/lit/ - Literature

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There's a hardback signed first edition. Only $1400

>>2025935
A lot of books are published initially as trade paperbacks or paperbacks; it's plausible that any given book, unless you know otherwise, never had a hardcover edition. Off topic. Just sayin.

I Googled it, and saw some pics.

Weird. I prefer trade paperbacks and (to a lesser extent) paperbacks to hardcovers, anyway. I hate having to pay 3 times as much for an inferior product. Large, heavy, unweildy, with a section that comes away from the rest of it. Hardcovers suck.

>>2025941
Not major press books

>>2025975
Yes, major press books.

>>2025980
show me, friend

>be in 9th grade
>school didn't separate tards from 'normal' people
>tard sits in front of me in class
>she's got a nice body but some tard eyes that don't make people think of her as anything but tard
>got rejected a few days a go by a girl I had a huge crush on
>tard looks at me
>smile politely
>she returns the smile
>i need to fart
>can't hold it for long
>i finally release it
>it's noisy and very smelly (i ate apples before)
>the whole class is like "what the fuck" then "holy shit it stinks
>pokerface.jpg
>teacher blames it on tard
>everyone starts fingering her
>she cries
>teacher strips off his clothes
>i pull out my dick
>we look at each other defiantly
>the whole class starts shouting
>tard stands up
>teacher cockslaps her
>she falls over
>i shove my dick up her vag
>start fucking her while staring a girl I had a crush on in the eyes
>girl starts fingering herself
>suddenly feel something cucumber-shaped lodging in my anus
>turn back
>it's my teacher
>imokwiththat.jpg
>tard starts moaning while teacher fucks me in the ass
>everyb­ody is encouraging us or masturbating
>door opens
>head teacher walks in
>freak out
>fall over with tard on me and teacher under me
>get on the floor
>every­b­ody walk the dinosaur

>>2025999
please stop posting about retarded people in all the threads. It's just cruel.

>>2025935
I'll admit I have a paperback version, but it's the superior UK edition with the not-shit cover.

The cloud cover is fucking horrible looking.

>>2025935
we here in germany have a hardcover

i own the hardcover.

I want to become more knowledgeable about literature, the english language, prose, syntax etc. What books (fiction) would /lit/ recommend?

I've read all of Joyce's work and I'm working through Faulkner's Bibliography at the minute. Stuff in a similar vein to that.

Is the best method just to read everything? Read classics like The Odyssey and Inferno?

>>2026058
>Reading Infinite Jest in anything but English.

>>2026049
Have you read The Pale King?

What did you think of it?

>>2026076
First reading the german translation, then I'm going to try the english version. Problem is I'm not that good in english and its maybe too difficult for me

>reading kafka and goethe and schiller and hesse etc in anything but german

>>2025935
>good thread
>implying this thread is /lit/

I bought a hardcover on ebay for $25, it turned out to be a first edition in perfect condition. Had a huge nerdgasm.