ITT: red flags for books

[Anonymous No.6652632]

>author's name is bigger than the title

[Anonymous No.6652644]

>publisher is oxford classics, penguin, signet or wordsworth

[Anonymous No.6652660]

>authors name/title is embossed on the cover
>cover text is written in iridescent ink to grab attention
>if a book is in a second hand store and <2 years old

[Anonymous No.6652662]

>there's no dragons in it

[Anonymous No.6652665]

>>6652632
>author is Cormac McCarthy

[Anonymous No.6652668]

>Now a major motion picture!

[Anonymous No.6652685]

>author's name is not Fyodor Dostoevsky

[Anonymous No.6652692]

>book was recommended by a girl

[Anonymous No.6652693]

>authors favors themes over goblins

[Hamlet !!PVWzrEOBu3b No.6652708]

>author's name isn't bigger than the title for deadpan-ironic purposes

[Anonymous No.6652752]

>author paints our world as oppressive / less than perfect

[Anonymous No.6652778]

>no pictures

[Anonymous No.6652787]

>>6652644
the best publishers?

[Anonymous No.6652862]

>>6652632
*Red flags for autism

FTFY

[Anonymous No.6652998]

>jew

[Anonymous No.6653009]

>>6652632
>Book has an introduction by someone other than the author

[Anonymous No.6653011]

>written by a jew or the author has a jewish last name

eww get away from me

[Anonymous No.6653015]

>How to make a retarded thread by OP

[Anonymous No.6653037]

>book is a translation from English

[Anonymous No.6653047]

>main character isn't white

[Anonymous No.6653048]

INTO THE TRASH

[Anonymous No.6653053]

>about a male writer

[Anonymous No.6653059]

>>6653048
Ciardi is pretty good tho

[Anonymous No.6653061]

>>6653011
You are retarded.

Half of the jews don't know shit about Judaism and don't care. Half of the Jewish names" are Swedish, German or Polish (Blomberg, Bloch, Chomsky...).

[Anonymous No.6653072]

>>6653061
>implying the problem is judaic religion rather than the innate compulsion to deceive, exploit and destroy civilisations

[Anonymous No.6653074]

>>6652998
>>6653011
>poster pretends to be from /pol/

[Anonymous No.6653079]

>>6653072
>the innate compulsion to deceive
Seriously, fuck off with your memes.

[Anonymous No.6653091]

>>6652632
>>6652632
Anything that can be described with the following buzzwords:

>This play/book is risky and fresh, it shows the moral vacuum and hypocrisy of the western society all while presenting a counterpoint of progressive values that clash against the vices of capitalism and neoliberalism. It embraces post-marxist ideology as well as a new form of sexual exploration that uncovers how gender indeterminacy is present in our patriarchal structure full of misogyny and prejudice. Moreover, it shows how cultural alienation has become one of the aftereffects of colonization and how the deconstruction of language and culture seems to play a great part on the reassertion of identity and assimilation of the other as part of the self.
It is very modern and daring, but ultimately offers no solution to the issues the dehumanization of insertethnicityhere/female main characters face.

[Anonymous No.6653104]

>>6653079
>memes
>not truth

[Anonymous No.6653129]

>>6653104
yeah, race essentialism is not true. now you're gettin' it, /pol/!

[Anonymous No.6653146]

>>6653129
you're putting words in my mouth like a jew.

honestly tho it's a cultural thing, not a race thing

[Anonymous No.6653284]

>written by a woman
>enjoyed by women
>has more than one principle female character
>covers romance from any perspective than a regretful older man

[Anonymous No.6653299]

>>6653091
Sounds more like a projection of your own ressentiment than an actual book description tbh.

[Anonymous No.6653323]

>>6652632
>may in any way be considered as possibly expressing sympathy for opinions I disagree with
Yuck, literature sure has gone to shit.

[Anonymous No.6653326]

>>6653299
This.

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » No.6653360]

>>6652632
>Red flag for threads: Judging a book by it's cover

It's for marketing. It's capitalism.

[Anonymous No.6653395]

>>6653299
>Sounds more like a projection of your own ressentiment than an actual book description tbh.
Yup, you're right. It's from a compilation of the main ideas from several recent plays I've read. Made me discard anything related to it.

[Anonymous No.6653437]

>there's a plot summary on the back
>it starts with the word 'when'

[Anonymous No.6654655]

>written in first person

[Anonymous No.6654662]

>>6652660
>>if a book is in a second hand store and <2 years old
"Holy shit Rosemary, this book is magnificent! It would be a shame if only the rich could benefit from it, I think I'm going to drop it off at the used book repository tomorrow!"

[Anonymous No.6654668]

>>6653437
>>there's a plot

[Anonymous No.6654670]

>translator's name is as big as the author's

[Anonymous No.6654711]

>>6653323
>author uses the book to express opinions

[Anonymous No.6654713]

>>6654670
>translator isn't alexander pope

[Anonymous No.6654755]

>>6654711
>author writes vague open-ended shit because he's too much of a pussy

[Anonymous No.6654880]

>book has thinly veiled environmentalist message

[Anonymous No.6654883]

>my little pony fanfiction

[Anonymous No.6654885]

>no dumb bunnys

[Anonymous No.6654895]

>Book has a 5/5 review from The Daily Mail

[Anonymous No.6654910]

>the book presents Christianity as anything but insane schizophrenic rambling

[Anonymous No.6654913]

>oprah's bookclub

[Anonymous No.6654929]

>it has an extra "movie edition" cover

[Anonymous No.6654930]

>book is under 3000 pages long

[Anonymous No.6654932]

>interview with the video game versions executive producer

[Anonymous No.6654942]

>chapter 1 starts on page 23

[Anonymous No.6654945]

>>6654930
>book is over 30 pages long

[Anonymous No.6654946]

>>6654930
I'm not that pretentious, but if it's not at least over 500 I usually don't read it.

[Anonymous No.6655034]

>>6654946
kek

[Anonymous No.6655141]

>Author's prior activities include a "popular" blog.

[Anonymous No.6655194]

>>6654932
>video game

[Anonymous No.6655207]

>>6653129
>le everyone goes on one board because they're tumblr like me!
>i-if I pretend hard enough maybe this can be a safe space for me like leddit
Why go through these mental hoops and lie to yourself? Why not just cease screaming /pol/ like an angry ape every time someone disagrees with you? If you want a hugbox fuck off, you don't need this place to be one as well.

[Anonymous No.6655248]

>mommy won't read it to me

[Anonymous No.6655287]

>its not in .FLAC Format

[Anonymous No.6655312]

>wasn't made with Anatolian marble

[Anonymous No.6655317]

>"a novel"

[Anonymous No.6655330]

>poetry book
>foreword by a celebrity or musician

[Anonymous No.6655347]

>novel
>over a hundred years old

[Anonymous No.6655348]

>book cover that has no author or summary just and praising reviews.

[Anonymous No.6655355]

>doesn't make my pee pee go boom boom

[Anonymous No.6655364]

>>6653072
>destroy civilisations
if any thing jews are pro-civilization. not innately, though, fucktard

[Anonymous No.6655368]

>book is a translation

[Anonymous No.6655581]

>Photo of author on the back
>Doesn't look like a pirate

[Anonymous No.6655608]

>>6652632
>cover is excessively graphic

[Anonymous No.6655618]

>>6655347
you sly dog

[Anonymous No.6655655]

>>6654895
The Daily Mail review books? Do they like, actually read?

[Anonymous No.6655665]

>>6654942
>Greek lit is unknown to me

[Anonymous No.6655692]

>>6652632
>Autobiography

[Anonymous No.6655766]

>>6653047
>author is straight white cisgendered male who hasn't killed himself

[Anonymous No.6655781]

>>6652778
Alice leave.

[Anonymous No.6655797]

>>6652632
>author is jewish
>author is black
>author is spanish
>author is a marxist

[Anonymous No.6655812]

>>6654945
kek

[Anonymous No.6655815]

>>6652662

[Anonymous No.6655849]

>>6652632
>Book that is a response to another book

>Title is "(Insert subject here) For Dummies"

>Book that heavily promotes progressive / liberal bullshit

[Anonymous No.6656184]

>>6652632
>author is a young female

>back of the book contains the words "fresh," "refreshing," or "a breathe of fresh air."

[Anonymous No.6656222]

>>6656184
>back of the book contains any reference to air quality or freshness and isn't about cleaning products or air filtration systems

[Anonymous No.6656235]

>>6652692
meme-ing aside, this is mostly true

[Anonymous No.6656293]

>>6652692
why is this always true.

[Anonymous No.6656321]

>book has red flags

[Anonymous No.6656323]

using emerald spears without citing your sources
seriously, I won't read your post

[Anonymous No.6656462]

>>6652692
It's sad that, in our modern society, this is fairly accurate.

[Anonymous No.6656478]

>>6653079
>taking someone seriously on the internet
>getting offended on the internet
>feeding trolls on the internet
Is this your first day?

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » No.6656622]

>>6656293
A woman recommended A Farewell to Arms to me

[Anonymous No.6656645]

>>6656622
You literally just proved his point.

[Anonymous No.6656708]

>not a first edition
>quotes on the cover are only about the author's previous work

[Anonymous No.6656736]

>>6652692
Books recommended to me by girls:
>The Collector by John Fowels
>Bend Sinister by Nabokov
>Various Henry James Novels
>Book on Machine Learning I Forget the Name Of
>The Man who Only Loved Numbers
>The Essential Harlen Ellison
>The Tale of Genji
>The Man Who was Thursday.
>Journey to The End of the Night
>The Temptation of Saint Anthony

Enjoy your life time of pointless gender based frustration, and being unable to form meaningful relationships with half of the human race, misogynists.

[Anonymous No.6656740]

>>6652692
A girl recommended Kundera and Capote to me, and generally made me abandon my genre-fic ways.

[Anonymous No.6656828]

>book is written by a celebrity

[Anonymous No.6657323]

> a tour de force

[Anonymous No.6657356]

"Bestselling author of"

[Anonymous No.6657393]

>>6655849
>Book that heavily promotes progressive / liberal bullshit
I thought /lit/izens, even americans, knew better than to use the terms 'progressive' and 'liberal'

[Anonymous No.6657396]

>>6654913
this is the best one

[Anonymous No.6657414]

>New York Times best-selling author

[Anonymous No.6657419]

>>6655207
get out faggot

[Anonymous No.6657424]

>>6657393
They are catch-all terms that works as intended. Also it's still miles better than saying "SJW".

[Anonymous No.6657434]

>cover-art continues onto the spine
>>>/out/

[Anonymous No.6657476]

>>6652787
For academic texts, I prefer Loeb, Hackett, Cambridge, and Oxford. Loeb is just GOAT. Costly, too.

[Anonymous No.6657481]

>fantasy

[Anonymous No.6657655]

>genre

[Anonymous No.6658508]

>books

[Anonymous No.6658519]

>numbered pages

[Anonymous No.6658533]

>pages

[Anonymous No.6658900]

>>6656736
If a girl had recommended Céline to me, I would've married her on the spot.

[Anonymous No.6658947]

>>6658900
>life of pi, girl with the dragon tattoo, eat pray love, kite runner and how to tell if your cat is plotting to kill you
>on the same pile as coatzee, plath and nabokov

Jesus Christ what the fuck

[Anonymous No.6658974]

>>6658900

What's the origin of this pic? The girl has a very beautiful body.

[Anonymous No.6659052]

> Not pop-up book

[Anonymous No.6659107]

>>6658900
>tfw you won't believe she asked me to marry her and I turned her down.

[Anonymous No.6659134]

>>6655766

Anything 'written' by a black

[Anonymous No.6659171]

>>6658974
La femme Purdue photography I think.

[Anonymous No.6659188]

>>6657393
>even Americans

HERE COMES THE ANTIAMERICAN CIRCLE JERK

[Anonymous No.6659196]

>>6657419
Not him but I agree with his sentiment

[Anonymous No.6659211]

>>6659134

You are as unwanted here as at conception.

>>>/pol/

[Anonymous No.6659227]

>>6659211

Not him, but this book is really bad.

[Anonymous No.6659238]

>>6653360
/thread

[Anonymous No.6659243]

>>6659211
>only a quarter black, and raised white

[Anonymous No.6659244]

Anything written by a woman other than Ayn Rand, although even she is a bad prose writer.

[Anonymous No.6659259]

>>6659244
>other than Ayn Rand
>implying she's not the worst example of female writing

[Anonymous No.6659279]

>>6655207
>not being a racist/fascist is reddit-tier

Hang out on /r/worldnews, then...

[Anonymous No.6659297]

>anything written by a woman
>anything written by a nigger

[Anonymous No.6659314]

>>6659188
Calm down americlap.

[Anonymous No.6659332]

>>6658947
But Kite Runner is an amazing book.

[Anonymous No.6659527]

>reprint of a book for political correctness

[Anonymous No.6659533]

>>6659527
has that ever actually happened?

[Anonymous No.6659536]

>>6659297
overrated post

[Anonymous No.6659635]

>>6659533
Huckleberry Finn

[Anonymous No.6659728]

>>6659134

you are incorrect