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>ordered a copy of the great gatsby
>gift for my nephew
>delivered to my neighbour by mistake
>he opened it
>thinks i haven't read the great gatsby
>tfw neighbour thinks i'm a pleb

>> No.5053859

white people problems

>> No.5053860

I can't tell what's worse, if you made this up or if this is seriously where you're at right now

this is /mu/-tier shit though

>> No.5053864

>>5053859
it's worse than white people problems

it's non-problem

>> No.5053867

>>5053859
Yes, when a race has reached a stage of comfort it can begin to consider problems not related to everyday survival.

>> No.5053886

>>5053859
bait statements

>> No.5053893

Why would he open something that had your name on it?

>> No.5053895

>ordered a copy of lolita
>gift for my niece
>delivered to my neighbour by mistake
>he opened it
>neighbour is a city police detective
>tfw neighbour knows i'm a chester

>> No.5053896

>>5053893
because he's a retard

>> No.5053900

>>5053886
>white statements

>> No.5053904

>ordered a copy of infinite jest
>gift for my nephew
>delivered to my neighbour by mistake
>he opened it
>tfw neighbour thinks i'm a fan of po-mo maximalism

>> No.5053914

>ordered a copy of The God Delusion
>gift for my professor
>delivered to my neighbor by mistake
>he opened it
>tfw neighbor tips fedora every time he sees me

>> No.5053972

>ordered a copy of the ego and its own
>delivered to my neighbour by mistake
>he opened it
>tfw it's his property now

>> No.5053985

>ordered a copy of pale fire
>gift for my nephew
>delivered to my neighbour by mistake
>he opened it
>tfw i am assassinated by mistake

>> No.5053990

>ordered a copy of the satanic verses
>gift for my pagan uncle
>delivered to my neighbour imam by mistake
>he opened it
>thinks i'm kafir
>tfw enemy of the mujahideen

>> No.5054013

>ordered a copy of pride and prejudice
>gift for my niece
>delivered to my neighbour by mistake
>she opened it
>thinks i'm a woman
>tfw neighbour thinks i'm a feminist

>> No.5054014

>ordered a copy of mein kampf
>gift for my friend
>accidentally gets sent to my neighbor in germany
>he opens it
>tfw he gets arrested the next day for holocaust denial

>> No.5054039

>ordered a copy of james joyces love letters
>gift for my nephew
>delivered to my neighbour by mistake
>he opened it
>came home to him naked in my house

>> No.5054067

>ordered a copy of this thread
>gift for my nephew
>delivered to my neighbour by mistake
>he opened it
>thinks i'm OP
>tfw neighbour thinks i'm a faggot

>> No.5054073

>ordered a copy of Thugs and the Women Who Love Them
>gift for my black friend
>delivered to my local police station by mistake
>they opened it
>tfw cops think you're black

>> No.5054078

>>5053900

>tumblr statements

>> No.5054206

>bought a copy of Gadsby
>gift for my aunt's son
>I am a victim of miss-shipping
>book got to building across from us
>guy unwraps it
>local chap thinks I am symbol-phobic
>tfw took so long to work this out

>> No.5054230
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5054230

>ordered a copy of Dorian Gray
>gift for my nephew
>delivered to him just as planned
>nephew turns gay and keeps calling you his lord Henry
>tfw nephew wants the D

>> No.5054232

>work at walmart
>reading tropic of cancer in the breakroom
>the cover is just a naked dude with his dick out
>you can't even imagine how hard the other employees make this for me

>> No.5054239

>ordered a meta interpretation of this text
>gift for this sentence I am just writing
>delivered to myself accidentally
>I opened it
>Now I think I am not self referential
>tfw wft?

>> No.5054255

>>5053855
>your neighbor opened mail with your name on it

tell him that's a felony, get him arrested, get new neighbor, order meditations to his house, let him open it, problem solved

>> No.5054288

>>5053855
>ordered a copy of the world as will as representation
>gift for my nephew
>delivered to my neighbour by mistake
>he opened it
>tfw our minds our coincident in the collective conscious

>> No.5054317

>ordered a copy of Moby Dick
>gift for that cutie I like
>my neighbor receives it
>open it
>she's a animal-right activist and now think I'm a racist anti-white whale hunter
>mfw I'm being hunter by Greenpeace and "white rights" supremacists at the same time

>> No.5054328

>>5054232
how do your co-workers make a picture of a dick hard for you

>> No.5054331

>ordered a copy of Finnegans Wake
>gift for the schizohrenic hobo at the turnin of my street
>delivered to my racist neighbor by mistake
>he now thinks I'm a non-English speaking immigrant
>mfw he called to immigration services about me

>> No.5054349

>>5054328

are you surprised? these are exactly the types of people who work at walmart.

>> No.5054364

>>5053972
underrated post

>> No.5054802

>>5054349
now I understand why you work at walmart

>> No.5054815

>>5053855
>ordered a copy of 1984
>gift for my nephew
>delivered it to my neighbor by mistake
>he opened it
>thinks I'm a non-conformist
>reports me to thought police
>tfw tortured for information then vaporized

>> No.5054835

>ordered a copy of Steal This Book
>gift for my nephew
>delivered it to my neighbor by mistake
>he opened it
>tfw I never get it back

>> No.5054873

>>5053904
>maximalism
i've a philistines' suspicion against this term. is it even a thing, or just some word to balance out "minimalism"?

>> No.5054890

Is the great gatsby good?

>> No.5054910

>>5054873

>Wikipedia: The term maximalism is sometimes associated with post-modern novels, such as by David Foster Wallace and Thomas Pynchon, where digression, reference, and elaboration of detail occupy a great fraction of the text.

Technically it's a thing.

>> No.5054918

>>5054890
Read it and find out. It takes all of 3 hours to read.

>> No.5054923

>>5053914
top fucking kek

>> No.5054947
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5054947

>>5053990

>> No.5055419

>>5054364
I give it an 8/8 m8

>> No.5055451

>>5053859
Personally I would still think the black kid was a pleb.

>> No.5055468

>>5054349
Like you?

>> No.5055475

>>5053896
He's also a felon.

>> No.5055507

>>5054014
hahahaha

>> No.5055646

>reading great gatsby right now
>was supposed to read it in high school
>didn't
>I'm a slow reader
>I don't give a shit
>going to read all the books I was assigned but never read
>1984
>hamlet

>> No.5055866

>>5053895
>tfw neighbour knows i'm a chester
>chester
does that mean you like underaged children on your chest?

>> No.5055868

>ordered copy of the pale king
>gift for my nephew
>delivered to him as expected
>he doesn't disclose the gift on his tax forms
>he gets audited

>> No.5055875

>>5053972
hah!

>> No.5055877

>>5054255
10/10 post

I like this thread

>> No.5056135

>ordered a box set of A Song of Ice and Fire
>gift for my nephew
>delivered to my neighbor by mistake
>he opened it
>tfw the next day I see my neighbor shitting in his front yard

>> No.5057281

>>5054255
>implying OP is american

>> No.5057304

>>5057281
Where else is it legal?

>> No.5058488

>>5056135
top kek

>> No.5060361

>>5053985
kek

>> No.5062022

>>5054873
its a thing it generally means the plot is not very important and most of the book is asides and descriptions and shit like that

>> No.5062068

>>5054206
I appreciate you anon, even if no one else does

>> No.5062239

>>5062068
cute

>> No.5062286

>>5054890
No, it's really boring. Writing ranges between functional and tryhard-grade bad.

>> No.5062292

>ordered a copy of Twelth Night
>gift for my beloved
>delivered to my neighbor by mistake.
>he opened it
>every day he stands outside my house wearing yellow stockings.

>> No.5063257
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5063257

>ordered a copy of Friends to the End: The True Value of Friendship
>gift for my lonely self
>delivered it to my neighbor on purpose
>he realized it was mine
>left it on my doorstep instead of knocking on my door
>just wanted someone to talk to

>> No.5063415

>Order a jared diamond book
>gift for my neighbour
>nephew gets it instead
>he reads it
>now every time I want to talk to him about anthropolgy or social evolution I have to endure half an hour's worth of anecdote about his wife's aunts's friend who owns a farm in montana who's life story somehow inexplicably ties in to the topic in question

>> No.5063444

>>5053855
>ordered a copy of franny and zooey
>gift for me
>delivered to my neighbor by mistake
>he opened it
>thinks that it came to the wrong address
>tfw my neighbor brings me the book that was sent to his house by accident

>> No.5063460

>order a copy of Lolita
>gift for myself
>delivered to my neighbour by mistake
>he opened it
>thinks I'm a paedophile
>tfw posting this from a cell

>> No.5063497

>order a copy of The Hobbit
>gift for my friend
>delivered to my neighbor by mistake
>he opened it
>he's a midget
>tfw he asked me to go on an adventure

>> No.5063503

>ordered a big book of limericks
>a nice gift for my dominatrix
>went to wrong house
>kept by that louse
>and now she is even more strict

>> No.5063527

>Order a bumper book of meta-jokes
>I get it
>I read it
>Only one joke, four lines long, and its not even funny

>> No.5063528

>>5063503
kek

>> No.5063532

>Order a copy of Finnegans Wake
>slipperrrrrry diper fitty gifty
>o'er street raaaaaaan house whopwhoop
>shreet
>womby recks a quirk a quark
>tfw sprick

>> No.5063534

>>5063460
4chan mobile is pretty good though.

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5063543

>>5063532
Fuck me anon

>> No.5063595

>>5055646
you ought to just go through the western canon. i'm doing it. but i mean i read other stuff too peppered throughout.

>> No.5063611

>>5055646
>tfw I still have a paperback copy of Mice and Men entrusted to me by the teacher to do an extra-curricular course on literature
>never read it
>never returned it
I wish I wasn't such a wannabe rebel when I was younger and actually got my head down, teachers always warned me that I was squandering my gifts.

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5063632

>>5063527
Well done anon.

>> No.5063638

>>5063611
>squandering my gifts
Allow me to project by calling you a spec. snwflk faggot that needs to get over yerself.

>> No.5063697

>>5063543
bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonner-ronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthur-nuk!

>> No.5063703
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5063703

>>5063595
>not going through the world canon
yu unsa mieyt

>> No.5063706

>>5063703
>2014
>Believing in a "world canon"

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5063713

>>5063706
>thinks it's a matter of believing

>> No.5063717

>>5063706
>post CE
>believing