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What are you gonna get yourself this Christmas?

>> No.16787257

What’s worth getting that isn’t cliche?

>> No.16787259
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Nothing.

>> No.16787263

>>16787251
I have everything I need, kid.

>> No.16787293
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>>16787251
The Silmarillion
Le Morte d'Arthur
Lives of the Saints
The Golden Bough
The Complete Poems of John Keats

Any book recommendations from this list, bros?

>> No.16787299
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16787299

Full set of St Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologica

>> No.16787302

>>16787299
holy BASED

>> No.16787333

>What are you gonna get yourself this Christmas?
What a terribly sad post

>> No.16787368

>>16787251
Nothing, I don't celebrate Christmas, but my wedding anniversary is right after that pagan festivity. My wife tend to give me nice presents, for my last birthday she gave me Jerusalem (Alan Moore), Gothic Tales by Elizabeth Gaskell, The Space Alien (Edogawa Ranpo) and The Castle of Wolfenbach.

>> No.16787373

maybe a sodastream

>> No.16787376

play station 5

>> No.16787377

>>16787251
I want it, but I can’t justify a $400 centerpiece that I’ll hate myself for using

>> No.16787406

>>16787373
enjoy your big bloated tummy

>> No.16787410

>>16787368
Bugman detected

>> No.16787435
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16787435

>tfw no friends to buy gifts for
>tfw imagine being friends with people i know or used to know and i go gift shopping for them, buying things i imagine they might like for myself

>> No.16787477

I recently order some GREEKS and ROMANS. They should be arriving Monday or Tuesday. I could call that my christmas present
>>16787376
nice
>>16787373
nice
>>16787251
I don't know why, but I have a dislike for childrens books, dressed up and sold for a markup. It feels exploitative making "nice" often low quality editions of children's books for childless nerds.

>> No.16787480

>>16787410
>bugman
>Rootless, lifeless, metropolitan drones who have a permanent thousand-yard stare due to an existence void of any meaning other than waiting for the next iPhone.
¿?

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>>16787376
>sn*ystation
Cringe. I stopped to support sony since the fiasco of TLOU2.

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>>16787376
>sn*ystation
Cringe. I stopped to support sony since the fiasco of TLOU2 and I switch to pc pirate chad.

>> No.16787596

>>16787251
I already got myself a complete Spinoza

>> No.16787635

The recognitions and JR by William Gaddis

>> No.16788023
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>> No.16788159

Charles Bukowski

>> No.16788168

>>16788159
>too midwit of a life

I'm getting Mcluhan's disstertation on Nashe

>> No.16788178

>>16787480
>doesn't celebrate Christmas
>gratuitously refers to Christmas as "that pagan holiday"
>buys genre books
Bugman detected.

>> No.16788244

>>16787299
Why bother? You as well as all of us know you will never read the whole thing.

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>>16787251
I'm an adult but my grandmother, God bless her, insists on buying me a THING for Christmas. There are literally no material things that I want. When I tried to tell her this last year she was really sad and I felt awful. What do I tell her to get me? I pirate all books btw.
>>16787435
The greatest gift you can give yourself is the gift of reprieve. Don't make yourself feel bad about having no friends- it is the /lit/ way, after all.

>> No.16788319

>>16788304
pen

>> No.16788329

>>16788319
I.... haven't used a pen or pencil in years. I don't even think I can write anymore...

>> No.16788340

>>16788329
hmmmm

>> No.16788344

>>16788304
>im an adult
And you don’t exchange presents with your friends and family? You can give and receive gifts as an adult you know

>> No.16788352

>>16788344
I live very far away from any friends or family and everybody else knows that I really hate receiving gifts.

>> No.16788364

>>16788352
shoes

>> No.16788368

I'm considering buying myself a new graphics card. And I want to get the Third Reich trilogy by Evans.

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16788388

Is it based and scholarly or cringe and consumerist to buy hardcovers of pirated ebooks that you particularly liked if you don't plan on reading them again any time soon?

>> No.16788402

>>16788388
Ebooks in general and cringe
Prone to censorship
If you have a physical copy it stays there unchanged forever

>> No.16788405

>>16788352
>i really hate receiving gifts
Bro

>> No.16788412

>>16788402
*are

>> No.16788420

>>16788405
idk breh, I just do. I don't like the whole process of it. I understand that people feel good giving them so I always try to play along but I'd really prefer to not have people give me things.

>> No.16788422

>>16788402
>Prone to censorship
Does this ever happen? Why would someone censor a zlibrary upload?

>> No.16788427

>>16787251
Bollinger's Dante or a sloo uh Finnagains Wayhug brooks

>> No.16788428

>>16788422
Never happened as far as I know
But it probably will in the future

>> No.16788447

>>16788428
Already have several year's worth of books DLd and I'm exceedingly doubtful that "they" are going to start censoring shit.

>> No.16788450

>>16788178
You're truly pathetic.

>> No.16788524

>>16788447
It's been happening to Archive.org and we all thought that would never be censored.

>>16788450
Not as pathetic as the consumerist signalling of the bugman.

>> No.16788538

>>16788447
Could be censorship by making new editions
New editions of storm of steel aren't nearly as pro-war or accurate as early translations

>> No.16788544

>>16788524
Excuse me? My wife, God bless her, bought those books for me despite the fact I tell her I didn't need presents.
I hope you rot in hell, you brainwashed scumbag.

>> No.16788563

>>16787293
- A History of the Devil by Robert Muchembled
- Violence and the Sacred by René Girard
- The Sacred and the Profane by Mircea Eliade
- The Idea of the Holy by Rudolf Otto
- Tales Before Tolkien: The Roots of Modern Fantasy edited by Douglas A. Anderson
- Hebrew Myths by Robert Graves and Raphael Patai
- Mimetic Theory and World Religions edited by Wolfgang Palaver and Richard Schenk

>> No.16788583

>>16788244
The Summa is a reference, you don't read through the whole thing like its a novel.

>> No.16788589

>>16788544
Your wife knows you for what you are.

In time you will learn your smug iconoclasm is in fact the product of brainwashing. Your love of junk-food fiction is part and parcel.

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This anthology.

>> No.16788668

>>16787251
A Christmas Carol desu

Not sure what else so I guess I'll make another thread

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>>16787251
>Eumeswil
>Desert Solitaire
>Growth of the Soil (norsk ed)
>Kon Tiki
>The Gormenghast Trilogy
>Collected Tales of Washington Irving
>The Everlasting Man
I always sperg out this time of year

>> No.16788688

>>16787257
knives are nice

>> No.16788715

>>16787251
I found a nice hardcover copy of Mason & Dixon on sale for next to nothing a couple weeks ago, and am now trying to finish what I'm currently reading in time to read it over the holidays. Someone said it would make a good Christmas book.

>> No.16788792

>>16787251
A reason to li-
A r-
hahahaha
Sorry I tried

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>>16787251
The Knickerbocker HP Lovecraft story collection.

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>>16787251
Puritan Classics Box Set from Banner of Truth. It comes out in 2 days. I've been waiting for someone to do something like this for a long time and decided I was getting it the moment it was announced.

>> No.16789111

>>16787251
there's this really loud whistle

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i shit my britches nigger

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>>16787251
I really want to start getting into painting napoleonics. I want to try and get a set of the middle guard, This christmans im going napoleonic themed. I have a biography of napoleon I want to read around the time, will try to finish up War and peace and Ill watch some recording of the nutcracker.

Probably wont have anyone to try and play them against due to fakevirus, but I think they will look nice on the shelf and will keep me busy for a while. also books to get into christman/napoleonic mood (preferably booth)?

>> No.16789185

>>16787299
Absolutely based

>> No.16789252

>>16787299
Are u getting it in latin?

>> No.16789461

>>16788822
Cringe

>> No.16789470

>>16789252
That edition has the Latin on one side of the page and English on the other

>> No.16789497

I wanna buy the four volumes of Journey to the West