No shelf thread?

[Anonymous No.17637592]

Don't roast me I'm learning to get into good lit

Currently reading Aeschylus

[Anonymous No.17637599]

>learning to get into good lit
nice! when are you going to start?

[Anonymous No.17637607]

>>17637592
The Huckleberry Finn and Treasure Island look pretty beautiful

[Anonymous No.17637618]

remove the jbp book, or at least remove the cover

[Anonymous No.17637681]

>>17637618
The funny thing is that the actual cloth cover is put on the book upside down so without the dust cover it would be upside down

[Anonymous No.17637756]

bumperino

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[Anonymous No.17637780]

>>17637592
>>17637756
I’ll bump, but only because I already listed my shelf a long time ago. I’m one of those with the giant religious collection.

[Anonymous No.17637785]

>>17637592
>Shelf thread
Consoomers get out. Fuck I hate you all.

[Anonymous No.17637805]

>>17637769
nice shelf m8
>>17637785
what's the matter m8, no shelf to show?

[Anonymous No.17637927]

recent addition, complete tragedies, haven't started on them yet tho

[Anonymous No.17637932]

1/2
>>17637769
You basically have the same books as me, but I don't have pictures of my full collection. So I know you are a very well-read and intelligent individual.

[Anonymous No.17637946]

>>17637932
2/2
I have two other shelfs and two whole tubs full of books. Unfortunately the tubs contain the majority of my books, which I don't have a picture. The tubs also contain my more recent purchases and show how I've expanded as a reader. I'm sure most will label me as a memer and a dilettante based on this one shelf.

[Anonymous No.17637981]

>>17637946
take a picture of tubs

[Anonymous No.17637997]

>>17637981
I can't they're like 800 miles away from me. The best I can offer is this picture of the shelf in my apartment.

[Anonymous No.17638006]

>>17637981
And this picture of another shelf I own

[Anonymous No.17638015]

>>17637981
Oh and there's also this picture I posted in a recent purchases thread like 3 years ago. I don't think any of these are pictured in what I've posted

[Anonymous No.17638024]

>>17638006
The vertical stack is blocking all my Cormac McCarthy's if anyone is curious. I'm just missing Outer Dark and The Orchard Keeper

[Anonymous No.17638029]

>>17637769
really good, especially the bernhard. but where's frost my good man?

[Anonymous No.17638034]

>>17637592
Self help books are fucking gay kid. Have some self respect and read actual philosophy.

[Anonymous No.17638045]

>>17637592
Philosophy is fucking gay kid. Have some self respect and get religious/become an atheist.

[Anonymous No.17638103]

>>17638045
Religion is philosophy kid.

[Anonymous No.17638130]

>>17637592
>Lobster man book

[Anonymous No.17638250]

>>17637592
That's a solid shelf, anon.

[Anonymous No.17638271]

>>17637769
>reading glasses
Damn, glad I'm not a cripple.

[Anonymous No.17638310]

>>17637599
kek

Currently reading Moby Dick and The Way of Men right now.

Never read it in high-school and I only took one literature class in college so I never had it as assigned reading like many do. Only one chapter in and it's pretty challenging and fun to read.

Way of Men reads at a 5th grade level by a meathead, but I agree with what it says so far. A lot I've known, a few parts I didn't. Good thing it'll be a quick read. Hope it gets more enlightening later on.

[Anonymous No.17638349]

>>17637769
Great taste

[Anonymous No.17638357]

>>17638310
>The Way of Men
Cringe. But everything else in your collection looks neato fren

[Anonymous No.17638370]

>>17638310
Very weird bookshelf anon.

[Anonymous No.17638380]

>>17638310
Are you a Jew?

[Anonymous No.17638390]

>>17638357
>>17638370
thanks

>>17638380
That's a negative.

[Anonymous No.17638416]

>>17638310
That was a real rollercoaster. I legitimately did not expect the bottom shelf at all. I didn't expect the 2nd from bottom either, but the bottom really took me by surprise.

[Anonymous No.17638851]

>>17637769
this is a good core but way too safe a selection. zibaldone and maybe flann o'brien are the only unpredictables. like get darconville's cat or miss macintosh, my darling to spike out your 20th century american doorstopper fetish.

[Anonymous No.17638868]

>>17637769
I know it isn’t a very fashionable opinion to express around here but our tastes look similar enough that I must heartily encourage you to get a copy of No Country for Old Men and read it

[Anonymous No.17638921]

>>17638851
Well, you're not wrong. I just started reading seriously not even two years ago, so I've been getting familiar with all of the big name shit as of now. I have no interest in Theroux and even less in Marguerite Young.

>>17638868
I'll definitely get around to it and the rest of McCarthy's novels eventually. Kind of burnt out on him now, I read all of those really close together last year.

[Anonymous No.17638922]

>>17637592
You seem like a respectable chap.

[Anonymous No.17638997]

>>17638045
I am a Christian. The rainbow colored books are the New Testament

[Anonymous No.17639004]

>>17637927
Seneca collection looks great

[Anonymous No.17639359]

>>17638310
Why are there doors on your bookshelf? Do you hide the collection or something?

[Anonymous No.17639594]

>>17637599
Underrated

[Anonymous No.17640620]

>>17639004
thanks. can't find fucking hardship and happiness in a cloth binding though to finish it off :\ they only make shitty hardcover bindings now but re-used the isbn so it's basically impossible to find the original binding since no book retailer uploads specific pics and there's no way to search that I'm aware of

[Anonymous No.17640668]

>>17638130
i found one in an op shop and shat in it on video

[Anonymous No.17640722]

>>17637592
what's that NT where each book is separated? Why do you have that?

[Anonymous No.17640777]

How do you Like my Victor Hugo complete works (reference edition)?

[Anonymous No.17640781]

>>17640777
very nice. how did he write so much

[Anonymous No.17640818]

>>17640781
Dunno, because he was raising a family, playing at politics a little, and bedding his maids at the same time... the mind boggles
Edition is by Jean Massin, incidentally; final two volumes contain all his artwork, if you're interested!

[Anonymous No.17640860]

Have some more shelves, anons

[Anonymous No.17640866]

Encyclopedias/reference mostly

[Anonymous No.17640873]

Jeeze, these photos are really shit quality, sorry... I'll try to take some new ones with a proper camera

[Anonymous No.17641875]

>>17639359

It has glass display doors. Helps keep the dust out.

[Anonymous No.17642113]

>>17641875
What about the test which gets locked in?

[Anonymous No.17642131]

>>17642113
>test

???

[Anonymous No.17642417]

>>17640860
what are those collections?

[Anonymous No.17642442]

>>17642417
Well now, big red series at the top is all of Victor Hugo, black volumes next to that are the complete (almost, I'm missing one dumb volume) plays of Musset, Marivaux and Beaumarchais. Lower shelf red volumes are complete plays of Racine, Corneille and Molière, then all of Balzac, and finally Chevallier's history of philosophy (odd choice, but there was just enough room to put it there).
I apologise again for the poor quality of the pics, I can take better ones if you're interested in one collection or the other..

[Anonymous No.17642705]

1/5

[Anonymous No.17642715]

2/5

[Anonymous No.17642724]

3/5

[Anonymous No.17642725]

>>17637769

I like your home built shelf. 2x12 framing lumber?

[Anonymous No.17642730]

4/5

[Anonymous No.17642739]

5/5

[Anonymous No.17642763]

>>17638416
Didn't you see the bible in the first pic?

[Anonymous No.17642772]

>>17637769
the beginning of a good shelf. Nice job, anon.

[Anonymous No.17642846]

>>17637927
>He actually started with the greeks
Nobody tell him

[Anonymous No.17642853]

>>17637927
Based Seneca reader. Amazing taste stoicbro

[Anonymous No.17642930]

>>17638310
bro your dunes are out of order

[Anonymous No.17642933]

>>17642715
I have the same Lolita edition. Also, great collection and nice shelf.

[Anonymous No.17642958]

>>17642930

Thanks, bro. Fixed now.

[Anonymous No.17643115]

>>17642442
no prob, thanks for posting! really like your collection

[Anonymous No.17643212]

>>17642846
I actually didn't, I started with real literature when I started reading many years ago. The pictured shelf is mostly post-/lit/ though, as you noticed

[Anonymous No.17643216]

>>17642930
>>17642958
wew that was a close one. great example of /lit/ team spirit

[Anonymous No.17643419]

>>17643216
Thumbs up, guys! So great to see brotherhood and fellowship over a mutually shared love of great books. We may have different tastes and opinions, but that’s OK! As long as we believe in ourselves and each other, we can build a community that inspires the reader in everyone. Keep up the great work, gang!

[Anonymous No.17643482]

>>17637592
what are those tiny books on the top shelf?
if they're individual books of the bible please tell me where you got them. I spent months looking for those fucking things before finally giving up.

[Anonymous No.17643493]

>>17642705
What did you think of leviathan? How hard of a read is it?

[Anonymous No.17643527]

k welcome to the reference section

[Anonymous No.17643552]

>>17637769
Did you just buy every single book /lit/ told you to buy? This is 100% a 4chan.org/lit/ bookshelf and, thus, I declare it cringe

[Anonymous No.17643596]

>>17637769
lol you have a lot of the meme books. get into patrick white.

[Anonymous No.17643597]

>>17643482
They look like these https://www.amazon.com/ESV-Illuminated-Scripture-Journal-Testament/dp/1433564998/

[Anonymous No.17643865]

>>17643552
>This is 100% a 4chan.org/lit/ bookshelf
Well, in a sense, it is. As I mentioned above, I haven't even been reading seriously for two years at this point. Being this new to the medium, I figured to start with what is generally talked about and well-regarded by people who are far more knowledgable than myself. Once I've covered that ground, I'll go deeper.

>>17643596
I was considering Voss for the last batch of books I bought, but I decided on John Hawke's The Lime Twig and The Cannibal instead. Is Voss a good starting point with White?

[Anonymous No.17643896]

[Anonymous No.17643909]

>>17643865
>Is Voss a good starting point with White?
sure. get riders too.

[Anonymous No.17644030]

>>17643896
Nice shelf anon

[Anonymous No.17644115]

>>17643597
Based! Thanks anon!
a bit pricey though

[Anonymous No.17644476]

>>17640873
Basé

[Anonymous No.17644617]

one of my shelves

[Anonymous No.17644710]

>>17644617
Resentful jew...crap books

[Anonymous No.17644721]

>>17644617
>says one
>actually three
>labeled four

[Anonymous No.17644986]

>>17638310
I wouldn't read any of the bottom shelf either.

[Anonymous No.17645076]

>>17644986
I would read Evola and Kazcynscki.

[Anonymous No.17645120]

>>17637769
You’re one of those weird reader subspecies only into postmodernist tomes. Do you even have any Shakespeare? Please read more classic lit.

[Anonymous No.17645554]

>tfw no one even mocks or says your shelves are based

[Anonymous No.17646132]

>>17640860
Holy cringe.

[Anonymous No.17646141]

>>17645554
Which shelf is yours? I'll tell you it's shit

[Anonymous No.17646612]

[Anonymous No.17646649]

>>17646612
Based. What'd you think of Antkind?

[Anonymous No.17646666]

>>17644617
everyone you know secretly hates you

[Anonymous No.17646715]

[Anonymous No.17646865]

mine is partially all russian books so won't post

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[Anonymous No.17646880]

>>17646865
Plenty of pseuds post their russian shelves, do it

[Anonymous No.17646956]

>>17646880
Fine

[Anonymous No.17647358]

>>17643896
im gonna cum

[Anonymous No.17647363]

>>17646612
honestly invest in a better guitar, you get more motivated to play if it's prettier

[Anonymous No.17647482]

How d'you like them shelves?

[Anonymous No.17647493]

[Anonymous No.17647503]

>>17647482
>>17647493
Those are some beautiful editions; are you a biblical scholar?

[Anonymous No.17647506]

OK, after this one, there are a lot of messy shelves that still need sorting out, but I've tried to make the books visible

[Anonymous No.17647512]

>>17647503
Thank you anon! I'm a classicist, only an amteur Bible scholar... but I got the whole 3 sets of encyclopedias free when my university library were emptying some shelves. It was a good day!

[Anonymous No.17647523]

Philology shelf (if I didn't get mixed up in my files)

[Anonymous No.17647534]

[Anonymous No.17647542]

Theology

[Anonymous No.17647548]

Theology (cont.)

[Anonymous No.17647553]

>>17643552
standard bookshelf for anyone with even half-serious interest in literature. consider suicide my friend.

[Anonymous No.17647554]

>>17647548
Sorry, potato quality there; Garrigou-Lagrange, Hervé, Tonquédec's book on miracles and the supernatural, Tixeront's Patrology, and a Jesuit history of world religions, basically

[Anonymous No.17647559]

Scripture studies

[Anonymous No.17647564]

...continued

[Anonymous No.17647567]

Medieval English/Anglo Saxon

[Anonymous No.17647576]

Adequate lighting helps, desu

[Anonymous No.17647581]

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[Anonymous No.17647606]

Why does the captcha like boats, pedestrian crossings, traffic lights and parking meters so much?

[Anonymous No.17647608]

>>17646715
I like this one

[Anonymous No.17647614]

Almost there

[Anonymous No.17647622]

Last random one!

[Anonymous No.17647634]

>>17647622
(As you may have guessed, many of these have yet to be sorted and tidied up, hence why some are upside down...)

[Anonymous No.17647636]

Mostly poetry, and a few novels (not a big novel reader desu)

[Anonymous No.17647641]

>>17637592
>how to read a book
Is this bait? Can you read? If yes, then yes you can read a book retard.

[Anonymous No.17647644]

Moving onto Classics

[Anonymous No.17647647]

[Anonymous No.17647650]

>>17647644
>>17647647
Still quite difficult to read the titles, sorry

[Anonymous No.17647658]

Backlight, unfortunately

[Anonymous No.17647665]

>>17637592
Of course you should widen your horizons, but don't be afraid of liking stuff just because lit doesn't.

[Anonymous No.17647666]

Taken while I was tidying up, but no new items since

[Anonymous No.17647675]

Mostly French lit, and various critical essays/philosophical stuff

[Anonymous No.17647707]

Main shelf, general view

[Anonymous No.17647711]

More detailed (though I still can't get all the titles!)

[Anonymous No.17647716]

ancient history and classics, that kind of thing

[Anonymous No.17647717]

Mostly miscellaneous history, mostly...

[Anonymous No.17647724]

My Pléiades collection, for fellow frogs and French lit connoisseurs

[Anonymous No.17647729]

Part 2 of said Pléiade collection

[Anonymous No.17647730]

>>17638310
bottom shelf is based as fuck holy fucking shit

[Anonymous No.17647735]

Then some more plebeian paperback type of books

[Anonymous No.17647789]

some extras...

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[Anonymous No.17647838]

>>17637592
Printed web essays gang reporting

[Anonymous No.17647960]

>>17638310
>pretty challenging
looking at your shelf i can see why

[Anonymous No.17648004]

>>17647482
>>17647493
>>17647506
>>17647534
>>17647542
>>17647548
>>17647559
>>17647564
>>17647567
>>17647576
>>17647581
>>17647586
>>17647598
>>17647606
>>17647614
>>17647622
>>17647636
>>17647644
>>17647647
>>17647658
>>17647675
>>17647707
>>17647711
>>17647716
>>17647717
>>17647724
>>17647729
>>17647789
>>17647793
>>17647798
très cool

[Anonymous No.17648146]

>>17648004
Merci, anon!

[Anonymous No.17648182]

>>17638310
Tactically placed all redpilled literature on the bottom shelf to hide it quickly kek

[Anonymous No.17648187]

>>17645120
I'm definitely into pomo fiction but this guys only has some of the more popular tomes. What the fuck are you talking about? Most of that shelf isn't even pomo.

[Anonymous No.17648216]

>>17637932
I've never met anyone else who's read the Sot-Weed Factor. Have you read it? I think it's delightfully weird.

[Anonymous No.17648288]

No anons with a Junger shelf? Reeeeeeeeeeeee

[Anonymous No.17648291]

normie shelf

[Anonymous No.17648416]

>>17646649
Its terrific I highly recommend it

>>17647363
I have a Yamaha sa-15, it goes alright

[Anonymous No.17648436]

>>17638310
>/pol/braintlet that bought a bunch of race related books and never read them
Many such cases

[Anonymous No.17648493]

>>17648216
I liked how the novel put into question the concept of identity. Most of the novel Ebenezer is trying to prove that he is really Ebenezer Cooke, and Burlingame is always changing identities. Not to mention it's doubtful about Ebenezer's title to Poet Laureate of Maryland. Wasn't it Burlingame disguised as the King who bestowed him that title? It was a very funny novel. It's a modern Quixote.

The storyline of discovering Burlingame's true lineage was also very great. I loved them finding and reading the diary entries from the missionary. Also eggplant penis.

[Anonymous No.17648504]

>>17647553
Do what you’re told and read the Greeks again

[Anonymous No.17648518]

I'm now about a year and a half into reading and I've almost half filled up my bookshelf now.

[Anonymous No.17648901]

>>17648518
You only learned to read 18 months ago??? Congrats anon!

[Anonymous No.17648912]

>tfw noone responds to your shelf

[Anonymous No.17648919]

>>17648901
Nah but up until 18 months ago I'd only read like a book every three fuckin years. Now I'm well into it.

[Anonymous No.17648921]

>>17647838
Where did you get this? I would love to print those out since I am going to be starting landmark caesar soon

[Anonymous No.17648943]

>>17637592
>Ready Player One
Oh dear

[Anonymous No.17649496]

>>17648518
can I ask you this small favor: to take a photo of the first page of the OUP Moby Dick?

[Anonymous No.17649525]

>>17644617

As always, very nice. Anything new?

[Anonymous No.17649537]

>>17644710
>>17646666
Imagine being this angry about books.

[Anonymous No.17649747]

>>17649496

[Anonymous No.17650005]

>>17648436
How do you know I didn't buy them or read them?

[Anonymous No.17650065]

>>17637769
Extremely cringe. Think for yourself

[Anonymous No.17650338]

>>17649747
>driving off the spleen

tf?

[Anonymous No.17650372]

>>17637769
Who's your favorite writer?

[Anonymous No.17650390]

>>17638024
Definitely get Outer Dark.

[Anonymous No.17651143]

>>17648518
Based owl appreciater.

[Anonymous No.17651148]

>>17648518
Based owl appreciator.

[Anonymous No.17651312]

>>17650338
What's wrong with that?

>>17651148
Thanks mate. My little brother got me a pair of those little owl statues from like a Sunday market or summat like that.

[Anonymous No.17651397]

>>17648182
Honestly the average person wouldn't know who Evola is. Kazcynscki though? And a book straight up called "White Power"? Wew.
Also, a title like "Why Race Matters" could be a progressive book nowadays.

[Anonymous No.17651468]

>>17637769
Since everyone is calling your selection good, or cringe for being safely good, I'm going to copy your shit
Just so you know anon

[Anonymous No.17651488]

Been reading for almost a year and a half now. Sometimes I just download epubs or pdfs off libgen instead of buying it though.

[Anonymous No.17652199]

>>17651488
Landmarks are based. Highly recommend getting all of them (the second Xenophon is coming out later this year too!). You could do with more Plato, but in general the politics/philosophy stuff you have is solid (though more indicative of a broad survey than any particular interest that you've dived into). Why do you have two volume 2s of Democracy in America?

Anyways, decent start for a Freshman/Sophomore in university. You should expand your reading to include more literary fiction, drama, and poetry, however.

[Anonymous No.17652447]

>>17652199
>Why do you have two volume 2s of Democracy in America?
I ordered the two volumes from eBay but only 1 volume came so I had to order them again.

[Anonymous No.17652500]

>>17649525
My newest acquisitions. I'm halfway through Transgender Industrial Complex--very distressing material.

[Anonymous No.17653607]

>>17651488
What's a missal and why is it specifically 1962?

[Anonymous No.17653620]

>>17648291
>hiding hannibal rising
kek

[Anonymous No.17653652]

>>17652500

Very nice.

[Anonymous No.17654597]

>>17638006
Palahniuk is one of my favorite authors. I just finished reading the Invisible Monsters remix for the first time this morning.

[Anonymous No.17654717]

>>17653607
Missals contain mass readings for the liturgical year. Anon probably got it second hand, hence the age.

[Anonymous No.17654738]

>>17653607
He is a trad catholic

[Anonymous No.17654772]

>>17637785
Based.

[Anonymous No.17654912]

>>17654717
>probably got it second hand
Nah that's a new trad printing. 1962 still had Latin Mass as the regular Sunday Mass which was the case until the Second Vatican council took place from 1962 to 1965. Then masses in the local language were used.

[Anonymous No.17655531]

>>17637769
>No nonfiction

[Anonymous No.17655539]

>>17637592
that top shelf is a dead giveaway you browse /lit/

[Anonymous No.17656107]

>>17637785
>>Consoomers get out. Fuck I hate you all.
>reads books
>IM NOT THE CONSUMER
>YOU ARE THE CONSUMER
Nice cope my fellow consumer

[Anonymous No.17656131]

>>17651488
could you post pictures of the Thucydides and Herodotus without their dust covers? I've been considering picking those up but the hardcovers are super expensive new, debating whether it's worth looking for a good deal used

[Anonymous No.17656209]

>>17637769
Too modernist

[Anonymous No.17656329]

>>17656209
There's at most 8 modernist authors on that shelf. The majority is postmodernist.
Congrats, you're a pseud.

[Anonymous No.17656614]

>>17637592
What are the mushrooms?

[Anonymous No.17656679]

>>17638357
filtered

[Anonymous No.17656759]

>>17656131
Not him, but here you go, anon.

[Anonymous No.17656825]

>>17637769
As others have said, this is essentially the core of /lit/ on a shelf (minus a some obvious ones like Shakespeare and Toole).

But even so if you've only been reading seriously for 2 years as you say here >>17643865, this is one hell of a start.

I would encourage you to to explore some tangents when you get to a book that hits you, and to add some more history, philosophy, and poetry. But it's also quite hypocritical for others here to call this cringe given that this is a pretty accurate depiction of the books discussed here.

Anyways, nice shelf, *great* start for being so new to this, and I hope you keep at it. Cheers anon and God bless.

[Anonymous No.17656865]

>>17637785
The purchase of a book is not the consumption of that book; the reading of it is. How does it feel to know that you are consuming my post right now, anon?

[Anonymous No.17656922]

>>17656759
oh nice, thank you for doing that anon! Do they feel high quality? and I'm having trouble judging the texture, are they clothbound or a cheaper binding?

[Anonymous No.17656970]

>>17656922
No worries anon. They are not cloth bound; all but Thucydides seen to bee semi-textured paper all the way around the boards, and the Thucydides is paper plus a different textured paper that mimics cloth more closely on the spines. Pretty consistent with the binding of your typical modern hardcover.

That said, they feel fine and I think are much superior than the paperbacks because they will lay flat when open which makes reading easier (for me, anyways). My copy of Herodotus actually got a bit water damaged during a move but it held up well enough through that and is still readable/structurally sound so there's that as well.

[Anonymous No.17657063]

>>17656970
thanks for all the detail. I'm debating about whether I should get these or just get penguin paperbacks. The hardback of Herodotus is pretty pricey since it's apparently out of print

[Anonymous No.17657200]

>>17657063
If you have very good familiarity with the geography of the Ancient world and have a general concept of the period, you can manage with the Penguin, but the inset maps in the Landmark really are invaluable if your geography is sketchy or if you're not familiar with the ancient names of places. I actually think this is probably more important for Herodotus than Thucydides given how widely he ranges about, but YMMV.

It looks like used hardcover copies of Landmark Herodotus are going for around $60; if it were me I would go that route as opposed to a paperback non-landmark edition. The extra $40 or so is worth it over the long term I think.

[Anonymous No.17657344]

>>17637769
all that postmodernism and no jameson or lyotard baka

[Anonymous No.17657439]

>>17657200
is it mostly maps that it has advantage in? or are there good commentary and notes and stuff too?
Also, how do you think just using an ancient atlas alongside would help?

[Anonymous No.17657527]

>>17653607
It's for the fssp parish I go to. I have a second one so I just put it on the shelf.

[Anonymous No.17657537]

>>17657439
There is commentary and side-notes and archaeological information as well, which is invaluable (possibly even necessary) if you are a lay reader. It's less important if you're already familiar with the times and places, though it's still nice to have. That said, having the commentary inset with the text is nice but not nearly as important as having the maps right there.

I'm sure that you could manage with an atlas; after all, using supplemental maps and discussions were how we all learned this stuff prior to the Landmarks coming out. But it is really nice to have everything bound up in one place, and with detailed maps and diagrams right next to the text they correspond to. As I said before, for me that's worth the extra $40 or so, even though I already have enough familiarity with the subject that it's no longer essential.

[Anonymous No.17657658]

>>17657537
yeh that's pretty convincing. I think I'll look around for a good condition used copy of the Herodotus, I think the others are in print and not too expensive

[Anonymous No.17657671]

[Anonymous No.17657749]

>>17637592
>>17651488
>1488
based missal bro gettin dubs

[Anonymous No.17657861]

Just got these bad boys from my local thrift store

[Anonymous No.17657904]

>>17657861
is that a time life book on the left? if so, based.

[Anonymous No.17657926]

>>17657671
Based Traditionalist anon... I've got a bit of Guénon, Schuon, Coomaraswamy (or whatever), Jean Hani, Oldmeadow etc., but only sad PDFs on my computer; are the books materially any good? I live in France, and Guénon original editions are a pretty nice find, but often expensive

>>17657749
>>17657527
Based tradcath anons

[Anonymous No.17657948]

>>17657904
Yeah thats the fourth one I got so far

[Anonymous No.17657981]

>>17637592
Whats that green book in the middle on the bottom?

[Anonymous No.17658768]

>>17657926
>are the books materially any good?
not the best but they are decent, not falling apart or something

[Anonymous No.17658779]

>>17657671
how's the dante translation in the everyman's? never seen one with a blue binding, looks beautiful

[Anonymous No.17658949]

>>17658768
Ok, thanks for the info! You're Romanian, I take it? Do you appreciate Eliade?

[Anonymous No.17659017]

>>17658949
Yes. Not a big fan of Eliade but still, he wasn't as bad as other academics.

[Anonymous No.17659108]

>>17659017
Oh great! You live in Romania, friend? Never been, but I did meet a girl from there who was teaching French lit at Oxford university, she was very nice, so I have a good prejudice!
Not as bad? how so? He was pretty based, desu!
I'm French, and he wrote quite a bit here, so I know him fairly well; even when his generalisations are debatable, and his sweeping statements deserve nuance, it's always a pleasant read, and his enthusiastic scholarship is refreshing (and less obsessively centered on a single reductionist theory, like Joseph Campbell, who is often very irritating on that front)

[Anonymous No.17659164]

>>17659108
Yeah, I live here atm.
I haven't read a lot of Eliade but he doesn't seem to be very profound, even if he isn't that wrong about things.

[Anonymous No.17659173]

>>17657749
>NRSV bible with trad missal
Why?

[Anonymous No.17659792]

Here's the pile, back two rows are mostly Greeks. There is no real order to the pile, what I feel like reading the most comes to the front.

[rapture1 No.17659821]

>>17647644
>>17647647

Oh hello, friend—that’s a mighty fine collection you got there. What is it that you study/do? Anything interesting/related to classics?
Very cool.

[Anonymous No.17659916]

>>17659792
is The Sufi of Rome worth my time? i havent read evola but id like to get into him. what are his best books ?

[Anonymous No.17659937]

>>17659916
https://youtu.be/As2pnkJkoUE
Review of Suffi of Rome

[Anonymous No.17659957]

>>17659792
>no marx
what's a matter? too TRANSGRESSIVE for you?

[Anonymous No.17660051]

>>17659173
It's the Oxford NRSV with Apocrypha too. Meaning the Deuterocanonical books the Church has always viewed as being part of the bible are included but cited as apocryphal and I think aren't included where they should go.

[Anonymous No.17660078]

>>17659957
No real need, I have Lenin's State and Revolution right there.

[Anonymous No.17660084]

>>17659916
I haven't actually gotten around to reading it yet, I'll post about it a bit more once I do.
>>17659937
This is the review that led me to buying a copy.

[Anonymous No.17660096]

>>17659916
Based on what other people have said about that book, it's a pretty good general overview of Evola's thought.

[Anonymous No.17660113]

>>17644617
absolutely based. nice shelf

[Anonymous No.17660120]

>>17659792
Ellul? Hegel? LInkola? This is the most Chad shelf I've seen in a long time, mate.

[Anonymous No.17660148]

>>17637592
>how to read a book
retard

[Anonymous No.17660158]

>>17659792
You're not White.

[Anonymous No.17660215]

>>17660120
Thank you for appreciating the pile.

[Anonymous No.17660244]

>>17659792
>two copies of BM: one paperback and one hardcover
I guess this is more common than I thought, huh

[Anonymous No.17660276]

>>17660244
I do have another copy on loan to a friend. The book you see in my pile under BM is John Sepich's notes on Blood Meridian.

[Anonymous No.17660295]

>>17659821
saved

[Anonymous No.17660302]

>>17660295
Sorry, anon. I have already downloaded this anon's image and made it my background. Please put it back.

[Anonymous No.17660305]

>>17647666
cool bro

[Anonymous No.17660384]

>>17647666
No better than the people who only collect harry potter books

[Anonymous No.17660435]

>>17660384
LOTR is just Harry Potter for racists.

[Anonymous No.17660562]

>>17660435
Oh would you shut up man

[Sage No.17660606]

>>17659173
Why is that surprising?

[Anonymous No.17660620]

>>17647960
passive-aggressive tranny

[Anonymous No.17660623]

>>17660606
The NRSV has gender neutral language in places where male terms are used.

[Anonymous No.17660844]

>>17647838
No shit! Did you use the link that I provided way back (it would have print errors on page 233 and low quality text on page 273; they hadn't corrected the pdf at the time I sent it to lulu for printing, though more recent ones I think have been fixed)?

In any case I'm glad that I'm not the only one who thought the essays were worth having printed and bound! Cheers anon, you have made my night!

[Anonymous No.17660930]

>>17648921
Sorry; should have wrapped you up in my reply as well. In any case, if it's the same one that I uploaded back in 2017, it's here - https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/robert-strassler-and-kurt-raaflaub/landmark-julius-caesar-web-essays/hardcover/product-1z9rpq56.html.. Note though that there are issues with the typesetting in the book on two pages (one where two lines have overlaid text; the other where the text is readable but kind of pixelated), because at the time the pdf file that was online also had those problems. If you're going to consider ordering it, it may be worth sending the current pdf for printing as I believe those issues have since been corrected.

[Anonymous No.17661076]

>>17660844
Based shelf anon

[Anonymous No.17661910]

>>17660623
I knew you were going to say that. You got memed.

[Anonymous No.17661944]

>>17661910
It's not a meme

[Anonymous No.17661985]

>>17646612
based cerberus

[Anonymous No.17662011]

>>17648518
I think this is a pretty great shelf for someone just getting into it. Mirin the Celine.

Keep it up anon.

[Anonymous No.17662036]

>>17660844
based comfy setup anon

[Anonymous No.17662070]

Finally finished Infinite Jest. What should I read next from this shelf?

[Anonymous No.17662095]

Finally finished Infinite Jest. Worth it but utterly exhausting. What should I read next from this shelf?

[Anonymous No.17662330]

>>17660930
Based thank you.

[Anonymous No.17662407]

>>17659792
>fascist who reads leftist lit
absolutely based and open-minded pilled

[Anonymous No.17662457]

>>17649537

Imagine arguing with quads. Plus, you know, he's right.

[Anonymous No.17662494]

>>17662011
Thanks a lot mate

[Anonymous No.17662574]

>>17662407
That's nice of you to say anon, I don't have very much leftist lit. I am open to recommendations :)

[Anonymous No.17662792]

>>17662095
Can't tell what half of those are, but I'd read the Divine Comedy.
Also, you've got the same Iliad as I do.

[Anonymous No.17662807]

>>17662574
I think this chart has a lot of literature that both lefties and righties can agree on (assuming you're against the status quo). Not all of those books are written by leftists obviously but definitely a good chunk.

[Anonymous No.17662809]

>>17662574
>>17662807
also this

[Anonymous No.17662931]

>>17662574
>>17662807
>>17662809
https://streamable.com/sffa50

[Anonymous No.17662980]

>>17659173
It's the most accurate translation by meaning, don't at me.

[Anonymous No.17663173]

>>17662980
I prefer ther NJB

[Anonymous No.17663197]

>>17662095
if you want to go for some light reading go for kafka
if not, moby dick or dante

[Anonymous No.17663276]

>>17662931
>>17662809
>>17662807
>>17662807
Thanks.

[Anonymous No.17663660]

>>17660384
Apart from the fact Tolkien is 100 times more based, I guess...
But you've seen my other shelves, with history, classics, theology, Scripture, French and English lit etc.: I don't just collect Tolkien, friend

[Anonymous No.17663671]

>>17662809
Said, Fanon, Derrida? I see you like pseuds, friend

[Anonymous No.17663678]

>>17660305
Thank you, bro

[Anonymous No.17663694]

>>17659821
Thank you, anon, it is the result of much browsing in second hand bookshops in Paris (and some internet buys). I'm very interested in what I do, actually, whether it counts as interesting is another matter! Doing a PhD in classics right now (so I guess I'll die pretty fast when the collapse comes!)

[Anonymous No.17663701]

>>17662809
>Bhabha
Kek, you like reading shit, anon, he's an obvious bullshitter (but good on him for building a career out of it desu)

[Anonymous No.17663732]

>>17663671
>>17663701
I haven't read most of that chart. I just found it somewhere

[Anonymous No.17663797]

>>17663732
Oh right, sorry fren
(but Bhabha is pretty crap desu)

[Anonymous No.17663951]

>>17662457
No. Fascism is cool and based.

[Anonymous No.17664301]

>>17662036
Thanks anon. I need to have more shelves made because I've reached capacity and have three ~3.5 foot stacks of books sitting on the floor. I'm expecting a small windfall of money next month, and am torn between having a carpenter make me lager and nicer built-in shelves and buying a new car. Will see what I choose, though I know my wife would prefer the shelves. In the mean time Pliny and Plutarch are sitting on the floor waiting for their places next to the other books that are in that left-most section.

[Anonymous No.17664630]

>>17664301
Plutarch? great! Got a complete bilingual Plutarch collection in the shelf I posted ITT; what edition do you have?

[Anonymous No.17664797]

>>17650338
>driving off the spleen
It has to do with the 4 humors, black bile attributed to the spleen is associated with melancholy

[Anonymous No.17664895]

>>17637769
nice

[Anonymous No.17666194]

>>17661944
It's the preferred translation for people who don't fall for dumb memes. The Word on Fire bible uses it

[Anonymous No.17666236]

>>17637592
huh, didn't know Fagles translated Aeneid too. Can't wait to get to it :)

[Anonymous No.17666873]

>>17640866
no offense but that seems like a waste of space. you have the internet at your fingertips

[Anonymous No.17666943]

>>17662980
LOL

[Anonymous No.17666971]

why nobody put them vertically ?

[Anonymous No.17666979]

>>17666971
You mean horizontally? Or on a tall shelf?

[Anonymous No.17667022]

>>17666979
>horizontally
yes, when the books are superimposed

[Anonymous No.17667045]

>>17666971
Tintin is so fucking based.

What do you think of this chart french anon??

[Anonymous No.17667087]

Do any of you have this BILLY black-brown shelf? wonder if it looks good in real life

[Anonymous No.17667125]

>>17667045
-Preferred : lautréamont , camus , balzac , camus , giono , stendhal , CELINE , and add Bloy
-Quite negligible : sartre , montesquieu , huysmans , voltaire

I did not read the others

[Anonymous No.17667194]

>>17667022
Oh yeah. I think it's a bit of a pain to take out a book when it's organized like that. I only do it when I run out of space or when a book has a bent cover or something

[Anonymous No.17667278]

>>17666971
>want to read second book from below
>have to get out every other book above it

[Anonymous No.17667305]

>>17667087
I have the TV stand version and the answer is no, but it's cheap and gets the job done. It's perfect if you haven't settled in a house yet because you won't get mad if it gets dinged when you move.

[Anonymous No.17667368]

>>17660844
how's decline and fall? worth reading 6 volumes of?

[Anonymous No.17667468]

>>17667368
It's great if you have an interest in later Roman history. The scholarship is less dated than modern academics would have you believe, and the prose is very good (I'm tempted to call it magisterial, though that sounds rather pretentious). And really wonderful use of footnotes (I like to think that DFW was inspired by Gibbon in this, though Wallace took it further than was strictly necessary).

[Anonymous No.17668746]

>>17656614
They're bookmarks that look like mushrooms growing out of your books

[Anonymous No.17669014]

>>17659792
Based

[Anonymous No.17669373]

>>17668746
Where to cop?

[Anonymous No.17669537]

>>17638310
What does living one's life as a clown feel like?

[Anonymous No.17669796]

>>17667045
For such a short list, I fail to see why such shit-tier writers as Sade and Boyer d'Argens are presentn while Montherlant, Bernanos or Julien Green, to select a few randomly, are not present. Except if it's coomer/lit/ in which case, understandable, have a nice day

[Anonymous No.17669802]

>>17667087
Strong boring post-modern vibes there

>>17667368
It's good, but most people just pretend to have read it (especially on this board); that's what I'm doing right now, actually

[Anonymous No.17669872]

>>17638310

>that bottom shelf

Who's and edgy boy! Are you the edgy boy!? Ooh yes you are! Yes! Yes you're such an edgy little edgelord yes you are!

Woof woof you fucking loser. Fuck off back to pol

[Anonymous No.17669895]

>>17669872
Gee, that shelf touched a nerve

[Anonymous No.17669906]

>>17669895

>you, being a dipshit

>"wow, what a dipshit"

>"LOL YOU'RE SO TRIGGERED"


This is you. This is what you sound like.

[Anonymous No.17669916]

>>17640781
he didnt have a phone or computor

[Anonymous No.17669955]

>>17669906
Kek, how am I being a dipshit, it's not even my shelf... but keep seething, man, it's entertaining. You got any more of them greentexts? or some more rageposts with lots of expressive punctuation? I love that kind of shit

[Anonymous No.17670007]

>>17653620
why hide Hannibal Rising but keep Atlus Shrugged and Fighting Fantasy?

[Anonymous No.17670511]

>>17637592

This isn't very informative, but it's a pic of a part of my library that ive had to treat for bookmites (hence the ziplock bags).
Also enjoyed your Fly Agaric mushrooms OP, so I put my own mushroom on top to be cute - it's a little felt Christmas tree decoration.

[Anonymous No.17670691]

>>17657926
Gallimard still publishes a lot of Guénon's works

[Anonymous No.17670745]

>>17666971
>Roger Peyrefitte
based pedo

[Anonymous No.17670754]

>>17669796
Montherlant is also just gay coomer lit

[Anonymous No.17671289]

>>17666971
Anon, que es eso

[Anonymous No.17671311]

>>17670754
Not quite sure what Montherlant you've read anon... Maybe someone had swapped the covers, as pranksters like Brasillach did in the 20s.

[Anonymous No.17671312]

>>17669802
why are you pretending to read it

[Anonymous No.17671319]

>>17666971
why are the spines upside down? I feel like this must be bait

[Anonymous No.17671821]

>>17671312
I'm not really pretending to read it, anon...

[Anonymous No.17671865]

>>17671821
then your use of semi-colon was entirely inappropriate

[Anonymous No.17671898]

>>17638310
BOOP-BOOP...WRONGTHINK DETECTED. INITIATE CHUDBUSTER.EXE!

[Anonymous No.17671999]

>>17671311
The Boys

[Anonymous No.17672058]

>>17671865
Perhaps... or I was shitposting, and you can shove it up your own colon, friend... just maybe

[Anonymous No.17672151]

>>17671999
That it? baka