/lit/ - Literature

>>18503007
>Jamesanon is a weeb

>>18503007
Send me Patlabor

>>18503007
I hate to be that guy but not one of those looks touched.

>>18503047
No. These are the things that truly matter to me.
It's still being sold here though
https://www.sentaifilmworks.com/products/patlabor-the-mobile-police-ultimate-collection-blu-ray

>>18503047
No. These are the things that truly matter to me.
It's still being sold here though
https://www.sentaifilmworks.com/products/patlabor-the-mobile-police-ultimate-collection-blu-ray

>>18503007
>throwing away Henry James
based

>>18503092
pic are the books that matter to me

>>18503007
Who the fuck is Patrick White? Sorry, I'm too uncultered to know this author, what can you tell me about him?

>>18503127
aussie author.
i just read about him the other day and now im interested in reading him myself

Getting ready to move, in the past few weeks i have off loaded a few hundred books at the little free library near my house. Neighborhood seems to have been starved for quality lit, it has been going fast.

>>18503108
what did you throw away, then?

>>18503160
Nothing. I'm not throwing out my books.

>>18503209
Are you not OP?

>>18503210
I am OP

>>18503007
BASED

>>18503127
He literally won a Nobel anon

>>18503007
This is the only stack photo I've ever seen that isn't gay

>>18503443
>Posters: 9

>>18503581
It was 8 before

>>18503007
if you try to haul that to the curb all at once you'll do your back in, m8.
make three trips.

>>18503351
Obama won a Nobel too, simply for having been President for about 2 months.

>>18503007
Nice perec

>>18503680
Peace prize doesn't matter. Lit prize does.

Dont throw away Henry James, he excellent! Give him another shot OP.

>>18503802
>>18503108

>>18503802
And I worship Henry James

Do you like the library of america books for reading?
Or do you prefer paperbacks?

>>18503216
>I'm throwing out all of my books except the ones that truly matter to me.
I don't get it.

>>18503701
After Bob Dylan it's gotten significantly less prestigious.

>>18503903
It's a shitpost.
>>18503902
I think LoA is comfy.
>>18503926
Not really

>>18503947
He did yes.

You've inspired me to do the same. I've got too much junk text from my adolescence just lying about causing mental anguish. Some it's based tho

>>18504008
I'm not actually throwing out any books I like all the books that I have because I only get good books. You do you though.

I always forget how thick the Azumanga Daioh complete volume is

>>18503902
LOA are my favorites to read, they just stay open nicely in one hand, don't need to use your thumb to keep them open.

>>18504008
Make a thread, let us see if we could get some.

>>18503108
how can you know they matter to you, if you haven't read them

>>18504106
>>18504008
Actually nevermind, use this one, since OP is being a huge fucking faggot.

>>18504111
xD

>>18504016
I wasn't going to toss em, maybe just put them away for some of my younger relatives

>>18504138
I meant I'm not giving any away

>>18504141
O right

>>18503007
Ok, but make sure to recycle them, anon.

>>18504111
check'd and kek'd

>>18503007
you must be the madman behind this guide

>>18503053
disagree

>>18504192
I'm not

>>18504192
Oh yeah this chart reminds me I still need his travel writings

>>18503127
He was a fag

>>18503007
>faulkner
into the trash

>>18503007
>azumanga daioh
A man of culture.

>Thomas Bernhard
Irredeemable

>>18506273
Bernhard is great

>>18506324
Where are you from?

>>18506332
Burgerland

>>18503007
>sacred fount
>lime twig
>flaubert letters
>kafka diaries
>gathering evidence
>montaigne
>death on credit
>beckett trilogy
op is MAN OF THE CENTURY

>>18506365
I can see why you consider him great then. He has his merits, but I mostly hate the fanbase he has accumulated here in Austria.

>>18506478
How is he received on Austria?

>>18506668
in*

>>18503007
the stupid thing at the top discredits everything else in the stack.

>>18503155
>been going fast
yeah because people never put anything good in those free libraries. usually garbage fiction that you can find at thriftstores. Sometimes you can get lucky with a good cookbook or hobby book, but thats about it.

>>18503155
Ive been doing this to get rid of a lot of the books im either not going to read or have no use of.
>>18506765
True. Thankfully i live near a good college and a lot of the non-pozzed academic types will leave a lot of good books. A lot of my western canon collection came from these free libraries

>>18503007
>I'm throwing out all of my books
why not sell them on ebay or something?

>>18506760
Azumanga Daioh is better than your favorite book

>>18503053
a lot of them have those white chinks and they are weighted down so you can't tell if they are bent

>>18503007
<1% intellectual of /lit/ards

>>18506896
?

>>18507372
You can just ignore anyone who uses the "-tard" construction and you won't miss out on anything.

part of me wants to become a minimalist and just throw out everything i own except the bare essentials and just keep stacks of books to study and go through kinda like OP and that one guy from True Detective who lives in an apartment with like just a bed and a couple stacks of books on homicide detective shit

>>18507372
it means that op has a better taste in literature than the absolute majority of anons browsing around here but he is still an autistic retard like them

>>18507425
Don't throw out your books unless you don't like them

>>18506852
its not even better than my most hated book. you are a child.

>>18506765
The one by my house is generally pretty good, I have gotten quite a bit from it over the years. It had been slim pickings for the past year thanks to COVID. See very little genre/best seller/YA in this one and I used to always find at least one worthwhile book to grab and many good books which I have/have read or am not interested in when I stopped by. Used to always be pretty much full but for the past year never had more than a dozen books.

>>18503007
Only the top 2 books matter.

Throwing out LOA? very sad.

Don't throw out H James or i'll deport you.

>>18503007
Lmao are those icons?

>>18508735
>>18508744
see>>18503108

>>18503007
Throwing away Marx. Based.

>>18508735
>>18508744
>>18509480
I'm not throwing those out those are books I worship and adore.
>>18509332
Yeah. My family is Orthodox. My mom put those there. I'm not religious though.

>>18503007
That's a lot of books to throw away.

>>18509547
Those are books I love

>>18506668
Bourgeois leftists he hated just as much as anyone love him because he hated Austria without looking at the man's troubled existence and his actual struggle with Austria - namely that he could not live anywhere else. His writing is good though.

>>18509550
Why do you throw them out then?

>>18509556
I'm not

>>18509541
If you’re not throwing them away why keep them then??????

>>18509572
Because they matter to me

>>18506760
cringe and bluepilled

>>18509551
What is Austria in general like now?

OP maybe you should open some of them. It pains me to see those Powys novels at the bottom looking completely uncracked.

>>18509794
You can read a book 10 times and it can still look "uncracked." Stop this meme.

>>18509783
The comfier Germany. We're less relevant but also don't have this world saviour complex the federal republic (which I think is a very different thing from Germany) has.

>>18509827
What's the political situation like?

>>18509840
Corrupt parties rule and fill their pockets while getting voluntarily legitimated by the very same people they rob every few years, same as in every other western country. I honestly can't be arsed to pay much attention to it anymore.

>>18509803
How? Seriously, how?
I opened up a paperback copy of James' Pragmatism and after just reading a few pages it already had a crease in the back.
Are you not opening your books all the way? Do you just intuit what the words near the end of the page say or something?

>only nonfiction book he owns is by Marx

Reminder that these are the retards that call you a pseud.

>>18510209
There are 16 non-fiction books in that stack. Also this is like 20% of the total amount of books that i own.

>>18503903
>>18503945
Am I on fucking reddit right now fags

>>18510474
you are on 4chan(nel)'s /lit/

>>18510254
Letters of fiction writers and biographies of fiction writers don't count.

>>18510505
you're a retard

>>18503018
The post that destroyed /lit/
How am I going to recover from this? Jamesanon was my last hope

>>18510521
I'm not wrong.

>>18510537
Azumanga Daioh and Patlabor are really really really good anon

I don't know who is more autistic. Henry James or someone who unironically thinks that Henry James isn't terrible.

>>18503007

Grundrisse but none of the volumes of Capital

I'll tell you one thing, OP. You're a strange duck.

>>18510836
I haven't gotten to Capital yet

>>18503007
>not having a private library
Do Americans really?

>>18503007
Give them to a charity shop lad