shelf thread

[Anonymous No.17799100]

r8 & h8

I dislike the two orange penguins; 12 memes for life, and the hipster 'shop class as soicraft', so I want to get rid of those. My next purchases will include a vintage classics edition of Nothing But the Night to complete my John Williams collection even though it's not considered good. I'll also get another Russian book, maybe a Dostoevsky or a Gogol not sure which translation so far, don't think I'll get War and Peace just yet. I'll also grab an Everyman Library edition of Things Fall Apart so I have at least one book from an author of African descent.

[Anonymous No.17799111]

>>17799100
Based Tintin reader

[Anonymous No.17799118]

>>17799100
It's very apparent that you care more about the covers than about the contents of your books.

[Anonymous No.17799122]

>>17799100
What did Tintin find in the Congo?

[Anonymous No.17799136]

>>17799122
...negros, lots of them

[Anonymous No.17799181]

>>17799111
I'm learning French. This adventure is a little too racist for me though.
>>17799118
I care about editions. If it's not a hardcover I prefer to get it in an edition I already have, but yes certain types of covers are abhorrent. Ones based on the movie for example, or new editions with some globohomo art by a woke publishing house.
>>17799122
Like this anon said >>17799136
Negroes depicted with the colonialist racist stereotypes prevalent in the day. Hergé hated it and distanced himself from it as much as possible. The cancel culture got a hold of it but there still is a new English 'Collector's Edition'. The original black & white version was apparently even worse than the colour one.

[Anonymous No.17799283]

>>17799181
I wasn't talking about literal covers, dummy.

[Anonymous No.17799295]

>>17799181
>Hergé hated it
wait, really? I remember seeing a lot of racist stereotypes in the Tintin comics, specifically how Negroes and Asians were depicted; for some reason I just thought Herge was either racist or was doing it without much thought like a lot of artists from that time

[Anonymous No.17799299]

>>17799181
>This adventure is a little too racist for me though.
I heard Hergé was a close friend of Degrelle. I don't know if that's true tho.

[Anonymous No.17799302]

>>17799100
"Les Aventures De Tintin: Tintin Au Congo"

Holy fucking mother of based

[Anonymous No.17799310]

Oooga booga where da white womenz at

[Anonymous No.17799319]

>>17799100

[Anonymous No.17799337]

>>17799319
Where are your other books anon?

[Anonymous No.17799346]

>>17799319
another retard that doesn't read and only collects pretty covers

[Anonymous No.17799356]

>>17799337
down below
>>17799346
you caught me

[Anonymous No.17799376]

>>17799319
What are those hardcover editions of TSAR and AFTA???

[Anonymous No.17799389]

>>17799376
Scribner

[Anonymous No.17799425]

>>17799310
What's racist about this?

[Anonymous No.17799428]

>>17799346
why can't one do both?

[Anonymous No.17799437]

>>17799425
even blacks think Africans are wild

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c26TEYXgLyQ

[Anonymous No.17799552]

>>17799100
>Chronicles of Prydain
Hello, fellow Pig-Keeper

[Anonymous No.17799614]

>>17799552
alas I am still only Assistant Pig-Keeper

[Anonymous No.17800203]

>>17799319
>95% unread
based /lit/

[Anonymous No.17800219]

>>17799319
Care to provide the name of the book between Aristotle and Seneca? Can't parse from the photo. Thanks!

[Anonymous No.17800231]

>>17799346
Whats the problem with wanting pretty covers? I have read all of my books and they’re hard covers, or at least nice looking. Because, why would I spend money in an ugly edition?

[Anonymous No.17800233]

>>17799100

[Anonymous No.17800249]

Honest question, do you guys re-read the same books a lot? The Only books I re-read is 1984 and the Hobbit

[Anonymous No.17800259]

>>17800249
Yes, rereading books is a great experience

[Anonymous No.17800266]

if all your books can be contained in a single photo and legible you should be reading more books not this board

[Anonymous No.17800272]

>>17799100
Pretty based besides Ayn Rand and JP

[Anonymous No.17800292]

[Anonymous No.17800296]

>>17799100
Nothing but the night isn't too bad. Maybe I just think that because I love Houseman though, i'm not sure.

[Anonymous No.17800299]

>>17800233
>Robert Atler
Based

[Anonymous No.17800305]

>>17800299
*Alter

[Anonymous No.17800313]

>>17800292
2/3 (continued)

[Anonymous No.17800320]

>>17800313
3/3

[Anonymous No.17800323]

>>17800292
>>17800313
>>17800320
what zero pussy does to a mf'er.
jk man nice, this man reads

[Anonymous No.17800338]

>>17800292
You fucking scruffy animal

[Anonymous No.17800341]

>>17800320
did you accept the Hermetics invitation?

[Anonymous No.17800357]

>>17800233
hey woah what type size is your copy of My First Summer In The Sierras? my copy is half as thick as yours.

[Anonymous No.17800440]

>>17799100
>Jordan Peterson
>DFW
>Joyce
fuck this board

[Anonymous No.17800448]

>>17800233
know your enemy I guess

[Anonymous No.17800463]

[Anonymous No.17800482]

1/3

[Anonymous No.17800484]

>>17799100
i like all the orange on the second row, looks nice.
also that thicc Three Kingdoms is awesome. who is the translator?
>>17799319
very aesthetic, and good of you to allot space for future purchases.
>>17800233
that three volume tanahk is gorgeous
>>17800292
wow!
>>17800463
are those billys?

[Anonymous No.17800491]

>>17800482
2/3 also the blurry white one on the first image is the secret agent by joseph conrad

[Anonymous No.17800503]

>>17800491
3/3 sorry for the blur

[Anonymous No.17800506]

>>17800463
finally, an original troll pic

[Anonymous No.17800519]

>>17800482
why is it so fucking dark

[Anonymous No.17800523]

>>17800519
bad cell phone, sorry

[Anonymous No.17800563]

>>17800323
Haha bruh I slay puss can't you tell by my posession of such titles as "The Rational Male" and "No More Mr. Nice Guy"?
>>17800341
yes the invitation and initiation. By bootstrapping alone I have ascended to become our chapter's resident hierophant

[Anonymous No.17800617]

Who else does this?

[Anonymous No.17800635]

>>17800523
it's okay brotha

[Anonymous No.17800822]

>>17800203
most of it's read except the second shelf

[Anonymous No.17800825]

>>17800617
I do

[Anonymous No.17800876]

>>17799100
I like these vintage editions, they feel good.

[Anonymous No.17801330]

>>17800822
The second shelf is like 95% of it in terms of pages

[Anonymous No.17801397]

>>17801330
it's not, but you're right that it's a significant amount to read. The landmarks I got because they're just becoming increasingly hard to find and I will want them all eventually, I'm currently reading the Herodotus. I've read the Iliad and Odyssey, the Oresteia so far from Aeschylus, a handful of Plato and Aristotle, and about half of Seneca's letters.
I have a lifetime ahead of me, I don't need to read everybody's complete works right away. I still prefer buying higher quality collections rather than a bunch of penguin paperbacks. Money is not an issue so I don't see what the problem is.

[Anonymous No.17801425]

>>17800219
Meditations by Aurelius

[Anonymous No.17801469]

>>17799100

[Anonymous No.17801476]

>>17801397
>I don't see what the problem is
Just different mindsets I guess. I'm the type of person who only buys something if I need it at that moment. Also if I'm buying something that I want to last a lifetime I wont buy mass-produced.

[Anonymous No.17801497]

>>17801476
>I'm the type of person who only buys something if I need it at that moment
Why are you bragging about your poor planning skills? You only need to read a few things from Plato or Aristotle for the complete editions to pay for themselves.
>Also if I'm buying something that I want to last a lifetime I won't buy mass-produced
Where do you buy your books instead?

[Anonymous No.17801563]

>>17801497
I neither under- nor over-plan. I have everything I need, when I need it; nothing more, nothing less. If anything it is *you* who has the poor planning skills
>Where do you buy your books instead?
If I'm buying something that I intend to keep forever I look to small and fine presses. This sometimes involves the commissioning of a custom binding/re-binding

[Anonymous No.17801579]

>>17801563
>I neither under- nor oven-plan. I have everything I need, when I need it.
Yes, but you pay more for it, and you end up with a bunch of shitty paperbacks.

[Anonymous No.17801620]

>>17801579
>Yes, but you pay more for it, and you end up with a bunch of shitty paperbacks.
That doesn't follow at all. If I need a paperback, I'll buy it; if I need a finely bound complete works, I'll by it too, but only if I need it.

[Anonymous No.17801683]

>>17801620
This isn't that complicated:
- Today, you only need Plato's Trial of Socrates and Symposium, so you spend $30 on the penguin paperbacks
- Two years from now you decide to read some of his other dialogues and the Republic. This costs another $30
- You have now spent $60, when you could have just spent $50 on the complete edition you "didn't need"
I plan to read enough things in those volumes that it is more cost efficient than the paperbacks, and it's a nicer reading experience.

[Anonymous No.17801699]

>>17799100
Another thread of this? What purpose does it serve?

[Anonymous No.17801736]

>>17801683
>so you spend $30 on the penguin paperbacks
Wrong. I'll simply download a digital copy for free and read that instead. Now if in the future I need a copy of the complete works, then I will buy it. This isn't an everyday need however, as complete works are used as academic references and study tools. Casual reading isn't enough to justify their purchase.

[Anonymous No.17801739]

>>17800357
I don't know exact sizes, but the font is a bit larger than a normal book I suppose. In all it's only 350 pages, but it also includes photographs and illustrations, which perhaps were omitted from your edition.

>>17800448
I am Jewish, anon.

>>17800484
It truly is. It is the Robert Alter English translation accompanied with extensive commentary on every page. I received it as a gift. I can't recommend it enough.

[Anonymous No.17801761]

>>17801736
You just changed the entire point of the argument. Obviously I know you can just go online and find a pdf.

[Anonymous No.17801769]

>>17801699
shelves are cute and valid

[Anonymous No.17801776]

>>17801761
I didn't change it at all. The question has always been what constitutes the *need* for a complete works (or in your case many complete works).

[Anonymous No.17801795]

>>17800292
>>17800313
>>17800320
ok consoomer

[Anonymous No.17801820]

>>17801776
A) your use of the word "need" is misleading. No one, nowhere, anywhere in the world needs any book. So I don't need any complete works, and you don't need pdfs
B) I don't read pdfs. First, in order to get high quality ebooks, you need recent publications, which means they are not in public domain, and stealing is, again, changing the point of the argument. Everyone knows you can steal things and get them for free

[Anonymous No.17801885]

>>17801820
If we bracket the existential question, then yes, people need books and even complete works. In regard to the latter, those people are generally academics with a clear and systematic research goal and program. And yes, stealing is relevant to the argument insofar as it impinges on the question of need: does one really need X when it's available for free in the form of Y? Does X possess any characteristics that one requires that Y does not possess? In the case of complete works, once again, those characteristics are only made use of by academics. For the casual reader, the purchase of a complete works simply isn't justifiable.

[Anonymous No.17801981]

>>17800484
> who is the translator?
C.H. Brewitt-Taylor
>>17800876
The vintage editions are an easy buy. I go into secondhand stores, scan for the red spine vintages, and if there''s something from an author I like I'll grab it.

[Anonymous No.17802013]

>>17801885
ma nigga why do you gotta hate on my homeboy >>17801820, let the mans spend their bread as they see fit.

[Anonymous No.17802099]

I don't use a shelf

[Anonymous No.17803844]

>>17801885
Sorry, I don't steal books or use e-readers. I don't know why you care so much how I spend my money. I already said money is not a concern, so your argument of "it's free to steal!" has no advantages for me, and many disadvantages

[Anonymous No.17803868]

>>17802099
what did you think of that translation of capital?

[Anonymous No.17803872]

>>17802099
>I don't use a shelf

Buy a pair of new and clean socks then

[Anonymous No.17804019]

>>17799100
Classics and non-fiction.

[Anonymous No.17804029]

>>17801885
>In the case of complete works, once again, those characteristics are only made use of by academics
The things I intend to make use of are the paper (which you have entirely ignored as a reason), the cost (which is lower than purchasing even a handful of Penguin classics, while not doing anything illegal or unethical), the notes (which, while not "necessary" for a non-academic like me, are still interesting), and the nice hardcover format (which has significant value to me). You have decided that because these factors are not concerns for you, they can't be concerns for me. This is a childish way of thinking (as is, "I can steal it so it's free").

[Anonymous No.17804031]

>>17799100
a lot of unwrinkled books in this thread.

[Anonymous No.17804032]

>>17803872
why? they'd just get dirty next time I take a poo anyway

[Anonymous No.17804035]

>>17804019
Fiction

[Anonymous No.17804042]

>>17804031
Pretty easy to read a book without breaking the spine, unless you have Shrek hands.

[Anonymous No.17804044]

>>17804019
based oxford classics and egyptophilia

[Anonymous No.17804048]

>>17804031
I'm guessing you said this to imply they haven't been read, but the fact that you think you can tell a read from unread book says more about your carelessness with your possessions than it does about your powers of observation

[Anonymous No.17804056]

>>17804031
you don't have to pry a book open flat to read them. all my books get beat up from being in my bag.

[Anonymous No.17804057]

>>17804031
>>17804048
for example, could you tell me, from the first shelf here >>17799319 what has been read and what hasn't?

[Anonymous No.17804064]

>>17804035
Based warhammer books better post.

[Anonymous No.17804080]

>>17804064
Haven’t played in years

[Anonymous No.17804102]

>>17799100
Redpill me on Williams' works other than Stoner

[Anonymous No.17804103]

>>17799100
are John Williams' other books good? I loved Stoner but never hear anything about his other works.

[Anonymous No.17804123]

>>17804080
>>17804035
>>17804019
>>17801469
>>17800503
>>17800491
>>17800482
>>17800463
>>17800320
>>17800313
>>17800292
>>17800233
>>17799319
>>17799100
Aesthetically speaking, all of these are ugly as fuck. I guess all contemporary anglos and amerifats are tasteless hayseeds who have fallen for the Ikea meme and, even worse, for the paperback meme. Set that shit on fire, you'll do a favor to the world.

[Anonymous No.17804133]

>>17804123
Let's see those leatherbound hardbacks on your hardwood shelves then, fag.

[Anonymous No.17804146]

>>17804123
>buying leatherback books in 2021
>buying ornate hardwood bookshelves in 2021
>being this bad at evaluating aesthetics in 2021

[Anonymous No.17804153]

>>17804064
I'd definitly play DnD with you. Yeah haven't played warhammer in years too.

[Anonymous No.17804159]

>>17800292
>>17800313
>>17800320
okay, this is based

[Anonymous No.17804161]

>>17804153
>>17804080

[Anonymous No.17804168]

>>17804123
cringe

[Anonymous No.17804202]

>>17804123
B A S E D
A
S
E
D

[Anonymous No.17804231]

>>17804080
>magik
Patrician taste.

[Anonymous No.17804262]

[Anonymous No.17804308]

>>17799319
How do you choose what edition to buy. I'm going through Greeks as ebooks, but wanted a Meditations hardcover.

[Anonymous No.17804323]

>>17804102
>>17804103
I loved and hated Augustus. I flew through the first half of the book. It's an epistolary so told through letters. The latter half there was a lot from the daughter Julia which frankly wasn't interesting at all for me and it took me a long time to finish it.
Butcher's Crossing is amazing. A lot more like Stoner but feels like Blood Meridian.
I have not yet read Nothing But the Night.
>>17800296
this anon says it's not bad

[Anonymous No.17804339]

>>17804080
You seem like someone who has a lot of older Usborne books. Do you have any?

[Anonymous No.17804369]

>>17804308
I have a few preferred publishers (everyman's if translation is good, library of america), then after that it's just looking at what's available. With classics, it's often possible to find out-of-print hardbacks (like the greek tragedies + seneca from uchicago) so I just watch eBay for a while to find a decent price and good condition. I'm still new enough to reading I have lots of basic things left to read, which makes it not so hard to find quality publishers. Lots of things just don't seem to have any quality option available, for those I just find a paperback that has good translation and decent cover. I like Vintage for pretty good physical quality plus comfy cover designs. They also tend to have good bindings, eg this is probably my most beat-up paperback, was in my bag for a month or two for a class, but the binding looks completely fine.

[Anonymous No.17804415]

>>17804369
How is it that your fingernail is too long, yet at the same time it doesn't extend out past your thumb. So if you keep your fingernails clean and trimmed, they will always be too short! Are you deformed anon?

[Anonymous No.17804426]

>>17800292
this guy reads

[Anonymous No.17804451]

>>17804019
>>17804035
nice selection, how was the jameson book on postmodernism?

[Anonymous No.17804460]

>>17804123
>t.

[Anonymous No.17804474]

>>17804369
Thanks. I'll have to wait until shops open, but once tey do I'll have a look at a second-hand book store. They're apparently pretty good and have good prices. I just want nice translations with nice covers.

[Anonymous No.17804572]

>>17804339
Nope, not from the UK and don’t have much in the way of kids books other than stuff like Jack London.

>>17804451
Thanks anon. I like Jameson’s ideas but he’s not a good writer. Kinda feels like you need to wade through a bunch of dreck to find the interesting points.

[Anonymous No.17804629]

>>17804415
idk. This is about a week without trimming. If I trip so the white part goes away, it's even shorter. I suspect that regularly trimming shorter exacerbates the problem. I didn't even realize my hand was in the photo desu now I've got something new to be insecure about though ;_;
>>17804474
you can find cheap used books online too, anon! I like stores but I'm picky enough about translations and editions, I almost never buy things in stores. It's also too tempting to buy more than I can gonsoom.

[Anonymous No.17804641]

>>17804460
she cute

[Anonymous No.17804662]

>>17804123
its literally paper and ink you fag, who cares

[Anonymous No.17804663]

>>17804629
fucked up nails are a telltale sign of nutritional deficiencies, not even trolling you

[Anonymous No.17804711]

>>17804663
>>17804629
I'm the same, consume plenty of greens, avoid sugar, have good macros and micros, so I'm guessing it has nothing to do with nutrition and it's just how some people are.

[Anonymous No.17804721]

>>17804662
>its literally cement and lime you fag, who cares
The absolute state of /lit/.

[Anonymous No.17804723]

Hardcovers 1/2

[Anonymous No.17804728]

2/2

[Anonymous No.17804783]

>>17804663
good to know. I don't eat candy or drink soda, and I've had this issue as long as I can remember. I'd guess it's behavioral (ie how I clip my nails) or genetics.
>fucked up nails
they're not fucked up, though, the white color is just where the nail stops being attached to the skin. It happens at different places for everyone, as I said, likely due to nail-clipping technique or genetics. I'm not worried.
>>17804711
thanks 'non

[Anonymous No.17804901]

>>17804262
Woah, how'd you get the Sandy Hook book?

[Anonymous No.17805088]

>>17804123
ah yes, because I buy books for the aesthetics and definitely not for the content inside.

[Anonymous No.17805115]

>>17804123
Im not from america

[Anonymous No.17805130]

>>17804723
>>17804728
Pretty dope editions you got there. How old are you btw? Looks like an older collection

[Anonymous No.17805142]

>>17804262
>Zinn People's History
How tf did that get in there lol

[Anonymous No.17805195]

>>17804728
tell me about concrete island, is it good?

[Anonymous No.17805235]

>>17801739
>I am Jewish, anon.
stop

[Anonymous No.17805347]

>>17805130
Thanks anon. I'm 34, but mostly shop at used bookstores.

>>17805195
I really enjoy all of Ballard's novels. I read High Rise just before I read this one and it went over a lot of the same ground, but I still liked it a lot.

[Anonymous No.17805387]

>>17804123

[Anonymous No.17805530]

Folios

[Anonymous No.17805634]

>>17805347
will give it a try in a couple of months. ty

[Anonymous No.17805669]

>>17804262
That's a suspicious amount of Ayn Rand

[Anonymous No.17805699]

I've always wondered, are there versions of classics with only the work itself? Meditation, for example, is 90 something pages, but most editions have 200+.

[Anonymous No.17805710]

>>17804323
Thanks anon

[Anonymous No.17805716]

>>17804262
cringe

[Anonymous No.17805719]

>>17805699
Budget paperback copies like Dover Thrifts editions usually have just the text of the work without any supporting notes. That being said, these copies almost always use old translations that have dropped out of copyright, so be prepared to read a version that is woefully out of date.

[Anonymous No.17805743]

>>17805719
Might as well get a reputable translation epub, print it and make a hardback version, then. I can print at work, so paper and ink are free.

[Anonymous No.17805746]

>>17805716
you will never be a real woman

[Anonymous No.17805782]

>>17805743
Yeah, I've done that for some translations that I want to read specifically because they're by authors in which I'm interested. Like Thoreau's translation of Prometheus Bound.

[Anonymous No.17805794]

>>17800292
Respect, no manicuring or curating, just a fondness for books. Very based.

[Anonymous No.17805847]

>>17800292
So many cocked spines from being left leaning.

[Anonymous No.17805938]

>>17805746
you will never be a real man like your grandfather

[Anonymous No.17805987]

>>17805938
cope

[Anonymous No.17806338]

>>17805746
>>17805938
>>17805987
This is what passes for discourse on the "intelligent" board.

[Anonymous No.17807332]

>>17804123
Supremely based, cheap things look cheap

[Anonymous No.17807677]

>>17806338
please go back

[Anonymous No.17808096]

>>17805530
>folios

[Anonymous No.17808148]

>>17799181
>a little too racist for me
>>>/reddit/

[Anonymous No.17808234]

>>17800463
CIA?
>>17804262
>Pat Buchanan
>E Michael Jones
Based
>>17805530
7/10 troll anon

[Anonymous No.17808255]

>eternal unread pile on top
>classics (by my own definition of course)
>2 shelfs of fiction
>random shit like marx and the quran or miscellany history

allah bless this mess

[Anonymous No.17808335]

>>17808255
>gotrek & felix in the classics shelf

[Anonymous No.17808370]

>>17804723
>>17804728
Oh shit the I Ching, I didn't expect someone actually had it. I discovered what it was from Man in the High Castle and I've tried using one online for fun, it's still amazing to see an actual physical book of it, even if it's just an image for me

[Anonymous No.17808457]

>>17808370
Don't you have Books A Million in your country? They have a stack of physical copies of the I Ching in my local one

[Anonymous No.17808504]

>>17808255
/fitlit/

[Anonymous No.17808524]

>>17808457
Eastern Europe so no

[Anonymous No.17808578]

>>17808096
>>17808234
Having sturdy, well-made books that will outlast me is Reddit?

[Anonymous No.17808634]

>>17808148
>being racist is cool and edgy
>if you're not racist you don't belong on 4chan!
Don't you think it's time to grow up little fella'? You're on a board with intellectuals after all. Sure, spew your vitriol and memes if that's all the discourse your pea brain is capable of, but singling someone out who is stating they aren't racist is just sad. Best of luck to you, sir.

[Anonymous No.17808698]

>>17804723
>The Double and The Gambler in one Everyman's edition.
That's a Pevear right? I reckon I'll get this.

[Anonymous No.17808788]

>>17808698
Yup, sure is. I like Everyman editions, they're good value and well-bound.

[Anonymous No.17808982]

>>17805782
I did the same thing for Tolkein's translation of Beowulf.

[Anonymous No.17809095]

>>17805235
Hey, you asked for it.

[Anonymous No.17809143]

>>17802099
nice job buying every /lit/ meme

[Anonymous No.17809250]

>>17809143
I don't see Bell Curve

[Anonymous No.17809329]

>>17804262
>For My Legionnaires
based

[Anonymous No.17809401]

>>17799319
How much did you drop on philosophy?

[Anonymous No.17809407]

>>17808370
There's enough western spiritualists that all the used bookstores in Canada are filled with copies.

[Anonymous No.17809449]

>>17809401
money? Not that much... Plato was $50ish, Aristotle vols were $30 each. Seneca was more expensive, like $50-60 for each volume (letters was hard to find in hardback and was a bit more). Kierkegaard and Aurelius were ~$20 as was the Thoreau volume. The complete Plato/Aristotle are good deals if you plan to read much from them; the others I just spent more to have a nicer copy. (Also even the paperback Senecas are $30-40 a piece)

[Anonymous No.17809462]

>>17799100
Another one?

[Anonymous No.17809825]

>>17809462

Why not. You do read books and consoom, right?

[Anonymous No.17809912]

>>17808255
is that a microphone taped to the lamp?

[Anonymous No.17810170]

>>17809143
It's called the cannon sweetie, have sex

[Anonymous No.17810285]

>>17799100
Where's the good nonfiction?
>>17800292
I want a lot of the stuff you have. Too bad it's left unoeganized.

The other shelves I don't have much to say about. Posting this shelf out of many, because it's the only one that has a considerable amount of English titles.

[Anonymous No.17810379]

>>17810285
what the fuck language is this

[Anonymous No.17810466]

>>17810379
Estonian...

[Anonymous No.17810486]

>>17799100
tin tin you getting cancelled big guy
Politically, Hergé was a fervent royalist, and remained so throughout his life,[259] also believing in the unity of Belgium.[260] In his early life, Hergé was "close to the traditional right-wing" of Belgian society,[261] with Sterckx noting that through his work he was "plunged into rightist, even extreme right-wing circles".[262] According to Harry Thompson, such political ideas were not unusual in middle-class circles in Belgium of the 1920s and early 1930s, where "patriotism, Catholicism, strict morality, discipline and naivety were so inextricably bound together in everyone's lives that right-wing politics were an almost inevitable by-product. It was a world view shared by everyone, distinguished principally by its complete ignorance of the world."[263] When Hergé took responsibility for Le Petit Vingtième, he followed Wallez's instruction and allowed the newspaper to contain explicitly pro-fascist and anti-semitic sentiment.[36] Literary critic Jean-Marie Apostolidès noted that the character of Tintin was a personification of the "New Youth" concept which was promoted by the European far right.[264] Under Wallez's guidance, the early Adventures of Tintin contained explicit political messages for its young readership. Tintin in the Land of the Soviets was a work of anti-socialist propaganda,[265] while Tintin in the Congo was designed to encourage colonialist sentiment toward the Belgian Congo,[266] and Tintin in America was designed as a work of anti-Americanism heavily critical of capitalism, commercialism, and industrialisation.[267]

[Anonymous No.17810555]

>>17808255
20 SCOOPS!
Why do you take isolate? It's way more expensive. Not worth it if not competing, imo.

[Anonymous No.17811085]

>>17809912
yes, been niggerrigged there for on 6-7 years

>>17810555
it's muscle powder breh not meal powder, if I ever want to cut (kek) it'll be good, price difference with concentrate is marginal on myprotein too like 20 eurodollars before applying discount

[Anonymous No.17811343]

I have a great shelf full of out of print books but I can't post because my isp is banned

[Anonymous No.17811532]

Collection's kinda all over the place. This is my babyshelf in my student dorm, rest of my books are stored @ home

[Anonymous No.17812057]

>>17799181
>Hergé hated it
How so, anon? I'm pretty versed in the Tintinosphere, and although he probably said later on he wouldn't write the story like that any more, it's not like he was forced to, or even repudiated it.
Also, waht if the "colonialist racist stereotypes" are a lot like reality? as is often the cas with stereotypes...

[Anonymous No.17812077]

>>17799299
He was a pretty close friend, from what I know; they both worked in the same youth paper at one time, got on quite well, and both drew inspiration from Father Wallez (I think that was the name), but Degrelle might have been trying a little too hard when he actually wrote a book showing Tintin was in fact modelled on him (although Degrelle's own journalistic adventures, in Mexico and the US could make that plausible)

[Anonymous No.17812099]

>>17799100
these threads always seem like they're for people who just like the "idea" of reading

[Anonymous No.17812101]

This is me guys, hope you like my display; tell me if you want to see one of my books close up

[Anonymous No.17812119]

Where do you guys buy high quality leatherbound book? I'd like to start having a bookshelf this isn't filled with unnatractive and weak paperbacks.

[Anonymous No.17812344]

>>17812099
>who just like the "idea" of reading
That was me for at least ten years. During which time I never bought any books. I did manage to steal a few from friends and family, but found reading to be nearly impossible. I did manage to finish the few I got though. But in the last month I've purchased ten new books and have already finished two. Reading is just like, my thing, now I guess. Pretty nice to finally be able to do something I always wanted. I didn't actually have trouble reading, like, I'm not retarded, it was just insanely boring and would cause me to fall asleep right after starting.

[Anonymous No.17812381]

>>17812101
how do people live like this? It's not like he can access 90% of those books anyway. What's the point?

[Anonymous No.17812404]

>>17812381
I totally can reach those books, anon; here, let me get one for you

[Anonymous No.17812436]

>>17812404
>this is what judaism does to a man

[Anonymous No.17812485]

>>17812436
Judaism? dafuq makes you see Judaism, anon?

[Anonymous No.17812538]

>>17812485
the picture of a jewish man

[Anonymous No.17812598]

>>17812538
...but he's not Jewish tho, anon

[Anonymous No.17812849]

>>17812598
Only the true Jew denies his kikeinity

[Anonymous No.17812935]

>>17812849
I'm denying someone else's judaeity tho
And I'm not sure anyone can defend he was jewish desu