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?
15 year-old who wears a suit to school every day
Briefcase wanker.
this isn't funny because i have had to deal with these kids for years
Reason #421 why I ignore every recruiting email I get saying I can become a teacher and get paid a whopping $40k in the same district as Columbine.
Having these books is actually worse than having no books
Incredible that Death Note is the least cringe thing on the shelf.
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
... The female equivalent bookshelf is like nothing but Harry Potter, Hilary Clinton's memoir and "Lean In."
Funny comment on Reddit? Is this a miracle?
First guy: Posts in r/Latestagecapitalism, Antiwork, worldofwarcraft and Tinder.
So probably like, the top 5% of tolerable redditors.
... 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
biographies which makes it funnieras well as like 5 [Maggie] biographies which makes it funnier
there really is no alternative lmao
Content aside (cringey doesn't even cover it) can you really call that a proper bookshelf?
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
Death note? reasonable. everything else? major red flags, somebody like that should get no love.
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.
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
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
I’m the opposite, I gingerly open my books and freak out if I damage it at all when I’m reading it.
Martin Scorsese isn't the pinnacle of kino
Oof.
And frankly, Marty's adaption is radical and good insofar as it centers the narrative away from the mystery and white saviors (and interrogates the readers/viewers consumption of such narratives); much more likely he got it at a Hudson News for a flight on recommendation from his step father, liked reading about the FBI, and was disappointed with the movie, as it made him very uncomfortable.
Haven't seen the film yet and had been planning to sleep on it but I'll give it a look.
I don't necessarily think Scorsese is bad, just that he's incredibly overrated and largely put up on an unachievable pedestal that nobody can truly live up to.
He's not. Afterhours, King of Comedy, Age of Innocence, Cape Fear, Silence -- this dudes B-sides make your favorite auteur envious.
You're entitled to your own opinion. He's made some good films, I'm just not really big on the whole auteur hero-worship thing.
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.
Yeah, it's definitely a "one of these things is not like the others" shelf
Rate my bookshelf: calvin and hobbes, berserk, dark souls and bloodborne comics, massive library of ps2 games, not one iota of theory
Of course. You don't think anyone actually plays with them?
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.
People here would look at my bookshelf and first go “mhmm mhmm yeah good theory and history books”, and then start making fun of me for the sheer volume of Stephen King novels I have. And the Star Wars novels I read in middle school that I kept.
Luke Skywalker was an important step on my path to being a raging tankie.
I'd get roasted on here for a variety of reasons, but most of all because I have a whole bunch of Econ textbooks from my university days. Also the entire top layer of my bookshelf is just Qu'rans with annotations.
Theory, history, geography, technical manuals, cookbooks, and like 3 fiction books for me lmao.
It was legit my theory as a kid. Nothing has had quite the impact on me as calvin and Hobbes did
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.
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.
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.
I know for a fact that this guy thinks Light is actually a good guy, not the villain and his ideas are "great actually and would fix society."
Light Yagami Thought with Yang Gang characteristics
All crime should have the death penalty but it's important to do it democratically in a way that makes society responsible?
Or am I thinking of the wrong anime Yang?
