bookshelf thread? bookshelf thread.
show off your collections and post what you got!
protip OP
This would have taken off better if you'd actually posted your bookshelf to start it.
Been out of town for 3 weeks. This has been my bookshelf away from home.
>>8023344
Fuck yeah Dead Souls, Gogol's short stories are fire too.
>>8023344
Is cattulus worth reading? As in, is he a better source than livy or any other writer on the subject.
>>8023373
Honestly I haven't been able to really get into it. I'm about halfway through (near the end of volume 1, still have no idea what the souls are for) and it's made me laugh a few times bit just hasn't drawn me in.
I might not have properly committed attention to it.
fug
1/4
>>8023382
The subject of what? Catullus and Livy are worlds apart. I love Livy and would absolutely recommend all of his books if you want to read some Roman history, but Catullus isn't even nearly the same. Crude, angry, and funny comments unlike anything you'll see in Roman prose. Livy praises immortal deeds; Catullus calls his boss a little shit and yells at people for being stupid dicks. I can't read Latin and so am unable to comment on the Oxford translation, but the poetry hasn't been nearly as rich as I expected, even though it has its moments. Considering Catullus' reputation, I would hope that either the translation isn't great or I'm just being plebby with my nonexistent poetry experience.
>>8023396
2/4
>>8023401
3/4
>>8023406
4/4
legos
Started collecting about 6 months ago, sorry for the shitty camera
>>8021940
Just need Hemingway and Faulkner .
>>8023424
I hope you enjoy your new interest in collecting books. It's a very fulfilling thing to pursue.
Don't listen to any anon too ready to shit on you - you'll build your own taste in time.
>>8023400
Woops just saw this >>8023386.
Depends on how deep you want to go and what period you want to study. Livy has one of only two major, continuous accounts of early Rome (monarchy and Republic until the Punic wars), but drops off at 167 BC. Dio exists only in fragments until about 70BC but then provides one of the only continuous narratives of the post-Sullan turmoil of the 1st century BC and the subsequent Augustan age.
Probably not worth reading all of Dio unless you're a bit of a completionist. Not much new info for time periods covered by other writers (Livy for early Rome/2nd punic war/antiochus; Polybius for broader punic war overview; Appian for more detail on the 3rd punic war, Mithridatic wars, other minor wars), but it's not all repeated material: Dio has the most comprehensive account I've read so far of Pompey before the civil war, of Crassus in Parthia, and of activities of minor characters like Cato the Younger.
Livy is more fun to read, Polybius is a better teacher. I'd probably rank Dio alongside Appian, although Dio falls into rambling rhetoric a lot when talking about Caesar. Stylistically not that great, no battle speeches or combat specifics, but he does a good job of following Polybius in differentiating pretexts and true causes in basically every major action that's taken.
Also expensive. Only complete from Loeb in 9 volumes at about $25 each, of which a lot are fragments, and the first two volumes are organized like a fucking nightmare. Pic related shows hos little of his work actually survives in full. Penguin publishes the few books about Augustus which I think might be the most interesting part of Dio anyway (just a guess; I'm one volume away from that section). Also Loeb has, unsurprisingly, basically no critical intro and almost zero annotations. Not a beginner friendly printing.
>>8023434
>Finnegans Wake
I remember buying a copy of Hegel's 'Phenomenology of Spirit' when I was just starting out. I learned in time what a laughably precocious misstep that was.
Don't beat yourself up too badly when the book leaves you completely bewildered. Just keep reading seriously and tackle it again earnestly in a few years time.
>>8023442
Perfect, great to hear so much from a romaboo.
Eventually i'd like to get around to reading all those authors i have a lot on my plate at the moment, i'll copy and paste all this you said so i can keep it in mind when i'm ready to make a choice when i pursue roman history further.
I really appreciate it m8, great info.
>>8023448
>laughably precocious misstep
Wish I could punch you in the face tbqh
>>8023458
popular penguins don't crack unless you're retarded.
You're right about the classics though, maybe you're blind though those non-fict and sci fi books are pretty cracked.
>>8023460
>an anon being honest and self-aware annoys me to the point of feeling violent
Why is that? Is it perhaps that the line reminds you a little too much of a certain someone?
>>8023474
Jesus
>>8023456
My pleasure; I'm just glad you gave me an excuse to talk about this shit.
PS when you get around to these guys, make sure to read Sallust. Short, sweet, and readily available for cheap, but still some of the coolest fucking writing I've seen come out of the ancient world.
>All that is born dies, all that grows, grows old. But the soul is incorruptible, eternal, the director of the human race; it guides and has power over all things, and is not itself controlled. All the more surprising, then, is the depravity of those who are devoted to bodily pleasures and pass their lives in luxury and idleness, but allow their intellectual talent, which is the best and most noble part of human nature, to grow torpid with neglect and indolence, especially when the rational soul has so many different ways to attain the heights of glory.
Cheers!
>>8023485
Thought so, lol.
>>8023344
>Dio
He's the worst historian over there. He kept spitting on the people he didn't like without any reason, like Seneca. He's absolutely unreliable and a bad writer, too. Stay with Tacitus.
>>8023458
>he can't open a book without murdering the spine
i pity you anon
>>8023506
Haven't reached Nero in Dio so I can't comment on how he paints Seneca, but so far I've seen nothing out of the ordinary for ancient writers in terms of condemning bad men and praising good ones. In fact so far I'd say he's really fair, obviously respecting Caesar but calling him out on his ambitions which sacrifice the safety of the state, his currying of favor with Romans of all ranks, and his contrived mourning for Pompey.
Also enjoy his frequent comments on human nature, and his rhetoric is okay, but he's definitely not one of my favorites so far. Tacitus may be a better historian by modern standards, but fuck was he more boring to read. Also Dio is surprisingly one of very few primary sources about Augustus.
How are you familiar with Dio? I really don't know anyone who knows about him, let alone has read him, let alone has read him AND can comment on him in relation to other ancient historians.
Bump
Haven't updated in a while
>>8024912
I want that Portrait.
>>8023396
where are you getting those white/orange penguins from?
>>8023424
>Fox in Socks
bruh
Not my shelf but I got this for my birthday yesterday. I'm pretty happy.
>>8021940
>owning the paper jew in the age of digital media
Kill more trees goyim, trees are evil.
>>8023448
hegel sucks at writing
Right now I'm sitting in the cafe Phil, see pic.
This is in Vienna, across the cafe Sperl where Gödel did his major work.
>>8023424
yikes, those gift editions look horrendous, I'd be ashamed to have them on my shelf. Toss em out and get cracking with that TBK
>>8025427
Do you take the figures out of the box? I'd like to know what you think of the first figure on the top shelf, the Rei/Asuka combo one. Been thinking of getting it.
>>8025427
>>8025473
Also you should complete the rock set. I'm still needing to pick up Misato.
>>8025473
I don't take them out. The combo one has pretty bad sausage fingers :/, pretty cool though
>>8023425
Hi gramps
>>8023424
Oh fuck, I'll just buy the "complete collection of____" and get that out of the way.
>>8025643
rise and fall hanging off the edge is making me nervous . . .
>>8021940
https://www.instagram.com/p/BEwBw5WLK2l/?taken-by=haileybentongates
>>8025887
A tremor is the death of whoever sleeps in that bed.
>>8025895
her ass will protect my head and face
>>8025887
i would be too busy cumming on her feet to read anything
>>8023424
A little bit jelly of the complete Lovecraft collection. I'm a complete fucking idiot and, with poetry, tend to buy both the complete works of whoever and also the individual collections.
how do you people keep your books in a couple of shelves
in this flat me and dad got about 4000 books, in the last few years he moved 2000 to his office(he is a tenured professor, so he can keep all the shit he wants there), donated 500
in the attic of the house weve got around 2500 periodicals from the 50s through to the 90s, mostly comicbooks but also academic journals
in the library of the house we god around 3000 thousand books, and last year me and auntie moved about as many to the attic too
in the second flat we got around 5000, my grandpa basically left us with, he donated around 2000 a few years back
i personally have 4 shelves of copied material, mostly periodicals for my major
how do you people keep it so tidied
>>8028187
My parents are functionally illiterate and jobless. They've never had books in the house. I'm the only person in my family who has ever picked up a book for fun.
I wish I'd had your kind of upbringing, but I didn't.
>>8028187
>house we god around 3000 thousand books
stopped reading
>>8028211
am drunk do forgive
>>8028212
drunk with lies
>>8028214
why so?
>>8028219
Why no picture proof? Surely people that well-off have a camera lying around, if not a phone with one.
>>8028222
maybe because i am not home
we arent that well-off, we mostly just managed our money very well
upper middle class in a exyu country
>>8028234
You have two flats and a house and you're not at any of them? By "in this flat" didn't you mean where you're currently staying?
>>8028237
>By "in this flat" didn't you mean where you're currently staying?
nor the picture posted with that statement, as it's some piece of years old blogspam trash
idk why people bother roleplaying online like this it's sad
>>8028248
You have a phone though, I'm sure. Don't pretend you have one without a camera on it. You're obviously not a luddite.
>>8028255
i am not a luddite, but i do use a nokia 215, cause i dislike the pressure of social networks as they distract me from studying
if you want vga quality photos sure i can do that
>>8028260
These threads usually don't have super quality photos anyway. Low quality is fine to prove you're not talking out of your ass. You can always give us a general idea of what's in the pic if no titles are visible.
>>8028265
sure just gotta upload to imgur give me a sec
>>8028265
here, first pic is the one shelf of copied ethic readers and collected articles i keep in this flat
the second and third one are of the books and comics i read as a child and my younger brother reads now
third and fourth are part of the books in the living room
and the fifth is a part of the shelf of my dads books for his lectures
http://imgur.com/a/WzjJ4
>>8028287
ask for titles and stuff, most are serbocroat, 30 percent english and a lot of german too
>>8028287
>http://imgur.com/a/WzjJ4
The only one I can halfway make out is Harry Potter, I think. It looks less impressive than I was thinking, but it's probably the shitty pictures. I can see why you were concerned over everyone's tidiness.
What does your dad teach?
>>8025371
looks ready to collapse/10
>>8028317
Panorama shots tends to do that
>>8023406
>Fear of Music
My I Zimbra.
>>8023425
i'm imagining that the only sound audible in that room is the deep sombre ticking of a grandfather clock
>>8024912
What box is that with Peter Pan, Alice, Wizard of Oz and such?
>>8025427
>anime
>>8029547
animu
>>8028187
you sound like an idiot, guess those books did little in teaching you anything
bit messy atm
>>8024912
Letsee....Book about Nazis and a Confederate Battle Flag. I'll have to look closer for 'Art of the Deal'
>>8032593
The /lit/ episode of hoarders
>>8032690
I'm not right leaning at all, actually.
The book was my father's, and is a pretty interesting account of the war. The flag is there because I didn't appreciate all the politics down there in the past year where they tried to demonize the flag and have it banned; seemed like an injustice to their history, to me. So, I put up the flag in support (though, if I'm honest, I am getting tired of it)
>>8025471
The Anna Karenina one looks great.
>>8033954
It really does.
>8023425
aesthetically pleasing
>>8033014
I'm just grinding your gears anon brother. So say it loud. I'm black and I'm proud.
This is 1/8 I think
Please disregard how messy everything is.
Might as well post this question in this thread. Why does everyone shit on everyone else for being careful with their books? Anyone with hardcovers or sturdy paperbacks get accused of not taking the time to destroy the spine when reading.
>>8035454
looks fuckin digusting bro
>>8028767
It's my favorite album of theirs, have you read How Music Works or watched their film "Stop Making sense"?
How Music Works is about Talking heads various influences and also about their movie which is all quite interesting to me.Burgers
>>8036016
My favorite of theirs too. Memories Can't Wait is probably my favoritepost-punktrack of all time.
I have yet to read How Music Works, but I've read Bicycle Diaries (it was extremely tedious, to be honest) and watched (and adored) Stop Making Sense. Album version of it is fantastic.DAMN
>>8023344
ayy catullus
>>8025427
are you the guy that gives CITR to girls you sleep with
1/3
>>8036684
2/3
If the guy w all the dante translations is reading this, post your shelf, I feel like seeing it again
>>8036687
3/3
I wish I had a sixth to make them even, but there's no more wall on that side of the room.
And Ikea had to discontinue this color of Billy so now it'll look weird.
>>8021940
Here is my bookshelf. I collect only my favorites.
>>8036696
Why all those are hardcovers?
>>8036684
You seem to like japanese literature a lot.
1/2
I only recently started actually collecting books, however my grandpa gave me his collection of harvard classics (right) and readers digest (left) before he died. There's more boxes than what's shown and I have about 50 of each kind
>>8037186
2/2
And here's my own small collection. Mostly fiction and mostly GRRM, as well as 5 of the Harvard classics I'm currently reading
>>8037192
Fuckin forgot the pic
This is literally my bookshelf. I've been lurking lit for months working up the courage to start reading and you guys really seemed to like this book and some autist keeps shilling the avsey translation so that's what I got.
I've been reading it for a month and only on page 300
>>8037208
Forgot pic
>>8037193
18+
you have to go back
I've been cleaning up my house to move at the end of the month. I got rid of maybe 500 books and now everything fits on the shelves again.
This pic gives a sense of what the shelves look like as a whole. Other pictures are zoomed in enough to see the titles better.
1/15
2/15
The two largest sections are (surprise!) fiction and non-fiction. This is the start of the fiction section.
3/15
5/15
6/15
Some anthologies, music writing, and the very beginning of the non-fiction section feature here.
7/15
8/15
9/15
10/15
11/15
12/15
13/15
14/15
That's my current working library, but I have another three shelves (two a bit larger than these and one the same size) of subject collections and random stuff. Here are a couple pics.
This is a shelf for things that don't fit elsewhere and look good together. Harmonium is a third edition. Both the Girard and the Michel Leiris are signed. All of the SF pulps pictured to the right have PKD stories in them.
>>8037379
Were you the guy who posted his shelves in what looked to be a basement in one of these threads? The books look a little familiar.
15/15
I have a large vintage paperback collection, obviously not pictured. This is a display shelf meant for highlights from that collection. Across the top shelf are digests, teen books, Iceberg Slim, Charles Willeford, Jim Thompson, Phil Andros, and sexed up versions of classic literature. The bottom shelf is more miscellaneous but there's a section of librarian porn, the most aesthetically appealing edition of Lolita, and a first edition of Molloy.
>>8037379
I have mixed feelings about this
I admire your utilitarian bricks-and-planks ethic
I hate all your shitty fucked up paperbacks
It's somehow a little strange to see Marlon James filed between Henry James and MR James, even though I actually like ABHOSK
Nice to see a bit of George Eliot (but did you give up half way through Middlemarch?)
>>8037385
Are the Solar Pons books worth reading, or mostly just novelty?
>>8037458
I'm pretty sure I've posted pics of these before. Hopefully my apartment doesn't look like a basement, although obviously the brick-and-board doesn't scream class.
>>8037473
I've read Middlemarch three times and taught it twice. I may have given up taking notes on it partway through at some point.
>>8037472
Fuck yea Charles Willeford, I never see him on here. Cockfighter is my jam
>>8037379
How long have you been collecting?
>>8037475
Probably the biggest point of controversy in my shelf cleanup. Does anyone really need all seven Pons books? Almost certainly not, but it seems perverse to break up the set. However, while I find August Derleth fairly boring on the whole, but the Pons short stories can be very entertaining. If you wish there were more Holmes stories, it's the first place I'd look. But Pons doesn't ascend the same heights.
>>8037492
I'm three away from having all of the Willeford novels published as paperback originals. I'm pretty sure I paid more for Understudy For Love than anything else in my collection.
>>8037497
Twelve years or so.
>>8024918
boooorrriinngggg
>>8037482
How much are you making as a teacher/professor to collect so much OOP stuff? Or at least, how much would you say you spend on books monthly?
>>8036687
Jonathan Strange fuckinnnn yeaaaaaah
>>8037523
I make a pathetic $28k a year as a grad student. I also inherited about $20k a few years and since it didn't seem like enough to do much with, I plowed a lot of it into books. I now try to budget $100 + proceeds from flipping records (about $100~ per month) for books, records, and other collectibles, though I often come out a little over.
I would estimate that I bought 80%ish of the books pictured for less than $10, too. It's usually less expensive to buy OOP stuff than to buy new. Life as a bottomfeeder can be rewarding if you're diligent and know how much things are worth.
>>8037567
That's definitely an impressive range as a grad student, what are your areas of study? Are you ever planning on teaching courses on the pastiche or erotica stuff?
>>8037576
Would it be less impressive if I weren't a grad student?
I do mostly Shakespeare.
I don't think that I have a full course worth to say about erotica or pastiche. English classes only really make sense when they focus on material that you can close-read. The erotica doesn't (generally) pass that test and is therefore better suited to historians.
>>8037663
I was saying the range is what's especially impressive. I would have expected you to be super focused in on your research interests while still in grad school, but you've got a lot from lots of niche and popular areas too.
>>8024918
Where can I find some of those physics and engineering books?
>>8037699
In my experience, about two thirds of grad students have the sort of field-specific tunnel vision you're describing, but the other third are folks like me driven less by an obsession with a particular time period as an interest in writing generally.
>>8037472
A typical vintage paperback shelf, organized by publisher.
>>8021940
in the oven you go!
>>8038333
I'm not Jewish.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEyi4UnQ4fY
>Physical books
Have fun searching for topics in a book without the ability to use keywords.
>>8038407
It's called memory...
>>8038407
Have fun with that severely limited ability to annotate in your own style.
Oh wait you barely read.
>>8021940
>tfw when my entire library consisting of 73 books on my kindle.
>>8037722
amazon, torrents
I'm renting and got sick of transporting books when I move so I decided to sell as many as I could and I moved the rest to my mother's apartment. Pic related is what I left with me, it's books that I haven't yet read or stuff that I really liked and want to keep.
When I have my own place I'll get myself nice big full book shelves.
>>8036660
Yep
>>8036865
Because hardcovers look really badass.
some covers might be hard to read but not at home right now.
top is literature
middle is more pulpy stuff, Dutch and French novels
bottom is non fiction
>>8037722
>newfag
Blacked out in the corner are yearbooks that I don't want to share.
>>8037193
That's a pretty nice collection. A good mix of lighter, genre reads and classical /lit/.
>>8041190
have you ever thought of maybe reading something other than the handful of books that get mentioned on /lit/?
>>8042295
i can't decide whether to say
95% of all copes of infinite jest are unused
or
you know, it's possible to read a book without destroying it
either way fuck off anon
>>8025371
>Taipei
Wow you got memed hard.
>>8041190
that top shelf looks like it's going to break at any moment
invest in some decent bookcases anon. fuck that ikea shit
>>8042320
the spine of that IJ edition will bend if you read it, I think it's inevitable.
It looks warped because spacetime is curved.
>>8042320
My copy of The Rise of David Levinski was from 1960, I got it a couple years ago and it'd obviously never been touched.
As I went through it I could see it disintegrating, the spine crumpling up, pages getting loose, and by the end it looked like it'd been kicked across the sidewalk for 50 years. Dorian Gray shit.
Pic related, it looked brand new when I got it.
>>8042363
There is this thing called Con-Tact adhesive. Use it on paperbacks. Read them 100 times and the cover wont fall apart.
you should all just post your penises
>>8042751
Not all of us have one of those.
>>8042751
you should find God within, you demented freak
>>8041538
yeah, as soon as they aren't overpriced
>>8023458
This guy. Every fucking thread. Your parents should of taught you to be more gentle with your giant mongoloid hands.
>>8035454
Is your house on fire?
>>8044205
> Your parents should of taught you to be more gentle with your giant mongoloid hands
Good post B+
>>8044205
>should of
oooh now i am triggered
>>8025471
>I have a taste that and its not super pretentious
>how dare you
>>8032593
kekt
>>8023425
what's in the box?
>moved frequently
>never accumulated many possessions to begin with
>early adopter of e-readers
>won't start a book collection until I know I will not be moving
>as in buying an apartment
>live in one of the worlds most expensive cities
>still move every couple of years because of rising rent
>it will be close to a decade until I can have a decent book collection
life is suffering
>>8037211
straight to the top shelf homie.
>>8029425
Lol, no clock, I prefer quietness. Just paintings and a Tv I have not once used are in the room. The room does have a unique smell, like leather, varnish, and old books.
>>8046200
My Chess pieces!!!
