/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.17678713]

Shelf thread?
Shelf thread.

[Anonymous No.17678727]

did you take that pic with your old webcam

[Anonymous No.17678741]

>>17678713
Fucking hell, I can't read shit

[Anonymous No.17678742]

>>17678713
is this an ai generated image

[Anonymous No.17678745]

>>17678727
How many pixels a photo has is in direct inverse to how much SOVL it has desu.

[Anonymous No.17678762]

Ok. People are mad so I'll try again.

[Anonymous No.17678781]

>>17678762
nigga..

[Anonymous No.17678814]

>>17678781
What?

[Anonymous No.17678817]

>>17678814
make sure the photo is focused before taking the picture

[Anonymous No.17678859]

>>17678762
Open your windows, get more light, focus the camera, take the photo.

[Anonymous No.17678873]

>>17678762
what the fuck did you take a picture of a polaroid with a flip phone camera

[Anonymous No.17679051]

>>17678762
generic /lit/ard stack. Are you a NPC?

[Anonymous No.17679158]

[Anonymous No.17679238]

>>17678762
how poor are you mate

[Anonymous No.17679422]

>>17678713
What a horrible ass mess.

[Anonymous No.17679434]

The only shelf I care about is from that guy who doesn't even own a shelf, the one who just posts his gigantic stack of books that always look like it's one mistake away from collapsing and burying anon.

[Anonymous No.17679499]

testing your smart fridge camera anon?

[Anonymous No.17679534]

Bedroom setup. A few new additions.

[Anonymous No.17679549]

>>17679534
Closeup 1/3

[Anonymous No.17679562]

>>17679534
2/3

[Anonymous No.17679584]

>>17679534
3/3

[Anonymous No.17679591]

>>17679549
lots of great stuff and it looks nice but i do question the authenticity of this. cologne? the divine comedy? be urself m8. other than that though good stuff

[Anonymous No.17679610]

>>17679591
The cologne was a Christmas gift from my gf, I wear it on special occasions. Its my bedroom after all, the only people who ever come in here are me and her. Nothing wrong with Dante! I used that copy a lot during my masters.

[Anonymous No.17679642]

>>17679610
yeah im just being a douche. have a good one anon

[Anonymous No.17679681]

>>17679642
And you bud!

[Anonymous No.17679692]

>>17679562
strange that your copy of Anna Karenina looks bigger than your copy of War and Peace

[Anonymous No.17679740]

>>17679692
The AK is the everymans library version, beautiful book, thicker pages, bigger type. Couldn't find the Maude translation in hardback so opted for the Oxford for W&P.

[Anonymous No.17679763]

>>17679740
Oh, btw, how did the Oxford edition of Devils by Dostoevsky read? I just ordered it off amazon

[Anonymous No.17679814]

>>17679763
It was good! I'm less inclined to hate P&V than most on this board, but the Oxford translation read very well. Can't remember who it was off the top of my head.

[Anonymous No.17679843]

>>17679814
Michael Katz. I see no problem with P&V and have noticed most arguments against them to be really shitty and just plain wrong sometimes. The only reason they get so much flack is because they are the most popular.
Tbh, the only reason I got the Katz translation for Devils is cos I already have the Vintage Classics version of C&P and TBK. I don't want all my Dostoevsky's to have that red spine. As dumb as it sounds, the aesthetics of my book shelf influences my decision

[Anonymous No.17679898]

How'd I do?

[Anonymous No.17679971]

>>17679898
>/lit - the bookshelf

[Anonymous No.17680003]

>>17679898
You're allowed to have a little fun every now and then, anon

[Anonymous No.17680045]

>>17680003
There are some fun ones in there, leave him alone

[Anonymous No.17680173]

>>17679898
why dont you have any fun books

[Anonymous No.17680250]

I want to see some patrician shit
Is holy based rapture (pbuh) still alive? Or some equivalent?
Someone with something special post

[Anonymous No.17680266]

Rate my Gothics

[Anonymous No.17680303]

>>17679549
>>17679562
>>17679584
Good shelves, the third is pure kino. How do you afford all those books?

[Anonymous No.17680690]

>>17678762
Based and historypilled

>>17679898
good variety as all readers should hope to achieve

[Anonymous No.17680691]

>>17680303
Thanks anon. I can't really, I'm just a lowly English teacher.

[Anonymous No.17680712]

>>17680690
Where can I get those suction greek philosopher dildos?

[Anonymous No.17680720]

>>17680690
no dostoevsky?

[Anonymous No.17680779]

>>17679843
Going out of your way to have non-matching spines is truly hard to get the head around

[Anonymous No.17680793]

>>17680779
Wanting variety is hard to get your head around?

[Anonymous No.17680799]

>>17678762
I like this guy

[Anonymous No.17680807]

General view

[Anonymous No.17680809]

>>17679898
How's Naked Lunch? Is it as incomprehensible as people say?

[Anonymous No.17680821]

>>17680807
Zoom on shelves

[Anonymous No.17680843]

>>17680821

[Anonymous No.17680845]

>>17680809
Not that anon but yeah

[Anonymous No.17680862]

>>17680843

[Anonymous No.17680878]

[Anonymous No.17680920]

>>17680712
Etsy but be warned its a tight fit

>>17680720
I got notes from underground and the The Double there

[Anonymous No.17680962]

>>17680878
wow, what a waste. I mean, do you even read that shit? do you enjoy reading that shit? it's like a toilet of gold - pure fucking extravagance. Meanwhile, I'm in here with my comfy Infinite Jest, re-reading it for the third time and having a blast.

Greeks, LMAO.

[Anonymous No.17680992]

>>17680962
>Infinite Jest
>Hating on greeks

Bait or Brainlet, either or your ngmi

[Anonymous No.17680996]

>>17680878
VGH

[Anonymous No.17681028]

my desk

[Anonymous No.17681034]

>>17680962
Yes, I do actually read that shit... Is there anything else you wanted to know?
We're not all Greekless fags here, you know

[Anonymous No.17681039]

>>17680878
Are you some sort of scholar anon?

[Anonymous No.17681045]

>>17681034
Tell one impactful thing you've learned from reading all that.

[Anonymous No.17681050]

>>17680996
What does that mean?

>>17681028
Setup très comfy, anon!

[Anonymous No.17681055]

>>17680992
I'm making it alright, third time around even lol my friend while you're busy bashing your head against the proverbial greek penis in attempts to understand it I am basking in the light of our lord and savior David Foster Wallace and god is it a good warm feeling. Go spend 10 years learning greek, then come back and talk to me, kid.

[Anonymous No.17681069]

>>17681039
Yes, PhD student (but scholar sounds much nicer)

>>17681045
Lots of epic trivia and witty punchlines

[Anonymous No.17681075]

>>17680266
That's a well loved copy of Dracula. Love it.

[Anonymous No.17681076]

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[Anonymous No.17681079]

>>17681050
>Setup très comfy, anon!
Merci! Nice collection you got here. Kind of jealous of the Proust.

[Anonymous No.17681088]

>>17680920
Got a bust of Robert E. Lee on my shelf from a museum shop in Fredricksburg. How do you like your busts from Etsy?

[Anonymous No.17681096]

>>17681069
What are you doing your PhD in?

[Anonymous No.17681098]

>>17681079
I'll say what you're never supposed to admit, but I've not read all of Proust yet desu... The result of successive Christmas presents: Pléiade edition (the new, Tadié et al. one) is very satisfying, but so autistically completist as to sometimes give you, for one page of text 5 pages of notes and 10p of draft text at the back of the book. And as I'm autistic, I read all of it. So I only embark on that adventure when I have plenty of time and quiet on my hands

[Anonymous No.17681105]

>>17681069

> your brain on greek
> can't even

[Anonymous No.17681106]

>>17681096
Classics (ancient Greek lit)

[Anonymous No.17681107]

>>17680712
jej

[Anonymous No.17681112]

>>17681096
bro...
bro...
> in greek
LMAO

[Anonymous No.17681116]

>>17681105
>your brain on Greek
>entertaining autists on a Mongolian knitting forum

Admittedly, two different virtues

[Anonymous No.17681117]

>>17679584
I remember you Anon. I got Plato complete works, it should be arriving during this week. So excited ngl

[Anonymous No.17681124]

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[Anonymous No.17681145]

>>17681069
mega kek

>>17681045
stop projecting dotard

[Anonymous No.17681176]

>>17681116
yo Mr. Greekman, when you finish with your PhD you're gonna do what? Write Infinite Jest 2?

Didn't think so.

> he fell for the greek meme
> he's a greek scholar now

[Anonymous No.17681177]

>>17681145
>mega kek
At doing a PhD? not cool, anon... I am also teaching, tbf

[Anonymous No.17681192]

>>17681176
I dunno, but I don't plan on hanging myself with a belt, so that's something

[Anonymous No.17681211]

>>17681192
I am now sad. I miss him bois.

[Anonymous No.17681220]

>>17681106
How are your prospects looking? What's your plan when you finish? I'm doing an MA in English Literature and Culture and I'd be keen to continue with a PhD, but literally everyone tells me it's a terrible idea in the humanities and there are no jobs. Might just suck it up and take the high school route, I don't have the constitution for business or law

[Anonymous No.17681221]

>>17681098
> so autistically completist as to sometimes give you, for one page of text 5 pages of notes and 10p of draft text at the back of the book
Ah yes that can be quite a problem sometimes with Pléiades. The rest of your collection is quite comfy too

[Anonymous No.17681288]

>>17681055
> busy bashing your head against the proverbial greek penis in attempts to understand it

I still can't tell if your baiting me into saying you got filtered. If you are, why are you bothering to write all this autistic nonsense, lots of spare time eh?

>>17681088
They're pretty good for what little I paid for them, made in greece too and only took a couple days to arrive

[Anonymous No.17681314]

>>17681079
Un peu de French /lit/ ici

[Anonymous No.17681339]

>>17681028
Basé habitué de chez Gibert.

[Anonymous No.17681350]

>>17681220
I'm in France, so academic careers are probably a little different; still teaching assistant at university rn, and I've already got the high school (lycée) teaching qualification, so I've got a job there no matter what, but it'll probably be soul-crushing. University prospects in classics are not much better here, I should expect, but maybe in a few years...

[Anonymous No.17681361]

>>17681350
Stuff and more stuff (Paul Auster is kind of out of his depth here, but I had to read it for school, baka)

[Anonymous No.17681400]

>>17681314
Cannot make out anything but nice collection. Are these the complete works of Rutebeuf on top? Bought them a few days ago in a used book stores. How are they?
>>17681339
Cramé. Faudrait que je pense à enlever ces étiquettes plus souvent.

[Anonymous No.17681418]

>>17681288
A couple of days international shipping? Damn impressive.
Do you have a link to the seller by any chance?

[Anonymous No.17681486]

>>17680878
How do you feel about eating beans?

[Anonymous No.17681520]

>>17681418
Welp looks like they closed shop... maybe try looking for a similar seller
https://www.etsy.com/shop/greekartifact?

[Anonymous No.17681621]

>>17681486
not him but beans are fuckin great. Then again, I'm latin american so we are really good at cooking them

[Anonymous No.17681720]

>>17681621
Red beans are my favorite kind what are yours

[Anonymous No.17681758]

>>17681720
Kidney beans, chickpeas, black bean.
Lentils are cool too

[Anonymous No.17682083]

>>17681361
Paul Auster is good desu

[Anonymous No.17682233]

>>17681361
dude. get some bookends. they shouldn't be leaning like that.

[Anonymous No.17682321]

>>17680690
>jurassic park
this is slowly making its way into /lit/core lol

[Anonymous No.17682359]

>>17679549
FINALLY someone who read something else from Bolaño other than 2666 and Savage Detectives!

[Anonymous No.17682394]

>>17682321
..its a good tale on the ethics of science

[Anonymous No.17682650]

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[Anonymous No.17682697]

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[Anonymous No.17682698]

>>17680266
Mein negro, I have most of them. It's good to see another gothic enthusiast on /lit/.

[Anonymous No.17682705]

8/9

[Anonymous No.17682717]

9/9

[Anonymous No.17682772]

>>17680878
when are you going to be fluent in Latin and Greek?

[Anonymous No.17682806]

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>>17682717
there is nothing interesting enough here to justify 9 posts. Just stand back from your bookshelf and take one or two pics like everyone else

[Anonymous No.17682825]

Shelf threads are peak consoomerism

[Anonymous No.17682843]

>>17682806
Fck off mutt fgt, I can't send 1 single photo, it won't fit or see correctly (bookshelf for ants).

[Anonymous No.17682855]

>>17682825
>bookshelf consoom

t.mutt

[Anonymous No.17682877]

>>17682806
>there is nothing interesting enough here

How in the hell do you know or judge that? Did you read any of those books? retard.

[Anonymous No.17682907]

>>17682843
as I said, nobody's really interested in your shitty collection anyway. Limit yourself to 1-2 photos next time.
>>17682877
he uploaded an entire photo that was just 15 volumes of slam dunk

[Anonymous No.17682923]

>>17682907
Just tell me, what do you read of my shelfs? As I said earlier, fk off mutt

[Anonymous No.17682942]

>>17682923
>speaks Spanish
>calls others mutt
there isn't a single white spanish speaking country
the only people who abbreviate "fuck" as "fk" are ESLs. Don't make up slang in someone else's language.
>what you've read
nothing, I don't read spanish translations because I'm white

[Anonymous No.17682943]

>>17682907
>Nobody is interesting in your shitty shelfs

Just tell me, how in the hell do you know that? what do you read of my shelfs to judge as shitty? As I said earlier, fk off mutt

[Anonymous No.17682955]

>>17682943
do you think your post sounds better the second time?

[Anonymous No.17682979]

>>17682942
Then you don't even know what latin is or at least what a romance language is.

There is not a single proof that you are "white"... and fuck off illiterate fat mutt, go kiss Shakespeare dead ass.

[Anonymous No.17682987]

>>17682979
how are latin or other romance languages relevant? There are white speakers of French and Italian and Romanian, just not Spanish or Portuguese
>There is not a single proof that you are "white"
It's not my job to prove my whiteness to mestizos and arabs

[Anonymous No.17683081]

>>17682987
Then your ignominy is much greater than I think...hmmm, still you don't answered if you read any of the books I have?. Remember what you said about translations when you want read Quixote or Bolaño (yes, the Ñ letter), Borges, Lamborghini (not the car company, retard), Laiseca, Escohotado, etc, if not, then you are missing to much literature son. Im spanish

[Anonymous No.17683177]

>>17683081
>yes, the Ñ letter
do... do you think that people don't know about it? we have the word piñata in English, and most people have taken at least a few years of Spanish
>Im spanish
I know, that's why I've been pointing out you're not white

[Anonymous No.17683208]

>>17682987
>>17682942
>Speaks
>Speakers

Write...written...writers...reads...readers, etc

[Anonymous No.17683249]

>>17683208
this post probably made more sense in your head

[Anonymous No.17683262]

>>17683177
And still you failed at spanish. Hmmm...and where is the origin of the word "piñata" son?

>I know, that's why I've been pointing out you're not white

Hahahaha, and what's your argument of value to say that? I can say the same thing to you.

[Anonymous No.17683297]

>>17683262
>still you failed at spanish
I didn't
>and where is the origin of the word "piñata" son?
spanish... that's why I mentioned it... you seem very confused.
>and what's your argument of value to say that?
because you're spanish, and your country was raped by moors. do you not remember?

[Anonymous No.17683379]

>>17683297
>because you're spanish, and your country was raped by moors. do you not remember?

Im not mestizo or moor, but you still keep to fail to make a valid argument, I as said before, I can say the same to your "race" if you think "im white", keep trying little boy...oh and piñata is not the only spanish word.

[Anonymous No.17683405]

>>17683379
>Im not mestizo or moor
Your comprehension is poor. All Spaniards are part moor. Your country got raped by arabs for centuries. There is no one white in Spain.

[Anonymous No.17683413]

>>17683379
>piñata is not the only spanish word
is this bait? or are you 14? I reported you an underaged, I refuse to believe a grown man is this stupid

[Anonymous No.17683450]

Check it

[Anonymous No.17683480]

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>>17678762
Look at my picture, if none of your books have as much effort into them then....

[Anonymous No.17683487]

>>17683405
>>17683413
Samefag...as you said "part of" not all the population unlike yours (right now), I can even report your posts for racism, you can go to /pol to make your useless rants about races.

[Anonymous No.17683499]

>>17683480
Just because you are a midwit that can't remember or understand things he reads the first time around doesn't mean other people also can't.

[Anonymous No.17683520]

Found some more books, have to update my shelf pic.

>>17683450
Hows Democracy? Been meaning to pick it up.

[Anonymous No.17683534]

>>17683480
Wow...look at that jealousy post.

[Anonymous No.17683536]

>>17683487
>Samefag
yes... I wasn't trying to hide that I was the poster for both of those. Is everything working all right in your head?
>as you said "part of" not all the population
your reading comprehension is abysmal. 100% of your population is part moor.
>not all the population unlike yours (right now)
Again, you clearly don't understand. Your country was raped for 500 years by sandniggers. Everyone in your country has moor blood.
In the US, we've had a small number of immigrants in the past 50 years or so. But not 500 years of interbreeding. There are a lot more whites in America than Spain
>I can even report your posts for racism
oh shit, that sounds serious, I better watch out so the niggermods don't ban me

[Anonymous No.17683563]

>>17683520
It is certainly interesting, I enjoyed it and it made me think differently about not just democracy, but monarchy as well.

Is that the readers edition of The Red Book or the original? I've been meaning to get it to add to polish off my Jung collection

[Anonymous No.17683586]

>>17683534
Not jealousy, sadness at the low amount (to my eyes) of engagement. Because important things are forgotten or ignored.

>>17683499
A poor short term memory does not = stupidity.
Notes are for remembering what is worth remembering or connecting ideas to other books, this is the art of reading books. Having notes does not mean you didn't understand.

You don't remember multiple, entire quotes from the author in one read through, but maybe I am wrong and you are right. If you don't find many quotes worth remembering the book you're reading is unworthy or you're not reading with intent.

[Anonymous No.17683620]

>>17683586
And that's your opinion, which it means...nothing to others.

[Anonymous No.17683648]

>>17683586
>low amount (to my eyes) of engagement. Because important things are forgotten or ignored.

Maybe you have that problem.

[Anonymous No.17683756]

>>17683648
Yes because I didn't take notes KEK

[Anonymous No.17684141]

>>17683563
Probably readers? Wife got it for me for Xmas. It's very enjoyable, would rec.
Also read Origins and History of Consciousness. Jung recs it.

[Anonymous No.17684239]

>>17683756
I think taking notes is probably unnecessary but i think rereading books until you basically have memorized them is the only true way to appreciate any work. I've kind of lost touch with the appeal of being "well read" i just want to know a few nivels very well and read poetry

[Anonymous No.17684397]

>>17683586
Wow you can tell how much engagement someone has with their books based on how they look on a shelf? Is it possible to learn this power?
M8, sticking bits of paper in a book isn't the only way to engage with it, baka