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4013817 No.4013817 [Reply] [Original]

I've got $20 to spend

convince me to buy your favorite book

>> No.4013821

No idiot go buy some candy

>> No.4013822

>>4013817
>Buying books

>> No.4013826

See if you can get a BJ from an ugly crack whore.

>> No.4013827

>>4013822
The 2 closest libraries to me shut down in 2010, I don't have an e-reader

plus I like having books as a trophy so to speak

>> No.4013860

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

So you can jest yourself infinitely.

>> No.4013865

Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics that Will be Able to Present Itself as Science by Immanuel Kant. It will make you be a philosophy.

>> No.4013900

Meditations of Marcus Aurelius and the Counte of Monte Christo

>> No.4013917

Wizards first rule. Terry Goodkind.


Learn about morality and suffering and the corruption of the state all in a fancy fantasy setting.

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>>4013817
I'd rather you live happily and make your own choices op!

>> No.4013927

>>4013817
Brideshead Revisited
To The Lighthouse

DO IT, BECAUSE I TOLD YOU TO.

>> No.4013938

The Sun Also Rises, only if you are a man, and to experience feels

>> No.4013957

>>4013917
Just that one book, yes. The series, no. Goodkind gets progressively worse with both story and writing.

>> No.4013958

>>4013938
Seconded.

>> No.4013961

The Bighead by Edward Lee.
It is almost the most beautiful work of depravity and taboo I have ever read.

>> No.4013970

In the Heat of the Night. Restored my faith in black people, and was the best dectective book I ever read. OP, you need to read this book, your brain will most likely melt from the pure deliciousness of its contents.

>> No.4013992

>>4013961
Have you seen the movie? I'm gonna have to dl it now that I'm reminded. I'd like to find a nice gal who loves Pig Destroyer and Edward Lee, I'd never let her go.

>> No.4013997

Little, Big by John Crowley is about fairies, and people who talk to fairies, and New York, and it's great and beautiful. Do I really need to sell it to you past that? It's amazing. You'll love it. Read it.

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>>4013822
>not buying books

>> No.4014032

>>4013992
I had no idea it got made. The version of "the header" that I saw was terrible...

>> No.4014036

$20? Just buy a Kobo and pirate all the ebooks.

>> No.4014690

OP here bumping for some more, there's already some pretty nice suggestions here though

>> No.4014746

One flew over the cuckoo's nest. If you haven't read it you haven't lived.

>> No.4014753

>>4013926
this can't be /lit/