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>tfw bookstore you work at is pressuring you to make a contribution to the "staff recommendations" shelf

>> No.12339612

>>12339605
Livy's History of Rome

>> No.12339626

>>12339605
My Dairy Desu, please I need the sales.

>> No.12339637

>>12339605
how about some of our meme books like Deleuze & Guattari's classics or Pessoa? or, if you're a brainlet, some light fiction that stays hip could be Pynchon's Bleeding Edge.

>> No.12339693

>>12339605
Culture of critique
Redpill some zoomers

>> No.12339742

>>12339605
The Bible

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>>12339605

>> No.12339770
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12339770

Just put the little card out on an empty shelf and say Anon recommends you don't read anything at all and instead extrapolate all knowledge from observing a single empty space of nothingness, for example this shelf.

Alternatively, I recommend The Fire Cat.

>> No.12339779

>>12339605
To the Lighthouse

This makes sense if you think about it

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12339792

Why not Pope?

>> No.12340218

if you don't do IJ, some other fag will, so why don't you just do it

>> No.12340231

>>12339626
I wish my bookstore sold milk, they don't even have refrigerators

>> No.12340272

>>12340231
>his bookstore doesn’t sell milk or other dairy products
Please, next you’ll say that it doesn’t sell office appliances like post-it notes and staplers (so you can staple your notes to the appropriate pages of the book you’re reading and annotating).

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>>12339605
it's an opportunity. show you have taste.

>> No.12340490

>>12339605
So... Recommend them a book? I don't understand the issue. There's got to at least be something somewhat normie friendly you can recommend? I'm basically a Nazi at this point and I could pretty easily recommend something that wouldn't get me fired.

>> No.12340509

>>12339612
This, or Polybius. Tell them that just how other people geek out over marvel or star wars or lotr, you geek out over Ancient Rome. They'll just think you're a quirky history geek, instead of a full on loser

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>>12339626
>not DairyPure

>> No.12340573

>>12339605
Jordan Peterson

>> No.12340755

>>12339605
Dude, that would be like the coolest part of working in a bookstore. Choose a bunch of obscure and/or edgy shit and have conversations with people about it

>> No.12340770

>>12339605
The Holy Bible.

>> No.12341820

>>12339605
don't you dare sperg out on this, anon

just go with Dickens or something else utterly milquetoast. don't get fancy

>> No.12341823

>>12341820
>don't get fancy
why not? you think they'll fire him when they learn he's actually really into literature?

>> No.12341831

>>12341823
my experience with normies has always been that, when it comes to art, they have low variance thresholds

then again, i do come from a very conformist party of the country, so maybe i'm just hypersensitive to this kind of thing

>> No.12341863

>>12341831
>when it comes to art, they have low variance thresholds
that's true, but if they actually judge you for being into more abitious shit, they're assholes and not just average normies

>> No.12341866

Just go with something safe like The Catcher in the Rye.

>> No.12341876

>>12339605
More Tolkien

>> No.12342010

>>12339605
Mein Kampf or bust pussy

>> No.12342166

>>12339605
Just put a Murakami book on there. Normalfriends eat that shit up like hot cakes.

>> No.12342175

>>12339605
I would recommend Melancholy of Resistance.

>> No.12342182

Cyclonopedia

>> No.12342189

>>12339605
Houellebecq

>> No.12342192

>>12339605
Look at the top selling on amazon, be sure to pick one that is targeting the women's audience

>> No.12342197

>>12339605
Seige

>> No.12342203

>>12340573
>Jordan Peterson
Yeah, if you want to get added to a watch list.

>> No.12342204

>>12339605
>bookstore you work at

Like that would ever happen.
Neck your self wagecuck

>> No.12342209

>>12339770
underrated

>> No.12342233

>>12339605
give em the summa

>> No.12342592

>>12342203
faggot watch list

>> No.12342635

The Left Hand of Darkness

>> No.12342639

Recommend Captain Underpants lol

>> No.12342643

Just do something well known but also good

>> No.12342659

>>12340278
great taste, anon.

>> No.12342728

>>12340278
Ive seen 2666 on display before so this wouldn't be that bad

>> No.12342734

>>12339770
Based

>> No.12342790

>>12340278
This or 2666
The great contemporary novels

>> No.12342794

>>12339605
Recommend Infinite Jest. Go on, you know you want to

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>>12339605

>> No.12343159

>>12340278
>>12342728
>>12342790
Plebs.

>> No.12343166

>>12339605
I live in the south so probably light in august, because it is the most accesible of faulkner's novels. Or a short story collection of flannery o'connor, which will give me points with my female co-workers for selecting a woman.

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12343217

seriously

>> No.12344219

>>12339605
Probably something light like Kant's Critique of Pure Reason

>> No.12344376

>>12343166
>shit everyone already knows about

>> No.12344391

>>12340278
Every time I see this cover Little Green Bag starts playing in my head because it looks so much like the intro to Reservoir Dogs

>> No.12344409

>>12339637
>Pynchon's Bleeding Edge
>Full of verbal sass and pizzazz as well as conspiracies within conspiracies, Bleeding Edge is totally gonzo, totally wonderful.