>ITT: Discuss and recommend literatureQuestions for this thread:>What are you reading currently?>What would you like to read, but can’t find?>What have you read, that you found to be overrated?For this thread I also want to talk to some of you anons about presentation and standards when putting a physical library together. Books really are on the decline these days. Your books are valuable, especially if you take the time to put things together properly. Not all of you are “book people” I understand that. Those of you who are or are aspiring to be, I hope you’ll listen. If you just want to read the classics and drop them, a Goodwill collection is fine, but I’m talking to those who want to put something refined together. I will be posting pictures of my primary shelf to further the point.>Pic 1First part of “Modern Literature”. These shelves are selectively put together, but I have to make-do with space. That’s why Robert Frost is there, when it should be in a poetry section of its own. The Bukowski I’m so glad to put together the way it is. All Black Sparrow editions.
>>524480726>Pic 2Modern literature continued.
>>524480726lot of fagkowski you got there pal
>>524480833not really, he reads quick and tells a good story
>>524480726>What are you reading currently?The Hunt for Red October - Tom Clancy>What would you like to read, but can’t find?Schottenstein edition of the Babylonian Talmud (too expensive, oy vey)>What have you read, that you found to be overrated?Mein Kampf - Adolf Hitler
>>524480833You wouldn't understand.
>>524480726Buke sucks dude. He was such a fucking loser but I can see why he would be a hero to a neet incel like you
>>524480902Okay but he's a j*wish kike that poisons your Christian soul and mind, White man.
>>524480801>Pic 3Modern Literature continued. Ayn Rand 100% deserves a spot in there. Whether you like her or not, her books have inspired throughout the generations in a way most authors today, will never reach. Also, I don’t really care for Easton Press or the Franklin Library. They’re tacky to me, I prefer something with a dust jacket. I don’t mind Barnes & Noble leatherbounds for certain things like all of Edgar Allan Poe. They have a little soul about them at least
>>524480726Jeffery epstein bookshelf
All redditer pseud books. No actual interest in reading, only in seeming well ready to inifaga. Disgusting.
>>524480726>A few sci-fi novels gifted to me by a friend.>An undamaged Torah with good commentary to understand what the elders thought of it. That or an early Bible for the same NT reason.>Marx's works in general, especially after reading his "critique" on Max Stirner, Saint Max. It is very obvious how little Marx pays attention to his opposition, which led to his own work fighting ghosts and mostly landing with a thud. No wonder other communists had to write works to actually counter capitalism.
>>524480833>>524480942>>524480950Eh maybe you guys aren’t very fond of writing and writers. Bukowski was great because he wrote like a simpleton but he was honest. Something all the sophistos in the world couldn’t do if they tried. Even “geniuses” loved his writing. A good writer knows when he can break the rules of good writing>Pic 4Smaller editions, I don’t care much for mass market, but some are better than others. That copy of A Christmas Carol is the most perfect edition I’ve ever seen of it. For Shakespeare I don’t like omnibus complete editions because I think each play should have its own copy. That and the Folger’s notes for each play are very detailed and integrated in the text nicely
>>524481113>his "critique" on Max Stirner, Saint MaxThat remained unpublished during his lifetime probably because at some point he realized it was just pointless seething against a former friend that went double the length of the original work.
>>524480950> Charles Bukowski's mother, Katharina Bukowski, was the daughter of Wilhelm Fett and Nannette Israel. A Jewish origin of Nannette Israel is sometimes assumed; the name Israel is, however, widespread among Catholics in the Eifel region.
>>524480988>Ayn Rand 100% deserves a spot in there. Whether you like her or not, her books have inspired throughout the generations in a way most authors today, will never reach. Ayn Rand is a terrible author. Objectivism is a childs ideology that can only exist in a perfect vacuum much like communism and marxism. Rampant individualism will always be just as dangerous and destructive as unchecked collectivism.
>>524480726The Theory of Money and Credit (1912)https://mises.org/library/book/theory-money-and-creditWhat i am reading now but I gave up reading it front to back and just read sections that sound interesting.
>>524481231Yeah! I wish Marx did listen to the opposition more. He was generally a good writer, so his works would have been far more powerful. Nowadays they're basically just a primer for future authors.
>>524481073The Great Gatsby, or Journey to the End of the Night, those are Redditor-pseud books? Crazy. Like or dislike people pay me a lot for my book sets (when I make a sellable one) because I know what I’m doing. You ever see The Ninth Gate? I make that guy look like small-time shit. I ain’t even showing you guys what I’m really working on.>>524481276True and yet everyone from WWII vets, to crummy politicians, to Zack Snyder love her work. Plus if you ever want to BTFO a feminist, tell them about the leaps Rand made towards pushing female writers into the stratosphere. They hate that>Pic 5This shelf is Dostoevsky and the ancient classics. I had Don Quixote in there, but am struggling with space. Was excited to finally put the Trilogy of Life together
>>524480726Im currently reading Edgar Rice Burrough's Barsoom series. Will move on to Pelucidar next. They're quite a pleasant read.
>>524480988Also, the 2nd half of The Fountainhead is literally just Ayn Rand fantasizing about being raped. Easily one of the worst books I have ever read.
>>524481403>Pic 6The Pillars of all Literature, I’m very particular about translators. That Decameron in particular was choice. Real hard to track in hardback. The John Ciardi Divine Comedy is so fucking good. I only wish there was a copy with Dore’s illustrations with that translation.
>>524481231Max is way cooler than MarxWhy the fuck would you not live as an.Egoist?
>>524481471But can you refute what was said to you? How is that a problem btw? A woman confessing her rape fantasies, at least that’s honest>Pic 7True Crime and conspiracy literature. To me it’s more like “the villains of the world” as a book section.
>>524480726>this book destroys the leftist
>>524481600I love how some people think I don’t read my books because the spines are so clean. Bitch I hold my books right so the spines never crack. I’ve read 70% of this shelf. Plus a good shelf can’t be all stuff you’ve read, that’s not how you put a library together. There’s always new texts to beat.>Pic 8Continued from 7. Glad Arktos did a fine new edition of Decline of the West
>>524481709>Pic 9This section is sort of poetry, and the “Master Fantasies”
>>524481191Lord of the Flies made my dick hard
>>524481770>Pic 10Master Fantasies continued. The William Morrow Tolkien’s are great. The last word on hardcover Tolkien.
>>524481823There really isn’t a solid hardcover for Lord of the Flies outside the first edition. I wish there was. The ones that you can get easily enough are sort of too plain. I hate a plain hardcover. Unless it’s something like Moby Dick or Dickens, the sort of thing you’d expect to find in a dust-jacket-less board book.>Pic 11Sci-fi and Horror. So damn happy I decided the Bachman Books were the best Stephen King a decade ago. It’s getting fucking hard to get copies of that one now. Mine was like $2
>ahem
>>524481447What kinda copies for Barsoom are you using?>Pic 12Sci-fi and Horror continued. Those particular trade editions of Vonnegut are getting harder to find, but they’re the best. The current series all look really stupid to me. It’s like the current round of Phillip K. Dick are very sterile looking
>>524481923i approve of your bookshelf.
>>524482009It’s alright, but your scope is very narrow, and holy shit organize them for fucks sake.>Pic 13This is all books and film, books relating to film. 007 and the Infinity Gauntlet are there for space, but also because what was better for movies than 007 or the Infinity Gauntlet? Haha
>>524481191I like bukowski
Banned books I have.
>>524482079Only a retard or a D&C shill wouldn’t. People pay me thousands for books man.>Pic 14Film continued, if any anon is interested in film, go buy a fucking copy of Cassavetes on Cassavetes. It is really everything you need to know about how rigged the Hollywood system is. One of the best books on the subject of Hollywood ever
>>524482224>silent deathBased and Festerpilled
>>524482224Not bad, you should get those hardcovers sleeved up.>Pic 15Graphic Art, The Shining book is there for spacing. Damn that Taschen for The Shining was intense.
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>>524481403Everyone on pol is a pleb with a room temperature IQ. Your collection is excellent.
>>524482345>Pic 16Graphic Art. From Hell is one of the greatest comics ever made, and every /pol/ack should read it. This section is just what I can store here. My graphic art collection in total is vast. I have a master plan around it
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>>524481191Henry IV was his best
>>524482431I know anon, I can’t help but prod them a bit. I just want people to know. That if you actually care about doing a physical library, then it pays to be discerning about how it all comes together, and what editions you’re getting. Keep sets together. Seek better editions of the things you love. Know when a “lesser” edition is in fact better than a plain-ass leatherbound. Like with my Dostoevsky, there isn’t a hardcover set of those that is better than the paperback set I have from those translators. It’s the best it can be really.>Pic 19The Top Cap. Oversize editions.
>>524482290what's it about
>>524480801Ulysses was dog shit. It's a story of a boring day written in multiple styles with each suffering from disjointed dialog and flow. I don't know why it's considered so great. Oh wow, this part is written like a play. Oh wow, now theres a random narrator. Do you have to have read Homer's odyssey to appreciate it? Am I just that dumb?Currently reading Moby Dick because it's one of the other classics and it's good but not like stay up late reading when I need to be up in 4 hours good.
>>524481403>>524481500>>524481770>>524481835These two sections are fucking golden anon. I actually see what you’re saying in the OP. I should do something like that. A real masterful set. Have you picked up any editions of Plutarch’s Lives?
>>524482704Funny Ulysses is one of two on that row I haven’t read, but I will someday, even if it mostly sucks. It is important whether we like it or not. Thankfully I’ve read Lattimore’s translations of The Illiad and Odyssey. So I can use that. I don’t think you’re dumb, some books just don’t connect. One of the biggest wastes of time ever for me was Infinite Jest, which I read all of. It sucks though. Misery porn written by an addict trying to seem clever and not really succeeding. The ultimate in pseud-literature to me. Blood Meridian has kinda been co-opted by similar types, but the value of Blood Meridian to literature is obvious>>524482491I still need to get Part II and Richard III in those editions. It was those three plays that Chimes at Midnight was adapting.
>>524482018Im reading an omnibus with the first 7 barsoom books. quite a chonker.
>>524482883Plutarch’s Lives. I have read bits of it, as for a solid set, the Modern Library 2 volume is fine, but it doesn’t really preserve the original order they came in. I don’t think it’s complete either. There are other sets, but not all have the order they were actually first written in, and a lot won’t be complete. I think the only complete English translation is John Dyrden. His is legit, but it is very old and dry. I actually wish someone would do a new full translation.Right now I’m working on Journey to the West which is a pain in the ass for the same reasons. Even my Arabian Nights isn’t “complete” but complete sets are very old, decayed, and prohibitively expensive. Gotta wait and hope for a new reprint or better yet an all new full translation
>>524483059Nice. Myself I’d go for a paperback box of those, but I’m sure the newer ones look terrible. Tarzan the same.
>>524480726Chapter 7 of Orthodoxy and The Religion of the Future by Father Seraphim Rose is about an Orthodox Christian understanding of the modern UFO phenomena. Wether you are even religious or noy really dosen't matter. Really fun listen and the audiobook is on youtube.
>>524480833midwits love to shit on bukowski. low hanging fruit for obvious hiccups. regardles hes a great insightful story teller.
>>524481403>The Great Gatsby, or Journey to the End of the Night, those are Redditor-pseud books?The Great Gatsby was a Mary Sue self-insert for F. Scott. He most likely wrote it to assuage his feelings of cuckoldry.
>>524480726>Edith Hamilton Mythology then the Iliad>your diary desu>East of Eden. Good book, just not great
Apology to Mohammed in which it's proved that Mohammed "the prophet" was a Christian whose message was perverted by his dad's clique of polytheists.
>>524484157Who was the Mary Sue? If you mean Nick Carraway, he totally isn’t. He’s guilty too. Also Fitzgerald wouldn’t have self-inserted as a Mary Sue lol, he was very much an insecure guy with money and drink problems, and he knew that.
>>524482410>Bonnie Blue MurderIt's time.
>>524481403>>524482431>The Jordan Peterson book clubgay ass normie collection
>>524480726I’m reading The Prince by Machiavelli right now. Got about 2 dozen books lined up after this one but I haven’t decided yet which one I want to read next. Part of me wants to read a history of Ancient Rome but another part of me wants to read something else.
>>524484565Gatsby was. He was somewhat sainted in his portrayal. Daisy and his relationship mirrors Fitzgerald's relationship with Zelda.We are meant to feel as though Gatsby is the hero of the story. The way he's written it's evident the author put his circumstances into the story, if not his own identity.Gatsby was F. Scott's ideal self.
>>524484713Normies don’t own copies of The Adolescent man, I’m sorry. It’s just not true. Also who the fuck is Jordan Peterson? I don’t follow E-celebs or TV weathermen. I don’t have cable, I don’t use Spotify, I don’t have subscriptions, I don’t hear or see ads ever. Unless it’s a billboard or I’m at my Boomer parents’ House visiting. That’s the only fucking time I see TV channels these days. You guys always mention these nobody-personalities like they hold weight.
>>524484920Gatsby is not his ideal self. Gatsby is a liar, a criminal, put pussy on a pedestal, and worst of all lied to himself. That’s not a Mary Sue dude, that’s a flawed character. Tommy Wiseau in The Room was not a criminal or a liar, he was a fucking Saint
>>52448493999% of your collection is gay ass shit derived from the Peterson/pol/ connection for years nowsame stupid shitsame fuckin Peterson approved titlesholy shit you fucks have zero originality
>>524485013You're one of the pseudo intellectuals Hitler wrote about. Reading books, maybe even citing them verbatim, without understanding their deeper meaning.
>>524485013Gatsby was lost in the sauce and stopped at nothing while trying to claw his fever dream into reality, he's the new world, new money, new man ideal to whom the grand goal justifies any means. Anyone who can't appreciate the why behind Gatsby has no heart, though anyone who thinks he's actually great has no brain.
>>524485152Uh huh, but can you refute what I just said? You said Gatsby is a “Mary Sue self-insert” can you justify that? Do you understand the terms?>>524485150Buzzword buzzword buzzword. Do you even know about Cassavetes or Frozen Hell? Name one book club that lists them
>>524485263Gatsby was the hero of the story. You're thinking in terms of heroes and villains, but the story was about emotion and circumstance. It mirrored Fitzgerald's life in a way.In emotional terms: Gatsby could do no wrong. That's how he was a Mary Sue.
>>524485468>Gatsby was the hero of the story. You're thinking in terms of heroes and villains,You clearly are, don’t put words into my mouth.
>>524485990>don’t put words into my mouth.Sorry, I know you want to save room for cocks.
>>524486510Stay mad little nigger
>>524486510kek>>524485263shut the fuck up faggot, my collection mogs yours since it doesn't contain Peterson slop
>>524482224where did you get that version of might is right
The Sun Also Rises No one can hate on Hemingway even the most pretentious litfag
>>524483980Bukowski sucks ass. Might as well go with that pedophile Foucault while you're at it.
