Shelves

[Anonymous No.8504368]

Post 'em my dudes. What would you recommend to each other? (Besides death.)

[Anonymous No.8504495]

>>8504368
Is the Landmark Histories series good in terms of translations, notes and supplemental material? I recently dug up old Penguin copies of Herodotus, Thucydides, Plutarch and Livy and I've been digging this Oxford Polybius I found for cheap.

[Anonymous No.8504550]

>>8504368
>Aztec Philosophy
Is it interesting?

Also, would you recommend that Penguin translation of "Meditations"?

[Anonymous No.8504558]

>>8504368
1/9
-Ulysses
-sources on medieval european history
-history of warefare
-ada
-zitate und aussupruche
-economic history of europe
-sound and the fury
-spqr
-introducing symbolic logic
-oxford companion to philosophy
-lolita
-inferno bilingual edition
-ivanhoe

[Anonymous No.8504563]

>>8504558
2/9
-complete shakespeare
-essential canon of classical music
-complete sherlock holmes
-principles of physics

[Anonymous No.8504571]

>>8504563
3/9
-dangerous book for boys
-julius caesar
-selected poems of john donne
-love letters between abelard and heloise
-selected poetry of john keats
-discourse on the method
-nazi gold
-casebook of mathematical curiousties
-one day in the life of ivan denisovich
-around the world in 80 dyas
-monkey
-the surgeon of crowthorne
-existentialism and humanism
-talisman walter scott
-the conquest of the unemployed
-totalitarianism in a tundra (sue me)

[Anonymous No.8504578]

>>8504571
whoops sorry
3/9
-dangerous book for boys
-julius caesar
-selected poems of john donne
-love letters between abelard and heloise
-selected poetry of john keats
-discourse on the method
-nazi gold
-casebook of mathematical curiousties
-one day in the life of ivan denisovich
-around the world in 80 dyas
-monkey
-the surgeon of crowthorne
-existentialism and humanism
-talisman walter scott
-the conquest of the unemployed
-totalitarianism in a tundra (sue me)

[Anonymous No.8504587]

>>8504578
4/9
-chronology of british history
-plays and players bernard shaw
-medical dictionary
-tlp wittgenstein
-the innocents abroad
-highway code
-puzzle of ethics
-social contract
-clockwork orange
-alice in wonderland/looking glass
-king lear
-four quartets
-as a young man
-the Caucasian chalk circle
-grapes of wath
-js mill
-the holy shrine
-die verwandlung
-german dictionary

[Anonymous No.8504612]

>>8504587
im writing it out so you dont have to turn your head 90 degrees
5/9
-book theif
-delta of venus
-wittgensteins mistress
-a book about paper planes
-against nature
-BE PREPARED
-political studies
-joined up thinking
-great expectations
-henry 5
-puzzle of god
-henry 5 again
-pnin
-sun tzu
-number devil
-more bernard shaw plays
-meanwhile (hg wells)

[Anonymous No.8504625]

>>8504612
ive read almost all of these so feel free to ask me about any.
6/9
-godel incompleteness theorems
-groundwork on the metaphysics of morals
-jane eyre
-mrs dalloway
-puzzle of ethics (again?)
-what do we really know
-great expectations (again)
dubliners
-crying of lot 49
-consider the lobser etc
-book on epistemology
-the crusades
-la letteratura italiana
-philosophy and sex

[Anonymous No.8504629]

>>8504625
7/9
-road to reality
-artemis fowl
-beginners italian reader
-eytmologicon
-the picture of dorian gray
-magus
-sons and lovers
-percy jackson
-adventures of a wimpy werewolf
-the works of oscar wilde
-collection of michelangelo paintings
-dictionary of idioms
-lord of the flies
-30000 years of inventions

[Anonymous No.8504637]

>>8504550
>Is it interesting?
Yes. Maffie is upfront about trying to not whitewash original Mexica thinking, and it is a thorough scholarly work in a field that's bloomed because of new research in the past 5 years. Haven't finished it yet, but it's relevant to my interests and walks through Nahua semiotics, metaphysics, and cosmogony.

It's the only copy of Meditations I've read. It's bog standard, I guess. Not especially elegant, but I don't imagine the author was one for ornament.

>>8504495
Yeah, the Landmark series is loaded with footnotes, maps, and generally written to give you a context of the material. It's good. Better than Bauer, I guess? Dunno if that's saying much.

[Anonymous No.8504638]

>>8504629
8/9 almost done
-look at the harlequins
-just so stories
-devils dictionary
-tom stoppard rosencants and guildenstern are dead
-men without women
-bilingual collection of german short stories
-paradise lost
-book about sons and lovers
-henry 5 (correction, one of the others was a book ABOUT henry 5)
-sons and lovers (again)
-the analects of confucious
-dorothy parker
-pale fire
-to the lighthouse
-heart of darkness
-hamlet
-henry 4
-brainteasers
-quantum popscience
-nausea

[Anonymous No.8504656]

>>8504638
9/9 done. sorry to be that guy who dumps all his shelves. also does anyone know if stacking the books is worse for them than storing them vertically?
-moore utopia
-left wing communism
-defence of anarchism
-wuthering heights
-godels theorems (again)
-vineland
-teach yourself italian
-shopenheur essays and aphorisms
-the monk
-the road
-to accounts from freud
-different bilingual collection of short stories (italian)
-problems of philosophy russel
-communist manefesto
-augustine confessions
-italian dictionary
-a third bilingual collection of italian short stories
-screen burn
-moby dick

finito

[Anonymous No.8504667]

>>8504558
Fellow Roman! How's the readability of SPQR? Seems to be a good companion to classics for the American with an eye on history to see forward into the future. Enjoyable? Nice collection!

[Anonymous No.8504674]

>>8504656
>stacking the books is worse for them than storing them vertically?

Keep it light and upright, your spines should stay in good shape.

[Anonymous No.8504775]

>>8504667
>fellow roman
not sure what you mean by that. if you are assuming im italian im afraid not. if you are assuming im in any way a specialist in ancient roman history, im afraid not a second time. spqr is the only book on roman history i own and i havent read than a handful in my life.

people will always accuse it of lefty bias, though mary beard (probably uk's most famous current roman historian) details exactly the point s she is trying to make so any bias is not covert.

its not a very good exhaustive, objective chronology of roman history. for starters it ends at an event to which she gives incredible significance -- 212 AD when Caracalla extends equal roman citizenship to all free people in the roman empire (you can already predict the message that she is going to make) -- hence saving herself from often the most controversial section in any history of rome: the collapse thereof (see http://www.novaroma.org/nr/210_Reasons_for_the_decline_of_the_Roman_Empire))

mary beard really pioneered the move in classics to focus much more on the lives of the people rather than the ins-and-outs of emperor. her psychological speculations might seem a little incredulous but she admits as much herself.

Cambridge ancient history is pretty much the authoritative set on roman history.

if you want a companion to the classics then The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature is the authority and the only one i have read (who needs two companions to classical literatature??)

[Anonymous No.8504778]

>>8504674
thanks

[Anonymous No.8505156]

Posting a friend's father's collection, who's a history professor.

[Anonymous No.8505169]

>>8505156

[Anonymous No.8505175]

>>8505156
Rotated

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[Anonymous No.8505188]

>>8504368
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[Anonymous No.8505189]

Finally cleaned out an old bookshelf and filled it with books I've had sitting in boxes for over a year.

Trigger Warnings: LOTR Trilogy is from 3 different collections, Fellowship is the movie edition; some books have library stickers still on them because i got them from sales and some books are 50+ years old used and have bad spines.

[Anonymous No.8505199]

>>8505181

[Anonymous No.8505253]

>>8505189
that copy of for whom the bell tolls sure is big

[Anonymous No.8505325]

>>8504368
>>8504495
>>8504558

Would hang out with you guys

[Anonymous No.8505332]

They were pretty generous with page thickness and margins.

[Anonymous No.8505336]

>>8505332
>>8505253

[Anonymous No.8505341]

>>8505253
U U
U U

[Anonymous No.8505356]

Pleb incoming.

[Anonymous No.8505422]

>>8504578
>>8504587
>>8504612
>>8504625
>>8504629
>>8504638
>>8504656

There was absolutely no fucking reason for you to take pictures of them sideways you complete retard.

Why the fuck is it impossible for /lit/ to take a decently composed photo of their subjects

[Anonymous No.8505488]

>>8504656
>-the monk
Worth a read?

[Anonymous No.8505515]

>>8505175
So comfy it almost hurts

[Anonymous No.8505588]

>>8505422
Because this isn't /p/
I can take ok shots though, watch this space

[Anonymous No.8505628]

>>8505422
What so because your shot is perfectly straight on its better? 45% of the shot is empty space. Clean up your act.

[Anonymous No.8505672]

>>8505199
this man seems like quite a lark.

[Anonymous No.8505706]

>>8505356
that Burroughs SF Gateway is a hardback?

[Anonymous No.8505768]

>>8505706
sure is.

[Anonymous No.8506066]

>>8504625
What does Philosophy and Sex cover? Would you recommend it?

[Anonymous No.8506083]

>>8504656
Also, nice language books. You seem like a relatively experienced language learner judging from your choice of materials. Could you tell me some about etymologyicon as well? I was looking into that the other day. I really like to break words down and understand them.

I'm >>8506066

Nice shelves.

[Anonymous No.8506133]

I need a shelf. This is my closet.

[Anonymous No.8506143]

>>8505768
i like you

[Anonymous No.8506148]

>>8506133
Nice closet shelf. I think you'd like Knut Hamsun's short novel Hunger.

[Anonymous No.8507005]

tfw no shelves so i just throw my books in my laundry basket

[Anonymous No.8507024]

Rate my recent cops and TBR stack. I've read Infinite Jest, I just felt like including it. Almost done with TBK.

What do I read next?

[Anonymous No.8507035]

>>8507024
Stoner

[Anonymous No.8507076]

>>8504578
>>8504587
>>8504612
>>8504625
>>8504629
>>8504638
>>8504656

That's a really ugly collection desu.

[Anonymous No.8507105]

>>8507024
Meme/10

[Anonymous No.8507819]

>>8507024
Take a breather from Russian lit and read Stoner, then go back and read ya boy Fyodor's The Idiot.

[Anonymous No.8507924]

>>8505325
thanks chap

>>8505422
well some of the titles are vertical (most horizontal) so either way it would appear skewed. i literally spent about 5 minutes having to type out the titles for you, so what are you complaining about?? your books are nice but not enough to excuse your rudeness, mister.

>>8505488
yeah but not a re-read. i certainly wouldnt prioritise it over much better books. my copy includes the bravo of venice though i havent read that yet. (i know some people love this book so dont crucify me)

>>8506066
its a collection of essays about the love, marriage, contraception, abortion, conceptions of sex, pornography and censorship, homosexuality, and pedophilla with a couple case studies at the end. pretty arbitary choice of essays - seems like it was based on which they could get rather than the most seminal works.

its certainly not an exhaustive sumasion of sex in philosophy - and doesnt go into pre-modern views which is a bit shite tbqhuf. wouldnt recommend, you can probably find the essays online (the important ones at least)

>>8506083
>Also, nice language books.
cheers. i really like the concept of bilingual books. you normally dont need the translated side but if you dont know a word/phrase/idiom its easy to glance rather than get out a dictionary. also they normally include notes for things we might not have in our country.

>You seem like a relatively experienced language learner judging from your choice of materials.
naah i can only read german and italian (and english ofc). im trying to learn french atm.

>Could you tell me some about etymologyicon as well?
its a collection of interesting eytymological stories/connections. each chapter is somehow connected to something in the last so it loops around that way. its more of a coffee table book in my opinion. i wouldnt sit down and read it cover to cover but if im waiting for 10 minutes i might read a chapter (though you can get lost in it and read for a while).

>I really like to break words down and understand them.
you probably need an etymological dictionary, instead. there are some great ones out there.

>>8507005
at least stack them by a wall

>>8507076
if you mean they are shit books then you are objectively wrong fäm. if you mean they are worn then thats because i dont keep books unless im planning to read and refer to them often. if you mean they are shit pictures then i concur.

[Anonymous No.8507978]

I ran across a sale for several books I was interested in, and consequently have run out of shelving space, for now. But here's what it looks like, currently.

[Anonymous No.8508068]

>>8507978
No Maths and Analytic Philosophy? Great shelf nonetheless.

[Anonymous No.8508207]

>>8508068
I'm not the best with math, but I do have some books scattered about, just not in the shelf currently. I have been meaning to look into some more diverse philosophical styles, though. For analytic philosophy I only really know of offhand Bertrand Russell, and Wittgenstein. Who else should I be looking into?

[Anonymous No.8508256]

>>8507978
Is it worth buying any paperbacks at all? I've read (several times) that they often fall apart. And since I'm starting my physical collection, this bothers me a lot. The books I want should last more than a few years.

[Anonymous No.8508286]

>>8508207
Though when it comes to Analytic Philosophy in general I mostly recommend some standard, contemporary introduction to the area one fancies, as an exception, you can look into the magnum opus of the father of

Analytic Philosophy,
Philosophy of Language,
Philosophy of Logic,
Philosophy of Mathematics, and last but certainly not least
Modern First-Order Logic that underlies all of modern, 20-21th century mathematics

...Gottlob Frege. This book is also considered to be a paradigm case of conceptual analysis that analytic philosophers are so fond of.
The book is called "The Foundations of Arithmetic: A Logico-Mathematical Enquiry into the Concept of Number" and it is surprisingly accessible to non-mathematicians. Give it a try, if you can; maybe it will ignite a flame in you to learn more of this stuff.

[Anonymous No.8508293]

>>8508256
No they are quite durable. I buy only used books and trade paperbacks from the late 60s and early 80s are still in great condition. Not sure about mass market paperpacks but they are read-once-and-trash anyway. Hardcover should only be reserved for books longer than 500 pages since those tend to wear at the spine faster.

[Anonymous No.8508294]

>>8508256
Yes it is. I've got paperbacks from 1971 and they are in good shape.

[Anonymous No.8508314]

>>8505189
>that Beowulf translation

[Anonymous No.8508318]

>>8508293
>>8508294
Thank you. Nice with a clarification on that.

One of the books I'm after, is the Aeneid (~550 pages). Is the oxford worlds classics edition fine for the long run? Even though it's a paperback.

[Anonymous No.8508517]

>>8508314
What's your point? Heaneywulf is a perfectly fine poem, some parts are pretty bad and some are pretty good, it just doesn't cut it if your interest in Beowulf is philological

[Anonymous No.8508817]

>>8508318
OP here. I have a copy of Aeneid floating behind the second shelf somewhere. Specifically, it is pic related version. I've read it a few times and love it. It's been rebound in turtle back / duralam.

[Anonymous No.8508911]

>>8508817
>It's been rebound in turtle back / duralam.
Just found it at my prefered (online) bookstore. However, it just says 'paperback'. Does that mean you had it rebound afterwards? Or is it referring to the lamination fx? Non-anglo here, so some of the terms are new to me.

[Anonymous No.8508914]

>>8505356
>Infinite Jest unread
Every time

[Anonymous No.8508950]

>>8505422
Have you read Lispector's book yet?

Been meaning to get that

[Anonymous No.8508951]

>>8508911
It was rebound by the public library I bought it from, afaik. Paperback should last fine. Almost all of mine are paperback. As long as you keep them away from moisture (which you should do anyway) and don't treat them too harshly, they'll be okay.

[Anonymous No.8508986]

>>8508911
Pic related for your interests. Font, translation, print quality.

[Anonymous No.8509046]

>>8508951
Sounds great; will do.

>>8508986
>A passion to avenge my fallen town
>And punish Helen's whorishness
Looking forward to reading it. Thanks for the view.

[Anonymous No.8509346]

>>8505189
>that alien sticker

[Anonymous No.8509426]

>>8509346
they are among us the truth is right there

[Anonymous No.8509892]

>>8504495
Just a heads up that the Oxford Polybius you posted contains only a handful of Polybius' total (40) books. It's all the complete ones (1-5 I think) and the fragmented but nearly whole ones (6, 12), but if you want more of Polybius (and you should, because he's great), your only other choices are:

-Penguin Polybius, which draws from more chapters, but none in their complete form (or very few, definitely less than the Oxford text). Basically a selection of Polybius.
-Loeb Polybius. 6 volumes which are each pretty pricey at $26, but the Oxford you already have covers all the material in the first 2 loebs, so if you want a complete Polybius you only need 4 loebs. You can also use the Penguin text which, supplementing the Penguin, makes up almost all of what equates to Loeb 1-4, leaving you only 2 Loebs to buy. You'll miss a few paragraphs, but not much; the later books are typically pretty fragmented.

Hope you enjoy him! He's a blast, if you can downshift to him from more exciting historians like Livy (whose books 21-30 on the 2nd Punic war you should definitely check out, if you haven't already, for a less academic but more dramatic and personal depiction of the war). Polybius is also one of the greatest ancient teachers of history, so if you're not super experienced in the field, he can help out a lot if you pay attention.

Let me know if you have any questions, but otherwise, enjoy!

PS Plutarch is notorious for being chopped up and repackaged under names like "the makers of rome." If you want him complete and in the order intended, you have to either buy Loeb (expensive) or Modern Library (not expensive). The others you listed are always found complete from penguin et al., but you may want to check before reading that the volumes aren't too old, and the translations aren't too stilted. Penguin especially is known to have some lifeless translations, but their newer editions have been making a conscious effort to modernize. Waterfield, the translator of that Polybius you have, is widely respected as a consistently solid choice.

[Anonymous No.8509925]

>>8508914
i just got it last week. i'm trying to meme it up.

[Anonymous No.8510075]

I'm new here.

[Anonymous No.8510081]

>>8505175
oof - low ceiling. you and your bf hobbits?

[Anonymous No.8510096]

>>8510075
you'll fit right in, boy

[Anonymous No.8510114]

don't have a pic of my shelf but just improved it today trading these books

[Anonymous No.8510120]

>>8510114
for these books, without spending a single buck

[Anonymous No.8510125]

>>8507978
Have you read Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy? I've seen it on a few shelves on lit but nobody has responded to any attempts I've made to figure out what it's about, how it's structured, or even if they would recommend it.

Any input?

[Anonymous No.8510132]

>>8510114
>reading translations in hue speak

[Anonymous No.8510155]

>>8510132
most of theses 'new, modern' books are way easier to find in portuguese around here, and there is no way I would bother importing a book just to have the satisfaction of reading irvine welsh and bukowski in english...

[Anonymous No.8510221]

>>8510155
portuguese are the plague of /lit/

[Anonymous No.8510241]

>>8507978
a literal meme shelf. do you also cross off a book on the top 100 meme list once you've finished it?

[Anonymous No.8510250]

>>8510221
thats really offensive and rude

[Anonymous No.8510580]

>>8510250

wtf is your problem

[Anonymous No.8510590]

>>8505189
Is that Basic Works of Aristotle really worth it?

[Anonymous No.8510643]

>>8504495

I read Landmark Histories and loved it, for what it's worth. The supplemental material, maps, images, etc. are really what puts it over the top. Translation for Herodotus is probably not too crucial desu. I'm sure they are all fine (I have nothing to compare it to, since I only read Landmark though).

[Anonymous No.8510791]

1/6

[Anonymous No.8510795]

2/6

[Anonymous No.8510798]

3/6
(this is my chinese lit collection)

[Anonymous No.8510799]

4/6

[Anonymous No.8510801]

5/6
Karinthy collection

[Anonymous No.8510804]

6/6
Well,what do you think?

[Anonymous No.8510813]

>>8510804
You have nice books

[Anonymous No.8510822]

>>8510798
Any good books for learning mandarin?

[Anonymous No.8510827]

>>8510822
I have no acces to madarin texts,they are translations.
I'm pretty sure the PRC government has some nice book for this purpose.

[Anonymous No.8510838]

>>8510827
Fair enough, my bad. I figured you had learnt the language, so you might have some specific useful titels.

[Anonymous No.8510843]

>>8510838
I would learn it,but sadly,I have neither the time nor the acces to materials/teachers.
Not to mention the money.
Even getting these in hungarian was hard as a rock.
They have been out of print for ages.
There is a serious lack of discussion about china on 4chan.

[Anonymous No.8510847]

>>8510843
>There is a serious lack of discussion about china on 4chan.
Amen to that. Which title on that shelf is your fav?

[Anonymous No.8510853]

>>8510847
The three character classic
And the Tao Te Ching
Read 3 version of Tao Te Ching.
A prose,a verse and an english verse,and I think the verse translation in hungarian is pretty neat.

[Anonymous No.8510877]

>>8508286
Jesus, that was quite the recommendation. After such a glowing write-up, I'll be sure to check this out. It sound fascinating, honestly.

>>8510125
I haven't gotten around to reading it yet, unfortunately, only flipped through a bit of it before purchase.
The impression I have of it from what others have said is that it's formatted as a bizarre medical text of sorts, addressing depression, however ends up being much further reaching in it's scope than just melancholia, evolving into more of a philosophical essay instead.
It might be garbage, but I love the premise, and look forward to whenever I eventually get to it. Hopefully another anon will respond to this with a more detailed answer for you.

>>8510241
:^)

[Anonymous No.8510923]

>tfw you live in an apartment with genuinely talented writers, composers, poets and dramatists and you pool your humble libraries into something beautiful

What did I do to deserve this

[Anonymous No.8510937]

>>8504368
Thats quite an impressive/unique shelf. I was doing some pretty thorough digging a few weeks back into gnostic scriptures and ideas and I see you have the Nag hamadi Codices there. You wouldn't know anything about descriptions of the physical representation of the gnostic demiurge. I found references to something with the body of a snake and the head of a lion that was supposedly described in an alternate gnostic version of plato somewhere but I couldn't find it. any ideas?

[Anonymous No.8510944]

>>8504637
luna dat you?

[Anonymous No.8510958]

>>8510590
I've only read a fraction of it so probably not.

It was used for $5 though so I couldn't justify not picking it up.

[Anonymous No.8511010]

>>8504368
Have you really read all that Decline and Fall?

[Anonymous No.8511030]

>>8510923
Your library's not humble it's just fucking tiny

[Anonymous No.8511081]

>>8510877
Thanks for the quick word on Burton; that's more than I've been able to learn from anyone else, and definitely piques my interest as well.

Cheers!

[Anonymous No.8511089]

>>8504368
On the right track but far from finished. If you're into Rome you're missing big chunks of big historians, with some important names totally absent. Why would you only read half of Livy? Or Tacitus' Annals but not Histories? Marcellinus but not Appian?

Also the penguin editions of Plutarch are a fucking crime. Check out the modern library set if you're willing to revisit Greece a bit (looks like you much prefer Rome, and I'm with you on that one).

PS What are the Loebs?

[Anonymous No.8511644]

>Reposting.

Hit me.

[Anonymous No.8511704]

>>8511030
Thats because we buy books to read not as accessories and lend them liberally. Even then thats not a tiny library

[Anonymous No.8511706]

>>8510923
where are the rest of the books? otherwise bait

[Anonymous No.8511709]

>>8511706
See >>8511704

[Anonymous No.8511818]

>>8511704
>buy books to read not as accessories
as does everyone. most people just read more books than that buy the time their 16. it doesnt look like the summation of a bunch of peoples books.who are as /lit/ as you claim.

[Anonymous No.8511922]

>>8511818
Its just what everyone brought with them, i.e. the ones relevant to what theyre studying now or planning to read soon. We had no plans to accumulate books or create a library. I apologize for being a faggot getting even marginally offended and I can see how thats a small collection compared to people who have been reading and collecting books throughout their life

[Anonymous No.8511927]

I have a shelf organization question

For my children's literature area, I have a lot of fairy tales and folktales. I'm wondering how best to organize them:

>by original compiler (Grimm, Andersen, etc.)
>by the re-teller (Anthea Bell, CS Evans, Zwerger, etc.)
>by the illustrator (Rackham, Hyman, Iwasaki, etc.)

Original compiler feels good because I have a bunch of Swan Lakes in one place, Little Red Riding Hoods all together, it makes them easier to compare and pick favorites. Re-teller would be easier in that I wouldn't have to figure out who compiled them on the more obscure folktales. Illustrator gives big groupings of favorite illustrators in one spot, which makes the shelves look nice due to the same publisher all in one spot.

what would /lit/ use

[Anonymous No.8511931]

>>8511922
oh shit my bad i thought that that was your permanent residence - if your a student house-sharing than dw.

[Anonymous No.8511934]

>>8504368
I would do filthy things for that second shelf

[Anonymous No.8511942]

>>8504495
See I find the Roman historians excellent for citations but a very dry read in general.
Ive been using Livy and Polybius for an essay and while theyre invaluable, I would not read them cover to cover.
Not sure if its the same with Herodotus

[Anonymous No.8511948]

[Anonymous No.8511950]

>>8511927
if you're actually doing this for a child, then don't bother because they're just going to end up all over the floor covered in nutella anyway

if you're doing this yourself because you're an adult who like children's lit, then organise them by the year you first read them

[Anonymous No.8511956]

>>8511948
that looks like it was taken from one of those books by the yard sites or something

[Anonymous No.8511957]

>>8511927
I would do it by publisher. Looks good and makes it easier for children to return them to the proper location since they can just put them next to what looks alike.

[Anonymous No.8511961]

>>8511956
Reading room at the senior living complex im building.

[Anonymous No.8511971]

>>8511948
I fucking hate those tacky decorative bowls and vases.

[Anonymous No.8511980]

>>8511931
All good senpai shouldve mentioned, important clarification

[Anonymous No.8511989]

>>8511950
Year I first read them wouldn't work very well, since I've read most of them this year. I'd still have to organize within that anyway. They're for a kid who isn't born yet, so it's going to be a while before nutella stage.

>>8511957
Thanks anon, that's a very reasonable answer.

[Anonymous No.8512024]

>Thanks anon, that's a very reasonable answer.
You're welcome and congratulations on the child on the way. It's a wonderful if frustrating experience. I have three children of my own and organize their books in this way. Still it requires monthly reorganization.

[Anonymous No.8512264]

>tfw don't have a bookshelf
I would post my books but they're all in stacks or boxes

[Anonymous No.8512604]

>>8511704
Yeah no, you're projecting and that library is still fucking tiny

[Anonymous No.8512606]

>>8511948
consumerist/10

[Anonymous No.8512923]

>>8510081
I mean I'm 5'11" and it doesn't seem that small.

[Anonymous No.8512982]

>>8511704

I have more books than that and I'm just one person not an artist collective.

[Anonymous No.8513016]

>>8510221
wtf i hate /lit/ now

[Anonymous No.8513034]

>>8506148

>added to Wish List

[Anonymous No.8514172]

[Anonymous No.8514452]

>>8514172
Trying to learn German?
Also
>not sorting according to publisher

[Anonymous No.8514519]

wdyt of these kind of shelves?

[Anonymous No.8514520]

>>8514172
Only book you need to learn german other than mein kampf

[Anonymous No.8514547]

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[Anonymous No.8514608]

>>8514172
that norton anthology of poetry any good?

[Anonymous No.8514625]

I don't read enough

[Anonymous No.8514948]

>>8514608
I'm not the guy you asked, but I have an earlier edition of the Norton anthology of poetry and it's pretty good. I'm not especially well-read when it comes to poetry, but I'd say it's a good selection, with very minimal but well-done supplementary content.

[Anonymous No.8514959]

>>8507978
How's the Everyman's edition of War and Peace? It looks sexy.

[Anonymous No.8515006]

>>8514172
very nice clear picture anon

[Anonymous No.8515194]

>>8514948
I am the guy asked and I would echo these exact sentiments.

[Anonymous No.8515220]

>>8510923
Not a library, the term is collection :)

[Anonymous No.8515914]

>>8514948
>>8515194
cheers, mia famaglia.

[Anonymous No.8515936]

>>8511644

>sideways stacking.

[Anonymous No.8516107]

>>8504368
Only brought the books I haven't read yet with me to uni, keep them all in an old wooden chest. I've got a notebook of Augustine underneath that I've been slowly translating over the past couple of months.

[Anonymous No.8516194]

>>8511927
and here's what I actually have so far, still by compiler at the moment. Last shelf is the random assortment I've got so far from my grandparents' library, the stuff that wasn't completely falling to pieces. What I've got on the way:

>Aladdin and Other Tales from the Arabian Nights (Everyman's)
>Treasure Island (Everyman's)
>Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes (Everyman's)
>Fables of Aesop (Everyman's)
>Kintaro, the Nature Boy
>Saint George and the Dragon (by Hyman)
>The Little Mermaid (by Iwasaki)
>Anno's Journey
>Dwarf Nose (by Zwerger)
>Swan Lake (by Hyman)

The Everyman's Library Children's Classics series seems really great so far; I like all the Rackham they use.

[Anonymous No.8516201]

>tfw 93 books but no bookshelf

[Anonymous No.8516210]

>>8516107
i can smell the virginity from here

[Anonymous No.8516223]

>>8516210
I have no refutation

[Anonymous No.8516244]

>>8514547
>čita Tolstoja na engleskom

Nemam ništa protiv prevoda, nego mi se čini da bi iskustvo bilo približnije originalu ako bi čitao na hrv. Srodniji su jezici ipak, koliko toliko.

[Anonymous No.8516252]

>>8516201
are you me?
actually we have roughly the same amount of books

[Anonymous No.8516261]

Posting my family library. Would that be okay?
1/2
This part has a lot of critique, philosophy, history and science. The lowest row has engineering and history courses.
There aren't many English titles, sorry about that.

[Anonymous No.8516268]

>>8516261
2/2
(Sorry for the mess, that's what happens when there are children in the house)
Universal literature, old books and manuals.

[Anonymous No.8516328]

>>8516261
>>8516268
it would have been okay if you'd taken clear pictures

What does your family do as occupations? Mine never had many books in the home.

[Anonymous No.8516329]

>>8516194
Dont forget the baby books. Touch and feel books are great. Remember the kid wont be reading any of what you have for 5-10 years. Nice collection so far. I'll post my children's library when i get home.

[Anonymous No.8516334]

>>8516328
My family was the same way. My dad did introduce me to douglas adams and jack l chalker at a pretty young age. I believe those were the only books he had though.

[Anonymous No.8516342]

>>8516329
Yep, I'm saving most of the early reading ones until I know the pregnancy will be fine. Otherwise it's too depressing, and I can always pretend the books I have are for nieces.

Looking forward to seeing yours, anon!

[Anonymous No.8516417]

>>8516244
Jeftino.

[Anonymous No.8516465]

posting in here because it's not worth making a thread for

are there any translations to get/avoid for War and Peace or are they all pretty similar?

[Anonymous No.8516473]

>>8516465
Aylmer and Louise Maude and Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky are both fine. Maude usually seems preferred.

[Anonymous No.8516496]

>>8516328
Sorry about that, phone quality.
Mom is a social sciences professor, dad is an engineer with a passion for philosophy. My whole family enjoys reading so we've gathered quite a lot of books. We have around 500 volumes.

[Anonymous No.8516540]

>>8516496
>tfw i'll never know what it feels like to grow up in an educated household

my parents are janitors/house cleaners when they're not unemployed

[Anonymous No.8516855]

>>8516540

>Dad was psychiatrist with masters in English literature and Philosophy.
>Mom was a professor of Philosophy and basically has spend her entire life collecting master degrees for the sake off it.

Grew up in a home in which every wall was either plastered in books or art.


I always was a failure in their eyes for become a physician.

[Anonymous No.8516884]

>>8516855
I kind of get what you mean. Mine look down on me for not being trade or manual labor. If it involves using your mind to work, it's not "work" to them. Plus the constant put-downs about how university doesn't even matter, people who go to school don't have "street smarts", etc. I don't know why some parents can't be proud despite their children going in a different direction.

also your mom sounds really neat, I kind of want to do something similar, there are so many nice funded Masters programs out there.

[Anonymous No.8516950]

>>8514959
It's nice! I chose it above the rest as the translation (Maude) was the best out there, from what I'd read. Haven't looked at any others to compare, but I had no complaints reading through it.
The volumes themselves are no different from your average Everyman's book; sturdy build, solid spine, just without the paper dust jackets.

[Anonymous No.8517117]

>>8516950
Thanks Anon. I have a feeling I'm gonna end up getting that one, I rather like the Everyman's editions and I always remove the dust jacket anyway.

[Anonymous No.8517170]

>>8516465
Maude is usually considered the best. P&V are usually great translations but for War and Peace its kinda hit or miss, Some people worship it and others despise it.

Read through the samples on amazon and get what you personally like the best.

[Anonymous No.8517280]

[Anonymous No.8517361]

>>8517280
Congrats anon, you've gathered a nice collection of no value literature

[Anonymous No.8518697]

>>8516342
as you can see. time to organize again.

[Anonymous No.8518754]

>>8518697
Looks like a cute mix! Lego, dinos and NatGeo. What's with the Alice collection? For yourself, I'm guessing?

[Anonymous No.8518792]

You can probably guess I'm interested in the science/outdoors/history from a quick glance at this, I suppose. Most of what I read is non-fiction. I haven't started on a few of these.

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[Anonymous No.8518864]

>>8517280
Oh good jesus, please jump off a cliff you autistic, man child.

[Anonymous No.8518926]

>>8518754
Yeah. I named my daughter alice so my wife has taken to collecting different editions.

[Anonymous No.8518951]

>>8518697
>>8518792
>these are the people we share this board with

[Anonymous No.8518962]

>>8518926
That's adorable, anon. Alice in Many Tongues is one of my favorite monographs, you should check it out if translation studies holds any interest for you.

I'm hoping to use Lenore or Annabel if mine's a daughter, to continue a Poe theme from my name.

[Anonymous No.8518966]

>>8518951
People with children? The horror.

[Anonymous No.8518973]

>>8518926
That's pretty cute. Alice is an underrated name.

[Anonymous No.8518977]

>>8518951
That's ridiculous. You highlighted me with my plant biology and history books... And yet you've glanced over the freak with the Warhammer 40k nonsense?? This can't be serious.

[Anonymous No.8518983]

How do I get a bookshelf to my house with no truck?

[Anonymous No.8518986]

>>8518983
You could have it shipped to your home, or rent a truck.

[Anonymous No.8518989]

>>8518983
Carry it on your back. It will build character.

[Anonymous No.8519000]

>>8518989
you sound like my dad

[Anonymous No.8519001]

>>8518986
The shipping idea is decent, but I was hoping to get a crappy $15 one on Craigslist. Anyone here remember how much their shelf costed?

[Anonymous No.8519011]

>>8519001
I bought one from walmart for 30$ and assembled it at home.
>>8505356

[Anonymous No.8519015]

>>8519001
I have all Billys now, and they cost $80 each. Before that I had some Wal-mart ones that were about $30, you could probably ship those to your house.

[Anonymous No.8519147]

>>8518842
Qué tal esa edición de El hombre sin atributos? Tengo la vieja traducción en inglés de Picador y me parece muy seco, pero me imagino que el inglés es más cercano al alemán que el español.

[Anonymous No.8519428]

>>8518864
I am not autistic

[Anonymous No.8519438]

>>8518983
get one from Target or Ikea and build it at your house

[Anonymous No.8520050]

>>8518983
yeah just contruct a book case. the ikea-is-difficult-to-contruct meme is only for complicated tables and desks - a book case is super easy. also its one of the few pieces of furniture where durability rarely increases with price so just get a cheap one.

[Anonymous No.8522048]

bump

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Bump

[Anonymous No.8522385]

>>8517361
>>8518864
>Judge Dredd
>no value

[Anonymous No.8523456]

>>8522385
I'm neither of those anons, but is Dredd actually good? Never read them.

[Anonymous No.8524930]

>>8523456
'80s Dredd is absolutely seminal.

[Anonymous No.8525105]

Pls be nice (1/4)

[Anonymous No.8525107]

>>8525105
(2/4)

[Anonymous No.8525109]

>>8525107
(3/4)

[Anonymous No.8525110]

>>8525109
(4/4)

[Anonymous No.8525379]

>>8525105
>>8525107
>>8525109
>>8525110
worthless

[Anonymous No.8525383]

>>8525379
no u r

[Anonymous No.8525389]

>>8520050
I would largely agree with this, but check the quality of the wood on any cheap purchase. Some shelves are extremely thin and may snap easy under a shelf of e.g. textbooks.

Furthermore check the base of the bookshelf to make sure it isn't "hollow". Not sure how to describe, but sometimes the bottom has a gap in the middle and will just be flat on the sides. These pieces of shit are prone to breaking over time and if you try to move the bookshelf at _all_ you will snap it.

Now you shouldn't move bookshelves with the books still in them, but if you want to e.g. vacuum or dust behind a bookshelf it is nice to have one with enough durability that you can slide it a few inches without causing permanent damage.

Lastly, consider how wide the shelves are. A shorter, wider bookcase can store more than a tall, narrow bookcase (unless you stack your books horizontally, but this will place undue stress on the shelves esp. if they are cheap).

[Anonymous No.8525410]

>>8525383
t. Lee R. Eddit

[Anonymous No.8525585]

>>8525105
>>8525107
>>8525109
>>8525110
Is any of this fantasy shit any good? I only recognize Dick and Tolkien

[Anonymous No.8525593]

>>8525585
No. Read Mervyn Peake instead.

[Anonymous No.8525625]

>>8525585
Most of it is Dick and Tolkien. Redwall and Watership have a decent reputation as fantasy for kids.
>>8525593
This would be a good move. He's amongst the best science fiction and fantasy authors.

[Anonymous No.8527349]

>>8525593
>>8525625
Thanks! I'll check this out

[Anonymous No.8527397]

>>8504495
Landmark Histories make everything easier for the first time reader, and give a bunch of essays in the appendix at the back of the book that clear up a bunch of questions. They're perhaps the best editions for the casual reader and student; practically, only those who know Greek and are informed on all the towns and polises in Greece, as well as the context, won't find need for them.

t. someone who suffered through Penguin, Oxford, and Barnes and Nobles editions for Herodotus, Xenophon, and Thucydides, before reading Landmark. Once reading them it felt like an enlightenment compared to flipping through all the books to the small maps that often don't include smaller settlements mentioned in the text as with the other publishers. Translators and other publishers should take note from them with their format.