/lit/ - Literature

>>10243371

Whom else has a Penguin section?

>>10243371
>ASOIAF
At least they're pretty editions.
>Dover Nietzsche
Is the translation any good? I never buy those blue ones because they're ugly, but tempted because they're so cheap.
>Kerouac
Meh
>Lovecraft
Nice, what's it like?

Pretty alright shelf, overall.

everyone hates me for the way i "organize" my shelf (◠◠)

>>10243379
Are you a Dante extraordinaire now? I only have the Wordsworth edition because I'm a pleb.

>>10243420
>Penguin Deluxe edition of Gravity's Rainbows
>innumerable typos, misplaced punctuation, and in some cases even missing whole sentences
are you fucking joking
there used to be threads almost every day about this
you need the turquoise Penguin Twentieth Century Classics version senpai
>no Mason & Dixon or Against the Day
pleb
By Night in Chile is the only Bolano work that compares to 2666
>A Clockwork Orange
>no Earthly Powers
>no Malay Trilogy
>no Enderby Quartet
you're fucking killing me
>Stoner
>no Augustus
>the only fucking Gaddis work you have is Carpenter's Gothic
I'm dying here
>only White Noise
>no Libra, Mao 2, Underworld
I hate you

>>10243371
>buying a set of an incomplete series

baka desu senpai

>>10243420
you're a living (/lit/) meme

>>10243379
>Carson's Inferno
>Ciardi's Commedia
>Hollander & Hollander's Commedia
>Mandelbaum's Commedia
>Merwin's Purgatorio
>Sinclair's Commedia
>Singleton's Commedia
THE CHOSEN ONE
P A T R I C I A N
where's the Mary Jo Bang Inferno, pleb?

>>10243478
pleb all of them. He should learn italian and read it.

>>10243452
that edition of GR was a gift from an ex-gf who thought i hadn't read it. i read it & M&D when i used to read .pdfs.

i bought/read the savage detectives, white noise, & a clockwork orange in high school. also own the recognitions, that's only about a third of my books but i'm living with someone who's reading through some of the ones on the shelf. relax mane

>>10243371
>Game Of Thrones

>>10243379
Why do you have so many variations of TDC?

>>10243417
You need to take better care of Dosto.

>>10243420
Are you bilingual? Can't parse those five books on the right.

>>10243421
Definition of 'Don't judge a book by its cover'

>>10243529
Tolstoy and Dosto surrounded by King makes me sick.

>>10243603
the UK has the ugliest editions of works I've ever seen

>>10243495
the comedy reads better in english than italian though
t. read it in both, spent a year in florence studying dante, did a master's thesis on it

>>10243646
Most of the time it´s just easier to get the British versions when you´re living in Germany because the US Versions take some weeks so I only order them when I really like an author.

>>10243705
I live in Canada and always order from the US
my shelves are so aesthetic I could probably cum between the spines
ugh I have 4 shelves that are JUST Library of America
I'm getting horny now gonna jerk off to books brb

>>10243379
But which one's the best

>>10243420
Breadth without depth.

Got a new shelf today

>>10244018
>>10244025
>>10244033

>>10243371
Not shelf but starting with the Germans

>>10244042
absolutely patrician

>>10244042
>>10244033
>>10244025
>>10244018

Very good taste.
I just hope you aren't a mason, only a student about them.

>>10244222
I am but I'm considering Catholicism

>>10243371
5/10, high school. Get good OP.

>>10243379
Italians get out.

>>10243417
I also have a Penguin section. I like yours.

>>10243420
Memes, but better than OP.

>>10243421
HST and Burroughs (and Kesey) saved this shelf from the bonfire.

>>10243529
Not a shelf and your King selection sucks. No Stand, no It, no Roland.

>>10243603
Not bad. Buscemi is a decent writer, go watch Trees Lounge.

>>10244018
>>10244025
>>10244033
>>10244042
Egh. Your study of Christianity is marred by your fondness for doctrine over righteousness.

>>10244073
College freshman. 7/10.

>>10244222
All praise to Reviewbrah (PBUH)

>>10243371
Pic related is my shelf OP. Anons r8/h8/distintegr8.

>>10244333
>Your study of Christianity is marred by your fondness for doctrine over righteousness.
How can I rectify this?

>>10244364
I don't know you personally obviously, that was just an assumption based off looking at your shelves. If I had to say: don't fret about metaphysics or the church father opinions. Dissecting theology will never prove faith. Do what Jesus did and show love to those who need it most.

>>10244033
Hang yourself and meet your maker

>>10244333
>D&D
Get a life you nerd.

>>10244364
No need, there's no difference in doctrine and love. It's a meme to conflict them. The role of the intellectual is to guide others and correct their errors as part of their calling, showing truth is an expression of love for souls of your fellow man.

>>10244333
>College freshman. 7/10.
You think I'd pay thousands for this bullshit?

>>10244452
>there's no difference in doctrine and love. It's a meme to conflict them. The role of the intellectual is to guide others and correct their errors as part of their calling, showing truth is an expression of love for souls of your fellow man.

>lol unless ur gay or a woman

My shelf isn't beautiful and neither organized.
I have to buy (or construct) a new shelf and a new bedroom. At least, there're a good books there.

>>10244462
How is being a sodomite (as this is the relevant category you probably mean) or a woman relevant here?

>>10244431
I have a life thanks. D&D is something I've loved since childhood, and 3.5 is the purest expression of the game.

>>10244456
I dunno, do you pay thousands? Your books are decent, but where's Schiller? Non-intro Hegel? Kneechee?

>>10244486
how the FUCK did your shelves get so bowed?

t. currently building a new shelf

>>10244489
this is not a religious discussion thread so i will ignore your posts for now.

>>10244508
>how the FUCK did your shelves get so bowed?

This shelf is very old and wasn't build with good material.

>t. currently building a new shelf

Good. when you finish, put some photos here on /lit.
I'm making some projects. I intend to build it soon.

>>10244534
I will, and I'll keep watch for your books on the new shelves!

Need a full sized shelf. Things are beginning to not fit.

>>10244631
>yiddish policeman's union
>den hartog's mechanics
you're alright anon. except for being a sub-mariner.

>>10244651
>when you finally get to bust a nut after getting cucked by the navy for 14 years straight.

>>10244501
>Schiller
Untranslated >suicide.jpg and Hegels aesthetics are better than his letters.
Intro Hegel is in the Cambridge book and Nietzsche comes 70 years later and disregards German Idealism almost entirely

>>10244486

>astrolavo

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA

>>10244501
>Kneechee?
>Putting Nietzsche with German Idealists

>>10244795
Sim. Li seus principais livros mas não sou olavete, muito pelo contrário.

>>10244834

É o que pede o bom senso.

>>10243452
>>Penguin Deluxe edition of Gravity's Rainbows
>>innumerable typos, misplaced punctuation, and in some cases even missing whole sentences
>are you fucking joking
>there used to be threads almost every day about this

There's one missing line and it's been fixed in later editions. Every time /lit/ has been asked about other egregious typos, no one has pointed them out. The meme died because it's BS and you have to bring it up again like a pleb.

>>10243747
Hollander for Verse
Singleton for Prose

>>10245053
>google "penguin deluxe edition errors"
>729,000 results
>9 of the top 10 results refer to GR
>later editions
they haven't published a newer edition
all you've done is try to shift the onus of proof onto me when you haven't made any precise counterpoints
you sound like pathetic PR
go back to >>>reddit

>>10243371
Like a Professor should be useless to anyone that isn't a high schooler or a total pleb. It was required reading for one of my high school English classes, so I get a pass for owning it.

My shelf consists only of what I presently have with me at college, excluding more textbooks. I have so many anatomy books because I like looking at different pictures of the same thing.

>>10243452
I mean, this shelf is mostly a nondescript collection of memes, from which I can't really determine anything except that the poster frequents /lit/, but you sound insufferable. This post is more cringe than any shelf posted in this thread.

>>10245153
>he still hasn't adapted to the 4chan style of endearment where you just insult the shit out of someone while giving them advice
he was recommending books to them

>>10245089

Take it up with the Anons who've pointed out on here that the missing line, the only real egregious error, the only missing line documented, is intact in their editions. Sorry that's not 100% concrete proof, but convincing reddit obsessed Anons is not a high priority to me.

>>10245142
You're alright in my book, some philosophy, Camus, and Homer, but you are pretty close to the stereotypical college shelf (and I really don't know why it is so common) of having loads of textbooks + Ayn Rand's whole biography and nothing else.

>>10245284
I was really into Ayn Rand in high school. I still see value in her perspective, although I now think a lot of her views were pretty naive or shortsighted.

No bully

>shelves with less than 50 books

tfw you realise /lit/ is full of brainlets and/or teens

>>10243371
>how to read
>doesn't just do it
>not even parking
I hownim going to get flamed for my shelf but is ok

It's kinda outdated but I started buying a lot less books since i got my kindle so fuck it

>>10245441
22

>>10245416
>no bully
>posts schopenhauer and evola

The ONLY reason you get a pass from me is Milton, Dumas, and Herbert.

>>10245422
>calls people brainlets
>doesn't post bookshelf
I can only assume you're worse than the rest of us

>>10243371
1/6
Be sure to call me a try-hard faggot for liking leather.

>>10245552
2/6

>>10245416
>that bible
Gosh man how old is that thing?

I have more behind the t.v. box but the dog will tear them apart if i move it. Pls bully if my pic is aus mode

>>10245552
this looks pretty fucking nice, anon

>>10245561
3/6

>>10245552
This is what white privilege looks like

>>10245569
4/6

>>10245575
5/6

>>10245564
From 1867. Found it for 10 dollarydoos at a charity booksale.

>>10245579

>>10245566
Thanks anon

>>10245570
Other than the signed editions, those all sell for around $ 35.00. Less than a new modern hardcover, most times.

>>10245586
You have an amazing collection.

>>10245583
Impressive, very nice.

>>10245575
How come you have 2 copies of on war?

>>10245589
Hmm where did you get those from then?

>>10244018
Are masons truly evil people trying to destroy christianity?

>>10243420
kool ad best novelist

>>10245608
Nuhuh

>>10245575
Damn this looks nice. I didn't even know Folio had Storm of Steel too. I'm jelly.

>>10245595
Picked up the Folio copy a month ago, and haven't had a chance to sell or give away the hardcover.

>>10245597
Second hand stores and Abebooks

>>10245642
Folio had a print run of WWI and II accounts, that came out in the early 2000's. Some nice editions in there.

I organised my shelf based on the size of the book and not the author. Will that annoy people?

>>10245698
I do the same anon, although I'll do my best to at least keep genres together. Bookshelves take up too much of a room to leave the shelves unaesthetically pleasing.

>>10245693
I love abebooks. That's where I got my 3 volumes of Werner Jaeger's Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture from. Any new copy today is only in paperback which I abhor getting when I have the option not to.

>>10245759
Yeah, it's great for finding out of print books. I've been getting into Chinese Legalism, and I have no idea how I would get copies of English translations without it.

>>10243420
>Nescio
Holy shit I had not expected to ever see him pop up on /lit/

>>10245142
Get some better anatomy books.
Try Sobotta, it has really nice images.

1/2

2/2

>>10243371
*pic of my kindle*.

Full view, no lighting in my room other than the Christmas lights and a lamp on my desk. Only have one B&N by my house, and the only other bookstore is another B&N 10 miles away.

>>10245891
First two shelves are Theology>Philosophy>Political philo
Some are out of order

>>10245898
Organon out of place

>>10245905
Reading Sextus and Arrian

>>10245891
What do you think of the Knox/Fagles edition of the Iliad / Odyssey / Aeneid.
I'm looking to buy them as a pleb getting started with the Greeks, they look like good started editions to me.

>>10245927
They're definitely better than the E.V. Rieu. (Penguin Classics) edition.; the penguin edition is blunt, but loses a lot of the prose. I've heard that Fagles is the best literal translation, and Poe has the best prose, but isn't really "Homer". Those are the only two editions I've read so that's all I can really say.

>>10245891
Xmas lights are a tad faggoty, but nice selection. There are two used bookstores about 20 miles from me and a BN about 45 miles away.

>>10245948
Yeah I've been doing quite some research into the different editions. In my country there is really only one source where you can easily get those from, and they have inexplicably raised the price of the box set from €42 to €54 a few days ago, so now I'm looking for an alternative place to buy them from. I think physically these look very nice, and on Amazon someone called them "the best a paperback will get." Fagles is indeed seen as one of the most literal, together with Lattimore.
I think the idea with Pope is that you get a sort of 2-for-1 deal, you get both a genius British poet and Homer in the same package, but probably not such a good idea if you go for readability in a first attempt at reading Homer, that's why I'm eyeing the Fagles editions.
What about the Knox introductions? Are they any good/ helpful/ interesting?

>>10245965
Introductions were great, starts off with the general history of Homer, the Aegean, and mythic characters. He goes over the gods, their relationships, and the general outline of the story. Then he breaks down the poem into its different components (structure, translation, motifs). There's also a map at the end of it.

>>10244018
What is the Master Mason Holy Bible? Never heard of it I'm intrigued though.

>>10245867
I've been wanting to get into lone wolf and cub, how is it?
>>10245927
>pic related
The anon you asked his opinion and I both have the same Fagles set and I enjoyed it

>>10246004
Pretty much what'd you'd expect: a Kurosawa film in manga form, and that's great.

>>10246014
Perfect, I'll look into it.

>>10245993
Its the King James Bible with a brief description of what each of the various different degrees of the Blue Lodge, Scottish Rite, and York Rite are meant to signify. It also has an index for various different words that are significant to Freemasonry throughout the Bible.

>>10245416
i guess we all have to start somewhere

>>10245473
“Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them; but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.”

t. Arthur

>>10245916
Can you come back and post your thoughts on Sextus when you are done?

>>10246712
If you agree with that quote, it only affirms your own pseud-ness.

>>10246004
That picture is perfect. It's how I feel every time there's a Greek thread.

>>10244631
Easily fixed: do the right thing anf donate the trashy novels to a charity shop.

>>10245552
did you buy the lot as a, well, lot, or just inherit them?

>>10243603
how's Back to Blood?

>>10246852
I like to read them.
Which ones do you consider trashy anon?

>>10246857
I've been buying them one at a time, over the last seven or eight years, from used bookstores.

>>10245851
I'll see if I can justify buying it along with next semester's textbooks; sounds like a great book from reviews. I bought all my other anatomy books for very little from thrift shops, so I was not very picky about their quality.

>>10246674
I'm getting there..

>>10245416
What do you think of that edition of critique of pure reason?

>>10245416
>Dune
>Evola
Epic. You should've included your daki in the pic.

>>10246943
Without having read the Guyer version I can't say for sure, but I found the writing smooth enough and liked having the two different editions of certain chapters.

Seems like an extensive bibliography but haven't looked through it beyond just flicking.

>>10246968
I couldn't fit it in the picture.

>>10243379
Needs more minor works and modern commentaries. I imagine the Singleton commentaries are excellent; would recommend his essay on the vita nuova. Gonna read his short 2 vol Dante Studies next week before reading de vulgari eloquentia. Also heads up there's a new edition of convivio coming out soon (isbn 978-1107139367) which may interest you. I'd rather not get fisted for the cost, but literally every dante essay I've read concerning the convivio, and even the dante encyclopedia, references only two supposedly excellent translations of convivio, both of which I have been completely unable to find on abe, ebay, bookfinder, anything. Have not seen a single english convivio that wasn't some createspace self-published shit.

>>10244073
Cambridge companions are sometimes surprisingly advanced. IMO it would be best to read it through once, take note of cited sources, pursue some of those (along with primary sources), before eventually returning to the companion for a second read. Often the essays presume a strong grasp of the underlying material, yet are one of few entry points into a subject for a casual reader without formal guidance. Basically a cheat sheet of where to start and where to go next, at the cost of possibly reading a lot of stuff that won't quite make sense to you yet.

>>10245416
How was the Norton Milton?

>>10245422
>>>"less"
yfw caught being a projecting brainlet

>>10245552
I will unironically go out of my way to avoid these. IMO they look as tacky and ugly as actual old half or 3/4 leatherbound books look attractive. Nice Gibbon though.

>>10245905
What edition of the Alexiad is that? Did you enjoy it? I picked up the penguin one after slogging through Runciman's history of the crusades; hoping the Alexiad is more akin to classical histories, even if it's limited in scope and biased.

>>10245916
Good for you for reading both Arrian and Rufus. Worth it at least to understand the arguments over the two as sometimes conflicting sources. Also comparing Arrian to Plutarch's Alexander is a great crash course in understanding what makes Plutarch's "lives" such a different form of writing from typical contemporary histories. Hope you enjoy these.

Recently bought a massive new bookcase. Very nice wood. Will post results once I've bolted it to the wall.


>>10244486
I like you

>>10247059
The Norton edition was excellent for a first read/beginner. The amount of notes may have been over the top but still very nice to have some subtler things briefly mentioned as well as a few theological themes explained for particular lines/passages.

>>10247079
Thanks very much, I was hoping to hear that. Are there essays/commentaries at the end?

>>10247120
There's several passages of criticism, both classical and modern, from Voltaire, Coleridge, Wordsworth, C.S Lewis, and plenty more
As well as a glossary of all the names mentioned or even hinted at.

Well worth the money.

>>10243420
Nice Monogatari. The only LNs I dont hide when people come over

I should get an actual shelf...

Why do people here have so few books? I've got maybe 10 books from childhood then 50 from the past year where I've been reading more seriously. Enough that I've got a bookcase full, not just a shelf or stack of 10.

>>10243379
WHY?! WHY MUST YOU TORMENT ME SO WITH THESE NUMEROUS EDITIONS OF THE DIVINE COMEDY? All I want to do is come here for an Anglo experience that will restore my faith in the Church of England but I am constantly swayed by these Catholics with their epic poetic tradition. Can I never not divorce my wife, will I ever know how to have a beautiful church? Will the pope ever christen me as the new Charlemagne?

>>10248367
these are just the shelves in my bedroom
if I wanted to show all my books up close in this thread it would take 40 posts

>>10247132
Sounds great, will definitely pick it up. Thanks again!

>>10245867
>>10245875
This is great

>>10244333
Keep Crowley, JMG, Agrippa, and the Grimorium and throw the rest in the trash.

>Llewellyn
>Occultism

ha

>>10248447
Nice, I just started reading again about a year ago so looking to expand.

my little one in my dorm

>>10245561
What work of Camus is that which doesn't have the title on the side?

>>10248655
>throwing away my 3.5 books
kys, or come play a game with me

>>10243371

>>10249254
Exile and the Kingdom

>>10249326
Is the blue slipcase copy of three Joyce novels abridged? Otherwise that typeface must be minuscule.

>>10249326
>doesn't have a separate copy of the 1922 Ulysses
>no Exiles and Joyce's poetry
P L E B

>>10249354
not him, but it looks like dubliners, portrait and his poetry collection Chamber Music
no Ulysses so it can fit all those unabridged

>>10249354
unabridged
it's pretty large and thick so it's alright
i have the viking portable reader that's tiny apart from being as thick as my copy of ulysses, yet even with ulysses and finnegans wake being abridged the lines are small and close together
>>10249369
it's in the viking copy not pictured above

>>10249373
Have you wrangled copies of Finn's hotel, The Cats of Copenhagen, or Giacomo Joyce? Finns hotel is almost impossible to come by but its several early drafts of what was to become Finnegan's wake

one of my friends has Our Exagmination Round His Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress
a lot of Beckett's early work when was still with Joyce is gorgeously similar

>>10249389
i haven't

>>10249326
how many of those secondary texts are dank?
Im a big fan of joyce and considering checking out biographies and supplementary stuff

>>10249462
from what i've gotten through they're solid so far

>>10249431
patrician

Can we call pictures of your bookshelves "shelfies"?

"Shelfie Thread" has a nice sound to it.

>>10249431

Symmetrical book stacking. Just like the Philadelphia mass turbulence of 1947.

>>10249761
you're right, anon, no... /human/ could have stacked books like in that picture.

>>10243379
Holy fuck, #goals

>>10248447
>TAOCP

Have you read it?

>>10243371
You're missing GK Chesterton, but maybe he can replace R.R. there.

>>10243420
>The Secret History of Twin Peaks

How is that? Does ir actually buils upon the show in a meaningful and satisfying way, or is is some kind of cash-in?

>>10250614
>that random Halo book

>>10250816
Yeah sorry about that.

>>10250614
>Shakespeare and Campbell sandwiching "HALO: the Fall of Reach"
top kek

On a more serious note, which editions of the Iliad & Odyssey are those? They look aesthetic and thick. Also, how is that Great Books collection? They do look nice on a shelf (apart from the fact that it's incomplete, but I heard that some of the translations are horrible, is that true?

>>10250859

Iliad and Odyssey editions are Robert Fagles translations. Quite thick paper too for some reason. I think it's the 2nd edition of his trans.

Great-books collection is nice but yeah it's incomplete. Some of the translations aren't great but some of them are classics in their own right. A lot of them are quite old, which can be hit and miss.

>>10250874
Them being the Fagles edition explains the thickness in part, with those long introductions by Bernard Knox. I didn't recognize them as I only know of the mainstream one
(this version: https://katongboyreads.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/dsc011273.jpg )

Where did you find those Great Books volumes? I guess second hand stores? I say that because I also notice that you and I have a lot of the same editions of philosophy books, and they are all plentiful at the second hand stores I visited. Especially those editions of Nicomachean Ethics, both the Nietzsche texts, The Prince, and Utopia are just everywhere.

>>10245570
>white privilege
>Owns the Qu'ran but no Bible
>>10245589
The older Franklin Library books are pretty cheap. I bought a FL version of Crime and Punishment for a couple bucks at a used bookstore.

>>10250886
Yeah second hand stores, charity shops mostly.

>>10250941
Are you the same dude who posts a picture of his Xbox games and Trump books in these threads? The shelf looks the same and the idea is similar.

>>10244333
All cringe besides the top 3

>>10244233
HEY

>>10251029
hate how the spines are backwards on french books

>>10250614
what city?

>>10251072
haha i have never noticed, i got some penguin classics and yeah its reversed

>>10251112
honhon ouais

>>10243379
Shoutout to the stray TLOTIAT.

>>10244631
>hart's Mechanics

Your culture is showing, friend.

>>10243420
how is the secret history of twin peaks

>>10243421
Where do you even find Penguin orange covers like this, I rarely see Penguin books outside of the black matte, white and orange text and with art on the cover in gloss

>>10243646
As a britbong I can say this is mostly true and it upsets me. I know you shouldn't judge a book by their cover but it's just a plus to have your books look aesthetically pleasing without being a gaudy hardback gift edition.

>>10248447
very tidy, anon, nice work
looks like you have some very good stuff from what I can make out

>>10251225
I live in Australia where they're nearly all orange in Dymocks

1/9

>>10251906

>>10251908
3/9

>>10251913
4/9

>>10251916

>>10251918
6/9

Some shitty old paperbacks and old hardcovers that belonged to my parents and grandparents that they gave to me. A few of them are just ones I got though, like the hieronymous bosch and william blake.

>>10251926
7/9

>>10251926

>>10251935
9/9

>>10243379
God I hated The Divine Comedy. Are there any redeeming factors with that book? If you're going to create a book all about hell let your imagination run wild. I've never been so bored by a book. And the encounter with the devil? It's like 3 sentences long. The whole thing is god awful.

>>10250526
yes
I don't know why its in my bedroom, my algorithm/math section is downstairs

>>10251916
>Hogg by Delany
;)

>>10251942
6/10
(you)

>>10243379
>>10251942
There were parts I really liked and parts that were boring. I think it would be much more effective if I knew a lot about Italian history and geopolitics. The majority of the book is about Dante encountering famous italian historical figures throughout his journey, but I didn't have a clue who he was referring to eight times out of ten, so I found it boring. It would probably be very entertaining for people at the time, or if they updated it to include contemporary icons that I am more familiar with.

>>10251973
Can't argue with that I guess.
I gave some reasons why I loathed it, how about why you liked it?

>>10245579
Nice Gibbon
Also nice Shirer - want

I definitely prefer hardcover so don't know how I feel about all the leatherbound books honestly kind of on the fence. I feel like in a couple hundred years when they have some wear on them they'll be aesthetic but new leatherbound books just seem kind of tacky. Also they kind of all blend together and takes away some of the originality