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[-] [email protected] 116 points 8 months ago

Is this the bookshelf of a thrice-divorced 45 year-old or a 15 year-old who wears a suit to school every day because he wants to be a businessman when he grows up?

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[-] [email protected] 31 points 8 months ago

First the latter, then the former.

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[-] [email protected] 83 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Having these books is actually worse than having no books

[-] [email protected] 75 points 8 months ago

Incredible that Death Note is the least cringe thing on the shelf.

[-] [email protected] 65 points 8 months ago

This bookshelf tells me you're always at best 2 beers away from suggesting we should abolish age of consent laws.

Thats gonna be off-putting to most women

Lol

... The female equivalent bookshelf is like nothing but Harry Potter, Hilary Clinton's memoir and "Lean In."

Lmao

Funny comment on Reddit? Is this a miracle?

[-] [email protected] 37 points 8 months ago

First guy: Posts in r/Latestagecapitalism, Antiwork, worldofwarcraft and Tinder.

So probably like, the top 5% of tolerable redditors.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago

... The female equivalent bookshelf is like nothing but Harry Potter, Hilary Clinton's memoir and "Lean In."

an older woman who's house i visited last week had these exact books

as well as like 5 margaret-thatcher biographies which makes it funnier

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[-] [email protected] 63 points 8 months ago

Shelf? Honey, that's a book cubbyhole. 😂

[-] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago

He hasn't finished reading them yet.

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[-] [email protected] 49 points 8 months ago

Content aside (cringey doesn't even cover it) can you really call that a proper bookshelf?

[-] [email protected] 47 points 8 months ago

Seeing death note alone is not cringe for me. But seeing it along libertarian "theory" would make me assume that I'm in the home of a serial killer

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[-] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago

She was being kind

[-] [email protected] 46 points 8 months ago

Death note? reasonable. everything else? major red flags, somebody like that should get no love.

[-] [email protected] 26 points 8 months ago

It's Killers of the Flower Moon bad? I haven't read it

[-] [email protected] 45 points 8 months ago

It's fine but it's the kinda book that this guy would only have bought because he worships Scorsese as the pinnacle of Kino, and has not actually read it. It's so unrelated to and unlike the rest of his stuff that no other outcome is likely. Check out that perfect spine.

Actually, check out the perfect spines on everything but the two Death note re-releases.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago

To be fair like 3/4ths of the books on this 'shelf' are hardcovers and aren't exactly going to show any wear in the spines if read. Hell, how hard do you have to treat a average sized paperback like the Killers of the Flower Moon copy to have it show any sort of wear on the spine in a tight bookshelf like that

[-] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago

how hard do you have to treat a average sized paperback like the Killers of the Flower Moon copy to have it show any sort of wear on the spine in a tight bookshelf like that

To be fair I like to beat the heck out of my books so they know who's boss

[-] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago

what your books see when you approach your bookshelf kiryu-approaching

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[-] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago

No, it's actually not that bad. The movie based on it is good to. I guess the Ron Paul and leadership books took too much of my attention.

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[-] [email protected] 42 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Rate my bookshelf: calvin and hobbes, berserk, dark souls and bloodborne comics, massive library of ps2 games, not one iota of theory

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[-] [email protected] 25 points 8 months ago

The bookshelf is made from them.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago
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[-] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago

Mine is a distressing amount of theory, graphic novels that are problematic, and piles of anthropology texts I never actually finished mixed in with a really mixed bag of sci fi and fantasy novels. "Post your bookshelf" would be fun but also maybe not fun.

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[-] [email protected] 41 points 8 months ago

men posting their Ls

[-] [email protected] 40 points 8 months ago

That subreddit is the saddest place ever. Full of PUA level content, whiny men asking why they aren't getting smashed every night, and then stuff like this. I would probably end things too if I met a woman with Ron Paul books on her bookshelf.

[-] [email protected] 32 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Ron Paul I can kind of understand as he was the only anti war candidate during the Iraq war and thus had some non batshit support, but Yang is unforgivable.

Edit: just realized that the events I’m thinking of were 20 years ago and crumbling into dust.

[-] [email protected] 31 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I guess it would depend on when she had them or her age. If she's a 23 year old who was 10 when Ron Paul was big then I would be suspicious.

32 and was at the age to be more politically aware at that time, possibly liking him for his anti-war positions? I could understand that.

[-] [email protected] 37 points 8 months ago

why you booing her? she's right

[-] [email protected] 36 points 8 months ago

Before I discovered that my childhood friend had become a Christchurch Shooter loving fascist piece of shit, I had the opportunity to meet some of their new friends in person. They were copy pastes of the same PUA archetype in 2016, and this one guy had Snowball and Art of The Deal on his shelf. Cringiest shit I have ever seen.

[-] [email protected] 36 points 8 months ago

unlimited break-ups on libertarian "intelligent mangas" readers

[-] [email protected] 30 points 8 months ago

Yang pilled math guy

[-] [email protected] 29 points 8 months ago

Not even a single funko pop smh

[-] [email protected] 29 points 8 months ago

Yang gang yang gang yang gang

[-] [email protected] 28 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

looks like everything's from 2010

  • Death Note
  • End the Fed
  • the fact that there's books
  • the fact that they care about them
[-] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago

I like death note but why would you only have death note?

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[-] [email protected] 27 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

data-laughing Bless that girl.

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[-] [email protected] 26 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Can't stand all the "be you, don't change yourself for a woman" comments.

You're shit, be someone else.

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[-] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago

How could someone even survive with a "bookshelf" that small? I've have way more than a dozen times that, in the room I'm currently in alone. I ran out of shelf space years ago (yes, I've acquired more shelves since then. instantly filled.).

[-] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago

I think you already know that this dude does not read. He probably didn't even read these books. The books are in plain view, on a shelf, and organized for a reason. They're probably the only decorations in the room. I'm willing to bet that he specifically brought them up because he thinks they make him seem smart as opposed to everyone else perceives him; as a clown.

ancaptain stalin-gun-1 stalin-gun-2

[-] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago

ebooks or they just don't read very much

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[-] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago

My book shelf is just Mushishi and a vast collection of space opera. Tinder dates have no power over me.

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[-] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago

missing infinite's jest to be uber cringe

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[-] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago

common redditor L

Death to America

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