How's about a bookshelf thread? Its not much, but its what I got.

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Anonymous Sun Apr 20 16:03:24 2014 No.4798131 [Reply] [Original]

How's about a bookshelf thread? Its not much, but its what I got.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 16:06:57 2014 No.4798145 pointless boasting and materialism: the thread

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 16:13:31 2014 No.4798164 >>4798145 Sure, man. Boasting.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 16:18:13 2014 No.4798181 >>4798164 Stop trying to get shelf esteem ashat.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 16:18:51 2014 No.4798183 >>4798164 It's a shame you don't have any real friends to show off your shitty collection to.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 16:22:53 2014 No.4798201 Are those the novelizations of the Indiana Jones movies? Wow.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 16:22:58 2014 No.4798203 >>4798131 >those hideous B&N "leatherbound" classics >those B&N classic series which always have outdated translations

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 16:25:58 2014 No.4798217 Fuck. This was a mistake.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 16:27:45 2014 No.4798225 >>4798217 Don't feel bad. No one else has anything better. They just like hating on people they deem as less patrician then them

>>	rapture !KOfSjbMyF. Sun Apr 20 16:29:36 2014 No.4798234 >>4798131 i kinda imagine this to be the type of collection one might find in a used bookstore in covington, KY--complete with a surprisingly diverse selection of michael crighton.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 16:31:55 2014 No.4798238 It's lacking the bible, the classics, greeks and philsophers. Dont' feel too bad OP, I'm assuming you're just starting out. PS. I own leatherbound classics as well (huge mistake ordering them, quality and translations usually suck)

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 16:32:09 2014 No.4798242 File: 255 KB, 384x288, 1394662737006.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4798217 >Being offended by anything /lit/ says w/r/t your personal taste

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 16:35:19 2014 No.4798253 File: 1.61 MB, 2592x1936, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] HUR HUR look at me I'm OP I don't have a lot of books so mine can be organized

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 16:36:36 2014 No.4798261 File: 1.61 MB, 2592x1936, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4798253 Ohh big man OP is too good to have his desk littered with books

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 16:37:23 2014 No.4798263 >>4798261 What's on that note that there you have on the wall?

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 16:37:33 2014 No.4798265 >>4798238 Yeah, you can tell many of them were just leftover from when I was younger.I honestly just thought it would be a quick and simple way to get some new ideas.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 16:38:55 2014 No.4798272 >>4798253 You got me.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 16:39:13 2014 No.4798274 File: 2.14 MB, 2592x1936, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4798263

>>	rapture !KOfSjbMyF. Sun Apr 20 16:39:21 2014 No.4798276 >>4798253 >>4798261 are you a student? you have an odd collection, too.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 16:40:44 2014 No.4798282 >>4798276 Yes I am a student

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 16:41:51 2014 No.4798286 >>4798274 Humility > Imitate Jesus and Socrates kinda keked, but who is this originally from? Is it Big Frank?

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 16:43:00 2014 No.4798292 >>4798286 Yeah, it's straight from his autobiography

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 16:43:21 2014 No.4798293 >>4798292 The entire list?

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 16:46:34 2014 No.4798305 File: 1.80 MB, 2592x1936, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4798293

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 16:47:44 2014 No.4798312 >>4798305 Cool! Might actually steal that and put it on my wall.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 16:52:13 2014 No.4798324 >>4798265 Yeah don't take anything these guys say too seriously.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 17:03:13 2014 No.4798357 >>4798131 Your F Scott Fitzgerald book looks very precarious

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 17:05:41 2014 No.4798372 >>4798357 I guess I didn't realize how that looked when I tossed it up there ha

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 17:26:22 2014 No.4798447 >>4798305 >sincerity >>4798261 >pre-emptive sarcastic defence mechanism dfw.jpg

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 17:41:59 2014 No.4798512 File: 2.27 MB, 733x1705, books.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Hope I didn't forget a shelf this time...

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 17:42:14 2014 No.4798516 File: 1.22 MB, 3829x1968, P1040987.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >shelf one i want more books but i'm a student with very limited money

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 17:43:57 2014 No.4798522 File: 948 KB, 4023x1393, P1040988.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4798516 >shelf two

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 17:51:21 2014 No.4798556 >>4798131 American Soccer Fag?

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 18:00:23 2014 No.4798587 File: 334 KB, 1600x1200, IMG_0978.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4798512 What is up with those yellow sf-masterworks editions, are those older ones or newer ones? I got them all in this style(not my bookshelf)

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 18:01:37 2014 No.4798591 >>4798587 I've no idea man.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 18:02:35 2014 No.4798596 >>4798587 >>4798512 having books all with the same publisher/stylized bindings looks terrible imo

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 18:03:16 2014 No.4798602 >>4798447 My books are good an my collection is fine, I was making fun of OP for having like seven books

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 18:04:50 2014 No.4798610 >>4798516 >>4798522 >all that dawkins and chomsky Truly you must be an exemplary human being.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 18:06:33 2014 No.4798618 >>4798587 No non-fiction?

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 18:09:17 2014 No.4798627 >>4798610 b-but i don't have either

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 18:13:24 2014 No.4798639 >>4798610 >judges someone based on two authors You must be a wonderful person too.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 18:15:35 2014 No.4798645 File: 251 KB, 1036x440, i once had a book.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4798131 riff raff there are a few smaller ones hidden in there

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 18:17:09 2014 No.4798657 Why does everyone on /lit/ own a copy of Lolita?

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 18:18:40 2014 No.4798663 >>4798657 because it's a really great book and it's hyped to shit online

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 18:48:21 2014 No.4798802 >>4798587 you've got the older (and better looking) editions I think

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 18:54:32 2014 No.4798829 Pleb as fuck op. sorry.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 18:59:24 2014 No.4798852 >>4798645 Have you read the unbearable lightness of being? I've been thinking of getting it; looks p cool.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 19:14:17 2014 No.4798897 >>4798852 >p What does 'p' mean?

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 19:17:14 2014 No.4798909 >>4798286 who is big frank

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 19:18:40 2014 No.4798916 >>4798897 pretty

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 19:18:44 2014 No.4798917 >>4798897 http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=p

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 19:23:51 2014 No.4798925 >>4798852 ya i enjoyed it. it's not the sort of work i usually enjoy but it was worth reading.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 19:28:49 2014 No.4798938 File: 2.44 MB, 3488x1959, reol2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I'll probably get that edition of 1001 nights OP, how condensed is it? I can't afford the new Danish version anyway.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 19:36:57 2014 No.4798970 >>4798234 Are you from Covington?

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 19:45:20 2014 No.4799008 >>4798938 >Fernet My nigga. Are you in the restaurant industry?

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 19:52:01 2014 No.4799040 >>4799008 Nope. Law school. Is Fernet popular in the restaurant industry? I thought they drank Port.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 19:57:01 2014 No.4799060 File: 13 KB, 248x234, 2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4798938 >Alexander Hamilton Mah federalist

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 19:57:23 2014 No.4799061 >>4799040 Yes, it's very, very popular among American cooks.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 20:01:15 2014 No.4799078 >>4798261 honestly, coolest setup ITT.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 20:11:30 2014 No.4799117 File: 289 KB, 640x960, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 20:15:40 2014 No.4799139 >>4799117 I was wondering how long it would take for some manchild to post his pseudo-intellectual stash.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 20:15:49 2014 No.4799140 >>4798909 Benjamin franklin

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 20:16:40 2014 No.4799146 >tying yourself down with material possessions >2014 I think if I lived in more than one place for a month I'd have a meltdown. Thank god for e-readers.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 20:18:11 2014 No.4799154 >>4799139 how can a contextless assembly of books and other regalia warrant such trenchant accusations

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 20:18:39 2014 No.4799156 File: 57 KB, 319x319, homepage_large.8bb860b1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >tying yourself down with material possessions >2014 I think if I lived in one place for more than a month I'd have a meltdown. Thank god for e-readers.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 20:21:43 2014 No.4799168 >>4799139 Yeah I know everyone hates that my fiance puts pokemon figures on the shelf. We're all gonna make it brah.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 20:25:55 2014 No.4799185 >>4799156 >different lifestyle choices are bad fuck off

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 20:30:16 2014 No.4799207 File: 348 KB, 1080x1440, IMG_0619-e1367367256970.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 1/2

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 20:31:14 2014 No.4799210 >>4798512 >no Gravitys Rainbow plebbbb

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 20:31:57 2014 No.4799215 File: 287 KB, 1440x1080, IMG_0623-e1367367462771.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 2/2

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 20:37:01 2014 No.4799232 >>4799207 >gaddis good

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 20:38:57 2014 No.4799239 >>4799232 tfw my copy of JR hasn't arrived

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 20:39:44 2014 No.4799243 File: 58 KB, 600x402, Bookworm-Bookshelf.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Anyone know where I can buy a shelf like this??

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 20:47:41 2014 No.4799271 >>4799156 woah check out this guy! >being this edgy

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 20:49:33 2014 No.4799276 >>4799239 I hope you like it. More people should read Gaddis.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 20:50:29 2014 No.4799278 >>4798938 My girlfriend got that for me. I'd say its decent. Some parts seem to lack a bit of detail, so its blunt at points. But hey, its like $6.

Anonymous Sun Apr 20 21:00:39 2014 No.4799313
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>>4798131
I have so many books that I'm not taking pictures of them jut to show anons, but here's a pic I usually post on /co/ shelf threads. I can post the rest if people want, but it'll all be comics.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 21:00:41 2014 No.4799314 >>4799207 >>4799215 This nigga is a true patrician.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 21:03:16 2014 No.4799324 >>4799313 Go for it.

Anonymous Sun Apr 20 21:05:23 2014 No.4799333
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>>4799324
It looks like I have a lot of comics, but that's after five years of only buying things on at least 40% discount, and this is only a very small fraction of all my books, which are too numerous to photograph in less than a full day's work.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 21:06:29 2014 No.4799340 File: 773 KB, 2925x965, SAM_1707.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4799333

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 21:09:25 2014 No.4799358 File: 1.09 MB, 3081x1397, SAM_1712 - Copy.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4799340

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 21:09:29 2014 No.4799359 File: 98 KB, 344x500, 61MY-myKZlL.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4799313 I have Blame!, Noise, and Biomega on my bookshelf as well, right next to my World of Art books.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 21:10:28 2014 No.4799364 File: 1.31 MB, 3301x1441, SAM_1712.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4799358 Scud is out of print, so is Mask, got 'em for ten each.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 21:14:43 2014 No.4799387 File: 1.60 MB, 2100x2800, SAM_1740.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4799364 I highly recommend Ant Colony, it's available online as Ant Comics.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 21:15:48 2014 No.4799392 File: 1.90 MB, 2800x2100, SAM_1754.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4799387 That's it. The Model disappointed me, I would love to have seen the paintings he based his own on, though I understand this would have doubled the price.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 21:31:38 2014 No.4799462 >>4799333 Holy fuck, I didn't know an Amethyst showcase even existed.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 21:33:08 2014 No.4799473 File: 986 KB, 1536x2048, IMG_0896.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] This is what I brought from home to college 1/2

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 21:33:42 2014 No.4799476 File: 13 KB, 514x316, zoolander.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4799387

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 21:34:18 2014 No.4799481 File: 780 KB, 1536x2048, IMG_0897.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4799473 2/2 I keep 'em nice.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 21:34:33 2014 No.4799485 >>4799462 It doesn't collect the last five issues the ongoing series, that pissed me right the fuck off. I don't think there are any plans at all for collecting them, given the lack of a numeral in the spine. On the other hand, $5 for 26 issues.

Martleme Sun Apr 20 21:47:53 2014 No.4799532

Do you cover the dust covers with plastic yourself or did you buyem that way? How much?

My library does it like that. I really like it. Not so much to preserve the condition but it just looks good and I hate having the dust covers laying around when Im reading a hardcover.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 21:49:22 2014 No.4799540 File: 1.32 MB, 2332x2193, 20140421_034053.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4799485 >On the other hand, $5 for 26 issues. can't argue with that. Make way, make way, pleb coming through! My shelves look like shit. 1/3

Anonymous Sun Apr 20 21:50:59 2014 No.4799549

>>4799481
i was going to yell at you for having only the first volume of Proust. Then I noticed A Time For Gifts next to it so you get a pass. The concluding volume (3) of his journey just came out last month, not in finished form but better than anyone expected after so long.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 21:51:06 2014 No.4799550 File: 1.60 MB, 2448x3264, 20140421_033935.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4799540 2/3

Anonymous Sun Apr 20 21:52:56 2014 No.4799555
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>>4799550
3/3
Oone of these days, I'll remove that improvised dust cover made of baking paper.
The rest of the Cormyr stuff is in the mail, probably arriving this week.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 21:54:37 2014 No.4799563 >>4799555 So much wasted space.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 22:01:29 2014 No.4799594 File: 90 KB, 470x353, boludos.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4798938 >fernet u argentinuh my friend?

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 22:03:09 2014 No.4799606 >>4799540 >game of thrones Into the trash you go.

Anonymous Sun Apr 20 22:06:25 2014 No.4799627

>>4799606
I was close to trashing them since I lost the first book anyway and never bought anything past the 4th. Oh and it was a recommendation by /lit/ shortly after the board was created so thanks for that.

>>4799594
Not him but Fernet is sold all over Europe, it's one of the most common shelf-bottles here.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 22:18:15 2014 No.4799677 >>4799207 >>4799215 Great collection here. The only copy of Infinite Jest in this thread that appears to have actually been opened. Have you read The Instructions yet?

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 22:34:46 2014 No.4799744 File: 1.85 MB, 3264x2448, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Here we go. Quality of the pic is shit, I know.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 22:36:32 2014 No.4799746 >>4799744 Scratch that, let's try again.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 22:36:55 2014 No.4799748 >>4799744 all untouched

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 22:39:17 2014 No.4799757 File: 930 KB, 2048x1536, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] This should be better

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 22:39:35 2014 No.4799760 >>4799744 I really am liking white noise, how is the rest of Delillo? I see you may be a bit biased but whatever. The premise for cosmopolis sounds cool, I haven't seen anything about Underworld other than it is a book by him and some people like it.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 22:41:24 2014 No.4799766 >>4799757 Well fuck, I can't get it to flip from my phone. >>4799748 There's some wear on the bigger books, it's just too shitty of a camera to tell.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 22:44:12 2014 No.4799776 >>4799766 >Well fuck, I can't get it to flip from my phone. it's okay, you can better read the titles like that

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 22:47:05 2014 No.4799784 >>4799760 Cosmopolis is alright. Underworld is more of White Noise, but I ended up getting bored with it and couldn't get back into it. I'll give it another shot later on. >>4799776 Here's a shot of the top shelf with flash this time.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 22:48:10 2014 No.4799789 File: 99 KB, 960x720, books1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4799784 It would help if I actually posted the pic...

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 22:49:31 2014 No.4799793 File: 82 KB, 960x720, books2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4799789 Row 2

Anonymous Sun Apr 20 22:50:40 2014 No.4799796

>>4799760
Not that anon but I'll respond. I loved White Noise and wanted to get more into DeLillo because of that book. His first, Americana, is good. I think the next one I read was Cosmopolis, which does have a cool premise, but honestly I didn't like it too much. His later stuff is pretty different from White Noise - minimalistic, weirdly detached (in a much different way than WN), sometimes trying to make 'profound' statements in absurd ways that come across pretty lame. Point Omega is kind of like this, but I enjoyed that one. I recently read Underworld and I would put that right under White Noise as my second favorite. Closer to WN in style, has the weird sterile feel of his later stuff but with more substance. I'd say it's only worth reading if you like DeLillo - very long, obviously, and at times filled with seemingly irrelevant stuff, but it's pretty engaging in general.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 22:50:42 2014 No.4799798 >>4798145 /thread

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 22:51:01 2014 No.4799799 File: 85 KB, 960x720, books3.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4799793 And the final row

Anonymous Sun Apr 20 22:54:39 2014 No.4799808
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just bored enough--here's my collection of the ancients and half of my art-book collection.

can't post images (embedded file) for some reason, so here's a link:

imgur.com/a/HUMG1#0

if you like, i'll post more.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 22:54:55 2014 No.4799809 >>4799799 >everything by Pynchon nice

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 22:55:37 2014 No.4799812 File: 8 KB, 260x294, 1376959913078.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4799473 >Eyeless in Gaza Loved that book. Very interesting narrative structure.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 22:58:51 2014 No.4799824 >>4799798 bitch

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 23:00:01 2014 No.4799827 >>4799809 Read them all at least once. He's a favorite, no denying it.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 23:00:29 2014 No.4799828 >>4799793 Out of the Murakami books you have, which would you recommend?

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 23:01:38 2014 No.4799830 Do you like Roth, OP? Do you think he's misogynist? I tried to read Exit Ghost and couldn't even finish it. I don't care to read an entire novel about an old mans penis not working, and him pursuing a woman he can't even bang.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 23:02:35 2014 No.4799833 >>4799827 I'd like to read Mason & Dixon next. Read IV recently, wasn't crazy about it. I've read that M&D is more like 'classic' Pynchon. Can you confirm? Also, are AtD and BE similar to IV, like with the 'pulp' thing?

>>	Oberst Viktor Morte !!ykBT/VPi6OO Sun Apr 20 23:03:14 2014 No.4799834 >>4799313 I am totes jelly that you have the complete series of Blame! I'm missing 4 and 6 because they're balls expensive.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 23:03:32 2014 No.4799836 >>4799830 Read Zuckerman Bound >do you think he's a misogynist? not consciously I don't think, but even if he was it wouldn't matter

Anonymous Sun Apr 20 23:04:03 2014 No.4799837

>>4799677

thanks.

it's actually very easy to avoid a crease in this edition. i stupidly made it when i folded the book over while on a couch trying to read more comfortably.

it's a little annoying now since it folds open a little lopsided after getting past a certain page.

i have not read The Instructions yet. have you?

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 23:04:31 2014 No.4799840 >>4799828 Hard Boiled. It probably most shows the type of style he has. Norwegian Wood is also great, but isn't like the rest at all.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 23:05:56 2014 No.4799843 >>4799834 Bought them as they came out, the guys at the local Waldenbooks were friends and would order them special for me. I miss small bookstores.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 23:06:45 2014 No.4799847 >>4799833 M&D and AtD are more like his earlier works. No idea why AtD gets shit on so much, it's a contender for my all time Pynchon favorite. BE is similar to IV. It was kinda weird seeing YuGiOh and DBZ get named dropped in BE.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 23:07:11 2014 No.4799850 >>4799836 >it wouldn't matter it'd limit his ability to portray women in any realistic fashion

Anonymous Sun Apr 20 23:10:21 2014 No.4799859

>>4799837
I haven't. I'd like to. I know it's been compared to IJ, but it's possible that people only say that because of the size. Reviews either call it the next IJ or annoying hipster trash. Though reviews are very divided on IJ and I love that book. Guess I'll just have to read The Instructions.

Anonymous Sun Apr 20 23:13:28 2014 No.4799873

>>4799796
Do you or>>4799784 know much about Mao II or Libra? Well, I guess the guy who posted his shelf has libra actually. These also both sound neat, but I could see how Delillo's style could become off-putting. I will probably still read cosmopolis out of interest at some point but maybe just like, online.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 23:14:22 2014 No.4799877 >>4799847 Thanks. Ideally I'll get around to reading it all. But I'd prefer to read something similar to V and GR because IV made me miss the old stuff. So I guess I'll go with M&D or AtD next.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 23:15:30 2014 No.4799880 >>4799833 Mason & Dixon is phenomenal, I read it as my second book by him after The Crying of Lot 49.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 23:15:49 2014 No.4799882 >>4799873 I haven't read either, sorry. I picked up Libra a while ago but just haven't gotten around to it.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 23:16:53 2014 No.4799885 >>4799880 Cool. Haven't read Crying yet either. It's on my summer reading list.

Anonymous Sun Apr 20 23:17:21 2014 No.4799886

>>4799850
Most of Roth's protags are self-inserts, so if he's a misogynist, they are, and I don't see how the work suffers due to this. I don't want to put words in your mouth, so I won't say that one of your criteria for good literature is how favorably women are portrayed in it, but I often see this line of thinking, and it's idiotic. But you mean I think that the novels would somehow lack some richness or dimension if women are made to be objects, but again there I'd disagree.

However I still assert that Roth is not a misogynist. Have you read him?

Anonymous Sun Apr 20 23:20:04 2014 No.4799892

>>4799873
Dude who posted the bookshelf earlier. Can't comment on Mao II, but Libra is good if you have an interest in the whole JFK assassination. At points, he tries to portray Oswald as human, but mostly he points him out to be an insufferable leftist cunt.

>>4799877
His style in M&D might take some getting used to, but it's definitely worth the read.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 23:25:41 2014 No.4799910 >>4799549 No kidding? I'll have to check that out. Time For Gifts is unbelievable, I wish it was discussed on lit more often

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 23:28:49 2014 No.4799916 >keeping dust covers plebs

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 23:36:39 2014 No.4799940 >>4799808 crazy collection are all these yours?

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 00:04:20 2014 No.4800008 >>4799808 >imgur.com/a/HUMG1#0 I smell a classics major

>>	Martleme Mon Apr 21 00:13:18 2014 No.4800027 >>4799916 >Narcissism of small differences Pleb

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 00:15:27 2014 No.4800035 >>4799139 The only thing more pathetic than judging someone by how many books they have is judging someone by the books they read. It's seriously pathetic that this is what you have to do to feel superior than someone once in your life.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 00:20:33 2014 No.4800047 >>4799156 Dafuq? Where do you find one-month leases? Or are you some kind of granola couch surfer?

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 00:22:12 2014 No.4800055 >>4799473 What's the pill thing?

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 00:24:56 2014 No.4800061 >>4800035 >being this buttblasted lel

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 00:25:35 2014 No.4800062 >>4800055 A Niacin-B pill a homeless guy gave me when I was doing community service. I just keep it there because I feel bad about throwing it away. He was a nice dude and just wanted to give me something.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 00:38:02 2014 No.4800083 >>4798131 >crichton >harry potter >barnes and noble fake filigree covers 2/10 best I can do (but really, not bad)

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 00:46:17 2014 No.4800089 File: 2.96 MB, 2432x4320, IMG_20140420_233853886.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 1/3 potato mode

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 00:47:37 2014 No.4800092 File: 3.19 MB, 2432x4320, IMG_20140420_233902801.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4800089 2/3 improved potato mode >b&n anthology

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 00:49:11 2014 No.4800094 File: 1.99 MB, 3153x2383, IMG_20140420_233911768.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4800092 3/3 windowsill mode

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 00:49:37 2014 No.4800095 >>4800083 Crighton doesn't deserve to be put in the same category as Potter. HP is far better.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 01:10:57 2014 No.4800143 File: 126 KB, 720x480, 1389411221148.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4800095 Is this what /lit/ actually thinks?

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 04:37:06 2014 No.4800469 >>4799210 Actually I have it, but I hid it away because the Penguin deluxe edition apparently is stuffed with errors and is not at all like Pynchon intended it to be. I just ordered a new edition and will read that.

>>	Feminister !!F9QVQ82MjmE Mon Apr 21 05:00:04 2014 No.4800508 >>4800143 Some of Chrichton's stories are superb (Andromeda Strain), others not so much (I'm guessing Timeline was YA). His prose, however, was invariably pulp.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 10:25:35 2014 No.4800896 >>4799627 wow really i thought it was only popular in argentina and that only hipsters drink it outside of here

Anonymous Mon Apr 21 10:45:55 2014 No.4800919

>mfw these threads make it blatantly obvious that people on this board care more about books as a status object

absolutely pathetic. the funny thing is most of you people are so socially retarded that the only people you have to show off to are other losers on the internet.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 10:49:53 2014 No.4800928 >>4800919 Books are just nice to look at, m8

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 10:50:05 2014 No.4800929 >>4800919 >being this angry about owning books >caring this much about 4chan

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 10:50:17 2014 No.4800930 >>4800508 Agreed, many of his books were good fun with just enough pseudoscience to introduce a 'this could happen' factor, I really loved him as a young teenager, and keep his books mostly for nostalgia...but I feel the same way about HP so.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 11:04:10 2014 No.4800966 File: 2.13 MB, 2272x4032, P1010249.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 11:05:34 2014 No.4800971 File: 1.92 MB, 2272x4032, P1010252.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] ...and two

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 11:07:21 2014 No.4800976 >>4800966 Wow so colorless. everything looks the same. i cant even look at it. it's so boring

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 11:11:22 2014 No.4800985 >>4800976 Yeah, admittedly French paperbacks look like shit—at least if you only see their edges

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 11:12:32 2014 No.4800989 File: 152 KB, 1009x382, dunno.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] My other books are on another shelf and that's in front of a desk. Too lazy to move the desk and get a picture

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 11:13:36 2014 No.4800993 >>4800976 Well that was an unnecessary shot.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 11:30:29 2014 No.4801057 >>4799481 I spy Money by Martin Amis. I like you.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 11:39:52 2014 No.4801088 File: 1.31 MB, 300x169, heavy weapons guy approves.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4799473 >>4799481 >Box of tea >Nothing to envy >A Scanner Darkly

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 12:37:30 2014 No.4801290 >>4799117 >Bathroom reader not being in the bathroom

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 12:52:28 2014 No.4801328 >>4799473 brofist for Gormenghast

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 13:05:22 2014 No.4801360 File: 2.67 MB, 3264x2448, Shelf 1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 1/4 Excuse the Breaking Dawn; I hollowed it out and use it for hiding things.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 13:05:33 2014 No.4801361 File: 52 KB, 407x407, aint my nigga.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4798587 >No Heinlein or Asimov

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 13:07:04 2014 No.4801364 File: 3.22 MB, 3264x2448, Shelf 2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4801360 2/4

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 13:08:41 2014 No.4801370 File: 3.32 MB, 3264x2448, Shelf 3.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4801364 3/4

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 13:10:27 2014 No.4801376 File: 2.96 MB, 3264x2448, Shelf 4.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4801370 4/4 I'll be the first to admit that my shelves are a little pleb, but that's why I've started lurking on /lit/, so I can find out what to read to enrich my life.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 13:10:34 2014 No.4801377 I'll post a pic of my dads bookshelf when i get home on summer break, niggas got like 20 conan books, elric, bunch of asimov and scifi shit. all i got are uni textbooks

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 13:10:46 2014 No.4801378 >>4798587 i'm hella jelly anon

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 13:12:22 2014 No.4801382 >>4801360 What's hidden in it?

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 13:12:59 2014 No.4801385 >>4801382 Just what you'd expect, shisha and weed.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 13:16:07 2014 No.4801394 >>4801360 What did you think of S.? I've been meaning to pick it up for a while

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 13:19:20 2014 No.4801409 >>4801394 I'm only a quarter the way through it; got distracted by school and then I picked up Murakami, so I haven't gotten to finish it yet. But I'm really enjoying it. What it does with the multiple stories is really interesting.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 13:19:37 2014 No.4801410 >>4801376 Better be off /lit/, you will burn your shelves after a while in here.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 13:22:10 2014 No.4801420 >>4799243 Here you go friendo! http://kartellstorela.com/shop/bookworm/

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 13:22:12 2014 No.4801422 >>4801410 Nah, I love books, and I can recognize when a book is bad. My problem is that I read bad books for fun, when I need to learn to read good books for fun, even if they're initially harder to appreciate.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 13:30:11 2014 No.4801445 >>4801385 show me

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 13:37:29 2014 No.4801456 File: 2.77 MB, 2448x3264, 20140421_133359.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4801445 Alright, but only because I wouldn't want you to think I have an intact copy of a Stephenie Meyer book.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 13:47:15 2014 No.4801484 >>4801456 Your honor is saved anon

Anonymous Mon Apr 21 13:50:05 2014 No.4801492

>>4801360
1. You better show us that you're telling the truck about the Twilight Book
2. It's more likely that the Twilight book will be opened and picked up by someone than every other book on there...so it doesn't add up
3. Everyone has guilty pleasures, but Twilight should send you to Death Row.

Anonymous Mon Apr 21 13:51:31 2014 No.4801497

>>4801360
>>4801364
>>4801370
>>4801376
Pleb, but not in a bad way. The face that you waqnt to start reading better literature is a good start. I'd say go into entry/high school level first. 1984, Brave New World, The Great Gatsby, those sort of books. From there you can check the sticky or otherwise reference some charts that are littered around lit.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 13:52:34 2014 No.4801504 >>4801456 Called the cops. Prepare the angus.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 13:55:02 2014 No.4801516 >>4801497 I've read all three of those. Hated 1984, loved Brave New World, quite liked Great Gatsby.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 13:56:25 2014 No.4801523 >>4801516 Well then you're on the right track. Check the sticky as I said, and there's the handful of charts you can reference.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 14:35:49 2014 No.4801661 >>4801492 >implying I'm friends with the kind of people who are likely to pick up Twilight books from my shelf

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 14:38:49 2014 No.4801668 File: 2.11 MB, 2200x2967, 3-13-14 bookshelves part one.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I'm about to move to a new apartment, so I get to experience the supposed pain of packing and moving a thousand books. 1/4

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 14:40:03 2014 No.4801673 File: 2.03 MB, 2200x2841, 3-13-14 bookshelves part two.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4801668 But it does mean I can now dedicate a whole room to books and board games and guns. 2/4

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 14:41:17 2014 No.4801681 File: 1.89 MB, 2200x2766, 3-13-14 bookshelves part three.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4801673 3/4

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 14:42:32 2014 No.4801687 File: 1.86 MB, 2400x2424, 3-13-14 bookshelves part four.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4801681

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 14:42:40 2014 No.4801688 >>4801673 >books and board games and guns Let's be friends.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 14:44:36 2014 No.4801694 >>4798938 YO DANEFAG

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 14:45:46 2014 No.4801698 >>4801688 You'll need to come out to the middle of nowhere in eastern Texas! Unless you mean online.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 14:46:32 2014 No.4801702 >>4801668 >supposed Yeah it's really painful, but it's definitely worth it.

Anonymous Mon Apr 21 14:47:01 2014 No.4801708

>Be teacher at the local highschool
>We no longer have enough money to keep the librarian
>Offer to take over during lunches and free periods so kids can still get books
>More budget cuts
>They move guidance counselor into back of library
>They just sorta push the books that were there aside
>Allowed to take any book over 10 years old, they're throwing away the ones still there (famous classics being an exception) after two months
>Back room is full of old children's books now
>Going to have to build/buy bookshelves to house them all

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 14:49:07 2014 No.4801715 >>4801708 >Going to have to build/buy bookshelves to house them all You make that sounds like it's a problem. Library getting budget cuts is a crime though.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 14:52:25 2014 No.4801719 >>4798938 >Lovboger Beskidte sofist

Anonymous Mon Apr 21 14:54:56 2014 No.4801727
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>tfw my book shelf is too pleb tier

It's bad enough I actually own Vol. 1 of Berserk and a volume of Tezuka's Black Jack. Which in itself might not be pleb, but it'd certainly be perceived as childish.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 15:01:32 2014 No.4801758 >>4798657 It's usually the same edition too.

Anonymous Mon Apr 21 15:02:22 2014 No.4801760

>>4801715
It wouldn't be an issue but I'm kind of a poorfag because teachers get shit pay and I'll probably end up having to build some. It irks the shit out of me, 90% of those older books have more value than the newer ones they have, I mean if they actually had the kids read some classics rather than whatever crappy romance novels they feel pressured to buy then they might actually fucking learn something. I'm just glad they let us take them home this time instead of just disposing of them with no warning like last time.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 15:02:48 2014 No.4801762 >>4800966 I utterly love you, consider marrying me please.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 15:43:14 2014 No.4801872 >>4801668 You've posted this before, right? Solid collection.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 15:47:29 2014 No.4801886 File: 196 KB, 960x1280, 06.25.2010 shelves.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4801872 Yeah, I've posted in these threads for four years now. For nostalgia interest, here's a picture of the extent of my collection that long ago.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 15:51:41 2014 No.4801892 >>4801886 Pretty impressive amount of stuff obtained in four years. I'm >>4799789 and I started seriously reading around four or five years ago.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 15:54:59 2014 No.4801907 >>4801892 Yeah, it was about five years ago for me too. I loved reading through high school, but there was a break of a few years after where I didn't do any at all. Then I genuinely got back into it with Kokoro.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 15:58:19 2014 No.4801917 >>4801907 Read fantasy and science fiction almost exclusively up until giving The Count of Monte Cristo a read. That and Crime and Punishment were what really got me more interested in reading as a hobby to devote time to.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 16:20:02 2014 No.4801984 >>4801668 How's that Italian Folktales collection by Calvino? I've been back and forth about buying it from my campus bookstore.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 16:25:37 2014 No.4802000 File: 681 KB, 3441x1845, IMG_6371.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Eww, gross! It's all German 'n shit. Should I take photos of some of the other shelves?

Anonymous Mon Apr 21 16:31:58 2014 No.4802014
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these are basically the only books I have, and I live in a small apt, no bookshelf. But I did just order maybe 7 or so books that should be here soon that I'm looking forward to reading asap.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 16:34:18 2014 No.4802022 >>4802000 If that shelf is anything to go by I wouldn't bother.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 16:34:36 2014 No.4802024 >>4802014 Uni or self-study? How would you rate each other those books?

Anonymous Mon Apr 21 16:39:48 2014 No.4802044

>>4802024
uni. idk from left to right:
7/10
8/10
6.5/10
6.5/10

9/10
haven't read thoroughly enough to rate/10
8/10
but it depends whether you like explanations with detailed intuitive explanations or mathematically rigorous derivations. Dolan's is the best regardless tho

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 17:46:18 2014 No.4802210 >>4798587 >no asimov >no book of the new sun

Anonymous Mon Apr 21 17:47:14 2014 No.4802213
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College freshman here, pic related is what I've picked up over the course of this year. I've blown quite the chunk of change on books on Amazon these past couple days though. Spending the summer overseas and I'm taking my reading with me.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 17:52:54 2014 No.4802226 >>4802000 Sure. The European bookshelves are usually more exciting than the Americans.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 17:55:09 2014 No.4802231 >>4802000 that's a lot of Benn. post more please

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 17:56:30 2014 No.4802238 File: 569 KB, 3449x1545, IMG_6372.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4802226 >>4802231 Well, okay then. Have some more German Expressionism.

Anonymous Mon Apr 21 17:57:06 2014 No.4802244
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>>4798512
Saw that Demanding the Impossible and remembered a friend has mine for 6 months and shows no signs of reading any of it.

I might have to drop by his house this week, I have no qualms about lending books, but for fucks sake, read them

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 17:58:55 2014 No.4802254 File: 2.27 MB, 2448x3264, 20140420_163805.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I just build these bookshelves about a month ago. Plus I have some on another shelf too.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 18:00:30 2014 No.4802261 File: 1.81 MB, 3264x2448, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Got most of these books second-hand or free

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 18:02:11 2014 No.4802272 File: 493 KB, 2817x1777, IMG_6373.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4802238 Behind all that Surrealism stuff is Oe, Mishima, Inoue, and more Japanese authors.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 18:03:57 2014 No.4802278 File: 444 KB, 3296x1257, IMG_6374.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4802272 This shelf's second row is filled with almost everything Hermann Hesse wrote.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 18:06:59 2014 No.4802297 >>4802278 Can you read in Japanese as well?

Anonymous Mon Apr 21 18:09:23 2014 No.4802305
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>>4802297
No, not really. At the moment I'm learning Japanese and I can read my fair share of hiragana, katakana, and kanji, and I can understand some spoken Japanese, but reading entire books in Japanese is still way out of my league.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 18:09:39 2014 No.4802306 >>4798253 what did you think of the fountain head? i got halfway through awhile back but lost interest. since then i really grew as a reader and wonder if its worth another go

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 18:14:06 2014 No.4802330 >>4802278 >This shelf's second row is filled with almost everything Hermann Hesse wrote. Is any of his work besides his novels worth reading?

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 18:16:20 2014 No.4802342 File: 406 KB, 3069x1129, IMG_6377.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4802330 I think you're fine if you read his novels.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 18:17:45 2014 No.4802345 >>4802000 >>4802238 >>4802272 >>4802278 >>4802305 >no Konsalik disappointing >>4802261 What kind of scarves are these? Are you Irish? Must be Liverpool then.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 18:20:08 2014 No.4802353 File: 59 KB, 429x410, 1389637972589.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4802345 >Konsalik Why would I want commercial genre fiction?

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 18:23:32 2014 No.4802377 >>4802353 I was joking. Some of the books looked like the typical Konsalik Schinken from afar, so that was the first thing coming to my mind. Any Grass? (hopefully not)

Anonymous Mon Apr 21 18:28:03 2014 No.4802395
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>>4802377
>I was joking.
It's okay. No one would judge you for having bad taste. :^)

I have like five Grass books in here somwhere. But I got them for less than euro, they're first editions, and I don't really plan on reading them anyway.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 18:32:43 2014 No.4802409 >>4802395 Well don't. Most overrated German post-war writer.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 18:35:22 2014 No.4802421 File: 340 KB, 3449x1277, IMG_6380.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4802409 Post-war authors a shit. Except Arno Schmidt, of course.

Anonymous Mon Apr 21 18:41:52 2014 No.4802453

>>4802305
How long have you been studying? I'm learning to atm and after about 6 months I'm about 1k kanji and 2k words in, grammar is eh, keep trying to get past halfway in Tae Kim but I get burnt out so easily. Do you know any success stories? If so how long did it take them to start reading proper?

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 18:42:10 2014 No.4802456 >>4802421 Böll's actually my favourite. That's a very sophisticated collection, are you a teacher?

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 18:44:11 2014 No.4802462 >anime and comic shit lol. y'all are the niggas who need to hide behind reading ebooks

Anonymous Mon Apr 21 18:49:23 2014 No.4802483

>>4802453
I only took an introduction course so far, but I'll continue that this semester. Grammar is pretty easy for me because I'm versed in linguistics. I don't know how long it will take you to be able to read in Japanese. Maybe a year of constant reading is my guess. Just keep going.

>>4802456
Nah, I'm just a failing student. ;_;
I have a couple of Böll's books in there as well, but at the moment I'm reading some translated Greek stuff like Plato and Homer.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 18:52:05 2014 No.4802495 >>4802014 get regular books faggot

Anonymous Mon Apr 21 18:57:33 2014 No.4802513
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>>4802421
Here's something to laugh at: My plebby English language shelf. It's hard as fuck to build a decent collection when you're only buying from second hand bookstores in Germany.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 18:58:58 2014 No.4802519 File: 516 KB, 3380x1157, IMG_6382.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4802513

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 19:00:54 2014 No.4802524 File: 656 KB, 3021x1788, IMG_6383.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4802519

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 19:04:46 2014 No.4802532 File: 98 KB, 768x1024, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Pffff YEAH CALL THAT A BOOKSHELF EHH? NOW THIS IS A BOOKSHELF.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 19:08:15 2014 No.4802539 File: 433 KB, 3372x1057, IMG_6386.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4802513 Here, have the second row. Maybe there's something interesting in there.

Anonymous Mon Apr 21 19:09:00 2014 No.4802544

>>4802513
> It's hard as fuck to build a decent collection when you're only buying from second hand bookstores in Germany.
I know that exact problem, but if you're the only one in your area doing that you might get lucky, got a Dune Trilogy HC and a bunch of Welles stories as one big HC from the an Antiquariat around the corner recently, didn't know it actually existed.

Anonymous Mon Apr 21 19:11:23 2014 No.4802554

>>4802544
All I manage to get from most stores are paperbacks that have probably travelled the whole world by now. There is a neat English antiquariat in Berlin where I buy some of the more interesting things but I'm only once or twice per year in Berlin.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 19:13:11 2014 No.4802562 >>4802513 >As Ugged Tell me the plot oh German wizard.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 19:13:47 2014 No.4802565 >>4802562 Yeah, no. I won't read that.

Anonymous Mon Apr 21 19:16:31 2014 No.4802573

>>4802554
www.zvab.com/

You know that site? It specialises on old books, I don't ask you to order from there (since most sellers ask for the usual €3 porto anyway) but you may be able to find Antiquariate in your area easier and at places you never looked before.

Anonymous Mon Apr 21 19:21:01 2014 No.4802589

>>4802573
I use antiquariats for browsing and making bargains. They're also fine for talking about literature with the owner or people roaming through the shelves. If I want something in particular, I try to get it from Ebay. ZVAB has of course almost everything - but the prices are extraordinary. The books in >>4802421 would've cost me 50 to 150 euros per piece if I had bought them from ZVAB. I got them for a fraction of that from Ebay.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 19:24:23 2014 No.4802606 >>4802589 I just use it as a last resort for books that are absolutely not available any more, got lucky with an old D&D book for €3 recently

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 19:31:50 2014 No.4802624 File: 270 KB, 768x1024, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4802345 FC Köln, who just got promoted to the Bundesliga. I visited in February

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 19:40:05 2014 No.4802642 >>4802624 They probably condemned Bochum to relegation to the 3rd league :(

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 20:35:44 2014 No.4802810 File: 60 KB, 444x789, unnamed - Copy.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4799808 >>4800008 not a classics major

Anonymous Mon Apr 21 21:08:34 2014 No.4802913

>>4802213
Sort of the same situation here. Keep an eye out for used book sales in your city. I've scored a lot of classics for cheap this way, also thrift shops have books.

And it should go without saying that buying used books on amazon is usually best in cases where the price+shipping doesn't just add up to the no-shipping price of the new copy.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 21:10:35 2014 No.4802920 >>4802254 I hope you're trolling. This is the worst book collection I've ever seen. >Dan Brown >Inheritance Trilogy >All this YA shit

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 21:12:34 2014 No.4802926 >>4802920 I think he's only presenting the shelves, which are pretty nice.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 21:16:34 2014 No.4802941 >>4802926 >Plus I have some on another shelf too. Don't think so. He really is that pleb.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 22:58:39 2014 No.4803355 >>4799364 >>4799387 >>4799392 Have you read Daytripper

Anonymous Tue Apr 22 01:50:49 2014 No.4803752
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>>4798131
Student reporting in. Just starting out really, so that's why it's kind of full of AP Lit level readings.

Just picked up....
>'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man' - Joyce
>'Mortality' - Christopher Hitchens
>'Slaughterhouse Five' - Vonnegut
>'Brief Interviews with Hideous Men' - DFW
>'The Catcher in the Rye' - Salinger

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 22 01:53:49 2014 No.4803764 >>4798203 "outdated translations" is a bullshit phrase. If it's the best, it's the best.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 22 01:55:52 2014 No.4803765 >>4802306 Garbage. It's too long for how vapid it is, and the prose is nothing special

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 22 02:25:05 2014 No.4803803 File: 160 KB, 361x654, ahhahaha.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4803752 >Hitchens >communist Manifesto >Ernest Hemmingway

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 22 02:28:17 2014 No.4803811 >>4799473 Decent stuff here. What's the white pill? It looks like a Soma.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 22 02:42:40 2014 No.4803834 File: 1.69 MB, 3264x2448, IMG_20140422_163848.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 22 02:49:27 2014 No.4803853 >>4803834 > Poe > Christie > Doyle > Carr I didn't know people on /lit/ liked mystery.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 22 02:54:56 2014 No.4803865 >>4803834 For anyone that wants to know, that big one on the top left that I had to lay down because it is taller than the shelf is an illustrated version of the Iliad and Odyssey.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 22 02:55:55 2014 No.4803867 >>4803853 not that guy but poe is my nigger

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 22 03:33:12 2014 No.4803939 File: 1.55 MB, 3264x2448, 20140422_022451.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Here you guys go. The reading room doesn't have an actual light so it's only lit by the lamp though so sorry about that.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 22 03:36:04 2014 No.4803946 File: 1.29 MB, 3264x2448, 20140422_022457.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4803939

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 22 03:36:20 2014 No.4803947 >>4802044 Really? Knoll is the only of those I have any real experience with, and I found it to excellent.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 22 03:37:59 2014 No.4803953 File: 949 KB, 3264x2448, 20140422_022503.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4803946

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 22 03:38:49 2014 No.4803956 >>4803939 >mlp literally kill yourself

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 22 03:41:58 2014 No.4803965 >>4803947 to be fair i underrated knoll, but only because i didnt use it that much compared to Dolan or Callister

Anonymous Tue Apr 22 04:30:20 2014 No.4804037
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>>4803803
>Hitchens
I can see hating on 'god is Not Great' (though I haven't read that one yet), but 'Letters to a Young Contrarian' and 'Mortality' are both great.

>Communist Manifesto
Had to have it for school, but still don't see why you'd have a problem with it.
>inb4 Atlas Shrugged

>Ernest Hemm(?)ingway
Why did you give his name two m's? If you can't even spell his name, I don't think you're in any position to be critiquing any authors, m8.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 22 04:34:37 2014 No.4804044 >>4804037 >Hemm(?)ingway Hemmmingway

Anonymous Tue Apr 22 05:07:51 2014 No.4804100
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>>4803939

>mlp

srs, that's one thing I will never get. I don't know what's worse, the fact that it's a show for little girls or the kind of adult men who watch it. I mean even if you can get past the fact that it's a (little) girl's show how can you associate with those lumpen plebs called "bronies"? ?? ?

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 22 05:10:48 2014 No.4804103 File: 356 KB, 320x239, Action Hank vs Pony.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4803939 >all that mlp shit

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 22 05:41:34 2014 No.4804142 >>4803956 >>4804100 >>4804103 I still get astounded that people can get so upset over a show about pastel colored horses. I have a tulpa too. She is not a pony though, that would be weird.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 22 06:07:02 2014 No.4804170 >>4804142 it's not the show, it's the adult deviants that take it to a sick place

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 22 06:09:59 2014 No.4804177 >>4802539 >switch bitch Good man! Did you enjoy it?

Anonymous Tue Apr 22 06:24:45 2014 No.4804192

>>4804142
Like he said here >>4804170 , we can upset about you, now your show.
Your bookshelf seems to include escape fantasy, it's no surprise you like from glance innocent pony world, but considering the mere resemblance of ponies to actual people is that of their mere ability to talk and react. Just that! No wonder we consider it to be the deviant extreme, it's oversexualized horses with big alien eyes that makes you think they are in constant glee. Seriously, get hold of yourself.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 22 06:25:40 2014 No.4804194 >>4801698 Where are you from in east Texas? I used to live around there until I moved to the middle of nowhere in the panhandle of Texas.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 22 06:28:21 2014 No.4804197 >>4801727 >implying Tezuka isn't top patrician tier.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 22 06:28:42 2014 No.4804199 >>4804192 My grammar errors game me a laugh, you are free from the burden of considering replying to it.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 22 10:13:02 2014 No.4804616 File: 1.90 MB, 2448x3264, plebdom1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] All these people claiming plebdom. Nothing can compete with my plebdom. Sorry for the bad quality. 1/2

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 22 10:14:20 2014 No.4804619 File: 2.06 MB, 2448x3264, plebdom2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4804616 2/2

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 22 10:32:56 2014 No.4804646 >>4804194 Used to be in Tyler, moving closer to Commerce to work at the A&M branch there now. How about you?

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 22 10:45:38 2014 No.4804675 >>4804177 Switch Bitch was actually my favorite Dahl book. Made me chuckle many times. Fun was had.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 22 11:32:28 2014 No.4804759 >>4799139 I heard you guys were different from /mu/. After a couple of days on here you guys seem like you're possibly even bigger cunts

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 22 11:38:02 2014 No.4804771 >>4804616 Hairstyling/cosmetics student?

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 22 11:44:44 2014 No.4804781 >itt fags trying to look intellectual by posting their unread classics on a chinese cartoon image board >mfw you can see their weeaboo and brony shit I just remembered why I need to convert to eBooks

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 22 11:45:36 2014 No.4804783 >>4804771 Nope, I bought it to stick my headphones on. Her name is Tina.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 22 12:26:02 2014 No.4804884 >>4804646 I used live in Conroe before I went to go to school at the A&M outside of Amarillo.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 22 13:31:05 2014 No.4805081 >>4802244 >L'incal >La trilogie Nikopol Muy bien.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 22 13:35:34 2014 No.4805096 >>4805081 En realidad soy brasileño, pero estoy intentando volver a hablar (ó al menos recobrar lo que estudié en ensino fundamental) al español

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 22 13:37:16 2014 No.4805100 >>4800469 Shit's filled with errors. FILLED with them. Just get the regular Penguin edition instead.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 22 13:45:37 2014 No.4805139 File: 2.09 MB, 3264x2448, IMG_0578.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] eh?

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 22 13:53:49 2014 No.4805164 >>4804781 No one cares. Post (e-)book stash or get the fuck out.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 22 13:55:44 2014 No.4805172 >>4805139 Why did you use a potato to take a picture of your shelf?

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 22 13:58:11 2014 No.4805180 >>4805172 >>4805172 It was a problem with the upload, not the camera. I was highly disappointed myself.

Anonymous Tue Apr 22 14:40:35 2014 No.4805344

>>4799859
>>4799837
Different guy, but I've read it. It's not really anything like Infinite Jest in style but it's not trying to be. I like them both very much.

The Instructions isn't super literary, but it has some interesting pedantic Jewish philosophy bits. Mostly it's just really, really entertaining. I read the whole thing in about 4 days while holding a full-time job,

It takes a bit to get into, mostly because you have to get over the narrator being a precocious child, but it's worth it.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 22 16:52:05 2014 No.4805917 >>4804675 Switch Bitch was the book that got me into the adult Dahl. You got the one with the weird tits on the cover? Any further Dahls? Only read SB and My Uncle Oswald.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 22 20:51:01 2014 No.4806875 >>4804044 It's Hemmmmingway with, with 7 m's.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 22 20:53:25 2014 No.4806887 >>4803939 Give the Shakespeare to someone who isn't culturally dead already.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 22 21:48:51 2014 No.4807154 >>4798253 >Ayn Rand

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