How badly did I get meme'd?
all good books but your lumping them together proves you are a mindless drone who probably didn't read any of them
did you read any of them..?
>>7897009
then yea you got memed pretty hard. tough luck bro.
>>7897000
I've read all of them except A Frolic of His Own.
>GUYS AM I /LIT/ YET?!?!?!?!? XDXDXDXD
>>7897009
>this is 95% of /lit/
>>7896995
>all first editions
>all unread
please fuck off and never come back here
>>7897009
fuck me(me) you got meme'd hard
>reading anything post-1900
You're wrecking yourself there, m8.
That's a ridiculously expensive collection, provided they're yours and they aren't book-club editions.
I have a 1st Ed. Crying of Lot 49 and it's easily the most expensive book I own.
>>7897036
holy shit, google image search returns nothing else
either it's a well-read legitimately highbrow book collector condescending to /lit/ or a rich teenager who actually ordered hundreds of dollars worth of books to troll
either way it's unusual
>>7896995
I'd say Sebastian's, CAPSGUY's, or Ravens goodreads lists are more impressive than /lit/ regurgitation like this
>>7897050
ÔP here, I have read them all save A Frolic of His Own. It's taken a long time to find them all at reasonable prices.
>>7896995
Absolute madman
>>7897056
how much did you pay for GR?
>>7897177
70 USD. It's a book club. I've been on the look out for a true first edition but I don't want to pay over 100
>>7897227
i hear that, nice find anyway.
>>7897240
Thanks, if you're looking for one just keep an eye out. Local book stores, abebooks and eBay
Wishlist.
>Philosophy
Herodotus, Histories
Waterfield, The first philosophers
Plato, Complete works
Aristotle, The complete works of Aristotle
Augustine, The city of God
Davies, Aquinas
Aquinas, Shorter Summa
Descartes, The philosophical writings of Descartes
Spinoza, Complete works
Leibniz, Philosophical essays
Rescher, G. W. Leibniz's Monadology
Locke, An essay concerning human understanding
Berkeley, Philosophical writings
Hume, A treatise of human nature
Hume, Enquiries concerning human understanding and concerning the principles of morals
>Misc
Wallace, Infinite jest
Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse 5
Salinger, The catcher in the rye
Wolfe, The book of the new sun
Proust, In search of lost time
Hemingway, The old man and the sea
Doyle, The complete Sherlock Holmes
Lovecraft, The complete works
Stirner, ...
Gaddis, The recognitions
Melville, Moby Dick
>In their original language
Borges, Ficciones
Virgil, Aeneid
Cervantes, Don Quijote
>Nonfiction
Cowan, The complete Lojban language
LaFleur; Scribblers, sculptors, and scribes
Bühler, Gauss
Hardy, A mathematician's apology
Kanigel, The man who knew infinity
Rudin, The way I remember it
Souza/Silva, Berkeley problems in mathematics
>Programming
Knuth, The art of computer programming
Cormen et al, Introduction to algorithms
Hunt/Thomas, The pragmatic programmer
Petzold, CODE
Kernighan/Ritchie, The C programming language
Friedman/Felleisen, The seasoned schemer
O'Sullivan et al, Real world Haskell
Lipovaca, Learn you a Haskell for great good!
Barski, Land of Lisp
Pierce et al, Software foundations
Gamma et al, Design patterns
>>7897569
2/3
>>7897583
3/3
Reposting because nobody bothered to reply in the last thread for whatever reason
>>7897569
Do you study computer science? If so, how do you like it? I've been considering it heavily myself
>>7897623
>conservatism
>gook shit
>bukowski
>books sideways to show off the cover
>>7897669
>conservatism
nothing wrong with this
>>gook shit
racist
>books sideways to show off the cover
How else would I place them, retard? I need to see them myself.
Is everyone on /lit/ an e-reader or library user? I feel like every time these bookshelf threads come around, no one has any books. I have 2.5 wide, 5 shelf bookshelf that is filled up and then some, and I feel like I have basically nothing. Then I come in here and people have like 10-15 books. Who are you, and what is your method of consumption?
>>7897659
Yes, I'm in college for computer science right now (1st year). It's usually easy, sometimes interesting, sometimes boring. Learning about machine code and architecture was extremely dull for me but algorithms, coding, and robotics was fun. My personal interest is in evolution programming/algorithms where the program learns a task over generations, though that's something I learned outside the classroom. I would recommend it as a vocation. Philosophy is personally my avocation.
>>7897623
Back to /tv/.
Very memed but in this case it's a good thing.
I like how if you glance at the BLEEDING EDGE spine it kinda looks like it says PYNCHON LITE.
>>7897623
>neoconservatism
a fellow Trotskyite I see?
Is The Pale King worth reading?
>>7897756
If you've read most of DFW's other stuff and want more.
>>7897695
>P&V karamazov
>>7897009
You spent all that money of first editions...
>>7897756
it's pretty good
DFW's most mature work, some very interesting points on politics and the culture of shaping one's own image/identity
also has a fucking great chapter that is pretty much a self contained novella about a young adult loser
and lots of pretty weak shit in between
its a quick read though. it looks big, but it's about 1/4 the word count of infinite jest and way more readable
>>7897823
Keep seeing P&V's translation getting shat on on here. What's better?
>>7897871
Definitely not Magarshack
>>7897871
don't get memed
p&v are fine, garnett is fine too
(mcduff is probably best, but the difference really isn't all that vast)
>>7897871
Constance Garnett
>>7896995
meme supreme
>>7897715
Most people either
1. Just show the part of the collection they think will get replies/praise
2. Read many books in library/ebooks
3. Are at college or something and only have part of their collection.
I'm actually pretty happy with my shelves.
I think I need Spinoza, Schopenhauer, Rawls, more Aquinas, and more Strauss to be fully satisfied. Maybe some Arabic philosophers too. Also another copy of Aurelius's meditations because I gave that to a girl a while back.
1/2
>>7898364
Oh, and I'd like to eventually have Mandeville, though he doesn't have as much priority.
2/2
>>7898374
I don't think I'll ever be able to read all the books I want to, but I try. As far as fiction goes, these days I read more plays than anything else. Shakespeare can be infinitely revisited. I would definitely like to have more Ibsen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVtwVcYbz7k
>>7896995
Can I have your copy of JR?
>>7898398
By no means have I read all of it, but I've read a good deal of it. Those Kierkegaard books, the Liberty Fund books, and the Cambridge books all stay in really good condition. Spines can be deceptive.
What's a shelf ready cover?
>>7898415
Eh. It's just where I keep my fat stacks.
And to prove that spines can be deceptive, look at my copy of Leviathan. It's annotated to hell, but the spine has remained in a good condition.
>>7896995
gaddis's two best books were recognitions and agape agape- and you don't even have agape agape
>>7898336
lol no
the correct answer is barely anyone her reads and the board is largely "entry level" readers
>>7898670
PROJECTION
>>7898757
i dont think you know what that word means
>>7896995
>Bookshelf
Why?
You could just have an ebook collection that takes up the size of 1 external HDD?
>>7896995
my bookshelf is like this, almost identical, except unironically and my copy of IJ is in horrible condition
>>7898670
Name 1 book that you have that isn't entry-tier.
>>7898851
>entry-tier
Shitty /mu/ meme. Something being well known or accessible doesn't make it bad. You're the real pleb if you think that.
>>7897569
>Augustine, The city of God
How much of a drag was it to read this?
>>7896995
This is literally Meme'd: The Bookshelf.
Buy some fucking John Updike or some John Wyndham and have some fun bro. You got meme'd.
>>7899190
That's my wishlist. Also, I've done some updates to the wishlist which I'll post here after around 10 hours from now.
>>7897715
I try to rend most books at my local library. I only buy books that I couldn't find i.e. shit like Infinite Jest
>>7897000
>but your lumping them together
huh, is this a meme or what, how does this make sense?
>>7897009
Why do people do this?
Look, oh ye mortals and tremble.
>>7897715
I used the library for a few years, when I had easy access to a good one. I've read ~400 books not on my shelves through libraries/ebooks. But I buy more often now. I'm at 4.5 Billy's, hoping to pick up three more half size ones this weekend.
>>7899387
No Ovid? Wondering why, I absolutely love the bits I've read from him.
>>7899229
I used to think like that, then I realized that it's not like I'm ever going to sell them, so as long as I'm not completely destroying them what's the harm in annotating them? A book that appears to have been read is no less aesthetically appealing than a book that looks brand new, and in some cases the read book looks even better.
>>7897623
because its a shit picture and you're covering up most of the books.
>>7899308
to take a picture and put it in /lit/
>>7897569
>Programming books
Like engineer that I am, I give you an advice:
don't buy them.
>>7896995
solidly memed. but if i walked into your house and saw your shelf i would tell you
>>7899789
OK here you won't have any trouble reading the titles of the books.
>>7899844
>>7897669
leave this board anon, you're not wanted here
>>7899923
samefag. fuck off.
>>7898802
>external HDD
you can fit every book in exostence in a moderately sized usb. which tells me you dont actually know what youre talking about m8. eat shit.
>>7899308
You mean, why do people buy valuable sought after items that will more than likely increase in value, or at least not depreciate, over time?
#cuckedby/lit/2016
Goodness man, don't be afraid to go beyond the horizon
I await your harsh scoldings, faggots.
1/2
>>7900107
Feels good knowing I'll never run out of classical collected works to read.
2/2
>>7899844
>Squire
>>7896995
Are you some sort of trust-fund baby? How much did all those first edition Pinecones cost?
>>7899200
No, go fuck yourself. Even if he's a pseud, those are all decent to excellent books that are lots of fun to read.
>>7900139
Nope, Paid less than 100 for each of these. GR is book club. None of them are 1st edition / first printing
>>7899201
Wishlist v2.
>Fiction
Wallace, Infinite jest
Salinger, The catcher in the rye
Proust, In search of lost time
Hemingway, The old man and the sea
Doyle, The complete Sherlock Holmes
Lovecraft, The complete works
Gaddis, The recognitions
Melville, Moby Dick
Tolstoy, War and peace
Dante, Divine comedy
Flaubert, Madame Bovary
Williams, Stoner
Whitman, Leaves of grass
Faulkner, The sound and the fury
Steinbeck, East of Eden
McElroy, Women and men
Stroker, Dracula
Lewis, The monk
James, The turn of the screw
>Science fiction and fantasy
Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse 5
Vonnegut, Sirens of Titan
Wolfe, The book of the new sun
Dick, A scanner darkly
Strugatsky, Roadside picnic
Herbert, Dune
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
Huxley, Brave new world
Orwell, 1984
Adams, Watership down
Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
>In their original language
Virgil, Aeneid
Borges, Ficciones
Borges, El aleph
Bolano, 2666
Cervantes, Don Quijote
Marquez, Cien anos de soledad
>Philosophy
Herodotus, Histories
Waterfield, The first philosophers
Plato, Complete works
Aristotle, The complete works of Aristotle
Augustine, The city of God
Davies, Aquinas
Aquinas, Shorter summa
Ligotti, The conspiracy against the human race
Stirner, The ego and his own
Nietzsche, Thus spoke Zarathustra
>Language
Cowan, The complete Lojban language
LaFleur; Scribblers, sculptors, and scribes
>>7900139
not printing out the covers of first editions on copy paper and folding them over your penguin classics editions like dust jackets
>>7896995
I did this for you, /lit/.
1/2
>>7900767
2/2
>>7900249
whats your fave gaddis?
>>7900785
Hard to pick between The Recognitions and JR. If I had to though I'd pick The Recognitions solely for the fact there is more than just dialog and Gaddis' writing is so great. Even the small parts in JR that isn't dialog are truly amazing.
>>7897715
i have a large bookshelf but i also read/return a lot of books at the library
>>7900804
Post your bookshelf.
Pls no bully, just moved so I'm still filling things in
>>7900692
Because the impressions on the hardcover are cash
>>7898364
>dark souls official strategy guide
Gets me every time
>>7898446
dope
>>7898364
where did you study
>>7899190
the first few books are a slog because he's arguing against paganism, and nobody is a pagan anymore
>>7897583
I actually just found that copy of GR at a thrift store. Are the typos and missing parts crippling to the text?
>>7896995
not at all, james murphy has all those books and he's lit as fuck
>>7901743
http://www.bookerrata.com/books/gravity.html
>>7897855
Does the unfinishedness cause a lack of payoff?
Needs organising, but how'd I go?
>>7903021
For having so many books it looks like your taste isn't very varied at all.
You need a lot of help.
>>7903021
"The Pale King" twice. Nice. Did you read both in parallel?
>>7903045
Its true that I stick to certain eras and within specific literary circles yes -- but I don't see anything pertucarly wrong with that...
This isn't all of my books, it's just the stuff I've got on my studio shelf. I've got boxes and boxes more -- I just don't find the other stuff of much interest anymore.
>>7903078
There's nothing pertucarly wrong with it if you're a hobbyist, but if you consider yourself a serious reader I don't know why you wouldn't branch out , this goes for anyone.
>>7903111
>serious reader
>browses /lit/
Choose one
>>7899954
Fair enough.
>>7897594
All very nice, but surely that's not your complete collection? This is going to piss you guys off but...
1/3
>>7899924
Get rekt faggot
>>7903383
It's not even a neat pile
>>7903542
2/3
>>7903548
3/3
>>7899954
> books
> increase in monetary value over time
>>7903548
That's cause I didn't tidy it?
>>7903553
Nice Joyce and Pound collection. Iirc, Stephen Hero was like a prototype Portrait, no? Is it interesting as a read or just as a study in Joyce and his development?
>>7897000
>like 3 authors in pic
>you're lumping these books together
Dang
>>7901640
Speak for yourself.
>>7899387
how's that plutarch book "on sparta"
was thinkin bout getting it, dawg
>>7905320
WHAT
THE
FUCK
>>7905320
hahahahahaha why?
>>7905320
This looks like it smells awful.
>>7898446
c-c-chicago? Or is discourses on livy and the M-E reader from other places?
>>7900861
These are beautiful and deserve their meme status.
>>7899387
I bet you don't remember a single damn thing either.
>>7899229
I did until I realised I wasn't ever going to sell them and that keeping separate notes is too much of hassle, and the only books I spend real money on are the books for my courses anyway.
>>7900117
I'm no guitar expert, it was a gift, actually.
>>7905774
Discourses is the Mansfield translation published by University of Chicago. Marx-Engels reader is published by Norton.
>>7900107
>Stephen Colbert
>>7907126
I was a kid.
Sue me.
Rest of my books.
The familiar is awful though.
>>7907170
damn, you definitely have the best taste on /lit/. vintage contemporaries are such great editions
>>7907442
They're so 80s, I love it. Some really great novels in there too. Crumley and Erikson are awesome.
>>7907168
how's dirty old man?
Not as big as I'd hope, but eh, could be worse
Boy am I glad I fell for the Greeks meme instead of those. I did read the crying of Lot 49 though, I thought it was pretty neat.
>>7908593
It's Bukowski. Love it or hate it. If I remember though it has the story with the angel who plays baseball which is one of his best stories
>>7908677
'straya cunt!
>>7896995
Both Both Flesh and Not and Consider the Lobster are much better essay collections that A Supposedly Fun Thing. Highly recommend.
how do you guys organize your shelves? I go alphabetical by author, then by title
>>7909060
I try to do alphabetical by author and then chronological.
Best as I can, anyways.
>>7909060
Author, title, publisher. With the exception of guide/companion books of course.
>>7896995
>all those pynchon first editions
cums everywhere
>>7896995
>Spending hundreds of dollars on books you could've read for a dollar fifty in late fees at the local library.
>>7909060
Category, Author, publisher, title
>>7909410
>many of them clearly used, beat up, shitty looking
>hundreds of dollars
yea nigga?
>inb4 getting bullied for not having enough classics and shit
>>7909708
>TEENAGERS
>Stephen King
>Dummies guides
>Ken Follett
>THE CALCULUS LIFESAVER
>Richard Dawkins
>Les Miserables
>Stephen Hawking
>The Da Vinci Code
>The Appeal of Fascism
>Essential India
Get the fuck off this board now you fucking loser.
>>7909708
my god....
>>7909708
> figure skating for dummies
is this a thing
>>7903542
>THE HITLER BOOK
>>7905320
Hack of a writer, but patrician edition
>>7909877
Not even mine
>>7899822
You're completely wrong. Books are the best way to learn programming and computer science
>>7899954
You mean the ones in OP? Very funny. Enjoy accumulating objects that you will never in your lifetime sell to use that "increased value". And neither will your heirs. It will just be a burden on them as it is on you.
>>7910226
I've never read a single "learn this language" programming book that was worth its money more so than any online tutorial. Knut, Cormen, books about algorithms and design patterns are a different thing.
>>7909060
Original language and chronologically inside it.
>>7909060
Separate fiction/non-fiction/anthologies. Sort fiction geographically (usually by country), then chronologically by author's date of birth.
Non-fic is something that looks right to me--goes from religion/spirituality to myth & folklore, philosophy, aesthetics, literary criticism, books about books, personal essays, grammar and composition, travel literature, hobbies, food books, memoir/autobiography, biography, history, art and one book on science.
Anthologies by size, but separated by content (mostly poetry, mostly theater, etc.).
>>7899936
There are 129,864,880 Books in the world
If on average they took up 100kb, or 0.1mb, they would take up a total of 12986488 MB, or 12986.488 GB, or ~13 TB
If they on average took up 10kb, it would be 1.3TB, if on average they took up a mere 1KB, it would be 0.13TB, or 130GB.
I don't believe you can fit 130GB onto a moderately sized USB.
>>7910430
Are you fucking serious?
You get usb drives at 250gb+.
>>7910499
That's for 1KB average book, I have so far not downloaded any that was less than 200KB. Maybe very short ones.
>>7910510
I was talking about the biggest usb pen drives.
As far as external travel drives you easily get those in multiple TB.
>>7910527
Me too, I wasn't aware how far the usb sticks have come, looks like they can have 1 TB now.
But regardless, I now think you couldn't even fit all of the books onto a single external HDD, even though they can go to multiple TB.
>>7910536
https://news.samsung.com/global/samsung-now-introducing-worlds-largest-capacity-15-36tb-ssd-for-enterprise-storage-systems
16 tb.
And that's a commercial drive. Not some ultra special industry storage thing.
>>7909060
Fiction, non fiction, author.
>>7909708
Eh, not my taste, but nice collection, I guess.
>>7910677
Thanks.
Honestly, I bought most of those books when I was in middle school or high school. I travel and work a lot now and don't get much time to read any more. I want to get a bit more into philosophy but don't know here to start and don't have a few spare months to begin fresh from scratch.
>>7897569
>Philosophy
>herodotus, histories
I hate you
>>7897823
>he bought the P&V meme meme
>>7900107
I'm torn. On the one hand I'm jealous of your collection of folios. On the other I hate literally every title you have
>>7909060
I've ordered and reconstructed my house to be like a certain great Benedictine library. As such I order the authors geographically (even correcting for errors in their birth) as determined by their writings and their style, then chronologically. It makes it a bit treacherous when I get up at night to go to the bathroom (the toilet being deep within the recesses of the Spain section), but the vapours I light each night certainly help in aiding my sleep and letting me know my library is safe.
>>7909060
according to length measured in inches across the back
>>7896995
This is the most pathetic bookshelf I've ever seen and that's saying something.
>>7897036
>I have a 1st Ed. Crying of Lot 49 and it's easily the most expensive book I own.
http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=18795828227&searchurl=tn%3Dcrying%2520lot%252049%26an%3Dpynchon%26fe%3Don
?
>>7911383
Kek.
That isn't a first edition. Lippincott published the first edition not bantam.
The value is also dependant on whether or not it's a first edition first printing or second printing, whether it has the dust jacket or not, etc
>>7897902
Garnett's Karamazov was the most tedious overlong piece of shit I ever read in my life.
>>7911520
What condition is your Pinecone in?
I've a 1st edition Viking Press Grapes of Wrath, it holds up but is far from mint condition so it's not really worth what you might expect. Dust cover is gone as well.
1/5
>>7911548
2/5
>>7911555
3/5
>>7911561
4/5
>>7911568
5/5
>>7911555
A patrician's Hesse, friend. Narcissus and Goldmund might be the lewdest book I've read though.
>>7911535
I bought mine cheap, don't plan on selling it either so I don't know the value. It's a first edition second printing in really nice condition with the jacket.
>>7896995
Did you read the Pale King?
If so how was it?
>>7911655
If you like DFW I'd check it out. More of a collection of stories than a novel but I thought it was worth the read.
Am I /lit/ enuff
>>7912295
not even close
>>7912295
Yes
>>7912295
If you've read those you're more /lit/ than most people on this board.
>>7912295
The worst part is you have entry level pleb taste in film as well, looks like you went on /reddit/s top 100 list and grabbed a few criterion and then some "obscure" foreign language films.
Man embarrassing, desu, you have bad taste in /lit/ as well, i wouldn't say this to your face though cause you have a black glove and a shaving knife with you.
>>7912385
>le entry level is bad taste meme
>>7912395
no no, see you're trying to defend him or yourself but the problem isn't in with the movies itself, it's the individual who seeks to obtain patrician hood and an "intellectual" state of understanding of cinema or /lit/erature or what have you, but in reality he can only grasp the basics and will hardly ever move beyond that.
It doesn't show any individuality having 8 1/2, 7 samurai, good bad ugly, das boot, fear and loathing, lawrence, all it shows is someone desperately trying to obtain something without putting in any effort, and it's embarrassing. It might impress his girlfriend or his college friends but it's a waste of time.
>>7912402
Film is not even art. It's just movies - entertainment. Stop 'watching' like a loser and start living your life.
>>7912409
Once again what are you trying to get at, movies can trascend being simply entertainment, the whole point of art/literature/film is using it as a vehicle for the author, whether it's to portray perfect beauty or some half baked political message.
You should never defend someone who happily comes onto this board and has tastes like that guy, if he wants to just have "fun" and live his "life" he can go outside and do it. If no one tells some people how bad a start they're off to how will they ever get past it.
>>7912385
>>7912402
>watching films out of a false sense of social status
>not just watching what you enjoy
I thought /lit/ was generally above this level of plebshittery
>>7912425
Wer're on a /lit/ board, i'm sorry you take offense to people criticizing bad shelfs. You confuse social status with hampering personal growth by only dipping your toe in the water and then patting yourself on the back for it.
>>7912437
>produces a 4 post long wall of text rant because a shelf wasn't to his liking
>I am somehow the offended one here
>>7912402
>all these implications
>>7912457
Don't go too off the rails now, anon. Uncalled for flaming violates a global rule
>>7912402
>projecting this hard
>>7909060
Thrown on my desk.
>>7912295
no, you are /tv/
>>7912409
>doesn't like jadorowski, bergman, tarkovski or kurosawa
you joyless faggot
>>7900107
Is the whisky guide any good?
1/4
>>7912579
2/4
>>7912586
3/4
>>7912589
4/4
>>7912579
>calling them legos and not LEGO bricks.
>>7910257
>And neither will your heirs. It will just be a burden on them as it is on you.
>>7912598
>not listening to your parents
>>7912603
That sounds pretty decent for me.
I honestly need some more books on wine and whisky because I enjoy wine and whisky, friendo.
>>7913156
Wellington atweltec
Barely anyone I know reads or they do but it's all YA shit
>>7913263
same here in dunners my man, what are you studying?
>>7913298
Comp servicing, sorry for the late replies my dude I haven't been keeping an eye on this tab.
In my second trimester at the moment and it's the easier half of the course, feels like a breeze.
What course are you taking?
>>7913420
did it go out of publishing or something, why are they so expensive?
>>7913389
fresher, doing english & phil, it's pretty chill, only doing 3 papers this sem so i get lots of free time. english is pretty average at the moment tho, just a bunch of people not knowing how to pronounce borges and chaucer
