/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.10714201]

Shelf Thread: Also post where you like to read edition

[Anonymous No.10714207]

[Anonymous No.10714299]

>>10714201
in the tub

[Anonymous No.10714314]

Get ready to be triggered by my non-fiction section.

[Anonymous No.10714909]

>>10714314

And the fiction section.

[Anonymous No.10714950]

>tfw i needs shelf
reading in the hammock outside with birds

[Anonymous No.10714959]

>>10714950
genre
>>10714909
decent, no dubliners, you make me cry
>>10714314
not edgy at all
>>10714207
for woman that read romance and genre fiction and write poetry on a type writer

[Anonymous No.10716660]

>>10714959

Look again friendo, closely at bottom left. Green and red spine with the word Dover on it...

[Anonymous No.10716697]

>>10714201
too ikea-ish
>>10714207
too teahouse-y
>>10714314
>100 Days that Changed Canada
What happend in these 100 days?
>>10714909
too anglo-oriented
>>10714950
You seem to like Tolkien very much.

[Anonymous No.10716712]

>>10716697

>what happened in these 100 days?

It's not referring to a single 100-day period, but rather 100 individual dates which shaped Canada. Here's a little sampler:
-day of confederation
-Winnipeg Strike of 1919
-VE Day
-War Measures Act (October Crisis)
-The end of Terry Fox's run
-Toronto's G20 summit

>too anglo-oriented

Fair enough. If it helps, I just ordered Steppenwolf and The Devils on amazon.

[Anonymous No.10716762]

>>10716712
>If it helps, I just ordered Steppenwolf and The Devils on amazon.
Sure, but don't you have a local bookstore to support?

[Anonymous No.10717587]

>>10714950
We have a lot of the same books but I got some ideas. Thank you.

[Anonymous No.10717596]

>>10714207
who likes to read in a chair without arms tho?

[Anonymous No.10717934]

No shelves cause I use ereader.

[Anonymous No.10718290]

>>10714201

Pls no bully

[Anonymous No.10718302]

>>10717934
Where can I find that ?

[Anonymous No.10718333]

>>10716762

No. My general experience with used book stores over the years is that I end up finding something to buy instead of buying what I was looking for.

[Anonymous No.10718411]

>>10718333
This, unless its Sidartha, used book stores rarely have any Hesse.

[Anonymous No.10718450]

>>10718411
my book store has 3+ copies of every Hesse novel. It's harder to find one that won't disintegrate upon reading though.

[Anonymous No.10718556]

How many of these books on your shelves have you guys read? Because the kind of posts I see on this board do not reflect any of the ideas/language proposed in the books I've seen.
I'm being serious about this, too. I get worried that I'm going to read a huge shelf of books and in the end be no better than a typical shitposter.

[Anonymous No.10718623]

>>10718556
>the kind of posts I see on this board do not reflect any of the ideas/language proposed in the books I've seen
People who actually read a lot don't have much time to shitpost, so it's natural their contributions are needles in the haystacks of crossposting teenage autism. Not to mention that the more literature you read, the less you're likely to want to come here and revel in the same old sophomoric rehashes of philosophy or theology and incessant /pol/yp bickering.

[Anonymous No.10718634]

>>10718556

You have to recognize that choosing a book to read does not guarantee any results. That's why you want to read as many books as possible so that the 10-15% of them that really hit you in the gut provides something substantial. I've disliked and had to slog through many of the books I've read. It wasn't until my mid-twenties that I even stopped reading and didn't finish a book I wasn't enjoying. Before that, I felt like it was my duty to finish every book I start.

If you want to get a wide and varied perspective on the literature out there, you have to take your chances and try different stuff, even if it's a bust.

[Anonymous No.10718728]

Fiction

[Anonymous No.10718746]

>>10718728
Philosophy/Nonfiction

[Anonymous No.10718767]

>>10718746
Philosophy/Nonfiction, what doesn't fit on the other shelf

[Anonymous No.10718923]

>>10714314
>>>r/atheism

[Anonymous No.10719196]

>>10718767
What IS so enigmatic about Japanese power?

[Anonymous No.10720058]

[Anonymous No.10720185]

this is both

[Anonymous No.10720204]

>>10720185
many books that are either on the road borrowed away or 5 meters across. next to my bed. so id prefer not to photograph the singular shelves yet

[Anonymous No.10720221]

>>10719196
That's the enigma.

[Anonymous No.10720233]

>>10720058
w-w-wwwhy?

[Anonymous No.10720247]

I don’t have a shelf but these are on my iBook collection right now

[Anonymous No.10721361]

>>10720058
nice

[Anonymous No.10721406]

>>10718746
Nice shelves.

[Anonymous No.10721439]

>>10720185
Sell the maculature, buy an e-reader and move out from this WG shithole.

[Anonymous No.10721464]

>>10720058
I like this

[Anonymous No.10721597]

>>10714314
more chomsky less hitchens and dawkins

[Anonymous No.10721674]

>>10721406
Thanks. I made the fiction shelf myself upon moving into this place a couple of years ago. The phil shelf is an Ikea Expedit and the leftover phil/nonfiction is in a nice built-in right next to it. If you were complimenting my collection of books, then thanks for that as well. I haven't bought any in a while because I've created quite a backlog for myself with what I already have.
So to answer >>10719196, I'm not sure, as that's one I haven't read yet.

[Anonymous No.10722321]

>>10721439
maculature directed at the four or five titles that are decipherable, which are mostly picture books?

[Anonymous No.10722677]

>>10721439
Holy shit the e-reader shills are in full force these weeks.

[Anonymous No.10723277]

>>10718556
>implying that famous authors/readers can't be simple shitposters to
You make me kek.

[Anonymous No.10724183]

[Anonymous No.10724250]

>>10724183

[Anonymous No.10724834]

How often do you guys clean the dust off your shelves and books?

[Anonymous No.10724856]

>>10724834
My cleaning lady does it once a week

[Anonymous No.10724905]

>>10718728
>no infinite jest
???

[Anonymous No.10725224]

>>10718728
>The Gulag Archipelago in fiction

[Anonymous No.10726679]

Nb4 I get called a nazi again

[Anonymous No.10726762]

>>10718728
is that this copy of C&P? how's the translation?

[Anonymous No.10727170]

just for shits collection from goodwills/garage sales/estate sales

[Anonymous No.10727267]

My upstairs library has a comfy couch in front of a bay window, so I like reading there.

[Anonymous No.10727276]

>>10727267
This shows the couch and window better.

[Anonymous No.10727387]

>>10727267
>>10727276
I give it 6 out of 12

[Anonymous No.10727809]

>>10725224
>Le funni monke
1/?

[Anonymous No.10728342]

>>10726679
First time I see the blurb on the spine of the book, mixed feelings

[sin No.10728414]

It's real nice and cold outside, boys.

[Anonymous No.10728417]

>>10728414
I'm really curious about the content of your notes and stickies

Comfy spot by the way

[sin No.10728431]

>>10728417
I just write down anything that I want to remember and stick it somewhere. One of them says, "Mayumi Saito—Drowned her infants in concrete. (Four)" Another one reminds me of the German definite articles, and there's another that says, "Dalai Lama sleeps at the bottom of a pool filled with mineral oil." I don't even remember writing down the last one, but I suppose that that was a dream or something.

[Anonymous No.10728437]

>>10717934
You need a rug, only thing keeping it from being cozy

[Anonymous No.10728463]

>>10718746
What do you do for a living

[Anonymous No.10729012]

>>10728414
How are you liking Long Ships?

[Anonymous No.10729074]

>>10728414
dat handwriting tho

[Anonymous No.10729101]

>>10724183
I was impressed until I couldn't find a copy of On Writing, or am I blind?

[Anonymous No.10729262]

>>10729101
if you subscribe to the school of "on writing was his only decent book" then its very absence can be seen to "complete the meme" described by that image.

[Anonymous No.10731398]

>>10718728
what sort of gun is that? looks comfy af

[Anonymous No.10731418]

>>10720185
clean your room holy shit
>>10728414
COMFY

[Anonymous No.10731843]

Here’s my shelf. I just read in bed usually. Sometimes on the porch if it’s nice out.

[Anonymous No.10731852]

>>10727170
What’s that Chomsky book?

[Anonymous No.10731924]

>>10731843
>taking unregulated sugar pills

[Anonymous No.10732051]

>>10731398
That's a fishing pole, anon.

[Anonymous No.10732367]

1/2

[Anonymous No.10732372]

2/2

[Anonymous No.10732840]

>>10714201
Post pic related, if you have some. Whenever I live in or pass through a place, I try to find one and keep it as a memento.

[Anonymous No.10732853]

>>10732367
Nice Bond collection! How was The Long Goodbye? Did it make more sense than the film?

[Anonymous No.10732859]

>>10731398

[Anonymous No.10732946]

>>10731924
>not taking the vitamins your mom brought over when you were sick

I do what my mom says anon

[Anonymous No.10732995]

>>10728414
Why the crossing of the Delaware?

[Anonymous No.10733105]

New haul
I’m loving it.

Gonna pick up a Hesse book and war and peace.

Who loves to juggle between books?

Comfy af

[Anonymous No.10734321]

>>10718556
general

[Anonymous No.10734342]

>>10734321
this is a brilliant graph and completely accurate, thanks anon

[Anonymous No.10735267]

>>10732853
Thank man, recommending the bond books he's a much more 3 dimensional character than in the movies. The long goodbye movie is a pretty liberal adaptation of the book but I'm a big fan of Chandler. If you like gritty stuff he's your man.

[Anonymous No.10735269]

>>10731852