bookshelf thread. post em. will anon from pic related post,

>>7462166
Are you that dense?
The anon who posted these obviously got them off of reddit.
Holy fuck

>>7462263
k newfriend

>>7462263
I don't go on reddit I wouldn't know

>>7462258
now THAT's what i call autism

>>7462263
don't we all do that?

>>7462283
care to explain?

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>>7462166
My entire bookshelf. Pls r8.

>>7462267
k newfriend

>>7462379
those new covers are awful

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I collect mainly movies, but here's my small book collection.

>>7462416
You shouldn't judge the covers but the written content of the books.

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>>7462415

>>7462362
>those piles on the floor
have fun living in hell

>>7462302
>owns a katana

done

>>7462504
You the guy on /tv/ who buys all those VHS horror movies?

>>7462779
It's for decorative, combat and self-defense purposes. Hardly nerdy at all.

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>>7462806
Damn, he got me.

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>>7462800
Yes.

>>7462908
hmmm

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>>7462908

>>7462908
tbqhwymf, this is better than most bookshelves (real or shitpost) we get.

Do you happen to know some sort of database for awful 80s / 90s movies (specially sf and horror)?

I'm looking for a few shit I remember renting as a kid, but specifically, a softcore sci-fi called something like Elm's Mayhem or some shit like that.

>>7463355
>>7463417
lol

>>7463462
Thanks!

If you have a facebook, I'd recommend joining the group Horror VHS Collcetor's Unite, has a decent fanbase you can ask for movies you can't remember.

>>7463578
Why do you collect VHS? Isn't it a bit early to start fawning over that particular inferior dead format?

>>7462370
Nigga, I see those GoT books.

>>7463607
I get asked this a lot, and the best answer I can really give is why not!

I guess you can say it's part nostalgia, and the fact that the movies (half the time just the cover art) are awesome.

>>7462504
>>7462504

>Uzumaki isn't with the other Ito books

But what was your favourite story from Fragments of Horror? Mine was the one with the hiker and the bird woman.

Also how is The Familiar? I enjoyed House of Leaves but 27 books is a little daunting.

Lol weebs and VHS nostalgic autists. Sure know how to derail a BOOK shelf thread to be honest family.

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>>7463578
Thanks m8

Also, if you ever get across pic related, buy it on sight, this shit is AWESOME

>>7463785
You can keep them.on a bookshelf too.

>>7463804
>>7463808
Yeah but this level of trash and degeneracy just hurts the soul

My shitty photo of my book collection

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>>7463841
forgot picture

>>7463848

What's that manga on top of Gatsby?

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>>7463857
Kim Jung Gi's 2007 sketch collection.

No one's really sure if he's a savant.

>>7462272
>risking breaking your neck every time you want to grab a book

what a fucking terrible idea

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>>7462166
Here's my top shelf.

>>7463741
Uzumaki is not with the others because I needed a book end. I'm waiting on more shelves to properly store everything. I have boxes more of movies. Have about 3000.

My favorite story was from Fragments of Horror is also Blackbird.

I haven't finished The Familiar yet, only picked it up about a week ago when i went Christmas shopping. What I've read so far I've been enjoying, but I'm not very far into it.

>>7463785
Didn't mean to derail the thread, sorry!

>>7463804
I love most of the stuff from Prism, so I'll make sure to keep a look out for it.

>>7463808
lol

>>7464013
>The Twelve Caesars facing the left
literally triggering my autism

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Update from last few threads, now with less memes

>>7464065
Dunno if you've read them, but asking anyway. Are The Forever War sequels any good?

>>7464072
Haven't read the first one yet, just got it recently so couldn't say

>>7464065
update: you should still kill yourself

>>7462166
>be 20
>live with parents
>get kicked out
>bring a spare shirt, pair of underwear, a toothbrush, and over 50 books in two bags to a friends place
>end up selling 2/3 of books to a local bookstore for money to buy percocet b/c addict
>mfw bookshelf thread

triggered/feelsbadman.epub

>>7465608
missed u bb

>>7464065
Noticed the Ayn Rand. Good taste.

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pls no bully

>>7465668
>Noticed the Ayn Rand. Good taste.
3/10

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>>7465756
2/2

>>7463848
Who published those Harry Potter books? That shit looks good. Hardcover I assume?

>>7465756
pls be in belo horizonte

>>7465846
I actually am dawg, Nova Lima tbqhwy

>>7465816
no holy bible or mein kampf, into trash.jpg

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>>7465869
>being a judeo-christian

>>7465756
Do you have Crime and Punishment published vintage.

>>7465902
No, only Demons and Brothers, my Crime and Punishment is a old (and rather bad) translation from russian to french to portuguese

>>7465899
>judeo
>not euro-christian

>>7465907
Ah. Is Brothers a good translation? I've ordered C&P and War and Peace, both published by Vintage, and am worried about the translation quality.

>>7465915
I haven't read it yet, but I had no problems with Demons, it was good enough for me to understand my C&P's problems.

Also, Vintage generally has good translations, not only from russian, as far as I'm aware

>>7465843 publisher is Arthur a. Levine books, an imprint of scholastics if you're still curious

>>7465928
Sounds good, thanks!

>>7465931
Thanks!

>>7465846
>>7465866
are either of you named Benjamin?

>>7464065

>less memes

You're not fooling anybody

>>7465780
>How dare anyone like something I don't.
Maybe you should read it before complaining.

>>7465756

Nice FAb books.

>>7466019
FAb?

>>7466041

Those pink books from Free Association Books. They're usually quite good.

Oh, I suppose you're talking about those books besides the Oxford classics ones, they're from Martins, a Brazilian publisher, but they do seem to imitate FAb from a quick Google search

>>7466083
Meant to reply >>7466046

>>7465940
no

>>7463848

jesus christ dude, did you really just migrate here from /co/ and read all the memes

>>7464065

this has to be the bookshelf of the anon's little brother with literary fiction scattered throughout. very good troll but there is one better if anyone can find it. it was reddit garbage with the bottom shelf being all stephen king/GoT but in the very back corner is Jonathan Franzen

>>7465866
do you happen to study letters in the state federal uni?

>>7466251
Nope, currently finishing visual arts at Guignard, UEMG. My gf just graduated from FALE though.

Are you interested in trading contract info?

>>7466199
It works both ways, his collection is mostly composed of multi-board memeworks

>>7466251
u still there senpai?

>>7467436
>>7462362
>>7462272
Confy

>>7464065
>citrus
lmao good series.

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I've gotten a few new books since I last posted. Currently reading Run, Melos! and Other Stories by Osamu Dazai. Will probably start the New York Trilogy afterwards.

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The stack on the top shelf is my "to-read" pile

>>7468749
Pleb.

>>7468749
why even bother

>>7468152
Reading the Dazai in Japanese? I see it on your shelf, but I can't make out the edition.

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>>7468811
It's from Kodansha's English library. So it is a Japanese copy, but the book is in English. It includes Schoolgirl and a few other short stories as well.

>>7468814
I think that was the one I read from, but I borrowed it from a library re-bound.

I like your Japanese lit, anon. But you need far more pre-war classics up there.

>>7468820
Thanks. 20th century Japan has always been my favorite subject in history. I should expand to older works though.

>>7468783
what do you mean?

Literatur ist sehr gut!

>>7468836
Ist sehr as.

>>7462272
great for a Kubrick movie, bad for your everyday life

>>7462258
fat and balding/10

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>>7468749

>>7465608
>the ruins
The thing that pissed me off about that books was that they were all lured into the pit by the plant imitating a cell phone, but no one though that a phone would never have reception at the bottom of a deep hole. Why didn't they throw a flashlight down there with a rope attached?
>entire plot avoided.

>>7467436
>those ships.
>that stove
10/10 would bang

>>7470517
>FMA
MY MAN!

>>7463848
Burn World War Z pls

>>7469511
If you're referring to the the katana then keep in mind that it is for mainly decorative purposes. It may be used in combat roles and self-defense purposes if need be. If an intruder breaks in and you swing that around then they'll high-tail it out of there.

>>7462504
>>7462238
Don't you find having loads of DVDs in sight depressing as fuck? Just a reminder of money wasted on an obsolete format. I hid mine away in the cupboard and desu I'd probably torrent it even if I already owned it save me finding it, loading it into a dvd player and whatever

>>7469366
wigga was

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>tfw empty bookshelves

How do you guys do it, do you steal books or do you steal money and buy books?

>>7470930
depends on where you live. Second hand books stores and bargain bins, or if you're lucky, you can get boxes of books for pennies at pawn shops and garage sales.

>>7470930
In England you can get a lot of great books for 50p in charity shops. Brought back with me almost 150 books which i bought there while i was living in Cardiff.

>tfw at the awkward stage of not having enough books for a book shelf but have too much to just have laying around

>>7470930
I have a good job and don't have children yet. Plenty of disposable income.

Also books are super cheap. Rarely pay more than $4 for a used book.

>>7470964
Make a shelf out of cinder blocks/stone blocks/bricks and wood planks. Trendy, cheap and you can build it up as needed.

>>7470964
That's just your ego talking. It's time to just be logical and get a bookshelf to put in whatever books you have.

>>7467436
s w o o n

>>7470941
>>7470955
Where do you think I would live if I had a copy of the constitution of the United States? I remember seeing a store with a lot of books out front, I believe they would be very cheap. I shall check that out.

>>7470970
If I had a job then when would I have time to read?

>>7471022
Obviously you'll have little time to do so if you're in unskilled labor, or pick a career that's work-intensive. I didn't, and if you want to read often, you shouldn't.

>>7471037
I'm majoring in computer science. Maybe I should just be a nighttime security officer and read all day. That would be better. Computer science is work intensive and it has no soul.

>>7471044
read all night* on the job

>>7471044
Depends on what subset of computer science you'd want to go into. My partner is a data center administrator and "works" one hour out of twelve.

>>7471058
Yeah, something that involves a lot of waiting would be great. Like some kind of maintenance position where I sit around and wait for something to break, reading in the meantime. I wouldn't want to be some standard programmer coding away for hours on end.

>>7470930
it's called having a job you fuck

>>7471150
You are an angry person. You must have really wanted to be an angry person because not many people would get angry at that post. Well, you are doing a good job on being an angry character.

>>7470646
choke on your own severed cock please.
>>7463848
>Uzumaki
Yeah I also hate sleep. Who needs it amirite?

>>7462166
1493 is a under rated book desu

>>7464072
The second one was really good. It has nothing to do with the first one, but it's just as elegant.
>>7462504
could you put both of the Brooks books together? it feels so weird seeing them apart.
Also how's Gyo?

>>7470930
I have a job and books, even new ones, are not expensive.

>>7471487
Yes, I understand this already. I was just kidding around, I know how to get money to afford books. I got some good advice though on where to find cheap books.

>>7471175
y u mad

>>7471406

Thanks, saw that and 1491 and was interested.

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no h8 please

So do these threads only consist of people crossposting off of /r/bookshelf now?

>>7462258
>game of penises shit
>scott faggot
>anything SK except for IT
>katana
>mixing comics with books with NOTEBOOKS with cheap booze for faggots
>glasses NOT upside down

This is how I know you are a faggot

>>7462550
AHAHAHAHHAHAAH

>>7462806
>combat

you are likely either cutting your own hand (goodbye girlfriend) or hurting someone else and ending up in prison (goodbye virginity)

>>7463848
>Usumakiiiiii
Hello nightmares.

Murakami will never get the nobel

>all that churchhill shit

just why?

>>7468749
>this is /lit/

>>7470930
lol, you can get cheap books (sometimes new or almost perfect) on ebay. Paperbacks are almost free and hardcover are not difficult to find

>>7471629
>one hundred percent genre fiction
Why would even browse /lit/ when you clearly do not enjoy literature? I'm not judging your taste, you can read whatever you want, but I'm genuinely curious as to why you're here when you'd fit right into r/books.

>>7468152
>>7468749
It's like your goal is to never get laid.

>>7468830
live

why even bother to live

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>>7471629

>touching spirit bear

Holy shit I read that in elementary school

I wonder if me and that redditor are from the same place

>>7471629
Everything you own is anti-lit

WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING HERE /POL/FAG!?

>>7471022
I live in Portugal and I have a copy. Granted it was given as a joke, but it's not unusual i suppose

>>7471740
Literally none of those books would hint to him being a /pol/fag


Reddit rather

>>7471752
I think it is important for any citizen to have a copy of their country's constitution.

>>7462166
Mirin history collection

Not mirin you padding 1.5 shelves with a fucking dictionary set

>>7471844
Why do you have no individual taste?

>>7471844
Look at all that old shit. Don't you buy anything new? Old stuff is bad, which is why you should buy new things. Don't mend, spend.

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>>7471861
Define individual taste. I buy what I like to read.

>>7471865
That's my old shit bookcase.

>>7471916
How many pages is that Ascend book?

>>7471927
Over 9000.
it's a speaker

>>7471629
>i just started reading books in the last year or so, and only what was popular

>RL STINE
this is a new low

>>7470763
10/10 would bang for financial security

>>7471565
read them both, fantastic stuff. I would take it all with a grain of salt, but I liked it much better then guns germs and steel. Super easy to read for the materiel it deals with, and I dont mean that as a insult for once

>>7471955
yo bro u kno wut wud b sick? if u cud buy audiobooks that look like a book but they're really speakers that play the book

>>7462272
Why would anyone want this

>>7472099
Nice. Have you read any of the others on that shelf? Been looking to find some newer history books. I'm OP and I enjoy books on sailing/colonial history/age of exploration/etc, so was looking for other recommendations after seeing this lovely shelf.

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>>7463848
>World war z
INFINITE JUST

>>7467436
>Poorly lit as fuck
>All those volumes
>wtf are you doing with those hats
>door opens into bookshelf
>ships and busts covering books
>cheap ass university chairs
>no couch
>no reading lamps
>shitty cheap table
Has potential, but nah. This looks like an old man from Kentucky's library. I bet half of those books are about the American Civil War and North American wildlife.

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>>7471865
>Buying the new feminist approved propaganda

>>7471722
Not my goal, it just sort of happened.

>>7471916

dam bro good taste digging the carver 2 copies of suttree get rid of stephen king

>>7472493
>get rid of stephen king

Why would he do that? Everyone has their tastes.

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>>7462166
This is anon from pic related. What would you like to ask, OP?

>>7472612
I noticed you have a lot of books on ships, the sea, etc, which I also love. Care to share some favorites or recommendations?

>>7470774
Nah, I like them.

>>7471429
Gyo is great, almost as good as Uzumaki. It's honestly a pretty terrifying concept too.

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>>7472615

Are you looking for history or fiction?

In fiction, I have a soft spot for Napoleonic era stuff, so the Aubrey/Maturin and Hornblower novels are kind of obvious picks. Melville has some good stuff of literary value too (Moby Dick, Billy Budd). Sabastini's novels (Captain Blood, Sea Hawk) are pulpy and fun, but not really significant in any literary way.

In non-fiction, well, there's a pretty large field. Depends on what time periods you're interested in. I enjoyed Hale's "Lords of the Sea" about the Athenian Navy quite a bit, though you can of course go back to the actual sources on that if you want. Another book I quite enjoyed that kind of snuck up on me was Joshua Slocum's "Sailing Alone Around the World," which I thought was quite good (basically a memoir, takes place around the 1900s).

>>7462263
I've only posted on Reddit once, on an AMA with Phillip Zimbardo. I asked him how he could call his Stanford Prison Experiment an 'experiment' given that it used no control group and basically abandoned the scientific method, and how he would compare himself to Milgram, who used a very consciously constructed design and control groups/etc with his own experiments to which Zimbardo's is often compared. He did not reply.

>>7471860
It's the OED, though. As far as dictionaries go, it's the best.

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Don't judge, senpai

>>7472644
Either is fine. I saw Lords of the Sea and it looked interesting, so I added it to my list to get soon. Another anon pointed out 1491 and 1493 which seemed interesting as well.

Sailing Alone Around the World is spot on. I was looking for more like that. Memoirs, primary or secondary accounts of expeditions, and so on. I recently read the writings of Ferdinand Magellan during his voyage, as well as a book called Endurance by Alfred Lansing. About Shackleton's expedition to Antarctica. It was incredible and I highly recommend it. That's what got me in the mood for more, but really I'll would check out just about anything historical.

I saw Life Before the Mast on your shelf and looked that up, seems to be a collection of writings by sailors during the Napoeleonic Wars. How'd you like that? I can't make out every title you have, so if you can think of anything else, I'd be happy to hear about it.

Also, how are those biographies (i'm guessing biography) on Teddy?

I used to have hundreds of books in the three languages I grew up speaking, but I got rid of them all in favour of ebooks. Can I ask why you anon's still keep physical books is it nostalgia? I prefer my 3 kindles desu.

>>7472701
because i don't like e-readers

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>>7472678
>falling for the 'start with the greeks' meme

>>7472692

The Roosevelt biographies are the three by Edmund Morris. They are very good, though I liked them more when I was a bit younger (they're very well researched and written, though they tend a bit more towards hagiography than I would like; if I were to recommend anything on Roosevelt today, I'd probably just say 'read his autobiography' (I also quite like his "Winning of the West," but that's not about him).

You are right about "Life Before the Mast" - it is a collection of writings from sailors who are contemporaries to the Napoleonic Wars. Some are better than others, but if you get on a nautical kick, they're worth reading. I liked Edgar Vincent's biography of Lord Nelson, though like the biographies about Roosevelt mentioned above, it can verge on hagiography. Two other books that you might consider are Robert Pirsig's "Lila" and Olaudah Equiano's autobiography. Neither is traditionally thought of as a 'nautical' book or a book about boats and seafaring, but they are both heavily influenced by boats.

And of course there are the obvious /lit/ picks too, like "Huck Finn," "The Odyssey," etc.

>>7472701
There aren't ebooks for everything I have, and ebooks are difficult to keep easily referable notes in. I plan to teach, so I'd rather have that accessible.

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>>7472720
Thanks for being a cool guy, anon.

>>7472780

No problem, anon. I know I'm forgetting a number of recommendations I could make, but if they come to me I'll go ahead and post them.

>>7470930
Also on ebay, if they don't do it already, if you buy a lot of books from one seller, try and message them, and if they aren't an ass, they can usually package and ship them all together. saves you a bit of dough

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>>7471865
"any relic of the dead is precious" anon

>>7472701
because it's a hell of a lot easier for a klutz like me to break an ereader than a book, I've gone through three lol. Plus you can't really loan people books then, and there are some people I'd trust a 4 dollar copy of a book with and not a 50 dollar flake of plastic.

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These two beauties just arrived.

>>7473283
This isn't a recent purchase thread anon.

>>7473330
Like I give a shit lmao

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>>7472678

>>7473332
Kill yourself.

>>7473341
No u

>>7473342
You're the one posting the wrong thread faget.

>>7473352
Sorry Mr. Autismus, but it seems you're derailing the thread far worse than I.

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>>7473340
>not knowing the classic McSweeney's volume 36

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>>7472644
>He did not reply

>>7473517
>Ask me anything guys!
>I don't like that, not going answer it

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>>7473517
>>7473526

I asked very politely and respectfully too, so it wasn't just 'hey, Zimbardo! This isn't an experiment, it's a massive fucked up anecdote that you had a very firm hand in creating! You did it all wrong if you wanted to prove anything!'

But then again, I'm not particularly surprised, given that he makes definite conclusions about human nature from his 'experiment' when the only conclusions one can reasonably make - if any - are that Zimbardo doesn't understand the concept of an actual experiment.

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>>7471861
>>7471916
>>7472504
>now he's getting all paranoid and isn't sure he has taste

>>7471916
Is that a hardcover of Savage Detectives? Fuck man.

>>7475456

Yes, but I can't claim an early bead on Bolaño. I read 2666 first. Still, it's amazing what you can find for $1 on the bargain bin at your local used bookstore. (FWIW you can buy it used in hardback on Amazon right now for $3).

>>7475455
Taste is a meme, friendo, at least how you're using it. Read what you enjoy.

>>7462379
>>7462258
>>7462238
>vomits

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Moved recently so I don't have all my books with me.

1/3

>>7475743
What the fuck? The image is facing correctly on my phone.

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>>7475743
2/3

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>>7475751
3/3

>>7475743
>>7475751
>>7475755
I dig your taste, bro. especially the penguin classics those are my favorite

>>7472102
kek

>>7471844
you a mason bro?

>>7475747
thats ok, it perfectly comments those books featured in your pic

>>7475456
not that rare desu

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Just finished renovating my house and getting my book room together.

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>>7476433

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>>7476437

>>7476442

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>>7476442
Whoops.

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>>7476449

>>7476433

Lord Billy, king of Ikea, count of crappy furniture.

>>7462504
>Battle royale
My nigga

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I have since removed/added some books since I last posted here. It seems every time I post I get called a pleb. This is one out of two shelves of books that I've got, on the other shelf I have genre-fiction that I can discuss with normies (ASOIAF, LotR, HP).

I have recently been looking at reading from non-English authors. I've got C&P, and War and Peace is yet to arrive in the mail. Do you guys have any recommendations for me based on what's on my shelf?

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Get on my level plebs

>>7462504
What a gaudy picture

I've never seen a grouping of books that looks borderline baroque

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>>7464065

>>7475842

dat sufjan

>>7462272
>Fancy, expensive design workstation
>That fucking chair

Why do people do this?

>>7462272
>wherever the ladder is, it pisses you off and block the way

>>7462416
>>7462550
The new covers are pretty bad desu

>>7478279
I agree but the stories themselves hold up so it was worth it.

>>7471670
I do not have a girlfriend. By combat I meant if a robber or a crook ever tries to mess with me.

>>7478292
I haven't read one in a couple years so that's good to hear

>>7462806
>decorative
Unless you have a entire room dedicated to ancient Japanese weapons with the encyclopaedic knowledge required, all you look like is a pathetic weaboo everyone makes laugh of. Seriously. Sell this crap to another weaboo.

>>7478357
Not him, but that sounds like excessively high standards.

I have three original ukiyo-e prints and consider them decorative collectibles. I've read extensively on the artists I have, but I don't have an encyclopedic knowledge on all of ukiyo-e production or even the era around the artists, because there is a very large amount out there to learn on them.

>>7478368
Well, I don't have an extensive knowledge on the subject either but I'm pretty sure ukiyo-e aren't weapons.

I'm jealous of your books.

>>7478380
You shouldn't. Most are shit.

>>7478375
So only weapons need that kind of standard to qualify the interest? I mean, ukiyo-e is still a "weeaboo" thing.

>>7478408
I was merely mentioning it was off-topic but yes, it's a “weaboo” item you shouldn't show until you acquire a certain level of wealth. It's not much about origin, it's about coherence. If you bought a sword and hanged it from your ceiling or displayed three or four $90 cheap paintings or famous paintings' reproductions, it would still be “cringy”. Japanese is worst only because of cultural difference. It is common sense you need to build an appropriate, whole setting to make such a decoration acceptable, otherwise it would be like mixing books with DVDs and manga in your shelves. On another need, of course, it must not be tacky. A $80 katana or low-quality ukiyo-e prints will be awful, whatever the room you're putting them in.

>>7478343
Yup. I rate 10/10.

>>7478357
But it looks really badass. When friends come over they marvel at it. We must run in different circles since I think that it looks hardcore.

>>7478462
No, no. This is a bait.

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I dunno. I guess this is what I've read.

>>7471688
isn't it the same thing as amazon where books are usually cheap as shit but the shipping price fucks you up?

>>7478437
What level of wealth is needed? Is education ever a substitute for wealth? i.e. having a PhD in Japanese studies, but certainly not making six figures a year being a professor for it.

Since you're talking about an overall setting to be acceptable, would a large book collected devoted to ukiyo-e not count towards making it acceptable?

>>7478956
large book collection*

>>7478871

>Vampire Hunter D

Been meaning to read those, how are they? Loved the two films they made and I'm excited they are making a new one or series, can't remember which one it was but all I know it will be rotoscoped I think.

>>7478988
I haven't really read them in almost a decade now. They're written rather densely from what I remember. It can be confusing at certain time. They're worth it if you have the time and want something to read. Test out the first, they're written the same as far as I can remember.

>>7478474
That wasn't even me. K.. I do stand by that my sword looks fine and I don't need to change anything.

>>7476437
>>7476442
>>7476449
>>7476454

That is nice. How much would you estimate they cost you in total?

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>>7470763
Here's mine again in full. Bottom shelf is philosophy section because I did a degree in it and it's mostly non fiction as I used to think reading fiction was frivolous and a waste of time.

Some random books I'd recommend:
Selfish Gene by Dawkins: atheist or not this book is an absolute masterpiece. It completely changed the way I thought about evolution and it is SO WELL WRITTEN. Probably my favourite non fiction book, possibly my favourite book ever.
Philosophical Investigations by Wittgenstein: most mind bending philosophy book written. Really hard to understand and hard to keep all the ideas in your head at once but the picture he paints is correct and once you understand it you see how it completely undermines most philosophy that came before it. Pretty impenetrable though and I probably wouldn't have understood it if I hadn't been taught about it and could ask questions to people who did understand it.
Dracula by Bram Stoker: One of my favourite novels. Creepy and paints a vivid picture. Middle third is pretty boring though.
The Plato and Aristotle books (black Penguin section on bottom shelf): Haven't really read these but kind of got the gist of most of them. Sure, it sounds clever to read these but I'd say other than The Republic you're wasting your time
Autobiographies: Pretty eclectic mix. Roger Moore, Blair, Tyson, Branson. Love reading these and these guys are all heroes of mine in a way (except Blair). Tyson's life was just insane.
James Bond series by Ian Fleming: Just good fun like the film series. Wonderfully un-PC.

Would love to discuss any of the others on my shelf

>>7473283
>t r a n s l a t i o n

>>7479271
>James Bond series by Ian Fleming: Just good fun like the film series. Wonderfully un-PC.
My favourite part is in Casino Royale when Bond sits naked on the beach thinking about fucking Vesper and he says he likes how reserved she is because each act of sex will have the sweet tang of rape.

>>7479492
The fuck

>>7478956
I should have stated “ressources” instead of “wealth”, yes, but it should be held carefully. Whatever your knowledge on swordsmanship and smithing, a low-quality katana bought for $200 during a convention will still be embarrassing, although I don't think such a cultured person would engage in this kind of questionable purchases. Professors don't fit the most when it comes to collect since they precisely haven't an adequate salary to acquire valuable articles and, as far as my modest experience goes, professors' workplaces are filled with books regarding their own field rather than aforementioned goods. A katana is harder to show, because Japanese culture are less likely to correctly fit in a Western setting, and inside Japanese culture swords are worst because of the strong association with so-called “weaboos” and superficial people. At least, your ukiyo-e, even of low quality, suggest you're interest in a more profound and insightful part of Japanese culture.

>>7475747
Yeah, sure Australia.

>>7479876

Oh man, this thread right here. Who needs print.

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>>7462806
> decorative
ugly as fuck
> combat
as in war? Not going to be much use against a gun
> self-defence
good luck swinging that thing in your house. Why not just get a knife

Regardless of whether you agree with my reasons it screams one thing... neeeeeeerd

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From the time I bought paper book. Using them as a wall now since the room is too big.

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>>7480496
Some rare/cool shit.

>>7462258
Kinda cool.

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>>7480497
Yes it's the book from the famous meme.

>>7464013
Fancy desu senapi.
>>7462370
Where did you get that copy of the sound and the fury?
>>7471629
>salutations, fellow /lit/erati! (Did I do that right?) I have come from the far away digital land of r/books to see what you guys have to offer to fellow readers such as myself! I am very excited to join this community! Also, How do I upvote quality content?

>>7471844
Nice hard covers

>>7476437
Where do you buy books like that? Looks like a bookshelf you'd see in skyrim or something. I love it

>>7476437
https://www.franklinbooks.com/
googled it

>>7480794
meant to reply to
>>7480684

>>7480496

Good decoration, small old tv, very patrician and 80's.

My collection is fucked up. I don't have bookshelves so everything's stacking up on my floor or desk.

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>>7480803
thanks, also comfy

>>7480860
9/10. Be careful you don't get damp with all that clothes hanging.

>>7480860
9/10 would sleep on couch after watching movie marathon

>>7471629
I am a redditor starter pack

>>7479876
Almost every professor in Japanese studies has some affection for a Japanese craft or type of art though. At least those who specialize in the early modern period, because any of your research will end up having some relation to it. Whether it's old books, kabuki prints, netsuke, shunga, ukiyo-e generally, furniture, calligraphy, ink stones, especially ceramics and pottery, they'll have a few, or one centerpiece.

I don't know what type of professors your modest experience is with, but if they're teaching in a country that isn't their field of study, they more than likely will want something to remind them of what they've devoted their life to.

>>7481119
As I said, books.

>>7481137
Okay... antique books being related to those whose subject of study is book history, and not necessarily monographs related to their field.

I mean, I could ping the listserv and even give you specifics on what each of them collect, although the answers would only trickle in over days.

>>7481142
I don't get what you mean.

>>7462166
Goldwater and Curchill. I want to hang with this family member.

>>7462258
reddit: the bookshelf

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>>7462258
>>7462504
>>7463848
>>7464065
>>7468749
>>7470517
>>7470930
>>7471629

These are the people we discuss literature with.

>>7476437
>>7476442
>>7476449
>>7476454
You bought leather bound books when you could've bought paperbacks for a fraction of the price
That's honestly embarrassing and shows you don't give a shit about reading you just want your bookshelf to look nice

>>7481249
It may shows he is rich enough to don't care.

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>>7481248
This. Some people just post here to watch the world burn.

>>7478956
I want to see more from Mr. Japanese Studies PhD

>>7481455
I think it was an example for he wrote “i.e.”.

>>7479106
The Franklin Library and Easton Press books average $ 25 to $ 50. The folio editions that I have were a little less than that.

>>7481249

>Doesn't appreciate fine book binding as an art in itself.

>>7471081
>I wouldn't want to be some standard programmer coding away for hours on end
>tfw software developer

If you're not passionate about it, it is soul crushing. Don't do it for the money and job security like me

>>7463613
and Taggerrung

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>>7472113
Conquistador by Buddy Levy and The Last Days of the Incas by Kim MacQuarrie

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>>7467436
Are you who I think you are or you only posted it to pretend you are who I think you are?

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>>7481703
Continued.

This is not representative of my usual reading habits, I'm on a kick.

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>>7481726
And finally my daughter's shelf.

She is 1 and isn't even reading Ronald Dahl yet, pleb that she is.

>>7481745
Roald*

>>7481248
>my bookshelf wasn't called shit

Thanks anon, that made my day better.

>>7481703
Make sure you teach her how to use reddit, I see you're an expert.

>>7479271
how useful was/is your degree in philosophy

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>>7462362
>Leaving books on the floor.

>>7462550
The covers were the only good or relatively scary part of the entire series.

>>7463848
>Bottom centre novel titled "white guy"
Sums it up nicely.

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>>7464065
>Not 3, not 4, but 5 Vonnegut's.

>>7465780
Hatred of Rand is the biggest meme of all.

>>7464065
>all you need is kill
>not a meme

>>7471629
H8 you will get in abundance, mothafucka.

>>7467436
Hello, Olavo.

>>7471844
People will tell you those copies are old as fuck, but they're hard covers and they'll last longer. Props, brah.

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How's my shit? Ignore Stephen king section, I bought those when I was 12 and no used bookstores are interested. Open space in the middle for upcoming classics and meme books

>>7482589
If you like hunter s Thompson check out William Seabrook. Asylum is very good.

>>7476437
>>7476442
>>7476449
>>7476454
This is what I plan on doing soon. I want to order the various full sets that Franklin and Easton have made and give away any duplicates/copies I already own.

>>7482589
are those books fucking floating

>>7482841
Superglue nigga

>>7482781
>no bookshelf
its like the books themselves are slavsquatting

>>7482589
>hardcover volumes of both IJ and M&D
damn they look fine nigga
also
>not ordering the full sets of LOA author volumes
pleb
I read maybe 50 pages into The Familiar and got bored. the second volume is out too if you still dig danielewski

new thread
>>7482919

new thread
>>7482919

new thread
>>7482919

>>7482885
I enjoyed House of Leaves but I think his style becomes gimmicky really fast

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>>7482497
Actually pretty useful. I work as a copywriter and the general writing skills I picked up definitely help and the logical structure of how I write as a result of studying philosophy gives me a bit of an edge over other writers (I think). It's a USP at least. Also, just having the degree (any degree) meant I could apply for graduate jobs I wouldn't otherwise be eligible for.

I also, broadly speaking, use the 'skills' of philosophy every day because it has profoundly shaped the way I think but this is only because I took the course so seriously. I wouldn't recommend someone study it if it doesn't interest them though because they're not likely to get the same value from studying it as I did.

Hoping to go back and do a PhD in September.

>>7472716
IT'S NOT A MEME