/lit/ - Literature

>>12558465

>>12558465
I have more in my closet but I forgot to take a photo of it

looks like the thread is going to die again, what happened, did everyone lose their shelves

So let me get this right. You’ve got an entire shelf full of philosophy books, correct? And I assume you must have read at least some of them, correct? Now here comes the burning question, after reading so much philosophy how are you still so pathetic as to post a picture of your bookshelf on 4chan for approval?

What possesses people to make these worthless threads?

>>12558549
I haven't posted my shelf, but I don't see the problem. I come to these threads because many times they've allowed me to find books that I find interesting. Why are you so mad and pathetic that you choose to view things/people from the worst possible angle? Might want to think about that over the weekend, buddy.

>>12558465
here ya go this is a random shelf from one of my bookcases for you to get all shrieky about
the thing at the end is a yoda toy that talks when you press its hand

>>12558592
these are the best threads on /lit/

>>12558759
ah fuck

>>12558765
>he buys Penguin Modern Classics
faggot alert

>>12558465
>>12558466
>>12558470
Cringe

>>12558465
I will spam this picture until I move and buy a proper shelf for all my books.

haha hey boys rate my shelf :)

>>12558973
I thought this was your gfs shelf fám

>>12559099
meme shelf LARPer

>>12559099
whoever owns that shelf is a very confused individual

>>12559106
you must post your shelf or you're just a rude boy

>>12559099
That shelf used to belong to a family from Sri Lanka living in Tokyo, they gave it away to my a friend, I asked my friend if I could have it and I brought it into my gf's apartment.

>>12559024
Jesus that looks bad....
Is my shelf /lit/ approved?

>>12559188
we prefer our books the right way up around here anon

>>12559199
that's the downside of living in Australia

>>12559199
now it's fixed. Sorry about that

>>12559216
much better anon
yes nice conrad set. i really should read more of his stuff

>>12558549
To answer a few things let's get this straight. Yes this is a entire shelf filled with philosophy and yes I've read about 70% of the shelf.

Pathetic? I wouldn't say so, I just enjoy looking at people's bookshelves and seeing what type of books others read and enjoy. I enjoy philosophy but posting my philosophy shelf on 4chan is in no way seeking approval from 4chan users.

At this point I think of repeatedly reposting my shelf as a form of shitposting

>>12559225
thanks, his stuff is really great and i figured that i might as well get some nice editions

>>12559236
i see you emptied your piss bottle out this morning

>>12559236
based katana shelf poster

>>12559236
alchemy and mysticism
watchmen
american gods
brave new world
holy quran
anon, what are you doing.....

>>12558465
>>12558466
>>12558470
Do you really only read philosophy? Also, how is Deleuze's bit on Spinoza? Been thinking of picking it up.
>>12558973
>>12559024
kitsch and therefore kys
>>12559216
Sell me on Conrad
>>12559236
Peak comfy

Not my most aesthetic shelf but my only free one.
After that there's no more room.

>>12559254
More than that, pal

>>12559271
Detail, cont.; I'd identify my current general reading vibe as "mysticism & Americana"

>>12559283
Bottom shelves tier

>>12559285
i advice you to get into Campbell

>>12559285
A recent addition

>>12559262
I have my literature and religious texts all in my closet and bookshelf (also in the closet)

>>12559305
Further general aesthetics
>>12559295
Hard sell, why not just read Jung and James instead rather than panning for gold downriver?
>>12559309
I should really get a bigger bookshelf but I've slowed down on the bookhoarding and also sped back up on the bookreading so I'm trying to focus on just chipping thru what I've already got.

>>12559321
Further

>>12559321
>>12559323
woo anon you are so wise and deep and spiritual
now fuck off and take your tiny st francis with you

>>12559328
Any rec's to set me right, or do you just hate pretty things?

>>12559339
you should commit to one religious theme or none at all. Having a Ganesh and St Francis right next to each other is tasteless.

>>12559339
yeah i rec you throw out all that mystic bullshit and do something useful

>>12559342
I'm not an adherent to any particular faith doctrine, though. I'm interested in learning more about all modes of religious practices and religious experience because I think of it (the sense of the sacred) as an innate and important and healthful aspect of being human. To "commit to one religious theme" is to eschew everything else. Religions aren't football teams, anon. They just that by which men live.

>>12559357
*they're (heh)

>>12559262
Conrad is an excellent writer as he can build up a tense or discomforting atmosphere and deliver some interesting messages and thoughts along the way.
Too many dismiss him easily because they were forced to read Heart of Darkness in high school and rush through it, thereby missing a lot of the books contents.
Lord Jim is great and utilizes a pretty advanced narrative technique, while also offering a book where a Kurtz-like character is the MC.
The Secret Agent is one of the first books on homegrown political terrorism, but he mainly writes about the sea and coast as that is where he spent a lot of his life.
I'd start with the Heart of Darkness again for beginners and then move over to Typhoon or The Nigger of the Narcissuss.

>>12559380
Good sell. Will look into that, and thank you for your authentic enthusiasm.

>>12559188
do you glue your books upside down ?

>>12559410
you are very welcome!

>>12558549

i don't post in these threads, but you're just a moron.

you confuse philosophy with a total rejection of material reality. true, there are important strands of asceticism from which entire moralities are derived, but this is a subset of philosophy rather than its overarching standard.

ironically, its in part your gross ignorance toward the value of materiality that contributes a lot to the current climate of illusion and unreality: you are inadvertently, ignorantly, stupidly living out the fallout of the german enlightenment with unreflected upon comments like that

fucking idiot

>>12559486
i think you need to not drink so much coffee anon

>>12559486
>>12559605
why cant internet people be nice and just discuss book :L

>>12559486
>you are inadvertently, ignorantly, stupidly living out the fallout of the german enlightenment
PENGUIN PRISTINE SPINE CONDITION CHECKERS INCONTROVERTIBLY BTFO FOREVER.

>>12558465
pic

>>12561339
what's the creation myth in the wine bible?

1 of 6

>>12561545
2 of 6

>>12561550
3 of 6

>>12561559
4 of 6

>>12561565
5 of 6

>>12561569
6 6 6

>>12558765

How's Lost at Sea? I like most of Ronson's stuff but it sounded a bit unfocussed.

>>12558765
How is the Prague cemetery?

>>12561291
how's the madeline collection?

rate?

>>12561885
sorry, phonepoaster

>>12561573
Who’s the best entry-level poet in your opinion?

>>12561574
i liked it. it's a collection of his short journalism articles. i'd say quite a lot of the articles in it are fairly uk-specific so if you're not a britanon you might find it a bit mystifying. for example there's an article about ray gosling, the tv presenter who claimed to have killed a former gay lover in an assisted suicide, but turned out to be lying and was arrested for wasting police time and it pretty much ended his career. there's another article about the people who were caught cheating on who wants to be a millionaire, one about robbie williams being obsessed with ufos, etc etc.
if you liked any of his other writing like so you've been publicly shamed you'll like it. one problem with it is that the articles are not dated and there are no followups and i was forever googling stuff to find out the outcomes of things.

>>12561770
it's undeniably brilliantly written but really i found it a bit of a slog after about 300 pages. i guess i'm just not that interested in 19th century european infighting. an interesting thing about it is that every character except the central narrator was a real person. so there's a feeling of a kind of sinister thread of intrigue with this behind the scenes skulduggery affecting the outcome of wars and so on.
another interesting thing about it is that it has some illustrations pertaining to the story including some of the antisemtic newspapers that existed in france around the turn of the 19th-20th centuries. then on page 539... i nearly spat out my beer

>>12561903
William Blake's The Mental Traveler is my favorite. It's very visual and doesn't have a whole lot of allusions that render the verse unintelligible. I recommend the Harold Bloom anthology The Best Poems of the English Language to get started.

>>12561956
This sends a double message as well in that the sneaky merchant is hidden, just like real life, and you have to read very far to find him. Truly genius.

Anna Karenina not pictured cause I'm currently reading it.

>>12561838
I love it. Bemelmans' art is expressive and fills the page, and I like his rhymes. In fact I gave my copy away to my brother to read to his daughter. This is a replacement.

>>12559024
Some of those books, like Great Expectations and Northanger Abbey, are not bad, but the bindings aren't quite up to my taste.

>>12559357
You really need to read the Traditionalists.

>>12558465
UCLA, Reed, Berkeley, Princeton or Rutgers?

>>12559321
are you a 58yr old woman that wears tie dye?

>>12559216

>all that Conrad
>the title of The Nigger of Narcissus is obscured in the picture

anon

>>12559216
>seven storey mountain
based

>>12561545

I've read the following from your shelf: Joyce's portrait, Maldoror, the Escher catalogue (cover to cover, wonderful book), Of Mice and Men, Gödel's Proof, Great Gatsby (ugh), and the Calvin and Hobbes, long ago. Currently: Cioran, trouble with being born, looking at the other sadboy French poets soon, Lautréamont sparked the interest, Iliad/Odyssey at some point later.

I also voted for Trump, and I am constantly delighted with the results. How does that make you feel?

>>12559024
I, well, actually kinda like it Anon.

>>12559099
what kind of camping do you do, anon? I have the same water purifier

>>12559236

> When he has a katana on his book shelf

>>12563670
she's ugly as hell

still need to buy a shelf

>>12563382
>I also voted for Trump, and I am constantly delighted with the results. How does that make you feel?
It makes me feel like you need to smoke more weed.

>>12558465
1/3

>>12563710
2/3

>>12563719
3/3

>>12563710
still jelly of your chalice

bump

My shelf is mostly cheap paperbacks but I love all the books on it

Nice shelves, do you all also read those books?

>>12561565
based yoshitaka amano art book. Final Fantasy fan?

>>12563526
strictly only camp in spring, summer and clement parts of autumn if that's what you mean

>>12558465

>>12563670
i would die for her

so do you guys actually read these books or just buy them in order to start these threads?

>>12566449
come now anon, nobody has actually read a book

>>12565936
I'm more a fan of Yoshitaka's artwork than I am a fan of final fantasy.