BOOK SHELF THREAD

[Anonymous No.6233969]

DAILY REMINDER YOU'LL NEVER BE THIS PATRICIAN, STAY PLEB, CUNTS.

[Anonymous No.6233978]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIuY1VMBnAs

[Anonymous No.6233987]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yv-4BquEH8

[Anonymous No.6233992]

>>6233969
>>6233978
>muh eastern mysticism
>it's soooo deeeeeep and myyyystical
>whoa man that's so deeeep let's do some more shitty drugs

[Anonymous No.6233999]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_R6aePGRJ8

[Anonymous No.6234009]

>>6233992

[Anonymous No.6234010]

>>6233992
2/10 sarcasm, nice try cunt-lips.

WRIGGLE LIKE A FUCKING EEL.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fob1WXnRQrs

[Anonymous No.6234017]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyuUXi_gsuE

NEED SOME ACTION RIGHT NOW

[Anonymous No.6234021]

>>6234010
>translations
>patrician

[Anonymous No.6234023]

>>6233969
muh drugs xd

[Anonymous No.6234025]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdLokXmak4I


SAY YOU'RE A CHEAP FUCKING MANNINGHAM PIG SLUT WHORE

[Anonymous No.6234037]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0uNM-E3huw

[Anonymous No.6234038]

Well /lit/, m80

1/6

[Anonymous No.6234043]

>>6234038
>reading memelit

[Anonymous No.6234045]

>>6234038
2/6

[Anonymous No.6234053]

>>6234045
3/6

[Anonymous No.6234063]

>>6234053
4/6

[Anonymous No.6234065]

>>6234021
>>6234023

faggots

[Anonymous No.6234068]

>>6234063
5/6

[Anonymous No.6234069]

[Anonymous No.6234077]

>>6234069

[Anonymous No.6234079]

>>6234038
>>6234045
>>6234053
>>6234063
>>6234068

>no dostoyevsky
>no lermontov
>no poe

please kill yourself.

[Anonymous No.6234089]

>he's from the anglosphere
>he reads translations of Rabelais, Bataille and Sade
>he reads Cocteau
Embarrassing.

Also Bird Seed (and Whitehouse) literally is babby's first power electronics, stop trying so hard to look cool and edgy.

[Anonymous No.6234093]

>>6234077

Congratulations, i bet you haven't even read a tenth of all your books.

[Anonymous No.6234095]

>>6234068
6/6

[Anonymous No.6234097]

>>6234093
but he did get dubs

[Anonymous No.6234099]

>>6234093
i seriously hope most people here have more books than this guy

[Anonymous No.6234112]

>>6234093
I've read about half of them. But I buy them faster than I can read them, so yeah.

[Anonymous No.6234113]

>>6234038
>he doesn't read discussed books to see for himself

[Anonymous No.6234114]

>>6234089
>edgy
go watch mlp you bed-staining cunt. bet you don't have an 1882 edition of Paradise Lost illustrated by Gunstave Dore, eh faggot?

[Anonymous No.6234119]

>>6234114
>thinks 1882 is impressive
sure is American in here
my house is older than that

[Anonymous No.6234127]

>>6234114
Maybe, but at least I don't like dicks

[Anonymous No.6234129]

>>6234112
Here's a (slightly) better picture.

[Anonymous No.6234130]

[Anonymous No.6234131]

>>6234119

Hopefully you get raped by a pack of dogs tomorrow, fuck-face.

[Anonymous No.6234132]

>>6234127

Whats wrong with liking dick?
Aside from muh homophobia and muh degeneracy!

[Anonymous No.6234133]

>>6234127

yes you do, fag-lord.

[Anonymous No.6234140]

>>6234129

[Anonymous No.6234150]

>>6234131
>>6234133
pssst, there's a Peter Sotos book waiting for you to be read, don't waste your time ;)

[Anonymous No.6234152]

>>6234140
That pic is the visual equivalent of shoegaze. Like it.

[Anonymous No.6234157]

>>6234132
this
willies are easier than fannies

[Anonymous No.6234161]

>>6234089
> i know everything about power electronics

bet you can't even recognize this, you cheap 2-bit whore.

[Anonymous No.6234166]

>>6234161
would you fuck off nobody wants you to stink up the thread with your presumably drunken ramblings and ostentatiously shit taste

[Anonymous No.6234167]

>>6233969
What do you even think of Yoshiyuki? I've got lots more Mishima and Chinese poetry than you do.

[Anonymous No.6234170]

>>6234166
>getting triggered by photos and text on a computer screen.

stay mad, pleb cunt.

[Anonymous No.6234179]

>>6234167
post pics

[Anonymous No.6234185]

>>6234170
this is the stupidest post I've ever seen

[Anonymous No.6234197]

>>6234185

You're the stupidest pleb I ever interacted with.

uncultured swine

your taste in literature is half as refined as an 8 year olds


>:^(

[Anonymous No.6234200]

don't you people know what a library is?

I only own about 20 books and I've definitely read more than anyone here

[Anonymous No.6234202]

>>6234197
#rekt

[Anonymous No.6234208]

>>6234197
>>6234185

)^:<

[Anonymous No.6234213]

>>6234179
I know The Decay of the Angel is missing.

[Anonymous No.6234216]

>>6234208
>>6234202
>>6234197
>>6234170
>>6234161
>>6234133
>>6234131
>>6234114
>>>/b/

[Anonymous No.6234219]

>>6234200
>not amassing a pat-tier physical collection

[Anonymous No.6234220]

>>6234200
Why act like a person can't do both regularly? I use the library, read pirated ebooks and own plenty of books otherwise.

[Anonymous No.6234223]

>>6234216

oh boy! you sure set me straight!

[Anonymous No.6234224]

>>6234200
I know of libraries but since I live in Italy and my main interest is English literature they're not really an option, as much as I wish they were-

[Anonymous No.6234231]

[Anonymous No.6234246]

>>6234213
thats a dope ass collection.

[Anonymous No.6234253]

>>6234220
It's a gigantic waste of money, equivalent to buying DVDs

This is on the almost definitive assumption everyone here is not rich

[Anonymous No.6234259]

Recommend me the best complete works of H.P Lovecraft, you cunts.

[Anonymous No.6234262]

>>6234259
none of them lovecraft is shit

[Anonymous No.6234266]

>>6234253
Except they're far cheaper than DVDs.

What about for those of us in the process of becoming lecturers? You often need the books you've kept and took your notes in for years.

[Anonymous No.6234270]

>>6234262

xD

[Anonymous No.6234276]

>>6234266
The only books that are cheaper than DVDs are terrible quality pieces of shit that are not worth purchasing

You are literally playing into publisher's greedy hands when you purchase a $5 paperback

[Anonymous No.6234279]

>>6234270
literally the Chuck Palahniuk of the 20s

[Anonymous No.6234281]

>>6234259
Drawing from memory, the three cheap books, you know the ones, small motherfuckers. I think their names are Dagon, Haunter in the Night and something else. You ifnd one, you find the series. Really really cheap.

>>6234262
wow u rlly wreckt him m8

[Anonymous No.6234282]

>>6234270

For some reason i laughed at that response and dropped my gum out of my mouth, you fucking asshole.

[Anonymous No.6234289]

>>6233987
NIGGER

[Anonymous No.6234294]

>>6234276
I don't think you're very familiar with many publishers. Not everyone is part of the Big Three. Most small publishers are run by rather unrich people, who make plenty of complaints on their own about how stupid expensive certain other publishers can be.

Are you just as against owning them when you receive them for work you do? With reviewers, proofreaders, editors, interns, scholars and other teachers.

[Anonymous No.6234299]

>>6234253
>gigantic waste of money
>not supporting your favorite authors
wow it's like you want to make publishing even worse than it is now

[Anonymous No.6234304]

>>6234294
>Big Three
it's big five now m8 stop living in the 00s

[Anonymous No.6234306]

>>6234276
All of the Every Man and Modern Library books are $6 each at the 2nd hand book store i go to fag-lord.

[Anonymous No.6234307]

>>6234299
>his favourite authors aren't dead
PLEB

[Anonymous No.6234314]

>>6234307
>idealizing the past
go back to bed grandpa

[Anonymous No.6234315]

>>6234294
You know why there are cheap books now?

Because publishers weren't making enough money selling good quality books to wealthy people, so they decided to rip off the non wealthy people by mass manufacturing books that cost 2 cents to make and selling them for a gigantic markup

Any publisher that sells cheap books are ripping you off worse than if you buy a good quality hardback

[Anonymous No.6234317]

>>6234304
It doesn't really matter. There are far more than the biggest publishers. It seems like a viewpoint that comes from an exclusive concentration on "classics". I'm not talking about out of copyright reprinter #52.

[Anonymous No.6234326]

>>6234315
I think you must have misunderstood me. I was talking about used and review books with the cheapness.

I'm very familiar with the history of publishing. Book history is one of my areas of research.

[Anonymous No.6234332]

>>6234314

J.K Rowling
Suzzanne Collins
Stephanie Mayer
John Green
Tao Lin
the list goes on and on.....

[Anonymous No.6234337]

>>6234332
>the past is literally perfect
>nobody wrote shitty stuff before the 1990s
>i'm literally raping the truth

[Anonymous No.6234339]

>>6234326
Why would I be opposed to that? Obviously it is a shame if you are handed a penguin paperback to use, but it's out of your hands

[Anonymous No.6234344]

>>6234332
Seriously?

McElroy, Olga Tokarczuk, Enrique Vila-Matas, Mikhail Shishkin, Juan Pablo Villalobos, Alois Hotschnig, Sjon, Tatyana Tolstaya, Kundera, Eco, Rushdie, Krasznahorkai, Gass, Roth, Coetzee, Grass, Morrison, Ōe, Nadas, Pynchon, DeLillo, Albee, Ashbery.

I bet you're one of those types who "literally who" on the Nobel Prize in Literature bets.

[Anonymous No.6234347]

>>6234339
I already stated that none of this had to do with "Classics" publishers. That's a really small portion of literature.

[Anonymous No.6234349]

>>6234347
It was just an example

[Anonymous No.6234352]

>>6234344
>Morrison
>Kundera
>Ashbery
>Coetzee
>McElroy
>Oe


>good
smh anon

[Anonymous No.6234357]

>>6234352
Fuck off you uncultivated swine

[Anonymous No.6234358]

>>6234352
Glad to see some more unsupported and unelaborated opinion on this board.

[Anonymous No.6234368]

>>6234357
>>6234358
>no my opinion is more valid
>no mine is

[Anonymous No.6234374]

>>6234368
Glad to see you're explaining those opinions.

[Anonymous No.6234396]

>>6234079

only tru oldfags will get this dank meme ;^)

[Anonymous No.6234408]

>>6234253
i thought this way for a long time as i have pretty extensive archives of documents i acquired for nothing. there is value in military/history paperbacks

[Anonymous No.6234410]

>>6234352

>Ashbery
>pleb

lol youtried.jpg

[Anonymous No.6234413]

>>6234374
I'm not going to write out a piece of literary criticism for each on a Chinese may may board

Morrison focuses too much on race and she has the typical womanly over-reliance on colour/food/smell in her descriptions rather than actual themes or interesting philosophical discussion/aesthetic standards. granted I have only read beloved and the bluest eye

kundera is too sterile. the man does this, the woman does this, there is little emotion. I'd liken him to the difference between someone like Mozart and Salieri, resembling the latter; often technically good and seemingly creating what one would assume is a good novel, yet often it is lifeless, empty and shallow

I've only read ashbery's poetry but I find it meandering and vague, I generally dislike free verse as I see no reason for it to be poetry rather than experimental prose fiction, and ashbery gets on my nerves for his focus on his personal nostalgia and things that would only ever appeal to people in situations like his (ennui of middle class (north eastern?) US family of academics). he uses large, esoteric words unnecessarily and it hinders his work rather than improves it in my opinion, unlike say DFW or an arguably more successful poet trying to achieve similar goals: Aesop Rock.

Coetzee disinterests me for much of the same reasons as Morrison and ashbery: too focused on personal themes, not universal enough. whereas Tolstoy makes the plight of singular Russian families a humanitarian issue, Coetzee seems to make the plight of the entire black people under apartheid an issue of rich white post-colonial dutch afrikaaners, and although this isn't an aesthetic criticism per se I'm generally not fond of overtly political works which allow their quality to slip in the quest for 'a message'

I'm beginning to see a link between my dislike for these authors now that I consider oe's focus on Japanese politics, the Japanese search for identity and largely Japanese issues. I love rushdie and I suppose I should like oe's grandiose descriptions which often create humourous and touching bathos combining the mundane and the grandiloquent, yet something about his style irks me. perhaps it's due to reading Japanese in translation to English, which I've found always creates an unnecessary air of mysticism. maybe I'm too harsh on him considering how different our two languages are. nonetheless, I find him often bordering on the overblown and pretentious, though as I said this could be a problem of mine as a reader rather than his as a writer

[Anonymous No.6234417]

>>6234413

Thanks Harold

[Anonymous No.6234421]

>>6234413
tldr, go fuck yourself.

[Anonymous No.6234422]

>>6234079
>poe

[Anonymous No.6234424]

>>6234417
what?

[Anonymous No.6234425]

>>6234417
Bloom likes those authors tho

[Anonymous No.6234426]

>>6234422
>not recognizing /lit/'s dankest meme

gtfo, pleb whore.

[Anonymous No.6234427]

>>6234358
>>6234374


>>6234421

I'm leaving 4chan

[Anonymous No.6234438]

>>6234427
good riddance, cunt.

WRIGGLE LIKE A FUCKING EEL

[Anonymous No.6234459]

[Anonymous No.6234473]

>>6234438

Hey Stu

[Anonymous No.6234482]

>>6234459
I really like that edition of Tolkien works. Shame they don't sell it where I live.

[Anonymous No.6234543]

>>6233978
Read Blue of Noon by Bataille. My favorite of his so far.

[Anonymous No.6234550]

>>6234063
We have very similar taste. That makes me happy.

[Anonymous No.6234567]

>>6234045
I love that Reif Larsen book,I need to get my copy back.

[Anonymous No.6234578]

>>6234413
lay off the pharms tldr

[Anonymous No.6234590]

>>6233969
At least I know I'll never be as insecure as you.

[Anonymous No.6234592]

>>6234590
ha-ha, what am i insecure about fag? i just like to trigger cunts like you with my immaculate bookshelf. FAG

[Anonymous No.6234662]

>>6234592
NEEDS MORE SNOOPY AND NIGGER

[Anonymous No.6234708]

>translations
ahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha*breathes*lmfaooooooooooooooo

[Anonymous No.6234729]

>>6234708
fuck off cunt

[Anonymous No.6234735]

>>6234708
is this just a meme

can i actually say i've read a book if i've only read a translation?

[Anonymous No.6234746]

[Anonymous No.6234799]

[Anonymous No.6234801]

op is the biggest dickhead i've ever seen on /lit/. seriously, dude. nobody gives a shit about your 'patrician taste.' get fucked and don't come back

[Anonymous No.6234803]

[Anonymous No.6234814]

>>6234801
>2014+1
>still getting triggered by text on a computer screen

it's a pleasure pissing off fuccbois like you. hope you get raped up your ass.

[Anonymous No.6234836]

>>6234799
>calvin & hobbes
>scribners old man and the sea
>>6234803
airmont classics the price

u r #2 patrician, m80.

[Anonymous No.6234909]

>>6234746
So Asad seems like a cool dude - how is Genealogies?

[Anonymous No.6235875]

>>6234063

what blake butler would you recommend? every writer i know speaks of him as if he is Bowie but i'm more of a traditional narrative kinda guy so is anything he writes going to satisfy me? it's impressive prose, definitely, but in terms of story idk where to start

[Anonymous No.6236048]

>>6234909
Dense, lots of social theory and foucault. I realize that that sounds silly but Asad explains and utilizes the ideas in such a way that they make more sense than the authors who originally phrased them explained them. Gets to the heart of the religion/secular debate, and

[Anonymous No.6236057]

>>6234814
get a trip so I can filter you

[Anonymous No.6236064]

>>6236057
You should be filtering every post containing fuccboi

[Anonymous No.6236246]

>>6235875
Start with Scorch Atlas, not much in the way of overarching narrative but every short story is fairly self-coherent. There is no Year is also fairly consistent plot-wise, albeit a little hallucinogenic

[Anonymous No.6236276]

[Anonymous No.6236282]

>>6234231
Dat Teilhard de Chardin. Not that I've read him, but props anyway.

[Anonymous No.6236294]

>>6234459
I find this image to be moderately arousing. Well done.

[Anonymous No.6236310]

>>6236276
Dat exegesis
Would you recommend it?

[Anonymous No.6236313]

>>6233969
>Death
my new agey mother had the book lying in her laundry room once. fucking lol

[Anonymous No.6236322]

>>6236310
Sadly (and perhaps embarrassingly), it was an impulse buy that I never got round to reading.

I imagine if you really like PKD you might enjoy it. If nothing else, it looks really good on the shelf and it's fun to flip through. Hella expensive though.

[Anonymous No.6236324]

>>6234482

>what is ebay

[Anonymous No.6236333]

OP is a massive homosexual
when you try to impress others, you are always the supplicant
enjoy sucking down my seed, pleb

[Anonymous No.6236347]

>>6236322
Eh, seen it on amazon uk for like 5 quid. Might get around to buy it

[Anonymous No.6236390]

babbys first power electronics

[Anonymous No.6236530]

[Anonymous No.6236581]

>>6233978

>This is your life, Charlie Brown.

[Anonymous No.6236657]

>>6234200
by all means share it

[Anonymous No.6236768]

>>6236390

> i know everything about power electronics

you dont even know where pic related is from, cunt. kill yourself.

[Anonymous No.6236778]

>reading fiction (even "literature") makes you smart

[Anonymous No.6236867]

>>6236778
it does, retard.

[Anonymous No.6236881]

>>6236867

>This is what trash think while they're devouring Twilight sequels

[Anonymous No.6236909]

>>6236881
wanna go half on a rape charge?

[Anonymous No.6236921]

>>6236909

What does Peter Sotos have to do with anything? Or are you just being edgy-by-numbers or something?

[Anonymous No.6236929]

>>6236921
thats his "wanna go half on a rape charge?"

and yeah, i'm probably 1000x more edgy than you, cunt-lips.

[Anonymous No.6236974]

>>6236867
And how does it make you smart?

[Anonymous No.6237022]

>>6236974
it just does, faggot.

[Anonymous No.6237029]

>>6237022
No, it really doesn't.

[Anonymous No.6237046]

>>6237029
yes it does, faggot.

[Anonymous No.6237051]

>>6237046
no it doesn't, faggot.

[Anonymous No.6237082]

>>6234025
>America

[Anonymous No.6237088]

>>6234038
wanna trade your The Orange Eats Creeps for my Mira Corpora?

[Anonymous No.6237727]

For some reason I don't have a real bookshelf so books just kind of pile up. Can always find cool and sometimes pretty weird stuff at my used bookstore for pretty cheap. The book about shopping carts is extremely strange.

[Anonymous No.6237757]

Showing off your book collection is antithetical to the virtue of being a reader.

[Anonymous No.6237898]

>>6234803

jesus christ why does that Richard Yates look like it's the size of Mason and Dixon? It's only about three-hundred pages long, no?

[Anonymous No.6237902]

>>6237757

>antithetical
>virtue

get rekt scrub

[Anonymous No.6238054]

>>6236530
it's time for an agonizing reappraisal, you've got time rifts happening all over that bookshelf

[Anonymous No.6238095]

>>6237757
OP has a very miniscule collection though. i hope you have more.

[Anonymous No.6238130]

ITT: super boring books people only pretend to read

[Anonymous No.6238160]

>>6237727
>shopping carts
finally, some cool shit. nice books, faggot.

>>6237051
yes it does, go fuck yourself with a rake.

>>6237082
stfu, kill yourself

>>6237757
>Showing off your book collection is antithetical to the virtue of being a reader.

whatever, fag-lord.

>>6238095
I only posted half of one of my shelves, retard

>>6238130
Are you calling Snoopy boring, I hope you get anally raped.

[Anonymous No.6238333]

>>6234799
An uncracked, unread copy of Infinite Jest. How unusual.

[Anonymous No.6238343]

>>6237082
you think you're funny?

[Anonymous No.6238354]

>>6234130
very clearly the best poster in these threads

[Anonymous No.6238356]

U jelly?

[Anonymous No.6238361]

>>6238333

bravo

[Anonymous No.6238375]

>>6238356
>new penguin classics
loolololol. those titles have been in print for years. you coulve got them all for $3 each. retard.

[Anonymous No.6238382]

ITT: materialism

[Anonymous No.6238395]

>>6234130
I'm having a tough time determining where your bed ends and the digital books begin

[Anonymous No.6238404]

>>6238375
True, but I am rich so I don't care.
Must suck when $10 is a lot of money to you.

[Anonymous No.6238414]

>>6233978
I really like Justine by Marquis de Sade.
I don't think I've read anything else on your shelf, anything you'd recommend me?


(my favourite author is Clive Barker)

[Anonymous No.6238417]

>>6238404

yeah tbh it's not great

[Anonymous No.6238578]

>>6238414

i find everything on my shelf pretty darn fascinating, my favourite book is Delta of Venus which I don't have anymore.

[Anonymous No.6238587]

>>6238417
>>6238404
lol, i mean you can get romeo and juliet for 3 bucks sure

[Anonymous No.6238592]

>>6238395
LOL

[Anonymous No.6238595]

>>6238404

the new penguins are fugly just like your mother, fag.

[Anonymous No.6238624]

>>6238595
lol tell him sparky who reads a penguin

[Anonymous No.6239380]

>>6238624
fuck off cunt

[Anonymous No.6239680]

>>6233969

[Anonymous No.6239684]

[Anonymous No.6239686]

[Anonymous No.6239688]

>>6239684
nice a book on drugs

[Anonymous No.6239692]

im getting 20 war books to expand my top section lads, amazon lads

meso america lads

[Anonymous No.6240606]

>>6239684
degenerate/10

Let me guess, you have an "intellectual curiosity" about psychedelics?

[Anonymous No.6240627]

>>6239684
wow i mean i like drugs but i think tihkal and pihkal are the only books i have on 'em

[Anonymous No.6240670]

>>6239684
Are you familiar with Thomas de Quincey's 'Confessions of an English Opium-Eater'?