/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.13806769]

Experiences at the bookstore

>book store has a quiet area where you can sit and read however long you want
>studying there
>3 women walk in, in the 30’s age range, 2 with coloured hair, all hefty
>sit at my table
>they are discussing their writing and works in progress
>one of them breaks out a book on writing that she borrowed from someone
>”If you haven’t read Harry Potter, Hunger Games and Pride and Prejudice why do you even want to write?”
>they write for 5 minutes then break out a book and a deck of cards
>mfw its called “The Literary Witch Oracle” and the cards are tarot cards
>they predict each other’s future
>one of them gets “you don’t need to worry about money” and the other gets death
>they all start comforting her
>I get up, turn 360 degrees and walk out

Yup, should have brought my earphones today, could have listened to the truman show soundtrack again

[Anonymous No.13806783]

>and the other gets death
based

[Anonymous No.13806788]

>go on LibGen
>book I want isn't there
my only experience at a book store

[Anonymous No.13806797]

>>13806788
>be me
>go on libgen
>it has the book i want
>it's only in epub form

[Anonymous No.13806859]

>>13806788
That's a really pretty picture of you, do you want to exchange kik accounts?

[Anonymous No.13806876]

>>13806797
Now you get the converter experience

[Anonymous No.13806883]

Why give a shit about what they were doing? Why let that get in the way of your own enjoyment? Chill the fuck out man, nobody cares.

[Anonymous No.13806890]

>>13806883
50% of the posts here are about judging other people and their tastes

[Anonymous No.13806895]

>>13806883
Not OP but they were at the book store's quiet area. Quiet. Area. For reading. Reading books, not each other's Tarot fortunes or whatever.

[Anonymous No.13806924]

>>13806876
it's just not the same ;_;

[Anonymous No.13806962]

>At bookstore
>Going up to the counter
>Fat man and cute lady both tending to customers
>Pray fat man gets done first
>QT calls me over
>"Hello"
>Place book too aggressively on the counter
">Loooovecrrraft, can't go wrong"
>Y-Yeah you can't get that edition o-online
>"Really? It's a penguin classic I would have thought..."
>No the. . don't it's.. uh the edition it's the cover that
>"Sir that's the wrong credit card reader"
>Right! Right how right silly dumb
>Now sweating noticeably
>She bags my book but keeps it back and away
>"You can circle any three magazines..."
>No thank you
>Grab book, reaching over the counter and too far into her personal space
>Start speedwalking away
>"Would you like your receipt?"
>Think seriously for a moment, unable to push through the mental fog
>Can you pitch it for me?
>"Uh, yeah *slight giggle*
>Speedwalk to my car

[Anonymous No.13807038]

>>13806962
This is based.

[Anonymous No.13807083]

>>13806769
never paid attention to the soundtrack in the Truman Show but you bet your ass I'm about to listen to it

[Anonymous No.13807087]

>>13807038
I have trouble dealing with confrontation but I'm getting better. I've been looking clerks in the eye when I say I don't want to round up to a dollar for the stupid charity, and this has helped a lot. It seems as if I look like an easy mark, so women who work places try to pry on me. They can flounder and confuse me, but I don't get suckered into whatever. The anger I feel at them trying to use me helps me to finish workouts. We can make it bros.

[DO NOT MOT No.13807098]

DO NOT MOT 9-30-19

[Anonymous No.13807110]

>One of the special "rewards" recognizable by all booksellers is that occasional encounter with good, well-meaning, dutiful but besieged parents on a desperate search, mostly on Sunday evenings, for a book needed for some school assignment generally due by the following day. Thus after verifying by phone that we did indeed have a copy of Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse Five," there was so much disruptive and simultaneous background chatter from several teen-age voices on what appeared to be a cell phone within a moving automobile that we could no longer hear the voice of the original caller; and thought that this was either a teen-age prank call or that we were somehow cut off. Five minutes later when what is normally a quiet, contemplative sanctuary of a bookshop was assaulted with such a barrage of frantic, frenetic and disruptive cacophony, we preferred to bequeath said book to restore peace and quiet here. Lesson to all other good parents besieged at the last minute with similar assignments: Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse Five" is "sui generis," stands alone, and is not part of a series called "Slaughterhouse One," "Slaughterhouse Two," etc.

[Anonymous No.13807120]

>go to bookstore
>sale on fiction so pick up 8 books including LOTR, Kafka, and Robinson Crusoe for $5.50
>thought i left my debit card there, was just in my pocket
pretty wacky day today

[Anonymous No.13807334]

>>13807083
https://youtu.be/ZXPRbOvWOGo

Listen to this the moment you come to
an important realization about a story or a philosophy

[Anonymous No.13807571]

>>13806769
Death is literally a great card though, it symbolizes rebirth. Women fucking up tarot readings

[Anonymous No.13807751]

>>13806769
Death only means change, so it dosen't necessarily mean she will die.

[Anonymous No.13807759]

>>13806769
>Experiences at the bookstore

>go to the bookstore
>browse through all the shitty fiction to find authors that I want to read
>poor selection of titles
>always overpriced
>turn 360 degrees and moonwalk home to buy books from amazon instead

[Anonymous No.13807765]

>>13806769
>>they write for 5 minutes then break out a book and a deck of cards

[Anonymous No.13807830]

>>13806797
epub is superior to pdf you dum dum.

[Anonymous No.13807838]

>>13807830
>doesn't look like a real book
>ugly formatting
>no actual page numbers so you cant cite it
>literally useless
fuck epubs

[Anonymous No.13807851]

>>13807838
What the hell are you reading on? I read on my phone and pdf is horrible because you can't adjust the formatting.

[Anonymous No.13807905]

Experiences at the book depository

>go to book depository
>decide to check out the live purchases map
>Australia is mostly self-help and pop-psy
>Singapore is the worst kind of business books
>Hong Kong is surprisingly patrician
>Ireland is mostly plant books
>Norway is a bunch of books about happiness
>UK is pop-non fiction
>Israel is mostly pop-sci
>US rarely pops up but when it does it is absolute dog-shit books

[Anonymous No.13807984]

>>13806797
ePub is the best though. Best to read on phone and easiest to convert to .mobi for kindle

[Anonymous No.13808789]

>>13806797
Epub is MUCH better than pdf and is supported by most browsers!

[Anonymous No.13808801]

>>13807120
Why do you need LOTR and Robinson Crusoe?

[Anonymous No.13808815]

>>13807120
Very kafkian

[Anonymous No.13808816]

>>13807905
People in the US don't use Book Depository, they just use Amazon (which owns Book Depository). There's no reason to have books shipped from overseas when we can get them shipped from within our own country. It's retarded.

[Anonymous No.13808864]

>>13808816
I honestly thought book depository was an extension of the running joke where people are unnecessarily verbose about stuff and it was just a stand in for a different website. literally never heard of it

[Anonymous No.13808876]

Not bookstore exactly, but I ordered a copy of Lolita from eBay and the seller didn't pay the full delivery fee so I had to pay $3 to pick it up at the depot and the book was in a transparent envelope

[Anonymous No.13808878]

>>13808864
No, it's real. I'm sure their "free shipping worldwide" thing is quite nice depending no where you live. But there's no reason to use it in the US for most people.

[Anonymous No.13809863]

>>13806883
Because its funny nigger

[Anonymous No.13810066]

>>13808801
Nice to have physical copies of them and they were only 50cents each.