Shelf Thread

[Anonymous No.15226069]

[Anonymous No.15226078]

[Anonymous No.15226090]

>>15226078

[Anonymous No.15226093]

>>15226078
>Greek Homosexuality

nice

[Anonymous No.15226097]

>>15226090

[Anonymous No.15226106]

>>15226097

[Anonymous No.15226117]

>>15226106

[Anonymous No.15226127]

>>15226117

[Anonymous No.15226133]

>>15226106
Fed

[Anonymous No.15226154]

>>15226127

[Anonymous No.15226164]

>>15226154

[Anonymous No.15226193]

I don't have a shelf

[Anonymous No.15226201]

Again? https://youtu.be/kZFVmGkWN9s

[Anonymous No.15226217]

>>15226201

[Anonymous No.15226230]

>>15226201
isn't that a bit claustrophobic?

[Anonymous No.15226324]

>>15226069
>Amano
incredibly based, and must say, I'm jelly.

[Anonymous No.15226337]

>>15226201
You don't have to post if you don't want to.

[Anonymous No.15226356]

>>15226324
It's a mood fo shizzle

[Anonymous No.15226371]

>>15226230
No, it's quite comfortable.
>>15226337
It's a civil duty.

[Anonymous No.15226398]

Does anyone have a real, actual collection? What ever happened to that dude with a full library in his basement?

I keep hoping to enter one of these threads and to actually see some patrician shit. Instead its the same meme, low-class selection served again and again on so many low-class trays. Why?

[Anonymous No.15226434]

>>15226398
We're sorry that we don't fulfill your fantasy to escape your own plebby life, so you can vicariously find a lifestyle to fill the enormous feet of "the real you", as though it were some sort of shoe you can buy as a commodity.

[Anonymous No.15226436]

>>15226398
Define "actual collection".

[Anonymous No.15226437]

>>15226069

[Anonymous No.15226456]

>>15226434

These threads are so ironic if only because it is just poor people bring attention to material possessions...but since they are poor they have hardly anything to speak of, and within that margin it tends to be the same memes

So its like celebrating one’s lack of material possession through ones lack of original taste

Again, it begs the question what this fulfills

[Anonymous No.15226460]

>>15226456
post shelf

[Anonymous No.15226473]

>>15226127
What are those editions of Homer?

[Anonymous No.15226477]

>>15226456
I don't think I would qualify as a poor person, just like I don't think you would qualify as a sane person. Lmao. I come from a middle class family and I am currently getting a high quality education. I actually ENJOY the things I own, because they are sturdy, well designed books, which are things I want to read in good translations. Have you ever owned Easton Press, Folio Society, a cloth bound Hackett publishing edition? I also collect wrist watches, audio equipment, etc. Do I have my own problems which I find my stuff distracting me from? Sure. Is my collection the most amazing collection of all time, and am I satisfied that whatever I choose is THE BEST THAT HAS BEEN WRITTEN? Well, I take a lot of my suggestions from Harold Bloom, who was the inventor of the concept of The Western Canon, and that is a big influence in my choices, as well as Better Than Food book reviews, which both got me into reading. So if I'm short on trve kvlt expert book knowledge, I guess I'll have to read all these important canonical works which I enjoy the hell out of before then. I hope you, in the mean time, can find some joy of your own instead of relying on others to provide it to you. Ironic, coming from a privileged cunt like me, but seriously dude, get off 4chan. I care about you and want you to have a good day.

[Anonymous No.15226482]

>>15226473
Robert Fagles. Folio Society.

[Anonymous No.15226490]

>>15226477
>who was the inventor of the concept of The Western Canon
No, he invented the Anxiety of Influence, there were other canons. I got that confused, my bad. Bloom just defended The Western Canon.

[Anonymous No.15226491]

First four rows are Buddhist books, the next one mainly Hinduism. Lower row is a bunch of weird stuff but my chair was in the way of that.

[Anonymous No.15226492]

>>15226456
This is the most cocky, arrogant, stupid and pseudo shit I've read this week. Kill yourself.

[Anonymous No.15226751]

>>15226069
BOOM!!!

[Anonymous No.15226779]

>>15226751
Please put the Jung up properly

[Anonymous No.15226888]

>>15226477

[Anonymous No.15226893]

[Anonymous No.15227513]

>>15226356
What is it, a biography? an art book? please let it be an art book.

[Anonymous No.15227525]

>>15226751
disgusting

[Anonymous No.15227607]

>>15227513
It's actually both

[Anonymous No.15227654]

>>15226090
>Bernie memorabilia
>Stravinsky
A little cringey if you ask me.

[Anonymous No.15227691]

>>15227654
Bernie Sanders is one of the people fighting against corporatism in America. I think it's unfair that the wealthy get tax cuts and then tell their wage slaves that they're too lazy and they don't want to disincentivize work. I think it's funny how the only people who say that are the top 1%, the same people with tax havens, gigantic tax breaks, gigantic workforces producing their privatized, parasitic profits off the backs of poor people working over seas in sweat shops and workers at home living paycheck to paycheck, 1 in 10 of which can't even afford healthcare. Whether it be the media which perpetuates the owner classes ideology of corporatism, or the industrial complex which perpetuates things like endless wars tied to the economy, the American empire is hardly rebelled against due to the massive media and state apparatus which ties things like public opinion into the fabric of ideology and livelihood. It's actually a kind of cult, with an illusion of democracy, and Bernie Sanders is speaking out and trying to turn the tables on corporate America.

[Anonymous No.15227694]

>>15226437

[Anonymous No.15227826]

>>15226127
High quality cancer is the only possible way I can explain this shelf

[Anonymous No.15227895]

>>15227691
If the poor weren't so easily placated, they might be worth pitying. While there may be arguments that reforms of the nature he is proposing are worthwhile because they're more conducive to a functional society in the long-term, but when your agenda amounts to nothing more than wringing your hands for the poor., you've done nothing but join a cult of your own. There's a reason why so many young people treat Bernie as a messianic figure (even more so than the Trump fans, shockingly enough) even though he's shown himself to be nothing more than a limp-wristed professional politician.

[Anonymous No.15227916]

>>15226751
get rekd zion

[Anonymous No.15227942]

>>15227895
By no means is "wringing your hands" for the livelihood of human beings in any way an ideological mistake. If you believe in human dignity, you support these policies. There's no political decisions that you make which aren't driven by a form of ideology, so don't act like caring about others is somehow incorrect.

[Anonymous No.15227953]

>>15226097
What exactly are those types of books on the top left? Just leather back? Where do I find them?

[Anonymous No.15227963]

>>15227953
Easton Press. Just look on ebay, amazon, abebooks. Amazon has crap shipping times right now. Yeah, they're leatherbacks.

[Anonymous No.15227973]

>>15227942

You don't actually care about the poor, though. No one buys this earnest shtick.

[Anonymous No.15227983]

>>15227973
We're back in elementary school now, apparently.

[Anonymous No.15228019]

>>15227942
>By no means is "wringing your hands" for the livelihood of human beings in any way an ideological mistake. If you believe in human dignity, you support these policies.
It's the foremost mistake. You're never going to get a coherent conception of "humanity" in a social sense, let alone one of "human dignity." The inevitable result is political impotence and a discourse of masturbatory nonsense. When it comes down to it material conditions matter very little past the point that a certain minimum can be guaranteed. Beyond that, everything else is what really matters.
>There's no political decisions that you make which aren't driven by a form of ideology, so don't act like caring about others is somehow incorrect.
Fair enough, but every other ideology is usually specific enough (or at least wise enough to revel in it's contradictions) to not be totally contradictory.

[Anonymous No.15228042]

1/5

[Anonymous No.15228044]

>>15228019
There will be nothing incoherent about a fair tax policy, ending the wars, ending the drug war, and getting money out of politics. Whether or not people like you, who have internalized the ideology of neoliberalism and argue against progressivisn on idealistic grounds, and not substantive argument.

[Anonymous No.15228052]

>>15226069

[Anonymous No.15228054]

>>15228042
2/5

[Anonymous No.15228068]

>>15228054
3/5 this is my favorite shelf section :))))

[Anonymous No.15228078]

>>15228068
4/5 this is the fiction section really.
I like how it shows the evolution of the mystery genre into horror and noir

[Anonymous No.15228089]

>>15228078
Modern stuff / fiction / Marx because he had to be moved from the other shelf sections for space reasons.

[Anonymous No.15228202]

>>15226491
this is really nice.
i want some builtin shelves the width of my wall.

[Anonymous No.15228240]

>>15228202
Thanks. It was really easy to make. Stained pine planks on slotted shelf brackets.

[Anonymous No.15228274]

>>15228044
As I said earlier, there are perfectly legitimate reasons to argue for such policies. My personal attitudes towards economics make Bernie and all of the losers at the DSA look like radical Friedmanites; I have no sympathies with neoliberalism, and the policies I advocate for would end more swiftly and brutally than anything you could cook up. The problem is that "humanity" itself as you invoke it is the most baseless and incoherent of ideals.
The real problem with internalization we face are the many, especially young people, who have done just done that with lifecult pushed by the allies at the end of WII. You're inability to understand that you are arguing for progressivism on idealistic grounds while your opponent is arguing against it by disputing the grounds of your idealism, only shows the extent of your brainwashing. You're understanding of events as close and immediate as conversation is the opposite of what is actually going on.

[Anonymous No.15228311]

>>15228274
>you're understanding of events

[Anonymous No.15228328]

>>15228068
Harvard classics are the best

[Anonymous No.15228363]

>>15228274
Lmao this is an elitist attitude you have. You realize that being radical doesn't actually mean anything, right? You sound like a LARPer, saying that you have better more radical plans. And how are you going to implement them? Bernie is even too radical for a system which is largely stacked against him, because he is against that very system which he has to compete in. All these leftists who think their ideas are better just because they're more radical don't actually plan on getting anything done.

And there's nothing idealistic about supporting a politician who crafts legislation, and supports legislation like the Green New Deal, and Medicare for All. Getting things done and crafting legislation is pragmatism, it's methodical. It's not just a feeling, I can say your "radical ideas" are just a feeling, because they will never manifest themselves in material reality.

[Anonymous No.15228457]

>>15226491
holy based..

unironically "goals".

[Anonymous No.15228479]

>>15226751
the disrespect to the Jung..

also, replace books on Israel with those on Palestine.

[Anonymous No.15228533]

>>15228479
>supporting Israel or Palestine

[Anonymous No.15228567]

>>15228274
You’re inability to understand

[Anonymous No.15228576]

>>15228363
If Sanders were a real threat to the system he would have been stopped long ago. Bernie aids the system through his extraordinary personal weakness as a man which channels the potential for radicalism into safe bureaucratic politics of the American political system. He has accomplished nothing in his political career except conning a bunch of children into thinking he's some sort of messiah, and he will die having accomplished as much as Eugene McCarthy did. I think many of his policies will come to pass, but they won't happen for the reasons people like you want but because they become necessary for the maintenance of a functioning society as a whole. I wouldn't be surprised if Sanders ends up getting undeserved credit for those things.

[Anonymous No.15228583]

>>15228567
>>15228311
>being a prescriptivist
If you want too be anti-elitist, at least be consistent.

[Anonymous No.15228667]

>>15228583
Ts ny bribg s prfrfetby . Thdrr juft obf wat ovh siwakjjg cogrrrctbk.

[Anonymous No.15228944]

>>15228576
You're like a broken record.

[Anonymous No.15229046]

>>15228944
It's the only way to respond to a group of people who have been making the same exact mistakes for 50+ years.

[Anonymous No.15229236]

>>15227607
Excellent.

[Anonymous No.15229397]

People still have physical books?

[Anonymous No.15229753]

>>15226201
How do you get to the books on the lower shelves?

[Anonymous No.15229837]

>>15226779
>>15228479

Jung is the worst if these books

>>15227916

shit tier nazi stuff

>>15227525

May I ask why?

[Anonymous No.15229910]

>>15226398
I've got four full height bookcases full of mostly classics, politics, history as well as my guilty pleasure Hancock. But it's just too much hassle to go shelf for shelf to make it al readable as a pic. I guess that's why only attention seeking retards and those with under 100 books bother.

[Anonymous No.15229953]

These are all double shelved except for the bottom left row. I’m not taking the front row down so you can see the back. Also have a few poetry shelves not pictured.

[Anonymous No.15230000]

>>15226398

I think you’re thinking of rapture. He used to post on here, haven’t sern him in a while, would also like to see more

>>15229953

Based. What do you do? Teach?

[Anonymous No.15230161]

>>15230000
Any basic bitch office communications job. I had aspirations to teach at one time, then I worked at a high school for 4 years. Fuck em.

[Anonymous No.15230178]

>>15229953
>Grudem
yikes

[Anonymous No.15230200]

>>15230161
Tell my friends with kids if they were smart to find a way to home school. Public education is a joke. What helped me realize this was hitting 30 and thinking that the people I grew up with are now teaching other people's kids. Yikes.

[Anonymous No.15230205]

>>15230178
Ah yes, every book I own is something I agree with.

[Anonymous No.15230221]

>>15230161

what are you doing with that collection? this is more than "any basic bitch office communications job"...

[Anonymous No.15230238]

>>15230221
What do you mean by “more than?” lol. I’ve been reading for a while, why is this surprising?

[Anonymous No.15230252]

>>15226456
>it begs the question
you should google what begging the question is. you clearly don't understand it

[Anonymous No.15230320]

>>15230221
Not everyone on /lit/ is an early twenties kid that took up reading after PewDiePie started doing book reviews. I'm a 28 year old boomer and my stacks have the big dick energy of most literature professors in academia.

Get good, son.

[Anonymous No.15230415]

>>15230320
Poster with collection in question. Agreed. 30 years old, been buying and reading consistently for 10-11 years now.

[Anonymous No.15230473]

>>15230320
>>15230415

what i'm asking is: are you doing anything else with those "big dig stacks" beyond reading here and there? any projects? any ambitions beyond the usual "bitch office" job?

of course this is not the case, but one could reasonably think that a "big dig stack" is fairly incompatible with a general content for bureaucratic offices; you can justify going to the office in economic terms, etc.--the point is that an image like that added to the described lifestyle don't necessarily gel very often in our culture. is it a total myth that big readers tend not to be office drones? i do not know.

[Anonymous No.15230498]

>>15226078
Hello cliff

[Anonymous No.15230523]

>>15229953
How are Richard Power's other novels? I enjoyed reading The Overstory when it was shortlisted but that is all I have read from him.

[Anonymous No.15230548]

>>15230473
I wanted to be an academic at some point in college, and have been told time and time again to do it. I’m not going to do it.

I read stuff, occasionally write, go to irl readings and stuff, but generally I just read and discuss stuff with my friends. Maybe that’ll change but nah. I’d just say that there are more people out there reading than you’d think. My high school AP english teacher had Infinite Jest on his shelf back in 07 and it was one of the things that got me interested.

[Anonymous No.15230551]

>>15229953
Nice shelves, must have cost a fortune.
How's The Changeling?

[Anonymous No.15230558]

>>15230548

why the resistance to academia? if you have talent--do you think its an arena any more or less terrible than any given office? how much is paycheck related?

[Anonymous No.15230604]

>>15226069

Stuff in common with the OP:

-The M.C. Escher art book (a great art book)
-Not that particular Yoshitaka Amano book but I have like 5-6 others
-Cioran, Trouble With Being Born
-Hackett Plato
-GEB
-(a copy of) Tractatus
-(another version of) Maldoror
-That edish of 120 days of Sodom
-Gödel's Proof

[Anonymous No.15230614]

>>15227983

Not an argument, just preening. You don't care about the poor.

[Anonymous No.15231234]

https://muhfashybookshelf.blogspot.com/

[Anonymous No.15231262]

[Anonymous No.15231331]

>>15226078
two copies of Divine Comedy?

[Anonymous No.15231402]

>>15230000
Rapture was proven as just LARP. The real library is owned by some wealthy academic/politician in DC. I really doubt he posts on here.

>>15230320
>>15230415
>28
>30

Nice collections. How much you guys say you spend on books per month/how much do you tend to read?

[Anonymous No.15231632]

>>15228089
>fiction
>Holy Bible

choose one, fedora

[Anonymous No.15231663]

>>15226893
>Das dicke busch buch

[Anonymous No.15232202]

>>15231402
>rapture
do you have pics/links to his shelves? he had nice stuff at least

[Anonymous No.15232269]

>>15226078
Nice, I have a copy of the consumer too, really glad I found it for not $500

[Anonymous No.15232287]

>>15230604
Man, is academia social engineering you people into having the same tastes or something? It's the exact same as my friend who majored in liberal arts. When I talk about my favorite artists, few people know about them.

[Anonymous No.15232358]

>>15232287
No, they probably both just like anime.

[Anonymous No.15232377]

>>15231402
Proven in what thread (in archive)? When was this?

>>15232202
They only seemed nice if you're a poorfag with shitty taste. There was way too much garbage in between the good works.

[Anonymous No.15232412]

>>15232377

>poor fat with shitty taste
I mean, he had thousands and thousands of books, there was some good stuff in there, of course you’re gonna have some memes, too
Do you have a collection anon? Tbh raptures was the best I’ve ever seen on here

[Anonymous No.15232504]

>>15228089
are you a fucking johnnie

[Anonymous No.15232511]

[Anonymous No.15232516]

>>15232202
>>/lit/thread/9327692#p9327692

[Anonymous No.15232519]

>>15232412
SOME trash would be okay, but it was more the rule and not the exception

[Anonymous No.15232554]

>>15229753
I move the sofa.

[Anonymous No.15232592]

>>15231234
Where did you get that copy of Siege?

[Anonymous No.15232649]

>>15226090
Read carl schmitt

[Anonymous No.15232665]

>>15226069
Nice, I’ve got the same edition of The Name of the Rose. It’s gorgeous but it’s enormous

[Anonymous No.15232674]

>>15232665
nice collection!

[Anonymous No.15232686]

>>15232674
Thanks! I bought the vast majority of it at thrift stores for super cheap, so I’m pleased with how it has come along

[Anonymous No.15232692]

>>15226491
> Lower row is a bunch of weird stuff
I Ching: Am I a fucking joke to you?

[Anonymous No.15232733]

>>15226069
show the red plushy that is sitting on top of the shelf please.

[Anonymous No.15232766]

>>15226491
more like ALL your rows are weird shit, stupid fucking new age faggot

[Anonymous No.15232797]

>>15232516
holy... based...
what's his story??

[Anonymous No.15232817]

>>15232665
Every time I see your edition of Don Quixote I want to bash your head in. Nice shelf though.

[Anonymous No.15232847]

>>15232817
It’s a real piece of shit, the cover literally leaves flakes in your hand as you read it. But I like hardcovers and the John Rutherford translation so I’m stuck with it

[Anonymous No.15232941]

>>15226437
Turbo Autist

[Anonymous No.15232963]

>>15232797
>what’s his story
I mean its pretty much in the thread: wealthy ivy-leaguer seeking internet attention. Seemed like an alright guy, desu. Fun threads. Haven’t seen much of him in a while.
Personally I think rapture left it all behind to become our one and only true guy, our lord and savior, our holy YouTube writ, the BOOKCLUB
Either way its all LARP and none of its real

[Anonymous No.15232994]

>>15232963
He was in the comfy reading spaces thread over the weekend.

[Anonymous No.15233015]

>>15232994
Post pics
Did he update his library?
Sounds fucking stupid but sorta sad I missed that.

[Anonymous No.15233038]

>>15232504
What is that

[Anonymous No.15233040]

>>15226069
I really like your edition of Gilgamesh

[Anonymous No.15233502]

>>15226069
Just bought the copy of Alfred the Greats writings and poetry. But even I could have done a better job of zooming in on the text and making it fill the boarder. Just ruined 400 page of quality paper with tiny text.

Ive also been reading the After School series on Greek, Latin, German and French lit and culture by Wilkinson 1890s. Those books gives some great suggestions for other books which are books the kind of Ive been looking for for ages.

[Anonymous No.15234647]

>>15226069
>hardcover Dionysius
HOW TELL ME WHERE I WANT IT NOW

[Anonymous No.15234765]

>>15231234
god DAMN son

...c-chill..

[Anonymous No.15234928]

1/3

[Anonymous No.15234933]

2/3 My little /x/ shelf.

[Anonymous No.15234947]

3/3 My /stacks/ on my coffee table currently. I just got back I to reading books early last year and most of the stuff in these pics have been read since then.

[Anonymous No.15235077]

>>15234933
my dad has that graham hancock book. dog chewed it up in less than a week. he's interested in all that sort of conspiracy stuff. i kinda cringe at it.

[Anonymous No.15235421]

>>15234647
Classics of western spirituality

[Anonymous No.15235457]

>>15232733

[Anonymous No.15235532]

There's two more rows of books stacked to capacity behind this but they're buried since it's not a shelf but some arbitrary cabinet in the dining room that wasn't being used. It's awfully deep so I thought I'd have a lot of space. Not pictured: my slowly accumulating dinner table stack now that this is overflowing.

[Anonymous No.15235534]

>>15226893
Some more up close shots would be nice. I used to live next to a moderately successful Australian poet and his rooms all looked something like this.

[Anonymous No.15235572]

some nietzsche for your thursday morn, lads

[Anonymous No.15235744]

>>15234928
bad

[Anonymous No.15235808]

>>15231234
You must be fun at parties.
Can you give us quick advice on
> Barren metal and other Jones' work
> Siege
> Guillaume Faye writings
>Born guilty

if you've read them ?

[Anonymous No.15235865]

>>15235457
IS THAAAAT A SQUID?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YudpzmTf59w

[Anonymous No.15235920]

>>15231234
Lumpenproletariat pleb
Vs.
>>15235572
Actual patrician ubermensch

God I would pay so much to see that arena fight

[Anonymous No.15236394]

>>15235534
I could post a few. Most are fairly unremarkable and in disarray because I ran out of space to put books.
For example I have 5-6 volumes of epics I can't put on the shelf where I keep the epics.

[Anonymous No.15236402]

>>15236394

[Anonymous No.15236412]

>>15236402

[Anonymous No.15236414]

>don't own a single book
Anyone else as based as me?

[Anonymous No.15236417]

>>15233015
>>/lit/thread/S15186096

Some comfy reading spots from anons (including rapture) intermixed throughout the thread.

[Anonymous No.15236437]

Shelves are bourgeoisie trash and reading sucks. Honestly I am ashamed I own more than 20 books.

[Anonymous No.15236443]

>>15232963
>>15236417
So it isn’t a hoax? Is there a more definitive story? I’m really curious about this—if he is real, how he got the library, what he does with it, where its at

I honestly thought it was a bookstore

[Anonymous No.15236470]

>>15236443
Does there really have to be much of a story?

>Anon is born to wealth
>Decides in early adulthood to start buying books
>Buys books for 10+ years and amasses a large library
>Keeps books in storage, at family home, and at apartment in the city
>Posts on /lit/

No outlandish or unrealistic claims there.

It's honestly not far from what I would do if I had been born to wealth.

[Anonymous No.15236503]

>>15236470
If you look back on warosu you'll see Rapture (I forget his tripcode) was a boaster and an asshole to people because he went to a low-tier Ivy. Told people to get cancer, and then eventually got pancreatic cancer. I don't know if the library he posted was actually his.

[Anonymous No.15236507]

>>15236503
It was a private research library and people were mad at him because he was a faggot who spammed +600 images of a library that wasn't even his. Then he samefagged to make it look like people were interested in "looking at a cool library haha"

[Anonymous No.15236519]

>>15236503
>>15236443
>>15236470
That’s sorta what I meant by real story
There seems to be a lot of brambled crap throughout
At one time he seems genuinely pretty cool and willing to share, at others this political hoax, at others a total troll. It’s hard to tell if its a single person.

I just wish I had a real insight here. It’s honestly intrigued me for a while on this board. I remember a thread a while ago where he actually scanned in and posted shit people asked for. Then another thread a year after that where it was pretty much proved that the shots were taken from a bookstore.
Does he have cancer? How old is he? Is he even alive? Does he teach? What does he read, I wonder? See this shit pop up here and there and its been one of the deeper mysteries of /lit for me. Pretty much why I come to bookshelf threads at this point.

[Anonymous No.15236534]

>>15236519
Clearly I don't spend enough time on shelf threads (I go to them maybe twice a year when I feel like sharing, but generally stay away). The few times I saw raptureposts they seemed nice enough.

[Anonymous No.15236542]

>>15236519
he survived pancreatic cancer and runs a mediocre blog

[Anonymous No.15236569]

>>15236542
An actual blog (if so, link?), or just blogposts on /lit/?

[Anonymous No.15236577]

>>15236542
Post link, need to see this
Does he teach somewhere? What’s his profession?

[Anonymous No.15236627]

>>15226069
>Look I have philosophy books I'm important

[Anonymous No.15236641]

>>15236627
>~10 philosophy books
You are an absolute philistine if you're complaining about someone having a small collection of philosophy.

[Anonymous No.15236970]

>>15236542
>pancreatic cancer
yikes. i knew someone with PC. emphasis on the knew. did not seem fun.

would also like the link. been following the rapture myth for a little while, too.

there was a thread a while ago where people were banned for using the rapture trip. i'm pretty sure it's all LARP/multiple people, but i'd love confirmation

[Anonymous No.15237093]

>>15226893
What percentage have you read?

[Anonymous No.15237111]

>>15237093
Roughly a fifth of it.

[Anonymous No.15237468]

>>15236542
Dude just post the link if its there, this shit just adds to the mystery, really want to figure this out

[Anonymous No.15237477]

my bookshelf

[Anonymous No.15237614]

>>15226491
What are some must reads in the Buddhist section? I notice you have a dzogchen deity book which I find very interesting

[Anonymous No.15238064]

>>15235532
Jesus, I’ve heard Joseph and His Brothers is long, but I never realized just how long it is. That looks massive even compared to The Magic Mountain. Have you read it? What do you think of it?

[Anonymous No.15238245]

Why is this board so condescending? No need to keep books you'll never read again, and if you want to keep track of what you've read, just use a private Goodreads account.

[Anonymous No.15238286]

>>15237614
What are you interested in? This is the book you mentioned.

[Anonymous No.15238343]

>>15238245
Why do you assume people aren’t going to re-read? I do multiple reads for most books I’ve enjoyed. In fact, for many books, the initial read often feels like I haven’t gotten much out of it in comparison to the re-reads. Do you only read books once?

[Anonymous No.15238366]

[Anonymous No.15238441]

>>15238343
Wow, better keep these dry, non fiction books on my shelf that I'm never going to read again !

[Anonymous No.15238449]

>>15238245
1. I re-read books all the time or check them to cite sources here

2. I don't have a shelf but they would just look neat on a shelf if I had one.

[Anonymous No.15238773]

>>15235077
Graham Hancock is actually pretty comfy, I don't buy his overall thesis but he's a good writer and he raises interesting issues that deserve to be looked at from different perspectives.

[Anonymous No.15238785]

>>15235808
Different guy but out of those I've only read Faye and it's a real blackpill at times, but really good and informative stuff nonetheless.

[Anonymous No.15238981]

>>15238773
based stoner rebel archaeologist

[Anonymous No.15239039]

>>15238245
>not keeping important books for your offspring

[Anonymous No.15239068]

>>15236507
>>15236519
>>15236542
>>15236569
>>15236577
>>15236970

what do you retards not get? there is no link because there is no rapture, its just LARP

[Anonymous No.15239862]

>>15235421
I know that, I'm asking where the hardcover is. I've only ever seen the paperback

[Anonymous No.15240120]

>>15231262
Purtiful

[Anonymous No.15240420]

>>15236437
>Hangs shirt on radiator
You are the fucking bane of every landlord. I bet your lungs are filled with mold.

[Anonymous No.15240713]

>>15235572
Your shelves are shit-tier but your Nietzsche is the best collection I’ve seen on here. Are you a Nietzsche scholar? Got more pics?

[Anonymous No.15241188]

>>15226437

[Anonymous No.15241442]

>>15235572
On you doing a PhD on Nietzsche or something?
Why would you need this many secondary sources on him?

[Anonymous No.15241501]

>>15238286
I’m a newbie when it comes to it. General Buddhism or Vajrayana specifically (that’s why I noticed the Dzogchen book)

[Anonymous No.15241530]

>>15239039
This.
I swear these faggots who don't own any books have such an inferiority complex and resentment towards us book-owning patricians who want to amass a collection for posterity.

[Anonymous No.15241812]

>>15236417
>>15232516

Are these threads just permanently archived? Is there some way to delete them? Asking for a friend.

[Anonymous No.15242483]

>>15226097
I'll always repeat: that volume of new translations of Borges' stories was rushed out at the behest of JLB's widow Maria Kodama, in order to deny the generous 50% cut that Norman Thomas di Giovanni was awarded by the author himself.
they had collaborated in the work of translating his stories from the Spanish to English, and Borges was so satisfied by the results that he gave an unprecedented share to NTdG.
all the best English translations have been out of print ever since that blue volume came out, and I regret that many won't ever read them because of a woman willing to barter her deceased husband's legacy in the English-speaking world for a few extra dollars before she herself croaks.

[Anonymous No.15242515]

>>15226491

Pretty based if you ask me

[Anonymous No.15242535]

>>15226491
the most important thing about this picture isn't the number of books on a single topic, but the expertise and insight that such a collection suggests.
what text(s) would you recommend as being the most profitable to read for people not capable/willing to assent to Buddhist metaphysics/cosmology?

[Anonymous No.15242550]

>>15226751
>Plotinus
how's your depression?

[Anonymous No.15242581]

>>15241812
no. all your racist and vaguely threatening comments are archived forever until agent smith pulls them all up in quantico along with the rest of your doings, all IP tracked and sorted.

[Anonymous No.15242743]

>>15241501
Secret of the Vajra World and Indestructable Truth by Reginald Ray are great introduction books to vajrayana and Tibetan Buddhism generally. I also really like Heart Attack Sutra by Karl Brunnholzl.
My main interest is in Dzogchen and Mahamudra. For some reason I love Bonpo authors the best - any of Lopon Tenzin Namdak's books are fantastic. Thrangu Rinpoche's books are also very good, same with anything from Rangjung Yeshe Publications. Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche has some incredible books - now most are in big compilations. Books by Alan Wallace or Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche are well worth getting too.

[Anonymous No.15242764]

>>15226069
why is the sound and the fury so big?

[Anonymous No.15242857]

>>15226437
I bet this is his linkedin picture unironically

[Anonymous No.15242866]

>>15226482
>Folio Society
oh nice! what do you think of these editions, was thinking of picking up the odyssey for a gift

[Anonymous No.15242904]

>>15228054
>>15228078
>>15228089
the spines and edge wear on most of these are extremely minimal, especially the paper backs

how much of this did you actually read

[Anonymous No.15242908]

>>15231262
why spend so much on books

[Anonymous No.15242922]

>>15238064
I've read it twice. It's 1492 pages of the greatest book I've ever read.

[Anonymous No.15242937]

>>15231262
This doesn't even look appealing to me, I would feel so silly collecting only big fat artsy editions of books.

[Anonymous No.15242958]

>>15240420
my radiator is turned off

[Anonymous No.15242981]

>>15234928
Not a single classic. Impressive.

[Anonymous No.15243018]

>>15242535
>what text(s) would you recommend as being the most profitable to read for people not capable/willing to assent to Buddhist metaphysics/cosmology?
Depends why this is.
Might be best to learn to meditate first and that will help the Buddhist view of the world make more sense. It's very experiential. James Low might be good https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBedQobRrnDDaYUEtPi46pg
If you're very materialist, have a listen to Alan Wallace's lectures. You'll find lots on YouTube.
Books wise, try Embracing Mind by Alan Wallace.

[Anonymous No.15243483]

>>15226106
Unbelievably based

[Anonymous No.15243563]

>>15232287
Quite the opposite. Academia chooses a bunch of shit and people go online to find interesting stuff. If there's a lot of similarity in taste it's probably because people who pay attention to this board end up with similar libraries.

[Anonymous No.15243575]

very impressive

[Anonymous No.15243587]

>>15231331
One of them I got for free, the Franklin Library edition. It's the same translation, but one has Gustav Dore Illustrations and is nice to hold, the Franklin Library one, and the other one has a lot more extensive footnotes at the end of each Canto, the cloth back one.

[Anonymous No.15245310]

[Anonymous No.15245334]

>>15242743
Thanks — added to the list

[Anonymous No.15245335]

>>15245310
Brooooooooooo fist bump

[Anonymous No.15245343]

>>15226090
where did you get that copy of the consumer?

[Anonymous No.15245350]

>>15245343
Amazon

[Anonymous No.15245362]

>>15245350
the edition an Amazon is in german and getting an original english version is very expensive

[Anonymous No.15245371]

>>15245362
It is very expensive.

[Anonymous No.15245378]

>>15245371
how much did u pay for it, are u a swans fan

[Anonymous No.15245379]

Fuck your shelves

[Anonymous No.15245397]

>>15245378
I've listened to all of Swans albums multiple times and I have a Swans poster from a Swans concert specially made for the event in my city. So yeah you could say I'm a Swans fan. I paid about 100 dollars for it. My favorite Swans albums are Children of God, Filth, Body to Body - Job to Job, To Be Kind, Soundtracks for the Blind, and The Glowing Man (which is the concert era I saw Swans in).

[Anonymous No.15245403]

>>15245397
A custom framed Swans poster, I should add.

[Anonymous No.15245530]

>>15242904
Most of those books you only read once, and if you’re not a gorilla then even the shitty paperbacks should still look brand new.

[Anonymous No.15245536]

1/4

[Anonymous No.15245546]

2/4

[Anonymous No.15245550]

3/4

[Anonymous No.15245561]

4/4

[Anonymous No.15245574]

>>15242904
Brainlet learn how to be gentle

[Anonymous No.15245576]

>>15245561
>>15245550
>>15245546
>>15245536
That's one solid collection of classics.
I'm jealous.

[Anonymous No.15246324]

>>15238366
What it is?

[Anonymous No.15246353]

>>15245536
why are you russian

[Anonymous No.15246433]

>>15226069
>>15226078
>>15226090
>>15226097
>>15226106
>>15226117
>>15226127
>>15228042
>>15228052
>>15228054
>>15232665
>>15235532
very respectable

>>15226491
some really good stuff here, but you should legitimately burn half of it (hint: the Buddhist stuff is the good stuff)

>>15226751
lol yikes

>>15227916
burn all of it

>>15228089
based bread book

>>15229953
legitimately impressed

>>15231234
burn it to the ground
what do girls and friends say?

>>15234933
What a waste of money
burn

[Anonymous No.15246985]

[Anonymous No.15247455]

>>15246433
cringe

[Anonymous No.15247559]

>>15227654
>cringey
You are on 4chan stop acting like you know what is cringey

[Anonymous No.15247610]

>>15246324
القرآن

[Anonymous No.15247730]

>>15245310
bro why do you have a just cause 3 poster thing?

[Anonymous No.15247737]

>>15247610
Why do you need so many copies?

[Anonymous No.15247765]

>>15247737
recruitment

[Anonymous No.15247795]

>>15247730
I sat out 6 hours at the local gamestop on release day so was the first to enter the store so I won a prize, but my gfs friend didnt allow me to bring back the lifesize master chief statue so I had to settle with something that could be taken down and put back up again.

[Anonymous No.15248549]

>>15246985
Peak pseud

[Anonymous No.15249877]

>>15226069
We have a lot of the same editions.

[Anonymous No.15251488]

>>15249877
>Naked Lunch

[Anonymous No.15251668]

>>15226127
What is the hardcover Rilke anon?

[Anonymous No.15251692]

>>15249877
I ordered a book of the Arabian Nights like a month ago and it's still not here yet.

[Anonymous No.15251921]

>>15251668
The Notebooks, Limited Editions Club.

[Anonymous No.15252897]

Bump

[Anonymous No.15252944]

[Anonymous No.15252970]

Ok. I'm a bit of a shelf-let right now, but r8?

[Anonymous No.15253021]

>>15252970
points for technological slavery but more than half of your shelf are college books and some languages.
the actual literature literature you have, doesnt really appeal to me. like tolkein and hugo

[Anonymous No.15253040]

>>15253021
Eh, some of the college books I purchased after college, when I was still looking at graduate school. If you want I can take a picture of it without any of my old school texts. There'd still be a decent amount of textbooks in there though.

[Anonymous No.15253055]

>>15253040
you must expand, my son.
let go of your shelf-let ways and be born anew

with a brand new copy of eragon

[Anonymous No.15253088]

>>15229953
how many of these have been read?

[Anonymous No.15253228]

>>15229910
Same boat here

[Anonymous No.15253968]

>>15246985
haha what a wannabe capitalist

[Anonymous No.15254146]

>>15239068
is there really no link? no blog?
is rapture truly just a myth?
sad.

[Anonymous No.15254185]

>>15247765
Okay LARPer

[Anonymous No.15255402]