a nice touch, but any respectable publisher has these as well like Norton, Oxford, etc.

>>9007166
I'm not saying they don't, but at least from my own experience hardcovers from those publishers, when they exist, tend to be a fair bit more expensive.

I don't normally buy hardcovers anyway, I think they are much less comfortable to read unless the book is fucking massive, or it's a reference book that I expect to leave sitting open on a desk or something, eg. in the case of a textbook I'm studying from. I know some people like hardcovers though, so it seems like they could nearly be worthwhile based on that.

>having paper books in 2017

>>9004633
Top fucking kek this is great. Nice halo collection.

>>9004671
>ready player one

>>9004385
Are you actually the lesbian housewife who originally posted this, or are you just using it to get attention?

>>9004479
aesthetic

>>9004467
translation?

Back at parents' house for Chinese New Year, so please excuse the YA and popsci shit from when I was 14

>>9007200
On the on hand it's so convenient and i never have to spend money again
But i do miss me some aesthetic shelf

>>9004633
end you are life

>>9007623
nice winnie the pooh books

>>9007673
Ty senpai, they're pretty cute
I got them for a pound at a car boot sale iirc

>>9004385
These threads should be "/Bookshelf/ AND /timestamp/ because I feel there are people here who enjoy posting libraries with what we consider to be pleb literature. Call me crazy.

>>9007756
I just go with 'if it looks like bait it probably is'

1/1

>>9007829
Ops, I meant 1/4

anyway 2/4

3/4

>>9007829
>>9007836
>>9007842

You couldn't put everything on a single picture? That's a heteroclite collection you have. Where do you come from?

Only book missing is my copy of Dubliners

>>9007033
all dat vertigo.
you, sir, are my compatriot from the Niger delta.

>>9007843
I've tried to, but the end file was just too big without losing quality, going to try set my camera to a different quality

I'm from Brazil btw

>>9007848
damn hell, 4/4

>>9007853
HUE HUE HUE HUE HUE HUE

Currently back reading physical books, bachelor thesis won't allow me to read anything I want for some months.

>>9007853
Don't you want to focus on a particular field of interest? It seems odd to me to read translated T. S. Eliott, then hop on Plato and conclude with “Dubliners”. Isn't there a kind of literature you prefer?

>>9007859
…

>>9007861
I know, quite impressive. Imagine if I would unpack those compressed files. That would be JUGE.

>>9007861
I'm a stem worker and books are my hobby, not a profession, so I read the most I can without worring about specialization

I've found great joy in read the most diverse stuff, from Virgil to Gombrowicz, from Kierkegaard to Pessoa, I don't discriminate

>>9007623
3 mustekeers. Mah nigga

>>9007829
>>9007836
>>9007842
>>9007848
Is that Portuguese? Do all publishers there have horrible taste like the 4 volumes War & Peace in the first pic? Why is everything so gaudy and colourful? Looking at the thumbnail I thought it was one of those meme shelves filled with Tolkien, Game of Thrones, John Green etc. because they also usually have really flashy covers.

>>9004633
nice dubs my red pilled brother

>>9007150
The Bible has Dore illustrations at least

>>9004633

>>9004385
>Nikola Tesla
>Grey Anatomy
It's funny because, as a STEMfag, I know that nobody would actually read either of these. First of all, they'd probably be really boring, secondly they're outdated, and third one can find much better and more informative sources elsewhere. The only people that would buy such books are pop-sci fags or YA-fans whoo want to seem intelligent and different and probably intend on reading them, but never actually will..

>>9008269
Tesla is a meme at this point with reddit ilk and is referenced in video games, you're right that they won't actually read him.

>>9008269
Tesla is pure pop science garbage. Grey's Anatomy would still be relevant for a medical student but he/she wouldn't buy an edition like that.

>>9004479
Order it by shade of pages, from white to most browned

>>9008269
>as a STEMfag, I know that nobody would actually read either of these
Wait, STEMfags actually read something in their lives?

>>9008158
Those penguins cost like 50 bucks each and you haven't read a single one of them, because it's impossible to not cause at least smaller creases.

Also, you bought a bunch of memetic shit like Roth and Conrad but still haven't managed to buy the better book on that collection. Also, LP&M Pocket should only be bought in post-50s authors situations, and Martin Claret should NEVER be bought.

At least you're not one of the olavetes who show up every now and then

>>9008269
>he thinks people use those as reference and not just read them for historical perspective
>>9008299
>pretends to care about actual content and not the looks
>"they wouldn't buy an edition like that"
I feel sorry for the next generation of stemfags.

>>9008339
Yeah, the menu before their liberal arts waiter takes their order.

>>9008158
Its a pocket edition, and I find the covers are pretty ok

>>9008339
>do people, who don't fetishize reading to the point that they spend years of their life studying mental masturbation, read at all?
That's a good question, anon. The answer is yes, they do.

>>9008347
>and I find the covers pretty ok

man, my english today...

>>9004479
I kek'd

These are just the books I brought with me for this year at college. Bottom shelf is books I've actually read, top is books I have with me but haven't read.

>too lazy to read long books

>>9008345
>le liberal art can't find a job meme
Don't force yourself Panjeet, your computer science diploma is on the same level as a toilet paper.

>>9008342
I read shit for a historical perspective as well, but not the writings of Tesla (kek) or Gray's Anatomy. I'm more into Cognitive Science and logic/math, so I I've read shit like Euclid (only the first 9 books of The Elements), Descartes and Kant. Most of the time though, I read textbooks and journal articles. Someone more into physics might read Newton or Einstein, but again, their time would be better spent studying more modern writing.

>ITT: anons b8 other anons by posting triggering bookshelves
I'm still waiting that guy who would post a Harry Potter shelf.

>>9008362
>/lit/core
Nice meme collection.

>>9008363
I'll take the Sea Urchin Ceviche please, bring out the wine menu when you get a chance. Thanks!

>>9008376
Pajeet, why don't you choose something that you can pronounce properly?

>>9008380
Wine, not whine. Thanks sport.

>>9008363
>he thinks degrees are more relevant than portfolio in software development
>he thinks a freelancing teenager writing shitty PHP code 6 hours a day doesn't make more money than the majority of liberal keks majors.
Honestly, live and let live, but you gotta stop denying reality.

>>9004467
>Tokio Hotel

That's a blast from the past.

>>9008380
>pajeet pajeet
Shouldn't you be in /ptg/, showcasing your mental deficiencies? That's the wrong board, bruh.

>>9007623
>tfw you'll never have dat pooh aesthetic

Kill me now

>>9004479

n o i c e

>>9004479
patrician

>>9004633
I unironically bet you're fun to talk to about things I don't care about.

>>9004479
>not being able to identify all of your books by the page edges

>>9004671
Did that Les mis copy get black shit on you're fingers? Did for me, not sure if I am only one.

>>9007829
>>9007836
>>9007842
>>9007848
nice job dude

>>9008888

back with another /bookshelf/ flashback, ladies and gents! who can forget this hit from May 2016!

>>9008989
SPQR as fuck.

somewhat off topic:

Where's the best place to get a signet classic complete works of William Shakespeare?

I find signet classics to be the best versions with the best essays, but the trade paperbacks shit out. I see used copies on amazon but am suspect.

It is out of print.

In the process of moving, ignore the lack of organization

>>9008968

>Eila
At least you have good taste in witches.

>>9009059
>literature mixed with manuals and reference works

>>9009083

I know, it's driving me crazy, but at least they're not in boxes

1/3 Mostly Fiction

2/3 Mostly fiction cont.

3/3 Meme books, shitty translations, non-fiction, poetry, short stories, drama, etc. ```

>>9009139
>>9009145
>>9009154
"Everything I know about books I learned from /lit/" THE SHELF

>>9009165
basically, I was a stem lord until 2 years ago and only became interested in reading when i discovered lit

>>9009170
>stem lord
>buys physical books
>not even nice hardcovers

>>9009154
You have all of Kafka's novels but not his collected stories? Get on that

>>9009215
it's in the 3rd picture next to the Flannery O'Connor stories

>>9009228
oh

>>9009154
is it bad that I unironically like Atlas Shrugged?

>>9009275
Yes.

>>9009283
but Dagny a cute

>>9008340
Not him, but 50 bucks each? You're talking about the black ones right? They don't cost much.

Also I agree, you can't read most of them without creasing unless you are painfully careful, however some of my black classics are different from the others for no reason. I have a copy of Epictetus' Discourses and it is super floppy. You can bend it back on itself and not crease at all.

>>9009288
anime is full of cute boys and girls (what kinda name is Dagny, Jesus) and yet watching it is absolutely degenerate tier. Do you watch anime, you faggot?

>>9009311
Brazillian penguins are more expensive, but also have better quality paper. I have older american editions, which actually are usually broken in purchase just from people handling it, newer editions with floppy paper that's hard to break and the brazilian ones, with pretty thick, but extremely breakable paper.

>>9008888 these look unopened as well, save for the Aeschylus (which seems to be the cheap american ones, anyway)

>>9009165
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-Elr5K2Vuo

>>9009165
exactly!

>>9007033
nice stacks dude, they're pretty tall! but did you glue some books together to keep them from falling?

>>9009315
are you implying Rand is degenerate?

>>9004465

>What is it with all these leatherbounds recently? Did B&N engineer the perfect way to trick YA and fantasy readers into buying the occasional classic? Same with the penguin cloth ones.

Yup, something like that. I took a peek into a huge sci-fi bookstore in my town recently, and they had a shelf full of classics bound in that style (same as OP). I suppose it's the new thing that they're pushing on the plebes - but I can't say I think it's a bad thing. If more people read classics, that's always good.

>>9009495
No, I'm affirming she is a degenerate by /pol/'s standards.

>>9009548
yes but almost everything is degenerate according to /pol/

>>9009578
Then, they must admit they idolize cucks and degenerates, yes

>>9009587
Do they idolize Rand though? Her ideology is too pro free trade and not racialist enough no?

>>9004450
Please die in your sleep

>>9008340
>penguins
>50 bucks each
Whoever you are buying your books from is scamming you anon.

Also I have no problem not creasing my penguins. I think you're just too rough with your books.

>>9008269
My mother bought me the tesla book for christmas, its pretty good actually.

>>9006948

Are you 13?

>>9009602
Maybe it's an older meme, but they used to, at least

>>9009661
Read >>9009354

What you think?

>>9009740
>"I pick the first book I see in the store" shelf
Are you a bored young housewife?

>>9009542
what´s so bad about the leatherbounds?
i mean having the book look nice is a good thing isn´t it?

>>9009776

Nothing, but people only buy the gaudy crap ITT to put on their shelves, not to read it.

>>9009785
There's no reason to buy or own physical book today unless you derive aesthetic pleasure from the looks.

>>9009356
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNCjCfBJxEQ&feature=youtu.be

Best I could do

>>9009795

Yes, there is. Reading comprehension suffers greatly with e-readers.

>>9009795
There most certainly is anon.

>>9009805
how so
i´ve not experienced such a thing yet
and i´m regularily reading both physical books and on a kindle

>>9009805
>Reading comprehension suffers greatly with e-readers
>I have no arguments so let me say something retarded
Solid strategy, anon.

>>9009805
As someone who prefers physical books, this has been shown to be false several times. Stop pushing a really shit false narrative to make your case.

>>9009814
>>9009815

There are multiple studies, fucking use google or something. It's obvious enough why, though. You don't get a sense of location and you can't reference back or forward at a glance or a flick, taking notes and underlining is a bother, adaptive speed reading is much harder, etc. /lit/ regulars have seen these studies and arguments a hundred times, so crawl the fuck back to /r/books now.

>>9009830
>I have never used a modern e-reader the post

>>9009845

I have had five different fucking e-readers ya fucking tard, I had them before you knew what they were. There are some things which are better reading on an e-reader, but you need to know what they are.

>>9009830
>make a retarded claim
>"you bother to prove it"

>reference back or forward at a glance or a flick, taking notes and underlining
Most people aren't liberal arts majors with lots of homework. Those things have nothing to do with reading comprehension and e-readers and tablets are absolutely fine for straight up reading.

>>9009888
not him but some people simply like the feel of a book in their hands, the smell et cetera. i don't understand why there is so much argument about this shit.

>>9009858

>I'm too stupid to think for myself or google

Here you go https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/reading-paper-screens/

And I happen to be in STEM, but interested in reading more than Harry Potter and John Green.

>>9009912
what shit are you even talking about
this has absolutely nothing to do with anything
it´s about reading comprehension not if someone likes physical books

>>9007591
I can read a bit of cyrillic however I don't know any slavic languages. I can recognize however the authors. Green ones are Tolstoi - brown ones Dostoyevsky. Light green one is Tchekov and the white one with red lettering is Nabokov. On the bottom there is Salinger, Gabriel Garcia Marques, Kundera, Francis Scott and some shit I can't make out

r8 it pls
kindle bc poor af

>>9009929
>several studies suggest reading on self-illuminated screens is more taxing on the reader because of eyestrain, need for scrolling and our distinct behavioral patterns and bias towards electronic devices
>hurr durr dis proves reading on e-ink impairs reading comprehension
I can see why reading comprehension is such a big topic for you, fampai.

>>9010049

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/aug/19/readers-absorb-less-kindles-paper-study-plot-ereader-digitisation

It's obvious and common sense. Try it yourself.

>>9010049
Memory is linked to things like touch and smell and colours in ways that most of us don't realise. Having all your books have the same texture look and smell would impair memory of the books.

>>9009929
>I'm too stupid to think for myself or google
the burden of proof lies on
>he's in STEM
>he doesn't understand burden of proof
CS majors are truly subhuman trash and should be shot on the first day of school.

>>9010072

You don't even know how the burden of proof works lmao and it's not even relevant in this context, and you are a literal retard

>>9010084
>no u
great argument. now kys, imbecile

>>9010094

you first

>>9010094
>>9010097
Ladies, ladies, please. You are both beautiful.

>>9010121
yes, but only one of us is intelligent - me.

>>9009740
Ted Dekker... really? You might as well read James Patterson, at least he doesn't pretend to not be a soulless pulp robot.

>>9009145
>Bone maman jar
Savage af
10/10

>>9010063
>Study from the same researcher in 2016
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/274873711_The_Digitization_of_Literary_Reading_Contributions_from_Empirical_Research

Studies comparing the visual
ergonomics of different screens indicate that reading on screens based on
electronic ink is very similar to reading on paper, and that e-readers
such as Kindle may even in some reading situations provide better
legibility (cf., e.g., Siegenthaler, Wurtz, Bergamin & Groner 2011),
whereas research comparing conventional screens (i.e. cathode ray tube
or LCD) have typically found that features such as flickering,
backlighting, and so on cause visual fatigue which, in turn, may impede
higher-level cognitive processes such as recall and comprehension (Noyes
& Garland 2003; Baccino 2004; Garland & Noyes 2004; Blehm, Vishnu,
Khattack, Mitra & Yee 2005). Whether such differences in visual
ergonomics between electronic ink and LCD/backlit screens correlate
with, or even cause, differences pertaining to other aspects of literary
reading, such as empathy and sympathy, immersion and transportation,
and other forms of emotional engagement, remains to be empirically
established.

>>9010151

I never said legibility was much worse on eink. Comprehension and recall is what suffers, specifically because there is no spatial recall.

>>9009165
lit enthusiast books on a lit enthusiast board?
color me stupid

>>9009795
I like having information on mediums that I can destroy by using. There's a simple joy in ruining a book. Physical objects have their own histories, like that one vinyl your cat slept on, or that one VCR copy of The Princess Bride that fucks up during the scene Indigo prays to his dead father to find the secret dungeon. Outliving my possessions make me feel better about my unavoidable death.

>>9010160
>no spatial recall
That's only relevant if you're memorizing the text instead of actually absorbing the meaning behind it. Comprehension does not suffer.

> poor college fag

>>9009139
FINALLY A PATRICIAN AROUND HERE

>>9004385
while I admire your collection of public domain classics, I question if you've ever read them or you read anything else.

>>9006966
i don´t get this mindset what implies that one doesn´t read these do you have to buy the ugliest version just to be accepted here?

>>9010345
If buying the ugliest version gained you acceptance here, the OP would be hailed as a god.

>>9010345
It's not about the looks, it's the about the selection. The OP pic is clearly just a decorative object and not a collection of books to read.

>>9008340
I've read all my penguins bro, you can even see the spine damage on a bunch of them so I don't know what you are talking about, I just don read like a retarded troglodyte so there is that

New editions of Martin Claret are nice and L&PM have some great prices for older writers

Be more humble breh

>>9008340
also the only expensive Penguin books are Ulysses, Chaucher and Dom Quixote, for good reasons

>>9010444
What are those good reasons?

>>9010466
The meme tax.

>>9010466
harder translations that require more work and the best support material of all the pocket books in the country, in the case of Dom Quixote is 2 volumes
Ulysses have no support material but well, its a translation of Ulysses and one of the cheapest versions avaiable

>>9004633
wish i had the spare cash to troll /lit/ like this

>>9010494
What, Penguin-Companhia definitely has a shitload of companion material. It has all the same essays the Modern Classics edition (Kiberd and the other one) + two by the translators.

>>9010547
Implying that these people aren't using other people's photos.

>>9008363
sssshhhh libtard pour my coffee

>>9004385
what a perfectly curated collection, it's the bookshelf of someone who buys a book a week off the first big table they see at barnes and noble and never read it.

>>9009139
A Norton Shakespeare anon wew

>>9010025
>ready player one

>>9007036
NBD, makes it easier to read the most of the titles anyways.

>>9009740
>jodi picoult
you are dead inside.

1/3

>>9010821
2/3

>>9010828
3/3

>>9010834
and overflow

>>9010821
>>9010828
>>9010834
>>9010842
>posting a shelf that belongs on /a/ or /co/ on /lit/
What did you hope to achieve with this?

>>9010849
there's plenty of novels in there

>>9010790
what about it

>>9011053
I'm aware they're of high quality and provide great notes, but it's several more leagues more expensive than what I would normally spend money for, even if I got it second-hand

>>9010834
DREED 03
EVERY FUCKING TIMEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>9011030
And not one of those are any good. And t b h those aren't even /lit/ manga either, no Yoshihiro Tastumi, Shigeru Mizuki, Taiyo Matsumoto, etc., several manga worthy of at least some literary merit have been licensed yet no one knows any of the names. I will never ever forgive Dark Horse manga for discontinuing Eden with it's muh Gnostic imagery

>>9010834
Why is Judge Dress volume 3 different from the others? Did you get a different printing?

>>9011076
It is high quality and it does have great notes, and it's $100 for all of Shakespeare. It even has the Folio and Quarto editions of King Lear. If want a complete Shakespeare that's as good as it gets barring buying ever individual Arden.

>>9004671
best shelf in a loooong time

>>9011106
lol if you don't think JoJo has merit
>>9011150
Vol. 3 has a different spine because the world is terrible

>>9004633
Fuck yeah this anon is awesome.

Dis nigga got erry wreslin game n shit, plus their a fervent anti globalist.

I owe you a beer.

>>9010834
I got dredd 1-10 and that 3rd one pisses me off so much

>>9010821
>>9010828
>>9010834
>>9010842

If you are older than 16 please commit suicide as you would be the definition of human garbage.

>>9004633
saw the books and was mildly triggered although aware of being baited. saw all the wresting games and lost hard. almost spat beer all over my screen...

>>9008989
jelly t b h

plebshelf

Im the kind of fa/tg/uy that gets rulebooks to read them but never play them.

>>9009145
>>9010149

That's very good jam.

>>9004450
this is unironically me i simply have no room to store books .once i get my own house ill start buying them again.nothing compares to have an actually paper book

>>9010199
I've around 400 dollarydoos left after paying rent each month and I've no trouble finding books for cheap.
I also have a /lit/ family who gift me stuff, but even if I didn't I'd still have a lot of books. You just have to buy used books and check out sales at antiquarians and stuff like that, and there are a couple of places on campus where the different institutes put out the books that have been discontinued from the library or that have been purged from the professors' personal libraries.
Pic related; all 100% free and without any markings.

>>9007829

fucking foreign books and your stupid fucking bottom to top side-titles

wtf is that shit, you realize that if you ever want to stack your books face-up, then you have to read the goddamn titles upside down?

i would have so many more french and german books if it werent for this fucking bullshit of a standard, you stupid european assholes

>>9004385
I know that is axactly what you want to hear, but since it's simply true and I am jealous of this:You're collection is indeed bautiful.well done!

(I don't have that many hardcover books and even if so, they look much more used)

>>9007861

and what interests you, vespasian? perfume bottles filled with vinegar?

>>9004671
this is a real book shelf. I actually believe that you did read those books.wow!

>>9006948
is this a libraby?

>>9008989

This has been on my wishlist for years now.

>>9012930
>i would have so many more french and german books if it werent for this fucking bullshit of a standard

you must be a retard

>you stupid european assholes

ok, you truly are a retard

>>9012962

yes, thanks! i like to read a lot
thinking of starting a youtube channel

>>9013148
You should do it my friend. I will watch you.

>>9013057

you didn't exactly address the core point of my argument. goes to show that 1. you're probably european, and 2. europeans are dumb stupid assholes who can't argue for shit, misunderstand the intellectual caliber of america's intelligentsia, and haven't ultimately read a goddamn thing worth reading

>>9013362
Are yu still looking for books on persuasion?

https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/807378168818450432

>>9013362
Here are some books on persuaion if you're still looking for suggestions.

https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/807378168818450432

>>9011645
>starcraft books that came with the war chest
patrician

>>9013362
>america's intelligentsia
what a retarded

>>9009740
read some Marquis de Sade

>>9013362
>misunderstand the intellectual caliber of america's intelligentsia
yeah... DO NOT fuck with Ronald Mcdonald ok...

gf's mom gave us a bookshelf for our apartment, haven't had time to organize cause the shelves are kind of uneven and unsure how i'm gonna do it, just storage in the basest sense

1/2

>>9014121

excuse the goofy youtuber/nu-metal shit i picked up from work

for anyone who is interested, i will be posting a library here:
>>9013806

>>9011262
SBR has literary and artistic merit. The other parts I would categorize as good fun.
JoJo's is much more admirable than any YA fiction novel or other high school-tier things.

>>9007848
>>9007842
>>9007836
>>9007829

pegaria vários livros emprestados pra nunca mais devolver/10

>>9008968
>the books behind those glasses

wow.

>>9004479
top left
ulysses, finnegans wake, (?) dubliners, portrait

bottom left
dfw reader, pale king, a supposedly fun thing

>>9011645
fuck, i got that exact same incense box. love seeing the smoke come out

>>9008888

omg oblomov!! honestly think its better written and more interesting than some of dostoevskys and tolstoys stuff so i love seeing it/should be better known

>>9008968
Loved that talisman book.

Also I wasn't quick enough to get those free engraved chalices. I did get a mouse pad though.

>>9004576
holy shit what is this catastrophe. lmao

My phone's camera is terrible quality, I know. No, I am not memeing.
>inb4 DUDE

>>9015556
Batastrophe.

>>9004676
>he thinks you need physical copies of books to read in 2016

I feel so bad for you. You'll grow up one day.

>>9004676
>he thinks you need physical copies of books to read in 2017

I feel so bad for you. You'll grow up one day.

>>9015278
tbqh I never got why Dosto became the main russian star, most authors (Goncharov included) I've read are better than him.

>>9008269
>Grey Anatomy
>Grey
>Not Gray

RETARD ALERT!!!

>>9017022
That's your opinion. I've read many Russians and I feel Dostoevsky was the best overall. You should read "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man" by Dost. It's very short and damn it's good.

>>9017022
>Goncharov
>coming-of-age novels for middle schoolers
>better than Dostoyevsky
W E W
E
W

i welcome judgment

>>9017237
FUCK

>>9017237
doesnt it put a lot of strain on the drywall to have a shelf come out of the wall like that?

>>9017237
Your house is sideways

>>9017237
all the pleb shit is the wife's

>>9017268
do you think it's suspended only by the wall? it's actually supported by a table on the floor (skillfully cropped out to hide the pile of laundry) and anchored to the wall for safety's sake.

>>9017283

>>9017293

>>9017283
>all the pleb shit is the wife's
kek

>>9017300

>>9017306
stuff i haven't cleared even though i've recently finished. gotta build a new shelf, i guess

>>9017283
I see you buy a lot of used books. I buy used books sometimes, but I'm picky about the smell. I don't like that old musty smell.

>>9017320
fuck, not again

>>9017322
sometimes bought used, sometimes inherited, sometimes picked up from the side of the road, sometimes worn down ourselves, sometimes (but don't tell anyone) stolen from a school library

>>9004385
sorry if this is considered spam or worthless post. Looking for a word, im not a /lit/ goer. What's the word for something that is trying to sound profound/meaningful/deep but falls short? Really bothering me.

>>9017364
jejune
vacuous
pseudo profound

>>9017411
its not really high vocabulary like the first two, but thanks for the reply

>>9016977
what happened to all the redwall?

>>9004729
i've got one of those (the floor standing ones). it's great. i can store almost as many books as a full size bookcase in about the same floor area as a 12" vinyl LP.

i bought mine in a sale. i wish i'd bought 3 or 4 more but now they're really expensive and i can't bring myself to pay full price for them. life is pain.

>>9017364
Pretentious?

>>9017364
sophomore, ostentatious, over ambitious etc

>>9004576
DUDE LMAO

Seriously
>video games
>books that are made to be movies
>book telling you to watch movies
>For Dummies book
>le science

The 125 dollars spent on the shelf could've been spent buying books worth displaying and/or thematically fit the shelf.

>>9004385
Why?

>>9018150
Do you honestly believe that is his shelf? It's probably from neogaf or some shit.

>>9004385
The Republic and maybe Poe are the only good ones there

How's the Lovecraft complete works? Seems like a lot of people here have it. Is it accessible for a pleb?

>>9018150
>batman-bookshelf-1.jpg
>responding seriously as if it's REALLY his

jesus

>>9018150

>not realizing this has been posted in /bookshelf/ threads dozens of times over many years

go back, please

>>9018458
Nowhere did he say that. He merely said it was a waste of money, which it was

>>9018249
>>9018458
>>9019116
I don't think responding anon (>>9018150) was implying that posting anon (>>9004576) thought that posting anon was posting original content.

Maybe they did. If so they're retarded.

>>9008373
Yeah so do I man. I've read all 13 books of the Elements, most of Archimedes' works, and am on Book one of Apollonius' On Conics.

bunch of used bookstore standards

plus some memes

infinite jest this meme book would /lit/ like for me to get nude pics of a grill with this book?

>>9004479
i would take a sharpie to them shits

>>9019249
Lit is a sfw board

>>9010149
tfw have some of this shit now in my pantry, given it as a gift. did not know it was notable.

>>9017873
Today I decided that I would store em away. I'm not getting rid of them tho - a few of them are actually either signed or first editions (my hardcover copy of The Long Patrol is both!), but I do have a Redwall tattoo and I figure with that I already have Redwall pretty close to my heart. I'm gonna put em away and save them and dedicate my shelf to books that I actually read nowadays. A bit of the lower left shelf is gonna change in the future tho - I'm planning on filing it with more valuable books by Harlan Ellison. I'm pretty already proud of my PKD collection however.

>>9017237
Have you read "the german genius"? I stumbled on it in a used bookstore recently and it looked very interesting, but also looked like I needed a strong background in german literature/philosophy to appreciate what the hell was going on.

not exactly book shelf but fuck it

meme stack
IJ finally arrived after 1 month. right now finishing ulysses (translation) and already order ulysses in the original to reread later on