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12072490 No.12072490 [Reply] [Original]

Guess the title of my recently purchased full-price book that I literally threw in the public bin because I found its blatant blasphemy disgusting.

>> No.12072491

The Holy Bible

>> No.12072492

Retard. Why would you waste that book when you could resell it

>> No.12072509

>>12072490
Pre-Algebra, Larson and Boswell

>> No.12072514

>>12072490
120 Days of Sodom?

>> No.12072570

>>12072492
Didn't want to promote the ideas of the book

>> No.12072574

>>12072514
No, it had literal blasphemy, not figurative.

>> No.12072583

Hobbes’ Leviathan

>> No.12072607
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>>12072570
>distributing = promoting

>> No.12072802

>>12072490
Classic or contempotary?
Give a timeframe

>> No.12072830

My diary
desu

>> No.12072879

>>12072802
>Classic or contempotary?
20th century, male writer.

>> No.12072883

midnight's children

>> No.12072893

>>12072879
I’m gonna guess you’re a weakling and say ‘Lolita’.

>> No.12072936

>>12072879
zen and the birds of appetite

>> No.12073013

>>12072879
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

>> No.12073018

>>12072490
>public bin
Satanic Verses

>> No.12073026

>>12072490
Vox? I heard some complaints about that

>> No.12073033

>>12072490
Something of Plato’s

>> No.12073142

>>12073018
Good guess, something quite similar, although it's prose

>> No.12073145

>>12073033
20th century

>> No.12073219

>>12073142
The Satanic Verses is prose.
now that the dust has settled that death fatwa was reasonable given such an underwhelming tome.

>> No.12073233

>>12072490
>>12072574
>>12073145
Pynchon?

>> No.12073357

OK guys, I'll give you the sentence that jolted me. It's my transcription of the Hungarian translation so I hope it won't turn up in Google.

"I can't imagine a sin bigger than Jesus' sin).

>> No.12074273

If you want to talk about it, tell us what you read.
Sage

>> No.12074632

>>12074273
>If you want to talk about it, tell us what you read.
Cioran: Tears and Saints.

The whole text came to me as the whining of a spiritually spoiled brattle.