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>Why yes, i do go straight to the classics section anytime im at the bookstore.

>> No.14339615
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14339615

>>14339606
Actually I usually go to the bargain bin section that has printings of beat-to-hell $5 used paperbacks I can buy for $1 a pop

>> No.14340428

>>14339615
Why not just pirate it? Don't tell me you fell for the meme of intellectual property?

>> No.14341687

>>14340428
No I just can't sit down and read off a computer screen. Hurts my eyes. I like to read reclined on my couch.

>> No.14341932

>>14341687
Get an eReader and you won't have that problem.

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>ask bookstore clerk where the classics section is
>he says there is none it's just all in general fiction

How do stores get away with this?

>> No.14341957

>>14339606
>90% overpriced penguins
>1/3 Dickens, 1/3 Jane Austen, 1/3 miscellaneous Victorians
I'll give it a miss

>> No.14341983

>>14341957

Do you only shop for books at shitty thrift stores? Many used book stores will have a fine and diverse assortment of world literature classics.

>> No.14342021

>>14339606
>Going to bookstores

People will think I'm a smart reader if they see me out in public with smart people books. Will Plato or Aristotle make me look smarter? Does Nietzsche make me look like an intellectual or an angsty teen? I should just carry around some Marx. I saw a guy at Starbucks telling some girl about Marx and she seemed to be paying him at least 50% attention. That's a lot of attention! I can dream. Also, if I carry around a Marx book then I can dismiss arguments I don't understand or can't refute with "read theory" like a proper intellectual. Everyone will think I'm so smart when I answer any critique of any Marxist position with "read theory". I wonder when I'll be accepted to Cambridge?

>> No.14342217

>>14340428
Imagine thinking people shouldn't get paid for their work.

>> No.14342451

>>14342021
>Notes from the /lit/derground

>> No.14342481

>>14339606
>not making a beeline for the Russian section at an autistically fast pace

>> No.14342995

>>14339606
>they never sell philosophy outside of basic shit like the occasional Plato or meditations by Aurelius

>> No.14343249

>>14342995
>bookshop sells Plotinus and commentary on Plotinus
I love living in a capital