/lit/ - Literature

>>9385883
Fuck off, autist

>>9385889
You are envy of my beautiful room

>>9385883
>>9385902
>>9385910
>virgin detected

>>9385919
Actually I'm enlighteen and I'm on a search for knowledge, but you wouldn't understand.

>7 replies
>2 posters

>>9385932
Show me your room fag. You came here for a reason, right?

You're really posting Bruno's room photos? Hahaha

>>9385883
Help a brazilian friend and check my podcast with other /lit/ people, guys: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ44eII7ITI

Also I' think this Bruno thing is some sort of publicity stunt, in a few months some movie will arise from it and people will make a lot of money.

>>9385986
Yeah, that's my room. My parents leaved me alone for almost a month, then I bought this Giordano Bruno statue and started to work on my yearlong project of
a new philosophical system that's gonna change the human life forever and bring peace to humanity.

Left is fiction, right is nonfic.

Not pictured: Kindle

>>9387331
I can't make out any book titles. I am curious as to what they are. Also are you from /fitlit/?

>>9387359

GoT was a gift from my grandfather.

Yes, /fitlit/

>>9385931
you're not gonna find it on 4chan

>>9387430
>Alan Watt
>You Are Your Own Gym
>Star Wars Cookbook II
Stopped reading. All these books you have are cringe-inducing. Never seen such horrible taste in my life.

>>9385883
>>9385902

Is there a close up of Bruno's shelf? Genuinely interested in which books he read.

R8, H8

>>9387449
he's from /fitlit/ what did you expect?

I win

>>9387473
>meme kampf

>>9387511
I got it when I was like 15 and edgy. Just incoherent ramblings along with historical references that I didn't get.

>>9387507
Holy... I want more

>>9387543
those are all the books I own.

>>9387473
>LONDON
>O
>N
>D
>O
>N

1

2

3

4

>>9389140
>>9389146
>>9389151
>>9389158
5

Any recommendations based on what you see? Reading Women and Men now and absolutely loving it.

>>9389163
Shit, I forgot this.

>>9387430
>Harold Bloom - The Western Canon
>Owns zero books from the western canon

>>9387430
Your paperbacks look unread. Get the fuck off my board and back to your meathead circle-jerk, you fucking brainlet j00c'd blowfish faggot. I bet you skip leg day, you Johnny Bravo lookin ass nikka.

>>9389158
>franzen
>chabon

We get it. You love to snack on a turd.

>>9389174
In ten years you'll see this photo and want to die.

>>9389163
Considering that you seem to love contemporary fiction I'm surprised there isn't any Joshua Cohen or Ben Marcus. I'd suggest you get more non fiction and classics. I mean what's the point of reading all those referential post modern tomes if you dont even know get the allusions and etc. It seeme like you're probably hiding the other part of your library that would contain that stuff but idk

>>9389636
Most nonfiction is behind the books on dresser as they are mostly in poorer condition. I live with my brother and he has a large collection of nonfiction so I mooch off him a lot.

>>9389478
In ten years you'll still be alone, wouldn't have read half this many books, and probably have already done the deed by then. So I'm okay with hearing this from you, anon.

>>9389140
>>9389151

I dont know what people see in po-mo, they dazzle you with great prose but at the end, they seem to have nothing clever left to say.

>>9387430
I hope you're no older than 22

>>9389813
I've been married for years, and I've already read at least 20 times "that many" books.

You, however, still need validation from strangers online for your meagre purchases--purchases anyone anywhere can make.

Congrats?

>>9389826

My 28th birthday is actually tomorrow

>>9389636
Not pictured and on floor due to lack of space

>>9389832

>>9389834
Last weekends goodwill haul as well. Think it was ~25 for all of them

>>9389827
Actually I mostly get shit on which is the fun part, friend. Nobody here knows who I am, and nobody in my life knows who any of these authors are, so I'm not sure what you mean by validation. I read them and enjoy most of them, and a lot of the books I read were found by looking at other people's bookshelves that had similar taste. I'd rather contribute and get shit on for some giggles than go into threads about bookshelves and complain about pictures of bookshelves like a child.

>>9389827
congrats on reading like 5,000 books. I'll likely never read that many before I die.

1/4

>>9389140
sup tomeguy

>>9389881
2/4

>>9389889
3/4

>>9389893
4/4

>>9387473
>Mein Kampf

>>9387511
>"SIEG HEIL!" Shouted the filthy kike, as her womb was filled with stong Aryan seed.
I want a nasty little Jewish princess.

top half of my bookshelf. mostly nonfiction, aside from the bible. order goes as follows:
bible, then small sized books (science next to bible, of course), then some home guides, then bigger books on science, history, and business, followed by a brief set of books on american history/culture, and finally some books on africa/ african culture

>>9389985
follow up, with the bottom half. goes from non fic to stories (hist. fic and fic):
books on WWII, then the anarchy political views, on to socialism, then to my small poetry section/ old lit (shakespeare, jack london, charles dickens), and the rest are old novels that are all just fiction. R8, H8, wtvr

>>9385883
>bookshelf
>in 2017
>physical books in general

how pretentious can you be?

>>9390020
What makes it pretentious?

>>9387473
>all those short penguin pocketbooks
why

does anyone else curate their bookshelf?

as in, does anyone get rid of books theyve already read but deemed insignificant?

>>9390020
Only reddit misuses that word so badly.
Go back.

>>9390238
>words misused by faggots on the internet

give me the gestalt on this whole reddit thing?

>>9389140
>>9389174
Why do you have 2 copies of Gravity's Rainbow?

You started the thread by posting some Fullmetal Acremist, brhues are allowed now

>>9390325

>>9390374

>>9390380

>>9390387

>>9390392

>>9390401

>>9390404
And, lastly, the paperbacks.

The other half of my library is in my father's house in another city.

>>9390374
wretched

>>9390422
That's the best part of my whole library. The complete poetry of Pound, Camões, Petrarca, Pessoa, Drummond, Meireles, Castro Alves, and Gonçalves Dias, plus some of the best plays of Calderón de la Barca. All in the original, of course.

>>9390431
Oh, and I forgot to mention Lorca.

>>9390256
Three now, actually. I bought the Penguin Deluxe edition, and found out it had errors. Being the autist I am, I immediately bought a new one - the blue covered Penguin Classic - and finished reading with that one. I emailed Penguin after that and they sent the revised one for free.

>>9390486
That's reasonable, I had the same issue and just ended up returning the Penguin Deluxe. Just seems weird to me someone would buy another copy and just keep the old one with misprints.

>>9390240
Everyone on reddit is 12, so they throw that word at anything they can't understand and claim that anyone who says they like it is pretending for Internet points, all while upvoting anything that references Hitchhiker's Guide, because it's just so lol funny and genius, you know?

>>9390492
I'm lazy. Have a drawer full of books meant for goodwill, but keep forgetting. Probably going to donate them to my office's library, since all they have is Patterson and Cussler.

>>9387430

I'm gunna be sick

>>9389163
I have read and enjoyed about half the books on your shelves and the one author I can think of that fits into your tastes that I don't see represented is Denis Johnson. Jesus' Son, Train Dreams, and Nobody Move are all varying degrees of short and incredible, and you can check out Tree of Smoke if you're looking for something more substantial in size.

>>9390516
Thank you. It's rare I see a recommendation of a book I didn't already have on my list.

>>9390523
Your welcome! While I have you here, how are 2-4 of The Familiar? Worth it?

>>9390543
I actually just started the 3rd one today. I needed something easier to read when I'm too tired for W&M. The 2nd one was much better than the first, which was good enough to get me to buy the others. I'd give the first one a 3.5/5 and the second one was a solid 4/5, and really hit it's stride in the last half. Everyone I know who's read it says it continues to get better. I honestly believe it will outshine HoL as his masterpiece if he can keep it up. If nothing else, it's different.

>>9389881
Sup

Have you gotten to The Man Without Qualities or The Anatomy of Melancholy yet? What do you think? Probably going for one of those next.

>>9389821
this.

>>9392024
not yet, they've been near the top of my priority list for awhile though.

>>9389821
I fukin hate post-modernism.

>>9389942

Taking this made me really self-conscious about the amount of tat. Should probably tidy up a bit at some point.

You guys like my meme poverty shelves?

1/2
genre goodness

2/2
Other shit

>>9393362
Good shit anon

Why everybody have Infinite Jest?
Is it a excellent book?

ps: I'm not from usa

>>9394326
Yes, though anyone who hasn't read it, or were simply too dumb to even finish it, will tell you it's shit and probably misuse words like "pretentious" in the process.

>>9394326
it's basically the book equivalent to /mu/'s in the aeroplane over the sea. It's overrated, loved by people who just want to show how awesome their taste in literature to other people is, and has that indie appeal.

>>9394336
>>9394362
Wow called it

>>9394423
I didn't say it was shit, I said it was overrated. I didn't say it was pretentious, I said the fans of the book love to flaunt it around. I should have also mentioned that it has a cult appeal in the sense that if you say anything negative about it the fanboys come and rush to its defense like you just did.

>>9394452
I'd say it's much more common that people rush say it's overrated or that it sucks without giving any reasons, just to be different. Without an actual argument, it's worthless. You could call any book overrated in some vague edgy way and win by being too stubborn or too stupid to criticize it. I don't feel the need to defend a book on a board full of people I'm still not convinced - after years - even read at all.

>>9393103

>>9393490
>hardback Mason & Dixon
Nice

>>9385932
nice "poomunity" you got here

>>9385910
what's the story behind this again?

>>9395087
image search you useless fuck.

>>9390431
>>9390437
i meant the condition of the books

i dont really understand the point in leatherbounds when theyre beat to shit

>>9385883
>rhinoceri
plebe piss off please

>>9387507
Fucking awful. Why do you even browse /lit/?

>tfw inherited a bunch of nice books from my father

I am going to read them eventually.

>>9385883
>1 5 7 9 10 11 13 14
What did he mean by this?

>>9393287

Looks comfy!

>>9393287
Like your set up there guy

>>9387430
>The Last Wish

My brother.

>>9395639
The same reason why most people browse /lit/: to pretend I read books.

>>9396619
Yeah, but if you're pretending to read those books on your shelf you belong on reddit, friend.

>>9397037
No, I meant pretending to read other books.

>>9397111
Still, you're going to have to go back bud

>>9387507
>blood lad

>>9387473
>LONDON
>mein kamph

nice, epic, I like it

>>9397331
Nah, I'll stick around. There's books being discussed on /lit/ that I still haven't called shit despite not reading them. I gotta fit in.

>>9397452
How does it feel being too dumb to read anything that isn't either YA or a picture book, and then trying to fit in with adults by trashing books you can't understand?

>>9393362
>from hell - alan moore
>1001 books you have to read before you die
>sufjan stevens
fuck off pleb

>>9397568

I feel like I fit in perfectly

>>9387430
>How to boil water

top kek

>>9398925
the fuck is The Idiot doing on there

>>9387430
>>9389178
How is 'The Western Canon'?
Are they good discussions of the authors?

only started getting physical books recently

no bullying

I need a bookshelf

>>9402254
You need to read.

>>9402462
ZING

>>9402254
>Daniel Kharms
nice

i have loads of history books on my desk but i can't be bothered to move/take another picture

My tiny homemade shelf, poorfag here.

>>9387507

>that airplane

A FUCKING LEAF

>>9389158
>Atwood, Franzen, Chabon
Go away

>>9390325
>>9390344
>all those new books
I bet everyone who comes over is impressed by how much you don't read

>>9390344
>agamben's homo sacer

mi negrito!

>>9387473
>Basic Economics
>Nearly double the thickness of my dick

>>9405152
For you

>>9395087
backstory of this again:

>nigga's parents went travel
>nigga locked himself in his bedroom
>family says he always read a lot
>hired a guy to make that statue in the middle of the room for a shitload of money
>wrote all those 14 books encrypted
>left the encryption password to his family
>wrote with almost perfection pieces of the book in the walls, with almost perfect symmetric drawings
>simply disappeared
>nigga claims he is a reincarnation of giordano bruno and he will finish his works
>nobody knows where the nigga is

>>9405083
>he only reads books teenagers online tell him too, if he even reads at all

>>9405091
>being so young you think ruining your belongings makes you cooler