Post them

Have you no shame, OP?

>>7995787
This (somewhat)

>>7995777
Nice Warriors book, no shame there, although (even though anyone born from 1996-2002 read them) you haven't burned your diary of a wimpy kid books yet.

Nice LotR collection. Although get Return of the King in the same edition for a completion orgasm.

>>7995799
At least your girlfriend reads.

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Gonna be sideways, not taking another picture.

Let me know what you think?

>>7995821
Much patrician my lad, much patrician.

>>7995821
Am I supposed to be able to read this?

>>7995821
take pictures where we can read the titles.

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>>7995777

>>7995824
Are you being sincere?

>>7995830
You must be on mobile? The only really amazing thing in there is my Latin dictionary.

>>7995821
That puzzle is still in the plastic. Who do you think you're kidding? You clearly didn't even do it.

Do you have to be a virgin to post in this thread?

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>>7995834
1

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>>7995834
2

>>7995841
Yeah that is because I haven't put it together yet.

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>>7995852
3

>>7995841
>2016
>not shrink-wrapping your puzzles upon completion

lmao stay pleb kid

>>7995821
>signature in the cell

fuck off ya creationist doofus

>>7995848
>>7995852
>>7995854
they all look new and unused

my bookshelf is the Toronto library

>>7996560
>Toronto

I'm a lit fag visiting for another week, keeping an eye on my mom as she gets surgery. Any good used book stores nearby? Want to hang out over coffee?

>>7995852
>B&N leatherbound classics

kill yourself

>/lit/dick measuring

>>7996646
They are pretty. The fact you are annoyed about the binding of a book shows your autism mate.

>>7995777

Move your books more forward.

>>7997556
the fact you think they're pretty shows your plebitude buddy

>>7996552
I would give him the benefit of the doubt, cracks in the spine and such have to be pretty significant to be visible, and my Oxford World Classics are trashed but would look about the same as his.

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>>7995777
>Guinness World Records
>2010

>>7996552
not everyone is a barbarian who can't hold a book without destroying it

>>7997556

other guy is right you're a pleb, but you're new here obviously, so you'll learn quick enough. If you want pretty go buy folio edition.

>>7997984

cracks are inevitable after reading a book that is not hardcover, you poser

>>7998252
>non-fiction

>>7995777
Not covering your paperbacks with transparent vinyl contact paper so they look good after reading them a couple of times

You people disgust me.

>>7998252
how old are you?

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I'm gonna get shit on so hard

>>7998332
I'm 21. Why do you ask?

>>7998260
Yes, if you are a clumsy ham-fisted thug

>>7998260
since this is obviously not true, i think you just outed yourself as someone who's never read a book

EVERYONE POINT AND LAUGH AT THE PSEUD

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The manga and children's books aren't usually on these shelves, but I wanted a picture that has a full wall of books.

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Newbie

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>>7998412
Trash and bios

>>7998337
You're one of the few people here who knows how to take a nice picture

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:^)

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>>7998388
Took closer-ups, but not very clear since my actual camera's dead right now. I think most titles are readable in most of them though.

>>7998468
you a gook my man?

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>>7998468
2/10

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>>7998472
3/10

>>7998470
Nope.

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>>7998478
4/10

>>7998377

childish

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>>7998484
5/10

The manga and children's books. I haven't been into manga for a long time, but I kept a lot of my favorites. I'm mostly buying books for the children's lit shelves right now--I have Madeline, some E.B. White, more of the bilingual Japanese/English ones and others coming at the moment.

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>>7998489
6/10

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>>7998491
7/10

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>>7998494
8/10

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>>7998496
9/10

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>>7998501
And the last, more non-fiction.

>>7998504
I'm quite impressed by that little asian library you've got there.
I will continue to buy some, but I'm hoping to switch to their original language eventually :)

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>>7998601
Thanks, anon! I'd also like to eventually get a few of the prettier complete sets of my favorites, but most of the authors I research are already on Aozora Bunko, so. I've never needed to.

>>7998504
are you in tokyo?

>>7998624
No, I'm in Dallas. How come?

>>7998630
How did you learn japanese?

>>7998630
bilingual Japanese/English books for the kids
though on the other hand your house is american sized and has american-style carpeting so that makes more sense

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>>7995777

>>7998648
From university, mostly. And the internet.

>>7998650
I have a halfhearted plan to try for a Japanese au pair and raise my children bilingual. But, that's probably about as weeaboo as it gets. And Japanese au pairs seem relatively rare.

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Only pic I had so I blurred my face.

>>7998667
just get a madrilena like a normal person

>>7998705
What cigarettes are those?

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1/3

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>>7998741

2/3

Mostly design

>>7998705
Karl is that you?

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>>7998748

3/3

The French nook.

>>7998732
chesterfield reds

>>7998741
>>7998748
Two questions:
Why are the Rushdie separated like that - recent purchase or a larger weirder message?
And also what is your profession? The design + medical books are an interesting combination.

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>>7998442
>ebooks

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>>7998748
i've seen this picture on here before i think, so i don't know if this is actually yours or if you're just reposting it for some depraved reason

but it's always nice to see a copy of the Codex Seraphinianus on here. the copy in your pic is older but here's mine, on a shelf which mostly contains oversized arty books from exhibitions at museums and galleries.

>>7998779
I gave up on alphabetic sorting so just jammed them in whatever nook was left.
Med student, who likes design.

>>7998814
Yup it's mine, that bookcase never really changes in content so i just always use the same pic.
I still want the two-volume first edition of Codex, greatest book ever.

>>7998814
What's that next to the Gauguin book, that looks like a random collection of lines and curves on the side?

>>7998907
it actually says "HIGHLIGHTS". the text is wrapped round onto the back cover of the book so only the top half of the letters is visible (and the left vertical line of the "H" is also cropped)
it's a guidebook from the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam

>>7998472
Nice Japanese lit collection!

Have you considered learning the language, seeing you're so invested in the culture?

>>7998484
>Nooteboom
checked

>>7998965
I do learn it, I just don't own much in Japanese. Since my area of study is Taisho/pre-war lit, it's all up online for free. I'm actually doing some translations of Yumeno Kyusaku's poetry for a thing in November, right now.

>>7998489
I don't care for this at all... Otherwise, nice collection!

How much would you say your taste has been influenced by /lit/? I see you have a big concern for reading the canon as I think is quite common on here, but at the same time your jap lit section is obviously quite patrician.

>>7998982
I don't know how much I would say /lit/'s recommendations have influenced me (as there are few anons here who read much that I don't already know and would want to know, and most of them left a long time ago), but being a part of /lit/ certainly influenced how my taste developed. For several years it was almost a race for obscurity, to find the weirdest works, the most niche publishers, the works that only two libraries in the USA had and that I had to interlibrary loan for $20+. I'd share them with /lit/ and some caught on. But eventually I realized I went too far, and not even /lit/ cared to talk about those things anymore, and I bounced back into general literature and have settled pretty comfortably into my "true" taste now.

Of the people of /lit/ who influenced me most, the trip Croaker is tops, since he's who (not intentionally) got me interested in Japanese lit. Though technically that was before I came to /lit/.

>>7998752
Lekkere collectie, pik.

Heb de Nederlandse literatuur de laatste tijd nogal links laten liggen. Is Nescio wat waard buiten Dichtertje/Titaantjes/De Uitvreter?

En ben je fan van Bernlef?

>>7995777
Did you just graduate from high school?

>>7999017
De rest van het boek beslaat voornamelijk schetsen maar vrijwel allen onmiskenbaar Nescio, wel mooi om zijn progressie als schrijver te omlijsten.
Voor 25 piek een prima boek, ben je meteen klaar.

En eigenlijk ben ik niet zo'n Bernlef fan op Hersenschimmen na, het meeste leest hetzelfde en vergeet je in drie dagen.

>>7999141
Cool. Ga zeker kijken of ik de complete werken van Nescio ergens kan scoren.

Andere Nederlandse aanraders?

>>7999176
Gewoon bol.com

Voorbij de gevestigde orde kom ik ook niet. Hermans is mijn favo maar dat is wel zo'n veilige keus.
Meest indrukwekkende debuut van de afgelopen 15 jaar is denk ik Buwalda, maar ja in het land der blinden....

>>7998442
>not using the pdf file formaf
You fucking pleb

>>7999188
Hmm, misschien moet ik zelf maar de nieuwe Nederlandse klassieker schrijven dan. Het lijkt me inderdaad dat het in NL een stuk makkelijker is om boven de rest uit te steken met origineel werk. Maar ja ik zit ook uit m'n nek te lullen nu want zoveel Nederlandse literatuur heb ik niet gelezen...

(Ben zelf wel fan van Cees Nooteboom trouwens)

>>7997987
That's complete horse shit.

>>7999188
>>7999352
J.J. Voskuils Het Bureau staat ook nog op m'n lijstje... De Nederlandse Proust?

Verder houd ik wel van schrijvers die het troosteloze, kleinzielige en toch ontroerend optimistische van Nederland kunnen raken. Ik denk hierbij aan Nescio, Hermans inderdaad, maar ook Gerbrand Bakker, Gerard Reve... maar veel verder kom ik ook niet.

>>7995777
Is that a katana?

>>7999352
>>7999376

Het Bureau lijkt me gortdroog. Noteboom heb ik ook nog niks van gelezen, te veel boeken te weinig tijd. Ik houd me nu vooral bezig met de Engelse literatuur.
De Franse heb ik redelijk doorgewerkt, maar qua Nederland ben ik echt nog niet ver.

Overigens zou een andere favoriet van mij zou Toon Tellegen zijn. Zo simpel maar zo treffend en tegelijkertijd absurd en filosofisch. Eigenlijk kijken veel mensen eroverheen omdat het onder kinderboeken valt maar fuck dat. Hij is goed.

>>7999376
Bernlef is wel goed in dat troosteloze kleinzielige, enkel het optimisme ontbreekt bij hem wel vaker.

>>7999500
Toon Tellegen is inderdaad een held!

Studeer je aan de UvA/het AMC?

>>7995799
Is this in someone's bathroom?

>>7999708
Nope, it's not a bathroom if it's not missing toilet paper when you go take a shit

>>7995777
What the fuck kind of' shelf is that?

>>7999799
The kind that baits people like you :^)

>>7998352
dont be bashful

>>7998472
sea of fertility tetralogy... out of order

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>>7995777
>All the heavy weight on top.
>Nearly empty shelf in bottom.
>A fucking stick or somesuch in bottom shelf.
>Dope ass meme books.
>A painted stick.

Gets me every time.

>>7995821
How is Darwin's doubt? Is it creationist?

>>8001684
might as well just post the entry-level litcore chart and save the time taking photos

>>8000670
it's "intelligent design"
so yes it's creationist

>>8001684
WTF? Do you keep posting and reposting the same image?

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>>8001715
thats the /lit/shelf, it's not like most others here are any better
pic related is other stuff
>>8001719
? literally half of all shelf threads are reposts from other shelf threads
are you new?

>>8001725
WOAH im so impressed your dad read pulp scifi in the 1970s

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>>8001725
>that C&P cover

>>8001733
why do people here get so fucking defensive about other people's books, jesus christ

why are you talking personal offense to my collection

>>8001739
Nobody's defending you buddy

>>8001746
>Nobody's defending you buddy
are you literally retarded

>>7998252
Wow!!!!

Disgrace!
And is that Bukowski I see?

Which country are you from?

>>8001739
Are you aware that you posted a photo of your bookshelf on an internet hateboard?

>>8001739
Aggressive, not defensive.

>>8001792
normally people don't get so butthurt

>>8001725
Why are some of your books on display like it's a bookshop? You're storing them, not trying to sell them.

>>8001795
I say defensive because I'm almost certain these people are projecting
>>8001798
There was a problem with the shelf spacing that's since been fixed, first pic shows them sideways now

>>8001797
reddit.com might be more your speed.

>>8001739
i know, happens to me and i read legitness. it just means you have a bomb collection

>>8001684
Holy shit, you have just no personal taste whatsoever. Literally copied the entry-level /lit/ list.

>>7998332
>>8001776
Why these questions? Makes me a little bit suspicious.

>>8001840
Not only is half of the shit on that shelf not litcore, I see you are also unable to scroll down to the second picture

>>8001844
Just ignore them, they're being weird.

>>8001797
welcome to 4chan
butthurt is its reason for existence

>>8001803
what is so hard to understand about a board of literary discussion being annoyed by kids who buy (not even read) ten or fifteen books from the westenr canon and start posting unfounded opinions and pictures of their collections like they're some literary elite?
am I projecting that onto you? yeah, because whether or not it exactly applies you've still got shit all of interest and the disparate desire to share it

>>8000000

>>8001911
>board of literary discussion
kek
i not only read what i buy i dont post opinions here
considering once again that is the lit shelf yeah i think you're projecting

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>>8001792
>Le internet Le hate machine

>>8001916
>i not only read
reading the first 25 pages of something before moving on is not reading
>i dont post opinions
i understand you are trying to defy my characterization, (ie; shares bad opinions) but you're not exactly making a good argument here

>>8001922
>reading the first 25 pages of something before moving on is not reading
I read the full books retard, is there a reason why I absolutely have to not have read my purchases? If you're talking about GR and Catch-22, the bookmarks came with the book so I keep them together.

>>8001926
You sound like you didn't read it. You probably didn't even open the book.

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>>7995777
This is my bookshelf. Pls. r8 + no h8.

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>>7998814
>Moctezuma

Isn't it Montezuma?

>>7998352
w2c gravity defying editions?

>>7998413
>plato
>trash

>>7998260
Depends on the length
I can easily read 200-300 page books without a single crack, but I'd welcome anyone here to try reading a 800+ page book without cracking the spine.

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>>8002032
Both are commonly used. The Mexica didn't use the Latin alphabet, so they are both approximations. Moctezuma is more common in Spanish, Montezuma is more common in English. Apparently the correct pronunciation is more like Mohetcazumah or something.

>>7998260
Lol, what?

>>7995777
Holy fuck, that's horrifying.

>>7995777
No matter where i look, i am disgusted

Why do you have 2 copies of the Hobbit?

>>7995777
A diary of a wimpy kid collection? What fucking age are you?

>>7998705
>Books
>Not a smoke-free house

I hate you. When I want to smoke I go to the garden.

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I have a very unimpressive bookshelf, i'm afraid.

1/4

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>>8002423

>>7995777
>he studied for the SAT

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>>8002423
3/4

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>>8002423
4/4

>>7998705
> a man sits with his legs crossed, surrounded by books while smoking a cigarette

Why did you take this photo?

>>8002360
>>8002453
you people are idiots

>>8002456
>>8002453
>>8002431
samefag

>>8002423
nice hitchens box set

also that mary beard book is fucking great

>>8002458
wrongfag

>>8002458
Nope. I wrote the second one. Not the first. Smoking is for degenerates.

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>>8002478
no, the reason you are idiots is because you apparently can't use google

>>8002493
What am i? Bill Gates?

>>8001792
>>8001842
I asked the "country" question. Only asked since the editions look like ones one would find in South Africa.

>>8000670
It's more than that. It was a fun read.

>>7998705
Karl get out of here

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>>8002998

>>8001939
i r8 b8/8

>>7995777
No