/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.4332228]

hey /lit/, post your bookshelves!

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[Anonymous No.4332229]

sorry about the quality, laptop webcam

[Anonymous No.4332232]

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aaaaaaand 5/5

[Anonymous No.4332266]

>>4332229

How is Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrel? I bought it yesterday very cheap and i've been interested in a while, give me a moment and i'll post mine.

[Anonymous No.4332269]

>tfw bookshelf has been taken over by academia

[Anonymous No.4332276]

>>4332266
I actually haven't been able to make it through that one yet. It's pretty dry and every time I try to read it a get distracted by something else.

[Anonymous No.4332277]

>>4332235
Is it really that much effort to nail up some boards of plywood to a wall or something? Why are your books all stacked up like that? It seems like a pain in the ass to deal with if you have to grab a book not at the top.

[Anonymous No.4332284]

>>4332277
yeah, I've been wanting to get some shelves for a while, but I haven't been able to find anything appropriate. I think I'm going to end up just building some.

[Anonymous No.4332291]

>>4332269
>here are some books i have but never read

Thanks for sharing.

[Anonymous No.4332295]

>>4332291
Sometimes I wish I'd never read them.

I've taught politics for over a decade buddy (with a focus on the early Soviet Union)

[Anonymous No.4332304]

>>4332269
god damn, not only did lenin lead the sfsr, he wrote like a motherfucker. and you betas can't even finish a short story,

[Anonymous No.4332305]

>>4332276

Here's the first part(i've got more to come) from here i've actually read A Brief History of Time, Dracula and Pynchon's Vineland the rest i've not read yet but i'll be starting Something Wicked this way comes once i'm done with All Quiet on the Western Front.

>>4332291

Know of any good history books on Latvia and the Soviet Union? Most of my family from my dad's side are from there and i'm very interested in that subject.

[Anonymous No.4332308]

>>4332305

If anybody wants a shout out because of my piss poor laptop camera quality just ask what book you want to know the name of and i'll tell.

[Anonymous No.4332323]

>>4332269
you're not a marxist are you?

[Anonymous No.4332330]

>>4332323
Getting to the root of what you mean y that would required a lengthy discourse I'm not currently prepared to contribute towards, although I can say that in short, no, I'm not what is commonly described as a "Marxist"

I'm a Trotskyist at times, though never a Marxist

[Anonymous No.4332349]

>>4332308
>>4332305

Here's my other bookshelf, the top shelf is mostly reserved for my backlog which i've not read yet.

There's also an edition of David Copperfield from 1930 on there which I bought from a charity shop.

There's some of my second shelf in that photo but i've read everything on that one and below it.

[Anonymous No.4332360]

>>4332323
Marxists don't actually follow Marx

[Anonymous No.4332381]

>>4332360
Why would Marxists follow Marx?

[Anonymous No.4332453]

>>4332330
>trotskyist

[Anonymous No.4332485]

>>4332330
>"guys really I'm not a pig headed Marxist. I just by some chance only read Marxist literature.

[Anonymous No.4332495]

[Anonymous No.4332511]

can't read many of the titles but whatever
this is just what i got at uni

[Anonymous No.4332514]

>>4332495
Which one you like the most.

[Anonymous No.4332624]

>>4332511
Is the portable Beat Reader for class or pleasure?
Is it any good/ worth getting?

[Anonymous No.4332638]

>>4332511
At first I thought you stacked your books upside down and I was ready to rage, but then I saw it was just the picture

[Anonymous No.4332654]

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[Anonymous No.4332656]

>>4332654

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[Anonymous No.4332658]

>>4332656

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[Anonymous No.4332667]

>>4332658

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[Anonymous No.4332674]

>>4332667

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>>4332674

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[Anonymous No.4332684]

>>4332679

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[Anonymous No.4332691]

>>4332684

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[Anonymous No.4332697]

>>4332654
>>4332656
>>4332658
>>4332667
>>4332674
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>>4332691

>tfw I try REALLY hard to keep my books mint condition

makes it look like I don't read much.

>inb4 *tips fedora*

[Anonymous No.4332705]

My bookshelves are too impressive for this thread.

[Anonymous No.4332776]

>tfw you wanted to take a pic of the library books you took out but realized this thread is just a circle jerk to show off cultural capital

[Anonymous No.4332785]

>>4332654
>sagan
>dennet
>pinker
>hawking
dropped

[Reda !!gAyq5lzi952 No.4332809]

>>4332656
Pick up a copy of Broca's Brain by Sagan, it's fantastic. Your library looks a lot like mine will probably look like in about two years. Incredibly jealous that you've got Feynman's Lectures on Physics, but I've heard iffy things about that printing of it. How is it?

[Anonymous No.4332816]

>>4332691
Those Feynman books must have cost you a pretty penny

[Anonymous No.4332830]

[Anonymous No.4333316]

>>4332495
>photographing children

[Anonymous No.4333561]

>>4332624
just pleasure and not rly, just get whatever beat novels sound interesting then read about them on wikipedia

[Anonymous No.4333653]

>>4333561
Oh well i already bought it.
Hubert Selby Jr. is my favorite author. any good info or history on him?

[Anonymous No.4333666]

I need to buy a nice, big bookcase. I have two fat little three shelvers, but books piled up around them. Suggestions for a < 100 mass market case that ain't shit?

[Anonymous No.4333700]

>>4332277
I used to do this for like 5 years. It's not that inconvenient but it does mash the spines sideways turning a book into a friggin' rhombus.

[Anonymous No.4333730]

>>4332809

I was looking at picking that up, but I have other things on my reading list... but I will certainly look into it again!

Yeah, I have slowly collected these books for the past 6 years. Just keep on building, one at a time!

The copy of the feynman lectures uses a really fine kind of paper. Every time I open them I am always afraid they will rip. That is really my only concern though.

>>4332785

cool

>>4332816

Yes, but they were a present.

[Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ No.4333772]

>>4332360
Republicans don't follow Jefferson. Or Lincoln even

[Anonymous No.4333874]

I don't have a bookshelf. I sell or donate books after I read them. I have a stack of about 5-6 books that I need to return to their owners. Need to re-up this week.

[Anonymous No.4333888]

>>4333772
Or, for that matter, Eisenhower or Nixon.

[Anonymous No.4334061]

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[Anonymous No.4334184]

>>4332495
what the hell is this
i thought to myself "well he likes cocteau, maybe ill check out some of these books i've never heard of" and realized these books were all about pedophilia
10/10 you trolled me i thought it was legitimate

[Anonymous No.4334233]

>>4332511
>Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism

I bloody hated having to carry that around campus with me, it's so bulky.

[Anonymous No.4334237]

>>4334233
Is it any good? I've been really curious about it, but can't find a single torrent online, copies on #bookz, or anything anywhere else online.

[Anonymous No.4334254]

My floating bookshelves. I only have 2 so far, but in my future house's library, all of my books will be floating on the wall like this. Definitely the sexiest bookshelves.

[Anonymous No.4334257]

>>4334254
Mobile is being a prick, so no pic

[Anonymous No.4334297]

>>4334237
I would also like to know if it's any good.

[Anonymous No.4334307]

>>4334237
I certainly enjoyed it, but then again I enjoyed the Approaches to Criticism module and many people in my classes didn't. In addition to having such a large collection of essays, each one has quite a substantial introduction discussing the author, their life, their influences etc. It was only required reading for my first year but it proved useful throughout uni.

I'd say it's definitely worth the £35 price tag if you have an interest in literary theory.

[Anonymous No.4334390]

mad?

[Anonymous No.4334405]

I just invented a genre called terror poetry tell me what you think

[Anonymous No.4334458]

>>4334390
>naming your kindle after yourself

[Dr. Dude !!xYApC7v7+j4 No.4334492]

>>4332674
>finishing the Inheritance series.

I'm so sorry, friend. It makes me so mad that Arya is the third dragon rider.

[Dr. Dude !!xYApC7v7+j4 No.4334497]

>>4332495
>David Hamilton

Is that a copy of Lolita at the end?

[Anonymous No.4334505]

>>4334390
A "Tisch" is a table. A "Tischer" is one who "tisches", i.e. one who tables. Michael, the tabler.

[Anonymous No.4334515]

>>4334492

he... he didn't get the girl.

Everyone reading vicariously cried, and so did I. ;_;

FUCK.

[Anonymous No.4334578]

[Anonymous No.4334593]

I'm pretty proud of my collection

[Anonymous No.4334609]

Here are mine, with a bonus ammo shelf. I really ought to get another entire bookshelf soon.

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[Anonymous No.4334615]

>>4334609
And here are some misc. stacks and other shelves in the house, with library check-outs. I may have a Shakespeare final I should be studying for.

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[Anonymous No.4334623]

what's with all the asian shit?

[Anonymous No.4334625]

>>4334609
also, hey OP! I was in the /r9k/ thread with you.

[Anonymous No.4334630]

>>4334623
If you mean the one just posted, East Asian literature is one of my research areas. Mostly Meiji and Taisho era Japanese lit.

[Anonymous No.4334632]

>>4334630
defend the manga

[Anonymous No.4334638]

>>4334632
I read a lot of manga when I was teenager and kept the ones I still enjoy (and the ones I couldn't sell, those are in the side table).

[Anonymous No.4334639]

>>4334615

>davenport and hughes back to back

funnily enough i've been quite keen on reading these two recently, would they be worth a blind buy from some second hand online place? how did you like them? i'm from convict land so your opinion on that hughes is a need

[Anonymous No.4334651]

>>4334639
Sorry anon, I haven't started Hughes. Seems like a must-read for someone from Australia though.

But the Davenport is great, I pick through it at random when I get an urge for intelligent essays. You can probably find tons that interest you throughout it, no matter what your arts interests are. He's like a more aristocratic Michael Dirda, but I love both.

"The Geograpgy of the imagination; The symbol of the archaia; Another Odyssey; The house that Jack built; Prehistoric eyes; Whitman; Olson; Zukofsky; Spinoza's tulips; Do you have a poem book on E.E.Cummings?; Seeing Shelley PLain; Persephone's Ezra; The Pound Vortex; Ezra Pound 1885-1972; "Trees"; Jonathan Williams; Ronald Johnson; Poetry's Garden; Where poems come from; Ishmael's double; Louis Agassiz; That faire field of Enna; Charles Ives; Ozymandias; Hopkins: Christ's cumming rimesmith; Joyce's forest of symbols; Mandelstam: The man without contemporaries; Narrative tone and form; Tchelitchew; Jack Yeats the elder; Wittgenstein; Hobbitry; Dictionary; No, but I've read the book; The Anthropology of table manners from Geophagy onward; The indian and his image; Finding; Ralph Eugene Meatyard; Ernst Machs Max Ernst."

is a blob of the essays included, in case you couldn't find it elsewhere. But I'd pick it up regardless, because it seems to be out of print and steadily rising in price now.

[Anonymous No.4335225]

>>4334609

I absolutely adore this shelf, very interested in Japanese literature at the moment.

My birthday is coming up in a couple days could you recommend me something? So far i've read Spring Snow, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, The Sailor who Fell From Grace with the Sea, A Wild Sheep Chase, Underground, Hardboiled Wonderland at the End of the World and No Longer Human.

i've been interested in Soseki and Tale of Genji currently.

[Anonymous No.4335297]

>>4332495
haha i can tell this is troll because of how the books are ordered

[Anonymous No.4335309]

>>4334609
whats up with the ammo

[Anonymous No.4335370]

Pic taken after my gf went completely ocd and decided to arrange all my books by colour

[Anonymous No.4335405]

If I spent money on a book shelf, I'd have less money to spend on books.

[Anonymous No.4335408]

>>4335405
whats up with that edition of paradise lost why is it so big

[Anonymous No.4335413]

>>4335405

>Taipei
>Atlas Shrugged

Yep, you'll do

[Anonymous No.4335417]

>>4335408
a good chunk of the edition is comprised of notes relating to each book.

[Anonymous No.4335419]

>>4335413
What will I do, for?

[Anonymous No.4335427]

>>4335417
are the notes good i have an annotated book but it's definitions i got it for free anyways so cant complain

[Anonymous No.4335445]

>>4335427
For the most part I'd say they are fairly good; I didn't buy the book for the notes, though. The Dover Thrift Edition was the least expensive.

I followed the notes for the first couple books, but I read it for pleasure at the time and enjoyed reading it without a companion. Next year I'll be studying it, and I've glanced at the essay questions and they're definitely going to require a more comprehensive understanding of it than just "pretty words, give me more!" I imagine the notes will come in handy then, as the notes get into what a lot of the vague implications are in passages.

[Anonymous No.4335912]

>>4335309
I like to own and shoot guns. Guns are right above the shelves.

>>4335225
Definitely get some Soseki and Kawabata in! I would say:

>Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
>Kokoro by Soseki
>Snow Country by Kawabata
>Seven Japanese Tales by Tanizaki

If you get Botchan too, there's a new translation out that you should make sure you get, through One Peace Books. But all those will get you more exposure to the major modern authors. If you end up getting Tale of Genji, try to pick up Ivan Morris' The World of the Shining Prince, especially if you have no extensive knowledge about Heian era Japan. The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon is much more accessible if you want to begin on Heian lit though - it's by a contemporary of Murasaki Shikibu, a diary of observations, ramblings, lists of things she hates and things she likes, etc. It's enjoyable and surprising how much of her gripes still hold true today (people not shutting the door/screen when they come in a room where it was shut, when a baby starts wailing nearby and you're trying to have a conversation, gossipy bitches, etc.). And Ivan Morris' translation of that is recommended.

And because I've just found out it's no longer out of print and there's a new edition, you really should get

>Blue Bamboo: Tales by Dazai Osamu

also! You get to see an entirely new side of Dazai from what No Longer Human presents. There's still cynicism and general misanthropy, but it's mixed in with sarcastic humor and a love of folklore and storytelling.

and here's our chart from the wiki

[Anonymous No.4336100]

Most of my books are being moved, but I can post the science and religious shelf.

[Anonymous No.4336203]

>>4332269

thought it was loeb edition for a sec. This is even better.

[Anonymous No.4336225]

>>4334593
>I'm pretty proud of my collection

but why?

[Anonymous No.4336294]

>>4334237
Just rip out everything post 1940s and yeah.

[Anonymous No.4336801]

>>4334615
What did you think of essays in idleness?