Bookshelves

[Anonymous No.8165320]

Post em.
Also, please shit on mine.

[Anonymous No.8165346]

>>8165320
Fucking embarrassing. Both the 'look at my stuff guis xD'-threads and your actual selection of books.

You belong on /r9k/

[Anonymous No.8165375]

Who the fuck actually likes Stephen King? Everything else on your bookshelf is meme shit.

[Anonymous No.8165396]

>>8165320
Can't bash it too much other than the potato quality picture (really like your Harry Crews selections). Personally, I'm not a huge fan of Stephen King, but I think it's perfectly fine if you enjoy him.

Also, Faulkner should have a nose.

[Anonymous No.8165406]

>>8165396
I agree and not enough people know about Harry Crews. I wish his works were not out of print

[Anonymous No.8165415]

>falling for memes like 2666, Recognitions, JR, Pynchon, Infinite Jest

Kek. Just how much money have you pissed away because you're a weak and gullible faggot who takes 4chan seriously?

[Anonymous No.8165505]

>>8165415
Care to give some recommendations then?

[Anonymous No.8165530]

>>8165505
Here's a recommendation: go fuck yourself

[Anonymous No.8165549]

>>8165530
So you have nothing to offer? Shocker.

[Anonymous No.8165552]

>>8165415
/thread

[Anonymous No.8165752]

the amount of jelly in this thread is amazing

[Anonymous No.8165755]

>>8165320
I love that you have all of Pynchon and Gaddis. You are unironically a true patrician.

[Anonymous No.8165759]

>>8165320
mirin pynchon

[Anonymous No.8165770]

>>8165320
>hardbacks

[Anonymous No.8165796]

Damn, love those 1st Ed Dark Towers. Those are hard to find.

[Anonymous No.8165803]

>>8165320

>all white men

[Anonymous No.8165862]

>>8165375
I hate Stephen King, good premises for half his novels and he tanks them hard, SaleMs Lot was the only one I enjoyed

[Anonymous No.8165871]

>>8165320
One of three of my shelves this one's in my bed room tho, a lot are school texts i still have and use but I need to organize shit badly but this is my "put it on the shelf for now shelf" sorry for quality I'm drunk and don't give a shit

[Anonymous No.8165971]

>>8165549
Here's another recommendation: end your pathetic life

[Anonymous No.8166000]

>>8165320
>Also, please shit on mine.
what's your address

[Anonymous No.8166022]

>>8165320
Do you actually read all first editions or did you buy them as trophies?

[Anonymous No.8166077]

>>8166022
Kind of a mix. The first time I read most of them were paperback then I eventually got around to finding first editions

[Anonymous No.8166097]

>>8165320
>literally every meme book without the necessary reference material to enjoy them
>Infinite Jest
>Stephen King
>MUH FIRST EDITIoNS

kysm8

[Anonymous No.8166103]

>>8165415
>Recognitions, JR

Both good books m8.
But this guy is obviously a faggot that jumped on whatever shit was meme of the month on /lit/

[Anonymous No.8166113]

>>8165320
Why do these threads exist

[Anonymous No.8166115]

>>8165871
>school texts

Inb4 the faggots with 20 5-inch wide programming manuals arrive

[Anonymous No.8166124]

>>8166113
>be 20-something with no friends but modest left over spending money every month
>decide to take up a hobby to look smart so I start listening to classical music exclusively and reading super-smart meme fiction that is circle-jerked everday on lit
>buy muh first editions
>haven't read anything yet but it sure looks great on the shelf
>take pics and post on lit

[Anonymous No.8166125]

How many (You)s would I get if I bought hundreds of copies of Infinite Jest and filled a bookcase with them?

[Anonymous No.8166131]

>>8166125
I would fill a thread with (You)s if you did that.

[Anonymous No.8166136]

>>8166113
why does any thread exist anon

actually i think the answer to your question might be "to show what a bunch of boorish uneducated turds the population of /lit/ is"

[Anonymous No.8166147]

>>8166131 (You)
me to

[Anonymous No.8166153]

What does a bookshelf tell you about a person and their literary taste? I don't think mine represents me particularly well. Half of it is stuff I haven't read yet, and half of my favorites I don't own.

[Anonymous No.8166187]

>>8166153
>tfw your library is 80% pdfs

>>8166136
>actually i think the answer to your question might be "to show what a bunch of boorish uneducated turds the population of /lit/ is"

This is a good post.

[Anonymous No.8166194]

>>8165971
Telling someone to kill themselves because they enjoy a different type of literature to you.

Never change, /lit/.

[Anonymous No.8166213]

>>8165320
Where the fuck do you find a hardback copy of Gravity's Rainbow?

[Anonymous No.8166246]

>>8165320
I dig that copy of GR, props. You're also repping Delillo, I have a similar shelf myself. Only thing your missing is some Kafka

[Anonymous No.8166299]

>>8166124
>heather

FUCK

[Anonymous No.8166347]

>>8166115
Chemistry, I use my reference materials constantly for work

[Anonymous No.8166618]

>>8165871
pfft. bwahahaha
>Gaylo figurines

[Anonymous No.8166632]

[Anonymous No.8166700]

>>8165320
>proust next to stephen king

wat

[Anonymous No.8166731]

>>8165971
You still have nothing, got it.

[Anonymous No.8166852]

[Anonymous No.8166938]

>>8166852
>hardcover
what a fool u are lol

[Anonymous No.8166945]

>>8166938
:( why? I bought almost all of these used so they were still really cheap

[Anonymous No.8166961]

>>8166938
I can find ex-library books in very good condition for $3 each, hardcovers. It is actually a good choice.

[Anonymous No.8167182]

>>8166938
t. poorfag

[Anonymous No.8167196]

>>8166961
How? Where?

[Anonymous No.8167202]

>>8166632
>he organizes his books in alphabetical order according to the author

I knew a guy in graduate school who arranged his books around his flat in stacks of like colours.

[Anonymous No.8167206]

>>8167196
Not him, but ThriftBooks has them often. There's a little icon that tells you when they're ex-library.

[Anonymous No.8167209]

>>8167202
He was ahead of his time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQ7djxSGh0A

[Anonymous No.8167210]

[Anonymous No.8167234]

>>8165320
Actually pulling off the "yea i read stephen king because it's fun, bitch." Quite impressive indeed. What's your job and/or major, if you dont mind?

[Anonymous No.8167266]

[Anonymous No.8167271]

>>8167266

[Anonymous No.8167274]

>>8167266
Wow, nice stack. I feel like bateman in these threads sometimes

[Anonymous No.8167281]

>>8167271

[Anonymous No.8167283]

>>8167271
What's your job

[Anonymous No.8167291]

>>8167281
How much for that sweet women and men ?

[Anonymous No.8167296]

>>8167281
>>8167283
Court translator and copy editor. I work like a dog, sleep 4 hours a day and spend all of my freetime reading/studying.

[Anonymous No.8167297]

>>8167210
I dig this reading corner anon

[Anonymous No.8167305]

>>8167291
>>8167296
I'll tell you when I finish reading it (:^).

[Anonymous No.8167310]

>>8167305
Why do you have so many JR's?

[Anonymous No.8167312]

>>8167305
What I'm currently reading.

[Anonymous No.8167313]

>>8167271
look at all that goodass annie dillard

[Anonymous No.8167316]

>>8167305
Shit dude, you're the guru. Who are your favorite writers and do you write yourself?

[Anonymous No.8167326]

>>8167312
That Beckett book cover reminds me of "Identifying Wood":

http://new2.fjcdn.com/pictures/Identifying_3c7cec_359550.gif

[Anonymous No.8167330]

Just some random Delillos and NYRBs.

>>8167312
That's not my address btw. I bought it used (with extensive notes and markings inside).

>>8167310
After I bought the first one (Dalkey) on Amazon, I just started finding them in odd places (library sales, garage sales, books for prisoners stockroom).
No one ever notices my Recognitions, though.

[Anonymous No.8167336]

>>8167305
send me a J R plz [e-mail]

[Anonymous No.8167355]

>>8167305
Nice Miles - his autobiography is sweet if you haven't already

[Anonymous No.8167363]

>>8167313
Very under-appreciated. Would recommend Holy the Firm.

>>8167316
Beckett, Onetti, Melville, Didion, Felisberto Hernández. I write highly-derivative shit when I'm drunk or exhausted, then I never have the will to look back and edit the few sentences I'd like to keep.

[Anonymous No.8167372]

That's it. I'm too tired/lazy to go outside and take a picture of my other (third) book closet and the shed outside where I keep my old books from before I moved.

>>8167355
The only musician/artist I've ever really followed is Charles Ives. But I hear good things about Davis' autobiography. I'll get to it eventually.

[Anonymous No.8167374]

>>8167210
Based reading area desu.

[Anonymous No.8167422]

Got some other books too.
Wish i read more desu
But i like 4chan too much

[Anonymous No.8167868]

>>8167372
>Davis' autobiography
*Discography
You damn nut

[Anonymous No.8167876]

this is kinda like a genre shelf but then I put some no genre stuff in it.
Thanks

[Anonymous No.8167882]

I have a bunch of books that people have leant me but I haven't read them yet,is Richard Bransons autobiography worth reading?

[Anonymous No.8167888]

First shelf of many full, verdict?

[Anonymous No.8167918]

Probably gonna read paradise lost and canterbury tales after Aeneid.

[Anonymous No.8167975]

>>8165320
You're missing Ratner's Star by DeLillo, so clearly you're just a poser phag with memetastes and a low self esteem.

[Anonymous No.8168232]

>>8167882
no

[Anonymous No.8168281]

>>8167888
that's an ikea billy shelf 80 cm

[Anonymous No.8168283]

>>8165320
are you pic related?

[Anonymous No.8168295]

>>8167975
Love Ratner's Star, but Cosmopolis is my favorite DeLillo.

[Anonymous No.8168328]

>>8166125
I'd give u some (u)s.

[Anonymous No.8168362]

>>8168281

every time

[Anonymous No.8168471]

>>8168283
Yes

[Anonymous No.8168502]

>>8168295
Cosmopolis was awful, senpai

[Anonymous No.8168503]

>>8167281
Can i have one of your JR editions?

[Anonymous No.8168595]

I will never be able to take a good picture of my bookshelf sadly.
And most of the books are not even in english,so it doesn't matter.
Last time I posted it you called it "Trollspeak" anyway.
Cunts

[Anonymous No.8168610]

>>8168283
figured, you are likely the only anon on /lit/ with a full collection of pynchon first editions.

[Anonymous No.8168628]

>Owning physical media

[Anonymous No.8168634]

>>8168628
>Not hoarding it

[Anonymous No.8168638]

>>8168628
>reading in Futura
t. pseud

[Anonymous No.8168642]

>>8167330
This happened to me, but I only have three Knopf editions.The tight typeface makes my eyes bleed.

[Anonymous No.8168646]

>>8167305
>4 JRs
>Women and Men
>that Miles box set
envious

[Anonymous No.8168652]

>>8168628
I only own nice editions of my favorite novels

[Anonymous No.8168663]

>>8167330
Are you one of those faggots selling used copies of JR for 80 bucks online?

[Anonymous No.8168835]

>>8165320
I am easily jellied over first-editions but I get them from Half-Price when I find one that's been overlooked and in near pristine edition. Good job, OP.

[Anonymous No.8169083]

>>8167868
How you like the complete works of Plato? Real expensive so I had to buy (likely shit) Barnes & Nobles versions translated by a guy who goes by the name of Benjamin Jewett.

[Anonymous No.8169095]

[Anonymous No.8169254]

>>8168835
That's the key. I paid almost nothing for all of my first editions. I just like having nice editions of the books I love.

[Anonymous No.8169321]

[Anonymous No.8169328]

got this backlog

[Anonymous No.8169343]

>>8166852

>all those hardcovers

for what purpose

[Anonymous No.8169362]

>>8165871

Do you like baseball or do you just live in an area with rich ethnic diversity?

[Anonymous No.8169387]

>>8165871
nice bait

[Anonymous No.8169393]

[Anonymous No.8169412]

>>8169328
hot cop's buns is overrated

[Anonymous No.8169429]

>>8169393
Cool selection, I think you're the only person I've seen go Foucault over Rose

[Anonymous No.8170882]

>>8169343
This is the most retarded thing I've ever read

[Anonymous No.8170951]

>>8169393
>revised lolita
>doesn't have the real lolita

[Mods No.8170976]

>>8170951
>>revised lolita
Lolita wasn't changed, "revised" is referring to the updates in the annotations.

[Anonymous No.8171004]

>>8170951
>he only read the bare text
>he thinks he understands the book

[Anonymous No.8171060]

>>8165320
It is a smol but mighty collection. I am missing a few.

[Anonymous No.8171068]

>>8165320
>all that pynchon

disgusting

[Anonymous No.8171069]

>>8171060
Yes it is. Congratulations, anon.

[Anonymous No.8171070]

>>8169393
I liked the artemis fowl books as a kid. They would make good movies, I used to think. Kind of forget the plots now.

[Anonymous No.8171071]

>>8171060
basic kafka for a basic bitch

[Anonymous No.8171074]

>>8171060
Not pictured are Logical Investigations, Schopenhauer's Essays and Aphorisms, Goethe's Maxims and Reflections, and Maxims of Francois Rochefoucault.

[Anonymous No.8171079]

>>8171071
Ha, I thought the same thing!

[Anonymous No.8171083]

has anyone else not read even half of the books they own?

[Anonymous No.8171094]

>>8171083
yes, I am
>>8171060
and I have only read 3 of those completely, but I am still in progress with most of the others. Reading works of philosophy is okay to do by parts. No reason to just plow through something that needs time to take shape.

[Anonymous No.8171104]

op
you are an
autist

[Anonymous No.8171117]

>>8168503
>>8168642
>>8168646
>>8168663
I'm sorry, but I really am a bibliophile. The moment I saw them within arm's reach, I felt like I needed to save them from certain doom. No, I'm not selling them on Amazon, because I wouldn't part with them unless I handed them personally to someone I was 99% sure would read it. They fell into my lap by chance, but only circumstance will release them from my safekeeping.

[Anonymous No.8171159]

>>8171117
I have every Gaddis book expect JR now because of hoarder fags like you, so you can go suck a dick.

[Anonymous No.8171296]

>>8165971
Quit projecting.

[Anonymous No.8171299]

>>8167210
wouldreadin/10

[Anonymous No.8171543]

>>8165871
Mirin ivy.

[Anonymous No.8171551]

>>8171117
>No, I'm not selling them on Amazon, because I wouldn't part with them unless I handed them personally to someone I was 99% sure would read it.
Some fucker paying $50 for a book on Amazon is going to at least read it

You're not "saving" anything it just makes you feel good to hoard shit

[Anonymous No.8171643]

>>8168281
>>8168362
It wasn't criticism. They're damn cheap and functional, and they look good. I got three Billy 60 cm second-hand for 20 bucks.

[Anonymous No.8171672]

>>8165415
>contrarian faggot tries to stroke his ego

[Anonymous No.8171680]

>>8169343
>asking why people like hardcovers

holy shit is anyone on this board able to think for themselves? do you faggots need to be spoon fed every day ?

[Anonymous No.8171698]

and I thought /lit/ was a much less elitist board than /tv/ or /mu/. boy was I wrong.

[Anonymous No.8171706]

>>8171698
>>>/r/books/

[Anonymous No.8171716]

>>8171706
no thank you

[Anonymous No.8171719]

>>8171698
/lit/ is the supremum of elitism of any set

[Anonymous No.8171735]

>>8171698

Literally the only people who get hurt by elitism are those who have bad tastes or get made fun of.

People just like to see someone's trying, even then, you still don't know what you're talking about as /tv/ since capeshit has come up literally talks about real movies and kino maybe once or twice a day in any length, it's practically dead for real discussion.

And /mu/ has pretty much the western canon of music available for download just to integrate you, there's too much pop and flavor of the month talks for it to actually be elite

you're a fuckin pleb.

[Anonymous No.8171740]

>>8168362
What, exactly, is wrong with that? 30kg shelf load seems ample.

[Anonymous No.8171750]

1/5

[Anonymous No.8171755]

>>8171750
2/5

[Anonymous No.8171760]

>>8171755
3/5

[Anonymous No.8171765]

>>8171760
4/5

[Anonymous No.8171767]

>>8171765
My bedside book/5

(I usually keep borges, orwell, and dostoyevsky under my night stand)

[Anonymous No.8171775]

>>8171735
I'm not hurt, I was just making an observation.

[Anonymous No.8171958]

tfw you post your elite collection but no one replies

[Anonymous No.8171970]

>>8169095

>Good Morning Midnight

i want to fuck you

[Anonymous No.8172003]

Quite a bit of medical literature
Also
>Hoarding stuff from childhood that my grandfather bought me

[Anonymous No.8172009]

>>8170976
Literally not true

>>8171004
I've read both versions, moron.

[Anonymous No.8172128]

>>8169343
If I took off the dust jackets would they die?

[Anonymous No.8172168]

>>8166125
Enough to surpass /mu/'s "hell be fine"

[Anonymous No.8172176]

>>8167210
mirin hard anon
you got a nice place there

[Anonymous No.8173940]

>>8172128
It would be extremely dangerous

[Anonymous No.8174073]

[Anonymous No.8175348]

[Anonymous No.8175494]

>>8175348
can you give me the isbn numbers of those books?

[Anonymous No.8175513]

>>8169083
>jewett
>jew
c'mon now

[Anonymous No.8175691]

>>8169095
>that Maddie Ziegler magazine cover
Are you some kind of paedophile?

[Anonymous No.8175740]

[Anonymous No.8176149]

>>8171117
The reason why people would like your excess copies of certain books is because they aren't being given the chance to read them because of hoarders like you who worsen the market for unpublished works. You say you wouldn't part with them unless you knew the person would read them yet you are doing exactly that.

[Anonymous No.8176301]

>>8173940
you're a big guy

[Anonymous No.8176398]

>>8176301
For you

[Anonymous No.8176527]

>>8172168
kek

[Anonymous No.8178355]

[Anonymous No.8178562]

>>8169387
If you saw the hat on top of it you'd get the joke of having it

[Anonymous No.8178572]

>>8169362
Kek I hate baseball though not a rich ethnic diversity just methheads, my town is like 75 percent white, a quarter Asian and Indian and they don't fuck with anyone and there's two half black dudes who are twins so I guess technically one black guy