What, no shelf thread? This is the one in my bedroom.
>>23295314Post Feet
>>23295314And this is the one in my living room.
my book cabinet is too identifying. i can draw it (poorly)
>>23295319Yes, please do
>>23295314cool globe
>>23295325Thank you. It matches the fantasy maps I have on my wall
>>23295314>>23295316>Hehe, yeah I like to read a little bit>Why do you ask?>Or perhaps youd like to see my Funko Pop collection instead m'lady?
>>23295333I keep my funko pops and (most of) my bionicles at my parents house so I don’t have to deal with posters like you
They should just sticky a shelf thread with no post or image limit, so I can post once and be done with it.
>>23295338>A manchild?>Actually Im an adultchild, thanks
>>23295314No lie I like the masochistic geeks more than the truelit folio hardcover homosexuals. You’re alright OP, you like any of that “high level”, math oriented sci-fi? Is Gene Wolfe as good as they say he is? Why?
>>23295314I'd post my shelf, but it's all in portuguese, so it's pointless to do so
>>23295388>You’re alright OP, you like any of that “high level”, math oriented sci-fi?Well it’s not math oriented but I like the Mars trilogy by KSR. It’s all about terraforming, rocks, and why Muslims are hard to deal with
>>23295358not a bad idea, perhaps a reset monthly or bi monthly
>>23295314now show us your funkos dude ! Le epic
>>23295429Forget the "unfilmable" books people keep memeing about.The Mars trilogy is unfilmable for realsies because just imagine showing a (swarthy, scheming, neurotic) american manipulate arabs into murdering a (blond, idealistic) american because he wanted to fuck his russian GF who was only on mars in the first place because she fucked her way to the top of the russian space program
>>23296126See >>23295338
>>23296168Based Tunnels reader. Can’t believe that series ended with them getting to the center of the center of the earth and realizing the whole planet was a vehicle to pilot somewhere else
>>23296150Not to mention who could you even cast to make this speech?“What can I say, friends?” he cried. “This is the thing itself, there are no words for this. This is what words ask for.”But his blood ran high with adrenaline, with tequila and omegendorph and happiness, and without willing it the words spilled out of him as they so often had before. “Look,” he said, “here we are on Mars!” (Laughter.)“That’s our gift and a great gift it is, the reason we have to keep giving all our lives to keep the cycle going, it’s like in eco-economics where what you take from the system has to be balanced by what you give in to it, balanced or exceeded to create that anti-entropic surge which characterizes all creative life and especially this step across to a new world, this place that is neither nature nor culture, transformation of a planet into a world and then a home. Now we all know that different people have different reasons for being here and just as important the people who sent us up had different reasons for sending us, and now we’re beginning to see the conflicts caused by those differences, there are storms brewing on the horizon, meteors of trouble flying in and some of them are going to strike dead on rather than skip overhead like that blaze of white ice just did!” (Cheers.)“It may get ugly, at times it almost certainly will get ugly, so we have to remember that just as these meteor strikes enrich the atmosphere, thicken it and add the elixer oxygen to the poison soup outside these tents, the human conflicts coming down may do the same, melting the permafrost at our social base, melting all those frozen institutions away and leaving us with the necessity of creation, the imperative to
>>23296214invent a new social order that is purely Martian, as Martian as Hiroko Ai, our own Persephone now come back up out of the regolith to announce the start of this new spring!” (Cheers.) “Now I know I used to say that we had to invent it all from scratch but in these last few years travelling around and meeting you all I’ve seen that I was wrong to say that, it’s not like we have nothing and are being forced to conjure forms godlike out of the vacuum — we have the genes, you might say, the memes as Vlad says meaning our cultural genes so that it’s in the nature of an act of genetic engineering what we do here, we have the DNA pieces of culture all made and broken and mixed by history and we can choose and cut and clip together from what’s best in that gene pool, knit it all together the way the Swiss did their constitution, or the Sufis their worship, or the way the Acheron group made their latest fast lichen, a bit from here and there, whatever’s appropriate, keeping in mind the seven generations rule, thinking seven generations back and seven generations forward, and seven times seven if you ask me because now it’s our lives we’re talking about extending way off into the years, we don’t know how that will affect us yet, but it’s certainly true that altruism and self-interest have collapsed together more tightly than ever before. But also it’s still and always our children’s lives and our children’s children and on down forever that we have to think of, we must act in a way that gives them just as many chances as we have been given and hopefully more, channeling the sun’s energy in ever more ingenious ways to reverse the flow of entropy in this little pocket of the universal flow.
>>23296221And I know that’s an awfully general way of putting with this treaty that orders our lives here is coming up for renewal so soon, but we have to keep that level in mind because what’s coming is not just a treaty but more a kind of constitutional congress, because we’re dealing with the genome of our social organization here, you can do this, you can’t do that, you have to do this, to eat or to give. And we’ve been living by a set of rules established for empty land, the Antarctic treaty so fragile and idealistic which has held that cold continent free of intrusion for so long, up until the last decade in fact when it’s been chipped away at, and that’s a sign of what’s beginning to happen here too. The encroachment on that set of rules has begun everywhere, like a parasite feeding on the edges of its host organism, because that’s what the replacement set of rules is, the old parasitic greed of the kings and their henchmen, this system we call the transnational world order is just feudalism all over again, a set of rules that is anti-ecologic, it does not give back but rather enriches a floating international elite while impoverishing everything else, and so of course the so-called rich elite are in actuality porr as well, disengaged from real human work and therefore from real human accomplishment, parasitical in the most precise sense, and yet powerful too as parasites that have taken control can be, sucking the gifts of human work away from their rightful recipients which are the seven generations, and feeding on them while increasing the repressive powers that keep them in place!” (Cheers.) “So it’s democracy versus capitalism at this point, friends, and we out on the frontier outpost of the human world are perhaps better positioned than anyone else to see this and to fight this global battle, there’s empty land here, there’s scarce and nonrenewable resources here, and we’re going to get swept into the fight and we cannot choose not to be a part of it, we are one of the prizes and our fate will be decided by what happens throughout the human world. That being the case, we had better band together for the common good, for Mars and for us and for all the people on earth and for the seven generations, it’s going to be hard it’s going to take years, and the stronger we are the better our chances, which is why I’m so happy to see that burning meteor in the sky pumping the matrix of life into our world, and why I’m so happy to see you all here to celebrate it together, a representative congress of all that I love in this world, but look I think that steel-drum band is ready to play aren’t you” (shouts of assent) “so why don’t you folks start and we’ll dance till dawn and tomorrow scatter on the winds and down the sides of this great mountain, to carry the gift everywhere.”
Can't get it any more clearer than this, if you want the name of a book, just ask.
>>23295429>It’s all about terraforming, rocks, and why Muslims are hard to deal withThis description perfectly falls into my area of interest lol
>>23295315fpbp
>>23296271ah, a fellow usagi yojimbo enjoyer
>>23296475>legends tramp stamp EU booksvisceral disgust
>>23296271European Soul
>>23296475>>23296762I was about to say at “at least you have some EU books, looks like I can see Darth Bane there” until your comment saved me a lot of trouble. That really is gross
>>23295314Funny to see someone else with only the first volume of Akira. Manga is ridiculously poor value for money compared to other mediums. I think it would have cost me over £100 for the whole series
>>23296475how's your novel coming along
book
>>23296893books 2
>>23296271Did you become interested in Krazy Kat because of Bill Watterson?
>>23296909Yes. Watterson did an interview book with the Billy Ireland about a decade ago, in it he cited Peanuts, Pogo and Krazy Kat, as three of his biggest influences.Herriman's an artist in the truest sense, constantly experimenting, and pushing boundaries of the comics medium.Lot of the literati liked his work, Eliot, Cummings, Gertrude Stein, Mencken etc.>>23296758Also Usagi is such a good story. Possibly my favorite American comic book.
>>23296893>>23296897Great selection of historical works. I am happy to see the writings of St. Bede. Seems like you might need another shelf.
A few pics
>>23298689Another
>>23298693One more
Here's mine. A shelf or so is my wife's.
>>23298782Which one of you is the Sanderson chad?
>>23298824That's me. Honestly I'm not sure she reads, I think she's just collected some books over the years
I don't feel like moving or anything so here's what I currently have on my desk right now. It'll all go on the shelf one day, but not for a few months probably, at least.
>>23298695Which is your favorite faust translation?
>>23298858Based stacker
>>23298689>>23298693>>23298695pretty based miller anon, 1. is sayings of the desert fathers, a work a non-christian can appreciate?I saw someone make a thread on it, last year, and the weird name of the book stuck with me ever since.2. I have two books coming soon.One is 'green henry' by gottfried keller, nietzsche apparently liked this book a lot.And, I haven't read Rabelais yet, but i found a cheap copy of 'Rabelais and his world'. You and other people here talk about it in high regard, so i figured i'd have to track it down eventually anyway.3. I've also been reading some zen buddhism books, 'tracing back the radiance' by chinul. I feel i inherently get what this 12th century monk is saying, but don't completely feel it in my bones.
>>23298689this is my shelf lol >>23296271
>>23296271One of the most BASED shelves I’ve seen. Duck comics. What a chad.
>>23299440Never mind. Just saw the Labatut. Go fuck yourself.
>>23299424I think the sayings of the desert fathers can be appreciated as a non Christian. Almost all of the sayings are really short, like multiple fit on a page, in the Penguin edition it’s broken down by topic like humility, lust, hospitality, etc, things that everyone deals with. The desert fathers were very similar to some orders of other religions, like Buddhist monks who live in the mountains austerely and frugally. Very hardcore way of life. It doesn’t really involve what could be seen as the bells and whistles or decorations of Christianity and is a very “at its core” workRabelais is a very strange writer and might be an acquired taste. If you had no idea about him you’d never guess he was a priest by reading G&P. Different times I guess. On the surface it’s kinda very strange and a crude book, often retarded at times, very visceral and grotesque. If you know what to look for it’s packed with theology, history and philosophy among other things. A lot will go over a reader’s head if they aren’t aware. Some editions have a chapter synopsis that explain things. On one hand it’s a completely crude and retarded book, on the other hand it’s very erudite and obviously written by a scholar. It’s impressive and one of a kind. I suppose the reason I like it is because of its mission, the importance of laughter and a good time which Rabelais and his World goes into. I’m holding out that one day it will be in circulation again as used copies of it are expensive and I don’t exactly trust used book sellers. I’ve read what I could through a preview online. G&P is probably the definition of an untranslatable book. Lots of word play but some English editions have footnotes or have explanations in parenthesis. I’m hesitant to recommend it to anyone as it is very weird. I’d sample it first to get a feeling if it’s for youI’ll reply a bit more in a bit but I’m pressed for time at the moment
>>23295314Sadly OP, i can never join your threads as i have downloaded every book i have ever owned (more than 300) and doing the math on that if i did spend it...im sorry. The periphyseon costs 150 dollars...nah
>>23299838also i forgot to tell you, did you see this? was released last month. More letters between Van Gogh and his painter friend Emile Bernardhttps://www.amazon.com/My-Friend-Van-Gogh-ekphrasis/dp/1644231190/ref=sr_1_1?crid=8EDG2EF9CUYD&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.e24Wln08zA86mo_17dfA79togTQY5JP4aK2YysfPXn8pbBBQZwBdPcQZCrhTxs0469UaVL-kGnr_I0VJrq0yy4iQnr3qkIF2HGcmvBRt5p4.KKlKWJ5zNpMO6RVZ87UZ_LmtUK4mfGHOXkNvmQidZac&dib_tag=se&keywords=my+friend+van+gogh&qid=1713459548&sprefix=my+friend+van+gogh%2Caps%2C247&sr=8-1
>>23300591
>>23300699clearly fake and AI generated. You nazis will do anything to make us look bad!
Kneel
this needs an update but here's the usual
>>23295314Post celestron.
>>23295408It's not super hard to tell what most books are even in languages you don't know so don't let that stop you.
>>23295408There are people who post their shelves in Polish, German, French, Italian, Spanish, etc. Don’t let language stop you, bro.
>>23298693Vasari is very based.
>>23296897why perspective made easy?
>>23300591Shalom my friendHave you considered getting the Hebrew Bible translation by Robert Alter?How do you like Biblical Literacy? I heard it's a very liberal book
>>23295314Seems like you're missing A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. You aught to complete your collection in the Song of Ice and Fire canon
OP is a reddit nigger
>>23301223I wanted to learn how to draw, while I'm not actively doing it right now I still do some every now and then.
>>23301708Other shelf Yes I have two copies of A Dance to the Music of Time, 1st movement. One for upstairs one for downstairs.
>>23298835I appreciate your shelf. Love the blame
>>23301708Who are you trying to impress?
>>23301242nta but if someone is this much into hebrew stuff why would they want a translation? why not learn hebrew at that point?
>>23298695>>23298689>>23296271I got a couple of them Everyman's. I keep the loa books under the bed with the nyrb paperbacks after I finish them. The poebs are adjacent. Lots of Pleiades and editions Garnier too.
Any of you guys have older books?
I keep a few loebs around too.
>>23301780What makes you think I'm a Jew? All the political books? I'm a proud White American man. You should read "Days of Rage". It details Jewish Communists and their attempts to undermine America. Here's a fun passage about the (((Boudin's))) accidentally blowing their own house up.
>>23298858devi and evola physical copies holy
The difference between people who read books and people who collect books is palpable in this thread.
>>23301877I thought the beige one was suspended in mid-air and flying at the camera. What book is it?
>>23302242This is a rather old picture but part of a shelf.
I have most of my books in cabinets to save space, but heres a few I still have out.
>>23303822Also, do you try to find specific printings for the books you want?
>>23295316bad way of storing liquor
after pirating for years only i started buying real books again that i liked.
>>23303975>le whiskey>le knives >le sandoGod
>>23303197Half based half zombie drone
>>23303975I love Berserk but those 3 in 1 omnibus' are atrociously too bigTheyll take up your entire bookshelf with 15 volumes
I know this might be a tacky trinket... but I want one. It's a mini diorama of bookshelves with tiny books. When you shake the box they fly everywhere and make a mess. Hours of fun!
>>23295314Based Red Rising chad. I want to get a hardback set to write in and take notes as my personal set while I use my paperback set to shill to people. I'm on my 4th read through right now.
>>23296271Is Pogo any good?Also, you basically have my dream comic bookshelf
>>23300861>3 different zinc supplements from Superdrug, Boots and Holland and Barretts>Magnesium>Ultraman>More supplements underneath>"Immunity" orange bottle which is again zinc or zinc + Vitamin C. Exactly how much testosterone are you planning on producing?
>>233027621727 Luther bible
>>23304062Well, I enjoy reading a lot of different things, anon. It's called being "well-read" -- I find it odd that so many people are against this concept.
>>23305559you can be well read without being infected with a mind virus
>>23301886I kneel
>>23295314My "shelf"
>>23295314whoa we have the same globe
>>23307388Nothing beats getting comfy being able to hold something relatively small and easy to read
>>23305577Exactly, that's me. Well read and with no mind virus. You, on the other hand, act like a reactionary faggot that should either go back or test if your toaster is waterproof, either option, just spare us from your miserable shitposts.
you guys should post pics of yourselves reading the books
>>23300372Just wanted to let you know I just ordered this book and should get it in a week or two. I also ordered The Autumn of the Middle Ages by Huizinga, a book I’ve had on my list forever.
>>23308671You're a pseud and I can tell from your self that you're fat as fuck.
>>23295314>Dorohedoro identifiedBased.
>>23303197>Nietzche immediately after Aristotle You really need to expand your philosophy collection.
>>23295314Is this entire thread just bait? Some of you seem kind of real but there's a lot of unironic redditry going on here.
>>23308840Okay, yes it is. I was still early scrolling through the thread.The moral is, if you unironically post your self in a shelf thread then you are a redditor consoomer.
>>23308840For what purpose though? Either redditors are flooding here or trannies are pulling some sort of sting or psyop?
>>23308900internet culture of reaction farming is crystallizing here
>>233089044chan always thrived on reactions, aka bait. I’m unsure if some of these libraries are bait or serious and I’m not sure which option would be worse
>>23308910it’s like post irony spectacle. >look how “x” i am, get mad at me please
>>23295314>>23295316White>>23296168Mutt>>23296271British>>23296475Mexican>>23296893>>23296897British faggot>>23298689>>23298693>>23298695White>>23298782Jewish>>23298858Whitest man alive>>23300591This one stumped me>>23300712White >>23300861Half Chinese British mutt>>23300911The most annoying British man on earth >>23301708White>>23301872White >>23303197"got herpes from the Blarney Stone">>23303822White>>23303975White, regrettably >>23307388Some shade of brown
>>23301708>Tuftecool
>>23308840Quintessential faux-outraged reddit post begging for attention and gold.Real 4chan culture is to ignore bait and trolls and let them die in obscurity unless one wants to humor them for entertainment.
>>23298858>CompTIA Security+How is that? I've heard some mixed things from Mike Meyers as a teacher, but I remembered his A+ textbook being fine.
>>23308776>fat as fucklol is this projection? tfw 22BMI and I lift.>>23308832Yeah. I have some other stuff (Aquinas, Augustine) on another shelf, but it really is severely lacking. We've been trying to figure out a good set for the library for awhile now. The kids won't be reading philosophy for awhile anyways, so I'm not too bothered by it right now, but I've been digging around off an on for a few years, and it is an area with too many differing opinions. I don't absolutely hate the idea of an entire shelf dedicated to philosophy, but it would be rather expensive, especially at the moment.>>23309328>How is that?Well, it was okay for my use case. I had to get up to speed on cybsec concepts quickly for my grad degree (PhD in mathematics, but I'm technically working on a masters in cybsec because my PhD is cryptography focused) -- Protip for any lurkers curious about this too: Do CTFs along side it.
>>23303197are those editions of Aristotle and Plato THE ones to get?
need a another shelfi like this one though, got it for 10 bucks at goodwill, practically new
>>23303975>sunlit manQRD? New Cosmere book?
>>23310093THE? I don't know if they're "THE" versions to get, but depending on your use case, you'd usually want to have multiple translations if you aren't going to be learning the language. I specifically picked these up because I asked someone who was working on a PhD in philosophy what would be a decent version/translation if you only got one and they said those or Loeb's. The Loeb versions were a bit expensive, but I do plan to eventually have several of them. For the Loeb copies, I only have Theophratus Enquiry into Plants volume 1 and 2, but they're pretty good, or at least very interesting, so I figured I'd probably snag Plato and Aristotle one day, as well as a few ancient greek language learning books for anyone who might be interested down the line.Oh, a nice bonus for these two specific editions is that a lot of people have made lectures around those two specific copies, so it would be easier to follow along if you need that sort of thing.
>>23295314Know of any books with a romance like that of the Pierce Brown books?
Why am i the only one who gets triggered by paperbacks and any books with shitty thin tracing paper?
>>23310820I buy used paperbacks and if I like the book enough I get the hardcover. Static collections are gay and any decent bibliophile should have at least 10% turnover every year. Books are meant to be read.
>>23311066shut the fuck up
>>23295316Damn, you are fat. lose some weight.Maybe stop drinking if you can't be bothered to exercise?
>>23311300Books aren't Funko Pops.
>>23295316>gnat fan
>>23295316You guys are fucked without Saquon. You were fucked with him but still.
>>23311377and never will be. What a worthless observation.
>>23311066I do this with films and shows. I stream them and if I like them enough I get the blu-ray because I'm worried any streamed media might be cancelled one day if enough idiots find the content "problematic".
>>23310467the latest of his secret projects and in the cosmere universe
>>23310579thanks, anon.
>>23296168>funko burger king toy and NPC tracking devicelol
>>23300591any tribe of humans cutting infant boys dicks at birth deserves no place in history.
All your shelves look like shit. This is what a man’s shelf should look like. Bright, like my future. Full of art, to lift the spirits and enrich the soul.
>>23315816horrible
>>23311446fucked in the short term, way better off in the long term
>>23300712PCUSA, PCA, or OPC?
Listen to this sorry left wing liberal piece of shit: "any tribe of humans cutting infant boys dicks at birth deserves no place in history." Get over yourself euro-cheese dicked fag.
>>23295314>Brandon Sanderson hardcoversDoes this board fucking really
/// He had the look of a man whose original rustic stolidity had been supercharged with cockney cunning /// Some of the clothes in the fashion show were too off the wall for the average customer /// The weather becomes more erratic, increasing the risk of summer droughts and harvest failures /// She had the calloused hands of someone who had always worked hard for a living /// I like to swirl in a pat or two of butter off heat to add sheen and give the sauce a velvety texture /// We refute this scurrilous allegation /// Criminy, what is this world coming to? /// We could hear the sergeant bellowing orders to his troops /// Just plunk your stuff down on any old desk /// He let out a holler as he fell /// The crates were unloaded onto the wharf /// Whence does Parliament derive this power? /// There was no warrant for such behavior /// Now the last of these three objectives was obviously a pipe dream /// Neath his calm surface there was seething anger /// From what I was able to glean, the news isn't good /// The drug has a litany of possible side effects /// They gobbled up all the sandwiches /// Legislators who enact an unconstitutional law, for example, would be rebuffed by a court through the exercise of judicial review /// The US Constitution confers certain powers on the president /// A yearning for life has turned into disenchantment and ennui /// He denies making off-color remarks about his colleagues /// He popped the muffins into the oven /// You kind of have to smoosh it against the side of the bowl with a wooden spoon /// Bad habits are hard to shuck off /// The documentary glossed over some important issues ///
Top half
Bottom half
>>23321410>>23321404>nearly not a single spine crackedI always knew you fuckers bought books only to fill your shelves, but this is too much
>>23321450>if you don’t destroy your books, you didn’t read themNot everyone is a pig
>>23321450>>23321480Anon thinks he knows how to read, but he can't even hold a book properly.
>>23321638Even that will leave a slight crease.The books are the type that you sit down at a table with, not hold sideways in bed.Some of those books are easily a few kilograms in weight. There's no way anyone is holding that with one hand for several hours.They should be full of notes and annotations, which you can't do without creasing a tiny bit.
>>23301877I feel as if this would creep out any guests.
>>23298689I love the Everyman classics so much. One of the few sets of publishing that actually feel nice in the hand with sewn bindings, look nice in the shelf, and aren’t faux “vintage” like Easton press/penguin classics
>>23321404>>23321638Lmao good catch, you can actually see that he read Dumas, it's creased to shit meanwhile Cervantes looks absolutely pristine despite being a similar size.Can also tell you read the first quarter of Marx and then stopped, honestly relatable.
>>23295314>consoomerbrag
Top shelf: Non fiction/Philosophy. Mostly bought during a great urge to study philosophy, have only actually read Quran, Aurelius, Mythology and Machiavelli. Also all my journals and a sketchbook.Second shelf: Fiction, mostly Russian. Dickens stolen from a library, Cujo found in an abandoned house. Missing some Chekov out on loan and some books lost in a house move. Third Shelf: Academic, only really used the first three here.
>>23323514show something from sketchbook
Fourth shelf: Random hobby books, mostly books on foraging and trees. Some books about media. Rockets book also found in abandoned house. Fifth shelf: Scifi and consoomer shitBottom shelf: Covid tests lmao. Intending to move everything down by one when I get more fiction books to have two fiction shelves.
>>23323514>IMPORTANT Never read that one
>>23323519Tried to draw that famous portrait of Kafka during jury service.>>23323527How can you not have, it's pretty important
>>23322117> Even that will leave a slight crease.I can tell you with certainty it doesn’t. You’re just an ape. I lent my read and pristine Kafka collection to my dad, he returns it spine cracked to shit, I ask if he liked it, he got bored and didn’t read it. Made sure to ruin the book though so in your eyes i guess he’s the reader and I’m not. Fucking retard.
I always buy my books second-hand so you guys can't make fun of me for not reading>>23323529Man I should get into sketching too, a great idling activity
>>23323606>>23323529>pencil drawingI'm going to be a faggot (though totally fitting the theme we got going here) and ask for introductory texts
>>23323615bert dodson's keys to drawincheck /ic/ there's usually a book thread up
>>23323641Cheers
>>23323615Sketchfag >>23323529 here, I am going to out myself for immense faggotry but I only got in to sketching by playing RDR2 and seeing Arthur sketch stuff. I usually just try and emulate his quick and dirty style but can't do anything too complex since I really struggle with shading. >>23323641Might check this out actually
Vertical stacking is the future
>>23323694>Arthur's sketchesThat was the least believable part of the game
>>23323521i know you are hot- please come fuck me
/lit/ is slipping. There are maybe 2-3 worthy shelves ITT.
>>23323641 (me)ok so i went to check /ic/ and found out it's not what it used to be when i last was there years agofor beginners the recommended books were keys to drawing/drawing on the right side of the brain (whichever suits you better) first, then continue with loomis (picrel)
>>23323837these are some books that were bundled together in one mega for beginners, if you want some more recs (i assume these will all be available on anna's archive)
>>23323837>>23323847Thank you very much for these anon!
>>23323847and lastly, here's some ancient knowledge from the anons that came before us
>>23323827Post yours bitch
>>23295314What's the John Keel book?
>>23323856Already did. But I'm not going to tell you, you have to guess. If you choose my shelf, I will have forced you to admit that not all shelves are created equal.
>>23323976Kidding, here is my shelf
>>23323981DISREGARD THIS FAGGOT. Here is my real shelf.
>>23323981>>23323989OP here why are people stealing my photos?
>>23323989>>23323981These are not mine. I posted it here: >>23296475
Here's my favorite shelf (sorry for the grainy picture—my camera is 5 years old).I'm currently reading Homer's Odyssey (tr. Fagles). I know most people say you should do Fagles for Iliad and Fitzgerald for Odyssey, but I've done it the other way around and it's been very enjoyable.
>>23323981why two copies of "Path of Daggers"?
>>23319247>still malding that Sanderson and Sanderchads wonI LOVE ALL SANDERSISTERS ITT
>>23323981Take out Harry Potter and the cursed child and this is by far the best shelf posted.
>>23325501A spare copy in case I get mad and tear up the Perrin chapters.
The ones that get the most use for me are the I Spy's. A couple of these books I haven't read, I just grabbed them off the sidewalk. But most are my favorites
Are library of america books any good?
>>23325647some
>>23295316go giants
>>23318055I’m OPC.
>>23325641fletcher hanks? that is odd to see on /lit/. impeccable taste.try basil wolverton too
>>23329681I actually kind of fear that book, I've read the whole thing but it's clear that Fletcher Hanks was mildly evil on a personal and I'm worried the comics will implant evil in my subconscious mind. I don't read it unless I'm sober and don't show it to my friends if they're high on anything.
>>23295338>everyone is shaming me for doing this. Am I being retarded?>no... it's everybody else who's wrong
>>23301708>boswell's life of samuel johnsonbased
>>23330809based trailer trash appreciator
>>23295314
>>23330809Thought those were plates
>>23328301Ordained or a lay theologian?I'm LCMS myself, though quite fond of you conservative Reformed folks.
>>23330922>rei ayanami figurineholy based
>>23330981Layman moving in the direction of seminary. OPC is pretty solid for the most part. If I didn’t have a Reformed church nearby I’d try to find an LCMS.
>>23331057Dogmatically, we Lutheran and Reformed differ only, or almost only, on the mode of Christ's presence in the Supper, though our emphases in practice are very different as flowing from that difference. The closest rooms in all the Father's house.God bless you in your seminary decision. Few are the laborers, yet how blessed are they who preach the Gospel.
>>23331545Anon here who's not really familiar with the topic. In terms of clerical vestment and church design/decoration, is the following accurate:Anglican (most Catholic-like)LutheranCalvinist (least Catholic-like)
>>23331593>Amber>MausBased
>>23331596For the most part. Though I’ve seen some Calvinist ministers wear much more than a simple Geneva gown.Of course today some Calvinist churches are far more liturgical than others. It ranges from four bare walls and a sermon to full on litanies.Normally when I hear a minister wearing vestments in an OPC church I just assume Geneva gown.
>huns using catholicism as a marker Hilarious, maybe even original. Why even bother trying to distinguish your profane nonsense? You have no highest authority and you have no connection to tradition. Hell, it's practically just a subset of one big political party at this point.
I have a decent collection of media ranging from books, to manga, to more general media I've been collecting for the past decade now, enough to fill six shelves already.And I have to wonder, what will I do with it? When I was a kid I envisioned passing it down or donating it all to a library, but it seems like local libraries are just downsizing to computer labs.What do other anons plan to do with their collections? Or do you not care and hope it turns to dust shortly after you die? Or perhaps you care even less than that?
>>23332295Get buried with it. I've got a wife and kids. The kids get our massive library.
>>23331596No this isn't correct100 years ago you'd be correct but Anglicanism has changed a lotAnglicanism is a broad movement and it is today dominated by Evangelical churchesHigh church anglicanism is a minorityLutherans are surprisingly catholic, for example the Eucharist, reverence for saints and praying the rosaryI'd say that Lutherans today are the most similar to Catholics in that the majority of mainstream Lutheran churches are liturgical and are Eucharist focused whereas you cannot say the same about Anglicans
>>23324630Bro how much did this cost
>all that SandersonIs it really that good?
>>23331596I'd put we Lutherans above Anglicans in terms of our historical rootedness re architecture, vestments etc. However, it's not a huge, or important, difference.As >>23332361 noted, the Lutheran tradition, though I would prefer to be called the Evangelical Catholic tradition, is deeply conservative and historic. The same poster noted that the Lutheran tradition maintains a Eucharistic reverence, appreciation of the saints, and historic modes of prayer.From experience, in my personal congregation, the Eucharist is given every Sunday and holy day, with some receiving the host on the tongue, myself included. Our church calendar includes commemorations and festivals for the saints. On historic modes of prayer, we do pray the rosary, but omit the request for Mary to pray for us, in the pre-Trent mode. I had my pastor bless my prayer beads and he did without a second thought. Cardinal Ratzinger once noted that the Augsburg Confession could be considered a Catholic statement of faith. While I don't want to pretend the approval of the Romanists bears much weight, this is very telling. If anything, the Lutheran tradition bears more similarity to the Orthodox than the Catholic. Or perhaps a middle road between the two. We have a strong mystical tradition, but also a strong dogmatic and philosophical tradition. My pastor's office is decorated with Orthodox icons, for example. Though, while all of this is nice from an aesthetic perspective, it must be remembered that the Church is defined not as who has the most historic liturgy, but as being where the Word and Sacraments are given, where sinners are justified by God's grace through faith in Christ, as Scripture teaches and Aquinas proves.
>>23333645>>23332361>>23332163Thanks for your replies anons, very interesting
Bedroom shelf, Plato is usually on the living room shelf but I'm rereading it again.>>23295316Are the Gnats a team?>flavored liquorGrocc>>23296893Nice>>23298858Distro?>>23301708Had to trade in that Politics, paper was shite.>>23303197Based>>23321450>Not reading a book, giving it to a friend and buying a fresh copy for your shelfCasual
>>23333713>Distro?I use Gentoo for academia and hacking. OpenBSD for everything else.
>>23333111blessed by jiko
>>23333728openly based
Back in ‘12 we would shame anons in shelf threads for having Loebs instead of OCTs.Now anons get shamed for reading Brandon Sanderson instead of Harry Potter./lit/ has fallen.
>>23333983So, whats actually wrong with getting Loeb over Oxford Classical Text? Is it merely a quality thing, or just because OCT is more expensive?
>>23333983Post your bookshelf
>>23333983>t. humble Oxford Classical Text merchant
>>23323981what'd you think of the prince/king/emperor of thorns series? I liked the first two during my edgy phase but the third seemed super rushed and, no spoilers, they just kinda blew their load immediately on something they'd only hinted at in the other books
>>23334025Because it's not translated, and the notes are in latin/greek, and that means you're "hardcore" or something. I don't know, imagine giving a shit. I mean, I just read it because I wanted to know what it said, I don't care about learning latin or greek. If I'm worried about dubious translations, I'll read two or three different translated versions.
>>23296271>>23296758Only based posters on /lit/ right now.
>>23295314I can appreciate the BLAME! manga and the Jojo figure lol
>>23301708>Tolkien, Lewis: based> Whitman: Comfy> French learning: Also comfyWell done anon
>>23335240Nevermind. It looks like some of it is translated. Now I don't know.
>>23336570Had no idea The Ruins was based off of a book. I loved the movie, saw it in theaters. Is the book good?
Please enjoy my socialist literature shelf
>>23295316>Dune but no Dune 2-6>Hyperion but no Fall of Hyperion
>>23295314Only 5 (five) were bought new, the rest are all thrift shops or second hand. The top row belongs to a different shelf, but it has non-book shit on it so I just cut it to the one row.
>>23295314My gfs books
>>23338381My gf mogs your gf (there's more in the bedroom)
>>23338407Damn. Can we trade? Mine switched to kindle
The bookshelf at the head of my bed, aka my "favourites" shelf.
>>23338306>socialist>steinbeckUnsure if underage or retarded, but definitely will pretend it was bait.
>>23338381>>23338407My wife mogs both of yours, but I'm not going to post a picture of her shelves.
>>23301877I got Faulkner's As I Lay Dying finnish translation from 1952.
>>23338355Is that an abridged Gibbons?
>>23338381>>23338407>>23338746Post their feet
>>23338407>Paddingtonbasado
>>23338407>Binging with Babish
>70% of the thread is fantasyniggers>it's not even good fantasy like book of the new sun or clark ashton smith, it's literal brando sando and halo adaptations en masse/lit/ has fallen
>>23339406Post your bookshelf
>>23339422I already did here >>23296475
>>23338355>Snicketnice
My Dad died recently so I've been going through his old books and found some I didn't expect. He was generally conservative, slightly racist and didn't seem to read much yet had a lot of books (he stole a lot of them from the school he worked as a teacher). I've been going through them to see which are worth keeping or selling.I found an encyclopedia of cheese, 3 books about coca cola and the cola wars. "Oranges are not the only fruit", an entire shelf of Irish musician bio's, Kant's A Critique of Pure Reason, Euclid's elements, an old version of Grays Anatomy, some Law books that I thought were a foreign language because of how inpenetrable they were, some Beat Generation books, 19th century erotica and a children's bible with terrible drawings of Sonic the Hedgehog on a blank page I drew when I must have been about 5 and a book called "the Urantia Book" which was fascinating when I looked it up. It's like a new Bible for a vaguely Christian religion/cult(?) and no one knows who wrote it. That one's a keeper.Not much fiction though...
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