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4449707 No.4449707[DELETED]  [Reply] [Original]

>not wearing your favorite book on a t-shirt

>> No.4449710

>>4449707
>being a pretentious fag

>> No.4449717

>having a favorite book
>an obvious classic is your favorite book, showing your bad taste
>reading
>2014

>> No.4449730
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4449730

>suburban girls bastardizing intelligentsia into a vacuous fashion statement

how unexpected

>> No.4449731
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4449731

I do have a Master and Margarita one.

It doesn't really look like a book cover t-shirt necessarily, unless you know the book.

>> No.4449732

>>4449707
>holding a book that high to read it
>three high school students' libraries raided for that pile
>London tour book

jesus christ

>> No.4449743

>not carrying your books and e-reader in a bag of your favorite book

>> No.4449746

>>4449732
Well, I mean, be fair. They're modelling T-shirts for a website that sells T-shirts. They're not really making any claims here, it's an advertising photo.

>> No.4449774
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4449774

I feel like such a posturing idiot whenever I buy a band, movie, or book, or any media t-shirt. It feels like a waste when I spend $20 on a t-shirt I'l feel uncomfortable in. What's the point of this kind of apparel? Just to let people know you enjoy "x"?

I'd buy this though.

>> No.4449778

>>4449774
I was going to do a whole big Carles thing about it but then I decided not to instead.

Fucking Carles.

But that's the only explanation I can see.

>> No.4449781

>>4449774
The Out of Print ones are extremely soft and comfortable though. They're honestly the highest quality t-shirt I've ever worn. But also the only t-shirt I've spent $30 on.

>> No.4449784

>>4449707
It's not only the fact that wearing the Catcher on the Rye is pretentious, it's the fact that that very thing is the kinda phoniness Holden Caulfield goes on about in the book.

It's as contradictory as buying a Che Guevara T-Shirt

>> No.4449785

>>4449732

>all her friends consider her "the reader" of the group
>she will talk about how beautiful the fault in our stars was at a party and proclaim it a work of genius and they will say "wow femanon you are so deep XD"

>> No.4449796

>>4449785
>being an insufferable supercilious cunt even if her taste is shit

>> No.4449801

>>4449784

>it's the fact that that very thing is the kinda phoniness Holden Caulfield goes on about in the book
>It's as contradictory as buying a Che Guevara T-Shirt

It's a waste of time trying to tell this to a prole. Either they will understand the hypocrisy of their own volition or they'll be a lost cause.

At the end of the day some people simply aren't that bright.

>> No.4449816

>>4449717
Classics are classics for a reason, they were good.

To the rest of you schmucks:
"STOP LIKING WHAT I DON'T LIKE!"


Furthermore, get trolled much? Geezus fucking christ, guys. Stop bitching, stop trolling, stop getting trolled...... and go read a book.

>> No.4449832

Why is Moby Dick so god damn long? Surely you could trim that shit down to 200 pages or so.

>> No.4449834

>>4449832

go to bed, franzen

>> No.4449961

>>4449730
>intelligentsia
>not bourgeoisie coffee-house intellectuals with zero actual influence

>> No.4449972

>>4449832
Originally the book was intended to be as big as Moby Dick himself but the editor refused to publish it unless it was cut down.

>> No.4449976

>>4449972
how can book be as big as whale

>> No.4449978

>>4449961
>intelligentsia
>not the quintessential bourgeois coffee house

>> No.4449984

>>4449978
>tfw no salon intelligentsia

>> No.4450012

>>4449961
>implying people actually go to coffee houses under the pretense of being an intellectual

>> No.4450030

>not wearing your favourite book on a t-shirt

>> No.4450034

>implying there is a shirt with ego and its own on it

>> No.4450056

>>4450034
I have a shirt with Stirner's face on it.

>> No.4450058

>>4450056
That's the worst thing I've ever heard.

>> No.4450059

>>4450034
>>4450056
Bakunin is the new Stirner. You all need to upgrade/update/whatever.

>> No.4450072

>Caring about other people knowing that you are a reader.

>> No.4450073

>>4450056
I have a shirt with Pynchon's buck teeth on it

>> No.4450075

A lot of talking about great books, little to no reading to be done. A shelf filled with books and none of them read.

>> No.4450091
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>> No.4450108
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>>4450073

>> No.4450134
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4450134

>not wearing your favorite book as a t-shirt

>> No.4450135

>>4450134
10/10 in Britain

>> No.4450136

>being so caught up in the dumb association of reading and intelligence that you think parading around pictures of books means anything about what you do or who you are
>implying im wrong even though i sound edgy

>> No.4450143

>>4450056
where did you buy that?

I can only imagine the sexy adventures I can go on with that shirt.
>wake up
>put on my stirner shirt
>walk outside and see a pleb reading Nietzsche on the bench
>stare him in the eye
>"the ubermensch is a spook"
>both me and the drawing of stirner wink at each other
>"ghost busted" says saint max from the heavens above
>a tear rolls down his eye and he tosses his philistine literature in the trash
>feels good to be a patrician

>> No.4450149

>>4449707
i have a one flew over the cuckoo's nest shirt but im too fat now to wear it. so it just sits in my closet as a token of my shame.

>> No.4450158

>>4450091
That shirt would be awesome without the title writen on it, just the lines.

>> No.4450159
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>> No.4450168

>>4449707
>being a woman
>2014

>> No.4450181

>>4449707
>catcher in the rye
>favorite book
kek

>> No.4450183
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4450183

>>4449707
Am I garbage?

>> No.4450194

This thread makes me sad.

>> No.4450196

>>4450183
>implying seinfeld2000 is literature

>> No.4450198

>>4450196
>implying it isn't
nigger

>> No.4450208

>>4449707
>book about hating phonies, fashion, capitalist, pretentious society values
>put it on a shirt for pretentious, socialite faggots to wear
Irony abounds

>> No.4450246

One of my best friends wears shirts from books she's read...I know she has a Slaughterhouse 5 one, and I think a few others.

The day after she finished One Flew Over the Cuckoo's nest she showed me her new "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" T-shirt. I think she only wears it as pajamas, though.

It is a bit frustrating because I know Slaughterhouse 5 is the only Vonnegut she's read, which is fine and all but it seems akin to wearing a band shirt after hearing just one of their songs and not bothering to check out the rest of their output.

I don't have the heart to tell her I think they look pretty tryhard

>> No.4450250

>>4450246

deep down she knows she's horribly entry, but i wouldn't call her out. it's just too easy.

let her play "the reader" for a bit, she'll turn into a middling housewife soon enough

>> No.4450607

protip sperglords, the model in the photo hasn't read a single on of 'em

>> No.4450620

tfw no story of the eye t shirt

>> No.4450623

>>4450208
No, Catcher is about a teenagers disillusionment with those things.

>> No.4450647

>>4449707

>Harry Potter.

Jesus Christ.

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>>4449707
>not wearing your own face on a t-shirt

>> No.4450657

>That person with The Great Gatsby t-shirt.

Just how try hard can you get?

>> No.4450662

>>4449710
>Using words out of context while green texting.

>> No.4450682

>>4450657
Emma Watson wears a Great Gatsby shirt.

>> No.4450685

>>4450134
>dem redbrick houses
Damn, I miss living oooop north.

>> No.4450691

Does anyone have the max stirner as a bird pic? I want to see how it would look as a t-shirt.

>> No.4450699

There was a time in which I would've zoomed in to see all the books' titles, but now I only though 'I'd bang her'.

>> No.4450722

>>4449707
OP You sound like one of those pseudo intellectuals who try their best to be above comments on an Anonymous web forum

>> No.4450785

I have two Rearden Steel t-shirts. Some people get the AS reference. But they look like real company logos and since my dad is a scientist (alcoa) and i have two engineer uncles (alcan) people usually just assume its a real company. Even got asked once when did my dad work for Reardn Steel. Lol.

Also have a Uiversal Exports shirt from he James Bond novels.

>> No.4450804

>>4450785
Pics of Universal exports shirt please. You have piqued my interest.

>> No.4450831

w2c Rearden Steel shirt?

>> No.4450896

>>4449976
You just need a really large font and a grant from any modern art institution. Actually, publishing whale-sized "Moby Dick" may make you some cheap fame - go use the idea before someone else grabbed it.

>> No.4450902

>>4449707
i dont want to believe that someone could have read don quixote and still like catcher in the rye more

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>>4450902
Well, here you have a photograph of one such person, ie me. But at the OP-post:
1) You see the most obvious collection of books, clearly made by someone without own taste just by grabbing all the often-spoken names. Judging by the absence of eg Sartre, Dostoyevsky, Kafka, Cortasar, Borges - names are spoken among middle- to high-schoolers.
2) That shit may be required reading for the literature class.

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I want one for The Brothers Dostoevsky.

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>>4450926
I'll make for you a tee that says "I cannot tell writer's name from a character's". Just remind me tomorrow.

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4450959

Rearden Steel. Couldnt find the Universal Exports, must be in the wash. Post it whrn it tuns up.

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>>4449743
fuck, how come I forgot to post the picture

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4451014

>mum knows i like faulkner
>buys me light in august t shirt for my birthday
>it's actually pretty sweet
>however i haven't read that particular faulkner book yet
>can't wear the t shirt until i've read it because i'd feel like a fake
>lots of other books i want to read more already on my backlog

>> No.4451424

>>4449731
oh man i'd love to get my hands on a copy with that particular cover

>> No.4451435

I'll wear my Enfield shirt on the tennis court; otherwise, nobody sees my literary t-shirts.

>> No.4451477
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4451477

This is the only acceptable book related t-shirt. I would wear the fuck out of this if I could find a t-shirt with this on it.

Cool art and subtle so plebs won't know you're advertising a book, yet obvious enough that anyone who has read the book will get it.

>> No.4451506

>>4451477
>Cool art and subtle
This. Why do all book related t-shirts must have so many letters in them?

The same rule that applies to /w/allpapers should apply to t-shirts.

>THIS IS T-SHIRT WITH A PICTURE OF A BOOK COVER THAT GOES BY THIS TITLE AND WAS WRITTEN BY THIS GUY, PUBLISHED BY THIS EDITOR
Some go as far as quoting ratings (>>4449731).

>> No.4451507

>>4451477

In Spain everyone will recognise that.

>> No.4451511

>>4451014
This one looks like it was painted by hand, could you confirm and post a closeup of the actual print?

>> No.4451512

>>4451507
It's sad that you have to go to Spain for a large number of people to recognize it.

>> No.4451515

>>4451507

Outside of Spain too. Yet it's more subtle than the others. Such a paradox.

>> No.4451539

>>4451477
>and subtle so plebs won't know you're advertising a book
>illustrates the most well-known part of the book that is known by people who haven't even read it and has become an idiom

>> No.4451568

>>4450194
>implying there are actually threads on /lit/ that don't make you sad

>> No.4451581

>>4450073

Link please.

>> No.4451584

What if i don't have a favourite book?

>> No.4451606

>>4451581

It's a one-off. '0073 was being literal.

>> No.4451608

>>4451477
subtle is a picture of a wooden horse with a caption saying 'bitches love my clavileno'

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4451621

>Not getting based Wittgenstein on a t-shirt

http://www.redbubble.com/people/deadphilosopher/works/7019133-duck-rabbit

>> No.4451623

>>4449707
>having the catcher in the rye as your favourite book

>> No.4451646

>>4451621
>implying poorly photoshopping a duck head onto a rabbit body is the same thing

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4451661

Guess how many chicks I banged because of that t-shirt

Answer: my mon

>> No.4451665

>>4451661
>Solaris shirt

Maybe this thread's not so bad after all.

>> No.4451671

>>4449801
>prole
>alludes to 1984
>not a pleb

>> No.4451675

>>4450250
>this much bitterness

>> No.4451677

>>4450915
Nice haircut

>> No.4451682

>>4451507
haahahaha as if people have money to go there

>> No.4451685

>>4451665
I'm bigger fan of The Invincible, but couldn't find t-shirt with that

>> No.4451690

>>4451671

Er prole means a member of the working class and a pleb is a commoner. Pretty similar. Also prole doesn't necessarily allude to 1984...

>> No.4451742

>>4449784
>It's as contradictory as buying a Che Guevara T-Shirt

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpNbAjLHcXg

>> No.4451775
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this one

>> No.4451781

1. clothes are boring, but socially necessary
2. picking out clothes is even more boring
3. therefore you might as well use clothing as an opportunity to advertise your interests and celebrate things you like
4. if you choose not to do this, theres no reason to care if people do this

qed faggots. book t shirts rule.

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4451785

this is the only shirt worth wearing

>> No.4451786

>>4450246
>one book is equivalent to one song by a band

lol retard

>> No.4451788

>>4451781
Yeah maybe if you're desperate to identify with something.

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>>4451775

>> No.4451795

>>4451788
but celebrating something you like has nothing to do with being desperate to identify something. why are teenagers so self conscious

>> No.4451798

>>4451690
>implying

>> No.4451811 [SPOILER] 
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how do you guys like my shirt

>> No.4451866

>>4451661
that's actually a pretty cool shirt

>> No.4451895

I quite like the idea of popping a random sentence from the Tractatus on the front of a t-shirt. They're all winners.

>> No.4452047

>putting on the cover of a book to be judged by it

There is probably nothing worse to do.

>> No.4452064

>>4451895

Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen

>> No.4452130

>>4451661
That's great. Would buy the fuck out of

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4452144

Mite b cool without the text

>> No.4452155

>being an adult
>wearing a shirt with any print on it

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>>4452155

>any year
>not buying all your shirts from the mountain

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>>4449710

These days everything is pretentious, including calling people pretentious.

>going on about something you like
PRETENTIOUS
>going on about something you don't like
PRETENTIOUS
>expressing political views
PRETENTIOUS
>expressing lack of political views
PRETENTIOUS
>expressing religious views
PRETENTIOUS
>expressing lack of political views
PRETENTIOUS
> calling someone pretentious
PRETENTIOUS
>pointing out that pretentious is overused
PRETENTIOUS
> trying to avoid pretension
PRETENTIOUS
> Right turn on red
PRETENTIOUS

If the word "pretentious" were a person, that person would be a very tired old whore who had done so many drugs she forgot who she was.

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>>4449785

And in the corner you will sit, hating her, satisfied with how much smarter you are, and how inexpressable that intelligence is to "plebs" such as they.

>> No.4452231 [DELETED] 

>>4449707

>ginger
>likes books

that is probably worse than niggers

>> No.4452512

>>4449774
wearing any clothing is a statement of your identity
a band t shirt is just like a definite one
and i think you can wear them without being a dick, if its not overt and so it is like you are just making homage to whichever artist

>> No.4452527

>>4450915
hahahaahahahahahahaha

bAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHahahahaha

>> No.4452547

>>4452185
And what's wrong with that?

>> No.4452631

>>4452547
Because when a word devolves to become a synonym for "everything" or "nothing" then the word is effectively rendered useless.

It has no identity, there is nothing to contrast it with, it says nothing.

If everyone is "pretentious" no matter what they do, then why even bring it up in conversation? At that point you might as well say "you're breathing, gtfo"

>> No.4452651

>>4450246

Except she's wearing a Slaughterhouse 5 shirt, not a print of Vonnie's face.