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Recommendations for dumb bitches Anonymous Mon Dec 13 11:08:48 2021 No.19564496 [Reply] [Original]

I have to get a book gift for my coworker. Says she likes shit like Wuthering Heights and celebrity bios, gothic lit/historical lit etc. Basically just shitty era-themed romance. I’m a sci-if/nonfic history chad and haven’t ever wasted my time sifting through garbage like this so I don’t know what to buy, might just ignore her preferences and get her something that’s actually good like Flashman. Help me out litbros

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 13 11:11:14 2021 No.19564509 >>19564496 Bernard Werner God trilogy

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 13 11:13:08 2021 No.19564522 File: 10 KB, 223x226, 1635221229061.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>19564496 The Sorry of Eye Thomas the Obscure Watt Dear Mr. Capote

Anonymous Mon Dec 13 11:13:26 2021 No.19564524

>>19564496
>a sci-if/nonfic history chad

more like a redditor lmao, she has marginally better taste than you. hard to know what to get without knowing if she already has all the classics of those genres, if she reads contemporary lit at all get her fake accounts by lauren oyler, it's vapid thotcore among instagrammers and the like.

t. salty that my local doesn't have fake accounts.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 13 11:16:30 2021 No.19564538 Get her some classic romantic fiction, ideally written by a woman. Anne Radcliffe would be good. Or maybe Hugo. The Main Who Laughs would be good.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 13 11:17:18 2021 No.19564543 File: 10 KB, 200x200, Constantinepeeks.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>19564496 Get her 'The Later Roman Empire; by Ammianus

happiness !!a/OIDIldPy9 Mon Dec 13 11:32:56 2021 No.19564616

>Classic Gothic
Horace Walpole: Castle of Otranto
Charles Brockden Brown: Edgar Huntly
Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales and Poems

>Female Gothic
Ann Radcliffe: The Mysteries of Udopho: A Romance
Charlotte Perkins Gilman: The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories

>Southern Gothic
Flannery O'Connnor: The Complete Stories

>African American Gothic
Toni Morrison: Beloved

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 13 11:34:40 2021 No.19564623 >>19564496 Madam Bovary - Flaubert

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 13 11:42:29 2021 No.19564655 >>19564496 Go with Tom Clancy's Power and Empire. She won't be sorry!

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 13 11:42:41 2021 No.19564657 >>19564496 >sci-fi fan thinks he has better taste than someone whose favorite book is Wuthering Heights Is this bait?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 13 11:55:08 2021 No.19564716 File: 83 KB, 719x395, 4.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Here's a more comprehensive list. Thanks for the suggestions so far

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 13 11:59:27 2021 No.19564731 >>19564657 it has to be, please God

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 13 12:40:30 2021 No.19564966 >>19564538 L'Homme qui Rit is top-tier. Extremely comfy read.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 13 12:41:57 2021 No.19564973 >>19564496 Pride and prejudice is perfect

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 13 12:42:16 2021 No.19564976 >>19564657 >>19564731 Don't go to /sffg/ then.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 13 13:13:37 2021 No.19565177 get that cock slurping bitch some Tigana

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 13 15:05:55 2021 No.19565743 >>19564623 Thanks anon I went ahead and picked this up for her. Might even attempt to read it this week

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 13 15:07:21 2021 No.19565749 Get her Middlemarch if she hasn't already read it. Women fucking LOVE Middlemarch.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 13 15:08:55 2021 No.19565756 >>19565743 Best call you could have made honestly. If she hasn't read Jane Eyre yet then I'd obviously recommend that too. Swanns way might also be a good call.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 13 15:09:01 2021 No.19565757 Something by Jane Austen probably

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 13 15:14:11 2021 No.19565787 File: 39 KB, 400x323, dag_analysis_bsp_level.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>19564496 Jane Eyre and Tenant of Windfell Hall boxed set.

Anonymous Mon Dec 13 15:14:41 2021 No.19565789

>>19564496
Pride and Prejudice is a great romance and subtle satire on aristocratic life in the late 18th century. Very well written.
War and Peace is actually a long, drawn out romance. Also very well written and good historical fiction.
Tell her to read the book then watch the BBC multipart film. She'll love it. Better yet, read the books to her -- idk, my wife likes that.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 13 15:16:09 2021 No.19565802 >>19564623 Isn't this about a woman that cheats on her husband then kills herself? Do you think she'll believe you are trying to send her a message?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 13 15:16:49 2021 No.19565808 File: 14 KB, 224x346, external-content.duckduckgo.com.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>19564496 >gothic lit Give her The Monk by Matthew Lewis

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 13 15:18:02 2021 No.19565814 >>19564496 >sci-if/nonfic history chad You're worse than she is because you think that this makes you better than her. Pro tip: it doesn't.

Anonymous Mon Dec 13 15:21:54 2021 No.19565836

Get her the memoirs of Casanova, it's got romance, autobiography, and ye olde historical tales of derring do all in one.

Although there are issues with some translations, trying to find a good unabridged one myself. The free translation on gutenberg.org is considered Bowdlerized trash.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 13 18:15:38 2021 No.19566911 >>19565743 My nigga

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 13 19:00:29 2021 No.19567169 >>19565836 I wouldn't feel comfortable giving that to a women would she take it wrong way? have you ever given a book like that to someone? how did it go? (not op btw)

Anonymous Mon Dec 13 19:02:49 2021 No.19567179

>>19567169
>I wouldn't feel comfortable giving that to a women would she take it wrong way?

lol you might be right, while casanova's tale isn't just about him fucking and sucking, that's what he's become synonymous with so idk, i didn't think about that. depends on if she knows more about casanova than the memes, then.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 13 19:24:09 2021 No.19567280 File: 1.04 MB, 1487x2358, 1639441446755.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>19564496

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 13 22:46:54 2021 No.19568348 File: 162 KB, 1152x1229, 9033923723294-PUSHN°5.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>19564716 Get her Sleeping with the Enemy: Coco Chanel's Secret War by Hal Vaughan

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 14 02:06:17 2021 No.19568924 >>19564496 Count of Monte Cristo maybe she will grow a brain

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 14 03:12:06 2021 No.19569129 >>19567179 she doesn't

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 14 03:29:49 2021 No.19569179 File: 524 KB, 1060x1600, lDTkpUD.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>19564496 Anything by Anais Nin.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 14 04:06:21 2021 No.19569265 >>19564496 Buy her some Jane Eyre, Emma, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Scarlet letter or some shit like that; she'll say she liked it regardless

Anonymous Tue Dec 14 04:09:29 2021 No.19569272

>>19564496
>Recommendations for dumb bitches
Treat them with respect and your cock. Only watch video content with them after fucking when falling asleep. Find women who you can talk to about your scholarly interests: they will certainly be lesbians, don't try to fuck them, if they want to fuck you it'll probably be to steal your semen for unholy witchcraft rituals focused on implementing a new line of Royalty in Scotland. DO NOT FEED LESBIANS YOUR SEMEN THEY WILL SPIT IT INTO EACH OTHERS CUNTS AND CAUSE THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF WINDSOR.

LOOK AT THE QUEEN. SHE DESERVES A FUCKING BREAK.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 14 04:10:37 2021 No.19569275 >>19564543 >not res gestae Plebs es

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 14 04:16:48 2021 No.19569291 >>19564496 Mein Kampf

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 14 10:42:48 2021 No.19570534 >>19564496 Secret History by Donna Tart should be right up her alley.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 14 10:52:16 2021 No.19570568 >>19569272 Is this pasta? Am from 2015 /fit/ (and later /biz/) fag. This is unbelievably autistic so it ought to be pasta if it isn’t.

Anonymous Tue Dec 14 10:58:37 2021 No.19570597

>>19564496
Jane Eyre, Northanger Abbey, The Mysteries of Udolpho, Carmilla, The Woman in White, Gaskell's Gothic Stories, The Romance of the Forest, Agnes Grey, Zofloya, The Monk, The Haunting of Hill House, Rebecca, Don't Look Now, The Yellow Wallpaper

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 14 11:00:40 2021 No.19570609 File: 221 KB, 757x1200, EwvCg_OXMAQy8RA.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>19564496 The Tart's Fart, by Ms. Cunegonde Knickerwater

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