Post em.
Also, please shit on mine.
>>8165320
Fucking embarrassing. Both the 'look at my stuff guis xD'-threads and your actual selection of books.
You belong on /r9k/
Who the fuck actually likes Stephen King? Everything else on your bookshelf is meme shit.
>>8165320
Can't bash it too much other than the potato quality picture (really like your Harry Crews selections). Personally, I'm not a huge fan of Stephen King, but I think it's perfectly fine if you enjoy him.
Also, Faulkner should have a nose.
>>8165396
I agree and not enough people know about Harry Crews. I wish his works were not out of print
>falling for memes like 2666, Recognitions, JR, Pynchon, Infinite Jest
Kek. Just how much money have you pissed away because you're a weak and gullible faggot who takes 4chan seriously?
>>8165415
Care to give some recommendations then?
>>8165505
Here's a recommendation: go fuck yourself
>>8165530
So you have nothing to offer? Shocker.
>>8165415
/thread
the amount of jelly in this thread is amazing
>>8165320
I love that you have all of Pynchon and Gaddis. You are unironically a true patrician.
>>8165320
mirin pynchon
>>8165320
>hardbacks
Damn, love those 1st Ed Dark Towers. Those are hard to find.
>>8165320
>all white men
>>8165375
I hate Stephen King, good premises for half his novels and he tanks them hard, SaleMs Lot was the only one I enjoyed
>>8165320
One of three of my shelves this one's in my bed room tho, a lot are school texts i still have and use but I need to organize shit badly but this is my "put it on the shelf for now shelf" sorry for quality I'm drunk and don't give a shit
>>8165549
Here's another recommendation: end your pathetic life
>>8165320
>Also, please shit on mine.
what's your address
>>8165320
Do you actually read all first editions or did you buy them as trophies?
>>8166022
Kind of a mix. The first time I read most of them were paperback then I eventually got around to finding first editions
>>8165320
>literally every meme book without the necessary reference material to enjoy them
>Infinite Jest
>Stephen King
>MUH FIRST EDITIoNS
kysm8
>>8165415
>Recognitions, JR
Both good books m8.
But this guy is obviously a faggot that jumped on whatever shit was meme of the month on /lit/
>>8165320
Why do these threads exist
>>8165871
>school texts
Inb4 the faggots with 20 5-inch wide programming manuals arrive
>>8166113
>be 20-something with no friends but modest left over spending money every month
>decide to take up a hobby to look smart so I start listening to classical music exclusively and reading super-smart meme fiction that is circle-jerked everday on lit
>buy muh first editions
>haven't read anything yet but it sure looks great on the shelf
>take pics and post on lit
How many (You)s would I get if I bought hundreds of copies of Infinite Jest and filled a bookcase with them?
>>8166125
I would fill a thread with (You)s if you did that.
>>8166113
why does any thread exist anon
actually i think the answer to your question might be "to show what a bunch of boorish uneducated turds the population of /lit/ is"
>>8166131 (You)
me to
What does a bookshelf tell you about a person and their literary taste? I don't think mine represents me particularly well. Half of it is stuff I haven't read yet, and half of my favorites I don't own.
>>8166153
>tfw your library is 80% pdfs
>>8166136
>actually i think the answer to your question might be "to show what a bunch of boorish uneducated turds the population of /lit/ is"
This is a good post.
>>8165971
Telling someone to kill themselves because they enjoy a different type of literature to you.
Never change, /lit/.
>>8165320
Where the fuck do you find a hardback copy of Gravity's Rainbow?
>>8165320
I dig that copy of GR, props. You're also repping Delillo, I have a similar shelf myself. Only thing your missing is some Kafka
>>8166124
>heather
FUCK
>>8166115
Chemistry, I use my reference materials constantly for work
>>8165871
pfft. bwahahaha
>Gaylo figurines
>>8165320
>proust next to stephen king
wat
>>8165971
You still have nothing, got it.
>>8166852
>hardcover
what a fool u are lol
>>8166938
:( why? I bought almost all of these used so they were still really cheap
>>8166938
I can find ex-library books in very good condition for $3 each, hardcovers. It is actually a good choice.
>>8166938
t. poorfag
>>8166961
How? Where?
>>8166632
>he organizes his books in alphabetical order according to the author
I knew a guy in graduate school who arranged his books around his flat in stacks of like colours.
>>8167196
Not him, but ThriftBooks has them often. There's a little icon that tells you when they're ex-library.
>>8167202
He was ahead of his time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQ7djxSGh0A
>>8165320
Actually pulling off the "yea i read stephen king because it's fun, bitch." Quite impressive indeed. What's your job and/or major, if you dont mind?
>>8167266
>>8167266
Wow, nice stack. I feel like bateman in these threads sometimes
>>8167271
>>8167271
What's your job
>>8167281
How much for that sweet women and men ?
>>8167281
>>8167283
Court translator and copy editor. I work like a dog, sleep 4 hours a day and spend all of my freetime reading/studying.
>>8167210
I dig this reading corner anon
>>8167291
>>8167296
I'll tell you when I finish reading it (:^).
>>8167305
Why do you have so many JR's?
>>8167305
What I'm currently reading.
>>8167271
look at all that goodass annie dillard
>>8167305
Shit dude, you're the guru. Who are your favorite writers and do you write yourself?
>>8167312
That Beckett book cover reminds me of "Identifying Wood":
http://new2.fjcdn.com/pictures/Identifying_3c7cec_359550.gif
Just some random Delillos and NYRBs.
>>8167312
That's not my address btw. I bought it used (with extensive notes and markings inside).
>>8167310
After I bought the first one (Dalkey) on Amazon, I just started finding them in odd places (library sales, garage sales, books for prisoners stockroom).
No one ever notices my Recognitions, though.
>>8167305
send me a J R plz [email protected]
>>8167305
Nice Miles - his autobiography is sweet if you haven't already
>>8167313
Very under-appreciated. Would recommend Holy the Firm.
>>8167316
Beckett, Onetti, Melville, Didion, Felisberto Hernández. I write highly-derivative shit when I'm drunk or exhausted, then I never have the will to look back and edit the few sentences I'd like to keep.
That's it. I'm too tired/lazy to go outside and take a picture of my other (third) book closet and the shed outside where I keep my old books from before I moved.
>>8167355
The only musician/artist I've ever really followed is Charles Ives. But I hear good things about Davis' autobiography. I'll get to it eventually.
>>8167210
Based reading area desu.
Got some other books too.
Wish i read more desu
But i like 4chan too much
>>8167372
>Davis' autobiography
*Discography
You damn nut
this is kinda like a genre shelf but then I put some no genre stuff in it.
Thanks
I have a bunch of books that people have leant me but I haven't read them yet,is Richard Bransons autobiography worth reading?
First shelf of many full, verdict?
Probably gonna read paradise lost and canterbury tales after Aeneid.
>>8165320
You're missing Ratner's Star by DeLillo, so clearly you're just a poser phag with memetastes and a low self esteem.
>>8167888
that's an ikea billy shelf 80 cm
>>8165320
are you pic related?
>>8167975
Love Ratner's Star, but Cosmopolis is my favorite DeLillo.
>>8166125
I'd give u some (u)s.
>>8168281
every time
>>8168283
Yes
>>8168295
Cosmopolis was awful, senpai
>>8167281
Can i have one of your JR editions?
I will never be able to take a good picture of my bookshelf sadly.
And most of the books are not even in english,so it doesn't matter.
Last time I posted it you called it "Trollspeak" anyway.Cunts
>>8168283
figured, you are likely the only anon on /lit/ with a full collection of pynchon first editions.
>Owning physical media
>>8168628
>Not hoarding it
>>8168628
>reading in Futura
t. pseud
>>8167330
This happened to me, but I only have three Knopf editions.The tight typeface makes my eyes bleed.
>>8167305
>4 JRs
>Women and Men
>that Miles box set
envious
>>8168628
I only own nice editions of my favorite novels
>>8167330
Are you one of those faggots selling used copies of JR for 80 bucks online?
>>8165320
I am easily jellied over first-editions but I get them from Half-Price when I find one that's been overlooked and in near pristine edition. Good job, OP.
>>8167868
How you like the complete works of Plato? Real expensive so I had to buy (likely shit) Barnes & Nobles versions translated by a guy who goes by the name of Benjamin Jewett.
>>8168835
That's the key. I paid almost nothing for all of my first editions. I just like having nice editions of the books I love.
got this backlog
>>8166852
>all those hardcovers
for what purpose
>>8165871
Do you like baseball or do you just live in an area with rich ethnic diversity?
>>8165871
nice bait
>>8169328
hot cop's buns is overrated
>>8169393
Cool selection, I think you're the only person I've seen go Foucault over Rose
>>8169343
This is the most retarded thing I've ever read
>>8169393
>revised lolita
>doesn't have the real lolita
>>8170951
>>revised lolita
Lolita wasn't changed, "revised" is referring to the updates in the annotations.
>>8170951
>he only read the bare text
>he thinks he understands the book
>>8165320
It is a smol but mighty collection. I am missing a few.
>>8165320
>all that pynchon
disgusting
>>8171060
Yes it is. Congratulations, anon.
>>8169393
I liked the artemis fowl books as a kid. They would make good movies, I used to think. Kind of forget the plots now.
>>8171060
basic kafka for a basic bitch
>>8171060
Not pictured are Logical Investigations, Schopenhauer's Essays and Aphorisms, Goethe's Maxims and Reflections, and Maxims of Francois Rochefoucault.
>>8171071
Ha, I thought the same thing!
has anyone else not read even half of the books they own?
op
you are an
autist
>>8168503
>>8168642
>>8168646
>>8168663
I'm sorry, but I really am a bibliophile. The moment I saw them within arm's reach, I felt like I needed to save them from certain doom. No, I'm not selling them on Amazon, because I wouldn't part with them unless I handed them personally to someone I was 99% sure would read it. They fell into my lap by chance, but only circumstance will release them from my safekeeping.
>>8171117
I have every Gaddis book expect JR now because of hoarder fags like you, so you can go suck a dick.
>>8165971
Quit projecting.
>>8167210
wouldreadin/10
>>8165871
Mirin ivy.
>>8171117
>No, I'm not selling them on Amazon, because I wouldn't part with them unless I handed them personally to someone I was 99% sure would read it.
Some fucker paying $50 for a book on Amazon is going to at least read it
You're not "saving" anything it just makes you feel good to hoard shit
>>8165415
>contrarian faggot tries to stroke his ego
>>8169343
>asking why people like hardcovers
holy shit is anyone on this board able to think for themselves? do you faggots need to be spoon fed every day ?
and I thought /lit/ was a much less elitist board than /tv/ or /mu/. boy was I wrong.
>>8171706
no thank you
>>8171698
/lit/ is the supremum of elitism of any set
>>8171698
Literally the only people who get hurt by elitism are those who have bad tastes or get made fun of.
People just like to see someone's trying, even then, you still don't know what you're talking about as /tv/ since capeshit has come up literally talks about real movies and kino maybe once or twice a day in any length, it's practically dead for real discussion.
And /mu/ has pretty much the western canon of music available for download just to integrate you, there's too much pop and flavor of the month talks for it to actually be elite
you're a fuckin pleb.
>>8168362
What, exactly, is wrong with that? 30kg shelf load seems ample.
1/5
>>8171750
2/5
>>8171755
3/5
>>8171760
4/5
>>8171765
My bedside book/5
(I usually keep borges, orwell, and dostoyevsky under my night stand)
>>8171735
I'm not hurt, I was just making an observation.
tfw you post your elite collection but no one replies
>>8169095
>Good Morning Midnight
i want to fuck you
Quite a bit of medical literature
Also
>Hoarding stuff from childhood that my grandfather bought me
>>8169343
If I took off the dust jackets would they die?
>>8166125
Enough to surpass /mu/'s "hell be fine"
>>8167210
mirin hard anon
you got a nice place there
>>8172128
It would be extremely dangerous
>>8175348
can you give me the isbn numbers of those books?
>>8169083
>jewett
>jew
c'mon now
>>8169095
>that Maddie Ziegler magazine cover
Are you some kind of paedophile?
>>8171117
The reason why people would like your excess copies of certain books is because they aren't being given the chance to read them because of hoarders like you who worsen the market for unpublished works. You say you wouldn't part with them unless you knew the person would read them yet you are doing exactly that.
>>8173940
you're a big guy
>>8176301
For you
>>8172168
kek
>>8169387
If you saw the hat on top of it you'd get the joke of having it
>>8169362
Kek I hate baseball though not a rich ethnic diversity just methheads, my town is like 75 percent white, a quarter Asian and Indian and they don't fuck with anyone and there's two half black dudes who are twins so I guess technically one black guy
