itt show of what you have, call everyone a pseud, examine book spines, and make fun of anyone who didn't hide their game of thrones books
scifi series 1/2
2/2
philosophy/classics 1/2 (missing intro to Aristotle, basic works of Aristotle)
philosophy 2/2
metaphysics occult
stuff that fits in this spot
fiction
fiction history sorta politics I'm selling all of my nrx/manosphere stuff thats not evola so all I have left is rand, unfortunately
How'd you like the Secret Teachings of all Ages
who the fuck knows whats in all this
>>7690730
nevermind, I thought it was a different book by a dude named moses.
>>7690730
alot it has much,much less new age bullshit than most books and touches on mostly fringe elements of accepted, and semi accepted philosophy.
>>7690741
Is that the full color edition and layed out like the first edition? Because if so, HNNNNNGGGG
I picked up all the books in my dorm just for you /lit/ now ridicule me
>>7691651
>taylor classical mechanics
It's alright. I found I needed to supplement it with an old copy of Marion Thornton from time to time.
>Foucault
Next to the science I can't tell which Foucault it is
Been a little while since I've posted. Shelves from my study and living room.
1/3
>>7691726
2/3
>>7691726
>>7691730
3/3 (living room books)
>>7691687
>It's alright. I found I needed to supplement it with an old copy of Marion Thornton from time to time
I refer to Boas' Mathematical Methods pretty often but as for the actual physics I'm p satisfied with Taylor.
>Next to the science I can't tell which Foucault it is
Foucault Reader. I've been studying a particular aspect of his thought so I picked that up to skim through to get a sense for the broad ideas.
>>7691726
How is the seven pillars of wisdom? I've considered reading it a few times but never looked for it. Lawrence of Arabia is my Dad's favorite movie so I've heard tons about it. I can't bring myself to throw out the dust covers on my everyman books though.
>>7691733
Oh god all the good things I thought about the first two pics are ruined by those gaudy barnes and noble hardbacks.
>>7691736
Undergrad? If not or if planning on grad stuff ever Arfken is easy to get ahold of cheap and much more helpful. I go to it often.
>>7691733
>All those Barnes and Noble leather-bound books
You were doing so well up until this point
>>7691752
>How is the seven pillars of wisdom?
It's pretty good, and worth reading if you're interested in the middle east. Parts of it are a bit dry (it's not quite the pure 'adventure story' that 'Lawrence of Arabia is' - well, it is, but it is more than that), but some of the descriptions of the Arabs in the desert are quite lyrical.
>...those gaudy barnes and noble hardbacks.
It was a phase I went through. They don't look all that bad in person, and I still enjoy the ones with the Dore illustrations.
>>7691770
That's fair. I have Monte Cristo and Holmes but after reading them they just felt so cheap and were so typo ridden that I decided they were all around not worth it.
>>7691770
>The common base of all the Semitic creeds, winners or losers, was the ever present idea of world-worthlessness. Their profound reaction from matter led them to preach bareness, renunciation, poverty; and the atmosphere of this invention stifled the minds of the desert pitilessly. A first knowledge of their sense of the purity of rarefaction was given me in early years, when we had ridden far out over the rolling plains of North Syria to a ruin of the Roman period which the Arabs believed was made by a prince of the border as a desert-palace for his queen. The clay of its building was said to have been kneaded for greater richness, not with water, but with the precious essential oils of flowers. My guides, sniffing the air like dogs, led me from crumbling room to room, saying, 'This is jessamine, this violet, this rose'.
>But at last Dahoum drew me: 'Come and smell the very sweetest scent of all', and we went into the main lodging, to the gaping window sockets of its eastern face, and there drank with open mouths of the effortless, empty, eddyless wind of the desert, throbbing past. That slow breath had been born somewhere beyond the distant Euphrates and had dragged its way across many days and nights of dead grass, to its first obstacle, the man-made walls of our broken palace. About them it seemed to fret and linger, murmuring in baby-speech. 'This,' they told me, 'is the best: it has no taste.' My Arabs were turning their backs on perfumes and luxuries to choose the things in which mankind had no share or part.
Perhaps it's time to get a better phone.
There are a couple books by Garcia Marquez missing.
>>7691630
>>7690693
>inconsistent Dune editions
>>7691726
>xenophon
that guys hard to find in my local shops been trying to get his stuff forever. good to see someone resuming with the romans as well
>>7691730
why do you have a 20 volume dictionary?
anyways seems like a sold shelf 10/10 besides all the b&n but I guess we all end up with some sooner or later
recent one
>>7691726
>>7691730
>>7691733
>see awesome anon from many threads ago post again.
>remember these shelves fondly
>3rd pic
>every B&N leather
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
>>7690689
Horrible, just like every other useless mouthbreather's bookshelves which will be posted here, with exactly the same books as you. You're the edgy 4chan mirror image of the Reddit r/books circlejerks, and, looking at some of your books, it looks like you've come from there too.
>>7692729
Like I said, it was a phase I went through a few years ago. Once I was out of that phase, people would still give me them as gifts, so the collection continued to grow on its own at that point. To be fair to the B&N books, their bindings are at least as good as modern day hard-covers, and they don't look as awful in the context of the room as a whole as they do in just a close up shot of the shelf. While I don't 'collect' them anymore, my biggest issue with them is in use of bad or old and out-dated translations (in the books where that complaint applies). I also think they actually have a pretty decent selection of sci-fi books that I wouldn't otherwise expect to see not in a pocket paperback format.
>>7692480
The Oxford English Dictionary is great, anon. It's like an encyclopedia for words. If you ever get interested in etymology (and if you write a decent amount, you *should* get interested in etymology, so that you choose the right and most appropriate words), it's an invaluable and unsurpassed resource.
Reading corner
1/?
>>7693763
2/?
Art/design/medical bookcase
>>7693766
3/?
French section in the hallway.
>>7693770
4/4
Design overflow section.
Be gentle.
>>7693774
/fa/g detected
>>7692834
Underrated comment. This describes OP and these threads, pretty well.
>>7691733
This has to be bait. Those things are gawdy.
I have a vast collection of conservative and neoconservative books. Anyone interested?
>>7694443
Very much
>>7691938
Wait, is that 2666 in english? Why fo you have that if you can read in Spanish?
>>7693770
You're lacking an awful lot of Colette in there. Also sort your shelf in order, I can see Sartres' plays tossed here and there without any particular reason.
>>7690693
Isn't the whole point of a bookshelf to make an impression on others?
I think the whole shelf being scifi defeats that purpose.
>>7690689
>Search Google for this shelf
>It's real
>>7694821
I am 99% sure bookshelves are for holding books
>>7695484
>>7695487
>>7695490
>>7695496
>>7695501
>>7695504
>>7695506
>>7695514
>>7695378
e readers are for holding books
you can put thousands into the space of an envelope
Bookshelves are for showing off
>>7695520
>>7695524
>ebook fag
explains everything
>>7693770
do you live in Paris? Those all look like they've come straight from those big green stalls by the river
>>769380774
Ricky is love, ricky is life.
>>7694761
Former
>>7694815
There are some Colette's behind the rest, I think at least there should be.
I'm moving soon, can't be arsed to sort.
>>7695571
S,M,L,XL is a meme book, nobody has read it, it just looks cool on the shelf.
It might be very boring to anyone not into architecture.
>>7695923
No, did get them there.
>>7690715
>book of lies
>prometheus rising
>Kyballion
mah nigga
Grave's The Greek Myths collection looks so nice.
>>7690722
>A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man has clovers on it
Lel
>>7696733
Damn, Folio Society always has gorgeous covers.
This. But six times bigger.
>>7696787
Next shelf.
>>7696767
Folio is tacky.
>>7691894
>The NEET Bible
>Your diary, desu
>>7696814
Only some of it
A lot of it is really nice
>>7696829
Folio is for people who don't read.
>>7696733
I like the design on the boards but not the spine or the slipcase
>>7698183
This.
It's catnip for middlebrows.
>>7694782
It's in Spanish, the Vintage Español edition has that cover. Pic related.
>>7696829
scum
>>7698559
Need a close up of the gargoyle, looks like he's standing guard making sure no one fucks with those Easton press editions
>>7698559
jesus christ you've really been duped
>>7698559
The funniest part was reverse googling this.
>>7696814
This desu senpai.
>>7695504
Have you even opened those 2 vol Mediterranean books by Braudel?
>>7700045
I get to them more by reference or when I have specific question in mind rather than close reading start to finish.
I might try to cover it in particular in the future from historiography point of view, but I want to get before this to Marc Bloch.
I never come to here EVER, but fuck it I'll post my fledgling collection. I know it will either piss everyone off or will be the centre of much ridicule. I regret nothing 1/2
>>7700167
patrician
>>7700167
>Inflatable Cock Fighting
>>7700197
I genuinely have no idea what that is
>>7700167
>reading that whole series
You could literally read the entire western canon faster than that series
>>7700167
>Inflatable Cock Fighting
>>7697228
yes it is, everyone should read it.
>>7691726
I really enjoy your first photo of your shelves. I see quite few David McCullough and Gore Vidal
>>7696814
glad I'm not the only one who thinks this
>>7698183
Actually all physical copies are for people who don't read. You can read anything you want on your computer, basically for free(tm).
>>7700734
Not really and dependant on how someone can understand better
Are you guys book fetishists too?
>>7700831
Of course the guy with the gaudy keyboard also has gaudy books
>>7700841
poor quality taste
1/2 R8, m8s.
2/2
>>7700668
I have two or three McCulloughs, but I don't think there are any Vidals in those pictures...
another bump
>>7690718
>RP Dices
muh niger
>>7700831
>mechanical keyboard
>gaymen mouse
>gaudy books
Like clockwork
>>7700951
Do you sell used books or something?
>>7700951
Based alianza editorial
>>7704068
>I can't tell the difference between a trackball and a gayman mouse.
When you see a trackball and mechanical keyboard you need to assume that the person works at their computer.
>>7700831
Quijote edition? And more photos if you can, anon.
damn. first i forgot to attach pic, then it was sideways...
My bookshelf at work, in a cage. I just got 61 early novels to photograph - lined up on the center shelves. I'm starting with "An Interesting Sketch of Genteel Life" by "A Lady" in 1782.
>having a physical bookshelf
>>7700951
>coffee mug on book
>>7700958
What schopie books are the ones top right?
Who the fuck still keeps books after you've read them?
Sell them if they are hardbacks or bin them if they are paperback.
>>7704458
>Who the fuck still keeps books after you've read them?
>Sell them if they are hardbacks or bin them if they are paperback.
>>7704458
Taleb?
>The writer Umberto Eco belongs to that small class of scholars who are encyclopedic, insightful, and nondull. He is the owner of a large personal library (containing thirty thousand books), and separates visitors into two categories: those who react with “Wow! Signore professore dottore Eco, what a library you have! How many of these books have you read?” and the others — a very small minority — who get the point that a private library is not an ego-boosting appendage but a research tool. Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as your financial means, mortgage rates, and the currently tight real-estate market allows you to put there. You will accumulate more knowledge and more books as you grow older, and the growing number of unread books on the shelves will look at you menacingly. Indeed, the more you know, the larger the rows of unread books. Let us call this collection of unread books an antilibrary.
>>7704368
No It's just a mediocre, mid century translation. I liked the illustrations and book II is one of my favoite books of all time. I do wish they just used the dore illustrations though.
>>7704458
You've never read a book more than once?
>>7704483
Similar reasons for picking up the chekhov book. It was 6 dollars at powell's book store in Portland and I had another of the same uncredited water j black 1929 publication with an unaccredited translator. It's not Garnet and it's really good.
>>7700841
That's like the bog standard of any keyboard that isn't out of a bin.
>>7700831
I've got a really nice collection of some of Shakespeare but I don't have a photo and can't be bothered taking it but you're not alone.Even if you use a razer keyboard
>>7704530
I would have said that if I didn't try the 2016 version of it. It's one of the best tactile keyboards I've ever had. I prefer buckling springs but they aren't illuminated and they don't have a USB passthough both of which are very useful for my job since I edit video in a darkened space a lot of the day.
It's a really sunny day. Still working on sorting out my non-fiction and putting it separate from fiction.
Right now I'm collecting all the volumes in the Masterworks of Ukiyo-e series, and trying to find all the books that are just catalogs of "Japanese stuff" (Made in Japan, Things Japanese, Japanese Things, All Japan, Japanese Design, Wa, etc.).
>>7700951
>Julio Verne
1/3
>>7704899
Rest of the files are too large so I'll just post this
>>7704923
You wouldn't just resize them?
all in spanish, less Dune. top left are some books of my career. i know i have shit taste
>>7704429
World as will and representation.
Parerga and Paralilomena I / II in German from 1854.
Schopenhauer by Bryan Magee
Schopenhauer by Safransky
And many essays coming from P&P and the editorials sell as different books.
>>7705230
>Buying books from Sanborns
>>7696733
Too bad he put too much of himself in the writing. The covers are pretty.
>>7698559
This bookshelf is an insult to literature.
>>7700167
Those books are so garbage.
>>7704569
I don't like your style.
>>7705683
The furniture is just Ikea.
If you mean the knick-knacks, well, that's understandable.
>>7705764
I just mean everything in general. The ikea shizz is fine, but the decorations and taste in books is pretty strange, and I don't mean just from an anti-japanophilic perspective. I don't know, I think overall it feels too feminine. Don't mind me, all a matter of taste.
>>7705775
Likely because it's the living room of a married couple; we have lots of stuff and different tastes, so things end up looking muddled.
What's strange about my taste in books, though? Here's the title-viewable pictures of the shelves. 1/6
>>7705811
>>7705817
Whoops, I meant five bookcases.
These are missing the stuff I've got over the past two weeks though, like the ukiyo-e books, the Moomin series, some nice art/design books on steep discount and a bunch of books on food history.
>>7705825
>>7705832
(also I got more games at Target the other day; they have a neato retro design line and I got Uno, Skip Bo and Scrabble)
what does /lit/ think of my pile of books?
>>7705864
I think you should get your shit together and buy a fuckmothering bookcase.
At least you have Borges's Collected Fiction.
>>7705882
I'm a uni student that moves around a lot
The Pile is the most efficient bookcase I have atm
>>7705864
>>7705882
Solid collection if you've actually read even 10% of the thicker tomes, also what he said.
And, ffs, get a bookcase, even if it's old woodplanks atop brick. Seriously, you shouldn't even put 5 lbs of weight on top any paperback like that. Months of Jenga-tilting and those spines will warp for the worst.
>>7705894
1. Make an improvised bookcase of flat boards and anything heavy that will add height between the boards.
2. Buy cheap boxes with dimensions that will show a row of 20 book spines at the top (heavier books will require more compact or more durable boxes).
3. Stack those boxes inside the makeshift bookcase.
4. Disassemble quickly anytime in case of travel.
5. Rinse and repeat.
>>7690729
>IJ
good one m8
>>7704469
What is this guy from. It is on the tip of my tongue but I can't quite remember.
I guess this is the most appropriate place to put this.
Where do I find a new hardcover of this book for under $70. What the fuck is this bullshit?
It doesn't just apply to this one either, why are new hardcovers of certain older books so fucking expensive?
>>7706586
http://www.biggerbooks.com/consider-lobster-wallace-david-foster/bk/9780316156110
http://product.half.ebay.com/Consider-the-Lobster-And-Other-Essays-by-David-Foster-Wallace-2005-Hardcover-David-Foster-Wallace-2005/46587406&item=345698772716&tg=videtails
>>7706644
how nice
thanks lad
>>7705864
what translation of war and peace is that
>>7706665
Garnett
>>7705683
wow rude
>>7700958
>Philosophy of Schopenhauer
nice. sweet. i feel like it's more valuable to understanding Schopenhauer than his essays. Really all you need is Magee's book and vol I and II of WWR
>>7695530
do you have parkinson's or something mate?
>>7706705
>Garnett
>>7705811
you should make a thread with japonese lit suggestions, bro
>>7691630
huge haruki murakami fan here. Which one of his books is your favorite if you had to pick one?
>>7708840
go back to r/books. murakami is not welcome here
>>7708854
Obvious troll trying to frame an innocent tumblrtard into getting flamed, but still, that shelf is cancer.
I'm new to buying books. What's everyone's experience with Penguin Classics and Oxford Modern Classics? All the bookstores in my area sell only in my native language, so I can't check them out myself.
>>7708878
>Wisdom
That's a funny way to spell ideology
>>7708878
>more wisdom
MEIN GOTT
>>7708878
I hate left wingers, but I hate you more.
>>7708817
I used to; we used to have a Japanese literature general thread in the way there's a sci-fi/fantasy general.
But the Jlit recommendation chart is great enough for general recs.
