Itt: Bookshelf Thread

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>>9700986
it's trash, i know.

>>9700986
cool. a guy came into my house the other day and i was in my robe and he just looked at my bookshelves for like 10 minutes

>>9701026
did you fuck?

>>9701035
oh that was that time i came in your sisters whore mouth then in your mom and choke slapped her while you watched

>>9701050
i don't have a mother, nor do i have a sister. i am an entity without beginning. in practical terms, did you fuck the guy?

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Top shelf is my to be read pile. Lately I've been reading more modern philosophy, recommendations would be greatly appreciated. Prob need some more rationalist/empiricist lit and whatever else I should read before I get into german idealism, then where to go after kant and hegel. Been reading marx and foucault lately, would like recs for more communist/marxist/postmodern/poststructuralist stuff. Also getting into psychoanalysis/psychology, really like Jung but not so much Freud but I want to read more of him to the extant that he's relevant. Would also like to start reading some eastern thought, I have a general idea of what to read for confucianism, buddhism, hinduism, but if you're knowledgable about that stuff some pointers would be appreciated. Some general modern literature would be nice too, thanks people

>>9701062
>Oxford Shakespeare
Gross

>>9701062
Did you read all those books on your shelves? Looks like most of the spines are in mint condition.

>>9701088
Why does everyone on /lit/ treat their books so poorly? It's not even difficult to have your books look fine after reading them.

>>9701018
seeing this many hardbacks consecutively is physically painful for me for some reason

>>9701062
You definitely have not read at least 3/4 of those.

>>9701080
Which version would you recommend?
>>9701088
95% of the books on my shelf are read. I'm a bit autistic about taking care of my books, though it's not that hard to not crease the spine.

>>9701097
so, you haven't read them. why is this shit so hard for people to admit?

>>9701106
>Which version would you recommend?
I personally generally like to get individual plays from Folger, and I don't necessarily have a recommendation for a complete works.

I just don't like the versions of the texts that Oxford uses in their printings.

>>9701097
>t. includes pamphlets in his goodreads goal

>>9701106
Patrician as fuck. Hats off to you.

>>9701111
I'm sorry that you're physically incapable of reading a book without opening it 270 degrees.

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>>9701129
you're gonna love this.

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>>9700986

Roast me, ledditu

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nggggghhhh

>>9701007
Ayyy, white noise

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>>9700986
Uno

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>>9701146
Dos

>>9701146
>>9701152
Wish the photo quality on these weren't so shitty, but anyways how are those Shelby Foote civil war books? My dad's really into the civil war, got him grant and sherman's memoirs which he really enjoyed and I'm wondering if I should get him these. Also what's that post war book about and how is it? How about to hell and back?

>>9701163
They're wonderful, I consider them the definitive works on the subject.

>>9701062
Well basically the two sides Descartes>Spinoza>Leibniz/Berkeley>Locke>Hume. You can read all their works but you can also just read their most seminal work.
For Freud get The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud. Read his introductory lectures, new introductory lectures, then his case studies, especially Anna O. Then you can read his other stuff like Melancholia and Mourning and whatever I suppose.
For Confucianism read Tao Te Ching and the Annalects. You could read later philosophers but they aren't really that interesting, tbqh imo.
Depending on if you want Theravada (Pali) or Mahayana (Sanskrit), there's different stuff to read. I prefer Mahayana so I'll just rec some from them. There's a lot of Buddhist scripture but you can just read the most famous ones like diamond sutra, heart sutra, lotus sutra.

>>9701139
>>9701143
How is that book? I was just looking at it a few days ago online and thought about getting it.

>>9701170
it's pretty simple. i've been considering slimming my collection down, stuff hasn't been difficult enough to challenge and excite me. unfortunately, that means a lot of books i'd be interested in are rendered worthless. it was a recent revelation. simplicissimus is an interesting book, but it suffers from the curse of quantness. there is also a strange flippancy to the tragedies that occur on a regular basis. for picaresques i would suggest gil blas if you can find a worthwhile version (protip, you can't) or Lazarillo de Tormes.

>>9701184
*quaintness

>>9701146
How did you like Under the Volcano? I read about two thirds of it a few years ago and have thought about finishing it, but I stopped in the first place because I zoned out during a stream of conscious flashback and couldn't remember where I was in the story, so I started something else.

>>9701054
while you watched remember

>>9701215
i watched you fuck the guy? probably. i've seen many things in life. very likely it was either so beautiful that it could not be contained in the imperfect memory that i hold. only leaving the barest traces of shame for being a broken vessel of god, or it was horrifying to the extent that i wept it out, like one flushing a turd.

>>9701224
>>9701215
>>9701054
>>9701050
>>9701035
>/lit/ - Literature

>>9701235
>t. nothing to offer except snide drinks from the cuntina

>>9701192
I haven't read yet, it's up next in my backlog

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And a kindle

>>9701062
>someone with all these mega philosophy tomes and NO commentaries/secondary literature

hmmm

>>9701345
There's a few secondary lit stuff there, and I read plenty others online, but what would you recommend?
>>9701168
Thanks friend, what about the Upanishads and the bhagavad gita? those are the main ones I've heard of

>>9701146
Why isn't Crying Lot next to V?

Would post my shelf but I need to clean up. Also /lit/ would call me a pleb.

>>9701007
why don't people take those stickers off the side when they buy secondhand books?
is it some kind of inverse snobbery?

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>>9700986
Hell ya I know I'm pretty patrician, but I'm autistically obsessed with westerns atm. Top half is to read, bottom half is already read

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>>9701139
>>9701143

>>9701249
Familia, how did you like zen flesh zen bones, I'm thinking about picking it up, I just can't justify buying it New and spending 10$ on it

>>9700986
>ITT circlejerk about our beautiful pretty little books!
The mods should delete these threads on sight. These threads have nothing to do with literature. You are all complete plebs.

>>9701106
any good complete shakespeare (oxford is good and cheap) and individual arden versions of your 5 favorite plays.

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do I fit in yet?

>>9701018
this looks like you bought a couple shelf-fulls of books from a thrift store as you found them. not that that's a bad thing or anything. nice aesthetic.

>>9701026
did you know him?

>>9701062
weirds me out that you're reading kant before hume.

>>9701249
you're missing 1-5 and 10 of nichijou, inexcusable.

>>9701326
are you like 47?

>>9702784
Good lord man why can't you arrange those properly

>>9702724
Depends on what kind of glue the stickers have. Usually, you scratch on a corner and you can tell that way how well it'll come off. Sometimes you just accept that leaving the sticker on is the lesser of two evils.

>>9702822
it's an obscenely inefficient use of space to arrange books horizontally on a shelf in a single rank. I don't know why people do it.

>>9702779
fuck off poorfag you're doing it wrong

bookshelf threads should be like
>i've got that
>that too
>never heard of that tho, i wonder what it's about
>i say anon, kindly give your opinion on that book

>why anon, i do believe that a man of your undoubted fine tastes would appreciate it

>thank you my dear chap, toodle pip!

but instead it's
>waa waa you like what i don't like

also what the fuck is up with the fucking captchas today

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>>9702852
>fuck off poorfag
>what the fuck is up with the fucking captchas today

>>9702845
It's not about efficient, it's about
A E S T H E T I C S

>>9701141
What's Sailor Twain? Is it about Mark Twain?

>>9702784
If you look closely Hume's enquiry concerning human understanding is up there, do you recommend I read anything else by him before moving on?

>>9702779
Why don't you contribute some discussion rather than just complain? I use these threads to get recommendations, and try to give them where I can.

>>9702862
Nah it's about sailor moon

>>9702891
hot

>>9702873
I'd recommend treatise to get the full conceptual context of kant but you're probably fine with enquiry. I very much enjoyed his essays. I hope you take an interest in phenomenology though that's not what hegel was discussing in the modern sense as far as I'm aware(I haven't read any hegel).

>>9702925
I want a fucking paperwhite so goddamn bad.

>>9702927
Then buy one, they aren't expensive

>>9702908
Kant never read the Treatise

>>9702930
100 bucks is expensive. and I still have my kindle 5, so I'd feel bad

>>9701141
>everyman's library
Cool. I have their Aeneid, got from a flea market for a dollar.

>>9702925
This, I used to have tons of books now I don't own a single physical one

>>9703302
That's a big book.

>>9703302
that's a big Shakespeare. mine's bigger though ;)

Are the Robert Fagles translations of Odyssey & Illiad any good? I picked up the Illiad a couple of months back but have been too busy to read it yet

I have all of my shit in an e-reader.

>>9703290
isn't that just conjecture?

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The Martian, milk and honey, blood germs and steel not shown.

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>>9700986
The martian, blood germs and steel, milk and honey not show.

>>9703790
does it not annoy you how needlessly deep the shelves are?

>>9703798
Yeah its annoying. They are short enough so you cant stack any books aesthetically. They are permanent so at least I dont need to buy shelves.

>>9703302
You have pretty great taste. Nice!

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>>9700986
I just had some installed

>>9703759
Funny that you should mention it, but I used to have the Lattimore translations on my shelf before I gave them to a friend last night. I was barely able to get through Book 1 before I gave up, and bought Fagles' version, and it's MUCH easier to read. I highly recommend it.

>>9703302
Just in case if anybody is wondering, the book between The Aeneid and The Inferno is Rolfe Humphries' translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses. That one Aristotle book between Plato and Locke is Politics.

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1/6, most of my non-fiction, loosely organized by topic.

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2/6, African and most of Asian fiction (this and the next shelf picture are shit because they face each other and don't get light)

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3/6, last of Japanese lit, then on to European literature

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4/6, last of French lit (not organized right now since I've been lazy), all of UK and start of American lit

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5/6, American lit, then Latin American lit, tiny bit of Australian, and bottom half is children's books with no organization to them

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6/6, anthologies shelf, double-stacked right now until I get another bookcase

>>9701062
And this is what happens when you mix complete deference to a subpar board of people who pretend to read and to like reading with a dick-stroking tendency towards consumerism.

Look at all those cerebral books in brand new condition. Bet they still smell like new when you open one.

>>9704037
they all look read to me. ironically you're the arrogant faggot.

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>>9701143
>>9701139

>>9704028
nice sidewalk chalk, faggot

>>9704163
I have chalkboard paint on the sides of the bookcases. Right now it's got the alphabet, numbers, some shapes and music notes on it.

>>9702736
I'm having a panic attack looking at how you stack books.

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>>9702784
i barley knew him desu

>>9704655
>two rows deep of books
based.

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>>9704666
ty

>>9704037
haha cerebreal books of the spankingest conditions

>>9704714
I still never figured out if it was my mom when visiting or one of my exes that threw out my copy of rise and fall of the third reich. just realized I didn't own it at some point, never got to read it.

what's in the binders?

>>9704727
Hell’s Angels 149pgs
Myths and Tales from the San Carlos Apache 83pgs
New Atlantis and the Great Instauration, 58pgs
irving shorts, 32pgs
charlie and the chocolate factory, 56pgs
charlie and the great glass elevator, 49pgs
INFINITE JEST, 37pgs
Aleph and Other Stories 83pgs
Labyrinths 106pgs
Tesla, strange life & prodigal genius bio, 182 pgs
Curious Creatures in Zoology 209pgs
Myth of Sisyphus 56pgs
a Clockwork Orange, 61pgs
Alchemist, the, 88pgs
Tarzan of the Apes, 144pgs
Naked Lunch 70pgs
Hatchet 50pgs
Underground City, verne 67 pgs
*******************************************************RED BINDER 2******************************************************************************
Moonchild, 173pgs, diary of a drug fiend, Book of the law
Scandanavian Myths 214pgs
Electric Koolaid test 171pgs
Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? 100pgs
*******************************************************RED BINDER 3******************************************************************************
Folklore of the Menomini Indians volume xiii, part iii 340pgs
Star Gods Of Maya, 191pgs
USMC Breaching Guide, 65pgs
Mao Tse-Tung On Guerilla Warfare, 65pgs
book of five rings, 26pgs
Food of the gods, 103pgs
English at the North Pole, the, verne, 101pgs
*******************************************************RED BINDER 4******************************************************************************
Curse of lono, 85pgs
Solaris, stansilaw, lem 157pgs
verne, Voyages and Adventures of Captain Hatteras, 266 pgs, In the year 2889, 9pgs
dick, Man in the high castle, 70pgs
*******************************************************RED BINDER 5*****************************************************************************
VERNE a Voyage in a Balloon, 11pgs, pearl of lima a true love story 35 pgs, Paris in the Twentieth Century 47 pgs, All Around the Moon, 139pgs, From the Earth to the Moon, 217pgs, Robur the Conqueror 79 pgs, An Antarctic Mystery 131pgs, Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon 164 pgs (verne, the Year 2889, 17pgs)
******************************************************
PHILIP K DICK: selected stories vol 1-4 900pgs?
DAHL, ROALD the complete short stories, 543pgs
dick, UBIK 79pgs, Valis 96pgs
Hindu/Buddhist Myths Nobel, Margaret 234pgs
Celtic Britain, Rhys, John, 175pgs
Waif of the Cynthia, the, verne 63pgs
Musashi 750pgs
Heiko Story 317pgs (Taiko, 718pgs in box)

>>9701143
WHY

>>9704741
So where'd you get all that from?

>>9704741
hahha what.

are a lot of those excerpts or something?

>>9704741
>INFINITE JEST, 37pgs
how the fuck

>>9700986
why don't you people pull the spines of the books forward towards the edge of the shelves? looks much better then.

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>>9704804
Double sided 0.63 em font

>>9704762
>>9704804
excerpts precisely

>>9701062
G R E E K H O M O S E X U A L I T Y

Is is any good anon?

>>9705467
No, turns out they were actually bisexual not homosexual.

>>9703302
Is Alamut any good? I've been meaning to buy it for the last 4 years but never got around to it!

>>9705467
pretty goodm very academic

>>9704804
he tore out all the trash and left the good pages

>>9701026
>he just looked at my bookshelves for like 10 minutes
is that what the kids are calling it these days?

>>9701026
RARE marquis de sade

>>9705870
yeah

>>9705533
yeah, really enjoyed it. Thought provoking.

>>9704010
Nice shelves.

I'm curious, why do you have things like Homer's works and Beowulf as non fiction? They are very historically significant, but fiction nonetheless.

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My bookshelves are too unorganized and filled with all kinds of stuff, so here are all the books I've read in the past year instead.

>>9705467
just read Plato's Symposium mate

>>9706083
Huh, Penguin Classics Of Mice and Men? That's odd. I thought 20th century works were all Penguin Modern Classics. Just looks so weird seeing Steinbeck in black and orange

>>9701062
Why not read some actual contemporary philosophy instead of the equivalent of creation myths?

>>9706231
such as? the last philosopher I feel advanced the field in any interesting way was heidegger's work with phenomenology. contemporary philosophers seem to be either philosophical historians or shoulder-parrots of political agendas without fail.

>>9705977
there was still a reasonable amount of ley lines present on the surface of the earth at the times that these stories were written, they are historical accounts interpreted as fictional stories in our current non-magical world. the collapse of ys into the brittanic sea submerged the last anchor to the magical world, and the ley lines won't be restored until we unearth the city and reposition the black pearl in the sky.

>>9706269
Well first you'd need to get out of the red wine and cigarettes in a cafe -continental mindset. Some suggestions:
John Mackie, Richard Joyce, Tyler Burge, Saul Kripke, James Ladyman, David Chalmers, Nick Bostrom, Graham Priest, JC Beall, all are/were great and very big in their own areas. Bayesian epistemology is huge nowadays but doesn't really have "superstars" in the front like in say moral realism/error theory debates do.

The reason the field doesn't seem to "advance" as much these days is that we basically have the general contours of the universe already in the bag, now it's just a matter of getting the fine details right and trying to stop people from entertaining dead ends like moral realism, theism and idealism.

>>9706298
your baseless insult followed by an uninformed dichotomic view of what "continental" means within the context of philosophy have dissolved your authority in my mind, as well as the two philosophers you've listed I have read on makes me skeptical that any of them at all have advanced the field. burge makes a living off of redefining phenomenological concepts from the last one hundred fifty years into a different linguistic framework. bostrom is precisely one of the shoulder parrots I was mentioning. surely you can elaborate on a contribution made by one of these namedrops? they aren't just representatives, are they?

>>9705885
I'll have to buy it then. The hardcover is pretty appealing. Thanks anon

>>9706231
I'm fascinated by creation myths, and ancient philosophy in general. The fact that over 2000 years of philosophy the basic questions remained the same is a testament to the importance of ancient thought.