post your /lit/ studies

>>9710498
nice

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>>9710498

I got none

>>9710498
you have too many game of thrones type books

how old are you?

>>9710498
holy fuck i've never seen somebody fall for so many 4chan memes before in my life.

wow
just wow.

>>9710587
I'm a 22 year old graphic designer.

>>9710498

>infinite jest
>neutral milk hotel

how does it feel to go through life as a living meme?

>>9710498
I fucked a slag named Amy on a table that looks just like that...

>>9710498
Certainly heading in the right direction. This looks just about right from where youre coming from. Looks nice. Keep it up.

>t. oldfag

>>9710498
Holy meme

>>9710498
This is bait, right? Please tell me this is bait.

>>9710591
and you're writing your dissertation on Nietzsche?

So, did you send him your introduction and conclusion? and did it help tie the overall argument together?

I'm torn between a desire to post and laugh at OP and a worry that if I do post I will contribute to the thread bumping and staying here longer and increasing the chance that someone will prank or dox OP.

Normally I laugh at this stuff but to a fellow /Litizen? Then again, there was an awful lot of YA fiction on that shelf...

>>9710498
What's it like never having a single original thought?

>>9710668
Ever hear of a sage?

The only thing worse that the book "selection" is the os. Sort yourself out, OP.

>>9710641

Nietzsche was well known for his thoughts on Photoshop

>>9710594

The whole of /lit/ is a fucking meme

>>9710681
sage doesnt work on /lit/

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>Nottingham Trent
Absolutely pathetic, there is only one university in Nottingham worth going to

bump to see actual studies and computer/desk setups.

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>>9712062

>>9712951
>buying a book on classical music

Master degree in philosophy

>>9713324
what is the point of this comment

>>9710498
That reminds me of my office in graduate school. Good times.

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>>9710498
I finally found the guy behind the "too intelligent too lift" meme

>>9710498
wew

>>9711556
yes it does, you're just broken.

>>9710498
Why do you have records sitting on your books?

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i spend most of my time drinking coffee in a sleeping bag

>>9713538
>sugar
>pasta sauce
what

>>9712951
what books are all those

>>9713749
I also sleep in a sleeping bag. I just drift from rented room to rented room, staying for a few months before moving on with two bags or so of possessions. My life is a mess.

>>9713766

I wish I had few possessions, but I can't bring myself to get rid of anything. It all seems essential.

>>9713749
>>9713766
how do you sleep with women if you only have a sleeping bag?

wait...could it be...no, nobody could be that pathetic...

>>9710589
So much this, it's embarrassing.

>>9710498
pleb tier even for a sheep shagger

https://warosu.org/lit/thread/9197476
it's bait

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>>9713823
Looks like the original OP deleted the image when he realised his name was visible in it. I don't think this is him, this guy graduated the year before. May be some sort of personal army request.

>stacking your books vertically

I fucking hate you.

>>9713762
Anatomy of melancholy, complete montaigne, finance/option volatility book, plutarch's lives vol 1., complete euripides in 2 vol, kjv bible, norton anthology of poetry, complete Shelley, two histories of France (seven ages of paris/la belle france)

>>9713538
you're an alcoholic

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Sup

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>>9715290
Two years ago

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Too comfy to get up and take a decent photo, so here's a panorama.

>>9715290
hello, anão

>>9715554
#vapenation

>>9710498
How did you overcome the overwhelming shame of having such a pile of trash literature on your desk? Posting a picture of it on 4chan must have been very difficult for you. Or perhaps you thought that "reading" Nietzsche absolves you of your sins.

>>9713538
is that lamp sitting in the pringles can?

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Rate my 'home for the summer' thrift store and garage sale exclusive library.
in the back:
Solzhenitsyn TGA hardcover / Cancer ward
hobbit/lotr
Camus literary and critical essays / sysiphus
from emperor to citizen
totalitarian dictatorship and autocracy
nazi culture
john chilton Jazz

>>9715418
Can't even read the titles in his library.

>>9715418
country and what job?

>>9713538
there's a lamp in your pringles, bruh

>>9710498
>ready player one

>>9716011
Didn't think this was a shelf thread. And besides, I was in my comfy reading chair with the dog on my lap and (as I said) I didn't feel like getting up.
>>9716027
USA (Happy Birthday USA!), and work as a mid-to-high level (depending on the day I guess) bureaucrat for a large city.

>>9710589
I never understood why this was an insult

>>9710498
>two copies of a storm of swords

>>9716201
I would still love to see your shelves sometimes. Think you could post them later?

>>9712951
that classical music book in your pic got me interested. what do you think about it?

fuck off, sam hall

>>9715418
Honestly dude, goals.

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>>9710498

>>9716740
Sure, I'll take pics and post them tomorrow afternoon.

>>9710498
hows the humidity
>>9717232
lol how do you know sam xD

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spot the memes edition

>>9717431
>stoner
>apple products
Did I spot them all?

>>9717463
you have missed two memes

>>9717469
I give up. Is that a mighty wallet?

>>9717471
It is a mighty wallet but I wasn't counting that as a meme.
Book on the printer is Gravity's Rainbow and I've got an anime figure also on my desk.

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>>9717477
I wasn't counting it as a meme either. Just a question. I've had pic related for over a decade now and really haven't seen anyone else with a mighty wallet. Do people ask about yours a lot as well?

>>9716908
I actually picked it up after seeing it in a bookshelf thread here, and having it recommended by the anon who posted it. I'm just barely into it, but so far it's perfect for what I want. Chronological order, pretty short biographical blurbs, brief historical background of a few major works (e.g., the section on Handel described the setting and performance of his "water music") with a longer list of honorable mentions at the end of each composer's section.

It's basically a whole book of music recommendations. Definitely worth it if you're a classical music pleb like me who hasn't heard of many of these composers, let alone their relatively minor works. I've been listening to Handel daily for a few weeks, at least listening once to every recommended piece, and have been enjoying it a lot. Maybe this betrays how pleb I am, but I had never heard of Oratorios before and am really liking the Handel ones I've heard so far, which I likely would never have found without this book.

>>9710498
Sad!

Disappointed in lack of actual studies being posted.

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>>9718960
what constitutes a real study?

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>>9717398
>>9716740

OK, got around to shelf pictures. I have a mix of decent books and absolute trash, as you'll see.

1 - History and Bigraphy (and some misc stuff)

>>9721021
post faster.

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>>9721021
2 - Fiction, Politics, Philosophy, etc/misc.

(Also, my illiteracy is showing, having misspelled 'biography' in my previous post)

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>>9721027
3 - Other books I'm currently reading, plan to read, or have read but need to find shelf space for.

Probably have another 150-200 books in other rooms in the house too, which I'll get to.

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>>9721030
4 - Moving on to living room. Generally older books (probably a third of these are Victorian children's literature, which my wife is into)

Next picture is going to be embarrassing. You'll see why soon.

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>>9721044
5 - The shameful shelf of plastileather Barnes and Noble. I had a few of these, and then friends thought I was 'collecting them' and started bringing them as house gifts when they came to visit or stay, so it's grown into this gaudy shelf.

Can't really get rid of them, because guests would come back and go 'where did those B&N books go?' and then I'd need to tell them we got rid of their gifts.

It's unfortunate and tacky, but it is what it is. The ones that aren't in translation at least make for decent reading copies.

And that's it, absent a dozen or so books just sitting around elsewhere in the house, and a bunch of books in my wife's home office that are mostly trade books/not literature.

>>9721021
Pretty impressive modern history section; that's quite rare, as I think lit leans very heavy to fiction. Which of Churchill's works would you recommend starting with? I'm currently about halfway through Shirer's "third reich" and have had my eye on Churchill for the near future, but am not sure if it would be better to read his autobio, his wwii history, or maybe even something else.

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>>9721030

I didn't really get Meditations in an Emergency. Most of the poems didn't even rhyme.

>>9721126

It depends on on what types of history you're looking to read about. I think his books "Malakand Field Force" and "The River War" are very approachable (Of those, I prefer "River War," but really all of his works are approachable; he was always writing for a wide middle-brow audience), though they might be of more limited historical interest. I think my favorite of his histories was the "History of the English Speaking Peoples."

He's a relatively engaging writer, although he is by no means an academic historian.

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>>9710498
>shit's not organized, or even on makeshift shelves
lazy tier.

>>9715418
>pith helmet next to the classical war histories
good job anon. i like your style.

>>9713538
you are making prison wine in a ziploc bag somewhere off camera.

>>9712951
>pellegrino by the case
i bet you don't own a computer

>>9715290
>>9715313
clean your rooms

>>9715554
that loveseat by the window looks comfy as fuuuuck. 10/10 would read there.

>>9715934
>Rate my 'home for the summer'
0/10. this is not a study. read your books.

>>9717385
i cast magic missile

>>9717431
>apple
i like your pencils.

>>9719265
a place of comfort, quiet, and privacy where one may leisurely consume a book (and

imagine a stuffy English accent narrating the words to you). your pic counts.

>>9721054
gorgeous, 1980s live on. refill the water pitcher in the fridge my man, and pour yourself a paper cup.


Pic related is mine. 5'x5' of cozy floor space. Cushion needs a re-fluff.

>>9721057

You're a good friend anon.

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>>9721129
To be quite honest, of the non-rhyming poetry books in that picture I prefer James Wright's. "Two Hangovers" is brilliant. Obvious, but brilliant. And a wonderful retort to the saccharine image to the left.

I do still enjoy O'Hara, though.

>>9721141
Thanks very much for the recommendations; will look into "history of the english speaking peoples."

>>9721145
>i bet you don't own a computer
The corner of my laptop is visible in the bottom of the photo

Read the beginning of The Girl I Left Behind by Shusaku Endo to get a good idea of my living area.

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>>9721197
Happy to make the recommendations, anon. Hope you find value in whatever you end up choosing to read.

FWIW, I also buy pellegrino by the case.

>>9721207
Where do you get them and how much are they?

>>9721231
Trader Joe's. $22.35 USD per case.

>>9721235
Hmm I wonder if the have the at costco. Thanks lad.

>>9721207
Nice, that's the way to go, but try to get them from costco if you can; I think I spend $15 a case, as little as $12 when on sale.

>>9717431

>ass coaster

>>9721057
Can someone explain to me the stigma against these plasticleather barnes and noble books? Sure I see that they seem rather tacky, but is there any other reason?

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>>9721288

They look tacky and pseuds buy them and put them on their shelves and pretend to be learned, when they're really buying shit translations and star wars novelisations.

>>9721057
Just checked back into this thread. Love your collection. Would love to also talk to you and discuss a number of things anon.

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>>9717431
>mfw I thought that printer was a VCR

>>9721288
Their showoffy.

>>9721129
>most of the poems didn't even rhyme
When will this meme end...

>>9721461
Always happy to talk anon. Going to bed pretty soon, but if I don't respond immediately, I'll be back tomorrow.

>>9721470
How long and how often have you posted on /lit/? I'm pretty sure I remember your shelves/collection of books.

I've been listening to stuff I can find from Kagan and think I could use some guidance.

>>9721470
PS. What is your educational background and what are you doing currently?

>>9721508
Been posting on /lit/ on and off for about 4 or 5 years or so. Before that, /g/, /b/, and (as ashamed as I am to admit it) /v/.

Kagan is quite good (especially "The Outbreak of the Peloponnsian War" which is really a seminal work), and he has a fair amount of material that was written for the lay-reader as well (I have his "Peloponnesian War" on my shelf as a kind of short-hand for his thought on the period). Nothing beats Thucydides, but as far as modern scholarship goes, Kagan is pretty tremendous (though also rather unpopular today due to being a founding member of the neoconservative movement).

In terms of his works, I would start with either the general "Peloponnesian War," or go a different route and listen to lectures from a student of his, Ken Harl, who has done a number of decent courses for the Teaching Company (the most relevant here being http://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/peloponnesian-war.html [wait for it to go on sale, or pirate it], although his actual area of professional scholarship is in Byzantine history).

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>>9717431
nice pencil holder chuck full of unused pencils, you fucking pretender.

You're also keeping 2 boxes from apple products on ur desk? You are waste, making an imitation of a human

>>9721509
I did my undergrad at UCLA in political science, with a concentration in political theory and history. Went straight into the workforce after that, so I don't actually have any graduate education, short of TA'ing a few classes back when I was an undergrad for favorite professors along with other graduate students.

As I said before, I work for a large US city as a mid-to-high level bureaucrat (I give policy and budget advice to elected officials). Would say more, but with 4chan's reputation as being the armpit of the Internet (especially given /pol/'s role in the recent US Presidential election; things have changed since back in the days before 4chan broke off from somethingawful) I'm a bit wary of saying much more.

>>9721528
If you aren't too old you should go back for graduate studies. Anyways looking forward to seeing more of your posts. Wish I could think of a cool nickname to brand you with and distinguish you from the rest of /lit/, the unwashed masses.

>>9721533

Ideally I'd like to go back and get a doctorate, but it's tough to give up a well paying job to do so (especially with a wife, mortgage, good job that I enjoy, etc; there would be substantial changes to my overall quality of life if I were to go back to school, even though [in theory, anyways] my wife is supportive of the idea).

We'll see though; you never know where you'll ultimately end up.

lol @ op trying to be hip with his shitty meme vinyls meanwhile he got a ton of awful genre fic, a dfw, and a ghetto windows laptop

>>9721522
the iPhone holder holds my iphone when it's charging, the iPod holder holds my iPod when it's charging.
I hope that isn't so egregious that it qualifies me as apart from the human race.
But you've drunk the coolaid, you care little about the functionality of products but rather about the imagined status they will give you. Maybe you think "one day I'll download all those games I can only play on a Windows computer". Of course, in your heart of hearts you know you will never download anything of the sort, you merely hang on to the thought (appreciation) that you have the "right" product on which to display 4chan.
My rebuttal: ANY PRODUCT CAN DISPLAY 4CHAN. Just because a famous sociopath made mine doesn't make you any less indistinguishable than me to the public. (women)
(I'm not triggered)

>>9721549
westwood swipe me in

>>9721563
>>9721522
personally i keep my apple boxes because it greatly increases the resale value when you eventually upgrade, unlike android products which are basically disposable because they stop getting updates about after a year or two and just become covered in security holes

>>9721563
if you have an iphone wtf u need an ipod for tho?

>>9710587
“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”

-Faulkner

>>9721021
Nice to see medieval history there

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>>9721021

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Reading outside = best reading.

>>9721522
Hear, hear! There's nothing more offensive than someone who doesn't use all their pencils fast enough.

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Comfy summer's day in the countryside

>>9721934
Looks great. Hard to see the book titles; looks like they're German?

>>9722089
the blue books are the collected works of karl and freddy in german, the rest are mostly german and russian

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im new, and a dislike physical books

>>9722144
gay as fuck LOO00lll

>>9710498

Alex?

>>9722144
Pfff.. Get a load of this fag.

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>>9710498
>Nottingham Trent

>>9721549
Any ideas what you'd do your doctorate in?

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>>9722144

>>9710498
>genre fiction
>nauseating musical taste
Neck yourself brainlet.

>>9712951
>no one has noticed the pregnancy test yet
kek

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>>9724780

>>9721158
>It's

0/10. Wouldn't trust fall.

>>9722144
I'm genuinely curious as to why you bought that computer. They're very expensive and don't have much utility, so what made you buy it?

>>9721918
That looks delightful. I bet you've had many a relaxing hour reading there in the sunlight.

>>9721934
i'd love to see a picture of the books

any recs for a comfy reading chair?

>>9725787
Make one that suits you.

>>9721129
Who is this qt?

>>9721145
You live in a trailer.

>>9726202
Lena Meyer-Landrut

>>9723925
Ideally it would be in something with a classical bent (ancient to medieval history, some types of philosophy, or something akin to that; I guess the classics is a broad enough area), but I also don't know that there's really very much new to say on those subjects, so finding a dissertation topic would be difficult. Maybe something about the practical day-to-day effects of political structures of antiquity could combine things I'm interested in with things I have experience in.

I don't know, though; if I do go back to academia, it'll probably be either after I somehow manage to fall into money, or when I'm in some kind of retirement; the upper-middle-class lifestyle I have right now is nice and I don't envy the lives of graduate students. As it is I can already read a ton, and academics whose work interests me are usually easy enough to get a hold of and talk with.

>>9724800
kek. Didn't even see the it's. It's a shitty platitude anyways, so the misuse of 'it's' is apropos.

>>9726817
Just do it already. Don't wait until you get to much older. You have years of interesting scholarship ahead of you man!

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>>9725787

>>9721610
To be fair this was probably the only way faulkner could get people to read his books.

>>9725787
If you can afford it, an Ekornes lounger is hard to beat in terms of comfort. If not, Ikea's Strandmon chair and ottoman are a pretty good set, with decent comfort and style.

thread theme

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3ue1JPFXEU

>>9727985
Thanks for this really chill studying music.

>>9726817
Can't wait to hear back from you again Kagan-Kun. Hopefully there will be a few posters to keep the thread alive while I am asleep.

>>9721934
>coke zero
Fatass detected.

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Why am I always late to the party?

>>9728766
Wow it looks low key but amazing. Can I get a link to that lamp. I might want a few other things there but I'm not sure yet.

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>>9728763
>>9728763
"I have never seen a thin person drinking a Diet Coke" - President Donald J. Trump

>>9728766
The fuck kind of cell phone is that?

>>9728766
What kind of stuff do you write?

>>9728783
A calculator?

>>9728776
http://m.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/art/80146777/
I found mine off the street, but here's the same one from IKEA.

>>9728783
It's a calculator.

>>9728788
I've got nothing published; my oeuvre is just a mishmash of short stories and random articles that I'm practicing with.

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>>9728780

>>9728805
>Linking me to the IKEA page instead of the same product on Amazon.
Any recommendation on light bulbs? I'm looking for something softer that isn't too harsh. I always seem to have a bad problem with my light bulbs putting out to much heat, which makes myself uncomfortable in such an environment.

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>>9710498
Hi Sam, hope your dissertation's going well! Man, Prof. O'Connor's great isn't he!

>>9728766
Could I maybe get a list of books sometime when you get a chance?

>>9728846
What is his dissertation on? I can't see very well.

>>9728859
Philosophical Investigations of Nietzsche's Death of God: From morality, to metaphysics to religion

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>>9728864
Pretty sure I've see this guy around a lot. No wonder he doesn't have his dissertation done after 7 years. He is busy making new threads on here about the dissertation half of the time.

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>>9710498
>ready player one

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>>9710498

>>9728842
I just removed the bulb in my lamp, and it says that it's a 2700K; it's the lowest degree on the spectrum.

At times, even 2700K is a bit too harsh, so I sometimes articulate the head of the lamp so that it bounces the light off my cream-colored walls.

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>>9728894
Insert joke about the autism spectrum as well as the reason why your walls are cream-colored

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>>9728850
I don't own very many books. I use my library card quite often.

>>9728904
EU journalist?

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>>9728850
There's a few more, but the rest is just a bunch of coffee table-esque non-fiction books, Murakamis, and beat-up B&N economic editions.

>>9728906
I'd like to be, but for now, I'm just writing articles for practice.

>>9728909
>I'd like to be
Why?

>>9726828
Using "apropos" as a substitute for "appropriate" is a worse mistake than it/it's. At least the it/it's mistake might be a typo.

>>9728907
Would you recommend any French readers?

I really like digesting a lot of relatively straightforward prose in an interesting subject to pump up my vocabulary, but most readers I've found have been literary fiction excerpts or short stories.

I'd kill for a good series of side-by-side English-French readers of relatively straightforward prose works.

>>9728766
Is there any non-pseud reason to use a typewriter? Not trying to be a dick, just genuinely wondering.

>>9728909

>2017
>Literally wanting to write tomorrow's fish and chip paper

>>9729137
Fun.

>>9728820
>conveniently leaving out the follow-up tweet: "coca cola is not happy with me, but thats ok- ill still keep drinking that garbage"

also hes rich/pres ur not

>>9721888
reading ouside= best faggot,What will you read,anon?

>>9728891
Garbage human ,get a real job faggot

>>9729137
I prefer it for first draft writing. Makes revisions a lot easier for me.

>>9722144
killyourself plis anon be a hero

>>9710498

a cursed image

>>9710498
You know that someone is a pseud if they can't access all of their books easily.

>>9729393
Desert Fathers, I Am a Cat, and the Nausicaa manga.

>>9722144
whoa he's so cool and minimalistic.. damn... truly has class.. look at that laptop case..damn..

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>>9729137
I rewrite my first drafts with them, so that I can find grammatical errors. I also use them to type out study guides for my ethics and French courses, and I noticed that I actually retained a lot more of the information by doing so.

You can argue that I could just use pencil and paper instead for those reasons that I just listed, but typewriters are just fun.

>>9724892
Not that anon but I have a MacBook and I'll never separate from it. It's my favourite thing in the world. I have had so many laptops in the past but nothing beats this. Plus, and I'm afraid to be shallow, the Apple style is very aesthetically pleasing and clean.

>>9728968
This website is a good place to start. I'm not sure where you are on the proficiency ladder, but I guarantee you that you'll find something on there to learn from.

Have you also tried reading French translations of books that you've already read before, originally in English? I read a few of the Harry Potter novels in French, and it taught me quite a lot of simple dialogue. If you want something a bit more challenging, you can try reading L'étranger; something a bit easier would be Le petit prince.

https://www.readinga-z.com/worldlanguages/french/leveled-books/

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>>9728820
Donald might not realistic enough to call himself obese but I'm sure he wouldn't refer to himself as thin.

>>9729283
>>9729408
>>9729674
Cool, sounds fun, I had a typewriter as a kid I liked banging around on but hadn't really considered its actual uses. Self-limitations often produce the best work.

>>9723548
>Being an elitist faggot
Fuck off you brain-dead drone

>>9715290
>Gina

Brazilian faggot.

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>>9710498
>Being able to afford ikea furnuture.

>>9730652
>Drumpf hat
Im interested in what books you read. Tell.

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>>9731013
>Drumpf

sage

>>9710498
how often do those records fall over

>>9730652
>totem thingy
>trump

>>9721057
How what kind of percentage of the books on the shelves you have posted do you think you have read?

If you dont think it would derail the thread what are your religious beliefs and which books were the most important in influence that

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>>9731715
too lazy for physical books, i must've read hundreds of these pdf's

>>9731787
not meant for >>9731715

>>9729406
wait till i get my 55 inch hdr tv too

>>9710498
>ITAOTS

You blithering fairy.

>>9721563
>not installing steam through wine

>>9731838
Sounds like you are compensating for something there.

>>9721934
What's that statue next to the picture of Mary and Jesus supposed to be?

>>9729944
YO I JUST BOUGHT AND RECEIVED THAT BAKHTIN WHADDUP

>>9710498
>lou "hack" reed

>>9731715
I'd estimate that I've read ~80% of them in their entirety, and most of the remainder at least partially.

>>9721888
what tent is this? looks like the basic tarptent but the wrong color. what brand/did you make it?

>>9717431
wait till the day your monitor wont start up. then you realize you dont have all your files backed up on an external fat partition and you're fucked.
you're fucked.

>>9721021
You kept your Gibbon collection in good shape. I kinda fucked up the paint on the spine of my copy of volume 1. Didn't realize that just sweat would take that shit right off.

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>>9733243
That happened to my copy of Dante's "Divine Comedy," and consequently I've been more careful with other everyman books I have.

>>9733004
It's a trekkertent stealth 1. This is the 40D outer but they do a 30D one as well. It's a small Scottish company. I think it might even just be one guy. I have been trying to get in touch with them for a while as they make a cool looking beaked tarp. I've never made my own gear but I'd love to try it, I have a "dream tarp" in my imagination.

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I keep most of my books boxed up since I don't have a real bookshelf

>>9721888
isn't it annoying with all the mosquitoes and the flies and the ticks?

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>>9728955
Well, what do you know? I've often seen and used 'apropos' as a predicate adjective meaning appropriate (as in the third definition on the attached image, which is what google provides).

But in looking at the definitions of 'apropos' in both the OED and in Merriam-Webster, that use isn't shown anywhere. Thanks for the correction anon; I guess I've been using 'apropos' incorrectly (though perhaps idiomatically) for a while now.

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>>9734028
Not at all. If the mosquitoes or midges are bad I wear a head net. Actually at this site I was using the bug net for the tent. Normally I don't like in this pic.

Bumping for Kagan-Kun's return.

>>9728490
>>9734861
Not sure what you're waiting for, anon, unless you had some particular question or topic?

>>9715934
Hey importantquestion, what books have like the "back for summer"-plot. Like students (or Highschool students) visiting their small town over the vacation, meeting and maybe a murder happens or they just recall memories.

Thanks alot. Prefer the US

>>9735184
Nothing in particular, just interested in you.

>>9721027
>multi-volume OED
patrician

>>9721570
Not him but I use an ipod for listening to music and reading books so I don't run down the battery on my iphone.

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>>9710498
embarrassing, you are the embodiment of a nu-male redditor

>>9733206
I have two external harddrives on my desk. All my shit is back up famalam
>>9721570
I have a large music library, my ipod classic can still hold it all, so I use it for that

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Part of the library.

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>>9726208
you're just jealous of my lifestyle

>>9712951
based burton

>>9736317
What translation is that Harvard Classics Plato?

>>9736348
Benjamin Jowett.

>>9736289
Can I see everything you've got?

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>>9736423
That would take a long time, and you'd probably hate half of them. This is out of date, but shows the upstairs (Patrician) library and the downstairs (Plebeian) den.

>>9736462
Then just show the good half we'd like that is Patrician?

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>>9736482
Oh, the titles are mostly a joke: upstairs/Pat library has literature, children's lit, classics, philosophy, myth, medieval, lit studies, biographies, most non-fiction, poetry, Pre-Raphaelite, book studies/print culture, art books, photo books, and music (and whatever I could squeeze up top), with too many horizontal double-rows in front.
Downstairs/Pleb den has genre fiction (horror, fantasy, SF, mystery), humor, graphic novels and related comic stuff, and miscellaneous.
I've posted pics before. Some day I'll update them again, but it's late.

>>9736462
What's under the glass in the butterfly case?

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>>9736551
The white thing? That's actually the coffee table in the library: it has a slide-out drawer for display, and I keep some samples of old fine printing or hand-written manuscripts in it. Here's the 16th-century hymnal page.

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>>9736582
So beautiful. You win all shelf threads forever.

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>>9736662
Thanks, anon. Here's the rest of the pages before I crash: a couple of 17th-century German engravings.

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A page from Kelmscott Press's Golden Legend.

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and facing from the Doves Press Paradise Lost.

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My newest rarity is a copy of Browning's The Ring and the Book gifted to a young socialite by Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt. It was before Teddy became President, so her calling card is very plain.

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The recipient, Lorna Mallinson, later killed herself. I'll post her bookplate in a second. Mrs. R had a nice custom vellum "Kelmscott style" binding done with a hand-written spine and ribbons before giving her friend the book.

>>9713749

I've been thinking about changing out my bed for a mat and a sleeping bag. I have a queen size bed that needs replacing and I thought the aforementioned would be a fun adventure after remembering campouts with the scouts. Good way to save space too.

I also won't be molested this time around.

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Here's Lorna's bookplate. I love finding books with some history.

>>9736687
god fucking damn it why is the alignment on this print so goddamn perfect, it is heavenly desu

>>9736683
this is actually depressing. factory work in the 1600s. my ancestors have been slaves to capitalism for centuries, wew.

>>9736730
that ink JESUS

>>9728783
go to high school, anon, damn

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Anyway, must go. Night, all.

>>9732386
clearly an NEET african lady with a piss bucket on top of her head

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>>9736734
Yep. When William Morris decides to create books equal to the first incunabula, he doesn't screw around. I love touching Kelmscott pages.

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>>9736317
>Columbo
My man.

>>9736334
:)

Just finished partition 2 last night, looking forward to the love melancholy chapter in partition 3 so I can cry about tfw no gf through Burton's fun prose

>>9736860
what euripides is that you have?

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>>9736882
4 vol chicago press greek tragedy box set, pic related except one of the two euripides volumes is on my desk and I don't feel like going to my shelf to replace it for the pic

>>9736890
cool, i've only seen the paperbacks. i dig your style.

>>9736901
Thanks! Worth getting the box if you can; mine was only $40 and I've seen 2-3 similar ones in used bookstores for about the same. Much cheaper than buying the plays individually, especially if you're gonna read them all.

>>9710498
Haha so many memes

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A few classics (no nice box set of the plays, though).

>>9710589
>ITOATS
>George R.R Martin
>Nietzsche
>Ready Player One
>Infinite Jest
Those are the ones I spotted.

Bump for more studies and book libraries.

>>9710642
waiting for an answer on this one lol

>>9728899
Got him there.

>>9735996
How sweet you two.

>>9736536
It's not late now sir.

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am i /lit/ ?

>>9740281
bro ur hairs falling out

>>9740326
just fuck my shit up dude

>>9740281
You don't own a wine glass? They're like .50 cents at the thrift store.

>>9740349
im not at my own house

>>9740281
I have that same notebook.

>>9740356
then how is this "your study"

F minus. You'll shoot your eye out kid.

>>9736462
>Istilllivewithmyparents(1).jpng

>>9721145
>>9736317
>live in trailer
>Y-y-you're j-just jealous, psued!
Please kill yourself. You're a disgrace to everyone on this board.

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Has anyone tried copying their favorite books by hand?

I read it somewhere that it could improve your writing, Jack London did it, and also Stevenson.

I feel very calm when I'm doing it, its a shame my handwriting is such a mess.

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>>9740436
another pic

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>>9740430
>implying kys-posting is not the most disgraceful thing a person can do

just be quiet, friend.

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>>9710498

my study is restricted to my computer

>>9737636
Дa зaeбaл yжe co cвoим Хaйдeггepoм

>>9740436
it's seems autistic, and i like it

>>9740436
>>9740443
yes, but i do it on scrap paper, not my nice notebooks. also is that a house phone? lmao

>>9740602
I like your reading desk anon.

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>>9740418
Heh. No, I have my own house, family, doctorate, and teach as an adjunct. My thesis was on Morris: pic related.

>>9740887
>iliketolieontheinternetstodefendmynonexistentego.pnif

K

>>9740468
i like your studies/topic

>>9740887
>Morris:
>>9741214
Post thesis and we'll buy it.

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>>9741233
My thesis is already online (like everyone else's, these days), but I don't feel like quite that much exposure here. I've published a few articles/book chapters as well, but my life isn't so glamorous that I would bother lying about it. I'm just an adjunct, after all. I'm here trying to create a syllabus tonight for some fall courses, but I won't be getting a paycheque until the middle of September. I'm not overly concerned about whether anyone believes me (though you'd think the fact I own a metric ton of books specifically about Morris and the Pre-Raphaelites, as well as sample pages from old presses, might convince skeptics). I come around here when I get bored, and then leave for a few months when it gets too irritating.
But, here's my thesis copies printed out and ready to submit (unbound copies for all the readers and my supervisor, a bound copy for my reference during defense) and some celebratory booze. That was a few years ago now.

>>9721934
Coke with nice furniture living off daddies money huh?

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Most of my Norton editions.

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>>9741453

mirin

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>>9741453
>roughing it in the bush

>>9741507
I'm waiting for Norton to publish a critical edition of Marian Engel's Bear someday, with expert supplementary material about the history of bear-human sex and the asymmetry of their testicles.

>>9721054
i really love that touch of plant

>>9730652
>MAGA hat
>WiWi
I thought STEM at first but this also very strongly fits into the stereotype together with most of your books

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; )

>>9724785
I hope that isn't your only fountain pen. Nothing wrong with the Kakuno, but it's babby's first fountain pen

>>9743064
hipster faggot

>>9743064
who's the fag in the eyepatch? nick fury?

>>9743114
Hipster is a compliment

>>9743070
I only buy kakunos because I read and write a lot in coffee shops and have already lost a few fountain pens. No big deal when they're $10; I don't need the worry of a $500+ pen being left on my table whenever I get up. Writes well enough for my awful handwriting. Maybe if my script were attractive, I'd want a similarly attractive pen.

Someone make a new thread and link it here? This has been great /lit/.

>>9743183
I realize I probably came off as rude in my first post, so apologies.

I'm speaking from the perspective of having used fountain pens exclusively for all writing/note taking for years now and what I've used was mostly cheap "entry-tier" stuff. What I recommend is the pen I first fell in love with using, the Lamy Safari. After two years of using it daily it was so blissfully smooth.... Unfortunately, I've been unable to locate it for quite a while. If you ever feel like treating yourself to a slightly more expensive pen, I would recommend a medium nibbed Safari.

Not to mention that I believe a nicer pen would encourage working on your handwriting to live up to the instrument you use.

>>9743070
>/lit/

>>9710589
ITAOTS is a good album though