Bookshelves general

File: IMG_0345.jpg (610KB, 3264x2448px) Image search: [Google]

610KB, 3264x2448px

rate me

>>8070778

eric, simply eric.

>>8069905
0/10 because Ben Stiller

File: image.jpg (19KB, 324x156px) Image search: [Google]

19KB, 324x156px

>>8069491

File: image.jpg (2MB, 4032x3024px) Image search: [Google]

2MB, 4032x3024px

Just finishing freshman year, so I'll finally get to read Invisible Man. I can't wait!

>>8069491
is that redwall my negro

>>8071949
Are you attempting to finish writing the pale king?

>>8071949
>accounting
How do you even have the will to live?

>>8071949
>accounting
Alright, where's the rope? Or are you going to fashion one out of all the books you've read?

>>8069491
>>8069905
>>8071937
>>8071949

>using bookshelves

Check out these hotshot billionaires.

File: bookcase.png (4MB, 1128x2300px) Image search: [Google]

4MB, 1128x2300px

This is my childhood bookcase. Anything worth reading?

File: CUNY_Bernard_M._Baruch_College_Zicklin_NY_170926.jpg (36KB, 350x208px) Image search: [Google]

36KB, 350x208px

>>8072196
Unfortunately, David Foster Wallace has a much better handle on writing interesting things than I do, so it would be poor fan fiction if I tried to finish his work for him.

>>8072202
>>8072207

I like accounting, guys! My dad was an accountant. Every day when he got home, he would tell me about his work. All of these things about how companies work, and stories from places he audited. I found it fascinating, and now I'm going for an accounting degree. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree, huh?
Besides, someone has to do it, right?

Another idea; Think of Camus' "The Myth of Sisyphus". Pushing a boulder up a hill for it to roll back down forever may be monotonous, painful, and pointless, but as human beings, we can decide how we choose to feel about things. You need not despair. We can feel joy if we WANT to!
"One must imagine Sisyphus happy."

Pic related is my school! NY is fun.

>>8072428
Everything that you would expect is worth reading.
The Scarlet Letter
Brave New World
Sherlock Holmes
Tortilla Flat
The Pearl
The Great Escape
Anything by Heinlein (I prefer Strangers in a Strange Land)
Silmarillion
In Cold Blood
Forget "The Third Man" book; watch the film instead, it's a really good film noir.

>>8071937
Dude, besides the manga, the books you have are all pretty well known for being great reads. Don't let /lit/ discourage you from reading because your books aren't obscure enough for them. You have good taste, even if it's mainstream. As long as you're reading, I'm happy.

>>8072230
What do you use to hold your books, may I ask? Do you pile them in a stack on the floor? I thought about doing that, because it looks cool, but then my books would get all dusty!

>>8071908
YEAH MAN IT'S A BOOOOOOOOOKSHELF THREAD WANNA SEE WHAT /LIT/ IS COOKING IN THEIR BRAINSSSSSSSS

>>8069905
I'm a bit worried that you may buy books more for their looks than an interest in reading them. You should read more!

>>8071873
What's wrong? I don't get it. Did he do something bad?

>>8071949
>>8072202
>>8072207
>>8072478

I'm getting into accounting myself. I've been working at a small firm for the past 4 months. I really like it, and it's interesting work imo.

I went into it with no intentions, but now I might go for my CPA designation since I already have an undergrad. I even bought a used accounting textbook I've been working through.

I always had the misconception that it is boring work, and while it can be tedious if you can see the bigger picture it's really neat.

>>8072538
I know, it's a joke. Thanks for the reassurance though.

>>8069905
I've seen this shelf in three threads in the past two days. Nobody cares about your doorstop collection. Go read them.

>>8072565
Do you have the 150 hours? If not, I wholeheartedly recommend taking difficult accounting or taxation graduate courses, and not underwater basketweaving courses just to get the hours. You'll learn a lot more about the profession, and work towards a CPA! Two birds and one stone.

>>8069905
none of those books have been read

>>8069491
>Marijuana Botany
DUDE

File: Untitled.png (3MB, 2876x976px) Image search: [Google]

3MB, 2876x976px

Mostly entry level books, only started reading this year. Left side has been read, right side unread/recent purchases.

>>8072786
Nice pace, what's been your favorite book so far?

>>8072795
Kokoro and No Longer Human.

File: Screen Shot 2016-05-22 at 10.39.57 PM.png (4MB, 1700x1248px) Image search: [Google]

4MB, 1700x1248px

>>8069491
>>8071937
garbage

>>8069905
high school-tier

>>8072786
>>8071949
small but respectable. this is what everyone else in this thread's bookshelves would look like if they threw out or gave away all the titles that need to be thrown out or given away.

>>8072834
wow look at this patrician here

>>8072834
>don dellilo
>dfw
>pynchon

garbage AND high school-tier

File: 2016-05-22 19.53.53.jpg (2MB, 2099x1167px) Image search: [Google]

2MB, 2099x1167px

Shelf 1/3

Be gentle /lit/ it's my first bookcase

File: 2016-05-22 19.56.27.jpg (2MB, 2114x1322px) Image search: [Google]

2MB, 2114x1322px

>>8072860
Shelf 2/3

File: 2016-05-22 19.57.39.jpg (1MB, 2043x967px) Image search: [Google]

1MB, 2043x967px

>>8072865
Shelf 3/3

File: 1346622688668.png (205KB, 308x306px) Image search: [Google]

205KB, 308x306px

>physical
Why is /lit/ populated by so many ludites?

File: the-great-gatsby.jpg (31KB, 320x500px) Image search: [Google]

31KB, 320x500px

>>8072834
nice meme shelf. two infinite jests and a tao lin.

pic related is my only book, i sleep on a friend's couch.

>>8072853
>using my own adjectives against me
you literally could not make it more clear that you're more interested in retaliating against what I said about others than my actual books.
I've always hated DFW but I keep him in there anyway. Pyncho and Delill are godlike, we both know this. There are far better points of criticism you could bring up (see >>8072888 who hit the nail right on the head here), but as soon as you wheel out those memes, you show your bluff.

>>8072860
>>8072865
>>8072873
Interesting. I'm kind of into it.

>>8072882
This. Unless all you read is non-fiction there's not a single reason to not buy a Paperwhite and read all your books there. The experience is far superior: the minimal weight, storage, variety of dictionaries, option to read in the dark etc. But there are always retards with the:
>muh aesthetics
>muh smell of the book
>muh feeling
Suck a dick.

>>8072882
>no book smell

disgusting

>>8073050
All that Greek but no Mythology. It's a gyro without the tzatziki.

>>8073084
Just read Hesiod

>>8072882
>>8073073
You're supposed to write/draw in your books

http://www.maebrussell.com/Articles%20and%20Notes/How%20To%20Mark%20A%20Book.html

>>8072786

Respectable.

>>8072865

I like that compass bookend. Old compasses are nice things.

File: 20160522_231543(0).jpg (2MB, 3264x2448px) Image search: [Google]

2MB, 3264x2448px

>>8069491
Here it is

>>8073459
Sorry for the flip

File: Screenshot_2016-05-22-23-24-55-1.png (645KB, 720x527px) Image search: [Google]

645KB, 720x527px

>>8073463
#2

>>8073073
>doing away with tangible items

What a sad future. Why own physical media when you can just download it to your brain? Why own a car when you have digital mind displacement? Why have a human girlfriend when you can simply have one built?

File: image.png (701KB, 846x1132px) Image search: [Google]

701KB, 846x1132px

>>8073459
ugly asf tbqhwy

weird tastes too, u a wizard or smth?

>>8073472
You can't be that dumb, just think about what you've said.

>>8073483
There's no point in knowledge once it becomes effortless to consume.

>>8073486
It takes effort to read an e-book. Stop trolling, please.

>>8073492
might as well read shitposts on /lit/

File: 20160521_015520.jpg (3MB, 3264x2448px) Image search: [Google]

3MB, 3264x2448px

>>8073478
I AM A DARK WIZARD

>>8073073
I already had a decent collection of books before e-readers became popular/cheap, so at this point I just prefer to grow my library. That's not to say I'm against e-readers though I do own a paperwhite and read a lot with it, I just happen to prefer real books.

Also digital content tempts me to pirate far too much and I find that lately pirated content seems to give me very little enjoyment.

>>8073466
What's that book of skulls?

>>8071949
>accounting

May as well quit /lit/ now because you're well on your way to getting a degree in being a boring pleb.

>>8072834
Are you trying to be ironic in criticizing others while having a dogshit shelf, or are you just retarded?

>kierkegaard anthology instead of individual works
>2 copies of infinite jest
>picture book dictionary

lol

>>8073459

>Re-Animator and Dead Man on DVD

would chill with tbqh my man

>>8072576
loads of manga and a big book about hitler
this is what i imagine the book collections of 90% of 4chan users to be like

>>8072834
You are a joke to me.

>>8073466
Needs more LOOMIS

>>8075665
Are you studying nuclear physics or something?

>>8075665
What is this - Autism, the post?

>>8075665
>The Martian

File: nukular.png (37KB, 217x43px) Image search: [Google]

37KB, 217x43px

>>8075682
just graduated actually
>>8075686
no, i just don't like to read pretentious trash in an effort to sound more intelligent to people i don't care about
>>8075690
havnt read it, just heard it was decent so i have it in case i want to

>>8072786
>Bernanos
That's pretty rarely seen there.
Really nice.

File: 1462096075165.png (21KB, 420x420px) Image search: [Google]

21KB, 420x420px

>>8075665

>he actually spent the 30+ minutes screenshotting this shit instead of just taking a picture of his bookshelf

File: subcritical pile.jpg (2MB, 2048x1601px) Image search: [Google]

2MB, 2048x1601px

>>8075811
>implying i keep everything together
>implying i have room for a bookshelf in my shitty uni apt.
i did snap a photo of some of my books tho

File: 644518_482964478391235_1344225470_n.0_cinema_1200.0.jpg (124KB, 1200x675px) Image search: [Google]

124KB, 1200x675px

>>8075836

>/lit/ - literature
>posts a bunch of science textbooks from a meme major and The Martian

Dude I fucking love science

>>8075862
>Dude I fucking love science
dont lump me in with those faggots. i never really had time to read during uni. i got like 120 pages into blood meridian before i had to stop, same story with book of the new sun

>>8075868
also
>meme major

>>8075881
It gets better from the left to the right

>>8075696
Oh man, I first I thought you were some cool person who taught themself Nuclear Engineering.

File: IMG_20160503_235917.jpg (154KB, 734x979px) Image search: [Google]

154KB, 734x979px

>>8069905
too many paperbacks/10

File: IMG_20160503_233118.jpg (362KB, 1305x979px) Image search: [Google]

362KB, 1305x979px

These are most of my non-comic books that are on shelves.

>>8071949
>starting strength
ayy lmao

>>8072834
Who the fuck are you trying to fool with that shelf?

>>8073459
You seem like a jack of all trades kind of guy when it comes to hobbies and skills. That's cool.

>>8076297
>Who the fuck are you trying to fool with that shelf?
you

>>8075665
Does all that physics give you better insight into how the world works day to day? I remember when I finished my high school physics class I kept seeing fucking arrows and triangles and shit everywhere

>>8076322
idk, but i win a lot of arguments and bets because of it

>>8076262
too many untouched books/10

>>8076573
If you're careful you can remove the books without completely removing the protective plastic. I've read all four of those REH books.

>>8076580
Books aren't sacred, anon.

>tfw you have 200 western classics bound in leather and sitting on your bookshelf

>>8075881
Come straight from Better Than Food, eh? Pathetic.

>>8076586
spoken like a true philistine

inb4 you need to get organiz-ized
inb4 fuck you library book thief
inb4 your modern political books are garbage

File: 20160524_014026.jpg (2MB, 3264x1836px) Image search: [Google]

2MB, 3264x1836px

>>8077638

forgot photo shit

>>8077638
nice invisible books bro

>>8077639
>those stolen library books

Party van incoming

>>8076262
Nice man! I have the Conan volumes as well, but missing the Kane. It's damned hard to get a hold of, unless you want to pay through the nose, which I don't.

>>8077639
Lol.
Where do you shop for books? Memes R'Us?

File: 20160524_084408.jpg (981KB, 2048x1152px) Image search: [Google]

981KB, 2048x1152px

Pt1

File: 20160524_084413.jpg (1MB, 2048x1152px) Image search: [Google]

1MB, 2048x1152px

Pt2>>8078147

File: 20160524_084428.jpg (1023KB, 2048x1152px) Image search: [Google]

1023KB, 2048x1152px

>>8078152
Pt3

File: 20160524_084433.jpg (1MB, 2048x1152px) Image search: [Google]

1MB, 2048x1152px

>>8078157
Pt4

File: 20160524_084501.jpg (923KB, 2048x1152px) Image search: [Google]

923KB, 2048x1152px

>>8078158
Pt5

File: 20160524_084521.jpg (863KB, 2048x1152px) Image search: [Google]

863KB, 2048x1152px

>>8078161
Pt 6
I'm a pleb

File: wanderingstar-ultimatetriumph.jpg (60KB, 344x520px) Image search: [Google]

60KB, 344x520px

>>8077743
Yeah, the Solomon Kane volume cost about $200. Pic related is even more. Maybe one day.

>>8077605
fuck you buddy.

>>8078173
I've seen the slipcased Ultimate Triumph go for less than $100 within the last six months or so, so have faith!

You'd be very lucky to see Solomon Kane go for as "little" as $200 nowadays, though.

>>8078152
Is this bait?

>>8078414
No this is real life

look at all these unread, untouched books

>>8073526
Its basically a photographer documenting the massive collection of animal skulls owned by some wealthy collector. Makes for great reference material

File: 1454949845964.gif (891KB, 245x254px) Image search: [Google]

891KB, 245x254px

>>8072834
TWO copies of Infinite Jest. TWO FUCKING COPIES. KEK

>>8072834
>>8078830
Two copies of Vineland.
Two copies of The Pale King.

I'm pretty sure he just replaced paperback copies with hardbacks and hasn't given the paperbacks away yet but it is more fun to pretend he is the Meme King.

>>8078158
>has all the dark tower books, except Wind Through the Keyhole
>doesn't even keep them all together
Faggot

>>8069491
What books are those on the bottom left?

>>8078860
you nailed it, but I'm enjoying the takedown myself

File: image.jpg (1MB, 3264x2448px) Image search: [Google]

1MB, 3264x2448px

I actually have four copies of IJ.

1. Hardcover
2. Paperback (wrote in it + water dmg)
3. Paperback (wanted a fresh copy)
4. 20th Anniversary Edition

Here are the two I have with me (3,4). The other two are at my parents' place.

>>8079897
is #4's cover feel similar to The Pale King's?

>>8079922
If you mean The Pale King's US paperback, yes.

>>8079897
meanwhile at Dave Eggers' house
HOW DARE THEY I MEAN I SPENT AT LEAST AN HOUR ON THAT FOREWORD BISSELL IS JUST A FUCKING HACK WHY HAVE THEY DONE THIS TO ME WHY WHY WHY

File: tmp_11165-1461609275216436865286.png (211KB, 550x578px) Image search: [Google]

211KB, 550x578px

>>8079897
>20th Anniversary Edition
YWN scan IJ in the late 90s

>>8079897
I really don't like the look of the 20th anniversary edition. The white and red scheme with the pastel aesthetic makes it look too feminine.

>>8079897
>water dmg

Cant make this stuff up

File: bad-box-5.jpg (117KB, 500x446px) Image search: [Google]

117KB, 500x446px

>>8072888
>cover within a cover

for what purpose?

>>8078919
Rude

File: IMAG0504.jpg (2MB, 2688x1520px) Image search: [Google]

2MB, 2688x1520px

Not pictured: Cat's Cradle

Currently reading Starship Troopers

What should I read next? I'm thinking Shadow Over Innsmouth.

>>8080486
How's jurassic park in terms of enjoyability compared to the movie?

>>8072478
Interesting. Are you a Baruch college student? I used to work there.

>>8078157
>>8078158

real world

>>8079897

/lit/

>>8078158
modsmodsmods

>>8080528
It's not as exciting as the movie obviously. But there's a lot more science and chaos theory and stuff in it.

I liked it a lot. You should check it out, it's short and pretty easy.

>>8080588
Thanks. I saw it in a store a short while ago and a friend told me the movie its better (i mean it's difficult not to) but idk, i like when they go sciencey in stuff and i really loved the Space Oddysey novel over the movie a million times better. I know they're not comparable though.

>>8080588
shit, bottom line being, i'll see if its still in the store and i'll really consider get it. thanks again.

>>8072428
>childhood bookcase
>contains books from the past couple years
underage b&

File: photo_1457493192911.jpg (4MB, 5312x2988px) Image search: [Google]

4MB, 5312x2988px

>>8069491
here's my whole library, only book I'll ever need

>>8069905
Read something good fucker
>>8071937
You're like my cousin eric I bet you fuck a lot
>>8072428
I used to love world record books when I was a kid. Silmarillion seems outta place I bet you never read it
>>8072786
It's fine.
>>8072834
Yeah ok fucker
>>8073459
You're my messier spic cousins house

>>8080546
Yeah, gonna start sophomore year in the fall. How did you like it there? What was your job, may I ask?

>>8080694
I'm 19 now. I kept adding books to it throughout high school but I never took any out.

faggot.

>>8080945
Youre historys worst monster

File: box.jpg (25KB, 1280x720px) Image search: [Google]

25KB, 1280x720px

>>8069905

WHAT'S THE IN THE BOX

>>8080912
>be 19
>call someone else a faggot

shiggy diggy

>>8073537
>the anthology is any worse than the individual works
I-Is it?

>>8078105
Do you have a cake on your bookshelf?

>>8080702
>You're my messier spic cousins house
What did he mean by this?

>>8083540
>four rows of Stephen King
>entry level normie shit, entry level notmie shit
>"Portal XD"
>pleb decorations, if you have a gf I bet you both post on reddit while sitting in the same room

kind of disappointing tbqhwy, though I like your cool mugs unless upon closer observation they're tied to Game of Thrones or contain some other "omg so nerdy" reference in which case I'm nevertheless still jealous of your floor space and disposable income.

so yeah, your books aren't /lit/.

>>8083557
>disposable income
Please, you can get a set of 10 SK harcovers for $60 on ebay.

I have a copy of City of Easton Press that has more value than two rows of his books.

File: 1.jpg (7KB, 300x300px) Image search: [Google]

7KB, 300x300px

>>8071949
>an entire stack devoted to niggerology

>>8083540

that shelf could work as an art installation

I laughed when I saw an entire shelf of stephen king books.

then i saw the second and laughed.

then i saw the third and laughed harder.

I saw the fourth and stopped laughing.

The Barnes and Noble Glitter edition book collection.

the video game replicas

a short swiffer tucked in above the """adult""" comics and the Heroes:the tv show: the book

two shelves of terry brooks, some robert jordan, game of thrones, harry potter, eragon.

the mugs that I can't identify but are probably harry potter or from a video game

book ends that look like stray pieces of garbage

it's a shame the picture is low quality. I'd love to see the rest of the collection

>>8083557

also:
>being in possesion of bulky, faux-ornate hardback editions of overpraised classics
>probably has a bar codes and embedded on the back
>not owning practical, edited paperback editions

pseud af

>>8083572
i laughed when you wrote all that but completely failed to recognise this b8 picture that is posted in bookshelf threads on here almost as frequently as that dick with the particle research magazines

>>8083569

It's not the books that indicate that he's a an at least slightly well-off idiot, it's the Buster Sword and Portal gun replicas. I can't think of any reason to buy those unless you just want to flush money down the toilet.

Probably crushes some mad pseudointellectual puss, most women are pseuds.

>>8083580

duh. and someone actually owns all of those things. and i would get a kick out of it as an art installation. it's beautiful.

>>8083587
>Buster Sword
1. Why the fuck do you know the name of that thing?

2. you can get that crap for $45
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Cloud-Buster-Sword-42-With-Free-Display-Stand-Sheath-/282044696515?hash=item41ab2c87c3:g:l7wAAOSwo6lWH9dO

Either you are uber poor or you think $45 makes you well-off.

>>8079897
>water dmg

you mean you came over it, right?

>>8083608

1. I played Final Fantasy 7, like a lot of people who flowered into adulthood towards the end of the 20th century.

2. I wasn't aware they were so cheap. Besides, there's variety in replicas and I'm no Buster Sword appraiser so I can't tell you with exactitude how much he paid for it.

3. Don't mistake me. I'm not praising his taste, I obviously think it's tacky.

>>8083608
>Either you are uber poor or you think $45 makes you well-off.

those two alternatives are the same thing

>>8080888
Cool. I loved it, it was a great experience. I was a college assistant.

>>8083689
another b8 picture recognised

i have the whole series of those colour scott pilgrim books tho. they're great

>>8083760
man, you're so clever ;^)

>>8072428
boyscout handbook. probably more helpful than anything else posted in this thread for most of the faggots that lurk here.

>>8073073
>>8072882

You are two millenials unable to value memories.

Behead All Satans

>>8075665
i know how you feel

i actually read chemistry textbooks for fun, maybe about once a year ill read half of a big scholarly book. i take notes too, and try to memorize as much as possible. its a hobby i really enjoy

and its much better than reading indirect and half assed ideas through shitty "art" prose.

File: 1407462214542.jpg (53KB, 300x375px) Image search: [Google]

53KB, 300x375px

>>8083689

File: bookshelves 2016-5-4 part one.jpg (3MB, 2447x2995px) Image search: [Google]

3MB, 2447x2995px

1/3

>>8080486
are u me?
I read Cat's Cradle and then Starship Troopers earlier this year

File: bookshelves 2016-5-4 part two.jpg (3MB, 2463x2995px) Image search: [Google]

3MB, 2463x2995px

>>8083848
2/3

File: bookshelves 2016-5-4 part three.jpg (2MB, 1236x2984px) Image search: [Google]

2MB, 1236x2984px

>>8083938
3/3

>>8083848
>>8083938
>>8083943
I like your collection of books. I just started to read 6 months ago and will take quite a while to reach this many books. Have you read them all or do you buy them in a mass quantity for a big backlog? I usually only have 6 or less books in my backlog.

File: 06.25.2010 shelves.jpg (196KB, 960x1280px) Image search: [Google]

196KB, 960x1280px

>>8084029
Besides the manga, it's been about six years since I started my collection. Pic is what it was like back then.

My backlog's usually about a third of them now, including things like the reference works and anthologies (most of which I'll probably never read the whole way through). I spent several years abusing my university's very great inter-library loan system, so there's several hundred I've read but don't own. Most of my book buying lately has been picking up the ones I really loved but read through the library, plus kid's books.

What's in your backlog right now?

>>8072816
Fuuuuuuck, I gotta pick up no longer human, I really liked Kokoro, are the similar?

>>8079973
>not reading in the shower
why waste time?

>>8080945
Fuck off Andrew.

>>8083540
saved

File: IMG_20160526_001550.jpg (1MB, 3264x1836px) Image search: [Google]

1MB, 3264x1836px

go easy on me im dyslexivc

>>8085267
I have Marimos on my bookshelf too :)

I named them Zizek (the big one) and Camus (the littler one) when I was 17

>>8084079

>memoirs of a geisha

i thought i was the only one

>>8084029
Shelves fill up really quickly if you hit up antiquaries, flea markets, that kind of stuff, or maybe they're phasing out books at your university and you can just come and pick them up for free.
The sheer amount of new books I see on /lit/ almost has me believe everyone's either a richfag or still living at home because the only new books I buy are the ones for my courses and the ones I'm gifted, everything else I find for cheap around the city.
Granted, you probably won't find exactly 'that' book you want, but you'll find plenty of classics anyway (I found the collected works of Goethe and Lessing for free) and you'll end up with a diverse library that doesn't look like a meme.

File: 404.png (17KB, 264x56px) Image search: [Google]

17KB, 264x56px

>>8085295
Reading this again, I don't buy the books I'm gifted, but you get the point

>>8085277
mine are the end, the joy, and the sorrow :3
ive only had them for a year though so i hope they get bigger!

>>8085267
>>8085277

kysmm

>>8086951
I've been thinking about getting that Lovecraft book but the cover is just so absolutely horrible.

>>8072105

EULALIA

>>8073050

Would highly recommend The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature to go on there. Invaluable source

>>8088248
I didn't know such books existed.

File: bookshelf.jpg (636KB, 1280x1707px) Image search: [Google]

636KB, 1280x1707px

Rate mine!!

>>8088723

>books in front of other books

disgusting

>>8088975
And small one, and there shit-ton of manga :/

File: image.jpg (1MB, 2592x1936px) Image search: [Google]

1MB, 2592x1936px

>>8088978

>>8088975
threw up in my mouth

>>8088975
What's your booktube channel?

>>8072834
Memed so hard that I'm actually embarrassed for you.

>>8084029

I have saved easily around 500 or 600 dollars buying books at different thrift stores in different cities and by occasionally revisiting the ones in my city.

Its caused me to have a huge backlog but 85% of the them are books I would have wanted to read eventually anyway so its better to buy them for 50 cents instead of ~10 dollars from amazon or Barnes and Noble.

>>8071949
>The Things They Carried
Muh nigga.

>>8088975
>>8088980
faggiest shit i ever seen

>>8072576
Average /pol/ user.

>>8072786
What are you, a fuckin weeb?

>>8072853
People shitting on DFW this hard has now itself become a new meme.

>>8083608
>Why the fuck do you know the name of that thing?
Not even him, but come on, FFVII was pretty big back when it came out

>>8083587
>$100 convention-tier replicas
>well-off

What's your job?

>>8088634
I didn't know such memes existed

>>8083938
How is Giles Goat Boy?

File: IMG_7059.jpg (2MB, 4032x3024px) Image search: [Google]

2MB, 4032x3024px

Damnit guise i got memed so hard.
not mad though im not used to anything so im having the time of my life with these shitty books

>>8072576
안녕

Damn where's the anon who keeps all his books stacked on the floor near his chair? Dude has ballin' furniture taste and I forget what chair he recommended. Where are you chair bro?

>>8089314
>jobs

>>8090000
If he's a poor NEET then that would explain why he thinks so, but I wouldn't think he assumes all non-NEETs are well-off.

>>8090043
>twin peaks
Nice.

>>8090000
miring those digits senpai

>>8072834
Because lots of high schoolers read The Brother K., Voltaire and Proust, but not Infinite Jest or Tao Lin. Retard.

>>8072666
That's not true. I'm sure he's read that Game of Thrones.

>>8090807
What kind of allocation you running in your portfolio my man? 80/15/5, 90/10? You maxing out your 401k or Roth contributions each year?

Looking to incorporate any other assets like real estate or other property in the near future?

File: albumcover11.jpg (53KB, 450x450px) Image search: [Google]

53KB, 450x450px

>>8088634
I once had a selection of 600 weird-ass porn books, including holocaust erotica novels from the 50s in ebook format. I think I lost the archive though.

>>8089179
I've once met a woman here, believe it or not.

>>8090931

No hopefully he's buying more [insert] for dummies books so he learns how to waste more money on hardcovers and bad dune books

File: 06stalag-600.jpg (95KB, 600x289px) Image search: [Google]

95KB, 600x289px

>>8088634
Then you`re not really searching for it. Here, have some Israeli Nazi Porn.

>>8085282
Actually, we`re three now, I have it in German.

>>8088248
>Mike Hunt
masterful

>>8090807
My favorite thing about this is that most of the books are still in the plastic wrap.

>>8091268
holy fuck you're right. why do people do this?

>>8088248
>buttrustle
NOOOOOO

>>8090068
I read The Bros K and Candide in highschool but never read Infinite Jest and had never even heard of Tao Lin until College.

>>8091268
>>8091351
not that guy, but I live in Lima, a place where humidity is 89% and it an go to 94% during winter, so I wrap the books I am not reading in polyethylene plastic bags and have to keep them in my room that has a dehumidifier. Otherwise they get those yellow stains all over the pages. Paperbacks would only last 4 years and hardcovers a few years more if I didnt do that. Also I am allergic to every king of fungus. I have a collection of sci-fi paperbacks that I cant read because of mold.

>>8091382
*kind

File: 1464408538368-719669210.jpg (2MB, 1520x2688px) Image search: [Google]

2MB, 1520x2688px

my bookshelf at the moment. living in a temporary place so I only have the ones most important to me out. recommendations welcome.

File: IMAG0202.jpg (973KB, 2688x1520px) Image search: [Google]

973KB, 2688x1520px

>>8091813

File: IMAG0203.jpg (945KB, 2688x1520px) Image search: [Google]

945KB, 2688x1520px

>>8091813

File: IMAG0204.jpg (969KB, 2688x1520px) Image search: [Google]

969KB, 2688x1520px

>>8091813

>paperbacks with cracked spines

Literally just throw that destroyed shit away and try again. Gently bend or go hardcover all the way, plebs.

>>8091900
Yeah just to look like I never actually read and only buy books to show of. Better just buy ebooks then, faggot

>>8091943
If you're going to own physical media, why display destroyed garbage?

>>8091943

>to look like I never actually read
How do you jump to that conclusion? Hardcover books equate to not reading?

>>8091957
To look like you don't read doesn't mean you don't read, are you even trying? Of course hardcover books will look unread, which doesn't mean they are actually unread

>>8091948
Don't get me wrong, I think that books look bad when they're like destroyed, but I don't think some cracks on their spine can be considered a real problem, to be honest I think they're quite aesthetically pleasant

>>8072560
He didn't try hard enough to impress people with physical copies of books that he will never read.

>>8083848
>he doesn't have norton anthology of english literature volume D

>>8091873
>Just Kids
I don't see this on people's shelves often, but I recently picked it up myself
Any thoughts on it?

>>8092491
its good my man

File: pattismith.jpg (32KB, 580x384px) Image search: [Google]

32KB, 580x384px

>>8092491
I haven't read it yet. Read M Train though, and that's killer. She made me feel a lot while saying very little. She's just a normal lady, no blown up superstar, and she makes it feel good to get up in the afternoon and eat some brown toast with olive oil. Then again, she also is a superstar and toured with Dylan and is a furious Blakean and the M Train has value for that and her reflections and devotion to literature.

>>8092518
>>8092564
thanks senpaitachi, dylan a diva but she sounds interesting

>>8092108
I got those free from an eighteenth century studies conference, so it naturally cuts off at C. I've got to get D and E for a class soon though.

>>8089928
I couldn't tell you, haven't read it yet.

File: IMGP0723.jpg (2MB, 3648x2736px) Image search: [Google]

2MB, 3648x2736px

I don't usually post in these threads but I just moved in to a new place.
I've rearranged them a little since, mainly based on the aesthetics of how tall or wide they are. The shelves are stupidly deep so you can't really see all the titles from any one perspective.

File: IMGP0722.jpg (3MB, 2880x2512px) Image search: [Google]

3MB, 2880x2512px

>>8092896
So you can actually see.

>>8092901
>>8092896
Bump so someone can insult my taste.

>>8094256
I like this 10/10

>>8092896
>>8092901
where did you get your bookcase? ikea or somewhere like that?
is it sturdy?

i'm looking at replacing the mishmash of bookcases i have in my study. currently i have three bookcases of different heights, designs and colours

>>8090931
I've seen these kinds of shitposts before. Why does /lit/ have such a hate-boner for /biz/fags?

>>8094551
/lit/ is not a very wealthy board (lots of underage, NEET, community college, etc.) so there's a lot of hate for anything that suggests wealth or material well being.

I only have THE BIBLE because, frankly, it's all you need.

File: variance.gif (6KB, 587x328px) Image search: [Google]

6KB, 587x328px

>>8092901
>PiHKAL and TiHKAL
Are you even a chemist? This is quite the monument to your private vanity.

>>8094830
xXxStraightEdgexXx xXx4LYFExXx amyrite xD??

>>8094950
No? I was an illicit chemist for a couple of years.
Shulgin is caviar to the general for fucks like you

>>8094787
For you

File: it truly is daunting how everything might.png (21KB, 711x189px) Image search: [Google]

21KB, 711x189px

>>8094950

>>8094256
kek

>>8083540
Fuck yeah, Terry Brooks. I've got a massive fuckin 3-shelf collection, including all the omnibi, anniversary editions and foreign edition.

>>8094448
I don't know, it's third-hand at least.

>>8094830
You know there's a story in those books, they're not just chemistry manuals, right?

test

>>8092901
What's your system, guy? I might find it easier to insult the fact that you don't sort according to publisher considering that you seem to have an amount of Penguin/Oxford/etc. big enough to warrant it.

>>8069905
>Sam "Fedora" Harris

>>8073466
What a synchronicity, I just bought that Alchemy and Mysticism book today.

>>8096986
Top left is leatherbounds and first editions, moving through to fairytales & old horror, then some Angela Carter, a bit of SF and books on writing.
Then there's a Ian Banks section followed by Borges, Calvino, Pynchon. I think of that as a "proven good authors" section. Then the "classic writers on drugs" followed by two assorted literature sections, then poetry and erotica. Middle shelves start with non-fiction then go to random-lit-leading-to-modern-shit-lit, second from bottom is large hardbacks and the paris review, then Pratchett & Adams before the golden age pulp SF, more assorted lit leading in to cyberpunk and non-fiction cyberpunk. Bottom shelf is books on Celts, then comic books, books on alternate ecologies with some Lovecraft, books on mythology then books on anthropology. Not much of a system but I don't really care.

>>8098284
why is your copy of demon haunted world wrapped in clingiflm?

>>8098660
To keep the demons in.

File: Carrie-LaChance-08541.jpg (321KB, 1000x1500px) Image search: [Google]

321KB, 1000x1500px

>>8098666
>the circle is complete
>i cast the five corners by the unholy spirits of jermaine, tito, marlon, michael and jackie
>i summon thee to this world beelzebub to do my bidding
>HAIL SARAN

File: simpsons.jpg (21KB, 320x240px) Image search: [Google]

21KB, 320x240px

>>8098619
disgusting

>>8069491
I have like three shelves with (mostly) encyclopedias. The rest is on my e-reader. Who cares about your bookshelves?

File: 20160529_200721.jpg (2MB, 4032x2268px) Image search: [Google]

2MB, 4032x2268px

There's more behind the three on the left and behind the Familiar 2. And a couple boxes in storage that I can't fit here.

File: 51aa3308-619d-431e-bd3e-f41aa5e339ca..jpg (3MB, 4160x3120px) Image search: [Google]

3MB, 4160x3120px

Idk why I even own half of these

File: 20160529_172224.jpg (1MB, 3264x1836px) Image search: [Google]

1MB, 3264x1836px

no bookshelf yet because i just moved

>>8099293

>britphile/10

>>8072428
You have two copies of "How to make your cat an Internet Celebrity"

>>8099483
And two Halting State

>>8099599
I like this

>>8099599
beautiful
but where is your blood meridian

>>8099219
well aren't you just a charmer
you sound like you're a lot of fun

File: Small Pepe.jpg (718B, 9x8px) Image search: [Google]

718B, 9x8px

>>8089314

Not him but $100 is a lot of money. That's like 20 burgers.

>>8091036
>>8091069

I wish people still wrote porn novels for men. I look at the list of author's names on amazon in the erotica ebooks section and try to spot the guys, there's not very many. I wish you could filter by gender but that would probably be too "problematic"

Girls just suck at writing edgy porn in my opinion. By and large at least. I read part of one book that was supposed to have some good rapey bits but the captured beauty falls in love with her jailer after like five minutes. Where's the fun in that?

>>8099260

I have that Keri Hume book, is it good?

>>8099293

We have the exact same Bible.

>>8083689
>Tfw you own chalices and bottled Game of Thrones meads that will sit on the shelf gathering dust because noone wants to sit around with you and discuss videogames

>>8099483
it's just where the images overlap.

Things /lit/ puts on bookshelves:
- Books (1 point)
- Mugs (1 point)
- Swords (3 points)
- Bits of dead things (2 points)
What's your score?

>>8092491
Just Kids is beautiful. Read it ASAP, and then pick up M Train.

File: IMG_20160530_063646970.jpg (3MB, 2340x4160px) Image search: [Google]

3MB, 2340x4160px

1/4

File: IMG_20160530_063659084_TOP.jpg (3MB, 2340x4160px) Image search: [Google]

3MB, 2340x4160px

>>8100622
2/4

File: IMG_20160530_063718637.jpg (4MB, 2340x4160px) Image search: [Google]

4MB, 2340x4160px

>>8100626
3/4

File: IMG_20160530_063709414_TOP.jpg (3MB, 4160x2340px) Image search: [Google]

3MB, 4160x2340px

>>8100629
4/4

>>8100568
1,203

Unless you count the very tops of bookshelves, which I try not to show off in these threads.

File: IMG_1183.jpg (2MB, 3264x2448px) Image search: [Google]

2MB, 3264x2448px

needs organising but I think i might need another bookshelf.

>>8071937
best shelf so far ;)

File: 13321233_1180357711982605_1334093044_o.jpg (118KB, 1136x852px) Image search: [Google]

118KB, 1136x852px

Not much of a reader at all but im getting into it

>>8100681
"Books" is one point, not one for each individual book. That would obviously render the point system meaningless.

>>8101076
Oh, I guess I'm just 1 point then..

>>8101065
pretty good altogether, stephen king seems misplaced there. do you plan on buying the entire rougon-macquarts?

>>8101056
>gigantic book right in the middle
put it on one of the ends you barbarian

>>8101121
yes, the next book i m going to buy is "germinal"

>>8101169
but i'm also trying to begin to read the whole " comédie humaine" from Balzac

>>8101191
have you read lost illusions? I'd rec that to anyone. I even bought my mom a copy, but she found Lucien too insufferable to finish it

>>8101065

>Stephen King

>>8101191
>>8101169
good luck with that. from what i've read and heard, reading the whole comedie humaine is not really worth it, there are some excellent novels like illusions perdues, pere goriot and eugenie grandet, for example -- parisian and provincial scenes are the best --, but obviously subpar stories can be found too, hell, ce sont des 146 volume. thus as there isn't a narrative unity between all of them i can only find the 'reading them all' enterprise to be an exercise of vanity.

the rougon macquart is more doable imo, even though some volumes are quite underwhelming (like the 1st la fortune des rougon). therese raquin and paris [from trois villes] shits on some rougon-macquart books

>>8100240
>you don't wank about other people's bookshelves therefore you're not fun
very good point, now please answer my question. Who cares about your bookshelves?

>>8075665
>newfags not recognising this meme
Holy shit.

>>8076283
>tfw Fourth World Omnibus is out of print

>>8083540
Honestly, I kinda want that Buster Sword.

>>8083608
>1. Why the fuck do you know the name of that thing?
Seriously? I mean, owning one is tacky as fuck, but like everyone has played FFVII, pretending you don't know what it is just try hard.

>>8083848
>>8083938
>>8083943
Are you that guy who was doing some sorta East Asian lit grad degree?

>>8101320
"Cares"? Who knows? Why would anyone care? This is just something people do for fun, I think. People like to post pictures and other people like to bitch about. I didn't realise people were supposed to care about it. Maybe they would care about it in Nofunland where you're from.

>>8101892
Yep, there's more than just me here though. I do "strange" literature and early Japanese detective fiction, there's another anon who seemed to do something with colonialism/political Japanese fiction.

File: bookshelf.jpg (185KB, 1366x768px) Image search: [Google]

185KB, 1366x768px

>i have more books than all of you

>>8101541
>meme
this isn't a meme this is my life you bitch