Reddit

i love how all the troll shelf pics are from
reddit.com/r/bookshelf/

This pic was from /r/books. Its on the front page.

Holy shit this triggers the fuck out of me

it doesn't anger me
i think it's dumb though, like shelves of anime or obscene video game collections

Hoarding is a mental disorder.

>Am I the only one who gets angry when they see shelves like this?
Of course not.

Jesus

im just sick of all the fucking vanity posts in general. shelves, stacks, etc.

never leads to any meaningful conversation just "i liked it" or "what should i read next"

>people like this reproduce

what if I hoard literature and not YA

These people don't read books, and if they do, it's YA.

Just look at all that shit cluttered all over the place. There's no way to get to any of those shitty books without knocking over one of the dozens of gimmicky meme shit splattered everywhere.

Why do nerds have to buy so much shit. They just can't read a good book or look out a window, they have to buy a bunch of fucking toys and t-shirts and start any paragraph with "having struggled with depression".

I like bookshelf threads when the people in them are discussing things like organization and aesthetics. I don't think of it as vanity. Some people just have better sense than others and its helpful to see/ discuss opinions like that.
But I agree, conversation tends to be "lol meme tier" the moment they see IJ.

What should I read next doesn't make sense to me. Who will possibly synthesize every book on your shelf and decide what you should get?

And in alarming rates.

>having struggled with depression

lost it

Is this the shelf of a 12 year old?

...of course not, it's an adult.

You just made a thread on a hungarian basket-weaving board so that you could talk about how shitty some stranger's bookshelf is.

As terrible as is that person's choice in books, you're still the bigger loser.

needs more swords

>having struggled with depression

>tfw cant even be depressed anymore cause it's a cliche meme at this point

I figure shit like this keeps the publishers alive, and as long as they also publish actual good books that's okay.

>Am I the only one who gets angry
nope, you and every other teenager who has read a few books they think are adult level. Adults dont get angry about other peoples choices in books.

> and start any paragraph with "having struggled with depression".

Having struggled with depression, good post

>Hardcovers.
Poorfag detected, the rest is correct though.

as usual the normies ruined it

>they have to buy a bunch of fucking toys and t-shirts and start any paragraph with "having struggled with depression".
Kek.

These sorts of shelves have been around for as long as the printing press has been around. It sure seems as if its getting worse these days, but its hard to know.

> start any paragraph with "having struggled with depression"

Hey don't make fun of people's challenges. You don't understand what its like clearly. The only thing that gives me peace of mind is to express myself through words. My psychiatrist gave me the idea, and a shitload of anti-deppressants. They have permanently reduced my sex-drive, but that's ok, because now I have the courage. Now I have the voice that I didn't have before. My parents helped me publish my first book. Its about a young girl who finds a dragon and she learns magic from a wizard and she has a friend who just learned he's gay and he's learning how to fight against all the hate.

You can read on my blog about my progress towards writing the sequel. I don't know where I would be without my fans. They give me the strength to move on.

Quality bait.

Shit, those Sandman figures are expensive af now

>doesn't even have the Chaos Walking trilogy
if you're gonna have YA shit, at least make it so you have the one good example of it. OP fucked up big time.

>Am I the only one who gets angry when they see shelves like this?
yes, because reading isn't an image and i couldnt give less of a fuck about what other people's bookshelves look like? it changes literally fucking nothing about the books i'm reading you stupid fuck

maybe if you spent more time reading books and less time browsing reddit you'd be a little smarter or at least a little less retarded

Would be funny if it wasn't so true

Nah its still funny

...

Woah hold on a second I know this shit: you can only get it from a tiny store in a really remote location.

Reading didn't make me smarter

i didn't ask

Jesus christ the "pleb n' proud" crowd is really in full force. Reddit truly is the death of literature.

Paperbacks are infinitely more aesthetic and functional.

OP is most likely peeved at how people with such organized and finely-kept books (hardcover, no less) are just using them as vanity. That they don't actually read the books they store, just use them as vessels for their narcissism when they post pictures of it on their Tumblr.

You're fine, man. It looks like you actually read your shit.

Thanks. They do get read, absurd as the shelves look.

Why do you make the conscious decision to have sunscreen on a book shelf.
Do you enjoy reading the label for prose?
>factor 60
Are you a corpse?
Honest questions

Hey, guy, leave him alone.

My toddler sleeps in the same room, and needs to get slathered when I dress him. That small room has a crib, a bed, and ten bookcases.

Qt.

I really enjoy this picture, man, thanks for posting it.

>he has a child
brb going to an hero

You both need to get some standards.

Me too! Save it, it's all yours friend :)

What's more aesthetic about a fucked up spine and greasy edge?

I buy most of my books used and paperbacks just look and feel shitty. Go be poor somewhere else.

I'm okay with this, but only because of tintin

nice collection senor- are eldritch tales and necronomicon both written by lovecraft? i am so confused even after reading their writeups...

>I buy most of my books used
>go be poor somewhere else

> supporting my lokal antiquarian bookshop and getting high quality books in return which will withstand multiple readings
> beeing poor

You're propably one of those people who buy something from chebay and think they made a great deal - at least for a couple weeks.

I hate women. They're the scourge of humanity.

the closer you look the better it gets

Go be pretentious somewhere else, you bloody old towser-faced boot-faced totem-pole on a crap reservation.

>marguerite de navarre
>christine de pizan
>stendahl
nice

Oh fuck off, everyone but you has fun in stack threads.

The vanity in this exercise is repulsive, however, the failure to present an organised and tidy shelf is even more so. You would think people have enough self respect to not live in a fucking pigsty. Not even putting the books themselves into the equation.

Prime example, fucking disgusting. Looks abysmal with all that clutter and shit on the shelf. So much can be thrown away or put elsewhere, they could at least tidy it up a bit.

You are one-hundred times worse you sack of shit. All that useless fucking clutter. Neck yourself my man. Throw away all that useless crap and then tidy it up.

Nice, neat and tidy shelf. qt

I'd tidy that up and throw away that stupid crystal ball. Otherwise not the worst shelf.

>Those figurines
Throws those useless things away my man. Otherwise, not bad.

oh yo can you do me a favor?

take a photo of the first two pages of that brothers karamazov for me?

its the ralph matlaw revision of garnett and theres NO preview online, and i want to sample it and see if i like it

would be a great help to me.

Nigger, this image has been around for ages.

is the big sleeveless hardback in the bottom left miss macintosh my darling

This

No, i don't get angry. I don't care what they read. You, on the other hand, care too much and are a complete sperg.

I browse shelve posts because I'm a materialist and it's like porn to me.

At least I read the books I own.

>tfw all the shitty people my age are "depressed" and "insomniacs"
>tfw they don't know what it's like to only be able to lay in bed for 16 hours while occasionally leaving to pee and carefully avoid looking at your face in the mirror just to go back to bed
>tfw they're losing sleep because they're out with friends til the early morning and have jobs to go to and don't know what it's like to be begging for death or sleep because you're so tired but you just can't do it no matter hard you try
>tfw they don't know what it's like to feel the open air under their toes while looking down at their apartment building parking lot, debating if a three story fall will kill you or just make your life even more unbearable
>tfw I found out I can get past all of this by drinking heavily every night, and hide it by claiming to be a craft beer enthusiast
>tfw I don't even like hops that much
>tfw when I hear more and more people start half-jokingly calling themselves high functioning alcoholics because they have a beer or two a few nights a week
There is no face for this.

It's still real, and my books. Look.

>getting angry at someone else's bookshelf

Fucking lmao youre pathetic OP

What the fuck, literally me.

yeah this lol
it only reinforces how distanced i am from the normal human experience
like seeing people complain about their undiagnosed, circumstantial 'depression' and getting tons of support
and meanwhile im paying a guy $100 per session as a substitute because i lost the ability to make friends in 2008 and start shaking when people try to communicate with me

What would you think of an all-Penguin shelf? I'm sort of tempted to do this

Why did you think it was OK to breed before you obtained the third pogo volume?

Well, those bastards at Fantagraphics had sworn they weren't going to release Pogo in slipcased pairs (the way I've been buying Peanuts for 12 years, and that run ends next month), so I bought the first two volumes separately and then they went ahead and released them in a slipcase. So I bought an empty slipcase (since this pic was taken) to house vols 1 & 2, and held off on any further volumes until the slipcase of 3 & 4 came out. I have it pre-ordered, and it's supposedly coming out Dec 27 for some reason.

bump

I dont get it, why do you hate hard covers op?

women are the niggers of gender

>Am I the only one who gets angry when they see shelves like this?

I used to until I despooked myself and came to grasp that reading isnt solely about self improvement. I look at this the same way others look at those who have gaming computers.

Disgusting and tasteless desu.

>Not having eclectic shelves.

Newfag here, what does YA mean? Google doesn't help.

Young Adult

Get a dissociative disorder (except identity disorder, or multiple personalities as it has been known before), those aren't a meme yet, they are much harder to comprehend and less romantic.

>tfw dysthima, get better then shit happes and despersonalization
>tfw literally nobody notices
>go to therapist
>two years on top of the three I already had to a bunch of neurotic shit and depression
>repressed shit hurts a fuckton and makes me almost cross the line to pyschosis
>mostly solved now but sometimes get down and still have stuff to get out

>tfw I make my first story when I feel bad
>it's about about someone vomiting the pills of an attempted suicide

I'd post it but it's on Spanish.

Was gonna make a serious reply until you said

> You can read on my blog about my progress towards writing the sequel. I don't know where I would be without my fans.

This is a good post, keep it up.

Nerds are literally the worst. They should be marginalized, excluded, and fed a steady diet of government cheese while they invent better things for me.

I'm not kidding.

I like hardcovers with sleeves because I like the way they look on my shelf with the sleeves off.

I-is that a c-cumrag?

that's the luckiest person in the world

all black is spooky desu

Don't hate on hardcovers, if you have the money they're the way to go (I have like 90% paperback and would still prefer hardcover).

The other stuff is true though, probably a girl's shelf (hopefully)

Beth ydych chi'n ei olygu?

In what way are they the way to go? What is appealing about them?

I like penguin and the past 3 books I've purchased have been by them but I would never restrict my collection to 1 publisher only. I might try Oxford next.

I don't get why would you put anything that is not a book on your bookcase.

>Am I the only one who gets angry when they see shelves like this?

no. I'm sure there are other petty people who are so bored they actually get triggered by insignificant shit like this just like you.