Bookshelf Thread

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>>9238319
I thought mine was bad but your shit is terrible.

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It's getting there 1/3

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>>9238545
2

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>>9238552
>missing
Inherent Vice
Watchmen
The Pale King
Confederacy of Dunces
The Instructions

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Field guides, spanish, ethics, poetry, and my gf's novels

>>9238537
Hey, it's guy-who-got-two-extra-Moby-Dick's-shipped-to-him-by-mistake. I remember you.

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>>9238707
Learning, stoics, some philosophy I've never read, and some travel and nature writing.

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>>9238707
Notebooks, natural history, geology, some nutrition, and climate books.

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>>9238707
Novels and short stories. Far left unread, middle is short stories (like half of these are read maybe), right side is finished books.

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>>9238707
Textbooks, art books, and fitness books.

>>9238559
I was gonna dog ya for all the starter pack and meme trillogy stuff, but most of those books are great. Also Grapes of Wrath is still the best book I have ever read. Some good shit on that shelf my dude.

>>9238707
>>9238716
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>>9238739
holy fuck this i reddit incarnated

>>9238766
Is it?

>>9238537
i habe dat bibble :DDDDD

>>9238319
>Manga
>calling it books

>>9238537

Clive Barker was such a promising genre author but the latter half of his career has been a continuously burning dumpster fire.

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this is a bit outdated but there's always some other brasil bros out there

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1/3

>>9238799
I've only read Books of Blood vol. 3 is that past his prime or before? Because it has some good moments, but also a lot of duds.

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>>9238811
2/3

Sideways, deal with it

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>>9238803

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>>9238818
3/3

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>>9238829
Bonus shitty mass markets and leftovers. Have added a few books to the shelf and kicked others off on the past few days, but don't have a newer picture

>>9238732

duuuude good taste

>>9238827
What edition of Oblomov is that? I'm having trouble finding a copy/translation of the book that I trust.

>>9238836
I hide all my genre fiction in my closet, you're a braver man then I.

>>9238537
>>9238795
Is this bible better or worse than Harper Collins?

>>9238836
>two copies of Gravity's Rainbow

what? do you think you're better than me??

>>9239051
There's another on my shelf. Bought one, found out it had errors and went out and bought another since I was halfway through it, then emailed Penguin and got then to send me a new Deluxe edition.

>>9239073
acceptable explanation
you win this round, you bastard

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>>9238836
>Rothfuss
>Jordan
>Sanderson

>>9239073
Wow, how did you word that email?

>heeey penguin? This book you published is WRONG and I'm MAD and VERY UPSET and I will no longer trust your publications AND I'm going to leave SO MANY bad reviews all over the Internet

Or what?

>>9238836
Which fantasy books would u recommend for a beginner?

>>9239120
Exactly like that, actually.

>>9239120
Honestly, though, I just told them I would like the corrected edition, which was printed like 6 months later. I'm not autistic and I'm not afraid of human interaction. If you're a paying customer and you're not a complete dick, you'll get what you want. Good life lesson for you, kid.

>>9239177
Read only Malazan, then move on to adult literature. Thank me later.

>>9238841
Anything in my to-read pile I should read soon?

>>9238811
>>9238818
I think you need more doorstoppers.

>>9239272

i recommend these before the rest (in chronological order)

Chekhov Stories
Kafka Stories
The Sun Also Rises
Under the Volcano
Labyrinths
Salinger Stories
Donald Barthelme
The Crying of Lot 49
The Box Man
Calvino
Phillip K Dick
White Noise
The Elementary Particles
My Struggle book 2 (if book 1 is good somebody let me know)

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>>9238319
>supporting Tokyopop

>>9239272
Moby-Dick

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>>9238319
Here's mine. Was was barely able to fit my whole collection in one picture. Thousands of books....

>>9238545
>Gnomes
when i was a kid i was loopy about that book

>>9239313
of those the only ones I haven't read are:
Under the Volcano
Barthelme
My Struggle Book 2

So I guess I will start in on Under the Volcano soon :) I've been really wanting too for a while.

And Book 1 is pretty good it's really long-winded, but it's pretty comfy and kind of flies by.

>>9239323
I started it and dropped halfway through when the semester started. I do want to go back and read it but I want an edition with bigger print.

>>9239399
how do you even read that shake pear

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>>9239399
Love the faust
marlowe's dr. faustus is worth a read if you havent.

>>9239311
Just picked up Life and Fate, Being and Time, and Dhalgren, so my next picture should please you.

>>9239405
It's tough. I mostly use it for studying or deep reads.

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>>9239468

Ignore the top left; I found them outside a dumpster and rescued them.

>>9238712
Thanks?

>>9239018
Dunno, never read the harper Collins

>>9238799
I haven't read it yet. But i loved undying so much when i saw this for a couple bucks i went for it. Lets hope his "essential" writing was from his early career.

>>9238844
By Cosac Naif, translated by Rubens Figueiredo, I don't think there's another portuguese translation, but even if there is, Cosac's translations are reliable as far as I know, and you can probably buy the book cheap since they went bankrupt last year and Amazon br has been having a perpetual sale of their stuff.

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this + iphone is my "bookshelf"

>>9238559
is inherent vice a good start on pynchon?

>>9239667
Yes. Understand, thought, that it isn't at all like his 3 masterpieces. It's a fun book, though, and the best of Pynchon-lite. Most people will tell you The Crying of Lot 49, but honestly that's my least favorite Pynchon besides Bleeding Edge.

>>9239671
I disagree. I think Against the Day is the best entryway to Pynchon.

>>9239726
I love Against the Day, and think it's his most accessible long novel, but I have to disagree. AtD felt like Pynchon trying to pack all of his themes and philosophy into one last epic adventure novel. I don't know that I would have liked it so much if I hadn't read GR and M&D first.

>>9239774
AtD was the first book of his I read, so I'm partial to it.

>>9239799
Fair enough, though how does that translate into it being the best to start with for everyone? I didn't start with Inherent Vice, but believe it is a good introduction to his work.

>>9239808
I think that "Wild West" elements of AtD, especially with the Traverses' setting, will remind a new Pynchon reader of John Steinbeck's works. Reading those chapters of AtG called to mind The Grapes of Wrath and, strangely enough, The Red Pony.

>>9239826
That makes sense. Realistically you could start anywhere, but if you start with GR expect it to be demanding. I thought I had "worked up" to it, but it still kicked my ass at times.

>>9240008
I haven't started GR yet, but I will after I'm done with Ellis' Glamorama.

>>9240008
Nothing will really prepare you for GR. It's best to just jump in cold and research along the way.

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occult mysticism is fun af

>>9240081
How do you research it?

>>9238803
>>9238827
Meu camarada, você tem ótimos livros. Fiquei geleia.

Você já leu aquele "Grécia Clássica"? Se sim, poderia falar um pouco sobre o que achou? E outra, essa editora Vozes é de Portugal?

>>9240220
Opa, Verbo, editora Verbo.

>>9238319
>kare kano
a true patrician
>zatch bell
even from a young age!

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>>9239399
You disappointed me with the following shots. I was thinking, wow this anon is like Lincoln with only the GOOD stuff, but it was only a part of your collection. Sad shit.

>>9240233
Ainda não li nenhum livro dessa coleção, mas eu estudei artes plásticas, e uma tia que também estudou achou esses livros e me deu, e eu estou desde o ano passado numa "desintoxicação" artística porque eu simplesmente não consigo ler sobre o assunto mais e preciso voltar a fazê-lo pro mestrado (e sim, a editora é portuguesa).

Se você se interessa por história da arte e é um completo iniciante, eu recomendo A História da Arte do Gombrich (tem uma edição de bolso bem barata, se não me engano comprei por 45 reais). Se você não é um completo iniciante, ignore a recomendação e vá atrás das coisas da Contraponto, em particular A Imagem Sobrevivente do Didi-Hubermann

>>9240220
(Esqueci de dizer mas a editora Vozes, do Brasil, apesar de ser basicamente literatura católica tem o catálogo GOAT de filosofia, as traduções do alemão em particular são sensacionais, e muito pouca gente sabe disso)

>>9240306
Obrigado pela dica, anão. Mas na verdade eu me interesso é pelos Gregos e pelos Romanos (sim, caí no meme).

Pros últimos eu desejo ler a obra prima do Gibbon, mas não queria fazê-lo antes de conhecer melhor os Gregos, e sobre eles eu não consigo encontrar uma obra compreensiva, em português, e de preferência que eu pudesse comprar usada (quero o livro físico, para eBooks eu até já encontrei algumas). Infelizmente, comprar dos usuais sites estrangeiros não é opção válida pra mim, visto que eles não chegam.

>>9240322
Outra boa dica. Valeu, anão.

>>9240341
Olha, enquanto não tenho nenhuma obra específica, tem 2 professores - um da UFMG e um da USP - cujos textos e palestras que vi (por acidente, diga-se de passagem) são muito bons, profs. Jacyntho Brandão (UFMG) e Donaldo Schwartz (USP, coincidentemente ele também é o tradutor do Finnegans Wake pra portugues)

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>>9239088
Exactly what i was thinking. Bloody hell, where's the essential Mein Kampf?

>>9238319
Is that Kero from that anime and manga with the weird card monsters that was not YuGiOh?

I still haven't found the boxes I packed all my books into, so I won't post a new photo of my pathetic bookcase. I'm still the druid that moved out of mom's basement.

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>>9239177
Read Lord of the Rings first. The book is a chic magnet.

>>9240347
Imagino que você pensou em Donaldo Schuler, certo?

Ambos tem vídeos no YouTube, principalmente o Donaldo. Vou assistir a alguns deles.

Mais uma vez agradeço. Um abraço, anão.

>>9240375
Excuse me, this is an English sub cartoon website. Provide a translation at the bottom before posting.

>>9240008
GR is the only pynchon i've read. It was one of the first books I read when I got back into 'serious' reading of fiction, and I didn't find it that troublesome. it left a good enough impression that id like to get to M&D eventually, but that's about as much interest as I have in the guy.

>>9240081
Why? Research on a re-read, just experience it the first time. I don't feel like I missed anything doing that. I looked a few things up after the book but there was nothing particularly eye-opening, just some factoids that made me think 'huh. neat.'

>>9240192
Don't bother imo. Just look up characters if you forget who they are. Their names are so memorable that you probably won't have to.

>>9240389
We're either plotting to turn north-america into our new country or discussing brazilian works about greek antiquity

>>9238803
Satantango e antologia do Bioy.
Parabéns, anão. Bons livros.
Já leu o tratado da magia do Giordano Bruno? É bem interessante.

>>9240648
Não mas como você sabe que eu tenho ainteresse (casual) em magia

>>9240352
i like you.

>>9240694
Foi um tiro no escuro influenciado pelos teus Viveiros de Castro, Peter Lamborn Wilson e Kurt Vonnegut. Me pareceu lógico.

>>9238827
Aliás, qual teu Pynchon preferido?

>>9239177
The Blade Itself trilogy
actually it might be more fun if you read some more classic fantasy like lotr and the like first, Abercrombie messes with the tropes of the genre.

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Hopefully the photos aren't too small. I didn't want to obnoxiously post multiple times to get them all. I have slow learner and a few Harold Bloom books lent to friends.

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>>9242294
>Unread copy of Infinite Jest.

>>9242306
I think The Idiot is also in mint condition. Eesh.

>>9242222
>>9242252
Justo partir pelo Lamborn Wilson, mas eu não pensaria nos outros dois como autores misticos ou coisa do tipo.

O ranking (considerando que mesmo o Bleeding Edge, que é um trabalho mais fraco na minha opinião, merece um 7,5/8, Pynchon no pior ainda limpa o chão com outros autores):
M&D > GR = V. > TCoL49 = IV = V > BE

>>9242331
Por isso disse que foi um tiro no escuro. Acho que o Viveiros disperta uma apreciação pelo xamânico e ocultista. O Vonnegut só estende, na minha opinião, a imaginação num sentido quase espiritual.

Sua ordem dos Pynchon é muito parecida com a minha. Onde está o seu Contra o Dia? A minha ficaria assim:

CoD > M&D > GR = V. > TCol49 > V = BE > IV

>>9242306
>>9242312
Yes, there are unread and moderately read books on my shelf. What a surprise!

>>9242439
HERETIC!!! Burn him on the cross.

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I'll post my bookshelf in a bit, but check out my recent purchases.

>>9242438
Pulei o AtD mas acho que entre M&D e GR/V., talvez até empatado com o M&D considerando que além de ser um livro do meu autor favorito, eu amo a familia Traverse como se fosse a minha própria familia - eu inclusive agradeci ao Kieselguhr Kid no meu memorial de graduação

Don't know if this is the place to ask, but I'm gonna ask anyway, I bought a hard cover book and it came with this paper cover, should I just throw it away?

>>9242474
Hahaha, que ótimo isso.
Leu o ruído branco do DeLillo? Vi que vc tem ele ali. Gosto muito.

>>9242496
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_jacket

>>9242505
Li, mas eu não me dou muito bem com o Delilo, colocaria tanto ele quanto Submundo no mesmo 'lugar' que Paul Auster: Se não são autores ruins, claramente não estão preocupados com as mesmas coisas que eu.

Will, é você bicho?

>>9242587
Entendo. Não sei quem é Will.

>>9242439
I pointed it out because you own so many DFW books, including a DFW Reader. It does make sense to own them all without reading his only important work.

>>9242638
>implying he has only one important book
Based off the other books on my shelf, I'm sure you can observe that I don't read everything because it's "important" on /lit/.

>>9242306
For Sale: Infinite Jest, never read.

>>9242456
Let me guess, $1 each at the library sale.

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>>9240180
i have the perenneal philosophy and secret teachings >>9240352
But i am not familiar with the middle two

>>9238766
>Foucault
>Pynchon
>Borges
>Calvino
>Nabokov
>Kafka
>Barthelme
>Lowry
>Houellebecq
>Melville

I'm okay with reddit incarnated, desu.

>>9238319
>tfw poorfag
I c-can't afford books... ;_;

>>9242683
lol

>>9242687
I wish. all of them from amazon, three kingdoms was pricey, the rest were fairly cheap

>>9242766
this painter has dopest museum ever
i strongly recommend it

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>>9242294
>a shorter finnegans wake

>>9238319
So many unfinished manga series. So many random volumes of titles just thrown in there. Can't even weeb right? REE K Y S

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>>9245274
2/2

>>9239416

jealous of that copy of Cathedral, you son of a bitch

>>9245278
lmao

>>9238803
Lmao, this faggot shops at booksamillion

>>9239605

Don't like the correct book format?

>>9245480

who wrote it?

>>9239336
I can tell you didnt read your copy of Infinite Jest

>>9245278
I dare say your /co/efficient is too high, maybe you'd be better off there