Post a Pic of your personal Library/Reading nook

[Gurbik]

Like any good section on NF the LD needs a PhotoWhoring section, Show us your books, and also your spot... i know you got one... everyone does... I do... if you dont... you should get one..


Here are mine

Library (top shelf is unread)
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c260/Gurbik/IMG_2139.jpg

The Chair... oh yea
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c260/Gurbik/IMG_2141.jpg

[Dream Brother]

I used to have a great pic of my shelves, no clue where it went, gah.

For now, just the ones on my desk (http://jeku.homestead.com/files/desktopmess.jpg).

[Gurbik]

quite a nice stack there.

[Moridin]

Thats an awesome reading chair Gurbik!

And a nice collection of books ^_^

DB has that stack grown since last time!?

[Batman]

Man I wish I was organized. My floor is littered with tilting piles of books and I read on my bed surrounded by laundry I need to fold.

[tGre teh Disleksik]

Pretty much the same as Batman... I lie down and read on my bed.

But for class, Gurbik takes this thread in a heartbeat.

[Moridin]

I have nothing to really take a pic of now I'm back at uni, a stack of design books, watchmen, a recipee book or two and reaper's gale D:

[furious styles]

watchmen

you just won everything anyway. :nod

[Voynich]

Okay here we go then. This isn't everything, just the books that are on shelves. I have 5 more boxes in the attic and a dozen loaned out. Sorry about everything being covered with plushies. I never know where to leave them.

http://img176.imageshack.us/my.php?image=1000109kr0.jpg
http://img176.imageshack.us/my.php?image=1000110by1.jpg
The manga/Pratchett/Gaiman corner. The pics are big enough to see exactly which books there are.

http://img176.imageshack.us/my.php?image=1000111gj4.jpg
http://img176.imageshack.us/my.php?image=1000112pq3.jpg
The random books.

http://img176.imageshack.us/my.php?image=1000113sj2.jpg
The comics/doujinshi stack. Watchmen, Transmet, Sandman and Grendel. The porn is all ES21 and Reborn xD And a very rare Akkadian cuneiform studybook.

http://img100.imageshack.us/my.php?image=1000114cg0.jpg
Books for trading, artbooks and old studybooks (shelfbreaking Norton anthology and Wadsworth)

That's it. Used to have way more but my dad stole half my collection.

[Dream Brother]

Damn, quite a lot there Voy.



DB has that stack grown since last time!?

It's actually gone now man -- I accidentally nudged it with my elbow the other day, and it toppled all over the place. Time to get a shelf...

[furious styles]

alright, high time i got off my lazy ass and took some piccas


http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/8924/dsc04117lg8.jpg

feat. sweet ass poster


http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/9760/dsc04118bv1.jpg

moar :D


http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/9014/dsc04119zb2.jpg

lots of kerouac and beat stuff


http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/5447/dsc04120pw8.jpg

mostly new novels, some reference


http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/8104/dsc04121gl7.jpg

classics and russian writers (see nabakov)


http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/7383/dsc04115fw1.jpg

recently read/reading soon pile. cat's cradle. world according to garp. the invisible man is visible, ironically enough.


http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/3583/dsc04123ka6.jpg

some books (my precious aforementioned bukowski reader <3), some cdz, some games, messyness

[brokenpoem]

^^^I like those cds

[furious styles]

^^^I like those cds

thanks. let's see; common is visible, public enemy - fear of a black planet, two JMT cds, cypress hill - black sunday but just the disk, danger doom, mazzy star, blade runner soundtrack and beck - mutations if you've really got eagle eyes.

[Happosii]

Well here are mine...nothing to special..

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d145/Happosii/002.jpg

[Toby]

Oh sod, I guess I might be able to steal my girlfriend's camera and give you a picture of my current shelf here at uni. Like Moridin, my stash here is quite diminished as compared to at home, but at least I have my occasional wonders "Trainspotting" and "Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell". Other books include the curriculum for my classes and what editions of The Economist I have received since the beginning of first term.

It really eats into my private reading time to keep up in politics, so I hope you forgive me.

*reserves space*

Dream Brother, your desk looks remarkably similar to my original "archive", which was a continuous event going on everywhere in my room before I cleaned it up last spring. But my main work-desk still looks exactly like yours, with the exception of the Star Wars book which I clocked. I'd like it very much, actually.

[Dream Brother]

More books. Can see some Hobb, Lynch, Erikson, Peake, bit of Shakespeare, Wilde, Star Wars stuff, Nietzsche, Milton, etc:

http://jeku.homestead.com/files/books1.jpg

And more. Some of these are pretty old and from back when I was a kid, thus why they're stuffed in the old and musty cupboard. That Lord of the Rings edition in the bottom pic is a beauty, though.

http://jeku.homestead.com/files/books2.jpg

http://jeku.homestead.com/files/books3.jpg

Just noticed that Dune is also in the bottom pic...need to fish that out and read it again sometime, great book.

[MYK]

hmm...for the sake of comparison:

http://fc04.deviantart.com/fs13/f/2007/043/d/3/Too_Many_Books_by_sephary.jpg

http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j267/UltimateKabutoFan/DSCF1437.jpg

http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j267/UltimateKabutoFan/DSCF1438.jpg

[Cax]

Damn .. whats up with ya'll.. rich or somethin? Especialy you above, holy fuck i envy you.

[MYK]

not rich....I spend almost all my money on books...^_^;;...and get a large chunk of them as presents. Most of those are books I've have for almost 10 years.

['REDHAIRED' SHANKS]

Me living in a Uni too ..... the rooms are cramped so i dont have much ATM. Only 6 books of the Malazan book of the fallen. And the firsts three books of the Dune series, and the Silmarillion. Hides the seventh book of HP

I will probably go on a shopping spree once i join my job :hehee

@LinaInverse .... I never saw all the WoT books lined up like that even in a bookstore .... that was quite a sight. Reps when i can XD

[sel]

http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/701/1002325gi6.jpg
Books: The Castle, The Trial, Germany Nationalism, Maths Textbook, Napoleon, The Legend of Napoleon, The Wars of Napoleon, Napoleon Bonaparte and the Legacy of hte French Revolution, Blundering to Glory, Labyrinths
That big fat pile on the right is why I don't get that much reading done nowadays. Either way History is love despite how much effort it is <3

http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/229/1002326za6.jpg
Stuff: Damien Rice, Art Blakey, Invisible Monsters, Oliver Twist, Sudoku, Understanding Infinity, The music of the Primes, Koran, Cinderella Man, Germany, Italy in the age of he risorgimento, Guns Germs & Steel, A clockwork Orange, Sudoku, MacBeth
My kinda active-ish reading shelf of recently read stuff. I got a cupboard with other stuff but that's not really very interesting.
the bamboo I need to get some kinda frame for it, sicne right now it's just the actual paper. And I only just realised now that It's upside down xD

[Kyuubi Whisker]

Shelf 1:
http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/6910/75bookshelf1oq9.th.jpg (http://img216.imageshack.us/my.php?image=75bookshelf1oq9.jpg)

Shelf 2:
http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/40/75bookshelf2wc4.th.jpg (http://img229.imageshack.us/my.php?image=75bookshelf2wc4.jpg)


The Office:
http://img158.imageshack.us/img158/2846/75bookshelf3ne7.th.jpg (http://img158.imageshack.us/my.php?image=75bookshelf3ne7.jpg)

This is only about half. I have a stack about the size of these two combined back at my family's house (I stuff a couple volumes in my suitcase each time I visit).

[Dream Brother]

Bump for love.

[Dream Brother]

New cases and such. Some of the books are from my kiddie days, though.

Revolving mini-bookcase:

http://s230.photobucket.com/albums/ee145/grecianurn/DSC00047.jpg

Normal bookcase:

http://s230.photobucket.com/albums/ee145/grecianurn/DSC00049.jpg

Zooming in on one shelf:

http://s230.photobucket.com/albums/ee145/grecianurn/DSC00050.jpg

[Bonten]

http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk110/Bontenno/LGIM0006-1.jpg

http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk110/Bontenno/LGIM0004.jpg

Just what I'm planning to read in future/have read recently and haven't bothered putting back. Anyway my chair is the best. :love

I'd take a picture of the rest but I've got to go outside to the garages. :D:

[vervex]

Some of you have a LOT of books XD But none of them beat Blue's library. It's just insane. I've never seen anything like it. Too bad he hasn't posted here yet.



As for me...


I can see some pokemanz here and there :awesome
http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/bb38/audiomatiks/shelve2.jpg



http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/bb38/audiomatiks/shelve1.jpg



http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/bb38/audiomatiks/shelve3.jpg



I have other books but they are spread around my apartment. I need to buy a new shelve because, as you can see, mine are quite full and I have no place to put my art books and magazines. :(

[Comic Book Guy]

If only I had a camera. . .

[Gurbik]

so yea Those pics i posted just gave me flashbacks that feels like fucken forever ago. I lost my bookshelves when i moved to portland so now my library is shoved into my ottoman and my closet and I dont have that chair, I have an even nicer one that cost about 3 times as much that I obsess over.

[Dream Brother]

I have an even nicer one that cost about 3 times as much that I obsess over.

*Still awaiting proof of this supposed Super Chair* :sun

[Mattaru]

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a274/Mattaru/Photo-0069.jpg

This here is my personal bookshelf that tries to kill me every night. I apologize for the phone-cam quality. Everytime I extract a book, or everytime I awake, startled, and hit my head, the unshelved books on the top topple, collapse and concuss me. If I can't get to sleep, I just give my shelf a good kick and it knocks me out.

There's two other shelves at the bottom obscured by my bed. You can find the books I wanted to burn down there. I'm intending to get a new bookshelf to house them. I library most of my books, being the cheap-ass university student that I am, so most of the ones you see there are the ones I need to buy for my English & Creative Writing course. And my lovely Terry Pratchett collection! [I can recommend some really good books on writing for our aspiring novelists!]. And finally, as you can see, I recently started and just finished ASOIAF.
And doh >.< Just realized most of my Shakespeare is on my desk.

Evidenced by my lamp and pillow, I read there as well.
Edit: photoshopping out the cum stains on my bed :ho
Edit 2: Your revolving mini-bookcase is awesome DB :wtf I WANT!
And OP has a freaking awesome chair :wtf

[Dream Brother]

Haha, I definitely need to use that case more, it's gathering dust...

I love the mountain of books you have there, and the lamp/pillow combo -- makes it look ridiculously snug, and a great place to relax and read.

[Anon]

Here we go, my absurdly neat bookshelf

here's the whole thing
http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m72/ac_anon/PICT0001.jpg

Bottom shelf
http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m72/ac_anon/PICT0002-1.jpg

Middle shelf
http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m72/ac_anon/PICT0003.jpg

Top shelf
http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m72/ac_anon/PICT0004.jpg

Stuff sitting on top
http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m72/ac_anon/PICT0005.jpg

there are some books missing that various people have borrowed like ASoIaF, Catcher in the rye etc and some I left at home like Harry Potter and Goodkind's work.

il tell you what the books are if you ask, some got obscured by light.

[Dream Brother]

Murakami, Gaiman, Hobb, Abercrombie, and Martin? Yum. Can't make out any of the Penguin/Oxford classics, though. Do you find those intimidatingly chunky English Literature anthologies useful for essays and such? They look cool.

[Anon]

Murakami, Gaiman, Hobb, Abercrombie, and Martin? Yum. Can't make out any of the Penguin/Oxford classics, though. Do you find those intimidatingly chunky English Literature anthologies useful for essays and such? They look cool.

The classics would be:

Henry James - Daisy Miller
George Elliot - Silas Marner
Jane Austen - Northanger Abbey
Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Adventures's of Sherlock Holmes

as for the anthologies they are basically essential to my course, they look cool but they have like 3000 pages each and its that really thin bible paper that seems like its going to tear if you look at it in the wrong way.

Still they have tons and tons of stuff in them, I read Gullivers Travels in it.

[Dream Brother]

Bible paper, haha. I gave 'em a quick search on Google and they look awesome. I have an inexplicable love for books that pack collected works together.

I'm actually doing an essay on Silas Marner right now. Pretty cool that you have it, as it's definitely one of Eliot's lesser known works.

[Anon]

Bible paper, haha. I gave 'em a quick search on Google and they look awesome. I have an inexplicable love for books that pack collected works together.

I'm actually doing an essay on Silas Marner right now. Pretty cool that you have it, as it's definitely one of Eliot's lesser known works.

I hate silas marner

really i dont, its just that I decided not to read it since I had other things to read at the time and it wasn't something I had to discuss in my tutorials. Then it went and came up 3 TIMES in my next set of essay questions. It was just cruel because nobody had read it.

[Dream Brother]

The first line of your post had me reaching for my axe...

But man, no one ever bloody reads it! I think it must have some sort of horrific vibes, as I was pretty much the only person in my own class to finish it. It's an odd situation, as it's so very short -- normally books that are that short are seen as divine blessings for Lit students, but no one wanted to touch this 'un. (They all went for David Copperfield instead, which is utterly massive in comparison, but admittedly a lovely read.)

Anyway, it's actually pretty good. Give it a try if you're ever bored or something.

[Anon]

Oh I will read it eventually, I just figure there is no point in reading it for my exams since they wont ask about it AGAIN.

In our evaluation form my comment about the course was "less questions about Silas Marner.