Bookshelf thread

[Anonymous No.8388910]

Didn't see one in the catalog, so can we get one of these going? Rate, h8, rec, compliment, shitpost, whatever. How's my shelf look?

[Anonymous No.8388917]

>>8388910
Are you 12?

[Anonymous No.8388928]

Babby's first bookshelf.

[Anonymous No.8388959]

Your bookshelf tells me you have nothing worth contributing and you bring down the average quality of users.

[Anonymous No.8388992]

>>8388959
not op but dune, tolkien, and lovecraft are great
dude's just really into fantasy

[Anonymous No.8388999]

>>8388910

[Anonymous No.8389001]

>>8388959
These threads bring down the average quality of the board.

[Anonymous No.8389026]

>>8389001
>lit
>having ANY quality

you must be really dumb to think this board have anything good to offer

[Anonymous No.8389097]

>>8388999
Protip: find a religion and stick with it, anon.

[Anonymous No.8389130]

>>8389001
>>8388959
It's just bait from reddit. Literally every bookshelf has the same infantile shit

[Anonymous No.8389191]

>>8389097

My religion is chaos magick/my own experiences

[Anonymous No.8389195]

>>8389191
Why are you incapable of a proper camera shot?

[Anonymous No.8389203]

>>8389195

Because my computer desk is in the way. You can see the corner of it in the lower left.

[Anonymous No.8389234]

[Anonymous No.8389242]

>>8389234

I am going to paraphrase a comment I saw posted in response to this copy-past since one good turn deserves another:

"Well, those are at least the books I would expect someone with that bookshelf to have"

[Anonymous No.8389258]

[Anonymous No.8389262]

English & Dutch overflow

>Be gentle please.

[Anonymous No.8389265]

>>8389262

French section hiding in the hallway.

[Anonymous No.8389272]

>>8389262
>>8389265
hey fellow taschen anon. anything new recently?

[Anonymous No.8389280]

>>8389262
>>8389265
English section is a beautiful dimorphism between shit, self-help (me thinks) and corereads.
Now the French section is better, mais il y a des choses pas terribles
>Tournier
>Pas le medianoche amoureux
>Ou est Moliere
>Le naturalisme est mort

[Anonymous No.8389288]

>>8389258
Literature has nothing to offer you, burn all your books or give them to charity, you have no business in /lit/.
>>>/tv/

[Anonymous No.8389291]

[Anonymous No.8389294]

>>8389291
>this is the average /lit/ poster
I remember when people had at least 1 or 2 good books.
Also
>german
>not having Mein Kampf
Untermensch

[Anonymous No.8389303]

>>8389288
>>8389294
you've done nothing but prove how new you are.

these bait shelves have been posted for months on end.

kill yourself.

[Anonymous No.8389313]

>>8389288
>>8389294
retard

[Anonymous No.8389338]

>>8389272
On the Taschen front, only Rauch. Cheated on them with teNeues, Brazil is a great photography book from Olaf Heine, really stark images in part due to Niemeyer's flowing modernism.

>>8389280
Could be worse I guess, there's just 2/3 books self help, all from a housemate who moved out a while ago.
French section is mostly from those bouquinistes on the Seine, wish we had those in Ams, their stock is good and cheap.

[Anonymous No.8389347]

[Anonymous No.8389350]

>>8389338
That much is true about french literature, any book 3 euros, you end up taking 30 of those bad boys

[Anonymous No.8389396]

>>8388999
>Fagles
>not Fitzgerald

[Anonymous No.8389398]

>>8389396
>not Lattimore

[Anonymous No.8389405]

>>8389396
>>8389398
>not the original Greek

[Anonymous No.8389428]

>>8389405
>not travelling back in time to hear it told verbally

[Anonymous No.8389430]

I guess I well post mine again.

[Anonymous No.8389436]

>>8389428
kekd you got me there

[Anonymous No.8389447]

>>8389430
ugh you don't even read.

[Anonymous No.8389448]

>>8389428
>not travelling back to be the one who tells it

[Anonymous No.8389521]

>>8389430

[Anonymous No.8389530]

>>8389521
This is the only way I could make it work on my phone.

[Anonymous No.8389536]

>>8389530

[Anonymous No.8389538]

>>8389530
your philosophy is solid
your fiction is mediocre to pleb

[Anonymous No.8389566]

>>8389538
I can live with that I dont really care for fiction much.

[Anonymous No.8389589]

>>8389566
I understand, but take a look from this perspective, you are eating burgers, and by the same price you could be eating a french cuisine. Plus it has to do with philosophy. Even if you don't care, try thinking that you could be enjoying a whole fucking lot fiction rather than a passive reading

[Anonymous No.8389599]

>>8389430
>reading past god emperor
>fagles instead of lattimore
>burtons 1001 nights

mama mia!

[Anonymous No.8389623]

>>8389430
I tend to stray from penguin editions of ancient texts, but that's still among the best ranges of ancient world content I've seen on this board. Not comprehensive, but a decent selection undeniably beyond entry level "start with the greeks" shit. What are the loebs?

PS If you like Roman history at all ready Livy. Not as good a historian as Tacitus, but way more fun.

>>8389599
>shitting on a translation when that poster has almost certainly read more ancient content than you
Let's see your impressive Greek/Roman collection faggot

[Anonymous No.8389656]

>>8389623
i'm on a business trip right now, or i would.

i actually own fagles too, i got lattimore afterwards.

i've read nearly all of these ancient works you have on your shelf. where's your bacchae?

[Anonymous No.8389668]

>>8389656
convinient

[Anonymous No.8389670]

>>8389656
That's not my shelf above but as for my Bacchae see pic related and lick my balls

[Anonymous No.8389689]

>>8389670
thought you were the other anon, suck my dick

>>8389668
>convenient
what are you, like fucking 13? i have a job.

[Anonymous No.8389725]

>>8389599
>agreed
>I'll get to it eventually
>don't really care

[Anonymous No.8389751]

>>8389623
I agree, the penguin editions are just what the used book stores around me have. For my money oxford classics are the best 95% of the time. I have livy's early history someplace. The loebs are the golden ass, epic fragments, and a sampler.

[Anonymous No.8389761]

It's modest.

[Anonymous No.8389776]

>>8389761
i lol'd

[Anonymous No.8389783]

>>8389761
Based desu

[Anonymous No.8389853]

>>8389761
Get on my level what reading level is that you pedo

[Anonymous No.8389907]

>>8389623
>>8389656
>>8389670
This is one of the most pathetic exchanges I've seen on /lit/

[Anonymous No.8389922]

>>8389853
>not Fabled Lands

[Anonymous No.8389930]

I don't keep my books. Most of them are from the library, the ones I buy I give away. I almost never re-read books, so why waste a whole shelf? Moving with all those books must be a nightmare, too.

[Anonymous No.8389941]

>>8389930
It's nice decoration for a room, for one thing.

[Anonymous No.8390015]

>>8389930
I live in a bad neighborhood, and a shelf full of books is good protection from small caliber bullets

[Anonymous No.8390033]

>>8389930
It's not really a nightmare. I've done it three times so far, planning to do it once more by the end of the year. I've got ~1300 books and they aren't half as frustrating to move as a mattress and box spring are.

[Anonymous No.8390164]

Rate my overcrowded tiny bookshelf

[Anonymous No.8390170]

>>8390164

[Anonymous No.8390173]

>>8390170

[Anonymous No.8390199]

>>8390164
>>8390170
>>8390173
They look unread

[Anonymous No.8390214]

>>8390199
Most have been read. I did buy quite a few recently though. Even the ones I haven't read probably have been before since I buy most of my books used

[Anonymous No.8390285]

>>8388999
luna get out

[Anonymous No.8390305]

>>8389907
summer

Also kill yourself faggot

[Anonymous No.8390318]

>>8390285

NO

[Anonymous No.8390349]

>>8389258
>>8389294
these are the people ruining our board

[Anonymous No.8391291]

not much has changed since the last shelf thread, but might as well post. Thinking about re arranging and getting rid of some stuff
The back row on both shelves is all Warhammer 40k books

[Anonymous No.8391418]

>>8389234
That's fucking gay.

[Anonymous No.8391541]

I own an e reader :^)

[Anonymous No.8391700]

>>8390164

Read something longer than 400 pages you pleb. Time to read some real nigga books my friend.

[Anonymous No.8391764]

Had to edit some photos cause this is 4chab after all

[Anonymous No.8392053]

>>8391291
if you post this again ill beat up your dad

[Anonymous No.8392136]

>>8388992
PKD, Harlan Ellison, H.G. Wells and Yevgeny Zamyatin are all good, too.

[Anonymous No.8392152]

>>8390164
>Things Fall Apart
>On the Road by Jack Kerouac
>all that George Orwell

These don't seem like much worth reading, since their main value is showing the historical setting that spawned them, and aren't much in an artistic sense, so you would learn more by just taking a history class on that setting.

I do like all that Steinbeck though, he's very attached to the setting he lived in, but he actually has a decent writing style. Are you from California?

[Anonymous No.8392443]

>>8392152
Not Californian, just like Steinbeck a lot
Also interesting you should say that about those books, I pretty much read Things Fall Apart because of the setting. I did like it and the rest of the African trilogy. Honestly I never finished On the Road. I really like Orwell's non fiction desu

[Anonymous No.8392628]

>>8392053
chill down dude. the entire point of bookshelf threads is to post your bookshelf

[Anonymous No.8392785]

Sperged out and reorganized alphabetically

1/4

[Anonymous No.8392791]

>>8392785
2/4

[Anonymous No.8392798]

>>8392791
3/4

[Anonymous No.8392808]

>>8392798
4/4

[Anonymous No.8392809]

>>8388910

Like a whole bunch of shitty fantasy and scifi?

[Anonymous No.8392810]

>>8389670
Can someone please tell me where to get these editions of the tragedies and The history of the decline and fall.

[Anonymous No.8392811]

>>8392152
You should probably try reading Orwell instead of dismissing him because he's popular.

[Anonymous No.8392813]

>>8388992

Tolkein is 'great,' Dune is alright, lovecraft is overrated as fuck.

/subjectiveopinion

[Anonymous No.8392817]

>>8392810
I don't think you should get those tragedies, they use capital sigma Σ instead of E. You'd look like a total doofus to anyone who knew the greek alphabet.

[Anonymous No.8392823]

>>8389430

I definitely recommend learning attic greek if you have the time. I haven't read as much as you, but what I have read I've read in Greek. I can't imagine that the plays really translate that well, nor Plato really.

Love the Aquinas and Augustine (Augustine's latin is stupid easy if you are interested).

[Anonymous No.8392829]

>>8389589

Can confirm, eating baguette and camembert, 3 euros total. Even cheaper for reblochon.

Could have had burger at Mcdo for same price.

[Anonymous No.8392831]

>>8392817
That's clearly not sigma though it's just a jagged looking E

[Anonymous No.8392843]

>>8392831
Nah, it's a sigma. See pic.

[Anonymous No.8392853]

>>8392843
ok but it's still an E and I like the spine better regardless so is there anywhere I can cop or not?

[Anonymous No.8393812]

>>8389262

>Norton Shakespeare.

Good lad.

[Anonymous No.8394209]

>>8392813
> lovecraft is overrated as fuck.
He can be rated high either for good or for horrible reasons, so I guess you're right.

Nonetheless he is a legit author to like as long as you don't like him for "lol cthulhu so dark xd"

[Anonymous No.8394447]

>>8389258
One can only dream.

[Anonymous No.8394469]

>>8388910
Lol you've got about as much Redwall as i do

[Anonymous No.8395637]

1/5

[Anonymous No.8395641]

>>8395637
2/5
Dark knight strikes again is the only logical conclusion to literature desu

[Anonymous No.8395642]

>>8395641
3/5

[Anonymous No.8395646]

>>8395642
4/5
noice

[Anonymous No.8395648]

>>8395646
5/5

[Anonymous No.8395700]

>>8395637
>>8395642
>>8395646


Those are hilariously unread apart from nineteen eighty-four

[Anonymous No.8395708]

>>8395700
yr dick is hilariously unread mate

[Anonymous No.8395716]

>>8395700
Oh ok

[Anonymous No.8395719]

>>8395700
Can you show me how to crack small books?

[Anonymous No.8395722]

>>8395637

Are you Australian?

Also, try reading one of these books for fuck sake. Wow.

[Anonymous No.8395726]

>>8389258
This is bait, right?

[Anonymous No.8396126]

[Anonymous No.8396301]

I have quite abit, but this is the only semipatrician shelf. Minus Paulo obv.

[Anonymous No.8396310]

>>8396301
Please use a copy of Infinite Jest to separate your Marx and Nietzsche.

[Anonymous No.8396322]

>>8396310
Haha good one, but that book has never appealed to me. It just doesn't radiate "quality".

[Anonymous No.8396345]

>>8396301
thats a pretty good start try:
Walden/ civil disobedience
plato
brave new world
dune

[Anonymous No.8397107]

>>8395722
No :^)
I only have time for books under 300 pages kek

[Anonymous No.8397228]

[Anonymous No.8397376]

move aside patrician shelf coming through

[Anonymous No.8397454]

What's with all the science fiction faggotry on here? Read some proper novels, jeez

[Anonymous No.8397482]

>>8397376
u speak gook?

[Anonymous No.8397659]

>>8397376
>Ready Player One
>patrician

[Anonymous No.8397669]

>>8397228
Is this some kind of doomsday shelter?

[Anonymous No.8397754]

>>8397659
That's the joke.

[Anonymous No.8397779]

I always wanted to post in one of these

[Anonymous No.8397912]

>>8397482
>Gook
That's not Korean you racist filth.

[Anonymous No.8397914]

>tfw I browse these threads every day waiting for the guy with the nice chair and lamp who stacks his books sideways so I can ask him furniture questions

[Anonymous No.8397926]

>>8395637
I recognise so many of those editions because they're all fucking new and almost all of your books look unread. Apply yourself.

[Anonymous No.8397982]

Is this ok for stacking? Just light novels, nothing important but I also don't want them to get damage.

[Anonymous No.8398425]

>>8397482
yea it's three body in ching chong
>>8397659
>implying it's not

go back to Tumblr

[Anonymous No.8398611]

>>8397659
emergency toilet paper

[Anonymous No.8399332]

>>8395637
>>8395641
>>8395642
>>8395646
>>8395648
>sorting by publisher
das it mane

[Anonymous No.8399334]

>>8388910
Memes

[Anonymous No.8399341]

>>8388910
First one, these are just the books that I have in my apartment.

[Anonymous No.8399342]

>>8389338
oooh big arty books time

reposting one of mine

[Anonymous No.8399344]

>>8399341

[Anonymous No.8399349]

>>8399341
>>8399344
get shelves you animal

[Anonymous No.8399351]

>>8399344
Intelligent Investor was given to me by an ex-girlfriend who I had told I was interested in getting into investing/markets. Haven't actually read it yet.

[Anonymous No.8399353]

>>8399344
Haha they actually are shelves - just single shelves that are bolted to my wall.

[Anonymous No.8399355]

>>8395642
i've never seen those 33 1/3 books before. i looked them up and there seems to be a whole series of them with mixed reviews. are they basically a memoir type of thing? what do you think of them?

[Anonymous No.8399358]

>>8396301
i have that same roald dahl book. i love it. he wrote some mental stuff. if you're in the uk you should watch the programme about him on the iplayer at the moment. he had an amazing life
http://bbc.in/2ak8q45

[Anonymous No.8399362]

>>8392853
No. They only made one for that guy in particular.

[Anonymous No.8399364]

>>8399332
Updated
r8, h8, b8 me

[Anonymous No.8399365]

[Anonymous No.8399366]

>>8396126
fuggg

[Anonymous No.8399367]

>>8392843
It's actually an M. All the other letters are sideways.

[Anonymous No.8399369]

[Anonymous No.8399371]

[Anonymous No.8399374]

[Anonymous No.8399375]

>>8399369
wow, german books look boring

[Anonymous No.8399378]

>>8399375

[Anonymous No.8399380]

>>8399375
It is the aesthetic of Ordnung, though I like my English books as well

[Anonymous No.8399382]

[Anonymous No.8399385]

>>8399382
without the Parkinson's

[Anonymous No.8399388]

[Anonymous No.8399389]

[Anonymous No.8399391]

[Anonymous No.8399393]

I did buy my copy of the bandanna mememan's epic before knowing Eggers was a turncoat fuck

[Anonymous No.8399394]

and done, aside from a few course books and dictionaries

[Anonymous No.8400169]

posting in this spook thread

[Anonymous No.8400220]

>>8400169
edgy teen detected

nice moomin book tho

[Anonymous No.8400242]

>>8400169

[Anonymous No.8400445]

>>8397376
Where's your copy of Revelation Space senpai? How much did you like it?

It was one of the better modern space operas, but man it really cranked up foppishness to eleven. The scenes of the razorstorms and orbital drops remain more vivid in my memory than the vast majority of scifi imagery.

[Anonymous No.8400672]

>>8400445
It's on the other shelf. Running out of space so stuff has started to just pile up everywhere, need a new shelf soon.

I actually didn't like as much as I thought I would. Heard great things about it, and yes I agree - the imagery was incredibly vivid and there were some great sequences. However the overall pacing and plotting felt languid, and maybe I was just mistaken in assuming it was a standalone novel but it did not feel very complete to me. I understand there are a few more books in the same universe but I'm not sure if I want to go out of my way to read them. The story felt a bit cliche to me overall.

[Anonymous No.8400722]

>>8388999
Alexiad worth reading?

[Anonymous No.8400733]

>>8400722

Haven't read it yet sorry >_> ;_;

[Anonymous No.8400770]

[Anonymous No.8400814]

>>8400672
I felt similarly about Hyperion, especially part dos. Hyperion scratched the surface for a quiet AI takeover, and I'd like to see this expanded on, like a certain Daniel Wilson novel, except gradually unfurled on a slow burn.

[Anonymous No.8400912]

>>8399375
Reclam and Suhrkamp are ancient, generations after generations of German schoolchildren and university students depended on these inexpensive formats. Picrelated in the current Reclam Universal Library, perfect ORDNUNG in color coded format.

[Anonymous No.8400991]

>>8400814
I enjoyed Hyperion/Fall a lot. Endymion/Rise was kinda meh. I think Hyperion Cantos similarly had very vivid images, albeit of a more epic (in the mythological sense) variety as opposed to the more daunting and fathomless kind in Revelation Space. Hyperion felt more "literary" to me, which makes sense in how Simmons borrowed from canon literature for symbols and allusions.

[Anonymous No.8401014]

>>8389430
what did you think of prometheus rising

[Anonymous No.8401039]

>>8400770
That's a lot of penguin. Good taste.

[Anonymous No.8401047]

>>8400912
pure autism

[Anonymous No.8401051]

>>8401039
you can't even see what the books are you superficial middlebrow

[Anonymous No.8401055]

>>8401047
are you retarded?

[Anonymous No.8401059]

>>8400169
so cringe

[Anonymous No.8401066]

>>8401055
yes

[Anonymous No.8401168]

>>8400912
Reclam are like my least favorite editions, they look so cheap and the quality seems really poor
I avoid putting them on my bookshelves at all costs

[Anonymous No.8401185]

>>8400770
hardcore dude

[Anonymous No.8401225]

>>8389761

absolutely moral

[Anonymous No.8401228]

>>8396126
patrician asf 10/10

[Anonymous No.8401232]

>>8396126
ur the modern Homer Wells

[Anonymous No.8401567]

>>8401168
I agree, except I think they look quite nice, though I prefer the slightly higher quality, sometimes slightly higher price Suhrkamp books

[Anonymous No.8402948]

>>8401014
its essential.

[Anonymous No.8402953]

>>8392810
Chicago university press set of the tragedies, published 1960 or so. Not sure where to get it now; I lucked out and got it at a used book store for $30.

And it's the Heritage press Decline and Fall. You can find some sets used online for <$30 in pretty great condition (usually only the slipcases are banged up). I got that one for $18.

[Anonymous No.8402955]

Finally got a shelf at my place so I can bring a few more from my parents garage :')

[Anonymous No.8402974]

Bookshelves are okay if you have limited space, otherwise filing cabinets kept in your closet are the way to go.

[Anonymous No.8402976]

>>8400169
>Be Here Now

Just peace and memes man

[Anonymous No.8402986]

>>8389521
>The Qu'ran
>Not in the highest place of the room
You disgust me filthy kafir

[Anonymous No.8402994]

[Anonymous No.8402995]

>>8402994

[Anonymous No.8403000]

>>8402995

[Anonymous No.8403002]

>>8389262
>dick ovens

[Anonymous No.8403005]

>>8403000

[Anonymous No.8403007]

>>8400169
>Spengler
>Evola
>Nietzsche
>but still have Stirner
how can one man be so spooked?

[Anonymous No.8403099]

>>8402955
Zero points if anyone guesses where I live

[Anonymous No.8403224]

>>8402994
>5 candles
>mfw

[Anonymous No.8403226]

>>8402955
never quite got all the way through that philosophy of science book eh?

[Anonymous No.8403242]

>>8391764
heh, jokes on you, I have the superior knowledge of photo editing software that allows me to undo editing done on images.

[Anonymous No.8403421]

I just transitioned from graphic novels into real patrician literature like this.

[Anonymous No.8403453]

>>8403421
>i'm an edgy teen and i hate my grandmother and i want /lit/ to hate her too

[Anonymous No.8403455]

>>8403421
>I just transitioned
So what should we call you?

[Anonymous No.8403456]

>>8402955
Those books in the first shelf are floating what the fuck??

[Anonymous No.8403459]

>>8389521
>new oxford bible
nice

[Anonymous No.8403623]

>>8403421

>They're all hardbacks.

[Anonymous No.8403648]

>>8403623
>babby poorfag throws a fit because he can only afford cheap paperbacks

[Anonymous No.8403675]

Over 9000 hours in Photo Editor. My bookshelf is in my closet. I have Russian and /phi/ on the left, sci-fi and science in the middle and classics/Spanish lit/miscellaneous on the right.

[Anonymous No.8403703]

>>8403456
>what is a rotated image

This is bait right?

[Anonymous No.8403715]

>>8403703
i think it might be what on my planet we call a "joke". maybe you don't have them where you come from.

[Anonymous No.8403762]

guys, is there a good reason for not stacking books, apart from accessability? do you find it increases wear?

[Anonymous No.8403767]

[Anonymous No.8403781]

>>8388999

>Atlas Shrugged master race

[Anonymous No.8403897]

>>8403767
>genre fiction
>video games
>multiple copies of infinite jest

i don't know what this is, but it's stressing me out

[Anonymous No.8403983]

>>8403897
Also the fact he has Slaughterhouse-five upside down and Breakfast of Champions four books away from it. I don't know what's happening but it's also causing me stress.

[Anonymous No.8403993]

>>8403762
because if you are not careful, and you stack big heavy books on top of small light books, and leave them for a while, something like pic related will happen

warning: some people may find the attached picture upsetting

[Anonymous No.8404042]

>>8392813
>Dune is alright
Not really a sci-fi fan, but Dune is pretty fucking awesome IMO. Teeming with big ideas, like science fiction should be (but rarely is.)

[Anonymous No.8404048]

>>8403648

No, it just looks really fedora-tier and gaudy.

[Anonymous No.8404052]

>>8399351
Read it, but just the bits that Graham wrote. They're the basic principles you need.

Too many lesser authors pad out this book with irrelevant crap, piggy-backing on a classic work.

[Anonymous No.8404056]

>>8399364
Can't read the titles. All I know is your collection is too yellow. Buy more blue books FFS.

[Anonymous No.8404152]

Fiction shelf. Ordered alphabetically, because I'm a sperglord.

The missing book is The First Circle by Solzhenitsyn, which I'm currently reading.

[Anonymous No.8404158]

>>8404152
Section 2: Philosophy and Psychology (plus tarot decks and a couple of wargames ...)

No, I don't use the Dewey decimal system ...

[Anonymous No.8404161]

>>8404158
Section 3: Poetry, History and Reference.

There will be a prize for those who can read the blurry titles.

[Anonymous No.8404168]

>>8404161
This time, with an actual pic. Kek.

[Anonymous No.8404655]

>>8404152
>>8404158
>>8404168
You should ditch the alphabet and any thematic distinctions (which make no sense for a small library) and go by publisher consistently instead desu
To comment on the content, I don't like genre fiction but I think it's an otherwise good collection. Given your interest in psychology, I'd also like to recommend the novels/short stories/plays of Stefan Zweig and Arthur Schnitzler. They were more the contemporaries of Freud than Jung but I still think they both had a keen grasp of human psychology, and they both wrote really well, or you would probably enjoy symbolist or symbol-rich literature, e.g. Sophus Claussen, Isak Dinesen, or Rilke

[Anonymous No.8404707]

>>8403421

Whether or not this is anon's actual shelf, you know that somebody, somewhere actually took that picture. When will it end, /lit/?

[Anonymous No.8404997]

>>8403226
I just tabbed the specific readings we were being tested on.

[Anonymous No.8405010]

>>8404655
When is a library no longer "small"? Not that anon, but I was thinking of changing up my organization.

[Anonymous No.8405025]

>>8403675
>that hardcover oblomov

How did you like the schwartz translation?

[Anonymous No.8405074]

What do you guys think?

[Anonymous No.8405079]

>>8388910

[Anonymous No.8405081]

>>8405079

[Anonymous No.8405083]

>>8405081

[Anonymous No.8405085]

>>8405083

[Anonymous No.8405089]

>>8397926
>>8395722
>Comics on top
He didn't read any of that shit.

[Anonymous No.8405090]

>>8405085

[Anonymous No.8405093]

>>8405090

[Anonymous No.8405095]

>>8405093

[Anonymous No.8405110]

>>8405010
My bookshelves start here >>8399364, I do keep languages separate and keep a couple of shelves of dictionaries and course books, and a few hiccups may exist, but I still think it provides the better overview, and books aligning makes it harder for books to hide behind other books when you look around the room

[Anonymous No.8405494]

>>8404655
Thanks for the tips. Must say though, I usually can't remember the publisher of a book, and so wouldn't be able to find stuff efficiently. Alphabetical by author works well enough for me.

[Anonymous No.8405526]

>>8405074
>>8405079
I like these two pics. Props for both PIKHaL and TIKHaL.

Like me, you seem interested in the way religion, drugs and the occult merge into each other. I'd suggest the missing piece for you is psychology. You might find Jung interesting, as he covers the occult/religious angle pretty thoroughly.

But yeah, the nature-of-consciousness question is what fuels a lot of my reading. You remind me of me, anon.

(I'm >>8404158, by the way.)

[Anonymous No.8405554]

>>8389430
>Plutarch by Dryden

Holy shit, I need this book in my life. To Amazon!

[Anonymous No.8405566]

>>8402948
Word. One of the biggest influences in my life.

Still haven't done the exercises though! That sums up me as a scholar ...

[Anonymous No.8405574]

>>8402974
B-but ... then you can't show your books off to visitors!

This is the main point of bookshelves, anon.

[Anonymous No.8405588]

>>8399355
some of them are shit, 33 1/3 is just a publisher sorta deal.
But the ones I have are pretty good, the authors go into some detial with influences on the albums and publishing of the albums, band members, and the different techniques used to make the music.
Not the most in depth but still very informative and easy to read.

You should think about what albums you most enjoy and then try to find a copy online.
I liked them though so whatever that is worth you should try reading one.

Thanks friend.

[Anonymous No.8405593]

>>8389191
chaos magick for the win

you read steve wilson's chaos ritual?
are you into terry pratchett? just heard he was all up in chaos magick

[Anonymous No.8405594]

>>8405554
The Dryden translation is pretty shit unfortunately but it is the only complete version outside of Loeb and that set runs close to $400.

[Anonymous No.8405677]

>>8405526
here's my psychology section, there's a lot i don't have, i'd love to have the red book but i don't have $200 to drop on it

>>8405095

[Anonymous No.8405728]

>>8405677
I see that I can teach you nothing, young Grasshopper.

I was lucky to get the Red Book cheap on eBay ... best thing about it is the paintings. Jung was an amazing painter IMO. Most of his works can be found online.

[Anonymous No.8405804]

HOLD UP

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[Anonymous No.8405825]

>>8389262
>Infinite Jest at the top
>Hard to reach so you have a reason never to finish it.

[Anonymous No.8406200]

>>8405093
How is Mycelium Running? My cousin was praising it pretty strongly and I like Paul Stamets... Worth a read?

[Anonymous No.8406230]

>>8405804
Is this a bait shelf? If I saw this in someone's house I'd make an excuse and leave, no exaggeration.

[Anonymous No.8406487]

>>8406230
Not him but why exactly?

[Anonymous No.8406556]

>>8395648
what edition of the divine comedy is that?

[Anonymous No.8406835]

>>8406556
Not him, but 9781631061561 Knickerbocker Classics - Race Point Publishing

[Anonymous No.8407347]

>>8405804
hows difference and repetition?

[Anonymous No.8407353]

>>8405093
DUDE MYCELIUM LMAO

[Anonymous No.8407571]

>>8403767
what war and peace is that?

[Anonymous No.8407616]

>>8400912
That jazz medley section in the bottom left is fucking unbelievable

Why
Why
Why
Why

[Anonymous No.8408007]

>>8389430
weather if he reads them or not, we gotta admit this ones the best weve ever seen oer ere

[Anonymous No.8408014]

>>8388910
You've got a great shelf, OP. Here's mine.

[Anonymous No.8408023]

>>8395648
A fellow birder?

[Anonymous No.8408117]

>>8405804

Yo ass needs more Marx.

Seriously though, nice collection.

[Anonymous No.8408641]

>>8407347

It is interesting, if not so much as a read, because of its place in the "critical canon." It represents Deleuze when he was still very much a Lacanian, and solving some of the problems he poses in that volume was pretty much D+G's jumping off point. It is not required to understand either Anti-Oedipus or 1000P, but if one is interested in Deleuzian scholarship, the idea of repetition as posed in that piece is interesting as a precursor of their conception of a "rhizomatic" text. Also, Difference is interesting in terms of being Anti-Oedipal - to situate it in with the premises of that book, Oedipal psychiatry homogenizes, encourages sameness and uniformity. This is a gross simplification, however-- Deleuze's difference is a concept in its own right, the way that Derrida's Differance is.

It is also interesting because in Zizek's infamous misreading of Deleuze, Organs Without Bodies (second in infamy only to Badiou's atrotious biography of D), Zizek makes the assertion that there are two Deleuzes - the Lacanian, and the one perverted by Guattari (lol). Difference and Retpetition, according to Zizek, is legitimate Lacanian scholarship, useful to Lacanian analysis in the way that the schizo stuff is not. (However- I have read a paper that contends that it is Deleuze who truly understands Lacan, and that Zizek's misreading of Deleuze betrays that Deleuze is actually a better Lacanian than his most famous disciple. I don't know if I agree with that contention, but it is a good paper. Can link uf requested.)

[Anonymous No.8408649]

>>8408117
The anon is correct. I absolutely do need more Marx. Will buy when a good enough used bookstore has a good edition. I would feel too bougie giving Barnes and Noble cash for Capital....

>>8406487
Because that anon is red (cancer) pill confirmed

[Anonymous No.8408728]

>>8408649
Nope, I'm on the left. It wasn't a political comment. The problem is you look like someone who did English lit at uni and took the theory stuff far too seriously. I'm not a fan of French post-modern philosophy, but what really bothers me is that there's more or less nothing else. Where are the Greeks? Descartes, Spinoza, Kant, Hegel, Hume, etc.? Instead just shitloads of D&G. It would be funny if it wasn't so damn depressing.

Also, P&V Dosty, Henry Miller but no Tropic of Cancer, Ulysses but no Portrait, Thomas Harris, an interest in erotica presumably because it's "subversive", a colouring book, "90 classics for people in a hurry". I could go on but I won't.

[Anonymous No.8408830]

>>8408728
Lol.... You presume much... Like, for example, that I don't have an ebook library that fills the holes you mention... and also, that I give any fucks at all about cultivating some kind of image of being classically versed, which I don't...

I am an English major and my area of specialty is critical theory, so of course I have a lot of theory. It's like ragging on the awesome mushroom anon above for neglecting other types of psychoactives or something

If I saw a guy with all theory on his shelf, I would congratulate him for not wasting his shelf on the greeks and immidiately want to blaze the reefer with im

[Anonymous No.8408839]

[Anonymous No.8408907]

>>8408728

Also: I like erotica because it's erotic, desu famalampai

[Anonymous No.8408915]

>>8408728

Also: I've read Tropic, but what do I gain from Tropic that is not in Sexus? Tropic is basically just Sexus made "marketable" for publishers. Why in God's name do I want that? If you're gonna go Miller, go full Miller

[Anonymous No.8408950]

>>8408728
90 Classics for People in a Hurry or anything of its ilk is absolute solid platinum ore if you plan on going into any business that has The Elevator Pitch