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Ok so this saturday it's this girl's birthday. I thought of buying her a book.
She's what one could call a "hipster". Recommendations?
>Picture somewhat related

>> No.2424044

See Spot Run

>> No.2424043

I'd recommend something but it'd probably be too hard for you to find a copy of it.

>> No.2424051

>>2424043
Clever.

>> No.2424054
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2424054

'The Book of Disquiet' by Pessoa.

Contemplative, interesting and relatively obscure (amongst her friends, I'm sure), and you can say that it's a favourite book of Morrissey's and that he loves it.

Hipster bitches love 'The Smiths', it's a winning move.

>> No.2424057

Tao Lin

>> No.2424063

Perks of Being a Wallflower, assuming she doesn't already own it.

>> No.2424064

>>2424054
Good call.
If not, the poetry of Xavier Villaurrutia should moisten her panties a bit. It's got all of the "hauntological" qualities those tumblr faggots love.

>> No.2424073

>>2424064
>>2424054
I love /lit/

Where else do you get sentences like "It's got all of the "hauntological" qualities those tumblr faggots love."

>> No.2424088

>>2424054
I'm not interested in this girl anyway. I just wanted to give her something that she could appreciate.
And yes she does love The Smiths.

>> No.2424091

Howl by Ginsberg.

>> No.2424096

Holy Jesus I hate hipsters.

>> No.2424107

>>2424096

I have honestly no idea what her taste of books is like.

She likes poems. What do I know about poems?
One does not simply walk into poems.

>> No.2424114

Howl = Greatest poem ever written

No argument.

>> No.2424118

>>2424114
it's better than the duino elegies? huh. i guess i should read it, then.

>> No.2424131

>>2424114
>implying
http://www.poemas-del-alma.com/jose-gorostiza-muerte-sin-fin.htm
>tfw a gringordo won't be able to read the greatest poem ever written because he doesn't understand the superior language
Also, >dem comments on that stupid site.

>> No.2424194

Buy her the Communist Manifesto/Mein Kampf/Catcher in the Rye.

She probably will only read Catcher though.

>> No.2424200

Rilke's "Letters to a Young Poet", works every time, trust me.

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>>2424054
Mah nigga
> Tell bitches I like The Smiths
> They think I'm deep automatically
> Actually talk about deep topics
> They're lost as fuck

I still get bitches anyways.

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2424208

Buy her a Star Trek novel, bitches love Star Trek

>> No.2424215

This makes me wonder:

What is the most pretentious board
/mu/, /lit/, /fa/, /g/, or /sci/?

I'd have to say /g/ or /sci/, right? I mean /lit/ and /mu/ and I guess /fa/ get the "personal taste and subjectivity" arguments. I'd be surprised if it was actually like /po/ or something.

>> No.2424226

OP, is she the common tumblr-user type of hipster, because if so get her Perks of Being a Wallflower or any Sherlock Holmes book.

>> No.2424234

>>2424215
The problem about that, is that when it comes to /sci and /g, personal taste and subjectivity is just plain wrong.

>> No.2424241

>>2424226
She's hipster, idk. She doesn't have a tumblr, though.
She just listens to hipster music and stuff.

To be honest I don't know much about hipsters, and if I just said "I saw her with Ray-ban shades on a couple facebook pictures" I wouldn't be lying.

>> No.2424245

>>2424241
Does Rayban makes you a hipster now? for the fucking love of god...

>> No.2424264

>>2424245
kinda does.

>> No.2424338

If you don't mind spending a bit of extra cash, I suggest buying her a Folio Society edition of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen like this one.
You can even write an inscription on the first inside page. You'll probably get laid.
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/used/product.asp?EAN=2696695965038