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Bookshelf Thread? YES Rocinante Thu Jun 18 09:17:56 2015 No.6705064 [Reply] [Original]

Recently started reading Leviathan Wakes, as well as Terry Pratchetts 'the colour of magic'.

Sorry for shitty image quality, using old replacement phone.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 18 09:23:38 2015 No.6705082 >>6705064 >reddit: the bookshelf

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 18 09:26:00 2015 No.6705089 File: 1018 KB, 500x700, this nigga serious?.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6705064 Not one classic on that shelf, not even one Greek classic on that shelf. >mfw

>>	Rocinante Thu Jun 18 09:28:27 2015 No.6705093 >>6705089 Classic recommendation? I probably have never read a classic.

Anonymous Thu Jun 18 09:43:50 2015 No.6705151

>>6705093

I'm just going to go on a hunch and assume you are from >>>/v/ or >>>/a/ or possibly >>>/co/

Either way, we have entire sticky dedicated for you here: http://4chanlit.wikia.com/wiki/Recommended_Reading

So feel free to find a classic that suits your interest. A lot of people will recommend the Greeks first, but if you are an anime fan, it won't hurt for you to maybe start with the Japanese or Chinese.

Either way, I recommend you lurk more, and read more. Enjoy the trek.

Anonymous Thu Jun 18 09:53:27 2015 No.6705196
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>>6705093
If you have never read a classic start with something easy. Please don't buy Moby Dick tomorrow.

Steinbeck and Hemingway would be good places to start.

Pic is courtesy of the wiki please go there now

>>6705064
If you liked Old Mans War get Starship Troopers or The Forever War.

Also get Childhoods End before the SyFy channels shits it up.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 18 10:01:54 2015 No.6705232 File: 2.51 MB, 3504x2336, _MG_4894.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6705064

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 18 10:13:55 2015 No.6705282 File: 1.28 MB, 3264x2448, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I posted mine a few weeks ago but I'll post again because I like it when you guys tear me down. 1/5

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 18 10:15:10 2015 No.6705289 File: 1.54 MB, 3264x2448, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6705282 2/5

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 18 10:16:17 2015 No.6705291 File: 1.38 MB, 3264x2448, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6705289 3/5 Steaks are not chicken cutlets what is with these captchas

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 18 10:17:00 2015 No.6705293 >>6705282 >>6705289 Nothing worth reading. Also, post your tits.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 18 10:17:23 2015 No.6705294 File: 1.28 MB, 3264x2448, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6705291 4/5

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 18 10:18:04 2015 No.6705295 >>6705291 This is better.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 18 10:18:27 2015 No.6705299 File: 1.19 MB, 3264x2448, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6705294 5/5 Make me feel weak

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 18 10:23:33 2015 No.6705308 File: 144 KB, 640x640, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 18 10:24:00 2015 No.6705310 >>6705299 How's Pushkin? It's hard to enjoy poems in translation, isn't it?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 18 10:26:06 2015 No.6705316 File: 1.77 MB, 3264x2448, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] The favorites

Anonymous Thu Jun 18 10:29:18 2015 No.6705322

>>6705310
Unfortunately, yes. Especially so with Pushkin, as I've heard he plays masterfully with the language. I'm incapable of learning more than one language at a time and im having enough issues trying to remember French idioms as I stumble through Beckett. Russian will come after German, anyway. Still, glad I read what I could, for now

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 18 10:29:25 2015 No.6705323 >>6705316 How's Vollmann? I haven't read him, and he's not talked about much here, despite the comparisons to our favourite meme authors I keep hearing about.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 18 10:32:03 2015 No.6705330 >>6705316 Why is The Recognitions so cute, bros?

Anonymous Thu Jun 18 10:36:53 2015 No.6705335

>>6705323
Vollmann the person seems kind of out there, and I've only read The Rifles, so can't say much about him, but the beginning (first 60 pages or so) of The Rifles I remember being absolutely beautiful. It reminded me of an arctic Blood Meridian of sorts. This a very deeply felt book, very desperate, but it starts to become weird/bad someway in the middle.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 18 11:02:49 2015 No.6705409 >>6705299 I think your shelf is pretty good.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 18 11:31:38 2015 No.6705483 File: 48 KB, 400x462, 1431783791619.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6705316 >P&V >Not Garnett

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 18 11:36:53 2015 No.6705492 >>6705316 >infinite jest behind other books how dare you

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 18 11:38:15 2015 No.6705496 >>6705483 >implying Garnett is good for anything other than Pushkin

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 18 11:44:41 2015 No.6705508 >>6705293 >nothing worth reading >Mann, Beckett, Calvino, Bely, Bulgakov You must be a master patrician

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 18 11:50:39 2015 No.6705519 >>6705282 >>6705289 >>6705291 >>6705294 >>6705299 I love how you wrap your hardcovers in plastic and buy expensive signed copies and ostentatious folio copies and keep the spines pristine by not reading them.

Anonymous Thu Jun 18 11:55:20 2015 No.6705534

>>6705519
I've been getting books as my birthday/Christmas gifts since I was 15. The spines of hardcovers don't break. I'm surprised you don't know this. Paperback spines also don't break unless you take a long time to read them or subject them to a lot of weather (my shitty ones I read at the beach). I don't mind that they're broken but no, I don't break my spines on purpose to make them appear weathered. A small, independent antiquarian bookstore an hour or so from my house sells their books with the covers on and I keep them on. I don't see the issue

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>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 18 13:54:51 2015 No.6705821 File: 1.31 MB, 3264x2448, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 3/11

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 18 13:56:17 2015 No.6705825 File: 1.27 MB, 3264x2448, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 4/11

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 18 13:57:32 2015 No.6705833 >>6705064 >>6705093 OP where did you even get your name? Rocinante is the name of the protagonist's horse in Don Quixote, a seminal work of Spanish Renaissance literature

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>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 18 14:07:09 2015 No.6705876 >>6705299 Beautiful copy of Gulliver

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 18 14:08:45 2015 No.6705880 >>6705812 Solid setup man. Looks tasteful

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 18 14:10:27 2015 No.6705888 File: 3.06 MB, 4160x2340, IMG_20150408_183441582.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 1/1 even though there's more

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 18 14:11:24 2015 No.6705892 >>6705880 Thank you. Favorite room in the house.

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