Lets see your shelves.
the only books that matter
>>8001542
404 literature not found
>>8001542
Only about two or three of those books are literature. They are all comics, manga books, and children's books. I think you're on the wrong board. There's a /co/ board for comics and cartoons. I know this sounds a bit mean but its true.
>>8001542
Disgusting.
>>8001542
Beta virgin loser
>>8001542
Your parents must be proud
>>8001542
>retarded manchild
>trump supporter
Who would've thunk it?
this is the /lit/shelf
>>8001668
bin that vonnegut you redditor
>>8001542
lol wut
>>8001668
well meme'd
>>8001668
you rich cunt, i have the same book collection that moby dick and years of solitude are from. what happened to your Hear of Darkness there?
>>8001672
Thank goodness I'm not the only one who hates that cover; it's the only one available where I live and it really pisses me off because I want to read it but I don't want to buy the book.
>>8001772
What about it?
>>8001668
stop reposting this boring ass shelf
>>8001668
I literally fell for the /lit/ meme: the post.
>trump
>toys
>manga
>comics
>licensed media novels
Lol
>>8001889
There's no gene wolfe
>>8001889
>no dfw
>>8001668
Who's the publisher of that copy of Moby Dick?
>>8003068
Not OP, but it looks like an Easton Press edition to me.
>>8001542
I shall not eat your bait. Good try, but not enough.
>>8001542
Follow the advice on the Trump merch and kill yourself; it would make America a little greater.
>>8001551
my man
>>8001668
u do realize that you are missing half of Water Margin, right?
>>8003410
>implying that guy even read any of those books.
>>8001542
> Bait our not someone on earth has this shelf in their house
>Barbaric
Starting with Kafka now that the semester is over. Rate my entry level taste
>>8003439
pretty good for starting out
most newfaggots just buy lot 49, infinite jest, and blood meridian
>>8003439
It'spretty good. I commend you for not buying meme books and burning out on "serious" literature in general.
>>8003580
>alphabetical
Christ lad.
Other than that and the amount of Murakami, pretty solid. What book that is never talked about on /lit/ would you recommend me?
>>8003593
What are some books on my shelf that you've read and liked? And yeah, I like it alphabetically, haha. It's a pain when buying a new book by an "A" author and having to rearrange the whole thing.
>>8003603
Except for what makes a regular appearance on /lit/:
Paul Auster's stuff, though it fucked with my mind unlike anything else I have ever read.
Death of a Salesman, but I've only seen the play.
Huckleberry Finn was aight.
>>8001620
this is terrible.
>>8001542
Have you posted this before? I feel like I've seen it at a different angle. I thought it was a reddit picgo back, but this second pic, with the Trump sticker makes me wonder.
>>8001551
I love how they are set up like orthodox icons... Icons for memes.
>>8001668
>P&V translations
>/lit/
Worst part is, judging by your Oliver translation of Crime and Punishment, is that you probably only bought them because they are nice looking editions.
>>8003439
>>8003613
Patrician.
>>8003580
Nice, but the way you organized your shelf is terrible.
>>8003618
Boring but nice.
>>8003614
I've only read The New York Trilogy, but have been meaning for a while to get into Auster
What other books would you reccomend? Does he have any other 'detective' fiction? I love that shit.
>>8003614
I'm not much fan of a mind fuck fiction. House of Leaves is mentioned quite a bit on here, but it's really one of the only mind fucks I've thoroughly enjoyed. A different sort of mind fuck though would be B.S. Johnson's The Unfortunates, which is a book in a box, where each chapters are loose and not numbered. There's a specific beginning "chapter" and ending "chapter", but the rest are meant to be mixed up. Here's one pic of it.
>>8003639
And all of the "chapters".
I pasted all mine from earlier into one big picture.
>no one notified me of the cat puke on the floor in the last thread
>>8003644
A friend and read this together in total random order and spoke at length about how the experience was in our order. Very fun and interesting. A pic of the notes.
>>8003652
I like your all-caps handwriting.
>>8003656
Thanks. The box came in handy to store all of the notes in. Really the first time I ever took notes. And last, for that matter.
>>8003639
>>8003644
>>8003652
Fuck me, that thing (calling it a book sounds pretty disingenuous) does sound pretty interesting. I will look into it.
You seem pretty cool. Keep doing what you're doing, you're head and shoulders above most people here.
>>8001668
>we the drowned
My man
>>8003675
I might have another suggestion, thinking about it more. Do you like psychedelic stuff?
>>8003723
Shoot, anon. My body is ready.
Kenneth Patchen's Journal of Albion Moonlight. Definitely a mind fuck, but of LSD caliber. He's a poet, and the novel reads like one. It was too masturbatory for me, sometimes a complete word salad, but it was recommended to my by a guy with similar taster to me; he loved it. There's a scene with Jesus and Hitler in the back of a car - if that speaks to you, I'd suggest that one as well. Just not my thing.
>>8001542
>all that manga
>/lit/erature
>>8003781
I just read the first couple of pages, and this does seem very, very trippy, and also very, very interesting. Cheers anon, I will cherish this conversation. And now I am off to bed.
>>8003781
I felt the same way about that book.
Parts of it were really cool, but I'm not into surrealism enough to read 300 pages of some guy facerolling on a keyboard. Most of the book is random babbling and he contradicts whatever scrap of a story might be there every two pages.
It could have been really good if he toned it back a bit and wasn't unintelligible for it's own sake.
bimp
>>8001542
All that manga. lels you disgusting virgin weeaboo.
Props for the Trump MAGA sign though.
>>8001668
>The picture of Dorian Gray
Is the book as gay as the movie? Fucking degeneracy.
>>8003648
Could you recommend me some manga?
>>8005650
I don't really read it any anymore, those are left over from when I sold most of it off. Do you already have manga you like? If you want general recs, Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou, Ai-Ren, Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service and Petshop of Horrors are some favorites. That taste doesn't really correlate with the lit there though.
>>8005682
Though if anyone wants some secondhand cringe, here's my bookshelf from my teenage years.
>>8003618
>The Bible
Whatever works for you.
>>8005700
The only cringe there is the big Naruto fig.
>>8005633
The version I read had all the gay shit edited out of it
>>8005728
Not the empty snack boxes lining the top?
>>8005700
are those limited edition juice boxes
>>8005744
Hadn't noticed that...
>>8001542
I like the Stargate Zat gun. This shelf belongs on /a/ or /co/, though. Not a bad thing, just not /lit/.
>>8005746
They aren't. Everything on the top shelf is readily available at any asian market.
>>8001542
Aside from everything else, seeing an Eragon book on your shelf makes me want to fucking vomit.
>>8003580
>Ian Fleming
my niqqa
My paperbacks are mostly all in boxes. Who the hell displays every novel they've ever bought and read on bookshelves anymore? Are you going to read them again sometime soon and need to be reminded that you have them? Bookshelves are for reference books.
>>8006190
If you're a literature professor or grad student, the novels are your reference books.
>>8006195
I think I would probably kill myself if my "reference books" were all works of fiction.
>>8006190
If all you do with them is keep them in boxes, why don't you just throw or give them away? What good do they do you in boxes?
>>8006252
I don't throw things away if they have inherent value. I do give books away sometimes, but who says I know people willing to take hundreds of paperbacks at once? Bookshelf space is limited, but I have entire rooms in my house devoted to storage. There's nothing wrong with storing things that you're not using actively.
>>8006240
I didn't say exclusively, though. Most of the shelves in these threads have non-fiction as well.
So anons, how do you organize your bookshelves?
By size? Nonfiction/Fiction? Alphabetically?
>>8006474
By country of author's origin, then by date of author's birth. Non-fiction and anthologies are separate. Anthologies go by the geographical thing when I can. Non-fic is by subject, from myth/folklore to philosophy, literature-related, reference, travel, hobbies, food, auto/biography, history then art.
>>8001542
i really really like this picture david, where did you find it?
>>8003410
? He's not. The Tuttle version is one print
I took inspiration from the wiki. Literary fiction, genre fiction and nonfiction (in this order) are further separated by region (US, Russia, Japan, etc (alphabetically)), then by format (poetry, drama, novellas, etc (alphabetically)), then theme (depressing, humor, postmodernism, etc (alphabetically)), then by date of publication. I use the same categories in the wiki.
>>8006498
Why author's birth over date published?
>>8007447
It'd get too tedious to figure out the date published for every work I have on my shelves, since I have more than a thousand now. I'm already sometimes lax when I integrate new stuff in. It would just end up a mess if I was that precise, since I wouldn't stick with it.
>>8007457
I see. I have less than 100 books but it was still a pain for me organizing them.
>>8005700
As long as you had some literature on another shelf... It's beautiful anon. Minus the figure and the boxes(get a mini fridge or something).
I guess the vague "organization" is political/anarchist theory in the upper left, Zizek and communism below that, pedagogy and lit theory below that, hardcovers bottom left;
African-american lit in the upper right, PoMo crap under that, early american under that, hardcover on the bottom right.
so much stuff is out of place, though, and there's so little room that it's kind of arbitrary until classes are over and I can rearrange this shitshow.
>>8007491
Haha, that's almost ten years old now. I did have a mini fridge there, that was a garage apartment. But those were empty snack boxes, "decorations" and no longer edible.
I'll just show half of one for now.
>>8003618
i'm much in line with this
>>8001542
rgr, i have 11 pics incoming
>>8001542
actually i have 6
>>8007997
>celebrity books in hardcover
Christ, is it even possible to be more pleb?
>>8003648
Sheesh. Have you read all of these?
Most of my books are at my parent's place since I don't have much room in my current apartment, but I mostly have science fiction, some fantasy, a smattering of some other stuff, and lots of Computer Science and math textbooks. I actually plan on expanding my textbook collection once I graduate and get a job. I'd like to replace some of my favorites that I only have digital (pirate) copies of with actual printed editions (only for a select few, textbooks are stupidly expensive.)
Fuck outta here!!!
Not memeing by the way.
>>8008530
DUDE
>>8008021
get lost anon, that keith richards autobiography is fucking boss
>>8003644
>>8003675
something similar was published in the lit mag McSweeney's Quarterly Concern (issue 16). it's called Heart Suit by Robert Coover. The story is published on cards mocked up like playing cards. The cards can be read in any order as long as the Joker card is read last.
>>8003648
i bet you've never actually read that folio society greek myths seti've have the same set for ages and i've never read it either
r8 me honestly ladsam I pleb?
>>8003613
>vertical
>>8008562
Everythings pleb and entry level desu, no depth, you have homer and virgil and "100 favorite poems" but where's the rest of the greeks, romans and poets? Same with your russian books, where's pushkin, lermontov, chekhov?
Even philosophy you somehow messed up on and skipped the foundations.
Overall you're a meme who lets your tastes be dictated by others to a large extent.
>>8008562
that honey jack daniels is revolting
do any of you actually read
>>8008562
How is the bottle not falling?
Legitimately interested.
>>8008598
the picture is rotated you dunce
>>8005700
Nah anon taking interest in weebo stuffs at some point in your teens is normal. The bad thing is you wasted lotta money theere.
>>8008571
>someone posted a picture of one bookcase
>therefore these must be the only books that person has ever read
>this gives me a chance to reel off some names i saw somewhere
do fuck off ya pompous git
>>8008605
good grief
is this b8 or are you legitimately this embarrassingly humourless?
good meme to serious stuff ratio
This is a small sample of my collection.
>>8008621
>pynchon next to milton
i cringed
Boss of Bosses Golden Rule!!! Get with the times before I automate you... Manga Style!!!
>>8008028
I've read ~60% of them, and another ~350 that I don't own (I borrow from the library super frequently).
>>8008561
Nope, but I've read Hamilton's Mythology next to it. I saw The Greek Myths at the bookstore for $10 and assumed that was a steal for a Folio Society. Though apparently it's always that cheap.
>>8008614
>teehee i was just joking
>>8008643
because those are the only two writers there that he's ever heard of
>>8008629
>>8008611
You have a bottle of alcohol on your pleb shit bookcase, don't give me that, you know you're an average memetard.
Sorry the names of authors you don't recognize spook you.
>>8003613
lol what is up with those piled books. they dont sell bookcase in US?
>>8007549
>danielewsky
>>8008787
>You
don't know who you are referring to but that wasn't my picture
i just think you're a dick
also
>you're an average memetard
>pleb
>spook
do you actually talk like this in real life or is this level of self unawareness something you reserve exclusively for 4chan?
>>8006261
>who says I know people willing to take hundreds of paperbacks at once
Just send me them
