bookshelf thread

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Anonymous Sun Mar 29 23:51:51 2015 No.6334756 [Reply] [Original]

bookshelf thread

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 29 23:53:14 2015 No.6334766 that's fucking awesome man! looks so put together and admirable!

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 29 23:53:18 2015 No.6334767 File: 1.56 MB, 3264x1840, IMAG1225.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] /phil/

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 29 23:54:58 2015 No.6334776 File: 2.17 MB, 3264x1840, IMAG1222_BURST008.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] left wing/right wing

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 29 23:56:10 2015 No.6334785 File: 178 KB, 640x584, 1348530605509.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6334756 >Charles Bukowski >Ayn Rand >Kurt Vonnegut You're triggering /lit/

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 29 23:58:00 2015 No.6334796 >>6334776 it was hard to pull off but your taste in beer is actually worse than your taste in books.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 29 23:58:02 2015 No.6334797 >>6334776 >declaration of independence and constitution somehow right-wing >bookshelf props/gimmickry

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 29 23:58:25 2015 No.6334801 >>6334785 I didn't enjoy Ham on Rye or Anthem much for what it's worth, but some of the Vonnegut was fun in high school. I don't throw away books very often.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 00:00:00 2015 No.6334808 File: 1.52 MB, 3264x1840, IMAG1226.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] extra science shit that didn't fit in the textbooks case

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 00:02:17 2015 No.6334821 >>6334797 OP here don't worry, the entire collection is gimmickry

Anonymous Mon Mar 30 00:08:22 2015 No.6334837

>>6334821
i could tell by the collection of scientific books...everything real STEM people read is either in a textbook or a academic journal, it's not philosophy where something that's 2000 years old is just as "valid" as something from 20 years ago...that's how you can tell philosophy is a failed project, you have to start with 2500 year old writers...isn't it good physicists and doctors don't have to waste time starting with the greeks?

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 00:08:42 2015 No.6334838 File: 1.27 MB, 2448x1812, not_books.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >organize your books just to post them on lit Fuck the police

Anonymous Mon Mar 30 00:11:32 2015 No.6334848

>>6334837
it is good. The vast majority of my books are scientific text books and the vast majority of what I read on a day-to-day basis is academic journals. Just thought these small collections were more worth posting here. Literature and philosophy for me is mostly just a self indulgent escape.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 00:12:09 2015 No.6334850 >>6334756 >>6334766 samefag

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 00:13:28 2015 No.6334856 >>6334850 actually wasn't

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 00:15:28 2015 No.6334861 >>6334756 How is Of Human Bondage? I just received a collection today with that in it and I honestly haven't heard of it before. Is it worth the read?

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 00:17:31 2015 No.6334872 >>6334861 read The Razor's Edge first. If you love it (as any decent human should) and you want to get to know Maugham better, read Of Human Bondage. I found it drags a bit but it's exemplary English prose.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 00:18:47 2015 No.6334876 >>6334872 I'll have to get it, thanks.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 00:40:23 2015 No.6334974 Possessions are for the bourgeoisie!

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 00:57:05 2015 No.6335012 I don't actually know how people can have the likes of Burkowski and Vonnegut on their shelves and not feel the shame radiating off. >>6334767 >The Simpsons and Philsophy Thanks for sharing, I guess.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 01:04:17 2015 No.6335026 >>6335012 what do you expect from lit.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 01:07:59 2015 No.6335035 >>6335012 I've actually hardly read the Simpsons one, it was a gift. I guess I should throw out more of the books I don't absolutely adore to please youz guys

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 01:09:25 2015 No.6335038 >>6335035 most are garbage. not kidding.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 01:12:03 2015 No.6335048 >>6335035 >I guess I should throw out more of the books I don't absolutely adore to please youz guys Or, you know, just not photodocument the shit on a /soc/-style thread in /lit/.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 01:12:45 2015 No.6335049 >>6335038 I'm not thrilled with my collection either, I just thought it might be a thread worth starting. I'm always interested in suggestions.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 01:14:56 2015 No.6335056 >being proud to own this trash

Anonymous Mon Mar 30 01:42:00 2015 No.6335123
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>>6334756
Wow bondage so edgy! But everyone should have FLP

>>6334767
I have a feeling you liked Walden a lot more than me. I'm not very philo strong

>>6334776
I'm glad you like this stuff because someone has to. Politics murders me

>>6334808
Why so Statistics based, OP?

>>6334838
I organize them because I'm not messy and like organization, not to show off.

>>6334850
The first post was CLEARLY mocking the OP.

Here's mine.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 01:46:17 2015 No.6335129 >>6335123 pleb shit

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 01:55:55 2015 No.6335150 >>6335123 Is that a hologram projector on the top? Those that I recognize seem pretty nice. I envy your space.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 01:58:12 2015 No.6335155 >>6335123 I honestly have a hard time believing people can read game of thrones and then put it on a shelf. just throw it out and admit your mistake

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 01:59:10 2015 No.6335158 >>6335155 >MUH NERD CREED XD What do you expect? that guy has some harry potter over there.

Anonymous Mon Mar 30 02:02:06 2015 No.6335170

>>6335129
Thanks for your critique

>>6335150
It's one of those floating frog mirror illusions. I bet you have seen it before.
Also the space is an illusion, my room is cramped as fuck until I move.

>>6335155
I liked it, why would I throw it out? Not everything you read has to be the next literary classic. Besides, I'm not using my bookshelf to show off, only to store my books in a way people have been doing since books were a thing.

>>6335158
Those on the other hand yea, it's been almost 10 years since I read them, but who am I to deny my youth? I liked them then and it's not like they're AWFUL now.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 02:06:23 2015 No.6335189 >>6335170 >I'm not using my bookshelf to show off, only to store my books in a way people have been doing since books were a thing. What part of storing them includes the photo op and uploading the droppings to 4chan?

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 02:06:36 2015 No.6335191 >>6334756 I can't afford a bookshelf and currently stack my books on top of one another in large piles around my bedroom. What's a cheap way to make a good bookshelf?

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 02:07:55 2015 No.6335195 >>6335191 some wood and bricks.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 02:08:25 2015 No.6335197 >>6335191 I personally find book stacks more aesthetic. Why do you need a shelf?

Anonymous Mon Mar 30 02:13:39 2015 No.6335216

>>6335189
The thread was there? I like looking at threads like this to see how people organize their things and for ideas for what to read. You probably only view it as a materialism/power level sort of thing. Difference of opinion and values I suppose.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 02:23:24 2015 No.6335237 >>6335216 It's anonymous. Just admit you're a fraud and move on.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 02:39:21 2015 No.6335273 >>6334808 >annotated Flatland i have that same edition. it's awesome

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 02:41:48 2015 No.6335281 >>6334838 how can that copy of I am Legend be so thick? is it large print or something? that's a good book but it's not particularly long

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 02:43:04 2015 No.6335284 >>6335281 it include other short stories, but not as good as i am legend.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 02:48:55 2015 No.6335292 File: 1.07 MB, 2592x1456, IMG_20150330_164346220.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 1/6

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 02:50:12 2015 No.6335297 File: 1.12 MB, 2592x1456, IMG_20150330_164431844.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 2/6

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 02:51:27 2015 No.6335304 File: 1.12 MB, 2592x1456, IMG_20150330_164443586.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 3/6

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 02:52:36 2015 No.6335309 File: 1.14 MB, 2592x1456, IMG_20150330_164545237.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 4/6 Please ignore the weeb.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 02:53:55 2015 No.6335311 File: 1.07 MB, 2592x1456, IMG_20150330_164550662.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 5/6

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 02:55:35 2015 No.6335315 File: 1.27 MB, 2592x1456, IMG_20150330_164620548.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] fin

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 02:55:37 2015 No.6335316 >>6335292 cute pig, shitty penguin.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 03:39:01 2015 No.6335423 File: 128 KB, 980x660, 1426540018807.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6334776 >Malcolm X >left

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 03:44:07 2015 No.6335433 File: 2.01 MB, 2592x1936, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] R8 plz m8

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 03:54:58 2015 No.6335453 >>6335292 >>6335297 >>6335304 >>6335309 >>6335311 >>6335315 >all those pristine spines

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 10:17:16 2015 No.6336217 >>6335281 >>6335284 The short stories included are: - Buried Talents - The Near Departed - Prey - Witch War - Dance of the Dead - Dress of White Silk - Mad House - The Funeral - From Shadowed Places - Person To Person

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 10:47:37 2015 No.6336256 >mfw poor so have 4 books and an ebook does everyone here really own physic collections? >>6334838 hey spanish bro, how's el aleph?

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 10:47:51 2015 No.6336257 >>6335433 mirin' the philosophy, although I can't really make out the titles

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 10:57:50 2015 No.6336274 >>6335453 It's entirely possible to read the books without breaking the spines

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 11:01:41 2015 No.6336291 File: 2.32 MB, 2880x4136, trgrng.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6334801 Ham on Rye is GOAT, stop trying to fit in, you faggot.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 11:05:17 2015 No.6336299 >>6336274 Well, might be the case for stuff like Vintage or sturdiest paperbacks, but definitely not the case with Penguins

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>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 11:11:50 2015 No.6336320 File: 1.16 MB, 2008x1506, shelves2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6336314

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 11:12:58 2015 No.6336323 File: 1.16 MB, 2008x1506, shelf3.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6336320 3/7

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 11:14:04 2015 No.6336327 File: 1.15 MB, 2008x1506, shelf4.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6336323 4/7

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 11:14:37 2015 No.6336328 >>6335309 Vintage classics <3 so fuckin jelly of the Pynchon, Williams, and Yates.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 11:15:12 2015 No.6336329 File: 1.33 MB, 2008x1506, shelf5.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6336327 5/7

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 11:16:18 2015 No.6336333 File: 1.19 MB, 2008x1506, shelf6.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6336329 6/7

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 11:20:11 2015 No.6336341 File: 1.28 MB, 1600x2298, more books.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6336333 7/7 New stuff that's not in the other pictures. Sabato, Soseki and Simenon were completely free~

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 11:30:45 2015 No.6336362 >>6336341 >>6336333 >>6336329 >>6336327 >>6336323 >>6336320 >>6336314 weeb/10

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 11:36:54 2015 No.6336373 >>6336362 Yeah, I study Japanese literature. Academic weebing.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 12:52:48 2015 No.6336617 >>6336341 >free how come? library exchange or what the only second hand books i can pick up are always shit :(

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 12:55:45 2015 No.6336624 >>6336341 Have you read DJ Pancake?

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 17:06:10 2015 No.6337437 Where is the good literature at.

Anonymous Mon Mar 30 17:17:16 2015 No.6337484

>>6334767
>The Simpsons and Philosophy
>Russel's history of western phil

disgusting.

>>6334776
>Wealth of Nations
>right wing
>gimmicky beers
>Only the Communist Manifesto and not any of the other much more important works from M&E

even more disgusting. You get 2/10

>>6334838
I love De Bolsillo, wish I could find them more easily.

Rest of stuff is either OK but not my favs or stuff I don't know / don't plan to read, 7/10

>>6335123
I absolutely hate those B&N (or whatever they are) hard covers with the fucking drawings in them, kitsch as fuck (and not in a good way)

>>6335292
>>6335297
>>6335304
>>6335309
>>6335309
>>6335311
>>6335315
>>6335315
Dude, I'm sorry, but it's very hard to believe you read a lot of those books. Even if you don't crack the spine, stuff like Penguin Modern Classics or Vintage classics tend to get grimy when handled.

Good books though, you'll have fun when you read them;

>>6335433
Can't r8 what I can't read. Nice legos tho, wish I had the money to buy me some

>>6336217
Why do you have two Ulysses?

Anonymous Mon Mar 30 17:24:54 2015 No.6337526

>>6337484
Yea, only Dracula, Monte Cristo and Holmes are from the B&N sets but I don't think I'll get any more. I thought they would be fine since they are cheap but aside from how the book binding feels after a read, they are SATURATED in typos. Would not recommend, even ignoring your aesthetic dislike with them.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 17:28:04 2015 No.6337538 File: 805 KB, 1920x1080, PIC_0678.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6335292 >>6335297 >>6335304 >>6335309 >>6335311 >>6335315 nice penguins you fucking fag

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 17:30:38 2015 No.6337552 File: 3.12 MB, 1388x1528, muh books.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 17:47:28 2015 No.6337620 File: 19 KB, 320x287, 1420523916378.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6337552 Wow I didn't get a good look at those science textbooks the first twelve times you posted this, good job.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 18:01:32 2015 No.6337671 >>6337538 >>6337552 aaaaaaaaaaaaaaand here they are

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 18:10:47 2015 No.6337721 >>6337484 Original and translation >>6337526 I could overlook their tacky looks if they were at least careful printings, but I guess i'll just drop them altogether and hope the Real is ever worth anything again to buy Folio's

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 18:42:54 2015 No.6337880 File: 1.20 MB, 3264x2448, IMG_1679.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Not my whole bookshelf, just stuff I want to read next. What do you recommend?

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 18:46:53 2015 No.6337899 File: 542 KB, 1920x1080, PIC_0664.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6337880 i recommend replaces your books with non shitty editions, cunt whore.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 18:48:23 2015 No.6337906 >>6337899 11 of these I got for 1-4 dollars at local thrift stores. I'm not an edition snob.

Anonymous Mon Mar 30 18:50:19 2015 No.6337917

>>6337899
Whe did you decided to start with this relentless shitposting? Do you have some sort of browser script that warns you whenever aquisitions / shelf threads are started or do you just hang around /li/ all day waiting to post those shitty paperbacks like they're some hot shit along with your Whitehouse vinyl?

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 18:59:30 2015 No.6337946 File: 482 KB, 1920x1080, PIC_0630.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6337917 PARADISE LOST! SATAN PLS FUCK MY ASS!

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 19:01:07 2015 No.6337949 File: 706 KB, 1920x1080, PIC_0660.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6337946 FUCK MY ASS AS HARD AS YOU CAN, SATAN!

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 19:03:06 2015 No.6337956 >>6337880 Catch 22

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 19:03:52 2015 No.6337958 File: 767 KB, 1920x1080, PIC_0682.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6337917 b-but my "shitty paperpacks" really are hot shit though...

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 19:05:07 2015 No.6337964 >>6337958 Not really, besides, having 60 fucking editions of the Stranger is retarded, that's a pretty sophomore book

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 19:05:19 2015 No.6337965 File: 736 KB, 1920x1080, PIC_0683.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6337958 cute little tits

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 19:07:01 2015 No.6337971 File: 784 KB, 1920x1080, PIC_0685.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6337964 you're just jealous of my dope-ass Stranger collection, son. >>6337965 >pic related you can see her pussy hair.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 19:10:04 2015 No.6337982 File: 713 KB, 1920x1080, PIC_0673.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6337906 older books don't look like literal fucking garbage though.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 19:11:32 2015 No.6337988 >>6337971 not really. I do am somehow amazed by you and Dolan, and how much you guys are devoted to shitting up completely inane and inoffensive threads like these. >>6337982 They look exactly like paperbacks today, most of the time.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 19:12:12 2015 No.6337990 >>6337982 why the fuck do you care about how the outside of the book looks?

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 19:19:19 2015 No.6338023 File: 750 KB, 1920x1080, PIC_0681.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6337990 because it looks fuckin' dope, thats why. >>6337988 :^)

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 19:20:22 2015 No.6338028 >>6338023 > it looks fuckin' dope this tbh

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 19:23:13 2015 No.6338038 File: 566 KB, 1920x1080, PIC_0663.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6338028 ASS DESTROYER

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 19:23:40 2015 No.6338039 >>6338038 post more pls

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 19:25:56 2015 No.6338047 File: 635 KB, 1920x1080, PIC_0666.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6338039 CUM PLUM

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 19:30:15 2015 No.6338071 File: 818 KB, 1920x1080, PIC_0686.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6338039 FOUR TWENTY, NIGG.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 19:32:13 2015 No.6338079 File: 341 KB, 1306x980, 20150331_102919.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6338071 This is now a vintage paperbacks thread

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 19:32:19 2015 No.6338081 File: 701 KB, 1920x1080, PIC_0687.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6338039 This is the only Penguin Classics 1st edition I've got. :^( L111 - 1961 for $6

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 19:33:21 2015 No.6338087 File: 377 KB, 1306x980, 20150331_102934.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6338079 >>6338081 noice My Kafka

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 19:34:24 2015 No.6338093 >>6338087 >My Kafka Half my text got cut off, anyway that Kafka was still in its original wrapping when I bought it last year

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 19:36:27 2015 No.6338103 File: 760 KB, 1920x1080, PIC_0688.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6338087 >>6338093 that's dope af :^)

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 19:37:44 2015 No.6338109 >>6338103 :^) my favourite novel lmao

Anonymous Mon Mar 30 19:40:36 2015 No.6338128

>>6338087
>>6338103
I'm all for buying used (almost all of my collection is bought secondhand), but for translated works it's definitely worth it to shell out some extra money for the best translation.

It's not the biggest deal with Kafka, but there are certainly better and worse.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 19:40:58 2015 No.6338130 File: 585 KB, 1920x1080, PIC_0665.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6338109 I got this mint condition #48 for $3, they had 2 more Forester modern classics but they were fuck ugly.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 19:46:04 2015 No.6338151 >>6338128 The Muir translations are the best for Kafka. My Ivan Denisovich is the weakest translation though.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 19:54:38 2015 No.6338190 File: 846 KB, 1920x1080, PIC_0676.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6338087 got these not to long ago, they were $6 each.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 20:37:07 2015 No.6338327 File: 113 KB, 918x607, ewfoij.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 20:42:01 2015 No.6338350 >>6338327 >can't see a damn thing.txt

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 31 02:28:48 2015 No.6339454 File: 1.77 MB, 2592x1936, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6337484 >>6336257 philo 1

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 31 02:29:57 2015 No.6339456 File: 1.78 MB, 2592x1936, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6339454 philo 2

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 31 03:59:24 2015 No.6339644 >>6338087 cool stuff

Anonymous Tue Mar 31 05:04:31 2015 No.6339777
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Posted these at Christmas, updated pics as I’ve acquired a few since then. Plenty of these are unread, I buy about 3 times faster than I read.

In some cases I also buy books I’ve already read from the library (if I see them very cheap in charity shops). E.g., I’ve read Middlemarch, but my copy looks unread, whereas I’ve never read Felix Holt but the book has a broken spine. Sorry /lit/ spine detectives.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 31 05:05:52 2015 No.6339780 File: 349 KB, 1700x1129, classics2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6339777 bedside penguin classics. I collect these are well as read them. currently reading the sophocles

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 31 05:06:58 2015 No.6339786 File: 323 KB, 1500x956, classics1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6339780 … more classics

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 31 05:08:04 2015 No.6339787 File: 232 KB, 800x994, shakey shelf.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6339786 poetry (that isn't penguin classic or OUP) and war

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 31 05:09:45 2015 No.6339792 File: 294 KB, 1600x974, oxford classics.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6339787 old oxford classics, got the whole lot cheap (~£10) after a book sale. Only read a couple of them.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 31 05:10:49 2015 No.6339799 File: 179 KB, 700x899, misc1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6339792 misc old stuff and the oxford Trollope

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 31 05:11:59 2015 No.6339802 File: 476 KB, 1700x1396, mill_etc.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6339799 military history with a few others mixed in. Don't use these much now, mostly from my teens.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 31 05:13:32 2015 No.6339805 File: 211 KB, 1600x771, overflow.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6339802 mixed overflow paperbacks as i've run out of space and am too lazy to sort things properly …

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 31 05:14:39 2015 No.6339807 File: 482 KB, 1800x1424, misc2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6339805 more misc stuff with extra philosophy and 'theory'

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 31 05:15:47 2015 No.6339809 File: 347 KB, 1700x1275, type1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6339807 typography and printing history

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 31 05:16:53 2015 No.6339812 File: 407 KB, 1700x1275, type2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6339809 more type and print history. End.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 31 05:30:41 2015 No.6339834 >>6339799 Can we see your lego collection too? Great library btw.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 31 05:41:00 2015 No.6339855 >>6339834 Seconding this. holy fuck anon that's a cute frog

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 31 05:44:33 2015 No.6339861 >>6339809 >>6339812 Do you work in the business? Big thumbs up for Tschihold

Anonymous Tue Mar 31 05:51:32 2015 No.6339874
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>>6339834
>>6339855
frog isn't lego, the blocks are about 1/4 the size. Waterstones UK were selling them near Christmas.

Most of my lego is boxed away, don't have space for books and lego. Pic related – tfw having to choose between lego star destroyer and more bookshelf space

>>6339861
>Do you work in the business?
'work' is a lose term, phd student. Got a few more books on graphic communication, visual language, etc scattered about as i'm using them for research.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 31 05:55:43 2015 No.6339880 >>6339874 AND you have jigsaw puzzles. Anon I like you.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 31 05:57:12 2015 No.6339884 >>6339874 *loose

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 31 06:03:04 2015 No.6339897 >>6339874 awwwwwwwwwwww

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 31 08:32:19 2015 No.6340186 >>6335309 >ignore the weeb >implying I will You have okay taste in animu

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 31 12:14:33 2015 No.6340697 >>6339780 >ISBN HA-HA-HA, MIGHT WELL JUST WIPE YOUR FUCKING ASS WITH THOSE.

Anonymous Tue Mar 31 12:50:18 2015 No.6340824
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my wondercabinet of pretensions

some sentimental faves:
-1st ed. Hemingway
-gilded 1881 ed. of Poe's "Bells"
-signed complet set of Ken Kesey's Merry Prankster "Spit in the Ocean"
-1890-something Tennyson collection given as a wedding gift with pressed wedding flowers

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 31 13:38:00 2015 No.6340926 Here is some of my library. I'm into religion, both mainstream, esoteric, and eastern. 1/8

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 31 13:43:07 2015 No.6340946 File: 3.41 MB, 4608x3456, IMG_0140.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] File's are too big. Rats. Well here's my Aleister Crowley library at least.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 31 13:44:29 2015 No.6340949 File: 3.13 MB, 4608x3456, IMG_0146.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] More Crowley

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 31 13:45:55 2015 No.6340958 File: 3.41 MB, 4608x3456, IMG_0142.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Couple more crowley

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 31 13:47:02 2015 No.6340959 File: 3.46 MB, 4608x3456, IMG_0143.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] A.C.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 31 13:47:36 2015 No.6340961 >>6340958 >>6340949 I hope you stole these. Actually paying money for Crowley's books is embarrassing as fuck.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 31 13:48:28 2015 No.6340965 File: 3.37 MB, 4608x3456, IMG_0150.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I would have happily shown my other pictures but the file sizes are too big. So much for variety.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 31 13:49:59 2015 No.6340968 >>6340946 >>6340958 out of focus, painful to look at

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 31 13:53:43 2015 No.6340981 >>6340968 Sorry unfortunately my better pictures were above 4mb. If you want to know what any of them are specifically I will answer. >>6340961 It took many years to find these books for prices I was willing to pay.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 31 16:23:39 2015 No.6341399 >>6336617 At a literature conference. They have discounts/sales the last day of the meeting from the publisher exhibitors. Penguin's table was totally free. >>6336624 I read it several years ago, but I can't remember many of the stories anymore.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 31 16:56:13 2015 No.6341520 File: 1.02 MB, 4000x1552, asd.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] yes, that is an entire row of harry potter books the really awful shit is in a second row behind the books on the front

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 31 17:09:03 2015 No.6341569 >>6340824 Only legitimately cool thing in this thread (including my pic). How often do you actually touch any of them? I'd be terrified to even open that cabinet.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 31 23:48:22 2015 No.6342962 Jesus Christ, some of you guys read a lot of books. Or do you just buy stuff that sounds intellectual and put them on a bookshelf to get the vaginas wet?

Anonymous Wed Apr 1 00:43:14 2015 No.6343143

>>6341569

Pretty often actually. A few are reference books, some are things I like to re-read, others I just like to look at. I enjoy them for intellectual, tactile and aesthetic reasons, not because of what they're worth (which, to be honest, isn't very much.).

Anonymous Wed Apr 1 12:44:44 2015 No.6344651

>>6342962
Tons and tons and tons of people do this.

I've spoken to many people when the conversations come up about reading, they'll have huge bookshelves covered in books they've never read and only pull out one or two to mention them.

Ask them about any others and they're "getting" to those.

On the internet, no one can call you on bullshit, hence why these threads work where they really wouldn't irl

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 1 14:29:55 2015 No.6344974 File: 1.86 MB, 3264x2448, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] A few I took from my grandfathers house after he died.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 1 15:06:33 2015 No.6345062 >>6340965 Thelemite?

>>	green !YOUlQWt3s6 Wed Apr 1 15:27:48 2015 No.6345128 >>6339777 Nice trips and pringles

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 1 19:29:53 2015 No.6346094 >>6343143 That's cool. I like that a lot more than hoarding for bragging rights. Books were meant to be read.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 1 19:40:49 2015 No.6346142 >>6344974 >that lovecraft HAHA FAGGET

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 1 19:43:54 2015 No.6346153 >>6346142 >hating Lovecraft God forbid the man like cosmic horror.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 1 19:44:07 2015 No.6346156 >>6335012 What's wrong with Bukowski and Vonnegut?

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 1 19:48:44 2015 No.6346174 >>6334808 >einstein's dreams noice

Anonymous Wed Apr 1 19:52:25 2015 No.6346191

>>6337906
>local thrift store has shit loads of books
>most of them have yellow pages and when you touch them there's dust or something stuck on your fingers
>most of them look like ass
>some of them are taped up
>there's nothing fucking decent
>it's all "New York Best Sellers!"
>no poetry
The only thing i got was a Discworld novel and that's because it was free.

Anonymous Wed Apr 1 19:52:54 2015 No.6346194

>>6335123
>Taylor's Classical Mechanics
>Blanchard Devaney & Hall

my nig. used both of those in my mathematical physics class in undergrad. taylor was especially good (dat cover)

i also used Knight's Physics on your bottom shelf. I'd assume we went to the same school except you have Thomas' calculus. David "MacDaddy" McAvity ring a bell?

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 1 19:57:24 2015 No.6346215 >>6346142 Why is a person a faggot for enjoying really well written stories?

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 1 19:58:23 2015 No.6346217 >>6340965 >>6340959 >>6340958 >>6340949 >>6340946 very nice collection. i'm jealous. only have a few of the titles on your shelf.

Anonymous Wed Apr 1 20:02:13 2015 No.6346226

>>6346156
Not him, but I'll take a crack at why.

Bukowski is easy; he's often adored by teenagers and tends to be liked by teenagers exiting their edgy phase and entering their more philosophical yet angsty "independent" phase.

Vonnegut, if I had to guess, is bad because of his incessant "wit" in his writing. He's also popular amongst high schoolers.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 1 20:27:19 2015 No.6346322 >>6338327 Nice Eames if it's real.

Anonymous Wed Apr 1 23:18:44 2015 No.6346967

>>6346194
The cover of Taylor is excellent, but I found myself often needing to supplement the book content out of Marion, which a professor was nice enough to give me after I graduated.

Not sure who McAvity is but if my quick Google search was correct, you live in the same state as me. Could have something to do with it. (PNACP?)

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 2 01:39:05 2015 No.6347373 >>6342962 I'm an academic and so I necessarily have to read a lot to do anything. My spouse isn't that into books.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 2 02:22:34 2015 No.6347488 >>6335433 Webster Dictionary? Are you american?

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 2 04:12:13 2015 No.6347644 >>6340961 >Actually paying money for Crowley's books is embarrassing as fuck Am I the only one on this board that's missing something about Crowley?

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 2 04:34:21 2015 No.6347670 >>6334767 kys

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 2 04:35:21 2015 No.6347672 >>6334776 kill yourself

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 2 04:57:20 2015 No.6347701 >>6339874 Jealous of your collection. I like those old penguins, kind of a nice aesthetic.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 2 05:11:33 2015 No.6347720 >>6337552 Is it the same autist posting in each thread or is this some shit copypasta

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 2 07:08:18 2015 No.6347920 >>6334776 that's pretty fucking gay

Anonymous Thu Apr 2 07:51:22 2015 No.6347986

>>6345062
You could say that. I'm not a fundamentalist Thelemite but I see lots of value in Crowley's work, as you can see.

>>6346217
Thanks. I wondered if anybody here would appreciate it. Crowley's work seems perpetually under-appreciated by all but a very few. It took years and persistence to put it together. Some of them are still expensive even when you find a steep discount.

>>6347644
Some people have the capacity for the type of thought that is needed to appreciate Crowley, others lack that capacity. I can always find something new in Crowley that I previously hadn't seen. His work is much like a fractal; his corpus becomes deeper and more complicated but also more rewarding the deeper you go because its all interconnected.

Crowley was not a hand-holder as a writer. You either get it or you don't and Crowley could care less. He is indulgent, but in an interesting way because he was such a fascinating person.

If you're not into English and Philosophy as subjects then I would say avoid Crowley. If you enjoy these subjects, and are patient, and haven't been completely brainwashed by monolithic academia, give Crowley a chance.

Crowley's reputation is hurt by his most serious fans; if you have met a few you know what I mean. I have found that many of these types who claim to love Crowley have actually read very little. They are like the Goth kids in South Park; they follow their little flock, small and silly.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 2 07:55:29 2015 No.6347992 File: 35 KB, 552x464, my nigga.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6334838 >Arthur C. Clarke

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 2 08:05:50 2015 No.6348004 >>6336291 stop posting your ugly piles of translation. Everyone's seen them and nobody cares

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 2 08:18:05 2015 No.6348032 >>6340824 amazing shelf. Probably get the corrections out of there though, it was kinda shit, don't you agree?

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 2 09:09:54 2015 No.6348148 Come at me faggots protip: you can't

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 2 09:11:13 2015 No.6348149 File: 518 KB, 3072x4451, 00199BIG.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6348148 forgot the photograph

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 2 10:44:39 2015 No.6348321 File: 1.89 MB, 236x224, 138530816489.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6334776 >organizing your bookshelf like an exhibition Are you mentally impaired?

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 2 11:16:54 2015 No.6348387 >>6334756 Kindle, anyone?

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 2 13:42:09 2015 No.6348709 >>6348387 I have a completely full Kindle and over a thousand physical books. There's no reason not to have both.

>>	noko Thu Apr 2 15:38:51 2015 No.6349023 >>6335453 Not American Gods it's not. I have the same print. Shit cracked the first time I opened it.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 2 16:36:09 2015 No.6349207 >>6334974 >possessions >bourgeois >what is personal property?

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 2 16:38:19 2015 No.6349216 >>6336274 No it's not faggot

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 2 16:58:05 2015 No.6349297 >>6348709 >Look at me, consuming consuming consuming! I buy everything I can as soon as I can! I sure love buying things I don't need! Thank god for capital!

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 2 17:04:29 2015 No.6349313 >>6349297 Yep. Stay eternally buttflustered commie scum I know you will Also you're probably some NEET retard so enjoy your coming decades of soul crushing depression.

Anonymous Thu Apr 2 22:12:44 2015 No.6350421

>>6349297
I tend to only buy those that have to do with research I'm doing at that moment. While that does mean most of them were published the past decade, I buy lots of older works relevant to whatever subject I'm looking into too.

Not that I've even bought them all. I work in a literature field and receive a lot of books through other means.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 3 04:35:55 2015 No.6351647 File: 3.87 MB, 4608x3456, Books.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] here's my focus shelf for this year.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 3 04:37:58 2015 No.6351652 >>6351647 boring.

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