/lit/ - Literature

>>16758192
>russian revolution

Who curates these faggot ass stands? Does it come from corporate or the commie store manager? Is it a way to sell books that no one would otherwise buy?

>>16758192
https://youtu.be/XF2ayWcJfxo

>>16758232
It comes from the back stockrooms

>>16758235
i cant accept how bad this is

>>16758232
History can make you think no?

>>16758249
It makes me go hmmm

>>16758192
>books to make you think
>one of them is a box of postcards
wow that made me think

>>16758192
>books to make you think
>it's not the whole store
barens and noble confirmed midwit

>>16758232
"A book about the Russian Revolution" isn't necessarily a book advocating for communism, you fucking spaz.

>two tables for African American interest

>African american interest
Yiiiiiiikes

>>16759046
Sheeeit

The Disquisitiones Arithmeticae

>>16758192
All of them, anon. that's why we read.

>>16758192
Whenever B&N puts out a stand the books are predominately the opposite of what the sign says.

>books to make you think
women's innovations as apposed to particle physics

>banned books stand
straight curated liberal indoctrination

>diversity book stand
non white writers as apposed to diversity of thought

>>16758264
>hmmmmmmm
hmmmmmm

>>16759171
Also, notice how the African American interests stand had to have the image of people on the beach edited out of the sign, all the other signs have the same image.

>>16758192
Did you take this photo

>>16758264
Hmmmmm

>it really makes you think
>think about what?
>...stuff.
>what kind of stuff?
>... >:(

>>16759223
kek

>>16758232
>Does it come from corporate
Absolutely.

>>16759046
“Ancient Egyptian Kangs and their Sheeeiiiiit”

>>16758192
Russian literature, Don Quixote, most philosophy.

What book doesn't make you think?

>>16758192
any dystopian novel

>>16758232
It was probably written by some moralfag centrist cuck like you.

>>16758192
>women in science
really makes u think

>>16760026
its even better dude
>women in science
>actually its a box of postcards its not even a book

>>16758232
>Who curates these faggot ass stands?

Whenever I am at a bookstore, I place whatever books I see fit on display when nobody is around to stop me.

>>16758192
The guy who fixes the heater looks like Alan Alda a bit.

Some good references here !

I like your songs.

>>16762118
dangerously based

Is that Choke by Chuck Palahniuk?

>>16762118
dangerously cringe

>>16758192
>walk by these stands
>assert myself loudly:
>"What moron could be made to think by this mass-produced garbage?"
>store worker gets visibly unsettled
>proceed to critique every section in the store out loud

>>16758232
>talking about history is now communist propaganda
The absolute state of /pol/

Anyway to stay on topic it would be pic related

iI that the Barnes & Noble on 82nd & Broadway?

>>16758232
>Who curates these faggot ass stands?
An algorythm programmed to maximise profits.

>>16758232
yes anon capitalists are now advocating communism glad you cleared that one up for all of us

>>16762649
ISHMAELPOSTING

>>16759046
I don't believe I've seen a black person in a book store before.

I saw an Indian scanning all the used reference books with some barcode scanner attached to his phone and pitting a few in his cart. Seems like a tiresome way to make money

>>16762649
This book was so stupid. Talking monkey wow shut the FUCK up

>>16762649
holy fuck /lit/ used to talk about this book all the time back in the day; still have never read it

>>16759171
>>diversity book stand
>non white writers as apposed to diversity of thought
Lol, if you look most of those books are written by white women.

>books that make you think
>every faggot here talking about fiction
Non-meme answer is pic related. The consequences to the human race if the book's hypothesis is correct are immesurable.

>>16762649
I'm so glad this is popping up again across this board while I'm reading it so I can take solace with others who know it sucks gorilla balls.

>>16758192
The Ninja books by Ashida Kim

Alain le beaugosse

>>16764306
>Into the shredder it goes

>>16758192
They know their demographics, mostly woman and pseuds go to big bookstores.
People that actually read usually get their books from thrifty bookstores and only go to the bugs when they got big sales

>>16762118
Absolutely based.

>>16763272
thats the case now unironically

>>16759046
I'm not a bad person but I don't think Europeans and Africans should be sharing the same society.

>>16758192
If I threw my diary in there, there would be 1 (one) "book to make you think" on that table

>>16759116
For me, it's Arithmetices Principia, Nova Methodo Exposita

Women in science.

>>16766883
shares racialist midwit meme to justify autistic social ineptittude

>>16767060
Well he’s not wrong

>>16766883
Black guy here. Sometimes I fantasize about teabagging Hegel and Carlyle's faces while fucking my asian wife and reciting Blake's Little Black Boy.

>>16766883
What is he saying in picrel? That Africans are what?

I am an esl sorry

>>16759046
All of the readers are white

>>16758232
That book is anti-communist retard

>>16767468
That would make you a based black guy congratulations

Replace every book there with Denial of Death.

>>16758192
>African american interest
Too bad they can't read.

>>16767509
>The characteristic feature of the negroes is that their consciousness has not yet reached an awareness of any substantial objectivity- for example, of God or the law- in which the will of man could participate and in which he could become aware of his own being. The African, in his undifferentiated and concentrated unity, has not yet succeeded in making this distinction between himself as an individual and his essential universality, so that he knows nothing of an absolute being which is other and higher than his own self. Thus, man as we find him in Africa has not progressed beyond his immediate existence. As soon as man emerges as a human being, he stands in opposition to nature, and it is this alone which makes him a human being. But if he has merely made a distinction between himself and nature, he is still at the first stage of development: he is dominated by passion, and is nothing more than a savage. All our observations of African man show him as living in a state of savageryand barbarism, and he remains in this state to the present day. The negro is an example of animal man in all his savagery and lawlessness, and if we wish to understand him at all, we must put aside all our European attitudes. We must not think of a spiritual God or of moral laws; to comprehend him correctly, we must abstract from all reverence and morality, and from everything which we call feeling. All this is foreign to man in his immediate existence, and nothing consonant with humanity is to be found in his character. For this very reason, we cannot properly feel ourselves into his nature, no more than into that of a dog, or of a Greek as he kneels before the statue of Zeus. Only by means of thought can we achieve this understanding of his nature, for we can only feel that which is akin to our own feelings.

>>16766883
y'know educated people can still talk complete shit, which is what's happening here

>>16764306
nice bait

>>16758264
It's one of those things, huh

>>16762118
This is why book retailers are arming themselves.

>>16758192
>radium girls
>women lick radioactive material
WOW! MAKES ME THINK!

>>16759029
its almost like the book is presented in a specific context that creates a clear intention

Any thing by Kurt Vonnegut. His weird disjointed writing spirals me into uncomfortable self reflection on my puesdo intellectual bullshit.

>>16762118
I like to hide books about the Holocaust from the from the front section

>>16766883
fuck this meme. Hegel's not racist. he explains a state of metaphysical thinking in cultures and paints with a broad brush here. all he states does not imply the inferiority of individuals. fuck racism. fuck this meme.
>>16767468
weirdest fetish around here

>>16773429
>fuck racism. fuck this meme.

>>16773497
back to /pol/

>>16773526
To be fair
>fuck racism. fuck this meme.

Sounds like something a complete beta-geek-reddit-edgelord would say, doesn't it?

>>16773526
you have to go back