>>25050289
0/10

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This is my big shelf, and then I have a whole closet full of books

>>25050289
>all that philosophy
Hells yeah, good taste.
>by the humid ass window, sure to destroy them
DOUBLE HELLS YEAH.
>history-ish things
Eh.
>Necronomicon
Lulwut, why?

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>>25050325
I like this. The less I say about your books, the better.

>>25050325
Good collection. Not a fan of Marxism (But from the left)
>Wilhelm Reich
Fuck yeah. I want those.

>>25050325
>McCoy Tyner
nice.
Who’s the blondie on the CD, France Gall? Books are decent.

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Checking in.

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it ain’t much and I’ve honestly got books here I won’t ever read anyway
so it goes

>>25050490
It is France Gall

>>25050325
A bookcase that screams “I’m 50 years old and used to read 30 years ago”.

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>>25050325
We might have similar taste. And same ugly edition of Women and Men hehe

>>25050325
pretty nice, i'll buy smugglers bible and whores for gloria off you
>>25050666
>dennis cooper
>harold brodkey
>ben marcus
>peter nadas
>paul metcalf
>gerald murnane
>alexander theroux
>aidan higgins
>felipe alfau
>mufuckin bottoms dream
impossibly based

>>25050330
I have nowhere else to put it.

>>25050641
How about buying physical books poorfag!!

>>25050552
Does this book exonerate Pol Pot?

>>25050666
What went through your mind when buying Schmidts Bottom's Dream?
Doesn't that cost like a few hundred dollars? And the chances of anyone actually finishing it are pretty small.

>>25051091
ah sweet its the bottoms dream schizo, how you been bro?

>>25050325
Nice Progress Publishers volumes. I'm jealous. The Modern Library Giant of Capital is really handsome, too.

>>25051091
I bought it for the memes. Honestly not my best purchase but it happens sometimes

>shelf thread
>most popular entires in their respective fields and topics
Every time.

>>25051353
My nigger up there has Dr. Painting (PBUH) next to his Marx and Bataille and you're talking about "popular entries". You must be blind.

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Dropping in with my shelf, where I store predominantly read books which I want to keep, and in reply to this post will be my currently reading/to read/re-read shelf on my GFs book trolley located on my side of the bed; for easy access in bed (the best place to read night or day).

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>>25051427

Super fucking reddit in here
>>25051427
Aside from you

>>25051449
Shut up, nigger!

>>25050325
>>25050490
Tyner is the goat. I love Extensions and Asante so fucking much

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>>25050289
I am away from my main apartment (where all my books are) for 3 months. Took these with me to read them in that time.

Translation of he German titles:
Houellebecq - The Possibility of an Island
Knut Hamsun - Pan, Dreamers
Dawkins - Selfish Gene

>>25050325
Really like the Sade and the political/history section, I hope to be like you when I grow up.

>>25051427
>Tom Bombadil
>Culture of Critique
>The Turner Diaries
>even Queer by Burroughs
Base-...
>BAP
>Douglas Murray
Ehhh...

>>25051468
>island in Deutsch is Incel
It's like pottery

>>25051468
TMoPI is GOATed, but FWFM is like Paglia worst book. Also, why does everyone like the fat Romanian Jew so much.

>>25051618
>TMoPI
Yeah, it was pretty good. It got recommended here a few times, so I tried it. But I have the feeling that the author put a lot of his fetishes in there. Exhibitionism, Raped by Zombie, Incest, etc.

> FWFM is like Paglia worst book.
I had troubles ordering from amazon. On the other website I had to use, her other books were far too expensive. I hope I will get at least something out of this one.

>why does everyone like the fat Romanian Jew so much.
I somehow enjoyed BAM from him. It had a nice mixture of humor and stupid philosophical ideas. Thus I wanted to see what an actual philosophy book from him would offer.

>>25051641
You should read Sexual Personae. It's unlike anything else. One of my favourite books of all time. I can't say it changed my life, because it basically just expressed really self-evident ideas that I've been convinced for a while but never seen expressed before. It's like a Hobbesian approach to the history of Western Art.

>>25051427
What's in between Black Metal and The Art of War?

>>25051078
I doubt it.

>>25050325
>This is my big shelf
it's not that big anon
>I have a whole closet full of books
not the only thing that's in the closet, i'll wager

>>25051613
>BAP
I bought and read most of it not long after it came out and I was 17 and didn't know he was a brown homosexual.
>Douglas Murray
I was also about 18 when I read TSDOE and ultimately aside from Murray's shabbos goy israel love (of which I was not aware at the time) he lays out a good history of immigration in Britain specifically, kind of an "enemy of my enemy is my friend" thing.

>>25052407
A hardback copy of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island that my Great Grandpa (who sadly passed away aged 94 in 2017) gifted me when I was about 7 years old

>>25052420
Damn, I was hoping for some groundbreaking scholarship

>>25053715
You can't get blood from a stone.

>>25050289
Save space: jettison whatever’s on archive.com

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this my shelf of books

>>25056548
>Maoism
>not the superior Xi Jinping Thought
At least it's not Trotskyism

>>25056565
That's not actually my shelf and Trotskyism is objectively correct, I'm afraid. Socialism-in-one-Country is not Socialism, or Communism or anything at all, really.

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>>25056607
Imagine doing anything besides looking at a screen lmao, couldn't be me

>>25051429
That Strugatsky was so boring.

>>25056590
Have fun jewing up the whole world, then!

>>25056635
>while watching copious amounts of BLACKED porn

>>25051468
>Houellebecq - The Possibility of an Island
>Knut Hamsun - Pan, Dreamers
>Dawkins - Selfish Gene
AfD much?

>>25050289
i would ask you how that penguin history of china is but literally none of your books show signs of having been read

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My closet of nyrb

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>>25056913
>you take good care of your books? YOU DON'T LE READ!!!
I've been using a book protector bag since i can remember so books I've read dozens of times still look brand new, because I'm not a nigger like you.

>>25056976
what's the best NYRB book?

>>25056980
The is the most virginal behavior conceivable by man

>>25050325
Crazy jew shelf

>>25050666
No friends

>>25051427
Disentegrating classics

>>25056548
Communist

>>25056980
so how is that penguin history of china?

>>25050325
>Americans
Relics. Lots of relics.

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You pay now!

>>25056976
if real, somewhat jealous

>>25050289
test

>>25057034
I really wish I could fuck Thomas Pynchon. In his younger years. Or like one of his characters. I would go fucking crazy on Slothrop and Doc. And Frenesi.

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>>25057043
The folios, loebs, etc should make you envious

>>25057061
anne frank ahh

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>>25057017
Its good

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>>25050289
Update

>>25057061
>>25057080
Consoom

>>25056525
cardiacs are sick

>>25057206
*Collect

>>25056980
blacks always be mistreating they books

>>25050561
love those old 20th Century editions. nice books

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>he isnt donating his read books to the local detention center

ngmi

>>25057262
yeah, lately I'm starting to think they are actually the greatest music of all time

very /lit/ band too, now that I think of it. Quotes a lot of old books and poetry

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>>25057757
>old 20th Century editions
That's practically brand new!

>>25057930
They're extremely zany. But I listen to Sing To God quite often.

>>25056666
Look at those digits.

>>25058207
Yeah, Sing to God is my favorite too, though they finally released the final album, LSD, a few months ago and I might like it even more

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Some konnemans

bump

>>25059016
I am a modern library enjoyer.

>>25058977
They're broken up? Say it ain't so!

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>>25059223
Bigger section with loa

>>25059448
What do you get out of this collection? Do you just enjoy collecting?

>>25059465
It's 19th century orientef

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>>25051427
Why abridged Gulag?
>>25056525
>MDE
Based how much?
>>25057080
Did you read #232? The first PUA book in history.

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>>25050289
have a bad camera but

>>25061163
what do you think of those Pevsner Folio editions? I read his outline of euro architecture and thought it was great

>>25061097
>MDE
>Based how much?
idk this was the second or third run and was pretty expensive new, like $60-80 range iirc. Cool book, other than all the pages that are literally just gay porn

>>25062328
I've never been able to justify buying the MDE books even though I want them. The scalper prices are exorbitant. Resellers should be gulaged.

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>>25061097
Only in translation. I’m working through the whole series in roughly publication order. I only within the past year or so have come into enough time/money to not only buy the whole series but also read through them untranslated. Unfortunately, I’m a few years out from my classicist days and my Latin is barely tolerable and my Greek pitiable at best. It’s slow but rewarding work to get back into it.

>>25062391
Yup
>>25062634
It's a fun book, my wife liked the part about wooing your date with cheeses.
I've debated learning a classical language. Latin then Attic Greek?

>>25062695
Definitely. Learning Latin first makes it easier to build a foundation for both inflected languages. Greek inflects similarly but has much more elision, crasis, etc.

>>25050552
>Jack Vance

That book got me hooked on him. Great stuff

>>25056665
Was disappointed with it too

Next I read of theirs will be The Doomed City. Anyone know if that’s any good?

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>>25061097
Nice books, i like the goethe

>>25056976
The softcovers mostly go in the closets. I have two shelves of penguins in there too.

>>25061163
Fascinating folios.

My own shelf needs to be cleared to make room for more everyman's. I have a dozen sitting around.

>>25063516
What did you learn from Dianetics?

>>25063524
Battlefield earth came out when i was in middle school, so i read that around the time i read the book of mormon. Essentially, it seems like cannibals and evil exist due to thetans from aliens who corrupt man's innocent nature. Hubbard seems to draw from Rousseau a bit.

>>25063516
Is there a reason why Everyman's went from bright red to burgundy red? Because now if I try to categorize my new books and old books alphabetically it looks like shit.

>>25057061
The Cantos seems out of place among the rest of these lol

also i see that Holderlin back there; very nice

>>25063516
Really nice. Which are your favourites of the antiquarian volumes there?

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At first, I wanted to judge y'all, because your collection look dry as fuck. But hey, I have no one else to share my book collection with, so we are all in it together, I guess. Maybe that makes me the normiest here ?
>>25051427
Ok you're cool.

>>25051429
You belong here

>>25051468
Smartass

>>25056003
I don't even understand

>>25056525
We could NOT be friends, sorry.

>>25056548
Such an angry bookshelf omg

>>25057061
oldestest

>>25057080
No way

>>25057100
Makes no sense to me but Hegel is cool

>>25061163
Are you a shop ?

>>25063669
Based amvets patron

>>25063669
Do you shop exclusively at second hand airport book stands?

>>25063564
Thats 19th century vs modern. They did change some from navy to bright red. I dont know why.

>>25063569
I was moving those to another shelf in the house. Thats overflow really.

>>25063570
Hard to say, but i think my first collected editions of rousseau.

>>25062722
I've read the first 3-4 stories in the collection already. I liked them but I'm really focusing on this horror-science fiction anthology I got for Christmas.

>>25050330
I actually like Lovecraft honestly.

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>>25050289
My heart aches, because in a few weeks I'll be moving to a new apartment after so many years of being here.
It's bigger, I'll have my own library, but I'll miss this little corner.

>>25064192
How do you people put up with all the hair your cats shed? It gets everywhere and is nigh impossible to get rid of

>>25063669
You musician? Me too!

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>>25064214
You have to embrace it.

>>25056913
There's a bookmark in the William James, genius. Look next time.

>>25064192
A shame because it’s one comfy looking corner. I do wish I could see some of the names of the books here though…

>>25058177
I bet you do a lot of drugs

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>>25064265
I have some outdated pictures of that bookshelf. It didn't change much since I took them.

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>>25063516
Thanks I like yours as well. My neighbor growing up was a Bildungsroman lit professor and when I went to college I took the class without realizing he was teaching it until he walked in the fitst day.

>>25063669
>We could NOT be friends, sorry.
as if I'd EVER associate with a filthy digital synthesizer owner

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My collection of signed, inscribed, and rarely fine Edward Plunkett. Not seen: fragile things that can’t go on the shelf.

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Moved cross country with next to nothing so this is six months of slowly rebuilding

>>25065095
How was Kinski

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>>25065246
Salacious. Turning to any random page (pic related) leads to sex. Very good overall.

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>>25064471
Ha! Great instincts on my shelf.

>>25050552
What tablet?

>>25056669
You, sir, are quite WRONG, especially since I've moved to Tushy Raw in glorious 4k.

>>25050666
How in the hell did you find the Arno Schmidt?

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i have bad taste