Let's see your libraries, /lit/! I need another one of the narrow bookshelves... 40k sci-fi is my guilty pleasure...

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Anonymous Tue Feb 12 23:05:40 2013 No.3464615 [Reply] [Original]

Let's see your libraries, /lit/!

I need another one of the narrow bookshelves... 40k sci-fi is my guilty pleasure...

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 12 23:08:41 2013 No.3464618 >whole shelf of 40k books heads up you are going to get majorly shat on

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 12 23:08:41 2013 No.3464620 File: 20 KB, 396x414, 76767678.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Not ashamed.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 12 23:08:41 2013 No.3464621 File: 50 KB, 598x199, 1357954136011.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 12 23:11:40 2013 No.3464631 File: 2.59 MB, 3264x2448, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Here ya go.

Anonymous Tue Feb 12 23:12:41 2013 No.3464635

>>3464618
Eh, it is what it is, bro. Eisenhorn is a bro.

Also, feel free to post your current reading. The book missing, for example, on the left for me is "The Floating Opera" by James Barth.

>>3464620
PDF's for the win.

>>3464621
I lol'd.

>>3464631
I regret so much selling my Reader's Digest collections!

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 12 23:15:40 2013 No.3464642 >>3464635 Best part is that I got all these, "Anna Karenina"+ "'Madame Bovary" + "House of Seven Gables" for free from a lady who was selling her house. I have like 7 other ones used as decorations.

Anonymous Tue Feb 12 23:17:40 2013 No.3464645

>>3464642
I was a stupid kid. I sold them all for money to buy weed or something when I was like fourteen. I had some dating back to the early 70's and I think late 60's. Shit was so great.

I actually just added a nice edition of "Madame Bovary" to my collection. Found it at a little used book shop for $2.

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>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 12 23:20:40 2013 No.3464653 Huh. Well, this thread is bound to be very long and useless.

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>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 12 23:27:40 2013 No.3464672 Go beat off to your collection of dead trees somewhere else you pathetic excuse for a person.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 12 23:28:40 2013 No.3464676 >>3464672 >being THIS much of a faggot

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 12 23:31:40 2013 No.3464681 File: 63 KB, 307x3026, fraudreaders.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3464676 But he's right. Nobody is impressed with the books you bought but haven't even read.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 12 23:31:40 2013 No.3464683 >>3464676 You got 'im good.

Anonymous Tue Feb 12 23:38:41 2013 No.3464704
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>>3464681
I tend to stick books on my shelf that I have successfully read. I even mark the day I start, and the day that I finish. For example

I hate people who buy dozens of crappy books then go: "IM SMART" without even reading them.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 12 23:39:40 2013 No.3464707 >>3464681 >>3464704 OP here, why would you buy a book and not read it? Shit's not logical, Spock.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 12 23:39:40 2013 No.3464709 >>3464704 Does it really take you that long to read a book?

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 12 23:42:40 2013 No.3464717 >>3464709 If it was Frankenstein in the summer that was a required reading and marked annotations for High School, yes. It took me about 2 weeks to complete Les Misréables on my own terms, so that's pretty much what happens.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 12 23:50:40 2013 No.3464733 >>3464615 >any books about zombies that aren't about vodun Never

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 12 23:52:41 2013 No.3464738 >>3464635 PDFs are shitty. There are much better ebook formats.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 12 23:54:41 2013 No.3464740 >>3464738 depends on the book.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 12 23:55:41 2013 No.3464743 >>3464738 No.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 12 23:57:40 2013 No.3464751 >>3464743 Yes

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 00:00:40 2013 No.3464768 >>3464751 No.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 00:00:40 2013 No.3464770 >>3464768 I concede

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 09:17:41 2013 No.3465570 >>3464615 I see someone bought the collector's edition of Guild Wars 2.... still playing?

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 09:23:41 2013 No.3465577 >>3465570 Rot in hell both of you, I'd rather play WoW all over again than playing that piece of shit.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 09:26:41 2013 No.3465582 File: 929 KB, 3264x1840, IMAG0015.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] This was taken a few months ago, got a few more now.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 09:38:41 2013 No.3465594 >>3464631 How many of those have you read/

Anonymous Wed Feb 13 09:40:41 2013 No.3465598

>Let's see your libraries
>libraries
>less than 5ft of shelf

I'm yet to see in any of these threads a single collection of books equivalent in number to those in one room alone of my house.
Even if you ignore this, there are hardly more books in any of your photos than the number some of you claim to have read in the previous month in threads of that sort. Do they just vanish? Do the people who actually read not post in these threads? Does everyone who reads use an eReader?
Either that or you're all compulsive liars.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 09:41:41 2013 No.3465601 >>3465598 There's this thing called a library.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 09:44:42 2013 No.3465605 >>3464615 Run off back to /tg/, little neckbeard, it's the better board anyway.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 09:45:41 2013 No.3465606 >>3465598 I have 10s of metres of books, i have posted them before but you just end up being mocked by fools who haven't read 1% of what you have. Sad really.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 09:45:41 2013 No.3465607 >>3465582 hm, I wonder what he is drink-eugh.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 09:45:41 2013 No.3465609 >>3465601 Libraries are just where homeless people go to use the internet.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 09:47:41 2013 No.3465612 >>3465607 >implying the brand makes a difference when you're drinking it with dr.pepper

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 10:02:41 2013 No.3465638 I'm working towards being a minimalist, I sold off almost all of my fiction books and just got myself a kindle. Less is more.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 10:05:41 2013 No.3465646 Can I post a picture of my dick isntead? Dick thread?

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 10:07:41 2013 No.3465650 File: 85 KB, 360x582, cover.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3465646 Fuck yeah, Dick!

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 10:09:41 2013 No.3465654 >>3465582 >books not showing signs of reading >alcohol next to books >vinyl next to books >all books placed on shelf facing the same way Kill yourself

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 10:09:41 2013 No.3465655 >>3465654 >all books placed on shelf facing the same way Wait what's wrong with this?

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 10:10:41 2013 No.3465656 >>3465655 A mixture of autism and karma-whoring

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 10:11:41 2013 No.3465659 >>3465650 I used to be like you. then I wore my "I (heart) Dick" T-Shirt on a long subway ride....

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 10:12:41 2013 No.3465662 >>3465656 But anyone's house I go into usually has books and DVDs facing the same way, it seems like a very normal thing to do.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 10:14:41 2013 No.3465667 >>3465654 >books not showing signs of reading do you twist and bend your books so that they can look like library books? >alcohol next to books >vinyl next to books >all books placed on shelf facing the same way what's wrong with this?

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 10:14:42 2013 No.3465670 >>3465662 Posting pictures of your most recent meal online to a bunch of people who you don't know is considered normal. What's your point?

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 10:15:42 2013 No.3465676 >>3465667 No, I do this strange thing called 'reading', which tends to ripple their spines etc. It's trying too hard to appear patrician and "le tortured eclectic"

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 10:16:41 2013 No.3465677 File: 122 KB, 476x356, holy what is this.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3465582 >The Karamazov Brothers >Not the Brother Karamazov

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 10:17:41 2013 No.3465680 >>3465677 *Brothers

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 10:18:41 2013 No.3465682 File: 1.22 MB, 2560x1920, shelf.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I just started building it recently. Some of them are filler books, too. They were too cheap to ignore.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 10:19:05 2013 No.3465683 >>3465670 People were arranging books in the same direction hundreds of years ago. Libraries face books the same direction. If you arrange them in random directions that would seem very try-hard and hipsterish since it opposes natural inclinations.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 10:22:41 2013 No.3465690 >>3465676 I read too sometimes, but I don't suffer from parkinson's disease.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 10:31:42 2013 No.3465712 >>3465690 If you'd read the big books there (like "The Karamazov Brothers" (what the fuck, by the way?)) their spines would be damaged.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 10:35:41 2013 No.3465720 >>3465712 That, Ulysses and Finnegans wake are the only books on that shelf I haven't read.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 10:39:42 2013 No.3465731 File: 295 KB, 1200x1593, books1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] "Collecting" shelf (mostly read) (1/2)

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 10:39:42 2013 No.3465732 >>3465720 It's fairly obvious that there is quite a lot more unread stuff there. There is no shame in admitting it and being honest. Lying is a foolish thing to do, especially on the internet where it's never really necessary.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 10:39:42 2013 No.3465733 File: 424 KB, 1200x1593, books2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] "Reading" shelf (all read) 2/2

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 10:42:41 2013 No.3465739 >>3465732 I had The Idiot with me on my trip to Greece and even got poolwater on the backside and a few of the last pages. I don't understand how you can ruin an entire book just by reading it.

Anonymous Wed Feb 13 10:47:42 2013 No.3465746

>>3465739
>I had The Idiot with me on my trip to Greece and even got poolwater on the backside and a few of the last pages.

That's nice, honey. (Also, if you took it with you on a trip, you'd expect it to look at least slightly used..)

You don't ruin the books, but with paperbacks in particular it is always easy to spot whether they have been read or not.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 10:51:42 2013 No.3465752 >>3465739 How did you take it on a trip and keep it in such perfect condition? The books I pick up at the airport tend to be more worn out by the time I reach home than yours.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 10:58:41 2013 No.3465757 >>3465752 Trust me it's not in perfect condition, it just looks that way when it's squeezed in like that, but yeah, it's one of my most "ruined" books.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 11:01:41 2013 No.3465762 >>3465731 Is there a name for those type of covers? The old looking sleeveless hardbacks.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 11:01:42 2013 No.3465761 >>3465582 I know some people take care of their books but these just haven't been opened its obvious. Also what is blacked out on the top right?

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 11:02:41 2013 No.3465764 >>3465762 Leatherbound?

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 11:02:41 2013 No.3465766 >>3465682 Why would you even waste your time posting this?

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 11:06:06 2013 No.3465771 >>3465766 R-r-recognition, anon ;_;

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 11:06:41 2013 No.3465770 >>3465761 Even the ones I haven't read have been opened several times.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 11:11:47 2013 No.3465776 >>3465582 >Finnegans wake Really?

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 11:12:47 2013 No.3465779 >>3465582 Dat untouched Finnegans Wake. Shit looks newer than the books you see in stores.

Anonymous Wed Feb 13 11:15:41 2013 No.3465785

>>3465582
>those perfect, unruffled, unread paperbacks
>all dat Joyce
>The Pale King

I'm guessing you just started coming here and just bought a bunch of what you've heard of from the plebtricians of /lit/? Shit, I've been there too, but get to reading those freaking books.
Also

>wordsworth editions
>pleb liqour
>being swedish

Anonymous Wed Feb 13 11:20:41 2013 No.3465792

>>3465785
The Pale King was given to me when I finished my unpaid internship at a bookstore, it's not like I would buy it myself.

>I'm guessing you just started coming here and just bought a bunch of what you've heard of from the plebtricians of /lit/?

Not far from the truth, but like I stated the picture is very old, and I don't buy a great many books

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 11:22:41 2013 No.3465800 >>3465582 >untouched books >not untouched bottles >"cool" pink floyd vinyls It smeels like /lit/ spirit

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 11:24:41 2013 No.3465802 >>3465582 Oh my fucking god what a poser. I bet metro's just there as a little joke as well.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 11:28:41 2013 No.3465806 >>3465802 No it's the only book I've actually read.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 11:28:41 2013 No.3465808 >>3465792 >it's not like I would buy it myself. Why not?

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 11:31:41 2013 No.3465812 >>3465808 Because I've heard nothing but bad things about it. unfinished etc.

Anonymous Wed Feb 13 11:31:41 2013 No.3465813

What's going on in this thread?
>everyone accusing everyone else of not reading
>sci-fi and zombies praised
>"Really? Finnegans Wake?" comments
>"Really? DFW?" comments
>most insightful comments are about cheap alcohol
>plebs plebbing plebs
>>>/tg/, >>>/mu/, >>>/co/, >>>/notlit/

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 11:35:41 2013 No.3465822 >>3465812 >Because I've heard nothing but bad things about it. Try talking to people outside of 4chan some time. Though admittedly it's not the best entry point into his oeuvre.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 11:36:41 2013 No.3465829 That feel when I will never post my bookshelf on /lit/ because I take good care of my books and everyone will accuse me of not reading them.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 11:39:41 2013 No.3465840 >>3465829 I will create a bookshelf thread tomorrow with an updated version of>>3465582 People will go apeshit thinking I just hoard books and never read them.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 13:49:42 2013 No.3466083 File: 1.15 MB, 2100x1872, IMG_0273 - Kopi.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >implying you haven't seen this picture before

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 14:32:42 2013 No.3466205 File: 818 KB, 3264x1840, IMAG0001.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Just got this

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 14:58:42 2013 No.3466236 ITT: Tryhard pieces of pathetic shit.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 15:01:41 2013 No.3466240 >>3466083 >>3466083 aah love that room.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 15:22:41 2013 No.3466262 What I'd like is a really nicely bound copy of Shakespeare that isn't too expensive. The only one I see these days is the B+N style thing with the sticker (!) of his portrait on the front which is complete shit

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 15:29:41 2013 No.3466276 >>3466262 How about the hardcover RSC Shakespeare? I own the paperback (I'm cheap), so I can vouch for the contents. I assume the hardcover would be bound nicely, since the RSC are pretty reliable.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 15:30:41 2013 No.3466278 File: 1.47 MB, 2560x1920, 2013-02-11 19.53.51.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] errbody 'mirin my Martin Amis

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 15:32:46 2013 No.3466284 >>3466276 Hm I'm looking for leatherbound preferably rather than just hardbound. I would prefer multiple volumes instead of one fuckhuge tome. This one's 2500 pages which is vast.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 15:36:41 2013 No.3466291 File: 2.62 MB, 1667x2500, shelf-1-3.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Tried to get everything on the picture. Feel free to hate on me!

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 15:37:41 2013 No.3466293 >>3466291 Can I have like, all of your books? Please?

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 15:38:41 2013 No.3466297 >>3466291 bro u must get so much of that hipster pussy real talk

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 15:40:41 2013 No.3466299 >>3466291 Noice. Don't think I've ever seen that edition of Infinite Jest before. What publisher is that in the top right corner (the Fitzgerald)?

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 15:42:41 2013 No.3466305 >>3466291 >i-just-came-from-/mu/-and-bought-try-level-books-core

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 15:48:41 2013 No.3466320 >>3466305 Sometimes people just have more than one interest.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 15:49:41 2013 No.3466322 >>3466305 At least he bought nice editions, tho. But the fact that he seems to read deeply into author's oeuvres stand him in good stead. Better to be deeply read than widely read.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 15:49:41 2013 No.3466323 >>3466291 >vinyl >owns IJ and sod all else in terms of recent literature everytime

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 15:49:41 2013 No.3466324 I can't believe these threads exist. Anyone who has posted their bookshelf should be banned. You pseudo-intellectual idiots drive me mad.

Why Tolkien was a hack Anonymous Wed Feb 13 15:50:41 2013 No.3466325 [DELETED]

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The entire book of Lord of the Rings was just one big lazy metaphor for World War II.

Hitler is replaced by Sauron
Himmler is replaced by The Witch King
Gondor is Britain
Rohan is USA
Easterlings & Haradrim represent Japan & the Axis powers

The ring being cast into Mount Doom is symbolic to the Atomic Bomb being dropped to end the war. The ring is also symbolic to the corruption that even the allies faced in the face of adversity with the brutality of War bringing out the evil in good men.
When Gondor asks Rohan for help and they initially refuse to aid at the battle in the Pelennor fields this is symbolic to USA's reluctance to aid Britain in the war due .
Sauron & the forces of Mordor is used to represent Hitlers rise to power and the Nazi's lust for power & control

If you think Tolkien wasn't a hack you *seriously* need to read between the lines. He had no ideas of his own so he wrote a book about World War II and changed a few names and places thinking nobody would be the wiser. Well he's wrong, he is a hack and does not deserve any of the credit he has today.

Discuss.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 15:51:42 2013 No.3466328 >>3466278 I've never actually seen Amis (either of them) discussed here

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 15:51:42 2013 No.3466329 >>3466325 Swing and a miss, faget.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 15:51:42 2013 No.3466331 >>3466324 It's just book porn. Stop being such a captious old fuck.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 15:52:41 2013 No.3466334 >>3466331 >captious WHOA GUYS HE'S GOT A DICTIONARY!

Anonymous Wed Feb 13 15:52:42 2013 No.3466332

>>3466299
Its the normal hardcover version but with the dust cover off.. I don't really like dust covers.

The fitzgerald books are from a penguin classic designer series, they are quite nice!

http://www.penguin.co.uk/static/csk/0/pubsetpages/fscott_fitzgeraldndex.html

>>3466305
it's true that i frequently go to /mu/ but i've actually been on this board longer and i've read every book on that shelf (besides Finnegans Wake of course)

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 15:52:42 2013 No.3466333 >>3466325 Please do not post this thread

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 15:53:41 2013 No.3466336 File: 43 KB, 680x511, BRTky.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3466334

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 15:54:41 2013 No.3466338 >>3466334 >he thinks 'captious' is an esoteric word or something I thought you said you read?

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 15:55:41 2013 No.3466344 >>3466338 I've never heard it before, but it's a good word

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 15:57:41 2013 No.3466348 File: 220 KB, 1387x1034, NabokovSaysFuckYou.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3466324

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 16:02:42 2013 No.3466364 File: 651 KB, 2048x1536, Photo0026.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >tfw no shelves The Dos Passos book is USA

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Anonymous Wed Feb 13 16:03:42 2013 No.3466376
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Have read, but haven't bought yet:

Macbeth
Candide (still stumped on which translation to buy, originally read the Anonymous one)
God and the State
The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony and Other Stories
Animal Farm
Nineteen Eighty-Four
The Glass Menagerie
The Hobbit
Lord of the Rings
Death of a Salesman
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (trying to find one that isn't the revised edition with bits arbitrarily cut out)
Watchmen

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 16:03:42 2013 No.3466377 >>3466364 >The Dos Passos book is USA Have you read it? I've been meaning to check him out but I think I'll start with Manhattan Transfer.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 16:04:42 2013 No.3466378 >>3466364 I'm storing my books and CDs in a cardboard box while redoing my place. It hurts.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 16:04:42 2013 No.3466379 >>3466205 Why would you buy Borges collected fictions if you already have his complete works?

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 16:04:42 2013 No.3466382 >>3466328 Neither of them get mentioned on /lit/ very often. From the few times they've come up, I've gathered that the general opinion of them is that they're decent but, apparently, not worth talking about.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 16:05:42 2013 No.3466384 >>3466376 >Hasn't read the Great Gatsby How does it feel being a high school dropout?

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 16:05:42 2013 No.3466385 >>3466384 Not everyone lives in the USA, Gatsby wasn't even on my high-school list

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 16:06:42 2013 No.3466387 >2013 >Being so self-conscious that you define things you like as "guilty pleasures".

Anonymous Wed Feb 13 16:07:46 2013 No.3466391

>>3466324

Wow.

I'm a big music collector too and I love to see other people's music stuff and I find that many of my friends who also collect music (especially vinyl) love it too. Same goes for books. Hell, even seeing other people's movie collections can be interesting and in many cases fascinating.

You really have to be one anally retentive motherfucker to think that this is "pseudo-intellectual" and that one should be banned for posting this. You're fucking retarded.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 16:08:46 2013 No.3466393 >>3466377 I'm reading it now (first book of his I've read), and it's been fantastic so far. >>3466378 I have a year of this thanks to having to live off-campus for my second year of university

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 16:09:41 2013 No.3466397 >>3466385 Gatsby's done a lot in England as well, especially if you do A levels

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 16:10:41 2013 No.3466401 File: 2.32 MB, 2592x1936, extensivebookcollection.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] how do I into /lit/-core?

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 16:10:41 2013 No.3466402 >>3466397 Scotland, none of the classes in my school ever did Gatsby and it was never on the wider list

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 16:10:41 2013 No.3466403 >>3466382 >not worth talking about Read as: no-one has read them

>>	sage Wed Feb 13 16:10:41 2013 No.3466405 >>3466401 >2.32mb >me

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 16:12:41 2013 No.3466407 >>3466384 Still in high school. Got busy with the Camus and Dostoevsky, and Gatsby's coming up soon in school anyway. I bought that copy, as well as the John Updike and Ivan Denisovich books from a nearby Goodwill, dollar each.

Anonymous Wed Feb 13 16:13:41 2013 No.3466409
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Not all of them I'm proud of, I got many as presents, I also have more computer books and a comic (Beano and Dandy - good shit) collection somewhere. I also have 5 pics. damn limits.

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>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 16:18:41 2013 No.3466429 >>3466424 >buying a wordsworth translation Oh shit son

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>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 16:21:41 2013 No.3466445 >>3466424 I have the cloth hardback of that Holmes book and it's awful, for some reason they translate words like brandy to scotch

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 16:22:41 2013 No.3466447 File: 1.28 MB, 1102x752, library 5.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3466429 Issued by the school. Never really got into it so never got the proper books.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 16:24:41 2013 No.3466459 >>3466432 Maybe read Orwell's works before reading a shitty biography of him? Even A Clergyman's Daughter alone would be more fulfilling than 7/8ths of that collection

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 16:25:41 2013 No.3466464 >>3466459 Kindle. Most of my books are on that, including Orwell.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 16:26:41 2013 No.3466466 >>3466403 More than likely. It's a shame; Martin Amis (in my opinion) is one of the few living authors that can tackle huge issues in beautiful, funny and resonating ways. His father's pretty damn funny too.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 16:30:41 2013 No.3466477 >>3466466 is Martin better than Kingsley?

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 16:31:41 2013 No.3466481 >>3466477 Wouldn't say one's better than the other, they're two vastly different writers

Anonymous Wed Feb 13 16:40:41 2013 No.3466509

>>3466477
They're different. Martin is more of a literary writer and Kingsley leans more toward comic writing. They're both great at what they do, but Kingsley's writing was very much targeted to the people of his generation (read: Philip Larkin), so it feels dated at times.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 16:45:42 2013 No.3466523 >>3464738 agreed, I'd much rather read an ePUB on ADE

Anonymous Wed Feb 13 16:50:42 2013 No.3466534

>>3466464
Good. I had you pegged for a second friend.

The wound was a curiosity in a small way and various doctors examined it with much clicking of tongues and "Que Serte! Que Serte!" One of them had told me with an air of authority that the bullet had missed the artery by "about a millimetre". I dont know how he knew. No one i met at this time - doctors, nurses, practicantes or fellow-patients - failed to assure me that a man who is hit through the neck and survives it is the luckiest creature alive. I could not help thinking that it would be even luckier not to be hit at all.

Not my favourite paragraph of that book or anything, it just made me laugh in the middle of such a serious book.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 17:07:41 2013 No.3466587 File: 1.69 MB, 1793x3239, 20130213_230045.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I'm prepared for hate.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 17:10:42 2013 No.3466595 First ones i saw were Sagan and Hitchens. Even if the rest of the shelf was DFW and Tao Lin id have some respect. You may pass unscathed. Good bookshelf,

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 17:13:41 2013 No.3466602 >>3466595 go to bed, redd.it

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 17:17:42 2013 No.3466610 File: 25 KB, 250x327, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3466291 Anon, is that the nmh vinyl collection??

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 17:17:42 2013 No.3466611 >>3466587 >Hitchens; Not only that, but morality as well, 24 dollar slim book. >Feynman everywhere >Screams overcompensating atheist, even has Douglas Adams on top shelf

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 17:18:42 2013 No.3466615 >>3466587 As someone who can barely remember his high school physics and has never read any pop-sci, would I understand and be engaged by The Elegant Universe?

Anonymous Wed Feb 13 17:20:41 2013 No.3466622

>>3466611
>Hitchens; Not only that, but morality as well, 24 dollar slim book.
I-I g-got that for c-christmas.

>Feynman everywhere
You cannot possibly be implying that this is a problem.

>Screams overcompensating atheist, even has Douglas Adams on top shelf
Lol, I guess.
Although Douglas is only on the top shelf because it's hardcover.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 17:24:41 2013 No.3466632 >>3466615 Shouldn't be a problem. It's a neat book, even though it's been years since I read it. Just don't expect too much. It's popular science, after all.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 17:30:46 2013 No.3466642 >>3465677 >The super brothers mario >The brothers warner

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 17:31:41 2013 No.3466644 Awesome unread books, everyone. We're all really impressed with your ability to buy things and put them on shelves.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 17:31:41 2013 No.3466645 >>3466642 Much better. And change Mario to Marx.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 17:32:41 2013 No.3466646 >>3466615 Yep, read it in 8th grade. Lovely book, easy to understand. I'd recommend A Short History of Nearly Everything after

Anonymous Wed Feb 13 17:33:41 2013 No.3466647

>>3466611
Nothing wrong with Chris Hitchens; he's a great writer, and his bellicose rantings are hilarious, knowledgable, and pretty much spot on.

>>3466587
Commendable bookshelf. I congratulate you on your Orwell, although more could always be procured.

Sam Harris is great.

A tad science-heavy. I'm a scientist myself, and my bookshelves have next to no science except textbooks.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 17:35:41 2013 No.3466655 >>3466647 >Nothing wrong with Chris Hitchens >Sam Harris is great. Oh dear.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 17:36:41 2013 No.3466659 >>3466647 >Chris no

Anonymous Wed Feb 13 17:37:41 2013 No.3466662

>>3466646

I'm seconding this. A Short History of Nearly Everything is an excellent read.

>>3466647

Thanks! Haha.

>A tad science-heavy. I'm a scientist myself, and my bookshelves have next to no science except textbooks.

Yeah, no, I actually agree. Most of them were bought some two or so years ago though, as I had a period where I really, really wanted to get into all of this. I still love it to be sure but I feel like I've gotten over that phase now and it's only in the past year, year and a half that I've really branched out.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 17:38:41 2013 No.3466665 >>3466659 Peter is so sexy, even Russel Brand wants his lips.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 17:40:41 2013 No.3466676 >>3466587 To the poster above saying more orwell, that books he has is similar, if not the same as mine. It has all of his novels, everything he has written beyond essays.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 17:42:41 2013 No.3466682 >>3466655 > doesn't appreciate men of intelligence and wit regardless of their opinions >>3466659 How would you like it? Mr Hitchens?

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 17:43:42 2013 No.3466687 >>3466682 >men of intelligence I'll give you wit, but only because of Hitchens. But they're both pompous buffoons.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 17:44:42 2013 No.3466690 >>3466682 Hitch himself hated it when people referred to him as "Chris." I think it's it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 17:44:42 2013 No.3466691 >>3466676 I assume that collection is American. Wasn't sure whether it included Books v Cigarettes or Wigan Pier, which are pretty esoteric to British life. Dunno if things like these are included in international collections of his works.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 17:44:42 2013 No.3466692 >>3466587 Holy crap, this is just like my bookshelf (which I would post, but I don't have a good quality camera).

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 17:45:41 2013 No.3466695 >>3466687 How are they pompous?

Anonymous Wed Feb 13 17:45:41 2013 No.3466698

>>3466691
You're right, i missed that, Wigan Pier isn't in it and no essays, no appendices either, unfortunately. Some of his stuff is hard to find like Homage to Catalonia which also isn't in there. I dont even know if its being printed anymore, actually.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 17:46:41 2013 No.3466701 File: 42 KB, 552x464, my nigga.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3466692

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 17:50:41 2013 No.3466725 >>3466610 It is ;)

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 17:56:42 2013 No.3466739 are you ron macballs?

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 17:56:42 2013 No.3466742 >>3466698 >Some of his stuff is hard to find like Homage to Catalonia McCarthy lives on in the land of the free.

Anonymous Wed Feb 13 17:58:42 2013 No.3466747

>>3466698
For everything non-fiction that orwell has ever written, i recommend "Essays" from the Everyman's Library Collection.

It includes everything Orwell has written besides his Novels. 1400 Pages with every essay, letter and even years worth of weekly book reviews.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Essays-Evemans-Library-classics-George/dp/17152425

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 18:09:42 2013 No.3466784 >>3466747 I'll be sure to read this.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 18:14:41 2013 No.3466801 >>3466695 >How are they pompous? Have you read or heard them? They spend a lot of time going "Oh my god, how can anyone possibly have a different viewpoint to the one I have or like?"

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 18:17:41 2013 No.3466807 >>3466801 No, they don't.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 18:18:41 2013 No.3466809 "I'll jerk you off if you jerk me off! hahaha isn't it great being retarded!?" - This Thread

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 18:18:41 2013 No.3466810 >>3466807 You are clearly completely unfamiliar with their work.

Anonymous Wed Feb 13 18:27:41 2013 No.3466829

>>3466810

Actually, I've read most of Hitch and three books of Sam. To me it sounds like you're just another extremely typical hater against them for no real reason. It wouldn't surprise me if you just don't like it that they question your belief or something.

At the very least give examples, because you seem to be seeing things that I and many others don't.

Anonymous Wed Feb 13 18:29:41 2013 No.3466838

>>3466809

It's only a dickmeasuring contest for people like you, who seem to think that everything is. Some of us actually just enjoy discussing literature with others and see what others are into without pretense. Maybe you should grow up a little and do the same.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 18:30:41 2013 No.3466839 I don't think Harris or Hitchens are pompous but there's no denying Dawkin's pompousness. He's so far up his own arse he can have seconds without having to fill up his plate.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 18:33:41 2013 No.3466848 >>3466801 Yes, I've read pretty much all of it. Your argument stinks of someone who hasn't actually read them at all, and is simple bandwagoning and/or being 'edgy'.

Anonymous Wed Feb 13 18:34:41 2013 No.3466849

>>3466839

It's funny people say that because he goes out of his way to give credit where credit is due and to be humble where he should be. On cases such as sharia law, catholic child abuse scandals, etc, in things everybody's equally "pompous" about, he really gets bashed in for.

To me it just seems like these atheists have gained certain undeserved criticism from their theist counterparts that has somehow managed to infect even the people who tend to agree with their assertions. For instance, Hitch is arrogant, even though he shows the utmost humility in light of science and our ignorance of the world, and Dawkins is pompous, and Sam also is pompous (somehow), and even Dennett, who went out of his fucking way not to step on any toes, is pompous and arrogant!

It's just banal to me anyway.

Anonymous Wed Feb 13 18:37:42 2013 No.3466859

>>3466839
Dawkins is the most timid and unpompous of the lot. You clearly don't know what you're talking about.

If being angry about millennia of repression and death caused by religion make the intelligent writers among us 'pompous', then no one of any intelligence or literary wit has any reason for passion for anything.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 18:43:41 2013 No.3466879 >>3464653 Hey, I was right.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 18:49:41 2013 No.3466896 File: 61 KB, 720x960, books1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 1/7 my shelf for unread books

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 18:50:41 2013 No.3466898 File: 82 KB, 960x720, books2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3466896 2/7

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>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 18:55:41 2013 No.3466924 >>3466921 Wow.

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Anonymous Wed Feb 13 19:00:42 2013 No.3466935 [DELETED]

>>3466829
http://www.vanityfair.com/politicseatures/2011/04/hitchens-201104
>No wonder the voice of the Muslim Brotherhood turned out to sound so tinny. Does it seriously expect to take on any of the problems I have just mentioned, with its feeble, simplistic slogan, “Islam Is the Solution”? The mullahs in Iran were able to hijack the 1979 revolution because in the Ayatollah Khomeini they had a figure of almost Lenin-like authority, and because (with the covert consent of the smirking Baptist Jimmy Carter) Saddam Hussein did them the immense favor of invading one of their western provinces and cementing a hysterical national unity.
http://www.vanityfair.com/politicseatures/2007/07/hitchens200707
>If you saw my "Londonistan" essay, in the June Vanity Fair, you will know that fanatics who are unwelcome in Africa and Arabia are allowed an astonishing freedom in the United Kingdom. The leader of Ennahda, the outlawed Tunisian Islamist group, the aforesaid Mr. Ghannouchi, was until September 11, 2001, allowed to broadcast his hysterical incitements into Tunisia from a London station.
http://www.vanityfair.com/politicseatures/2009/08/hitchens-guerrill200908
>Researching this in the late 1970s in Germany, I became convinced that the Baader Meinhof phenomenon actually was a form of psychosis. One of the main recruiting grounds for the gang was an institution at the University of Heidelberg called the Sozialistisches Patienten Kollektiv, or Socialist Patients Collective, an outfit that sought to persuade the pitifully insane that they needed no treatment save social revolution.
Disagree with "Hitch"? Then clearly what you think is either no worth listening to or should be banned, or is not worth listening to at all. Here's him talking in even more pompous terms:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsGnFAvdY
What do you mean you mistrust the media and politicians? Shock horror
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEVEAP_S0
Applaud me! Seek my approval!

Anonymous Wed Feb 13 19:02:41 2013 No.3466939

>>3466829
http://www.vanityfair.com/politicseatures/2011/04/hitchens-201104
>No wonder the voice of the Muslim Brotherhood turned out to sound so tinny. Does it seriously expect to take on any of the problems I have just mentioned, with its feeble, simplistic slogan, “Islam Is the Solution”? The mullahs in Iran were able to hijack the 1979 revolution because in the Ayatollah Khomeini they had a figure of almost Lenin-like authority, and because (with the covert consent of the smirking Baptist Jimmy Carter) Saddam Hussein did them the immense favor of invading one of their western provinces and cementing a hysterical national unity.
http://www.vanityfair.com/politicseatures/2007/07/hitchens200707
>If you saw my "Londonistan" essay, in the June Vanity Fair, you will know that fanatics who are unwelcome in Africa and Arabia are allowed an astonishing freedom in the United Kingdom. The leader of Ennahda, the outlawed Tunisian Islamist group, the aforesaid Mr. Ghannouchi, was until September 11, 2001, allowed to broadcast his hysterical incitements into Tunisia from a London station.
http://www.vanityfair.com/politicseatures/2009/08/hitchens-guerrill200908
>Researching this in the late 1970s in Germany, I became convinced that the Baader Meinhof phenomenon actually was a form of psychosis. One of the main recruiting grounds for the gang was an institution at the University of Heidelberg called the Sozialistisches Patienten Kollektiv, or Socialist Patients Collective, an outfit that sought to persuade the pitifully insane that they needed no treatment save social revolution.
Disagree with "Hitch"? Then clearly what you think is either no worth listening to or should be banned, or you just can't think at all. Here's him talking in even more pompous terms:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsGnFAvdY
What do you mean you mistrust the media and politicians? Shock horror
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEVEAP_S0
Applaud me! Seek my approval!

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 19:02:41 2013 No.3466941 >>3466896 You best read that St Augustine - highly recommended.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 19:07:42 2013 No.3466951 >>3466941 i'll make sure to read it after i finish under the volcano.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 19:08:42 2013 No.3466956 >>3466898 Dat James Franco collection.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 19:17:42 2013 No.3466990 >>3466956 a friend lent it to me back in the summer. i finished it in 2 days. never read it or thought about again,

Anonymous Wed Feb 13 19:25:56 2013 No.3467012

>>3466896
>>3466898
>>3466899
>>3466900
>>3466906
>>3466927
>>3466932

>Dawkins, Hunter S. Thompson, Bob Dylan books, Huxley, entry graphic novels, Bukowski

>and in the middle of all this standard teen lit Ulysses out of nowhere

why is this always the go to purchase for kids who want to seem smarter than they are?

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>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 19:39:41 2013 No.3467062 >>3467055 Just started reading this year (properly). I've had Ulysses for a while. Still haven't attempted it. I just got Portrait of Artist so going to read that before I attempt it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 19:39:41 2013 No.3467069 >>3466240 Me too anon, me too

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 20:47:41 2013 No.3467294 >>3467062 You might want to lay off reading all this /lit/core shit. I knew people were influenced here, but...yikes.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 20:51:42 2013 No.3467310 >>3467294 /lit/core is just the western canon for the most part, it's not really a bad thing to start with it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 21:00:41 2013 No.3467342 >>3466083 >anonymous mustache thing. >Stalin But >Comfy as fuck. >Awesome space to book density. >Coffee/tea pot gizmo >Watch looks fancy as fuck. 9.95 Would talk to about things.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 21:21:41 2013 No.3467413 File: 1.97 MB, 3264x2448, IMG_0142[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >Stephen King

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 21:29:42 2013 No.3467442 >>3467413 Only recently acquired, have read Desperation, Under the Dome, Gerald's game, Christine, Started the Tommyknockers.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 21:35:41 2013 No.3467460 Brave soul. Throwing a half shelf of Stephen King up on /lit/ as evidence of a "library". Should I consider it some sort of de facto victory that my shelves were the only to escape comment?

Anonymous Wed Feb 13 21:41:41 2013 No.3467483

>>3467460
What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I’m the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You’re fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You’re fucking dead, kiddo.

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>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 21:49:56 2013 No.3467520 >>3467516 2/6

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>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 22:05:42 2013 No.3467604 >>3466083 Wouldn't sunlight ruins those books?

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 22:06:42 2013 No.3467605 >>3466205 >Borges mah nigga

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 22:36:41 2013 No.3467703 File: 44 KB, 480x640, 556637_4384656170632_382245350_n.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] OnLy GoD cAn JuDgE mEh

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 22:58:42 2013 No.3467776 File: 852 KB, 2960x1816, right now.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] These are what I have with me at the moment, much bigger library at home.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 23:37:41 2013 No.3467873 File: 473 KB, 478x393, thelibrary.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] its my favorite room: floor-to-ceiling bookcases

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 23:56:41 2013 No.3467934 >>3467703 Does /lit/ dislike harry potter or something?

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 23:57:41 2013 No.3467940 >>3467873 Fucking jelly.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 00:04:41 2013 No.3467963 >>3467776 I bet you wear them around like you're cooler than me.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 00:06:41 2013 No.3467969 >>3467963 Not anymore. They were cheapos I got from work last summer. I have a decent pair of aviators now.

Anonymous Thu Feb 14 00:12:41 2013 No.3467982
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Hey /lit/

I have had the pleasure of living in the same house since I was a young boy, so I own a shitload of books. I can break them down by storage locations that roughly delineate my age of the time of reading.

So here is Middle School, as you can imagine I was a very lonely child. I also had a hard on for star wars, and if you wanna step to me about star wars knowledge come at me bro. This is in the basement where I keep all my video game systems and board games as well as where my friends and I play table top games. I like to think my well thumbed paperbacks which served me in my youth now make for suitable 'nerding out' decor.

Before you ask: Yes I have a job and yes I live with my parents.

Anonymous Thu Feb 14 00:16:42 2013 No.3467993
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I don't have a good camera so I can only really post one shelf, this is all of K to the beginning of L. The books in the right corner are Kundera, Lahiri, John Lathrop, and DH Lawrence.

Anonymous Thu Feb 14 00:16:42 2013 No.3467996
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>>3467982

To continue, here is high school. I have a lot of miscellaneous shit in my bookshelves please forgive me. I am aware that my shot glass collection is tacky as fuck, but it brings back fond memories and honestly I don't know what else to do with them. I really haven't touched that bookshelf in a long time.

I feel bad I really liked that Arthur C. Clark anthology. D-Do books have feelings?

>>	Bullkowski !!DDFKjfJhPl/ Thu Feb 14 00:16:42 2013 No.3467998 >>3467982 I think your middle shelf might be starting to sag just a tad.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 00:17:41 2013 No.3468000 >>3467993 oh shit you can't see anything really. Oh well.

Anonymous Thu Feb 14 00:21:42 2013 No.3468013
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>>3467996

Here are the books I took with me to college as well as those I didn't sell back from classes I took. My best friend spilled detergent on my copy of The Diamond Age which still pisses me off, it might be one of my favorite books.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 00:21:42 2013 No.3468014 >>3467996 Did you read Gates of Fire by Presserfield? I haven't gotten around to reading the Alexander book, but it's on my shelf. I'll get around to it eventually.

>>	Bullkowski !!DDFKjfJhPl/ Thu Feb 14 00:23:42 2013 No.3468018 >>3468013 >shake weight

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 00:25:42 2013 No.3468025 >>3468013 >disgusting looking carpet

Anonymous Thu Feb 14 00:27:41 2013 No.3468030
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>>3468014

Nope, Cant say I have. Although I liked virtues of war a lot, if only because a book about Alexander the Great has to try very had to not be interesting.

>>3468018
T'was a gift from my fraternity pop.

>>3468013

And here is my current reading collection. I am currently working on The Power Broker, the fucking door-stopper that it is. Other than that most of my current reading is done via kindle fire. Which is sweet, but then it means I can't share pictures of my gross ass house, a sad day for us all.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 00:28:41 2013 No.3468033 File: 62 KB, 357x432, 1346804258376.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3468018 cannot unsee

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 00:30:41 2013 No.3468039 >>3468025 That's my sisters room, shes away at college so it doesn't get cleaned. Although I agree I would never have a white carpet, it would get dirty as fuck.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 00:30:41 2013 No.3468041 >>3467873 that's the way to go

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 00:34:41 2013 No.3468050 >>3468014 Is gates of fire good?

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>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 01:48:42 2013 No.3468199 >>3466622 I approve of your bookshelf.

Anonymous Thu Feb 14 01:54:42 2013 No.3468202

>that feel when I was going to be a smart ass and post a picture of my ebook file

>realize that I actually have like 2 full wall shelves (like 2x3 meters) of books in one room, and an upright cabinet with like another 150 books in the bedroom

Goddamn, I never realized I'd manage to hoard so much shit.

I need to dump a bunch of these at the local charity shop.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 02:16:41 2013 No.3468245 >>3466587 Nice but throw some Chris Hedges books in there. Would also recommend Kevin P. Phillips and William Blum.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 02:51:39 2013 No.3468322 >>3465733 >two copies of Suttree >putting stephen king on the same shelf as actual lit why >>3466083 >untouched Ulysses >>3466305 Commie filth >>3466432 >Steve Jobs >Assange 4/10 >>3466899 PURGE

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 09:27:42 2013 No.3468869 >>3468063 Australian detected

>>	Bullkowski !!DDFKjfJhPl/ Thu Feb 14 09:31:41 2013 No.3468877 >>3468322 Steve Jobs and Assange are the ones that got you and not the Derren Brown.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 09:31:41 2013 No.3468879 >>3468245 Yeah, I've been thinking about Hedges for quite some time but I've never gotten to get any of his books. Any ideas for what I should read first? I'm only aware of those other two peripherally but I'll look into them. Thanks!

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 09:34:41 2013 No.3468884 >9000x12000 blurry grainy pics of shitty books Fuck this thread, learn to resize your images.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 09:35:42 2013 No.3468888 >>3468884 >shitty books What would you rather see?

Anonymous Thu Feb 14 10:02:41 2013 No.3468930

So.

On average, /lit/ apparently owns 9-12 books which consist of either

a) young adult science fiction
b) standard issue hipster starter kit

That explains a lot, I suppose.

>>3466331
>book porn

If these pictures are to be considered that, they would rank comparably somewhere between "QUADRIPLEGIC ASIAN ASS PORN" and "NURSING HOME EXCURSION TO LOCAL NUDE BEACH."

Anonymous Thu Feb 14 10:07:41 2013 No.3468933
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There are two books that are still unread, just got them few days ago.
I still have around a hundred of books in my bedroom, but most of them deal with Japanese literature, art and economics. I'm waiting for a new bookshelf. I'm trying to have a bookshelf entirely dedicated to Japan because it's my field of study. However, it's going to be difficult because my home is kind of tiny.

Also, fuck you for making me read Ayn Rand.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 10:11:41 2013 No.3468938 >>3468933 >Rand and Kerouac You got got

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 10:14:41 2013 No.3468941 >>3468888 Good editions of good books in a digestible resolution with a decent quality camera in focus like this: >>3466291

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 10:17:41 2013 No.3468945 >>3468941 Glad to see you picked quite possibly the least interesting collection of literature in the thread

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 12:01:41 2013 No.3469114 File: 1.70 MB, 2560x1920, 20130117_093818.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3464615

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 12:02:41 2013 No.3469116 >>3469114 Oh my fucking lord

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 12:11:41 2013 No.3469133 File: 15 KB, 376x368, 1359126149062.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3465582 >Finnegans Wake

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 12:12:41 2013 No.3469135 >>3469116 good or bad?

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 12:14:41 2013 No.3469139 >>3464635 >Reader's Digest why would anyone have those? you should be ashamed

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 12:17:41 2013 No.3469146 >>3468945 It made absolutely no difference which one out of the thread I'd have picked and you know it.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 12:23:41 2013 No.3469155 >>3465582 /lit/fag to the max, this is obvious from the fact that you have so much /lit/core and your philosophy is literally an introduction and Nietzsche. You are a pleb in disguise

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 12:25:41 2013 No.3469162 >>3469135 Beyond bad

Anonymous Thu Feb 14 12:27:41 2013 No.3469163

>>3469146
No, you picked the guy who clearly came to /lit/ brought the most mentioned authors en masse and then presented them next to the music /mu/ told them to listen to. Even the fantasy pic is more interesting than that as it has a trace of individuality.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 12:28:41 2013 No.3469167 >>3469139 A book's a book

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 12:28:41 2013 No.3469168 >>3469163 >brought Bought, my apologies

Anonymous Thu Feb 14 13:07:41 2013 No.3469253
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There are five shelves of books in this room alone. I can't be bothered to get readable images of all of them, my camera isn't good enough.
Here's one shelf and the little cabinet I put some books in.
(1/2)

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 13:08:41 2013 No.3469257 File: 590 KB, 912x1852, IMGP0662.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3469253 Of course I've read all of them. Except Tikhal and Pihkal; they're just pretty. Come on /lit/, abuse me. (2/2)

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 13:15:41 2013 No.3469275 >>3466587 Relatively impressive, breadth is refreshing here as few people tend to deviate from literature. I like your shelf and people who are hating on the Hitchns can't into modern polemics.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 13:16:41 2013 No.3469281 >>3469257 Is that actually a bound facsimile of the Voynich Manuscript, or just a book about it? If the former, what did it run you?

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 13:24:41 2013 No.3469309 >>3468013 >one philosophy book >Wittgenstein Yep, I'm definitely on /lit/

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 13:28:42 2013 No.3469316 >>3466587 Pappa! :3

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 13:39:42 2013 No.3469340 >>3469309 >missing the massive Kierkegaard

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 13:42:41 2013 No.3469347 >>3469309 My one philosophy book is Thus Spoke Zarathustra. How does that make you feel?

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 13:49:41 2013 No.3469368 >>3469309 >implying he's not all you need

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 13:55:41 2013 No.3469384 >>3466083 Aw shit. En felles normann på /lit/. Lest noen gode norske? Blir stott og stadig anbefalt Knut Hamsun.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 13:55:41 2013 No.3469385 >>3466587 Could be worse, slightly unsavoury amounts of Dawkins. Thumbs up for anarchy + sf

Anonymous Thu Feb 14 14:01:41 2013 No.3469397

>>3469384
Hamsun er jo flott, han, men jeg har begynt å se mer på samtidslitteratur i det siste. Olav L. Reisop sin bok Pastisj er ganske flott, for eksempel. Egentlig er det meste fra Flamme forlag interessant, hvis du liker det mer moderne.

Jeg må også varmt anbefale Ibsen, faktisk. Det er en klisjé å anbefale han, men jeg tar faget "Ibsens samtidsdramaer" på Nansenskolen, og må si at han er en mye mer interessant forfatter enn Den Jevne Mening vil tilsi.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 14:06:41 2013 No.3469404 >>3469309 >>3469340 >also missing Sisyphus >inb4 THAT IS LITERATURE NOT PHILOSOPHY >because that book totally isn't a paragon of Existentialism

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 14:09:41 2013 No.3469410 >>3469397 Ok. Takk for tips. Skal sjekke ut!

Anonymous Thu Feb 14 14:11:46 2013 No.3469413

>>3469410

Annen nordmann her (>>3466587). Anbefaler deg å lese En Folkefiende, som er en av mine favoritter i alle fall. Har en mor som roser Hamsun til skyene også, selv om jeg aldri har lest noe av han selv, så kan vel anbefale deg å lese noe av han også!

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 14:19:41 2013 No.3469426 >>3469281 It is a bound facsimile, it was a gift from my brother, I don't know. Sorry.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 14:20:41 2013 No.3469427 File: 29 KB, 590x590, wishlistalotalot.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3469413

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 14:25:42 2013 No.3469436 File: 940 KB, 1322x2047, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] A copy of Rimbaud's work in German and French is hiding behind the shelves. It stores 90% books. >dgw keine deutschen

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 14:29:41 2013 No.3469453 File: 214 KB, 664x1000, DSC_0166.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Quite small, sadly.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 14:32:42 2013 No.3469466 >>3469453 Apologies for the sideways picture.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 15:56:42 2013 No.3469698 >>3469116 How? I feel it's a fairly respectable collection.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 16:00:42 2013 No.3469713 >>3469162 How in the world is that bad? Berryman? Camus? Dostoevsky? Burroughs? Joyce? Kafka? Kipling? Rimbaud? Tolstoy? I mean I get that Bukowski, Ginsberg, and Kerouac are mostly disliked peoples here... but seriously. You have zero basis.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 16:02:41 2013 No.3469726 >>3468013 >Veblen good taste

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 16:05:42 2013 No.3469741 >>3469713 >one or two books from some of the most widely owned authors alive plus the beats, the beats, the beats (but not the interesting ones) and my first self-important poetry books (one in translation) >good

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 16:06:41 2013 No.3469744 >>3468933 I've always wanted to read Queneau in French, but I'm afraid it'll be an exercise in futility

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 16:06:42 2013 No.3469742 >>3469162 Also Asimov? Bellow? Falkner? Hemingway? Steinbeck? Pound? Seriously. Do you just dislike all literature?

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 16:07:41 2013 No.3469746 >>3469741 What's wrong with any of that.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 16:17:41 2013 No.3469801 >>3465582 Has no one noticed that he's airbrushed over something on the right?

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 16:38:41 2013 No.3469880 >>3469801 Yes, probably a picture of himself or Dan Brown's works

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 17:53:41 2013 No.3470197 >>3469801 Look at the reflection on the right, it's Ayn Rand.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 17:56:41 2013 No.3470206 >>3470197 Yeah, that's Atlas

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 18:05:42 2013 No.3470225 File: 200 KB, 1280x720, image201302140001.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Please be gentle /lit/

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 18:11:41 2013 No.3470244 File: 198 KB, 600x379, ballsohard.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 18:11:41 2013 No.3470245 >>3470225 mr cool ice has a library

Anonymous Thu Feb 14 18:28:41 2013 No.3470304
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Can I still make it? I've been moving around recently, so my shit is kinda all over the place. Good opportunity to post some pics.
Not gonna shy away from the fact that I haven't read everything on display.
Also, not pictured: my kindle

1/4

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 18:30:41 2013 No.3470309 File: 670 KB, 1224x1500, IMG_0160.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3470304 2/4

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 18:32:41 2013 No.3470314 File: 549 KB, 1632x1224, IMG_0162.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3470309 3/4 >3 copies of Gears of War

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 18:33:41 2013 No.3470323 File: 691 KB, 1224x1632, IMG_0164.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3470314 4/4

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 01:23:41 2013 No.3471429 >>3468050 Gates of fire was great. I haven't read it in, gosh, probably getting close to ten years, I really enjoyed it.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 01:31:42 2013 No.3471439 >>3470309 >Fifty Shades of Grey at the bottom .wait... wut...

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 01:56:42 2013 No.3471481 File: 106 KB, 634x394, 2cool4u.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I love being rich.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 02:02:41 2013 No.3471490 >>3471481 >I love pretending to be rich on 4chan by posting photos of Highclere Castle and pretending I own it. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moive/article-1374866/Downton-Abbeypstairs-downstairs-Highclere-Cast.html

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 02:12:41 2013 No.3471504 >>3471490 >he loves trolling retarded mongoloids

captain lower case !!QnLsYtrr3tn Fri Feb 15 02:37:41 2013 No.3471527

>>3471481
why is the dividing wall made to look like a bookcase? how can we trust any of the bookcases now? is it a gesture, saying, trust them or don't, it really couldn't matter less? a challenge to anyone who might suggest the books were unread or empty-paged, saying; perhaps they are, but you won't find us apologizing?

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 02:50:41 2013 No.3471544 >>3471527 It is a secret passageway, is why. If you check out the link posted above, it says it leads to the Music Room.

Anonymous Fri Feb 15 08:50:40 2013 No.3471921
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This is my collection! Hope it's interesting enough. I'm Dutch though, so many Dutch translations! I'm definitely not ashamed of any of these books, though I'm going to sell the books on the last photo. Also didn't include any college books, since I don't feel they are a part of my collection. Sorry for the bad quality of the pics!

1/6

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 08:51:40 2013 No.3471923 File: 2.55 MB, 1459x1094, sh1.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3471921 2/6

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 08:52:42 2013 No.3471925 File: 2.51 MB, 1459x1094, sh2.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3471923 3/6

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 08:54:42 2013 No.3471927 File: 2.68 MB, 1459x1094, sh3.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3471925 4/6

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 08:55:42 2013 No.3471929 File: 2.48 MB, 1459x1094, sh4.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3471927 5/7, oops forgot one

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 08:56:42 2013 No.3471930 File: 2.56 MB, 1459x1094, sh5.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3471929 6/7

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 08:57:42 2013 No.3471932 File: 2.48 MB, 1459x1094, sh6.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3471930 7/7 These are going

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 17:22:43 2013 No.3472917 >>3471925 Why do you have two editions of Jonathan Strange?

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 19:03:42 2013 No.3473204 bump

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