How do we feel about Barnes and Noble

[Anonymous No.22089297]

[Anonymous No.22089300]

The poetry section

[Anonymous No.22089303]

>>22089300
Fixed image

[Anonymous No.22089310]

>>22089300
Abysmal. Foreboding.

That said, I guess I’m glad Barnes exists. They occasionally have sales on older books that are more expensive on Amazon (a rare occurrence, but it does happen).

[Anonymous No.22089313]

>>22089303
post page 166

[Anonymous No.22089324]

It's the Wal-Mart of booksellers, which makes /lit/'s histrionic pearl-clutching about how they have the audacity to not carry the writings of some obscure Gnostic priest whose works have been out of publication for decades all the more funny.

[Anonymous No.22089336]

>>22089297
I go there once in a while because I live in a bourgeois suburb and it's right there.
I'll buy a doorstopper from them if I really want to read it instead of a used one because used books are fucking disgusting most of the time.

[Anonymous No.22089346]

>>22089324
>obscure Gnostic priest
Everything about the modern worldview is gnostic. Transhumanism, LGBT, feminism, the idea that the soul is just some sort of ghost trapped in a prison of flesh, the idea that the universe is a simulation, and so on. All of this crap is gnostic.

[Anonymous No.22089363]

>>22089297
They have lots of good adventure and romance books and I love to browse and drink my coffee

[Anonymous No.22089366]

>>22089346
Yes, that was definitely the point of my post, thank you for demonstrating that all gnosticism nerds are conditioned like Pavlovian dogs to derail threads whenever their special buzzword pops up.

[Anonymous No.22089372]

>>22089300
Stupid ipleb.

[Anonymous No.22089378]

>>22089366
I'm not a gnostic. Gnosticism is satanic.
https://youtu.be/kUv6jfzRcts
https://youtu.be/7kJytiN4f8s

[Anonymous No.22089397]

>>22089378
thank you for demonstrating that all gnosticism nerds are conditioned like Pavlovian dogs to derail threads whenever their special buzzword pops up.

[Anonymous No.22089417]

>>22089297
the manga section in my local B&N has grown in the past few years from a little table in the back to 3 entire aisles front and center

[Anonymous No.22089418]

>>22089378
cats are satanic

[Anonymous No.22089423]

>>22089418
Cats are cute :3c

[Anonymous No.22089429]

>>22089418
Not true. It is a gnostic idea to say that anything in the natural world that God created is evil. God created everything good. It was sin that corrupted the world.

[Anonymous No.22089431]

>>22089417
I noticed that too; the anime section at my B&N is probably the third- or fourth-largest section behind memoirs, self-help, and fiction.

[Anonymous No.22089432]

>>22089429
>cat apologist
enjoy hell, sinner

[Anonymous No.22089433]

B&N and BAM upcharge the shit out of books. I remember one time I was looking for a series to buy for a friend and they told me I could get it at B&N. 2 of the 3 books cost $50, whereas the whole series brand new was only $30 on Amazon. I only go to small or used book stores, never the big chain book stores.

[Anonymous No.22089443]

>>22089297
Is man's search for meaning any good?

[Anonymous No.22089452]

>>22089443
It's like 200 pages and is o k a y. For a jew he isn't bad and it's not fanfiction like Night.

[Anonymous No.22089454]

>>22089443
yeh it's alright

[Anonymous No.22089568]

>>22089336
>used books are fucking disgusting most of the time
just select something better than "bad" on thriftbooks

[Anonymous No.22089610]

>>22089397
so snarky for no reason, mean girl womanposting

[Anonymous No.22089709]

>>22089610
>so snarky for no reason
That's just how retarded millenials act, none of them grew past high school

[Anonymous No.22089726]

>>22089443
The first half is an interesting autobio about all the times he barely survived getting gassed / burned, but the second half is just him describing his useless therapeutic method.

[Anonymous No.22089736]

>>22089443
Yes. Just finished reading it. Frankl is worth the read.

[Anonymous No.22089756]

It's unironically a fun place to shoplift. Hardly anyone is ever there no matter when you go. Just bring a carrier bag, put you want in it and casually walk out the door. I stole Crime and Punishment, Sons and Lovers and The Collected Works of Wilde and nobody even noticed

[Anonymous No.22089913]

>>22089756
gonna try this next saturday, any other tips?

[Anonymous No.22089934]

>>22089913
project an aura of confidence. take big strides. ignore employees

[Anonymous No.22089953]

>>22089934
More or less this. Try to dress like the employees at the local store, you'll look more trustworthy and likeable. Other than that, have it. B&N is basically the physical form of libgen

[Anonymous No.22089994]

>>22089953

Since you’re reading, you can’t be a nigger, but son - this is real niggerish behavior.

[Anonymous No.22089997]

>>22089297
I'm honestly surprised B&M hasn't gone down with blockbuster and other retailers against the internet and online shopping. Doubly surprising since literature is a semi-niche hobby. Go into Best Buy and its a hollow shell of what it once was, Fry's electronics has completely shut down, toy stores have been moved into mega markets, DVD/Movie retailers are slow-bleeding out of existence, the list goes on and on of retail stores either cutting down to 10 shelves, or dying altogether.
Yet B&N is still pretty much the same as it ever was. It's triply surprising that they still stock a decent amount of literature and are in prime retail locations.
All that said, I hate it. All the books are cheap paperback garbage with the purpose of convenience. Scribner, Penguin, or B&N classics.
What's really weird is B&N has it hands in and locations at universities and colleges, but won't stock university press books in any of their stores. It seems a no-brainer and I cannot for the life of me see why they don't do it.

[Anonymous No.22090016]

>>22089297
this is proper cringe

[Anonymous No.22090124]

>>22089994
Jonathan Pollock - Jewish
Paul Singer - Jewish

[Anonymous No.22090132]

>>22089997
Lots of Barnes and Nobles are closing. They are in dire straits. Although they don’t have the best selection, I’ve always enjoyed browsing and spending a couple hours whenever ive went. I hope they don’t go down for good but it’s probably inevitable

[Anonymous No.22090138]

>>22089997
B&N was rapidly shrinking and going toward defunct but they were bought out and have a new CEO who changed the system of promoting books based on publishers paying to have them promoted, to promoting books based on employee choice. It changed things drastically for the store

[Anonymous No.22090163]

>>22089297
I'm not *merican

[Anonymous No.22090185]

>>22089346
>>22089366
he's kinda right though, transhumanism and simulation theory are all about consciousness as being a fundamental part of the universe akin to the universal spirit. idk if i'd call gnosticism satanic as >>22089378
does but i don't know if it's entirely right. i do like the posts that sometimes sympathize with the demiurge for trying his best. it's pretty clear at this point that as good as the king james bible is it's not the only word of god and the apocrypha is replete with truths along with other texts from other religions such as Hinduism and Bhuddism but many other mythologies as well.

[Anonymous No.22090208]

>>22090185
In this video he is not promoting syncretism, but he is saying that the Dao was the attempt of philosophers before Christ trying their best to explain the Logos (Christ) with the knowledge that they had.
https://www.youtube.com/live/IJ_C8wPMuDM?feature=share

[Anonymous No.22090217]

>>22089756
>hurr durr I’m so smart I can steal Stealing isn’t ok just because you didn’t get caught. It’s not hard to cheat people. We live in a country based off trust. Go live in any African country if you want to live in a trust free zone.

[Anonymous No.22090227]

>>22089756
>hurr durr I’m so smart I can steal

Stealing isn’t ok just because you didn’t get caught. It’s not hard to cheat people. We live in a country based off trust. Go live in any African country if you want to live in a trust free zone.
Reposted for fellow autists

[Anonymous No.22090234]

>>22090217
>>22090227
>We live in a country based off trust.
Yes, we live in a country where stupid white goyim trust jews and niggers and get fleeced and beaten by them for it. The corrective action is not for white goyim to trust *even harder* to make up for it.

[Anonymous No.22090235]

>>22090227
>We live in a country based off trust.
Where do you live exactly?

[Anonymous No.22090256]

>>22089297
Prices are often too high, but overall the store is not bad, and it's not as bad as it used to be.

The book variety is good. I was in one yesterday, and they had a lot of books I was interested in. For example, Lawrence Freedman’s "Strategy: A History" and "Say Nothing" by Patrick Radden Keefe. They are not exactly rare books, but they are unique enough that someone would have had to put some thought into stocking them.

The books there also were not politically biased one way or the other; for as many retarded "How to be an anti-racist" books there were, there were an equal number of "Red Biden: the Left's plan to implement Communism in 2024" type shit.

They have less variety than Amazon, and prices are generally higher, but sometimes I can find a book cheaper than I can on Amazon. It's also good to stop Amazon from monopolizing books. B&N also has a better selection than second-hand bookstores, which can be really hit or miss.

I have heard that B&N has devolved power to local employees to select books, so I think experiences might depend on how competent the people running a local store are. My local one seems fine. But I could easily see other stores making retarded decisions.

[Anonymous No.22090257]

>>22090235
United States. If he’s going to B&N consistently, it’s not crazy to assume that’s where stealing anon lives as well. I hope he realizes any 5 yr old can steal, nobody is impressed.

[Anonymous No.22090263]

>>22089994
B&N is woke. I don't purchase things from woke companies. I take them and leave - I don't perceive my actions as thievery per se. It's a form of civil disobedience against a company with a political agenda diametrically opposed to my own that also happens to peddle a few wares that I enjoy reading.

[Anonymous No.22090271]

>>22090257
>United States
>country based off trust

[Anonymous No.22090283]

>>22090271
>one example nullifies my argument

The reason this is newsworthy is it’s not common. There are at least 100000 safe deliveries for every story like this.

[Anonymous No.22090287]

>>22089452
Evola said he's the least bad psychoanalyst. Having found this, perhaps this is why
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/l83yw6/was_victor_fankl_a_nazi_collaborator/

[Anonymous No.22090289]

>>22090287
Wait until you discover most top tier nazis were jews

[Anonymous No.22090295]

>>22090289
Can you name, say, 5? I find this hard to believe.

[Anonymous No.22090298]

>>22090289
A surprisingly large amount yes, but certainly not "most".
Why are people on 4chan so prone to hyperbole and treating it as accurate?

[Anonymous No.22090304]

>>22090295
There definitely were some, but he is exaggerating by calling them the majority. Anons often do this, taking surprising true information and going overboard with it.

[Anonymous No.22090306]

>>22089300
Baiting customers into buying emily wilson translation.

[Anonymous No.22090347]

>>22090295
Of course

>Emil Maurice (German pronunciation: [e.mil mo.ʁis]; 19 January 1897 – 6 February 1972) was an early member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nazi Party) and a founding member of the Schutzstaffel (SS).
>Hitler became SS member No. 1 and Emil Maurice became SS member No. 2
>He was Hitler's first personal chauffeur, and was one of the few persons of mixed Jewish and ethnic German ancestry to serve in the SS, being declared an honorary Aryan by Adolf Hitler in 1935.

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>Erhard Milch (30 March 1892 – 25 January 1972) was a German general field marshal (Generalfeldmarschall) of Jewish heritage who oversaw the development of the German air force (Luftwaffe) as part of the re-armament of Nazi Germany following World War I. He was State Secretary in the Reich Ministry of Aviation and Inspector General of the Air force.
>In 1935, rumours began to circulate that Milch's father was a Jew. The Gestapo began an investigation which was halted by Hermann Göring, the commander-in-chief of the Luftwaffe, who produced an affidavit by Milch's mother that his true father was her uncle, Karl Brauer. Milch was then issued with a German Blood Certificate.[2] If true, that would mean that Milch's mother, Clara, committed not only adultery but also incest.

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Alfred Ernst Rosenberg (12 January [O.S. 31 December 1892] 1893 – 16 October 1946) was a Baltic German[1] Nazi theorist and ideologue.

Rosenberg

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Hans Michael Frank (23 May 1900 – 16 October 1946) was a German politician, war criminal and lawyer who served as head of the General Government in Nazi-occupied Poland during the Second World War.

Frank, the middle child of three, was born in Karlsruhe to Karl, a lawyer, and his wife, Magdalena (née Buchmaier), a daughter of a prosperous baker.

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And last but not least, of course, Adolf Shicklgruber

[Anonymous No.22090356]

>>22090298
>>22090304
>yeah dude the literal gotha of NSDAP, SS and Gestapo was Jewish, but does that even mean anything

>LITERALLY ALL THE CENTRAL SOVIET POLITBURO WAS JEWISH = JUDEOBOLSHEVISM - THERE WAS ONE JEWISH DUDE IN CHINA WHEN MAO TOOK OVER = CHINA IS JEWISH - MUSSOLINI FUCKED A JEWISH WOMAN = ITALY IS SEPHARDIC

[Anonymous No.22090360]

>>22090356
retard

[Anonymous No.22090362]

>>22090347
>Adolf Shicklgruber
Hitler's hair was very straight. No jew has such straight and smooth hair.

[Anonymous No.22090364]

>>22089443
If you've ever read an autobiographical account of the nazi camps, you don't need to read the first part. If you've ever thought a thought about meaning in life, you don't need to read the second part. It's all incredibly vapid and shallow.

t. was recommended frankl by a therapist

[Anonymous No.22090366]

>>22089297
>thread devolves into /pol/ tier discussion

Typical

[Anonymous No.22090370]

>>22089297
I detest "man" as a commercial focus group.

[Anonymous No.22090416]

>>22090362
That's the criterion now? Kek

>In 1932, Goebbels commissioned the publication of a pamphlet of his family tree to refute the rumours that his maternal grandmother was of Jewish ancestry.[5]

>(Heydrich) A talented athlete, he became an expert swimmer and fencer. He was shy, insecure, and was frequently bullied for his high-pitched voice and rumoured Jewish ancestry.[16] These rumours increased after his maternal uncle Hans Krantz married a Hungarian Jew named Iza Jarmy.[17] However, the family maintained cordial relations with the Jewish community; many Jewish students attended the Halle Conservatory, and its cellar was rented out to a Jewish salesman. Heydrich was friends with Abraham Lichtenstein, son of the cantor.[18]

>Franz Pfeffer von Salomon (19 February 1888 – 12 April 1968) during the Nazi regime known as Franz von Pfeffer, was the first Supreme Leader of the Sturmabteilung (SA) after its re-establishment in 1925.

[Anonymous No.22090417]

>>22089297
Where's Lolita?

[Anonymous No.22090418]

>>22090356
>LITERALLY ALL THE CENTRAL SOVIET POLITBURO WAS JEWISH
Of the OG Politburo, Stalin and Bubnov were definitely 100% not Jewish. Lenin kinda barely counts since due to his closest connection being a Jewish great-grandfather that spent his life washing the jewishness out of his own and his sons' biography in order to avoid imperial persecution. The rest were indeed Jews.

By mid-Stalinist period and WWII, the Politburo became a lot less Jewish and a lot more cosmopolitan in general: Ordzhonikidze (Georgian), Mikoyan (Armenian), Kosior (Polish), Kuusinen (BENIS :DDDDDDDD), Chubar, Zhdanov and Khruhchev (Ukrainians), Rudzutaks (Latvian), among a lot more Russians.

Politburo was also not that influential in the nascent USSR, and became absolutely useless under Stalin (well, everything that was not Stavka or a single-use committee appointed by Stalin was useless under Stalin). It took centre stage during the Thaw, as a meeting-point of balance between different arms of the party, aimed at preventing personal accumulation of power in the upper echelons and emergence of another Stalin-like figure.

[Anonymous No.22090433]

>>22090418
Trotsky was a turbo jew. And he also was an early supporter of feminism and gay rights by the way, along with Rosa Luxemburg.

[Anonymous No.22090444]

>>22090418
All of this is beside the point btw

[Anonymous No.22090459]

I love Barnes & Noble but I admit to not shopping there much like I used to. They just can't beat Amazon. I literally go there to get coffee and browse to take pictures of books I'll later buy on Amazon. Terrible, I know lol.

They do have good deals on classic fiction and other books. A lot of times they have their own published special editions of books and those are interesting.

Some of the things they do still boggles the mind like having an entire section dedicated to DVDs/Blurays/Vinyl etc. I say let the toy section take over those spots and have all these SAHMs fork over their money. Anything to keep them afloat.

Every year they do a 50% off Hardcover books on December 26th and sometimes another one a month after. I take full advantage of that sale. I bought 8 hardcover books last December.

[Anonymous No.22090464]

>>22090433

[Anonymous No.22090465]

>>22089297
Wtf? Why is a B&N thread now a /pol/ thread? Fucking faggots

[Anonymous No.22090485]

>>22090464
I'm aware of that, but many of the early Bolsheviks were into fag shit. It was all about the spirit of inversion and being the total opposite of Tsarist Orthodox Russia.

[Anonymous No.22090513]

>>22090485
>many of the early Bolsheviks were into fag shit
Yeah, as opposed to, say, Rohm and Hitler.
Or Konstantin Romanov

Read the damn books.

[Anonymous No.22090689]

>>22089297
The intelligent investor and endurance are solid, the rest is garbage

[Anonymous No.22090730]

>>22089397
When I read your post I imagined it in the voice of that guy who does impersonations of redditors on tiktok

[Anonymous No.22090783]

>>22089297
>moneymoneyMONEY
>careerCAREERCAREEEEEEER
>improoooOOOOOOOOVE
>unF*UCKyourF*UCK
>BOATS
>some military shit
Yeah seems about right. Men barely read and when they do it’s slop.