Modest shelf thread

[Anonymous No.15816376]

[Anonymous No.15816432]

>>15816376
How's that Odyssey translation?

[Anonymous No.15816505]

>>15816432
Not great desu but it's a nice-looking book

[Anonymous No.15816609]

>>15816376
Which single volume book would you like to buy if money would be a non-issue?

[Anonymous No.15816621]

>>15816609
Rockwell Kent illustrated first edition Moby Dick

[Anonymous No.15816664]

>>15816621
Patrician choice.
Are you poorfagging at uni right now? We all start smol.

[Anonymous No.15816714]

>>15816376

[Anonymous No.15816720]

>>15816714
Very based

[Anonymous No.15816732]

>>15816664
OP here, that wasn't me. I recently moved and decided to start a new shelf; I've been adding things as I read them. Money's not really an issue. Hbu anon what book would you buy?

[Anonymous No.15816764]

>>15816376
What did you think about that history of philosophy?

[Anonymous No.15816850]

>>15816376
Lattimore gang, also is that hesiod loeb any good? I was thinking of buying it

[Anonymous No.15817108]

Slavic based bookshelf:
-Oswald Spengler - Decline of the West
-Alexander Dugin - Postphilosophy
-Martin Heidegger - Being and Time
-Paul Feyerabend - Farewell to Reason
-Plato - Republic
-Ludwig Wittgenstein - Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus(Use knowledges from it to destroy opponents(not really))
-Henry David Thoreau - Walden; or, Life in the Woods (proto-Unabomber)
-Aristotle - Politics(Literally the book I keep near me all my life since teenage years - it was used as a schoolbook in my school)
-Eugen Ritter von Böhm-Bawerk - Karl Marx and the Close of His System
-Nikolay Danilevsky - Russia and Europe (Slavic proto-Spengler, not present in the photo cause' gave it to a friend)
Fiction:
-Yukio Mishima - The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
-Franz Kafka - The Trial
-Stanisław Lem - Return from the Stars(I interpret in such a strange way, btw ending sucks)

[Anonymous No.15817147]

>>15817108
very nice selection

[Anonymous No.15817384]

Uni shelf, I tend to give away/donate the stuff I don't think is worth keeping.

[Anonymous No.15818527]

>>15816714
Is that BCP the 1662 in French morocco leather?

[Anonymous No.15818801]

>>15816376

I'm impressed you've read that paperback of Anthony Kenny's history of philosophy, because when I did the entire fucking cover plastic peeled off like sunburnt skin. It's now a blank white doorstop that slowly picks up dirt and dust..

[Anonymous No.15818935]

It's gonna be a year and a half before I get through them but I'm enjoying myself so far :)

[Anonymous No.15818950]

[Anonymous No.15818964]

>>15818527
No, it is a hardback edition. I should have bought the leather one but it's too late to worry now.

[Anonymous No.15818990]

>>15818935
Try to read everyday for 20 minutes and you’ll finish faster

[Anonymous No.15819012]

>>15818990
Bruh they in Greek it takes like 5x as long

[Anonymous No.15819210]

>>15818964
I thought it was because it looked like it had raised ribs, unless the hardcover does too?
I'd love for someone to make a 1662 in clothbound.

[Anonymous No.15819229]

>>15819012
Then do an hour a day

[Anonymous No.15819286]

>>15819012
Then why are the spines in English? Hmmmm?

[Anonymous No.15819362]

let's try this again
need to get my other books from my old roommate

[Anonymous No.15819366]

>>15819286
English commentary editions

[Anonymous No.15819401]

>>15816376
I've read a few of those, I'm a fan of Plato as well, but don't have physical copies of his works.

>inb4 chess books aren't books.

[Anonymous No.15819475]

>>15817384
>Dostoevski
based
>>15816714
>bunch of jesus books
Are you a christian?
>>15817108
>not in english
10 points off
>>15818935
>secret jesus book
Come on, that isn't worthy of being included with the rest and you know it.
>>15819401
Yet another set of jesus books. Chess books are based btw

Ok now your turn. Pic related is my shelf.

[Anonymous No.15819530]

>>15819475
>10 points off
There are only two books there that should be in English anyway

>Ok now your turn. Pic related is my shelf.

+100 for based authors, -100 for halo

[Anonymous No.15819558]

>>15819530
it's halo 2 though

[Anonymous No.15819569]

>>15819475
>the simpsons and philosophy

[Anonymous No.15819680]

>>15819558
This desu

[Anonymous No.15819714]

>>15819475
>>bunch of jesus books
>Are you a christian?
I would be hesitant in saying I was Christian, since I certainly do not live up to the standards set by Christ. I have faith, and persist.

[Anonymous No.15819719]

>>15819210
Nah, they aren't raised ribs. They are just stylistic indentations.

[Anonymous No.15819774]

>>15819362
How do you like Krasznahorkai?

[Anonymous No.15819785]

>>15819714
>I do not live up to the standards set by Christ
No one can without the power of the Spirit, or are you saying the Spirit is weak?

[Anonymous No.15819935]

>>15819774
I thought it would be a slog but it's actually a really quick and enjoyable read. As much as a book with 12 page sentences could be, that is. The opening was great and I've been pretty invested since

[Anonymous No.15820223]

Be kind please. Only reading as of couple of years (3) ago.

[Anonymous No.15820229]

>>15819785
He's saying he's weak. Christ may well reach out His hand, but you have to reach out yours, too.

[Anonymous No.15820269]

>>15816376
Just got that Plato Complete Works two days ago, do you also like it more without the dust jacket? It looks kinda shit and it kept getting in the way when reading

[Anonymous No.15820292]

>>15819475
HOUSE and Philosophy... I need this

[Anonymous No.15820344]

>>15820223
goddamn nigga calm down with the vintage classics

[Anonymous No.15820348]

>>15816376
All my books r on my phone lol

[Anonymous No.15820926]

>>15819401

>Chess

Based

[Anonymous No.15821301]

>books are in storage
>can’t gently caress their covers, fondly remembering the time I spent with them

it hurts /lit/
pic related is what I’ve read in quarantine so far minus a few additions

[Anonymous No.15821317]

>>15821301
>The Holocaust
What is this about?

[Anonymous No.15821343]

>>15821317
It’s Rees’s “here’s the summary of my other books” book. Was boring desu, covered pretty much all of the same ground he covers in his other ones. “Auschwitz: Nazis and the Final Solution” was his best imo, detailed breakdown of the stages that led to the Holocaust, views from prisoners and SS, etc. Could barely put it down when I first read it

[Anonymous No.15822096]

[Anonymous No.15822125]

>>15818950
based and /sig/pilled

[Anonymous No.15822345]

>>15820269
Yeah the dust jacket was prettty lame, looks way better without it.

[Anonymous No.15822447]

I don't buy a lot of books, mostly use the library and libgen.

[Anonymous No.15822476]

>>15816376
Disgusting poser

[Anonymous No.15822624]

>>15822476
What's he posing as I don't get it

[Anonymous No.15822903]

>>15822447
based suomipostaaja

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » oI3er5KKetj No.15823361]

Not using a kindle.
>Yikes

[Anonymous No.15823486]

It's always weird to me when people spend a shit ton of money and time on greek philosophy and mythology.
To me those things you learn in middle and high school, and showing them off is nothing more than showing of Harry Potter or Percy Jackson since people who read them are at the same level of development.

[Anonymous No.15823687]

>>15819558
Personally, I would have given you 100 points for Halo 1, but since it's 2, yeah, -100.

[Anonymous No.15823710]

>>15823486
>things you learn in middle and high school
You do realize that literal geniuses spend their entire professional careers studying Greek philosophy and history, right?

[Anonymous No.15823743]

>>15823486
I spent probably $20 getting the basics from used book stores, and so far about 2 hours reading them. The shit is just so common and foundational that most of us feel obligated to have it a part of our collections.

I've always been more interested in Vedanta, though.

[Anonymous No.15823993]

>>15816732
Ah, I thought it was your actual first one.
Well, I don't know. I have over 2000 books saved which I want to purchase, most antiques from the 1850s. I honestly couldn't pick one rn, as it always depends on my current stack.

[Anonymous No.15824184]

>>15823361
Kindles are cringe. Return to tradition faggot