Pls no bully

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Anonymous Fri Nov 6 22:15:04 2015 No.7330074 [Reply] [Original]

Pls no bully

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 6 22:16:41 2015 No.7330079 you can't bully someones taste when they have none

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>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 6 22:19:03 2015 No.7330086 >>7330083 How is the Name of the Rose?

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>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 6 22:27:54 2015 No.7330117 >>7330108 Nice collection, anon. Except Wild Cards, that's shit.

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>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 6 22:30:05 2015 No.7330126 >>7330114 How is that edition of the Great Dune Trilogy? Was thinking about buying it

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>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 6 22:35:24 2015 No.7330143 >>7330104 I'm not sure what's more alarming: all the anti-American propaganda, or all the Orson Welles

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>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 6 22:41:06 2015 No.7330156 >>7330126 Good. Would have been nice if it was hardcover or had some Gary Gianni illustrations maybe

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 6 22:48:05 2015 No.7330168 File: 558 KB, 1080x1920, Snapchat--1187587528825703455.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Ignore the snap. Too lazy to take a new pic

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 6 23:00:14 2015 No.7330189 >>7330168 mirin those landmark editions. were they worth it?

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 6 23:04:02 2015 No.7330198 File: 1.57 MB, 580x433, 7tWdEeo.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7330168 >Glenn Beck >Dan Brown

Anonymous Fri Nov 6 23:05:34 2015 No.7330201

>>7330189
Tough to say since they were a birthday gift and it was my first time reading each. Some of the details a found to be cumbersome, especially if you're not planning on being a Greek scholar, but the maps and other summaries/marginalia is nice to have. Would probably not recommend for a first read but definitely nice to have.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 6 23:06:12 2015 No.7330205 >>7330143 what's wrong with orson, friend?

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 6 23:07:39 2015 No.7330207 File: 1.96 MB, 2988x5312, Main shelf tonight.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Is this a bookshelf thread? 1/2

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 6 23:08:55 2015 No.7330209 File: 1.74 MB, 2988x4284, Other bookshelf.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7330207 2/2

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 6 23:10:15 2015 No.7330212 >>7330168 >Arnold Schwarzenegger on the only good shelf Get that crap off of there. >>7330189 They are. (I went with soft covers) Really sweet extras.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 6 23:12:01 2015 No.7330214 >>7330189 Landmark editions are basically the director's cut of classical history

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 6 23:23:58 2015 No.7330248 >>7330209 Muh Middle Brow Bro How did you like 2666? I just ordered it.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 6 23:28:19 2015 No.7330257 >>7330207 Dope

Anonymous Fri Nov 6 23:29:48 2015 No.7330259

>>7330248
I finished 2666 just a few months ago.

It's now one of my favorite novels. No spoilers, but I think that after you've finished the book, or even just some parts of it, you'll think back and realize just how memorable nearly everything in the book is, which is pretty shocking--to have such a vivid memory of so many events from a ~900 page book. The book is really an achievement in many ways.

After you're done, be sure to look up '2666 werewolf analysis' (or something like that) as that's a fun take on the book. No, there are no werewolves in 2666, I didn't spoil anything.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 6 23:41:55 2015 No.7330279 >>7330207 Nice

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 6 23:46:30 2015 No.7330294 >>7330168 >glen beck >bill oreilly >LotR >infinite jest Fucking pathetic

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 6 23:47:33 2015 No.7330297 >>7330205 Its kinda weird And Orson was the first /lit/ meme

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 7 00:33:13 2015 No.7330386 >>7330090 >Ellroy mah nigga

Anonymous Sat Nov 7 00:44:16 2015 No.7330414

>>7330386
Perfidia is kinda lame
He was saying he was done with LA and he was done with crime and he was going to write new things after finishing American Tabloid trio

Instead he's back to LA doing prequels with characters meeting and having adventures in ways their original appearances would never have suggested

Anonymous Sat Nov 7 00:48:51 2015 No.7330429

>>7330259
>to have such a vivid memory of so many events from a ~900 page book.
you know, i put it down about half way through the part about the crimes, but, reading your post, i can pick out so many amazing segments, and this coming from someone reading it in translation. i think i might finish it. i was thinking on the one hand if i try it again i'll have to start from the beginning, but, i honestly don't know if i'll have to, i could probably just pick up where i left off without missing a beat

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 7 00:58:01 2015 No.7330445 >>7330209 holy shit someone actually has illuminatus

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 7 01:29:02 2015 No.7330499 >>7330209 >those Dark Tower books from a different publisher anon WHY

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 7 02:54:49 2015 No.7330628 >>7330207 >>7330209 >Not a single copy of A Song of Ice and Fire Why?

Anonymous Sat Nov 7 03:27:57 2015 No.7330691
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>tfw grew up in a house filled with books
>Growing up the reading was great
>tfw all those books belonged to my parents
>tfw now I have to buy all my books or get them as gifts

I am a literal pleb. I do have some of my older fiction books somewhere around here, but these are the only things occupying my shelf at the moment. At least my parents gave me their Webster's from the 1980s.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 7 03:45:46 2015 No.7330719 File: 8 KB, 142x142, 1388742269725.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7330207 >>7330209 supreme

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 7 03:51:05 2015 No.7330725 >>7330259 Wow, thanks a lot. Can't wait for my copy to arrive now. How long did it take you to read? I'm gonna try to read 100 books in 2016!

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 7 04:17:41 2015 No.7330758 File: 814 KB, 2592x836, anoncase.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7330104 Is your bookcase attempting the infinite flex?

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 7 10:19:14 2015 No.7331282 OP here, so can people make any suggestions pls?

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 7 12:19:09 2015 No.7331474 >>7330080 not mad at those boris akunin books

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 7 13:23:44 2015 No.7331627 >>7330168 >Led Zeppelin Yeah, i am going to assume you're a massive misogynist, in addition to having shitty music taste

>>	The cats Sat Nov 7 13:43:41 2015 No.7331672 >>7331627 Rekt Without Zeppelin we wouldn't have Umphrey's McGee though

>>	green !YOUlQWt3s6 Sat Nov 7 14:11:35 2015 No.7331730 >>7330079 S A V A G E

>>	green !YOUlQWt3s6 Sat Nov 7 14:15:09 2015 No.7331735 >>7330168 Fuck that calculus book man, do they make everyone in Canada buy it first year?

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 7 14:21:17 2015 No.7331745 File: 94 KB, 960x720, 1432763078014.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] The advantage of being a British aristocrat is that you don't have to buy taste. It is handed down through your blood.

Anonymous Sat Nov 7 14:59:25 2015 No.7331867

>>7331745
Fantastic to see so many books, but my god that room is poorly decorated.

It's not the furniture itself-- that's all obviously very nice. It must be the combination of the low ceilings/tall bookcases & oversized portrait, the three rugs, the silver serving plate (?), and the brute amount of red. Red walls, red rugs (?!), red couch, red lamps... then the random green furniture.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 7 15:08:20 2015 No.7331893 File: 115 KB, 720x542, 34561_446102401387_7056732_n.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7331867 A look from the opposite end.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 7 15:12:06 2015 No.7331904 >>7331893 can your parents buy you a camera that takes pictures at a higher resolution?

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 7 15:18:31 2015 No.7331926 >>7330104 Some of my favorite lyrics in all of rock music were mumbled by Kim Gordon but holy crap judging by the way she speaks in recent interviews just leaves the impression that that entire memoir is crap.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 7 15:33:24 2015 No.7331984 File: 73 KB, 540x960, meandgf.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] me 'n gf bookshelf

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 7 15:52:35 2015 No.7332041 >>7331745 Looks small cramped, stuffy and hideously designed but at the same time warm and comfy. >Would read old novels in.

Anonymous Sat Nov 7 15:52:42 2015 No.7332042

>>7331926
Its not crap.
It goes through her early life, her brothers mental illness, her early involvement in art scenes, sonic youths early years, free kitty and x girl, having a daughter, and so on.

But yes, the main focus is the breakdown of her marriage with Thurston Moore and what a cunt he is.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 7 15:53:42 2015 No.7332044 >>7332042 The last 50-100 pages are devoted to that final topic.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 7 15:54:32 2015 No.7332046 >>7331984 How are you gonna split them when you break up?

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 7 15:55:22 2015 No.7332051 File: 30 KB, 410x392, weird.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7330104 >Orson Welles at Work >The Cinema of Orson Welles >Whatever Happened to Orson Welles? >Discovering Orson Welles

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 7 16:05:19 2015 No.7332070 >>7331745 >>7331893 since when do people on /lit/ have money? Timestamp or something, I don't even know how one would confirm that this is real.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 7 16:16:43 2015 No.7332112 >>7332051 Orson Welles at Work is a coffee table book, full of big gloss stills from his films and behind the scenes making of pictures

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 7 16:18:05 2015 No.7332114 >>7331745 The furniture may have been handed down but it doesn't look like any sense of style came with it.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 7 16:22:40 2015 No.7332124 >>7332112 >coffee table book That's actually a thing? What the fuck is wrong with these people? How shallow could you possibly be to want a 'coffee table book'?

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 7 16:22:54 2015 No.7332126 >tfw Russian fics of Seulrene dis gonna be good

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 7 16:24:15 2015 No.7332130 >>7331984 Norwegian or Danish?

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 7 16:24:55 2015 No.7332134 >>7332124 How could you live this long without knowing about the existence of coffee table books?

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 7 16:25:16 2015 No.7332135 >>7331745 Is it a room for midgets?

Anonymous Sat Nov 7 17:21:38 2015 No.7332334

>>7332124
I have a film noir "coffee table book", of course I don't have a coffee table so I read it at my desk like most books, but the style of book really is pretty nice for film related things. Great looking stills and a good cross section of pieces by different critics
what's yer deal man?

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 7 17:24:02 2015 No.7332342 >>7330207 what do you do in relation to philosophy?

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 7 17:24:56 2015 No.7332346 >>7330168 Are Aritotle's Complete Works good? I've heard they are the standard translations, but the lack of critical apparatus is rather dissapointing.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 7 18:15:50 2015 No.7332529 >>7330758 thats a well known illusion with most cameras

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 7 18:23:02 2015 No.7332544 >>7332529 That is not pincushion distortion mate. I'm from /p/ I know my shit.

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>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 7 18:34:34 2015 No.7332583 >>7332529 >>7332544 OP here, some of the shelves are bending and the sides of the cases themselves bowing outwards due to weight. They're cheap, you get what you pay for.

Anonymous Sat Nov 7 18:38:53 2015 No.7332599

>>7332334
Well if they have essays and articles on film criticism than I guess that's fine. It just feels wrong that people are buying books to display or to make themselves look good. Like the thousands of swedish/gibberish paperbacks they have in ikea, it just feels vaguely terrifying, like plastic food in japan.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 7 18:39:08 2015 No.7332601 File: 1.12 MB, 2592x1936, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7332544 >I'm from /p/ For you :3

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 7 19:11:49 2015 No.7332695 >>7331745 I'm high and in my present state I approve of this room. It's mismatched in and artful way that creates a lovel of comfy I have rarely seen. It's almost artful. I want to be there.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 7 19:20:35 2015 No.7332716 >>7330168 >arnold >not the autobiography why even bother

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 7 20:01:11 2015 No.7332894 >>7330207 >The Landmark Xenophon's Hellenika What's that like compared to Herodotus?

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 7 20:33:32 2015 No.7332997 >>7330207 >separating your kierkegaard into two shelves but why otherwise mirin

Anonymous Sat Nov 7 20:41:54 2015 No.7333023

>>7332894
Landmark edition specifically, or Xenophon vs. Herodotus?

I haven't read any landmark editions, and from what I've seen don't think they're a good idea for a first read-through; there's just so much information that it will cripple your pace and any flow of the text. They look great for deeper reading, though.

As for Hellenika vs. Herodotus' Histories, Herodotus makes no claims to present an accurate history, and his text is sprinkled with legends, myths, and half-truths, not to mention alternate accounts. Xenophon attempts to write in the very academic style of Thucydides (from whom he learned; Hellenika picks up directly where "The Peloponnesian War" ends), and he kind of manages to pull that off through the end of the war, but falls off pretty heavily after that, with the rest of his text being very heavily influenced by his limited and biased (pro spartan) sources, and his own love for and affiliation with Sparta.

Neither is great "history," but Herodotus never purports to be creating that in the first place; Xenophon's texts claims to be a definitive history of Greece for the time period concerned, but is colored by bias, limited perspective, and misinformation. It's still a good read, and I would definitely recommend a translation with a decent intro/annotations, because you can still get the general idea of what really happened, while being reminded of Xenophon's bias, his omissions, his inaccuracies, etc.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 7 20:49:17 2015 No.7333051 >>7333023 for thucydides you need the fucking maps otherwise you don't get why doing something is/isn't stupid

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 7 21:03:26 2015 No.7333086 IKEA BILLY IS THE BEST BOOKSHELF CREATED

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 7 21:10:05 2015 No.7333107 File: 147 KB, 509x619, kierkfeels.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7330207 >none of the hong kierkegaard volumes line up properly next to one another i get sperg triggered every time i look at my shelves.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 7 21:13:49 2015 No.7333114 >You have to turn your head sideways to read titles on a bookself This reality sucks, I want a better one.

Anonymous Sat Nov 7 21:15:31 2015 No.7333117

>>7330725
2666 took me probably about five or six months? I took a long break after reading the first part and then powered through the rest later. I also always have a rotation of books going, so that added on some time. Good luck on the 100 books goal? Do you have a list of them all or are you just trying to figure it out as you go along?

>>7330499
Back in high school, an ex gf's mom got me those as a Christmas present. Maybe one day I'll update to a unified collection. Loved those books in high school.

>>7330628
You think I'd let that plebshit near my shelves? Get the fuck outta here.
they're on my Kobo

>>7332894
I'm sure this anon gave you a good answer: >>7333023
I'm not entirely sure what you mean. The Landmark editions are great for in-depth study. Herodotus and Xenophon wrote about very different events though and had very different styles.

>>7332997
The tragedy of alphabetization.

>>7333107
Swear to God it's a geographic thing. That collection has been amassed from multiple states and some Amazon purchases. If they're from the same region, they line up, if not, they don't. I don't know why Princeton does that.

>>7332342
I have a degree in philosophy. Beyond that, I'm not willing to divulge much here.

Anonymous Sat Nov 7 21:24:24 2015 No.7333141

>>7333051
The landmark editions aren't the only ones with maps; they just have loads of other images and information in the margins.

You're totally right that maps are crucial for pretty much any kind of historical text, but for probably that very reason I've never seen a decent history text without any.

Anonymous Sat Nov 7 23:40:02 2015 No.7333572

>>7333117
>You think I'd let that plebshit near my shelves?

Planet Hulk and Stephen King are worse than plebshit, dumbfuck.

>No Tolkien, Ursula, Asimov, Huxley, Gravity's Rainbow, Banks, Wolfe, Clarke, China Miéville, DFW, Stephenson… thinks his/her stuff is some sort of a god tire.

Your shelves almosts have shit, lamefuck. I know you're proud of it.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 7 23:44:26 2015 No.7333586 >>7333572 >>No Tolkien, Ursula, Asimov, Huxley, Gravity's Rainbow, Banks, Wolfe, Clarke, China Miéville, DFW, Stephenson Not that anon but I honestly can't tell if this is sarcasm or not. Good bait?

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 7 23:47:42 2015 No.7333592 >>7330074 What's the point of reading when all you do is pick up a new form of cartoon? >It's a legitimate art form The fact that it has to be defended shows that it's not

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 7 23:52:10 2015 No.7333606 >>7333586 Literally KILL YOURSELF for thinking it's a bait.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 7 23:55:26 2015 No.7333611 >>7333114 Become Japanese. :^)

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 8 00:06:12 2015 No.7333642 File: 1.49 MB, 991x2975, Beginner-fantasy.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7333117 >You think I'd let that plebshit near my shelves? Get the fuck outta here. >ASoIaF is a pleb tire shit I've faith in pic related so fuck you meanie.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 8 00:08:43 2015 No.7333648 File: 1.98 MB, 3264x2448, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7330168 Good to see another Beck fan on /lit/. Fuck the haters.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 8 00:11:35 2015 No.7333651 >>7333648 enjoy diabeetus

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 8 00:13:27 2015 No.7333655 >>7333572 >>7333642 Dude has Civil War in his shelf haha what do guys expect.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 8 00:14:15 2015 No.7333657 File: 112 KB, 379x317, 1443940216718.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7333648 Reverse diabetes tl;dr stop eating carbohydrates, they are shit. See: https://www.reddit.com/r/keto

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 8 00:16:51 2015 No.7333661 >>7333648 Pop-pop?

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 8 00:19:55 2015 No.7333666 >>7333117 Post your Kobo next time lolfag

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 8 01:16:58 2015 No.7333810 >>7331984 I Kant understand why you would bother with him

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 8 01:50:16 2015 No.7333879 >>7330104 that's a huge Orson Welles

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 8 01:53:15 2015 No.7333886 >>7333648 >Computers For Seniors

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 8 02:14:47 2015 No.7333952 >>7333586 Shut the fuck up! You're an idiot.

Anonymous Sun Nov 8 02:25:16 2015 No.7333967

List of books I've collected so far:
1) Harry Potter series (hardback)
2) A Song of Ice and Fire series (book 1, 2 and 3) (hardback)
3) Perdido Street Station (paperback)
4) The City and the City (paperback)
5) Embassytown (paperpack)

Books on the way:
6) American Psycho (paperpack)
7) Infinite Jest (hardback)

Sincerely, how am I doing /lit/?

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 8 03:33:06 2015 No.7334110 >>7333967 pretty Phuckin shitty m8 Literally normie/pop culture: the post

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 8 03:37:57 2015 No.7334117 >>7333648 >Glenn Beck >Diabetes >Computers for Seniors This is pottery.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 8 04:08:34 2015 No.7334136 >>7333651 My grandmother lost several toes to diabetes. Show some fucking respect.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 8 05:00:51 2015 No.7334204 File: 918 KB, 2285x3450, books.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] How is my bookcase lit?

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 8 05:07:36 2015 No.7334208 >>7333967 muh b8

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 8 06:51:04 2015 No.7334330 >>7334204 Black or a very dark brown

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 8 07:05:17 2015 No.7334346 >>7334204 >Led Zeppelin G, I, kind of expected that

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 8 07:17:37 2015 No.7334366 >>7334204 How many books on Everest could you possibly need?

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 8 07:25:29 2015 No.7334376 >>7334204 you have an entire bookcase full of books on mountains and Antarctica the case next to that is filled with dan brown and king and into the wild and other such pop trash

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 8 07:26:30 2015 No.7334377 >>7334366 >how many books on Orson Welles could you possibly need

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 8 07:27:21 2015 No.7334379 >>7330074 >Greg Bear >no Asimov

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 8 07:34:30 2015 No.7334385 >>7334379 I read I, Robot and Foundation and The Gods Themselves He just doesn't do it for me.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 8 07:39:16 2015 No.7334389 >>7334385 Fair enough. I personally read every book of Asimov's I could get my hands on.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 8 07:47:44 2015 No.7334398 File: 266 KB, 1071x804, 1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 1/3, novels and philosophy, a bit of everything, really. I've not read Atlas Shrugged, in case that makes you feel any better.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 8 07:49:03 2015 No.7334399 File: 258 KB, 1073x804, 2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 2/3 History uni text books and personal shelf, doesn't include uni library books, sadly. They're expensive as shit.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 8 07:50:10 2015 No.7334400 >>7334398 why do you have so many dover editions?

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 8 07:50:57 2015 No.7334401 File: 217 KB, 1085x799, 3.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 3/3, some Islamic stuff (studying Arabic, hence the little booklet I picked up) and my uni readers, stuffed with articles. Not a Muslim, if you were wondering.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 8 07:52:34 2015 No.7334404 >>7334400 There are 3 dovers in that picture as far as I can see. I have a lot of Wordsworth, because that's what I read when I just got into reading, and there was an annual book market in my city that sold them for 2 euros each.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 8 07:55:13 2015 No.7334410 >>7334398 Oh hey, I have the same Bible edition.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 8 09:26:06 2015 No.7334576 >>7334110 >pretty Phuckin shitty B-but those books the best out there.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 8 09:40:45 2015 No.7334614 >>7334204 Why do you have such a hard on for Mount Everest?

Anonymous Sun Nov 8 12:23:48 2015 No.7334902
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I have another shelf and another bookcase, but having lived in the same bedroom since I was pretty young they are mostly YA trash (the only YA that I feel is mention worthy is Harry Potter, His Dark Materials, Narnia, and A series of unfortunate events). Might give some of that to my young brother or sell a lot of it, because I am soon running out of space on my shelf.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 8 12:50:51 2015 No.7334982 >>7334902 >All those Berserk volumes Jelly, those are pretty expensive

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 8 13:00:47 2015 No.7334999 >>7330207 >Asterios Polyp Nice. How is Wizard of the Crow, by the way? I've been meaning to give it a read.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 8 13:14:20 2015 No.7335017 >>7334982 Yeah, I didn't even realize how much I was spending on that until I did the math and realized it had been more than 200 dollars. I don't buy manga anymore. Might finish reading berserk by torrenting it.

Anonymous Sun Nov 8 13:31:57 2015 No.7335050

>>7334982
This reminds me that I lent somebody my copy of watchmen several months ago and still haven't got it back.
If you actually buy them, comic books and manga aren't a cheap hobby. They cost twice as much as regular books and you can read them in a fraction of the time.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 8 14:03:29 2015 No.7335154 >>7333648 Non-American here, tell me about Beck, does he hate or love the jews?

Anonymous Sun Nov 8 14:49:52 2015 No.7335285
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>>7334366
>>7334376
>>7334614

I like mountaineering.

couple years ago, I hardly had enough to cover half a shelf, and now it has a bookcase all to it's own. There are still lots of titles I'm still searching for, so it's far from complete, but I'm pretty happy with it.
It's organized by peak (alphabetically) and then by expedition year for the most part.

Some of my favorites would be the following:

>"The Shining Mountain" - by Peter Boardman
This is about a 1976 expedition, where Peter Boardman and his climbing partner Joe Tasker traveled to Changabang (in India) to attempt to climb it's west wall (a climb that many thought would be impossible to do). A very beautifully written book I think.

>"The Last Step" - by Rick Ridgeway
This is about the 1978 American expedition to K2, the American's 6th attempt at trying to summit the mountain. A lot of drama and personal conflicts ensue, which Ridgeway captures pretty well, plus its full of a lot of history of the mountain, previous attempts, and some great actual climbing sections that show just how difficult this mountain is for climbers. Highly recommended.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 8 14:54:41 2015 No.7335302 File: 170 KB, 646x388, 20140208_130156.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Found this on google image search. How is this guy's hand holding the bottom edge of this stack of books? Help me, /lit/.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 8 14:57:45 2015 No.7335312 >>7335302 with fingers you dumb dyke

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 8 15:08:30 2015 No.7335338 >>7335302 >Le thrift shop buyer.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 8 15:18:26 2015 No.7335367 >>7335285 Do you do any serious climbing or mountaineering on your own or do you prefer just reading about it? Not trying to judge, just curious senpai

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 8 15:47:41 2015 No.7335449 >>7332599 I don't think it's about making yourself look good so much as having something to flip through if you're just sitting around the coffee table for a moment

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>>7335367

I only climb minor hills, my physical proportions do not lend themselves to serious mountaineering but with reading the books I can feel the hardships of the man and it's essentially if I was there.

I have climbed more peaks then anyone else.

I also collect Coachella posters, it's my other great cultural hobby.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 8 16:05:35 2015 No.7335504 >>7333117 Age?

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 8 19:36:12 2015 No.7336191 File: 782 KB, 1919x1439, WP_20151108_001.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] main shelf 1/3

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 8 19:38:03 2015 No.7336195 File: 2.80 MB, 3264x2448, WP_20151108_002 1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 2/3

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>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 8 19:43:39 2015 No.7336213 >>7336191 >>7336195 >>7336205 Dat perfect blend of pleb and /lit/ tier. You must sleep well at night.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 8 19:45:12 2015 No.7336221 File: 74 KB, 247x334, kindle.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] r8/h8

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 8 19:51:53 2015 No.7336248 >>7336221 3/10

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 8 19:53:39 2015 No.7336253 >>7336221 >>/v/

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 8 20:08:05 2015 No.7336304 File: 21 KB, 443x332, images (2).jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7334902 >selling Harry Potter Sigh

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 8 20:13:08 2015 No.7336326 >>7336304 The YA I listed are the ones I would keep

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 8 20:26:45 2015 No.7336367 File: 89 KB, 850x400, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7336326 >keeping Harry potter

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 8 20:38:18 2015 No.7336402 >>7336367 People like the guy in your pic and you are the reason everything's wrong with the world.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 8 20:39:38 2015 No.7336409 >>7336367 People like Harold Bloom and you are the reason everything's wrong with the world.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 8 20:42:15 2015 No.7336413 File: 15 KB, 500x375, Bo_wsg1IQAApoMl.jpg-large.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7336367 >not keeping Harry Potter

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 8 20:43:33 2015 No.7336416 >>7336409 ISIS and drug cartel members love Harold Bloom.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 8 20:44:35 2015 No.7336420 >>7336195 What is this illuminatus?

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 8 20:45:20 2015 No.7336422 >>7336416 True.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 9 00:07:52 2015 No.7337059 >>7330209 nice headphones m8

>>	Raviraj Haldankar Mon Nov 9 01:08:37 2015 No.7337206 >>7330294 Fuck you shitiot, Infinite Jest is is good.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 9 01:10:07 2015 No.7337212 >>7330294 Fuck you shitiot, Infinite Jest is good.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 9 02:02:35 2015 No.7337361 >>7334204 A man with a passionate interest is pretty cute. Don't fucking go, though, that place is a death trap.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 9 02:04:47 2015 No.7337362 >>7337212 he fell for the IJ meme ahahahaha

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 9 02:16:50 2015 No.7337381 >>7334204 Mirin those mountain books I read Solo Faces this year and sort of "peaked" my interest you might say. Dunno if you've read that one, you might like it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 9 02:28:01 2015 No.7337400 >>7337362 >Getting a lot of this IJ meme faggotry Stop being deluded and get back to the real world, idiot.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 9 02:40:59 2015 No.7337409 >>7337362 >he fell for the IJ meme >ahahahaha He's absolutly correct, though and I literally feel sorry for a clueless poor soul like you.

Anonymous Mon Nov 9 04:43:08 2015 No.7337553

>>7330691
I am in the same situation. And since I live in a third world country, I dont have the option to buy used books cheap, or get free shipping from online purchases.

Basically my library is just pirated kindle books, which is okay on the intellectual level, but not so great on the aesthetic materialism MUH COLLECTION level.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 9 04:47:39 2015 No.7337558 >>7330083 >Dumas Leave.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 9 07:44:39 2015 No.7337771 >>7334204 Covered in shit.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 9 16:18:15 2015 No.7339036 >>7336195 How does Schrodinger's Cat compare to Illuminatus? Would you recommend it for someone who liked but didn't love Illuminatus?

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 9 17:14:37 2015 No.7339237 >>7336205 anyone with the X-Wing series on their shelf can't be that bad

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 9 17:27:09 2015 No.7339300 >>7334204 Too cluttered, your room looks like one of those sketchy used book stores.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 9 17:33:08 2015 No.7339316 you guys have some truly godawful collections, like the worst caricature of r/books and entry /lit/core combined. the only good collection i've seen on /lit/ is the guy with like 2 shelves of japanese books

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 9 17:51:45 2015 No.7339366 >>7339316 so my shelf of extended universe star wars novels excludes me as well? :(

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 9 18:01:58 2015 No.7339397 >>7339366 No you're pretty cool.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 9 19:42:11 2015 No.7339734 >>7339316 Spoiler: It belongs to a woman.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 9 19:43:23 2015 No.7339738 >>7339734 would ask her out for date

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 9 19:49:29 2015 No.7339761 >>7337558 >not enjoying swashbuckling Fuck you

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 9 19:50:31 2015 No.7339766 >>7339237 Its sub-battletech tier >>7339366 Ys that's shit

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 9 20:06:58 2015 No.7339812 >>7331893 >>7331745 Did bilbo leave you his copy of there and back again?

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 9 20:46:30 2015 No.7339958 >>7335050 I actually was a copy of Watchmen yesterday. But seems like as a third-worlder, that's a no-go, the cheapest I could find it was for around $30, and that's a lot.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 9 20:50:45 2015 No.7339969 >>7339958 that sounds like an interesting experience, but I'd have picked a better book (or a book at all) to temporarily become

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 9 20:54:26 2015 No.7339977 >>7339969 I was debating between that one and Savage Detectives, but I haven't finished 2666 yet. Guess I'll just pirate them both.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 9 21:51:12 2015 No.7340185 >>7339977 What was it like to be watchmen? You should become the Koran. Viva la jihad!

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 10 01:07:48 2015 No.7340908 File: 574 KB, 1598x900, 1zzgsra.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] one wall can't be bothered to take pics of the other few bookshelves and bits and ends but this is the bulk of it

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 10 04:03:25 2015 No.7341274 God, richest country in the world, yet America manages to have shitty houses and even worse bookshelves...

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 10 09:34:52 2015 No.7341627 >>7341274 Why would you expect people in their late teens and early 20s to already have their own homes?

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 10 09:53:54 2015 No.7341670 >>7331745 >>7331893 >lots of books >no windows why.jpg

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 10 09:56:53 2015 No.7341678 >>7340908 Do you ever re-read any of those?

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 10 09:57:07 2015 No.7341679 File: 100 KB, 640x960, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7340908 Nigga clean up your chords like sheeeit

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 10 10:00:39 2015 No.7341690 >>7339958 >I actually was a copy of Watchmen yesterday Interesting. How was the experience? How do you not know you weren't dreaming? How do you know you're not still a copy of Watchmen dreaming it's an anon?

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 10 12:17:35 2015 No.7341902 >>7339958 Sorry for making fun of your shitty english, anon

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 10 12:19:12 2015 No.7341903 >>7341690 I kek'd

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 10 12:20:26 2015 No.7341907 >>7341902 >shitty English Looks like pure typo to me. But I like it. Feels like it could be the next huge Orson Welles.

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>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 10 16:38:39 2015 No.7342479 File: 1.79 MB, 3264x2448, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7342474 Also have another shelf of novels but it's all stuff I haven't touched in years.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 10 18:41:35 2015 No.7342872 >>7342479 >Milosz >Walser >Agamben Nice. I would be your friend.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 10 18:45:42 2015 No.7342889 >>7342474 >>7342479 Nice. Random rec: Leo Strauss's lecture on Beyond Good and Evil.

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>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 10 18:55:13 2015 No.7342924 >>7334398 >that wordsworth collection holy fuck KECK

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