/lit/ - Literature

>>5100068
The only good volumes on your shelf are Watamote. You should probably kill yourself for buying all that 40k shit.

>>5100068
>Ian Banks
>Warhammer
>The Hobbit

go back on /v/

>>5100118
Meme shelf xDD epic.

>>5100118
Is the thread now a challenge to create a worse bookshelf than the OP?

Looks neat, OP.

I didn't like Andy Weir, because he was too jokey-jokey and bitchy about his serious situation, and it was unbelievable considering how skilled and professional astronauts are.

>>5100090
oh gross, the weeaboos are bonding.

You are not your bookshelf.

>>5100311
>you've been posting this for months

You're a fucking disgrace.

>>5100285
just leave the thread, they might start posting yellow women or typing chinese messages to one another

>all of his books are in the same langauge

>>5100329
yeah i noticed that too, what a tard

and it's all manga

>>5100318

he's still clearly in his teens

>>5100381
good pic

>>5100395
I didn't realize it was so blurred

Will fix later

>>5100318
What can I say? I hate bookshelf threads, and I think Tyler's juvenile mantra is really pertinent.

Why post your bookshelf? To show off the things you've purchased? To show off your sense of decor? Do you think I look at these shelves and think "wow, I want to have a beer with that Anon," or "good on you, you own Gravity's Rainbow" or "way to alphabetize, Anon?"

I really don't get it. These threads wouldn't be so bad if they discussed the books on the shelves, but you never do. You never do. Instead of talking about books you take photos of books. What's next? You're going to take photos of your dinner instead of eating it?

Every time I see a bookshelf thread I'm going to post Tyler Durden. Laugh and call me a kid. Tell me to tip my fedora. At least I'm not Sasha Fucking Grey taking a selfie with "An Intro to Existentialism" like everyone else in this thread.

>>5100429
*laughs*

tip it, kid

I like these threads because I'm a voyeur who enjoys seeing the way people live. I love seeing people's rooms. Deal w/it nerd.

>>5100429
You do understand that hiding threads is a part of 4chan, right?

You don't have to ruin a thread you don't like, most of the time it's better to ignore it. You're essentially that dude on Reddit(tm) screaming that this or that is a repost, which is less of a problem than the discussion destroying posts that you take part in. Though I'm not sure how far that analogy goes.

>>5100429
I like looking at physical books

>2013+9-5-3
>physical books

Go ahead, support deforestation.

>>5100443

>>5100452
me too, probably because my library consists of mostly textbooks.
most of my recreational reads are on the kindle

>>5100429
We are our bookshelves tho. It's 2014, the horrible cyberpunk future. We are defined by the things we consume

>>5100453
I will buy a kindle when there is one with color e ink. Even then, I will still buy mostly physical

>>5100447
I don't see how posting "you are not your bookshelf" once ruins a thread.

Unless the disillusionment it causes is so great that you find yourself unable to cope with the reality of your love for ikea nick-knacks that it ruins the entire thread for you. But that's just silly.

You know there are some guys who spam gore and CP and "LOLOLOL" in great text blocks to ruin threads, right? I'm not doing that. One post. Five words. That's all. I don't see why I should be silent on a forum for public discourse just because my opinion is in the minority. Or are you just upset that this isn't reddit and you can't downvote my post?

>>5100473
You can post it all day but I have to question why?

>>5100429

>I really don't get it.

And yet as easy as it would be to hide the thread and pass this all over if it isn't for you still you can't.

>Laugh and call me a kid. Tell me to tip my fedora.

Both would probably be warranted. You have made your shitposting habitual in these threads out of sheer insecurity.

>>5100480
Is that post-normcore?

>>5100429
>being THIS fucking autistic

>>5100477
Because I can't help but shake the feeling that people who post their bookshelves are just attention whores seeking psychological validation, like a guy on /k/ showing off his katana collection so everyone knows he's a bad ass, or like Sasha Grey posing with a book on existentialism so people know she's really deep and cultured. That's the feeling these threads give me.

>>5100482
Also known as Cobain-core.

>>5100473

It takes a special kind of loser to want to continually police a board on 4chan.

And you are making all of these high-minded pontifications on 4chan remember. I just thought you might have forgotten that.

You keep fighting the good fight, killer.

>>5100429
literally autistic

>>5100491

Whenever I'm in someone's house for the first time, I head straight for their bookshelves. I like to see what other people read. I like to see how they arrange their shelves. I also like photographs of libraries, and of writers in their study. It's a thing for some people. Learn to cope or else learn to hide a thread.

>>5100429
>>5100485
>>5100500

Autism has a voice too, check your privilege.

>>5100497
It's a losing battle, I'm afraid.

Now I'm off to check the catalog and see if there's a "post pictures of your feet and say the title of your favorite book" thread that I can ridicule. It honestly wouldn't surprise me.

>>5100285
>Using the term weeaboo unironically

Please go back to /v/ and never come back.

>>5100501
Well that's sort of silly, isn't it?

I have a copy of Atlas Shrugged on my bookshelf. You'd see it and probably think I'm an objectivist or some shit, when in fact I thought it was a terrible book and honestly wouldn't recommend it anyone. You wouldn't get this, though, if I posted a picture of my bookshelf. I'd have to tell you what I thought about it.

>>5100429

>Every time I see a bookshelf thread I'm going to post Tyler Durden. Laugh and call me a kid. Tell me to tip my fedora. At least I'm not Sasha Fucking Grey taking a selfie with "An Intro to Existentialism" like everyone else in this thread.

>>5100429
>>5100520

>>5100517


No, it isn't actually. I'm going to ask you what you thought about it and whether or not you liked it. If you had wall to wall westerns or gay porn or multilingual collector's edition annotated copies of the Twilight Saga, then yes, I am going to make certain assumptions about you. However, I'm not going to shame you over one single lousy book. I'm just going to look at all your other books.

>>5100506

Don't get mad.

Just stop trying to police 4chan boards.

Eh, what the hell.

>>5100501

>Learn to cope or else learn to hide a thread.

No, I don't think you understand.

Everyone is insecure apart from him and everything must be exactly the way he wants it.

>>5100537
I'm not mad. Just disappointed.

>>5100544

>>5100480
who is this cutie

>>5100537
you are such a narcissistic little dweeb

>>5100550

You are one of the most consistently insecure posters in a thread that is intentionally materialistic. Think about that for a sec.

>>5100558

For some weird reason my computer is flipping these around and absolutely refusing to let me righten them. Give us a sec.

>>5100544
>>5100558
What the fuck?
Dude, how do you balance your books like that? That is amazing!

>>5100567

Ah, screw it. I'm just going to roll with it.

>>5100566
What gave you the impression that I'm insecure? Or do you think the only possible reason anyone would refuse to take a photo of their bookshelf is out of fear?

>>5100575

>>5100583

>>5100589

Second one.

>>5100595

>>5100582

>What gave you the impression that I'm insecure?

People have told you this already. Instead of hiding the thread you impose your frustrations upon others. Every single time.

People like to read and collect books. It's a hobby and a passion. They like to share pictures of what they have collected sometimes on a board with other collectors.

You apparently can't accept this because you are a profound spaz of a person.

>>5100598

And now for the lolfaggot little three.

>>5100602

>>5100607

I'm done. Off to figure out why my fucking computer is having a spaz and refusing to post pictures properly.

Don't hate plz

>>5100616
What the hell are any of those?

>>5100620
It's the ancient language of God's chosen people, man.

>>5100616
>Hugo Boss
[repairations intensify]

>>5100491
Why does other people's desire for connection bother you?

Does it bother you that there is no deeper meaning to communication?

>>5100429
there's a hide button you insufferable mong.

>>5100453
What are you doing to help put trees back in the ground, anon?

>>5100608
>actually thinking that your computer is rotating images on-the-fly just before posting them
Do you even technology?

>>5100453

>buying an e-reader that isn't naturally bio-degradable like physical books are

environmental terrorist pls go

>>5100607
>Umineko

Mein nigger

So do you think the VN is great, or amazing?

>>5100679
yo dog why your copy of Dune so thick

>>5100681
Dunno, maybe because it's less tall then other editions?

>>5100570
>being this retarded
The picture was taken at a 90 degree angle. Ground is to the right.

>>5100443
Pls visit /fa/

>>5100742

>>5100760

>>5100760
>that unused copy of war and peace
>that shitty leatherbound barnes & noble
the heck nigga

>>5100760
>B&N Leatherbound

>>5100766
Predictable/10

B&N leather bound is best bang for buck. Only a pleb would see differently

>>5100068
Why dont you have any horus heresy books?

>>5100742
>Jim Cramer

>>5100767
B&N leather bound is an overpriced shitty-looking bang. They're always shitty translations, the binding is subpar, they look like shit and they cost more than $15. Waste.

>>5100765

>if you havent destroyed the spine you havent read it

>>5100748
Does your potato have a flash?

>>5100767
>B&N Leatherbound Crime and Punishment
>Constance Garnett Translation

uh-huh

>>5100773
Nah, I only own a couple(Lovecraft,Sherlock) but the translations are great. Binding is just as good as any $18 hardcover and most look good, though some are gross.

>>5100777
No

and most of my shelves have 2 tiers of books, because i'm too lazy to buy another bookshelf

>>5100767

>B&N leather bound is best
>Only a pleb would see differently

3/10 there is no way you can be this pleb.

>>5100781
ofc, cause B&N CAN'T translate Lovecraft&Sherlock

>>5100784
Nice strawman

>>5100788

>I'm trying to bait you here
>please get mad
>pelase

>>5100787
Well, the first edition of Lovecraft was butchered.

>>5100429
I was like you once
Then I turned fifteen

I own the B&N Frankenstein, Dorian Gray and Alice in Wonderland. They are the smaller ones. I think they are great, very well made. Nice thick pages. And imo those ones look really good. Well worth the $10 I paid for them.

>>5100742
>applied mathematics for electronics
Did you ever read this?

>>5100811
10$ worth of slave labor yay

Alice and Wonderland is definitely on the shittier end of B&N leatherbound

anything that uses a Burton-esque font and uses thematic elements from movie posters is garbage aesthetically

>>5100815
a couple times when i used to make circuits, but not for years. it was my grandfathers

>>5100068
am I doing this right?

>>5100811
Also, if you're not reading the Annotated Alice then you're getting a subpar reading from that book.

>>5100818
I'm not talking about that one. I'm talking about the one pictured, though I do not think the bigger one looks bad.

>>5100825
Out of curiosity how many of those have you actually read? I have a feeling I got an ereader it would be too easy just to over-download given how accessible and cheap it is.

>>5100828
Eh, it's not terrible, I would like it if the blue was deeper and they cut back a bit on the goldleafing

>>5100830
tbh around 200. i like knowing ive got at least 50% of what i need there for free

>>5100819
That's pretty cool. Making circuits sounds like some form of arcane magick to me.

>>5100834
Is the temptation to overdownload an issue then because I dont have a real sense of scale is 200 a decent chunk of your total collection?

>>5100840
Not that guy, but I've downloaded a 50GB library of Ebooks and read not a one of them. If there was a torrent of every book ever written in every language, I'd download that too. Yes, overdownloading is an issue.

>>5100836
it's not as hard as it sounds, if you can do undergraduate math you can can make basic circuits. though it can seem like voodoo at times.

>>5100840
dude don't focus on the number, ofc it isn't a 'decent chunk' considering the fact there still is a megafuckton to read from now on.

>>5100840
I can compare an actual library with a virtual one. When having a considerable number of books you're mostly assured you can pick something decent out of it.

>criticising people's books because of the covers and ignoring the content

Stay classy, /lit/. *tips fedora*

>>5100828
This is the best edition of Alice & looking glass. The books contain many political and social references that are completely lost on most people who read the book at face value

This is why I generally scoff at people who buy "classics" without appropriate companion material.

>>5100860
Also inb4
>gott ist tot written on door massive plebe

Yeah, I wrote Nietzsche on my door like a massive plebe. Deal wit it

>>5100620
Hebrew, i still don't read in english but i bought the first harry potter as you can see, i learned my english from video games so i need to practice it more before i can read a normal book

>>5100860
>>5100861
So..
>God is dead on your door, arguably for the wrong reasons and a misinterpretation of Nietzsche
>Tripfag on 4chan
>Incredibly childish tripfag name at that

Are you 14? or just incredibly incompotent mentally?

>>5100575
You unabashed faggot, you should look into Harry Clarke if you like Beardsley. Poe's Tales of Mystery and Imagination with his illustrations is in print in a new edition, but his illustrated Anderson's fairy tales or Goethe's Faust are probably more twisted if you can find them.

>>5100881
Why would I be trolling?

I like the phrase God is dead because of how many deep and pervasive thoughts arise from a simple three words; you cannot make that statement on 4chan without ruffling feathers. I hope to someday make a statement so powerful as to engage people as deeply as that. It's more beautiful in German, too.

>My name

hardly has any meaning at all. "trole" is a combination of "troll" and "prole", and faec is spelled that way to stuff in the word fae. But I never put much thought into it because it really doesn't matter what my name is

>>5100544
Do you live in space?

>>5100616
git off muh lit chink

>>5100882
>Harry Clarke

Ah, very nice. Thanks for the rec, anon.

>>5100895
>it really doesn't matter what my name is
Try ''Anonymous''

>>5101060
No. I like being able to track debates easily. I don't care if you like it or not or if I violate your sense of imageboard culture.

>>5101066
Maybe you should "debate" on reddit then.

No bookshelf picture, but I am trying to organize my thoughts on pic related.

>>5100895

filtered

i am glad when tripfags show up so i can filter them

get the fuck off 4chan and take your crappy debates with you, nothing a tripfag ever said was worth reading and it is not going to change

>>5100465
>We are defined by the things we consume

This is too cynical. It is more accurate to say that in modern society, there is such a massive abundance waiting to be consumed that those items which we do consume will accurately reflect us as a person.

>>5101066
So it does matter what your name is then.
I could see why you'd want to track debates more easily, you seem to forget what you said one post ago.

>>5100917
That is hebrew. You must feel so fucking stupid right now.

>>5101076
>this many unique and its own copies
wtf are you doing m8?

>>5101076
>all dat pinko literature
u should post a not horrible picture so i can see what u got

Is this thread a competition for the worst bookshelf imaginable?

>>5100860
>those stumpy fingers

yep, youre an uggo

>>5101097
Oh okay. Thank you for expressing your feelings

>>5101157
My fingers are long and skinny comparatively. The lens is probably playing tricks on you

>>5101161
post face

>>5101169
The things you have and the way they're organized bothers me. I feel like I wouldn't enjoy your company.

>>5101179
I had the same thought.

>>5101187
spotting a virgin

>>5101169

The whole thing works for me, in general. The pictures are cool. The cameras, though; that'd give me the raging creeps every time I turned around to see all of them staring at me like that.

>>5101187
When's your next booktuber vid coming out?

>>5101159
I for one, enjoy your presence even though you renounced full anonymity. Even if it might be narcissism, its form doesn't bother me in this case. Your are among the few anons here who are able to admit when they're wrong and you also do not shy away from steering discussion towards the legitimacy of perspectives when bipolar views are held. Your kind of tripfaggotry should be legalized.

>>5100775
It's easy to tell with the Penguin editions if it's been read or not. There's no way you could read that without damaging the spine, especially considering the size.

>>5101190
Fuck you, me and my wife just bought a house. What about you?

>>5101214
I don't need to buy women property to get them into bed.

>>5101142
>>this many unique and its own copies
It's just one, the rest is secondary literature, they like using the scribble as well.

>>5101146
>u should post a not horrible picture so i can see what u got

The vast majority of that is German secondary literature to Stirner. One issue of Anarchist Developments in Cultural Studies, a Turkish art magazine's special issue on Post-Anarchism, Post-Anarchism: A Reader, three German books on Post-Anarchism, and two big binders of articles I printed out for free while worked at the English Department.

>>5101215
LMAO never mind. I wasn't aware I'm talking to someone who still goes to high school.

>>5101215

Well played, anon, well played.

>>5101217
the red stuff is a publication by the Max Stirner Archive in Leipzig, before the foundation of the Max Stirner Gesellschaft. The coloured ones with the picture of Stirner standing are the yearbooks by MSG. The green ones are Bernd Laska's stuff on the reception of Stirner. I also have some stuff here that is not on the picture because they are library books, one of them is Giorgio Penzo's book on Stirner and existentialism (Heidegger).

>>5101227
>LMAO never mind. I wasn't aware I'm talking to someone who still goes to high school.
Well, that speaks for itself.

>>5101232
Whatever kiddo. Enjoy your holiday. Real life starts soon enough.

>>5101244
Every time you respond to me, you're making yourself look worse.

>>5101245
Not as stupid as you made yourself look in the first place.

>>5101244
>>5101250
projection

>>5101214
Your wife must love having all that crap right next to the bed.

>>5101254
u got him good man

>>5101250
Okay Spencer. How're the kidneys?

>>5101251
You do realize that you are responding to a troll, right? That pic of the shelf with the gasmask is old as fuck and comes originally from Reddit.

>>5101245 >>5101244
wow mayne. you must really not get/like humour.

>>5101258
Thanks. Real talk, I'm just shitting on him to deal with my own insecurities.

This is just my crappy little shelf while I'm at uni. At home I have probably ~1000 books, mostly in storage.

Also, guess my degree.

>>5101133
It was a joke my friend. Notice the spelling mistakes and usage of 'muh'. But of course just resort to 'pretending to be retarded' meme and delude yourself into thinking you could never make a mistake you literal autistic fuck.

I should probably clean this up a little.

Couldn't get up close and personal if it was all going to fit. Those are comics on the bottom right in case anyone doesn't know what sleeved issues look like (wait, this is 4chan; never mind).
Anyway, how am I doin', anons?

>>5101281
A-are you reading Chekhov's plays as a med student?

>>5101432
You make me sick.

>>5101475
Thanks, anon. Care to elaborate so I can focus in on these traits and become the most insufferable faggot ever?

>>5101487
These aren't even your books, it's a repost from r/bookshelves.

>>5100311
except, that this is wrong. Every interaction/statement forms our identity. So the books we read or even own form our identity as we identify or have contrasting opinions with them. It is the same it is with clothes or vidiya, whatever someone is into. His actions, opinions in that field. The groups someone joins ( group as some category you fit yourself in) are that someones identity. So yes you are your bookshelf, you are your clothes and yes you are your fucking bank account.

>>5101496
Care to rephrase that, anon?

>>5101509
You look like shit. Get some exercise and some fresh air.

>>5101509
Oh, I'm sorry. I assumed since I shitposted pics from there in this thread, someone else might be doing the same. Congratulations on your pipe collection.

>>5101509
>June
Nicca, it's July

>>5101529
I'm sorry my paper-white complexion has offended you. I'll agree that I need more exercise though. It's difficult to find the time between working 60 hours a week, having a social life, and going to poetry readings in my city.

Far too poor and itinerant to have much of a physical library. Anyway, Its mostly YA and self help from my mid twenties crisis.
Now I'm working my way through the sticky and Buddhist stuffs.

>>5101546
This better?

>>5101547
>my life is so hard!
If you have time to post photos of your bookshelves on /lit/ you have time to work out.

>>5101509
nice wifebeater

Btw I recommend everyone who's in need of a good laugh to visit this subreddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/bookshelf
also this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIUhL_TxNz4&feature=share

>>5101532
It's all good. And thanks. I know the owner of a brick and mortar pipe shop in the area. He cuts me some sweet deals.
>>5101574
>implying I implied my life is hard
It's really not. Having a good job and an active social life isn't hard at all.
But, you're right; if I have time to argue with you, I have time to work out. Congratulations, anon. You're a bigger faggot than Tao Lin.

>>5100068
hey, Breakfast!
I'm reading that now, depressing as all fuck. one of the last i have left on my Vonnegut list.

>>5101592
...

>>5101592
Anon, you seem like a nice enough guy. Obviously not as bitter and cynical as the rest of us. Leave now, it's not too late for you yet.

>>5100125
Those are all good books

>>5101604
Nah. 4chan is my bread and butter (which I've been told I eat a little too much). Anon there is just buttblasted that he can't get to.

>>5101636
*get to me.
Damn.

>>5101317
How's 'From Here to Eternity'?

>>5100762
i see lucifer there. Very nice. Ive read sandman but lucifer is on my list o read next. Hopefully its as good as Sandman was. What did you think ?

>>5100454
I read the file name as "sexistentialist" at first.

>>5101574
Thanks again for the life advice. Playing tennis with my friends and walking my dog wasn't enough to keep me fit. As per your advice, I went out and jogged for thirty minutes this morning. Heck, I even found a couch to 5k workout program that I'm going to start. You changed a life today, St. Anon. You should be proud.

>>5100690
Are you legit autismal?

i like non-fiction ok

>>5101506
The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying states otherwise. Stay atheist

>>5102027
Nice hardcover Inherent Vice. Im jelly as shit.

I have a lot

>>5102239
I also have another box, but I was too lazy to take a picture of it.
>tfw you get books from the 1950s

>>5100733
Thanks for the advice friend.

Pic related, it's me now.

>>5101076
Did you raid an infoshop?

>>5101169
>cheap dad cologne
>dirty ass floor
>tumblr level framed pictures
>dust

>>5101592
>It's really not. Having a good job and an active social life isn't hard at all.
>>5101547
>It's difficult to find the time between working 60 hours a week, having a social life, and going to poetry readings in my city.
>>5101732
>Playing tennis with my friends and walking my dog wasn't enough to keep me fit.


HEY GUYS HE HAS A SOCIAL LIFE AND WORKS IN CASE YOU DIDN'T NOTICE!

>>5102487
>responding to him at all
Don't feed the normalfags. they're not welcome.

>>5101187
>Portal gun
>Buster sword
H-hey guys! What a virgin? Right? Ha ha, yeah, I b-bet he's a wizard by now!
>Liking JRPGs
St-stay pleb!
That is some top-notch decoration, Anon.

>>5102518
He's worse than that. The pasty, pipe smoking fatty is trying really hard to come off as a normalfag and making sure to stress this over an anonymous image board.

>>5102548
Fair nuff. But then you're the cock'n'balls that just posted three responses to pictures insulting them, and making baseless claims. That takes it up a notch in my autism handbook. I guess you can have fun being a fag with them.

Some philosophy for you…

>>5102617
That's fuckin' hot right there.

>>5102617
It... It's beautiful, anon. Thank you for showing me this.

shelf doesn't have music theory books on it but w/e
1/3

>>5102638
2/3

>>5102641
3/3

>>5102629
>>5102634

A pleasure. Care for the 2nd board from top? Dostojewski, Kafka and some religion-related stuff.

>>5102654
>the bible
>the qu'ran
>...
>the god delusion

pot qeq

>>5102647
how is the caine mutiny?

>>5101169
is the bottom shelf middle row 4th book to the right henrik ibsen's plays?

btw that is the most tryhard interior design I have seen in a long while

>>5102654
>only one bible
>it's king james
>you're german
>tyndale, luther, and erasmus all roll in their graves
>I smile and thank God I'm not Protestant.

>>5102659
They sort of belong to the same category, don't they? Also notice "De tribus impostoribus" and the "Manifesto of Evolutionary Humanism".

>>5102664
idk
binding is top tier though

>>5102676
I was in an english-speaking country and poor when I decided to read the bible cover to cover. So I got a used one from some street vendor.

>>5102617
>>5102654
I'm so jellly.

>>5101547
this is ridiculous

it takes 20-40 minutes a day to work out and it is the best thing you can do for yourself

it makes you look better
feel better
feel healthier
and stronger

just cut out some 4chan time, or better yet cut out the social life

First world problem, but this bothers me:

If you read a lot, say two to three thin books or one thick book every week, you’ll need a new shelf after like 2–4 months. I don't like empty shelves, neither do I like books piling up.

How do you go about this?

>>5102647
I have that same shakespeare's complee works

>>5102710
Lord!

Please be a joke.

>>5102713
it's pretty nice
mine was given to me after my grandfather died so i'm a bit attached to it

>>5102629
>>5102634
>>5102698

Since you seem to like large, uniform editions... how about some Musil?

1/6

>>5102777
2/6

>>5102741
You haven't read enough Nietzsche to understand my aesthetics, anon; I care nothing for your trinkets.

>>5102780
3/6

>>5102786
4/6

>>5102782
pleb

>>5102789
5/6

Anyone at all can buy these books. Who cares about this stuff.

Talk about the ideas and text inside, don't take these lousy pictures.

>>5102792
6/6

>>5100118
You definitely just assembled that bookshelf for this thread. Why would you bother?

>>5100329
>In America people are so uneducated that it's considered a symbol of status to speak another language
Christ.

>>5100599

nah fuck you he's right. It's like a current body thread on fit. If you could actually acknowledge your pretension you would be ahead of 95% on this board. But you can't can you

>>5102790
Break out of that master slave dialectic, villager, and actually read the fucking books.

>>5101245
>Things a faggot would say

>>5102777
"The Anti Chomsky Reader", any good? Have you read Chomsky? Did you like him?

Some of you guys need to lighten up and stop being such miserable cunts. I know it must be hard to be virgins well past 21, but it will happen one day, you just need to believe in yourselves.

inb4wittyresponcethatmakesyoufeelbetteraboutyourvirginstatus

>>5102808
>2014
>actually reading Nietzsche
hide your pleb taste, m8

>>5102839
baby you haven't read the good books if you haven't done some biblical bowel moving things with an iced down hooker only opiates could cure you of.

lol faggots it's bookshelf not comicshelf

>>5102843
You're paying money to not read shit that at best might minimally insulate your bedroom? Oh pls, for once, let 4chan be real and this nigga has bought eight foot of Nietzsche for the privilege of not reading him.

>>5102826
I've read a lot of Chomsky, he's my favorite modern intellectual. I find myself agreeing with the virtual totality of his political arguments - I don't know enough about linguistics or philosophy of the mind. It's always important to question everything, especially the people you agree with, so I purchased the Anti-Chomsky reader in search of criticism. Needless to say, half of it is Alan Dershovitz making shit up, a third is devoted to perpetuating the "He denied the Cambodian genocide" accusation, which is absurd given that although Chomsky underestimated the scope of the genocide, he was one of only a dozen people in America to even acknowledge it was occurring at the time.

My love for Chomsky's work ends up making me also kind of uncomfortable, because I keep searching for a flaw in his political arguments, but can never find any. I try to avoid falling into blind affirmation of any figure, which is something even Chomsky goes on at length about, but in his case I can't really find anything that proves he's incorrect on any political matters.

Anyway, I'd highly recommend him. Manufacturing Consent is his Magnum Opus (with Edward Herman) but there are others worth checking out:
Profits Over People
Gaza in Crisis
Hegemony or Survival
New Mandarins
Power Systems
Failed States
Anarchism

>>5102862
If you want a good challenge to Chomsky, check out Foucault's work on power.

>>5102866
I've been meaning to watch their debate, is it worth it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0dM6j7pzQA

>>5102856
nigga, are you retarded? I'm lambasting him for basically being a Nieztschean

>>5100068

How's Blue Mars and the other two books in the Mars trilogy? I have been interested in it myself.

I need to update these pictures and get another shelf since books are starting to form their own cluster of piles on the floor.

1/5

>>5102866

Thanks for the reply. Yeah I read like 10 of his books too and tend to agree with most of what he says. That's why I was asking. I'll have a look at the Anti reader.

Your recommendation list looks good, though I would include Year 501: The Conquest Continues.

>>5102878

whoops I meant >>5102866

>>5102876

2/5

>>5102874
Read Nietzsche because that is neither lambasting nor a good reason to do so.

>>5102885

3/4

>>5102796
go away

I've got some embarrassing books on there, but others that I really cherish. I think it's time to make a new bookshelf though. I'm starting to grow out of it.

>>5102912

I fucked that one up, I meant 3/5.

Here's 4/5

>>5102899
>being this obtuse
I'm sorry, son, you are retarded.

>>5100443
>voyeur who enjoys seeing the way people live
>love seeing people's rooms

Fuck, me too. It's as good as any porn. I have a folder with battlestations from /g and /wg, workshops from /diy, bookshelves from /lit, collections from /mu, etc.

Also, you're running out of room. You should sell/donate your 30 least desirable imo. You'll appreciate the ones you have left that much more

>>5102923

Here's a fuck tonne of Stephen King books along with Gulag volume 2 first edition.

5/5

>>5102912
Philip K Dick my man

>>5103067

Only got on my shelf The Man in the High Castle, Valis and Martian Time Slip. All of them where enjoyable, i've been trying to get more of his stuff but i've only managed to find Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep at my local used bookshop, hopefully it might still be there on Wednesday since it was going for £3 last time I saw it and chances are it's probably gone.

1/5

>>5103105
2/5

>>5102871
Not really, the barrier to communication is too strong. They mostly talk past each other

>>5103117
3/5

>>5102862
I've read a few Chomsky books. He gets your mind working, though I don't agree with all of his discourse

His work on the American media is by far the most important

>>5102805
Of course it's pretentious and an exercise in meaninglessness. I still do it because that fact doesn't transcend my need for approval. Talk all the shit you want, your extreme introversion is not a serious ground to mock the extroverted

>>5103128
4/5

>>5102725
got mine for a dollar

>>5103145
i got ur mom for a dollar

>>5103137
5/5

>>5103094
Definitely get it if you have a chance, it's my favorite book of his. I would also recommend A Scanner Darkly and Ubik.

>>5102915
go make me a sandwich

>>5101187
Every time I see this I'm stunned. The pretentiousness of this guy.. Odds are he hasn't cracked a single one of those B&Ns

>>5102956
why do you post in every one of these threads

>>5103147
>Includes CD's in Bookshelf
>No Head Hunters

>>5103152
>Every time I see this I'm stunned. The pretentiousness of this guy..

you are a silly person to say that

>>5103149

Next time i'm in my local Waterstones getting a job application i'll pick up either since I see Ubik quite a lot whenever i'm browsing the Sci-fi section.

>>5103152
Do you actually think that guy is pretentious?
With Eragon and anime in his bookshelf?
I think I'll filter you, you sound like a pleb

>>5102876
They're really good, if you can deal with the occasional long digression about Martian Islam or Olympus Mons

Don't read The Martians

>>5103174
> filtering on 4chan

ehehehe

>>5103168
Am I pretentious? How do you think that?

>>5103174
Given that he has bought so many "classics" and has nearly certainly never studied them, yes.

>>5103197

i'll buy them at some point.

My face when the UK editions have praise from the Daily Male.

>>5103147

Thelonius Monk? MY NIGGER, I just have his complete Colombia Studios album collection but he's done some fantastic stuff. You've reminded me I haven't bought a Jazz album or two in a while.

>>5103160
>No Mwandishi

Fixed that for you.

>>5100068
You read the cancer that is Warhammer. Fucking pleb. You're fat, over 40 and work a public affairs job in the army to tell the girls you're a solider.

>>5103150
Luckily I don't work there anymore. I just finished college, and it looks like I'm going to be starting Americorp soon.

>>5103235
Have fun making no money, not using chainsaws and being bossed around in the woods by a 20 y/o passive-aggressive girl from Claremount College

>>5103274
It's a community health education position actually. You're right that I'll be making no money, but the working conditions will be considerably different. If that doesn't pan out, I have an interview to be a library assistant coming up too. These plans are all just something to do for a year to help me decide what I actually want to do.

Did you do one of the labor intensive Americorp positions? I've heard mixed things about those.

>>5103105
>>5103117
>>5103128
>>5103137
Jealous of your collection! So many of those names intrigued me, going to have to look through Amazon and wikipedia for info on:
>Mailman
>Blood done sign my name
>cities of the red night
>dark as the grave wherein my friend is laid
>living at the movies
>firebirds
>neotopia

Seems like you just go to bookstores and pick up whatever looks cool. How do you choose books?

>>5100616
why isn't Hugo Boss blacklisted in Israel?

>>5100762
>Superman - Grounded

plz dont hate.

>>5103419

>Elfen Lied.
>Not buying your Poe in a massive collection.

You just made me bust a nut.

>>5103203
you are silly for looking down on him and feeling stunned

"stunned" is a word saved for who you look up to

>>5103331
Mailman I written by my dad's friend. I was in daycare with his son. Blood done sign my name was given to me by Amy Reading when I was in the mental hospital. Living at the movies is my favorite book of poems written by Jim Carrol, my favorite heroin addict poet. I bought it at a used bookstore in Akron. Firebirds is a fantasy short story collection I've had since I was 8. I keep it bc I guess sentimental value. Neotopia is a shitty digital manga from the same time period.

>>5103331
Oh yeah and cities of the red nite and dark as the grave wherein my friend is laid are classics that everyone should kno, tsk tsk

>>5103146

SHIT

bumpin, I will post my bookshelf once I finish organizing it.

1st Shelf/4

>>5103966
2/4

>>5103973
3/4
Graphic Novels & Poetry

>>5103979
Forgot pic...
3/4

>>5103982
4/4
Currently reading

>>5103966
>>5103973
>>5103979
>>5103982
>>5103987
Congrulations, you have the shittiest taste.

>>5104005
Why?

>>5104012
>World war z
>aynd rand

>>5103966
>>5103973
>>5103982
>>5103987
generic

I need an actual bookshelf, all my shit's just piled around. Unfortunately everything's either balls expensive of cheap shit.

>>5103400
I Don't know and I don't care, I fucking hate perfumes but everyone keeps buying me those stuff for my birthday.
The only perfume i like is a cheap perfume called silver scent

>>5100311
>>5100429

this guy gets it.

i once lived in sin, and still do, but have now ended this one--thanks in part to interesting anon like you.

>>5103982
Could you suggest anything similar to Jeff Limire?