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Anonymous Mon Jun 6 11:44:20 2011 No.1832868 [Reply] [Original]

Hello /lit/. My grandfather is turning 89 and I'd like to buy him a nice book. Now, his attention-span is rather short due to the deadly combination of age and E-mail, but I know that he can still enjoy what I'm looking for:

I need a recommendation for one of those nice, thick, heavily illustrated books that people give as presents, in subject of either modern history (preferably the World Wars) or geography.

Counting on you guys.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 6 11:48:20 2011 No.1832871 Why not just buy him a nice fresh male hooker?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 6 12:21:20 2011 No.1832905 Bump

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 6 12:24:20 2011 No.1832911 Are you sure the old man wants a book? If I were his age I would wish a quick death, probably.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 6 12:27:20 2011 No.1832915 >>1832911 anon's right, shoot his head off no, seriously, you are stupid, 1832911

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 6 13:59:20 2011 No.1832988 >>1832871 >>1832911 Thanks for the refreshing remarks, but I just want a book recommendation.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 6 14:08:20 2011 No.1832995 File: 428 KB, 475x475, 1268737656103.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] get him the asoiaf series and troll the fuck out of him about how chances are either him or the author will die before the series ends.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 6 14:15:41 2011 No.1833001 You should probably get him a collection of short stories so he doesn't feel as overwhelmed.

ConcernedCitizen Mon Jun 6 14:17:20 2011 No.1833003

Seriously, you just answered your own question. Go into Barnes and Nobles, and look for illustrated histories of WWI/WWII. Results will be either collections of drawings, or collections of photographs/maps/documents. Both will usually come with commentary by historians.

Good stuff. I'd do the same thing if my grandfather wasn't already dead.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 6 14:20:20 2011 No.1833011 >>1833003 Ok, problem is that I'm not an Americn (while my grandfather main reading language is English, so I do plan on buying a book in English), and I'm planning on ordering from Book Depository, so if anyone can please specify me a bit more...

>>	ConcernedCitizen Mon Jun 6 14:29:20 2011 No.1833019 >>1833011 Oh. Sorry. Well, there's an Oxford Illustrated History for either world war. Also there's Fighting Men of World War II: Allied Forces - Uniforms, Equipment and Weapons, by David Miller. There's also a separate Axis equivalent too.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 6 14:38:20 2011 No.1833029 Why not give him along with the photobook Hemingway's "The old man and the sea"? Maybe he'll get something out of it. Just a suggestion!

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 6 15:00:20 2011 No.1833049 >>1833029 He's not fucking retarded, he read Hemingwey. >>1833019 Thank you very much.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 6 15:59:20 2011 No.1833142 File: 25 KB, 400x673, granny-prostitute-a-go-go.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >Hello /lit/. My grandfather is turning 89 and I'd like to buy him a nice hooker This is what I read

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