Let's have a bookshelf thread. You can not deny the aesthetics of a bunch of titles stacked together. Post em

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Anonymous Mon Dec 31 20:16:15 2012 No.3305350 [Reply] [Original]

Let's have a bookshelf thread. You can not deny the aesthetics of a bunch of titles stacked together. Post em

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>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 20:26:14 2012 No.3305366 >>3305357 >cracking codes & cryptograms >the end of faith >who's afraid of freemasons ding ding ding, faggot

Anonymous Mon Dec 31 20:29:14 2012 No.3305376

>>3305366
It's what I like to read. I don't see you posting anything. I suppose you just have three or four of the things discussed on here every day, right?
>dur, infinite jest
>hur, blood meridian
>dur, brothers karamazov
>hur, a few books mandatory for college

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 20:31:14 2012 No.3305378 >>3305357 is that Lovecraft collection good? I've never read any of his works

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 20:33:14 2012 No.3305386 >>3305378 It's fine if you like Lovecraft. I wouldn't get it if I were you, though. Read one of his shorts first. They're probably a lot different than you might think, since they're pretty old works

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 20:36:14 2012 No.3305395 >>3305376 >tfw non of them I am a god

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>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 20:41:14 2012 No.3305417 >>3305415 >no fun allowed

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 20:43:14 2012 No.3305421 >>3305417 Sade's loadsa fun

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 20:43:14 2012 No.3305422 >>3305415 >nietzsche >stirner >kafka are you going through your period?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 20:45:14 2012 No.3305432 File: 1.89 MB, 2288x554, Closet Bookshelf.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Took these with a laptop, lel.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 20:46:14 2012 No.3305434 >>3305417 It's all fun.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 20:47:14 2012 No.3305436 >>3305432 Big Fish was a novel first?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 20:49:14 2012 No.3305440 File: 106 KB, 500x375, astehtics.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3305350 I cannot deny.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 20:49:14 2012 No.3305441 File: 99 KB, 590x326, eBook-Kindle-Library-Shelf.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >having a fetish for physical objects >disgusting

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 20:49:14 2012 No.3305442 File: 320 KB, 1031x800, WhalingIt.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3305436 Yes. A little better than the movie too, and I thought the movie was pretty good

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 20:49:14 2012 No.3305445 File: 57 KB, 500x375, childrens books.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3305440

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 20:50:14 2012 No.3305447 File: 52 KB, 466x395, grey feel.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3305441 You better get the fuck out of here if you're one of those guys who actually doesn't waste money on books you're only gonna read once

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 20:51:14 2012 No.3305448 File: 191 KB, 1019x743, reading.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3305441 >kindle surrounded by physical books Try more.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 20:51:14 2012 No.3305450 >>3305350 What the fuck that's not even a real bookshelf.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 20:52:14 2012 No.3305453 >>3305447 Once is generous. Most of these people aren't going to read a majority of these books. The only reason they have them is so others can see them.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 20:52:14 2012 No.3305454 >>3305422 It's all from my pre-quietist period.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 20:52:14 2012 No.3305455 File: 55 KB, 500x216, ASTHETICS.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3305445

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 20:53:14 2012 No.3305457 File: 86 KB, 500x460, classics.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3305455

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 20:55:14 2012 No.3305462 >>3305453 No-one sees my bookshelfs

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 20:55:14 2012 No.3305467 >>3305453 >aren't going to read the majority >>3305432 here. I've read every single one except for five, which I was just given on Christmas. I intend to have everything read by the end of February.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 20:59:14 2012 No.3305476 File: 534 KB, 864x648, books1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Barnes and Noble Leatherbound Classics. Look so nice on my shelf. Haven't read a single one.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 20:59:14 2012 No.3305477 >not having your literature aimlessly scattered around your house with torn up pages and stains Ultra-pleb in this thread

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 21:02:14 2012 No.3305485 >>3305476 >not buying your books in pre measured amounts http://www.booksbythefoot.com/shop/pc/viewAllPrds.asp

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>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 21:05:14 2012 No.3305500 >>3305495 Is that Sandman?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 21:06:14 2012 No.3305505 File: 907 KB, 993x1136, bookz.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3305485 WTF am I reading?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 21:07:14 2012 No.3305508 File: 64 KB, 358x451, vdc_595_general.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3305485 That's cool. I wonder if you could actually end up with some cool books for cheap that way. Check out the dressed vintage cloth for only about 3.00 a book.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 21:10:14 2012 No.3305514 >>3305485 >get that to impress people >some actually reads and starts questioning you on them

Anonymous Mon Dec 31 21:11:14 2012 No.3305520

>>3305476
I wish I was at my condo and I could take a picture, I have a bunch of Barnes and Noble leatherbounds I'd like to take a pic of. My favorite edition (That I've actually read) Is the red bound Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Poe. It has wonderful illustrations in it too.

Anonymous Mon Dec 31 21:12:14 2012 No.3305524
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>>3305514

All you have to do is turn to the last page of every book and read the very last word on it. Then you can say to anyone who questions you about them, "I can honestly say that I have read every last word of every book in here."

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 21:13:14 2012 No.3305532 File: 559 KB, 320x246, 1351664062441.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3305432 >Naive super

Anonymous Mon Dec 31 21:15:14 2012 No.3305540

>>3305520
I could take a pic of my mom's basement which is literally flooded with books. But they are 99% religious doctrine crap and books about the tyranny of liberals. The only cool thing I have found so far is a second edition set of Lord of The Rings. I'm trying to find my copies of Smilla's Sense of Snow and East of Eden I loaned her a long time ago in the piles down here.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 21:17:14 2012 No.3305548 >>3305432 I like that shelf. Those selection seem like you read because you genuinely like to read and not because you're a pseudo intellectual douche trying to impress people because you're insecure.

Anonymous Mon Dec 31 21:19:14 2012 No.3305552

>>3305532
Great book. I asked for Doppler and my sister bought it for me on Christmas. Except it was the Norewgian edition and I don't speak Nord

That book had such a simple premise but turned out to be really entertaining. It had an innocent feel to it as well, since he was able to just chill with a little boy and the parents were all good with it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 21:22:14 2012 No.3305560 >>3305548 Thanks. I mean, it's just closed in my closet so it's not as if they're seen aside from on here, anyway

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 21:33:14 2012 No.3305600 File: 605 KB, 1984x1488, 271393_1872557704190_5412644_o.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] this is from over a year ago

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 21:41:14 2012 No.3305624 File: 1.26 MB, 2576x1932, 100_1472.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Drama section w/Patrick O'Brian's Master and Commander Series on the floor to the right.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 21:41:14 2012 No.3305628 File: 889 KB, 1984x1488, 1357007613224.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3305600 What's this one?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 21:44:14 2012 No.3305634 >>3305624 where are the other sections

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 21:46:14 2012 No.3305638 >>3305600 hahahahahhaha and you thought no one would notice those 2 harry potter books hahahahahah your collection is now irrelevant

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 21:47:14 2012 No.3305641 >>3305628 The Death of the American Dream

Anonymous Mon Dec 31 21:48:14 2012 No.3305645
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>>3305552
Most of Erlend Loe's texts are written in this overly simplistic, naive way.

"L" is a homage to masculinity, in many ways. Independence, leadership, and as a man, "building" your own home; doing something, serving something. Almost as seen in Hamsun's "growth of the soil". It seems to be a recurring theme in Scandinavian literature. Even in the Icelandic sagas, it's not about heroism - but rigidity, and stereotypical principles of masculinity.

I'd recommend it if you're a boy/man in your early twenties. Like "naive super" it's based on one of Loe's real life journeys/experiences.

The "Kurt" series are brilliant children's books, and a sharp satire on the Scandinavian society.

"Doppler" is essentially about a man telling society and its apparent responsibilities to "fuck off", and decides to move out in this park/forest outside in the outskirts of his city. Makes friend with an elk.

Overall just great fun. Lighthearted, seemingly bizarre but well structured humor built on a solid foundation. I tend to read him inbetween the "heavier" ones.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 21:52:14 2012 No.3305657 >>3305638 even worse there's a fuckin dan brown book over on the left

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 21:52:14 2012 No.3305662 >>3305624 r u into theater or sth

Anonymous Mon Dec 31 21:56:14 2012 No.3305672
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>>3305645
I would definitely like to read L if I could find an English version. I'm 19 so it sounds good.
>about a man telling society to "fuck off" and decides to move out
This is the plot of Suttree, my all time favorite book. Naturally I'll have to read Doppler. Like I said, I have it, but in Norwegian.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 21:57:14 2012 No.3305676 >>3305662 Aspiring playwright. Vow of poverty.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 21:58:14 2012 No.3305684 File: 784 KB, 1603x1788, 100_1466.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3305634 Awright you axed for it. Start of non-fiction

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 22:00:14 2012 No.3305688 File: 887 KB, 1859x1834, 100_1467.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3305684 end of non fiction, philosophy and start of poetry

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 22:00:14 2012 No.3305689 You are all pathetic. This is not open to debate. Just in case you didn't know. Anything after this is posturing and justification of your pathetic lives.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 22:00:14 2012 No.3305690 File: 1.08 MB, 1032x621, Picture 3.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >that feel when you will never have a nice, cozy library where you can retreat to in the evenings to read in luxurious wealth.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 22:01:14 2012 No.3305695 >>3305684 not too bad

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 22:01:14 2012 No.3305696 >>3305688 Fiction b-d

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 22:01:14 2012 No.3305701 >>3305689 Allow me to translate this for everyone: >i wish i could afford a decent, middle-class library worth, at most, a couple hundred dollars, too, but i'm a self righteous poor hipster faggot ;[

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 22:02:15 2012 No.3305702 File: 2.00 MB, 2448x3264, NYlit.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] On a whim. /lit/: I give you the NY hovel.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 22:02:15 2012 No.3305703 File: 679 KB, 1380x1775, 100_1468.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3305696 whoops fiction b to d

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 22:03:15 2012 No.3305708 >>3305690 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sjl11bWVJhw& A much-watch for all you library/bookshelf fags

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 22:03:15 2012 No.3305712 >>3305702 aww shit now we gettin the real shit

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 22:03:15 2012 No.3305714 >>3305708 >much >must time to stop posting

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 22:03:15 2012 No.3305715 File: 571 KB, 1321x1641, 100_1469.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] D to H

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 22:05:14 2012 No.3305723 File: 756 KB, 1123x2567, 100_1470.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3305715 H to M

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 22:06:14 2012 No.3305727 File: 679 KB, 1018x2233, 100_1471.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3305723 M to V

Anonymous Mon Dec 31 22:06:14 2012 No.3305728
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One shelf, my husband made if for me, it's full now, have a few other full shelves but I mostly read epubs now. You can't see titles but trust there's good shit up there. + art books and zines.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 22:07:14 2012 No.3305731 >>3305702 keep it real

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 22:08:14 2012 No.3305735 >>3305690 envy achieved

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 22:09:14 2012 No.3305738 >>3305728 Your husband is a poor carpenter. You should probably find a better provider. Even Jesus had better, and that poor wee fucker was born in a stable.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 22:11:14 2012 No.3305742 File: 570 KB, 640x640, photo1.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Where I keep my epubs. 1.5 TB diamond drive.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 22:12:14 2012 No.3305743 >>3305708 Thanks for posting this video. It's great.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 22:12:15 2012 No.3305744 >>3305703 Who's the author of Dirty Work on your topshelf?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 22:13:15 2012 No.3305747 >>3305728 Christ, get a better husband

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 22:13:15 2012 No.3305749 >>3305738 Haha, that's funny. That shelf is so dope. Fuck Jesus.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 22:14:14 2012 No.3305753 File: 110 KB, 640x480, photo-1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Only for you homos, here's the shelf empty. Better than your melamine ikea crizznap.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 22:15:14 2012 No.3305755 >>3305417 >Kafka >not one of the funniest authors ever http://www.philforum.org/documents/David%20Foster%20Wallace%20-%20Some%20Remarks%20on%20Kafka's%20Funniness....pdf

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 22:16:14 2012 No.3305759 File: 35 KB, 300x225, 1111.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I have fancy leatherbound books in the front. I keep these in the closet but they're the only ones I read.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 22:20:14 2012 No.3305770 >>3305744 Dirty Work by Larry Brown ("Joe" and "Father and Son" were better novels by the same author. Dirty Work owed a bit too much to "Johnny Got His Gun")

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 22:20:14 2012 No.3305772 File: 90 KB, 480x640, photo-1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Homos, just admit this thing is rad.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 22:22:14 2012 No.3305775 File: 364 KB, 1460x1095, DSCN1351.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >keep books from high school >people think you have bad taste I probably do, oh well

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 22:23:14 2012 No.3305777 File: 1.22 MB, 1932x2576, 100_2138.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3305727 Rest of Poetry

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 22:24:14 2012 No.3305779 >>3305777 Fiction a to b

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 22:25:14 2012 No.3305781 File: 1.15 MB, 2100x1872, IMG_0273 - Kopi.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >bookshelf thread I always feel compelled to post in these. Haven't taken a new picture in a while, though.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 22:25:14 2012 No.3305785 File: 1.18 MB, 1932x2576, 100_2139.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3305779 Fcuk. Fiction a to b

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 22:26:14 2012 No.3305787 >>3305777 >Pessoa >Yeats >Eliot Awesome, awesome collection. Any particular recommendations from there?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 22:26:14 2012 No.3305788 >>3305775 >not having good taste by high school

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 22:27:14 2012 No.3305792 >>3305788 it's the assigned reading stuff, most of those books I had since high school

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 22:33:14 2012 No.3305812 File: 133 KB, 624x469, books.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] :3 forgive me, lit

Anonymous Mon Dec 31 22:36:14 2012 No.3305833

>>3305787
Well since you're onto Pessoa and Yeats already, Swinburne is neglected nowadays and is worth a read. Blake and Shelley of course, a a bit neglected, probably due to their sincerity and iconoclasm. I also like Pound's early poetry but to be dead honest can't really appreciate the Cantos.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 22:42:14 2012 No.3305854 >>3305781 I like to see your picture in these threads. Lenin's statuette is cool. Where did you buy it?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 22:42:14 2012 No.3305856 >>3305777 where are the critical works!

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 22:48:14 2012 No.3305878 >>3305856 Abandoned and forsaken. At least by me.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 22:48:14 2012 No.3305879 >>3305854 I didn't, actually. My dad found it in the attic when he bought a house. I borrowed it when I was doing a presentation on communism once, and forgot about it for a few years until it sort of just became mine.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 22:54:14 2012 No.3305898 >>3305879 Oh, curious. Keep it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 23:13:14 2012 No.3305982 >>3305781 I like the bookshelf above where you sit thing. Feels cozy. Also I know nearly everyone has seen this before, but for those that haven't http://bookshelfporn.com

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 23:18:14 2012 No.3305993 >>3305775 I like shelves like this the most. You can tell those interest you, or did at some point. >>3305772 it's pretty ok

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 23:57:14 2012 No.3306081 >>3305485 I really cant get the idea behind that. Those are actual, readable books? Or there is only the cover? You get to select what titles you want?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 00:00:14 2013 No.3306093 File: 77 KB, 554x831, tumblr_mbv16do26t1rrqsx6o1_1280.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >not having kids' books to read to your little girl friend when you are cuddling in bed together >2012+1

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 00:03:15 2013 No.3306101 File: 118 KB, 1024x768, Country Kids Library_full.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] This is my basement.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 00:04:15 2013 No.3306105 >>3305357 Ultimate troll shelf. 10/10.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 00:04:15 2013 No.3306109 >>3306093 little girl friend or little girlfriend?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 00:05:15 2013 No.3306110 >>3306101 >>3306093 Serial killer detected.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 00:06:15 2013 No.3306112 >>3306105 More like your average chan browser's shelf

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 00:06:15 2013 No.3306115 >>3306109 both. >>3306110 Loving little girls =/= being a serial killer

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 00:09:15 2013 No.3306124 >>3306115 >Love You mean you want to pork them.

Anonymous Tue Jan 1 00:09:15 2013 No.3306126 [DELETED]

>>3306110

Why? Because I'm a grown man who likes playing with toys and having kids over? Call me what you want, but I'm just an innocent kid at heart.

I love legos, I'll admit. In my toy basement, I've almost always got an erection right in the middle of the room: a castle, a bridge, a lego house of some kind. And there's nothing I love more than crawling into bed at night and fondling a new toy till I figure out how the pieces fit. I love kid culture and try to keep abreast of it as much as possible. And I love it when kids come over to my basement and play with my toys. All I ask if that they don't molest my flower bed out back but leave them alone.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 00:12:15 2013 No.3306135 >>3305357 post your tin foil hat

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 00:13:15 2013 No.3306136 >>3306126 Holy fuck you're that fat baby guy from that documentary I saw who defecates in diapers Seriously creepy shit, man. There's some dark psychology at work in all that fetishizing

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 00:47:15 2013 No.3306229 >>3306124 >>3306124 Yeah just like you want to pork your girlfriend/couple/woman you love

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 00:49:15 2013 No.3306233 >>3306229 Yes. Exactly like that, you sick fuck.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 00:50:15 2013 No.3306242 >>3305440 wow,they';re even girlier together

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 01:11:15 2013 No.3306303 File: 2.04 MB, 2448x3264, 20130101_020624.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Missing only my hp lovecraft complete works collection that sits on my bedside table and the copy of hitchhikers guide to the galaxy I'm reading.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 01:19:15 2013 No.3306326 File: 10 KB, 250x250, heurhuhruh.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3306126 >I've almost always got an erection right in the middle of the room

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 01:21:15 2013 No.3306334 File: 30 KB, 402x606, 1333.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3306233 Yep, its like that.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 01:30:15 2013 No.3306372 File: 277 KB, 960x720, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I dare anyone to attempt to out-pleb me! I don't care, I read for fun.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 01:32:15 2013 No.3306380 >>3306372 I'm not seeing any Dan Brown.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 01:33:15 2013 No.3306385 >>3306101 That's really cool. It's awesome that you're still having fun. Just don't rape any kids, okay.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 01:33:15 2013 No.3306386 >>3306380 Bottom right. But I don't know, having Franzen makes this guy slightly unpleb.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 01:35:15 2013 No.3306394 >>3306380 Oh wait, I've spotted it. Must have repressed the horror. Still, you have DFW and Franzen on display, I'd still say >>3305600 is way outplebbing you.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 01:35:15 2013 No.3306395 >>3306386 >implying Franzen isn't a hack with only one good book

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 01:40:15 2013 No.3306405 File: 340 KB, 1280x853, franzen-signs.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3306386 >having Franzen makes this guy slightly unpleb Hahaha, no.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 01:46:16 2013 No.3306418 >>3306386 >having Franzen makes this guy slightly unpleb The /mu/ is strong in this one

Anonymous Tue Jan 1 01:55:15 2013 No.3306434
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Don't feel like taking an updated picture, but I haven't added all that much to it in the last month. Books bought since:

The Song of Roland
Laxdaela Saga
Sundiata
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Ramayana (shortened version by R.K. Narayan)
The Nibelungenlied
Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih
In Praise of Shadows by Junichiro Tanizaki

I was on a small epics/sagas binge for a bit and decided to stock up. Reading The Ramayana now. I also have some other stuff ordered with Christmas money, but they haven't arrived: Njal's Saga, The Aeneid, Fairy and Folk Tales of Ireland, The Famished Road, Confessions of an English Opium Eater, Palace Walk, The Fatal Shore, Virago Book of Erotic Myths and Legends.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 01:57:15 2013 No.3306438 File: 2.17 MB, 2368x1914, bookshelves 11-29-12 part two.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3306434 and the second half. Getting another shelf soon, hopefully. Then I won't have to have Latin American and a lot of USA authors in on their sides.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 01:59:15 2013 No.3306439 >>3306438 Impressive but what's with the dinosaurs.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 02:00:15 2013 No.3306441 >>3306439 Dinosaurs are awesome.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 02:00:15 2013 No.3306444 >>3306438 >>3306434 HAVE YOU ACTUALLY READ ALL OF THOSE OR ARE YOU SIMPLY ADDICTED TO BUYING USED BOOKS?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 02:01:15 2013 No.3306446 File: 357 KB, 1024x768, squishies.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3306439 I like dinosaur stuff.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 02:03:15 2013 No.3306449 >>3306446 :3

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 02:06:15 2013 No.3306457 File: 2.07 MB, 1960x3736, 1354072566387.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Here we go again.

Anonymous Tue Jan 1 02:17:15 2013 No.3306495

>>3306444
I think I've read about a third. I use the library and read ebooks very often, so I don't own a lot of what I have read (I don't even own most of my favorite books yet).

I don't think I'm addicted to it. I bought around 40 books this year, and read over three times that much. I like having the books I'm interested in reading on hand and ready to read for when I get a reading whim (like with ebooks, quick access). Inter library loaning can take well over a week at my university, and by that point I've sometimes lost that initial excitement about reading it. I also take notes in my books, so I want to buy the ones that are relevant to my strongest areas of interest - like all the shelves dedicated to Japanese literature, the Eastern European stuff and my burgeoning interest in Icelandic sagas. If it's something I think I may teach someday, I want to own it.

you're not caps right?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 02:20:15 2013 No.3306505 >>3306495 I'm addicted to buying used books. I have too many and I don't read them at the rate at which I buy them but I'm too ashamed to have unread books in the front room so I keep them in boxes in the back but it's getting out of control!

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 02:23:15 2013 No.3306510 >>3305727 What do you think of Vollmann

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 02:24:15 2013 No.3306511 >>3306505 yeah i buy so many fucking books dude and i do read them but i read like 1 for every 3 i buy i could read for probably 3-6 months and not catch up wiht them all at this point > tfw i just ordered more yesterday

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 02:24:15 2013 No.3306512 >>3306457 Classy and patrician taste. Ugly clock, foam head is silly and those little tiny figurines are odd.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 02:30:15 2013 No.3306536 >>3306511 This. Ohh god I have so many books from the Goodwill near my apartment.

Anonymous Tue Jan 1 02:30:15 2013 No.3306537

>>3306505
Aw. I don't have many people over (and no one who would care to question me on books anyway), so I don't know that anxiety.

I was buying at a much faster rate than I was reading about two/three years ago, when I first began reading again. But I don't regret it now. You might slow down eventually (what happened to me), and you'll be glad that you have so much to choose from. As long as you aren't running out of space or starving yourself to afford them, it's not much of a problem imo.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 02:31:15 2013 No.3306543 >>3306512 Clocks are for keeping time, not looks. I've had the mannequin for ages. I didn't know where else to put the star wars toys, I've since stashed them away.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 02:33:15 2013 No.3306549 >>3306543 complete poetry of robert frost, awww yea! all, like, two roads diverging and shit, am I right??

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 02:35:15 2013 No.3306551 >>3306549 To quote the illustrious Flavor Flav, - "Yeeeeessss Sir!"

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 03:29:15 2013 No.3306721 >>3306093 Please die in a fire.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 03:40:15 2013 No.3306729 >>3305432 What did you think of Last Exit to Brooklyn and Drown?

Anonymous Tue Jan 1 03:53:15 2013 No.3306747
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>>3306729
Last Exit was just degenerate filth. I mean, the book was written well and I did enjoy reading it, but the content - oh, man. Faggots, drugs, trannies, rape, murder.
Drown is one of those I got for Christmas so I haven't read it yet.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 03:58:15 2013 No.3306758 >>3305357 let me guess, you listen to Coast to Coast AM and/or Alex Jones.

Anonymous Tue Jan 1 04:02:15 2013 No.3306764

>>3306758
I'm not familiar with either. Am I supposed to accept drug-addled transsexuals as normal just because it's
>2013

Thinking back on it now, one of the stories in there was actually way superior to the rest. The one about the factory worker who leads a strike and eventually gets overtaken by alcohol. It's in third person, and the author never once mentions that this guy's a drunk. But you pick up on it and actually start to feel sympathy for him even though he's a total asshole. It's very well written

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 04:02:15 2013 No.3306765 >>3306747 Hahaha yeah, that is exactly the reason why I liked Last Exit to Brooklyn. I read a chapter from Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz in class and thought he was a great writer. He really knows how to write in a voice very well.

Anonymous Tue Jan 1 04:11:15 2013 No.3306775

>>3306765
I suppose it was the reason for it being a good read. It would be one thing if the author was just trying to be hardcore and have some edgy adult themes, but in a way he showed each vice as something not worth it. Drugs (all the bennie use), sex(how the tranny wanted that italian guy's D so much that she didn't even care when he stabbed her/him), money(the prostitute who eventually becomes a dried up whore when she could have had it all), liquor(the factory worker who, I believe, ends up dying), and self mutilation (the old jewish woman whose family is gone). You have me thinking back on it now, ha. Never analyzed it much at the time

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 04:21:15 2013 No.3306795 >>3306775 Exactly, also the writing flowed so well!

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 08:17:15 2013 No.3307105 >>3305755 >http://www.philforum.org/documents/David%20Foster%20Wallace%20-%20Some%20Remarks%20on%20Kafka's%20Funniness....pdf So this is why the green text format is so successful?

Anonymous Tue Jan 1 08:30:01 2013 No.3307111
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>>3305772
It's too complex, too lightweight.
I'm all for light, danish design on heavy floors, but they look weird next to a thick table. Thick floors often need a thick table.
A bookshelf is like a table that way.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 08:34:01 2013 No.3307115 >>3305781 "skjegg"?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 08:38:01 2013 No.3307119 >>3306551 How are things going, Benny?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 08:41:01 2013 No.3307123 >>3306434 I assume you've read "the icelandic sagas"?

Anonymous Tue Jan 1 08:50:52 2013 No.3307132

>>3307115
It's about the cultural significance of beards around the world. It was fairly decent, if a bit superficial, until it got to modern times, where it started claiming that SOCIETY wants to erase the difference between the sexes, and that's the reason dudes generally don't have beards any more.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 08:55:10 2013 No.3307137 >>3305703 mine are all in banana boxes, cuz I don't own furniture.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 10:00:11 2013 No.3307232 File: 46 KB, 354x229, cell4.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3307137 Nice. Now get rid of as much books as you can as well for supreme minimalism.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 10:11:31 2013 No.3307246 >>3305441 >Fetishes are bad No.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 10:41:03 2013 No.3307302 >>3305447 >2012 >only reading a book once

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 11:09:47 2013 No.3307360 File: 1.49 MB, 3264x2448, shelf.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 12:16:57 2013 No.3307466 >>3307232 >Scary looking gif >Open it >Wait to see a fucking monster or zombie apper >Nothing happens >ok.jpg

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 12:17:43 2013 No.3307470 >>3307466 you clearly didn't watch long enough...

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 12:18:28 2013 No.3307471 File: 57 KB, 474x604, laughingwhores.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3307360 lol.jpg getthefuckoutofhere.jpg

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 12:54:22 2013 No.3307527 File: 1.91 MB, 2304x1536, DSC_0803.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] took my dan brown off the shelf for the photo

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 12:58:40 2013 No.3307535 File: 1.89 MB, 1536x2304, DSC_0803.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] took the dan brown off the shelf for the photo

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 13:11:35 2013 No.3307573 >>3305728 >husband what on earth for? you must live in some strange provincial backwater, or he's loaded.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 13:13:36 2013 No.3307578 >>3307535 You realize that for the amount of money it took for you to get all of those works in pretty hardcover, you could have gotten 7x the amount of actual literature.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 13:13:36 2013 No.3307580 ITT people who haven't read more than 10% of their entire shelf(s).

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 13:15:37 2013 No.3307585 >>3307535 That looks fucking good. Do you actually buy your books based on their covers?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 13:15:51 2013 No.3307587 >>3307578 You realize that all the time you spend posting nothings on 4chan could be spent reading actual literature?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 13:16:53 2013 No.3307591 >>3307578 How do you know what I paid for these books? Why you so mad?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 13:17:54 2013 No.3307593 >>3305742 Silly anon, this is a bookshelf thread I think you're looking for >>>/g/

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 13:18:24 2013 No.3307596 >>3307585 No, I just took all the dust jackets off. I find dust jackets look like shit when you buy second hand hardcovers (or new for that matter). And thanks!

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 13:19:09 2013 No.3307599 >>3307580 Does it make you feel nice and superior to assume that?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 13:22:24 2013 No.3307604 >>3305457 That dictionary has the ugliest title font I have ever seen. Is it some sort of relic from the 70s?

Anonymous Tue Jan 1 13:22:24 2013 No.3307605

>>3307578
Maybe the guy has enough disposable income to afford as many nice hardcovers as he wants?

Jesus Christ, you people are so catty. This thread reminds me of threads on 420chan's /cd/ board when a decent looking/convincing tranny posts a picture of his-/herself and all the ugly/unconvincing trannies just pounce on them and tear them to pieces out of pure jealousy.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 13:22:40 2013 No.3307606 File: 86 KB, 450x1200, 1356081317048.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3307596 Oh yeah I didn't even pay attention there were no DJ.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 15:05:22 2013 No.3307918 bump for more bookshelves, everyone's got one, even if you don't, post it

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Anonymous Tue Jan 1 16:57:49 2013 No.3308456

>>3307123
Why the quotes? I haven't read all of them, no. So far I've read Hrafnkel's Saga and Other Icelandic Stories, The Saga of the Jomsvikings, The Saga of the Volsungs and a chunk of Njal's Saga. I want to order either The Saga of Grettir the Strong or Egil's Saga next.

Anonymous Tue Jan 1 17:22:05 2013 No.3308535

>>3308456
>Why the quotes?
Not the Icelandic sagas, but the collective work by the same name.
It covers the Saga of Erik the Red, Greenland saga, Gísla saga, Hænsna-Þóris saga, and Sigmundur Brestisson's saga.
So far, most of the sagas I've gone through comes off as dry historical fictions. Interesting tales about the discovery of America though.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 17:35:05 2013 No.3308576 >>3307573 I don't understand the question. >Why do I have a husband? >Why would I have a shelf made for me exactly how I want it rather than buy one? >Why would my husband be loaded in order to make me a bookshelf? >Loaded on drugs? I am hungover.

Anonymous Tue Jan 1 17:37:05 2013 No.3308586
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>>3308535
Oh, no. I like having them in separate volumes vs. one big volume like that. I know a lot of the translations in that one are different though, so I may pick it up eventually. I'm also not as interested in the ones included in that volume, except the Vinland Sagas and Egil's Saga.

The ones I've read are anything but dry (and seem to be only vaguely historical) - The Saga of the Volsungs includes dragon-slaying, immense treasures, Atilla the Hun, a man playing an harp with his toes in a snake pit, men turning into wolves, Odin popping up to help or hinder in different disguises as he sees fit. The genealogy leading up to Sigurd does get mildly boring, but his ancestors were decently exciting as well.

I think the choices for the Saga of the Icelanders volume does tend towards the dryer ones. Some of the stories in the "Tales" section were included in the Hrafnkel's Saga book I have, and while they were decent looks at historical goings on, they weren't especially riveting.

Everyone seems to love Egil's Saga though. I'm looking forward to it a lot, though the translation I'll be reading is different.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 17:37:05 2013 No.3308590 >>3305755 Thanks for posting this, reading now. Having DFW explain what comprises a joke is relevant to my interests.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 17:38:05 2013 No.3308594 >>3305432 props for calvin and hobbes, i have 7 or 8 of those collections on my shelf

Anonymous Tue Jan 1 18:00:05 2013 No.3308660

>>3308586
>one big volume like that. I know a lot of the translations in that one are different though, so I may pick it up eventually. I'm also not as interested in the ones included in that volume, except the Vinland Sagas and Egil's Saga.
Seems like we're thinking about different volumes. Doesn't really matter though, it's the same sagas.

>The Saga of the Volsungs includes dragon-slaying, immense treasures, Atilla the Hun, a man playing an harp with his toes in a snake pit, men turning into wolves,
The preface in the work I'm talking about, mentions the somewhat "objective" touch, indulging admiration for stubbornness, a lack of an individual artistic direction, and that the ideals, "heroes", and the point of the sagas may seem alien to us used to reading about the typical knight - with his dynamic personality, greater-than-himself purpose, and the need to serve "justice".

Perhaps it is better fleshed out in those selected sagas, for I sure can't remember any treasures, gods, and dragon-slaying.

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>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 18:05:05 2013 No.3308686 >>3308681 Australian detected

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 18:07:05 2013 No.3308695 File: 1.16 MB, 2560x1920, 2012-12-26 15.17.25.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3308686 Puzzled as to how that pic ended up like that.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 18:09:05 2013 No.3308703 >>3308695 Oh for fuck's sake.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 18:11:05 2013 No.3308712 >>3308695 Jesus. At first I was like, "why does this idiot stack his books like that?". So disappointed in my self.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 18:15:05 2013 No.3308730 >>3308681 >>3308695 It's depressing just how many books we share.

Anonymous Tue Jan 1 18:16:05 2013 No.3308739

>>3308660
We might be. I was talking about this guy:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0141000031/

Maybe that's why I enjoy them so much. I was never fond of chivalric works - that's actually why I'm putting off Laxdaela Saga so much, because the lectures I've listened to and the intro to the book mention how influenced it was by chivalric stories of the time, and how it's the one most likely to appeal to readers into that. Chastity and respectful duels, etc. And that's not really what I want out of them. I want dozens of Vikings captured by their enemies getting their heads cut off, saying smarmy shit and pulling stunts that get their captors arm cut off. And then the enemies decide to take them to their side, because they're too excellent to waste. A chivalric tale would have had all that scene being much more solemn, maybe some invocation to God. There would definitely not be a guy asking if he could sleep with the captain's wife as a last request. I like the ideal of ecstatic glory in life and death much better than moral codes and "justice."

Maybe I have the wrong idea of chivalric tales though. I'm mostly basing it on what I've read of Le Morte d'Arthur and The Faerie Queene. I did pick up The Song of Roland to give myself a better exposure to them.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 18:26:05 2013 No.3308780 >>3305485 can someone explain this site to me?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 18:28:05 2013 No.3308788 >>3308739 >http://www.amazon.com/dp/0141000031/ Yep, that's not it. But yeah. they present us with some interesting choice of ideals, that I think stands in contrast to the "chivalric code" you'd find in those tales of heroics.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 18:29:05 2013 No.3308797 File: 1015 KB, 1920x1280, IMG_5530.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >self-explanatory

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Anonymous Tue Jan 1 18:34:05 2013 No.3308817

>>3308780
I thought it was mostly for furniture stores, or maybe for hotels. They just want them for decoration (there's a "faux books" section), and I guess they don't want to bother buying 1000 books one by one on Amazon/Abebooks.

Talk about a niche market.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 18:39:05 2013 No.3308843 >>3308817 that is depressing.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 18:46:59 2013 No.3308864 >so many unread books >the most pretentious/tryhard books are almost always the ones that are unread I bet my life your fuckers pretend to have read them too. You're the worst kind of people. You filthy casuals sicken me.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 18:47:59 2013 No.3308867 File: 563 KB, 2937x1756, xl9j6.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3305350

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 18:48:15 2013 No.3308870 >>3305728 Holy fuck your husband is a terrible carpenter

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 18:49:15 2013 No.3308874 >>3308864 Why not try discussing some books with people? Then you can have both lit discussion on /lit/ and find out if everyone is as "casual" as you think.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 18:51:47 2013 No.3308888 >>3308874 I don't want to talk to people who buy books and then never to read them but only have them for pretense. Seriously, just one such book is enough to kill your integrity. At the very least don't put unread books in your shelves on principle.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 18:53:48 2013 No.3308896 >>3308870 It's mostly metal gaylord. Can't believe I am defending my super rad shelves to you - melamine plebtard.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 18:55:19 2013 No.3308904 >>3308888 But you just assumed that most of these books are unread. In my pic I've read every single book on there. Every single one. The ones that I'm currently reading are all over my house. Waaah!

Anonymous Tue Jan 1 18:58:06 2013 No.3308918

>>3308904

Some of these are paperback. If they were read it's pretty easy to spot. I can live with one or two unread books but some of this is just ridiculous.

If the books in your shelves don't look worn and actually read you're doing it wrong. It isn't there to look nice. (Although one can argue that bookshelves with actually used books are the most aesthetically beautiful of them all!)

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 18:59:37 2013 No.3308925 >>3307580 >>3308864 Samefag.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 19:00:06 2013 No.3308928 >>3305728 femanon, I don't understand why everyone's dissing the shelf. I don't think it's too bad.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 19:04:06 2013 No.3308940 >>3308918 I'm just really careful and take care of my books and try to keep them from getting bent up and stuff. What's the big deal with that?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 19:04:06 2013 No.3308942 >>3305357 Oh my goodness, that Lovecraft collection case is simply gorgeous. My poor version is a black textured paperback with gold Papyrus font.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 19:05:06 2013 No.3308943 >>3308918 Ok, maybe you should not generally state that we all are unread douchebags and just reply to the turds who have unread books on their shelves so I don't have to get butthurt for all of us. You may proceed to mock the pretenders.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 19:05:06 2013 No.3308947 >>3308928 Oh, I'm not a femanon. Gay marriage, it's a thing. Just kidding, I'm a femanon.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 19:06:06 2013 No.3308948 File: 1.19 MB, 1936x2592, IMG_0402.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] most of my books are in pdf form

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 19:06:06 2013 No.3308951 >>3307302 >2013 >still saying 2012

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 19:09:06 2013 No.3308957 >>3308947 Yeah, I thought of including that, but I was confident enough in my choosing.

Anonymous Tue Jan 1 19:13:06 2013 No.3308968

>>3308957
Because what gay man would care if some anon 4chan moron made fun of his shelf that he loved? He would just be like "Pssshaw" and know in his heart that the design aesthetics were over their heads. My husband has never been on 4chan, and we should probably keep it that way.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 19:20:06 2013 No.3308996 >>3308968 >aesthetics >that monstrosity

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 19:41:16 2013 No.3309073 >>3305485 The Kids book package has Anne of Green Gables and Mark Twain in it. Probably a good set of stuff that would get children into reading.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 19:43:16 2013 No.3309084 >>3306303 >Laying books sideways so you don't feel inadequate because of the emptiness It's okay, bro, nobody is judging

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 20:42:12 2013 No.3309338 How many of you actually study or reread the books on your shelf? Use your local fucking library you pretentious fucks

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 20:44:12 2013 No.3309348 >>3309338 Collecting is fun and doesn't necessarily have to be utilitarian. Twat.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 20:46:12 2013 No.3309361 >>3309338 A book costs about as much as the bus ticked to the library.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 20:53:12 2013 No.3309386 >>3305524 I would buy a ton of these just to spell out a secret sentence with every first word or every last word.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 20:55:12 2013 No.3309393 >>3308928 Badly made. The cross bracings are over constrained.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 21:11:12 2013 No.3309443 >>3307591 Nothing about my post even hints at anger. I was just providing some advice so that you could make more efficient use of your funds.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 21:13:12 2013 No.3309452 >>3309348 This. It's way cheaper for me to buy rather than use the public library. A library card is over $30 per month for me, plus you have to factor in gas to get there. You can buy books on PaperbackSwap for $2.20 each, shipping included.

Anonymous Tue Jan 1 21:17:12 2013 No.3309471

>mfw my when I was 17 my books were in a common bookshelf me and my sister shared and she sold all of my books at a yard sale without asking me.

I didn't have any heavy stuff at the time, but I had like 150 books, most of the classics and some real cool shit. fuuuuucck

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 21:24:13 2013 No.3309496 >>3309452 What kind of shithole do you live in that charges for a library card?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 21:30:12 2013 No.3309518 >>3309496 If you live outside of city limits, you have to pay for one. I live about 500 feet out of city limits. It sucks.

Anonymous Tue Jan 1 21:40:12 2013 No.3309538

>tfw I used to buy Nietzche, Kant, Plato/Socrates all to just stock on my bookshelf so people thought I was really in sync with philosophy and "deep"
>tfw I used to buy Sagan, Newton, Feynman, and the published works of Einstein so people thought I was really scientific and learned
>tfw I used to buy Homer, Herodotus, and the collected Greek myths so people thought I was historic and learned

Jesus, my 24-year-old self was a pretentious twat. Glad I've actually read that shit, and packed it away in my attic. After reading it all, I felt like the pretentious teenager deep within me finally transcended this world, gone forever.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 21:43:12 2013 No.3309550 >>3309538 Mythology in general is loads of fun and never struck me as pretentious. Especially when the collections include folklore and fairy tales as well. At that point people are more inclined to call you juvenile for owning them.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 21:46:12 2013 No.3309567 >>3309550 No, no doubt. I fell in love with the Greek mythos when I was in 6th grade and have never looked back. I was just saying at the time I had bought them just so people would think better of me, and not for my true love of them.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 21:50:12 2013 No.3309587 Let's have a [hoarding] thread. You can deny the [faux prestige] of a bunch of [objects] stacked together. ITT: caring more about appearance than content.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 21:53:12 2013 No.3309601 >>3305432 How is Cloud Atlas?

Anonymous Tue Jan 1 22:04:12 2013 No.3309646

>>3309587
Not true, although I do love physical books. I love smelling them, and I'll sniff all my books, affectionately. Also, I lick the pages. That woody taste is so lovely and my tongueprint just makes the book that much better.

Licking and sniffing. Yes, sir. You can't do that with e-readers.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 22:16:12 2013 No.3309681 >>3309646 I lick and sniff my e-reader all the time. It tastes like cheesy doritos.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 22:45:12 2013 No.3309791 >>3308797 How much for the H2G2?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 22:48:12 2013 No.3309804 >>3309452 thank you for introducing me to this glorious website.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 22:58:12 2013 No.3309846 >>3309791 It was only 25 bucks and it has the 5 (I'm not sure if the series was mainly a trilogy or included all 5) books, and a short story.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 23:04:12 2013 No.3309876 >>3309846 Where did you get it? Online?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 23:12:12 2013 No.3309907 >>3309876 Oh I forgot, it's just the B&N leatherbound "edition": http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/barnes-noble-leatherbound-classics-the-ultimate-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-douglas-adams/1106658817?ean=9780307291813

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 23:14:12 2013 No.3309924 >>3309907 Neat, thanks

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 23:17:12 2013 No.3309936 >>3309518 Have you posted about this before? I get the feeling I have seen this exact conversation on /lit/ before.

Anonymous Tue Jan 1 23:25:12 2013 No.3309960

>>3309936
Yeah, I've mentioned it a few times. It really makes me upset and it's a valid justification for my decision to buy books and use ebooks.

I think there's a public library about an hour away that is free to anyone in the county, but with the gas mileage I get, I don't think that would be worth it either.

Anonymous Tue Jan 1 23:31:12 2013 No.3309977
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Ayn Rand and Hitchens on there though I detest both (Hitch is a solid writer, but I agree with nothing more. Atlas Shrugged is 1,000 pages of dead prose, and fuck individualism). I feel like it's good to be knowledgeable on opposing ideologies. Also a bit of Ellen Hopkins in there from my younger days, reading her poetry now wouldn't satisfy me but when I was younger it really affected me.

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>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 23:34:12 2013 No.3309991 >>3309982 scifi fag

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 23:36:12 2013 No.3309998 >>3308867 How much was that Harry Potter complete collection?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 23:37:12 2013 No.3310002 >>3308797 I really want to read Siddhartha but I'm afraid it might be too spiritual for me.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 23:44:12 2013 No.3310019 How much books on those shelves have you actually read?

Anonymous Tue Jan 1 23:49:12 2013 No.3310035

>>3309601
It was a little boring, to be honest. Also it gets confusing at times when you have long intervals between reading it since there's multiple stories occurring at once. I much preferred Number9Dream by the same author. I haven't seen the movie so I can't make the comparison, but apparently people have said it's good.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 00:03:12 2013 No.3310073 >>3310002 Siddhartha is the one that has no supernatural stuff in it at all. and it's like, 80 pages, c'mon bro

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 00:07:12 2013 No.3310083 File: 2.21 MB, 1936x2592, IMG_0583.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 00:10:12 2013 No.3310091 File: 2.25 MB, 1936x2592, IMG_0585.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3310083 and my too-read pile. I uh, got a little retarded at the year end half price books sale

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 00:10:12 2013 No.3310092 >>3310019 Was this meant to be a reply to someone or are you asking generally?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 00:14:12 2013 No.3310104 >>3310091 Yeah, I keep saying that Im not going to buy more untill i get my pile down some, but I cant stop my self when I find something I want.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 00:21:12 2013 No.3310120 >>3310073 Spiritual ≠ Supernatural

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 00:21:12 2013 No.3310121 >>3310091 >Dan Abnett mah nigga

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 00:23:12 2013 No.3310128 >>3305690 >walking stick confirmed for hobbit

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 00:25:12 2013 No.3310136 >>3310091 >too-read

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 00:49:12 2013 No.3310212 >>3310136 i read books, i don't right them

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 00:54:12 2013 No.3310231 >>3310212 eye nose write?

Anonymous Wed Jan 2 00:57:12 2013 No.3310241
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>>3306434
>>3306438

oh hey it's that chick with the awesome collection, nice

still jealous as fuck over here, I can't use that site in my country the devastation I feel is large and lasting

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 01:01:12 2013 No.3310254 >>3308797 >bunch of easy to read stuff >Ulysses out of fucking nowhere why does every casual reader think they can jump into a work like this? is it for /lit/ cred?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 01:04:12 2013 No.3310257 >>3310254 blame the whole Western Canon, 'you must read and like these books to consider yourself smart, plebe' thing

Anonymous Wed Jan 2 01:06:12 2013 No.3310263

>>3310241
oh hey it's that [male pretending otherwise] with the [hoarding obsession], [awkward]

still [envious] of your [invidious consumption] as fuck over here, I can't use that site in my country the devastation I feel is [pathetic] and [unbecoming of anyone with dignity or a sense of shame].

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 01:11:12 2013 No.3310278 >>3310263 >sorry about this kneejerk vitriol I've had a really bad day today and I can't help it don't worry I understand

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 01:14:12 2013 No.3310280 >>3305476 Those are tacky as hell and you should know better

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 02:26:07 2013 No.3310429 >>3309393 You're tripping, let's see your shelves.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 02:30:07 2013 No.3310437 Anyone with an extensive collection of classics, can you please post them in text? Posting from iPhone and many of your pictures aren't exactly the best in quality. Cheers

Anonymous Wed Jan 2 02:30:07 2013 No.3310441

>>3310254
I read it in high school, didn't get all of it but it's not impossible. Then I read it again in college and absorbed a lot more. It's not *that* hard for someone of reasonable intelligence.
I wrote this in another thread but you guys need to make up your minds - either you encourage exploration in great lit or you put 'casuals' down for even trying. You can't do both. Just remember that trying to intimidate moderately ambitious readers is just lame.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 02:32:07 2013 No.3310443 >>3310437 Can you view Goodreads on your phone well?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 05:15:05 2013 No.3310738 >>3310002 It's incredibly boring.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 06:44:13 2013 No.3310821 >>3307596 do you store them somewhere? I am always conflicted.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 06:51:20 2013 No.3310825 >>3305690 I've always wondered. Do people actually find reading on these chairs for an extended period of time comfortable? I prefer reading in bed.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 06:58:39 2013 No.3310828 >>3305690 Now this is probably someone who went to this site >>3305485

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 07:00:09 2013 No.3310831 File: 1.08 MB, 1920x1080, IMG_20130102_224937.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Am I doing this right?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 07:10:09 2013 No.3310839 >>3310831 what sort of phone is that, did you take this pic in '99?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 07:27:09 2013 No.3310856 >>3310839 I took the photo with the phone I use. Those are just old ones I have lying around for no discernible reason.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 07:29:09 2013 No.3310857 >>3310831 Oh my god...that blue Nokia phone...I used to have one just like it! Fuck yeah.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 08:16:09 2013 No.3310920 >>3309982 Try to get a bit more variety dude.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 08:20:09 2013 No.3310924 >>3310441 >>3310254 It's a /sci/duck with a big head.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 08:41:09 2013 No.3310941 File: 1.07 MB, 4184x1288, books.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 10:09:15 2013 No.3311044 >>3310941 How did you like Night Shift?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 10:34:15 2013 No.3311072 File: 856 KB, 1214x2047, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] My books

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 10:36:15 2013 No.3311073 >>3311072 More pics of the girl.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 10:39:15 2013 No.3311077 File: 833 KB, 200x150, 1356981158862.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3311072 >the cactus My sides.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 10:40:15 2013 No.3311080 >>3311072 Forget the girl, take the dust jackets off the books. Slowly. And splay them out on the table. Oh yeah.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 11:14:24 2013 No.3311162 File: 1.71 MB, 2000x3008, lalalalala.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] i love books.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 11:16:24 2013 No.3311173 >>3311162 >i love collecting dust on books You're too cool.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 11:44:24 2013 No.3311248 >>3311173 I'm offended

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 11:48:24 2013 No.3311262 >>3305702 are you black?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 12:59:24 2013 No.3311509 >>3310254 Well, I honestly wasn't planning on reading yet. I bought it for around $5. Alas, I should take it off my shelf if I am displaying it to /lit/, but it looks nice there.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 13:13:24 2013 No.3311556 File: 828 KB, 2048x1536, scant 025.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] me having better taste than /lit/ pt 1

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 13:14:24 2013 No.3311560 File: 820 KB, 2048x1536, scant 026.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3311556 me having better taste than /lit/ pt 2

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 13:14:24 2013 No.3311561 >>3311556 Have you read any of those? They look untouched.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 13:15:24 2013 No.3311564 File: 811 KB, 2048x1536, scant 024.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3311560 pt 3

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 13:16:24 2013 No.3311569 >>3311561 errthing but the burn and the african ones on top (i am gentle as a newborn lamb)

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 13:19:24 2013 No.3311583 >>3311556 >reads garbage by Mark Ravenhill and Doris Lessing >pretends to have good taste You kids are so cute.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 13:23:24 2013 No.3311596 >>3311583 oops did i challenge your established canon? sorry for being so bleeding edge

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 13:36:24 2013 No.3311632 File: 106 KB, 578x712, funny-pictures-auto-452712.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3311596 >I'm too cool to read good books. You're awesome, man. I hope to one day spend entirely too much to own so little. I look up to you, faggot.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 13:42:24 2013 No.3311645 File: 1.49 MB, 240x180, 1355025580422.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >I hope to one day spend entirely too much to own so little

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 13:44:24 2013 No.3311651 >>3311564 How does the Tunnel compare to the more popular pomo doorstoppers (IJ, GR, Underworld, etc.)? Would you recommend reading Omensetter's Luck first?

Anonymous Wed Jan 2 13:52:01 2013 No.3311678

>>3311651

when the tunnel works, it can be jaw-dropping amazing; when it doesn't it can make you want to throw the book out a window

like there'll be this absolutely excruciating description of the main character getting his foreskin pulled back as a kid, no gruesome detail spared, and then just when you're like "fuck this shit" will come a passage with a super gorgeous simile or something that will make you glad you read it

there's a lot that's obnoxious about it but it's something everybody should read once prob

omensetter's luck is a whole other kettle of fish, it's like reading a cormac mccarthy novel through a shower door -- the individual word choices are so vivid and yet there's definitely some deliberate obfuscation afoot, it's by no means a pre-req for the tunnel but it's very cool for what it is

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 14:08:07 2013 No.3311723 >>3310821 Yes I store them flat in a cool dry place, just in case

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 15:31:15 2013 No.3311969 >>3311678 Do you have Goodreads?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 17:44:17 2013 No.3312329 >>3311044 Only read Trucks so far. It's fun.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 3 01:58:21 2013 No.3314083 bump

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>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 3 02:58:26 2013 No.3314293 >>3314123 >dem feet 10/10 would cuddle with

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