/lit/ - Literature

>>17784300
Soulless. Better than amazon though.

Pretty sure it's a book store. OK, now your turn. What do you think of The Bagel Barn in Indiana?

Uncomfortable capitalist pitstops.
I like their author mural alright.
The selection is drab

>>17784300
Consumerism/10

>>17784300
I like it. Just an excuse to leave the house.

>>17784312
>mixed race! MIX RAAAAAAACE
Who cares about that? She’s a fucking cop.

>>17784300
only place i can think to buy books physically
where else is there?

>>17784337
Familial instinct towards one's people is impossible when the population is a muttified mix of vastly different races. The primary example being, of course, the United States, which will fall apart in the next 100 years.

>>17784306
Traveling across the is this summer is it worth a stop?

>>17784350
I don't know. I made it up to mock OP.

>>17784346
Used books, if you got any.

>>17784347
Then go back to your country
>100 years
Thirty. And it should.

>>17784337
>Who cares about that?
You do

>>17784369
Я yжe тaм.

They have a better book selection than your typical local book shop and so I shop there for that reason and that reason alone.

>>17784300
They’re almost entirely responsible for the soulless modern cover art we see today.

THEY SELL THE ABRIDGED VERSIONS OF BOOKS WITHOUT TELLING YOU ITS ABRIDGED ON THE COVER. FUCK THESE CUNTS. FUCK THEIR BAD BUSINESS PRACTICES. REEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>17784304
I owe Amazon many books I wouldn't have gotten otherwise. Barnes and Noble just ripped me off by charging $25 for pamphlet sized books.

>>17784379
No
>>17784397
Ah. Carry on
>>17784416
Don’t they say on the back?

I really like their hardcover classics collection. They're fine if you're buying a classic or something you know they have in print but if you're looking for something you haven't found anywhere else you're not gonna find it at B&N. I use their store locator which is actually really convenient to see if they have what I want in stock but usually don't unless, again, it's something common. Overpriced but frankly I'm too new to the book scene to know where to find shit discounted off MSRP. Decent place to find Criterion flicks tho.

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>>17784300
Decent in house classics editions on price/aesthetics; semi decent clearance prices — zero reason not to buy used/local shops, because They will absolutely start bowdlerizing texts for ideological conformity within your lifetime, and they won’t need Fahrenheight 451 to do it

>>17784519
these are ugly

>>17784468
NO IT DIDNT SAY IT WAS AN ABDIDGED VERSION UNTIL THE LAST PAGE OF THE INTRODUCTION. NOWHERE ON THE JACKET DID IT TELL ME.

pretty worthless if you live in a big city with real bookstores around. but if you don't, it's really quite nice and gets the job done. and when you live in a small town and have literally no bookstores to go, it's even better. besides, don't act like 90% of the books /lit/ talks about aren't in available in every single B&N.

>>17784300
I go to talk to women but I always just end up hyperventilating by the philosophy section

>>17784300
Never read him but i doubt he'd get the nobel for flauberts parrot. Thomas pynchon deserves it first.

>>17784300
A place to find cute girls numbers

>>17784648
Not all of them are super great but I've found quite a few that I really like.

>>17784311
>>17784337
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>>17784468
I’m trans btw

>>17784750
That's even more dangerous for your health than doing drugs! Stay safe « Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ »

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>>17784415
yeah this is the largest issue

>>17784648
we share a board with these tastelets

>>17784808
Did he even consent to letting you use his image for this?

>>17784665
How shitty. B&N printing?
Get your money back, and/or order a full edition replacement?

>>17784750
Maybe you are, but I am not, piggy.

>>17784798
Know where I can get some Psilocybin?

>>17784416
fugg I have a B&N Classics Heart of Darkness that I bought for cheap at my local used bookstore cause I want to reread it at some point.
They wouldn’t abridge a novella would they bros? Nowhere does it explicitly say “unabridged.”

>>17784887
I found it at half price books for 4 dollars. Not the biggest loss. I tweeted at them. I’ll just get an epub of the real book I guess.

>>17784300
My childhood :)
All of the bookstores nearby closed by the time I hit high school though. I became a library dude.

Commie establishment.

>>17784300
Good, but new books are always expensive. Second hand stores where you can get 3 books for five bucks are way better.

>>17784416
>>17785148
Is that just those kids versions though? The little $10 ones? Every $25 full size I've bought seems complete?

>>17784519
a bit too stylised. wuthering heights looks good
>>17784743
oh that one's pretty nice too

>>17784300
Girls go there on occasion
I fucking hate women
I want to kill them and cut them into small cubes then eat those cubes with a toothpick
In minecraft tho not irl
I still fucking hate women

>>17784300
Their manga selection is neat
I rarely buy physical books these days though, e-ink is too good to not use. And while I miss the smell and texture of actual books, the readability and the lack of any fear about damaging it easily compensates.

>>17784519
Frankenstein, Jekyll & Hyde, and Jane Eyre are good. The rest I'm ambivalent on.

>>17784856
He's dead and rotting in the ground. Worms are eating his eyeballs.

>>17784300
They have a really vanilla selection and are way overpriced. Any used book store is better but those aren’t allowed to exist anymore.