Posting mine to start
This is the fiction shelf.
1/4
>>7317161
2/4
Non-Fiction
Travel logs, Essays, and some Philosophy.
>>7317161
What's the one on the far left?
>>7317161
3/4
Horror, old Spanish books, books I dont plan to read any time soon, and some poetry collections.
>>7317165
The Broom of the System by DFW
>>7317161
4/4
Stuff I read a long time ago and will probably sell soon.
>>7317164
Don't post that shelf here then, it belongs on /his/
>>7317181
Still not used to the split :<
>>7317181
discussion about that shelf needing to be on /his/ needs to go on /his/
I'll now mention Dante so that this is /lit/ friendly
>>7317216
dante wrote philosophy, take it to /his/ pls
>>7317171
man this DFW guy is becoming bigger meme then drake.
r8 most of my syllabus
>>7317216
Friendliness goes on /soc/.
This meme is trite and tired.
>>7317226
>>7317249
There's something sad and banal about that.
>>7317243
Class names?
>>7317243
and some of my books at home
>>7317259
>English and American studies
>2nd year
>1st semester
>Morphology
>Analytic Grammar
>Cognitive approach to lexical word-loaning(elective)
>General and Academic English
>Public Speaking (elective)
>Phonology
>Translations from English to Bulgarian
>Modernism-Postmodernism lit: The Waste Land; Easter 1916 by Yeats; some poems by Dylan Thomas; Kew Gardens by V. Woolf; A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; 1984; Lord of the Flies; The Dumb Waiter; The Remains of the Day
>Enlightenment lit: Robinson Crusoe; Gulliver's Travels; The Rape of the Lock; Pamela; Joseph Andrews; The Vicar of Wakefield; The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman; Pride and Prejudice
O-Ok, but no bully pls
Notice the memes top right. That's all you, /lit/.
>>7317168
> Seiwaran
nice
OP, I think we'd get along. I'm at work now but will post my shelves in an hour or two.
>>7317295
Found those in a free bin a few weeks ago.
>>7317261
Is that literal fucking anime on that Wordsworth vanity fair?
>>7317343
No, but sure is tacky innit?
>>7317161
Check out my D. H. Lawrence collection.
>>7317337
I've been looking into ordering some Seiwaran. His tutorials on Pawn Structure were among the best I've found in chess instruction.
I'd ask for review, but if's been just a few weeks...
>>7317283
reddit the bookshelf
>>7317283
>Dune
>half a shelf of Stephen King
mate
>>7317354
My mom loves D. H. Lawrence.
Are those books actually good?
>4 level bookshelf
>crate split between records and books
>entire bookshelf several feet wide above my bed
>still too many books to hold them all
i need a library
>>7317538
Calm down Christfag.
>>7317354
There is some overlap but still a great collection. I don't have any one author where I have nearly as much.
How are his letters?
>>7317354
Damn. Is that complete?
>>7317360
Yea I havent spent much time with them at all. I havent really been playing much because of school.
>>7317694
as you descend, it gets better, like some kind of nega-hell
Nice b8 m8
1/3
3/3
>>7318401
>ready player one
>s. king
>>7318441
I have more but don't have pics
>>7318425
A friend recommended ready player one to me and I cringed at many parts and found it very predictable.
The dark tower series is a guilty pleasure and is easily kings best work
>>7318580
I have a great used book store near me and I commute into NYC often and find a lot of good deals.
If I really like a book I'll try to seek out a first edition if it's cheap.
>>7318384
How is timequake?
>>7318688
Good if you like Vonnegut. I'd imagine much more enjoyable if you are very familiar with his other works as well.
>>7317354
Do you have Kangaroo?
>>7317315
Here are mine.
1/11
>>7318812
2/11
>>7318819
3/11
>>7318781
I'm not the namefag but it's one of the hardcovers in the pic
>>7318824
4/11
>>7318833
5/11
>>7318839
6/11
So have you read Foucault OP? I was really interested in getting some
Of his books but I'm pretty new to studying philosophy.
>inb4 start with Greeks
>>7318847
7/11
>>7318839
Tell me about "Aesthetics Today"
What dat be
>>7318855
8/11
>>7318863
9/11
>>7318870
10/11
>>7318870
The Book of Disquiet
>>7318888
pretty good collection
>>7318862
Haven't read it yet, just picked it up from a library sale a few weeks ago. It's a collection of essays, here are the contents
>>7318862
>>7318907
>>7318847
>Gaddis
Ma nigga
>>7317161
under the volcano has some of the worst prose i have ever seen. the rest of your collection, its alright with me
>>7317261
Greek Orthodox master race
>>7318952
are these people real? #wow
>>7319680
I just got We recently myself. Different edition tho.
Nice lil' stack. The Trial is GOAT, Notes fun, Catcher solid, Nausea solid, Stranger decent, and Borges is gold
actually about to start Heart of Darkness here soon
Some of these are books that I've had with me from years ago, so they're kids-teenage aged books.
>>7319726
Macfucking kill yourself, my man.
>>7319746
Is something wrong?
>>7319726
Just awful.
>>7319751
What's wrong with it?
>>7319726
>Halo novelization 3 books from Mein Kampf
Absolute shit.
>>7319851
It's the only one I've got of them and it's actually not that bad of a book.
>>7319188
Bulgarian Orthodoxy but I am mostly an agnostic. I like icons for their aesthetic value.
>>7317538
>Not reading The Bible as just the literary work that has had the greatest impact on Western history.
>>7318852
Yea I really liked learning about him and what he was trying to do more than reading him directly.
I know School of life gets a lot of shit around here, but I wish I had seen this before I read C&M because it wasnt really clear what his goal was. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBJTeNTZtGU
>>7318952
It takes a while to get used to for sure. At first I was re-reading whole chapters because I couldnt understand what was going on, but then I guess I just got used to the style, and the rest flowed nicely.
>>7317249
>Friendliness goes on /soc/.
No, that's [s4s]' purview, rudefig.
>>7319726
>Paul Jennings
>pls stop
>>7320524
I-I was a teenager, okay?
He's still a pretty good read even now. It's nice to take a break from serious books every now and then.
>>7320531
kek, yeah i know. i'm sure i've got that same copy hidden in a cupboard around here somewhere.
plus, round the twist, m8y
1/7
>>7317776
I like your Jlit, anon. Are those sorted in any way?
2/7
>>7317164
My favorite shelf of yours. You would like In Patagonia, if you haven't read it yet.
>>7320940
3/7
4/7
>>7318888
I don't think I saw Bachelard there, but I think you'd like him. What made you interested in picking up the Toson?
5/7
>>7319726
Christie's nothing to make excuses for. Murder mysteries are still my go-to comfy genre.
>>7320957
6/7
>>7320962
7/7, my non-fic corner. Hoping to replace it with a half-size Billy this weekend.
>>7320931
>>7320940
>>7320945
>>7320953
>>7320957
>>7320962
>>7320969
>He unironically organizes his books chronically by country.Just kidding man, this is possibly the best collection I have ever seen on /lit/. I'd love to be your friend.
Have you read anything else by Inoue/do you speak Japanese? I was curious what your take on his other books are if so. I got a couple chapters into Tun-Huang and found the prose incredibly awful. I then got my hands on a Chinese translation and it was leaps and bounds better, and I was wondering if it was a translation issue.
>>7320978
*chronologically blegh.
>>7320969
>Billy
mah nigga
>>7320978
Thanks! I've read The Counterfeiter and Other Stories and The Hunting Gun, but I don't remember the English translations being particularly awful.
The woman who translated Tun-Huang apparently won an award for it, though it also looks like she's not an academic, but a social worker. Could possibly color it.
I read the Tuttle version of The Hunting Gun, but I just flipped through this Pushkin Press version--it's translated by Michael Emmerich, who just put out a new Genji translation, and it sounds perfectly apt.
"How extraordinarily difficult it is to write a goodbye letter. It is unpleasant to get all weepy, but it is also unpleasant to be overly brisk. I would like for us to make a clean break and to go our separate ways without hurting each other, but a peculiar sort of posturing seems to have found its way into my prose. Perhaps there is no helping it: a goodbye letter is what it is, and it will not be a thing of beauty, no matter who the author is."
>>7320931
Are you the guy who posts his bookshelves every year or so? Did you move or did you just get new shelves? The previous I remember were black and not as wide.
>>7321053
Yep, I've been posting them since /lit/ started and I had about three dozen books total.
I did move; all those squat black Wal-mart shelves got broken in the move. So I got Billys, since I'm even near an Ikea now. It did kind of suck going from (shoulder-height) wall-to-wall to half-a-wall full of books.
It'll look even nicer once I settle on a house next year--I'm hoping to claim a whole room to devote to collections.
>>7317283
Lmao
>>7318863
What's that huge book?
>>7317776
>all that Scruton
Good stuff, friend. Also, you have a lot of books that are the same edition as mine. My copy of 'The Abolition of Britain' is signed by Hitchens.
>>7321159
M8 it's literally on the spine, perfectly legible, and in english.
>>7320953
Thanks, I'll check him out. Read The Broken Commandment for class 2 semesters ago, really enjoyed it, I've been meaning to get more into him but haven't had the time
>>7318890
max pleb coming through
>>7317538
hey anon what's a good bible? I want one that is:
leather
has those page scallop cut out things
has nice shiny gold edges with that red coloration somehow
I don't want just a boring paper one or a cheap fake leather one. I found some that looked nice but cost two hundred dollars :(
>>7320945
>I served the king of England
mmm that's a good book m8
you have a lot of nice books actually
>1/2
I had to move my big comfy chair for you, /lit/, so you'd better appreciate muh books
>>7322231
>2/2
The remainder of my collection (well, not quite, but most of it) is above my computer desk.
>>7322284
>red
I've read it cover-to-cover at least once. If it's been a while I take the red label off and put a green sticker on.
>green
Have never read them/haven't read them in a while and wish to re-read.
>orange
reference books and the like
>>7322304
>he puts on stickers to mark which books he read
wew lad ever heard of goodreads?
>>7322304
So cute
>>7322310
>my way is the only correct way!!
stay mad
>>7322310
>le goodreads patrician face xd
You all losers here, comparing bookshelfs...just what the fuck
>>7317243
>Pamela and Shamela
Jesus
>>7322350
>bookshelfs
>shelfs
>>7322350
what else is there to do?
>>7322350
They are nerds. What did you expect?
>>7322359
The thread's name though...
>>7322350
pls no bully
>>7322350
I like seeing other people's bookshelves on here. I think it can tell you a lot about the posters.
Anyways, 1/2
>>7322378
2/2
>>7322378
>I think it can tell you a lot about the posters.
Like what? That they follow litcore books?
>>7322383
That's only for the small collections. They're just getting into reading, give 'em a break.
>>7322383
Yes, some of them stick to /lit/core, and that's to be expected. At least they're trying to engage with substantial literature. But others have some interesting collections, like that guy with all the conservative books. There's also the guy who puts stickers on his books and seems to be autistic about flamingos. That's good for a laugh.
I also treat these threads as a sort of window-shopping, and you can ask anons about their books. It's not just fetishizing over material goods.
If you're gonna talk shit, post your shelf.
>>7322404
tfw we're /fa/ now
talk shit post shelf
>>7322409
At least you can understand /fa/, /fit/, /tv/ and /mu/. You guys are just awful
>>7322404
>At least they're trying to engage with substantial literature.
How is that substantial literature? It's just /lit/ being full of themselves over books
>>7322382
i guess your main shelf is for hardcore reading.
the other is shelf is for your pleasure
>>7322419
What does one have to do to not be looked down upon by you, anon?
>>7322422
Essentially, yes, but I've been running out of room lately and have to keep shifting books and I even put a lot of the books I was into as a teenager in a pile in another room.
I've only been reading from the "hardcore" shelf for the past few months.
>>7322426
Books are like doing charity. Showing it off is just a case of bad taste
Pls b gentle /lit/
1/2
>>7322442
>house animals on Martin books
That's cool
>no Nora Roberts
>no Mary Higgings Clark
>no Tom Clancy
>no John Grisham
Admit it, /lit/. You hide them
>>7322438
I like how you didn't specify reading or buying. Just books generally.
>>7322442
>bukowski
nice
>yiddish policemans union
not so nice
>>7322463
I never read those, but I do have my 40+ Lillian Jackson Braun's in a box. Plus guidebooks. And quiz books. In hardcover and softcover. Qwilleran was the shit to teenage me.
>>7322463
Only books I hide in my pictures are my fantasy books.
Which of these collections is mine? Heh, I'll never tell.
>>7322476
pff, coward
>>7322438
>sharing something you're proud of is bad taste
>>7322484
The fuck are you proud off? Pride is one of seven deadly sins
>>7322463
>hiding those
>not hiding Martin, King or Murakama
kek
I have six other bookshelves with my real collection but I just made this one for next to my bed. The pic is shit idc
>>7322442
2/2
>>7322456
These aren't mine desu, they're part from a box set, a friend lent me two first books but I've never found the time / patience to finish them
>>7322470
Haven't read Yiddish yet, but Cavalier and Klay was gr8
>>7322511
Bonus round, new stuff / current loans
>>7322484
No, being proud of owning books is bad taste.
>>7322523
This is why this thread sucks
>>7322523
Why books specifically? Can one be proud of certain kinds of collections, like the anon who collects first editions? You're not against lending libraries, are you?
>>7322533
>Can one be proud of certain kinds of collections, like the anon who collects first editions?
No, that's just bad taste
>>7322538
So you'd be against museums that house book collections too?
Anon, I think you're the one who needs to get some taste.
You should just hide your books all together. People might be offended that you read in the first place
>>7322544
It's your collection, so it's your bad taste to show it off like you're some big shit
>>7322553
anon, just chill
it's 4chan
Here's a picture of me with my bookshelf. What do you guys think of my books?
>>7320940
OP here. Dude I love your collection.
How old are you? if you don't mind me asking.
Do you buy used books? All of your books look pretty new and not super worn.
Have you read most of them?
Can you recommend me anything similar to Patagonia or The Snow Leopard?
>>7322610
I think of this picture whenever someone asks me why I'm an English major.
>>7322610
All I can about is how uncomfortable the fabric must be on her nipples.
>>7322661
Never mind. I'm very confused about the tenderness.
>>7322622
Thanks, OP! I'm 26. Almost all of them are used books; my two big places I've bought books from are PaperbackSwap and Thriftbooks. ~350 were from PBS specifically. I've read ~60% of the ones I own, though I'm starting to buy more that I've already read through library/ebooks too. It's a cheap way to feel happy.
For recs, here's my travel literature chart from a while back--it's my favorite one I've ever made. Fermor should definitely appeal, if you haven't already got started on his stuff, and Richie's Inland Sea will as well.
>>7322610
Can you move out of the way? I'm trying to read the titles.
>>7322511
>Haven't read Yiddish yet, but Cavalier and Klay was gr8
was it? his prose is plain but overall his story was rather boring.
>>7322674
>no death and a kings horseman
pleb
>>7322350
>plebs feeling inferior
>>7322677
Sorry, not moving. I don't want you to bully me after you see my collection of German idealism.
>>7322690
>death and a kings horseman
Who's the author? The only thing by that name I know of or could find is the Soyinka play.
Multilingual anons, do you buy books you particularly like in two languages or even more? I did that with Idiot
>>7319726
This is pitiful.
>>7322674
Damn don't know how it is I have never seen this. Awesome chart bro.
Have you studied english at college?
>>7319726
Suicide. I'm sorry, my friend. It's your only option.
>>7322853
I think they should still all be up on the wiki, if you haven't looked through that recently.
And yeah, I'm still in grad school for it, though more slowly now that I've started working full time as well.
>>7319726
Mate, you need some actual literature. Throw those out or hide them.
>>7317243
R u studying English lit at Roehampton?
>>7322610
I wanna fack you're tittiez
>>7322610
boring
>>7322948
What is your specific area of study or interest?
Sorry for the interview lol.
>>7322438
made me grin anon
just enjoying some fine wine and literature! #bookworm
>>7323512
>>7322350
/lit/ - Literature
>>7323714
>song of shit
>literature
*tips dothraki dragonglass katana*
>>7323756
don't be an elitist, anon
>>7323760
Not that anon, but our elitism has served us well here, and somewhat insulated us from many of the pleb problems that the other media boards face.
He's an idiot for even replying to a bait pic, though.
>>7323772
Whole of 4chan thinks you're a bunch of pussies along with /r9k/ though
>>7323774
>triggered
Good, pleb. Good.
>>7323726
>>/int/
>>7323774
Good, that will hide us from the rest of 4chan
>>7323112
Sorry, went to bed! Should be sorta obvious though--pre-war Japanese literature.
More shelves, please.
>>7317161
All those unbroken spines.
Confirmed pretentious cunt.
>>7319893
>Not reading all different kinds of translated Bibles to get a feel of what different branches of Christendom try to make of it. And of course what they edit out or smuggle in.
>>7317538
The Bible the Christian would get is the one which their priest tells them about. You can't judge someone else's reading habits, when you yourself adhere to the interpretation of the text proposed by another man. You and the other poster are just as deluded as one another.
>>7325714
pls no bully thx
bookshelf threads are so relaxing
bring a nice cup of joe to bed and look at what all my peers are reading
>>7325902
>Schmidt was a strict individualist, almost a solipsist. Disaffected by his experience of the Third Reich, he had an extremely pessimistic world view. In Schwarze Spiegel, he describes his utopia as an empty world after an anthropogenic apocalypse.
Arno was the most /lit/ of all authors.
>>7325945
We should start rating people's collections.
shelves please
>>7326087
Here, have my plebby English shelf.
1/2
>>7326149
2/2
What do you think?
>>7326102
>Lullaby
>Atlas Shrugged
>Pristine, untouched copy of Ulysses
>mfw
>>7326005
nah, that's too aggressive and pointed and concrete and vibe killing,
just let the pictures flow maaan
>>7326163
I already read Ulysses: >>7326022
I had to leave my copy on another continent, though. I could only throw away so many of my clothes so my bags would still go through the check in at the airport.
Atlas Shrugged is only there because some people think it's worth reading. I try to keep around interesting stuff even though I might not read it in years.
Lullaby was very shitty, I give you that.
>>7326163
>judging someone's taste by what's on their shelf
Man, don't discourage people for reading stuff like Rand. It's called seeing for yourself and forming your own opinion. I have Marx on my shelf but I'm not a Marxist.
Then again,>Ayn Rand
>>7326195
>It's called seeing for yourself and forming your own opinion.
This. If there's a book people have very strong opinions on, it might be worth seeing for yourself to join the discussion.
>>7317694
so glad to see The Outsider on someone's shelf. Colin Wilson helped me become less of an asshole.
>>7326252
>The Illustrated Guide to Gardening
Nice. I like.
>>7326252
>>7326327
>>7326337
>>7326344
>>7326351
What is your favorite music, anon?
>>7326353
anything melancholic, dark, aggressive or introspective.
>>7326351
Wanna be frens, anon?
>>7326351
Not a bad collection.
>>7326223
>Colin Wilson helped me become less of an asshole.
explain
Tilt your photos if you want me to read the spines.
>>7326209
>Alfred Kubin
Wonderful artist.
>>7322164
>Mark Manson
Automatically assuming you're more well adjusted then 99% of 4chan, congrats
>>7326745
He's also a wonderful writer even though he only wrote one book. The Other Side is the one novel without writers like Kafka wouldn't have been possible. It's a must read if you want to get into German literature of the early 20th century.
>>7325827
>what they edit out or smuggle in.
I have a .pdf of the apocrypha :^)
>>7322382
you bought The Dark Tower from different publishers...
>tfw no one reads Hanif Kureishi or James Ellroy
suffering
>>7326799
Is that guy good? I want to read some more self help books after Carnegie
>>7317168
I'm reading that Lovecraft book right now.
Not necessarily literature, but the fuel responsible for creating something beyond literature. Transcending, a word often used disgustingly lightly, has its yin and yang. Countering abstract and often extremely visceral thought requires careful measure, slow stirring, and no hamburger. I don't like the hamburger. When the rhythms align, an explosion happens; it's up to me to contain the blast and articulate its intricacies on the canvas. I'm a big eater, so it’s always two boxes. My spoon? it’s away now. I’m going to go eat with it.
>>7326925
Dude, shut the fuck up
>>7326925
okay i lol'd
>>7317161
0/10 sparse taste, have you even mastered a single author?
>>7326327
Is that Gay Science Kaufmann's?
If so, it's fucking disgusting
>>7327093
why is Nauckhoff better?
>>7326925
well done
>>7327102
I read German so I don't know why it'd be better, but I do know that The Gay Science of Kaufmann's contains a major mistranslation right before Nietzsche's 'incipit tragoedia,' i.e. one of his (most) major quotes, which alone is enough for me to look for another, better translation
>>7327119
can you explain further so i can see if nauckhoff corrects it?
Main bookcase
>>7327175
Overflow section
>>7327176
Heavy tomes of study.
>>7327175
>Old Codex edition
>First edition s,m,l,xl
I like you.
>>7317176
ayy ishmael
>>7317161
Are you gonna sell 1/4 books just like you said you're gonna sell 4/4 books?
I only have Heraclitus - Fragments and The Noble Qur'an. It's the only two books one man could ever need. One being the word of God and the other being the collected ramblings of a previous prophet who was shunned by his people.
