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Who's that east asian qt?
How do you like the macmillan books?
I was under the impression that they are pretty but too small with very small type and very thin pages.
Library of America is better in terms of size, but the pages are also very thin.
Know any good publisher with large and thick pages?
Penguin Classic Deluxe editions often have very thick pages, my copy of Borges' Fictions really thick.
I really like them. They are cheap, they look and feel good and the quality of the paper is up to the density of the book. The Complete Ghost Stories of M.R. James has thin paper, while Confessions of an English Opium Eater has thicker paper.
Looks like after high school you hadn't read a book before you discovered Peterson in 2016.
And posting pictures online for validation makes you spiritually a woman.
I like shelf threads, when the baby wakes I'll go take a pic of mine
I want validation too but unfortunately I'm esl and you guys wouldnt even understand which books are in my shelf
Well do you have any nice editions you want to show off?
yeah, I recently took up the hobby(habit?) of looking for any book I want to read on antiquariat websites first so I have some pretty old versions of books. I german so the old ones are written in Fraktur which is pretty cool imo. I'm not home rn tho, will pist later
Try us. We’re not all American here.
There aren’t any……..Canadians here are there?
Is the Bobby Fischer book a biography or a chess puzzle/strategy book?
>A little life
You trauma porn enjoyer, or was it just to keep your gf happy?
speaking of which: what book can I get my gf for her birthday that'll make her more interested in the types of books I read? (Russians and Kierkegaard basically, but Im not OP)
Right now she is reading alot (probably more than me even) but only modern fantasy written for women, some of which you could call smut.
Frick man that's a hard bridge to build lol. From shitty fantasy to Dostoevsky? Maybe start with the Greek myths? Although the Iliad can be a bit dry. Try White Nights maybe, that's a brilliant short story.
Depends on her personality.
I got my Mom to go from reading trite crap to reading Homer and Vergil.
The Master and Margarita?
She would probably love the second part, but dread the first part and the Yershelaim bits.
nice books in that flophouse
>psued: the shelf
Lmao this. Definitely the bookshelf of someone who never had an original thought in his head
why?
It looks like you don't have any taste and the books solely exist to make you seem smart. There's no rhyme or reason to the titles. Its just a collection of IQfy staples
With precal thrown in for extra juvenile points. Are you 17 OP?
Everything about it reeks of pretension.
>the busts
>the ancient Greek tapestry
>the Polaroid camera
newbie reporting in
You can stay...
Sutras are Bhuddist heresies only Suttas are legitimate. Following counterfeit Buddhism that the Buddha did not cultivate will likely bring bad karma.
I gleaned this from Brian Ruhe who is a Theravada practitioner and a national socialist.
There really is no argument here sir
Add some Thich Nhat Hanh
Any recs?
A fellow Dutch speaker with Man And His Symbols on his shelf.
Is Iliad & Odyssey worth reading in Dutch? I feel like it might be hard in English, and that'd be a translation anyway.
If you haven't read it in school, then yes.
Otherwise, why read a translation when you've learnt Greek?
not attacking you, but wtf how is your copy of notes from underground so big? how is it bigger than crime and punishment
how big must the fricking font be.
Could be a short story collection. My copy has notes from underground ans the idiot. And an introduction that is as long as both stories combined.
love the globohomosexual artwork those wodsworths anon
I have that exact jung massmarket and spine turns to shit once you open it so good luck and hope you enjoy the book too.
Based and chart-pilled
I don't like that I can infer your political beliefs from your boojks
giga based
good books and weirdly just a cozy vibe
honestly glad ypu read spiritual texts up front which is important
check out some more smaller canon fiction writers btw, Turgenev, Bulgakov, Chesterton, Bloy etc
I haven't heard of Bloy, but I'm slated to read some Turgenev and Bulgakov next year. I've heard good things about Chesterton but not really familiar with him.
Nice! Mishima and some other more off the beaten tracks would be good for you
If you look close on the second shelf I already have Sound of Waves by Mishima, I plan to read it next month. Haven't read him yet but he was consistently in my goodreads recommendations and seen plenty of threads about him so why not?
Pre-calc? What are you moronic?
>Creature from Jekyll Island
This homie old school
>Lovecraft *and* Ambrose Bierce
The man has does his research.
Great for reading Quigley, I barely see him mentioned on this board, yet he is so important.
Yeah he changed my views on civilization and history completely. The chapters before WWI were especially interesting but seeing Western Civ for the unique position it is in without the typical dogma.
Impressive. Very nice.
>shelf
>He lets people know hes a virgin.
Nah lad, i hide mine under the bed like dirty porno mags.
Hello
1 of 2
2 of 2
Norton Classics
Could I see the front cover of the Shakespeare complete works?
remember that youve spent all that time and money on books you havent read to impress virgins on IQfy
Emblem book was a dollar
I spent 15 at the bookstore
Nice finds, I need to visit one myself instead of ordering used online. I was rereading some Milton today, interesting note about him is that he had lots of notes on Paradise Lost even as a teenager but delayed the project due to a number of things and didn't finish it until he was almost 60. He very well could have died writing it like Pascal did writing Pensees.
What do you think about Virginia Woolf, have you read her? I really enjoy stream of consciousness from Joyce and Faulkner and wanted to read To the Lighthouse this year.
nice table
Thanks, it's a discarded walnut slab, 3 inches thick, I haven't sealed it yet, jor finished sanding. It takes lots of 60 grit. Wish I had a 3ft wide planer or a slab flattener
Smart people talk about ideas in books, stupid people talk about what books they own. Which are you?
Most people would be unfamiliar with the books I own due to the specialized nature of my occupation, field, and interests. Antiquarians, collectors, and a niche of academics would be the few to know about some of my books.
here's my shelf
gross
That's a big Spengler, I have the two vol copy, nice start overall
Cool
Did you read all these books?
I've read most of the lit, and the many of the history books, but things like collected essays/poetry collections I just pick up and read on occasion or use for reference.
The philosophy I have read most of the nineteenth century thinks, but skipped around in the others.
>humidor
>Spengler
>Goethe
>Shakespeare
>Leviathan
>probably others I haven't looked too hard at
This is a great shelf, Anon.
Agreed, some nice stuff. Needs a little Robert Filmer to even it out. Maybe some malthus for the roastie apocalypse
You know you’ve made it when you’ve discovered Friedell
Field guides and Oxford poetry
I usually read in my native language, but i read some in english too. Started reading at the end of march and have already finished 16 books. Currently reading faust
I don’t read
I'm getting flashbacks of my old home in Nashville, those floors remind me of that old craftsman.
First time posting my shelf bros, be nice
Get that abomination of the top RIGHT NOW
Sun and Steel is a great book, what's the issue anon
Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
>Chad book sitting on top of a mountain of sleep aids.
Based.
A newbie here, heres the books from the top left to bottom right for those who don't know Serbian : hadzhi murat, taras bulba, stranger, man's search for meaning, ride the tiger, some Russian poetry, random hemingwey book idk why is it on my shelf, the sailor who fell from grace, kafka metamorphisis and American psycho
Lower shelf is crime and punishment, picture of dorian gray, the trial, thus spoke zarathustra, brothers karamazov, some random book, pride and predjuice and art of war and the price
The reason my shelf is moronic is because before I discovered IQfy I used to take reading advice from pewdiepie
Also uses to have sorrows of young werter but lost it recently while reading it
>orvel
¿?
Your language does that thing where you also phonetically change the authors name
>Bret Iston Elis
I find that interesting. In Czech the only modification I've noticed to authors' names in translated works is that they add the 'ová' suffix at the end of female writers' surnames. E.g.
>Virginia Woolfová
>Ayn Randová
even though that's not their real surname.
I had half a dozen Coors banquet beers and reordered try the room.
Boring shelf
I, too, got drunk tonight and reordered my shelf
1/3
2/3
Overall a solid collection, I can't see any flaws with this shelf, but I can't read every title. Maybe don't show it to guests until you get to know them!
I had lots of Evans, Kershaw, Tuner, etc books on Hitler and the like and it always freaked people out. Evola and Spengler would make them think even worse things, I imagine.
One fatal flaw I observe is the Penguin translation of the CPR, which has one of the worst, most un-understanable, messy translations of the text. Nosir you should get the Hackett edition, and in addition the Prolegomena to make things slightly more understandable.
I understood it just fine, God helped me. You sound like a pseud.
I;ve been meeting to get the new house of the dead from D.
>photographs
Ya dun goofed.
A british man owns this shelf with the toasties and editions. You should be able to acquire some nice 19th century editions cheap over there. Sadly, your wages are so low that cheap for me is likely expensive for you.
what the frick are you talkin about man? I steal most of my books either way. also I'm Irish, not British
I hate a lot about this shelf but the mason jars full of weed really sealed my contempt
How to you sort your books?
My shelves are mostly stacked with fiction/literature. I don't like going alphabetical, so I arrange books chronologically by original publication date. But this makes anthologies awkward to place, not to mention the tedious upkeep when looking up dates for each book to make sure they go on the right place in the shelves.
Sorting by genre leads to too much ambiguity as well. What to do?
can you arrange it in a way that the book titles are somewhat readable
make your bed quick, Peterson's coming over!
you must really like this peter guy
I'm not good at English, but I have some books.
Japbro, I'm not a native english speaker (I'm argentinian), but you have to read, trust me, you will get used to reading in english.
I always buy japanese books for my wife (she's japanese). What obscure writers would you recommend me? I'm familiar with Yukio Mishima, Edogawa Ranpo, Shusaku Endo.
Thank you, it motivate me a lot.
I reccomend "万延元年のフットボール" by Kenzaburo Oe and "桜の森の満開の下" by Ango Sakaguchi. I think both will suit your purpose, and if possible, Akio To's works are also great.
Btw can you reccomend me some works of argentina literature? I love books from your country. I read some books by Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar over and over, so I want to know your favorites.
>Btw can you reccomend me some works of argentina literature?
I could recommend you some classics:
Facundo, or Civilization and Barbarism
The Seven Madmen
Thus Were Their Faces
The Buenos Aires Affair
The Slaughteryard (there's a cheap copy available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/Esteban-Echeverria/dp/0007346735/ref=mp_s_a_1_4?tag=ganker-20&crid=3DRO6FFWKCGWR&keywords=Argentina&qid=1656403518&refinements=p_76%3A2227293051%2Cp_n_price_fma%3A616955011%2Cp_n_binding_browse-bin%3A87853051&rnid=87851051&rps=1&s=english-books&sprefix=argentina%2Caps%2C492&sr=1-4)
If you find anything by Enrique Medina in english or japanese, read it, that guy is my favorite contemporary writer.
Thank you very much!
Works by Henrique Medina seem not to be translated in Japanese, so I'll search for an English translationl. I'm so excited to read literature that is not known in my country!
I’d like to add something about my last responce, Akio Toh(塔晶夫, also known as Hideo Nakai) is a writer of Gothic novels like Edogawa Ranpo. It may be difficult to find his novel outside of Japan, but I think Toh is a kinda successor of Ranpo.
hey jap, any good forums or websites outside of this abomination and 2ch ?
Bookshelf not in use at the moment.
I am renovating and the carpet guys dumped all my books off it and onto the couch haphazardly.
You're 43 years old. Am I right?
26, but I have a lot of older books. My dad and his friends are academic types with cluttered studies who would always give me stuff they were done reading. While growing up, every so often another crate of books filled with stick-it notes and scribbling on the margins would just show up in my room. Lol
You should've moved that shit before they got there, dumbass. I don't blame them for just dumping your shit any which way. It's not their fricking job.
>tfw i have two fully stacked out bookshelves
>6 shelves high each, 7’ tall x 33” wide x17” deep,
with an addition shelf at the top to just lay some extras flat
>I’m an “architect/designer” so the majority of books I own have to do with that
>i don’t own every book I’ve ever read, and have lost quite a few in yearly moves throughout brooklyn, and my parents garage
>feels bad lacking full collection
>have multiple stacks on desks, floors, etc too
I’m always embarrassed to post the collections/shelves here, despite them having sincere sentimental value to me, and even looking aesthetic. A total of about 500 books too, so it’s not too skimpy.
I do get compliments from normies, friends, and women who come over though, and it makes me feel good
>>have multiple stacks on desks, floors, etc too
I bet it's super comfy tho
cute girlfriend