Bookshelf thread: No tidying edition (1/4)

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Step aside patrician coming through

>>7854184
>>7854189
>>7854193
>>7854201
You've got a few titles that I would consider high-brow, but the amount of shit-tier plebwash on your shelves is damning

>>7854490
hows that grace of kings?

itt hoarders

>>7854490
these are literally all the titles i would consider pleb-identifiers in one shelf

>>7854490
literally kill yourself

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>>7854554
2/3

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>>7854559
3/3

>>7854561
>please kill me

I think that's your shelf talking. Fix that shit.

>>7854568
what part of
>no tidying
do you not understand

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No tidying

>>7854571
Yeah OP means don't clean up before you take the picture, not for the rest of time.

>>7854571

what part of
>cleanliness
do you not understand

>>7854578
>>7854576
I'm not just going to put the books on the ground

>>7854561
>>7854571
>>7854589

Jesus christ just get another god damn shelf.

>>7854644
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""no""""""""""""""""""""""""""""

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>>7854561
>meme trilogy together

i like you

>>7854490
Contact was gr8

>>7854657
>right next to "please kill me"

kek

>>7854490
Really nice.

>>7854490
Sounds like you don't know what the word patrician means.

>>7854712
WE

>>7854778
WAZ

>>7854917

KINGZ

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1/14

>>7854946
All that fucking asian lit I want...
How have you afforded all of that?!

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>>7854946
2/14

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>>7854954
3/14

>>7854952
I don't think anything there cost very much, besides those 4-volume sets. But, it'd be because I have a pretty okay job, plenty of extra income and almost exclusively buy used and cheap.

>>7854712
This has to be the worst.

I hope you're a female/gay black man

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>>7854961
4/14

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>>7854963
5/14

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>>7854967
6/14

>>7854490
>Douglas Adams
>Ray Bradbury
>Ready Player One
>Genre fiction
I'm sure /r/books would appreciate your collection. Please don't post here.

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>>7854970
7/14

With a bonus Lego shelf.

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>>7854978
8/14

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>>7854981
9/14

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>>7854986
10/14

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>>7854994
11/14

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>>7854996
12/14

Start of the non-fiction bookcase.

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>>7854999
13/14

Children's shelf on the second one on this. I'm going to be getting more and moving them to some separate bookcases in the bedroom soon.

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>>7855008
14/14

Final bit. I also got some more Hardy, Utamaro and the second Proust volume yesterday, which aren't in these.

>>7855021
This is like a patrician who started reading 2 months ago

>>7855030
not far off anon

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This

is my masterpiece

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>>7855142
Wow congratulations. It takes real talent to make 4chan lurker, former /b/tard, pedophilia researcher, actually have to turn away in disgust and repulsion.

>>7855142

>All those German translations/original Russian works

My deutsch/pyccкий язык nigga

>>7855174
greetings нoчнyшa
where u at

>>7855169
your post is invalid if you can't name that shade of blue I used there

>>7855192
>name that shade of blue
I really- I really can't look at it long enough to figure out.

>>7855013
take a picture of the entire thing you cunt. even if we can't read titles. that's a lot of books. do you buy used? how old are you. how long have you been reading. have you read most of those? I like you

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>>7855213
It's already dark out so I can't take a new one, but here's one of the general set-up.

Pretty much only buy used, the only times I buy new are when I get gift cards on my birthday/Christmas or if it's super cheap. I'm 26--been reading forever, but only started serious reading when I first came to /lit/ in 2010. I've read more than half of them now, barring anthologies. Lately I've been buying the stuff I read as ebooks/from the library that I really liked, so the percentage read and reread is going up a lot.

I'd probably like you too, anon.

>>7855247
goddammit that's a fucking nice set of books. that is my dream to cover a wall in fucking books I've read. or mostly read.

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Recently re-organized ;)

>>7855393
Sorting by publisher? Looks nice.

>>7855393
>women & men
>chandler
>borges
>marlboros

love you man

>>7855400
On the left shelf yes, there's not really much rhyme or reason on the right shelf other than a few.

>>7855192
Prussian Blue

>>7855406
love ya too buddy

>>7855393
hows Satantango? i've only seen the movie :^)

>>7855200
>>7855415

International Klein Blue ya dingus

>>7854490
Pretty nice, but where's the Hobbit? Your collection is missing it's most vital piece. You've got the complete Hitchhiker's guide too. You're a frood who really knows where your towel is!

is the divine comedy anon with the entire shelf of one collection of a chinese author here?

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>>7855451

>>7855509
yes he's right here >>7854490

i remember him that's the bottom corner of his shelves lol, funny how triggered everyone else is

>>7855573
thought those white shelves were familiar

>>7854490
hey, who was the chinese author you had the huge collection of? Was it Mao Dun?

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>>7855606
here's some of another one there are more but w/e

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>>7855612
>narrow bookshelves

fucking nice

>>7855247
>using bookshelf for shit other than books

>>7854505
>literally all
Dick please.

>>7854521
>golden dawn
>portable darkness
mah nigga

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>>7854521
Hey anon, I hope you come back to read this. But the book "Fry the Brain" I bought it myself, being a hunter, having been in the military, and having long range precision shooting as a hobby. Let me tell you, that book is full of shit. For every fact in that book, there's an equal lack of truth. I feel this is like the book a liberal redditor or journalist studies before they publish an article.

The information in sniping, tactics, and on the actual weapons themselves is extremely low tier. It's written by someone who doesn't know a thing about the subject, just a man who collected hearsay's and third hand information.

That, and then the book starts going off on his own political beliefs instead of focusing on the subject of the book. Horrible book, it's fun, it's written in a fun way, but the book is filled with trash information. So much, that I'd call the book a lie.

>>7855247
>step ladder
kek manlet detected

Nice pic though. How much of a richfag are you?

>>7855030
>I became an avid reader three months ago and I can't stop

>>7855734
If you mean the three in the middle, it's a spousal conciliation.

>>7855782
Not rich at all. I mean, that's an apartment furnished with Ikea stuff. But a dual income household with no serious expenses means spending a bunch on whatever you want.

>>7855829
despite my shit-talk about the figurines, i do envy your collection, especially the south american section to the right of the pic

>>7854946
is that three kingdoms from foreign press? how is the quality? i want to order journey to the west but i fear the quality.

>>7854554
Lovely

>>7855829
>spousal conciliation
>but women don't like toys

So, you're a woman? Or, well, at the very least you're married to a man.

>>7854561
Good taste, shit organizing

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>>7854554
>Dave Eggers IJ

bob

>>7855781

Thanks for the heads up.

>>7855748

> fist bump

>>7854490
Terrible ordening.

>>7855911
I am. The architecture ones are mine, though.

>>7855884
It's very thin paper, but I haven't had any of them even threaten to fall apart. They're heavy, but the binding is very solid. They feel a lot like a manga if a manga had triple the number of pages squeezed in.

I'm getting the revised Yu version for Journey to the West eventually, just gotta wait until there are used copies for sale cheaper.

>>7854490
>no Bible
Have fun burning in hell

>>7854575
Pretty shit taste tbqh

>>7855021
>Camus and Nietzsche on the same shelf as CS Lewis
This is what a true patrician looks like, ladies and gentlemen

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You bookshelf posters have given me a glimpse of your soul. Stay safe.
"Breakfast of champions" is probably my prized possession.

>>7855021
>Simon Baron-Cohen
I didn't realize Borat wrote a book. How is it?

>>7854994
>>7854996
>Infinite Jest with Ellis and Palahniuk instead of Pynchon and DeLillo

Triggered.

>>7858965
I sort by year of author's birth. He's just a young'in.

>>7858971
That's actually a really interesting method. Sorry for memeing.

>>7858961
its actually his cousin or nephew or something
i didnt find it too great, the premise is interesting in that it outlines a theoretical model of gender differences and then speculates on how autism might be related to 'hypermasculinity,' but I found it a bit tedious and patronizing desu.

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>>7859633
2/3

>>7859633
Goon

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>>7859643
3/3

>>7859646
That I am

>>7859633
>>7859643
>>7859651
fuckin kiwis
clueless as always

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>>7859651
>he didn't read past god emperor

>>7855406
>>7855426
>>7855393
>Smooking
Is this the fucking 60's?
People that smoke are just people that want to kill themselves but don't have the balls/ovaries to do it.

>>7854184
>>7854189
>>7854193
>>7854201
p.good, but I'm particularly MIRIN those Lady Gregory books and that Faerie Queene

>>7854490
good bait, saved

>>7854561
>dat meme trilogy on display
I'd let you rim me

>>7854712
10/10 true patrician

>>7854946
>1/14 Ill just ignore you m8

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>>7861730
I hope you're baiting, non smokers aren't allowed on /lit/

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>>7861774

>>7855247
really nice. if you ever divorce/breakup watch that bitch closely.

>>7855393
fuck man, what are those nyrb titles?
i see life and fate and the anatomy of melancholy, but what others?

>>7861730
Cigars, though

>>7855393
>organized by publisher
the only thing more pleb than this is organized by color

>>7861788
The Stammering Century
The Stories of J F Powers
The Long Ship
Store of the Worlds
Memories of the Future
Fear: A Novel of World War I
A Handbook of Hanging
Names on the Land

>>7854184
kek @ 'poetry of the taliban'. I assume u left ur copy of 'poetry of the uncivilized african' on your nightstand?

>>7861755
>Ill just ignore you m8
See >>7855247

>>7854184
>having books just for show

I'm probably prejudicing, but people should have bookshelves full of the books they have already read or are currently reading. In any case if you don't have a bookshelf like then you should aim to have your own library. No halfways.

>>7861788
>>7861832

Also
Grossman - The Road
Oakley Hall - Warlock

>>7861816
Nah

>>7862044
How much do you need to count as having your own library?

>>7862139
that guy is just autistic, I seriously doubt people buy books just for show even on /lit/, no one would spend cash on a book without at least a passing wish to read it

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very nice anon, i'd like to have a political collection like yours one day

>>7854561
>please kill me
Fucking excellent book.

>>7854971
wtf is wrong with douglas adams? not cool cause he is popular? hitchhiker made me laugh out loud a couple times, he is a good writer.

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> wwwwhauouaa?! - The Martian! WHAHAHPPLEBBITTTTPLEBBITTTTTTT!!!
It was a gift, and to be totally honest, it was just as bad as I thought it would be, and then some.

And the secondary monitor is a new addition; I just didn't like having the empty space.

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>>7862336
>all that P&V

>>7862465
hey fucker, i was looking you.
>>7855576 here

>>7862471
> hey fucker, i was looking you.
what did he mean by this?

>>7862485
*looking for you

>captcha high st :^)

>>7862490
Well, I'm a different guy (first time posting my shelf, actually); he and I just have similarly shitty white bookshelves.

>>7862494
Are any of us actually "a different guy?"

>>7862503
Oh silly, we, I forgot that
I are you and you am me,
all one and nothing simultaneously

>>7862494
fugg, ok thanks anon. i saw some chinese lit there. is that three body problem? how is it? i'm guessing you speak chinese. know if the translation is any good? i can only speak a little chinese, not enough to read the book.

>>7862514
I have a fair amount of Japanese lit, but the only Chinese book I have up there is 'Ancestors', by Frank Ching.

And my Chinese isn't good enough to tell you how good or not the translation of 3BP is, but s'far as I know, there's only the one by Kevin Liu, and it won the Hugo, so I'd presume that it's okay.

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1/7

Just moved.

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>>7862866

2/7

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>>7862871

3/7

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>>7862876

4/7

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>>7862877

5/7

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>>7862880

6/7

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>>7862884

7/7

>>7862465

What is the book that says "Criti Life, Hen Lefe" on the side?

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>>7863508
It's 'Critique of Everyday Life', by Henri Lefebvre. That one's published by Verso. Definitely has kind of an odd look to it, but I really dig it.

>>7854923
AND KWEENS N SHIIIIEEEEEETT

>>7855008
>>7855013
A true Patrician with a capital P which /lit/ doesn't deserve but need in these desperate times

>>7863810
Thanks anon, but I don't make much difference. I've already been here the whole time.

>>7862866
Are you gonna re-sort them once you're settled? I love all the old paperbacks.

>>7855576
Jin Yong

>>7862617
>>7862514

It's Ken Liu acutally.

2nd book is translated by Joel Martinson and 3rd is Ken again.

Translations are fine. The series is western enough that it doesn't lose that much. First book is probably the most Chinese and the bits I skimmed show the English is fine.

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STOP THIS BULLSHIT BOOKSHELF THREADS
LOOK ELSEWHERE FOR VALIDATION OF PEOPLE YOU DON'T KNOW
FUCK YOU

>>7854564
there's alot in here I could get into.

>>7865207
These threads often lead to interesting conversations about potential reads with people you know are into the same literary area codes as you.

"a pic of my kindle"

>>7862326
>>7862340
Envious of that Juenger collection. Great stuff.

Tell me about Von Rezzori, anon.

>>7865347
fag

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Step aside, patrician coming through.

>>7855142
why are you reading Octavio Paz? lol

>>7865706
Bolano mentioned him alot and a mexican friend of mine urged me to read it

You don't like him?

>>7865712
Never heard of anyone who enjoyed him. Haven't read much of him but i really liked his Sor Juana book.

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I have two Ulysses. Vintage and Dover Publications. Which should I keep? Dover Publications is brand new, Vintage is a bit old.

>>7865728
why did they have to ruin it with the text below Joyce

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<1of9>

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<2of9>

>>7865634
Why am I a fag when I posted what the OP wanted?
>don't even know why I'am responding to you

>>7865743
>GEB
>Piketty's Capital
>the fucking PoS
You couldn't be more of a poseur, holy shit.

>>7865682
This is my new favorite image
Master patrish

>>7865743
Nice math books

>>7865750
Why'd you stop?

>>7865807
*tips fedora*

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>>7865928
<3of9>

Started cooking lunch and forgot

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<4of9>

bookshelf threads have that same appeal as opening a pack of trading cards and hoping you get something good

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>>7865616
Rezzori's books often have a jaunty tone, beckoning the reader into his maze of nostalgic reveries. Beneath the playful prose his themes tend to ooze pessimism. Overall, his books are a joy to read. For starters try Memoirs of an Anti-Semite or Oedipus at Stalingrad.

>>7866061
hahaha i've never seen a more obivously nread bookshelf

and it's all insufferable pseudointellectual titles

>>7867139

not that guy but-

>never seen a more obivously nread bookshelf

maybe true

>and it's all insufferable pseudointellectual titles

if you consider hobbes, heidegger, & nietzsche to be 'pseudo' intellectual, who are genuinely intellectual writers? Do you have a bias against philosophy?

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JUST

>>7862465

>Women and Men
Is that actually good, anon? and how did you acquire it?

>>7865207
What's wrong with American Gods? It's pretty entertaining.

>>7865743
>>7865750
>>7865991
>>7865996
>>7866005
>>7866010
>>7866045
>>7866050
>>7866061
Too much philosophy and too little literature. If you don't stop now you'll end up a philistine.

>>7867208
I got it by biting the meme-bullet and buying it on Amazon.
It only came recently, so I haven't actually waded into it yet, but I've read a few scattered pages here and there as I tend to whenever I'm excited with a new book, and I'm happy with the purchase so far. Only time and a linear read through will tell, though.

>>7867859
But that's pretty much what /lit/ is. Besides also claiming to love Joyce to seem like a pretentious snobby cunt.

>>7867909
>>>/his/

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Hi /lit/ I just started reading and this is my complete collection I'm looking to branch out and I'm completely unfamiliar with what /lit/ likes any recs xd

>>7868483
inherent vice and bleeding edge

>>7868483
We like Captain Underpants

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>>7855509
i saved this

>>7868760
you think hes read paradiso ?

>>7867878
It bothers me that you spent that much on a book without reading any of his other works. Would you partially consider yourself a collector as well as a reader?

>>7868872
Not him, but I imagine most people who post in these threads do. Why show off a collection if you don't consider yourself a collector?

>>7868911
I am a collector. thank God books are cheap.

>>7868916
They definitely are, especially compared to most other things people collect.

I can limit myself to $50/mo and still need another bookcase each year.

>>7868872
Am the guy you responded to.
I'd consider myself a small-time collector. Not much up there worth bragging about though so far except for W&M and those Gil Orlovitz novels.
And I've read three of McElroy's other books - a friend of mine is huge fan, so I borrowed them from him. He and I would talk about W&M fairly often, but neither of us were really prepared to go for it. I eventually did so that we could both read it; figured it was only fair for me to buy it, cuz he'd bought the others so far.

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>>7862326
>>7862336
>>7862340
>>7862349

>all those Everyman's Library books

>>7867139
I have a storage unit that I keep read books in or I donate them

Why would I fill my shelves with fiction books I don't intend to read again ever?

>>7867859
I cycle literature into storage but keep philosophy around to reference

>>7866002
seriously this

>>7854490
Missing Game of Thrones, The Martian and The Name of the Wind.

Not yet patrician.

>>7870065
fucking triggered

>>7855393
>john cena
>karl marx
>penguin
>bong
>cigarettes

baka desu senpai

>>7871332
it's a meme to dislike penguin

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This isn't even my main board, brah.

>>7854490
>the circle
GET THE FUCK OUT

>>7871499
You could use some Strauss and Oakeshott

>>7871483
And that's not even a notable bookshelf. What's your main board?

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>tfw i anxiety buying books
>tfw browsing a book shop is my favorite thing to do apart from paying

>>7871558
/p/ and /r9k/

>>7870454
>reads books once
wew

>>7871577
I guess there's no collections to show off from there, unless it's a NEET nest.

>>7865743
>>7865750
>>7865991
>>7865996
>>7866005
>>7866010
>>7866045
>>7866050
>>7866061
nice

>>7871499
i like it

r8 Knausgard's bookshelf and working place.

http://www.zeit.de/zeit-magazin/leben/2016-03/karl-ove-knausgard-autor-buchmesse-fs

pay close attention to picture 10 in the gallery

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my dad liked reading

>>7854502
Haven't read it yet.

>>7854505
>>7854524
>>7854774
>>7854971
>>7871503

Plebs.

>>7854661

Yea it was.

>>7854709
Thanks.

>>7855480
Yea I'm pretty hoopy.

The Hobbit is on another shelf.

>>7856951
What would you suggest?

>>7858779
I have the Bible committed to memory. Don't need a copy.

>>7870948
I don't read trash pleb books like GoT, The Martian, and Name of the Wind.

>>7871748
cool. is he dead?

>>7871777
nah, almost 80 tho

>>7867849
it's popular therefore you're not allowed to like it.

>>7871748
This is my favorite so far

Any particular reason why you have them books specifically displayed like that on the right?

>>7871175
Why?

>>7871499
So do you just go to the book store and purchase every book that says neoconservatism on it?

>>7872024
>in a drawer
>spines not facing out
>all look brand new but one or two
nice confederacy of dunces though senpai

>>7872269
>all look brand new but one or two

Probably 3/4 are second hand. I try to pick ones that are in decent condition though. And if you saw the spines they wouldn't look so good. I put them on the spines because some book covers stick out more than the text (see bottom row... penguin "premium" editions), and until I get a shelf I don't want the spine to sag in so much.

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This is my little corner library. I rarely come here.

My favourite book is probably Brideshead Revisited.

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>>7871855
That's my stuff, which is really the only stuff which I would actually consider literature. Everything on the left is cheap Sci-Fi, Southeast Asian detective novels, and war fiction. Just got back from Barnes and Noble though so the right shelf just got reformatted, pic related

>>7854490
The history of middle earth gave me more pangs of hatred than the chinkee-chinaman books.

>>7856650
What's wrong with Eggers IJ?

>>7854575
almost as good as a kindle pic.

>>7872346
I'm sorry you're a pleb.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKwVDTCy1NI

19:10 onward is /lit/

>>7872397
I don't even have friends, much less undergrads, to come over and mock my shelves.

What was the context before 19:10?

>>7872397
>people in my flat
haha jokes on you

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>>7872426
>What was the context before 19:10

>He hasn't watched peepshow

>>7872608
I don't have time to watch Peep Show I'm too busy reading dryden

>>7872631
Kek

>>7872397
Is 19:10 a new resolution?

>>7872350
he's a turncoat fuck
http://www.edrants.com/the-infinite-jest-review-that-dave-eggers-doesnt-want-you-to-read/

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>>7872334
>being this /lit/-core

>>7872608
I might eventually, but I haven't so far.

>>7872334
Looks like the only book you've read is Lord of the Flies. Tell me, anon, are you a poseur?

>>7872852
>There’s a lot of the author in the frustrated film maker Jim Incandenza, who in his work had very little interest in telling a story, opting to experiment with handmade lenses and innovative lighting effect. Jim scorned pedestrian narratives and parodied established genres; he held his audiences in almost utter contempt, refusing to pander to their need for easily palatable entertainment. Finally he succumbed, making what he considered the perfect entertainment. Then he killed himself.
>1996

fucking SPOOOOOKY

>>7871483
>axe body spray

underage b&

>>7871483
>Starting Strength
>Infinite Jest

Getting meme'd by multiple boards

haha now I kind of wish I had a bookshelf so that I could get rid of all these piles of books...

>>7874505
You are 17 years old. Nobody any older would have The Dangerous Book for Boys

>>7874512
I was seventeen until six months ago, fuck you.

The dangerous book for boys is GOAT.

>>7874505
Pseudo-intellectual /lit/ teen.

>>7874522
>>7874522
I don't believe you, but agreed that the dangerous book for boys is GOAT.

>>7874527
Well at least I'm /lit/

I used to be nothing

>>7874531
You're pathetic is what you are.

>>7871332

Suh dude

>>7874544
Touché

>>7874531
>defining yourself by the literary suggestions of an anime website

You are not nothing. You are a fucking child.

>>7871748
War and Peace was an awful read.

Maybe it would be better if I read it in the original Russian? It was one of my worst reading experiences, and also one of the longest. That is a terrible combination.

I kept seeing it and I let you lit fucks convince me to read it. Now I want to know why, who likes War and Peace and why?

So many fucking humanities majors in this thread. Have any of you ever purchased a book that wasn't dictated to you by a syllabus?

>>7874568
Maybe I should just add an /s after every ironic post I make because obviously the reading comprehension level has gone down on this board

>>7872334
i read water margin this year. dont see it on /lit/ too often

>>7874578
Of course, the ones dictated to me by anime porn forums.

>>7874505
comes across like a sampler of someone just get to break into reading, which is fine, but it's a pretty weak collection

comfy looking setup though

>>7872869
>water margin
>things fall apart
>complete pkd
>/lit/-core

>>7873695
thats the copy i accidentally stole from my high school
it's got red marker all over it

>tfw too paranoid to post bookshelf because someone might doxx me based on my more obscure books/interests by cross referencing online literature forums and the public elements of my private goodreads account (ex, you can look up a book and see who has read it even if their acct. is set to private)

just fuck my life up

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>>7855393
>Women and Men
>complete Kafka
>aestetically appealing sorting system
>THE FUCKING STATUE

>>7874505
I don't get this whole 'The rise and fall of the Third Reich' meme.

>>7874578
Only the American and English works on mine were on syllabi. My university never offered courses for literature not originally written in English.

If you count thesis and independent studies, those do take up a shelf or two also. But I made the reading lists for them.

>>7871470
yeah what's wrong with penguin?

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>>7876233
oops wrong order

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These are the ones I would consider my own.
Bought most of them myself,for myself.
Feels nice to say that.

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>>7876239
a couple more.

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>>7876263
A picture of the small books.

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>>7876269
this is all there is -minus a pile of research material, ms and dirty undies in my office.

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>>7876277
>>7876263
Oh,and the history books.
And a few comics about history.

>>7854490
>contact

I wouldn't say shit tier Sagan because all Sagan is good. But seriously? Only contact. I would at least hope for Cosmos since you could get a copy for like 3 bucks. Check out Demon Haunted World or Dragons of Eden

>>7876238
I love all your Edogawa Ranpo. What got you into him?

>>7876278
Why do you own Meinkampf?

>>7876305
Why wouldn't he own Mein Kampf?

>>7876299
I came across the author in some material about Poe. History of the detective story or something.

It's too bad that is pretty much all there is availble in English. I may be missing a volume and I think "One Sen Coin" is in a Jappo lit anthology.

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>>7876305
>>7876309
this

The Young Hitler I Knew is bredy gud too.

>>7876333
He's the father of Japanese detective fiction, but I wouldn't have thought something on English detective fiction would mention him, besides as a bit of trivia about his pseudonym.

Apparently the detective stuff just doesn't sell very well in English, so Kurodahan Press doesn't have much planned for putting out more of him yet. Specifically, re: the boy detectives one: "Yes, we are working on the second book in the series, but since the first one has sold so poorly we're not in much of a hurry."

>>7876333
>>7876516
It looks like you might not have Moju: The Blind Beast though. It's definitely worth getting if you're going for completion, though the whole end bit could have been skipped. The film version is much better imo.

>>7876516
Damn. Rampo really pumps my nads. Sad to hear Boy Dicks didn't do well.

I wish I could remember what book referenced him. It was his pseudonym that stood out. I picked the Rampo Reader first and finished it in one sitting.

>>7876526
Yes I am missing that one. I still need to see the film adaptation. I only have two Rampo-films, Watcher In The Attic and The Mystery Of Rampo.

why tf do you have useless commodities and googaws on display in front of your books, fettering the accessibility of those books, on your bookshelf?

absolutely fucking disgusting

>>7854184
hey, what copy of the bhagavad gita is that, i cant quite make out its a very attractive cover, and looks much thinker than the one i have

>>7876670
me?
>>7876239
My library and my writing room are separate.

Research/reference are on hand, so it is not an issue.

Pleasure reads stay on my nightstand.

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>>7874505
Neat setup. Are the shelves from a throwaway piece you found?

Prefer Oxford pbs to Penguin desu.

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>>7876720

Dunno desu my dude, bought it off a Lithuanian hare Krishna preacher in the street

>>7868760
did you get the tundra meme from lulu?

>>7871570
>buying so many books you cant keep up reading them
>i know that pleasure and that pain

>>7873695
>keeping your books in mint condition means your a poseur?

>>7876870
aaah thanks for your reply, i think i found the one you have after browsing through many varients and as you said it is that particular one that is often handed out from the hare krishnas, around the world, i guess they see that version as the ultimate version,

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>>7865682

>>7877947
whos that one the cover of the magazine? that girl from those sia songs?

>>7855606
why is your copy of Candide so fat?

>>7854193
I am a Cat is by far one of the comfiest books I've ever read, its a shame that comfort only lasts the first three chapters. Goes a bit askew and deviates from Natsume's original goal after that imo

>>7868760
Haram

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>>7878020
Yeah

>tfw don't want to post because new books are being delivered later today and at 300+ posts, my shelf won't get the attention it deserves

M-maybe next time

>>7878334
Just make another thread, this one's already at the bump limit.

>>7856018
>Guns, Germs, and Steel
I hope you didn't buy that on purpose, Anon.

>>7854490
>people taking the bait