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You know the drill.
>>7959211
4/6
Here is where I start to lose you.
>>7959211
5/6
Downward Spiral.
>>7959211
6/6
Redemption.
Pleb and proud
1/5
Go home Reddit. And Facebook for that matter.
>>7960220
My ever expanding unread pile
4/5
>>7960223
The bookcase itself.
5/5
>>7960217
Do people upload their bookshelves on facebook?
>>7960235
They attention whore like crazy over their possessions. I'm sure there are groups on Facebook that do shitpost their book collections.
>>7959227
Never seen anyone with the same version of Ulysses as I have. It's one of the heaviest books per page I've read.
>>7960656
>Carver
Truly the most patrician short-story writer.
>>7960745
>Chomsky
Try to fit the entirety of world tedium into one person - not even that is enough to describe Chomsky the cuck
At school
1
>>7960218
I especially like your fondness for John Hawkes. Very underrated imho.
>>7960656
I'm jealous of the wide range of great literature you've condensed into a minimal amount of books.
Come at me bro.
>>7961064
comfy but unread/10.
stop buying books for display.
>>7961064
>Meer Engelse dan Nederlandse literatuur
NSB-er!
>>7961074
Lighting and editing hides the cracks.
84% of that is read.
>>7961147
I just borrow Dutch books from my parents.
>>7961159
and 3/3 the French nook.
>>7959226
thats a neat hp lovecraft edition
>>7960211
why did you glue your books to the top. holy shit.
>>7961179
That's the most common one. I see it all the time.
>>7959211
What edition of Catcher in the Rye is that? I'm starting to read books in english and I've heard that's a good one, since it's reasonably understandable.
>>7960784
Your books seem untouched, you don't actually read or you're just to careful while you read?
>>7961064
>>7961148
Is that a room full of books or something? It looks clean. What is your camera/phone, btw?
Also would anyone have some reccomendations for me? I've been reading a lot but just translations. My native language is portuguese, btw.
>>7961179
Lol yeah I bought that and the Huck Fin years ago before I knew any better. I read the Huck Fin and it fell apart so I immediately realized my mistake. Good to keep around for the memes though.
>>7961221
recommendations*
>>7961221
I'm careful. But some of those books do have spine creases that didn't show up in the photos.
>>7961221
Just the standard one they sell in every store with the red and whiteish cover.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316769487/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1461536456&sr=8-1&pi=SY200_QL40&keywords=catcher+in+the+rye&dpPl=1&dpID=51namOub2kL&ref=plSrch
>>7961233
For example.
>>7961074
why are people on /lit/ of all places so suspicious of others as not reading their books
it's fucking ludicrous
>>7959211
kipling, mein nigger
>>7961267
they don't read, so they try to convince themselves others don't either
>>7961148
>84%
Is this an exact value? 84 seems oddly specific.
>>7961432
Page you're on divided by # number of pages in book, not hard to compute.
>>7961442
He was saying that he's read 84% of the books on his shelf, not 84% of a book.
Or at least I think that is what he was saying.
>>7961451
Oh. Still, simple to figure out. I guess he's keeping track.
>>7961064
Looks cozy senpai. Post your reading seat.
>>7961303
>Che Guevara biography
You seem like a puke
>>7961432
maybe he meant 75
>>7961406
Also the fact that most of /lit/ behave like autistic toddlers and thus are incapable of doing simple tasks like reading without destroying/ripping/tearing a book.
It's hard to say whether someone's a reader by looking at their book case. I read my books, but I buy them all new, and I tend not to crack my spines. On the other hand, you could have someone who never reads but buys all their books used, and it looks like they've read everything they own.
>>7961271
>such lengths
How tough is everyday life for you?
i've read every one
>>7960869
chomsky is good on 20th century US foreign policy and media complicity and only a neocon or obnoxious contrary wouldn't concede that.
>>7961999
No.
>>7962137
If you truly believe that and aren't just trolling, you're a moron.
>>7961999
>Hard on by Mike Hunt
>Mike Hunt
>>7961845
In that case you go to your second plan of attack: insult their taste.
>>7960869
This anon gets it.
>>7962178
Go back to /pol/ - you epic fucking dumbshit.
>>7962184
no fucking way
Hey /lit/
I have a school assignment where I have to write an essay on a crime novel or a crime short story.
What are some non-peasent crime-novels or crime short stories?
>>7962764
Dürrenmat
My beloved bookshelf. I have many other books, but I'd be heartbroken if anything happened to these.
pleb
>>7962764
The Shadow pulps. You can find them online.
1/3
>>7963183
2/3
>>7963076
it was all good until the last shelf
>country cooking
>mechanics
what the fuck
>>7963186
3/3
>>7963187
It's a Larousse, infidel! I like rustic dishes. The beef cookbook was a gift from veggie gf, and Bouquet de France is a classic gastronomic tour of France.
The math/phys books are refreshers. I'm going back to school this year, and they're related to my hobbies and past work experience.
>>7963219High schooler. I'm doing philosophy and double english.
>>7963228
sage
>>7963228
Much love to you sir/madam. Make us all proud.
The only books I own are Infinite Jest, Gravity's Rainbow, Ulysses, and Brother's Karamazov
>>7961064
are you a giant?
>>7963187
A gift for you.
>>7963363
Man nobody wants your garbage internet recipe! Recipes are valuable because they represent a particular time and place. Most of the past is pre-internet. If all I wanted was some yummy, nutritious food I'd cook that freestyle myself.
Get it together, homeskillet!
>>7960869
Generative grammar is utter bullshit and a joke. Sincerely, every real linguist, ever
>>7963219
>Dave Eggers IJ
dominion imparted
The vanity and pretentiousness of these threads makes me sick into my own scorn
>>7959226
Man, fuck /lit/ memes. The Stand and 11/22/63 are pretty good.
>>7963228
how many of them have you actually read
>>7960211
palo alto? really? kill yourself, faggot
>>7960211
cool shelves but drop the whole self depricating faux humbleness bullshit, calling yourself 'pleb and proud' so people will go 'ohh wow hes so cool he reads gaddis and barth but hes so down to earth'
Kinda reddit I know.
>>7961303
>Mao
>Che
>Infinite Jest
Lel, the memes write themselves.
>>7965865
BTFO
1/5
>>7966345
2/5
>>7966350
>>7965865
*he's so smart, he dismisses Gaddis and Barth as pleb
>>7966354
4/5
>>7966355
[damage control intensifies]
>>7966357
5/5
We dun it now
>>7965957
pls respond
>>7966721
But you got it right with a reddit/10? You meed more classic works if you want to outweigh all the genre fiction, comic shit, Stephen King, that gay edition of Lovecraft, Tolkien, etc. et al.
>>7959211
R8 don't h8
>>7966763
Approved. Safe journey to you, pneumanaut! Big ups for HST, I haven't read his stuff but want to.
>>7966364
Sweet bookshelf bruv. It's bigger than mine but I like mine's portability. Just fold up and go.
I'll reread Slaughterhouse Five if you do.
>>7965865
Barth is just O.K.
>>7966763
i r8 it about midway through high school
>>7966763
>don't h8!
>it's gonna be a bunch of fantasy/sci-fi
Why do you guys always say this?
>>7966763
>Fantasy, Hunter S. Thompson, House of Leaves, and guides to growing pot.
How much did it cost you to meme us so hard XD?
>>7959211
Rate me, but don't judge me too hard, guys.
>>7968633
Nice John green lol
>>7963847
>reading a book by Chomsky
>he implies humans may have a genetic predisposition to Physics
This. His philosophy is stupid, and he takes it to stupid conclusions.
But, I still appreciate his babby-tier leftism, which is a halfway decent gateway to critical thinking about politics, and, while I have never read it in full, Manufacturing Consent has proven itself an honest and lasting understanding of the press.
>physical books
>>7968700
long time no see
>>7968069
Haven't finished the kraut rock book yet but the David Byrne one was interesting, he talks about who and what influences their music and his personal relationships in and out of the band plus a bunch of other stuff like getting mugged in New York with Brian Eno.
It was pretty humorous anyway would rec for a read if you like talking heads.
this is the /lit/shelf
>inb4 unread
im not a fucking child, i can read books without tearing them
>>7968870
>don't feeling the paper while you read
>>7968776
>I still appreciate his babby-tier leftism, which is a halfway decent gateway to critical thinking about politics, and, while I have never read it in full, Manufacturing Consent has proven itself an honest and lasting understanding of the press.
This is the correct way to read Chomsky
>>7961064
MODDDDSSSS
>>7969060
P&V = kill yourself
Am I /lit/ yet guys?
>>7969157
Maybe when you alphabetized your bookshelf.
>>7969157
consider suicide
>>7969157
I see you've taken your signed copy of Pale King out of the safe.
>>7969157
I know people usually shit on those vintage Pynchon covers, but I'm kinda jelly you managed to get tall of these, I really like those.
Also, I have the Rum Diary in portuguese and the spine looks the same.
Now, a question: Why can't you faggots just open fucking Paint and assemble the pictures of different shelves together?
>>7965865
I have a bookcase filled with /lit/ memes.
You need to reevaluate your taste in literature.
>>7969205
It's pretty hard to find non-vintage Pynchon in Australia. The text in Vineland is pretty blurred, but apart from that, it's okay.
The only thing on this shelf I didn't get second hand was The Pale King and the analysis essays on DFW (gift from gf).
Nice job posting your bookshelves full of /lit/s top 100 books
None of you will ever develop your own individual taste in literature
>>7969191
Glad I'm not the only one who remembers this guy.
>>7969246
Exactly. You can only read so many postmodern "masterpieces".
>>7969060
You own a few popular books read by everyone on /lit/
Good job
>>7969243
Weird, the only Vintage one I have is Vineland and the text seems okay (though I've been postponing reading it for a year and a half now)
>>7969262
wow its almost like i specifically said that was the /lit/shelf
>>7966763
your always an arm's reach from redwall
here is my shelf designated for history, children's books, and other free-books that are miscellaneous that I got from libraries.
>>7969304
Science fiction shelf 1/2
>>7969332
Scifi 2/2
>>7960852
thank you that's 1/6
>>7965786
How could you hate the greatest contemporary writer of short fiction? Someone's got to fill Carvers shoes.
>>7960223
>King James version
Ignore the Evola and Jack Donavan faggotry, my friend is a /pol/fag
>>7969246
/lit/'s Top 100 is just what bookish young guys read, whether they post here or not.
>>7969246
Except many of these shelves, including OP's, have a wide variety of books never mentioned on /lit/.
>>7962764
Maltese Falcon - Hammett
>>7969303
And I say Amen to that!
>>7962764
in cold blood
>>7969246
>people on the board read books that are often discussed on the board
stop the presses!
>>7959227
>The Poems of TS Elliot Vol I & II
When did those come out? I have never those editions before. Is it more or less complete than the previous "Collected Poems"?
>>7971721
These are the latest, most authoritative editions I know of. They have extensive notes commentary on every poem, previously uncollected poems, the children's verses not included in "Collected Poems", composite editions of various poems (all the parts he eventually took out of The Waste Land), and his translation of Anabase.
Published last fall.
>>7971984
let me guess - you havent even opened them
>>7972030
I've read most of the poems I the first volume and some of the commentary. Is read a lot of his work before getting them and have several (including Prufrock and The Waste Land) by heart.
I have more at home, but this Is my college apartment
>>7972056
please don't show us the rest.
>>7972050
Forgot to add "some sections" before The Waste Land. I don't have all of the third and fourth sections.
>>7959211
Well, tfw you are russian
>>7972066
cool
>>7972069
metamorphosis and ... ? the process ?
>>7972109
trial* wt f brain
>>7969291
are you the same fellow from a thread a few weeks again, you said many of those books where you dads, who had left them you
>>7969157
>implying thats a good thing
>>7972030
Not OP but please tell me you have a better reason for thinking that than "he probably just bought the meme to look cool kek who reads poetry eh guys?"
>>7962764
"Old Man" -Faulkner
>>7972069
>translation
Ti chto, glupenkiy?
>>7973119
retard
i was reading dosto in grade 10 before /lit/ even existed
i became a pynchon fan during my weed phase without the aid of memes
/lit/core is literally just young boys and 20soemthing men core
>>7972962
He probably thinks that because that is how he operates.
>>7963076
Hey man. I dig your style.
>>7963349
I've never actually seen a pretentious cookbook before.
(I'm just fuckin with you senpai)
>>7972221
yep
>>7968732
B-but we all commit mistakes.
>>7963076
Why do you have so much mayan stuff
Most books are in Dutch. Started reading about 6 months ago. Opinions?
>>7975324
>started reading about 6 months ago
>James Joyce - Ulysses
Oh, /lit/...
>>7966350
Glad you stopped after God Emperor.
>>7968700
>The Meme photo fell for the Griffiths meme
>>7969060
Ughhhh that Crime and Punishment font....
Other than that, I don't give a fuck what people say about P&V. They're accessible and non-headache forming. All translations are going to have issues.
>>7975338
I use a guide while reading aswell. It's going slow as fuck, but I like it tho
>>7975488
it's just another reference to have. shankar is far superior
I would like to post my bookshelf but I only have like 30 books, it's pitiful compared to others
>>7976156
You seem like a fucking pseud tbqh
>>7971984
Thanks mate. I'll probably get them, since I only have Elliot's Book of Practical Cats
>>7975510
Ulysses is an extremely difficult book to understand, even as a native English speaker that is well read. It must be difficult for a foreigner to read.
>>7976156
Between hubbard, trump, and all the military ops shit, I would assume you're another dipshit hick playing literate.
>>7976999
That's only a half-truth because you don't need to be especially well read to appreciate a line like 'Lily, the caretaker's daughter, was literally swept off her feet'. Austen's P&P has a similar opening line and no one would say that you have to be well read to enjoy her.
>>7978357
half truth* and I realised I quoted Dubliners, but I believe my point remains because knowing basic literary theory and seeing just parts of what Joyce does doesn't really count as being well read to me
>>7969157
>Taipei
>>7973119
>hadn't heard of dosto
how does this happen
>>7976999
On a scale from 1-10, how much do you detest me if I'd tell you I'm reading it in Dutch?
>>7973119
Even illiterate 11 year olds in Africa know who Dostoevsky is.
>>7975519
I prefer Messiah as a reference and Sakurai as a study. Griffiths is like reading the Boxcar Children
>>7972056
fucking hell
>>7973119
If you only cram your bookshelves full of /lit/ approved lit you're a fucking moron and should kill yourself
>>7961162
solid stuff
>>7969246
/lit/ is a good way of getting exposure to some good shit.
>start with greeks
>branch out
>read some postmodern memes
>banch out
>ad infinitum.
By branch out I mean reading other books by the same author, books that author liked, or mentioned, etc. Eventually you end up with a pretty wide array of authors and books and you end up with a "unique shelf".
That is my method, and it's not really a conscious effort on my part either. So really, it's safe to say that people you see with only the essential meme books are just starting to read and haven't really had time to develop taste and branch out.
>>7972069
A в Пpeвpaщeнии oднo пpeвpaщeниe или eщe кaкиe-тo paccкaзы?
>>7960223
>The Bible
>Oxford World Classics paperback
this will definitely fail the Genesis 1 test
>>7981552
It's KJV
>>7960223
How's the Bible annotated? Just with glossary and stuff or do they include exegeses of passages and stuff?
>>7961064
>Tim Winton
yeah fuck oath cunt
Cloudstreet is comfy as but no one on lit will believe me
>>7981930
Cheers, downloaded
Library Genesis' epub looks decent
>>7975324
>zelfstudie
>filosofie
Op je zelf studeren of jezelf studeren?
>>7981944
Wait are you saying you downloaded Cloudstreet?
Its the most 'straya cunt' book you'll ever read. Nothing amazing but nostalgic and comfy as fuck, like I said.
>>7962740
Could you show me how your catalog looks like?
I'm back at my dad's place for easter, this is the shit I used to read as a kid
>>7983053
there's nothing inherently wrong with Dan Brown, now John Irving....
>>7983108
>there's nothing inherently wrong with thrillers
>>7966747
No. Fucking no. People who read genre fiction and classics, but no contemporary literary fiction are the most pretentious of all readers. They want to compensate for their lack of high brow stuff by putting in classics, refusing to read contemporary stuff because they think "modern" literature has no excuse to be "boring," but it's okay for classics to be boring because they're CLASSICS
MUH SOPHISTICATION
>>7983241
>being this pretentious
>>7966763
I would like to post my books but I only have like 40 physical copies.
(And it's not really a bookshelf, they're all in stacks)
>>7983781
Didn't mean to reply someone but anyway...
>>7983371
>>7976156
Don't listen to the others. I like it.
>>7961999
Bolaño would be proud though.
>>7961934
LOL based as fuc
Dont have much of a shelf yet
>>7983241
>being this mad while completely missing the point of the post
r8 me
>>7985415
>GEB
You just had to ruin it, didn't you?
>Book of proof
What do you need an intro to proofs for? Are you a junior in highschool?
fuck it, it's been a while
1/4
>>7985849
2/4
>>7959211
middle brow as fuck
>>7985855
3/4
>>7985874
4/4 - misc stuff
>>7985889
Philosophy
>>7985874
The math/physics/philosophy stuff is great, but the proportion of Dawkins and pop-cosmology (Sagan, Hawking) books to said math/physics/philosophy stuff is worrying.
What's the black edition of Philosophical Investigations, btw?
>>7985912
>but the proportion of Dawkins and pop-cosmology (Sagan, Hawking) books to said math/physics/philosophy stuff is worrying.
That is what got me interested in the more technical parts of science, and gave me a lot of the history not in science textbooks. Also some of Dawkins work (Selfish Gene in particular) is pretty legit science, though most of the rest is pop-sci.
This is the copy of Philosophical Investigations (I put the sleeves of hardcovers in a box because they bother me when reading):
amazon com/Philosophical-Investigations-Ludwig-Wittgenstein/dp/1405159286/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1462116340&sr=8-2&keywords=wittgenstein
>>7985903
I see many people here with a lot of books not directly related to the subjects they study, like your biology, chemistry, physics and mathematics books. Do you actually read those books or you have them for consult? Why do you own them? Would you recommend everyone to have that kind of knowledge?
>>7986060
> Do you actually read those books or you have them for consult?
Mostly a mix of the two. The dover books are solid, but extremely technical (except for Pauling's Chem) so they tend to be a last resort for research. I tend to prefer my university's textbooks for practice and understanding of the concepts, and books like Shankar's book on Physics 1.
>Why do you own them?
My interest in philosophy heavily favors analytic philosophy, so I don't think one can truly understand how the universe works without really digging into the meat of empirically derived knowledge (with respect to David Hume's flaw of induction, of course).
>Would you recommend everyone to have that kind of knowledge?
Depends what you are trying to accomplish. A lot of continental philosophers (which seems to be favored on /lit/) have a hefty dislike for science and don't trust it. However if you want to have the kind of perspective of how the universe operates that a god might have, one really needs to understand mathematical science.
For reference, I can think of 5 books (one isn't out, but it is a continuation of an amazing book) in technical science which can really help a layperson understand a majority of the undergraduate fundamentals.
1) The Selfish Gene (Dawkins)
2) The Greatest Show on Earth (Dawkins, but basically an updated version of Darwin's OoS)
3) Fundamentals of Physics 1 (R Shankar)
4) Fundamentals of Physics 2 (R Shankar, comes out in June. The first book was spectacular, and they are based on his OYC lectures anyways)
5) General Chemistry (Linus Pauling)
That pretty much covers science, though you will need to have some mathematical knowledge (a lot of which is covered in Shankar's book. Really you just need to understand calculus -preferably multivariable-).
Two other really good choices to add are Feynman's "Six Easy Pieces" and "Six Not So Easy Pieces". Excellent supplements, though a lot of the material is in Shankar's book.
>>7986332
I should add a few things. While those recommendations cover a majority of basic college level chemistry and physics, there is a conspicuous missing chunk in the biology portion which comes from elementary biochemistry and cellular structures. I have no idea if there is a simple cheap intro into those. However the two books by Dawkins give an enormous boost to understanding evolution. Evolution is like mathematics for biologists. If you want to get anywhere in the subject, you must know it.
When it comes to recommending gaining scientific knowledge and understanding, I should add that if you are interested in a general understanding without technical details then you should avoid the books I listed. Pop-sci gets a lot of criticism, especially string theorist who make their subject seem more legitimate by publishing it as pop-sci (even though it is still completely unfounded). Still, if you know what to read in pop-sci, you can really get huge amounts of quality knowledge of the universe and nature. You miss out on the ability to look at nature through the lens of a deity, but you gain general knowledge which can help you make better decisions on scientific topics. Books I recommend in that case are Hawking's Brief History of Time and Carl Sagan's Cosmos. People rip on them a lot, but they are solid introductions. They also give a lot of the history of science, especially its roots in philosophy, which you don't get out of technical books.
>>7986682
Finally, we have these. They're actually on the shelf in the other photos, but you can really see them clearly because of my shitty as iPhone camera.
>>7986666
(satanic?) quads
>>7986737
Pihlosophy undergrad, actually. My uni has very well known linguistics and philosophy programs (as well as generally great science programs), but no cognitive science department yet. I'm actually doing what they call their "cognitive studies focus" within the philosophy major. I plan on doing cognitive science or linguistics for grad school.
Vegeta is my librarian
>>7986845
Weird ass mix/10
At least anime/comic books are more high brow than shitty ass genre fiction though. Everyone needs to indulge once in awhile anyway.
>>7986863
you sound like a cunt
>>7986885
And you, sir, sound like a runt.
Who knows any cure for this guy's madness?
http://www.openculture.com/2012/05/jorge_luis_borges_1967-8_norton_lectures_on_poetry_and_everything_else_literary.html
Not a reader. Found the 2 Katnis books for a dollar in a thrift store but not the first so they probably won't get read for a while, if at all. Useless Info/Strange Facts were both Christmas presents from weird relatives.
I'm sure this shelf makes me look 13. I'm 25. I want to read. I just don't know where to start.
