/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.15958550]

I’ve browsed /lit/ and read seriously ever since I was 19. I’m now 26. Rate my bookshelf. (1/5)

[Anonymous No.15958556]

>>15958550
That's 7 years of reading?

:-|

[Anonymous No.15958557]

(2/5)

[Anonymous No.15958563]

>>15958550
>>15958557

fucking organize your books

[Anonymous No.15958567]

>>15958550
>aesop
B A S E D
The only thing that should be on your bookshelf.

[Anonymous No.15958570]

(3/5)

[Anonymous No.15958581]

>>15958550
>>15958557
>>15958570
>all those translations
lurk moar

[Anonymous No.15958585]

(4/5)

[Anonymous No.15958596]

(5/5)

[Anonymous No.15958609]

>>15958557
How are Ferrante's Neapolitan novels?

[Anonymous No.15958620]

>>15958550
It's okay. Good variety. Too many paperbacks. You're obviously focused on fiction.

I was in this position once. You should stop buying paperbacks of every single book on the canon or "modern classic" to save money and space. Stop accumulating props. Get an ereader.

[Anonymous No.15958628]

>>15958620
>ereader
gay

[Anonymous No.15958707]

>>15958628
It's possible OP already has one. I mean, what sort of book "collector" would get a copy of a minor book like The Miner by Soseki and not his masterpiece (Kokoro) or some of his other better known works.
It looks odd.

[Anonymous No.15958729]

>>15958707
>I mean, what sort of book "collector" would get a copy of a minor book like The Miner by Soseki and not his masterpiece (Kokoro) or some of his other better known works.

It's the only one he found at the thrift store and he can't buy things online because his mother won't give him her credit card number.

[Anonymous No.15958736]

>>15958729
>buying books full price
gay

[Anonymous No.15958779]

>>15958729
Obvious projection teenager

[Anonymous No.15958786]

>>15958707
>>15958729
OP here. When I first started out reading, I didn't have any sort of syllabus or guide to follow, so I read whatever literature interested me. That is why you see single works by authors like Soseki (I actually received that particular book from a bookswap with a friend, but I liked it enough that I added Sanshiró to my backlog). However, I eventually decided to start over with the Greeks and work my way from there. Since then, I have read most of the Greeks, Romans, and now am reading Anglo literature like Milton's completed works. Also, e-readers are pozzed as fuck.

[Anonymous No.15958793]

>>15958628
>paying for books

[Anonymous No.15958795]

>>15958550
>no Borges
Pathetic

[Anonymous No.15958804]

>>15958793
>needs power to read

[Anonymous No.15958839]

>>15958786
>e-readers are pozzed as fuck
based buy an older copy of aesop they have redacted fables that were "misattributed".

[Anonymous No.15958841]

>>15958804
>needing money to read

[Anonymous No.15958844]

>>15958550
1) That bookshelf is fuck ugly, get something where the books approach the lip
2) Reorganize your shit. At least by height ffs
3) The one person that stops by your 1br apartment a year (most likely your mother) doesn't give a shit about what you read. Donate shit when you're done, stop hoarding garbage.
4) Start showering daily

[Anonymous No.15958849]

>>15958841
>power does not require payment

[Anonymous No.15958850]

>>15958786
>Also, e-readers are pozzed as fuck.
Okay. Keep storing cheap editions of books you won't ever re-read or use as reference (let's not fool ourselves) to decorate your living space.
>>15958804
Try reading a book at 1 am.

[Anonymous No.15958858]

>>15958844
>Projection: The Post

[Anonymous No.15958860]

>>15958850
>Try reading a book at 1 am.
It's called candlelight retard.

[Anonymous No.15958863]

>>15958849
I've gone on 10 day hikes powering my ereader with a shitty solar panel pack from china, the power draw is so low you could spend £10 and power it indefinitely, also with regular books you can't read in a pitch black room so you're still paying for power

[Anonymous No.15958882]

OP, I'm interested on how your political views have developed.

[Anonymous No.15958889]

>>15958860
>needs an external light source to read

[Anonymous No.15958899]

>>15958889
>needs new prescription lenses every 2 years

[Anonymous No.15958900]

>>15958882
I was sort of agnostic when I started reading at age 19. But over time I became a right-wing Catholic.

[Anonymous No.15958907]

>>15958863
>you can't read in a pitch black room
>>15958860

[Anonymous No.15958909]

>>15958900
>But over time I became a right-wing Catholic.
great, another tradcath larper

[Anonymous No.15958919]

>>15958900
Cringe, read more left wing theory

[Anonymous No.15958944]

>>15958919
cringe

[Anonymous No.15958947]

>>15958919
gay

[Anonymous No.15958981]

>>15958944
cringe
>>15958947
gay

[Anonymous No.15958982]

>>15958899
That's pretty much inevitable and what is going to happen to you after a certain age, like 7.5 in every 10 adults, my dear zoomer.
For my part I've experienced different levels of radiation from different display technologies over the course of my life from a very early age, with varying degrees of exposure, and I've also read on a Paperwhite for the last 8 years. My eyesight is perfectly fine and I don't wear glasses.

>>15958907
See >>15958889, also it's not there isn't a meme of copyists going blind from working very late into the night, reading and writing at candlelight, isn't there? (which has literally the same scientific value as the bit about needing prescription glasses).

[Anonymous No.15958989]

>>15958858
>i know, ill just accuse him of projection so that i can cope!!!

[Anonymous No.15959001]

>>15958982
>*also it's not like there's a meme of copyists going blind from working very late into the night, reading and writing by candlelight, is there? (a meme that has literally the same scientific value as the bit about needing prescription glasses).

[Anonymous No.15959002]

>>15958982
I already have lenses. I don't have to fucking have them switched out every year like you fucking addicts frying your eyes inside your skulls. Being up at night isn't healthy for you either.

[Anonymous No.15959009]

>>15958909
How can I deny the truth once I have learned it?

[Anonymous No.15959016]

>>15959002
You should stay out of range of 5G towers, anon. Scientists say the technology causes COVID-19.

[Anonymous No.15959047]

>>15959016
You should get a house near a power transmission tower. It's totally safe. That's why they cost less.

[Anonymous No.15959075]

>>15959047
Ah, the illogical, unscientific mind at work.
Great talking to you, four eyed faggot.

[Anonymous No.15959082]

>>15959016
Keep your cellphone a couple inches from your cock all day. It's not like there's a legal disclaimer hidden inside the accessibility options telling you that you shouldn't because it can give you testicular cancer.

[Anonymous No.15959087]

>>15959075
>four eyed
what are you fucking 60 lmao

[Anonymous No.15959100]

>>15959009
redpills for you:
>christianity is the truth
>catholicism is a corruption of christianity
>tradfaggism is incompatible with christianity
>christianity shouldn't be politicized and christians should be apolitical and simply accept the trajectory of the world as the will of God
>christians should renounce the world and politics as well
>christianity lends itself more to anarchic-communistic ideas rather than trad ideas, but those ideas shouldn't be politicized since they're basic moral ideas that can be separated from politics
okay enjoy ur life, stop watching nick fuentes and pick up simone weil

[Anonymous No.15959134]

>>15959009
>truth
You must be incredibly arrogant or incredibly foolish if you think that a) there is such a thing as one overarching "truth" and that b) you know what it is

[Anonymous No.15959235]

>>15958563
...they're alphabetized

[Anonymous No.15959314]

>>15958581
WHATS WRONG WITH TRANSLATIONS

[Anonymous No.15959356]

>>15959314
learn a second language and you'll find out

[Anonymous No.15959464]

>>15959356
Surely you read the Bible in all those dead languages, right anon? Or are you larping as a (retarded) scholar?

The first 2 shelves have books in like 11 different languages. Just imagine not reading some book because you can't read it on its original language.

[Anonymous No.15959473]

>>15958736
Poor

[Anonymous No.15959508]

>>15959464
My rule is that you should learn a foreign language if it's reasonable for you to do so. It's reasonable to learn Spanish for example if you plan on reading dozens of books from Spanish language authors. The language is easy to pick up. It's not reasonable to learn Japanese if you only want to read Mishima. It's not reasonable to learn Danish for just Kierkegaard. etc.

There is no reason you shouldn't know French at least. You'll see that translation is garbage and fucks up almost every single sentence. You'll at least know what you're getting into when you pick up a translation if you at least learn a second language

[Anonymous No.15959528]

>>15959508
oh wow, how's the view up there? as long as you're prescribing languages, what have you translated?

[Anonymous No.15959541]

>>15958550
I urge you to read the Peloponnesian War

[Anonymous No.15959546]

>>15958550
>>15958557
>>15958570
>>15958585
>>15958596
how have you managed to avoid never purchasing a vintage classics (red spine) book? wth

[Anonymous No.15959556]

>>15959528
Well, I've read books in French, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese. I'm working on Greek now. I'm not a translator, I just enjoy language learning and I highly recommend it, especially because I know that translation is inherently deficient and oftentimes it's just impossible to translate well

[Anonymous No.15959558]

Why so little hardcovers? And philosophy?

[Anonymous No.15959607]

>>15959556
don't hurt yourself with all that patting on the back, not everyone has similar proclivities and resources. given the choice between translation and exclusion, i'll choose one everytime

[Anonymous No.15959625]

>>15959607
>don't hurt yourself with all that patting on the back
you're the one who asked retard
>not everyone has similar proclivities and resources
doesn't really require any resources to learn languages, and literally everyone in the world is a language learner so that's just an excuse retard
>given the choice between translation and exclusion
??? literally what lol are you retarded? BLM, right? lol

[Anonymous No.15959639]

>>15958550
Where's the Casanova collection?
I'm disappointed son.

[Anonymous No.15959649]

1/5 why is this a thread

[Anonymous No.15959721]

>>15959356
I speak two languages but I can’t learn every language I want to read a book in

[Anonymous No.15959743]

>>15959625
By exclusion he's referring to not reading certain books just because you don't know the language (how the hell does your brain read "exclusion" and jumps to racism and BLM is beyond me).

Based on your list, you haven't read any Russian or Germans. Being unable to read Ancient Greek and Latin and not reading any translations might cause you miss on concepts you'd find in books in other languages. The translations = bad meme is tired and dumb.

[Anonymous No.15959812]

>>15959100
Imagine unironically thinking anything but Catholicism is Christianity.

[Anonymous No.15959834]

>>15959743
>By exclusion he's referring to not reading certain books just because you don't know the language
doesn't make any sense considering what i said here >>15959508 obviously he's a retard who is strawmanning me so hard i have no clue what he is talking about anymore lol also you should read it too, i never said to not read translations, i just think people should avoid them as much as is reasonably possible for them. anyways i know ur samefag lol
>>15959721
read what i said here >>15959356

literally nowhere did i say to never read translations

[Anonymous No.15959846]

pretty basic bitch for someone that has been reading for 4 years

[Anonymous No.15959856]

>>15959743
>coping this hard after being told to learn french
LMFAOOOOOO

[Anonymous No.15959896]

>>15959625
>patting on back
i asked what you translated, you respond: i've read x (which is the back-patting) but have translated nothing, as i suspected
>anyone can learn languages
learning language requires a lot of feedback and time, you can't assume everyone has this available and accessible
>given the choice
i will read translations of latin over learning latin, you're just larping. QED

[Anonymous No.15959897]

>>15958550
Why is lit so hostile Jesus christ.

[Anonymous No.15959905]

>>15959896
if you have time to shitpost on /lit/ all fucking day long like you have been, you have time to learn a language

you're too stupid to learn latin, keep coping retard

[Anonymous No.15959918]

>>15958550
>Ivo Andric
Are you balkan?

[Anonymous No.15959927]

That's a lot of meme books but for some reason not enough meme books.
At least you had fun with King.
4 or 5 books of modern philosophy would have made it much better, honestly.
you also have a few translations of Vargas, are you building up for Conversation at the Cathedral and War at the end of the world?

[Anonymous No.15959979]

>>15959834
(You):
> You'll see that translation is garbage and fucks up almost every single sentence. You'll at least know what you're getting into when you pick up a translation if you at least learn a second language
I'm not the language scholar that you claim to be, but when i see "translation is garbage" and "(translation) fucks up every sentence" i read that to mean translation is worse than not reading at all. You're just repeating the /lit/ meme
>>15959905
you're confusing posters here, no arg against learning a language but the idea you've tied yourself to (all translation is a failure) is highly elitist, your logic dictates: since no one speaks latin, we should abandon all latin translations until someone can claim fluency in it. translation is an art; most readers are in arrears for the mighty efforts of those that want to share rather than chastise because of social/national starting place. There's no cover charge for reading outside one's culture anon

[Anonymous No.15960004]

>>15959979
>since no one speaks latin, we should abandon all latin translations until someone can claim fluency in it.
never said that retard :) but you are too stupid to learn latin anyways hahaha i don't expect you to learn shit, keep reading garbage translations and leave the big boy reading to the rest of us haha we'll just laugh at you, oh is that elitist??? hahaha sorry pussy i guess knowing math is elitist too, and being able to play violin hahaha you're such a retard pussy nigger lmao

[Anonymous No.15960017]

>>15958550
that's all you read in 7 years? lmao holy shit you are stupid

[Anonymous No.15960052]

>>15960004
I've never been so tempted to post that Wojack crying under a mask before, but I'll try to reach the end of my natural life without having debased myself to Wojack posting.

Just know you're retarded.

[Anonymous No.15960062]

>>15960017
seems fine to me, unless he starts a family he can read all the necessary theory/non-fiction you pseuds think it's good enough to be /lit/ in 5 years

[Anonymous No.15960068]

>>15960052
>I've never been so tempted to post that Wojack crying under a mask before, but I'll try to reach the end of my natural life without having debased myself to Wojack posting.
>Just know you're retarded.

[Anonymous No.15960092]

>>15960068
based

[Anonymous No.15960101]

>>15959846
>4 years
Pic related.

>>15959897
Because most anons here are zoomers who don't actually read and get intimidated by those who do.

>>15959918
I'm American who's white Hispanic and lives in DC.

>>15959927
>4 or 5 books of modern philosophy would have made it much better, honestly.
Catholicism is my only philosophy.
>you also have a few translations of Vargas, are you building up for Conversation at the Cathedral and War at the end of the world?
I'm actually planning to read War at the end of the World; it's in my backlog.

>>15960017
Some of us adults can't read as much as we like to because we have to work, zoomer.

[Anonymous No.15960102]

>>15960004
whew, thought i'd get something original here, glad to see you trot out the classic adhoms

[Anonymous No.15960110]

>>15960101
lazy, not an argument, it doesn't take long to learn french, spanish, italian, etc.
>>15960102
ur a lazy monolingual nigger who is coping, just shut up brainlet lmao learn french

[Anonymous No.15960124]

>>15960110
read this out loud to another human and explain how you came out with the upper hand

>protip: you can't

[Anonymous No.15960136]

>>15960110
You realize that I, OP, am not the one who's arguing about translations with you, right? I'm a working class adult who balances his free time reading literature, exercising outside, maintaining friendships, and studying stocks. I literally don't have the time to pursue as many intellectual endeavors as I want to. Such is the life of a wagecuck. That being said, I can speak fluent English and Spanish, and rudimentary German.

[Anonymous No.15960152]

>>15960110
Holy shit anon, stop being such an autist. Some people don't have the time to learn a second langauge because they've allocated their resources differently. It's as simple as that.

[Anonymous No.15960155]

>>15960101
>Catholicism is my only philosophy.
Then there are better catholic philosophers than the ones you are reading
As peruvian it makes me proud people take the time to mostly read Vargas chronologically

[Anonymous No.15960161]

>>15960110
ITT: a typical /lit/ poster gets exposed

[Anonymous No.15960169]

>>15960110
you can't just accept you are wrong and move on, you have to insist for whatever reason you have.
Stop it, get some help

[Anonymous No.15960177]

>>15958919
ask me how I know you can't even bench a plate

[Anonymous No.15960210]

>>15960110
>extremely online zoomer tells normal, working, everyday person that he's a "nigger" and a "brainlet" for not engaging with hobby seriously enough by learning multiple foreign languages
All those languages up your sleeve, and not an ounce of grace

[Anonymous No.15960234]

>>15960004
holy fucking based

[Anonymous No.15960307]

>>15960234
>>15960210
ladies and gents, i'm afraid that our deepest hope is confirmed...we got 'em

[Anonymous No.15960846]

How many of the books about on your shelves have you guys actually read? I find it hard to make it through even 300 page long books, nevermind multiple of them or longer. Add is a bitch lmao i've been thinking of trying pairing it with an audiobook, but it kinda ruins the idea of a peaceful self book reading and feels like a cucked experience. Idk. I want to read more, but I just have trouble

[Anonymous No.15960973]

>>15960846
Delete your social media, don't consumer visual media, put your phone away, and get off /lit/. Now you suddenly have more time to read.

[Anonymous No.15960977]

>>15960846
painting may be for you

[Anonymous No.15961073]

>>15960846
cut your internet for a month you will read

[Anonymous No.15961408]

>>15960124
>>15960136
>>15960152
>>15960161
>>15960169
>>15960210
shut up lazy monolingual retards lmao just admit you're too dumb to learn a second language and every excuse you give is just cope for a low IQ, i bet you've tried a failed to learn another language many times and now you cope constantly about it, me no have time, me no have resources, me no have blah blah blah, how about you no have IQ HAAHAHAHA monolingual scum, if you only knew how dumb and bovine being a monolingual makes you hahahaha

[Anonymous No.15961463]

>>15958596
I was going to say get rid of that Ayn Rand bullshit... and then I saw the Mein Kampf... Why the fuck do you have that piece of shit in there?

[Anonymous No.15961480]

>>15961463
he's a retarded neo-nazi, what do you expect lmao

[Anonymous No.15961560]

>>15961408
here it is (you)

[Anonymous No.15961566]

>>15961560
shut up pussy monolingual brainlet

[Anonymous No.15961570]

>>15961408
>>15961566
>complains about other people not learning other languages because they're lazy and waste too much time on 4chan
>has been shitposting like an absolute retard for the last 7 hours
Yikes.

[Anonymous No.15961580]

>>15961570
i logged on my computer right now after 3-4 hours of reading, cope harder retard

[Anonymous No.15961587]

>>15961580
need another one?
here (you)

[Anonymous No.15961588]

>>15961587
thanks faggot, i know ur obsessed with me

[Anonymous No.15961603]

>>15959100
>christians should renounce the world and politics as well
>basic moral ideas that can be separated from politics

[Anonymous No.15961662]

>>15961588
(you)

[Anonymous No.15961664]

>>15958550

Definitely give you props for being a fan of Ray Bradbury. <3

[Anonymous No.15961677]

>>15961480
>>15961463
>>15958919
Kek keep seething weaklings

[Anonymous No.15961761]

>>15961580
Você é uma bichinha.

[Anonymous No.15961811]

>>15959558
Hardcovers are expensive af my man

[Anonymous No.15962125]

>>15961408
I know more languages than you (6; including Latin), thus I have the authority the say that you're a dumb cunt.

[Anonymous No.15962154]

>>15958550
>>15959235

>No Michael Crichton

Lurk more

[Anonymous No.15962184]

>>15958786
BASED

[Anonymous No.15962191]

>>15958550
>all that Vargas Llosa
Gringo basado.

[Anonymous No.15962212]

>>15962125
no you don't

[Anonymous No.15962220]

>>15961811
No they're not

[Anonymous No.15962294]

>>15958550
>>15958557
>>15958570
>>15958585
>>15958596
If I found your collection in a dumpster I would salvage most of it.

[Anonymous No.15963240]

>>15959607
>given the choice between translation and exclusion
lucky for you that's never the choice

[Anonymous No.15963395]

>>15959556
nice larp

>>15958550
OP needs more Faulkner and more Conrad
3/5

[Anonymous No.15963448]

Why do these posts seem unreasonably toxic for what the thread is about?
Is everyone just jealous of OP for sticking to a thing for 7 years? (eve nif it something so mundane as reading fiction and browsing /lit/)

[Anonymous No.15963453]

What's your favorite Bradbury story?

[Anonymous No.15963561]

>>15958550
>since I was 19
Never going to make it

[Anonymous No.15963596]

>>15959464
>hebrew and greek
>dead languages
And before you come at me with "but Koine Greek isn't the same as modern Greek!!" it really doesn't take much extra work to bridge the two.

To his point, everyone who reads literature seriously should at least know Latin. There's really not an excuse for just sitting down an hour or so a day for a year to be proficient with it

[Anonymous No.15963760]

>>15959558
This. I give OP's shelves a 6.5/10. Hardbacks are cheap if you buy owned stuff online, and even then hardbacks are genuinely only 30% more expensive when bought new, less than the price of a good coffee added onto your book.

The lack of non-fiction is also pretty atriocus, and there's a lot of essential fiction missing there.

[Anonymous No.15963808]

why does lit fetishizes hardbacks?

[Anonymous No.15964026]

>>15958570
You have fallen for all the memes.

[Anonymous No.15964057]

>>15959508
As someone able to read five languages, you are retarded. To be abl to actually understand the subtext of a foreign language you need at least 5-10 years of cultural regular context. You can learn to communicate in a couple months, but that will not benfit you in reading for example a russian work, as you will know nothing abot the humour or other linguistic fines - which a proper translation with annotation will be able to transform. Memeing learning a language which you will never atually use, most if at all in reading, is retarded and shows that you're an illiterate mutt.

[Anonymous No.15964589]

>>15958550
You've browsed this board for 7 years and yet somehow you've managed to avoid reading Camus.
I mean, you should have at least have a printed out version of l'anomie on your shelf.

[Anonymous No.15966031]

>>15958550
didn't even look, you're an attention whore niggerlover, fuck you and die OP
saged