Bookshelf/litroom thread

Show me your room fag. You came here for a reason, right?

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You're really posting Bruno's room photos? Hahaha

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Help a brazilian friend and check my podcast with other Veeky Forums people, guys: youtube.com/watch?v=zZ44eII7ITI

Also I' think this Bruno thing is some sort of publicity stunt, in a few months some movie will arise from it and people will make a lot of money.

Yeah, that's my room. My parents leaved me alone for almost a month, then I bought this Giordano Bruno statue and started to work on my yearlong project of
a new philosophical system that's gonna change the human life forever and bring peace to humanity.

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Left is fiction, right is nonfic.

Not pictured: Kindle

I can't make out any book titles. I am curious as to what they are. Also are you from /fitlit/?

GoT was a gift from my grandfather.

Yes, /fitlit/

you're not gonna find it on Veeky Forums

>Alan Watt
>You Are Your Own Gym
>Star Wars Cookbook II
Stopped reading. All these books you have are cringe-inducing. Never seen such horrible taste in my life.

Is there a close up of Bruno's shelf? Genuinely interested in which books he read.

R8, H8

he's from /fitlit/ what did you expect?

I win

>meme kampf

I got it when I was like 15 and edgy. Just incoherent ramblings along with historical references that I didn't get.

Holy... I want more

those are all the books I own.

>LONDON
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Any recommendations based on what you see? Reading Women and Men now and absolutely loving it.

Shit, I forgot this.

>Harold Bloom - The Western Canon
>Owns zero books from the western canon

Your paperbacks look unread. Get the fuck off my board and back to your meathead circle-jerk, you fucking brainlet j00c'd blowfish faggot. I bet you skip leg day, you Johnny Bravo lookin ass nikka.

>franzen
>chabon

We get it. You love to snack on a turd.

In ten years you'll see this photo and want to die.

Considering that you seem to love contemporary fiction I'm surprised there isn't any Joshua Cohen or Ben Marcus. I'd suggest you get more non fiction and classics. I mean what's the point of reading all those referential post modern tomes if you dont even know get the allusions and etc. It seeme like you're probably hiding the other part of your library that would contain that stuff but idk

Most nonfiction is behind the books on dresser as they are mostly in poorer condition. I live with my brother and he has a large collection of nonfiction so I mooch off him a lot.

In ten years you'll still be alone, wouldn't have read half this many books, and probably have already done the deed by then. So I'm okay with hearing this from you, user.

I dont know what people see in po-mo, they dazzle you with great prose but at the end, they seem to have nothing clever left to say.

I hope you're no older than 22

I've been married for years, and I've already read at least 20 times "that many" books.

You, however, still need validation from strangers online for your meagre purchases--purchases anyone anywhere can make.

Congrats?

My 28th birthday is actually tomorrow

Not pictured and on floor due to lack of space

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Last weekends goodwill haul as well. Think it was ~25 for all of them

Actually I mostly get shit on which is the fun part, friend. Nobody here knows who I am, and nobody in my life knows who any of these authors are, so I'm not sure what you mean by validation. I read them and enjoy most of them, and a lot of the books I read were found by looking at other people's bookshelves that had similar taste. I'd rather contribute and get shit on for some giggles than go into threads about bookshelves and complain about pictures of bookshelves like a child.

congrats on reading like 5,000 books. I'll likely never read that many before I die.

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sup tomeguy

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>Mein Kampf

>"SIEG HEIL!" Shouted the filthy kike, as her womb was filled with stong Aryan seed.
I want a nasty little Jewish princess.

top half of my bookshelf. mostly nonfiction, aside from the bible. order goes as follows:
bible, then small sized books (science next to bible, of course), then some home guides, then bigger books on science, history, and business, followed by a brief set of books on american history/culture, and finally some books on africa/ african culture

follow up, with the bottom half. goes from non fic to stories (hist. fic and fic):
books on WWII, then the anarchy political views, on to socialism, then to my small poetry section/ old lit (shakespeare, jack london, charles dickens), and the rest are old novels that are all just fiction. R8, H8, wtvr

>bookshelf
>in 2017
>physical books in general

how pretentious can you be?

What makes it pretentious?

>all those short penguin pocketbooks
why

does anyone else curate their bookshelf?

as in, does anyone get rid of books theyve already read but deemed insignificant?

Only reddit misuses that word so badly.
Go back.

>words misused by faggots on the internet

give me the gestalt on this whole reddit thing?

Why do you have 2 copies of Gravity's Rainbow?

You started the thread by posting some Fullmetal Acremist, brhues are allowed now

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And, lastly, the paperbacks.

The other half of my library is in my father's house in another city.

wretched

That's the best part of my whole library. The complete poetry of Pound, Camões, Petrarca, Pessoa, Drummond, Meireles, Castro Alves, and Gonçalves Dias, plus some of the best plays of Calderón de la Barca. All in the original, of course.

Oh, and I forgot to mention Lorca.

Three now, actually. I bought the Penguin Deluxe edition, and found out it had errors. Being the autist I am, I immediately bought a new one - the blue covered Penguin Classic - and finished reading with that one. I emailed Penguin after that and they sent the revised one for free.

That's reasonable, I had the same issue and just ended up returning the Penguin Deluxe. Just seems weird to me someone would buy another copy and just keep the old one with misprints.

Everyone on reddit is 12, so they throw that word at anything they can't understand and claim that anyone who says they like it is pretending for Internet points, all while upvoting anything that references Hitchhiker's Guide, because it's just so lol funny and genius, you know?

I'm lazy. Have a drawer full of books meant for goodwill, but keep forgetting. Probably going to donate them to my office's library, since all they have is Patterson and Cussler.

I'm gunna be sick

I have read and enjoyed about half the books on your shelves and the one author I can think of that fits into your tastes that I don't see represented is Denis Johnson. Jesus' Son, Train Dreams, and Nobody Move are all varying degrees of short and incredible, and you can check out Tree of Smoke if you're looking for something more substantial in size.

Thank you. It's rare I see a recommendation of a book I didn't already have on my list.

Your welcome! While I have you here, how are 2-4 of The Familiar? Worth it?

I actually just started the 3rd one today. I needed something easier to read when I'm too tired for W&M. The 2nd one was much better than the first, which was good enough to get me to buy the others. I'd give the first one a 3.5/5 and the second one was a solid 4/5, and really hit it's stride in the last half. Everyone I know who's read it says it continues to get better. I honestly believe it will outshine HoL as his masterpiece if he can keep it up. If nothing else, it's different.

Sup

Have you gotten to The Man Without Qualities or The Anatomy of Melancholy yet? What do you think? Probably going for one of those next.

this.

not yet, they've been near the top of my priority list for awhile though.

I fukin hate post-modernism.

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Taking this made me really self-conscious about the amount of tat. Should probably tidy up a bit at some point.

You guys like my meme poverty shelves?

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genre goodness

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Other shit

Good shit user