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6277129

Anonymous Mon Mar 16 09:35:22 2015 No.6277129 [Reply] [Original]

Why you guys hate me so much?

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 16 09:40:10 2015 No.6277146 Your many ravaged spines adorning my shelves attest to my love of you.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 16 09:44:21 2015 No.6277156 >Why is your hate such an exclusive property?

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 16 12:25:51 2015 No.6277638 >>6277129 what are some other publishers who have their own classics? other than barnes and noble

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 16 12:32:33 2015 No.6277673 >>6277638 Signet classics

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 16 12:34:29 2015 No.6277684 >>6277638 Oxford Modern Library Dover Thrift Routledge Folio Society Everyman Wordsworth

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 16 12:35:07 2015 No.6277687 I like the black and white and orange, but you really fucked me over by making The Portable Dante have a slightly different color scheme.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 16 12:37:13 2015 No.6277701 >>6277673 >>6277684 Although signet, everyman and modern library are all part of Penguin Random House group.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 16 12:54:40 2015 No.6277743 File: 574 KB, 1920x1080, PIC_0662.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] GOAT paperbacks

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 16 12:55:57 2015 No.6277745 File: 834 KB, 1920x1080, PIC_0667.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6277743 respect the classics, bitch.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 16 12:56:02 2015 No.6277746 But I don't

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 16 13:05:06 2015 No.6277774 I don't. I think Penguin is the baseline for quality before you get into NYRB and Vintage

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 16 13:09:26 2015 No.6277787 >>6277745 >Karamasow 1 >Karamasov 2 Absolutely disgusting.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 16 15:21:58 2015 No.6278210 File: 585 KB, 1920x1080, PIC_0665.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6277774 >nyrb fuck your gay shit, fag.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 16 15:24:03 2015 No.6278215 File: 635 KB, 1920x1080, PIC_0666.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6278210 Katherine mother fuckin' Manfields , bitch.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 16 15:25:19 2015 No.6278217 File: 566 KB, 1920x1080, PIC_0663.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6278215 alpha as FUCK

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 16 15:26:32 2015 No.6278218 File: 542 KB, 1920x1080, PIC_0664.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6278217 look at piggy and his faggy ass broken glasses. HA-HA!

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 16 15:27:27 2015 No.6278219 >>6277684 Oxford tends to be my favorite despite the fact they change the title of a bunch of works for some reason.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 16 15:30:30 2015 No.6278224 >>6277745 I HAVE THAT ZARATHUSTRA :DDD

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 16 15:31:00 2015 No.6278225 File: 583 KB, 1920x1080, PIC_0668.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6277774 >vintage Anchor rapes your ass hard, fag.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 16 15:32:18 2015 No.6278227 >>6278224 I got mine for $3, take that non-2nd-hand shopping cunts! Who'd pay $20 for a book thats been in print for years anyways? fucking autists.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 16 15:35:12 2015 No.6278235 >>6278227 I got it for like two fifty I think in a second hand shop too and it had a note in it for the person who had ordered it all those years ago, half way across the country

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 16 15:37:59 2015 No.6278239 >>6278235 YA! I got One Day in the Life if Ivan Denisovich for 2.50 and theres a piece of paper drawn by some 10 year old and a list of his favourite 80's bands. :^)

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 16 15:41:52 2015 No.6278250 >>6278239 all the history man. That's another reason I love second hand books, besides the low prices of course.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 16 15:43:57 2015 No.6278261 >>6278225 >he reads kierkegaard in translation Jokes aside, Kierkegaard translation loose most of the philosophy, if you read it for that. That's maybe too much as well. Some will be lost in translation, not all, and read it anyway

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 16 15:49:05 2015 No.6278276 >>6278261 nobody cares faggot. those edward gorey covers are dope as fuck

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 16 17:10:56 2015 No.6278572 File: 124 KB, 800x626, penguins605.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Hate you? We love you, you erudite oily flightless web-footed little bastard.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 16 18:42:54 2015 No.6278914 File: 97 KB, 608x855, Morrissey-Autobiography.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Exhibit A-Z

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 16 18:53:03 2015 No.6278947 I don't like the uniformity. Every book is unique, and the appearance of a textured, varied library is important to me

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 16 18:53:49 2015 No.6278953 >>6278572 Damn, haven't seen this set, I want. Can even forgive that mozza wank.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 16 18:55:59 2015 No.6278962 >>6278225 >>6278210 Why so upset?

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 16 18:56:11 2015 No.6278963 >>6277745 >translations

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 16 19:31:10 2015 No.6279047 >>6278963 I can't speak French, Russian, German or Italian. Does that mean I'm not allowed to read Dosto? :^(

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 16 19:32:45 2015 No.6279049 >>6279047 No it means you should learn Russian.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 16 19:34:54 2015 No.6279056 >>6279049 why? I hate white people. all of you are sick demented freaks. especially russians.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 16 19:38:01 2015 No.6279068 >>6278914 But this is a classic, anon