Post ur shelves

do you live in the south hemisphere?

>3264x2448
>Australian side up
fucking why

>>8669603
Why would you glue your books to the shelf

>>8669603
I fucking hate you OP.

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one of my shelves

>>8671056
Based Russian literature.

>>8671056
Digging your Joyce collection senpai

>>8671422
Why do you have a portrait of Putin on top of your shelf?

>>8671427
friend gave it to me as a christmas present in 2008

>>8671056
Digging your grave, senpai.

>>8671429
Putin rocks

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90% bought used

>>8669603
>>8671056
>>8671422
>>8671477
>no anime shit
/lit/ is improving

>>8671056
The Barnes and Noble classics have such nice aesthetic.

>>8669603
>completely upside down

i hope you die retard, fuck you.

>>8671438
>psychopath, political scum
>rocks

>>8669603
"Malleus Malefcarum"

Rock on, Bro. Fuck witches. I didn't know they made a nice edition of that.

>>8669603
Are you a spider?

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Overexposed the top left a bit, alphabetical until Roth, then random inserts wherever was space.
Top right and side is non-fiction and Dutch/English overflow.
The floor is Photo/Design/Art.

>>8671945
Cheeky Zettels Traum there.

>>8669603
Nice shelf op, i like how concentrated the subject matter is. have you read all those?

>>8671502
they are they worst. also cheaply made

>>8672359
>Complete Case Files
Good choice, citizen.

>>8671945

Nice eclectic mix of pleb Murakami, core-lit and obscure lit.

Any more design stuff?

>>8671056
The least shit /lit/ shelf I have ever seen

>>8672359
I can't understand how someone could have such shit taste.

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>>8671508

I'm going to need a new shelf soon. Books are piling up around the house.

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>>8674243
Forgot the damn pic. Should've had a coffee.

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>>8674201
davai davai tovarisch! do not believe the western jewish lies, Putin is your friend!

>>8671477

i have that naked lunch represent my man

>>8674245

An avid scifi fan.

We'd be friends.

I've read A Scanner Darkly, Androids, and a few of his short stories. What PKD should I read next?

Also, how's that giant exegesis? What does the text look to accomplish?

>>8674414
Not him, but Valis is best

>>8674414
I like UBIK most. I havent gotten into the exegesis yet but as i understand it, it's insane ramblings of PKD. This is the first book. There's thousands more pages left to be transcribed.

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what do i need

>>8674691
cringy =

>>8674691
Emma. as i lay dying. Life on the mississippi. 1984. I dunno. It's a pretty nice collection.

>>8674201
Good work comrade! 10 rubles have been deposited to your account.

>>8674691
You need to remove the lowest right corner

>>8671477
This has a really cool optical illusion if you stare at the middle of the picture and scroll down slowly

>>8674740
is it the anime?
I have more unpictured figures up top

>>8674753
Trying to avoid buying more anglo/american work now, but I'll get 1984 soon.

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>>8674127
What's wrong with Judge Dredd?

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some of my coffeetable books

>>8674691
Akutagawa, Soseki, Tanizaki and Kawabata.

>>8675175
>Criterion designs

I appreciate you

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>>8671959
So big.
>>8673952
Yes.

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my shelves

>>8675667
seem solid, just be sure you got some bookends.

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>>8669603
booksasdecorations.jpg

>>8669603
cant but i made my own, to hold my vinyl as well. did it with my pop pop before his heart attack and quick fall into parkinsons. its a solid and heavy shelf. ill have to post if this thread stays up for long.

>>8675913
Do you have any good resources for making your own bookshelves?

Seeing my hardcover books on bending IKEA particleboard shelves is really disheartening.

>>8674691
>Holy Bible
>Brothers K.
>Kuroneko
How can one anon be so based?

>>8671945

P-please be in Amsterdam

>>8671477
Can you post a pic of an open page of War and Peace?

I want to see the font size and translation/writing style.

Also, did you like Oblomov?

>>8671945
Why do you own so many coffee table books?

>>8677260
My Little Sister Can't Be This Based!

>>8674789
nice

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My library

>>8671056
Got the same Poo book, high five

>>8677546
Any closer pics of what's on the shelves?

>>8677546
Gross.

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>>8669603
Sorry lads.

>>8677613
>implying there is anything wrong with owning a copy of Mein Kampf
Not that anon btw

>>8675640
fuck, codex seraphinianus. Why did you bought it?

>>8671041
>>8671041
>>8671041
>>8671041
>>8671041

>>8675640
You study both architecture and medicine? What the fuck?

>>8677845
Why would you not buy it?

>>8674691
>Mein Kampf

My nigga

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Shitty uni hall furniture reporting in

>>8675640
>That first edition s,m,l,xl

Impressive.

>>8677848
:-)

>>8677929
another cheeky zettels traum

>>8677929
fuckin hell what is that top right shelf?

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>>8675175
>Websters

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>>8677300
I am, want me to read Hermans to you?
>>8677346
The publishing penis of designers, architects and photographers is not measured in literary quality but simply by the size of their book. It's near impossible to find smaller sized work that is decent.
>>8677845
I've had it since I was a little kid.
>>8677849
Just medicine, architecture/design is an interest.
>>8678150
It's Koolhaas' seminal work and deserves to be read, too bad the form factor prohibits that.


And the French section in the hallway to finish.

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Let me ask this here instead of starting a new thread

What's the point of dust jackets?
>uncomfortable to read with
>look ugly in the shelf
>tear and break easily
Is there any reason not to throw them away as soon as I buy the book?

>>8678916

>I am, want me to read Hermans to you?

I don't know. Are you qt?

>>8671056
What's the bottom left Dostoevsky book?

>>8678920
>uncomfortable to read it
take it off then
>look ugly in the shelf
no
>tear and break easily
not if you're careful
>Is there any reason not to throw them away as soon as I buy the book?
no

>>8678920
I take them off when i read books which have them, but i think they look nice on a shelve, or the book doesn't have its name on it.

>>8677835
hi neil gaiman

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I've got a couple dozen more since this picture, since I found a really nice bookstore nearby that just stocks independent press books, and mostly only presses that do translated works. I'm hoping they pick up Wakefield Press on my suggestion.

>>8679456
How many of these have you read? No h8 just curious

>>8679775
all of them?

>>8679775
About 2/3. The past year I've been buying a lot more of the ones I initially read as library check-outs.

>>8677343
Can't help with war and peace right now. It's a Maude's translation. I haven't read it yet.

Oblomov is one of my favorite books of all time. I highly recommend Marian Schwartz' translation

>>8679804
cool, what are your favorites?

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>>8679859
I actually don't even own all my favorites yet, but, some:

>The Master of Go
>The Summer Book
>In Watermelon Sugar
>Kornel Esti
>The Blind Owl
>Pedro Paramo
>On the Marble Cliffs
>Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio
>Adventures of the Ingenious Alfanui
>Log of the S.S. the Mrs. Unguentine

>>8679804

t. Hoarder.

So in other words your bookshelf is just a sink hole for money.

What is /lit/'s opinion on having multiple copies of the same book? Like I found a nice leatherbound bible from the 60's printed in England with a Royal seal inside, but I plan on getting a much more ornate copy in the future. Also have some books in paperback and hardcover that I found hardcovers of randomly after reading paperback.

>>8680229
Donate the paperback to library when you get the hardcover. I don't know, usually when I get another copy, it's a superior edition with annotations, bigger font, better paper, prettier cover, stuff like that.

>>8680201
Why do you say so? For the ratio of read:unread, or because I've been buying ones I've already read before?

>>8677546
now my stephen kings are within reaching distance in my home depot display house with chairs that look shit

>>8679456
A lovely and inviting collection, anon. Very impressive.

>>8673952
>Judge Dredd
>shit

THE SENTENCE IS IMMEDIATE TERMINATION, CREEP!

>>8671056
10/10 would marry

>>8678131
>annotated Ulysses

pleb

>>8681383
wake me up (wake me up inside)
i cant wake up (wake me up inside)

save me

>>8681032
Why?
Don't tell me you understand every single reference in the book because I won't believe you

>>8680868

Wrong anon mate.

>>8680302
Guess part of me is a hoarder, another likes having the copy I've already read, plus I can read the paperback or w/e and not worry so much about damaging it when I'm out reading somewhere

>>8672404
oh so decorate your house with folio mr moneybags

>>8675902
so hammer some tortillas to your walls with nails you retard. please tell me your arbitration on acceptable decor?

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Here's what's sitting next to my bed.

>>8674789
Looks best scrolling up around Crime and Punishment

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>>8683648

your books as so close to falling over pls stop this madness and stack them properly the world shouldn't have to burn just because you want it to

>>8671477
>>8671945
>>8674245
>>8679456
>>8683648
>Pristine copy of Infinite Jest that has obviously not been and never will be read
every time

>>8684422
I got mine as a gift from a /lit/ anon.

>>8681383
>school days
Hey look, a dead rat. Looks like we have mystery to solve.

>>8684422
My copy has been read, it just doesn't show much wear since it's a hardback and therefore only read at home since my academically atrophied arms couldn't carry such a load.

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>>8684422
I see your copy of Infinite Jest and raise you TWO copies of Infinite Jest

>>8684422
Now im going to read the damn thing just to spite you.

>>8671182
>>8671371
>>8671491
>>8671502
>>8680916
cheers!
>>8677565
too many people sleep on Pooh. I have a similar Thomas the Tank Engine volume around the house haha
>>8678985
It's Joseph Frank's Biography of Dostoevsky. Definitely the best one out there and features good analysis of his books.

>>8678916
Looks like the bookshelves in my grandmothers house. Nice decrepit aesthetic.

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My bookshelf! Rate it loves~

>>8685141
beautiful

>>8681632
How dare you imply I lack the intelligence and academic stature to read Ulysses casually

>>8684422
Most of the time camera quality and lighting are inadequate to capture creasing

>>8685761
The more I see booktubers posted, the more I start to think they have some kind of disorder. Narcissism maybe?

>>8685849
>Narcissism maybe?

They have a lot in common with /lit/ then.

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About 1/4 of my books

>>8685849
Narcissism or loneliness. But since they are mostly women I'd say narcissism.

>>8686098
It's always women and gay men.

>>8685969

Really glad to see that you have more Dostoevsky than just The Brothers K. Which of his works have you enjoyed and disliked the most?

>>8685969
Has the Van Doren Shakespeare? I read the description a few days ago and was thinking of picking it up

>>8686126
I've liked them all. My favorite is the karamazov brothers followed closely by c&p and notes. The idiot was my least favorite of his major novels, but was still great.
The gambler was my least favorite of anything of his I've read. It was a decent story but it didn't have the same intensity of his other books and you can tell he was rushed to write it.

>>8686144

Right on. The Idiot seems to be very polarizing among frequent readers of his. For his big four the only one I disliked was Demons, but even with that one I'm excited to re-read it and hope that I just didn't read it correctly the first time. What is it about Dostoevsky that you like?

>>8686133
Meant to say How is

>>8686133
All the essays I've read are good and have interesting perspectives. Some are better than others. Apparently it is good if you read them all in order, like a book, to understand how Shakespeare progressed. I haven't done this yet though.

>>8685969
reading lolita was the most enjoyable experience i've had simply reading and yet extremely challenging

>>8686150
Demons is his least accessibile imo. If you don't understand the political atmosphere of Russia at that time it could be difficult to understand whats going on.
I like the big scandal scenes that are built up between all the characters. And I like that the characters all have to live their philosophy to the fullest extent and act on it. When they can't reconcile their philosophy to reality or overcome contradictions in it, it tears them apart.
The psychology is fascinating too.

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Dorm shelf

>>8686172
Read Ada, I've read 6 of his novels so far and it is easily my favorite.

>>8671056
You were two books away from having a Joyce only cube, nice shelf though. (I have the same cube thing at home)

>>8671422
V nice, what do you think of Murakami? Never read him and I don't want to disregard his work just because tumblr likes him.

>>8671945
would be friends with irl/10, what are your favorites?

>>8677929
lot of good Italian lit, missing Invisible Cities from your Calvinos though. Also I haven't seen Zettel's Traum fit on anyone's shelf yet.

>>8671056
>all those unfinished books

>>8686288
nah I've read 80/90%. Some of them like anna karenina/tbk/w&p/magic mountain are new because the old copies were worn out or I wanted a diff translation

>>8674691
To my Legionaries

>>8686181

I agree that Demons is his least accessible because of how political it is. Even with knowing the political atmosphere of Russia during that time I had trouble with it, though. My main gripe was that the characters didn't seem very fleshed out, unlike so many characters in his three other major novels. It felt like too little time was spent with Stavrogin and all the others that you don't really get an intimate look at them like you would, say, Raskolnikov, Ivan, or Myshkin. What do you think of this gripe?

>>8677546
I'm more impressed by the rosemary outside.

>>8686504
Yeah you don't get much about Stavrogin, especially with one of his major chapters removed. I thought he was supposed to be a bit mysterious though. Maybe the characterization wasn't as important since the story was based more on politics than internal struggle (not that there isn't internal struggle).

>>8677835
Look at how the bottom shelf is tilted. That should be standard everywhere, it's perfect.

>>8675175
>America's Great Delis
>The Gentlemen's Clubs of London

Those sound nice, perfect thing to have on a coffee table.

>>8686302
I think he means the bookmarks in the middle of the books

>>8686504
the russian names game me trouble, plus I have a shit translation that would straight up cut parts out, I found it all very hard to follow and the characters fairly hollow as well, and its not like I haven't read Russian books translated before without issue.

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one of my shelves, the only one that's mostly organized

Others are just complete messes filled with junk, academic shit, and magazines and sacks of shit books my aunt will leave me to sort through

>>8684706
I do like the TV cover edition, and I do like the deckled edges.

>>8686749
>Maybe the characterization wasn't as important since the story was based more on politics than internal struggle (not that there isn't internal struggle).

Agreed, this is likely the case, and is probably also why I didn't care for the book when I read it. In general I read for the psychology of characters (which is why I love Dostoevsky so much), but with that being less important in Demons I just couldn't enjoy it too much. It felt fragmented; I can't remember the characters' names, but the first guy we meet, Trofimovich, or whatever his name is, is introduced for quite a while and then is suddenly a secondary character in the story. Stavrogin makes his appearance only sporadically (even if you read the censored Tikhon chapter), and Trofimovich's son(?) doesn't give us much time inside his mind and also seems to show up sporadically.

>>8686783

What translation did you have? I read mine translated by Garnett and didn't really have any problems with it, if I recall correctly.

>>8685761
>those books
Seriously why bother? Why do women do this?

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>>8672359
>POP vinyl figurines

>>8669603
I nail my books to the top of the shelve too.

>>8686240
best in thread, despite two Gravity's Rainbows and being tryhard

>>8686240
>Artificial Eye: Angelopoulos collection

You loyal
I appreciate you

>>8669603
uhhh why is gravity upside-down...

>>8686789
What type of stone/mineral is that egg?

>>8687014
I know right. It's also got fucking MARGINS, so you can actually annotate it. 10/10 for academic use

>>8686240
universal baseball association is the best

>>8687350
Someone at my school wanted to read it so I had my mom ship me my copies from home so I could reread along side him.

>>8687371
I gotta get the other two sets, this one has best stuff though (imo).

>>8687764
Have you read any other Coover? Where should I go from here?

>>8687560
It's a fossil of a fish

>>8686789
I can barely read most of the titles
What kind of shot camera is this?

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Just got this new case yesterday, 1/2

>>8688604
wow looks so nice and strong :3

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>>8688604
2/2

>>8688605
It is I reinforced it ;)

>>8674691
>James Joyce
>Fyodor Dostoevsky
>Anton Chekov
>Chinese comic books
Lulwut

>>8688548
it's my shitty phone camera and I took it at night
I can try to take a better pic latter

>>8688496
>Have you read any other Coover? Where should I go from here?

Origin of the Brunists is good but compared to everything else he's written (except maybe the sequel) it's very straightforward. Not much of the metafiction stuff he got into later.

If you were going to just read one more it should be The Public Burning. It and Universal Baseball Association are all-time classics. I've read a couple of his other novels and they didn't come close to those two.

You should be able to find some of his recent stories online at the New Yorker. Taken as a whole his stories are better than his novels.

>>8689316
Thanks for this, I will look for The Public Burning when I go into town this weekend.

>>8686240
how much did that Tunnel run you? why is Dalkey so based?

>>8690771
$10 on abebooks, dalkey is always excellent, never disapointed with their books. I am just waiting for them to push out more Mcelroy.

>>8688608
>Pristine copy of Infinite Jest.

EVERY FUCKING TIME.

>>8691258

top of that book seems a bit banged up. he might be a careful reader who watches his spines.

it's an average book anyway who cares.

>>8674691
Too many fucking meme books

I swear lit is only reading like 10-20 meme books all over.

>>8691729
I don't even own most of the meme books. I've got like two Pynchon, no Gaddis, no McElroy, the only Wallace I own is IJ. In general I don't read much American literature at all.

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just some books sitting around

>>8691258
I've read IJ plenty of times, but I gave away my old copy to a friend as a going away present

>>8692057
Infinite Meme: The shelf

>>8686240
>would be friends with irl/10, what are your favorites?

In no particular order: Lolita, Voyage au bout de la nuit, Infinite meme, A Book of Memories and 2666.

Nice shelf, there's little but what's there is high quality.
How is the Recognitions?
I've been waiting for my copy for four months now....

>>8685202
Probably because I got them all from the Bouquinistes in Paris.

>>8669603
Yo how are the books floating?

>>8692881

>>8671041

>>8692057
Missin' Meme Central By Mr. T Vollman There.

>>8687269
>singular of shelves is shelve

>>8692012
Doomsday prepper?

>>8692057

>Pomo is now illegal the police have made their first big bust

>>8674127
>wahhh he likes things i dont wahhh
kys

>>8686165
>fish oil
what are you 60?

>>8693169
Could also just be pregnant.

>>8686240
>Guide to North American Butterflies
Nice, anon. I appreciate uni students who get /out/. Also obviously patrish fiction.

>>8693148
I'd usually agree but that poster's taste is legitimately terrible.

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1/5

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2/5

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Big meme shelf 3/5

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4/5

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Trying hard 5/5

>>8693687
Get Hampton's book and some Chinese/Russian academy figure drawing books.

>>8693831
Noted. Why are the chinese and russians better though?

>>8693694
>>8693708
are you a maths major? some nice maths books.

>>8693708
looks unbearably dry and dense

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How the fuck are you guys managing this? I can't seem to take an in-focus glare-free photo of my shelves to save my life, plus every single file ends up being over 4gb and still looks like shit

>>8693911
Move the table lamp behind you and turn it upwards.

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>>8693916
good suggestion. still looks pretty abysmal to me though, and at this rate I'd need to post like 5 or 6 different pictures.

>>8693925
All dat John Hawkes.

Mein neggar.

>>8693925
>puts all the big books on one shelf
>piece of shit bends
Get your shit together man.

>>8693708
>Thomas Hobbes - Leviathan
Have you read it yet? How is it?

>>8694094
No but ill be starting it next week actually
>>8693884
Most things worth knowing are
>>8693858
Projective major, yes

>>8694071
just something my parents and grandparents used to do with their books, dont know why they did it. I find it looks at lot better than when the big ones are jutting up awkwardly. I should probably get better shelves

>>8694565
sorry i was a little harsh there, been in a bad mood for the past few years.

why don't people just alphabetize their books? maybe divide by genre. i don't understand why this isn't common place.

>>8693849
They just are if you look at them. Mostly anything European is good and tends to be far away from the degenerate modernist movement. Russian academic has always been great and Chinese are getting a lot of attention nowadays.

>>8671056
>bottom right
>tales of Winnie the Pooh

B A S E D

>>8694622
I agree, besides the top shelf thing I do think it's crazy not to alphabetize by author. Then again it's easier to file away new books if you don't have a rigid system

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>>8669603
illuminati symbol????