My bookshelf looks weird.

[Os Cangaceiros]

My parents are pretty right-wing, and they send me free market/anti-government propaganda every now and then. So I have a stack of communist books and literature intermixed with a bunch of free market books/literature. If detectives were to investigate my reading habits they'd be extremely confused, it's a veritable soup of leftist and rightist wingnuttery. "Books by Bakunin and Mao and...a book about how we need to 'end the Fed'? What the fucking fuck?"

I just noticed this.

[Vyacheslav Brolotov]

Mine's looks like that too, but I usually buy those right wing books for my own enjoyment. I do not know why, but I like to get a good laugh out of reading about why we should return to the Gold Standard or why Operation Just Cause was not a bad idea. Sometimes I look at my bookshelf and say, "What the fuck" and my parents are like, "there's something wrong with you."

[PC LOAD LETTER]

If somebody judged me by my bookshelf they'd probably think I was a smug bastard. Or someone who likes fucked up stories. The latter part is true.

I only have a couple of leftist books ... a Marx collection, Malcolm X's autobiography, and The Coming Insurrection. And a string theory book. That's not leftist, though ... but it's like "opposition physics" I guess?

[Susurrus]

I have like 4 bookshelves in my room. They have a lot of things.

[NewLeft]

I have a couple of Ayn Rand books, they're excellent works of fiction.

[BE_]

Damn i wish i had a bookshelf lol. I just stack books on my dresser.

[Prometeo liberado]

I have Bob Avakian's autobiography right next to a philosophy book about logic. I know how you feel.

[A Revolutionary Tool]

My bookshelf is full of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Rosemburg, etc, mixed in with Harry Potter books, The Lord of the Rings books, various books about how evolution is not real, and the Bible.

[Ostrinski]

My mother got me a bookshelf for graduation and I can't decide how I want to organize it. My first idea was to just separate it by genre (fiction, philosophy, history) and then by last name of author. But then I wanted to separate them by subject (Enlightenment, Russian Revolution, existentialism, black liberation, etc.). But then I couldn't decide how to organize the fiction books. I'm probably obsessing over it too much.

The only right wing material I have on my shelf atm is Friedman and Hayek, mainly for arrogant self-righteous reasons of presenting myself as a well-rounded sophisticate. But I also don't consider myself to be intellectually superior to them either so I just leave those bad boys up there.

No books by Mao though.

[Lobotomy]

I have a couple of Ayn Rand books, they're excellent works of fiction.

Really? I got halfway through atlas shrugged and I wanted to kill myself.

[NewLeft]

Really? I got halfway through atlas shrugged and I wanted to kill myself.
Everyone feels this way, misery brings equality.

[NoOneIsIllegal]

Maybe some of you would be confused why an anarchist has more books and pamphlets written by Marxists than anarchists. :lol:

[A Revolutionary Tool]

My mother got me a bookshelf for graduation and I can't decide how I want to organize it. My first idea was to just separate it by genre (fiction, philosophy, history) and then by last name of author. But then I wanted to separate them by subject (Enlightenment, Russian Revolution, existentialism, black liberation, etc.). But then I couldn't decide how to organize the fiction books. I'm probably obsessing over it too much.

The only right wing material I have on my shelf atm is Friedman and Hayek, mainly for arrogant self-righteous reasons of presenting myself as a well-rounded sophisticate. But I also don't consider myself to be intellectually superior to them either so I just leave those bad boys up there.

No books by Mao though.
I organize my bookshelf based on the height and thickness of the book.

[Rooster]

My mother got me a bookshelf for graduation and I can't decide how I want to organize it. My first idea was to just separate it by genre (fiction, philosophy, history) and then by last name of author. But then I wanted to separate them by subject (Enlightenment, Russian Revolution, existentialism, black liberation, etc.). But then I couldn't decide how to organize the fiction books. I'm probably obsessing over it too much.

No matter how you do it, it won't ever stay organised. I have a whole wall set aside as a bookcase, but I have books all over the house (the majority of which seem to be in the bathroom). I have a copy of Atlas Shrugged propping up a piano though, but the piano itself has the collected works of Lenin all over the top of it.

[ed miliband]

i tend to group books together based on publishers - grouping together ak press texts in alphabetical order for example

[Decolonize The Left]

I can't fit all my books in my apartment so I have to store the majority of them (300+) at my grandmother's house. I keep a select bunch though, divided by genre: poetry, fiction, politics, philosophy.

- August

[RedAnarchist]

My bookcase has a lot of leftist books, along with a lot of books on history, geneaology, creative writing, reference books, books on/about Liverpool FC and a few random books by various authors such as Ursula Le Guin, Haruki Murakami, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce and Franz Kafka. I have quite a few GB of ebooks on an external hard drive, mostly random, with some books from feedbooks (where the books are mostly free to download), especially those by Cory Doctorow.

[Deicide]

Mine's like that too.

I have around 400 books in physical copy (I haven't read them all yet). Ranging from fascist works, like Hitler's 'Mein Kampf'' and Gentile's 'The doctrine of Fascism'. Then there's the typical leftist works, like Das Kapital vol 1 - 3, etc. I've got books by Ayn Rand, Friedman, etc. Then there's philosophy books, ranging from pre-socratics to modern day dudes like Daniel Dennet and on logic, etc, etc. Then there's science, literature, history, economics, geo-politics, war-strategy, chess strategy, etc, etc. I've got pretty much every Chomsky book, you know, that guy everyone on here vehemently despises.

[TheGodlessUtopian]

Mine is a science-fiction Marxist paradise about how to deal with capitalism... and alien dragons.So,if any of you ever need help on how to kill fascist dragons hit me up.

[Ostrinski]

Fascist dragons sounds like something I'd see in a nightmare.

[NewLeft]

Over 400 books??? I only have like 10 books on a desk, not even in a shelf.

[Ocean Seal]

http://zapp3.staticworld.net/reviews/graphics/products/uploaded/amazon_kindle_wifi_3rd_generation.html_587794_g4.j pg
Organized like the working class in a revolution.

[Leonid Brozhnev]

My bookshelf is mainly filled with my gf's crime fiction. I have 'Laugh? We nearly shat!' perched tastefully on top of them though, so it's not all bad.

[TheGodlessUtopian]

Fascist dragons sounds like something I'd see in a nightmare.

Also sounds like a bad fantasy novel... though I suppose not any worse than moon nazis...

[Искра]

Maybe some of you would be confused why an anarchist has more books and pamphlets written by Marxists than anarchists. :lol:Because anarchists don't write books :p

I have one bookshelf full of anarchist book and one full of Marxists and few boxes of Marxist book and my fantasy novels and other literature are at home. I have from Marx to Mao and from Proudhon to Bonanno... really a lot of shit. Some books are pretty rare translations.

[Deicide]

Over 400 books??? I only have like 10 books on a desk, not even in a shelf.

Reading e-books infuriates me. I like physical copies. Hence, I have a reasonable amount. I've got a list of 1000+ (non-fiction) that I want to read. I don't know whether I'll get the chance to do it, Ill probably be dead before I can finish. Unlike fiction, academic books require astute reading, sometimes these books need to be read several times. Otherwise I forget! And English is my third language! And then there's university and work! And women and partying/bars and beer! Immortality would solve my predicament.

[Decolonize The Left]

Over 400 books??? I only have like 10 books on a desk, not even in a shelf.

I probably have over 400 books, but I really, really, really, like books. In fact, I had to ban myself from going into any bookstores for over a year because I would buy books with money I couldn't afford to spend. I'd just buy whatever looked good: fiction novels which were hardbound and had nice font, pages, etc...; poetry anthologies from any poet which I remotely liked; any political book which seemed important or useful; any philosophy book by any number of philosophers; reference books if they seemed pretty and useful, etc...

It was a real problem. Now I can go into a used bookstore and not by anything, although I have a list of books I've been looking to find used so if one of them is there then I gotta get it...

- August

[Искра]

I also have more than 400 book. My father for example has around 5000.

[Ostrinski]

I probably have over 400 books, but I really, really, really, like books. In fact, I had to ban myself from going into any bookstores for over a year because I would buy books with money I couldn't afford to spend. I'd just buy whatever looked good: fiction novels which were hardbound and had nice font, pages, etc...; poetry anthologies from any poet which I remotely liked; any political book which seemed important or useful; any philosophy book by any number of philosophers; reference books if they seemed pretty and useful, etc...

It was a real problem. Now I can go into a used bookstore and not by anything, although I have a list of books I've been looking to find used so if one of them is there then I gotta get it...

- AugustI think I saw you on True Life.

[Decolonize The Left]

I think I saw you on True Life.

I don't know what that is, but I'm guessing it's a reality tv show... I hate reality tv shows.

- August

[Omsk]

I personally have a lot of books,3 shelves,(quite big) but my grandfather had,during some points of his life,some 10.000 books (Everything written by 'leftist' authors from 1948-1990) .I am not sure if that is true,but i remember that he donated a whole truck to a local library.I am not sure if he still has as much,probably not.

[Aloysius]

I don' have enough bookshelves. As soon as my brother moves out, I'm going to my grandmother's to take the totes of books she has of my family's, and I'm replacing his bed with a bookshelf or 4.

I really need to beef up my nonfiction, though. The only nonfiction I can see from where I'm sitting is The Basics of Sociology, Star Wars, and The Guitar Book.

[Hermes]

I love books! I don't have nearly as many as I'd like though, because I don't have any income currently, so I have to resort to the public library (which is actually really, really good). Even then, I've got an entire bookshelf filled up with books I've already read, and around four more of my mother's mystery books (she seems to only read mystery, Stephen King, and Dean Koontz).

[A Revolutionary Tool]

I really need to beef up my nonfiction, though. The only nonfiction I can see from where I'm sitting is The Basics of Sociology, Star Wars, and The Guitar Book.


The only nonfiction...Star Warshttp://i0.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/006/434/tumblr_lkhs6sGE761qf1x6h.jpg

[PC LOAD LETTER]

http://i0.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/006/434/tumblr_lkhs6sGE761qf1x6h.jpg
Anyone up to form the Church of the Rebel Alliance?

In nomine Luke, et Han, et Wookie Sancti

Ave Leia, gratia plena ....

[Salyut]

I have a few left-wing books, but the majority of my bookshelf is occupied by military history stuff. I left most of my science fiction books back home in Saskatchewan. :(

[Rooster]

When it begins to look as bad as this

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqbbjhZnT01qdo62to1_500.jpg

then you should just turn your house into a second hand book store.

[Sperm-Doll Setsuna]

Fascist dragons sounds like something I'd see in a nightmare.

Way back in the past, there was some poster on here who seriously proposed something like this and was some sort of politically confused person from some strange sect-like group going on about creating some sort of fascist dragons. Seriously.

[Firebrand]

I had to ban myself from going into any bookstores for over a year because I would buy books with money I couldn't afford to spend.
- August

I have the same problem. Although i've managed to limit the money spent by buying everything secondhand. Another problem is shelf space. I have two full height shelves double stacked, I'm ashamed to say its mostly mindless entertainment, but theres a fair amount of political texts too.

[ColonelCossack]

A typical one of mine is Communist/Historical stuff, next to books on astrophysics, next to Fiction and nerdy shit like D&D.

[Deicide]

When it begins to look as bad as this

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqbbjhZnT01qdo62to1_500.jpg

then you should just turn your house into a second hand book store.

Hey man posting pornography is against the rules!

[∞]

I have about 30 books. None of them are fiction.

[Jimmie Higgins]

My shelves: lots of left-wing history, mostly US radical history - commie books - used 1950s, 60s sci-fi paperbacks - early 20th century US and UK lit - comic books - 60s underground comix - punk zines - harry potter.

[¿Que?]

Give me my Lenin back!!!!

[lombas]

My library: about 800 books. Most are non-fiction and about history (Antiquity, gender history).

[lombas]

When it begins to look as bad as this

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqbbjhZnT01qdo62to1_500.jpg

then you should just turn your house into a second hand book store.

And hire some staff...

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Un74wcHJI4M/TStnWtYcBpI/AAAAAAAAAcM/SlX9fbZP_VQ/s400/bernard%2Bblack%2Bhuh.bmp

[Ostrinski]

Odd to see so many sci-fi fans, I never got the appeal.

[Rafiq]

Odd to see so many sci-fi fans, I never got the appeal.

same, sci fi is only good for movies imo.

[Delenda Carthago]

I gave away all of my books when I turned 24. I only kept "Odysseus" by James Joyce.

[Rafiq]

I'm really into greek mythology/drama books. I just wish mythology from the same time period was more well preserved (Like in Egypt). My favorite is probably Oedipus.

[The Young Pioneer]

I used to have a massive book collection but then I got into second hand bookstores where you can turn in old books for new (to you) books. I've read a lot more because of that.

I think my current book number hovers just under 300. I had a bookshelf, but after my Christmas wishlist was fulfilled, the new reading material caused it to collapse. What I get for buying a twelve dollar WalMart bookshelf, eh?

My claim to fame is the variety of languages my books are in. I don't mean just language learning textbooks, either. I'm talking novels, nonfiction...one's a biology textbook. :D Currently I've got books in English, Chinese, Finnish, Hungarian, Croatian, and Russian. Not bad for an American, I'd say.

Cool thread. It's neat to see how comrades share a love of books!

[NewLeft]

This is a bragging thread.
We have one for books, sex, life..

[The Young Pioneer]

This is a bragging thread.
We have one for books, sex, life..

And why not? A commie's books, sex, and life are the best kinds of books, sex, and life. :laugh:

Actually, books and sex are my ideal life.

[Libertador]

Top Shelf
Heckler & Koch USP handgun
50+ rounds of .45 ACP to go with the above.
The Art of Zen and Motorcycle Maintenance
Backup $200 Netbook and its power cord
Second Shelf
Political/Philosophical works (Everything from Chomsky and Zerzan to Tolstoy and Thoreau).
Third Shelf
Medical/Nursing books (especially since I switched my university major to Nursing).
Fourth Shelf
Bible, countless fiction books, Fight Club, et cetera.

[Astarte]

My parents are pretty right-wing, and they send me free market/anti-government propaganda every now and then. So I have a stack of communist books and literature intermixed with a bunch of free market books/literature. If detectives were to investigate my reading habits they'd be extremely confused, it's a veritable soup of leftist and rightist wingnuttery. "Books by Bakunin and Mao and...a book about how we need to 'end the Fed'? What the fucking fuck?"

I just noticed this.

Try the Collected Works of Stalin next to a 19th century copy of Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" :lol:

[o well this is ok I guess]

This is a bragging thread.
We have one for books, sex, life.. It's cool as long as nobody takes pictures of their bookshelves.

[bcbm]

Odd to see so many sci-fi fans, I never got the appeal.

i wish i was exploring titan not trapped on this shithole

[TheGodlessUtopian]

My father made my bookshelf.The results? It is a hell of a lot better than the cheap crap you find at walmart. ;)

[Rafiq]

Top Shelf
Heckler & Koch USP handgun
50+ rounds of .45 ACP to go with the above.
The Art of Zen and Motorcycle Maintenance
Backup $200 Netbook and its power cord
Second Shelf
Political/Philosophical works (Everything from Chomsky and Zerzan to Tolstoy and Thoreau).
Third Shelf
Medical/Nursing books (especially since I switched my university major to Nursing).
Fourth Shelf
Bible, countless fiction books, Fight Club, et cetera.

Watch out, we gotta badass over here