book shelf thread time. post 'em anons.
>>7380416
You start Anon.
1/7
>>7380573
2/7; i've posted some pics before but there have been some new books added since
>>7380575
forgot pic woops; 2/7
>>7380602
And all together. Probably gonna get a set of shakespeare for the empty row, just cleared out some space.
>>7380592
Your collection and arrangement is very nice. I keep mine in piles next to my bed and against the floor, for lack of furniture and space.
Are O'Brien's works other than At Swim and Third Policeman any good? I read snippets of Dalkey and thought it was okay, but everything I've heard about the others makes them sound like the low-points of his uneven oeuvre.
>>7380573
OH MY GOD! THE legacy of totalitarism in a tundra
>>7380416
http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/
I got a new bookshelf from Ikea yesterday, and a few new books (some I brought from my collection at my parents house). Is it /lit/ enough?
>>7380573
john donne. fuckin mirin, i love donne
>>7380978
what the fuck is this
>>7381023
My bookshelf.
>>7381032
What's up with all the Japanese shit
>>7380978
9-10 reallz good
>>7381047
I like Japanese shit. Always have.
>>7380978
Hows that history of Japan series?
>>7381069
Great. Mizuki does a nice job of summarizing the important events of the time while also slipping in stories from his childhood.
>>7381073
I'll definitely check it out then.
looking at some images of it now and loving that juxtaposition of detailed realism with that ultra expressive cartoon style.
>>7380978
Nice. Is that Nausicaa set the collection of the comics or the artbooks? I have the single issues on my shelf.
Nice Lupin. I have a badass large Jigen model.
>>7380606
My Hermann Hesse nigga. Do you have his Journey to the East? Probably the most experimental thing he's written.
>>7380639
I actually just got the book last week so I haven't had a chance to read any O'Brien yet. Will probably just start with At Swim-Two-Birds and go from there.
>>7381018
Donne is fantastic. Someone was calling Donne a "minor poet" in some other thread a couple weeks ago and I flamed him.
>>7381141
Yea, it's on my other shelf(ves) across the country. I liked it, but it felt a bit light. It almost felt like it could've been one of the Lives in Glass Bead Game actually. I enjoyed the style a lot.
I'll post up another shelf pic showing all of my shelves when I travel over Christmas probably.
>>7381151
Glad to see someone else has read Journey to the East. I don't see it mentioned often. It definitely felt more like dabbing in stream-of-consciousness than a proper narrative.
Also, hell yes Donne. Mmmm, metaphysical poetry.
>>7381135
It's the comic. I have a bunch of Ghibli artbooks at my parents house. And thanks, I just got it in the mail a few weeks ago. I have a few more Lupin figures at my parents house. Which Jigen figure do you have?
>>7380573
Taste.
>>7381182
beautiful collection comrade
>>7381047
>where do you think we are?
>>7381429
/lit/
The only books a person needs
>>7380416
These threads are useless
>>7382381
Why do we tolerate them? I mean we wouldn't tolerate a Game of Thrones general or something, so why this ridiculous shit?
>>7382399
They're fun, stick-in-the-mud.
>>7382381
>>7382399
>>7380606
i like your collection a lot
>>7380606
A complete works of Shakespeare in one book or individual books?
What editions are you thinking of getting?
>>7380602
What made you want to pick up Math Girls?
>>7380416
Y'all feelin lit?
>>7382735
i have that edition of Sherlock holmes
>>7380602
>you will never be my bf and allow me to borrow your books
why live
>>7383007
We could always change that. ;)
>>7382681
Individual books. I wish I had 20k to drop on the Folio editions but as is I might just get something similar to the old Yale set or something. Not totally sure yet still looking around. Kinda surprised that there aren't really any modern hardcover editions available beyond the super expensive Folio editions.
>>7382683
Someone gave it to me for my birthday as a semi-gag gift.
>>7383007
T-thanks anon.
>>7383499
So you plan on getting a fairly nice set of Shakespeare then. If you were going to go for regular paperback, I was going to suggest the modern library editions. I have a few (pic related, bottom right) and like them a lot. Perfect amount of annotation, without cluttering up the play too much.
Some day I'd like to get a nice set too, but for now these are perfect.
>>7383522
Yeah they're nice, I like the ML and Norton editions. I really wish there were more options available for hardcover Shakespeare these days, there are plenty of perfectly good paperback versions.
How is the Van Doren Shakespeare BTW? Been considering grabbing a copy.
>>7383499
Math Girls as a gag gift? Did you read it? I mean, if you like it, the Math Girls Talk About.... line is worth picking up too.
>>7382782
What's having aspergers like
>>7383522
Fucking love that Mark van Doren book. What do you think of him?
>>7383531
I highly recommend van Doren. He is extremely familiar with Shakespeare. The essays are relatively short (~10 pages each) and he doesn't dwell or skimp.
He doesn't have a tone of academic arrogance which makes reading his essays pleasurable.
It's good to read each essay after the play, but I think it's even better to read all the essays at once, after reading all the plays. He discusses how they evolve and how the next plays can be anticipated in previous ones.
>>7383522
>spirytus 192 proof polish spirit
>>7382983
Yes, it's the 1893 collection of short stories. I really like the cover on this particular edition.
>>7382782
I dig your style, dude
>>7383733
true patrician...
I love threads like this.
I'll bump too. Pls post friends.
>>7380978
Oh hey, we've got the same shelf! Except the contents of my shelf aren't as /lit/ as yours.
ayyy
>>7389159
Is that Lovecraft actually good? Like are the pages sturdy, is it easy to navigate, etc?
I have Lovecraft split into a bunch of books and I'd really love to have it in a single book
>>7389334
Yeah, it's pretty good for the price. The page quality isn't bad, but it feels kind of thin. And as you can seen in the picture from the album I linked below, you can slightly see the blurred text from the next/previous page when it's directly under a light.
The book is pretty easy to navigate through. It's got all his short stories, novellas and novel(s?).
For it's price on Amazon, I'd say it's definitely worth the purchase.
http://imgur.com/a/UkHpR
I cant justify spending a fat dollar on books, when I can download them for free.
In the end the only difference is that I will have some tome collecting dust on my shelve (that I will also have to buy).
Try to convince me that buying books is worthwhile over just pirating them.
>>7389374
you can buy most books for under $5. The experience is better, doesn't rely on having a device charged, won't die and destroy your library(there's a certain pleasure in finding a book you forgot you had, years after you first read it).
You can't lend a book on the internet. You can't be sure you'll always be able to download books for free, or that your electronic medium will always be viable. Your $3 book will be with you forever.
>>7383522
... are you a slav who reads russian literature in english?
Think you may be trying a bit too hard, and going full circle as a result.
>>7389376
>you can buy most books for under $5
Depends on where you live, and doesnt apply for me.
Besides, most books will cost considerably more.
>The experience is better
Subjective, I greatly enjoy being able to carry only one thin Kindle with me, easily take it in and out of my pack, rather than a big tome.
Also its easier to look up words in the dictionary, or leave notes on it than it has been on books, at least for me.
>doesn't rely on having a device charged
I charge it once or twice a month, it lasts stupidly long.
>won't die and destroy your library
I have my library on my reader and my PC, and its all backed up on multiple pirating websites.
>there's a certain pleasure in finding a book you forgot you had, years after you first read it.
I have this happen to me with my electronic library as well, and with video games or movies I pirate also.
>You can't lend a book on the internet.
I dont know any person who reads well enough to lend them books. I did lend two books in my life, and didnt get either back.
At least one of the people was honorable enough to buy me a copy for the one they destroyed, but it was a worse edition, and paperback, and with a cover that I had explicitly stated I hate to that same person.
>You can't be sure you'll always be able to download books for free
Books wont go from free to paid overnight, if I see things going that way I will make a huge backup of popular libraries.
And many others will too. You cant stop people from trading books on IRC, for example, and there are some pirates who follow an ideology, and they will never allow that.
>or that your electronic medium will always be viable
My electronic device (Kindle Paper White) is already old, but since books dont get more resource demanding over time, and since I can convert formats at will, I dont see this ever becoming an issue.
Yes, its outdated, since it cant show color or sound, but its perfect for reading text.
>Your $3 book will be with you forever.
Or until I lend it and I dont get it back, or I knock over a glass of water near it, or it turns into rags from me taking it in and out of my backpack every morning.
All things considered, e-books are much more durable.
Anyways, thank you for your post, and double thank you for not going with something about aesthetics and using books as decoration or to show status.
>>7389398
>Depends on where you live, and doesnt apply for me.
better world books, thriftybooks, etc.
One last thing - if you live in a town with a good, affordable used book shop and you go there regularly they will get to know you and inevitably someone there will be into some stuff you are and make recommendations. The act of buying and reading real books is a far more social one than downloading stuff on your kindle.
It may not be relevant to you now, but in the same way people go to record stores for socializing even when a FLAC mp3 is thoroughly better, as books become less used they become more social. Never totally disregard books. Walk into a book store occasionally. See what you find. The sense of discovery in real book stores is far stronger than online.
That's all I've got. If the Kindle keeps you happy go for it.
>>7389255
Pretty patrician desu.
>>7389349
Thanks for the info. I'll consider it, though I'm really quick to get annoyed by thin pages, so I'll just look out for it in book stores.
>>7389600
I have the Barnes and Noble edition. Can defs recommend it. Nice and thick pages, too.
>>7389349
i'm reading that big fucker right now.
going through his popular stories... up to red hook story right now
cool
hi there!
>>7390646
Were you trying to dox someone with this, or what?
>>7389255
pretty generic. +1 for both volumes of Schopenhauer tho
>>7389385
No, I'm a Canadian that drinks slav booze.
I wish I could read Russian, or really any other language.
>>7390792
try harder patrick baitman
>>7389398
Where do you live? I'm from Belgium and I easily find harcovers for less than 5 euros.
>>7380573
How's the norton goethe? From what i hear the translation is subpar. Is this true? How are the footnotes?
i have nine other bookshelves, this is my bedside poetry bookshelf
not pictured is The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and The New Cassell'd German Dictionary, along with a bunch of Bird, Butterfly, and Flower field guides, a couple of German and Chinese language books and a large illustrated texbook of flowering plant families of the world
>>7392496
fucking pleb
>>7392480
Patrician as fuck!
The front row is my "to read" shelf. What should I read next?
>>7392496
I can afford it and it makes me happy. It also looks nice when people come over and sometimes acts as a good conversation starter.
>>7383583
>Srs bsness
>>7392496
>buying shitty editions of books
Your shelf just looks like a scrap heap.
Might as well not even buy them. Just get them from the library or something.
>>7393429
conspicuous consumption: the post
>>7392925
L-Lunae?
>>7393432
>my consumption is better because i buy shitty versions instead
>>7393432
>implying conspicuous consumption is bad
>>7392925
Mann
>>7389374
For me it's mostly because i like to read the books rather than on a kindle or a PC/tablet... i like the feel and weight of the book in my hands, which electronic devises don't have. oh and the smell of a fresh printed book is also good
>>7392925
Not meaning to hate, but what made you get a Rimbaud translation? Is it even possible without completely butchering it?
>>7380416
I'm looking to buy a mid sized bookshelf, where should I look for them? How much should I look to spend?
>>7394419
just buy from ikea senpai
>>7394419
Ikea Billy if pleb.
Ikea Besta if lesser Pleb.
>>7389255
ive enjoyed watching the two pictures diverge as i scroll down, for whatever unknowable reason
