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12225539

Anonymous Fri Dec 14 03:05:29 2018 No.12225539 [Reply] [Original]

How many good books are there?

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 14 03:06:31 2018 No.12225543 Probably about 1000.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 14 03:07:57 2018 No.12225546 exactly 3

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 14 03:08:35 2018 No.12225548 >>12225546 >Ulysses >Gravity's Rainbow >Infinite Jest

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 14 03:08:48 2018 No.12225549 >>12225539 About 2-5k, being generous, you could cut that down to 1000 probably and not miss much All of the great Greek and Roman writers could definitely fit on one book shelf

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 14 03:09:48 2018 No.12225552 >>12225548 wrong, wronger, and wrongest.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 14 05:23:46 2018 No.12225854 >>12225546 The Quran, Bible and Torah?

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 14 05:28:06 2018 No.12225863 >>12225539 How great are we talking? And are we just talking about literature and philosophy? Does Darwin’s Origin of Species count? Euclid’s Geometry? Probably 500 that are really top tier world-historically significant

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 14 08:31:16 2018 No.12226281 There's probably a few thousand books that are great in terms of immediate quality But in terms of significance its probably under a thousand, and you could probably fit them all into one library

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 14 08:36:37 2018 No.12226294 27

>>	five Fri Dec 14 08:38:52 2018 No.12226300 5

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 14 08:49:10 2018 No.12226322 >>12225546 my, diary, and desu?

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 14 08:59:52 2018 No.12226349 File: 839 KB, 500x650, 1505014070636.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12226322 you, me, and our diary (desu)

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 14 09:13:00 2018 No.12226383 >>12226349 Fuggg

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 14 09:20:59 2018 No.12226409 >>12225539 quite a few

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 14 09:26:18 2018 No.12226425 lots

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 14 10:50:35 2018 No.12226735 >>12225854 The bible includes the torah.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 14 10:52:54 2018 No.12226746 >>12225539 A little less than fifty.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 14 11:48:16 2018 No.12226954 File: 228 KB, 382x480, theheads.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12225539 There is only one good book.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 14 11:54:16 2018 No.12226966 >>12225539 Depends on how snobby you're being, if you think a good book can mean a good fiction novel or poem collection or informative encyclopedia on snails then several hundred thousand probably.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 14 12:03:34 2018 No.12226995 >>12226735 fucks sake i hate it when publishers re-release stuff like that with extra chapters and so on

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 14 18:06:59 2018 No.12228582 >>12226735 Touché

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 14 19:48:34 2018 No.12229031 Only one. The book of sand.