>>7732980
I'm laughing, but this is /b/ tier.
>>7733190
What the hell kind of contest was this?
What was the grand prize?
Where's the Thrawn Trilogy?
>>7733225
When I was in college there was a book collection contest and I entered my Star Wars collection and I got second place for undergraduates.
>>7733228
>This exists in America.
>>7733228
What was the first place like?
And what about my third question?
>>7733236
Don't remember what the grand prize was. And the Thrawn trilogy is shit.
>>7733228
Was there a graduate competition?
>>7733190
I DON'T LIKE THE NAME LAWRENCE, ONLY FAGGOTS AND SAILORS ARE NAMED LAWRENCE. DO YOU SUCK DICKS?
>>7733228
>americans
>>7733243
Burn your library, right now. Idiot.
>>7733252
>implying T.E. Lawrence is anything less than legendary
Kill yourself.
>>7733190
>Bookshelf thread: Le epik r/books X posting edition
>>7732980
>OP starts a thread
>Asks for a Bookshelf thread
>Contributes his literal pile of shit books he bought from Amazon after browsing /lit/ for a month
>A first poster replies
>It's a picture of an empty bookshelf
>The next post is a shit comment by a person who thinks we care that he's laughing
>The next post is a photograph of a Star Wars book collection
>The rest of the thread is asking questions about the Star Wars book collection
>>7733451
worst post in the thread
>>7733466
other than yours faggot
posting a shelf worthy of this thread
booksehlf threads can either turn out semi decent with patrician/interesting shelves (rare, happens ~20% of the time) or into total shitfests. this one is headed firmly towards the latter.
>>7733492
mate no trying to offend you but holy shit, dutch looks completely bananas. I can pick some stuff of german, even some swedish / norwegian in song names and that sort of thing, but dutch and finnish are just fucking crazy. Why did it end so different from other germanic languages?
>>7734627
The post we deserve but not the one we need right now
>>7734638
also, I know finnish and dutch have no relation whatsoever
>>7734627
>mfw my roommate puts his DS games up on the main room shelf like that along with euphoric shit like Dawkins and Hitch
>mfw he'd probably buy that fucking disgusting shelf
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>>7733252
>>7733492
>Everyday Drinking
Hoi, tweede Nederlander die dat boek gelezen heeft!
>>7734638
I know German and actually Dutch isn't all that different from what I can tell, I don't speak the language but I can make out some words.
For example anon's
"De goddelijke komedie" would be
"Die Göttliche Komödie" in German, Dutch is spelled all fucked up but the words are still rather similar.
It's sort of like if a child that knows letters, but has no clue how to spell, tried to type up German words.
I have no idea what's wrong with the Finns though.
some books i found in storage from my childhood
on top is just whatever I'm currently reading that i keep on my desk
>>7734678
If it came down to it, is the waist of that lamp skinny enough that you could grab it with one hand and smash and intruder with the other end?
>>7734678
ha, i have those too
>>7733252
HOLY DOG SHIT! TEXAS? ONLY STEERS AND QUEERS COME FROM TEXAS PRIVATE COWBOY! AND YOU DON'T MUCH LOOK LIKE A STEER TO ME SO THAT KIND OF NARROWS IT DOWN
>>7735456
>>7734671
Thanks, that makes sense.
I remember reading a while ago about how Mongolian influence made Finland's culture and language stick out due to their dominance lasting longer there or something like that
>>7734687
yeah but just barely and only because I have big hands
>>7735456
Tai Lopez has been confirmed as a comedy sketch by the creators. Check wikipedia if you don't believe me
>>7734659
people who decorate with Batman/ TDK shit are embarrassing
it's why I stopped rooming with people as soon as possible.
>>7735921
He's taken a bunch of my more gullible Facebook friends' money for his courses. I don't think it's a sketch.
1/7
>>7736417
how is that doomsday bunker
>>7736429
2/7
>>7736434
3/7
>>7736439
4/7
>>7736445
5/7
>>7736454
6/7
>>7736464
7/7
>>7736468
what do u mean "first serious post"
>>7736471
The other ones were:
Dogpile shelf
Star wars
Not his bookshelf
Sparse bookshelf
Your 7 posts are the first responses to show some nuance.
>>7736486
oh i thought you meant it was my first post and you'd been following my posts on /lit/. thought i had my first stalker. kind of disappointed.
Reading some of your comments, I realize you guys don't read. You just pretend for whatever sadistic reason and talk shit. This isn't a damn race.
Emerson said he'd rather never read a book than become a satellite instead of his own system.
You guys are the satellites. You base all of your ideas on per-conceived notions instead of taking inspiration from books.
It's as if you're trying to have an objectively good taste or some shit.
A bit chaotic right now but here part I
>>7736467
I have that anthology of American literature aswell. It's actually quite good.
>>7736502
Durrrr
Part II
Part III
i've got more but they're not really easily displayed as theyre in drawers because i simply have too many books for my small quarters
>>7736497
Wow I literally just finished writing an essay on The American Scholar. What do you think about it?
I think his framework of activity is really interesting and the imagery he uses is beautiful in its sort of not-interconnected, dissociative way. also the respiratory metaphor for his theory of books is interesting in the way it plays out throughout the speech.
>>7736504
Yeah I got it for a course I'm in right now on American Lit. Unfortunately it's only a semester, so we can't dive into a lot of the actual text, for time reasons. I'm probably going to take a more focused 20th century american lit course next year, to make up for this one's brevity.
>>7736601
exactly. I can't understand these people who buy brand new books.
If I want a specific edition of something hard to find, I might browse second hand stores, but a brand new book? Ugh, I'd rather spend the money on food clothes or cute girls.
Hello it's 2016. Hello, literally every book is free and online.
>>7736625
Hello, not everyone is poor. Hello, you can't take your money with you when you're dead.
>>7734638
Dutch is just a blend of English and German for the most part. Its very easy to read it you know German.
>>7735569
>Mongolian influence
Read up on the Finnish language, the Finnic languages and the Uralic language group. Short answer: you have no idea what you're talking about.
>>7734678
Why are those books all the same sizes? The Count of Monte Cristo is fucking huge, and Frankenstein is tiny.
>>7737240
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVlOC0bpFq0
>>7737242
Theyre childrens versions
Heavily abridged
>>7736625
>2016
>being poor
Kek
>>7737242
Monte Cristo deserves to be abridged.
Fight me.
>>7736506
Nog was fucking excellent.
Be gentle pls.
>>7737448
2nd bookcase
>>7737453
French section.
>>7737456
Native speaker, or did you learn it?
1/3
>>7737464
2/3
>>7737461
Governess.
Same with English.
>>7737464
lol
>>7732980
tfw someone saved your picture from a shitpost you made several months ago and carries on its legacy with a new thread
>>7738425
>All those never read books used purely for decoration
greatest dh lawrence collection in /lit/ history
>>7738425
I have that same History of Middle Earth set. It's the bomb.
>>7738503
>greatest dh lawrence collection in /lit/ history
>no kangaroo
>>7738503
>greatest dh lawrence collection in /lit/ history
why do you like DH so much... I've recently read Women and Men and was a bit let down. Not saying it wasn't great book, but it didn't really wow me like some of the other modernist classics.
>>7738553
sorry i meant women in love
>>7738546
i see at least one volume of kangaroo. (the black hardcover in the top right)
>>7738553
>sons and lovers
>women in love
Why is this guy so big on the gay agenda?
>>7738573
pretty sure he was gay... he was married to a woman but he once said something to the effect of: the closest thing I've ever came to true love was a 14 year old boy in my childhood mining town
>>7736506
always good to include your social security card in an internet post desu
>>7738580
that's kind of gay but also pretty alpha
>>7738587
i think he also said something like."isnt it interesting how all the greatest men in history have been gays"
>>7736430
>>7738425
>>7735926
My friend was contemplating getting a batman symbol on the side of his car. It would have been the most embarrassing thing.
>>7737448
Rick Owens book, /fa/ detected.
I seriously need to organize my stuff...
>>7738955
>Minecraft Handbook
>Asperger's Syndrome
>How To Make People Like You
10/10
>>7738955
Dinosaurs niiiice
>>7733492
Everyday Drinking by Sir Kingsley Amis ... good taste from an alchie.
>>7737448
first edition rushdie...same copy i have.
>addicted to first editions
>first editions of Nabokov, Borges, Beckett and others...costing a small fortune over time.
>>7736445
Fitzgerald, you made the right choice anon
>>7737468
what is that book sitting on its back on the middle shelf with the yellow cover?
>>7734627
I hate hate hate hate this. Do you realize what this would do to your books if you left them there for longer than a day or two??? Great way to do permanent damage to them.
Also, is that a set of Elric novels on the left? If so, nice
>>7739765
How is alphabetical autistic? It's the most normal and boring way to sort.
Chronological is the autist way.
>>7739769
i thought so too.. look around on these bookshelf threads though. Almost nobody has the decency to alphabetize
>>7739789
Alphabetization is useless when you have over a certain number of books though. You get no sense of the development of literature across era or area or any idea of what you have most of, sans specific authors, when your eyes trail over the shelves.
Especially useless for non-fiction.
>>7737489
what is it with this board and posh people
>>7737468
What edition of blood meridian is that?
>>7738425
triggered to fuck. You suck so bad, my god.
>>7739714
That's a book about Swiss artists Cuno Amiet and Ferdinand Hodler.
>>7740796
pleb af
>>7737448
>Anne Hermans - De co-assistent
>>7733243
>Thrawn trilogy is shit
>nothing on my shelf is shit
>>7733492
>Dante's work in Dutch
Kerel..
>>7737222
>you can't take your money with you when you're dead
>implying that's an excuse to spend your money on unnecessary shit
>>7741014
That's where the "not poor" thing comes into play, my man.
>>7738425
i hate that the rich people have this much money to blow on their shitty so-called "literature" while i'm scrubbing every buck to buy a new book on philosophy i really need. also this is probably from reddit or a tumblr of ugly middle aged woman still mentally in her teens. yikes.
>>7740852
As an intern it's kind of a fun read, very recognisable. Not literature by any means.
>>7741097
>That shoulder chip tho
>>7734638
German is more difficult than Dutch though.
>>7741361
250k what, you retard?
>>7741097
No one cares how poor you are, get an e reader on ebay and pirate the books if money is that much of an issue.
>>7741361
>implying i earn under 250k
>implying 250k is rich
get a load of this guy
>>7742058
>>7742060
