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17997949 No.17997949 [Reply] [Original]

What books do you see someone reading, or see on a bookshelf, or hear someone praising that makes you instantly think they are only interested in it because they think it makes them look intelligent?

>> No.17997957

None because such baseless assumptions are dumb and make those who make them look like a pseud

>> No.17997960

There are no bad reasons to own books

>> No.17997977

>>17997949
Most pomo books by frogs, the same mandatory and pridefully placed 20th c. "social criticism" stack every lukewarm bourgeois is ought to own, a couple recent books that are obviously just riding ephemeral trends, especially so if they are political, a couple books relating to the renaissance and the enlightenment here and there, preferably nothing of the Dark Ages unless it's about science and philosophy in the islamic world, hmm, maybe a colourful collage of modernist bricks written by jews, half-jews, or people married to jews on its own shelf, and, uh, that's all that comes to my mind.

>> No.17997990

>>17997960
This. Once in the shelve someone might read it.

>> No.17998007

12 rules

>> No.17998026
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>>17997960
Wrong

>> No.17998036

anything by nietzsche

>> No.17998145

>>17997949
malcolm gladwell books
basically the whole pop psychology and pop science genres
all of that shit

>> No.17998161

>>17997949
Mark Fisher

>> No.17998342

>>17997949
Richard Dawkins
Feminism

>> No.17998346

>>17998007
You will never be a woman

>> No.17998351

>>17997949
Insecure

>> No.17998366

>>17997949
DFW