>enter large, two-storey book store, many thousands of books>check out a few authors >King2 copies of Life of Chuck>Nabokov1 copy of Lolita>Pynchon1 copy of Vineland>Wallace, Mieville, Wolfe0 copiesWhat exactly are they stocking nowadays?
>>24957564They gotta make space for all those Chainsaw Man and Berserk Deluxe Editions.
>>24957570Those are unironically higher literature than any of the old dead FUCKS that OP is crying about.
>>24957577King and Mieville aren't dead :(
>uh actually Pynchon is alive tooanon...
>>24957564I haven't bought a book from an actual bookstore in years.
>walk into library>half of it has been remodeled and dedicated to a children's play pen daycare area>a full third is non book media like movies and video games and music >generous section for manga and comic books>an entire section for books written in Russian and then another separate section for books written in not English or Russian (i live in America) >no poetry section at all>zero books printed before 1700>1 dostoevsky, 1 hemmingway, 1 Conan doyle, 1 bronte(charlotte), nobody else
>>24957625I only use libraries to get high in.
>>24957625>zero books printed before 1700ok bro come on, how many people are reading books prior to 1700 other than Shakespeare
>>24957647Pre 1700 is honestly the bulk of my collection.Also are you remembering the Greeks being included in that? A library having literally no Greek or roman writing is fucking weird
>>24957625yeah bro, they should just shut it down and not use it at all, that way israel can get more ebin tax dollarino's !!!!!
>>24957662?
>>24957564Eva is relentlessly pretty, a fact often disguised by an excess of makeup.
>Pre 1700 is honestly the bulk of my collection.
>>24957662>>>/schizophrenia/
>Wolfe
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>>24957564I would like to make out with her neck
