/lit/ - Literature

>>11146561
if looks like most have never been opened

Pretty cool. That HST reader is absolute trash tho

>>11146561
is this some sasha grey joke

>>11146561
actually not that bad. 6/10

>>11146561
>translated Rimbaud
0/10

>>11146567
I think she's read all of them except Ulysses and the two B&N classics on the bottom right

>>11146561
My gf has that same water bottle, I believe. Cute shelf.

Does anyone else hate Hitchhiker's Guide? I see no real reason to keep reading. I got to the middle of The Restaurant at the End of the Universe or whatever it's called and didn't want to continue. The writing can be kind of witty at times but it's too silly to feel like anything matters.

>>11146561
Oh to be a young pseud again and still enjoy mass market paperback novels but now can only get an intellectual hard on in the obscure corners of publications long forgotten by history

>>11146561
Looks better than most of the pics from the people on here.
Got a pic of her arsehole, m8?

Does she write her initials on the tops of those books? That's fucking wild. Also the accumulated sweat and grime stains on that light switch are fucking disgusting, she should clean that shit.

Overall though, not a bad taste. I would fuck her,OP.

>>11146561
don't lie, over half of those books are discussed on /lit/ at least once a week.

>>11146561
>normie girl tries to be special by being a common or garden hipster
>scrawls initials on every copy
>gets /lit/ partner to take picture of /lit/ recommends
lol you're fucked m8, look how she treats literature

>>11146660
You're right. Now you're an old pseud.

>>11146660
>but now can only get an intellectual hard on in the obscure corners of publications long forgotten by history

this is the mark of a pseud. a hipster pseud but one none-the-less.

>>11146683
This, he's fucked. He'd be better off alone like us. What a shit girlfriend you have OP, glad I'm not you haha

I like her organization but it seems strange to me that she has Consider the Lobster and Oblivion but not IJ. I might be blind, though.

Don't lie Stacy you are the gf, most of those are lit core.
Nb though

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>>11146699
Oh. Did i ruffle a few feathers?

>>11146561
Looks good. Good catch.

>>11146561
I find it unlikely you have a girlfriend

>>11146561
>Putting your initials on all your books
For what purpose

>>11146706
maybe he likes having her initials on him like the other accessories, but he might also be young enough that he doesn't know that shelf is a warning sign.

if it were a grill posting a bf's shelf with an IJ that had their bf's initials on the copy, i'd feel bad for the grill too. why's it okay to feel bad for grills who get stuck with self obsessed losers but not okay to feel bad for OP he's dating a grill who felt tipped her initials above the section with coprophagia in the penguin edition of GR?

>>11146561
gib ev gf...

>>11146773
>being this creepy

This is why you don't use Tinder.

Meet women in real life so you don't have to settle for this wannabee poseur shit.

>>11146732
AHAHAHAHAHAAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA

we're not losers like you fag

>>>/pol/

This is a "I studied literature in college" shelf if I ever saw one. A few random trendy books mixed in with typical academic assigned reading.

>>11146721
not really, no. what gave you that idea?

>>11146675
>over half of those books are discussed on /lit/ at least once a week.
Wow what a coincidence that /lit/ talks about the books the academic literary community jerks itself off to.

>>11146860
>xhe keeps responding

>>11146561
not bad but pretty normalfag tier

>>11146873
>y-your the o-one that's rustled!

oh I see, trying to save face.

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>>11146561
>Buys one Hunter S. and Murakami book
>buys more

5/10

>>11146567
Not at all, they are well kept but show the signs of having been read.

how about posting some nudes for your friends on /lit/, op?

>>11146561
we're posting gf shelves now?

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>>11146940

based taste desu

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>>11146829
it's not me initialing books about shitting in men's mouths, anon. that's OP's gf. address your concerns to her.

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>>11146982
this feels like you two met on the Guardian's single and over thirty page

>>11146982
That's one based gf you got there .
Is she hot too ?

>>11147020
i think so..
>>11147018
she was in my creative writing class

>>11146926
These are your shelves, not your gf’s. nice try though

>>11147040
it's funny how people think that it's impossible for a woman to have good taste.

>>11146683
>scrawls initials on every copy
Damn, I didn't notice that. How weird.

>>11146940
>the foot long dostoevsky

>>11146561
Pretty bad desu. It's like when someone posts their favorite movies and it's basically a variation of the TSPDT list. Neither that list nor your collection contain anything "bad", but as a whole these books say nothing of personal taste or passionate interests. You're dating a drone

>>11147040
No, this is what you get when you go to kuwait instead of america.

>>11146926
>Mascaro Bhagavad Gita
Son...

>>11147061
Nothing to do with good taste. Just can’t really imagine that any girl has a sincere interest in Hesse and Husserl. She might just be posturing though like we’re so prone to do on here.

>>11146561
E.V. = Enormous Vagina

>>11147039
she's pretty normie tier, and there's little that's personal taste. creative writing class was probably a waste of money, encouraging her to find her own taste would give her better chances. it's not bad, and it's nice she'll read shit if it's well recommended, but there seems to be nothing she sperged out of over and had to dedicate her life to, you know? if you want her to be normie wife, and don't want crazy visionary poettess gf, she's a good choice.

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>>11146755
she also tapes up the edges of all her paperbacks. I think it's dumb, but w/e
>>11146666
no thanks m8

>>11147131
>she also tapes up the edges of all her paperbacks. I think it's dumb, but w/e
seriously bro she has some crazy in her. you might be into that, initial tattoos and shit eating and all, but you should know it's there.

>>11146567
What? You can see creases from use on almost all of them.

>>11147123
what have you sperged out over and have to dedicate your life to?

>>11147090
I know a girl that's really into Husserl. She's not so into Hesse, but she's from one of those exSoviet shitholes where you're educated like the government expects a return on its investment.

>>11146675
No shit. These are extremely popular (outside of the general public of readers).

>>11147090
Stop thinking every girl is American.

>>11147174
I'm not even American

>>11147180
Stop thinking every girl is American or your nationality.

>>11147192
I'm not even a nationality

>>11147210
You don't live in a country?

>>11146982
nice and varied shelf. no immediate and definite taste really pops out to me though. it reminds me of a classics shelf in a small used bookstore. could just be the way its arranged idk.

>>11147157
>nobody does that
i've sperged out over a lot of things, that's why i have sections that are both major and minor works of a movement or track a concept over a couple disciplines. that girl doesn't.
if she had a shittonne of romance novels or books about 17th Century maritime espionage books, or even lots of books focusing on one concept in literature, or perspective or type of philosophy, you'd get a greater sense of personality.
what she has is more standardized than personalized, and to be a mad visionary, you kind of have to step outside the norm or pick a rabbit hole and get pretty deep. pretty sure she'd understand that, because she has hesse and whitman, but she'd also understand the opposite conception, and be taken with neither.
it's not like being normie is a bad thing. even if she did sperg out over something and go against the uncreative masses and force herself through will and personal discernment alone into a literary renown, she'd probably have a worse life than if she just read books with anon and was his qt well read in basic Western canon wife. she doesn't have to be the next sappho.

>>11146561
>guide to college life
What the fuck is that supposed to be?

>>11147233
how to suck bbc

>>11147216
I'm not even an Earthling.

>>11146650
>it's too silly to feel like anything matters.
the ending falls completely flat because of this

>>11147228
techno interests me

>>11147296
chicago house is where it's at www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfLA1imBbM4

>>11146561
Good start/10
Writing on the books makes me cringe though

>>11146926
Patrician gf

>>11146561
Id rather rate her other rack, post it.

0/10
Get a ereader, moran.

>>11146561
>A History of Opera
Patrician

can't one of you guys post your gf's titties? it would be so much hotter now that we've seen her stack. shame /lit/ is filled with such prudes.

>>11147616
>ereader
Get a brain, moran.

Color me surprised, it's fucking terrible.

>>11147841
tempting.

>>11146561 the fall
>>11146926 and redemption
of womemes

>>11148077
Grammy grampy shitting his diaper wiping with the yellowed musky pages of his favorite tome that he can't actually lift with his feeble body any more. Kill yourself you fucking retard.

American editions are such shit, holy fuck.

>>11147228
>mad visionaries can be identified through bookshelves

Do you listen to yourself talk? Sperged out fags are not attractive and that is not what "being visionary" is about. Most poet women probably read the standard available literature and poems of their time, theres no shame or unattractiveness about this. You don't have to be especially well read to be a good writer-literature is not the same thing as philosophy and ontology is irrelevant.

"Personalized" is a vague term. Her bookshelf suggests diverse interest, this is fine and most cool people are like this. People that have narrow interests are neither interesting nor creative and you are pulling all of this out o fyour ass to justify your autism. Your opinion doesnt matter and your parents should have tossed you to the wolves when they found out you were retarded

>>11146567
The fuck? They're all battered and worn. What do books look like when YOU get through with them?

>>11147841
bumping for this

>>11146561
>op's gf has a 20 inch waist

>>11147090
>Hesse
This man, in my country, he is an arthoe core.
>burgers got memed into thinking he's more than one step above Coelho
AHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAAHHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAAHA

>>11146561
Looks like her hymen is fully intact

>>11146561
Your gf shouldn't take melatonin to fall asleep, her body will stop producing it in the long run and it's going to be worse than when she started. You should talk to her about this, OP

>>11146926
What are here religious, political and philosophical stances?

>>11150090
Seconding this.

>>11149244
>mad visionaries can be identified through bookshelves
I'm saying that personality, including if you're an absolute madwoman, can be discerned through bookshelves, as can a lack of personality and prescribed basic course of Western lit. Sorry to be the one to tell you this, but everyone who sees both Wallace and Pynchon on your shelf does think "oh he's a /lit/ idiot". It's not absurd that your reading catalog reveals your interests and inspiration.
You seem very mad about how this works.

>>11146561
>Having only 1/3 of the Divine Comedy
She's literally retarded, OP. You need to dump her.

>>11146561
Marry the qt /lit/ GF anon.

>>11147018
underrated

>>11146561
it´s a nice shelf

>>11151409
>implying inferno isn't far and away the best of the three

>>11146561
You don't have to be insecure about being effeminate, we know you don't have a girlfriend.

>>11150031
>tfw you've been taking it every day for years

>>11146561
can you at least post a pic of her from the neck down?

>>11152552
Me too, and I'm fine. That other guy doesn't know what he's on about.
>tfw went from insomnia every other night to insomnia a couple times a year

>>11146576
Why?

>>11146857
Yeah very different from /lit/ shelves which are exactly like this but also include the rise and fall of the third reich and maybe one or two meme books

>>11152505
Inferno and Purgatorio were literally written to set up the finale Paradiso.

>>11152680
That doesn't mean he executed it well

>>11152746
You should still have read all three and judging by her shelf I'd give a 98% chance that she didn't.

>>11146926
>all that Saul Bellow
Nice.

post some pictures you fucking incelscum

>>11146561
gr8 m8 I r8 8/8

>>11154046
IS IT 2012?! WHAT IS GOING ON?!?!?!

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>>11146561
I would say good but the jarring presence of the martian and the guide to college life as well as how "top 40" all these books are gives me pause.

Nevertheless she is doubtless top decile and good GF material, I wish you the best on future HUG and KISS :)

>>11147616
>inviting the machines to take over his mind
Gotta brain, maroon?

>>11150003
Underrated, but rude.

>>11154609

kek

>>11146561
I assumed this was just an assembly of books needed for college courses until I saw Ada and all that Pynchon. Solid taste, but very little stands out (though on balance, Hitchhiker's Guide does look a bit out of place) or gives me an idea of what's she's really like. You two should hit up some used bookstores together, spice up that shelf with obscurities and fragrant old tomes with character.

>>11150031
Most people who take a melatonin supplement are unknowingly taking a drastically higher dose than necessary; it's more effective to split the pills and take sub-1mg doses. Wouldn't surprise me if that kind of overdosing downregulates melatonin production, but I don't believe supplemental melatonin inherently has that problem; it's more that people have only a vague idea of what it is and how it's best used.

>>11150031
This this this. I took it for years. I stopped taking it a few months ago and I still can't fall asleep on my own unless I'm drastically sleep-deprived.

>>11146561
4/10 - Mostly basic stuff, and no beautiful collector's volumes or anything. Still, at least she reads.

not bad but most of the books don't look like they've been read. also the melatonin is a nice touch.

>>11146915
Not him, but I keep fucking reading Murakami. I don’t even like him, but I keep going and buying one of his books and reading it and disliking it and then doing it again. Literally would not give anything I’ve read of his more than a 4/10, but I have read most of his stuff that is available at this point. I think I just want to find something of his that I like, but at this point I just need to realize that it’s not going to happen.

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>>11146926

Your girlfriend is a faggot.

>Literary Theory
>Classics nowhere to be found
>DFW thrown in as an afterthought so she won't look like a total faggot, but still is

On the one hand, this sort of shit-taste is something I would only expect from a woman, but on the other hand, anyone that permits his girlfriend to have such shit taste in literature wouldn't have a girlfriend in the first place, so I genuinely don't know if this is even real.

>>11147018
fuckin lol

>>11148351
post em

Where are all the books on motherhood and child-rearing?

>>11146561

Given that there's not a single book I haven't heard of as a pleb-tier /lit/izen, I'd say she's probably a boring fuckwit who just reads whatever she's told to read. Or possibly just buys them to look smart.

>>11161460
>child-rearing
He does it on purpose.

>>11161304
Not even Hard-Boiled Wonderland or After the Quake? I haven't read either in years, but I liked them alot back in the day.

>>11161397
you're a retard, there are plenty of classics.

>>11161397
The whole shelf is pretty much nothing but classics what the fuck are you talking about?

>>11147018
fukken kek