Shelf/stack rate thread.
I try and find the ones I want in charity shops/second hand bookstores but there are some I can only find online new.
>inb4 no leather bound first editions
Shelf/stack rate thread.
I try and find the ones I want in charity shops/second hand bookstores but there are some I can only find online new.
>inb4 no leather bound first editions
Oh wow, do you make a living with your special interest or is it just for the enjoyment?
That's impressive dedication to say the least. Does it ever get boring to keep reading on the same few subjects over and over?
I checked out my usual book sources after getting my pay. The carts had some good stuff, and I also looked through what an "outlet" type book store had to offer. Most were pretty cheap, around two to three euros.
>Lev Tolstoy - Anna Karenina
I had these volumes missing from a German set they scattered across different book stands throughout the city. Finally managed to get the remaining three volumes. I want to better my German. It's getting kinda rusty.
>Don DeLillo - Underworld
It was in good enough shape, and was around a buck, so I saw no reason to not to get caught up in the spectacle. I should increase my awareness of American literature, even if the majority of what the US produces seems utterly annoying or wholly uninteresting to me.
>Guy de Maupassant - Bel-Ami
I was recommended it a few times by acquaintances. Seems interesting.
>Madách - The Last Days of Csák / Moses
Two dramas by the author of "The Tragedy of Man", one of the greatest pieces of Hungarian literature. Sadly it turned out to be a fluke, and he never managed to write anything as good as that. Still, I want to see what he does with the story of Moses.
>Shu-La-Zi - Anecdotes from the life of Linji Yixuan
Apparently it's just orientalism from the pen of a Tibetologist. Still, I want to see what it's like or if it has any value as a source of information on Buddhism.
It was also recommended by an acquaintance before.
>Kornai - The Socialist System
Recently, my interests took to the left a bit for some reason, and it seemed appropriate. It was also disgustingly cheap and unused. (We are talking about fast food dollar menu meal prices here.)
>Deleuze-Guattari - Kafka: Towards a minor literature
Saw it at a bookfest for three-four times the price. Seems short and interesting, mainly because of the authors. (Though it's not like I'm not in love with Kafka's writings.)
>Niklas Luhman - The Reality of Mass Media
Continuing the "critique of contemporary society" line of interest I seem to have gotten recently.
>Derek Bickerton - Language and Species
>"To erase the past once and for all"? (A quote from the Hungarian lyrics of the International)
A short study discussing the depiction of historical personalities in Hungarian social-democrat and communist propaganda between 1890 and 1919. Seems to be peak academic wankery, a thing I like very much.
>Representation of Spaces in Classical and Contemporary Russian Literature
I'm hoping to extract some good book titles from this one, mainly on the contemporary front. Basically just scout-work.
>Lucian - Selected dialogues
The title of the first dialogue seemed interesting "Ikaromenippos - or, the space-traveller". Don't know what to expect.
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Stack(s) for a current writing project.
Good stack.
Bump
Good stack user.
Book fair haul
Goddamn all those Oxfords. Nice haul. The Italian is an especially good one, hope you enjoy it.
Yeah, I love our book fair. Awesome, I look forward to it.
Trips confirm
space wasters, get with the times
>falls off your lap
>*crash*
>a dog pisses over it
>*explodes*
pss nothing personel kid
Imagine being this autistic.
>tfw own your own house so can fill it with all the books you’ll ever want instead of running out of space in moms basement and being forced to use an e-reader to make room for semen covered anime figurines and bottles of urine that litter your desk
Looks interesting, what's it about?
The bottom book is the collected Eugenio Montale, while the cracked middle is Goethe italian journey which I'm about a third through.
Take a proper image, dipshit, nobody cares about your pseud-y angles and looking "artistic"
>"Ikaromenippos - or, the space-traveller". Don't know what to expect.
Hilarity and epic bantz
I have almost all these books, this is very weird. Like, the exact king I have are Misery and Different Seasons, right next to Silence of the Lambs. So many similar editions too. I am creeped
>All that Sacks but not Hallucinations
It's worth it for the story about Sacks' own experience alone.
Hi Hunganon bro
>Webster and Ford together
Out of all the crack smoking ideas penguin has had over the years, I'm surprised it took them this long to release a Jacobean incest anthology.
Kudos bro, excellent taste imo
Ford is one of strongest playwrights in English. Webster i know less well. I've read Malfi and thats' it .
Language and poetry, mostly.
Hallucinations is good, but I already knew most of its contents from my acid-head/psych-student phase, so I just flipped through looking for exceptions to that already-knowing and then didn't purchase it. The deliriant bit with the Bertrand Russell spider is hilarious, though.
Hi
Webster's a master but often gets overlooked despite his dominating presence in the period after Shakespeare. It's a bit like trying to get people to read Marlowe. If you're ever in London, try to catch a Webster play at the new Blackfriars. Fucking nightmare circus in a candlelit closet.
Yeah, I think that I am based.
*tips fedora*
Your shelves are about to break
>Worst Girl
>Genre fiction
>Gravity's Rainbow creasing Europe Central's cover
What's in that small box on the left? (And is it made out of porcelain?
Based
Hey, dad
only good post
Bump
Big homo
>Asuka
Based
>Shikinami
Cringe
Beautiful
Does anybody have that one picture of the guy with the lifting thing in his room and a copy of the rise and fall of the third reich
>Wordsworth Classics
oh no no no no
everyone on this board only ever has top-10-list core shit
Really?
guys please this is an emergency
How’s Europe Central?. Never read any Vollman but really want to
big, black and hard, just how the nazis like it ;)
I don’t give shit about memesade by retarded yankee college kids
Deserving, to be fair. Unless you're an earl or duke of something you can't afford that eccentricity.
Lmao. Gets me every time.
the kindle shills have been out in full force lately, what's going on? Are they upping the campaign in preparation for a new model?
Might be last shipments before tariffs
>omon ra
>utena
based
7/10
Boring. Especially the bottom row.
Madáchot miért szeretik ennyien?
What’s in it?
Genuinely based af
Is On the road worth a read?
These (I) came today. Gonna read them from the top down. Tried for weeks to find second hand copies but there’s zero within about 100 miles of my house.
Read Marcus last my lad
10/10, most plebeian shelf I've seen in my entire life.
Thanks for the tip my dude
Thanks
These are just my desk books, my shelves are too messy.
Based Arthur miller, no crucible?
Don't make me crane my neck 90º just to read the titles
Bazisolt magyar. Bazisolt magyar írókkal teli polccal 11/10
cool shelf about tyranny bro
The absolute state of this post
Your complete lack of organization is hurting my autism. You've got at least 2 Stephen King books on every shelf but none of them are together.
Only got into reading recently so pls no bulli.
Read these since the start of summer. So im still figuring out.
my favorites so far :
>1984
>Szolzsenyicins
>Nietzsche
>Kafka
Want to get into philosophy now.
Recommendations are welcomed
My bad user I need to fix this. I just moved and threw the books up there for the sake of time. Need to organize better.
>reading the digital jew
>12 memersons for life
Like i said I just read everything I can get my hands on. I know he is a meme but hey, this book was on our shelf for a year or so so I gave it a try.
Pretty avarage imo
> Zarathustra új fordítás nagyon jó
> Zizektől sikerült a legclickbaitebb könyvet kiadni
> Helikon zsebkönyvekből még a Kantot ajánlom, meg a Schopenhauert (mondjunk az kb Petersonnal egy kategória)
> Harari politikai giccs
> Horthy lol
Ugh yeah fuckin hate that tyrant Hamlet
You'd probably enjoy Mishima Yukio. Jelenkor has a nice new edition of Confessions of a Mask in Hungarian (Egy maszk vallomásai)
Ha tetszett az 1984, Babits Elza pilótája is tetszeni fog. Korábban írt, és sok tekintetben erősebben ható disztópikus regény.
Mert sikerült írnia egy világirodalmi színvonalú művet. A Tragédia a magyar irodalom egyik csúcsa, kiváló a nyelvezete, filozófiai megalapozása, struktúrája és kivitelezése.
>2019
>Péterfi Jordánia
Értem én, hogy periférián élünk, de user plíz.
Dosztótól én inkább a Bűn és Bűnhődéssel kezdtem volna a helyedben, aztán kielemezném a Feljegyzések első részét tüzetesen. Nem előfeltétel, csak tudd, hogy nem feltétlenül a legjobb részbe ugrottál bele egyből a Félkegyelművel.
>Barna Dani
Mehet a kukába.
Ha tetszett Kafkától a Per, akkor lehet olvasni a novellákat, a Kastélyt, illetve Robert Walser írásait, aki nagy hatással volt Kafkára. (Megjelentek magyar nyelven is.)
>Szolzsenyicin
Solzhenitsyn. Ha érdekelnek ilyen kis cuki anektodák és történetek a Sztálinizmusról, akkor "Dmitry Shostakovich-Solomon Volkov: Testimony" (Magyarul "Testamentum" címen jelent meg, de ne keresd. mert borsos áron vesztegetik, és még a kötése is fos, legalábbis ismerőstől azt hallottam.)
Amúgy csak beszabadultál egy Libribe, aztán levettél majd' minden polákos mémkönyvet, vagy mi?
Akkor már inkább olvassa angolul, mert a magyar kiadást az angol nyomán készítették.
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2/5
3/5
4/5
5/5
>Akutagawa
>Against Nature
excellent
hell yeah
Excited for the future
If we met we could be friends, impeccable taste Monsieur
>reading nietzsche without having read schopenhauer or any of the greeks
hoes mad (24x)
more like just what the nazis recruited
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>Akutagawa
What's wrong with Akutagawa?
he said he was excellent
>Amúgy csak beszabadultál egy Libribe, aztán levettél majd' minden polákos mémkönyvet, vagy mi?
Nem, sokat közülük csak a polcról szedtem le (igaz hogy a Libri-ből van nálunk a polc) mert még azt se tudtam szeretek e olvasni bármit, Harry Potter és Tronok harcán kívül, mondom nemrég kezdtem szóval nem vagyok annyira szofiztikált ebben. Szolzsenyicin-t már rendeltem (nem
is nagyon tervezem többé mém-könyvesboltba tenni a lábam)
Köszi a tanácsot amúgy
Basements really aren't that common anymore, update your dead boomer memes.
[Tori Loves Rachel. Faggot. I like girls.]
Sei Italiano?
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I don't think italians read Italian poems in English, user
menj az anyad pichajaba
is that a good thesaurus?
:’(
Jól hangzik köszi !
no, ma, sto imparando.
[One of the fucking best. Phones do everything now, but it feels good to have a physical ace of staves on deck, right? Right. Lit teacher from seventh grade told me to get one and I have kept one ever since. A writer's third call on a drunk night when he just needs a decent blowjob for some whiskey dick. Chungus. Or whatever. Free Emiya.]
Ouch
Found the "classical liberal" who listens to Jordan Peterson.
>Tried for weeks to find second hand copies
Abebooks
>nem is nagyon tervezem többé mém-könyvesboltba tenni a lábam
Általában megéri mindent antikváriumban beszerezni, vagy körülnézni Budapest utcáin, hogy a Közhasznú Könyvterjesztők épp mit árulnak.
Újat akkor éri meg venni, ha újra kiadtak valamit amiből anno csak alacsony példányszámú nyomást csináltak. (Pl. Helikon új Konfuciusz fordítása, mert a régi kiadás az relatíve ritka, mivel egy háromkötetes antológia része.) (inb4 de a szukits kiadta 199X-ben. Tudom, de azt még életemben nem láttam eladásra kínálva. Tartalomra megegyezik az Akadémiai Kiadó változatával a hatvanas évekből.)
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post your wallpaper m'man
sure. mulholland drive for anyone curious.
this is my to read stack also
>the Terror
the TV show is better
Impressive collection
How many of them have you read?
nothing in that to read stack is read and my bedside stack are current reads. some things like Kant or Hero w/ 100 faces were only specific sections, and some things like Euripides were only a specific play or two. Stuff like Homer or Dante I buy in both poetry and prose for comparison, but only really have read the poetry versions.
Besides all that, otherwise pretty much all of it.
Much appreciated! And nice collection, too.
Bump
How long does it take you to complete a stack ?
I'm not and I don't
Forza amico
Stay mad basementfag
Nice selection my dude.
Does Yea Forums ever buy comic books?
based zoomers
I like you
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What do you guys do with your old books? Dump them at HPB? Ebay?
Went to second hand bookstore recently, expected them to have 2-3 books on my list instead they had almost everything.
1.2-1.4 books a week for me
Keep them.
Plan to take them to a thrift shop and then forget about them for several years
Reading a shitty paperback of W&P sounds like an unpleasant experience
cool cover on gulag archipelago
not a fan of harari though
This
Stacking books like that is for those who don't want guests to know they read the works of L Ron Hubbard.
Hello my fellow white supremacists.
This particular Borges edition is considered badly translated.
unironically the worst shelf in this entire thread. nice edition of dubliners too, ya loser
How is Alice Munro?
hahaha wow look mom he did it too ahahaa so funny lmaoo
this
Snap
Munro is great
Considering buying that mythology book by Edith Hamilton but have heard mixed reviews, still undecided
1/3
2/3
3/3
If they were in size order, you’d get a +1 from me
How is The Manuscript Found in Saragossa?
Pretty solid all around, with a crazy story within a story type narrative emphasizing metaphysical myth telling or fable making
who the statute of
Me
I love charity book fairs. There’s one held four times a year in my city and I clean up every time. Here are my last three hauls
1/3
2/3
3/3
The more I read the less impressed I am.
God damn son, where do you live?
I had an initial aversion to it as it was written by a woman, it's quite boring as she turns these fantastic tales into short summaries but i didnt expect much. Read it if you have absolutely no background knowledge of Greek myths
based
I'd be incredibly lucky to find literally any of those at the book fairs in my city. I hate those barcodescannerfags so much
Kill yourself, tranny
You need more non fiction
Very good
Not a bad shelf.
Miklis Horthy wrote a book? How is it?
i live in a state of perpetual pain
>Morrisey autobiography
How is it? I only ever see it mentioned as a meme
give it a shot , if you like the smiths or morrissey in any facet i think youll enjoy it. its a single 457 page long chapter that covers just about everything
Nigger, eat shit with your trash opinions
Where would someone get these from? My friend wants to know
>death grips
cringe
>tommy wright III
based
>john maus
cringe
>MGS2
based
Actually pretty based desu
ill agree with you on death grips, its mainly a keepsake. but fuck u for saying that about maus man
You've got the same Poland Lonely Planet as me. Do you live there? I live in Warsaw, 5 years a British expat. God bless you!
you aint the butterfly goddess, get lost liar
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cringe
Are you the Colombian user?
that cat is gay
the other one is fine
guys please
what's the appeal of that picture in particular?
i own 4 different english dictionaries and 3 thesauruses. these frankly lacking shelves just make me jiggle-joggle my bonce-cranium.
You people here are hilarious. Everybody is posting those poorly constructed rickety shelves crammed with pauper paperbacks as if you are some scum unable to afford real books that do not fall apart as soon as you turn the very first page. You are even going so far by giving serious advice to further all this goofy roleplaying. It is really cracking me up. You must be having tremendous amounts of internal laughter when posting beggar book shelves while you are sitting in your office looking at your fine books well organized and structured in sturdy bookcases, aren't you?
lighten up there
I know you're attempting humor, but it's falling flat.
Very based.
Same. I don't particularly enjoy reading and primarily do it because I want to write.
Yes, this is some plebbit tier humor.
wait, which one is gay?
Unbased and cringepilled
Some are for this upcoming semester.
The one who loves the cock.
is that the Folio edition of the sound and the fury with the text printed in different colours? i want that
I have never seen something more cringe and pretentious than someone claiming the tractatus is for a current writing project
Ruskin > Morris
[gay.]
I'd get a beer w u
What do guys think about holding an annual Shelf Beauty Contest?
>ebin pagan
:DD:D:DD
where do you think you are? we are the methheads of book keeping, billy here uses his as toiletpaper when he is done reading
I want to order a bunch of these as bookplates
rec me some good stuff relating
bump somebody give recs pls
>Night Lords trilogy
nice
Not enough Warhammer 40k novels
where should i start?
where would you run for cover in the case of a tornado?
Pile of solidified cum rags of course
Its a shitty autobiography. Dont recommend (probs ghostwritten too)
Doubt it
Gaunt's Ghosts is a pretty good pulpy military sci fi action series. It's a good entry point for the franchise
Probably for the best
Cost around £50 for the lot, about halfway through the stack
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You’re doing gods work user
Reply to a shelf instead of replying to bumps
Post a shelf instead of replying to me replying to bumps
I already posted a stack ITT.
my man
thanks I'll check it out. keep an eye out for my review.
rate me, boys
a few are for my classes this semester
Imagine not
7.9/11
9/10
Need more kierkegaard
Lot of good shit in there, user.
One of the best stacks in itt desu
John Dolan tier
Recently sold and threw away all of my books (~800) save for a half shelf that I couldn't find ebooks for. Havent felt this carefree since I was a child since now all I really own are clothes and my laptop, and an ereader. Did I do the right thing Yea Forums?
No.
I bought most of these for school. Ill have to get around to reading them again recreationally someday.
>assimov
lol
Same, and mine is better than yours
Would read/10
You dun goofed user
the world is covered in trees and they grow extremely fucking fast. compare this to the millions of years needed for dead organic material to be buried deep enough to be converted to oil and the finite amount of lithium in the ground and not to mention the industrial pollution caused by its mining when to get a tree, all you need is an axe. deforestation and greenhouse gas emissions are basically nothing, they only get talked about to distract you from the fact that our oceans are completely filled with microplastics which remain in salt harvested from the ocean, which is used in every single fucking form of food we have except natural organic crops, which instead are covered in pesticides, fungicides, herbicides, chemical fertilizers, etc.
>Big boy so confident he doesn’t even link it
Eric, simply eric
Since you’re so interested:
>electrical grid dies
>knowledge lost forever
epic fail bro
Fiction, A-P.
What does that means
I remember you, you're the guy with the nice cabinet in his study .
i've recently done something similar, but im a little worried what at what the sunlight will do to the 500+ yearold paper. do you cover it with a cloth? or rotate with something else, as an on and off display ?
I just tried to keep it out of direct sunlight, and used a clear UV protection window film over the glass (you can get them in a big hardware store or amazon).
>UV protection window film
oh, will do.
Story is on my last trip to Italy i befriended this odd couple . To save money i would cycle and sleep overnight in fields and old houses , since even the small cities are now infested with migrants. one morning while packing up this guy charges me in his jeep and starts asking all these questions; where am i from, what am i doing here, etc . i explain in my pidgin italian that im just a tourist traveling on the cheep, and he explains that im an extremely dangerous eria (it was the south of italy so he may have had a point) and invites me to stay in his castle. Im thinking this is just some old gay pickup attempt, but whatever, a lift is a lift. turns out he really does own a castle, an old half condemned family one, and i sty there for the duration of my trip getting shown around by him and his wife. In there they had a library, equally as decrepit as the rest of the house, and on my way out i was given an old volume of Dante and a printing of classical reproductions by Palladio.
They have no internet, but i've sent them letters - alas with no reply as of yet.
Fantastic adventure. Italy is brimming with antiquities and old books. Carefully check the binding/covers because they often used much older manuscript (vellum) pages to wrap the boards, so an 18-19th century book can have a hidden piece of a 10th century illumination in it.
I do rotate the table content for fun, though.
Thanks.
Also they told me that when times were hard they would go though their antique books collection and cut out all blank pages, those first and last pages that are often left blank , to sell in Milan for art forgery.
You jest, but my fucking cat pissed on it. Luckily the thing is waterproof. The smell is there forever still.
It's worth keeping at least something like picrel in a closet, the pseud effect further enhanced by random assortment of obsolete junk to impress the rare visitor with your deep beatnik "personality".
Old cameras
*tips fedora*
oh god ...
This whole thread: YIKES.
Nice books man.
Get a better camera
I want to read all these books but I struggle to read for 30 minutes straight before falling asleep.
just looking at that shelf I knew you were the kinda guy that doesn't actually read his books
>mfw no yous :(
>the bell curve
Would read in the same room as you in total silence/10
Good selection man. I also fall asleep after reading. Maybe try reading a bit earlier in the day, works for me.
well loebed.
Is this the onions aesthetic?
I mean specifically in regards to HST, I used to love reading him when I was a teen, but I am now realizing he was a lazy bastard who quickly sold out when he got the chance. He was an edgy contrarian manchild, and it took me far too long to admit that I don't want to be like him.
Pretty who tier my dude
Needs about 30 or 40 more ya trash books
How is A Sand County Almanac
just what it sounds like: a smart guy recounting his time in the wilderness among the geese and squirrels and deer and songbirds of Wisconsin. relates a lot of outdoor wisdom that probably seems like it ought to be common sense to country people but is not common to me. the writing is not nearly as annoyingly grandiose as in Desert Solitaire.
thx frens
>No Dawkins on anyone's shelves
Cringe...
It's funny that you mention that about Desert Solitaire, I was put off by the same thing when reading it as a follow-up to Walden. How does ASCA compare to Walden?
never finished walden. the author was a little too precious about Going Outdoors And Living Deliberately. it's better. beautiful imagery and some actual useful knowledge, including almanac-type stuff about game populations over time
>statistics are racist
How many on Yea Forums use the library as the main source for their book selection? How does Yea Forums determine which books they want to have on their own accord? Is it merely what books you like or is there something else to it. I'm newly literate so idk how the culture works.
>Butcher's Crossing
Based.
>Gravity's Rainbow
Kys
Iirc you're supposed to read the Koran in Arabic. It's actually part of the religion that you can't read the translations.
>that shelf
>TLC on the TV in the background
Pure amerimutt
The book on Tibetan Buddhism interests me the most.
Kek
Not that Ruskin didn't have some lovely accomplishments (and he was a great influence on Morris), but I'll take Morris. He was much the stronger creative author and poet. Ruskin was the greater art critic, but aside from a few fairy tales, his work is more analytical and highly subjective. If you've read his Seven Lamps, you know that Ruskin's views on art and architecture are as idiosyncratic as they are ahistorical. Besides, Ruskin was a repressed virgin pedophile, as far as I can tell, and that lack of understanding or sympathy for adult passion and sexuality dogs and warps his work. Both me had great visual art skill, but again, Morris was much broader and more energetic in his exploration of different creative forms. He DID while Ruskin discussed.
Yes, now fuck off with your reddit cringe image.
I have those exact copies of the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Oh really? the Robert Fagles edition? the most common and easily accessible translations of Homer? that everyone fucking has? you have them too? the editions that are literary in 10 pictures in this thread? really? how weird! Fagles!
>>statistics can't be extrapolated to form inaccurate, racist conclusions
What is the Yea Forums equivalent of going full-force?
I'm waiting for my birthday to buy a drill to install extra shelves. It's getting too messy.
I found it odd that he doesn't have the matching Aeneid (with the gold spine).
>conclusions are racist
>racism is bad
Any book backs up that opinion?
Honestly.
>that
>messy
If you can still pack on top of a row, it's not 'messy'.
>getting a drill for your birthday
>nice selection of books
>camera lenses
Unironically based
I prefer physical but ereaders are good for manga and obscure stuff. We can all be friends here, user.
You're a waste of space.