What do you guys think of b&n's choice? Is this truly the literature of our time?
>>9897846
like it or not, rupi is one of the voices of the generation.
The absolute state of modern bookshops
>>9897889
Bought Milk and Honey last week. It's a real mixed bag...
you're right DFW is shit. all he made me think about was going down to the rope store.
>>9897889
#NotMyVoice
There have only been like 6 books released in the 21st century that are worth reading
>>9897917
that recommended sign is gold
>>9897917
>that meditations cover
what the FUCK
>>9897846
>>9897846
Clearly a gag. Somebody moved one of the Rupis to cover up The Sound and the Fury in the top left, and you can see that they're done something similar in the bottom right
>>9897917
>7
I fucking HATE when I go to phil section of book store and its literally filled with brain cancer tier self help pop psychology crap.
makes me die a bit more inside each time.
>>9897985
Only the big chain book stores are like this
>>9897996
You caught me
>>9897996
reddit and pol are both boogeymen
it is literally only /lit/ posters ruining the board themselves
>>9898038
accurate
>>9897947
name them
>>9897947
>>9898762
Second.
>>9898038
No, the ones from /pol/ are doing to /lit/ what the illegal immigrants are doing to America.
Yeah, a mixed bag of shit from every animal.
>>9897924
Yeah, a mixed bag of shit from every animal.
>>9897846
Should I just read milk and honey? Will I at least get a laugh out of it?
>>9897846
m8 i s2g i've been to this B&N. this by a Houston's?
>>9898972
Against the Day
Inherent Vice
Bleeding Edge
Eeee Eee Eeee
Bed: Stories
Taipei
>>9897846
Should have chosen "They're Singing a Song in Their Rocket" tbqhwy family.
>>9897985
>>9898000
The second one is a photo of Dymocks, Australia's biggest book retailer. They only operate in malls so you can imagine the selection and the kind of reader who shops there
I'll try and find the list of Dymocks shoppers best 100 books of all time, its remarkably bad
>>9899601
Here it is, 15,000 people from the Dymocks Booklovers club voted for the best books *ever*
1 The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
2 Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
3 To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
4 Magician, Raymond Feist
5 The Lord of the Rings (Books 1-3), J.R.R. Tolkien
6 The Fault in Our Stars, John Green
7 The Hobbit, J. R. R. Tolkien
8 Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
9 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
10 The Harry Potter Series, J.K Rowling
11 Looking For Alaska, John Green
12 The Divergent Series, Veronica Roth
13 Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn
14 Throne of Glass, Sarah J. Maas
15 The Bronze Horseman, Paullina Simons
16 The Hunger Games Series, Suzanne Collins
17 The Name of the Wind, Patrick Rothfuss
18 The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett
19 Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
20 Outlander, Diana Gabaldon
>grabs copy of book of shelf
>flips to random page
Enjoy once again /lit/ this time it's page 148
there is a difference between
someone telling you
they love you and
them actually
loving you
NOGGIN STATUS: JOGGED
>>9899619
>John "Fastest Cuck in Indianopolis" Green is on the list twice
The West is lost
>>9899619
>entire list is genre fiction
>not a single Russian author
>>9899058
True.
HEY WAIT A MOMENT THAT SOUNDS RATHER POL OF YOU
>>9899589
It's pretty good actually
>>9899627
looking for alaska is the pinnacle of YA.
>>9897969
my sides
>>9899589
"They're Singing a Song in Their Rocket" would make a good title for a Neutral Milk Hotel B-sides collection.
>>9897846
Have any on you guys ever approached the phil section in B&N, to find they moved it near the children's end of the store. Not only that "The secret" self help book is now stacked with phil, maybe to fill that section with more books ? I hope this only happens in Ga
>>9899627
He's good though
>>9897917
FUCK DYMOCKS.
Its like the McDonalds of books. The only book stores within half an hour of me are Dymocks and each one only sells pleb trash and the high school tier literary classics.
>>9897917
>Philosophy books are hard to publish!
>This is what's put out.
Not leftypol or any wing but I guess this is a flaw of capitalism.
>>9899832
If people wanted philosophy books they'd buy more of them. But alas people don't, so publishers don't buy them either
There are tons of small publishers who would take them, or one could publish the book themselves, relatively easy to do on Amazon. There are also companies that print books on demand so that would be another easy option
Thee average person just doesn't read philosophy
>>9899695
'russian' authors are universally terrible. That is the only universal.
>>9897917
the more i look at it the funnier it gets.
The best philosophy section I've ever seen was in Berlin, at a store specializing in books on art. Sadly my German is awful, so I could only pick up a copy of Feyerabend's "Against Method", which was the only English book there that was both interesting, something I planned to read, and small enough to transport in my daypack.
There are no 'good' bookstores around here, my city hasn't been gentrified enough to see any of that pop up. Just Asian Fusion restaurants and vape shops. Our equivalent to B&N is Indigo/Chapters which is too large to really search, and in general is terribly ordered, and lacks anything really worth the time. They also mostly just sell YA too. I wonder how these places even function, because there is no way that they're actually selling most of their stock. There's a huge discrepancy in what is actually sold versus what is rarely sold and mostly just stored there. If a fire ever hit the site in question, then I can't imagine it would come back with anything but the YA.
>>9900040
They only have one bookshelf dedicated to philosophy in my local secondhand shop.
>>9898033
Read grainbow
>>9899821
I live in Alabama, and I went to a Books A Million and there wasn't a philosophy section, but there was an Eastern Religion section in the back near the children's section that had Beyond Good and Evil, and The Communist Manifesto in it.
>>9897917
>marcus aurelius
Fucking stoicucks, man
>>9897969
>>9899802
It's just this, What is the problem?
>>9899786
I meant both antagonized parties are making their lands of refuge better.
>>9900040
Where in Canada do you live, anon?
>>9899328
beautiful make me cri
>>9900040
I don't know what Indigo/Chapters your going into, but I find great stuff every time I go.
>>9899543
Taipei is shit.
>>9899543
This is what happens when all you do is browse /lit/ all day.
>>9897846
you did the right thing putting IJ on that shelf anon
>>9906536
I work at BN and IJ is supposed to be on that shelf.
Lolita is also on the planogram for the endcap