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>> No.15100744

Let's hope you'll at least finish one of those volumes.

>> No.15100750

Looks like you enjoy straightforward casual reads

>> No.15100781

>>15100731
I'm 20 years and I finished all those books and I'm already working on my dissertation

>> No.15100789

>>15100731
Get rid of exactly six of those books and your stack is much better. I'll let you guess which ones.

>> No.15100809 [DELETED] 

>>15100781
I'm 8 years old, have read all of Bloom's Canon, published 20 full-length commentaries on canonical works, and am currently wrestling for a full professorship position at the University of Paris

>> No.15100838

>>15100809
You guys still read? Ha!

>> No.15100845

>0 creases
Wow, you sure do read a lot

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>>15100731

My 21st birthday is tomorrow but that's close enough

>> No.15100856

>>15100845
Please withhold from perpetuating this meme. Reading properly, curving the pages outward, leaves the spine uncreased.

>> No.15100969

>>15100789
Pleb filtered. No combination allows the preservation of In Search of Lost Time. Get filtered.

>> No.15101044

>>15100848
holy mother of based. where are your classics tho

>> No.15101065
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>>15100731
mini stack

>> No.15101089
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r8

>> No.15101090

>>15100848
This is actually the best book shelf post I’ve seen on this board in months.

>> No.15101116

>>15101090
>>15100848
Anon make sure you read these authors' lesser works too.

>> No.15101160

>>15100848
That's not a stacc it's a shelf

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>>15101160
this is a shelf thread by a different name. same objective. to show off your books.

>> No.15101360

>>15101160
A shelf is a stack is a shelf
or, put in another way,
A stack is a shelf is a stack

>> No.15101366

>>15100781
im 18 and ive just lost my virginity to your mom. check mate faggot

>> No.15101446

>>15101089
>Read = read

>> No.15101540

>>15100781
i'm 75

>> No.15102423

>>15101320
highly recommend Panzer Leader by Heinz Guderian anon
first hand account from the guy who built a lot of the german tank doctrine, plus commanded on the field

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>> No.15102526

>>15101065
so that's what it's like in the Southern hemisphere-- Aussie? Kiwi?

>> No.15102662

>almost none of the books posted look used

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>> No.15102896

>>15101320
As a leftist, the only book there that offends my sensibilities is Eragon.

>> No.15102902

>>15102479
Simpering pantywaist.

>> No.15102910

>>15100848
That edition of Joseph and His Brothers looks way too thin. Is it abridged or did they actually manage to squeeze four volumes into that thing?

>> No.15103093
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>> No.15103110

>>15100845
You know that stacks are books that have yet to be read right?

Bookshelf is where you put your books once you've read them, if you buy physical copies

>> No.15103158

>>15102662
used books are disgusting, no better than used toilet paper

>> No.15103164

>>15102662
I'll remedy that later
at work now..

>> No.15103189

>>15100731
>Bottom's Dream
cringe

>> No.15103216

>>15101089
>making a chart for a stack board
based and /lit/pilled

>> No.15103263
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1 of 4 shelves of political writings
This one Is the predominantly German ones app art from a couple

>> No.15103277

>>15102838
based

>> No.15103503

>>15101089
how did you make this?

>> No.15104016

>>15102838
I fuckin love Shalamov. Great shit, man

>> No.15104033

>>15100731
Feel free to prove me wrong, OP, but I don't think you're ever going to read any of those

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>>15100731
Have the Scott Moncrieff Proust; purchased new but read twice.

>> No.15104156
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>>15102662
more than half of these are

>> No.15104414

>>15102838
pseud detected

>> No.15104434

>>15103110
The fuck does this even mean not everyone follows your retarded little autistic system you faggot. A stack of books is a stack of books and if you're showing off books you havent read you're gonna look stupid

>> No.15104447 [DELETED] 

>>15100781
I'm sixteen and I listen to 80's music

>> No.15104671
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>> No.15104678

>>15104671
pretty nice, anon

>> No.15104704

>>15104136
Is the Moncrieff really as masturbatorily good as people make it out to be? Apparently Moncrieff worked super quickly on the translations and the accuracy leans more towards the poetic than the literal in a lot of spots

>> No.15104709

>>15100848
You haven't read a single book from those shelves.

>> No.15104730
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>>15101065
>>15104156
Based Heine posters

>> No.15104743

>>15104414
sebald is kino you fat fucker

>> No.15104837
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I am hoping to finish this before social obligations come to dominate daily life again.

>> No.15104946

>>15102838
What's the ISBN of that Invisible Cities?

>> No.15105201

>>15100731
I'm 18. Can I pleeeease take part in your thread?

>> No.15105218

>>15104704

He's been revised twice over so I would assume his inaccuracies have been polished away.

>> No.15105234

>>15105201
Yes, you may, honey ^_^

>> No.15105590

>>15104704
I think it's wonderful; also his translation of The Charterhouse of Parma's the one to read in English.

>> No.15105639

>>15100845
Unless you really bend them back those vintage editions don't crease and can be laid flat on a solid surface. Just good design

>> No.15105646

>>15102910
They did, there's 1500 pages in that thing at its pages are pretty nice actually for being bible-thin

>> No.15105817

>>15105218
>>15105639
Thanks; I'll see if I can get a used copy somewhere

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>> No.15105856

>translations
lmao

>> No.15105891

>>15104946
I ordered this:
https://www.bookdepository.com/Invisible-Cities-Italo-Calvino/9780156453806

and that was the one that showed up in the mail

>> No.15105940

>>15100848
>Histoire de ma Vie
BASED

>> No.15106305

>>15100848
>Nádas
>Spiró

You fell for the memes, huh.

>> No.15106469

>>15100848
Happy birthday anon.

>> No.15106516

>>15106305
that Spiró novel is pretty fuckin dope desu

>> No.15106998
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>>15100848
Wow. Nice shelf anon.
>>15104837
Where to start w/ Goethe?

>> No.15107068

>>15100848
mirin those thicc briccs

>> No.15107144
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>>15100848
>that Casanova
LMAO

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>>15100848
really nice shelf

>>15104136
moncrieff bros

>> No.15107883

>>15104837
tartar steppe is hidden masterpiece

>> No.15108040

>>15104434
>not everyone follows your retarded little autistic system you faggot
Funny how everyone else but you can just intuitively understand it. Don't get angry just because you feel impotent or low IQ compared to most other anons here. It's a special place

>> No.15108058

>>15104136
Ayyy Moncrieff gang

>> No.15108071

>>15105646
That's pretty neat then. I've been hunting for a full setup of JAHB these last few weeks in my language; paperbacks from the 50s - 60s are the only things available. It's a pain.

>> No.15108428

>>15105839
Based.

>> No.15108448

>>15102838
is the rings of saturn good?

>> No.15108521

>>15107842
undeniably based

>> No.15108534

>>15107144
ICB was a fantastic read.

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>>15107842
haunting of hill house any good?

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Suggest a solid non-memed classic book and I'll post it in its environment here if I have it

>> No.15108867

>>15100848
>Zibaldone
BASED

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>>15100731

>> No.15109807

>>15108824
Letters from a Stoic

>> No.15109814
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>> No.15109851

>>15109814
The fact that you have Barthes means you might have actually read ATP

>> No.15110051

>>15104837
Unironically, get the Weisenberger companion to GR

>> No.15110064

>>15108897
homo

>> No.15110071

>>15103503
it's my kindle cloud

>> No.15110081

>>15109814
dilate

>> No.15110094

>>15110064
>implying you're real and not a terminal located at the nexus of an infinite number of networks

youre the kind of fag the sets up a camera to watch a movie for him

>> No.15110319

>>15108695
One of the best 'horror' novels I've ever read. Shirley Jackson is based as fuck. Don't watch the piece of shit adaptation Netflix put out a year or so again, shit's godawful. Read the book.

>> No.15110427

>>15100731
hello orpheus

>> No.15110448

>>15108897
>conspiracy of art
based

>> No.15110465

>>15108897
Well you've consoomed a lot, now you just have to read them :)

>> No.15110470

>>15107842
How have you read all these? My former trajectory set me up to read this prolifically but fell off somewhere after reading Ulysses. Any tips?

>> No.15110573

>>15108897
nice translations, but when will you actually read baudrillard

>> No.15110814

>>15108448
It's a solid top five book that I've read in the past 10 years

>> No.15110838

>>15100848
Have you read Ducks, Newburyport yet? How awful is it?

>> No.15110840

>>15107842
I hope that is a good quality bookshelf

>> No.15110910

>>15110470
get off 4chan. spend time reading.

>> No.15111182

>>15110051
I’ll check it out once I have money. Thanks for the suggestion anon.

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Are spanishfags allowed?

>> No.15111269

>>15109814
How's your sister?

>> No.15111280

>>15111200
¡AYE AYE AYE! ARIBA ARIBA!

>> No.15111380

>>15100731
name literally any book and I'll post my copy of it w/ timestamp

>> No.15111390

>>15102479
Still funny

>> No.15111392

>>15100731
Nice stack. I'll be a lot more impressed when you actually read them.

>> No.15111426

>>15111380
The Rings of Saturn

>> No.15111463

>>15107883
>Buzzati
>hidden
my fucking sides

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>>15110319
You should consider watching also the movie adaptation by Robert Wise called "The haunting", in my opinion it's very good and it did justice to the book

>> No.15111861

>>15110319
I actually watched the netflix adaption all but the last episode

>> No.15112483

>>15107205
what's wrong with it

>> No.15112970

>>15103093
Why would you post an image like this.

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I use a small shelf as a stack. Mostly pleb shit but im a pleb. Already read betrothed, c&p, ancient city and orestia

>> No.15113135

>>15101320
I hate this shelf so much

>> No.15113501

>>15104156
>Culture and Value, Wittgenstein
Good to see

>> No.15113517

>>15100848
DIARY

>> No.15113644

>>15107842
This is the most /lit/ shelf I've seen

>> No.15113817

>>15111390
?

>> No.15113886

>>15107842
>/litcordcore/