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20136952 No.20136952 [Reply] [Original]

Is it retarded or based

>> No.20136979

>>20136952
It's the only reason to buy a book when you can get them on an e-reader for free

>> No.20136982

>>20136952
Why else would you buy books except to show off in social media?

>> No.20136995

>>20136979
Not allofem b

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>>20136982
eBooks have no soul Man

>> No.20137034

>>20136952

It's a good experiment to do once in a while to improvise, but buying a book because of the content is better to have systemic knowledge and a good experience with literature.

>> No.20137040

>>20136952
OP judges a book by its cover

>> No.20137066

>>20137040
Everybody does. Look up the Halo effect

>> No.20137103

>>20136952
>retarded
if you don't read the book
>based
if you read it
>superbased
Wordsworth Classics, meme books ordered in store, outfit/nails matching cover, collecting all editions of Infinite Jest, going as John Lennon for Halloween with a Catcher in the Rye original cover edition

>> No.20137146

>>20136952
It's based. Life is too short. You have to develop & trust your instantaneous feel for what's worth spending time on.


Having come to doubt the religion of technique, where could Starling turn? In her tribulation, in the gnawing sameness of her days, she began to look at the shapes of things. She began to credit her own visceral reactions to things, without quantifying them or restricting them to words. At about this time she noticed a change in her reading habits. Before, she would have read a caption before she looked at a picture. Not now. Sometimes she did not read captions at all.

For years she had read couture publications on the sly, guiltily as though they were pornography. Now she began to admit to herself that there was something in those pictures that made her hungry. Within the framework of her mind, galvanized by the Lutherans against corrupting rust, she felt as though she were giving in to a delicious perversion.

— 'Hannibal', Thomas Harris

>> No.20137168

bought Camues Der Fremde (L’Étranger) when I was 16, cause the cover looked cool. Didn't know the book was such a classic. So based i guess