Bookshelves. Post 'em.

Bookshelves. Post 'em.

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  1. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    Any shelf with the Bible has everything it needs.

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      cringe

  2. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    I keep my books in totes in my closet that I smoke cigarettes in

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      Dude what? That sounds terrible. Post pic.

  3. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    dude this is actually a lit ass bookshelf, i frick with it

  4. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    Later. I'm reading.

  5. 12 months ago
    Anonymous
    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      Oh look, it's the pretty-boy. Show us your wiener, pretty-boy!

      • 12 months ago
        Anonymous

        Give me a month I'm cutting rn

  6. 12 months ago
    asd

    i like ur bookshelf :3 me and my boyfriend have a similar one, did u get it off Amazon bychance?

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      I did, yeah
      Very affordable and convenient :))

  7. 12 months ago
    Anonymous
    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      big books, buddy.

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      So what are some good recs from here? This is the shelf of a 2010 litizen

      • 12 months ago
        Anonymous

        one contains multitudes, the 2010 litizen resides in all of us & im infact a zoomer (who pastoralizes the 2010 litizen?). Divine Days, Prae, the Alphabet are all extremely patrician unspoken of literature; true hidden gems of 20th c. masterpiece-consciousness that never got the same treatment from the masses.

        >Bottom's Dream
        Did you actually read that fricking murder weapon? Is it good?

        it's a German's take on Finnegan's Wake. it's as mind-expanding syntactically but I wouldn't say as mind-expanding conceptually as the Wake. the play is musical, but another genre of music, deeply embedded in the fun of manuscripts and typography, whereas the Wake has very whimsical limericky (obviously Irish) undertone to its' musicality. but also obviously straddles the line between a 'read' and a 'cypher.' (I see as fun not burden so it becomes liberating.)

        [...]
        >translations
        big yikes

        all language is translation

        How's Blackphobia?

        amusing

        • 12 months ago
          Anonymous

          I’d love to get into Schmidt but he’s too expensive for most of his work. How is Miss Macintosh, My Darling? I was going to get it when Dalkley releases it later this year. How about Uwe Johnson? I always love seeing someone who has read The USA Trilogy, and The Journal of Albion Moonlight. Great collection. What are some other books you’d rec? I’m always looking for more

        • 12 months ago
          Anonymous

          > it's a German's take on Finnegan's Wake. it's as mind-expanding syntactically but I wouldn't say as mind-expanding conceptually as the Wake. the play is musical, but another genre of music, deeply embedded in the fun of manuscripts and typography, whereas the Wake has very whimsical limericky (obviously Irish) undertone to its' musicality. but also obviously straddles the line between a 'read' and a 'cypher.' (I see as fun not burden so it becomes liberating.)
          This is not an answer to what I asked.

          • 12 months ago
            Anonymous

            anyone who's read anything knows why that question's naive. the yes/no is 1 dimensional convo-fodder to the 4 dimensional crystal of the book.

            Maybe develop actual taste instead of what book twittwr tells you to buy.
            [...]
            No, just like they haven’t read Proust or Musil. Think of upper-middle class dork who became jaded with some shitty hobby then decided to go all-in in making books their entire personality

            >maybe do x instead of y.
            >think of [attempt at scathing description]
            note how templated your mind is.

            I’d love to get into Schmidt but he’s too expensive for most of his work. How is Miss Macintosh, My Darling? I was going to get it when Dalkley releases it later this year. How about Uwe Johnson? I always love seeing someone who has read The USA Trilogy, and The Journal of Albion Moonlight. Great collection. What are some other books you’d rec? I’m always looking for more

            miss macintosh is charming. uwe is nothing prosaically spectacular; Sebald but drier.
            books I'd recommend: the Pound Era, the Melancholy of Resistance, Fragments of Lichtenberg. Recognitions I read recently and am still reeling from. litkino

          • 12 months ago
            Anonymous

            So, that’s a yes, you have not read it. Thanks for confirmation.

          • 12 months ago
            Anonymous

            like clockwork

          • 12 months ago
            Anonymous

            Don’t forget to upload your daily picture of ZT to twitter so WASTE Mailing List can like your picture and let everyone know you’re a big serious reader

          • 12 months ago
            Anonymous

            >The Recognitions
            Now I’m skeptical of your recs, Kek. I found it to largely be a slog. This was like 10 years ago though so maybe it would be different on a reread with more books under my belt. I don’t really have the slightest desire to revisit it though. The Melancholy of Resistance piques my interest. I’ve been on a bit of a New Directions kick lately and feel they have a high batting average. Any insight into the book you can offer? And ignore the bitter anons

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Bottom's Dream
      Did you actually read that fricking murder weapon? Is it good?

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      I recognise this as the shelf of that self-serving homosexual on goodreads who imitates the syntax of Arno Schmidt.

      • 12 months ago
        Anonymous

        yup, that's me

        • 12 months ago
          Anonymous

          Where did you find the Schmidt books? Bottom’s Dream, and Evenings are hundreds of dollars from what I’ve seen but I would like to check him out

          • 12 months ago
            Anonymous

            just bought them right off eBay the rare times they do show up. i'd recommend a PDF if you aren't a huge fan. i've uploaded the Zettel's Traum pdf on archive. just look up Arno Schmidt Bottom's Dream, soulseek has evening edged in gold.

          • 12 months ago
            Anonymous

            Yeah, I’m a physical book guy. My ereader hasn’t been touched in 7 years. Also doesn’t help that I only buy new books. I guess best I can hope for is Dalkey or someone reissuing them

          • 12 months ago
            Anonymous

            there's always the Wake.

            All performative animosity aside, your macho dick-measuring fetishisation of maximalist fiction is everything wrong with the postmodern community. And this coming from someone who has read and enjoyed Women and Men, Gravity’s Rainbow, etc.

            why. culture needs snobs.

          • 12 months ago
            Anonymous

            If I hated Ulysses will I hate BD, and FW?

          • 12 months ago
            Anonymous

            not one bit. its for having ones limits be pushed to the extremes and if thats at all grating or unrewarding (or youve never had a glimpse of what the reward feels like) then it'll be an uphill climb, which is completely fine unless a pent-up frustration overtakes that mindset and turns it into a bitterness to the subset of book as a whole. its liberating, fun, enlightening: from the mundane geographical to the play of theology.

            "when a part so ptee does duty for a holos, we soon grow to use for an allforabit"

            No it’s not, moron

            you're right haha just goofing off a little on a fine Wednesday afternoon

          • 12 months ago
            Anonymous

            Why am I able to read so many of your reviews (Bleeding Edge or Actress in the House as example) without learning a single thing about the novel itself? Why are these reviews so self-obsessed? Surely it can’t be that you imagine yourself more interesting then the very text you purport to write about.

          • 12 months ago
            Anonymous

            Because that’s not him, m8. Follow the thread

          • 12 months ago
            Anonymous

            You’re not even a snob. Even if we are to entertain the idea that it’s you and not larping as some online e-loser whose identity is posting pics of books on twatter, yet you refuse to post a timestamp, you’re incapable of even articulating anything remotely substantive regarding any book ITT.

        • 12 months ago
          Anonymous

          All performative animosity aside, your macho dick-measuring fetishisation of maximalist fiction is everything wrong with the postmodern community. And this coming from someone who has read and enjoyed Women and Men, Gravity’s Rainbow, etc.

        • 12 months ago
          Anonymous

          No it’s not, moron

  8. 12 months ago
    Anonymous
    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      How's Blackphobia?

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      >translations
      big yikes

      • 12 months ago
        Anonymous

        sorry i don’t have the time to learn a new language every time i want to read a book

      • 12 months ago
        Anonymous

        Philistine.

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      First I've ever seen a copy of Frog by Stephen Dixon on this board, albeit unread. Mine is unread too but I'm starting it tonight 😛

      • 12 months ago
        Anonymous

        bump

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      Nice

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      Yawn. Reeks of terminally-online, milquetoast book-twitter loser who uploads a picture of a book a day

      • 12 months ago
        Anonymous

        your snark's a mirror

        • 12 months ago
          Anonymous

          Maybe develop actual taste instead of what book twittwr tells you to buy.

          >Bottom's Dream
          Did you actually read that fricking murder weapon? Is it good?

          No, just like they haven’t read Proust or Musil. Think of upper-middle class dork who became jaded with some shitty hobby then decided to go all-in in making books their entire personality

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      Go back

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      Why having the best spanish novel ever written and a fraud writer like Bolaño? kinda unsettling

      • 12 months ago
        Anonymous

        moron

        • 12 months ago
          Anonymous

          Every one who reads real spanish literature knows Bolaño is a 3/10 at best.

          Salvador Elizondo, Alejo Carpentier, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Julieta Campos, Orlando Ortiz, Macedonio Fernandez, Roberto Arlt, Emiliano González, Francisco Tario, León Felipe, José Lezama Lima, Andrés Caicedo, Augusto Monterroso, Vicente Huidobro, and specially Gonzalo Torrente Ballester wrote far better pieces of fiction than Bolaño ever did in his whole life.

          The only think Bolaño did was having an abusive knowledge of Mexico City and his relationship with this «infra» movement and his later death catapulted him into mainstraim literature, just because it pleases others into thinking they're reading spanish literature (Same with Carmen Laforet) even worse Latin American literature (Same with García Marquez, Julio Cortázar)

          Everyone who thinks Bolaño was some sort of «Genius» loose his time, yet alone his money.

          • 12 months ago
            Anonymous

            Arlt is a hack and shows that you’re a milquetoast pseud and no wonder Bolano makes you seethe

          • 12 months ago
            Anonymous

            >calls Bolano a fraud
            >Donoso
            Hahahahahahahhaha

            You both wroto Bolaño without «ñ» which clearly points out how little you care for Spanish. Nothing out of value can come up from discussing with you

          • 12 months ago
            Anonymous

            Wrote*
            Funny irony

          • 12 months ago
            Anonymous

            …without the without «ñ»,*

          • 12 months ago
            Anonymous

            Funny irony again. What a surprise

      • 12 months ago
        Anonymous

        what are you assuming as a given is the best spanish novel ever written?

        • 12 months ago
          Anonymous

          A book xhe has never read, but some dyel w/ a shitty beard on twatter told xim is the best book

        • 12 months ago
          Anonymous

          >La Saga/Fuga de JB Bach- Gonzalo Torrente Ballester.

          Good contenders: Farabeuf- Salvador Elizondo, Three trapped tigers- Cabrera infante, En caso de duda-Orlando Ortiz, El obsceno pájaro de la noche-José Donoso.

          • 12 months ago
            Anonymous

            And Los pasos perdidos-Alejo Carpentier

          • 12 months ago
            Anonymous

            cool, seems like you know a lot about spanish lit. Cortazar is also looked down upon as overhyped?

          • 12 months ago
            Anonymous

            Yes. Not a bad author, but beyond overhyped.

            Writing three novels (Rayuela being the worst and most famous one) he wrote many books of short stories, but really quickly you realize his best works were his first (Bestiario, Todos los fuegos el fuego, Final de juego-masterpiece)

            In his later books you can tell he wrote knowing he was famous, so he wrote whatever stuff without substance he could come up with. (That short story where a girl vomits rabbits and instructions for going up the stairs)

            Cortázar had an interesting life, his books stopped being so.

          • 12 months ago
            Anonymous

            >calls Bolano a fraud
            >Donoso
            Hahahahahahahhaha

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      Wonderful

  9. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    Non-existant. I exclusively read free PDFs

  10. 12 months ago
    Anonymous
    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      That's a nice bookshelf.

  11. 12 months ago
    Anonymous
    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      >beyond order
      Confirmed.

  12. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    1/5

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      2/5

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      2/5

      3/5

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      2/5

      [...]
      3/5

      4/5

      • 12 months ago
        Anonymous

        i need to finish lonesome dove. i have maybe 50 pages left but for some reason i stopped reading it like 8 years ago.

        • 12 months ago
          Anonymous

          something we call 'literary constipation'

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      2/5

      [...]
      3/5

      [...]
      [...]
      4/5

      5/5

      The closet books. I’ve added a few books since the pics too

      • 12 months ago
        Anonymous

        Nice collection dude, especially like the McCarthy.

        • 12 months ago
          Anonymous

          Thanks. It’s about time to get another book of his, with his recent passing. I think it will be Outer Dark. I’ve never been let down by one of his books. Idk why he gets so much hate here

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      nice

  13. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    You can always tell who has a good shelf by the responses by sour grapes anons

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      Getting called out for your perfectly curated and approved r/truelit taste does not constitute sour grapes.

      • 12 months ago
        Anonymous

        That wasn’t me you called out. I’ve just noticed anons tend to seethe at better collections

        • 12 months ago
          Anonymous

          they are just angry people anon don't try to fix them. anons tend to seethe at everything.

          • 12 months ago
            Anonymous

            True

  14. 12 months ago
    Anonymous
    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      Based Dragon Quest enjoyer.

      • 12 months ago
        Anonymous

        I forgot to post this one because I was emulating a Monsters game.

        • 12 months ago
          Anonymous

          do those paperback harper collins published of Tolkiens books have the illustrations as well or only the hardcovers? I want to read all of Tolkien and I have the harper collins paperbacks for the hobbit & LOTR but nothing of the other works yet.

          • 12 months ago
            Anonymous

            No they don't have any illustrations. I believe only the hardcovers do.

          • 12 months ago
            Anonymous

            thanks anon 🙂

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      I was going to say how much nice stuff you have but instead.. based HBK tin

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      >censoring your dragon dildo collection
      Why?

      • 12 months ago
        Anonymous

        Personal shit lol dead family

        • 12 months ago
          Anonymous

          You have dead family on your bookshelf? You should bury them.

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      Holy shit finally some fricking personality on a shelf.

      • 12 months ago
        Anonymous

        you're not talking about the moronic ass toy scooter and the rubiks cube right... because the books are shit aswell...

        • 12 months ago
          Anonymous

          >because the books are shit aswell
          What do you mean you don't like Charlemagne's practice of Empire

        • 12 months ago
          Anonymous

          Oh no the toys are pretty cringe, but the guys above him just look like generic IQfy shit.

      • 12 months ago
        Anonymous

        >samegayging

        Seems like he is just into history. Not exactly a lot of personality

  15. 12 months ago
    Anonymous
    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      Why did you frame a pepe?

      • 12 months ago
        Anonymous

        he is an IQfy incel. pepe is something like a god to him

      • 12 months ago
        Anonymous

        Where?

        • 12 months ago
          Anonymous

          Sorry, wrong anon, I was talking about him

          some new additions

      • 12 months ago
        Anonymous

        It was a gift from my sister.

  16. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    some new additions

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      Those old books look gross

      • 12 months ago
        Anonymous

        Some of them are in pretty rough shape, yeah.

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      I liked fire in the streets :3 don't see that one too often

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      sovl

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      where do I find that N.E.E.T. thing?

      • 12 months ago
        Anonymous

        It was on one of /k/'s hundreds of now defunct patch websites.

        >afraid of being doxxed in the year of our lord 2023

        Can’t remember the last time it happened

        Just the minimum amount of effort (My address on a shipping label and company memorabilia from my job.

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      >afraid of being doxxed in the year of our lord 2023

      Can’t remember the last time it happened

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      repulsive. nice white noise maker by the way you fricking homosexual

  17. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    my to read stack

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      Not a stack thread but nice books

  18. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    Shelves are finished. I'm probably going to start collecting from scratch, as I was going through most of my books, which I just keep shoving under my bed, and most of them are in pretty bad condition. I think I'll slowly fill this thing up with Folios and Eastons.

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      >low ceiling
      you'll feel trapped for years.

      • 12 months ago
        Anonymous

        I think I will have it vaulted eventually, but that will be years off. Lots more home improvement to do first.

        • 12 months ago
          Anonymous

          I've lived in apartments with low ceilings. I noticed they influenced my mood and thoughts. It was subtle most of the time noticeable went into other spaces with higher ceilings

          "Low ceilings and tiny rooms cramp the soul and the mind." — Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

          • 12 months ago
            Anonymous

            How much space should be between the top of my head (while standing) and the ceiling?

          • 12 months ago
            Anonymous

            I've only ever lived in houses with low ceilings. I can't say it bothers me. I'm also a 5'9" manlet.

          • 12 months ago
            Anonymous

            means you've comported your mind to the low-ceiling consciousness, now you always think in low-ceiling mode brain. what about when you go to a library with a particularly tall ceiling? do you note the thoughts move around more freely?

            How much space should be between the top of my head (while standing) and the ceiling?

            not sure, may be more of an intuitive thing but I assume more than 2x your height.

          • 12 months ago
            Anonymous

            >not sure, may be more of an intuitive thing but I assume more than 2x your height.

            Black person you trippin? 6 meter high ceilings?

          • 12 months ago
            Anonymous
      • 12 months ago
        Anonymous

        I think I will have it vaulted eventually, but that will be years off. Lots more home improvement to do first.

        I've lived in apartments with low ceilings. I noticed they influenced my mood and thoughts. It was subtle most of the time noticeable went into other spaces with higher ceilings

        "Low ceilings and tiny rooms cramp the soul and the mind." — Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

        We have an old house with less than 8ft ceilings downstairs and in one bed and one bathroom, it's cozy. Heating and cooling are cheaper and working on things is a bit easier.

        means you've comported your mind to the low-ceiling consciousness, now you always think in low-ceiling mode brain. what about when you go to a library with a particularly tall ceiling? do you note the thoughts move around more freely?

        [...]
        not sure, may be more of an intuitive thing but I assume more than 2x your height.

        How much space should be between the top of my head (while standing) and the ceiling?

        Go outside. I built a huge deck and patio (also low ceiling to keep the rain off!

        • 12 months ago
          Anonymous
    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      There are few Easton's I would buy, get better books for less

      • 12 months ago
        Anonymous

        Are there any modern publishers that make minimalist edition of books like that? Most modern books are fricking monstronsities with loud cover artwork that's either AI generated, or artwork that is a poster of some tv/film adaptation.

        • 12 months ago
          Anonymous

          Everyman’s Library
          Library of America
          Modern Library

          • 12 months ago
            Anonymous

            What about NYRB classics

          • 12 months ago
            Anonymous

            They’re paperbacks, I thought anon wanted hardcovers. Anyway, they are mostly good, and I like them but I wouldn’t describe them as minimalistic.

        • 12 months ago
          Anonymous

          Yes, what this guy said.

          Everyman’s Library
          Library of America
          Modern Library

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      Clean work fren. Like the window and the view is comfy. I’d glue myself to the seal.

  19. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    behold
    been meaning to slide them back under my bed for about three weeks at this point. too lazy

  20. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    Posted without comment

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      The great books are an excellent place to start, and even though I've spent decades studying I still haven't gone through the whole cannon. The only problem is that they're like the pleiades (pic here), they're on bible paper and double columned 8pt font. So it can be a slog.

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      but do you have enough versions of the iliad and oddyssey?

  21. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    Just picked up World War Z. Thought I was gonna hate it, but ended up loving the aftermath perspective of a zombie apocalypse. Feels very grounded and real. How is Survival Guide?

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      Survival guide is pretty cool, yeah
      It’s nothing that’ll blow your socks off, World War Z I think is better, but it’s certainly still an enjoyable read.

  22. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    >moronic pseud gets called out for using photos from twitter and goodreads
    >gets called out for larping
    >hehehe I was just pretending to be moronic
    >Kek at the jelly anons itt

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      I’m the anon above you and not the maximalist fiction anon

  23. 12 months ago
    weasel

    I need really to tidy my room but I have so much books and old ones, a pretty collection from Switzerland of the The Accursed Kings. I was 20 a week ago, I deserve a boyfriend.

  24. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    >the martian
    >world war z
    >sapkowski
    so much bonfire fodder on this shelf

  25. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    A fuller photo, red is Henry James, blue French, green is ancients

    Nonesuch is a press

  26. 12 months ago
    Anonymous
  27. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    How can I expect to take a guy seriously and even scan my eyes over the books themselves, when the shelves aren't even right way 'round on the crummy particle board bookshelf. Let alone other glaring issues, like the entrance pass for some presumably Anime pedo expo.

  28. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    RDFGHM

  29. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    Dilettantes wwa?

  30. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    >two copies of Angels'a Ashes

  31. 12 months ago
    Anonymous
  32. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    This shelf gives me anxiety, there's no rhyme or reason.

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      Yeah. An author’s books should be grouped together at the minimum

  33. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    1/3

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      2/3; not sure why it rotated

      • 12 months ago
        Anonymous

        3/3; here goes nothing

  34. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    fricking bookshelviks itt

  35. 12 months ago
    Anonymous
    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      more reference works than works to reference

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      boring
      you have autism

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