Shelf Thread

>>9798127
Based on your shelf and your humor, I recommend John Green.

>>9798137
Based on your thread and your pic, I recommend reddit.

>>9798149
You'd probably really like Harry Potter, since you're derivative and not as clever as you think.

>>9798114
OP post your actual bookshelf or delete the thread for lack of premise.

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>>9798172
1/5

>>9798164
Harry Potter was original as fuck.

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>>9798179
2/5

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>>9798197
3/5

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>>9798219
4/5

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>>9798235
5/5

I recommend Harry Potter's book.

>>9798179
>Literally every single one of those books is unread.

Wow, what a massive waste of money.

>INB4 i'm very careful when I read my books XD.

>>9798179
>shelves full of unread lit memes
only books that show signs of wear are the fantasy books

amazing.

>>9798326
>>9798339
Such bullies, many wows.

>>9798326
>>9798339
I've read around 60% of those books. If you can name which ones I have and which I haven't, I will send you any 3 books you want from any picture I posted. I keep my books in the best condition I can, and if any are fucked up, it's because they're used from goodwill. There's not a single book on those shelves that I read and did damage to, except Against the Day, which I dropped.

>>9798384
Surely you haven't even touched Kenny.

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>>9798384
Don't give them the (You)s, OP. It's what they want. Unread book trolls are the fucking worst and laziest of /lit/. They're just jealous they don't have money to buy books and have to copy pirated shit onto their ereader. Pic related, a book which just arrived in the mail today from Amazon.

>>9798405
I've never heard of that one, I'll have to check it out.

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Hello, /lit/.

>>9798384
Not the original poster, but your 2/5, bottom shelf.

>>9798659
Wrong

>>9798659
What I meant is that if books in good condition must be unread, then you and others should be able to point out, with ease, exactly which ones.

>>9798669
I meant the Ulysses stack, on my phone. Whoops

>>9798678
You dont have to tell me, my books are all pristine too.

>>9798246
never seen the full ML proust on a shelf together, very cool

>>9798678
Are you Nathan Gaddis?
Nice Steven Moore, do you have any nice lists from his back pages?

>>9798384
You haven't read The Tunnel, Novel Explosives, Magic Mountain, A Smuggler's Bible, The Cannibal, J R, Or The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

I want your First Edition Gravity's Rainbow, your copy of Women and Men, and I guess that copy of Einstein's Beets, for lols.

>>9798405
as someone who uses /lit/ surely you know that the term 'pirate' is an incorrect term to use.

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>>9798649
Dude weed

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>>9798795
>American flag
>chessboard

>>9798179
are you a girl?

>>9798885
they don't like people not standing for the american flag and dont like obama?

>>9798771
Wrong. God you guys are worthless.

>>9798746
No, but I talk to him occasionally.

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>>9798795
>collects books explicitly because they're pretty
>owns fedoratier barnes and noble hardback classic collection
>stores his liquor above his books
>keeps empty liquor bottles around as mementos like a peasant would

at least your taste in alcohol is good

>>9798246
Great books but I get the feeling there's some real trash just out of frame. Also those are the exact books I'd pick if I wanted to describe the book collection of an insufferable knowitall cunt. (I'd also gladly take them all into my collection because I am one too)

I'm also glad you're a great husband!

>>9798197
How is The Nix? Due to the increased gentrification of my neighbourhood there's now several "book exchanges" operating in a fairly small area (if you don't know the concept, it's fairly self explanatory, but see a book, take a book, leave a book of your own for someone to do the same) and I passed by a cabinet with that in it. I sort of regret not just flat out stealing it to be honest.

Also, I like those shelves, where did you get them?

>>9799639
The other side of the wooden shelf is my wife's, and yes it's mostly middlebrow trash and veterinary textbooks. I am absolutely insufferable, so no worries.

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>>9798246

Nice copy of Gibbon, I saw the same one in a used book store for $75, but this 3 volume set was only $20.

This is basically my summer reading shelf, planning on starting Macaulay's history next.

>>9798326
(You)

>>9800104
I almost bought that set, it looks nice. I've been lucky the past few months, making more than I've ever made by working two jobs. I obviously buy much faster than I read, though, so I think it's time to slow down.

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1/1

>>9800362
>swastika
What are you, some sort of neon nazi? What book is it by the way?

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2/2

>>9800371
Rise and fall of the third reich

>>9800386
Any good?

>>9800362
I recommend buying another bookshelf off Craigslist

>>9800389
Havent read it yet.
>>9800412
They are shit bookshelves but serve the purpose. I will be doing some built-ins soon and they will go away.

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>>9800362
>Dante's Inferno
Why do people insist on not reading the full Comedy

>>9800493
I don't know why people bother reading the Divine Comedy in English. It's like reading Chaucer in Italian. Fucking stupid.

>>9798179
What are those 3 books on the top of your shelf?

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>>9800328
>I obviously buy much faster than I read, though, so I think it's time to slow down.
iktfb

>>9799633
That's rude, there are no Barnes and nobles books, only 2 bottles are empty. Please take it back.

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>>9798114
yo

my captcha describes my shelf really well

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>>9801967
but here it is

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>>9798114
I don't even know what I'm doing desu

>>9801971

How did you get into pipe smoking? I smoke occassionally (cigarettes), wondering how you made your way to a pipe. It looks like a very comfy thing for a snowy day.

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Current. But I'm moving soon.

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>>9800493
because like all trilogies the first one is the best. it's a lot less funny after that

pic unrelated

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1/5

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>>9802206
2/5

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>>9802212
3/5

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4/5

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>>9802234
5/5

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All I have here

>>9802206
Jealous of your Folios anon

>>9802239
do you pay cover price for these books?

>>9802352
Thanks friend

>>9802353
Naw, all bought second-hand. Except the two Centipede Press editions.

>>9802265
>bluejackets manual

you on a ship, faaaaag? shelf looks like it could be a dorm. nice selection. read EB Sledge!

>>9802370
Not on a ship, stuck at "c" school. Sledge wrote With the Old Breed, right? I'll look out for it.

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>>9802358
same. i wonder who all these people are that buy these books and donate them / sell them for so cheap

>>9802470
I think that a lot of them are bought in lots from estate sales. I'm sure that when I pass away, my family won't know what to do with all these books.

I love your Gormenghast set, by the way.

>>9798179
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>>9798219
>>9798235
>>9798246
Fuck the haters anon, these shelves are patrician as fuck. Would kill for a collection like that.

>>9802490
Thanks man. Honestly, just get to a place in your life where you can drop some money every once in a while without fucking yourself over. I was broke as fuck a few years ago and literally stealing books from Goodwill, and I finally have a collection that makes me genuinely happy.

>>9802484
thanks
i got most of these books from annual fundraiser sales by my local orchestra and University, basically all of them donated. It
does make sense if you think about it cause alumni of a university / orchestra (& their families) are probably more likely to have books

>>9800386
Not that guy but I just finally read my copy of Rise and Fall last month. Apparently it's somewhat dated now and Richard Evans' trilogy is the new top dog, but as someone who's never read any third reich/wwii history before it was very good and surprisingly a lot of fun.

It very heavily cites seized Nazi documents/reports/letters (along with correspondence of other heads of state/high officials, e.g. the diaries of Ciano, Mussolini's foreign minister) which makes for a lot of interesting and insightful reading, but sometimes it drags on quite a bit (e.g. like 30-40 pages of the Nazis and Soviets dancing around each other diplomatically before agreeing to split Poland).

The most surprising thing for me, and it really shouldn't have been in retrospect, is the book's focus on Hitler and the high command of the Nazi party and then government. There are a few sections on life in Nazi Germany, life under Nazi rule, the planned Nazi new world order, etc., but overall you're only going to be reading about things insofar as they reflect or give insight to the actual leadership of the third reich. So you'll read the tiniest bit about Rommel and the African theater, but mostly you'll read about Rommel as connected to his participation in a plot to kill Hitler, and Hitler's subsequent plan of killing off Rommel while trying to not get in hot water himself for offing such a popular general.

Similarly, you'll only hear the tiniest bit about de Gaulle, Free France, the French resistance, etc. Vichy France is mentioned only so far as Hitler tries to employ it against the Allies. Japan is only mentioned so far as she aligns with Germany and draws USA into the war, and so on.

Overall very interesting and very well written. Not a book about WWII, not a book about Hitler. If you're ok with that, go for it. Would recommend.

>>9802789
Just curious, but what makes it dated, if it was written with primary sources like that?

>>9802206
Where is the rest of the decline and fall?

>>9802902
I'm not totally sure (which is why I said "apparently") but from what I hear Evans is newer and more thorough, and if I had to guess I'd say it's thanks to an extra 50 years of documents coming to light. Shirer mentions at some point that not only was there no way for any single person to parse through the mountain of documents seized after wwii, but also he and everyone else reading them were on a time crunch before they got returned to the German government in the 50s or whenever.

>>9800104
love me some Macaulay

>>9800362
Arent you the guy that had a bunch of copies of Moby Dick? Did you sell them off?

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>>9802470
i bet neither of you have ever read that folio society greek myths set

i haven't read mine either

>>9803711
the book was pretty useful for my classical myths class. much easier than rereading a primary source to remember some detail.
Plus it's written much better than a textbook

>>9803695
I still have them. The extra two copies are on top on the book case.

>>9798795
is the set on the top shelf 1001 nights?

>>9798219
Is Rabbit at Rest really his best?
I haven't read anything yet from Updike and was planning on jsut going from publishing date tbqh

>>9798179
you have zero originality or taste.

>>9802528
>>9802490
samefag, fucking pathetic.

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>>9804846
What's up you jealous pathetic faggot?

>>9804839
Which of them have you actually read and what didn't you like about them? Also, post your shelf bitch.

>>9804938
dude forget these morons. who comes on the internet shitting up other people's book collection. the person you are talking to is pond scum.

>>9804943
It's all good. Calling them out and exposing the ones who clearly don't read or know shit is probably the best part of my day. If you ask them enough questions they'll give up because they don't know anything about literature. Also, they immediately resort to insults and /pol/tier shit, and I get genuine enjoyment out of reading them.

>>9798219
how is The Complete Encyclopedia of Cats?

Been on my list for a while

>>9798179
>women and men

(heavy breathing)

how is it

>>9804969
my wife is a vet and has an impressive collection of animal books and textbooks. It's ok

>>9804796
Don't have 1001 nights yet. Looking at getting the Franklin library edition from the 100 series.
Top shelf is the Bombay edition of Kipling.

>>9804986
Fucking incredible. In my top 10 and I don't see it dropping soon. It's the most fun I've had reading since GR or The Recognitions. It's more difficult than those, though, and I honestly need to reread it soon. I feel like I missed a lot the first time.

>>9804998
>fun
the one thing i didn't expect it to be. fun how? is it funny?

>>9805009
It has a few genuinely funny parts. I found it fun, but I like challenging books more than anything. It's fun when sentences go on for entire pages or I have to spend an hour trying to work through one passage. There's also a lot of touching scenes and the characters are well done. There wasn't really anything about it I didn't enjoy.

>>9805029
touching how? what is the characterization like? i'm just curious how it feels to read

>>9805037
Touching in that you care enough about the characters to feel emotional about some of the things that happen to them. A great portrayal of fatherhood, for instance, got to me towards the end. It's all subtle and a little understated, but it's touching on the same way a few scenes in Gravity's Rainbow are touching, surprising humanity after very technical, mathematical, or scientific prose. If that makes sense.

>>9805029
does the prose stay the same as it is from the beginning? it felt incredibly sterile.

>>9805088
No. In fact, it changes style more than almost any other novel I've read.

>>9805096
is it as good as Darconville's Cat?

>>9805120
That's tough. It's not as consistently funny as Darconville's Cat, but it's on the same level in basically every way. They're both works of genius, in my opinion.

>>9805163
will a kindle edition suffice, you think? i spent my milk money on DC.

>>9805178
I had the epub downloaded and there's errors. There's no official ebook, so you'd have to find one someone made. The best one I found still had some inconsistencies, so I stopped reading it along with the physical one. I usually have one of each, so I can continue reading when I'm at work

>>9805236
a shame, i guess i'll take my chances with the ebook.

>>9804147
>>9803711
I didn't read it for years, until I opened the cover and realized it was written by Robert Graves.

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>>9802009
It was actually literature that got me into pipes. When I was first getting back into literature I read Storm of Steel, Moby Dick, and Mason & Dixon back to back. All 3 books had a lot of pipe smoking and portrayed it favorably so my curiosity was piqued. Although I had never so much as smoked a cigarette I ordered a cheap briar pipe and some Escudo Navy Deluxe and fell in love with it.

It's now one of my biggest hobbies right up there with literature. If you are interested in trying it I recommend you go on SmokingPipes and order a Missouri Meerschaum corncob (they are as low as <$5) and some Frog Morton's Cellar. Pipe smoking can be a surprisingly complicated ritual and is a little intimidating at first but luckily there is a great community on Youtube and on various forums that is very welcoming to newcomers.

>>9805702
Once you figure out how to pack the bowl it gets pretty easy from there. The hard part is not buying more pipes.

>>9799633

Martell...? Id hardly call that above fedora level as well.

Also, I highly doubt he has read any of that. Nor would he have the understandings of philosophies to see their premises in anything more than an Americanized and over simplified dichotomous view.

Alas, he, a true rodent of /lit/. Vermin.

>>9798188
Harry Potter is prepubescent X-Men