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[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 115 points 1 year ago (6 children)

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?

[–] ReadFanon@hexbear.net 31 points 1 year ago

First the latter, then the former.

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[–] Parsani@hexbear.net 84 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Having these books is actually worse than having no books

[–] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 75 points 1 year ago

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

[–] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 65 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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?

[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 37 points 1 year ago

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

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

[–] SovietWaveGoddess@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

... 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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[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 62 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago

He hasn't finished reading them yet.

[–] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 56 points 1 year ago
[–] PointAndClique@hexbear.net 48 points 1 year ago

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

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 47 points 1 year 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

[–] oscardejarjayes@hexbear.net 47 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] EmmaGoldman@hexbear.net 45 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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.

[–] abc@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] abc@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago

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

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[–] oscardejarjayes@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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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[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 46 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] 420stalin69@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago

She was being kind

[–] adultswim_antifa@hexbear.net 42 points 1 year ago
[–] Yurt_Owl@hexbear.net 42 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

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

[–] Parsani@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] Satanic_Mills@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The bookshelf is made from them.

[–] Parsani@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] Frank@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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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[–] zed_proclaimer@hexbear.net 41 points 1 year ago

men posting their Ls

[–] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Barabas@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

[–] Ho_Chi_Chungus@hexbear.net 37 points 1 year ago

why you booing her? she's right

[–] idkmybffjoeysteel@hexbear.net 36 points 1 year 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.

[–] material_delinquent@hexbear.net 36 points 1 year ago

unlimited break-ups on libertarian "intelligent mangas" readers

[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 30 points 1 year ago

Yang pilled math guy

[–] Rom@hexbear.net 29 points 1 year ago

Not even a single funko pop smh

[–] GaveUp@hexbear.net 29 points 1 year ago

Yang gang yang gang yang gang

[–] sooper_dooper_roofer@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

looks like everything's from 2010

  • Death Note
  • End the Fed
  • the fact that there's books
  • the fact that they care about them
[–] StellarTabi@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

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[–] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

data-laughing Bless that girl.

[–] Balefirex@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago (4 children)
[–] BovineUniversity@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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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[–] oscardejarjayes@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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.).

[–] anonochronomus@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year 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

[–] BovineUniversity@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

ebooks or they just don't read very much

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[–] flan@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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[–] 2Password2Remember@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago

common redditor L

Death to America

[–] Fishroot@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

missing infinite's jest to be uber cringe

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