Bookshelf thread

[Anonymous No.22214852]

Saw no Bookshelf thread, so here it is. Post yours, rate others, give recomendations.

[Anonymous No.22214896]

>Show me what you have achieved so far. If you were an athlete, I would want to see your shoulders. Don’t tell me, “Look at all my training weights,” but show me your shoulders. Enough of you and your weights; show me what your weights have achieved.
Epictetus, Discourses Book 1.4

[Anonymous No.22214908]

>>22214852
>>22212045

[Anonymous No.22215315]

My current to-read shelf, which one should I pick up next?

[Anonymous No.22215431]

>>22215315
Pick up the bible and tear out its pages to wipe your father’s cum off your mother’s back

[Anonymous No.22215460]

I'm working opposite my bookcases so when I have a work call they're visible and I have the suspicion some of my colleagues are 4chan material, so I shan't be posting my books.

[Anonymous No.22215474]

>>22214896
What does that mean? I should start lifting my books?

[Anonymous No.22215487]

>>22215315
Based The Far Side enjoyer

[Anonymous No.22215528]

1/4

[Anonymous No.22215529]

>>22215528
2/4

[Anonymous No.22215534]

>>22215528
>>22215529
3/4

[Anonymous No.22215539]

>>22215528
>>22215529
>>22215534

[Anonymous No.22215544]

>>22215528
>>22215529
>>22215534
>>22215539
And my closet books that are duplicates or I’m not interested in much anymore. I badly need a new book case

[Anonymous No.22215551]

>>22215539
what a phallic bookshelf

[Anonymous No.22215555]

>>22214896
Do you want to see my myopia diagnostic or something?

[Anonymous No.22215558]

>>22215460
>I'm working opposite my bookcases so when I have a work call they're visible
Why do so many people do this? Is it to appear intelligent?

[Anonymous No.22215573]

>>22215551
I usually keep Freud on that shelf so maybe that says something, but I moved him into the area of books I’m reading or want to read soon. I’ll probably get another shelf like that because it is only 20-30 bucks and it doesn’t take up a lot of room, which I’m running out of

[Anonymous No.22215593]

>>22215528
>>22215529
>>22215534
>>22215539
>>22215544
you should learn a second language

[Anonymous No.22215628]

>>22215558
Probably.
Ideally I would prefer to have a separate room that I would turn into a comfy home library, but I live in a small apartment and I'm not going to move every time I have some work call just to avoid the background.

[Anonymous No.22215632]

>>22215593
I know conversational French but not well enough that I want to read and look up words every so often. I read as a hobby, not to be a scholar or academic

[Anonymous No.22215666]

>>22215528
How's Tropic of Cancer? I was rec'd it in a give a pic get a rec thread in response to picrel but having looked it up it seems much more bleak and grimy than the aesthetic of the painting

[Anonymous No.22215673]

>>22215666
>Satan enjoys the paintings of Leonid Afremov
Based

[Anonymous No.22215723]

>>22215666
Henry Miller is my favorite writer so of course I like it. Its reputation isn’t really deserved. The smutty scenes are mostly played for laughs. Miller was still coming into his own then and his message is one of “blooming”. Cancer isn’t really a bleak book in my opinion, but that may be because I know it as the stage setter for later Miller where he is sage like and very spiritual. Cancer has some of those remnants of later Miller but it sets the tone with his disgust with the world and society. All in all it’s a hilarious and well written book. Miller can be uneven at times but when he is on he is among the best

[Anonymous No.22215772]

[Anonymous No.22215800]

>>22215528
>>22215529
>>22215534
>>22215539
Nearly every single one of these books has a pristine spine, showing you haven't read them or they were read lightly or partially through.
>>22215544
All of the books you've read heavily are in this pic, and they're common recs from /lit/
Listen here faggot, you don't read, and we know you don't read. Everything you have read up until this point has been because others have wanted you to, and most of that is fiction crap. You need to read something you want. Do you even LIKE reading?
1/10, I'd rather see 5 decently worn books that are actually worth a fuck than 500 untouched books used for decoration and social approval on a tibetan throat singing forum.

[Anonymous No.22215815]

>>22215772
Have some good books, most look lightly to untouched though.
3/10, only because I see the Iliad, Odyssey, and parts of the Mahabharata, and some other epics on the third shelf from the top.

[Anonymous No.22215825]

>>22215772
what the fuck is this one made of?

[Anonymous No.22215828]

>>22215800
Some people take care of their books

[Anonymous No.22215842]

>>22215825
Wood

[Anonymous No.22215843]

>>22215828
That's not what happens faggot, and you'd know that if you touched most paperbacks for more than a few hours. The oils in your hands slowly erode away covers and spines regardless of care.

[Anonymous No.22215844]

>>22215842
look at those sides lol

[Anonymous No.22215847]

>>22215844
Yes. Bad wood, I guess

[Anonymous No.22215854]

Bendy wood

[Anonymous No.22215875]

[Anonymous No.22215882]

>>22215875
>mostly contemporary or turn of the last century authors with a small smattering of philosophy books from pre christian times
>mostly read well surprisingly
I'd give you like a 4.5/10 anon. I don't like your selection but at least you actually read your books and I can tell by the spines, corners, and covers.

[Anonymous No.22215911]

>>22215843
Kek. Are you the sweaty hands anon? If you don’t open a book more than 100 degrees and don’t throw it around, it will remain in great condition

[Anonymous No.22216024]

>>22215723
Okay thanks. I was just at a used bookstore and you inspired me to get the only book they had by him, Black Spring. The prose of the first short story, The 14th Ward, was phenomenal and touched on a theme that I've been thinking a lot about lately

[Anonymous No.22216037]

>>22216024
I found Black Spring to be one of his more uneven books. He goes heavy on his surrealism which is admittedly my least favorite style of Miller. Your opinion may be different though. Just don’t judge him fully from that if you don’t like it

[Anonymous No.22216228]

Slightly outdated. So just imagine a few more books on Gnosticism.

[Anonymous No.22216230]

>>22215911
Kek. Are you that illiterate anon? If you just read posts one letter and then one word at a time it'll make sense.

[Anonymous No.22216238]

>>22216037
What are your favorite Miller books?

[Anonymous No.22216253]

>>22214852
>Schopenhauer and Nietzsche in German
So fucking based, are you a native speaker or did you learn German?

[Anonymous No.22216257]

>>22216238
Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieromoymus Bosch, The Colossus of Maroussi, The Smile at the Foot of the Ladder, Tropic of Cancer, and some of his essays which are a mixed bag. His Balzac essays, and An Open Letter to Surrealists Everywhere, are top notch. I’ve read like 20 of his books and every one has at least one part where I say “I’m glad I read this”

[Anonymous No.22216258]

>>22215911
We're not stupid. If you had read those penguins at all, it would be noticeable.

[Anonymous No.22216296]

Mainly read fiction, haven't read philosophy in a while. These are most of the books I've read this year

[Anonymous No.22216299]

>>22216296
Forgot pic

[Anonymous No.22216433]

the chinese, medieval, and 17-19th century books are my fiancée’s. I have more, but im on vacation and can’t take a pic

[Anonymous No.22216447]

>>22216433
You married a Chinese woman anon? Please tell me you’re Chinese and not a sexpat.

[Anonymous No.22216465]

>>22216433
Is The Joke by Kundera any good?

[Anonymous No.22216539]

Wow it’s more shelves full of boring philosophy books you bought because some /pol/tard infographic told you it would be “based” then you never opened because they’re completely uninteresting and your fried terminally online loser brain barely has the attention span to imbibe a based gamer wojak meme. I literally respect booktok e girls more than you at least they read their books before using them as props on the internet.

>>22216299
Didn’t expect to see Ronan Hession here. Panenka kindof sucks though his other book is much better.

[Anonymous No.22216549]

>>22214852
Just set this up Friday.. after reviewing the contents.. I understand why people think I’m a lunatic

[Anonymous No.22216557]

>>22216549
>self help
>investing guides
>ready player 2 hardback
oh my god

[Anonymous No.22216567]

>>22216539
I didn't like Paneka as well

[Anonymous No.22216595]

>>22215315
Swift and Céline might make good companions.

[Anonymous No.22216815]

>>22216557
Help me…

[Anonymous No.22216857]

>>22215772
Actually baffling, You read evola and yet you own numerous bible copies and commentaries. You have multiple epics and yet you own at least 3 different Colleen Hoover books. Have you even read a single book in this? These aren't even a collection that one might have to give the impression to others that they are an intellectual, as the chud-tier books are not exactly what one would wish to display.

[Anonymous No.22216907]

[Anonymous No.22216986]

>>22216857
>Evola and the Bible on the same shelf?!?!
>nonono
>you must agree wholesale with everything you read in a book
>you must have no variety of opinion

[Anonymous No.22216991]

Who needs bookshelf when you have floor?

[Anonymous No.22216992]

>>22215315
>There's the Bible
>There's also Lolita

..............

[Anonymous No.22217014]

>>22216907
…Dad?

[Anonymous No.22217020]

>>22216907
Love it

[Anonymous No.22217030]

>>22215800
You sound like a bitter fuck who no one would ever want to converse with. In short, keep your shitty opinions to yourself, faggot.

[Anonymous No.22217043]

>>22216907
>Douglas Adams
>Carl Sagan
>Robert Heinlein
>C.S. Lewis
>Tolkien
>Michael Crichton
>Watchmen
>Eragon
Your bookshelf is what mine would look like if I had kept literally all of the stuff I read since I was a kid.

[Anonymous No.22217048]

Every time I come to these threads, I end up feeling sad and empty, knowing that I'll just die with a huge collection of paper on my bookshelf that nobody else will care for.

[Anonymous No.22217050]

>>22216857
Yes I've read these. I like my bible collection. I also owned few copies of the book of mormon (stacked ontop of each other in 2ed shelf). I have 2 hoover books because my gf asked me to read them, she likes her books so I checked them out.

[Anonymous No.22217053]

I have a serious problem with collecting.

[Anonymous No.22217056]

>>22216447
She’s Chinese and I’m a white dude, yes, but we met while doing our phds in North America. She studies Old and Middle English.

[Anonymous No.22217066]

>>22215800
>common refs from lit

This is one of the strangest criticisms I see passed on this board. Basically every book worth its salt has been posted here before. The expanded litcore is huge and 99% of those books have acclaim or following elsewhere, as litcore is basically the major and minor classics. I’m leaning towards this post being bait. Reading beat up obscure books isn’t the only way of being a reader

[Anonymous No.22217077]

>>22215534
Hey, that book by Starkie is really entertaining. If you haven't already, you should read it alongside Rimbaud. How's that ND Baudelaire? I flipped through it at my local big bookstore and thought it was interesting having a selection of various translators collected in a sequence, it makes you curious to search out other interpretations. The only thing I didn't like is the fact it's not a parallel text, the originals are in the back as an appendix/endnotes. Which is great, that they at least include the original texts, but it was so much fun, back when I was learning French, to have the same words facing each other in different languages.

[Anonymous No.22217088]

It's been a while since I posted my shelves.

[Anonymous No.22217090]

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[Anonymous No.22217092]

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[Anonymous No.22217097]

>>22217094
Captcha: N0GWY

[Anonymous No.22217101]

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[Anonymous No.22217105]

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[Anonymous No.22217108]

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[Anonymous No.22217109]

>>22217101
Nice library. I get the impression you are a holdover from the bygone /lit/ era

[Anonymous No.22217114]

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[Anonymous No.22217116]

>>22217114
>>22217109
Since 2011-12.
My God

[Anonymous No.22217119]

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[Anonymous No.22217124]

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[Anonymous No.22217127]

>>22217077
The Starkie definitely enhanced my appreciation of Rimbaud, especially knowing his interest in alchemy and life. I found Rimbaud to be gibberish at first but I really wanted to get him so I’m glad I found the Starkie. He is one of the great enigmatic figures of literature.

I like the Baudelaire with the various translators. They are poets in their own right and they add a flair that professional translators lack. As I’ve gotten older I’ve gotten more lax in caring about translations. If one doesn’t mesh with me but I think there’s something there, I can always buy a different translation. Anons are too autistic and cult like over them, especially the Russians

I wish Penguin still made their (poet) In Translation series where you get an assortment of different ones. I think they still have their Petrarch in print

[Anonymous No.22217129]

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[Anonymous No.22217136]

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[Anonymous No.22217137]

>>22217116
Kek. Time flies. The more niche postmodern books were what gave me that idea. Impressive, eclectic collection. Are you involved in the field or just read as a hobby?

[Anonymous No.22217141]

>>22217135
Based Tolkien enjoyer.

[Anonymous No.22217145]

>>22217136
>>22217137
Just as a hobby, independent study. I spent my university years thinking I'd join academia, but the last year in preparation for the work I had gut-feeling instinct to get out. I can't really leave it.

[Anonymous No.22217155]

>>22217145
I forgot, the french shelves always come out sideways.

[Anonymous No.22217160]

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[Anonymous No.22217161]

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[Anonymous No.22217164]

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[Anonymous No.22217172]

>>22217164
That's it.

[Anonymous No.22217173]

>>22217145
Might be a blessing because being forced to do something often kills the joy in it. What are some of your favorites?

[Anonymous No.22217177]

>>22216907
Soul/10
>king
Jump off a bridge.

[Anonymous No.22217181]

>>22217173
>being forced to do something often kills the joy in it
That's actually how I felt about teaching: I really liked that some of my teachers communicated that feeling of passion and curiosity for reading back when I was younger, but I dreaded having to teach, instill, pound Fitzgerald or Baudelaire or Rulfo into someone else. Imagine some kid hating Dostoevsky's guts because their high school teacher made them read Notes from the Underground. School is where art goes to die: everything about it is designed to pin down, cut up, dissect the living word.

[Anonymous No.22217218]

>>22217181
It would be ideal if students could choose whatever book they wanted to read. That would require a teacher with a vast amount of knowledge on a vast amount of books. Such a teacher would need to get paid a lot and be given a top notch education, and endless free time to constantly be reading and understanding new material. So many readers seem to have to have been turned off during their education, only to have that passion reignited, or ignited, once they were out of school. Unfortunately, I don’t think there is a solution

[Anonymous No.22217244]

>>22217218
I seem to have had teachers who were so inept at translating their enthusiasm for reading that I felt I needed to branch out into my own path. I remember debating about sci-fi b-movies with my sophomore english teacher; talking about Joyce, Lucia, and Beckett with my junior-year teacher; and rereading Dante in italian and french with my senior-year teacher. You need a guiding hand, but sometimes people rule themselves out immediately: I have several colleagues who've told me they can't stand sitting still for long periods of time, and who want to get into reading. People who can't sit still in an empty room, alone, void of all distraction, should not be reading. Give me an empty room, a chair, and circulating air, and I could stay put forever.

[Anonymous No.22217279]

>>22217173
>What are some of your favorites?
Forgot to answer: Beckett, Gaddis, Rabelais, Rulfo, Kafka, Schmidt, Carpentier, Borges, Keats, Celan, Jeffers, Valéry. Gass is a special indulgence, revealing more than anything.

[Anonymous No.22217347]

>>22217218
Often professors don't even read anything outside of their area of specialization, so they go inside a classroom knowing nothing about the many facets of Art at all.

Besides, your average teacher will just regurgitate whatever political accepted garbage is being currently shoved into their guts. Because decades old politics are no longer topical or divisive, instead they're often just entirely mainstream views now, making it harder and harder to find really cool stuff out there.

Further, classical literature is still viewed as too 'esoteric' and 'ancient' by the educational corporations. They want students as dullards as they can, just endless making and remaking more and more past paper examinations. (e.g: the way you are accepted into medical school is not by picking a theoretical science book, but by redoing 5000 questions of the entrance exam) Just look at examinations like the Gaokao in China - totally dystopian.

While you could argue that it is no outright preaching of the cultural degeneracy being done inside some schools, the brainwash to
"mitigate your prejudices at any cost" and become functional illiterate cunts "accepting every cultural degeneracy"(political otherwise) certainly happens over time to kids and teenagers by moronic teachers and professors. Some of these kids and teenagers, if they have good heads either way, are in for a wild enraged awakening when they touch classical literature for the first time outside of the school system.

They don't care about teaching real art and beauty to children. They don't care about classical literature.

[Anonymous No.22217358]

>>22215315
ahh yes, the cow tools shrine...

[Anonymous No.22217360]

>>22214852
>owning copies of science fiction
opinions on literature discarded

[Anonymous No.22217367]

>>22216991
have you actually read all of those tech related books? If so, based. I have a hard time reading that stuff.

[Anonymous No.22217624]

>>22216907
Based, my kind of shelf.

[Anonymous No.22217819]

>>22216991
Do you keep them... under your sink? Are you one of those dudes with no furniture?

[Anonymous No.22217829]

[Anonymous No.22217935]

>>22217367
The tech ones yeah. The math ones no fucking way

[Anonymous No.22218217]

>>22216992
which way western man?

[Anonymous No.22218239]

1/2

[Anonymous No.22218252]

>>22218239
2/2

[Anonymous No.22218328]

copy of fanged noumena, kurzweil's singularity, text on grammar, philosophy and logic, and zerzan's "running on emptiness"

all next to a little ceasars gift card's placard and zippo lighter with trash strewn around

for me

[Anonymous No.22218427]

>>22215528
>>22215529
>>22215534
>>22215539
Highly based selection and very aesthetic shelves. Love those bookends too. How is that Major Works edition of Byron? I'm reluctant to buy any collection that isn't Complete Works but that seems to be impossible with Byron.

[Anonymous No.22218435]

>>22217053
I would say so, none of those look read.

[Anonymous No.22218448]

>>22215315
Journey, count, or karamazov

[Anonymous No.22218453]

>>22215528
Holy fuck thats a lot of henry miller. Tropic of cancer was great but Sexus fucking sucked.

[Anonymous No.22218463]

>>22215534
The Makioka sisters fuck yeah one of my favorites and very under appreciated here

[Anonymous No.22218485]

>>22217053
You should probably get around to the wanting seed at some point, it’s pretty based.

[Anonymous No.22218491]

>>22218427
1/2

[Anonymous No.22218495]

>>22218491
2/2

[Anonymous No.22218505]

>>22218453
Yeah, the Rosy Crucifixion Trilogy is one of my least favorite of his, though Nexus and Plexus were better than Sexus IMO

[Anonymous No.22218516]

>>22218505
Im usually good at judging what to read intuitively but I guess that was the worst I could have chosen. What’s your favorite book? I think the title black spring sounds nice. I liked TOC enough to give him another shot. Youre right he’s fucking inconsistent but when he’s good he’s good.

[Anonymous No.22218556]

>>22214852
based Liu Cixin and Dan Simmons enjoyer

[Anonymous No.22218603]

>>22217172
What keyboard is that?

[Anonymous No.22218605]

>>22218516
See >>22216257

I’m not as keen on Black Spring as some. The influence of Rimbaud is strong and I’m not a huge fan of when Miller dives into surrealism. Don’t let this turn you off on checking it out as everyone has different tastes. I’ve always thought Miller is at his best when he is fired up and yanking you along to inspire you, or when he is spiritual and zen-like, or when he is telling amusing anecdotes, or when he is talking about books or writers he likes. Miller wrote a lot and is a bit of a rambler so he can be all over the place, but when he hits, he hits good

[Anonymous No.22218617]

>>22215772
why do all of you niggas dabble in "world religions". Oh yeah bro I just read the Tao te ching then I read the Poopvad Gita then the Quran then the Bible YOU WILL LEARN NOTHING YOU ARENT GUENON

[Anonymous No.22218625]

>>22215875
this nigga ahh actually out here reading this shit bruh lmao

[Anonymous No.22218632]

>>22218617
>why are people interested in things
>why do people think reading about something will be informative
Absolute brainlet take

[Anonymous No.22218633]

>>22218605
Thanks bro Ill check out big sur then. Yeah hes the one who introduced me to tanizaki, who is one of my all-time favorites. Also saw your a DH lawrence enjoyer, very nice. I consider myself pretty well-read but I could have maybe half the collection as you if I didnt give away most of my books after reading them to people who dont even read them. Very impressive. Maybe I just missed it, but I didnt see the book of disquiet in there. It isnt so unique here but its my all-time favorite piece of literature. Definitely pick it up asap if you haven’t already.

[Anonymous No.22218663]

>>22218632
There's literally no reason to read any of that except the Bible if you can't read it in the original language

[Anonymous No.22218688]

>>22218663
Yes there is.

[Anonymous No.22218717]

>>22218663
>There's literally no reason to read any of that except the Bible if you can't read it in the original language.

[Anonymous No.22218728]

>>22218633
Sounds like you might have what I call Dazai syndrome.

[Anonymous No.22218736]

>>22218728
Fuck wrong thread

[Anonymous No.22218784]

>>22218435
Read about a third of them. Buy them all second hand, so it's odd they don't seem to be read at all.

[Anonymous No.22218828]

>>22218633
>Book of Disquiet
I haven’t read it yet. For my next purchase I was planning on something that can be read little bits at a time like La Rochefoucauld’s maxims but maybe I’ll give Pessoa a shot. What makes it your favorite book?

And I’m older than most here and reading is a time consuming process, so like most, my collection grew slowly over time. I’m always wary about getting rid of books because I’ve often found that a book that I’ve lost interest in will peak my interest in the future

[Anonymous No.22218832]

>>22216465
Not him, but I finished The Joke about a week ago and it's one of the best books I've ever read.

[Anonymous No.22218862]

>>22218828
That’s smart of you. I find it to be the most poetic thing ive read while also being highly intellectually stimulating. Ive never felt so close to and related to a book more. Pessoa had a way of communicating the most abstract personal feelings and desires into word. With every passage I feel I understand exactly what beauty he is conveying, though I can’t fathom how he did so so effectively. Thats the best way to explain it. I really cannot praise it enough. Tagore’s Gitanjali is second in poetry for me, I would also recommend that as far as choosing something you can just read here and there.

[Anonymous No.22218898]

>>22215854
What is this abomination of dostojewsky collection?

[Anonymous No.22218941]

so many dirty floors...

[Anonymous No.22219012]

>>22218941
You're welcome to come and clean it

[Anonymous No.22219072]

Signed thatcher

[Anonymous No.22219079]

>>22219072
Very unstable shelf

[Anonymous No.22219086]

>>22219072
>>22219079
First English edition of Mommsen, I met his kids once, also knew some other famous types

[Anonymous No.22219097]

>>22219072
>>22219079
>>22219086
Pleiades for reference

[Anonymous No.22219099]

>>22219097
>>22219086
>>22219079
>>22219072

I need to sort these better

[Anonymous No.22219104]

>>22219072
>>22219079
>>22219086
>>22219097
>>22219099
Yale editions, fontane, and Drydens complete eorks

[Anonymous No.22219111]

One more pic, lots of Welsh textes in top left corner

[Anonymous No.22219206]

>>22219111
How old are you? Looks like something from a dads office in the 90s. Or do you like like old looking books? Nice collection btw.

[Anonymous No.22219264]

>>22219072
I'm going to leave this here since you must be somewhat older enough person to own such a collection.

So you're completely unaware how hated Thatcher was during her reign? Why do you think people were partying on the streets when Thatcher died? Do you know or understand nothing about UK politics?
Thatcher also wanted to completely gut the social safety net, had to be talked down from putting aids sufferers in concentration camps, wanted police to open fire on striking workers, and there were record numbers of strikes under her watch, wanted to reintroduce workhouses, privatized public utilities, fucking up systems that had long been regarded as the best in the world to that point and, oh yeah, was best friends with Jimmy Savile.

She wasn't incompetent. Quite the opposite. She was fucking dangerous and, along with Regan, set the tone for the next 40 years of misery and suffering.

[Anonymous No.22219350]

>>22217030
You sound like a bitch that got called out. Why don't you just read?

[Anonymous No.22219404]

>>22219264
You have a problem with historical women who rose to the top of a traditionally male dominated professions and became of the leading world authorities on how to govern, huh? Typical woman haters like you try to keep women from succeeding in life, don't you? You list some good reasons to like her, what if they put them in camps to flatten the curve?

[Anonymous No.22219418]

>>22219404
Haha the part about putting aids scum in camps does sound pretty based huh

[Anonymous No.22219435]

>>22219264 #
You have a problem with historical women, like those who rose to the top of a traditionally male dominated profession and became one of the leading world authorities on how to govern, huh?
Typical woman haters like you try to keep women from succeeding in life, don't you?

You list some good reasons to like her, what if they put them in camps to flatten the curve? What is the cops dealt with violent rioters in kind? What if restrictions placed on the dole made people go back to work instead of rioting and forcing British companies to go overseas?

The world would be better with a hundred women as competent as she.

[Anonymous No.22219496]

>>22219264
>Can't see a name on a shelf without flying into a fit

[Anonymous No.22219783]

>>22219435
Sound like a fag defending women.

[Anonymous No.22220023]

>>22219435
Stop crying, you gobshite. She was fucking dangerous to the native population, especially the Scots (as some of them seem to still hold a resentment towards the cunt). I haven't even read whole political books about her, just did mild research some time ago.

She was socially destructive and it seems that people like Tony Blair led the country towards even further decrepitude.

Always knew this place was polluted with idiotic imbeciles, but I thought it wasn't this bad.

[Anonymous No.22220070]

>>22214896
>epic tits
lol

[Anonymous No.22220179]

>>22220023
Always knew this place was polluted with idiotic imbeciles, but I thought it wasn't this bad.

You don’t see all the /pol/cels that post here?

[Anonymous No.22220181]

>>22220023
Your interpretation offers little room for outside forces acting up on the UK, the agency of UK peoples, officials, bureaucrats, voters, and seems fairly monocausal. One woman changed everything eh? Seems like a powerful political force to me worthy of understanding. I've found the means by which the spirit acts up on history in Thatcher, have I?

Tell me, were there any other events concurrent with the rise of Thatcher that might explain these events? You don't seem to think the UK was a very robust state of it only took one administration to ruin it.

[Anonymous No.22220215]

>>22219264
>>22220023
It's always the free loading socialists and so-called workers crying about thatcher. They hate the idea of polish plumbers undercutting their cushy guild protected crafts. Most of the workers want to show up, Fuck about all day, get pints all night, and show up hungover the next day at work while expecting top dollar per diem.

So what if she talked about cancelling free milk? Those programs were developed as handouts to struggling industries like the dairy farmers who couldn't compete with cheaper continental dairy.

Sorry everything can't be free for everyone. Someone has to pay the bills. You fourierist are all the same

[Anonymous No.22220234]

>>22217360
Hello.

[Anonymous No.22220248]

>>22214896
Fpbp, vanity fags btfo

[Anonymous No.22220290]

>>22215528
>>22215529
>>22215534
>>22215534
>>22215539
>>22215544
You have my wishlist, pal lmao

[Anonymous No.22220318]

>>22219072
>>22219079
>>22219086
>>22219097
>>22219099
>>22219104
>>22219111
Very comfy shelf anon, love it.

[Anonymous No.22220881]

>>22220318
Thanks, it's definitely taking a more permanent shape, tone, and contour of my interests.

[Anonymous No.22220963]

>>22219350
I'm not even the anon you originally hated on. People read at their own pace, and it's normal to have a haul of books that you are planning on reading. Your complaints were literally "too many classics and/or /lit/ recommendations" and "you haven't read enough of your collection yet". Again, you are a bitter, caustic, sniveling pedant.

[Anonymous No.22220980]

>>22220963
Just ignore him. Anons who accuse others of not reading reek of sour grapes. I guess some don’t believe that some anons actually read or don’t handle their books like a gorilla

[Anonymous No.22221018]

>>22220980
Many people, myself included, intend fully to read a book, buy it, start and drop it. So many times I've just not been gripped by a book and set it aside. It's just not my time to read it. Maybe the season isn't right, my mood, or my intellectual interest is held in another field, form, or geography. I started blood meridian and read it in two days, while watching kids full time during a break. The border trilogy didn't pull me in as fast.

Poetry and short stories are the same. I would read half the stories in a collection and never read some bc the topics just didn't interest me. Collections of essays and letters likewise are not read exhaustively by me.

[Anonymous No.22221045]

>>22221018
I agree. Once you accumulate a certain number of books, some will inevitably be unread or picked through

[Anonymous No.22221187]

>>22220963
>too many classics
No you dumb bitch, gravities rainbow and catcher in the rye are not classics. They’re modern garbage tales that are boring at best. Beowulf is a classic.
Shakespeare is a classic.
The Quran is a classic.
You bought every book an anon told you to buy and it shows. Pathetic, get your own tastes.

[Anonymous No.22221626]

>>22214852

>self help books and sci fi
idk man...

[Anonymous No.22221630]

>>22215800

i read books on kindle for free then if i really liked them i buy a physical copy as a trophy and i never open it. they all have pristine spines. fight me, you fucking degenerate.

[sage No.22222093]

>>22217053
tons of trash there you should get rod of

>TED talks

wtf dude

[Anonymous No.22222244]

>>22220963
I agree though does anyone have any interests of their own anymore?

[Anonymous No.22222323]

>>22217094
Based cob enjoyer

[Anonymous No.22222387]

>>22217101
sell me one of your copies of The Recognitions

[Anonymous No.22222499]

anons thoughts on this guys collection?
https://youtu.be/qFQxhBcgjlg

[Anonymous No.22222525]

>>22214852
Why dont we combine /post your stack general/ and /post your bookshelf general/ ?

[Anonymous No.22222529]

>>22222499
Crecganford? Great guy, know him well. Library is fun and looks like its magical.

[Anonymous No.22223202]

>>22215825
fiberboard

[Anonymous No.22224220]

A makedo closet shelf while I'm living in a cramped apartment; I've got another stack here of books I haven't read yet, plus books at my parent's house that I acquired in my HS/college days

[Anonymous No.22224283]

[Anonymous No.22224310]

>>22224283
Your belt is too pretty, go use it.

[Anonymous No.22224501]

>>22217172
very nice. Out of curiosity, how long to accumulate all those? You've read most of them? How much did you retain? not bashing I'm just curious. Probably the best collection I've seen on here ever.

[Anonymous No.22225018]

>>22222244
What a fatuous hipster thing to say. "Ugh, people only like things that other people also like". What kind of criticism is that? Ironically, it's also a trite comment which other anons have made ad nauseam

[Anonymous No.22225130]

>>22224283
Based Trojan war enjoyer

[Anonymous No.22225373]

>>22224283
>that copy of Fahrenheit 451
>that copy of The Catcher in the Rye
>that copy of The Art Of Racing In The Rain
these are books from high school, aren't they anon. you're like, what, 19? just starting to read seriously? if so then welcome to literature and we love you.

if you are any older than 25 -- and that's being generous -- there's no hope.

[Anonymous No.22225384]

>>22225373
Everyone starts somewhere. A 40 year old can decide they want to read and they’ll start with what they know

[Anonymous No.22225385]

>>22225373
I'll turn 29 in a few days and I've never read those novels.

[Anonymous No.22225508]

>>22222529
I just found his videos recently, very enjoyable.

[Anonymous No.22225536]

i need a new bookshelf

[Anonymous No.22225758]

>>22217172
Anon are you French? If so, could you please recommend me some good French authors? I've tried reading Maupassant, but I died of boredom.

[Anonymous No.22226208]

>>22225018
>"Ugh, people only like things that other people also like"
What a dumbass interpretation of what I said.
No moron, here’s what I mean.
Boethius, Consolations of Philosophy, required reading for more than a millennia in schools in the west, where is that rec?
The Iliad, Odyssey, and Bible, the three most influential books on the western tradition, where are those recs?
No instead people rec no longer human (shit book btw of a fag complaining the whole time), gravities rainbow (shit book btw) catcher in the rye (are we in middle school?) moby dick (are we in high school?)

Anyways my point is you’re shallow fags with the understanding of high schoolers or lower, but even worse is you can only find recs from other shallow high schoolers and middle schoolers.
You’re a retarded fag in short.

[Anonymous No.22226260]

Double faggots. If you post a book with a prisitine spine you’re an absolute faggot who only buys books as background decorations.

[Anonymous No.22226552]

>>22226260
some books are made in a way that the spine is hard/impossible to crack

[Anonymous No.22226567]

[Anonymous No.22226572]

>>22226552
also you can just not bend the fuck out of the book like a 5th grader.

[Anonymous No.22226576]

>>22224283
>murakami
gggaaaayyyyyy

[Anonymous No.22226600]

>>22226567
>that many Vonneguts
>Infinite jest
Cringe overload

[Anonymous No.22226601]

>>22226600
Vonnegut rules

[Anonymous No.22226642]

As a library-dependant poorfag, this thread saddens me deeply. I wish I could keep a copy of every book I've read.

[Anonymous No.22226661]

>>22219111
based bong

[Anonymous No.22226663]

>>22220215
Poles out, Pakis in.

[Anonymous No.22226671]

Once my collection of Loebs (yes I am getting them to study Greek and Latin) is done I'll post it. They're very aesthetic.

[Anonymous No.22226781]

>>22226642
Why not try secondhand stores/opshops? I pay $2 USD for most of my books

[Anonymous No.22226829]

>>22215772
Get a book from home depot about woodworking STAT

[Anonymous No.22226940]

>>22226567
Now show us your cock pretty boy

[Anonymous No.22226963]

Currently reading children of time, not in the frame is the entire collection of Aubrey-maturin novels. This is basically my dorm shelf and tbr shelf.

[Anonymous No.22227096]

>>22226208
>The Bible
Imagine recommending a book of ancient Jewish laws. Cringe.

[Anonymous No.22227109]

>>22226260
The real fags are the ones patrolling other people's collection like some damn purity police, "Sir, you haven't damaged your books enough, you lose internet points!". Embarrassing. You could just strike up a conversation about an anon's book collection, isn't that the point of these threads anyway?

[Anonymous No.22227382]

>>22226663
I've lost interest in the sad, bleak, and deteriorating island now populated, in the south anyway, by a cadre of immensely wealthy globalists and their army of acid attacking pakis who are used to keep the kifeless natives in check.

If only Scotland could escape that fate.

[Anonymous No.22227387]

>>22226671
I got those, about 60

[Anonymous No.22227451]

I borrow books more often than I buy them, but this here's what I've got.

[Anonymous No.22227467]

1/2

[Anonymous No.22227475]

2/2

[Anonymous No.22228596]

>>22227451
I didn't know there was any books beyond Metro 2033, how are those 2?

[Anonymous No.22228703]

>>22217181
Folios and reclam, very close to my own interests. It's unfortunate that so many of those penguins will return to the earth before you, bc you have classics there

[Anonymous No.22228721]

>>22217218
>>22217347
I was that professor who read everything and I gave students a list of optional readings. Many of us do that.
I trained as a generalists and did two separate PhD programs, switching from one after a master's to an elite one before working in several foreign universities and adjuncting till I finished. I just read, wrote, and did research for about 14 years. I never taught on my specialization.

The damage is done in high school. Students read for answers to multiple choice tests, they can't read for themes, patterns or similarities. They grow frustrated because they are scammed into expensive colleges deeply unprepared for reading and writing. The successful teachers give the students easy tests and continue to have lower expectations like those of high school teachers.

[Anonymous No.22228836]

>>22227467
>>22227475
Nice shelves but you are supposed to hide the manga in the cellar.
>only two volumes of Hellsing
My brother in Christ, buy the rest of simply read it online. I got into it back in 2008 and it was the shit, you could keep on reading it.

[Anonymous No.22228855]

>>22214852
This kind of fucked with me, thought the books were huge but it turns out the shelf is just small

[Anonymous No.22228906]

>>22228596
2034 offers some nice additional worldbuilding. Haven't got around to 2035 just yet, but that one differs greatly from the games unlike the former two (rather the games differ greatly lol).