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Bookshelf thread. Post/rate. You know the drill.

>> No.5875392

while I approve of the angling of his photo, OP remains a faggot

>> No.5875422
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>>5875392

No no no no, let me show you what a faggot looks like...

>> No.5875424

>>5875422

...and now, the reference library.

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>>5875424

>> No.5875430
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Here's one section of it taken with my shitty iPad camera.

>> No.5875437

>>5875430
i fucking hate that publication of the Recognitions, the font is blurry and shit.

>> No.5875442

>>5875437
You are correct. The outside is nice though...

>> No.5875453
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>>5875388
My library is larger than anyone's here

>> No.5875456

>>5875437
at least it's the shorter version
mine's an inch unnecessarily taller

>> No.5875458

>>5875428
I hate the decor, I hate bookshelf threads and I hate the idea of someone who would post their bookshelf. That said, your shit is pretty based. Dat Max Ernst.

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>>5875437

Blurry? Did the Dalkey archive have a stroke? What'd they do, reprint a lo-res scan of the Penguin edition?

Speaking of: I so, so, so want a hardback copy. The cover design of the Penguin ed. is hands-down the ugliest item in my entire library.

>> No.5875465

>>5875463
it looks screenprinted rather than inkjet

>> No.5875472

>>5875463
Mine just looks kind of smudged, not the worst I've seen. I just read the vintage edition of Suttree and it looked pretty similar.

>> No.5875489

>>5875422
I wasn't appraising his bookshelf, I was calling him a faggot, faggot.

>> No.5875602
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>> No.5875604

>>5875602
>all this king
>the god delusion
>all of this journeyman psychology and philosophy

you may want to consider turning your life around

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Tourist to /lit/ here, how's mine?

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>>5875616
and the not sideways version

>> No.5875639

>>5875620
bookshelf threads aren't about showing off, they're about engaging with the tastes of others and perhaps learning something or coming away with some ideas for reading material in the future. you don't need two pictures.

>> No.5875646

>>5875604
I just put every book I read on there. I used to read a lot of King.

>> No.5875652

>>5875646
I'm not against a reader having fun reading, I just warn against the dangers of having a literary sweet-tooth.

It's not like I'm a master patrician or anything.

>> No.5875656

>>5875652
What are those dangers?

>> No.5875658

>>5875639
fair enough,

and the two pics was just me feeling the need to make it the right way up

>> No.5875693

>>5875658
I don't want to hurt your feelings, anon. pls stay on the board and become more than a tourist.

>> No.5875794
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1/?

General fiction/lit, poorly sorted, a lot of it (~75%) unread.

>> No.5875799
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>>5875794
2/?

old OUP classic Trollope, misc old stuff and two books on Byzantine art I don't have space for elsewhere.

Read a couple of Trollopes and don't intend to read more anytime soon, so this is largely a dead shelf.

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>>5875799
3/?
Start of Penguin Classics. Read a reasonable number of this first lot, fewer in the next picture though.

If I see a penguin classic second hand for under £1 that I don't have I tend to just buy it on the basis I might want to read it one day. Then I end up with duplicates across editions as a couple of relatives buy from for me if they see them in charity shops as well.

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>>5875804
4/?
More classics. Read lots of the classical stuff, not touched much in 15th–20th C though. Again, charity shop automatic purchases. >muh materialism

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>>5875812
eh, forgot the return for green text

5/?
Anyway, old OUP Classics, double stacked, double shelves. Got the lot cheap at the end of a book sale.

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>>5875819
6/?
Misc old sfi fi from my teens, shelved double depth.

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>>5875823
Military history/WW2 and misc ref, again mostly from my teens.

(box in middle to keep books up and reduce weight, shelf bends a lot if full)

>> No.5875828
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>>5875826
8/?

More military/ancient history

>> No.5875829

>>5875812
I like the look of the orange and white Penguin books the best. I only have one, though, Lolita. (>>5875602)

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>>5875828
9/?

ref/misc phil

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>>5875830
10/?
more of the same, bleeding into general fiction overflow.

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>>5875833
11/?
printing history/typography/graphics

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>>5875840
More printing history/typography/graphics

Forgot to pic shelf at bottom, overflow mix of fiction, printing history/type and military history/fiction.

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>>5875843
13/?
Additional printing history/typography/graphics

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>>5875847
14/14
Last lot of printing history/typography/graphics, except maybe another 20 book on the same subject that are in a box somewhere, and a few I have out for active use.

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>>5875388
My book/manga shelf.
Manga is from younger days, books are mostly patrician.

>> No.5875883

>>5875463

omglol

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>>5875616
>>5875620
Used to have that exact same Hellboy comic. Feels nostalgic looking at it. Good luck in middle school, anon!

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My favorites.

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>>5875940
>>5875940
Oh boy you sure showed him how much of a child he is while posting this completely innovative and adult piece of art

>> No.5875975

>>5875964
I saw that copy of Underworld new at a bookstore for $5 today. Good value? I am poor.

>> No.5875982

>>5875975
Obviously yes, that's "good value". Though you can probably notice how my copy appears bent, which to me is highly annoying, and indelible in that printing, probably. The library works too.

>> No.5875986

>>5875863
Manga? Anon, molim te.

>> No.5875990

>>5875982
I'll probably just not buy this book and then also never read it, to be honest

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>>5875964
Cool shit, want to read Delillo's Underworld, always gets praised in here, also can't find a good edition of Moby Dick in amazon, i think i'll just buy a brasilian version from Cosac Naify that also looks great

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r8 h8 masterb8

1/3

My copy of Suttree is with a friend.

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2/3

Also, my copy of Brothers Karamazov is at work, as I'm currently reading it.

My bookshelf is pretty messy. I need to clean it.

>> No.5876014

>>5875992
why Orwell in Spanish? is that what I'm seeing on that shelf there? is the pink one at least Homage to Catalonia?

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3/3
Bottom shelf is all genre fiction. A lot aren't there because they're next to my bed. Genre fiction is something I comfortably read to go to sleep. Pet Sematary and Jurassic Park and a Harlan Ellison collection is next to my bed ATM.

>> No.5876019

>>5876014
It's portuguese, 1984 and Keep the Aspiridista Flying, also have Animal Farm but its in another shelf, bought it when i was 14, my english wasnt great back then and i Amazon wasnt a huge thing yet (at least not in Brazil)

>> No.5876025

>>5876019
I'm jealous of you for your beautiful mother tongue even if more works have been written in mine. I actually ate at a Brazilian restaurant in Chicago where I live yesterday, it was nice to hear some spoken Portuguese in real life.

>> No.5876053

>>5876025
Yeah portuguese is a cool language, too bad people who arent native speakers cant get rid of accent, unlike some people can when speaking english, also, it's a pretty hard language to learn, full of no sense accentuation and rules but overall i'm happy i know it, there's some pretty great literature from Brazil/Portugal, our poetry is godlike, too bad i cant enjoy poetry as much as i enjoy novellas at all

>> No.5876055

>>5876025
Not a huge fan o brazilian food tho, we just put fucking onions and garlic (garlic is a'ight, not a fan of onions tho) in everything + beans and rice.
Italian food best food

>> No.5876061

>>5876055
I had a rice bowl with Brazilian sausage and black beans and vegetables, but that strange white bottle of onion/garlic hot sauce wasn't quite doing it for me

>>5876053
I wrote down in my notes your suggestion of Pessoa from that other thread. I've been wondering about Portuguese lit for the past few weeks

>> No.5876086

>>5875794
You've got a hell of a collection and at least you're honest about how much of it you've actually managed to read, but why the fuck are you hoarding pringles cans?

>> No.5876094

>>5876086
looks like a structural integrity solution to me. just happens to be the exact size necessary to shore up the middle of the shelf?

>> No.5876199

>>5876086
>>5876094
>why the fuck are you hoarding pringles cans?
they're what's holding the shelf up

>> No.5876289

>>5875992
Onde comprou esses livros em inglês, anão? Foi muito caro?

>> No.5876295

>>5876025
Portuguese is fucking ugly. It sounds like a Russian trying to speak Spanish.

>> No.5876339

>>5876094
>>5876199

O lol. I feel silly

>> No.5876370

>>5876295
it's the >ao

>> No.5876564

>>5875986
Same shelf.
And I like the pictures.
And I don't have enough books yet to fill everything...

>> No.5876571

>>5875388
You seriously need to get Chomsky off of Kant, it is an insult to Kant.

>> No.5876576

>>5875422
Literally pleb.

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>>5875602

>> No.5876785

>>5876289
Amazon.
Paid 65 bucks for Lolita + TBK + Blood Meridian + V.
Can't remember how much it costed IJ + Consider the lobster.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep was bought in Livraria Cultura tho.
Amazon is the best thing on earth, it took them exactly only 1 week to deliver my books, most brazilian libraries take more than that

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>> No.5876799

>>5875430
post picture of those Borges books.

>> No.5876800

>>5876785
65 dólares ou reais? Usou cartão de crédito internacional para realizar a compra?

Eu estou realmente interessado em comprar livros importados, anão, sai bem mais barato. Até agora só comprei alguns que a Saraiva vende e demorou demais para eles chegarem a mim.

>> No.5876806

>>5875887

>that ash

Clean her, please.

>> No.5876810

>>5875463
i have that version
it's awesome

>> No.5876817
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>>5876799
FOR YOU

>> No.5876835

>>5876817
sexy

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>>5876835
*sensually removes covers*

heyyy

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>>5876858

>> No.5876883

>>5876872

u want more bby?

>> No.5876903

>>5876883
y-yes please

>> No.5876908
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R8 my setup

>> No.5876915

>>5876908

>watermark
>the pure laziness

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>>5876903
oh fuck oh yeah ooohwww

>> No.5876921

>>5876915
That's my carpet

>> No.5876923

>>5875428
Lol Arcana

>> No.5876930

>>5876919
I'm getting genuinely aroused. I think it's time to sleep.

Night, internet friends! I'll see you tomorrow. *u*

>> No.5876931

>>5876919
Goddamit I have the paperbacks. I'm so jealous now. Let's get a little kinky for the next pic.

>> No.5876941

>>5876930

Die in your sleep, Trip.

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>>5876931
alright baby last one just for you ;)

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>>5876958
too kinky

>> No.5876968

>>5876962

you can never be too kinky >:3

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>>5875430
>>5876799
>>5876817
>>5876835
>>5876858
>>5876872
>>5876883
>>5876903
>>5876919
This whole post chain
This whole post chain

>> No.5876977

>>5876972
So nice, I had to say it twice.

>> No.5876994

>>5876968
Yeah, who am I kidding. I'm into some weird shit

>> No.5877001

>>5876972
I have a simultaneous sense of shame and satisfaction for posting those pictures.

>> No.5877295

>>5876817
>translations

filthy gringo

>> No.5877303

>>5877001
So it's like having sex?

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this got me tons of hate last time around, let's do it again.

>> No.5877341

>>5877332
can you do me a favor and show me the typeface of The Road? and Life of Pi? thx

>> No.5877344

>>5877332

>pikachu and comic books

Maybe come back here when you're done with junior high?

>> No.5877347

>>5875639
>bookshelf threads aren't about showing off
are you fucking serious.

>> No.5877355

>>5877344
You must be tons of fun at parties.

>> No.5877504

>>5877355

I totally am not.

>> No.5877535

>>5877332
pikachuuuu
PEEKACHOOOOOOO

>> No.5877625
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>>5875964
>Miss Lonelyhearts and Kafka's short fiction

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>>5875453

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Short stories

>> No.5877753

>>5876800
Dolares, sim usei cartão de crédito internacional, mas eles aceitam Paypal que dá pra usar CC nacional.

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some novels then poetry.

Right now I'm reading Almost Transparent Blue

>> No.5877790

>>5876800
Bookdepository é melhor, demora mais mas enviam de graça, e os preços são praticamente os mesmos da amazon (salvo exceções)

>> No.5877868

>>5877790
Os preços NUNCA são os mesmos, amazon é 95% das vezes mais barato, a não ser que você esteja procurando um clássico que a penguin vende, que ai normalmente dá.
Amazon é definitivamente melhor, foi-se o tempo de que BookDepository valia a pena.

>> No.5877879

>>5875964

my man of color

>> No.5877981

>>5875453
>>>5877668
No, not mine :-)

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happy holidays

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>>5876972
happy holidays

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>>5878311
>.jpg
>not .png

>> No.5878379

>>5875388
cool anarchist (?)/10

>> No.5878862

>>5877778
>all those meme books /lit/ tricked you into buying

What are you doing with your life, anon?

>> No.5879026

>>5878862
Some of those books are legitimately good.

>> No.5879041

>>5875863
>Claymore

My nigga, good taste.

>> No.5879045

>>5878862
>IJ
>Catch 22
>Hamlet
>Odissey
>The Stranger
>Virginia Wolfe
>Joyce
>Nabokov
>meme
I want /mu/ to leave, you alredy ruined /mu/ for me, please dont ruin /lit/

>> No.5879051

>>5875428
You must like art..

>> No.5879618

Why does we get interest about bookshelf of strange people? I could pass all day viewing this shit

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IJ, Smuggler's Bible, Satanic Verses, Bleeding Edge unread books under JR unread Neechee unread Ulysses unread

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99 internets to whoever can guess is my muh precious

>> No.5879758

>>5879045
i'm sure they were only talking about IJ and tao lin, friend. were you tricked into reading (and enjoying) IJ?

>> No.5879764 [DELETED] 

>>5879755
whomever

sweet jesus that's embarassing

>> No.5879770

>>5875964
My nigga!!!

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99 internets to whomever can guess which one is muh precious

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>> No.5879803

>>5879788
Man Morals and Dogma is fucking tough to find

>> No.5879805

>>5879788
The First Edition of Catcher in the Rye

>> No.5879814

>>5879803

Estate sales are your best bet, before the scavengers get there. If I remember correctly, I found this one at a Salvation Army in CA, if you can believe that. $3.

>> No.5879821

>>5879805

Good guess, but it's not a legit First Edition. Sucks too, because it was a gift from my favorite aunt (RIP) who thought she'd scored. Even worse, I tore the cover when unwrapping it.

>> No.5879831

>>5875887
proper usage of an ebook
ashtray

>> No.5879841

>>5875388
Liberal arts education

vs

>>5879804
NEET

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fucking plebz.
Patrician coming through.

1/2

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>>5879861
2/2

>> No.5879867

>>5879788
>>5879805
>>5879821

Then it's rather...Heart of the West....or...


...For Whom the Bells Toll....or...


...Confederacy of Dunces....

and god please...please..do not let it be....the shit tier Hobbit or Leaves of Grass.

>> No.5879873

>>5879638
want/10

>> No.5879885

>>5879861
>patrician
>solely lit-core trash
whose the real pleb

>> No.5879897

>>5879638
...and yet you wear baseball caps and collect toy Pokemons.

>> No.5879930

>>5879867
>shit-tier

bu, buh, but muh gilt-edged pages!

It's a trick question, I'm afraid. There's no way to read the title, so unless you know what you're looking at, there's no way to name it. But you get 98 internets because, by all rights, it should be the first edition Bell Tolls.

>> No.5879934

>>5879885
>implying you can even read some of the titles
fuck off, monolingual pleb.

>> No.5879939

>>5879897
Those are -really- old pokemon toys. The hats/pins are from music festivals.

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>>5879939
>Those are -really- old pokemon toys.

The girls will totally care. A sigh of relief, even.

>> No.5879972

>>5879964
I'm not going to post about my fake life but your comment is quite irrelevant. If you'd like you could refer to
>The hats are from music festivals

>> No.5880057

>>5879972
>implying only cool people are allowed to buy tickets to see bands play in an open field

Do you tell the girls you bring home which Pokemon is your favourite?

>> No.5880063

>>5880057
Post shelf/10

>> No.5880102

>>5879972
>>5880057
>>5880063
>fighting over bookshelves instead of enriching
>mfw everyday I'm enriching
>mfw bitches melange a trois with my enriched brain
feels good mane

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>>5880102
>Ayy lmao

Post shelf. Y derail OPs amazing thread, guy?

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>>5880115
got some more books on the bottom shelf

>> No.5880239

>>5880206
>>5880115
someone make fun of my stupid bookshelf+awful taste in books please

>> No.5880248

>>5880239
Your bookshelf is stupid and your taste in books is aweful.

>> No.5880257

>>5880239

>Carl Sagan
>"WuTang Manual"
>Thailand in the 80s
>Suspicious tin box

you dun goofed.

>> No.5880359

>>5875794
Nice collection!

>> No.5880586

>>5879788
the only one that's horizontal

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>>5880586

That one is an old religious primer, but nothing special to me. Muh precious is the thin white volume on the the shelf below it, pulled slightly forward. It's an 1881 illustrated edition of "The Bells" by Poe, published by Porter & Coates in my hometown of Philadelphia (first edition in book form, I believe). Not a great poem, but among the first I remember really liking as child and a really beautiful book.

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I think I have the most Wolfe here. I have other books, not pictured, but most of my nice folio editions are in this shot.

>> No.5881081

I'm noticing that only a few people have a solid number of works published before 1900 (outside of the usual suspects of Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Moby-Dick, Shakespeare).

>> No.5881128

>>5878862

list more meme books so I can add them to my shelf

>> No.5881191

>>5880859

Them Gormenghast books are beautiful, I'd love to have those.

>> No.5881427

>>5880859
You would probably know: I'm almost done with Book of the New Sun, really enjoyed it. Should I read Urth of the New Sun or Book of the Long Sun next?

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>no comments on your shelf

>> No.5882904

>>5881427
I suggest you re-read New Sun before you make any purchases because it can't really be properly appreciated with a single reading. As to what next, Urth basically answers many of the riddles of New Sun, and is told again from the perspective of Severian, whilst Long Sun is a new, and in my opinion inferior work which is simply set in the same universe. I emphasise universe because it is not set upon Urth. I didn't enjoy either of the works nearly as much as New Sun in all honesty; my favourite Wolfe novel following New Sun would probably be Peace, which I haven't even finished reading yet. As to his series, I'm not enough of a historian to really enjoy Soldier of the Mist, but I really enjoyed parts of The Wizard Knight, so I suppose I recommend that next if you want to get a series.

>> No.5882909

>>5881191
Thank you, they were a present I was very grateful for

>> No.5884032

>>5875794
hav u read cloud atlas