Wanna see each shelf?

Sorry this is taking a so long, Veeky Forums is being a slowpoke with the verification and then uploads timing out

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Non-Fiction 1: history and politics

Non-Fiction 2: reference and media

Currently reading, and to read pile

So, what do you think Veeky Forums?

>porting a high enough quality image to zoom in and then posting an image of each shelf anyway

and yet this is still a quality thread by Veeky Forums standards

i identify as a paperback

Dude

I fucking loved it.

What did you like?

The shelves.

And over how many years have you acquired this collection?

>So, what do you think Veeky Forums?

If you want user to be honest you have a lot of books but a considerable amount of it is crap. You need to lose about 3/4 of it and start over with that.

What is crap
I dunno, a while

>What is crap

I've been mean enough for one thread.

Who is this semen devil?

> saying semen devil when semen demon is so much more fitting

I want to know what you think is crap there?

Nobody wanted this. If you threw out all the trash literature you have, your shelves wouldn't be any bigger than anyone else's in any other shelf thread. Grow up and put away the pulp and the sci fi and the fantasy novels. If I saw this at someone I knew's house or office, I would lose all respect for them immediately.

> implying you're ever invited to other people's houses

exactly, so you understand what a rare and treasured thing I'd be willing to throw away if I saw this shit

Nice recovery.

>Noam
Kill yourself.

you're bit a pseud user and you wear books as an identity more than anything else. sure you "like" reading sometimes, but you what you like more is for people to know and appreciate how literary and intellectual you are.

but it doesn't really work out IRL so you try to seek gratification on an ethiopian water music imageboard instead.

>you're bit a pseud user and you wear books as an identity more than anything else. sure you "like" reading sometimes, but you what you like more is for people to know and appreciate how literary and intellectual you are.

not op but i think this is me. what do user? what do?

try to divorce what you consume (i.e. reading) from your identity. it's no different than watching TV, listening to music, etc., and than obnoxiously parading what you consume as who are you

spend more time reading and less time posting/talking about reading. develop your own taste. if it doesnt work maybe you just dont like reading that much and it's ok. just read what you find fun and don't treat it as the primary aspect of your identity. find another hobby.

What is the trash?
What is the pulp?
What is wrong with science fiction & fantasy?
I read what I like
How am I being a pseud?
Makes no sense could be applied to anything

>What is the trash?
>What is the pulp?
>What is wrong with science fiction & fantasy?
All the sci fi, all the fantasy, all the detective books, all the genre, all the popular fiction. It's all trash.
There's nothing inherently wrong with science fiction and fantasy, but it never weighs up, ever. It's always aesthetically and intellectually worse than literary fiction, and the only near-exceptions I can think of are literary books that happen to have sci-fi-ish settings and aren't really part of the genre. I don't happen to see any of those on your shelf either. Your whole library is lowbrow to the core.
Take a hint fron the construction of the book: they print those titles as mass-market paperbacks because they're absolute pulp

I was going to respond with "Well, what about Delany?" but I went back and it's just his non-gay spaceman shit, I guess your critique holds up.

great post.

>All the sci fi, all the fantasy,
>There's nothing inherently wrong with science fiction and fantasy, but it never weighs up, ever. It's always aesthetically and intellectually worse than literary fiction,

Okay so its the "just because" argument of the literary establishment

>popular fiction

What is that? Do I have YA teen romance novels? Do I have Star Wars or Star Trek novels? What?

>and the only near-exceptions I can think of are literary books that happen to have sci-fi-ish settings and aren't really part of the genre.

lol when the literary elite try to have it both ways. There's actually quite a few of those sorts of novels in there, the fact that you can't see them is quite telling.
You need to stop reading the big broadsheet newspaper literary reviews.
>only Delanys gay porn is worthy of merit
lolwut

I don't have a book shelf. I have a book box. I read a book and I put them in a box neat and tidy out of the way but arranged and accessible if I need them. This is how you know I am a man who actually reads for pleasure and not a woman/homosexual who reads for vanity and social status.

How was Carter Beats the Devil?

It was alright

Dhalgren is a legitimately beautiful piece of literature

>live in apartment
>pretty big
>pretty empty
>want a bookshelf for decoration
>right now they're all in my cupboard
>see pretentious pictures like this
>would just end up being a mastubatory shrine to my """superior""" taste

Maybe I'll get some of my old Stephen King books from my parents house to add in there

Bookshelves are pretty damn accessible, and space isn't an issue if you're not a NEET. Although I do agree most people use them for vanity.

So basically no true scottsman fallacy. Gotcha.

>A Scanner Darkly is great!
>Didn't you say the other day all scifi is trash?
>I-It's not REAL scifi.

Has OP even read any of his books? They all look new

1) why the fuck do you have different colored bookcases

2) since you do, why the fuck is the black one not in the middle?

3) why are you such a mongoloid?

Books sitting on the shelf like that...
Do you think they talk to each other when people are not around?

I'm always astounded by these extensive bookshelves. There's a tremendous breadth of ideas, situations, and cliches in someone's head after having read such a number of fiction books that I really envy anyone who has. You'll never actively be aware of how the ideas shape your thoughts, but the effect is profound. I need to read so much more, from pulp fiction to high literature. I'll be able to make time for it soon, luckily I have a hearty stack to chew through.

how is a scanner darkly scifi?

all of the(yours)

>Only Delany's gay porn is of merit
You might just make it, kid.

want to see a picture of my ereader?