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3020117 No.3020117 [Reply] [Original]

Felt the urge when I passed a bookstore.
4 titles to the price of 3.

How did I do?

inb4 wordsworth cheapfuck

>> No.3020125

I think Wordsworth Classics are fucking hideous myself, but hey

>> No.3020128

>>3020117
>cheapfuck
I won't buy a book if it costs more than 3 dollars, so, no, I really don't think so.

>> No.3020137

>Be cheapcunt
>Buy e-ink e-reader
>Infinite books
>Only buy uncommon/hard to find
>Never have to spend money on ugly woddy books

A relative recently bought me a wordsworth book as a gift, I'm interpreting this as a a passive-agressive "fuck you". Not bad OP but you can get all these for free on the internet.

>> No.3020147

>>3020137
The matter afact i've read most of Gatsby online since I bought these bevasue I didn't bring the book.

>> No.3020193

>>3020137

>be cheapcunt
>paying to pirate

Yeah, no.

>> No.3020240

What do you want us to comment? Was it a good deal? No, those books are so common that you could buy them all for pennies. Literally for 1p on Amazon. Was it a good selection? I guess. It's not particularly exciting and I think most people have read all this stuff by the time they left school.

What do you want?

>> No.3020244

>>3020193
Internet + computer.

>> No.3020260

On a serious note OP. The Wordsworth editions are bad. They are filled with grammatical errors, translated poorly, and generally much less pleasurable to read.

>> No.3020262

I BOUGHT 10 WORDSWORTH CLASSICS BOOKS AT ONCE

I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHY

>> No.3020265
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>>3020262
It happens.

>> No.3020274

>>3020117

I hate WW. There's a reason they're cheap, because most are either bad or too old to be relevant or entertaining. I sometimes buy them, but rarely finish them.

>> No.3021277

>buying free books
WTF am I reading?

>> No.3021281

>>3020193
>paying to pirate
Those titles have fallen out of copyright long ago.

>> No.3021285

>>3021277

They aren't free books they are free stories. It still costs money to print and distribute books, even if the story is in public domain.

Holy fuck, why am I arguing this point? Oh God, I've wasted my life . . .

>> No.3021720

Do people honestly not go to thrift stores and pick up classics for like twenty-five cents?

I have an original Catcher, For Whom The Bell Tolls, In Cold Blood, and Varied Types (G.K. Chesterton), and I paid $1 for each.