post 'em
Reposting some shelves I guess.
>>7680574
>>7680578
>>7680587
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>>7680604
>>7680609
And all together
>>7680578
>Aniara
>In Chinese
I'm curious, how's the translation? Does it translate well into Chinese?
For Christ's sake. What are we doing? Why is showing everyone the books that you own important to you people?
"Here in my garage, just bought Heart of Darkness. I read a different book everyday."
Have you nothing to discuss?
Go and buy some Pokemon cards if collecting shit is all you want to do.
>>7680595
If you had only posted this one, I'd have assumed you were a pleb (Adams, Nix, Bradbury, Eggers, Cline, Wolfe) but overall it's pretty good.
>>7680536
I cant treat seriously peoples with muh bookshelves. I imagine they are just rats, wagecucks scums, and they are paying money for books they do not read later. I am neet and dont buy any books, but i at least read everyone i borrow and pirate
1/?
It's divided up ok, I wish I could have a space only for books but archery and magic need love too
>>7680775
>put autistic atheists on the same shelf as thomas aquinas and boethius
>having carlos saganez on either side of thomas aquinas and boethius
>>7680536
That library is complete garbage. Most of the time I can't find what I'm looking for.
>>7680814
it's an actual library? i thought it was a b&n.
>>7680808
You can't read a book without breaking the spine? I get the feeling that most of the things you own are sticky.
>>7680825
It is, here in Buenos Aires.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Ateneo_Grand_Splendid
>>7680685
How triggered do you get when you see an automobile?
>those rats, wagecuck scum, they could be taking the bus! Or getting a ride in mom's minivan like me! how dare they spend money they earned on things I can't have!
>>7680660
This threads are the only oportunity that /lit/ people have to show their dicks to the world with the hope that will impress somebody
>>7680599
>P&V translation of brothers karamazov
>>7680660
This. If people actually read the books then we could make /lit/ great again.
>>7680761
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>>7680769
>all these perfect franklin library
>fucking barnes and noble lovecraft and alice in wonderland
>>7680808
oh look they're back again
>>7680802
One of the most Reddit shelves that I've ever seen.
>>7680599
what are those asian books on the upper shelf
>>7680785
I agree. It is a sore discredit to the atheists to have to share a shelf with fantasists who in point of actual fact never did the things that they, or others, think that they did.
>>7681430
Upboated, my kind kinsman. The Narwahl bacons at midnight.
>>7680782
Gorgeous franklin library books
Hm you pay?
>>7680574
Have you read all those translations? Also, Tell me about orlanda furioso and remove TLOTIAT from that shelf.
>all that mann
Mann triggers me because I know a guy named Mann that used to bone my gf. Probably blew big german loads all over her face.
>>7681438
are you from 2013?
Me being a liberal hippy douche
I don't like to hoard shit because it goes against my ideology. Showing how many beautiful books may make you look smart, but whats the use if you choke up every time someones asks an opinion?
Thats why the library is my best friend. Forever.
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>>7681466
$ 25 - 45 CDN, depending on the book.
>>7680536
That's the grand splendid right?
>>7681180
Whats wrong with P&V?
>>7681549
The library costs too much when they have to interlibrary loan the book I want, which is almost all the time.
Often I can buy it for cheaper than the postage to loan it.
>>7681188
>barnes and noble lovecraft and alice in wonderland
>barnes and noble
Are you stupid.
>>7680829
If the book is about an 1.5" thick, it's going to be impossible to read it without bending the spine.
You pretentious cunts are just buying to look smart.
>>7681949
Nothing really. Their translations are more entertaining than most and that bothers people who want Dostoevsky to be boring and unpopular.
>>7680808
>>7682028
oh poorfag, it's you again?
tell me, are you really that retarted, kiddo?
read and respect books; they ain't your wifes.
>>7682034
fuck off retard
>>7682289
They lose all the humanity of the writing. They translate things very literally and don't seem to understand the original work like Google Translate. Things like humor, sarcasm, spitefulness, playful word choice, don't come through.
Check out comparisons in text between P&V and the Garnett translation revised by Matlaw.
>>7682311
Alright, which translations should I get for
>Crime and Punishment
>The Brothers Karamazov
>Notes from Underground
>>7682317
>coulson
>garnett/matlaw
>garnett/matlaw
>>7682311
this is a bald faced shitposting lie. P&V purposefully go for the humour and specific word choices of the writers. try harder.
>>7682344
You're objectively wrong.
Source: Me. I've actually read them.
>>7682341
aight, thank you for spoonfeeding me
>>7682350
Different anon here
You're objectively wrong.
Source: Me. I've actually read them.
Fuck off, stop being a faggot.
>>7682376
The Garnett is shit m8, don't do it. Almost anybody who is anybody will tell you those are almost the worst available.
Nabokov, Brodsky, and plenty of critics thought her translations ruined good works.
>Though her translations of Turgenev and Chekhov are generally considered virtuosic, her versions of Dostoevsky, Gogol, and Tolstoy have drawn criticism for Victorian elision. Her Gogol translations are “dry and flat, and always unbearably demure,” complained Nabokov. “The reason English-speaking readers can barely tell the difference between Tolstoy and Dostoevsky is that they aren’t reading the prose of either one,” grumbled Joseph Brodsky. The critic Korney Chukovsky summed it up best and most brutally when he wrote, “Who does not feel the convulsions, the nervous trembling of Dostoevsky’s style? ... But with Constance Garnett it becomes a safe bland script: not a volcano, but a smooth lawn mowed in the English manner—which is to say a complete distortion of the original.” Garnett once wrote, “Dostoievsky is so obscure and so careless a writer that one can scarcely help clarifying him.”
>garnett
>clarifying for Dostoevsky
>>7681536
Are you from Reddit? Trashing the western canon for the expense of Richard Dawkins is the most Reddit comment on this board atm.
>>7682311
It should really be noted that P&V aren't consistently horrible.
I haven't read their translations of Dostoevsky, but I've only heard bad things about them. However, I do have their translations of several of Gogol's works, and they're brilliant.
Your points of contention definitely do not apply to their Gogol translations.
>>7680674
Don't h8 m8, appreci8. Ain't nothing wrong with some middle school reading now and then :>
>>7680685
I sense a lot of anger within you anon.
>>7680946
I've had plenty of nice conversations with people about my books.
>>7681180
I didn't really know of the nuances in translation and differences when I first read Dostoevsky. My first dostoevsky was PV Crime and Punishment, and I later went and read the Garnett version. I honestly preferred the PV version.
>>7681185
>implying
>>7681249
Collected works of Jin Yong/Louis Cha
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jin_Yong
>>7681476
>Have you read all those translations
Yep. I made the Dante chart that you may or may not have seen floating around, if it wasn't obvious.
>Orlando Furioso
Underappreciated and underread. Fantastic imagery and scope. Very important to read as part of the canon considering its influence on guys like Milton and Spenser among others.
>Mann
RIP you.
>>7682028
>If the book is about an 1.5" thick, it's going to be impossible to read it without bending the spine.
That's just not true. For poorly bound stuff like a 1k page Penguin or something I'll grant you that, but hardcovers and sturdier paperbacks can definitely be read without noticeable creases and cracks on the spine.
>>7682132
I had it off the shelf and I took the pictures at separate times.
>>7680612
sup reddit
>>7682506
these don't look that reddit. actually they look a lot less reddit than most shelves i see on /lit/
>>7682509
>They don't look that Reddit
>Ready Player One
>>7682480
Go back to high school.
>>7682488
I can't speak for her Gogol or Tolstoy, I haven't read her versions of those. There are just as many critics that will tell you her Dostoevsky is good, though. Opinions vary so much from scholar to scholar.
>>7682497
I haven't read any P&V Gogol, but have a few friends who have read their Dead Souls. Heard bad things. The Guerney/Fusso version I read, I loved. I've compared some passages using a friends copy, and P&V was so stale.
>>7682503
Haven't read Garnett's C&P, I read the Coulson translation, which was great. Garnett does get a lot of flak and some of it is certainly justified. In fact, all the Garnett work I've read has been revised by one scholar or another decades later, using her original as a base, but improved upon. The Matlaw versions of BK and Notes were really good.
>>7682522
>judging a shelf on 1 book out of hundreds
wew lad
>>7682604
Ready Player One is just that bad.
>>7682522
Ready Player One was a gift from a friend. I read it on a plane ride over the course of a couple of hours. It was enjoyable for what it was and I don't regret reading it. It's not high literature but I'm not going to sperg out about it.
I'll probably go watch the movie with said friend when it comes out too :)
>>7680574
>all that Dante
.>TLOTIAT on the same shelf
>>7682537
You're being a fucking hipster with Garnett, and you won't admit it.
Provide a critic that
1)Supports Garnett
and
2)Says P&V are as shit as you say.
>>7682503
I had a feeling you must be the one who did the translation chart. Thanks for that BTW.
1/6
2/6
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>>7682760
>liking the most widely used translations of russian classics is "hipster"
lol
5/6
>>7682760
>being a hipster with garnett
I literally just said I've only read her works as revised by others as well as said there is justified criticism of her. I've intentionally skipped translations shes done in favor of others depending on the work. You're being a retard.
http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2013/01/the-pevearvolokhonsky-hype-machine-and-how-it-could-have-been-stopped-or-at-least-slowed-down
https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/the-pevearsion-of-russian-literature/
Just a couple of examples, do your own research.
One thing I remember about P&V that I actually appreciate was them keeping the original French in their version of War and Peace. Their philosophy of trying to keep as close to the Russian as possible, I agree with. The biggest problem I have is that their prose seems like it loses the subtleties from the original, like they didn't understand the context of what they were reading.
>>7682861
>capital vol 1
>2
>3
>actually read
HOLY FUCK
you win the prize for first bookshelf poster to post their copy of capital that actually read it.
>>7682911
maybe he just bought used copies
>>7682913
aw fu-
i wanted to believe...
>>7682918
i mean you can still believe. it's not like there's absolutely no one who reads Capital. i just floated it as a possibility~
>>7680599
>The third reich
TopPatrisian.jpg
6/6
>>7682911
i've also read the majority of theories of surplus value. another 700 pages.
also bonus 7/6
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>>7680782
>Ayn Rand
I am absolutely disgusted
>>7683066
im genuinly confused why someone would buy all those leather bound books. its just bizarre. most of them look like shit as well.
>>7683159
I'm genuinely confused why people dislike fine press editions of books. At a certain number of books, your shelves become the focal point of any room they're in. Why keep a room looking like public library when fine press editions are available on the cheap? Also, I get much more enjoyment reading a fine press book with thick, archival quality paper and a sewn spine. Call me a book binding douche, I don't care.
>>7683066
Undamaged spines don't mean unread. Invest in a book cradle.
My shelf is this neat little pile- don't read too too much just whatever interests me
>>7682492
As a Swede there's should be no reason to not have read it, since it's in the intended language. Just make sure to read it with a study companion or take notes if the political message interests you.
My condolences about it being out of print.
>>7683405
book binding douche
>>7683448
Nice books. We have similar tastes.
Bottom shelf reserved for memes and library-sale purchases
>>7683448
the novelization of alien, was it good?
>>7682503
Orlando Furioso isn't underrated at all, perhaps here on /lit/. I suggest reading Orlando Innamorato too by Boiardo.
>>7683559
>P&V translation of Brothers Karamazov
oh boy here we go.jpg
>>7683902
>translations meme meme
1/3
2/3
3/3
>>7683972
>P&V translation of Brothers Karamazov
Is it autistic to buy books just for my shelves but read everything on my kindle?
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>>7680802
pseud.
>>7684004
It's a huge waste of money, that's for sure. Maybe you're rich and people come over to your house all the time and you think they might wanna pilfer through your massive library, but somehow I don't think that's the case.
>>7683978
Is that you, gass poster?
>bookshelf thread
>owning books
>being a cuck to earthly possessions
Listen here, kiddo(s)
All the fuckin' books you need are available at the various libraries over the country. I bet none of you have even read a tenth of what you display on your shelves.
You make me sick.
>>7682503
Any translation or edition of Ariosto's epic you recommend? Should I read Orlando Innamoratto beforehand?
>>7680578
why do you have so many copies of Faust you fucking retard
I, personally, go to the library.
>>7684224
>those fat, pale fingers
>that fake, haughty attitude
>>7680587
>dat dere Faerie Queene edition
Jesus, fucking jelly right now, I even have a Bonet and everything.
>>7684254
You yourself?
>>7684678
>the psychic bible
are you the guy that asked someone to buy it for you in thread 1 or 2 nights ago?
>>7684224
this picture made me laugh not gonna lie
thx anon
why the fuck do you guys put your books at the back of the shelves? Are you all fucking autistic plebs with no taste?
>>7684678
>nicely coiled rope
>religious ikon and texts
>Anais Nin Urrwhere
>Story of O
Someone's kinky.
>>7682626
Fucking kill yourself shitposter
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>>7680788
Holy shit.
>>7685959
You share this objectively incorrect preference with my father (who has a wall full of non-fiction); he also maintains the spines flush to the front plane of the shelf.
This is clearly an incorrect practice, however, and I have explained why before, with reference to same. My shelf is logical. When books are pushed to the back, this creates the possibility for front-shelf space to set bits and bobs when the need arises - loose change, empty bottles, a piece of fruit. Also, this arrangement is more congruent with a library of material that is actually read and replaced, instead of an impenetrable "display wall".
Furthermore, the slighest disturbance can shatter this front-plane facade-just push a book in a little bit! The alternative, meanwhile (which is how material is actually organized in most book stores and libraries), is harder to disrupt. Once you push it in all the way (so to speak), there's only so far it can go if your setup has a back, or a wall (it should).
You guys might get a kick out of my bookshelf. 1/2.
2/2.
>>7687262
It's really easy to re-align your books to the front. I don't even think about doing it anymore, just something that happens when I'm replacing/taking something out.
You should have a hall/entryway shelf for loose change/misc. garbage, imo. That doesn't go on your bookshelf. Actual knick-knacks, sure, they can accent bookshelves nicely. But not pieces of food.
that sure was a lot of cropping for the sake of a potato-quality image of textbooks and illegible >genre fiction, I hope it brings someone mirth
>>7680573
>Lupin paraphernalia
Mah nigga
>>7687213
I love eroticism, death, and religion. One book, well, play that perfectly marries the three is Peter Shaffer’s Equus. It’s written from the perspective of a psychoanalyst, who is dealing with a young kid that stabbed out the eyes of six horses. And it turns out that his state and way of thinking was molded by having a religious mother and an atheist father. The kid turned his religious way of thinking to horses, and the psychoanalyst slowly starts doubting whether the kid is actually right and the school of psychology is wrong.
>>7687845
Is this you then?
http://tomorrowmanagement.com/madsteglers/portfolio/i-d-magazine/
>>7680761
hows that salt rock lamp working out for you M8?
>>7680802
>henry kissinger and the Koran on the same shelf
lol
too lazy to take better pics
>>7688067
Yes. I'd say Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille is an influence. The book appealed to me in a way that nothing I ever read before had, and it really sparked my interest for both reading and writing. Bataille's writing is so vivid, and no matter how bizarre the scenarios in the novel might be, it's still soaked in this vision of beauty and ecstasy. Ever since I read that, it seems like all the right books end up in my hands: Equus, Heart of Darkness, The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea, Thief's Journal, and Torture Garden have been very inspiring reads this year.
>>7680840
It's bookstore, not library. Familiar mio
