checked the archive there isn't rly a shelf thread
Let's seem em m8s
Post recs and r8
1/2
>>7546312
2/2
checked the catalog, that is
![20160105_183646[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/BhL3xsc.jpg "20160105_183646[1].jpg")
Just gonna post my top shelf.
>>7546358
hiding the king huh
>>7546362
No king friendo. Too lazy to take pics of other shelves + have more books and another bookshelf coming soonTM, at which point I'll do a more complete set of pics.
>>7546318
nice m8
>>7546358
>only female author is edith hamilton
>>7546458
Yeah what a fucking shitlord
>>7546468
dylan thomas is good tho
>>7546477
kill all white men
>>7546484
dead white men oughta be illegal
>>7546488
>The term is used pejoratively in postmodern studies to denounce the body of scholarship as too biased to be useful today.
Holy shit, I had no idea this was a serious thing.
>>7546499
yeah before internet feminism the dead white men argument was all the rage
>>7546358
yeah definitely hiding the king
>>7546312
>checked the archive
>archive
So you just posted this without checking the catalog then?
Because these shitty fucking threads are all over the archive you dumb fuck.
less le ironic feminism posting more shelves thx senpais
>>7546312
whats that fat bob dylan book?
>>7546358
Truly patrish. Oralndo Furioso holy fuark.
quality over quantity
>>7548394
Did you take those two DFW books and stick them on your younger brothers shelf or what?
>>7546358
How is Orlando Furioso?
Have you read Innamorato as well?
>>7548394
>quality over quantity
Poe's law ITT. Is this really your shelf and are you being sincere?
>>7548556
common b8 pic, always with the same caption. don't know where it is from originally
1 of 2
2 of 2
You jelly?
>>7546312
>>7546318
>>7546358
tres bien
>>7548394
>>7548941
straight back to reddit
>>7548901
>>7548908
Your library is about half amazing and half disgusting. It's very confusing.
>>7548901
>Isis Unveiled
nice
>>7549012
>that godawful divine comedy
why haven't you burned it
>>7549287
I should. I even have another edition, which is better translated as well.
>>7546358
>all those Fausts
?
I may have them in Reclam and so they're tiny but just how much room can the English translations take up?
just started
>>7549593
You're off to a good start, really loving those Zweigs, I'm guessing Pushkin Press? Try Antal Szerb.
>>7549593
Nice selection have you read most/all of the stuff there?
also Roald Dahl is patrish as fuck, criminally underrated and unfairly typecast as merely a children's author (though he is an excellent one).
>>7549520
I like Faust and I like autistically comparing translations. Not pictured: Luke and Bayard-Taylor.
>>7548445
It's excellent. I claim no great understanding of it and I'm not sure on the quality of the translation (it's an old one from some defunct publisher) but the imagery and the poetry is stunning.
No on Innamorato.
>>7549601
Thanks. My sisters got me them cause they know I'm a huge Austrophile. Who's this Antal Szerb fella?
>>7549593
This shelf looks like you read ebooks, then buy a physical copy to put on the shelf.
>>7549614
been buying faster than I'm reading desu but nearly halfway through and yes, Dahl is top tier af and sure as he'll doesn't get enough love here
>>7549616
What do you mean? I hate eBooks
It's funny because you guys spend on this money on books to basically emulate the "classics/greatest hits" section at your local library.
>>7549615
He's not Austrian but a decent Hungarian writer, very unknown but I think you'll like him, Pushkin Press have translated most of his novels, I think. Anyway start with Journey by Moonlight, a lot of his books are mainly about people bumming around Europe while moaning about unrequited love but still fun to read just for the atmosphere.
Any good Austrian writers you'd recommend? Other than Zweig of course. Also you should see the movie Grand Budapest, a lot of his material was used as inspiration for it, you'd probably be able to get more references than I did.
Patrician incoming.
>>7549631
>He's not Austrian but a decent Hungarian writer, very unknown but I think you'll like him, Pushkin Press have translated most of his novels, I think.
Sweet, I'm defo gonna hit that up.
>Anyway start with Journey by Moonlight, a lot of his books are mainly about people bumming around Europe while moaning about unrequited love but still fun to read just for the atmosphere.
Sounds based desu.
>Any good Austrian writers you'd recommend?
Robert Musil and Joseph Roth are two of my personal favourites but not quite as good as Zweig by any means.
>Also you should see the movie Grand Budapest, a lot of his material was used as inspiration for it, you'd probably be able to get more references than I did.
Patrician-tier film mate, absolutely adore it.
>>7549637
Why is there always a ninja sword?
>>7549625
not a single worn spine. Those books look as if they've never been opened.
I have a lot of books so this is going to be long
scifi 1/2
>>7549637
>>>r/booksheves
scifi 2/2
the greeks/philosophy 1/2
the greeks/philosophy 2/2
New-ish to reading. All very enjoyable. Recommendations/memeposts welcome.
>>7549671
Because it's a sign of class; they're quadruple folded from artisanal nippon steel.
>>7549593
Looks good fella. How was Mishima? I'm quite interested in his works.
>>7549677
The dust jacket for Plato was shit, wasn't it?
occult/metaphysics
>>7549692
>he's actually starting with the greeks
>>7549674
I'm pretty OCD about my books desu, I don't even like opening them fully.
>>7549692
Mishimia is pretty good but Danny son, I'm mirrin dat Greek collection
>>7549710
It was actually really enjoyable; I'm really looking forward to Rollicking with the Romans desu.
random scifi/horror/metaphisics
>>7549692
I got it used so it didn't even have one.
also
>oxford
>modern library
>everyman
good taste in publishers 10/10
>>7549721
Good on you mate. Have fun.
literature
history/politics and other stuff
>>7549739
>Narcissus and Goldmund
A patrician's Hesse to be honest, family.
Lewd, though.
random 1/2
random 2/2
the three books turned backwards if anyone cares
>>7549591
I'm missing two, sadly
I hate that it makes a picture, because it looks like I have a fucking picture on my shelf
why would they do that?
just print some nice books, please
>>7549637
i'm going to kill myself
>>7549746
Hopefully you'll like my Hesse section when I get some pictures (next week?) senpai.
>>7549637
>that katana
oh god
>>7548365
it's a volume of criticism by sean egan from 2006 going release by release through his catalog. read all of it, bretty good. I think it's called 'the mammoth book of bob dylan'
what's really good, though, is 'chronicles' by bob dylan himself
>>7548394
>quality
>Harry Potter
>>7548908
>I am Manala
> haha
>>7546312
>>7546318
op here. here are the other shelves in the apartment
1/3 my girlfriend's books
>>7549993
2/3 mostly my books from home and school
>>7549999
3/3 my records and some more books from home, books I was gifted etc
>>7549637
>that appraised game
disgusting, also why do people who like western fantasy always have eastern swords.
![IMG_20160106_193928967[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/6mm5LSA.jpg "IMG_20160106_193928967[1].jpg")
new to /lit/ and reading in general, posting my humble collection
>>7550045
>some fantasy, dosto, orwell, and huxley
maybe check out some other dosto like notes from the underground and orwell's nonfiction
brave new world is great make sure you try to retain it and check back with it periodically later on
check the sticky if you ever need reading ideas
>>7549692
would you recommend bloom's compilation of poetry?
>>7550057
>>7550055
Crown & Country is a history book actually, very dry but incredibly informative too. I'd reccomend it to anyone else who doesn't know where to start with British History. Dostoyevsky is actually the only one I haven't read, because tomorrow I should get Notes from Underground and some other short stories of his in the post, and I'd like to start with that. Yeah, I didn't think the prose in BNW was on the same level as 1984 but I loved the exploitation of human sexuality and I think there's probably some symbolism in their I missed. Definitely plan to reread it this month or next. Just finished it yesterday.
>>7550062
>>7550062
do you read many english-language authors? if you're curious about english poetry there are a ton of fat compilations of it to find inexpensively, like slightly out-of-date textbook editions whose value has dropped out
>>7550057
I'm yet to properly read it. I have, however, had a few skims through it. It seems like it's going to be very good; it has a very large selection of English language poets (in chronological order) -- includes all the 'main' guys, and a few lesser known ones.
I can't comment much further than that, but it does have a very large selection, with commentaries etc.
>>7550067
>>7550065
Huxley spent his time doing all of the early psychedelics so suffice to say it's not really about the prose so much as what it contains
>tfw all of the childrens engage in the sex play so there is no concept of virginity
>>7550077
>if you had grown up in BNW you wouldn't be a lonely virgin
>>7550081
it's okay desu it's just the repressive judeo-christian culture you were born into
go find some angsty atheist grl or art slut to shell
>>7550076
>>7550069
ive read some tennyson, yeats and frost... and a bit of whitman. there was a good compilation of german poetry by a german critic, i like the idea of reading something similiar in english to see some canonic works
>>7550089
>implying I live in a repressive judeo christian culture
>implying every girl I know isn't a massive slut
>implying they still won't fuck me
I just want a cute wife and to live on a nice rural parcel of land
>>7550097
might i recommend becoming a humble shopkeeper and waiting for a right meek, bookish history major
>>7550096
similar*
>>7550105
hnnng imagine sipping coffee or beer with your 20 something qt in a nice historical city while the shop is closed for the night and there's nothing but the smell of dusty books in the air
>>7550096
I'm sure bloom wouldn't put you wrong, then. I have this three-piece Harvard textbook thing which covers about all of them until the 21st century.
check out more whitman if you can
keats and the romantics if you haven't
maybe dante gabriel rosetti and longfellow
byron for some highbrow perversion
maybe some gertrude stein if you're up to the task
>>7550114
>>7550119
yeah so my apartment ;-)
My humble shelf.
>>7550122
i should have thought about college/university reading lists/compilations, thanks!
>>7549968
I would, but all my books are in boxes
>>7549677
Where did you get that edition of illuminatus! ??
>>7550218
half price books they had a ton of them at the time.
>>7549677
>he read past god emperor
>>7549993
The P&V translation of AK. Kill yourself
>>7549692
That is a nice vase.
>>7550569
Have you read it?
What translation do you prefer?
>>7550596
Always the Maudes for Tolstoy. They knew him personally.
>>7550167
Do you live in a Kubrick movie?
>>7550167
Is this an employee break room?
>>7550613
..Okay? Why would this matter if the translation wasn´t done like the translations of Nabokov his work where he helped out or partially did it himself with another translator.
>>7549593
Are you Dutch? Where did you pick up the complete fiction collection by Lovecraft? Also, was it worth the price?
>>7550613
Ive read maudes is out dated. There are two recent AK translations. And I've heard good things about the anthony briggs translation of War and Peace
>>7549687
>the greek myths i/ii
what is this?
>>7550619
>>7549593
Mishima books any good?
I only read sound of waves
>>7550662
>the anthony briggs translation of War and Peace
yes it's very good
>>7550662
Not that guy but:
How could a translation be outdated? It's not like the English language has transformed since then.
The Maudes are very good imo, definitely among the best, if not the best.
>>7549692
mirin
>>7550167
looks like one of those flash room escape games
there's definetely a key or some shit in the slot behind that microwave
>>7549700
Try the Corpus Hermeticum
>>7550712
>he reads nothing but meme books
we bagged another one boys!
>>7550712
what drugs do you do
>>7550712
>falling for memes
>>7550712
>actually giving money to tao lin
dude
>>7550718
why so i can help you form some generalized idea about who i am as a person? im good.
>>7550732
>nothing but /lit/ memes
>being this buttblasted over an innocuous question
brainless drone confirmed
>>7550732
if you're rich i think you do pills and if you aren't then you smoke weed and find coke where you can get it
>>7550732
only kidding
dude weed lmao
>>7550735
thanks anon
>>7550684
I guess certain words and phrases fall out of fashion, and need to be replaced with more common idioms.
>>7550619
>>7550622
>>7550695
No it's the second kitchen. My home has a study but I hate sitting there sinds my dad died behind his desk.
I also like reading in the storeroom. It's quiet.
>>7550754
your place looks comfy mane
>>7550712
do you feel like you fit in yet?
>>7550754
Post the study.
>>7550787
what is the alternative to read stuff i don't like?
>>7550786
It's cold as fuck.
Needs to be completely renovated, can't afford it.
I'm moving out.
>>7550791
Here.
>>7550809
Goddamn that's great. Love the windows.
Do you have a little ladder to reach the top books?
That wallpaper over the fireplace tho
>>7550817
Just a step. It's just an old Dutch home, so many have these windows. Not a rare thing and it makes the place a nightmare to heat, they are wafer thin.
I'll miss the bar in the basement.
>>7550809
where you live, anon?
>>7550578
Haha cheers. Got it whilst on holiday in Rhodes.
>>7550809
What do you do when you have that many book shelves and you run out space?
Also, are you a lawyer or something, what the fuck is with all those binders?
>>7549761
who wrote the far right book?,I 'read' it when was 12
>>7550641
Also I'm not Dutch, why do you ask?
>>7550028
Because my good sir, eastern culture is objectively superior to western culture. Any true patrician would know that.
>>7549749
Edgy
>>7549761
My maynnn!
>>7550307
thanks m8, i'll keep my eyes out for the future
>>7550809
that bookshelf facade for a chimney is avoidable
>>7551594
How come Julius Caesar is the one Shakespeare play you have?
A lifetime of books purchased. Doesn't include my comic collection or ebooks
Thinking of getting of mice and men, but I want something more contemporary.
>>7551594
dude what the fuck is that HG Wells cube holy shit
>>7551714
forgot my pic lul.
I'm just now getting into reading desu
>>7550665
Pretty sure it's Folio Society Bulfinch.
>>7549993
Your gf's read Nabokov's The Gift?
Patrician.
As.
Fuck.
>>7551862
The two johns would be proud.
>>7551594
that is a smexy bible and edgar allan poe.
>>7546312
>>7552662
Posted this in the desk thread but figured what the hey bails?
>>7552662
>leatherbound dan brown
rofl
>>7552662
Wew lad
Got lost on you way to reddit?
>>7552674
What? Dan Brown's pretty good. He reminds me of Dante Alghiere in a way with the religious stuff.
>>7552676
Nope. I can proudly say that I've never been there.
>>7552696
>>7552698
You belong there though.
>>7552700
How are they different? Dan Brown is a good writer who writes about the religious. He's about as good.
>>7552708
k baits gone far enough
>>7552702
Nah. I like it here. /wg/, /co/ and /lit/ are based, senpai.
>>7552718
No need to drag out the joke anon, you can relax.
>>7552726
It's not a joke. "If noone goes to a play, then the playwright hasn't succeeded in his duty."- Moliere. The same principle holds true here. If noone reads Dante than he has failed as a writer.
>>7552733
Whos Molière lol sounds like some dead white guy nobody reads
>>7552742
You're missing the point. Dan Brown is objectively more successful because he makes more money and is more popular. There us no reason that you can't enjoy him.
My shitty shelves.
>>7549772
I hope one of them is the Glass Bead Game, like Narcissus and Goldmund it's timeless in a way the beat hippie manifestos Steppenwolf and Siddharta will never be.
>>7552742
>Whos Molière
im fucking triggered
>>7552863
I think that guy was just "ironic shiteposting" or didn't understand my argument.
>>7552863
Anon it's accented and capitalized, there's no way that was serious. Not like the other one saying Dante "Algheria".
>>7550712
look this is your mistake: everybody reads these pictures from left to right so you cant start with dfw and pynchon. Also mb just put taipei in the garbage binfor real desu
>>7552900
What's your problem with Dante Algeria?
>>7552913
Not as good as torquato tuscany
>>7552942
>Not doing Arthur Tuscany (Toscanini)
>>7553022
Well it was his place, now mine, soon someone else.
>>7551632
I keep the no fears farther bellow
>>7552765
Is that a bucket of protein powder with the hobbit on it? Power from the SHIRE
>>7552661
The bible was printed in 1958 I believe; there's a photo of pius XII in it. The other one is all of his stories and many poems
>>7548908
You appear to be me from about ten years ago. In case you are, dont bother with college and dont bone any of your roommates is my solid advice from the future.
I know most people here are new to lit, but you guys really need to form some kind of independent taste. It's always the same shit every single time.
>>7554348
honestly, what's even the point of reading dostoyevsky if so many other people have?
>>7554348
I only read randomly generated strings of data.
>>7554399
You must have mediocre taste
>>7554385
That's not the point i'm making. Even in the canon there are so many other works people could be reading or have on their shelf. I'm not deriding people because their shelves aren't filled with obscure works people have never heard of. But it's really just the same books over and over. Heck, i'm not even really moaning at people just having this stuff, it's understandable that people on here new to /lit/ just have /lit/core stuff, i just don't see the point of having the same thread all the time if there is no variety whatsoever.
>>7554414
What do you mean by /lit/-core? You down have your 4chan goggles on do you?
These threads are good for a comfy browse, recommendations, advice, etcetera
>>7554437
Yea. You have to actually point out specific books you want to talk about with anons and you're more likely to get some genuine discussion/recs.
>>7554445
I agree, problem is, some people use these threads as a competition, rather than a way of finding new books to read
>>7554454
Abuse of a thing says nothing about the thing itself. Every thread can get abused (and do, this is 4chan), so whatever.
My extensive collection right here.
>>7552912
oh come on tai pei was really good
>>7555212
>he fell for the tao lin meme
kek'd
>>7555270
>he fell for the tao lin is a meme meme
cucked
>>7555270
the man has excellent taste
check em
>>7555305
there are plenty of people here who've posted interesting shelves with more than /lit/core. Just talk to people you think are interesting then.
Or just ignore these threads if you really don't like them.
>>7555305
I agree many have canon works (no shit) but many have lesser known works.
>>7555347
this senpai isn't OP but OP here and I agree
>>7555368
check out Ravelstein by Saul Bellow, its a quasi-fictional memoir of Allan Bloom (COTAM author) of whom he was a dearest friend
>>7554414
I see quite a few shelves here that make me think the people who own them aren't bores. Previous threads have been full of /lit/-core shelves though.
>>7555915
alright who's not boring? compared to the average litizen, that is
>>7554414
>canon
there's a definitive list of western literature out there?
>>7556310
More or less yes. People will bicker about details but only idiots or ideological polemicist will deny the existence of a Canon.
>>7556310
it's not mentioned as much in the internet days, but yes.
there's always debates about what belongs and what doesn't but that's to be expected.
>>7549999
that's a sick photo of Chicago
>>7556360
here is Bloom's list
http://www.interleaves.org/~rteeter/grtbloom.html
in a way, you can consider everything Modern Library publishes as their 'canon', and so on.
>>7556368
thanks anon
>>7550045
Did you come from /v/?
>>7555305
even with canon works there are translations, editions, versions, etc.
>>7549700
> The Gnostic Bible
Are you an Atheist?
>>7557287
No why?
>>7556368
>>7556371
That site itself has a list of way more books from the canon than blooms list itself
Got a bunch of lists from various places, and if you look at the index it has a list of all the books from every list complied by time/culture. It even includes the Eastern canon.
http://sonic.net/~rteeter/greatbks.html#indexes
Keep in mind though that this mostly focuses on fiction and poetry ect, there are some philosophers and historians and the like included, but their are more expansive lists of those elsewhere.
>>7557962
are you muslim or just intrested in fiqh?
>>7557962
lovecraft, melville and dumas all look gay as shit
>>7558010
are you that shia bro? btw why don't you quran in your shelf?
>>7558014
Nah man, I'm sunni.
I got the Quran in the living room right now, as my bookshelf is in the study.
>>7558010
allah is a spook, you can stop now
>>7558016
I'm fine where I am right now, thanks.
>>7550172
go be 16 somewhere else lmao
>>7558015
why are you sunni? primarily due to how you've been raised?
>>7558031
I don't know really. My mother is a Sunni, and my father is a Shia, but I didn't like the way the Shia worked. It was a little too traditional for me.
>>7558041
where do you live akhi?
>>7558048
Australia.
>>7558041
>a little too traditional
>>7558041
wait, are you baiting or not? from my limited knowledge of islam i always reckoned that sunni was the traditional side, whereas shia was more 'flexible'?
>>7558060
Dude what.
Sunni is the flexible one, Shia is the one where they still pray with a little circle rock, and once a day every year stab themselves in the head for someone that happened over a thousand years ago.
>>7558063
Ayatollah Khamenie and some other big ayatollahs declared self harming in ashura haram, but some still do it. but it's not much widespread in Iran.
>>7558073
Well that's good, it's a shame that some people still do it though.
no bully
>>7558151
Mirin the Oscar Wilde tome.
