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5976382 No.5976382 [Reply] [Original]

That feel when I gave a girl Mrs. Dalloway as a birthday present with a stupidly long inscription praising the book and her.
>omg this is the most wonderful gift ever
>I've always meant to read Virginia Woolf
>I want to read the book so I can discuss it with you!
Several months later now and it hasn't been mentioned since. She probably got 5 pages in and gave up. Fuck. For some reason I feel disappointed in her, like I regret writing all those nice things. Am I right to be? It was probably a terrible gift in the first place for someone who doesn't read much. God this is dumb.

>> No.5976395

Congratulations, OP. You are a gigantic fucking beta.

>> No.5976398

>>5976382
Is she even the type of person to read good books? You should have probably gathered intel on that in advance.

>> No.5976399

Why don't you just ask her about it?

>> No.5976407

>>5976398
She likes Jane Austen and the Brontes. Wuthering Heights is her favourite novel. I imagined Woolf would be a logical progression.

>>5976399
Because I don't want to be an intellectual terrorist I suppose

>> No.5977671

>>5976382
People are busy. Ask her about it, and she'll remember she hasn't read it yet. My shelves are full of "to read next" books. Why assume she was defeated by the first chapter?

>> No.5977686

>>5976382
sounds like a nice gift. she could still have appreciated it and failed to read it

>> No.5977688

Anybody still have a picture of that used book an anon bout that had this inscription in it. Basically a beta sending a book of poetry to a girl and that girl most likely selling it at a thrift store. Book was untouched.

>> No.5977697

>>5977688
I have a copy of Kafka's complete stories that has a long live note inscribed in it from some Wicca lady to her bf.
I found it in a thrift store.

>> No.5977708

>>5977697
Let us read it.

>> No.5977713

>>5977688
>>5977697
Maybe they died and a relative sold them?

>> No.5977744

>>5977708
Sure give me a sec.

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5977781

>>5977708
>>5977713

>> No.5977795

You didn't give her anything, it stood there with you.

When you give something, you don't question what use will be made of it. You just give.

Learn to give.

>> No.5978063

>>5977781
Glad I expended the effort guise :^) Where are my upboats?

>> No.5978095

should've got her Petrarch's poems instead boi

should've got her the Tale of Genji, it's Austen except much more beautifully written.

Virginia Woolf is pure garbage mang.

20th century writers that matter: Pessoa, Celine, Kafka, Beckett. The rest aren't worth mentioning (perhaps Rilke).

dude OP learn lit LMAO

>> No.5978105

>>5978095
>inb4 someone says Proust

actually you can give a woman Proust

he's shite though, but feminine enough

>> No.5978106

>>5978095
I'm making a mental note to never listen to you ever again

>> No.5978113

>>5978106
i'm anonymous i'm everyone

+ everything I said is true