/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.21551159]

Shelf thread

[Anonymous No.21551189]

>>21551159
What an idiot.

[Anonymous No.21551196]

>>21551159
Imagine going through all this trouble to take this staged as fuck tiny ass shelf picture so /lit/ thinks you're smart.

80% of that shelf is try-hard garbage.
Please go touch grass.

[Anonymous No.21551227]

>>21551196
>I own 4 Qur'ans
>try-hard

Anon.. I just like reading the same book

[Anonymous No.21551246]

Here is a picture of my children's bookshelf.

The adults have ereaders.

[Anonymous No.21551270]

>>21551246
What will you do when the inevitable collapse of civilization takes your books with it?

[Anonymous No.21551272]

>>21551159
Decent baiting attempt but you can't fool me

[Anonymous No.21551348]

>>21551159
>doesn't removed the used book stickers
disgusting

[Anonymous No.21551382]

My semi-annual participation. These are the shelves in my home office; more books are in other rooms in the house.

Part 1 - Fiction/Poetry

[Anonymous No.21551386]

>>21551382
Part 2 - Non-Fiction

[Anonymous No.21551391]

>>21551386
Part 3 - Dictionaries, History

[Anonymous No.21551418]

>>21551382
>>21551386
>>21551391
how much did all that cost

[Anonymous No.21551439]

[Anonymous No.21551440]

>>21551418
Don't have a number for you on the books, as they've accumulated over many years. Shelves rang in at around $6k IIRC, mainly because they were built to custom sizes and are mostly solid walnut.

[Anonymous No.21551552]

>>21551382
>>21551386
>>21551391

You need to read the Baroque Cycle if you haven't.

[Anonymous No.21551558]

>>21551270
there are good reasons to own physical books but this isn't one of them

[Anonymous No.21551688]

>>21551382
>>21551386
>>21551391
You have a few nice volumes, mostly the everyman's Gibbon and Proust, and the Folio plutarch, but I kinda feel bad for you. All of those gimmicky plastic books like the Dune cheapen the whole look. The Cambridge Hobbes and Locke are great, I have those, in addition to the Yale editions, which is a boon to the shelf, but overall you seem to have a few gems nestled within unproductive. Maybe get a good dune?

[Anonymous No.21551690]

>>21551552
Honestly I haven't enjoyed Stephenson since I was in my early 20s, and that was a while ago. So many better books out there that I'd rather spend my time reading.

[Anonymous No.21551734]

>>21551688
I agree the Barnes & Noble "Leatherbound Classics" are bleh; for a long time friends would give them to me as gifts and I always felt bad when I went to get rid of them, so I just put them on my shelves, and mixed in with the rest of the books I feel like they don't feel too bad or out of place. De gustibus non est disputandum though. As far as 'nice volumes,' antiquarian/collectable books are in another room. Probably somewhere around 100-150 of those.

FWIW I am very disappointed in the Folio Plutarch, as the lives are presented in chronological order and not in parallel.

[Anonymous No.21551744]

u guys can afford shelves? wtf

[Anonymous No.21551783]

>>21551189
Thats not a shelf

[Anonymous No.21551794]

>>21551382
don't put plants next to books, you fucking moron.

[Anonymous No.21551855]

[Anonymous No.21551902]

>>21551159
>the study quran
i heard that muslims aren't fond of this interpretation. is it really that bad?

[Anonymous No.21551996]

>>21551440
Your custom plywood veneer and 3/4 walnut shelves seem overpriced. I built my shelves for a few hundred in tools, glue, and shellac.

This is a piece of trim I made yesterday to test out. It's a mix of rail, Roman Ogee, and double fillet on a 5/4 piece of 3" wide stock.

[Anonymous No.21552012]

>>21551734
The nonesuch is a cheaper alternative and offers the parallel lives. Folio can be a bit of a disappointment. They do have a good anatomy of melancholy

[Anonymous No.21552024]

>>21551744
Nonesuch, folio Trollopes, and everyman's books

[Anonymous No.21552026]

>>21551418
>2022
Nu-/lit/ is shit. Shocking

[Anonymous No.21552032]

>>21552024
More books next to trim I made.

[Anonymous No.21552045]

>>21552032
Yale series

[Anonymous No.21552050]

>>21552045
My nonesuch anatomy of melancholy

[Anonymous No.21552057]

>>21551744
ikr

[Anonymous No.21552319]

>>21551855
Hiya apostate.

[Anonymous No.21552590]

>>21551996
They are, mainly because I didn't do the labor myself and the nob-fiction shelves are also closet doors that swing out, so structurally they are built and reinforced differently than traditional bookshelves. I can do framing competently but I am not good at joinery and am happy to pay people to do that for me better than I could manage myself. Lumber prices in general have also gone crazy over the last two years.

>>21552026
I've likely been here longer than most of you (not that that's anything to brag about; honestly says more about my own inability to mature past this place).

[Anonymous No.21552706]

>>21551270
He will probably spend his time gathering food and conserving energy.

[Anonymous No.21552781]

>>21552319
>member of a Bible believing church
>apostate

[Anonymous No.21552789]

>>21551439

[Anonymous No.21552967]

>>21552789
Damn I haven't seen this old meme in like 10 years

[Anonymous No.21553848]

>>21552781
Pauls epistles to Ephesians explains you and your lot. Protestants fall away from the Church into apostasy. You turn your back on faith with your false doctrines.

[Anonymous No.21553864]

>>21551189
get his ass! lmao

[Anonymous No.21553891]

I added a death in Venice and Camus to this section a few days ago.

[Anonymous No.21553905]

>>21553891
You like Death in Venice?

[Anonymous No.21555131]

>>21551159
Why not save space in your house/apartment by getting an e-reader?

[Anonymous No.21555220]

>>21551794
shut up fag

[Anonymous No.21555858]

>>21555131
Where is it suggested that he doesn't have an ereader?
I hope you're not about to suggest that owning an e-reader and a shelf are mutually exclusive, again.

[Anonymous No.21556075]

>>21551382
I also have the same complete Lovecraft.

[Anonymous No.21556701]

>>21553905
Yes, all Thomas Mann, except Joseph and his bros.

[Anonymous No.21556705]

>>21556701
that's his magnus opus

[Anonymous No.21556708]

>>21556701
very shaky photo, I can barely make out the names on the spines.

[Anonymous No.21556785]

>>21556705
I have German editions of all of the others, and a few like magic mountain from fine presses.

>>21556708
It's 8ft up so I have to hold it up in the air.

[Anonymous No.21556789]

>>21556785

[Anonymous No.21556889]

I enjoyed this book quite a bit, I read it on a wim and after looking it up saw that people at the time accused him of plagiarizing Kafka, which I assume would be the trial. They do have very similar settings but are overall different in execution imo. I noted the similarities myself and was somewhat surprised to hear Nabokov claimed full ignorance as well since I would have guessed it was an inspiration to be sure. What do you think?

[Anonymous No.21556960]

>>21551189
I stopped using mine in favor of books. Great if you're stuck deployed on a boat and aren't allowed to use a smart phone to read but still want to save space. Super specific circumstances tho.

[Anonymous No.21556973]

>>21556789
how do you like Edith Wharton? worth reading?

[Anonymous No.21557297]

>>21556973
She's great for knowing the dialogue of the era, like Henry James, but with better prose. It's a bit like Norris

[Anonymous No.21557314]

>>21556973
She has a lot of fairly disposable novellas, but House of Mirth and age of Innocence are classic

[Anonymous No.21557319]

>>21557314
>House of Mirth and age of Innocence are classic
If you had to choose one, which one would it be?

[Anonymous No.21557392]

>>21552045
28th time seeing this shelf

[Anonymous No.21557401]

>>21557392
newfag

[Anonymous No.21557416]

>>21556789
How are the Everyman's Library translations for Thomas Mann? I wanted to pick up their edition of Magic Mountain but am hesitant because I hated the translator they chose for Camus

[Anonymous No.21557506]

>>21551159
here's my Greek meme shelf (Plato isn't there because I'm currently reading the Republic)
also I haven't read Shirer and Mann yet, those I got for Christmas

[Anonymous No.21557790]

>>21551439
I'm guessing you like Goosbumps.

[Anonymous No.21557943]

>>21557401

[Anonymous No.21558028]

>>21557506
What the hell is that Shirer edition?

[Anonymous No.21558113]

>>21558028
folio society edition from 1994, found it still shrink-wrapped on e-bay

[Anonymous No.21558144]

>>21557416
The Buddenbrooks translation captures the germaness of the story, the intention of it well enough, but it's really a novel meant to be read in German. A death in Venice is quite good as a transition.

[Anonymous No.21558146]

>>21551382
>>21551386
>>21551391
Were the /lit/ meme collections based off your shitty collection?

[Anonymous No.21558152]

>>21551391
I am going to buy that Plutarch I swear to God

[Anonymous No.21558155]

>unironically having bookshelves for books
you must go back to where you came from redditor

[Anonymous No.21558163]

>>21558155
high IQ post. Just keep them in stacks laying around here and there.

[Anonymous No.21558182]

>>21558163
>I read books aren't I smart?
Unless you're pulling almost every single book out from your shelf daily, it's just masturbatory and a waste of space to display your pseudointellectual tendencies

Display pieces should ONLY be for display
If it has functional use it's not for display, and books have functional use

[Anonymous No.21558188]

>>21558113
Very interdasting. I've had many, many copies of the book and never seen that one.

[Anonymous No.21558214]

>>21558182
>>I read books aren't I smart?
Nobody said that.

>Unless you're pulling almost every single book out from your shelf daily, it's just masturbatory and a waste of space to display your pseudointellectual tendencies
What if a person is pulling volumes out every other day, or weekly, or monthly, or even annually? Having books available to pull when you remember something you want to go back to or to look something up on occasion is useful. I've had passages of books that I've come back to after 8 or 9 years. There are also a few favorite books that just make me feel better of being nearby. Your obsession with how other people 'waste their space' is petty and kind of ridiculous - why do you care how people use their space?

>Display pieces should ONLY be for display
What an absurd maxim. Items can have more than one function, and aesthetic presentation can be one of them.
>If it has functional use it's not for display, and books have functional use
A kitchen table also has functional use, but there's nothing wrong with choosing one that feels attractive to you.


Honestly anon, you're just an absurd jerk trying to force his own pseudo-minimalist preferences on the world at large. You're the type of person that becomes a petty tyrant on an HOA board who goes around telling people that they can't have a fruit tree in their front yard, just because. Get a life anon.

[Anonymous No.21558216]

>>21558182
Calm down retard. I was agreeing with you. i keep my books in stacks laying around here and there, just as I said.

[Anonymous No.21558221]

Forget about the books. My actual shelf > your shelf.

[Anonymous No.21558553]

>>21558221
As an amateur creator of wooden objects using traditional materials and joinery, it does me great pain to see that mass manufactured mixed media monstrosity. It looks like a variety of cheap white woods fastened together with 18a brads and painted the social media marketers special color for sprightly spring surprise makeover. Telling you to kill yourself would be a charitable act. The agony of your existence is punishment enough. I hope you have a long life.

Here's a shelf I made from oak using rebates and pins made from walnut and the whole piece is finished with homemade shellac. Watch a few playthroughs of life and git gud.

[Anonymous No.21558567]

>>21551439
I remember getting horny about the monster blood books but not understanding my feelings.

[Anonymous No.21558596]

>>21558152
Get the five volume

[Anonymous No.21558602]

>>21558596
It's easier to read

[Anonymous No.21558718]

>>21558221
tyfusmongool

[Anonymous No.21558764]

>>21558553
That is a 19th century English cupboard mate.

[Anonymous No.21559037]

>>21551159
When did you revert, OP?

[Anonymous No.21559342]

>>21558764
Even the nineteenth century had garbage furniture, second rate quality made from discarded secondary wood offcuts. Typically, these were scraps assembled by artisans for their own hovels. The putting out system ensured the artisan lived in squalor but felt productive. The English enjoyed their shackles more than other exploited peoples. Congratulations on your own constant reminder of exploitation and misery.

[Read retard here No.21559368]

>>21558113

Have you read it? Is it balanced in its depiction of what happened (and by that I mean if it is west propaganda material).

[Anonymous No.21559412]

>>21552050
they look hot, are those in vellum?

[Anonymous No.21559446]

>>21558553
not to be overly offesive but that looks like something that was dumped in the trash, especially the outer side.
couldn´t you grind the side and varnish it or smth or why does it look that way

[Anonymous No.21559638]

>>21559368
No, Shirer was an anti-german.

[Anonymous No.21559654]

>>21559638
So he was based. Roger that.

[Anonymous No.21559745]

>>21559654
Wrong, gaylord.

[Anonymous No.21559759]

>>21559654
The eternal anglo, enemy of the white race.

[Anonymous No.21559888]

>>21559745
>>21559759
Seethe more. I will be reading Shirer's book and there's nothing you can do about it lol

[Anonymous No.21559897]

Yes I'm a genre fiction brainlet, yes I have the ikea billy meme shelf

[Anonymous No.21559915]

>>21559897
You have Bone and Calvin & Hobbes. All your sins are forgiven.

[Anonymous No.21559959]

>>21559888
Idiot! Moron!

[Anonymous No.21560032]

>>21559888
You can waste your time as you like.

[Anonymous No.21560295]

>>21559638
>>21559745
>>21559759
>>21559959
>>21560032

What book on the reich do you recommend for general history of it (that isn’t western Jew propaganda)?

[Anonymous No.21560397]

>>21559446
Those are ray flakes, otherwise known as medullary rays, from quartersawn white oak. My friend owns a mill, he sawyered this, and I helped him out at work for a bit and he gifted it to me. It was a 10ft board at just under 4/4, so it was an offcut, meaning it would be pulped. I took it home, dried it, and finished it.

You can't sand off ray flakes bro. When they catch the light they sparkle and give evidence of the divine.

[Anonymous No.21560399]

>>21559412
Yes, they are vellum and feel like human flesh.

[Anonymous No.21560419]

>>21551159

[Anonymous No.21560424]

[Anonymous No.21560427]

>>21560295
Hitler's Revolution

[Anonymous No.21560432]

>>21560419
How come you haven't gotten a nicer copy of Hitler's War, yet? I thought we'd gone over this.

[Anonymous No.21560453]

>>21560432
I have been thinking about buying the Millennium Edition from the Focal Point Publications website for a while now but now I hear there is a deluxe special edition that I may shell out some clams for! Irving is the best.

[Anonymous No.21560460]

>>21560453
I have a pristine set of the Viking originals as well the Millennium edition. Highly recommended, but if you want the deluxe version, why not wait? He deserves the money, honestly. I can't wait to get my copy of his Himmler book & of course, Churchill's War Vol 3 is due soon(tm).

[Anonymous No.21560466]

>>21551159
Those stickers are giving me (more) autism, man! Get yourself some Goo Gone and be rid of them!

[Anonymous No.21560470]

>>21560460
Good point. I do want to send some dollars his way. I better decide which version to order.

[Anonymous No.21560498]

>>21560295
David Irving is the standard reply. I'd suggest just easy things, Gordon Craig, Henry Ashby turner, detlev peukert, and browning.

[Anonymous No.21560619]

>>21560295
All anglo books about wwii are mediocre at best, you'll have to learn spanish to read the best wwii book.

[Anonymous No.21560624]

>>21560498
H.A. Turner's books kinda suck. His translations are bad.

[Anonymous No.21560678]

>>21559759
*The eternal jew, enemy of the white race.

[Anonymous No.21561026]

>>21557392
I got another for ya

[Anonymous No.21561089]

>>21561026
Loebs are so delectable. I have two and they are great little things.

[Anonymous No.21561160]

>>21559342
KINO

[Anonymous No.21561876]

>>21560397
ah yes under the light it shows the pattern, on the photo it looked stained. carry on

[Anonymous No.21562722]

Some of the modern library books
They're okay, I wouldn't buy them if they weren't $0.50 to 6.00 each.

[Anonymous No.21562801]

i just jeep al my recent books in a bug tower
untitled are essay on civilization by clive bell and essay on burns by carlyle

[Anonymous No.21562836]

>>21562722
whats Gchillers LBerfr by Gebidle
medieval epics seems cool

[Anonymous No.21563723]

>>21559897
why does house of leaves look unread, did
you
get
filtered?

[Anonymous No.21563994]

>>21563723
What? No I just read it earlier this month and I just got it for Christmas. Navidson record is the best movie I ever saw.

[Anonymous No.21564035]

What do I buy next?

[Anonymous No.21564175]

>>21562836
Schiller's works, poems

Schiller's werke, gedichte

[Anonymous No.21564182]

>>21564035
With the amount you spent on folio society books, you could have done better than whitewood/ pine shelves.

[Anonymous No.21564201]

>>21551382
Really cool, anon, I'm sure we'd all love to see a picture of all your foreign language books as well ;)

[Anonymous No.21564688]

>>21564182
serves its purpose i think...

[Anonymous No.21564699]

>>21564035
Not any more folio.

[Anonymous No.21564712]

>>21557416
All of them are pretty good (Magic Mountain, Buddenbrooks, Joseph & His Brothers) EXCEPT the Doctor Faustus one. They used a different translator, so avoid that one.

[Anonymous No.21564736]

>>21551246
Where the fuck is it you pleb

[Anonymous No.21564741]

>>21551439
lol nice

[Anonymous No.21564746]

>>21553891
>taking the dust jackets off the everymans
Why does everyone here do this?

[Anonymous No.21564751]

>>21564712
The collected stories used Porter-Lowe as well. It was a gut punch because I loved all the Woods’ Everymans

[Anonymous No.21564795]

>>21556789
where do you buy everyman's library books? The only one I've ever come across & now own is from a used book store and it was pure luck.
In Canada if that matters.

[Anonymous No.21564804]

>>21559897
bone is based
what is the bunny girl book next to it

[Anonymous No.21564823]

>>21551159
Do you have an English translation of the Sirah An-Nabawiyyah? Seems like it could be a valuable inclusion to your collection.

[Anonymous No.21564836]

>>21551996
yooo hero of our time my fucking guuyyyy

[Anonymous No.21564855]

>>21564035
aesop

[Anonymous No.21564896]

>>21564795
Nta but I have about 60 and I get them from Amazon. I’m sure they deliver to Canada

[Anonymous No.21564903]

>>21551159
im at school. all the bullshit novels are back home and getting rid of them somehow next time i go back.

[Anonymous No.21564983]

>>21551439
I was an goosebumps addict in 5th grade. My mom was a book nerd and didnt care, but my dad found out I was reading them and said I should stop because they're not good for you. That killed my enthusiasm for reading them, because I knew he was right. But not much later I was introduced to the world wide web and now I'm an avowed porn addict, so in the end it didn't matter.

[Anonymous No.21565006]

>>21564804
Kaoru Mori : Anything and Something, it’s an anthology of slice of life stories about girls, I think it’s just a collection of the artists work that’s been printed in magazines and such.

[Anonymous No.21565011]

>>21564836
Yeah, it's fantastic, I read Lermontov in a coffee shop one afternoon in September of 2008. I had the black penguin copy. This one has larger print and more notes.

>>21564795
Before I collected them, I bought several of the rare ones in the early 2000s on the clearance rack at Barnes and noble. They were $5 each.

Our house has three means of egress, the main path into the city forces me to pass an enormous used bookstore. I bought about half there over the last year. The most expensive was $15, the la quartet, but they're typically about .50 to 11.00. Most are five bucks. I keep passing the brave new world because it's 12 and I don't need another copy that bad. They always have catch 22, Updike, Toni Morrison, Achebe, and the poets but I have never considered buying those books.

A few came from a local thrift shop, the death in Venice and Camus were both 3$, and I bought about 12 on used book sales from large eBay sellers. They do deals for buy 3 get one free. That's where I found the Hector Berlioz

[Anonymous No.21565020]

>>21559037
>fazail e amaal
I wonder if you have ever read the little black book? I don't remember its name but I remember reading it as a teen and it scaring the shit out of me. There are some descriptions of Islamic hell in there that make that one scene in Event Horizon look like teletubbies. But from what I recall, it uses a lot of weak hadiths. Never thought I'd see Fazail e Amaal on /lit/.

[Anonymous No.21565107]

Did a bit of reorganizing of my favourites shelf.
>>21564903
Based Orthodox anon. What bullshit novels are you talking about? Stephen King and other pulp crap like that I'm guessing?
>>21564035
Mario Bros because you're obviously a child.
>>21562801
Ehhhhh.
>>21561026
>>21562722
Nerd alert.
>>21560424
HOLY mega based
>>21559897
>The Holy Bible
>Tolkien
>Catch-22
>House of Leaves
>Bone
>Lolita
Breddy gud. I'm gonna ignore all the crap tho however I think we're probably kindred spirits.
>>21559037
Simple yet based. I respect you. Are you the guy who has been shilling Life With The Taliban bt.w?
>>21558553
Richard Scarry automatically makes this the best post itt.
>>21558113
V nice.
>>21557506
Oh I see you're a nerd.
>>21556789
Worst kind of person.
>>21553891
Pretentious faggot.
>>21552050
Kys.
>>21552045
Wow dude. You should be embarrassed.
>>21551391
Barely decent.
>>21551382
Ok Calvin and Hobbes is pure kino so Imma let you off the hook for this one. You're still a giant fag though.
>>21551159
Based.

[Anonymous No.21565116]

>>21565107
>Based Orthodox anon. What bullshit novels are you talking about? Stephen King and other pulp crap like that I'm guessing?
Catholic.

nah just a bunch of lit memes. pynch, gass, malcolm lowry, david f wallace, etc etc. don't think i have the patience for thinking about any of them.

[Anonymous No.21565355]

Don’t feel like posting it all but here’s what I got lined up to reread in the near future.

[Anonymous No.21566272]

>>21565107
Poverty person the post

[Anonymous No.21566498]

>Shelf thread
>143 replies

And that's all you need to know about how fucking stupid /lit/ is.

[Anonymous No.21566516]

>>21551902
It has some perennialist teachings but if you know about abrogation it's fine. It's more of a reference work that has shia and sunni sources
>>21564823
That's what Ling's Muhammad is and I have it

[Anonymous No.21566778]

Here’s my books on display. Currently deep into Tolkien’s work for the past several months.

[Anonymous No.21566812]

>>21566778
I'm gonna take a whack at it and say you like the Alien(s) universe.

[Anonymous No.21567325]

this is most of em

[Anonymous No.21567355]

>>21557506
OMg Thimas Mann marry me

[Anonymous No.21567364]

>>21566778
Why own multiple of the same book?

[Anonymous No.21567521]

>>21567364
Different illustrations, and combined they’re still cheaper than getting some “collectors” edition for well over $100.

[Anonymous No.21567775]

>>21567364
I have six versions of the decline and fall, illustrations, quality, compact reading versions and critical editions. I have also five versions of the anatomy of melancholy and Montaigne

[Anonymous No.21567972]

>>21563994
Im halfway through myself, did you read all the Traunt stuff? I can't stand him personally but everything else is great

[Anonymous No.21568330]

>>21567972
Yeah I read Johnny’s whole story, just to hear the snippets about Zampano mostly, it’s funny that Truant is living in LA in the 90s slaying wicked hot gash and doing glorious unadulterated drugs and had a cool character building stint as a runaway fish cannery/boat labourer but he’s still got the shittiest attitude in the world, and somehow he’s more well read than most of /lit/. The extra exhibits of his moms letters are pretty good.

Do you feel tempted to start making your own footnotes and annotations? I didn’t wanna fuck up my copy but I felt like the book wanted me to contribute in some ways, point out stuff the other foot notes gloss over.

The one thing that’s 2 deep for me is some of the more “hidden” concrete poetry I can tell that the text is forming shapes and patterns but sometimes I can’t make out what it’s supposed to be. I’m gonna re read it later this year after I go through more of my reading list.

[Anonymous No.21568380]

>>21568330
With the patterns, I tried taking a pic but it s impossible, but around page 432 and I think also in the 200s, where the words are floating around, pinch a couple of the pages together which also have unusual word placement, then hold it up to a strong light source, then you should understand

I've been tempted but I've never done it before, my copy (full colour) I found in a random bookshop and it's sort of falling apart but I suppose that fits the theme.

I might have to go back and read the Johnny stuff, I've been reading a lot of BEE'S work so it'll probably be quite similar

[Anonymous No.21569302]

>>21551382

I have questions. One is, have you read Wild Swans by Jung Chang?

[Anonymous No.21569327]

>>21569302
(not op) what are your thoughts on the book, i bought it only to have everyone around tell me wild swans is terrible and that her family is not normal

[Anonymous No.21569352]

>>21565107
>Aberration right next to The Black Book of Communism
is this a meme shelf?

[Anonymous No.21569375]

[Anonymous No.21569421]

>>21566778

A fellow pipe smoker?

[Anonymous No.21569493]

>>21569421
Aye.

[Anonymous No.21569531]

>>21551439
pretty sure I read most of these as a kid

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>>21551196
How is it staged? Do you guys not have shelves that you keep books on?

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>>21559897
You have a few classics, but they look lonely. They could use some friends.
I have the Billy meme shelf too, don't feel bad.

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>>21551159

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>>21566778
Is there anything really worthwhile in the 3 volume history of middle earth set? I have book of lost tales 1 and 2 and lays of beleriand.

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>>21551159
I've been able to read these last year, any suggestion what to read next? Im conflicted between The Books of Jacob or anything by Harold Bloom

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>>21570307
>dostoevskij but not dostoyevskij
What's the logic exactly

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>>21570314
Italians have the retarded trend of translating names

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>>21570320
This is the first time I've seen the two vowels at the end of his name rendered in latin even though such a thing would be consistent with people who feel the need to include the y before the e in his name.
I don't understand why you'd try to be accurate to Cyrillic in one way but ignore the other. if it's Italian doesn't that make even less sense because there's never an implicit 'y' before an e in Italian to my understanding.

>translating names
Seeing as his name is Дocтoeвcкий this is something everyone does

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>>21551159
>"How to Read a Book" on the shelf
Nice bait

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[Anonymous No.21571384]

Organize books by author, genre, or culture? Ahhh my head is fucking exploding

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>>21571384

Genre and within them author.

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>>21571384
organize?

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>>21571384
umm by spine colour, sweety :)

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>>21571374
Why are half your books upside down, sir pls fix

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>>21572061
Female brain (neutral)

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>>21571384
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Congress_Classification

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>>21551159
Alright everyone I'm done collecting epubs for the day, now before I click "x," what should I be sure to download?

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>>21552789
jesus, blast from the past right there.

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>>21553848

This made me laugh very hard. Thank you, anon.

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>>21560419
based shelf

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>>21573300
based

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>>21573300
I once went over to someone's house and they had a library with every book from every acclaimed author and I immediately decided this was not what I wanted to be
They also had an extensive guitar collection

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bungp

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>>21573300
A home Library makes sense for me. I do go back to the books periodically to review annotations, check citations, and crib quotes. I write a few conference papers each year, publish small articles every few years, and it's fun to add literary quotes or buttress an argument with literature.

[Anonymous No.21574766]

Im 15.5 hows mine ( thee spines are creased niggers)