"cringey at best"

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?

Yes
First the latter, then the former.
15 year-old who wears a suit to school every day
Briefcase wanker.
- You're speaking to the future CEO of Nintendo. Show some respect.

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

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?

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 funnier
- as well as like 5 [Maggie] biographies which makes it funnier
  there really is no alternative lmao

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

He hasn't finished reading them yet.

W Girl

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

Ron Paul

She's right

She was being kind

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

- The bookshelf is made from them.
- No funko pops but an entire collection of gen 1 bionicles
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.
- 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.
Calvin and Hobbes is theory
- It was legit my theory as a kid. Nothing has had quite the impact on me as calvin and Hobbes did

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

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

men posting their Ls

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
- 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?
- so fascism

why you booing her? she's right

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.

unlimited break-ups on libertarian "intelligent mangas" readers

Bless that girl.

Yang pilled math guy

Yang gang yang gang yang gang

looks like everything's from 2010

Death Note
End the Fed
the fact that there's books
the fact that they care about them

I like death note but why would you only have death note?
- Because buying manga sucks and maybe you just want a totem of your favorite
- I mean they don't. First thing I saw was death note and I figured breaking up over that seems a bit harsh (despite not even being into japanese cartoons myself) but the rest of that? You go, girl

Not even a single funko pop smh

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.).

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.
ebooks or they just don't read very much
- Read tons of those too. The second part is more what I'm referring too, reading is such a big part of my life that I, rather hyperbolic like, said I don't understand how someone could live without. In the literal sense I do understand, because that's most people.
library.
- I regularly max holds and checkouts. Libraries are super cool, I especially love how they usually have documents that are hard to find other places. Obscure technical books, local budget info, and the like.

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

https://www.reddit.com/r/Tinder/comments/18yid1p/sighhad_a_girl_over_last_night_and_she_ended/

Can't stand all the "be you, don't change yourself for a woman" comments.
You're shit, be someone else.
- its also usually in response to basic hygiene concerns
lol all those redditurds in denial
“100% doubt it was just the books”
Nah it was the books
- It wasn't just the books. Can you imagine what someone who owns these books is like to be with? The books are a symptom of worse things.

common redditor L

Death to America

missing infinite's jest to be uber cringe

isn't that super popular with women (the monolithic hivemind version don't nuance me)
- idk but the only person I know who's read it is in fact a woman so
  . She likes it and has read it multiple times.
  EDIT: The thing with Infinite Jest is not that there's anything wrong with the book, it's good! There's just a particular type of pretentious guy that it tends to be popular with? OOP doesn't seem to read much in the way of actual literature so it would be a surprise for it to show up here.
- Prosic random XecsDee ''humour'' perfect for 4 chan /lit and redditors
  Anecdotally, I was suggested to read the book by a person I have dated for a short time, absolute pseud of a person.

My bookshelf consists of college textbooks and woodwind sheet music. Surprisingly, I found a match with a graduate degree who plays an instrument, got lucky there.

a graduate degree who plays an instrument
synecdoche of referring to a person by their PMC certificate, curious
- "a match" here means a person who matched with them. they found a match with a graduate degree who plays an instrument, they didn't match with a Schoolhouse Rock walking talking diploma
- Yes, in reference to the college textbooks on my bookshelf. Inference that we both value education, not sure that valuing education indicates membership in the PMC, seems to be counterproductive to make that connection.
- I honestly kind of dig this reading of it
Band geeks fuck
that's wildly good luck

He's lucky she did it through text. I would've shamed his ass on the spot and left immediately.

Big oof.

weebs btfo

Something that would happen to me but it's the Kamichama Karin manga and a bunch of Prince Of Tennis volumes I got for cheap and never read and antinatalist and marxist books mixed in.

One day I'll have a library to myself, but physical books are so goddamn heavy and I cannot afford a house. I have to prioritize my LP collection. So goddamn tired of having to live in shared apartments with other broke millennials. Thanks Obama.