/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.6186165]

ITT: we rate each other's shelve.

[Anonymous No.6186181]

>>6186165
Nice
mine looks like this
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[Anonymous No.6186211]

[Anonymous No.6186217]

>>6186211
top pleb

[Anonymous No.6186218]

>hurr durr hye guys i bought book

[Anonymous No.6186231]

>>6186217
whatever you say, gramps.

[Anonymous No.6186233]

>>6186165
>almost no books
>everything on the shelves is reddit-tier
nice troll thread

[Anonymous No.6186239]

where is your meme trilogy

[Anonymous No.6186242]

>>6186231
You don't even read.

[Anonymous No.6186243]

>>6186233
>no books
>reddit-tier

Dafuq?

[Anonymous No.6186251]

>>6186243
there is a pleb-tier book quantity

[Anonymous No.6186252]

>>6186251
Define pleb-tier.

[Anonymous No.6186253]

>>6186242
Bet I've read more than you grandpa

[Anonymous No.6186262]

Kindle atm.

[Anonymous No.6186267]

>>6186252
under 800 books

[Anonymous No.6186270]

>>6186262
How disgusting to approach literature as a "to do" list of items to check off.

[Anonymous No.6186278]

>>6186270
even worse that they're not even real books

[Anonymous No.6186280]

>>6186270
The green tick just means it's on my kindle, bro.

Calibre (the software) doesn't give an option to not have the ugly green tick there.

[Anonymous No.6186286]

>>6186278
grandpa what are you doing up so late and who showed you how to use the internet

[Anonymous No.6186287]

>>6186267
Okay, so not necessarily the content of books.

Well there is a shelf in my family's living room that I also read from so that explains it. I aim to fill my bedroom shelf up by the middle of this year.

[Anonymous No.6186292]

>>6186286
if you don't read real books you don't even read

[Anonymous No.6186296]

>>6186292
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman

[Anonymous No.6186297]

>>6186287
he means under 800 classics

[Anonymous No.6186300]

>>6186287
Not the content? I see a Star trek Novel, a book by Bill Bryson, AGOT and an encyclopedia of the 3. Reich. This can't be anything but a troll pic.

[Anonymous No.6186302]

>>6186292
grandpa please
just eat your applesauce and go to sleep before the nurse sees you up and calls me again

[Anonymous No.6186306]

>>6186296
>>6186302
anything to console yourselves in your plebdom

[Anonymous No.6186312]

>>6186300
whats wrong with bill bryson?

[Anonymous No.6186315]

>>6186306
...grandpa...

[Anonymous No.6186318]

>>6186312
you're so innocent it's cute

[Anonymous No.6186320]

>>6186165
>>>r/bookshelves

[Anonymous No.6186321]

>>6186217
>I liek da FEEL of books
>I liek da smell of paper and glue
>I need to show off the book I own and waste paper and shelf space
>I hate trees
You're the pleb, you reactionary faggot. Get with modern technology.

[Anonymous No.6186344]

>>6186321
have fun destroying your vision and greatly reduced retention

[Anonymous No.6186345]

>>6186344
>destroying your vision
>greatly reduced retention
[Citation needed]

[Anonymous No.6186358]

>>6186344
>>6186345
>inb4 ipad study with 25 person sample size

[Anonymous No.6186383]

>>6186318
>>6186312
There's nothing wrong with Bryson's book as an introduction to science. It won a couple of awards.

[kitty !kitty/EnNg No.6186385]

>>6186345
they are still far from the real paper though in the crispness and the contrast

[Anonymous No.6186390]

>>6186385
It's the whole film vs digital thing.

On the one hand you have a device that can store literally hundreds of books, including manga, holds weeks of charge and these days even come with backlights.

And on the other hand you have slightly crisper blacks, with the small downside of being physical objects, several hundred of which can dominate a room.

As someone who reads ebooks and still occasionally buys books (a lot of stuff I want to read literally isn't available as ebook) I definitely enjoy reading real books, but when I weight it up, I am not the poorer for my ebooks.

[Anonymous No.6186397]

It's easier to impress girls with a real book.

[Anonymous No.6186399]

>>6186165
Wow nice book shelf dude, wanna come over my house after school? I got razors we could cut ourselves with.

>>6186345
This guys knows whats up. The only down side is i dont like using pads in public, living in the 909 everyone looks at me like a rich white boy that deserves to be robbed.

[Anonymous No.6186402]

I haven't slept and I can't be productive right now, so why not.

Also I moved here 5 years ago and left my books at my parents' place + the usual thing were I gift away books, not like I have read many anyway.

On the ebook thing, I'm liking my kobo aura (not pictured)... and isn't the real deal the text in the end? it's not like ebooks have displaced printed ones and they are disappearing.

[Anonymous No.6186413]

>>6186402
Since when does having less than 40 books, most of them fiction, give someone bragging rights? I didn't think anyone could post one worse than OP's >>6186165 but there yours is.

[Anonymous No.6186417]

Why are shelfs posted here always so small?

Is it because

– most of the people on here are young people from US and therefore you recently moved away from home to a college city thousands of kilometres away into a room with 10 square meters?

– you choose just to present your favourite books, since you can not recognize more than a couple of dozens books in a single photo anyway?

– you guys are 17?

– you are plebs?

[Anonymous No.6186419]

>>6186413

you know how easy it is to shit on a kid this casual why even bother.

[Anonymous No.6186424]

>>6186417

you should have come to terms with the fact that these shelf threads are magnets for fashion readers a long time ago why are you trying to seem as new as they are lol.

[Anonymous No.6186426]

>>6186402
If you were a cute grill I'd date the fuck out of you.

[Anonymous No.6186429]

>>6186424

Well, on the image boards I am coming from they are not.

[Anonymous No.6186439]

>>6186419
'Twas but mild encouragement to fill his shelves with better books. He admitted himself, in his filename, that his shelf be shitty.

[Anonymous No.6186440]

>>6186315
You know back in the war they didn't even have kindles.

Use your paperwhite in a foxhole. See what happens.

[Anonymous No.6186441]

>>6186413
>>6186417
>I moved here 5 years ago and left my books at my parents' place + the usual thing were I gift away books
>[...] I'm liking my kobo aura

I thought shelf threads worked for commenting on random books that you spot on others' shelves, maybe recommendations, to see what other people might have read/are reading currently, etc.
I swer on me mum... and it's a slow board, this won't kill any interesting thread.

>>6186426
T-thanks

[Anonymous No.6186443]

>>6186417
Most of the people here are in their early 20s and don't have an expansive collection.

Some people rarely buy and just rent from libraries.

The rise of kindlefags, as you can see in this thread, would lead to smaller bookshelves.

Where's your several thousand dollar collection, encompassing 5 floor to ceiling bookshelves, faggot?

[Anonymous No.6186446]

>>6186441
Okay, I'll take an interest. Your copy of Macaulay's The Way Things Work and Wilde's Importance of Being Earnest both look jolly splendid. Be a doll and furnish us with publication information? Year printed? By whom? Cute story of how you got both? Additional photographs of the front covers?

Also, cool camera.

[Anonymous No.6186453]

>>6186443
>Where's your several thousand dollar collection, encompassing 5 floor to ceiling bookshelves, faggot?

Apparently in your ass considering how butthurt you are.

[Anonymous No.6186457]

>>6186453
nice1

[Anonymous No.6186473]

Top kek incoming

I'm not much of a fiction reader outside of plays.

[Anonymous No.6186488]

>>6186473
>The Inventions, Researches, and Writings of Nikola Tesla
Any good? Looks like a nice copy, too. When was it printed?

[Anonymous No.6186507]

>>6186488

Yeah, really nice edition. Partner's parents in America got it for me.

Edition info in the picture

[Anonymous No.6186545]

[Anonymous No.6186574]

>>6186545
tikhal my nigga

rip shulgin
rip amt

[Anonymous No.6186577]

>>6186574
fuck it shouts to strassman too

[Anonymous No.6186601]

>>6186402
Napalm Death fuck yeah

[Anonymous No.6186662]

>tfw i want to read original English uncensored books

[Anonymous No.6186664]

>>6186662

Ebooks?

[Anonymous No.6186669]

>>6186664
I don't like ebooks.

[Anonymous No.6186679]

>>6186662
where are you from. I've been to muslim countries where you could get uncensored English books.

[Anonymous No.6186681]

>>6186662
>TFW their books are in an outdated, ambiguous, inferior language.

[Anonymous No.6186687]

>>6186321
>I hate trees

No man. When you read a book, the tree's happy, cause it realizes there's life after death. :^)

[Anonymous No.6186696]

>>6186681
>The language of the best poets in the world.
>>6186664
Iran, it's hard to find and also too expansive.

[Anonymous No.6186703]

>>6186696
>The language of the best poets in the world.
He wrote in Scots (and some English).

[Anonymous No.6186744]

>>6186703
No, Omar Khayyam, Rumi, Hafez, Saadi,... wrote their poems in Persian.

[Anonymous No.6186766]

>>6186744
Yeah, the people you listed are internationally celebrated and have permeated the culture in so many ways. They even have public holidays in their honour. Yeah, you're right, way better than Burns.

[Anonymous No.6186771]

>>6186766

the pleb has been spotted

[Anonymous No.6186772]

>>6186766
Not even a poetry reader and even I heard of Omar Khayyam and Rumi m80, sorry

[Anonymous No.6186775]

>>6186703

>Burns
>best poets in the world

come on now ye wee heid the baw.

[Anonymous No.6186782]

>>6186744
Ha, when I was in Uni I lived with a guy from Iran. No matter what you asked him, someone from Iran, or someone persian invented it, or was the best in the world at it.

Iranians, according to him, invented: pizza, wine, philosophy, science, weight lifting, poetry, the written language, painting, democracy, oh and i could go on.
Not only that but some Iranian was, supposedly, well known --by anyone who knew what they were talking about-- to be the best in the world at that thing.

It was hilarious and endearing, but he was entirely serious; and that was very puzzling.

[Anonymous No.6186786]

>>6186772
Having heard of someone doesn't mean that that person is a good poet. When EVERYBODY has heard of them, there might be something in it. Whether you like Burns' poetry or not, you can't deny that he is one of the most renowned. And that ain't for nothin'.

>>6186775
>come on now ye wee heid the baw.
That doesn't even make sense, ya wee mad rocket.

[Anonymous No.6186789]

1/4

[Anonymous No.6186795]

>>6186789

[Anonymous No.6186799]

>>6186782
Iranians have a serious inferiority complex

[Anonymous No.6186801]

>>6186795

[Anonymous No.6186803]

>>6186801
4/4

[Anonymous No.6188194]

>>6186801
excellent

[Anonymous No.6188421]

>>6186402
Napalm death live 1988

[Anonymous No.6188619]

im a grill btw :^)

1/6

[Anonymous No.6188632]

>>6188619
2/6

[Anonymous No.6188640]

>>6188632
3/6

[Anonymous No.6188648]

>>6188619
>all those skulls

Where do you keep the rest of the bodies.

[Anonymous No.6188675]

>>6188648
Where do you keep the question mark? Up your ass?

[Anonymous No.6188676]

>>6188421
The combination with Atlas shrugged is awkward tho

[Anonymous No.6188680]

>>6188619
if ur a grill where are the tits?
checkmate atheists

[Anonymous No.6188690]

>>6186165
I've posted nine a couple times in these threads before
Never get a response
What do y'all think

[Anonymous No.6188691]

>>6188675

Do you really want to find out?

[Anonymous No.6188695]

>>6188640
4/6

[Anonymous No.6188696]

>>6188619
>>6188632
>>6188640
You have a good taste marry me please

[Anonymous No.6188708]

>>6186390
>manga

[Anonymous No.6188710]

>>6188695
>>6188696


Things start getting cheesy from here

[Anonymous No.6188714]

>>6188619
>those crystals
uhh what is with women and having shit-tier decorating skills

[Anonymous No.6188724]

>>6188710
And /lit/s faves

[Anonymous No.6188725]

>>6188619
penguins/10
books/10
black shelves/10
10/10
I wanna be your man

[Anonymous No.6188735]

>>6188714
They're pretty and I like rubbing the smooth surfaces in/around my skin.

[Anonymous No.6188736]

>>6188619
qt except for the palahniuck
>>6186662
the english alphabet is so ugly
>>6186402
you gotta branch out a bit my dude
>>6188690
could be pruned/ a good case for organizing books by height not author's name
otherwise ok, you have so much space!

[Anonymous No.6188741]

>>6186681
this is a pleb post, learn to apprecciate other languages asshole

[Anonymous No.6188756]

>>6188735

[Anonymous No.6188757]

>>6188724
Rant was good.

[Anonymous No.6188758]

>>6188696
>entry level literature
>chuck palahniuk
>good taste

[Anonymous No.6188759]

>>6188690
I was going to call you out on buying too many meme books, but then I saw handke and intruder in the dust

after that I was going to suggest you learn another language, but then I scrolled down

10/10 keep coming back

[Anonymous No.6188762]

>>6188756

[Anonymous No.6188772]

>>6186473
>penguin classics edition of either/or

you fucked up

[Anonymous No.6188775]

>>6188757
Rant was surprisingly good, and I read it well after my Palahniuk phase ended.

[Anonymous No.6188783]

>>6188640
> Spin

fuck yeah

[Anonymous No.6188799]

>>6188783
Super fun! Not the most eloquently written but def a joy to read. I have a soft spot for brain candy/escapism

[Anonymous No.6188807]

>>6188714
crystals are cool and nice to look at

every barren book shelf post by dudes is the most depressing thing i've ever seen

[Anonymous No.6188820]

>>6188695
>reasonably nice bookcase
>shitty wrecked paperbacks

why do this
why
why

[Anonymous No.6188849]

>>6188820
Second hand for 3$ that's why

Plus it's ikea furniture it isn't that nice lol

[Anonymous No.6188880]

>>6188676
Got it a few years ago when I first heard of her, couldn't read more than 100 pages but I haven't found anyone to give it to, and I don't like throwing books in the thrash.

>>6188736
I'm going through my english language stage, also I read but don't buy non-fiction, and all my uni books are in pdf form (thanks german uni system).

[Anonymous No.6188921]

>>6188820
>books are for looking at
get a load of this /fa/ggot

[Anonymous No.6189043]

>>6186687
Dude, that is the deepest shit I've read all day.
noice

[Anonymous No.6189172]

1/2
I renounce pocket paperbacks from here on out! Having nothing to do in college but visit thrift stores ruined me.

[Anonymous No.6189216]

>>6189172
How straight and linear your shelf is is great.

[Anonymous No.6189246]

>>6186703
>>6186696

>He was never a chaired bard
>He never wrote in the language of God
>He didn't follow in the footsteps of Aneirin, Taliesin, Gerallt and Dafydd ap Gwilym

[Anonymous No.6189347]

>>6189172
Whoops forgot 2/2. I also have Anna Karenina, The Divine Comedy, and The Three Musketeers shipping now (Everyman's Library)

>>6189216
Thanks! It took a while to find a way to organize the big shelf. There's a long piece of wood behind the pocket paperbacks to push them out farther since the books on top of them are larger. (And space for a 'secret' hiding place)

I haven't figured out how to achieve that same neatness with the second bookshelf, as textbooks don't appear to follow any sensible sizing scheme. In the past I would line up their spines so they stuck out the same distance, but I pull books off that shelf so frequently that it wasn't worth the effort.

[Anonymous No.6189528]

>>6186165
This looks awful and there aren't any books.

>>6186262
Is that how your Kindle displays them? I hate coverflow-esque organization, I'd rather have a text list of books. Not that any of that is your fault. Nice variety though.

>>6186402
You need to clean all that clutter off gross. Can't really judge your book selection except Kafka, can you read German fluently?

>>6186473
Someone buy this man a second bookshelf! Also Trainspotting awww shit. How's the Tesla book? I see it at B&N often but never took the plunge.

>>6186545
I bet that old Organic Chemistry book is hollowed out and has your LSD in it. I like your old Dostoevsky, though I'd be sad to give up current translations for them. Your Count of Monte Cristo looks abridged, for shame!

>>6186662
This is beyond me but they sure look cool.

>>6186803
So much philosophy. Doesn't that get to a point where you aren't philosophizing on your own and are just regurgitating prepared knowledge? This is my main fear with philosophy texts.

>>6188619
I'm guilty of a few popular science books too, but make sure you take some of their more profound comments with a grain of salt. They can do the math but when theoretical physicists explain hypotheses as fact they've overstepped their boundaries. Also you lost me with Astrology and Tarot.

>>6188690
Fuck you, I had to save your picture just to rotate it. You should consider organizing the top two shelves by size to make it lookcleaner. That said, I am enjoying the Everyman's Library. Did you take the dust sleeves off yours intentionally? And who translated that Les Miserables?
There, I think I got everyone now.

[Anonymous No.6189557]

>>6189528
>So much philosophy. Doesn't that get to a point where you aren't philosophizing on your own and are just regurgitating prepared knowledge? This is my main fear with philosophy texts.
Hmm. I've found the opposite to be true. What shapes the quality and quantity of our mental ruminations are largely habit and I consider what material one exposes themselves to as sort of 'ingredients for thought' -- meaning that the more one reads or has to work with, the wider your possible conception of things and the better able you are to philosophize.

[Anonymous No.6189741]

[Anonymous No.6189785]

>>6186165
That is one sad shelf dude. Clean out that top section and fill it with some fiction you actually like (as opposed to what /lit/ tells you too). Then go through the bottom 2 and separate your history and reference books into recognizable sections while pulling out those oversized hardcovers on the bottom left and sticking all your softcover fictions together.

Lastly, throw out the Star Trek book or hide it under your pillow or something. You can't let people see that kind of thing if you actually want to sleep with them.

[Anonymous No.6189815]

>>6189172
>>6189216
>>6189347

The fuck is it with those reddit replies? Also, could your bookshelf and taste be any more boring? Go get some taste kid and stop reading reddits recommended books.

[Anonymous No.6189827]

>>6188921
>get a load of this

are you from a 1960s sitcom or something? do you talk like that in real life?

[Anonymous No.6189837]

>>6189172
in that edition of sherlock holmes, does it have the Paget illustrations? what do the pictures in the Adventure of the Dancing Men look like?

[Anonymous No.6189846]

>>6189347
>(And space for a 'secret' hiding place)

totally stealing that idea

[Anonymous No.6189851]

>>6189827
>not recognising when someone speaks ironically
what are you doing on this site

[Anonymous No.6189891]

>>6189851
>what are you doing on this site

inspiring shitposters to reply, apparently

[Anonymous No.6190077]

>>6189741
>30+ volumes of that shitty quasi-fairy tail prequel shit
>1 volume of Gundam

What the fuck is wrong with you?

[Anonymous No.6190174]

>>6186270
Spoken like a true pleb

[Anonymous No.6190193]

>>6190077
implying its not better than fairy tail.

[Anonymous No.6190301]

1/2

[Anonymous No.6190302]

>>6190301
2/2

[Anonymous No.6190326]

1/1

[Anonymous No.6190336]

>>6190326

>you will one day own warehouse space

feels optimistic man

[Anonymous No.6190345]

>>6189528
>So much philosophy. Doesn't that get to a point where you aren't philosophizing on your own and are just regurgitating prepared knowledge? This is my main fear with philosophy texts.

I understand what you mean by this. Often when people read many of the same kind of material, they cease to exist as a critical reader, and simply expose themselves to the ideas on paper. If the reader can stay critical, there is no upper limits to the amount of philosophy one can read without becoming a drone.

[Anonymous No.6190396]

>>6186165
2/10 At least you have books?

>>6186402
2.5/10 Got an extra .5 for Wallace.

>>6186473
5.5/10 Not bad, missing a lot of essential sorts of literature, but your theory is there... even if it isn't as a holistic theoretical foundation.

>>6186803
5/10 Was going to give you a 6 or even a 6.5, but honestly the visual aesthetic of your lack of actual bookcase brought it down.

>>6188690
3/10 Stop going about your life so righteously and you might do something artistic for once.

>>6188724
5/10
The visual representation of your shelves and the uneven nature by which you arrange them is lacking. Also, you try to dable in the weird, but you are still far from leaving the shore.

>>6189347
7/10 Best yet, but far from anything amazing.

>>6190302
4.5/10
An ok start.

[Anonymous No.6190459]

[Anonymous No.6190512]

>>6189557
I can accept this with post >>6190345 as supplement. I am just very conscious when I am reading things like that to think hard about whether I agree with them or not, but it's difficult when it's about a topic I'm not very knowledgeable in to know if I'm not being drawn in to agree with the author just because of my blank slate.

[Anonymous No.6190668]

send help

[Anonymous No.6190672]

>>6190668
1.5/10

Do yourself a favor and preview a pic before uploading it.

[Anonymous No.6190673]

>>6190668
I can't tell what any of these books are but you need to stop buying paperbacks....

[Anonymous No.6190681]

>>6190668
you can find alcoholics anonymous in the phone book, anon

[Anonymous No.6190783]

>>6190672
reuploaded, s-s-s-sorry senpai

>>6190673
I literally can't stop

>>6190681
>Implying I don't want to die a slow death of liver failure surrounded by my books

[Anonymous No.6190814]

>>6190673
>being able to afford hardbacks
this pleb

[Anonymous No.6190841]

[Anonymous No.6190843]

>>6190841
>this monstrosity
I want to get off Mr Bones Wildride

[Anonymous No.6190847]

>>6190843
>not being a STEM genius

[Anonymous No.6190990]

top in the thread

[Anonymous No.6191010]

>>6190990
>he wears capeshit underwear

[Anonymous No.6191035]

>>6190990
>Dirty laundry next to shelf
>Outdated harvard classics translations
>former library books (probably stolen)
>dawkins
>best in thread

nice1 m8, cool axe though

[Anonymous No.6191061]

>>6191035
>>6191010
>living at your parent's home so you have enough space to not have your shit cramped together

poorfag studio masterrace, cunts

[Anonymous No.6191083]

[Anonymous No.6191530]

>>6191083
Pls
r8

[Anonymous No.6191538]

>>6191083
>>6191530
Decent. Better than some ITT.

[Anonymous No.6191541]

>>6191083

patrician christianity/10

[Anonymous No.6191548]

>>6191083
>>6191530

>Pls
>r8

desperate/10

na you know you're entry but it's a solid mix.

[Anonymous No.6191550]

>>6191541
>patrician christianity
You only think that because it is foreign to you.

[Anonymous No.6191556]

>>6186321
>being reactionary means that you hate technology
Thus it has come down to spouting uneducated opinions around here as of now, as opposed to well informed ones.

I prefer books though, but I read e-books too. I find it uncomfortable to read e-books tbh lad.

[Anonymous No.6191569]

>>6186321

>You're the pleb

Not that anon but if everything that you're after is available to you in ebook then you are literally too casual to even be voicing an opinion here, let alone throwing the word "pleb" around.

[Anonymous No.6191575]

>>6191550

I'm Greek Orthodox. That's why I think it.

[Anonymous No.6191576]

>>6191569
Name some books that aren't available electronically, then.
>>6191556
You hate progress.

[Anonymous No.6191581]

>>6191576

>Name some books that aren't available electronically, then.

Holy fuck it really is a lol dealing with this board sometimes.

[Anonymous No.6191583]

>>6191575
>I'm Greek Orthodox

[Anonymous No.6191587]

>>6191583

No, if I was from reddit, I'd be atheist.

[Anonymous No.6191591]

>>6191581
>I can't even name one
>enter damage control

[Anonymous No.6191616]

damn I miss my old collection. I had 4 floor to ceiling book shelves completely full, plus a few other half book shelves, and plenty of books stacked on top of each other everywhere. Most of them were organized by subject matter, and the fiction was organized by country. Basically all of the walls of my living room were covered in books. It felt like a library. I counted them once at it was just over 2000 books. Half of those were library books. Yes, I had 1000 library books checked out at one point. Even though I was just an undergraduate. I had graduate student borrowing privileges which I meant I could take out as many things as I wanted to to and keep them for as long as I wanted to. So I rarely brought any books back, I just kept them and kept renewing them.

Then I finally had to graduate and return all the books, which was an absolutely miserable process, having to lug over 1000 mostly hardback books to the library definitely gave my arms a work out.

I ended up moving out of that apartment back into my parents place (which seems to have almost no bookshelves) because it's hard to find a job as an English graduate. I sold the majority of the books I had to make some money and only kept my essentials. It feels good to pare down your book collection, but I do miss having a nice little library to call my own. At the moment most of my books are lined up on the floor in my basement.

Like I said I wish I had pictures ;_;

[Anonymous No.6191619]

>>6191083
>>6191530
What's there to rate?
That's only 23 books. Are those seriously all the books you own?

[Anonymous No.6191621]

>>6191575
>not being roman catholic

[Anonymous No.6191634]

>>6191591

>tourist making tourist post

lol go back to /r/books

[Anonymous No.6191635]

>>6191621

I don't agree with papal supremacy or the filioque. I agree very much with deification and hesychasm, so it's the obvious choice for me.

I read a lot of Catholic writers, but the church itself has too intellectualized belief. Catholicism doesn't have the mystic tradition that Orthodoxy has.

[Anonymous No.6191636]

>>6191616
Your livingroom must have been tiny if 2000 books filled it. I have about 500 books and they only take up half a cupboard and a four-shelf unit.

[Anonymous No.6191638]

>>6191621

>religion

embarrassing

[Anonymous No.6191641]

>>6191634
So you can't even name one? How sad. You're the rebbitor, they seem to like paper books, especially hardbacks.

[Anonymous No.6191658]

>>6191635
>Catholicism doesn't have the mystic tradition that Orthodoxy has.

John of the Cross
St. Theresa Avila
St. Ignatius Loyola
St.Francis De Sales
St. Francis Assisi

[Anonymous No.6191659]

>>6191636
It was tiny. I lived in a little 1 bdrm apartment in a six flat. It sure was cozy though, especially in winter because it was the only room the furnace was in. In one corner was the back door. My desk was also in the living room. In one corner the TV. In the middle a love seat where I fucked plenty of girls. In another corner the furnace and entrance to my kitchen. The rest was literally all bookshelves.

>>6191638
*tips fedora*

[Anonymous No.6191660]

>>6191576
>>6191591
>>6191641
Jesus christ, anon, surely you don't think every worthwhile text is available electronically, do you? Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky's "Memories of the Future" is the most recent one I could only find in physical form.

[Anonymous No.6191662]

>>6191659

>I don't worship skygods
>I'm a fedora tipper

yikes
/lit/ gets more retarded every year

[Anonymous No.6191667]

>>6191641

lol why are you still trying just read more

[Anonymous No.6191669]

>>6191658

I never said it doesn't have a mystic tradition, I just said it doesn't have the tradition that Orthodoxy has. I read all of them. I also read Quakers and Calvinists.

I could just never be a Catholic because I disagree with too many Catholic beliefs. Orthodoxy is closest to how I interpret Christianity.

[Anonymous No.6191680]

pleb

[Anonymous No.6191681]

>>6191660
>reading fiction

[Anonymous No.6191691]

>>6191681

>not exclusively reading fiction

[Anonymous No.6191693]

>>6191680

I don't get these photos. There's always a few bookshelves in these threads where some guy has car wax or some other weird shit on his bookshelf. What the fuck. Don't you have cupboards somewhere for that?

[Anonymous No.6191698]

>>6191691
That guy's so stupid he doesn't know that glasses are supposed to go over the EYES. HE probably only reads fiction.

[Anonymous No.6191700]

>>6191691
>thinking you can learn anything scientific from fiction
>thinking fiction is necessary for relaying information

[Anonymous No.6191703]

>>6191693
They're full

[Anonymous No.6191707]

>>6191700

Information is a waste of time, STEMfag. You read to experience beauty. For art's sake.

[Anonymous No.6191710]

>>6191707
Enjoy being a retard, caring about what you think is pretty. I'll be off exploring the universe.

[Anonymous No.6191717]

>>6191710
What if I think highly functional space craft designs are beautiful?

[Anonymous No.6191720]

>>6191717
You'd be too stupid to build one.

[Anonymous No.6191723]

>>6191710

In your head. You have no friends to relay that information to. And then you die. Wow, what a great use of time.

[Anonymous No.6191724]

>>6191710
>I'll be off exploring the universe.


lel, the best you can expect is to be working as part of a team trying to make soap powder more efficient. The likely outcome of a STEM degree is, however, that you'll be competing for the same cubicle farm jobs that liberal arts graduates are chasing.

http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2014/09/15/stem-graduates-cant-find-jobs

Honeslty, university is pretty much a waste of time for the majority of people these days. I'm so glad I went years ago when you didn't have to pay.

Modern languages is probably the best option - at least you get a year abroad.

[Anonymous No.6191728]

>>6186181
Underappreciated post

[Anonymous No.6191729]

>>6191723
>friends
I have peers.
>>6191724
>usnews
Fuck off, burgerclap.

[Anonymous No.6191730]

>>6186181
Sick nasty!

[Anonymous No.6191734]

>>6191710

your whole life is led by narrative and you're too much of a simple simon ass motherfucker to come to terms with it. it is literally evinced in your "exploring" line lol.

[Anonymous No.6191735]

>>6191707
>information is a waste of time
>read to experience beauty
>Art
>2015
This guys denser than pic related.

BOJANGLES

[Anonymous No.6191736]

>>6191734
>your whole life is led by narrative
[citation needed]
>simple simon ass motherfucker
What does that mean? That I am simple, my name is Simon, I have an 'ass', I assume you mean arse, and that I fuck mothers. Because only one of those statements is true, unless you mean a donkey when you say ass, in which case none are true.

[Anonymous No.6191737]

>>6191735
>that pic
>dense

That's why you're in STEM. Cause you don't know art.

[Anonymous No.6191738]

>>6191724
After one year of studying electrical engineering, I have a job in the space industry.

I'm this guy >>6191717 btw. Not the angry STEM boy

[Anonymous No.6191741]

>>6191737
Enjoy mopping floors, Art.

[Anonymous No.6191746]

>>6191729
>Fuck off, burgerclap.

hehe - first thing off the gogle m8, I'm not a burger.

I used to work in the oil business and I saw a lot of peoplle with engineering degrees and math degrees come to work in the Buying Department or in the IT dept to get a foot in the door because they couldn't find work int heir fields. They ended up staying for years, just like the arts grads who took the job just to make ends meet.

Teaching chemistry in a high school is often the best STEM grads can do as well. I don't understand why people seem to think there are unlimited engineering and science jobs out there and that everyone who gets a 2:2 in maths and computer science is the next Richard Feynman.

http://www.bbc.com/news/education-24707507

Srs - modern languages. you get a year in France or Japan or wherever sipping coffee and pretending you're all intellectual, it looks good on your CV, and you get something to talk about later.

[Anonymous No.6191750]

>>6191741

I don't live in the third world, so it's not a problem. Electricians where I live probably make more money than you ever will.

[Anonymous No.6191753]

>>6191746
>sipping coffee
Coffee is for brown people.

[Anonymous No.6191754]

>>6191724
>thread is full of people saying how great e-readers are
>thread is posted on a website, read by people on computers, phones, tablets etc

>lol @ ur science

[Anonymous No.6191756]

>>6191750
Electricians can make a lot of money, though.

[Anonymous No.6191757]

>>6191738
>After one year of studying electrical engineering, I have a job in the space industry.

After getting a Spanish and Portuguese degree, being a lecturer and then a translator, my missus drifted about a bit and now she's a director at the ESA. So what?

[Anonymous No.6191758]

>>6191753

That's one of the stupider things I've read on 4chan, which is saying something.

Then again, I'm quite dark-skinned I guess, so maybe you're onto something.

[Anonymous No.6191768]

>>6191758
>that's stupid
>i agree with you

kektron 9000

[Anonymous No.6191782]

>>6191757
Just saying that STEM pays off. At least if you don't live in the 3.world (USA)

[Anonymous No.6191787]

This board has really gone down the shitter...

[Anonymous No.6191792]

>>6191737
Cause I dont want to know art as its easy and pretentious.

[Anonymous No.6192174]

Incoming shitshelf 1/5

[Anonymous No.6192179]

2/5

[Anonymous No.6192185]

3/5

[Anonymous No.6192188]

4/5

[Anonymous No.6192191]

5/5

[Anonymous No.6192280]

>>6192174
>tao lin
>john green
>palahniuk
>bukowski

[Anonymous No.6192349]

Let's do this

1/4

[Anonymous No.6192356]

Look at my booooks
2/4

[Anonymous No.6192362]

It doesn't stop
3/4

[Anonymous No.6192370]

I am sooo smart
4/4

[Anonymous No.6192378]

>>6192370
Where are you from? What's your first language?

[Anonymous No.6192383]

>>6192349

I appreciate all the perfumes on top of 1000 nudes.
Otherwise, I can't read much German, or any Russian, so I can't comment on taste...

[Anonymous No.6192401]

>>6192378
Living in Germany for about 10 years now
Born in a big city in Russia

[Anonymous No.6192453]

>>6192362

Why is 1984 in English but Great Gatsby in German? Nice collection nevertheless.

Here's mine.

[Anonymous No.6192470]

>>6192453
You're a special guy, aren't you?
Why are all your books upside down?
What's with the psychology and nazi books?

[Anonymous No.6192472]

>>6192453
I read 1984 in English class, Gatsby in my leisure time

What's your fascination with the 3rd Reich? And have your read Zizek's introduction to Lacan? Any good?

[Anonymous No.6192499]

>>6186218
I like these threads for seeing the kinds of shelves people have and how they organize their books and room. The couldn't care less about the actual books.

[Anonymous No.6192544]

>>6192470

Everyone is special in their own way anon :^) it's just the way the picture is taken.

>>6192472

It's a topic in history which has always fascinated me; the how but especially the why. There's one book there (The Nazi Doctors) which makes a very interesting bridge between concentration camp staff and psychology which really got my into the psychological/sociological aspect of it all. I'm considering writing my master thesis on totalitarian education.

>And have your read Zizek's introduction to Lacan?

I should have but instead I read Lionel Bailly's intro guide which I thought was very clear.

[Anonymous No.6192547]

>>6186181
under satiated roast

[Anonymous No.6192564]

>>6192453
>no religious texts

[Anonymous No.6192578]

>>6192453
nice fucking shelf

[Anonymous No.6192581]

>>6192453
I enjoyed reading Lifton's The Nazi Doctors

[Anonymous No.6192589]

I don't own any books

[Anonymous No.6192889]

[Anonymous No.6192935]

[Anonymous No.6192943]

>>6192935
Literally junk. I would have to get rid of all of that.

[Anonymous No.6192946]

>>6192935
picture of fish swimming around a hook.jpg

[Anonymous No.6192961]

>>6192889

How come your edition of Anna Karenina is so fucking big ? I mean mine is 928 pages in pocket format

[Anonymous No.6192963]

>>6192946
Don't hate, rate! :^)

[Anonymous No.6192968]

>>6192961

Its not, the cover is just fucking huge for some reason.

[Anonymous No.6192989]

>>6192963
oh ok. in that case, 8FA060/C7D4

[Anonymous No.6193007]

>>6192280

what's wrong with Lin and Bukowski? Don't like realism? I'm not a huge Bukowski fan but I definately wouldn't judge somebody else for enjoying him

[Anonymous No.6193011]

>>6186545
Do you only buy used books and records?

[Anonymous No.6193031]

I just sold all my book that could be sold..

[Anonymous No.6193504]

>>6191619
I have ~10 I have to read for uni with me in my dorm. The rest about 1k books in the house are in my native language.

[Anonymous No.6193609]

>>6191737
>>6191707
I hope you aren't generalizing all STEM majors this way. There are people in this thread who clearly like fiction and art AND science. Some people are definitely only wired one way though.

[Anonymous No.6193790]

>>6186211
Man, it's somehow sad

[Anonymous No.6193860]

>>6190512
I know it's a meme, but that's why you start with the greeks. Start from the clay that went into making the bricks, which constructed the mightiest of buildings.

[Anonymous No.6194015]

>>6189528
>Is that how your Kindle displays them?
No, it's one option in calibre, a windows program I use to organise my ebooks, add/remove from my kindle, convert etc.

[Anonymous No.6194111]

>>6188690 here

>>6189528
>did you take off the dust covers intentionally
Nah i buy used and.sometimes they dont come with any. I would have to be such a cuck to pay $20+ for a book
>les mis author
Charles E Wilbour
Did i do good?

[Anonymous No.6194127]

>>6194111
>Charles E Wilbour
Oh I was just curious because the translation I just read seemed to be fairly liberal, and I want a hardback of Les Mis. (It was the Julie Rose one). I like Pevear and Volokhonsky for Russian when available, but don't have enough exposure to French translators yet.

And yea, I feel you on the used hardbacks. I just hold off from used paperbacks because that shit adds up fast.

[Anonymous No.6194132]

>>6186165
But i don't keep my books on a shelf, I have piles of books scattered around the floor

[Anonymous No.6194157]

>>6190841
Man, the biggest reason for me still browsing bookshelves are you and the brazilian guy with green walls who always go full defense mode when people mock him, love ya both

[Anonymous No.6194189]

>>6194132
post pls, I wanna see /lit/ go buttmad

[Anonymous No.6194268]

>late for the party as usual

[Anonymous No.6194440]

>>6194189
I mean it's a clean wooden floor and they're mostly softcover anyway so who gives a shit?

[Anonymous No.6194760]

Most people have small as shit collections, kinda dissapointed.

>>6194268
Neat stuff. I take it you're Brazilian and know Spanish as wel, right?

[Anonymous No.6194777]

>>6194268
is that Bowie book from the V&A exhibition from a year or two ago? that exhibition was fucking awesome. i went about four times.

[Anonymous No.6194787]

>>6194760
Yup, and been (very slowly) studying italian and french, mostly through comics (or I could be a cunt and say mostly through fumetti / bandes desinées)

[Anonymous No.6194817]

>>6194777
Yes, but the exhibition never came to my town, but judging from the book, it was indeed awesome, and the book is beautiful, it even smells better than most of my other books.

[Anonymous No.6194984]

>>6193011
no

[Anonymous No.6195032]

>>6186545
Friendly advice: Get some plastic crates or something and distribute those records.

Put them in a similar configuration to this beautiful drawing, it'll wear them less and decrease the risk of bending

[Anonymous No.6195186]

>>6194440
/lit/ does, once a guy got mad at me because there was a small pot with water and paint near my books

[Anonymous No.6195197]

>>6191083
>orthodoxy/10