2/10

>Halo

>dictionary

>>373430
>Panzer Commander
I've been looking for that one

>>373448
faggot

That's probably the shittiest collection I've ever seen.

wtf nigga

>>373448
We should be friends, bro.

>>373472
>That's probably the shittiest collection I've ever seen.

with the exception of the dictionary and mccarthy's the road i 100% agree.

>>373493
i no rite!
u like twilite?

>>373451
its my dads, he has an entire library of WW2 literature

>>373511

why are the titles backwards?

>>373540
macs suck, it's all I got to take pics of my collection.

Is the upside-down-ness really freaking out anyone else?

>>373548
Put them on a fucking shelf. Why are they just lying around in random heaps? What's with the old lady's tablecloth in the first picture? Why do you have so many books based on games? Why don't you buy some good books?

>>373662
I know the quality is terrible but that is what you get for using the camera on your phone.

>>373497
:3 The dictionary is actually a safe! ooooh~

>>373511
Only rivaled by my love of harry potter

>>373405
>>373405
Your collection is pathetic.

Mines somewhat embarrassing. The complete works of Shakespeare is stacked up Tite Kubo at this moment. No troll, no joke, no shame.

Ok, many many many many (1-13) shames.

>>373728

Stacked upon*

also lols I got JKRowling, Pratchett and Tolkien in there. Brave New World, but no Ann Rynd, and no fucking twilight.

>>373735
Lol at the hovel.

>>373735
Judging by your room ,that trophy is the closest you'll ever come to not being a failure.

>>373735
Jesus Christ is that half a bottle of honey on top of your shelf? Are you a bear?

>asked to post book collection.
>paint watercolour impressionist style still life of your room
>can't read the book spines.

>>373745

yes thats honey. no im not a bear.

>>373745

I believe that's called a jar, not a bottle. Are you fuckin' blind? Don't you know the difference between jars and bottles? GAWD

>>373750
This man does have a point, that is most assuredly a jar.

>>373735
What's in the lockbox?

A pic-a-nic basket?

Complete Works (or lots and lots) Of:
Shakespeare
Haruki Murakami
Pratchett (somewhat inherited)
Tolkien (inherited)
Franz Kafka

Poetry/Etc:
>Keats, Milton, Wilde, Bronte, Yeats

Also Some Of This:
>The Seven Days of Peter Crumb.
>1984, Brave New World, Lord of the Flies.
>Band of Bros., misc. S. E. Ambrose WWII Euro-related stuffs.
>Hunter S.
>Biogs/Autobiogs: John Peel, some Beatles, Tim Burton

I do actually read, even those this is a who's who poser list kinda list.

>>373784

Also I struggle to find new authors I really like / good recommendations. So I tend to just go to the library unless I know I will enjoy owning it.

>>373784

yeats

yeeeeeaaaaaaats

<333

>>373793

>:3

>>373784
>>373787
probably because everything you have is shit

>>373856

lol'd

I have to admit: it isn't much. This is probably around 75% fifty cent thrift finds. But I thought I'd post anyways to note that most of what I read comes from the library. And that this is a very comfortable space to read in.

>>373908
nice chair.

>>373448
>took picture with a mac

>>373448
>young adult category sticker on Atlas Shrugged
>everythingwentbetterthanexpected.jpg

pretty shit picture but still.
the books are stacked 2 deep with another layer on its side on top.
more books on the floor and on top of the shelfs
got more piled upon my table

There is a row behind the 2 middle rows.

>>374151
Open the curtains brah.

No windows in mom's basement :(

>>374180
>>374180
uk fag its about 10:45 pm here so its pretty dark

>>374159
I lol'd, then I cried a little because those were the types of books I read in High School before I knew any better.

>>374210
>>374210
did i just see someone insult dune and H.G Wells

>>374210
I've been out of high school a few years now, but I haven't bought to many books that weren't college related or sequels to the series started in HS, like Halo and Republic Commando, among others. I hate leaving a series unfinished so I continue to read those books when they come out despite it all.

I'm compiling a list of books to get, any suggestions?

>>374256
>>374256
depends you still a sci fi fan ?

>>374253
Dune was a good book, the sequels didn't impress me nearly so much. As for H.G. Wells other than War of the Worlds, which was alright, I haven't read anything else of his.

>>374270
lol did I just see a brooks and dunn book? lol
have vhs tapes on my shelves too..and some sports cards...

>>374286
Indeed. Also anything with alternate universes, history (fiction or non). Not much for fantasy, though. The more it'll make me think the better.

>>374301
Its my wife's not mine, She and i went to a book signing. and then the concert.

>>374256

David Brin's Uplift Saga (Sundiver, Startide Rising, The Uplift War, Brightness Reef, Infinity's Shore, Heaven's Reach)
Kiln People by David Brin
William Gibson's Sprawl Trilogy (Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive)
The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe (The Shadow of the Torturer, The Claw of the Conciliator, The Sword of the Lictor, The Citadel of the Autarch, The Urth of the New Sun)
Takeshi Kovacs Series by Richard Morgan (Altered Carbon, Broken Angels, Woken Furies)
Noir by K.W. Jeter
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
The Slynx by Tatyana Tolstaya
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
Hyperion Cantos series by Dan Simmons
William Gibson's Bridge Trilogy (Virtual Light, Idoru, All Tomorrow's Parties)
The Postman by David Brin
Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delaney
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Fallen Angels by Larry Niven
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge
A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge
Forever War by Joe Haldeman

>>374317
A few of these I have, they are just behind other books, but I'll save the list and look into them.

>>374306
>>374306
try
sci -fi

The Forever War - Joe Haldeman ( shit title but a pretty good book series )

The Reality Dysfunction - Peter F. Hamilton

alternate history

World War Z - Max Brooks

only ones i can think off at the moment

I live in a teeny tiny student housing apartment, so I keep a great deal of my books at home, as well as rent a lot, so this is mostly unread stuff, excluding Norwegian Wood, The Darkness That Comes Before, Burning Chrome and everything Bill Bryson. Top shelf is double.

>>374686
This is what's on my bedside table -- work in progress.

badump

>>374270
how many stars wars books you got and which ones to recommend?

more more,more..

anyone i know lurking here?

>>375365
and this is the collection of a girl who i still wish hadnt left me. :(

>>375376
Sell her books on ebay
use money to by alcohol

>>375365

Good to see you've Ardened the fuck up with King Lear. Best notes out of any Shakespeare edition.

Just don't make the mistake of buying "the Complete Shakespeare" from them thinking you'll get those notes like I did.

I was massively disappointed.

Not my whole bookshelf, just my "recently read" pile.

Do I have not-shit taste?

i usually just borrow books

>>375454
i think we could be friends

>>375454

>>375489
>World War Z

This is the only book I liked enough to read from beginning to end on a .pdf in front of a computer.

>>374686

>I, Robot
>Will Smith

>>375402
perfect. i got it for 25c at a recycle depot.

>>375559
leave the prince out of this.

>>375454
Rofl, the Shack, you do indeed have shitty taste.

>>375581
hahaha

>>375582
Religious aunt gave it to me and I read it to be nice. The book was a piece of shit; the theology went nowhere and I have no idea how it's supposed to relieve the pain of someone in grieving.

>>375560

WHAT?!

>>375638
lol

>>375638
Because God is a black woman, that should be enough to get a laugh out of anyone regardless of what they're going through.

Bump


I love to judge people I don't know based on the books they read

I hate all you people. Get off the internet and read a fucking book for once in your life.

>>376357
pic related, it's you

>>373735
>>373735
>>373735

shittiest room EVER. An hero, lurk moar, fuck off and die faggot, bye.

You are smalltime

>>375559
Oh dear God, I know. It hurts so much. It's such a good book, I think I'll buy another edition, just so I can burn that one.

>>374686
Raged so much when I saw that Will smith iRobot

>>376440
shit taste

http://www.librarything.com/catalog/LamontCranston
too lazy to photograph

>>376440
>lost
>how I met your mother
>anime
>star wars books
>battlestar galactica
Oh god, kill it with fire.

>>375376

Zizek FTW

This is the tidiest its ever been, depressingly.

These were took a while ago, I had to get more room to put books. fun times.

>>377489

>about to complain about blurriness
>recognise a couple of books
>realise it's almost entirely fantasy and sci-fi
>"well....it's nice and tidy and he likes Iain Banks and Pratchett"

Posted it before, but fuck it, okay.

>>377498

>>377498

Please keep re-posting until I bother to buy those sexy as fuck Conan and Lovecraft hard-covers.

>>377503
I'll spread them open for you if you want.

Most of your collections are shallow and pedantic.

yeah, yeah, got my tonne of manga in there too

>>377507
Sir, I submit it to you that YOU are in fact shallow and pedantic.

and this load of fantasy which has spilled out into the corridor.

>>377507
By calling them pedantic, do you mean to say that they are well-organized and completive? Because that's not really a bad thing.

>>377513

That's a very shallow and pedantic statement of you.

>>377514
What is that white one on the right with the red letters?

>>377527

Chronicles of Amber.

>>377522
Takes one to know one.

>>377530
Had that on my shelf a while but I haven't read it yet.

>>377535
Rectify that pronto buddy. It's one of those books that I wish I hadn't read, so I could read it again completely fresh.

>>377489
>>377494
>>377498
>>377500
>>377514
TPB Bakker, Gollancz Masterworks, Erikson, Cook, Martin, Hobb, Jones, Joe, May, Peake, Williams, Donaldson, Eco, Parker, Dunsany, Howard, Wolfe... You guys are alright.

It's a bitch trying to decipher the titles in some of these pictures though. Moar definition!

Harry Potter 1-7
Watchmen
The Great Gatsby and The Beautiful and Damned
The Journals of Sylvia Plath, The Colossus and other Poems, Ariel, and The Bell Jar
The Complete Works of Anne Sexton
Dubliners, Ulysses, and Finnegans Wake
Slaughterhouse-Five and Breakfast of Champions
As I Lay Dying and The Sound and The Fury
I Am Legend w/ short stories
The Metamorphosis and other short stories
A Passage To India and Howard's End
Frankenstein
Jane Eyre
The House of Mirth
Brideshead Revisited
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
Brave New World
Catcher in the Rye
Of Mice and Men
Fahrenheit 451
The Jungle
In Our Time (collection of shorts by Hemingway)
A pocket anthology I used for Lit 110
Anthologies of American Lit up to 1865
Anthologies of Brit Lit for Romanticism, Victorian, and the 20th century
A couple composition texts my mother gave me from when she was in college

>>377831
Me:
>>377498
>>377500
Don't think I can get more highly defined, tbh. Brofist for a fellow fantasyfag though.

>>377862
Oh, your definition is perfectly fine, my no-Jones and no-Shewhoshallnotbenamedbecauseoflastthread friend.

>>377885
That was easily the best 'argument' I've had on /lit/ :D

>>377932
That's it?

>>374686
>spots Band of Brothers boxset

you win, brah!

>>374159

Lol'd when I saw the Dalai Lama's face in there.

Here's mine then:

>>377831

Don't have a proper camera at the moment, so those crummy pics had to be taken with my phone. Alas!

i'm studying abroad, but i'll list what i have with me.

Winesburg, Ohio - Sherwood Anderson
The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
The Wind-up Bird Chronicles
After Dark
South of the Border, West of the sun - Haruki Murakami
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
Ulysees - James Joyce
Howl and other poems - Allen Ginsberg
The Unbearable lightess of being - Milan Kundera
Foucalt's Pendulum - Umberto Eco
Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie
the bhagavad gita

and some random text books and non-fiction economics/business books

those are the ones in my room.
It's a fairly generic list, due to the limited availability of reasonably priced english language books here.

also only just started reading kafka (with the metamorphosis - took me long enough, i know) and am actually considering paying about $25 for a copy here. which should i go for, thiking amerika, because i heard the castle and the trial are better.

>>374159
have that same dalai lama book at home.

>>378026
>Vladimir Nabkov
FFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-

>>378026
the first person which with actual books of their shelf as opposed to trash

>>378026
>Murakami Haruki
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

>>378061
>>378033
Welcome to British publishing companies

>>378026
I'm guessing that you're irish or british from the editions of some of your books.

>>378078
British

Most of the worn-looking ones are hand-me-downs though

>>378056

I take it you haven't seen the ludicrous number of pictures in this thread with the same books in then.

>>378088
perhaps i was overwhelmed by the number of pictures with shelves full of nothing but fantasy, sci-fi, thrillers and ayn rand. don't get me wrong, nothing wrong with reading this stuff, but if this is all you read then your taste in books fucking sucks.

Gee, I thought /lit/ liked books? I'll have to assume you're not including all your bookshelves.

>>373405
for someone who claims to be a collector of books you don't have a very good selection (Princess Bride being the only one worth picking up)

>>373448
Again with the gaming novels or the novels that "influenced games" come on now

>>374159
Just because you have a lot of books doesn't mean they're good; this can also be applied to the full bookshelves where no titles can be read

>>375454
not terrible, just not great either

>>373405
Wait, what. OP here. I didn't think this would actually turn into a thread, I just meant to be a shitty troll.

>>373448
>young adult sticker on atlas shrugged
>I'mokwiththis.jpg

>>373524
>>373511
>>373448
here
>>378851
Same here

>>378108
Ha, I've been waiting for you to post this one.

Which of you reads Russian? You or the wife?

>>378859
>Cointreau
>Smirnof

>>378868
My wife--she and her parents defected from the USSR back in the day, and she speaks English and Russian with perfect, accentless fluency.

My Russian is limited to a few hundred words, and total cluelessness about grammar. Mostly I hope for English or French cognates so I can figure out what the sentence is about.

>>378859
Fact: I'm not >>379109 but if I'm trying to ply younger women who do not know any better from alcohol I will not use expensive vodka on them.

Just because I want to sleep with you doesn't mean I'm going to try and breed your liquor tastes; you can stick with the schnapps, I'll mix with cognac.

>>379187
/lit/ - sexing chicks with cheap booze.

>>379204
>/lit/ - claiming to sex chicks with cheap booze.

ftfy

lol sexin women with colt 45.

>>379290

post moar shelves or scuba steve gonna get you..

Re-posting mine for the billionth time.

I really need to take new photos - I've re-arranged some shelves and got some new books.

Right one I keep in plain view to demonstrate my classiness. The left one I keep in a corner of my room.

1/4

2/4

3/4

4/4

>>380269
Good thing you put a buffer between Rowling and Tolkien. That's a good way to start a fire.

>>377494

Magic the Gathering book. I read about 12 of those, good stuff.

>>373405

Upside down, upside down.

>>376440

Yeah, small time... You know, if I weren't too busy reading classics and actual fucking literature I could read the bookcases of most neckbeards on this board in a few months (fantasy is a walk in the park, sorry).

Sons, I am disappoint

>>382004

Fantasy writers might not possess much in the way of complexity, as a blatant generalisation, but given the page counts and occasional overuse of obtuse proper nouns there are times where it can be a slow trudge through the Dead Marshes, so to speak.

Still some bitches need to buy some cheap Wordsworth or Dover Thrift editions of some classics y'all. Broaden yo horizons and shit ya hear?

>>377494
Old Speckled Hen and Hobgoblin. You sir are a true hero of our time...

>>382103
you have terrible taste

Main shelf. I know it's terrible quality. I took it with my phone.

>>378026
Amazing collection. Finally someone who reads literature with the "higher voice"

>>382063
I find that ardent non-genre readers have the same problems as pure fantasy/science fiction readers, namely an ignorance or a lack of tolerance for what others read, where it becomes 'edgy and 'hip' to simply dismiss something because it's not your cup of tea, or don't have accurate knowledge of. For the record I read right across the board of genre's, and consequently I've discovered many a fine book, that I may have missed if i'd been too concerned with one type of genre.

So I say to you, perhaps you should harken to your own advice and 'broaden your horizons' if you do you may find not all fantasy or speculative fiction books lack in complexity, or are a 'trudge' through thousands of pages.

>>378026
Hey, nice collection! Marquez, Kipling, Maugham, Dickens, Russell, Iris Murdoch...Murakami?? Fucking weeaboo.

Can we please leave the elitist dick swinging to other boards? Please?

Who gives a shit what others read so long as they enjoy it?

>>373548
sounds like it's not the instrument that's the problem, but the user.

>>382293

Admittedly I made the error of positioning myself as purely a "literary" reader (however silly that term is), when in fact I was defending the fact that fantasy books, the dregs that fill the majority, aren't that easy to read despite their lack of sophisticated thematic concerns with creative, narrative (how I saw complexity for lack of a better word).

That is not to say all fantasy, and speculative fiction as a whole do not possess these things - it was merely a generalisation on top of a generalisation.

I personally have great respect for and own books by the likes of Asimov, Bradbury, Vonnegut, Phil K Dick, Tolkien, Iain M. Banks, Diana Wynne Jones and even George R.R. Martin, although the latter has the same trouble Rowling had and needs a stricter editor.

As such, I have no pretensions about being an ardent non-genre reader. I just personally hate the type of people whose book reading ends at Robert Jordan and the like, and whom many even have the pretension to call anyone that reads anything without pronoun-filled prose - pretentious. These are people who should change their ways just as the people who dismiss speculative fiction outright as you say.

So in a sense I like to think of myself reading somewhat broadly as you posit that you do and I thank you for bringing this argument to light.

>>382376
That fills me with unicorns and rainbows.

>>382376
If only everyone here were as considerate as you, sir.

ITT: people who have opinions about what other people read, and then expect some other people to care.

TL;DR: *yawn*

>>382392
Wait, why are you on /lit/?

>>382376
Do you talk like a douche bag in real life?

>>382404
Do you say douche bag in real life?

>>382407
Sure do fagmo

How did OP get his books to stick to the ceiling like that?

This is my pile of books to read.

>>382485
what a hunk of junk.

Looks like the library of a soccer mom.

>>382485

What the devil are those red books below Krusty the Clown?

>>382499
Anal Blaster's Digest Volumes 1-21

>>374270
How is duma key?

>>382499
Late answer, sorry.

That's a collection of history books - extremely well written. Not in English, though.

The ones on top are the "current rotation" books.

>>377510
Do I see some Penguin Classics on the right shelf there?

>>382568

Big Sleep is good i like how AT THE END CARMEN WAS THE ONE WHO SHOT REGAN AND VIVIAN ASKED EDDIE MARS TO COVER IT UP

1 of 4.

A lot of these used to be my Dad's. The horizontal ones are the ones that tend to get read more, because I don't bother putting them back.

>>382570
no you're seeing another very common and recognizable book binding by a publisher who uses penguins as their mascot.

>>382568
funny how most of those books are the newest editions out (/lit/ bandwagon much?)

>>382577

2 of 4.

Yes, I am aware that there are movies in this picture. I ran out of room for them. Some of these belonged to my Dad, some of them belonged to my Mom. She used to be a case worker for DCFS, which is where there are quite a few books on child development and dealing with atypical kids.

>>382577
pile o shit

>>382581
lol vhs and dvd

>>382572
I will keep reading it anyway. (I will probably have forgotten that RELEVATION in a few minutes, anyway)

>>382581

3 of 4.

Encyclopædia Britannica's Great Book of the Western World. Used to be my Aunt's. Some of them are OK, some are shit. I have the whole set; the rest of them are on the shelf below.

>>382584
whats a RELEVATION?

nice spelling there Doghouse

>>382581
>Some of these belonged to my dad

>Why your child is hyperactive.

>>382586

4 of 4.

"For fun" stuff. Ignore the Starwars Book, I'm not sure why it's there.

>>382590
>some of them belonged to my Mom. She used to be a case worker for DCFS, which is where there are quite a few books on child development and dealing with atypical kids.

derp

>>382568
Hey faggot. Why are all the books the latest editions? Please tell me.

>>382592
I would be apologizing for the Clancy, worthless outdated encyclopedias and house of leaves (lol /x/ shit) However i see you have Fargo Rock City and a Giger book... you're ok.

>>382596

The encyclopedias are almost entirely sentimental. I haven't opened them in years.

brb removing the Wilbur Smith and Goodkind so I look really intellectual. I desperately seek your approval.

>>382598
>Implying Wilbur Smith isn't a literary genius.

>>382594
Because most of them were bought fairly recently.
Actually, some of them are in quite old editions.

>>382598

>>382607
Yah whatever new kid. You can tell you haven't cracked most of them by the binding. It's ok. I mean after all you are reading the Big Sleep (newfag edition) for the first time. You have a pretty good entry level starter kit there.

>>382621
Yes, that's because I haven't started reading the second row yet (not enough time)
I already finished reading those in the first row.

>>382621
Oh look, this guy is superior! Let's listen to what he has to say.

>>382632
Cool. Enjoy Farewell My Lovely its great when VELMA AND MRS GRAYLE ARE THE SAME PERSON AND SHE KILLS MALLOY.

see you in the steamy greenhouse