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Anonymous Thu Mar 12 17:33:34 2020 No.14878755 [Reply] [Original]

I've stockpiled a lot of books from Barnes and Nobele throughout my winter quarter just in case the coronavirus somehow causes a nationwide power outage.

Plus, I want more inspiration for stories and characters.

From these pile of books, what would you guys recommend I read first?

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 12 17:36:01 2020 No.14878763 >>14878755 Start with the Greeks.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 12 17:36:52 2020 No.14878768 >>14878755 obviously Homer and Dante if you haven't read them yet

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 12 17:42:48 2020 No.14878788 >>14878755 Those covers look horrible desu.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 12 18:31:43 2020 No.14878991 >>14878755 Honestly, the Divine Comedy. Then order the Edgar Allan Poe one.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 12 19:28:00 2020 No.14879246 Man all that old stuff bores me to tears. Not one of those authors has anything meaningful to say about life in 2020

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 12 19:40:59 2020 No.14879317 >>14879246 Name some worthwhile 2020 books. I'd appreciate recs.

>>	hungryman !!5BI0oSV9uvS Thu Mar 12 19:41:51 2020 No.14879320 >>14879317 Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 12 19:43:46 2020 No.14879333 Read Homer, Dante and Joyce. The rest can be thrown in the trash.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 12 20:24:51 2020 No.14879497 >>14879333 this

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 12 20:37:57 2020 No.14879555 >>14878755 China # 1

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 12 21:35:45 2020 No.14879783 >>14878755 homer, dante, poe. in that order

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 12 21:41:11 2020 No.14879801 >>14878755 Sand County Almanac Death Comes for the Archbishop Man Corn - C. Turner

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 12 22:19:56 2020 No.14879966 >>14878755 You are retarded

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 12 22:24:07 2020 No.14879974 >>14878755 Gaudy trash marketed to illiterate consoomers.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 12 22:36:31 2020 No.14880012 >>14879974 Too poor to afford hardcovers?

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 12 22:42:48 2020 No.14880033 >>14880012 Either that or they are so bereft of taste that they prefer the garish style. (The books in the OP are technically hardcovers, btw. They are just vulgarly painted over instead of wearing dust covers.)

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 13 00:09:57 2020 No.14880281 File: 13 KB, 280x373, 1540135855188.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>14879974 t. pretentious trash

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 13 02:33:44 2020 No.14880660 >>14878755 Horribly edited books, some with dozens of typos (despite being their “collectible” line) and using shitty, 1800s translations because they’re public domain

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 13 02:47:06 2020 No.14880696 >>14878788

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 13 04:02:08 2020 No.14880845 >>14880012 Hardcovers are irritating to read and are uncomfortable to hold. Barnes and Noble paperbacks usually nail the size and weight for books.

Anonymous Fri Mar 13 04:13:32 2020 No.14880862

>>14878788
>>14880696
Thirded
>>14879333
There's value in folk tales and mythology, even if the OP's sources are of dubious quality. Alice in Wonderland isn't a hard read by any measure and should be read if only per its cultural impact. He did say he wants inspiration.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 13 04:17:40 2020 No.14880871 >>14878755 but my meme covers not going to make it

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 13 05:02:08 2020 No.14880963 >>14878763 fpbp Ugly faggy covers desu.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 13 07:27:56 2020 No.14881277 >>14879246 Literally every piece of knowledge in 2020 can be traced back to those old books, they are timeless.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 13 07:44:20 2020 No.14881332 >>14878755 What's that book below the divine comedy? Also I've now got that Irish fairy and folk tales on my list

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 13 07:47:31 2020 No.14881342 really bleak pic OP

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 13 08:54:19 2020 No.14881537 >>14879333 Dude the tales from Ireland are literally the foundation of Ulysses if he had used your advice FW and Ulysses wouldn't exist. I think all of that sort could have great classic stories.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 13 09:05:17 2020 No.14881571 >>14878755 > a nationwide power outage Hopefully you stocked up on candles as well

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 13 09:07:31 2020 No.14881578 File: 561 KB, 500x281, 1572493573742.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>14881571 >he lives in the arctic circle lmaoing@ur life rite now my man

>>	Tamashii Fri Mar 13 09:11:36 2020 No.14881588 >>14879974 Dangerously based. OP is an establishment slave.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 13 09:54:22 2020 No.14881738 >>14880871 Kek

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 13 11:46:43 2020 No.14882189 >>14878788 Fourthed

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 13 14:21:36 2020 No.14882733 >>14878788 pented

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 13 17:12:10 2020 No.14883438 >>14881571 what is daylight?

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 13 17:16:26 2020 No.14883466 >>14878755 read them in chronological order and get some flat black dust jackets or something

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 13 17:44:50 2020 No.14883596 >>14878755 Read Ulysses and then the Odyssey. Homer was retroactively created through Joyce, read Borges Pierre Menard.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 13 17:56:12 2020 No.14883649 >>14878788 Sadly the covers are the best part about them. The paper is pretty much see through.

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