/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.14605113]

Book shelf thread. Post shelf faggots.

1/5

[Anonymous No.14605119]

>>14605113
2/5

[Anonymous No.14605128]

>>14605119
3/5

[Anonymous No.14605141]

>>14605128
4/5

[Anonymous No.14605147]

>>14605141
5/5

[Anonymous No.14605210]

>>14605128
>>14605141
>>14605147
why are you posting stacks in a bookshelf thread?

[Anonymous No.14605240]

>>14605210
I need to buy another shelf so I am just stacking them atm

[Anonymous No.14605249]

>>14605210
anyway post shelf

[Anonymous No.14605254]

Reading right now
>Don Quixote
> The Labyrinth of Solitude, by Octavio Paz

AMA. No pictures since I'm not phoneposting.

[Anonymous No.14605261]

>>14605113

[Anonymous No.14605320]

>>14605113
>>14605119
>>14605128
>>14605141
>>14605147
How can one man be so based

[Anonymous No.14605354]

>>14605113

[Anonymous No.14605358]

>>14605147
Based OP
>>14605261
Where do you live?

[Anonymous No.14605374]

>>14605113
pic related

>>14605210
post shelf, nobooks

[Anonymous No.14605397]

Banan

[Anonymous No.14605406]

>>14605397
Pajam

[Anonymous No.14605444]

Jesus christ this thread again. This isn't an interior design thread you utter morons; it isn't even a good way of diaplaying the information. You could at least use some kind of chart like pic related so you don't have to post multiple pictures of your various piles of chick flicks and guenon fanfics.

[Anonymous No.14605466]

>>14605444
charts are gay. post shelf faggot

[Anonymous No.14605473]

>>14605444
Using any kind of chart like this, it doesn't have to be this one would be good for the board, it would simultaneously kill bookshelf and stack threads and merge them together or some other chart thread, allowing more room for literary discussion and not look-at-my-property/filth threads.

[Anonymous No.14605515]

>>14605444
This is an interior design thread though, if you want to see just the books then goodreads threads make more sense

[Anonymous No.14605542]

>>14605358
fuck off coober

[Anonymous No.14605548]

>>14605515
>>>/fa/

[Anonymous No.14605566]

>>14605113

[Anonymous No.14605571]

>>14605566
>can barely make out a single word
what the fuck

[Anonymous No.14605575]

>>14605113
You're a faggot born in the 90s. Every post without fail is you vaunting unread covers trying to be 'so well read' while stacking your books like anyone but your mom sees them. Just stop pretending this is a thread about books please. It is attention whoring like I've never seen before. Of course most twenty-something boys motive is just to get their dick sucked, and it probably blew your little mind that someone like you, someone so invisible and small, probably only 5.5 inches (14cm), can amass (You)s, but only if you pose your books in front of the camera making blurry and sideway pictures people might ignore that you have no personality, nothing to say, no self-esteem, no talent. You use books to escape. You use books to amass anonymous likes. You use books for anything except their only purpose, to enlighten, to educate, and to enhance; to offer a sincere emphatic experience. The way you use books is just another capitalist method of material consumption for clout, no different than data mining and booktube threads. Do you finally see a chance to be like the tripfags you so despised but did not hesitate to emulate when you saw the avenue to be like them?

[Anonymous No.14605589]

>>14605575
/thread

[Anonymous No.14605614]

>>14605575
post shelf

[Anonymous No.14605630]

>>14605575
this is projection like I've never seen before lmao

[Anonymous No.14605636]

>paperbacks and softcovers

[Anonymous No.14605643]

>>14605575
good post. OP is undergrad core to the extreme. utterly revolting stuff, every book looks like it was flipped through once (at the bookstore) and never opened again

[Anonymous No.14605663]

>>14605397
DESU Piketty's Capital was a considerable influence that convinced me to drop out of my econ major during my second year of uni. i don't know how anybody with a moral compass can keep studying economics knowing the value of capital long surpassed the value of labor decades ago

[Anonymous No.14605669]

>>14605643
post shelf

[Anonymous No.14605673]

>>14605575
reddit

>>14605663
>capital is super valuable so i stopped studying it

[Anonymous No.14605688]

>>14605663
>he dropped out of university because of some stupid book

[Anonymous No.14605700]

>>14605575
Based. OP is a faggot

[Anonymous No.14605744]

>reading obscure shit only post graduate autists would be interested in let alone would ever understand
why? sure normie apple/amazon top sellers are cringe but undergrad 101 texts are more than enough for /lit/ drop outs

[Anonymous No.14605859]

>>14605113
Note the complete lack of secondary sources in OPs collection. This is how you know you have a pseud on your hands; someone that "reads" the great works like Process and Reality, but doesn't study around them, resulting in only a very superficial understanding of them.

[Anonymous No.14605876]

>>14605261
wow, you are literally me when i was 19. godspeed you crazy fuck, you're in for a rough road

[Anonymous No.14605899]

>>14605859
>he needs secondary sources
>he is unable to thoroughly analyze and scrutinize any book he reads without the aid of ivory tower academics

never gonna make it

[Anonymous No.14605905]

>>14605113
I'm broke and librarypilled

[Anonymous No.14605915]

>>14605113
Next thread because I'm working. But in the meantime enjoy this picture of my TLOTR paperbacks I found in second hand stores.

[Anonymous No.14605939]

>>14605113
>Hamsun's Hunger
extremely based

[Anonymous No.14605955]

>>14605915
Nice

[Anonymous No.14606030]

>>14605859
I just download secondary sources as pdfs and epubs desu

[Anonymous No.14606183]

>>14605905
get a job neet-kun

[Anonymous No.14606206]

>>[mass replying]
>Yikes!

[Anonymous No.14606223]

My area of focus is poetry, but I do enjoy a lot of 20th century fiction. My favourite novel is Ulysses, and I enjoy collecting multiple editions.

[Anonymous No.14606249]

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[Anonymous No.14606254]

>>14605141
>>14605128
>Patrick White and Claude Simon
Fuck yea

[Anonymous No.14606276]

>>14606223
Anon take closer pics I can't see some of them :(

[Anonymous No.14606285]

>>14606276
At work, but if you're on your phone you can zoom in. The picture is pretty clear for zooms.

[Anonymous No.14606322]

My shelf is embarrassing. I'm getting more books, I wear
>>14605358
hey! why do you have my copy of the Trial! Also you have two copies of GR ...

[Anonymous No.14606699]

>>14606223
Do you teach at a college? I don't want my children being educated by a chanfaggot, thank you.

[Anonymous No.14606705]

>>14606285
Nigga it's 10pm

[Anonymous No.14606710]

>>14605113
>>14605119
>>14605128
>>14605141
>>14605147
can we be friends anon

[None !!toyzDfGl0vW No.14606728]

I'll amass my pleb-tier collection that I will never finish, tonight. It rests upon my dusty recliners and wretched floor.

Stay tuned, il/lit/erates.

[Anonymous No.14606755]

[Anonymous No.14606762]

>>14606755
Eventually I'll take new pics

[Anonymous No.14606763]

>>14605575
surprised at the number of people who don't realize this is a pasta, albeit a relevant one

[Anonymous No.14606782]

1/6
Nihonjin compartment, vintage and oxford compartment

[Anonymous No.14606790]

>>14606782
2/6
Penguin, vaguely Asian

[Anonymous No.14606796]

>>14605113
>>14605119
>>14605128
>>14605141
>>14605147
It's a fine collection anon, but the point is to read them not just acquire them. Those pristine spines tell me you've never even glanced inside most of those books.

[Anonymous No.14606797]

>>14606782
>All that Murakami

[Anonymous No.14606799]

>>14606790
3/6
American, genre fiction

[Anonymous No.14606808]

>>14606797
I apologise

[Anonymous No.14606813]

>>14606799
4/6
Various classics, more American

[Anonymous No.14606817]

>>14606322
I bought another copy so I could read it again

[Anonymous No.14606821]

>>14606813
5/6
Britain and Ireland, Chinese books

[Anonymous No.14606823]

>>14606813
>that edition of The Count
Why, nigger, why? It's abridged. I bought it by mistake and luckily I was able to resell it

[Anonymous No.14606826]

>>14606821
6/6
European

[Anonymous No.14606833]

>>14606823
Made the same mistake you did. I haven’t gotten rid of it yet, and honestly it’s probably just going to sit there for a bit.

[Anonymous No.14606863]

>>14606796
How the fuck do you retards crack the spine on paperbacks? Do you fucking perform a blood eagle on the book before you read the first page?

[Anonymous No.14606878]

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>>14606826
this poster is gay and not the cool gay with good fashion sense

[Anonymous No.14606892]

>>14606863
Didn't say anything about cracking the spine.

[Anonymous No.14606945]

>>14606863
I stretch the binding carefully and then read them without flattening the fuckin thing and all of my books remain in excellent condition.

[Anonymous No.14606988]

>>14605575
He's seething

[Anonymous No.14607019]

>>14605113
I want to learn a bunch of classical languages. I have a decent grasp at Latin and old English and I’m working on old Norse

[Anonymous No.14607035]

>>14606796
>>14606863
>>14606945
My entire library looks like it's been owned by at least three different people. They're all cheap copies and will rot and turn yellow anyway. Who cares?

[Anonymous No.14607059]

>>14605354
>>14605374
>why yes, I'm a right wing LARPer with no personality of my own, how could you tell?

[Anonymous No.14607071]

>>14607059
I hate these low effort hit-and-quit posts. Explain yourself.

[Anonymous No.14607093]

>>14607059
three of those books are about communists

[Anonymous No.14607496]

Bump

[Anonymous No.14607521]

>>14605113
My book shelf

[Anonymous No.14607531]

>>14605113
I own exactly two books. Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace, and Moon People by Dale Courtney. They both fit in my backpack. There's no room for a bookshelf in my pod. I exchange my books at a local book exchange when I want to.

[Anonymous No.14607713]

>>14605473
based and basementpilled

>>14607059
>The Cross and the Lynching Tree
>right wing

[Anonymous No.14607794]

>>14605575
Le I got this reference

[Anonymous No.14607803]

This is just a random bunch I packed in a rush with me atm.

I am building housing for gold miners atm.

[Anonymous No.14607808]

>>14607803
I do also have The Sea the Sea by Iris Murdoch but I lent it to someone so

[Anonymous No.14607809]

>>14607803
greentext pls

[Anonymous No.14607852]

>>14607809
>be me
>be a drywall taper living with his highschool sweetheart
>get offered a job doing drywall for a new gold mine in northern Canada after talking to a friend about saving up for a wedding
>girlfriend says no because she didnt want me to leave for 2-3 months even if the pay was good
>decide not to, but working really late hours on custom houses to save for wedding
>girlfriend sits me down one night and tells me that she'd been cheating on me for 5-6 months and needed to tell me because she had gotten herpes and might have given it to me
>blind rage
>need to get away for a while so call friend about gold mining job
>can still go
>pack in a blind range pretty much just clothes and books
>crash at a friends til I leave

Now I'm taping little industrial blocks that these gold miners will live in several months out of the year and spend most of my time not working piss drunk or reading
Ex girlfriends new boyfriend has moved in and needed more space so my books are currently in bins at a friends back home in Ontario

Have not checked if I have herpes yet.

[Anonymous No.14607857]

>>14607852
Could you tell us about the beginning of your relationship? I find it interesting how the beginnings contrast with the end.

[Anonymous No.14607865]

>>14607852
Fuck man, I'm sorry. At least she's out of the picture and you're making bank. I'll say a prayer for you tonight.

[Anonymous No.14607874]

>>14607857
We met in gradeschool when she the soccer and wrestling teams would warm up together.
We were both big readers (in the grade 8 sense of the word. I liked Sherlock Holmes and King Arthur, she liked Hunger Games and some other stuff I can't remember.) So I one day during warmups asked her to help edit some shitty short stoires I was writing.

Eventually we would hang out all the time after school where around 8pm I'd help her walk her dog every night. We started dating and we both worked hard to get into this dumb "advanced" program at a highschool farther away so we could still see each other. Got in, eventually we broke up because all I did was wrestle and work (started drywall at 15) but after a botched suicide attempt on her part began dating again. We kept dating til now where I am 21

[Anonymous No.14607878]

>>14607865
Thank you friend

[Anonymous No.14607891]

>>14607865
Prayers mean nothing. God is not fucking real.

[Anonymous No.14607899]

>>14607874
I'm sorry man. I hope you start to feel better soon.

[Anonymous No.14607901]

>>14607891
Maybe its his way of extending his care for others.
Why do you feel the need to barge in and mock someone?

[Anonymous No.14607909]

>>14607891
Fellow atheist agnostic here. It's real at least as a way of giving and receiving kindness and goodwill. Who are we to say otherwise?

[Anonymous No.14607915]

>>14607901
All women should be killed. Until he admits this he has not learned anything.

[Anonymous No.14607932]

>>14607915
One womens action is not all of them.

Even if she cheated on me and possibly gave me herpes that's her actions and choices. Not even absoultly making her a evil person, it certainly doesn't make everyone in a group associated with her evil.

[Anonymous No.14607936]

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[Anonymous No.14607967]

>>14605406
fucking dover. why do they insist on ruining 2 volume sets?

[Anonymous No.14607978]

>>14605406
ooooo, this is such a good shelf. Full of great books! What would be some of your favourites?

[Anonymous No.14608154]

>>14607978
Dainton time and space XD :DD

[Anonymous No.14608163]

>>14607967
No idea, the covers look more or less the same but the spines are retarded

[Anonymous No.14608221]

>>14605113
working my way through these, might start Dead Souls next

[Anonymous No.14608228]

>>14607019
Any recommends where/how to start learning Latin?

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !mxvabIoSIE No.14608235]

>>14608221
Wow, a shelf where the spines are actually read. :O

[TURKISH ARYAN STUCK IN MUTTMER(...) No.14608250]

>>14608221
>t. the only guy in the thread that actual reads

everyone with the giant shelves are poseurs that haven't even read 1/4th of their shit

[Anonymous No.14608307]

>>14608250
You’re not supposed to read the books you fucking namefag

[Anonymous No.14608325]

>>14608250
you have put your faith in me, and I must disappoint you, for I have only read about 1/2 of these

[TURKISH ARYAN STUCK IN MUTTMER(...) No.14608328]

>>14608325
the eternal pseud strikes again...

[Anonymous No.14608378]

What can I say, I like the guy

[Anonymous No.14608382]

>>14608163
not as retarded as mine though

[Anonymous No.14608395]

A few months old

1/7

[Anonymous No.14608399]

>>14608395
2/7

[Anonymous No.14608405]

>>14608399
3/7

[Anonymous No.14608406]

>>14608405
4

[Anonymous No.14608410]

>>14608406
5/7

[Anonymous No.14608413]

>>14608410
6/7

[Anonymous No.14608415]

>>14608413
7/7

[TURKISH ARYAN STUCK IN MUTTMER(...) No.14608417]

>>14608413
>storm front
BASED

[Anonymous No.14608642]

Only patricians collect their books in digital form.

[Anonymous No.14608646]

>>14605113
>>14605119
>>14605128
>>14605141
>>14605147
Have you read all of these?

[Anonymous No.14609016]

>>14608395
mega cringe anon

[Anonymous No.14609025]

>>14608646
None of the paperbacks have even one crease

[Anonymous No.14609448]

>>14608228
Wheelocks Latin and the latintutorial YouTube channel

[Anonymous No.14610266]

Bump

[The Prophet !!lwPyLS41HmK No.14610292]

>>14609448
This, plus Lingua Latina per se Illustrata

[Anonymous No.14610336]

FUCK NONE OF YOU FUCKING READ ANYTHING IM SO SICK OF SHELF THREADS FILLED WITH IMAGES OF BOOKS IN PRISTINE PERFECT CONDITION

THIS BOARD IS NOTHING BUT A BIG STEAMING PILE OF PRETENTIOUS NOTHING, FUCK YOU ALL

[Anonymous No.14610347]

>>14610336
post shelf

[Anonymous No.14610386]

>>14608378
What the fuck lol. Is Nixon a good writer?

[Anonymous No.14610481]

>>14608378
kek

[Anonymous No.14610599]

>>14610336
I only own hardcovers. My spines always look pristine.

[Anonymous No.14610626]

>>14610336
i've never owned a book and my IQ is STILL higher than yours

[Anonymous No.14610642]

Why the hell would you EVER read prose written by an englishman? Even less so of an american?

[Anonymous No.14610690]

away from main shelf so here are recent purchases

>>14608405
>the wealth of nations

baby brain

>>14608378
lmao

[Anonymous No.14610706]

>>14610642
Because they are the best prose stylists lol

[Anonymous No.14610728]

>>14605663
what if you just stop being a faggot

[Anonymous No.14610748]

>>14609025
>>14610336
If you're careful and don't bend the pages all the way back you can actually read a paperback without creasing the spine y'know.
>>14610386
Very much so, yes. It's all very easy reading, and written as if it were spoken, because if I recall correctly a lot of his books were dictated. Six Crises straight up transcribes some of his speeches before becoming president.

[Anonymous No.14610890]

>>14608382
Wot de fug

[Anonymous No.14610994]

hello

>>14608395
>>14608399
>>14608405
>>14608406
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>>14608415
unforgiveably shite

>>14608325
anon's bookshelf from the perspective of someone with myopia

>>14607803
I sympathize with your situation and wish you the best in your period of introspection but why burden yourself further with Rand, Orwell and Freud, while only taking a single Shakespeare when you could have a whole collection to peruse to the grinding noise of mining machinery disturbing an assumed otherwise idyllic setting in the wintry north spring? Is this the self flagellation of the cuckolded?

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>>14606826
too organized and clean, too new and unread looking also

>>14606762
>>14606755
moderately based, redpilled and eclectic but too much ruski shit makes me surprised to not see 12 rules for life here, and not enough good fiction outside of ruski memes
can't tell if you've actually read most of them because they look second hand and many are brand new though

>>14605915
based tolkien shelf poster

>>14605374
like your theologian aesthetic but completely unlearned in theology myself

>>14605261
based hermit

[Anonymous No.14611009]

[Anonymous No.14611035]

>>14611009
abusing the colour pink won't make you a girl

[Anonymous No.14611486]

>>14606790
lmao imagine buying Murakami's entire bibliography, it's like the same exact book over and over

[Anonymous No.14611729]

im gonna start creasing my covers on purpose. i read my books you faglords

[Anonymous No.14611792]

>>14607932
bless you rational anon

[Anonymous No.14611850]

>>14605374
Where do I begin with theology after the Bible?

[The Prophet !!lwPyLS41HmK No.14611955]

>>14611009
Post feet

[Anonymous No.14611964]

>>14611009
Can I be your bf?

[Anonymous No.14611977]

how much did collecting these cost you?

[The Prophet !!lwPyLS41HmK No.14612067]

>>14611850
my diary desu

[Anonymous No.14612133]

>>14606763
It's a brand new pasta. You're the newfag here.

[Anonymous No.14612187]

[Anonymous No.14612200]

>tfw poor and live in a tiny apartment with no room for a huge bookshelf
AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH

[Anonymous No.14612214]

>>14611009
i'm 5 inches and i shower at least every 4 days

[Anonymous No.14612232]

>>14612187
pretty based

[Anonymous No.14612237]

>>14605663
>i don't know how anybody ... can keep studying ... knowing ...
how fucking stupid do you have to actually be for a statement like this to even occur to you, much less escape through your fingers onto a public forum

[Anonymous No.14612245]

>>14612187
>Tintin
Based.

How's that Animator's Survival Book btw?

[Anonymous No.14612363]

>>14612245
It's really great. If you only buy 1 book on animation there's nothing better than it.

[Anonymous No.14612492]

>>14605575
I'm thinking this is based and pastapilled

[Anonymous No.14613118]

>>14605354
What are your thoughts on the presocratics? I read that book because of /lit/ and found so much of it impenetrable, especially Parmenides who I'd been looking forward to so much
Also redpill me on Pseudo-Dionysus
>>14605915
that's an impressive collection. why do you like Tolkien so much?
>>14606755
>>14606762
very nice
is Mr Nice actually good or just a meme

[Anonymous No.14613124]

>>14606796
>damaging the spines as a point of pride
fucking pleb tier

[Anonymous No.14613140]

>>14613124
this
I'm the poster above and I'm just not going to open England's Hidden Reverse because it's an expensive book and not cheap
idk people insist that either you have wrecked pieces of books and you actually read, or pristine spine and are some sort of poser. very easy to just not damage your books

[Anonymous No.14613176]

>>14611850
The Bible is an extremely dense work, worthy of a lifetime of study. Frigge's Beginning Biblical Studies will give you some footholds for getting started, and the Catechism of the Catholic Church will help you understand modern interpretations as well as give you leads on which works of antiquity to study.

Or go backwards and read Plato, Plotinus, Joseph Campbell's Masks of God, and Burkert's Greek Religion. Having this as a foundation helped me immensely, but it may lull you into thinking Christianity is just an evolution in thinking instead of what it actually is.

>>14610994
hello anon. Pretty cool shelf. What are those maps of? And no worries about being completely unlearned, that's probably for the best; Christian theology is weird in that knowledge helps and can make your experience more meaningful but isn't actually necessary. Grace does not come from books.

[Anonymous No.14613188]

>>14612187
>limoncello
extremely based

hope you have the rest of that euclid

[Anonymous No.14613686]

>>14613124
>>14613140
t. have never read a book

[Anonymous No.14613701]

>>14613686
Trolling for (You)s I assume
if not, explain yourself please. after all it is perfectly possible in most cases to read a book without damaging the spines

[Anonymous No.14613710]

>>14613686
I have. They are left almost as new. Untouched spines. Only some sweat on the edges because of my sweaty hands.

[Anonymous No.14613721]

>>14613701
>it is perfectly possible in most cases to read a book without damaging the spines
For paperbacks? No, it isn't.

[Anonymous No.14613911]

>>14605261
>Lonesome Dove
Excellent taste

[Anonymous No.14613980]

>>14607852
>year of our Lord 2020
>it is still illegal to publicly stone women
what a joke this times are

[Anonymous No.14614145]

[Anonymous No.14614212]

>>14606322
Based. I want to read White Noise.

[Anonymous No.14614463]

>>14605261
Do you live in a cave?

[Anonymous No.14614472]

>>14614463
anon, we all live in the cave

[Anonymous No.14614652]

>>14611009
based and redpilled

[Anonymous No.14614721]

No tidying. No cropping. Sorry.

[Anonymous No.14614745]

>>14613721
fuck off fuckng faggot

[Anonymous No.14614758]

>>14614745
You've never read a book in your life.

[Anonymous No.14614890]

>if your books aren't in shit condition it's because you haven't read them
lmao

[Anonymous No.14615676]

Bumping

[Anonymous No.14615717]

>>14608328
Imagine the smell...

[Anonymous No.14615821]

>>14608399
Fucking based. Did you buy those tyr essays when they came out?

[Anonymous No.14615829]

>>14613176
maps are for a route I was gonna take across my whole country, they're all stolen
only after attempting it for a week did I realize most of my country is boring to walk though

[Anonymous No.14615866]

>>14610994
Have you read the tain? Not sure if it's the translation but it has a very interesting style, reminds of modernists poets like pound.p

[Anonymous No.14615893]

>>14615866
I read it on an ereader years ago and fucking despised it
can't specifically remember why I disliked it though so I bought the physical to read again

never liked the táin epic as a kid either, I was always more of a salmon of knowledge and oisín I dtír na nóg person

[Anonymous No.14615915]

>>14605261
KACZYNSKI IS LOOSE

[Anonymous No.14615947]

>>14615893
Based, everything before the Ulster cycle interests me more. It just amazes me how much Irish myths and heroic writings there are. Currently working on the Germanic stuff such as pic related.
Honestly I don't know where to start with the Irish, what would you recommend? Do I start at the first myth cycle and just work my way up?

[Anonymous No.14615973]

>>14605113
I have like 20 shelves man how am I supposed to post a whole fucking shelf? This stack alone is from 1 month of purchase and it doesn't even have all my books in it. I literally have an entire room full of books and academic research (not mine)

[Anonymous No.14616254]

>>14615947
To understand Gaelic myth you really have to start with the Greeks

Really though I haven't read a mythology book in ages, gonna pick Acallam na Senórach soon though because I love the Fianna tales so much

[Anonymous No.14616502]

A gay shelf for a gay thread

[Anonymous No.14616543]

>>14616502
cool boat

[Anonymous No.14616752]

I'm almost done with my core Brecht collection in German

[Anonymous No.14616761]

>>14616752

[Anonymous No.14616771]

>>14616761

[Anonymous No.14616916]

>>14616502
Very nice. Many of these books are on my list, we have very similar taste.
First: who wrote that capital and interest book?
Second:how is that main currents of marxism? Is it a criticism or support?

+ I'm in the process of going through that full Mahabharata series. If you are interested in the Mahabharata comparatively then the "the ritual of battle" by hiltebeitel would be of interest to you. He follows in the tradition of dumezil and makes some wonderful connections.

[Anonymous No.14617142]

>>14606799
>>14606813
What a shit selection of American literature

[Anonymous No.14617397]

>>14616916
Capital and interest is a three part work written by Eugen Böhm-Bawerk including a critique contemporary economic models followed by his conception of a positive theory of capital.

Kołakowski is really good. For the most part, it's a historical account of prevailing trends among Marx's ideological antecedents, Marx himself, and those who have attempted to interpret and retrofit Marx's writings over the century following his death. Kołakowski does a good job of limiting the impact of his own views on his account. When he does, they're usually in endnotes or postscripts. Because of this, a lot of Marxists around here actually recommend reading him to understand the history of Marxist thought, despite Kołakowski being largely critical of the Marxist project having himself come from a predominantly Marxist philosophical tradition in Poland.

[Anonymous No.14617411]

>>14617397
Thank you fren. I give you an aesthetic treat as compensation.

[Anonymous No.14617425]

>>14617411
Btw, do you know of any good complete translations of the Mahabharata? Those U Chicago ones are the authoritative academic translation for what they cover so far, but they've been expensive and slow to publish.

[Anonymous No.14617618]

>>14617425
They are the best I've come across and had many friends recommend them.
But no I haven't found any better that aren't heavily abridged. You may not know this but the original translator of the Chicago version (buitenen) passed on before he finished and his friend (Fitzgerald) took it up in his place. It's up to around volume 7 now. They are expensive though, I know your pain.
The Paperback versions on abebooks aren't too bad, I'm going after the hardbacks due to my constant reference to them and after volume 3 the prices get s t e e p.

[Anonymous No.14617644]

>>14617618
The paperbacks are very cheap on abebooks:
https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=30148100217&searchurl=kn%3DMahabharata%2BChicago%26sortby%3D17

[Anonymous No.14617739]

bump

[Anonymous No.14617995]

>>14605374
Could you give me a list of all the books in this picture? Some of the titles are too hard for me to make out, and some of the books are blocked by other books, but I'm very interested in this collection.

[Anonymous No.14618082]

>>14617644
Thanks, I've been trying to buy them used up to now.

[Anonymous No.14618366]

>>14605358
>>14614463
In a shack in the forest hahaha I'm forest anon from that thread a couple of weeks ago.
>>14605876
Thank you my friend!
>>14610994
F
>>14613911
My number one all time favorite book that I have ever read in my life. And it's probably going to stay my favorite for a very, very long time. I can't recommend it enough.
>>14615915
>I just got mad seeing the machines ripping up the woods...

[Anonymous No.14618384]

>>14618366
damn shit looks comfy

[Anonymous No.14618462]

>>14618366
>lives in a shack
>presumably has a cell phone with data
what a time to be alive

[Anonymous No.14618591]

I need more philosophy in my life

[Anonymous No.14618643]

>>14617995
Here's a list of books that are obscured, from top to bottom. The titles are visible for the rest.

LCL Plotinus' Enneads I-VII
LCL Tertullian's Apology
LCL Sextus Empiricus Outlines on Pyrrhonism
Turner's Faith, Reason, and the Existence of God
Chautard's The Soul of the Apostolate
Niebuhr's Christ & Culture
Finan & Twomey - The Relationship between Neoplatonism and Christianity
Harnack's Marcion
Gregory of Nyssa's The Great Catechism
Duns Scotus' A Treatise On God as First Principle
Girard's I See Satan Fall Like Lightning & The Scapegoat
Agamben's Homo Sacer & The Sacrament of Language: An Archaeology of the Oath
Metzger's Lexical Aids for Students of New Testament Greek
Uzdavinys' Orpheus and the Roots of Platonism
Perl's Theophany
Weston's A Rulebook for Arguments

[Anonymous No.14618652]

>>14618591
nice Pentax anon! And I'm a little jelly of your study bible.

[Anonymous No.14618660]

shoot I forgot a couple from the top. my fault for not actually looking.

LCL Eusebius' Ecclesiastical History

[Anonymous No.14618785]

>>14617995
oof I guess the little blue book's title isn't visible.

The Secret of the Rosary by Louis de Montfort. Highly recommended. You may also be interested in Calloway's Champions of the Rosary.

and Holy Bible w/ Apocrypha, NRSV, Oxford. You may prefer a NAB.

[Anonymous No.14619034]

>>14618652
thanks anon. i take it you're into photography as well? and thanks, the study bible is for a class I'm taking on the hebrew bible. the NRSV serves me well since there are mentions of alternative translations. For example the red sea in Exodus can also be translated as "sea of reeds". Quite a good copy

[Anonymous No.14619231]

>Reading books made from dead trees
>Not reading ebooks
It's 2020 guys, get on with the times..

[Anonymous No.14619492]

>>14619034
>i take it you're into photography as well?
yes but i'm terrible. mostly i'm a nikonbro and catfag who occasionally ruins /p/. good luck in the hebrew bible class.

[Anonymous No.14619564]

>>14619492
hey if it genuinely brings value to your life then who cares
that's a beautiful kitty, I love cats

[Anonymous No.14619584]

>>14619564
she's my first cat. i love her to pieces, miss her a lot. when i'm home from school we are inseparable.

[Anonymous No.14619632]

>>14618384
Super comfy at night! Especially when it's cold temps.
>>14618462
Hahah I even stayed up late on Christmas and watched old Christmas movies.

[Anonymous No.14619651]

>>14619632
*completely* based

[Anonymous No.14619666]

also you look like a man who would appreciate hot whiskey.

[Anonymous No.14619738]

>>14613118
>why do you like Tolkien so much?
I don't know. I've been a fan from early childhood, Jackson's movies (the original trilogy) and the art of Alan Lee and John Howe captivated me when I was young. My mother bought me The Hobbit, TLOTR and The Silmarillion and that's how I got into Tolkien's literary world.
Reading a biography by Joseph Pearce showed me that Tolkien's work was more than an anthology of fantastic stories. That sparked my interest in Tolkien's like and the Legendarium.
Living in Japan, a country where foreign books are worthless, helped me to build up my collection for almost nothing.

[cunt No.14619769]

>>14619632
This is really based desu other then the fact you think God is real.

[Anonymous No.14619780]

>>14619769
>other then the fact you think God is real.
aren't you making quite a few assumptions there cunt

[cunt No.14619793]

>>14619780
>has a cross hanging up for no reason

[Anonymous No.14619815]

>>14619793
>no reason
how do you know? you haven't proven yourself to know what he's thinking or what he believes. maybe the cross is there for decoration. sloppy detective work, ya cunt.

[Anonymous No.14619995]

>>14619584
beautiful eyes

[Anonymous No.14620045]

>>14619666
Holy shit I feel this so fucking much. The silence and length of the winters. Spring time you hear flies buzzing and birds chirping and squirrels chortling, but winter the silence makes your skin crawl. For me the nights in winter are the hardest because they last so long. And when he mentions breaking the silence by singing songs, I talk to myself, I actually have told stories of old memories to myself and I do that pretty much everyday. And when he talks about wearing that old lady parka from Salvation Army and using old stuff he collects, I felt that because I go to junk places and I repurposed most of my stuff from an abandoned camper in the desert below. You might like this thread anon: https://archive.md/9tXmW
I gave a ton of info in it and posted photos and answered questions that nobody had ever bothered asking me before. Even the few friends I have weren't as interested in the 'Hows' and in the stories when I was posting a lot of my adventures on social media, that thread was the first time anyone showed interest. Anons in that thread inspired me to post to YouTube more often, so I'm going to start doing that.
https://youtu.be/TMQ0emgKrSE

>>14619769
I'm actually suprised more of /lit/ hasn't given me a hard time for it

[Anonymous No.14620082]

>>14620045
holy shit i missed that thread. good on ya anon. if you're still asking for recs i'll say the one i usually shill: reader's digest back to basics. you can find it cheap used, like $3. lots of info with diagrams about woodworking, agriculture, crafts, etc. very 1970s. also yeah i'ma check out your tubes if no one else will.

>>14619995
yup. ooof i miss her so.

[Anonymous No.14620556]

>>14619632
Caring out your convictions or simply homeless? Either way i like the setup..

[Anonymous No.14621030]

bump

[Anonymous No.14621121]

>>14619632
this is friggin noice. how cold is it?

[Anonymous No.14621264]

>>14605113
Solid, Zen Peoms any good?

[Anonymous No.14621326]

>>14605113
only sharing a small bit

[Anonymous No.14621328]

>>14621326

[Anonymous No.14621360]

>>14621328
the ones you cant see

[Anonymous No.14621395]

>>14605374
How much did that TDNT set you back?

[Anonymous No.14621558]

>>14614721
I like those shelves.

[Anonymous No.14622408]

bumping with a pre WWII english edition of mein kampf I found today

[Anonymous No.14622513]

>>14612187
that red version of Plato's works is quite nice, never seen it before

[Anonymous No.14622575]

>>14621395
$125 I think? Surprisingly inexpensive.

[Anonymous No.14622583]

>>14622513
you definitely have. I have the same edition, it's the one on the chart.

[Anonymous No.14622592]

>>14619632
/SHACK GANG/
I wish I had the balls to go live like you, I feel I would go insane without the familiar tedium of wageslavery that I've been reared for though.

[Anonymous No.14622593]

>>14605261

Fuck yeah, cabin bro

[Anonymous No.14622635]

[Anonymous No.14622724]

>>14622635
based tbhwy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uaaF83eVig

[Anonymous No.14622749]

>>14622635
i really hope the books in the lower shelf arent yours

[Anonymous No.14623700]

>>14605575
>books
>having a singular purpose
Wow.

[Anonymous No.14623749]

>>14615821
Unfortunately I didn’t, I had to buy them all at once when I became interested in religion, traditionalism, and euro culture. The first few came out in like 2002 and 2003, so I would have to be much older to have known about this at that time. Vol 2 was the most expensive, I think it was either $60 or $80 , but worth it for all the interesting shit they put in it.

[Anonymous No.14623767]

>>14622635
I don't normally say this, but pseud

[Anonymous No.14623782]

>>14623767
>calling kafka or hesse or camus or blessed orwell a pseud
no u

[Anonymous No.14624088]

>>14620082
Oh shit, forget that archive link, that screenshot was too early, I just found the complete thread:
>>/lit/thread/S14486351
That has everything, all the info!
>reader's digest back to basics
Awesome I'm going be looking for it, I'm always looking for recs. Thanks for checking out the toobs anon :)

>>14620556
Carrying out long held convictions!
It's been a dream of mine for a very long time. I'm glad you like the setup. I had some garden patches growing in the spring: https://youtu.be/IKHQ2cUWpOM
Wasn't a great success but I managed to harvest and pickle radishes, carrots, lettuce, arugula, kale and rainbow chard
Here's me building the cabin:
https://youtu.be/VFiAt3O1PAw

>>14621121
Right now it's about 52°f so it's warming up a bit! But the 16th and 17th of this month were the coldest I have ever experienced in the two winters that I've been here, the thermometer read 12°f but the windchill was supposedly -20° below zero which is unheard of to an ex suburbanite like me. The Weather Broadcast Station NOAA gave a frostbite warning, and I had never heard it give that kind of warning before. https://youtu.be/Bfy4nDXP8W8 Even during the snow blizzards it never gave a frostbite warning. Im glad I caught the moment it said it.
But I stayed so warm in the cabin. But that night I was probably the most nervous I have ever been.

>>14622592
You could always try and work your way into it slowly! Like on your time off, and when you have free days or vacations you could grab a tent a book and a sleeping bag and go poke around in some overgrown canyons, and spend a night or two in shady spot! Then do it for 4 days, then a week, and so on. When I lived in the suburbs I would go hike into the surrounding hills and sit there all day by myself. Then I started to dip into old ravines and follow them until I found a nice spot and I'd set camp. I found some crazy things in those days too. Then I got depressed for a few years and needed to get away from everyone so I decided to go into the desert with just a backpack and tent and try and live there. I found an abandoned mining cabin in a pinyon forest and lived in it for 4 months, had some really bad experiences but a lot of them were the best in my life. Then I wanted to build something of my own and there wasnt enough wood in the desert so I followed the highways until I found a douglas fir forest, It all happened very slowly, and if I didn't start out back then by following those ravines and just getting used to being in the woods alone and having to scrape and scrounge for money I probably would still be in the suburbs working a steady job or something. You should dip your toes in just for fun and keep doing that and see how you feel. (I'm sure it's different though if you have a wife and kids, but try it man it couldn't hurt!) And remember there isn't one correct way to do it. It was an experiment that ended up consuming me and now it's my life hahahah

>>14622593
ILY no homo

[Anonymous No.14624160]

>>14623700
>having
wow

[Anonymous No.14624362]

>>14619632
what does the light switch do? you have some source of power?

[Anonymous No.14624367]

>>14619815
>the obviously christian cross on the wall is a secular decoration and not an indication of a belief in a deity at all
poor bait but you got a reply anyway

[Anonymous No.14624371]

>>14610336
Even my paperbacks look nearly perfect after being read, because I'm not a slob

[Anonymous No.14624517]

>>14618366
holy based do you have any power source there? you got any family that would have let you NEET from them?

[Anonymous No.14625017]

>>14610336
Faggots like this never post their shelves.

[Anonymous No.14625054]

I would post mine but my bookshelf got infested by termites so now the books are all in grocery bags in another room

[Anonymous No.14625150]

>>14606813
i hate that you buy woodsworth, collins, and signet collections. You obviously shop at barnes and noble and pick up from their display sections you faggot. Bet you havent read much of anything you own.
Pro tip: If you're buying public domain lit, go to a used book store and buy out-of-print copies instead of supporting these cunt publishing houses that cant even print their own front matter without typos.

[Anonymous No.14625170]

>>14608406
absolute garbage, do yourself a favor, put those in a pile, light em with a match.

[Anonymous No.14625789]

>>14616502
Based collection but you seem like a full-blown AnCap, so I'm deducting a point.

[Anonymous No.14625808]

>>14625170
something very based about this post not sure what

>>14625054
hope your books are okay anon

[Anonymous No.14625833]

>>14605147
>Independent People
>No Growth of the Soil

Still a solid 9.5 out of 10. Based OP

[Anonymous No.14625868]

>>14605254
>ama four days ago
>nobody asked him anything

: (

[Anonymous No.14626007]

>>14625868
What time is it?

[Anonymous No.14626026]

>>14626007
time to get a watch, anon.

[Anonymous No.14626106]

Nonfic shelf 1/4

[Anonymous No.14626123]

>>14626106
2

[Anonymous No.14626138]

>>14626123
3

[Anonymous No.14626154]

>>14626138
4/4

[Anonymous No.14626486]

>>14626154
>JS Mill's On Liberty
based

are you a math student anon? what do you think of those Dovers, are they sufficient to get me caught up enough to score a minor degree in Math?

[Anonymous No.14626521]

[Anonymous No.14626526]

>>14625170
You telling me you never read genre fiction like that in high school and don’t keep these around for nostalgia if you have the space?

I totally get that a lot of those are not greatly written but I had a good time reading those back in the day. Pure fun, and they’re not really on my reading list at this point anyway.

[Anonymous No.14626578]

>>14626526
No, I don't hold on to useless clutter that is never going to serve me some purpose in my life ever again. I threw out my Harry Potter books (not even donated, I mean straight into the garbage bag) when I bought a house and was getting ready to move/pruning my old possessions of things I know I will never touch again. You should try it, nostalgia is unhealthy in large quantities.

[Anonymous No.14626672]

>>14626521

[Anonymous No.14626705]

>>14626486
Dovers in general I like better for refreshers/references rather than learning for the first time. And not a math student but a CS stemlord bouncing around in linguistics, political econ, and psych(cognitive and educational)

[Anonymous No.14626739]

>>14605113
>shelf thread is 4 and a half days old
Nice.

[Anonymous No.14626754]

>>14626106
>>14626123
>>14626138
>>14626154
Based mathematico-philosophical thinker with possible Marxist leanings.

[Anonymous No.14626774]

>>14626705
>And not a math student but a CS stemlord bouncing around in linguistics, political econ, and psych(cognitive and educational)
I'm not who you're replying to, but sweet - reminds me of myself back in the day. I'm surprised you don't have any Chomsky, though.

[Anonymous No.14627351]

>>14623767
yeah sry but I only buy memes

[Anonymous No.14627434]

>>14605113
i do not have a shelf, i keep my books in a messy pile on the floor near the couch where i sleep, near my dirty sock pile and the gatorade bottle i use for water

[Anonymous No.14627460]

>>14627434
Holy... based based based based based

[Anonymous No.14627517]

>>14605113

[Anonymous No.14628322]

>>14626739
um hello based depardment

[Anonymous No.14628547]

>>14627517
how did you get into my house?

[Anonymous No.14628567]

>>14628547
Your wife's boyfriend let me in. Tyrone, I think his name was?

[Anonymous No.14628583]

>>14627517
>tea tins masquerading as books
Is this the most egregious pseudshit ever marketed to proles? Jesus Christ

[Anonymous No.14628798]

Someone get a hold of that catholic poster. We need closeups of his stacks. It's been years and that guy still refuses to get a bookshelf

[Anonymous No.14628853]

>>14616761
Very nice to see someone on this board who appreciates Tucholsky

[Anonymous No.14629051]

>>14618366
based as fuck. tell more about your existence

[Anonymous No.14629398]

Work books

[Anonymous No.14629429]

>>14624517
I have crank chargers which I use to charge up portable powerbanks! I do that so I always have at least some form of power ready to go. That way I can shitpost and download stuff hahah. I do have a family member I could NEET from but I'm so far away from them that just thinking about trying to go back overwhelms me. Ive been wanting to visit a buddy of mine who lives back in my hometown but the trip and the bus/train money just isn't worth it. I'm hoping if I find work on one of the ranches below in a month I'll be able to set some cash aside for a trip to visit

>>14629051
You should subscribe to me on YouTube or bookmark it I'm going to start posting on there more! I'll answer any questions you can think of asking and I'll go into details about stuff
https://youtu.be/TMQ0emgKrSE

[Anonymous No.14629450]

>>14624088
Inspiring stuff man. I want to do this one day. I live in the Netherlands and there are very strict camping laws here. It's even illegal to take a piss in a forest lol, they'll fine you €500 for it. I'll just take the risk, it'll be worth it even if I get caught.
Since you're on 4chan, have you got mobile data there? Also, could you tell me about some of the bad experiences you've had and what would you recommend for self protection/safety? How long do you go without human contact & do you ever get lonely out there?

[Anonymous No.14629491]

>>14611977
who are you quoting?

[Anonymous No.14629520]

>>14605374
hahhaha goatse in the glass ball

[Anonymous No.14629529]

>>14629429
How much money did you save up to pay for internet, food (I assume you are not self-sufficient), books, land tax and all that?

[Anonymous No.14629975]

>>14615947
start with the tain

[Anonymous No.14630075]

>>14629450
Hahah I say go for it! There are strict camping laws out here too, the way I look at it is I'm in California, authorities just let bums build giant tent cities under the freeway overpasses that turn in to giant drug dens and they never break them up. I figure the last thing they'd bother with is me by myself especially when I know many of them wouldnt be able to physically make the trip through these canyons and up onto my mountain! And if they do then fuck it I won't pay a fine. They have bigger problems to deal with. About 2 mountain ranges to the West there is a cell tower that I believe allows me my data, the only spot I get data in the whole forest is at my cabin, I think because it's so high up. I get very lonely especially holidays, but /lit/ helps, and I still go into town every few months when I can, so I say high to a cashier, or when I'm at the ranches I get to talk about all my stories. I actually have a lot of bad experiences, I just pulled a tick out of my armpit last night, my teeth are fucked up and I've gotten abscesses, (I use creosote resin my desert buddy made me) I dropped my rice and some things down the side of the mountain in the snow on accident last year and ruined them, got all of my socks wet last year in the winter and they didn't dry for a week so I was wrapping my feet up in my flannel shirts when I would sleep, possibly tore my rotator cuff when I slipped on a wet tree root and I could barely lift myself up with my arm for a good 4 months, I thought I dislocated it so I tried to relocate it for half an hour so God only knows how much worse I screwed it up by doing that hahahah, I got bushwacked in my eye and it wouldnt stop watering for a couple of days, had blackflies fly underneath my eyelids, in my nose and in the back of my throat, the earthquake broke one of my jars (that's when I added the strings to my shelves)

>>14629529
I started off with only a few hundred dollars which is what I used to start with, that went to my chargers, phone plan (most expensive thing I paid for was a phone plan with insurance) things like seeds, I dont own land or pay taxes, I just went off into a random forest in the mountains where I knew that nobody would bother me! When I had a Facebook I was in a homesteading group and boomers kicked me out of the group for admitting that. I get work on ranch properties along the sides of the highway below me because I had already had experience with horses and livestock. That's what pays for books, food and clothes when I need them. Sometimes they don't even pay me they just give me shit like honey and pickled eggs. Most of the things in my cabin like my jugs and pots came from some abandoned camper I found in the desert that people have been using as a shooting target. Check out this thread it will definitely answer a lot of questions too!
>>/lit/thread/S14486351

[Anonymous No.14630143]

I’m leaving this country next year , already sold half of my books, I’m so lazy to finish the ones I bought but never read

[Anonymous No.14630173]

>>14630143
I wouldnt worry, they look boring as fuck anyway

[Anonymous No.14630539]

[Anonymous No.14630594]

>>14629520
nope. prayer card.

[Anonymous No.14630601]

>>14630539
extremely /lit/

[Anonymous No.14631376]

>>14629975
after the tain: finn maccool?

[Anonymous No.14631481]

>>14605444
I 100% don't understand bookshelf threads. How would it even reflect your taste? My bookshelf is textbooks and YA novels from childhood. All my favorite books I checked out from the library during school and college. I could buy them but would you buy books just to stack them?

[Anonymous No.14631526]

>>14610336
This is a cope thread for people that have too much disposable income, amazon prime, and too much social anxiety to go to a library.

[Anonymous No.14631572]

>>14631526
>he doesn't have amazon prime

[Anonymous No.14631649]

>>14630075
incredibly based. looking forward to your book /litout/ bro

[Anonymous No.14632203]

>>14631526
The way I see it the value of books either remain steady, or increases as supply dwindles. We've all seen the scalpers on amazon and elsewhere. If I just put my money in a bank they will lose value over time to inflation. If I invest in books I will always have something at hand to read no matter my mood, and they maintain their value as long as you wash your hands before reading and don't dunk them in water.

[Anonymous No.14632214]

>>14631526
2/2
And 75% of the stuff I want to read is not available from any library in my country, and if I have to wait 2 weeks for it to be borrowed from a neighbouring country I cause huge expenditures for my local library and I'm probably already halfway into a new book by the time it arrives.

[Anonymous No.14632220]

>>14611009
I have that same copy of infinite jest and I guarantee you haven't read it based on its condition. How many of those books have you read?

[Anonymous No.14632525]

>>14631649
Thank you anon :)

[Anonymous No.14632729]

>>14630539
How is Lima's 'Paradiso'? I've been meaning to check it out.

[Anonymous No.14633236]

>>14622635
>germanfag
>no Thomas Mann