/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.14042958]

Shelf thread

[Anonymous No.14042966]

now read them

[Anonymous No.14042980]

>>14042958
Retroactively popped.

[Anonymous No.14042993]

>>14042966
FPBP

[Anonymous No.14043186]

>>14042958

[Anonymous No.14044781]

Bump

[Anonymous No.14044793]

>>14042958
meme'd

>>14042966
rude

>>14042980
delete this

>>14042993
low effort post

>>14043186
unironically based

>>14044781
no u

[Anonymous No.14044801]

[Anonymous No.14044828]

>>14042958
why don't you organize your shelf based on author last name? also doesn't look you've even creased the spines of any of your big boy books, also dont buy physical books

[Anonymous No.14044862]

>>14044828
>lol bro y u buy books? get a kindle that if merely dropped will render you bookless
look, battery life, availability, fragility, tactility, arguably memorability (if you believe poorly sourced articles, and perhaps intuition), overall reliability, and character. look at them, these flaws in the ebook format. let software seekers have their works in libraries they cannot feel. i prefer a nice chummy warm book in my hands. something i can even rip up symbolically if i please. something i can open up years later to find a food stain that brings to mind a ten year distant nostalgic epiphany.

[Anonymous No.14044866]

nah im good

[Anonymous No.14044868]

>>14044862
what a gay post, i'll shit in your dad's mouth

[Anonymous No.14044882]

>>14044862
>something i can open up years later to find a food stain that brings to mind a ten year distant nostalgic epiphany
I always freak out when I damage a book like that but after a while I like it.

[Anonymous No.14044889]

[Anonymous No.14044901]

>>14044889
Based.

[Anonymous No.14044918]

>>14044889
epic, although im more a of trekkie myself

HAHAHHHAH

[Anonymous No.14044942]

>>14044889
Looks like he just straight up stole a bookcase from B&N.

[Anonymous No.14044962]

>>14044942
B&N doesn't even try to shelve attractively like this anymore.

[Anonymous No.14045557]

Phil undergrad. Am I gonna make it?

[Anonymous No.14046015]

>>14044889
Robert Jordan is the only thing on that shelf worth anything

[Anonymous No.14046250]

>>14045557
How the fuck do you keep your books like that?

[Anonymous No.14046271]

>>14045557
>almost all continental
>no Greeks
>no Kant
>”readers” instead of complete texts

You’re not gonna make it

[Anonymous No.14046281]

>>14044801
based, wish this was me

[Anonymous No.14046293]

[Anonymous No.14046419]

>>14044801
lmao

[Anonymous No.14046718]

>>14045557
take it from someone about to graduate. learn german and possibly greek while you are in school. dont be a little fucking bitch. Theres nothing worse than a philosophy major who knows no history OR poetry.

[Anonymous No.14046785]

>>14046718
>learn german and possibly greek
>Theres nothing worse than a philosophy major who knows no history OR poetry.
How are these two things connected? Also, don’t tell me what to fucking do, pussy.

[Anonymous No.14046791]

>>14046785
only a connection a true idiot couldnt see. enjoy your philosophy degree, fraud

[Anonymous No.14047155]

>>14045557
All translations, clearly a monoglot
>Never gonna make it

[Anonymous No.14047255]

>Not devoting your time solely to the study of holy scripture
Shiggy diggy

[Anonymous No.14047258]

>>14042966
whoa easy there pal

[Anonymous No.14047287]

>>14046785
They aren't; I majored in Philosophy.
The Greeks aren't that good and Nietszsche writes annoyingly.
You can read History of all kinds using English alone.

[Anonymous No.14047293]

>>14047255
>wasting your time reading---not even fairy tales, but---literal propaganda
http://sidneyrigdon.com/vern/Reuchlin.htm

[Anonymous No.14047295]

>>14046718
>about to graduate
so someone who knows jack-diddly-squat

[Anonymous No.14047758]

I went away for the week and now my plants are dying :(

[Anonymous No.14047776]

>>14044889
You will never see a naked woman.

[Anonymous No.14047824]

>>14047776
based.

[Anonymous No.14047940]

>>14046250
I am gentle :^)
>>14046271
I have the collected dialogues of Plato and basic works of Aristotle on another shelf. Been meaning to pick up Kant. Foolishly sold my books from the first few semesters because I didn't like the aesthetics of all the stickers from being sold and resold.
>>14046718
Thank you. I am learning languages tho. And poetry. I am familiar with Homer and I am also studying Ovid and Vergil in Latin.
>>14046785
Not me.
>>14047155
>ignoring the Latin and Greek textbooks

[Anonymous No.14047988]

>>14047758
Too much DFW :p

Naw. Nice selections. Read most of those when younger. Very tasteful display as well.

[Anonymous No.14048002]

>>14047255
>future child molester bookshelf

[Anonymous No.14048013]

>>14046293
Based pleb

[Anonymous No.14048251]

>>14047988
Haha, thought I might get a comment on that. Thanks anon, and yeah, it used to look a lot nicer before the ivies almost died!

[Anonymous No.14048266]

>>14047758
That BK has seen some shit.

[Anonymous No.14048275]

>>14048266
Yeah, I’ve reread it so much now that the front and back covers have both fallen off too. It’s retired on the shelf now, as a veteran.

[Anonymous No.14048591]

[Anonymous No.14048655]

[Anonymous No.14048672]

>>14042958
>Whitehead
>Deleuze
>Dawkins
>The History of Western Philosophy by Betrand Russell
You are basic as fuck.

[Anonymous No.14048859]

>>14047255
cringe

[Anonymous No.14048872]

>>14047293
>wait 30 years
more like 100,000+ years when man had almost identical traits as us but could expect to die in their late 20s early 30s usually of tooth infection or some other painful ordeal

[Anonymous No.14048898]

>>14047758
why do you have two copies of Dubliners?
is Middlemarch worth the read?

[Anonymous No.14049043]

>>14042958

[Anonymous No.14049071]

>>14047758
i think i go to the same uni as you

[Anonymous No.14049072]

>>14048898
One was a gift, if I recall correctly. Middlemarch is excellent, I recommend it.

[Anonymous No.14049076]

>>14049071
Lol, Edinburgh?

[Anonymous No.14049086]

>>14049076
nah sheffield. was gna pick edinburgh as my firm though

[Anonymous No.14049102]

>>14049086
Ah, fair enough. Interesting that you thought I was someone else, was trying to think for a moment if anyone I know that’s seen the inside of my room would be a /lit/poster.

[Anonymous No.14049123]

>>14049102
It was just based on your books, i know a lot of them are part of the english course.

[Anonymous No.14049167]

>>14047758
cute

[Anonymous No.14049260]

>>14049086
Do you live at Endcliffe, Anon?

[Anonymous No.14049281]

>>14049260
a couple of years ago i did, yeah

[Anonymous No.14050267]

Bump

[Anonymous No.14050387]

>>14042958
Pretty good shelf m8 but how many have you actually read? Seeing a lot of uncrinkled spines there son.

[Anonymous No.14050438]

>>14045557
>The Gita
>Nietzsche
>Wittgenstein

Read Schopenhauer my man

[Anonymous No.14050590]

>>14049043
extremely pleb

>prose Homer
y i k e s, English has multiple excellent verse translations

[Anonymous No.14050726]

>>14050438
Look between Wittgenstein and Hegel :^)

[Anonymous No.14050748]

>>14050590
>y i k e s, English has multiple excellent verse translations
I didn't know, recommend one?

[Anonymous No.14050825]

>>14042966

[Anonymous No.14051263]

>>14042958

1/

missing a few books out on loan. william james's pragmatism; jung's modern man in search of a soul; frankl's man's search for meaning; pkd's flow my tears, the policeman said; pirsig's zen & motorcycle maintenance; orwell's animal farm

[Anonymous No.14051273]

>>14042958
1/

missing a few books out on loan. william james's pragmatism; jung's modern man in search of a soul; frankl's man's search for meaning; pkd's flow my tears, the policeman said; pirsig's zen & motorcycle maintenance; orwell's animal farm

[Anonymous No.14051280]

>>14051273

2/

clancy is a guilty pleasure of mine and the local library offloaded a lot of their hardbacks in a used sale, so why not

[Anonymous No.14051285]

>>14042958
it would be so base to have physical copies of the books ive read

[Anonymous No.14051293]

>>14051280

3/

the best book in the narnia series is still the first one

[Anonymous No.14051310]

>>14051293

4/4

better pic of the bottom shelf

i also have nearly the entire collection of original calvin & hobbes books (in varying conditions) except two, plus a whole bunch of game informers and other mags. used to have every game informer dating back to the enter the matrix issue (game of the month was GTA Vice City, so this was like 10+ years) but only got a few left. can post those if anyone is interested.

[Anonymous No.14051992]

bunp

[Anonymous No.14052079]

>>14047255
Have a blessed day anon :)

[Anonymous No.14052109]

>>14044889
praying 4 u

[Anonymous No.14052915]

>>14051273
Currently reading that exact edition of Wealth of Nations. Have you read it? What did you think? I keep coming across things that are relevant and poignant to modern day

[Anonymous No.14052949]

I can't wait till I've read enough books to break my Walmart shelf

[Anonymous No.14052954]

>>14042958
I usually buy my books in paperback since they're lighter, cheaper and easier to handle, but I feel like hardcovers are more aesthetic.
I'm thinking about buying all my favourite books in hardcover and putting up a bookshelf but idk. Hardcovers are expensive and I would have read most of those books that'd end up there couple of times anyway, is it worth it?

[Anonymous No.14052964]

>>14052915

i think it's pretty good

[Anonymous No.14052998]

Anyone have a good mid-range bookcase to reccomend? IKEA is starting to wobble, and I'd really prefer one with a backing thicker than cardboard.

[Anonymous No.14053014]

>>14052964
riveting and insightful commentary, thanks bro

[Anonymous No.14053021]

>>14053014

i agree with his stuff about labor division and debt

henry ford was basically the practiced versions of the wealth o' nations imo

[Anonymous No.14053753]

>>14042966

Pretty much. I cant stand posers and im guessing the majority of these rate my stack threads are filled to the brim with these people. This is nothing but decoration. Sure, they read some of it but come on, we all know more than half the shit up there will never be read.

I do this too but digitally. if load up my kindle there are maybe one or two books that I have read to 90 percent or more, the rest are 26 percent here, 45 percent there. The difference here is that these people buy these for decorations.

[Anonymous No.14053766]

>im going to go to the book store and buy 15 hard cover books because of the lettering.

[Anonymous No.14053791]

>>14053753
So we both do the same thing, except I have a nice looking bookshelf.
It's not really about posturing to others, because I don't have any friends so nobody ever comes over, but it's just comfy and I like it. I get used books a lot too so I spend less on them than you do.

[Anonymous No.14053806]

>>14044801
We sticking books in the fridge again?

[Anonymous No.14053866]

>>14053753
Imagine projecting this hard

[Anonymous No.14053915]

>>14053866

How am I projecting? I admitted to sometimes not reading all the way through the books I own digitally, but I don't buy these books solely for decorations like a lot of you, that's the difference here. You can tell from a lot of these pictures that the books have never been cracked open and are just bought to make their room look even more pretentious. I know it's a hard pill to swallow.

Like I said, I actually attempt to read the book and sometimes I enjoy it, sometimes I don't make it all the way through. Then comes the subject matter of the books being bought on here and not being read, they go together like peanut butter and jelly. This is coming from someone who hates reading books by the way.

Having said that I have now left this thread. Bye

[Anonymous No.14054025]

>>14053915

it's a reoccurring theme on /lit/ where those interested in philosophy never really read the stuff they purchase. It's not really a surprise though, I would expect them not to.

[Anonymous No.14054061]

>>14053915
The projection is just arbitrarily assuming you are the only person here who actually reads the books you buy. You’re either incredibly thick or incredibly arrogant.

[Anonymous No.14054081]

>>14046293
is that.. a manga?

[Anonymous No.14054097]

>>14054061

speaking the truth is arrogant on /lit/

[Anonymous No.14054153]

>>14054097
I wouldn’t call your masturbatory delusions ‘truth’, anon.

[Anonymous No.14054187]

>>14054153

are you for real? go look in the catalog, there are a glut of similar posts daily by anons who buy books just for the sake of buying books. just briefly scanning the threads right now, there are 3 threads, one who even admits that he has an entire shelf filled with books that he will never read.

[Anonymous No.14054221]

>>14054187
>/lit/ is just three guys making stack threads
Yep, I’m sure you’re right anon, I’m sure you’re the only person on /lit/ who’s ever actually even read a book! The rest of us are all spastic apes barely capable of comprehending the alphabet, yet alone reading the books we choose to buy. You’re so smart! Well done!

[Anonymous No.14054373]

>>14054221

but that's not what i said neither did the other anon. you're the one projecting if anything faggot.

[Anonymous No.14054426]

>>14054373
You claimed that most of the people posting in stack threads are ‘posers’ who don’t read the books they buy, unlike you, an erudite and wise anon, who has read almost every book he’s ever bought cover-to-cover. You’re just here sniffing your own farts making baseless claims to massage your ego. Your entire assumption that people buy books for decorations is based on a handful of shitposts and maybe the odd genuine idiot. Stop pretending you’re some holier-than-thou librarian and FUCK OFF!

[Anonymous No.14054930]

>>14054426
>that most of the people posting in stack threads are ‘posers’ who don’t read the books they buy

but they don't. ask them and they will fully admit to it. its retarded to buy 15 books at once and then claim you are going to get to it one day. stop being retarded.

[Anonymous No.14054971]

>>14054426

It's no secret that most people don't read the books they buy.