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A mysterious French gentleman inspects your bookshelf. Does he find anything worth taking?

>> No.20747448

Yes

>> No.20747461

I only have a dual language Leaves of Grass he could read

>> No.20747476

>>20747436
No. ):

>> No.20747477

>>20747436
Bonsoir monsieur, j'espère que vous trouverez une livre à votre goût !

>> No.20747498

>>20747436
Austen, Behn, Burney, Chaucer, Childers, Clemens (Twain), Cooper, Coward, Defoe, Dickens, Diderot, Dostoyevsky, Eco, Forster, Gogol, Hardy, Hemingway, Ishiguro, James, Kipling, Larkin, Lawrence, Lemontov, Mackenzie, Malory, McCarthy, Miller, Mishima, More, Murakami, Nabokov, Poe, Pynchon, Rand, Rousseau, Scott, Shakespeare, Stowe, Tolkein, Tolstoy, De Vega, Wells, Wilde, Williams, Woolfe, Wyndham.

Those are probably the most /lit/ authors on my bookshelf. So unless he wants a history book or a copy of Jurassic Park it's probably going to be one of them.

>> No.20747513

No and fuck the stupid french frogs

>> No.20747548

>>20747436
Baudelaire, Anais Nïn, Jean Lorrain, Bataille, Laurelle, Rousseau, Diderot, Mirbeau, Huysmans, Houellebecq, Dumas, Sartre, Marquis de Sade, Rousseau, Choderlos de Laclos, Gaston Leroux…..any of that worth taking?

>> No.20748257

>>20747436
and that gentleman is me

>> No.20748261

>>20747436
The curious book only known as the Book of Sands, but the joke's on him as it only contains his downfall or his road to insanity.

>> No.20748268

>>20747548
I would have replace Sartre with Merleau-Ponty or Emmanuel Mounier, mais sinon, vous passez.

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20748304

Depends on how highly he values his life.

>> No.20748372

>>20747436
>taking
ta guele
ne touche pas mes livres, con

>> No.20748633

>>20747436
No, since I don't own books.

>> No.20748662

>>20748261
kek

>> No.20748707
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20748707

The peregrine. He will go back to his clandestine French reading group and tell the story of this obscure book he found on an English man's shelf, full of wonderful prose.

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>> No.20749741

>>20747436
Gide, L'Immoraliste : je pense que vous le trouverez assez aimable.

>> No.20749778

It's mostly non-fiction about cultures and civilizations he doesn't know or has colonized so he wouldn't care. Maybe if he wants to find new treasures he can nab around the world

>> No.20750678

>>20747436
Je vous en merde

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>>20747436
sheet i been robbed by lupin

>> No.20751396

I only have some JoJo mangas, an Agata Christie book and thus spoke Zarathustra, everything else i have in ePub form

>> No.20751514

Probably Queer by Burroughs tbqh.

>> No.20751574

>>20747436
I've got a bronze spearhead on my shelf. Or perhaps the 300 year old book might attract him, if it's the key to some mystery.

>> No.20751581

>>20747436
Bro didn’t I mix you with a pixie to get a magic horse or something? This is why you had to go, always stealing my shit. The little ice man never did that.

>> No.20751615

>>20747436
why yes he does, but he distracted by juicy butt

>> No.20751649

>>20747477
un livre*

>> No.20751669

>>20747436
I use the pickaxe

>> No.20751686

I have Foucault, Rousseau, Voltaire, and Bataille plus Andrew Robert's Napoleon biography, so I think he would like my bookshelf.

>> No.20751767

>>20747436
No, I'm a tasteless philistine.

>> No.20751874

my diary desu

>> No.20752553

>>20747436
I have a 19th century edition of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam he could liberate

>> No.20752615

>>20747436
No, I'd beat him to death before he even has a chance. Degenerates are not allowed in my house

>> No.20752740

>>20748257
The twist of most Lupin stories

>> No.20752757

>>20751649
You're right, idk why I always get "livre" in the feminine. Thanks anon

>> No.20753064

>>20747436
>Roux de Poux
>reading

>> No.20753970

>>20747498
You're trying too hard.

>> No.20754310

Only my books on cheese making

>> No.20754324

>>20753970
crypto Dracula alert!!!!!!!!!

(shot by VC)

>> No.20755758
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20755758

Tolstoï, Dostoïevski, Russell, Hobsbawm, Platon, Montesquieu, Zola, Eco, Proust, Guimarães Rosa.

>> No.20755772

>>20747436
My pornographic pop-up books

>> No.20755789

>>20747436
Yes. I have tons of out of print and first editions that go for ridiculous amounts of money on the second hand market.

>> No.20756817

>>20747436
The only book in French that I have is a bilingual edition of the Song of Roland, but I'd doubt he'd take it, because the text is is modern French.