Shelf thread

[Anonymous No.14016166]

Post your shelf.

[Anonymous No.14016205]

>>14016166
nice philosophy, do you have a fiction shelf?

[Anonymous No.14016274]

My brother's philosophy shelf. Hope he doesn't browse /lit/ lol

[Anonymous No.14016281]

>>14016274
I know your brother.

[Anonymous No.14016303]

>>14016274
if he's actually read all those, there's no way he posts on /lit/

[Anonymous No.14016305]

>>14016205
No, all my fiction is on my kindle app. I mostly listen to fiction.

I have a box filled with some old fiction books though.

[Anonymous No.14016318]

>>14016274
hnnnnnnng. God damn what a chad.

[Anonymous No.14016356]

bought all these on a manic impulse and i haven't even read all the history and mythology stuff yet. i keep worrying that i'm gonna miss something and its gonna fuck me up later on, so i just buy more books to get more background knowledge

[Anonymous No.14016385]

>>14016356
Read them, brother.

[Anonymous No.14016387]

Beautiful thread so far

[Anonymous No.14016439]

>>14016274
I was wondering how the Thoreau and Hegel book were not falling then I realised that the image is rotated

[Anonymous No.14016490]

>>14016166
My boring and anaemic shelf

[a_poor_sinner !!eiHxl4pZe1i No.14016514]

>>14016490
>B&N Paradise Lost

completely based, I loved that one

[Anonymous No.14016516]

>>14016490
i like that dante, looks pretty cool.

anyway this is just some of my more prized stuff. i've also got a fairly small nonfiction shelf and some assorted paperbacks

[Anonymous No.14016716]

>>14016490

>not scurred to get cheap B&N copies when the situation calls for it

respeck. I bet a dollar you also got the Marx/Engels reader at B&N as well, they commonly stock it.

[Anonymous No.14016737]

>>14016514
>reading prot literature
what the hell, man? i thought you were cool.

[Anonymous No.14016750]

>>14016516
cringe

[Anonymous No.14016755]

>>14016274
>>14016356
>>14016490
The Billy

[Anonymous No.14016757]

Don't think I've ever posted in one of these threads. Here's my top shelf.

[Anonymous No.14016800]

>>14016274
he's too chad for here

[Anonymous No.14016804]

>>14016281
Are you his boyfriend?

[Anonymous No.14016813]

>>14016800

There are several descriptors for one who reads lots of philosophy books. "chad" is not one of them.

[Anonymous No.14016814]

>>14016755
It's cheap and does the job

[Anonymous No.14016828]

>>14016274
i'm putting a lock on my door, niggerfaggot. and i want my copy of culture of critique back

[Anonymous No.14016843]

>>14016757
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA PUT MOBY DICK IN THE CORRECT CHRONOLOGICAL POSITION YOU NIGGER. AND NO I DON'T REALLY GIVE A DAMN ABOUT THE TUNNEL AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[Anonymous No.14016848]

>>14016813
sex god?

[Anonymous No.14016857]

>>14016757
There is something beautiful about worn-out books, I don't know how to explain it.

[Anonymous No.14016891]

>>14016843
Oh shit I was actually intending to order them by author's birthdate and I just assumed Dostoyevsky (and C&P) came first. Thanks, anon.

[Anonymous No.14016937]

>>14016848

As this conveys a major component of the real meaning of the epithet "chad", nope, not that one either.

[Anonymous No.14017408]

[Anonymous No.14017409]

>>14016804
No, just an acquaintance. Are you sure you're not him, anon...?

[Anonymous No.14017416]

>>14016274
>>14016439
For some reason whenever I see a rotated shelf I need to rotate it so I can read the titles.... sideways.

[Anonymous No.14017470]

>>14016356
You are good. I've bought eighty books this year and haven't read a single one.

[Anonymous No.14017511]

>>14017470
why do we do it?

[Anonymous No.14017523]

>>14016516
chad

[Anonymous No.14017525]

>>14017470
Based bibliophile, a large bookcase loaded with books is great decoration. Who needs reading lol

[Anonymous No.14017557]

[Anonymous No.14017562]

>>14017557
>no flores magon
carnal...

[Anonymous No.14017628]

>>14016516
How many years did it take you to read all of that?

[Anonymous No.14017640]

>>14017557
Basado. solo falta una vela

[Anonymous No.14017878]

>>14016857
I wish i knew how to rebind books.
I have a few books that need medical attention

[Anonymous No.14017918]

>>14017511
To get rid of the emptiness, to get a meaning at least for little, until the high wears off. Then it is time for another purchase , another dose.
It is a common phenomenon.

[Anonymous No.14017929]

>>14017918
fuck.

[Anonymous No.14017945]

>>14017918
Pls stop.
Dont say this.
Stahp.

[Anonymous No.14017975]

>>14017557
Desde aquí te puedo oler

[Anonymous No.14017985]

>>14016166
I just had an accident so I can't get off the bed to take a picture. In the meantime please enjoy this picture I took a couple of days ago.

[Anonymous No.14017992]

>>14017985
oh shit anon, i recognize that shelf. are you okay? i hope you're okay. oh fuck

[Anonymous No.14018059]

>>14017557
>mate
>marx
Te falta el choripan.
>>14017992
I fell off a chair and hit my back really hard. I had a ladder with me, but the place was to narrow for the ladder, so I got on a chair (which wasn't very stable) and I end up falling. I didn't break anything.
I hate my job.

[Anonymous No.14018080]

since there's no QTDDTOT , I will ask here

I'm looking for a book
>20th Century, probably later decades
>Jewish author
>may have been a sociologist or philosopher
>semi-autobiographical and personal
>the book is about God spoken of in absolute, abstract, and metaphysical terms
>may be related to general semantics as I was reading stuff online as seeing this book
>some somewhat popular atheist-physicalist type author included it in a post of influential books that nearly convinces them away from their atheism

I can't find it in my history, any help would be much appreciated

[Anonymous No.14018152]

>>14018080
Found it, Martin Buber's "I and Thou"

Blog post in question:

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2013/08/20/i-and-thou-and-life-in-aspergerstan/

[Anonymous No.14018189]

>>14018059
oh shit, are you okay though? did you break anything?

[Anonymous No.14018196]

>>14018152
Nice find, Martin Buber is a interesting bird. I heard he ultimately influenced more Protestant than Jews, though among those Jews are Gershom Scholem and Walter Benjamin.

[Anonymous No.14018211]

>>14016166
quick question. I remember reading this book about an archaelogist in north dakota, indian guy is his best friend, they dig up some old colombian skeleton, it has corn kernels, they make popcorn, wipes out humanity.

WHAT IS THE FUCKING NOVELS NAME
googling for 2 hours and still nothing.

[Anonymous No.14018232]

>>14018211
>they make popcorn, wipes out humanity.
Now I'm interested.
>>14018189
No, this time I didn't break anything.

[Anonymous No.14018305]

>>14018232
fuck man. it was early 2010s. I was on a pandemic kick because of oryx and crake. the guy wrote something else I really liked but for the life of me I cant think of it.

[Anonymous No.14018336]

Recently started getting into literature. Is this a good start? What do you recommend I read next?

[Anonymous No.14018366]

>>14016166
looks like you made it halfway through Plato and Ayn Rand and haven't touched anything else.

[Anonymous No.14018367]

>>14016274
i'm too lazy to turn my head sideways desu.

[Anonymous No.14018369]

>>14016356
sick of you sideways posting motherfuckers

[Anonymous No.14018370]

>>14018336
But what do you like? I could spend a whole day recommending books, but I don't know what you like.
I read a bit of everything but I mostly like fantasy and gothic novels.

[Anonymous No.14018499]

>>14018336
Read notes from the underground and if you like it, read other works of dostojewski.

What i liked, when i first got into lit was Poe. Buy a book with works of Edgar Allen Poe and read the short storys.

[Anonymous No.14018511]

>>14018336
>browses /lit/ enough to pick up No Longer Human
>still goes and gets any work by Stephen King
also how much anime do you honestly watch

>>14016490
Is Graham McNeill as good as Abnett? Warhammer novels are my secret pleasure

[Anonymous No.14018518]

Make whatever you want out of this

[Anonymous No.14018547]

>>14018511
What a fucking mess.

[Anonymous No.14018549]

Make whatever you want out of this

[Anonymous No.14018555]

>>14018547
thank you

[Anonymous No.14018613]

>>14016490
>penguin translations

[Anonymous No.14018645]

>>14018549
how the fuc kare the books stacked like that? are they on a ledge? how does the new testament not tip over? why are certain ones horizontal and others vertical?

[Anonymous No.14018665]

>>14018511
what ramyeon is that

[Anonymous No.14018697]

>>14018665
nongshim kimchi and the other is spicy vegetable

[Anonymous No.14018726]

>>14018645
its like a tiny ledge in the wall....
are you a woman?

[Anonymous No.14018756]

>>14018549
>Thilo Sarrazin
Oh no no no no no no no no no

[Anonymous No.14018758]

>>14018645
I have a little desk next to my bed and so I stacked some of my books on there and then decided to place them over my bed to connect the rest to that stack

[Anonymous No.14018759]

>>14018756
>the books you own are the literal convictions you hold
Lmao

[Anonymous No.14018760]

>>14018758
looks cool until you're shagging your bird and all the books fall off the headboard

[Anonymous No.14018763]

>>14018759
Even if you don't share those convictions, simply owning (and displaying) that book is incredibly embarassing, especially since you don't have that many on your shelve

[Anonymous No.14018765]

>>14018756
This is the book that turned my mother into a Proto-fash so I had to read it

[Anonymous No.14018767]

>>14018760
I don’t have sex

[Anonymous No.14018768]

>>14018767
why not?

[Anonymous No.14018773]

>>14018763
How is that embarrassing ? The shelf thread is supposed to give people insight on what others have read/plan to read and functions to spark conversations about the titles.

[Anonymous No.14018774]

>>14018765
got any insights out of it ?

[Anonymous No.14018775]

>>14018768
This is why

[Anonymous No.14018778]

>>14018774
It’s really just reflective of the awful ways in which myopic bourgeois politicians respond to capitalism’s decadence, there isn’t much else to say about it

[Anonymous No.14018798]

>>14018773
By that logic no book in your shelf could ever be embarassing. If a shelf is posted here that contains for example a Star Wars EU novel or Rupi Kaur's Milk and Honey the poster would get (rightfully) ridiculed for that. Sarrazin is in that category for me because it's le epic alt right provcateur that only brainlets and plebs read

[Anonymous No.14018808]

>>14018798
Why are you so fixated around labelling people as worthy of embarrassment because they found enjoyment in book in a way you could never imagine yourself to find enjoyment of it ? Who hurt you ?

[Anonymous No.14018810]

>>14018808
>expecting positive feedback for your garbage taste
go back to r e d d i t

[Anonymous No.14018818]

>>14018810
I am not expecting much but a good convo about a book. R/sorceryofthespectacle just offers cringey takes on the futility of historicism or whatever the fuck they think is wrong about 20st century Marxism

[Anonymous No.14018822]

>>14018818
>he actually admits to frequenting reddit
you're done bud

[Anonymous No.14018823]

>>14018798
>If a shelf is posted here that contains for example a Star Wars EU novel
Hi.

[Anonymous No.14018832]

>>14018823

[Anonymous No.14018843]

>>14018832
I'm planning to buy the Darth Maul and Darth Plagueis novels.

[Anonymous No.14018848]

>>14018822
you’re cute

[Anonymous No.14018862]

>>14018843

[Anonymous No.14018866]

>>14016757
How is your Heart of Darkness that big?

[Anonymous No.14018868]

>>14018832
>>14018862
Only incels bully people who read.

[Anonymous No.14018875]

>>14018511
Pic related is pretty good desu

[Anonymous No.14018878]

>>14018763
you're implicity making a statement about yourself that you project, you are identifying yourself with the sum of things you acquire and the ideas they represent to you and how you want others to perceive them. the fact you pick this specific title in an attempt to shame is especially telling since the possibility of reading a material to gain a basic foundation to form an opinion (there's this controversy about this mp, what's this fuzz about) doesn't cross your mind or you wouldn't grant that benefit of the doubt to the poster. this is ironic because you obviously hold an opinion on this guy either way but wouldn't consider reading the "source material"

[Anonymous No.14018884]

>>14018775
>underlining parts that make you go "yeah thats my opinion sweet dude"

[Anonymous No.14018887]

[Anonymous No.14018907]

>All these huge plebs ITT seriously defending pop non-fiction (Sarrazin), the lowest of genre lit (SW EU novels) and similar trash
You all need to go back. /lit/ has always been an elitist board and I won't ever lower myself to your standards

[Anonymous No.14018912]

>>14018511
not sorted by size 0/10

[Anonymous No.14018916]

>>14018907
Based

[Anonymous No.14018920]

>>14018907

[Anonymous No.14018921]

>>14018907
Based
Fuck Sarrazin
But most importantly
Fuck Jannies

[Anonymous No.14018937]

>>14018818
>expecting a good discussion about garbage books and garbage authors
Sarrazin is absolute trash and if you enjoyed reading him, you're a pleb or a brainlet, but probably both

[Anonymous No.14018946]

>>14018937
Based and patricianpilled

[Anonymous No.14018953]

>>14018059
Say Anon., could you help me out? I see you have a lot of Tolkien there and I was wondering, out of all those editions of The Lord of The Rings, which one has the best quality of binding? I want to find a good hc ed. (cloth if possible) with sewn signatures.

[Anonymous No.14019048]

>>14018953
I think the best one is The Lord of the Rings: 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition. It's a big book but easy to read, it's solid and the quality is good.

[Anonymous No.14019058]

>>14018823
That short story collection is pretty good

[Anonymous No.14019065]

>>14018511
>87654312

reeee

[Anonymous No.14019079]

>>14016356
you're never going to read that folio set of the greek myths
nobody ever does

[Anonymous No.14019087]

>>14016516
you're never going to amount to anything, anon. all your life you're going to wonder why other people get promotions, have better relationships, do better things than you do. you'll always be an also-ran.

[Anonymous No.14019098]

>>14018866
that's the heritage press illustrated edition. it's pretty nice

[Anonymous No.14019118]

>>14018878
Thilo Sarrazin is literally Jordan Peterson tier. There's absolutely no reason to read any of his garbage stuff. Even if you don't agree with his ideas, admitting that you actually spent time reading him exposes you as a brainlet and pleb.

[Anonymous No.14019124]

>>14016516
good books but seems a bit try-hard

[Anonymous No.14019140]

>>14017992
>>14018059
context?

[Anonymous No.14019141]

>>14018937
You niggas are autistic lol

[Anonymous No.14019151]

>>14018884
I mean it’s really just a part of the chapter that I thought was interesting and worth coming back to

[Anonymous No.14019170]

>>14019151
sorry anon but he posted a brainlet wojak so you're just going to have to accept that you're a brainless pseud

[Anonymous No.14019192]

I have multiple copies of some books in there. How should i order my shelves?

[Anonymous No.14019224]

>>14018937
>seething EUrobot

[Anonymous No.14019288]

>>14019140
I work for an old japanese woman. She has several guest houses, apartments and a hot spring. Since July first we've been renovating 6 apartments, so I had to get use to the life of a construction worker. Today I was nailing a board on a high place right over the japs take off their shoes, the space was too fucking narrow for my ladder, I picked up a chair and, well, you know the rest of the story.

[Anonymous No.14019438]

>>14019192
spine colour

[Anonymous No.14019621]

>>14018866
Yeah it's Heritage. The Aeneid is too. I got a bunch of books like them for free from my college library.

[Anonymous No.14019632]

>>14016166
I'm looking forward to "Shit Trump Did" or STD for short.

[Anonymous No.14020021]

the left one are finished
and yes that's a lot of ugly sub7 inch books but that's all I can get for now

[Anonymous No.14020048]

>>14018823
didn't know dracula was that big
anyway 7/10

[Anonymous No.14020205]

Read all of ‘em. Looking to buy some more Italian and German Modernist / philo. Any recs?

[Anonymous No.14020316]

Femanon here, in grad school for psych

[Anonymous No.14020376]

>>14020205
>mfw i realize shane macgowan singin "it's more pricks than kicks and that's how it is" was a literary reference

based irishman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SC5aJj04FDI

and what kind of philosophy are you interested in anon

[Anonymous No.14020425]

>>14017557
basado

[Anonymous No.14020497]

I have a shelf downstairs filled with philosophy, mostly eastern. I'm just too lazy to take new pictures, maybe for another thread.

>>14018336
If you're a fan of Oscar Wilde, then you'll probably like Beckett. Sarah Kane and Caryl Churchill are pretty decent, recent-ish playwrights - though they're not for everyone. Tennessee Williams also has some pretty good stuff, though it becomes a bit of a wild ride as he gets older and does more drugs. Other than playwrights, Dostoevsky can be pretty heavy but he's definitely worth checking out if you've just started getting into reading.

[Anonymous No.14020745]

>>14019192
Great shelf, anon.

[Anonymous No.14020817]

>>14019087
Have sex

[Anonymous No.14021393]

i need to start working on a lit shelf

[Anonymous No.14021405]

Don't have a picture atm as I'm moving out but its essentially just books by conservative philosophers, monarchistic history, religion and the British Empire.

[Anonymous No.14021426]

>>14020497
awesome shelf i need to read murakami

[Anonymous No.14021450]

>>14016757
>Pope’s Iliad but Chapman’s Odyssey
>Second copies of Homer are the Butler translations
>Heritage Press Aeneid is missing its slipcase
5/10

[Anonymous No.14021487]

>>14016757
>celine, voyage au bout de la nuit
very based
>one hundred years of solitude
not

[Anonymous No.14021495]

>>14020497
you seems to love murakami
indeed it makes a nice collection

[Anonymous No.14021522]

>>14020048
I have an edition that's much smaller. Maybe Penguin's have a bigger font plus a very long introduction.

[Anonymous No.14021612]

>>14017409
It's him, he's just being shy

[Anonymous No.14021858]

[Anonymous No.14021874]

>>14021450
>Pope’s Iliad but Chapman’s Odyssey
And?
>Second copies of Homer are the Butler translations
And?
>Heritage Press Aeneid is missing its slipcase
I don't care about protecting my books

[Anonymous No.14021939]

>>14016490
simple yet comfy

[Anonymous No.14021949]

>>14021858
It's so easy to detect Marxists. You guys never have any analytic philosophers or economics books on your bookshelves.

[Anonymous No.14021991]

>>14018887
>Poe, Schopenhauer
Basado. Cuentos 1 de AE es la mejor compilación de Poe IMO.

[Anonymous No.14022000]

>>14021949
>no analytic philosophers
Witty?

[Anonymous No.14022035]

>>14020316
What is the point in having a bookshelf when you stack the books like that anyway?

[Anonymous No.14022056]

Here is some of them, pls no bully.

[Anonymous No.14022058]

>>14022056
>37kb

[Anonymous No.14022087]

>>14022058

[Anonymous No.14022097]

>>14022087
Good stuff

[Anonymous No.14022124]

>>14022035
To fit more books on it?

[Anonymous No.14022219]

>>14020048
The font is big as fuck.

[Anonymous No.14022222]

>>14021949
joseph mccarthy i thought you were dead

[Anonymous No.14022229]

>>14022219
What happened to your fingernail?

[Anonymous No.14022296]

Just started reading. This is the better half of my bookshelf.

[Anonymous No.14022533]

>>14016303
Kek

[Anonymous No.14022609]

>>14018511
i like those older penguins

[Anonymous No.14022618]

>>14017557
>Marx
>Gramsci
>Freud
based and frankfurtschool-pilled negrito

[Anonymous No.14022628]

[Anonymous No.14022633]

>>14022628

And the other side

[Anonymous No.14022851]

>>14016166
>>14016757
Nice, Classics Club are nice editions

[Anonymous No.14022963]

Buying real books in 2019 is a retarded waste of money when you can just read on your computer or get an e-reader. Prove me wrong.

[Anonymous No.14023025]

>>14020021
I actually really like small paperbacks, especially the French (Folio, NRF, Gallimard, GF Flammarion) and German (Reclam, dtv, Fischer). The US used to have pretty good mass-market paperbacks (Penguin, Signet, Bantam, Mentor, Vintage) with decent introductions, forewords, and afterwords for their books written by respectable and authoritative writers until they went cheap and started using Shutterstock for their cover images.

[Anonymous No.14023043]

>>14022963
You're not wrong, you're just poor

[Anonymous No.14023053]

>>14022963
Supports industry at least

[Anonymous No.14023058]

>>14020205
Is that Faulkner in the University book any good? I generally don't like to read what authors have said to impressionable university kids because I feel like I would give all the wrong advice if I was in the same situation (I've always felt Joyce fed Stuart Gilbert a lot of bullshit for his book-length study of Ulysses) but Faulkner sounds like a sincere man in his correspondence and essays.

[Anonymous No.14023211]

>>14022229
I bit it.

[Anonymous No.14023368]

Ok, posting the whole shelf. Before you judge me too hard for bad organization, I'm going to have a new bookshelf here in a few weeks once I finish staining it and it will take away the awful over flow up top.

1/6

[Anonymous No.14023376]

2/6

[Anonymous No.14023380]

>>14023376
3/6

[Anonymous No.14023390]

4/6, trigger warning for >>14018798, >>14018832
, >>14018907

[Anonymous No.14023396]

5/6

[Anonymous No.14023400]

More Overflow

6/6

[Anonymous No.14023407]

>>14023368
>>14023376
>>14023380
>>14023390
>>14023396
>>14023400

And current reading

[Anonymous No.14023438]

I just received these books. Now I just rearrange everything.

[Anonymous No.14023460]

>>14020316
>in grad school for psych

Are you reading the bell curve out of an assignment or as personal reading? I wouldn't think they'd assign something like that at a typical school, due to the "implications" (or at least so i've heard, i've never read it and don't plan to).

>>14020205
>The Theory of the Leisure Class
Is this more like typical econ books, rather dry and analytical, or is it more polemical?

>>14020497
Where does one start with Murakami?

[Anonymous No.14023755]

>>14022963
Bookshelves are comfy

[Anonymous No.14023774]

>>14023438
Beautiful hardcovers, where did you get these?
And please remove the wrapping ASAP.

[Anonymous No.14023802]

>>14023774
>where did you get these?
Yahoo Auction. An user was selling more than a hundred brand new Easton Press editions. I won 12 auctions, I hope I can get one or two more tonight.

[Anonymous No.14023822]

>>14022219
boomercula

[Anonymous No.14023869]

>no female authors anywhere
makes me hmm

[Anonymous No.14023903]

>>14023774
I did it.

[Anonymous No.14023977]

>>14023903
That's a pleasant sight to behold, I'd have to say that I'm quite jealous.

[Anonymous No.14024045]

>>14020497
cuck

[Anonymous No.14024149]

i only read real literature

[Anonymous No.14024153]

>>14023390
Everyone has non /lit/ books they like and some of those Star Wars novels are really well written ex. The old thrawn trilogy and the revenge of sith novel.

[Anonymous No.14024336]

>>14021393
Hey, how good are your books on C++, crypto and reverse engineering?

[Anonymous No.14024348]

>>14018798
>reading something demanding of your own worldview is embarassing
So you only buy books which tell you what you already approve of just to seem intellectually pureTM?

[Anonymous No.14024354]

>>14019118
YOu never read his works, yet you are sure that there is Nothing worth reading in him. Interesting.

[Anonymous No.14024414]

Bump

[Anonymous No.14025012]

meme starter books

[Anonymous No.14025341]

>>14023460
Personal reading, I agree with you I doubt they would assign it

[Anonymous No.14025362]

>>14016274
Based except for the abridged version of Spengler

[Anonymous No.14025655]

>>14017557
baséd

[Anonymous No.14026312]

1/9

[Anonymous No.14026321]

>>14026312

2/9

[Anonymous No.14026328]

>>14026321

3/9

[Anonymous No.14026344]

>>14026328

4/9

[Anonymous No.14026381]

>>14026344

5/9

[Anonymous No.14026404]

what a comfy thread. so many nice new shelves to see.

[Anonymous No.14026422]

>>14023774
arent these those barnes and noble hardcover classics?

[Anonymous No.14026500]

>>14022087
“The Power Broker”, is that the book about Robert Moses? I tried to listen to the audiobook, but couldn’t finish. Moses just enraged me too much, and I didn’t want my blood pressure going that high just from reading.

[Anonymous No.14026601]

Pls be gentle

[Anonymous No.14026625]

>>14022628
>>14022633
Me as a monoglot

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>>14026601
your books are upside down anon

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>>14026632
Krishna defy gravity.

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>>14016757
go bears, nice shelf

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>>14016757
old but quite pretty

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>>14023460
Personally, I started with Sputnik Sweetheart, which seems like a pretty unconventional pick-up point. It worked fine for me, but I wouldn't exactly recommend starting there. I went on to read South of the Border, West of the Sun and then Norwegian Wood. After those three, I can't really remember what came next, probably because I took a break before reading anymore of his work. Out of the three, Norweigan Wood is probably the best place to start, they're all pretty tame for his work and far from his 'best' stuff. Yet, Sputnik Sweetheart is still a favourite of mine. A friend of mine started with A Wild Sheep Chase, and she said it put her off reading more of his novels, which is kinda understandable as it's pretty surreal and hard to follow if you're not used to his style of writing. Following that same vein of thought, it's probably best not to start with Hard Boiled Wonderland, or his collections of short stories. 1Q84 is pretty beefy, and can be a bit discouraging to read in one go, but if you're a fan of sci-fi I'd recommend starting there. I reckon most people on /lit/ will tell you to start with The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, which kinda feels like he intertwined and developed a bunch of his short stories into one book, especially considering 'Noboru Wataya' appears in one of his short stories, Family Affair. Kafka on the Shore is my favourite of his works at the moment and, a bit easier to digest than Battery-operated Bird Omnibus.
TLDR. Start with Norwegian Wood if you want something that's well written and doesn't deal with dream realism, or surrealism (I think this is probably best because it lets you ease into his zanier stuff.) Wind-Up Bird if you're a basic little baby. 1Q84 if you want your interest in a similar genre to carryover. Or finally, Sputnik Sweetheart if you want to try and recreate my autistic obsession with him.
I'd recommend leaving Kafka on the Shore for a little later, you'll appreciate it more, and maybe don't start with his more surreal stuff.

>>14021426
Kinda applies to you too, hope this helps a little and isn't just senseless rambling.
>>14021495
Thank you anon, here's your long await - well deserved - (you)
>>14024045
Snob

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>>14027257
Almost forgot to mention his non-fiction stuff. I've been meaning to get round to reading them for a while, but I haven't had the time to do much personal reading as of late. They're supposed to be very good, so it might be worth a shot if that's the kind of writing you're more interested in.

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>>14027257
Thanks mate I think I’ll start with NW.

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>>14018211
>>14018305
Parasites Like Us by Adam Johnson

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>>14016757
good taste. How's hundred years of solitude?

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>>14027257
I'm about halfway through Norwegian Wood and while I like his writing, the plot just feels like such a bland romance novel. Are his other books better?

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>>14022296
good start

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here's my box

[Anonymous No.14028114]

My current setup at seminary - I have a much more /lit/ shelf back at home, lot of these are just from random projects and papers. People of Paradox and the Power Broker both rock and were my favorite books I read this summer.

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>>14028058
His other books are a fuck of a lot better. Sputnik Sweetheart does the romantic novel in a much more palatable way that doesn't taste like uncooked brown rice, and it's a lot shorter (so more bearable.) I don't want to say Norwegian Wood is uninspired, because it has some really good passages and the later chapters are a lot better, but when it comes to his writing that isn't very surrealist or doesn't touch much on dream realism, his shorter novels tend to work rather well. South of the Border, West of the Sun is also kinda similarly romantic but not really - it's also a lot shorter so it might be worth giving it a look. Try reading some of his short stories - either from The Elephant Vanishes, or Blind Willow Sleeping Woman. And, if those work for you just go straight into A Wild Sheep Chase, Hard Boiled Wonderland or The Wind Up Bird Chronicles. If you want to give his lighter, longer stuff another shot, try Dance Dance Dance (but I fear you it could come off similar to Norwegian Wood.) Kafka on the Shore feels like it strikes a perfect balance between the two styles, and really embodies everything I love about his writing. So, if you really can't stomach either side of the spectrum, it's definitely worth a go anyway. If you want another go at 'bland' Colourless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage is intentionally bland and it works really well: I'm still not 100% sure if Norweigan wood was or wasn't meant to be bland; and in all fairness, I've only read it once and that was a good five or six years ago when I was getting into reading for the first time.

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>>14028095
>Hitchens
>Guns, Germs, and Steel
>TKAM
>Infinite Jest
Into the trash.

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>>14028185
thanks a bunch for the comprehensive post anon. I'll try Kafka on the Shore next. If it's true what you say about the later passages, I'm looking forward to them. I like his writing (and there's some really beautiful stuff even in the early half), so I'm very willing to give him some more time.

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>>14028215
All his novels really feel like your waiting for a payoff, which I'll try to warn you now (without any spoilers) rarely ever comes in most of his writing. Personally, for myself, I think Kafka on the Shore has the most satisfying ending. And, I think Sputnik Sweetheart does the whole 'haha, nothing was concluded properly, have fun' ending the best. Also on a side note, the romance in it has nothing to do with the main character, in-fact the whole novel feels like it has nothing to do with the protagonist other than how important their feelings and the readers interpretation of the ending is. The ending only means so much to me because something my ex said to me about it after I made her read it (I'm pretty sure she only read it because I said it had a lesbian romance in it.) Because of this, I'm pretty sure I'm incredibly biased about it - more so than I am with any other of Murakami's texts - so it might not have the same effect on you. Though, I did really enjoy the novel even before talking with her about it.

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>>14024336
I would recommend the first Effective C++ design book (it assumes you are kinda familiar with the language and know to code) and both the reversing and crypto book. The reversing book focuses on Windows, you may want to start with linux reversing.

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>>14016166

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>>14018511

This is the ugliest bookshelf decor I have ever seen. It's like you have arranged these to purposefully show rancour towards the printed text.

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>>14028465
anon, be gentle. obviously anon values the page as highly as his daily bread. leave the kid alone.

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>>14018511
I shudder to think what desolate husk of a human being owns this utter abomination of a bookcase