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9345839 No.9345839 [Reply] [Original]

>be reading this in public
>people watchs me like WTF you pervert
>classmates asking if it's porn

Most inappropriate/uncomfortable cover?

>> No.9345853

>>9345839
>Most inappropriate/uncomfortable cover?
Pretty much any cover of Lolita.

>> No.9345865

>reading in public
Do you actually have autism?

>> No.9345875
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9345875

>when the book has movie cover and you're too embarrassed to read it in public

>> No.9345890
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9345890

>>9345875
Buying books with movie covers

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9345896

>>9345890
The store had no other variants, pls don't bully

I also own "I Am Legend" with Will Smith's mug on it, not proud

>> No.9345924

>>9345875
>>9345896
How can you even browse /lit/

>> No.9345957

>>9345875
>not wanting a book cover with Keira Knightley's hard nipples on it
faggot

>> No.9345961

>>9345865
Schizotypy desu

>> No.9346032

>>9345875
This cover makes me want to force her to cut her hair even shorter, wear a cadet's uniform and pretend to be a boy while I take her à la grecque, no homo though.

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>>9345957
Im agreeing and very much adding to this conversation with orignial input and ideas.

>Keira's Jaw Line is god

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9346117

I held this one down so no one could see the cover.

>> No.9346128
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9346128

>be reading this on the bus
>see people looking at me
>baka, just try to ignore them

seriously, why are people so insensitive when a man is just trying to read?

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9346136

>>9345839
might have to be careful with this one

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9346893

>>9345875
Say, what's happening to the broad? Last I saw her was in Everest for few minutes. Hopefully not doing some plastic... I quite like how she looks, despite needing some more meat on her bones.

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9346976

>>9345839
I read mostly at work and in public. The only thing holding me back from reading this is the cover.

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>> No.9346989
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9346989

Read this on a NYC bus 5 days in a row and you will get in 10+ fights

>> No.9347008

>>9346893
You should check out A Dangerous Method, a great movie about psychiatry and spanking. Link related.
https://www.pornhub.com/interstitial?viewkey=1465239293

>> No.9347025

>>9347008
Wrong link
https://www.pornhub.com/view_video.php?viewkey=1465239293

>> No.9347105

>>9346989
literally the best and most beautiful cover i have ever seen

>> No.9347113

>>9346981
Okay you got me with this. Can you give me a quick rundown, I don't want to end up on a watchlist.

>> No.9347118

>>9347105
A good example of not judging a book by its cover

>> No.9347143

>>9345839
>tasteful nude on the cover
>people watchs me like WTF you pervert
What philistine shithole do you live in?

>> No.9347144

>>9347113
basically Beckett's Trilogy but with a guy who fucks babies

>> No.9347151

>>9345839

that's why i use a kindle.

>"whatcha readin anon?"
>"one hundred years of solitude my friend"
>is Lolita ;)

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9347225

>>9347143
>tasteful
>nude

>> No.9347380

>>9347225
>Burger detected.

>> No.9347388

>>9346893
this cover physically pains me. the movie barely had anything to do with the book.

>> No.9347487

>>9345839

I love Javier Marías, he is awesome.

>> No.9347510

>>9347225
not everyone is a squeamish prude, anon

>> No.9347530

>>9345839
Same thing. I read advanced books for my age, still in school, and I get bullied for actually trying. It sucks.

>> No.9347549

>>9346989
Well quit reading shitty books

>> No.9347553

>>9347530
Here is one
>Be me
>Be reading Consider Phelebas
>Finish tests
>Chilling
>Then, here is Faggot
>Faggot is basically one of those ghetto kids who usually fail at life, and are massive bullies.
>"AYY NIGGA WAT DAT SHIT YA READIN"
>He says
>"That is none of your buisiness", I say
>"Bugger off"
>Then, this fucking retard grabs my book and says
>"AYY DIS PASTY NIGGA IAIN M BANKS LUK LIK SHIT LMAO!" This retard says
>This was after Mr. Banks died of cancer
>triggered.jpg.
>REEEE
>I start "roasting" him in his own form, except I talk with the most advanced vocabulary I could find at the top of my head
>After he is done, the entire class starts screaming and acting like something terrible happened.
>OHHH BOI U GOT ROASTED!
>I just stand their dumbfounded
>He mumbles some unintelligible shit about "Dis boi right here"
>Such is life.

>> No.9347560

>>9347549
>Shitty
>books
I'm not reading shitty books you dumbfuck, I'm reading "Against a Dark Background" by Iain M. Banks. I'm also fucking reading Tolstoy War and Peace. When I was in 6th, I did a book review about 1984, and was surprisingly good for my age.

>> No.9347564

>>9347553
that sounds SO likely

>> No.9347565

>>9347553
Shit, made some grammar mistakes.

>> No.9347568

>>9347564
This literally happened. Same thing happened when I made a comment about ones hairline and the existence of the Higgs-Boson, and the entire class was screaming out "OOOOOH". I think I'm being set up, and I'm too autistic to realize it.

>> No.9347569

>>9347510
lack of clothing is culturally distasteful almost universally. the image op used is not particularly obscene, but it is still distasteful; it would still stand out amongst other book covers. I appreciate nudity and beauty but it's not something you should display in public without the consent of others

>> No.9347571

>>9345865
>not doing what you want in public as long as it is legal

How does beta life treat you?

>> No.9347576

>>9347560
>When I was in 6th, I did a book review about 1984, and was surprisingly good for my age.

I want you to know that there are few sadder things than seeing someone brag about their middle school accomplishments.

>> No.9347580

>>9347576
Oh shit, I think I responded to the wrong comment, sorry about that, go tell the actual poster that they are a massive faggot.

>> No.9347584

>>9347580
What did he mean by this?

>> No.9347586

>>9347584
I mean that I thought you replied to my comment, and I mistakenly insulted you, old chap. Go call the other OP autistic.

>> No.9347593

>>9346066
Hello, I also have something meaningful to say.

>Her nose is so fucking straight and the right length

>> No.9347602

The only way to truly learn how to write good characters is to get out in the world and spend lots of time around people in social settings.

>> No.9347603

>>9347586
Your book report gloating still makes me sad.

>> No.9347606 [DELETED] 

>>9347603
Yeah I know. I'm in 8th.

>> No.9347609 [DELETED] 

>>9347603
I get bullied a lot, because my school is full of anti-intellectual troglodytes. Sorry.

>> No.9347631

>>9347569
good grief i bet you're a bundle of fun

>> No.9347633

>>9345839
Kek. Same thing happens when I bring a real book, not the shit my classmates bring.

>> No.9347683

>>9347603
Fuck those retards.

>> No.9348097

>>9347569
You sound like my first roommate who thought that tampon commercials should be barred during dinnertime hours.

>> No.9348132

Corazon tan blanco is so shit you shouldn't've been reading it in the first place

>> No.9348339

>>9345865
there's nothing to feel insecure about as long as you aren't one of those people who is clearly seeking attention. simply do what pleases you casually and with fucking dignity.

>> No.9348576
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9348576

>A-Anon are you a nazi?

>> No.9348589

>>9347609
>>9347606

please tell me this is a inside joke

if you're actually underage, you're wasting your potential

i wasted my teen years on here, don't do the same

>> No.9348591

>>9348576
>reading any book cover with the NSDAP symbol in public
>expecting to not be ostracized

>> No.9348598

>>9347606
>>9347609

It's not going to get any easier when you grow up

Chad the frat boy is going to steal your gf in college

Then when you get a job at the firm the partners are going to cuck you and make you work weekends

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9348828

>>9348591

To be honest I've never read Shirer. However there was an anon on here who claimed to have been reprimanded by his university for reading it in public and then getting into an altercation of sorts with some female students.

>> No.9348836

>>9347569
Hory shiet. The tales of american retardation when it comes to nudity are real.

>> No.9348852

Why dont you guys just go to a bookbinder or just make a cover out of a paper bag or something? Add some hip decoration and you can impress some dumb hipster slut with your autism.

Here ya go, lads: http://www.wikihow.com/Create-a-Paper-Bag-Book-Cover

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9348863

all the greeks have benis on cover :(((

>> No.9348875

>>9347568
Yeah. You are. And you're no better than the "faggots" you seem to hate. Get over yourself and the rest of 'em.

>> No.9348877

>>9348097

Eating in front of the television is fucking heathen and should be banned.

>> No.9349187

>>9345957
>>9345875
>>9346066
shes so ugly like holy shit

also cant move, disgusting facial expressions, skelly forever

>> No.9349598

>>9348828
I find it fascinating that being that freakish thing on the right is more acceptable than being a Nazi.

>> No.9349826

>>9345875
>meh, Makbeth

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9349863

>>9345839
I think I've made a terrible mistake...

>> No.9349875

>>9349863
Kek.

>> No.9349919
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9349919

Two idiot gayboys on the subway laughed and pointed at me when I was reading this. When I brought it into work, I got confused stares from my boss.

>> No.9349923

>>9349919
If you were to come to where my peers are, trust me, you'd get bullied as fuck. I like Nietzsche, would want to read.

>> No.9349981

>>9347553
my dad works at nintendo

>> No.9350008

>>9349919
It's hilarious that this is the only major volume not included in the two collections. It forces you into situations like this.

>> No.9350015

>>9349981
Okay, how is that relevent to the discussion.

>> No.9350066

>>9350015
Just like your green story, it is not true.

>> No.9350229

I took Hitler's biography to uni to show it to a friend of mine, a teacher who walked by stopped to ask me if I "admired" him, I jokingly said "only a little bit", he just said "good haha" and left.

Feels good not to live in a sjw country.

>> No.9350630

>>9345896
kek

>> No.9350636

>>9347549

>Ayn Rand was an idiot

Nice meme.

>> No.9350658

>>9349919

I'd laugh at retards who read the Kauffman translations too.

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9350670

>>9350636
>spend fifty years raging at any sort of social program or public service
>end up living off welfare

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9351439

>What are you reading Anon? Are you gay or something?

>> No.9351456

>>9350670
kinda reminded me of Nietzche desu

>> No.9351485

>>9351439
Yea, sure am!

>> No.9351697

>>9347553
>ywn be bullied by a superior black bull

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9351854

>>9346136
This one's even better.

>> No.9353127

>>9349598
How?

Nazi has been the default worst thing a person can be for nearly a century in nearly all cultures.

>> No.9353133

>>9345839

Honestly, if I saw someone reading this I'd think that someone is an edgy pretentious douche trying to get attention from strangers.

>> No.9353141
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9353141

This book has caused me the most embarrassment of all books that I own.

Of course I don't read it in public, but for some damn fucking reason, everyone thinks that I'm weird because it's in my dorm.

>my roommate computer science major when he saw it thought that I was weird and told a bunch of people that he was rooming with an edgy hitler supporter
>we barely spoke for the first few weeks because of this, and even after I explained it to him, we now dislike each other because of the bad first impression
>bring a qt back to my room
>she sees this and being a dumbass liberal sheep gets freaked out
>wtf are you a neo nazi or something?!

It's not even that good a book, fuck this book.

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>>9345839
At least it's more interesting than the cover on the English translation.

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9353372

>mfw reading Venus in Furs at cafés

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9353379

>>9353127

>nearly all cultures.

Not really. In the middle east Hitler's reputation is quite good, in Africa they haven't heard of him, and in Asia they don't care. Even in Russia, the country that suffered the most at the hands of the Wehrmacht and the SS, being a neo-nazi is less bad then being a homosexual.

>> No.9353385

>>9347571
>thinks being a cunt to everyone is alpha
No wonder you're still a beta. kys cunt.

>> No.9353402

>>9353372
is that james joyce?
why is there a girl trying to grind his face?

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9353403

>>9345896
ktf

>> No.9353442

>>9353402
Maybe she's trying to fart directly on his nose.

>> No.9353462

>>9353379
>in Asia they don't care

God, you're a fucking idiot.

>> No.9353467

>>9346989
kek

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9353474

Once, when I was reading this in the train, a guy asked me if I was reading a book how to pick up girls book while he laughing.

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9353524

>>9353403
Yep, thats the one

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9353536

>>9347560
>not reading shitty books
>reads genreshit
Please leave this board.

>> No.9354090

>>9351439
I was at work, reading the version with the good cover, when the fake-hip douche who merged with us entered the kitchen.
>what are reading?
>show the cover
>two six six six
>okay....
To my fault I went full retard on saying the title.

>> No.9354108

>>9353442
underrated post

>> No.9354215

>>9350670
>government forces you to pay into system
>getting the money the government took from you back is supporting the system

>> No.9354267

>>9345865

>being this much of an insecure fuck
you should an hero, friendo

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>> No.9355908

>>9355633
Muh nigga.

>> No.9355930

>>9345839
That's a patrician cover if I ever saw one, reminds me of The Origin of the World.

>>9347553
>Americans

>> No.9356023

>>9355633
W-where can I get this?

>> No.9356053

>>9346989
The title and cover are good though.

>> No.9356063

>>9345839
>people only read paper books in public places because they want to be noticed
/thread

>> No.9356121

>>9353524
will smith is gonna rape your mommy tonight for what you just did

>> No.9356158

>>9353379
Everywhere else has had a badguy to hate on. Hitler is the West's supervillain.

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9356339

>>9353462

Wow, how rude.

>>9356158

Yeah but that anon said "in nearly all cultures" which is retarded, because most cultures are either ambivalent about or approving of Hitler and the Holocaust. This is what liberals don't understand about Muslim immigration, that these "diverse" people hate Jews as much as the most vicious skinhead.

>> No.9356347

>>9353536
>Genreshit
Yes, I like Science Fiction and Fantasy, but I'm willing to read any good classic. WAR AND PEACE FTW!

>> No.9356349

>>9356023
If I had my computer with me you would have it. Keep this thread alive until tomorrow night.

>> No.9356352

>>9355930
I agree. I want to probably move to Switzerland, and work at CERN.

>> No.9356458

>>9353385
>reading in front of someone else
>somehow being a cunt
What a moron.

>> No.9356476

>>9347569
I'm an American, and this is still retarded. Tasteful nudity is a required concept if you wish to appreciate the concept of vulgar nudity.

>> No.9356533

>>9356339
I'm pretty sure liberals know just as well as anybody else that Muslims hate Jews. Seems like you're stretching to manufacture an insult.

>> No.9357578

>>9353141
then get rid of the fucking book, huh?