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My friends bookshelf is hell. He has an old school stolen library copy of infinite jest and all this shit.

>> No.14588942

>>14588932
The David Hammons looks interesting as hell what are you talking about

>> No.14588945

are you retarded

>> No.14588956

based, i wouldnt pay for IJ either

>> No.14589042

>>14588932
sounds like he needs better friends

>> No.14589078

>>14588932
hella based

>> No.14589110

>>14588932
>Heart of Darkness: shit
>Notes from Underground/ The Stranger/The Catcher in the Rye: cringe, not bad books in themselves but all short and entry-level showing only a surface-level interest in books
>David Hammons: biography, might be interesting but not really relevant to anything else he has
>library copy: disrespectful
>writers' guides/elements of style: all cringe, reading only so you can write is very presumptuous and egotistical, he doesn't seem to care about reading itself
>2 thesauri/Collins guides to correct grammar/: reference books are okay but having so many is unnecessary. Again, trying to write before you can properly read is wrong
-Norton introduction to literature: no-one ever reads those things, only useful to people who actually like literature
>King James Bible: of course great, but he's put it with the reference books which shows that he's doesn't really have a proper interest in reading it
I'm only analysing this because everyone is turning against OP. OP's right, his friend has an awful bookshelf

>> No.14589115

>>14589110
hey everyone, op's back

>> No.14589122

>>14588932
That's the best bookshelf I've ever seen posted on /lit/, to be desu

>> No.14589126
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14589126

>>14589110
Can you at least learn to fucking greentext

>> No.14589539

that's based tho

>> No.14589570

>>14589110
>Heart of Darkness: shit
entire post disregarded

>> No.14589607

>>14589110
>reading only so you can write is very presumptuous and egotistical, he doesn't seem to care about reading itself
this is a little presumptuous, no? What if OP's friend already loves reading and wants to try writing?

>> No.14589638

>>14588932
seems pretty based to me are you sure you aren't a pseud

>> No.14589777

>>14588932
It's based and you're a judgemental pseud

>> No.14590051

Some Mad Russian. I need to get into his stuff.

>> No.14590131

>Realistic Fiction
Suicide by microwave and wheelchair bound terrorist organizations don't seem like particularly realistic possibilities to me.

>> No.14590153

>>14589570
not an argument