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ITT: great conversation starter-tier books

>> No.12259517

>hey man check out this book you should totally live in the woods like a 1400s hermit man
>cool bro how do i start?
>just renounce everything youve ever done and live and wipe your ass with leaves man
>cool bro lets fuck each other lol

>> No.12259519

>>12259506
i ranted about this book on a first date once so yeah no she never replied to my messages again

>> No.12259524

>>12259517
so you're saying that reading Thoreux will get me a boyfriend?

>> No.12259527

the bell curve

>> No.12259549

>>12259524
A cute quebecois lumberjack bf

>> No.12259560

>be me
match with grill on tinder that wrote on her bio that "she loves books"
match with her, ask her what shes reading. tell her im reading deleuze's anti-oedipus
>she responds that she just finished reading jurassic park and started reading eat pray love
>unmatch
>turn on "men" preferences as well

>> No.12259577

>>12259560
Jurassic Park is okay

>> No.12259599

>>12259577
Muh chaos theory

>> No.12259634
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>>12259506

>> No.12259651

>>12259634
Why are arthoes so infatuated with this book? Every time I see an arthoe on ig or vsco or any other social media they plug this book. Is it becuase of the “progressive” subject matter or becuase Nabokov uses purple prose for most of the book and it’s seen as an intellectual book?

>> No.12259707

>>12259560
>turn on "men" preferences as well

any luck? asking for a friend

>> No.12259716

>>12259651
It's because all art hoes have or pretend to have a daddy fetish

>> No.12259717

>>12259651
It's equally aesthetic, intellectual, edgy, and whorish: the art hoe formula.

>> No.12259745

I have learnt that reading Little Women is a great conversation starter with older women.

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>>12259506

>> No.12259890
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12259890

Walden is good but this is literally the most kino thing I have ever read in my life, pure literary kino if you will.

>> No.12259949

Where should I start with Thoreau?

>> No.12259958

>>12259890
>kino
Opinion discarded

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>> No.12259979

>>12259958
shut it fagtardpleb

>> No.12259987

>>12259949
https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/t/thoreau/henry_david/walking/

>> No.12260482

I really wanted to like Walden but it was so boring. He seriously spends pages listing off all his living expenses down to the penny.

>> No.12260490

>>12259651
daddy issues

>> No.12261923

>>12259524
>>12259549
Wait, if you want to live as a hermit does this give others the impression you are a latent/closeted homosexual? I've only ever been attracted to girls and I wouldn't mind having one with me but I know it would only end in disappointment for her due to the conditions/my poor conversational abilities/interests

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>>12259651
>purple prose

>> No.12262018

>>12259560
>turn on "men" preferences as well

too real dial it back

>> No.12262725

>>12259560
kek

>> No.12262800

>>12259651
its too god dang early in the morning to be reminded women are the nigger of genders but someone has to been telling me all the god damn time making sure my tunings right, thannks anon tell me more about the bitches and they stupidness

>> No.12263253

>>12259651
women secretly regret not having someone like HH in their lives and want to relive it.

>> No.12264614

>>12259987
Very nice.

>> No.12264623

>>12259560
>deleuze
She should’ve unmatched you

>> No.12264633

>>12259651
>>12262008
Lolita is a mediocre and aggressively overrated book and rests on its shocking material and flowery but unsubstantiated prose.

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>>12261923
>does this give others the impression you are a latent/closeted homosexual?

I am a hermit and a homosexual so maybe. But you probably need more examples than just me to make it scientific.

>> No.12264683

C&P

>> No.12264786

>>12261923
No, Thoreau was just notorious for being a confirmed bachelor. IIRC there are no female characters in Walden. Thoreau spends a whole chapter about how beautiful the muscles and masculinity of this one lumberjack was. Contemporaries of his said he was effeminate. He never married and apparently never dated women either

>> No.12264804

>>12259745
Older women are often the littlest women of all.

>> No.12264810

>>12259890
Based. It’s among my favorites.

>> No.12264813

>>12264786
He did ask a woman to marry him though. He loved her but she did not return his affections. We’ve all been there.

>> No.12264823
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>>12264813
How could you say 'no' to that neckbeard

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>tfw your mother thinks you're gay

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>>12265257
A mother always knows.

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>>12265264
What if she thinks you're homosexual but you actually aren't

>> No.12265287

>>12265257
stopwatchingpornman,jpg

>> No.12265289

>>12265276
Show her your weird porn collection. It might solve that problem.

>> No.12265494

>>12265289
I can assure you that Anon's mother would much prefer her son be gay.

>> No.12265640

>>12259832
Is this book still available?

>> No.12265747

>>12265640
don't think so

>> No.12265938

Joshua Slocum's 'Sailing Around the World' is a wonderful conversational piece.

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>>12259832

THIS

>> No.12266328

>>12265640
https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?isbn=0997917601&cm_sp=mbc-_-ISBN-_-all
go for it

>> No.12266343

>>12265276
please tell me how long ago you posted this, march? may?

>> No.12266357

>>12262008
When the man spends 2 pages talking about the way a mountain is cast against the sunlight wouldn’t you consider that purple prose? I’m not saying it isn’t beautiful ( I enjoyed all of the flowery descriptions and I also enjoy Pynchon and other maximalist writers as well ) but it’s hard to argue that ~75 pages of that book could be removed without a single drop of plot missing. And around 75 more pages could be rewritten to be shorter and lose minimal effect on the whole story

>> No.12266358

>>12265276
stop watching porn right now
it might take a year or so but you will completely forget about any attraction to this shit

>> No.12266387

>>12264823
It's like "shave your neckbeard" but in reverse.

>> No.12267889

>>12266387
I have never understood how people think this looks good.

>> No.12267912

>>12260482
Nothing wrong with that.

You actually learn a little bit about economics from the book as well

>> No.12268363

>>12265276
>The English Bible King James Version
lmao

>> No.12268906

>>12259987
this is great so far, thanks for sharing.

>> No.12269568

>>12268906
I can't tell if it's my modern perspective or the author's intention, but a lot of this seems rather satirical. I got the same sense from Walden.