Post 'em, /lit/.
rate me
>>8070778
eric, simply eric.
>>8069905
0/10 because Ben Stiller
Just finishing freshman year, so I'll finally get to read Invisible Man. I can't wait!
>>8069491
is that redwall my negro
>>8071949
Are you attempting to finish writing the pale king?
>>8071949
>accounting
How do you even have the will to live?
>>8071949
>accounting
Alright, where's the rope? Or are you going to fashion one out of all the books you've read?
This is my childhood bookcase. Anything worth reading?
>>8072196
Unfortunately, David Foster Wallace has a much better handle on writing interesting things than I do, so it would be poor fan fiction if I tried to finish his work for him.
>>8072202
>>8072207
I like accounting, guys! My dad was an accountant. Every day when he got home, he would tell me about his work. All of these things about how companies work, and stories from places he audited. I found it fascinating, and now I'm going for an accounting degree. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree, huh?
Besides, someone has to do it, right?
Another idea; Think of Camus' "The Myth of Sisyphus". Pushing a boulder up a hill for it to roll back down forever may be monotonous, painful, and pointless, but as human beings, we can decide how we choose to feel about things. You need not despair. We can feel joy if we WANT to!
"One must imagine Sisyphus happy."
Pic related is my school! NY is fun.
>>8072428
Everything that you would expect is worth reading.
The Scarlet Letter
Brave New World
Sherlock Holmes
Tortilla Flat
The Pearl
The Great Escape
Anything by Heinlein (I prefer Strangers in a Strange Land)
Silmarillion
In Cold Blood
Forget "The Third Man" book; watch the film instead, it's a really good film noir.
>>8071937
Dude, besides the manga, the books you have are all pretty well known for being great reads. Don't let /lit/ discourage you from reading because your books aren't obscure enough for them. You have good taste, even if it's mainstream. As long as you're reading, I'm happy.
>>8072230
What do you use to hold your books, may I ask? Do you pile them in a stack on the floor? I thought about doing that, because it looks cool, but then my books would get all dusty!
>>8071908
YEAH MAN IT'S A BOOOOOOOOOKSHELF THREAD WANNA SEE WHAT /LIT/ IS COOKING IN THEIR BRAINSSSSSSSS
>>8069905
I'm a bit worried that you may buy books more for their looks than an interest in reading them. You should read more!
>>8071873
What's wrong? I don't get it. Did he do something bad?
>>8071949
>>8072202
>>8072207
>>8072478
I'm getting into accounting myself. I've been working at a small firm for the past 4 months. I really like it, and it's interesting work imo.
I went into it with no intentions, but now I might go for my CPA designation since I already have an undergrad. I even bought a used accounting textbook I've been working through.
I always had the misconception that it is boring work, and while it can be tedious if you can see the bigger picture it's really neat.
>>8072538
I know, it's a joke. Thanks for the reassurance though.
>>8069905
I've seen this shelf in three threads in the past two days. Nobody cares about your doorstop collection. Go read them.
>>8072565
Do you have the 150 hours? If not, I wholeheartedly recommend taking difficult accounting or taxation graduate courses, and not underwater basketweaving courses just to get the hours. You'll learn a lot more about the profession, and work towards a CPA! Two birds and one stone.
>>8069905
none of those books have been read
>>8069491
>Marijuana Botany
DUDE
Mostly entry level books, only started reading this year. Left side has been read, right side unread/recent purchases.
>>8072786
Nice pace, what's been your favorite book so far?
>>8072795
Kokoro and No Longer Human.
>>8069491
>>8071937
garbage
>>8069905
high school-tier
>>8072786
>>8071949
small but respectable. this is what everyone else in this thread's bookshelves would look like if they threw out or gave away all the titles that need to be thrown out or given away.
>>8072834
wow look at this patrician here
>>8072834
>don dellilo
>dfw
>pynchon
garbage AND high school-tier
Shelf 1/3
Be gentle /lit/ it's my first bookcase
>>8072860
Shelf 2/3
>>8072865
Shelf 3/3
>physical
Why is /lit/ populated by so many ludites?
>>8072834
nice meme shelf. two infinite jests and a tao lin.
pic related is my only book, i sleep on a friend's couch.
>>8072853
>using my own adjectives against me
you literally could not make it more clear that you're more interested in retaliating against what I said about others than my actual books.
I've always hated DFW but I keep him in there anyway. Pyncho and Delill are godlike, we both know this. There are far better points of criticism you could bring up (see >>8072888 who hit the nail right on the head here), but as soon as you wheel out those memes, you show your bluff.
>>8072860
>>8072865
>>8072873
Interesting. I'm kind of into it.
>>8072882
This. Unless all you read is non-fiction there's not a single reason to not buy a Paperwhite and read all your books there. The experience is far superior: the minimal weight, storage, variety of dictionaries, option to read in the dark etc. But there are always retards with the:
>muh aesthetics
>muh smell of the book
>muh feeling
Suck a dick.
>>8072882
>no book smell
disgusting
>>8073050
All that Greek but no Mythology. It's a gyro without the tzatziki.
>>8073084
Just read Hesiod
>>8069491
Here it is
>>8073459
Sorry for the flip
>>8073463
#2
>>8073073
>doing away with tangible items
What a sad future. Why own physical media when you can just download it to your brain? Why own a car when you have digital mind displacement? Why have a human girlfriend when you can simply have one built?
>>8073459
ugly asf tbqhwy
weird tastes too, u a wizard or smth?
>>8073472
You can't be that dumb, just think about what you've said.
>>8073483
There's no point in knowledge once it becomes effortless to consume.
>>8073486
It takes effort to read an e-book. Stop trolling, please.
>>8073492
might as well read shitposts on /lit/
>>8073478
I AM A DARK WIZARD
>>8073073
I already had a decent collection of books before e-readers became popular/cheap, so at this point I just prefer to grow my library. That's not to say I'm against e-readers though I do own a paperwhite and read a lot with it, I just happen to prefer real books.
Also digital content tempts me to pirate far too much and I find that lately pirated content seems to give me very little enjoyment.
>>8073466
What's that book of skulls?
>>8071949
>accounting
May as well quit /lit/ now because you're well on your way to getting a degree in being a boring pleb.
>>8072834
Are you trying to be ironic in criticizing others while having a dogshit shelf, or are you just retarded?
>kierkegaard anthology instead of individual works
>2 copies of infinite jest
>picture book dictionary
lol
>>8073459
>Re-Animator and Dead Man on DVD
would chill with tbqh my man
>>8072576
loads of manga and a big book about hitler
this is what i imagine the book collections of 90% of 4chan users to be like
>>8072834
You are a joke to me.
>>8073466
Needs more LOOMIS
>>8075665
Are you studying nuclear physics or something?
>>8075665
What is this - Autism, the post?
>>8075665
>The Martian
>>8075682
just graduated actually
>>8075686
no, i just don't like to read pretentious trash in an effort to sound more intelligent to people i don't care about
>>8075690
havnt read it, just heard it was decent so i have it in case i want to
>>8072786
>Bernanos
That's pretty rarely seen there.
Really nice.
>>8075665
>he actually spent the 30+ minutes screenshotting this shit instead of just taking a picture of his bookshelf
>>8075811
>implying i keep everything together
>implying i have room for a bookshelf in my shitty uni apt.
i did snap a photo of some of my books tho
>>8075836
>/lit/ - literature
>posts a bunch of science textbooks from a meme major and The Martian
Dude I fucking love science
>>8075862
>Dude I fucking love science
dont lump me in with those faggots. i never really had time to read during uni. i got like 120 pages into blood meridian before i had to stop, same story with book of the new sun
>>8075868
also
>meme major
>>8075881
It gets better from the left to the right
>>8075696
Oh man, I first I thought you were some cool person who taught themself Nuclear Engineering.
>>8069905
too many paperbacks/10
These are most of my non-comic books that are on shelves.
>>8073459
You seem like a jack of all trades kind of guy when it comes to hobbies and skills. That's cool.
>>8076297
>Who the fuck are you trying to fool with that shelf?
you
>>8075665
Does all that physics give you better insight into how the world works day to day? I remember when I finished my high school physics class I kept seeing fucking arrows and triangles and shit everywhere
>>8076322
idk, but i win a lot of arguments and bets because of it
>>8076262
too many untouched books/10
>>8076573
If you're careful you can remove the books without completely removing the protective plastic. I've read all four of those REH books.
>>8076580
Books aren't sacred, anon.
>tfw you have 200 western classics bound in leather and sitting on your bookshelf
>>8075881
Come straight from Better Than Food, eh? Pathetic.
>>8076586
spoken like a true philistine
inb4 you need to get organiz-ized
inb4 fuck you library book thief
inb4 your modern political books are garbage
>>8077638
forgot photo shit
>>8077638
nice invisible books bro
>>8077639
>those stolen library books
Party van incoming
>>8076262
Nice man! I have the Conan volumes as well, but missing the Kane. It's damned hard to get a hold of, unless you want to pay through the nose, which I don't.
>>8077639
Lol.
Where do you shop for books? Memes R'Us?
Pt1
Pt2>>8078147
>>8078152
Pt3
>>8078157
Pt4
>>8078158
Pt5
>>8078161
Pt 6I'm a pleb
>>8077743
Yeah, the Solomon Kane volume cost about $200. Pic related is even more. Maybe one day.
>>8077605
fuck you buddy.
>>8078173
I've seen the slipcased Ultimate Triumph go for less than $100 within the last six months or so, so have faith!
You'd be very lucky to see Solomon Kane go for as "little" as $200 nowadays, though.
>>8078152
Is this bait?
>>8078414
No this is real life
look at all these unread, untouched books
>>8073526
Its basically a photographer documenting the massive collection of animal skulls owned by some wealthy collector. Makes for great reference material
>>8072834
TWO copies of Infinite Jest. TWO FUCKING COPIES. KEK
>>8078158
>has all the dark tower books, except Wind Through the Keyhole
>doesn't even keep them all together
Faggot
>>8069491
What books are those on the bottom left?
>>8078860
you nailed it, but I'm enjoying the takedown myself
I actually have four copies of IJ.
1. Hardcover
2. Paperback (wrote in it + water dmg)
3. Paperback (wanted a fresh copy)
4. 20th Anniversary Edition
Here are the two I have with me (3,4). The other two are at my parents' place.
>>8079897
is #4's cover feel similar to The Pale King's?
>>8079922
If you mean The Pale King's US paperback, yes.
>>8079897
meanwhile at Dave Eggers' house
HOW DARE THEY I MEAN I SPENT AT LEAST AN HOUR ON THAT FOREWORD BISSELL IS JUST A FUCKING HACK WHY HAVE THEY DONE THIS TO ME WHY WHY WHY
>>8079897
>20th Anniversary Edition
YWN scan IJ in the late 90s
>>8079897
I really don't like the look of the 20th anniversary edition. The white and red scheme with the pastel aesthetic makes it look too feminine.
>>8079897
>water dmg
Cant make this stuff up
>>8072888
>cover within a cover
for what purpose?
>>8078919
Rude
Not pictured: Cat's Cradle
Currently reading Starship Troopers
What should I read next? I'm thinking Shadow Over Innsmouth.
>>8080486
How's jurassic park in terms of enjoyability compared to the movie?
>>8072478
Interesting. Are you a Baruch college student? I used to work there.
>>8078158
modsmodsmods
>>8080528
It's not as exciting as the movie obviously. But there's a lot more science and chaos theory and stuff in it.
I liked it a lot. You should check it out, it's short and pretty easy.
>>8080588
Thanks. I saw it in a store a short while ago and a friend told me the movie its better (i mean it's difficult not to) but idk, i like when they go sciencey in stuff and i really loved the Space Oddysey novel over the movie a million times better. I know they're not comparable though.
>>8080588
shit, bottom line being, i'll see if its still in the store and i'll really consider get it. thanks again.
>>8072428
>childhood bookcase
>contains books from the past couple years
underage b&
>>8069491
here's my whole library, only book I'll ever need
>>8069905
Read something good fucker
>>8071937
You're like my cousin eric I bet you fuck a lot
>>8072428
I used to love world record books when I was a kid. Silmarillion seems outta place I bet you never read it
>>8072786
It's fine.
>>8072834
Yeah ok fucker
>>8073459
You're my messier spic cousins house
>>8080546
Yeah, gonna start sophomore year in the fall. How did you like it there? What was your job, may I ask?
>>8080694
I'm 19 now. I kept adding books to it throughout high school but I never took any out.
faggot.
>>8080945
Youre historys worst monster
>>8069905
WHAT'S THE IN THE BOX
>>8080912
>be 19
>call someone else a faggot
shiggy diggy
>>8073537
>the anthology is any worse than the individual worksI-Is it?
>>8078105
Do you have a cake on your bookshelf?
>>8080702
>You're my messier spic cousins house
What did he mean by this?
>>8083540
>four rows of Stephen King
>entry level normie shit, entry level notmie shit
>"Portal XD"
>pleb decorations, if you have a gf I bet you both post on reddit while sitting in the same room
kind of disappointing tbqhwy, though I like your cool mugs unless upon closer observation they're tied to Game of Thrones or contain some other "omg so nerdy" reference in which case I'm nevertheless still jealous of your floor space and disposable income.
so yeah, your books aren't /lit/.
>>8083557
>disposable income
Please, you can get a set of 10 SK harcovers for $60 on ebay.
I have a copy of City of Easton Press that has more value than two rows of his books.
>>8071949
>an entire stack devoted to niggerology
>>8083540
that shelf could work as an art installation
I laughed when I saw an entire shelf of stephen king books.
then i saw the second and laughed.
then i saw the third and laughed harder.
I saw the fourth and stopped laughing.
The Barnes and Noble Glitter edition book collection.
the video game replicas
a short swiffer tucked in above the """adult""" comics and the Heroes:the tv show: the book
two shelves of terry brooks, some robert jordan, game of thrones, harry potter, eragon.
the mugs that I can't identify but are probably harry potter or from a video game
book ends that look like stray pieces of garbage
it's a shame the picture is low quality. I'd love to see the rest of the collection
>>8083557
also:
>being in possesion of bulky, faux-ornate hardback editions of overpraised classics
>probably has a bar codes and embedded on the back
>not owning practical, edited paperback editions
pseud af
>>8083572
i laughed when you wrote all that but completely failed to recognise this b8 picture that is posted in bookshelf threads on here almost as frequently as that dick with the particle research magazines
>>8083569
It's not the books that indicate that he's a an at least slightly well-off idiot, it's the Buster Sword and Portal gun replicas. I can't think of any reason to buy those unless you just want to flush money down the toilet.
Probably crushes some mad pseudointellectual puss, most women are pseuds.
>>8083580
duh. and someone actually owns all of those things. and i would get a kick out of it as an art installation. it's beautiful.
>>8083587
>Buster Sword
1. Why the fuck do you know the name of that thing?
2. you can get that crap for $45
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Cloud-Buster-Sword-42-With-Free-Display-Stand-Sheath-/282044696515?hash=item41ab2c87c3:g:l7wAAOSwo6lWH9dO
Either you are uber poor or you think $45 makes you well-off.
>>8079897
>water dmg
you mean you came over it, right?
>>8083608
1. I played Final Fantasy 7, like a lot of people who flowered into adulthood towards the end of the 20th century.
2. I wasn't aware they were so cheap. Besides, there's variety in replicas and I'm no Buster Sword appraiser so I can't tell you with exactitude how much he paid for it.
3. Don't mistake me. I'm not praising his taste, I obviously think it's tacky.
>>8083608
>Either you are uber poor or you think $45 makes you well-off.
those two alternatives are the same thing
>>8080888
Cool. I loved it, it was a great experience. I was a college assistant.
>>8083689
another b8 picture recognised
i have the whole series of those colour scott pilgrim books tho. they're great
>>8083760
man, you're so clever ;^)
>>8072428
boyscout handbook. probably more helpful than anything else posted in this thread for most of the faggots that lurk here.
Behead All Satans
>>8075665
i know how you feel
i actually read chemistry textbooks for fun, maybe about once a year ill read half of a big scholarly book. i take notes too, and try to memorize as much as possible. its a hobby i really enjoy
and its much better than reading indirect and half assed ideas through shitty "art" prose.
>>8083689
1/3
>>8080486
are u me?
I read Cat's Cradle and then Starship Troopers earlier this year
>>8083848
2/3
>>8083938
3/3
>>8084029
Besides the manga, it's been about six years since I started my collection. Pic is what it was like back then.
My backlog's usually about a third of them now, including things like the reference works and anthologies (most of which I'll probably never read the whole way through). I spent several years abusing my university's very great inter-library loan system, so there's several hundred I've read but don't own. Most of my book buying lately has been picking up the ones I really loved but read through the library, plus kid's books.
What's in your backlog right now?
>>8072816
Fuuuuuuck, I gotta pick up no longer human, I really liked Kokoro, are the similar?
>>8079973
>not reading in the shower
why waste time?
>>8080945
Fuck off Andrew.
>>8083540
saved
go easy on me im dyslexivc
>>8085267
I have Marimos on my bookshelf too :)
I named them Zizek (the big one) and Camus (the littler one) when I was 17
>>8084079
>memoirs of a geisha
i thought i was the only one
>>8084029
Shelves fill up really quickly if you hit up antiquaries, flea markets, that kind of stuff, or maybe they're phasing out books at your university and you can just come and pick them up for free.
The sheer amount of new books I see on /lit/ almost has me believe everyone's either a richfag or still living at home because the only new books I buy are the ones for my courses and the ones I'm gifted, everything else I find for cheap around the city.
Granted, you probably won't find exactly 'that' book you want, but you'll find plenty of classics anyway (I found the collected works of Goethe and Lessing for free) and you'll end up with a diverse library that doesn't look like a meme.
>>8085295
Reading this again, I don't buy the books I'm gifted, but you get the point
>>8085277
mine are the end, the joy, and the sorrow :3
ive only had them for a year though so i hope they get bigger!
>>8086951
I've been thinking about getting that Lovecraft book but the cover is just so absolutely horrible.
>>8072105
EULALIA
>>8073050
Would highly recommend The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature to go on there. Invaluable source
>>8088248
I didn't know such books existed.
Rate mine!!
>>8088723
>books in front of other books
disgusting
>>8088975
And small one, and there shit-ton of manga :/
>>8088975
threw up in my mouth
>>8088975
What's your booktube channel?
>>8072834
Memed so hard that I'm actually embarrassed for you.
>>8084029
I have saved easily around 500 or 600 dollars buying books at different thrift stores in different cities and by occasionally revisiting the ones in my city.
Its caused me to have a huge backlog but 85% of the them are books I would have wanted to read eventually anyway so its better to buy them for 50 cents instead of ~10 dollars from amazon or Barnes and Noble.
>>8071949
>The Things They Carried
Muh nigga.
>>8072576
Average /pol/ user.
>>8072786
What are you, a fuckin weeb?
>>8072853
People shitting on DFW this hard has now itself become a new meme.
>>8083608
>Why the fuck do you know the name of that thing?
Not even him, but come on, FFVII was pretty big back when it came out
>>8083587
>$100 convention-tier replicas
>well-off
What's your job?
>>8088634
I didn't know such memes existed
>>8083938
How is Giles Goat Boy?
Damnit guise i got memed so hard.
not mad though im not used to anything so im having the time of my life with these shitty books
Damn where's the anon who keeps all his books stacked on the floor near his chair? Dude has ballin' furniture taste and I forget what chair he recommended. Where are you chair bro?
>>8089314
>jobs
>>8090000
If he's a poor NEET then that would explain why he thinks so, but I wouldn't think he assumes all non-NEETs are well-off.
>>8090043
>twin peaks
Nice.
>>8090000
miring those digits senpai
>>8072834
Because lots of high schoolers read The Brother K., Voltaire and Proust, but not Infinite Jest or Tao Lin. Retard.
>>8072666
That's not true. I'm sure he's read that Game of Thrones.
>>8090807
What kind of allocation you running in your portfolio my man? 80/15/5, 90/10? You maxing out your 401k or Roth contributions each year?
Looking to incorporate any other assets like real estate or other property in the near future?
>>8088634
I once had a selection of 600 weird-ass porn books, including holocaust erotica novels from the 50s in ebook format. I think I lost the archive though.
>>8089179
I've once met a woman here, believe it or not.
>>8090931
No hopefully he's buying more [insert] for dummies books so he learns how to waste more money on hardcovers and bad dune books
>>8088634
Then you`re not really searching for it. Here, have some Israeli Nazi Porn.
>>8085282
Actually, we`re three now, I have it in German.
>>8088248
>Mike Hunt
masterful
>>8090807
My favorite thing about this is that most of the books are still in the plastic wrap.
>>8091268
holy fuck you're right. why do people do this?
>>8088248
>buttrustle
NOOOOOO
>>8090068
I read The Bros K and Candide in highschool but never read Infinite Jest and had never even heard of Tao Lin until College.
>>8091268
>>8091351
not that guy, but I live in Lima, a place where humidity is 89% and it an go to 94% during winter, so I wrap the books I am not reading in polyethylene plastic bags and have to keep them in my room that has a dehumidifier. Otherwise they get those yellow stains all over the pages. Paperbacks would only last 4 years and hardcovers a few years more if I didnt do that. Also I am allergic to every king of fungus. I have a collection of sci-fi paperbacks that I cant read because of mold.
>>8091382
*kind
my bookshelf at the moment. living in a temporary place so I only have the ones most important to me out. recommendations welcome.
>>8091813
>>8091813
>>8091813
>paperbacks with cracked spines
Literally just throw that destroyed shit away and try again. Gently bend or go hardcover all the way, plebs.
>>8091900
Yeah just to look like I never actually read and only buy books to show of. Better just buy ebooks then, faggot
>>8091943
If you're going to own physical media, why display destroyed garbage?
>>8091943
>to look like I never actually read
How do you jump to that conclusion? Hardcover books equate to not reading?
>>8091957
To look like you don't read doesn't mean you don't read, are you even trying? Of course hardcover books will look unread, which doesn't mean they are actually unread
>>8091948
Don't get me wrong, I think that books look bad when they're like destroyed, but I don't think some cracks on their spine can be considered a real problem, to be honest I think they're quite aesthetically pleasant
>>8072560
He didn't try hard enough to impress people with physical copies of books that he will never read.
>>8083848
>he doesn't have norton anthology of english literature volume D
>>8091873
>Just Kids
I don't see this on people's shelves often, but I recently picked it up myself
Any thoughts on it?
>>8092491
its good my man
>>8092491
I haven't read it yet. Read M Train though, and that's killer. She made me feel a lot while saying very little. She's just a normal lady, no blown up superstar, and she makes it feel good to get up in the afternoon and eat some brown toast with olive oil. Then again, she also is a superstar and toured with Dylan and is a furious Blakean and the M Train has value for that and her reflections and devotion to literature.
I don't usually post in these threads but I just moved in to a new place.
I've rearranged them a little since, mainly based on the aesthetics of how tall or wide they are. The shelves are stupidly deep so you can't really see all the titles from any one perspective.
>>8092896
So you can actually see.
>>8094256
I like this 10/10
>>8090931
I've seen these kinds of shitposts before. Why does /lit/ have such a hate-boner for /biz/fags?
