/lit/ - Literature

>visit America
>twerking mulattos burn down a community used bookstore out of spite against white people

>>/lit/thread/S15485568

>>15912983
>visit amerifat
u wot?

>>15912983
>hating on napoleon hill

you bastard

>>15912983
>tfw my Dad can't stop recommending me 'How to win friends and influence' people telling me it will turn my life around

>visit Europe
>walk into a bookstore
>75% of the books are the Quran

>>15913057

>>15913057
o lord it's so embarrassing when americans try to do "no u"

>>15912983
>walk into a bookstore
>there are no books after the year 1900 in it

>>15912983
>HOW TO NOT GIVE A SINGLE F*CK
>THE GUIDE TO BEING F*CKING AWESOME
>F*CK F*CKITY F*CK F*CKING SLAY IT QUEEN

>>15913081
Based

>>15913086
lol, it really does speak to how depressed and impotent the average american feels

>>15913057
lol

>>15912983
>visit switzerland
>walk into second hand bookstore
>all over €15

>>15913057
that would be based af inshallah

>>15912983
>visit the airport bookstore
>it’s all self-help thrash

>>15912983
Most Barnes and Noble where I live are 50% self-help, 25% bibles, 10% self-help that's focused on the bible, 10% YA, and 5% scifi. I hope those chains all collapse from covid.

>>15913029
Your dad is just worried about never having a grandson

>>15912983
>go to my local bookstore in London
>all latest fantasy/sf trash
>they don't even have any tolstoy or Voltaire
Thats what i get for trying to support local buisnesses , won't make that mistake again

>>15913728
you forgot the “the hate u give” special table to appease the black folx and ally crowd.

though, there are some decent sections outside of those in B&N, you just don’t look at the front and center stuff meant to attract the normies.

>>15912983
>>15913728
>Go to my local American Barnes and Nobles
>two shelf section on world history, contains all sorts of Roman translations including Suetonius, Tacitus, Caesar, etc. in only the top tier translations
>sections on Napoleon, the Crusades, the Third Reich, and more
>another entire shelf dedicated to US History - autobiographies on all the founding fathers, all important historical documents like the Federalist papers, multiple massive biographies on Ulysses Grant
>about 8 shelves of fiction, from Kafka and Hemingway to Dostoevsky and Hugo, just about anything you could want
>two shelves on theology and theological philosophy
>a smaller shelf with mostly foundational philosophy (The Republic, Ethics, etc.), all the best translations
>massive shelves dedicated to science, children, AP preparation books, manga and LN's, and more
Feels good to be an American.

>visit Africa
>walk into a bookstore
>75% of the books are actively on fire