My living room.
Holy shit, I need bookcases. Nice collection, bibliophiles.
@Pandamask
Nice collection, too bad I don't own enough books to build towers yet and take care of that Nintendo 64!
@Fylh
You're making me jelly I wish that was my room and I can't help but notice you have an electric bass guitar, could I ask what kind it is?
That's a Thunderbird:
I bought it from a friend who works at a local coffee shop.
@Fylh
Nice, I could tell by the headstock. I was going to get that as my first but I ended up with the Schecter Extreme-4 its awesome. Been trying to save up for a Schecter Studio 5 string or an Ultra Bass which is a Thunderbird variant also Schecter with small bodily differences and a very high price tag. Sorry, I tend to lose reality when it comes to musical instruments.
Sweet Christ in an Easter basket that's one hell of a collection you got there.
Very nice collections.
My own is smaller, I tend to rotate books back to the used book stores when I'm done with them.
Unless I want to display them, what I mean to say is that my bookcase is a conversation piece that serves as a case study in pretension.
I know I'll probably be gutted for this but most of my books live on a kindle now.
The top shelf is reserved for political stuff, so it's a little wierd up front but evens out as it progresses:
Democracy in America, The Federalist Papers, The Anti-Federalist Papers, On the Social Contract, The US Constitution (pocket sized), Creating a World without Poverty, The Communist Manifesto, The Art of War, The Prince, The Great Derangement, Griftopia, Hope on a Tightrope, and a biography of Thomas Jefferson.
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The Collected Short Stories of Amy Hempel, Infinite Jest, In Search of Lost Time, Crime and Punishment, Island, Faust, Hells Angels, 1984, Down and Out in Paris and London, The Glass Bead Game, Electric Kool Aid Acid Test, Ruled Britannia, Survivor, A Scanner Darkly, Chicago Manual of Style, Gonzo, Margins of Philosophy, The Gnostic Bible, The Book of Mormon, The Tao of Wu, Dead Souls, Anthem, The Motorcycle Diaries, Clockwork Orange. Slaughterhouse Five, The Rum Diary, Lullabye, Consider the Lobster, Killing yourself to Live.
and below that, mostly history books like "The Polish Revolution," a few books about the civil war and the confederacy, a handful of alternate history books and below that the "books that not even the used book store was interested in.
I mean, looking at it right now it's just that I'm ashamed of how orderly it looks. I envy the people who have posted their piles upon piles of books. I feel like my collection is tiny.
Electric Kool Aid Test is great honestly I really enjoyed it. I haven't been able to get into anything else that Wolff wrote, but I did enjoy that one. I read it because I loved Hells Angels and there was one scene in particular where the bikers and the hippies clash between Berkley and Oakland that I wanted to see "the hippy perspective on" and I felt like Acid Test was going to give me that side of the story. I came away with the idea that Hunter took what happened between him and the Angels somewhat personally and may have exaggerated those events. In any event, it was not quite what I expected and I enjoyed it.
Faust, well, I've got Marlowe's and I have Goethe's. I enjoyed them enough to keep them around.
The Book is about Ken Kesey.
I don't mean to quiz you on a book you haven't read. I'm saying yes, that book is all about Kesey and it is awesome. If that's what you are looking for then go buy that book.
Hell's Angels and Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test have some croosover. It's really cool seeing how the two books intertwine in a few places.
My once extensive book collection is down to one bookcase - everything else I gave to friends or donated too the library (I know where to find them if I need them again). If I'd kept every book I'd ever own, I still wouldn't have a Philesque collection.
Although I'd be hard-pressed to give up my comics.
I wish I could find a better picture, but I can't. This was the library in the house I grew up in. This particular photo was taken during the moving process, so it's messy and strange, but you get the idea. The wall to the right had the same shelving full of books. We donated some to Goodwill. There wasn't room (or desire) for everything, but I adopted the lion's share. The guy who bought the house ended up tearing it down.
I moved out to the Midwest for a while in 2010, and sadly, had to ditch(donate) most of my books to make room in the truck for my belongings. Needless to say, my time out there was short lived, and I've since returned to the East Coast. Most of those books are still in the Great Midwest, because all I could manage to bring with me were 5 measly books. Guess I still have kind of a Shoebox of Doom going on though.
Clowns??? Clowns, Dave??/ aaaaaahhhhh!!
Thanks. Theyre disorganized as well, whatever. The special (to me) are on my desk, the rest were just thrown on the shelves by my wife. No matter how often I try to arrange, it always turns into a mess again. I think the clowns are doing it.
You cant trust a clown. Ever.
they are. with laughter.
and I would show the Shoebox of Doom, Panda, but last time I shared something so small and pathetic, I got laughed at. it scarred me. (there's the setup)
Ah man, I wish I could take a picture of my e-reader shelf...Kidding. Nothing better than completing a book and placing it on your shelf to admire. It gives you a sense of accomplishment.
Recently added to my collection: All of Bourdain's shit. That guy is the Hank Moody of food/travel. I don't know how I just discovered that dude.
Also, looking at some of those pics above, I think we found the next episode of "Hoarders." Impressive and chaotic.
@panda-that's what she said.
@matt-Bourdain's cool. I've been watchin him since '08, I think.
@Panda: I want that book because Hank Moody rocks and Califorinication rules!
Here ya go:
There are four or five more somewhere around. And yes, that is Twilight and the first three books of the Left Behind series. I keep every book I read.
The bottom shelf is all Hardcase Crime books. A publishing house that reprints old pulps from authors like Spillane, Gil Brewer and Earle Stanley Gardner. They also publish new authors like Christa Faust, Jason Starr and even Lawrence Block.
I actually bought Earagon for a buck at a flea market. And found, at the same flea market, the Vachss book (the one with Vachss written real big on the spine) for fifty cents.
I do the same. Half Price Books is like two miles from my place, so that's nice. Amazon is like, a click away. The flea market has this guy who sells books. It's great if you like mysteries and romance. But, you have to do some digging to find the gems. I bought ten books and he only charged me ten bucks. I did some digging and found Choke, which was cool.
Hardcase Crime... That's the pulp publishing house.
If you go to Amazon and look up Hardcase Crime book lots, you'll find packages with like 25 books for under $30. I got the majority of them that way and paid, I think, $25. But, I'd highly recommend finding one with Money Shot by Christa Faust. Hands down, my favorite Hardcase book.
Not that Choke is rare, but I had it a long time ago, then sold it. It was nice to find it and only pay a buck for it.
That's what floors are for... And staircases: