/lit/ - Literature

>>10086051
Average day.

>>10086051
Maybe you're retarded.

>>10086051
>go into bookstore
>ask if they have any pynchon, or delillo
get blank stares
>clerk has to go get the manager from the backroom
>"sorry sir, we only carry steven king books here"

>go into bookstore
>its all garbage normie books

>>10086051
>go into bookstore
>lots of good books

>go into book store
>too many good books/not enough money
I still haven't read Gombrich and became a patrician art connisseur

>go in local second hand bookstore
>four shelves full of huge range of litfic
Love that place

>go to local used bookstore
>old lady is always working the cash register
>always brings the bantz to the customers
>always bullies me and I stammer like a fool
>go home and come up with a good response hours later
>repeat

it's getting to where I'm too embarrassed to go back which is a shame because sometimes they have really great books

>>10086113
That'd make a cool short story plot

>>10086051
>looking for used books in picturesque street shops
>buy Rommel's biography, Odyssey, a book on sumerian and hittites stories, Sartre's The Condemned of Altona and The Devil and the Good Lord, the Arthurian cycle and Swann in love for 20 euros
>tfw