Checkmate.
>all that mccarthy
embarrassing
So you admit you're checking me out and you want to mate.
We saw you had all the memes last time you posted them, why are you so eager for attention?
>>7632338
>meme books
your taste in books is shit because you're reading them for the wrong reasons. probably just read some "11 books to read before you die!" clickbait shit. learn to feel for yourself.
>>7632338
Throw out The Familiar and almost that entire top shelf and you have some okay entry level books.
Wait,
>all the /lit/ written meme books
This is fucking embarrassing lmao. Do you browse this board everyday and only buy books that are talked about on here?
>>7632338
>>7632338
Good fucking taste desu senpai.
>>7632421
>>7632429
OP samefagging detected
>>7632377
>implying there is anything even remotely wrong with McCarthy
>>7632469
sure is reddit in here
>>7632432
No, I would never use that weeb slang bullshit
But I would spend money on /lit/'s meme creations :^)
>>7632469
>he fell for the mccarthy meme
>>7632475
>McCarthy is a meme
my nigger
>>7632338
You are fucking /lit/ incarnate
>>7632377
Is /lit/ renouncing its former favourite authors?
>>7632491
Yes, haven't you heard?
DFW and Pynchon ain't even memes now.
>>7632491
Anti-memed. People are saying they're shitty only because they've been considered good for a long while
>>7632515
>proudly admitting to being an edgy contrarian
And what books do you read?
>>7632338
Props for that MAD book.
>>7632515
what are we replacing them with? we need 2meme
surely we're not disregarding jimjam?
>>7632338
>Infinite Jest side-by-side with Pynchon
every time
>>7632421
>the myth of male power
kek
>>7632689
they both fit in the same genre, nigger
>>7632711
the trash genre? i agree
>>7632338
>no tolstoy
no checkmate here, friend.
>>7632689
Makes me fucking sick
>>7632377
Get a load of this nigger
>>7632711
this is a really depressing post if it isn't satire or trolling or something
How's mine
>>7632893
painfully plebeian
>>7632905
I use my kindle for the most part since I download books
>>7632907
>kindle
oh, it gets better
why does everyone on /lit/ stakc sideways
you know you can fit more books if you vertically stack, right?
>>7632893
>Islamic Finance for Dummies
forwhatpurpose.jpg
>>7632926
Maybe because it's a pain in the ass to retrieve a book from the bottom of a stack. Not to mention the book at the bottom has extra stress on its spine from all the books on top.
>>7632930
So I can become a banker in the emirates and make money
>>7632893
>Islamic finance
>>7632893
Islamic Finance
>Chapter 1. Finding Oil
>Chapter 2. Poppy Farming
>Chapter 3. Goat Breeding
>Chapter 4. Goat Pimping
>Chapter 5. Abductions and Ransoms
>>7632893
how much money do you lose in the stock markets anon?
how much cocks are you willing to suck to get a job at goldman? 20? 50?
>>7632989
I was honestly just curious as to why anon would have a book about Islamic finance, or why there's such a thing as Islamic finance in the first place.
>>7632994
islamic law bans risk and usury, both of which are the cornerstones of the modern financial/banking system. collecting interest would fall under this. as such, finance in islam countries have a lot of weird workarounds and regulations and stipulations to make them halal. for example there's a specific type of bond, sukuk, that plays with ownership and intermediaries to make it compliant.
>>7632998
Joint risk aswell
>>7632421
fucking lol
>>7632377
What an utter pleb.
>>7632998
usury is money sex
Please rate my Dads book shelf.
Please rate my Dads book shelf.
Part 2
Please rate my Dads book shelf.
Part 3
One more to go
>>7633122
This phone is fucking retarded as fuck
>>7633120
a fat old pleb, with specific interests
>>7632893
you read american propaganda and self help books about subjects who require college education to understand, I suggest you read just literature.
>>7632989
its not racism its just sorta random, pleb.
>>7633113
this is how pack of random books looks like,
it seems that this collection was made before creation of internet.
>>7633162
Some of these books were in my family since my grandmother. Lol
>>7632338
chess is nerd game, it's kind of funny and sad that you said that.
Rate MY bookshelf
1 out of 4
With more edge
Part 3
Part 2 ,
Internet shit
Sorry if it's rotated
>>7633380
>PKD
>Pynchon
>RAW
>Borges
>Eco
good stuff.
r8 m8s
read on my cellphone, can read in the dark in my bed and basically every single place I go, since cellphone is one of the few things people never go out without. Also, all those books got for free
>>7633380
>having more than 0 Palahniuk books.
>>7633380
>no logo
>Palahniuk
ewwwww
>>7632893
shelf is IKEA/10
books are firestarter material, hang yourself somewhere we can't see you
>>7632338
OP literally can't s-
>>7633621
mi little sister has awful books too.
>>7633621
>All that wasted paper
Bump
How's everyone doing this evening?
>>7635151
Nice collection!
>>7635151
nice collection senpai.
>>7635151
Did you hang the stars and bars behind your bookshelf?
>>7635151
what edition of the sound and the fury is that?
also i think we would get along
>>7635151
>bookshelf contains most of OP's shelf
>greeted with praise anyway
Stay consistent, /lit/
>>7635250
>>bookshelf contains most of OP's shelf
...and a bunch of fantastic books that OP doesn't have
stay salty OP
can't believe how well known illuminatus is
i'd never heard of or seen it and then I did and now it's everywhere - crazy
>>7635247
It's the Modern Library edition.
>>7633380
>having the edition of the schrodinger's cat trilogy that has all the sex removed
>>7635151
> Rousseau's confessions, library binding edition
My natural brother.
New bookshelf senpai.
What'dya think, anon?
>>7635291
Not him, but I've been looking into picking it up. Link to edition that's complete and uncensored?
>>7635443
You stole that DFW book from a library
Why?
>>7635250
Kek. This is why I come here.
>>7635506
Borrowed it before I went to Japan 9 months ago, and now I owe them over $300 and I'm too scared to go back
It's an angsty, angsty shelf.
>>7635520
Just say you lost it and pay them the $20 or so the books worth.
>>7635520
top kek.
>>7632421
>Real Ultimate Power
10/10
I need to buy another copy of that book.
>>7635520
just drop it in the book drop and gently scuttle away from it so you don't rip your faggot panties
>>7633443
No Logo is a pretty decent book 2bh
would seriously benefit from a revision though, it's been 16 years
>>7635151
is this the /lit/ top 100?jealous of those beautiful Everyman's though fuck
>>7635443
>cat blocking the Stephen King
Nice try
Nothing comfier than a bookshelf thread
1/2
>>7635790
>>7635790
Whoops, not my most recent pic actually.
Oops, uploaded the low-res. here's the shitty high-res
>>7635267
How much of those books have you read?
>>7635799
philosophy student detected
>>7635799
>Dark Souls: The Official Guide
LOL
>>7632705
>Author has to include their PhD suffix to boost their reputation rather than allowing their work to speak for itself
also
>Actually thinking that having a PhD sets you apart nowadays.
>>7635792
bottom right?
>>7636931
Why are they pushed right to the back? Why are your shelves that deep?
>>7636965
To protect them from sunlight, obviously. duh.
>>7636982
Put the bookcase facing away from the window?
The Hobbit is a library book and the top two books are a friend's.
I like to only possess books that I'm actively (or soon to be) reading
>>7633113
dadcore/10
>>7637250
this is strange as FUCK
moving must be very easy for you
>>7635151
mirin that children's tales collection
>>7637529
>this is strange as FUCK
how so?
Also, check this reading chair I bought an hour ago from the local bargain center. Pretty cozy, right? Now I just need a little side table and lamp.
>>7637684
forgot the pic
a lil blurrier than I wanted but
>>7635151
>that Everyman's Library collection
My fucking dick, that's beautiful.
>>7637692
2/3
>>7637708
3/3
>>7633126
Is your dad a virgin?
>>7632893
>Dan Brown
Nigga, is you for real?
>>7635267
>a fucking katana
jesus
>>7635267
bathed in a hazy glow, the indistinguishable books blurring into an uneasy whole that suggests volume rather than quality
>>7632989
>racist
>Islamic finance
A religious view is not an ethnicity, they are a chosen set of beliefs like a political party.
It is literally impossible to be "racist" against Muslims. One could be against racist against Arabs I suppose
>>7632421
hey man this is a worksafe board
my kids browse here
:(
First time posting: broke college-fag reporting in
Not gonna make a own thread for this right now but how do you guys feel about self printed books?
I have quite a number of books I don't really want to buy but I have them as pdf/etc
Does someone here print out books for their shelf?
>>7633414
Am I the only one that considers Borges kinda pompous and not that great?
>>7632421
I don't think that's a bookshelf
>>7635151
>Hundred years of solitude
>Almost same size as Infinite Jest
What?
>>7638124
Right now you're a tryhard pleb, though most people won't be able to tell.
Stick with it and you may very well improve though.
My Samsung has such a shit quality camera, I don't understand it. My older phone was better.
>>7638236
same lol makes zero sense.
>>7638296
I've fucked with the settings per people's advice online for 15 minutes and all the pictures come out blurry as fuck. How can I know how patrician my book collection is when my camera is so pleb?!
>>7637692
How is Dylan's "Chronicles".
I read it glosses over the 60's and the heights of his career in some continuing defiance to be labeled a 'folk' singer or 'protest' singer.
>>7637712
>Burmese Days
My favourite Orwell novel, so underrated.
>>7638142
There was a guy here, I think he was from Russia or Eastern Europe, and could not afford shipping to his country so he printed pdfs out and stapled them together. Pretty crappy looking.
You might try something like coptic stitch but I've never done it and something tells me ordinary printer paper wouldn't be that nice to spend a long time reading. Wouldn't it be hard on the fingers? It might be less effort in the long run just to shell out for a paperback.
Rate mine
>>7638491
He picks strange parts of his career to talk about it but honestly he knows as well as we do that the historians have more to write about his golden period than he does. It's pretty interesting, he takes a bunch of time to tell us about producing Oh Mercy with Daniel Lanois and goes really in depth about what his life was like when be first experienced New York. It doesn't cover any of the famous/seminal moments in his career but it should give you a pretty good idea of where his head is with regard to culture and his tastes especially.
rate my recent cops!
>>7638648
one of them is clearly a different person
>>7635151
you're a fucking confederate?
>>7633113
>That dinosaur book
My nigga. I have he same one
>>7638179
Thick paper + big, spacious text
>>7638659
Canadafag, actually.
>>7635291
I can't find any info on this anywhere, can you give me a source for that, or point me to an uncensored version or something?
Besides, I have that edition and there was plenty of sex
R8 my shelf lads
>>7638652
are you saying they're multibaiting?
>>7638976
Git the FUCK out
>>7638976
reddit/10
>>7639914
Except RP1, HGTG, nothing on her/his shelf is Reditt tire you famming cunt.
>>7638310
What is this from, anon?
1/3
welp, i'm done. fuck it. the rest is russians and greeks. nevermind. i gib up
you know what? fug it. upside down shelf time
one last upside down shelf, for those desperate to see the top level, i know you are. that's wax on the right, btw.
>>7640028
What a terrifying image
How is mine? I think I have other stuff somewhere else. Tried to fit it all so it's out of order
>>7640717
Here's pic my bad
>>7640727
Why do people troll bookshelf threads?
>>7640740
They're easy to troll with no effort. They can do better though.
>>7640740
Why is this trolling? I've never been to this board. Those are definitely my books
>>7640740
>reverse image search it
>nothing comes up
It's not bait.
>>7640740
Why do you? You assume that everyone is your age, your level and is well, you. This could be the best they could afford, be able to understand, just started out, learned to read a year ago. You just don't know, but you like to denigrate other people because it makes you feel bigger "look someone else hasn't come up to my presumed standard", why complain someone else is trying? Fucking child.
>>7640757
Yeah, so recommend me some stuff. Some of them aren't mine "mine," like Stephen King or art of war or Koontz but everything else is stuff I liked.
>>7640759
Not that anon but I think the original poster had decent taste. (Burgess is very good). However, Tbf people bait these threads all the time with The Martian and Ready Player One. That bookshelf was very obviously not bait though.
>>7640762
You have A People's History of the U.S. so I would suggest one of Teddy Roosevelt's autobiographies.
>>7640776
That sounds boring af desu senpai-o I would rather just read something interesting and inspired, being genuine, I usually don't enjoy when it's from the point of view of someone wealthy or well off. My favorites are Bukowski, and Vonnegut, I also like a lot of beat generation stuff like on the road. I'd like to find new things to read
>>7638124
>That lonely Phenomenology of Spirit
Yeaah, you're not fooling anybody tbhfaм
>>7638976
>just purgatorio
>>7641809
I don't get it, m8. I have to have it for uni.
>>7641813
maybe it's a fillysofocle statement.
though,that is pretty weird.
Can we get some actual bookshelves being posted on this thread tonight?!?
>>7642276
i posted mine, all upside down.. but no one said anything. i.. i thought i was at least a little p-patrish
>>7642338
Try posting it right side up and maybe some night owls will give it a look through?
>>7642407
i.. i don't know how
>>7642338
We have the same Proust.
Looking at your shelves it seems like you have a fondness for long books. I'm the opposite, I like them small and perky.
Don't make fun of Atlas Shrugged, I didn't enjoy it either.
>>7642543
memes: the shelf
>>7642543
what did you think of finnegans wake
>>7642560
I read about 60% of it and gave up. There were some genuinely beautiful passages that cropped up (like the Anna Livia part) but it was mostly a snoozefest.
>>7642543
why won't you guys branch out from classics or postmodernism? is it ignorance or are you all tasteless?
>>7642609
Yeah, it's ridiculous.
>no scifi
>no pratchett
>no rowling
>no GRR Martin
And yet these narrow minded fools call themselves "intellectual".
>>7642609
I buy whatever makes me look smartest to my friends and put it on my bookshelf.
>>7642620
same
wanna fuck?
>>7635558
>Homicide
>The Corner
Nice
>>7642617
well OBVIOUSLY I'm excluding genre shit. /lit/ seriously has no clue. there's a thread right now that's like "does anyone else hate anything contemporary" and people are commenting "yeah anything after 1950 is shit" seriously BRANCH OUT. find out what influenced the writer that influenced your favorite writer. read Donald Barthelme's entire syllabus or something. DO NOT JUDGE A BOOK BASED ON ITS PLOT OR SUMMARY
>>7638004
m8 wen ur bopping dwn 2 tesco 2 get a meal deal u've gotta fend off all the chavs somehow
>>7642680
you sound like a huge pleb
>>7632338
Serious question:
Does anyone have folio edition books? Theyre like twice the cost but I wonder if its worth it, the greater books are even more expensive
Like 500$ for the fucking bible? I can't imagine how they could justify it, but I'm also really drawn to getting them. I love leather or ivory books and gold trim.
>>7642963
they;re fine.
quality wise they're prob the best paper books you could buy. whether or not that's "worth it" to you is entirely your decision. they're luxury goods, you're not buying for a 1:1 exchange of price for quality. there's a substantial markup/diminishing marginal returns aspects to it.
>>7635151
Holy fuck I'm rock hard. How expensive was all that SENPAI? If those top right editions are whatvi think they're each well over 80-100 each right?
>>7635558
goat bookshelf anon
Unbroken Spines & The Librarian Aesthetic: the thread.
>>7632893
he buys all his books at the supermarket discount shelf lol
>>7635267
>tallit
ill not take literary suggestions from a shlomo with turn of the century furniture
What is it with people taking photos upside down or sideways?
Now, I'm assuming that the ones which are either upside or sideways and are also 3264x2448 in resolution are taken from iPhones, since that's the same resolution I get from my pictures.
How do you guys post your pictures? Do you not plug your phone into your computer or use iCloud or something to import the pictures from the phone to the hard drive? And then do you not you take the time to open the images in windows photo viewer to see the orientation of the image, and if it's upside down or sideways, you just rotate them with the click of a button or two.
I mean, fuck, how hard can it be?
>>7635558
Hello, anonymous. I would like for you to know that you share a practice in common with my father. Both you and my father are incorrect in this common practice of yours.
Like you, my father maintains his very large bookshelf by setting the spines flush with the shelf. This is incorrect; rather, appropriate book storage requires the books to be flush with the back wall of whatever shelving solution they are contained in. The reason why this is so is because then the books are "pushed in" as far as they can go, and are consequently easily "fixed" if you or someone else should push them or pull them off-kilter. In your system, you have to pull the books out in a goofy way using both hands in order to "present a face", which although it might look nice, is not the primary purpose of having a library. The primary purpose of having a library is to have hard copy to one's self, and the back-wall solution is arguably (though admittedly not necessarily) more aesthetic.
Furthermore, when you're short on shelf/counter space, it provides a little place to put things. No, I'm not talking about plebeian figurines, stuffies or tchotchkies. Let the women decorate with those. I'm talking about a temporary spot for immediate stuff. Lately I've been putting my keys on my shelves sometimes, as well as a few oranges before they turn. The odd beer bottle makes its way there before I deal with them. As I check just now, the only things are few Canadian quarters I need to get rid of.
Furthermore, dusting is a bit easier; you can just swiff out the fronts on a spot sweep when you're in the mood.
>>7642988
Glad you like it, anon. Have a picture of a cat.
The Everyman's Library books were all between $20 and $40, with the War & Peace boxset running about $50, if I remember correctly. Same with the Modern library stuff.
The various paperbacks were all pretty cheap, and the children's books were from my childhood.
The most expensive editions were the Library of America volumes (each were about $40). The Easton Press leather bounds were picked up used, mostly, with prices around $30 each (though, some as low as $10, and one around $80). In fact, a good 50% of everything on those shelves are used.
My biggest investment was the copy of Atlas Shrugged on the far left. It's a first edition that I paid roughly $300 for.
>>7643175
i love this post so much.
>>7640727
Nice shelf, also would you say Pleasures of the Damned is worth getting or is it better to just get his poetry books instead? Does it have his whole complete poetry?
>>7632421
Real Ultimate Power is fucking great
>>7632893
Islamic finance? WTF is that?
>>7633380
All these look unread.
>>7643175
I was really enjoying this post until the random un needed misogyny... wtf 4chan? We're better than this dudes.
>>7644014
Muslims aren't allowed to charge interest, so instead they have to use religiously-acceptable loopholes to charge interest.
>>7644021
Except for Cryptonomicon
>>7632338
>two hypersphere copies
my man
>>7643175
>The reason why this is so is because then the books are "pushed in" as far as they can go, and are consequently easily "fixed" if you or someone else should push them or pull them off-kilter.
That's a bad practice as well. While it is true that book should not be that close to the edge of the shelf, it is better for books to have some flux of air in the back.
The books should not be at the front nor the back or the shelf, but in the middle, leaving a space both behind and in front of the books when possible.
make fun of me /lit/
>>7645951
>>7645956
>>7645959
>>7645951
What are your thoughts on Closing of the American Mind argument compare to today?
>>7645951
What the fuck.
>>7646010
>Surprised to see conservative books on /lit/?
Not surprised to see conservative books, just baffled that you would read so many books on the same subject. Judging by the titles they don't even seen to be academic in nature, just political thoughts regurgitated through all your books.
>>7645951
Nice collection you have there, but how do you reach those from your electric scooter?
>>7645951
Contrarianism is truly the path to enlightenment.
>>7646035
Hogg is very enjoyable but it's more a less an introduction to conservatism. If you imagine Scruton's books but written in the 1940s, that's what it is. I'd recommend it highly if you like that kind of thing anyway.
Schmitt and de Maistre are next on my list in terms of conservative authors, but right now I'm caught up reading a lot of history lit.
Have a bretty big folio collection, but my smaller drama section is probably my favorite
>>7643175
>mfw I have both figurines and stuffies on my bookshelf
>>7646227
>stuffies
Do people actually call stuffed animals this outside of creepy ABDL blogs?
>>7646233
I-I guess so
>>7644218
>we
stay in le-ddit boyo
>>7645991
In what way?
I personally thought its a bit too pessimistic then what happened in reality.
>>7646233
>creepy ABDL blogs
Closet diaper fag detected.
>>7644218
>>7643175
Small books get lost that way
>>7646870
Shouldn't it be "go back to tumblr"?
I mean reddit is like the most misogynistic place on the net.
>>7646986
>dolanfag is into photography now
Fucking lel, the ride never ends.
>>7647024
>muh stemfags cant into art
im good at everything i do m8
>>7646967
wow this trolling is either getting real subtle or you're dead serious
assuming you're serious, the point is that reddit seems to care whether their misogyny is true or false, we just think it's jokes
(to be fair, his joke was kind of shitty, but not for the reasons you point out, it was just laboured and boring)
>>7647032
pretty reddit
>>7638567
Funny
>>7640770
Post your shelf
>>7647825
I don't really have a shelf. I have a lot of books and a nice library nearby so I don't plan on buying many any time soon.
>>7632421
The world could only improve without you in it.
>>7646053
This is a shameful leftoid prejudice. If he had shelves full of books on structual racism I'm sure you would wet yourself with excitement.
>>7647983
no, i'm pretty sure it would be just as weird (probably weirder)
honestly, it's the categorization that gets me -- "i'm feeling the decadence of the world today, better confirm it"
