Imagine looking at a guy's bookshelf and seeing

>DFW
>Pynchon
>Joyce
>Turgenev and maybe some other Russians
>Nabokov
>Hitchens
>Lovecraft
>Dahl
>a few history books
>a few scifi or fantasy books

>no female authors
>nothing to project softness, emotional depth, or even a simple openness to life

You just know he's reading for reputation, superiority over connection. A purely internal life.

>>24467280 (OP)
There is literally nothing wrong with avoiding female authors. Tbh would probably be bros with this hypothetical person.

>>24467280 (OP)
Based tintin enjoyer

>>24467280 (OP)
>no female authors

What's the problem?

>>24467280 (OP)
what's wrong with lovecraft

>>24467280 (OP)
All of the above authors have more real softness, emotional depth and a "simple openess to life" (whatever tf that means lol dumb bitch) than any dreck shat out by a woman.

>>24467280 (OP)
>no female authors

>>24467286
This. Incredibly based and attractive shelf, though Narnia's a bit cringe.

>>24467430
Half of it is funkopops and manga
Manchild shelf

>>24467280 (OP)
A guy forcing himself to read female authors so he can appear to have "emotional depth" to women is a gazillion times more retarded and shallow than a guy only reading male authors simply because thats where his interests naturally lie

>>24467280 (OP)
Most fiction is gay, and most works I have interest in have male authors.

Maybe Belle Hooks, or Hannah Arendt, but I don't think I'd even consider any other female authors

>>24467430
Less cringe than gurm.

>>24467463
OP here, I'm 55 next week... hardly a child lol

>>24467423
>get accused of never reading female authors by woman at party
>tell her my favorite author is Evelyn Waugh and my favorite book from said author is Brideshead Revisted
>she believes me

>>24467280 (OP)
My favorite female authors? Why, there's so many to choose from. Any Rand, Savitri Devi, Flannery O'Conner, Camille Paglia...

>>24467503
>Any Rand

>>24467430
>incredibly based and attractive
>DragonBall
>george r r martin
>funko pops
>nightmare before Christmas figurine

>>24467280 (OP)
>nothing to project softness, emotional depth
Nabokov isnt that?

>>24467280 (OP)
>>nothing to project softness, emotional depth, or even a simple openness to life
I'm a high functioning autist and I struggle to emotionally invest in anything. The funko pops and the toys are heinous though. Also why does he have a bright yellow bookshelf?

>>24467510
>Autists when a piece of furniture isn't black, white, or beige

>>24467286
yea but it's the english version without the Congo book

fucking anglos

>>24467463
>>24467507
You two don't understand women
>>24467489
Wrong

>>24467430
Narnia is good.

>>24467280 (OP)
>>nothing to project softness, emotional depth, or even a simple openness to life
You said DFW
Pynchon
Joyce
and Nabokov.

I'd be more worried about his collection of novels by the pedophile Dahl. Also you didn't mention which scholarly bibles he owns

>>24467535
>You said DFW
>Pynchon
>Joyce
>and Nabokov.
Ah but see those might CONTAIN those qualities, but their optics don't PROJECT them

>>24467529
Nons struggle with CS Lewis.

<shelf's owner.

>>24467280 (OP)
>female authors
No such thing. You're either looking at one-offs like Mary Shelley, some 100-year wonder like Jane Austen, or children's authors. Everything else is feminist drivel, overhyped nonsense, or smut, or any combination thereof.

>>24467567
Soulless AI poster

>>24467567
><

>>24467280 (OP)
Turgenev is a worthless liberal faggot, isnt that enough?

>>24467654
Someone's a little touchy

>>24467280 (OP)
>nothing to project softness, emotional depth, or even a simple openness to life
>entire chronicles of Narnia franchise
>Tintin collection

>>24467657
It's clearly in reference to the listed books rather than the picture

>>24467559
Not everything is /pol/.

>>24467575
Flannery O'Connor is good.

>>24467280 (OP)
>You just know he's reading for reputation, superiority over connection. A purely internal life.
>
When I was young? I honestly thought the PC crowd, their heart was in the right place. Why shouldn't the best qualified get the job, even if they weren't white. What harm is there in a woman owning a business, or having some big important job. It made sense, to ignore skin color or sex. Made sense to me.
>
The first obama election changed me.
Anon! You;re raycist, is you don;t vote for the first black president!
But... I don't believe in his party or his vision? And its racist to vote for someone, solely based on his skin color!
(old black men? AGREED with me!)
I *have* read and enjoyed some female authors.
But, it has to be enjoyable. A... female FBI agent, wonder woman style? constantly spouting woke speeches, all business owners a different race and everything? Was just SILLY. I HAVE and can describe, a couple female written, female MC books, Ienjoyed, just not many.
>
Notice: Just like viting for skin color alone (racist), you would have me read books that are not well writte and enjoyable? simply because of the sex of the author.
That? Is sexist, in and of itself.
If "WOKE", wouldn;t have gone this far?
I'd still be on board.
You people went nuts and lost the naarative.
Blacks and women and other monorities? CAN be just as good or even better, than any straight white male. But... to assume they are somehow inerently superior, just because... minority?
is both silly? And the exact opposiye, of what this stuff was intended to corect.
You assholes threw the baby out with the bathwater. You are LOSING, the intelligent people that agreed with you, and helped champion your supposedly noble cause.

>>24468188
Take your meds

what an idiotic thing to say, many of these books are some of the most emotionally deep ones ever written

>>24468214
it's funny how much of a self revealing pseud OP is by bringing up Joyce or Pynchon and then saying there's no emotional depth or "even a simple openness to life." he just sees their names as intellectual masturbation material to namedrop. extremely embarrassing for all involved

>>24468256
that seems to be what happens when you base your worldviews on tiktok rage bait cumpilations

>>24467423
That's a good thing.

>>24469228
You are right. I am retarded.

>>24467280 (OP)
>>nothing to project softness, emotional depth, or even a simple openness to life

Next time just say "I'm a huge homo." Save us all some time, queermo.

>>24467280 (OP)
>pynchon
>nothing to project softness, emotional depth, or even a simple openness to life

Holy filtered

>>24467280 (OP)
PUSSY MAGNET

>>24467550
>Ah but see those might CONTAIN those qualities, but their optics don't PROJECT them
>Projecting contenance
>Forcing softness
>Feminine penis
ZIZEK STOP FUCKING SHITPOSTING AND PUBLISH A MAJOR CONTRIBUTION

OP is fagot

>>24469286
I accept your concession.

>>24467280 (OP)
>Trevor Noah

Wish I still had my collection from Australia, had most of /lit/ top 100, though I only managed to read a handful. Only currently have Gravity’s Rainbow (2 copies lol), AtD and M&D by Pinecone, The Brothers Karamazov by Dosty, Divine Comedy by Dante, One Hundred Years of Solitude by Marquez, and Don Quixote by Cervantes. I have only read GR by Pinecone so far, but I’m reading AtD and am on page 75 (got this and Don Quixote on Saturday)

>>24471300
*only read GR from my current collection

>>24467567
next time, get a wacom drawing tablet and autodesk sketchbook and draw it yourself.

a full tintin set might be worth getting

>>24467280 (OP)
Look mom, I posted it again!

>>24467654
Dostoevski was a proto-/pol/cel with a gambling habit and a massive simp

I basically only read ancient and medieval history
I do this because I find them fun and entertaining.

>>24467430
>The book by Trever Noah the Daily Show host about how people are racist
Jesus anon how did you miss that. That was right next to Narnia too.