/lit/ - Literature

>You'll own nothing and you'll be happy

>>21563341
I think a refresh of your library is a good idea once in a while. I find that the books I read and enjoyed when I was younger aren't the books I enjoy now.

>OH NO SOMEONE HAS AN OPINION I DISAGREE WITH

>>21563341
>'A room without books is like a body without a soul.'
Journalist minge gives off a right pong

>>21563341
commiesisters...WE WON

I think you can enjoy collecting as a hobby separate from reading. I do give away books that I don't consider collectible or don't intend to open again. It's also nice to look at past annotations occasionally.

Can a commie explain to me what she means by middle class? Middle class people generally don’t read. The chattering classes read and the 85%+ income bracket adorn their houses with books yes. But the true middle definitely doesn’t read

>>21563485
>Middle class people generally don’t read.
they used to : (

>>21563485
true, they're busy with the rat race and climbing the social ladder. no time for reading.

The middle-classes are just addicted to having no soul. When they detect even a hint of soul they either try to sell it or kill it.

>>21563341
I have a book store and I can tell you that NOTHING compares to how smug I am.

>>21563485
She probably has something like this in mind

So she's desperate to not be middle class but clearly is?

>>21563341
I think she’s a bong
They hate the thought of being middle class
Americans think being middle class is pretty comfy desu

>>21563341
>middle-class
Why is 'middle-class' being used here as if it's something the reader would agree is negative? Aren't most people who read this stuff middle-class? Self hatred?

>>21563922
Today it's more fashionable to be conspicuously middle class but to also signal both self-awarenes AND ironic distance from your class identity, in that way you show off how hip, modern and trendy you are without actually having to make any real sacrifices other than simulate expiation in public.

>>21563951
>Self hatred?
Bingo. These types usually hide it by decrying everything as being racist or sexist but, in the UK at least, the only thing that matters is class. A rich Indian is worth a thousand white working class. They keep importing the race rhetoric from the US but it means nothing here.
To put it in terms so the rest of the world can understand the UK's stance on class, the more money you have here, the whiter you are.

>>21563485
Middle Class is code for White people

>>21563951
Yes, because being middle class is le heckin negative because you're "privileged" or some shit when compared to the poor. So the whole idea is "You MUST feel guilt for being middle class, chud."

>>21563341
>he buys books to show off like a fag when he could have downloaded them for free

>>21564013
>to show off
But I don't let anyone in my study (which is where all my books are) and I don't have visitors. Now what?

>>21564013
I own over 1,200 books. The only people to have visited my place in the last three years have been my family.

>>21564017
>>21564024
Put those books in an incinerator right now you smug bastards

>>21563716
they're busy watching tv and playing on their phones

>>21563922
it's called self flagellation in public
hottest thing to do rn like calling yourself a commie in the 20th ce before capitalist propaganda came out

>>21563341
Very based

>>21564007
white people are too busy overdosing

>>21563341
>why keep x when it could delight someone else?
I miss the days when propaganda used to be covert.
>>21563485
"Middle class" is a way to say upper middle class or petite bourgeoisie in Britain. Ironically, these days it's a term used mostly by the very Middle Class types she's describing.

>>21564103
yeah overdosing on winning

>>21563341
I'm a tradie who is working on the home of a very very wealthy couple. They've started moving their stuff in while the trim is in its final stages, and they have easily over 1000 books. For the most part their collection consists of high literature with many first editions.

>>21564110
yeah winning the heroin olympics

>>21564124
Is it like Penguins or elephant hide stuff? I always wondered if my large collection of mostly paperbacks would be considered classy, not that I show anyone.

>>21563341
>Author, columnist, cat woman
You make it too easy, Rhiannon

>>21564161
>Rhiannon
Don't forget Irish too.

>>21564124
Nice, larp, bud. You could not identify “high” literature if your bossman smacked you over the head with it

>In Richard Yates’ 1962 novel, Revolutionary Road, a young, educated east-coast couple, Frank and April Wheeler, living in a ho-hum starter home somewhere in the New York City suburbs relaxes over drinks one evening with another such couple, the Campbells. Dampening their boozy conversation is April’s recent so-so lead performance in a miserable amateur theater production – a failed attempt to bring Bohemian flair to her and her inner circle’s tedious lives. The couples, pressed for things to say, talk politics, bemoaning the “reactionary” local schoolboard as Frank drifts off and remembers better evenings when they also talked politics, but with more zeal. He recalls spirited discussions of “the cancerous growth of Senator McCarthy” and how “after politics had palled there had still been the elusive but endlessly absorbing topics of Conformity, or The Suburbs, or Madison Avenue, or American Society Today.”

>It's all quite depressing, like the novel itself, a portrait of alcoholic self-delusion and emotional emptiness among the grasping, striving, forward-thinking, white American commuting class. It’s a novel the Wheeler’s themselves might read, that is, and for much the same elevating reasons that April acted in the sad play and that she and her circle clip political articles from the Manchester Guardian. Theirs is a culturally self-conscious milieu, roughly the one depicted in The Great Gatsby, everything ever written by JD Salinger, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee, and ninety per-cent of the work of the three Johns: O’Hara, Cheever, and Updike. It’s a milieu so pitilessly, exhaustively, and unendingly fictionalized and dramatized (even to this day; see Jonathan Franzen) that one is amazed it can still bear to exist, let alone take its own existence seriously, let alone expect that all America – and all the world, in fact -- should take it as seriously as it takes itself.

>Folks, we have a paradox on our hands, and not just any old paradox. A paradox concerning a social class which deeply believes that its learning and sensitivity have equipped it to handle paradox at levels that its supposed inferiors can’t comprehend. Democracy can be installed abroad by troops. It’s fine to fly private jets across an ocean so long as they land at a conference on climate change. The patriarchy is best dismantled by male politicians from dynastic families.

>>21564235
>To lesser minds, these are instances of hypocrisy, but to the class that has managed the rare feat of arrogantly wielding its own influence to solve the great problems wrought by its past influence, hypocrisy, practiced correctly, by the right people, is the dialectical motor of true progress. To eager readers of New Yorker fiction about the superficial, frigid lives of readers of the New Yorker, it takes a thief to catch a thief, much as it takes opaque intelligence agencies to guarantee an open society. And huge corporations to rein in capitalism. And on and on and on and on. Like a vintage Carly Simon album abhorring the leisure-class depressives whose children helped turn her records into hits.

>“Liberal guilt,” conservatives used to call this, and some of the proudest liberals of the era plead guilty-as-charged, proving the accusation at the same time they paradoxically, dialectically, and (to plain-thinking types) maddeningly transcended it. It has since become their favorite magic trick, placing signs of welcome to minorities in front of houses few minorities can afford to purchase but often visit – as gardeners and maids. These homeowners clearly wish it weren’t this way, of course, and one hears they are working to correct things by pressuring their vastly wealthy colleges to admit the children of their servants so they too can someday trade derivatives, move to Scarsdale, and quietly die inside.

>Though maybe the new guard won’t suffer like the old guard. Maybe the reason the Wheelers and their ilk were so unhappy in their leafy enclaves was that they suspected in their progressive souls that others deserved the good luck they found so numbing. Maybe their anxious sorrows were those of people doomed to maintain the roofs and yards and driveways that history, slowly tracing its arc of justice, would eventually award to mortgage-holders (or renters from Blackrock-like financial giants) more capable of feeling joy and gratitude.

>It’s certainly a theory. But Yates’ novel and countless others like it don’t support it in the least. In Revolutionary Road, the dolor of the enlightened, liberal couple – the dolor the Wheeler’s real-life peers so love to savor in stories about their class – stems from a rather simple source, one that still abounds today: fantastical entitled narcissism. The Wheelers believe they are interesting people, or potentially interesting people, and that their town, their country, and the whole system have stunted their souls and starved their intellects. Yates, their creator, suggests this isn’t so – the Wheelers are living exactly as they’ve chosen, in America’s dreamy, steady-income shallows – but his characters know this only dimly. Mostly, they just hate themselves. And in this they resemble their counterparts today. Perhaps the only class in human history that loathes itself on principle while pushing its principles on everyone else.

Sometimes I feel bad about buying books from the thrift store that then sit on my shelves for a few months before being read. As if I took away an opportunity for someone to read something that would resonate or even help them at that point in their life. On the other hand, I've many times picked up a book that had been on my shelf for months and found it was the perfect time in my life to read it.

Lately I have been picking through my shelves and setting aside books that I don't feel I need to hold on to and I'm dropping off in little free libraries around my neighborhood.

>>21564002
>A rich Indian is worth a thousand white working class.
lmfao this poojeet actually believes this
no, the jeet strutting around in that suit and talking with a poncey accent is not considered white. everyone around him sees him as a LARPer and that will never change

>>21564268
You sound like a fag, who cares what people think? What he was getting at was that class in the UK is determined primarily by income range.

>>21564261
Why feel bad about buying something? Someone else might not? For all you know the person who would have bought it would have kept it on his bookshelf for years then thrown it away or scalped it online.
Do you feel bad about buying the last pair of jeans in your size? The last banana? Someone else's potential hypothetical pleasure should not weigh in on your purchasing decisions. For every lost soul who would have benefited from that used book there are dozens who would shelf it just like you and dozens more who would not read it at all.
Furthermore used book stores and thrift shops operate on such slim margins that every purchase counts. Space is at a premium. They can't afford to wait for the guiding light of heaven to shine upon that trade paperback at the perfect moment in life for one special snowflake. For all you know, much like pets in animal shelters, they were going to destroy it tomorrow to make room for the next batch.

>>21564237
>The Wheelers believe they are interesting people, or potentially interesting people, and that their town, their country, and the whole system have stunted their souls and starved their intellects. Yates, their creator, suggests this isn’t so – the Wheelers are living exactly as they’ve chosen, in America’s dreamy, steady-income shallows – but his characters know this only dimly. Mostly, they just hate themselves.

What do I do when I'm close to being this person and don't want to be?

>>21564132
Yeah white ppl be hero in Olympics

>>21564002
Funny. This HAS AWAYS been the case historically and it's why Irish weren't whte, neither were Italians, but Muslims and even actual Africans had legal "white" status.
It's metaphysical, with "white" simply meaning "good".
Symbolism and all that...

>>21564302
Just be yourself unironically

>>21564302
Choose to live differently. Find out what you want to do and do it. This will require some level of sacrifice and dedication.
My life is boring to some, maybe most, but I thoroughly enjoy it and like myself and what I do. Find fulfilling hobbies and interests. Fulfilling work helps a lot but is not absolutely necessary if you can just view it as a means to an end.
There will be things you try and and come to realize that you don't enjoy them or don't want to do them. Give it your best then move on.
You are responsible for your own happiness, your spiritual/physical/mental development and your goals and ambitions. The 'system' may not help, it may be actively against you, but ultimately it is up to you to determine your own fate. Wallow in self-pity or strive for greatness, the choice is yours.

>>21564302
Ask your “partner’s” boyfriend, Jamal, if he and his “boys” could expose you to New York City’s culturally enriching past time of the Knockout Game.

>>21564324
Hmmm...
>The Number of purely white People in the World is proportionably very small. All Africa is black or tawny. Asia chiefly tawny. America (exclusive of the new Comers) wholly so. And in Europe, the Spaniards, Italians, French, Russians and Swedes, are generally of what we call a swarthy Complexion; as are the Germans also, the Saxons only excepted, who with the English, make the principal Body of White People on the Face of the Earth. I could wish their Numbers were increased. And while we are, as I may call it, Scouring our Planet, by clearing America of Woods, and so making this Side of our Globe reflect a brighter Light to the Eyes of Inhabitants in Mars or Venus, why should we in the Sight of Superior Beings, darken its People? why increase the Sons of Africa, by Planting them in America, where we have so fair an Opportunity, by excluding all Blacks and Tawneys, of increasing the lovely White and Red? But perhaps I am partial to the Compexion of my Country, for such Kind of Partiality is natural to Mankind.

>>21563341
Having enough books to consider giving old ones away to charity shops is aggressively middle class

I grew up relatively poor but my dad was successful at work and we ended up middle class
I don't think keeping your books makes you middle class
Books can be quite expensive especially new books and so I don't treat them as something disposable
I try to keep my books in good condition
I'm happy to lend people my books but there aren't any people interested in reading the kinds of books that I read

>>21564329
bless

>>21564002
>To put it in terms so the rest of the world can understand the UK's stance on class, the more money you have here, the whiter you are
Wrong. The class system in the UK is cultural rather than financial.
You are born into your class and very likely shall die in it. If you are born into a upper class family then you shall always remain upper class. You could become bankrupt and lose your 500 year old estate yet you still would be considered upper because of your social circles and education.
If the opposite was to happen, say you are a middle class who has won the lottery, you still would remain culturally middle class and would hardly be "accepted" into the upper class.

>>21563341
you mad, bitch?

>Guardian writer
>Am I smug and middle class?
Yes

>>21563341
She's right you know. We literally have threads on /lit/ where dorks show off their stacks and their shelves and all that crap.

>>21564592
That's not really what stack threads were originally for

>>21563341
Yes...yes...my pets...listen to my army of waggie slags...yeeesssss....Don't read, get your vaxxies and boosties...don't tink...watch my seductive Satanic programming apps...don't read...play my Satanic coomer vidyas...don't play Chess...no...that's for Commies, silly billy...don't eat ze meats....zat's for elite-uh, I mean, planet-haters yessss...eat ze bugs. Ze are gud for you...don't drive...walk...don't own a gun...no, no, my pets, sweet little goaties, my little herdlings...just fap and fap, eat ze food of ze field, and mate, but don't breed, oh no, no...why would you want to have little goatlings? Just drink in ze sunshine, remember zat eet will burn you alive if you drive a car, yes it will - and beeee happy. Wat's zat? Oh, ze axe? Haha, sweet pet, why zat axe is merely for firewood, haha! No, no, zat's not blood, but only a spec of rust! Of course! Now close your eyes, and remember, you don't want to be a fussy, smug piggie middling, now do you? No, no, pets, shush, shush now, shhhhhhhhh. Good little goaties...

>>21564592
Just stop being poor then maybe you could participate

>>21563341
Pushing this is exactly how you have Library of Alexandria/Constantinople knowledge-extinction events. IF you do not sustain physical media markets, they WILL put you on bowdlerized ____ as a service plantations for visual and text media.

>>21564268
>everyone around him sees him as a LARPer and that will never change
m8 that's everyone with a title. The UK will let you buy your way into the aristocracy or at least into the lords, so long as you buy your kids the accent in the right school and all the other accoutrements. What's more, they'll never kick you back out of the boy's club even if you're a convicted fraudster and tax exile without a penny to his name at the end of it. If they didn't they'd have never survived industrialization. They even leave the right sort of Irish in, they just vet them harder than Angolan immigrants.

>love owning books
>always have
Simple as. And if anyone comes over and has an interest in a book I've got, they can take it ^.^

>>21563951
Commies fetishize poverty. As they've continued to score points in the culture war, it's become fashionable for millennials and zoomers to pretend that being overeducated and underpaid is a sign of virtue. Millennials in particular somehow turned being the target demographic for Trader Joe's into a sign of moral righteousness.

>>21563952
Also this.

>>21563341
British govt. Net Zero 2050 road map bans the production and importation of paper. The Guardian is a British Glowie controlled 'left wing' news site that exists to tell people what to think. its days as a center for investigative journalism are long gone and stories such as the 2nd Oklahoma City bomber being held without trial after arrest in Afghanistan, or the Derry Brigade of the IRA being staffed by MI6 have been memory holed.

Australian govt. legislation allows govt to remotely access and delete data from your devices. This will roll out world wide.

Apple as implemented remote hash scanning for images. Adobe has implemented remote surveillance of Adobe files on your devices via their app.
Within 5 years glowies and big business will push out censored 'updates' or just delete your files and accounts.

Stack physical books.

>>21563341
obviously it's over for editorials and opinion writers, and good riddance
https://www.bitchute.com/video/LIx3nEYu5Af7/

>>21563341
British govt. Net Zero 2050 road map bans the production and importation of paper. The Guardian is a British Glowie controlled 'left wing' news site that exists to tell people what to think. its days as a center for investigative journalism are long gone and stories such as the 2nd Oklahoma City bomber being held without trial after arrest in Afghanistan, or the Derry Brigade of the IRA being staffed by MI6 have been memory holed.

Australian govt. legislation allows govt to remotely access and delete data from your devices. This will roll out world wide.

Apple as implemented remote hash scanning for images. Adobe has implemented remote surveillance of Adobe files on your devices via their app.
Within 5 years glowies and big business will push out censored 'updates' or just delete your files and accounts. The guardian story is preparing the ground.

Stack physical books.

>>21563881
You are an enemy of the state.

>>21564168
Think that one's Welsh. Irish ones aren't in English phonics at all.

>>21563341
> Why keep a novel that could delight someone else?
> ...sometimes even putting them in with the recycling.
Fucking christ...

>21563341
blog advertisement thread btw

>>21564299
>class in the UK is determined primarily by income range.
If you genuinely believe this you are absolutely a poo. You don't understand it's the small subtleties of character and taste that define your class. Income factors in, but it's near the bottom of the list in terms of importance. You can be working class and far far richer than any middle class person, but because you own an Audi with a spoiler and shiny rims you are doomed to remain with the workies. Accent is a dead giveaway and so is material possessions: an aga, a well tended garden, large bookshelves and jam making equipment are all the hallmarks of an upper-middle class family. These are things you're not taught but you pick them up by osmosis. Because you're an immigration who's family has been here for a max of 60 years you haven't had time to absorb class in the way the natives have for over 1000

>>21564029
I won't be doing that.

>>21564302
It is difficult finding an untrodden path. Sometimes it seems like every scrap of earth could be the just tread of feet, some sculpture of a past lover. Sometimes it seems like the only place we will head alone is our own deaths.

Please tell me when you find a way to exist that doesn't seem trite and overburdened with t-shirt salesmen.

>>21564760
>Australian govt. legislation
Source plox, cunt. Obviously no easy results on web. Because this just seems to be conversely allowing for data insertion also, which seems a little far fetched even for the scum in parliament. If there is zero integrity in digital evidence there is no system, and if there is no system there is no system to abuse

>>21564324
The Irish were imported to England to drive down wages for the working class. Like the Chinese in 19th century America and Australia they also provided a undermensch Other for the plebs to hate on unstead of their Norman masters.

>>21563341
Who even cares about some milquetoast op ed or opinion piece in the guardian?

>>21565805
Actually it does. they can add, delete or modify data without a warrant. Also hold 'terrorism' suspects for two years without trial or legal representation.
/pol/ was worried about it being used to insert CP onto hard drives to allow busting of dissident Whites, but the recent action of tech giants show this is going to be taken further. Just as Microsoft forces updates to their OS, Amazon will force updates to your books.
Ask on Auspol threads for links to the legislation, I read the summary a couple of years ago when the legislation was before parliament.

Stack physical books.

>>21565658
I just don't have many social aspirations
>an aga, a well tended garden, large bookshelves and jam making equipment are all the hallmarks of an upper-middle class family
Interesting, tell me more anon

>>21564002
>A rich Indian is worth a thousand white working class.
Why did the English let this happen?

>>21563341
the thing they fear more than anything is a working class man with more knowledge than them, so read my brothers, read deep into the night

>>21563373
On a liberal propaganda mouthpiece, yes

>>21564545
Some top tier books there, anon. You should really throw them out or recycle them.

To reply the middle class discussion: The British middle classes are contemptible and falling for self-hatred propaganda is their fault. They read shite anyway so they should throw out all their books. BRING BACK LIT ELITISM.

>>21564610
That's exactly what they've been for

>>21564385
One guy that retardedly was convinced it's about actual color.
For THOUSANDS of years white has meant good and black has meant bad all over the world.
English are not white by color. No one is.
They adopted the monicker for the reason I just stated.

>>21563916
>man cooking
>woman doing yardwork
liberal propaganda

>>21566026
at the time suburban life was considered progressive and futuristic. no one was like "moving to these brand new cookie cutter housing developments that require a car to get to is retvrning to tradition". it's the people moving back into the cities that are returning.

>>21563341
>middle class
Looks like someone just read The Collector for the first time and is trying to sound smart.

>using middle-class prerogatively
that's fine if it's meant as a contrast to upper class, as in the cult of book ownership is for people who want to signal sophistication, but it's probably meant as it's "mean" to the lower class who can't afford it

>>21565658
>Accent is a dead giveaway and so is material possessions: an aga, a well tended garden, large bookshelves and jam making equipment
Why is an aga oven considered upper class?
Also you forgot a few other things: a Holland & Holland shotgun which you use for shooting, a Land Rover which you use to drive in your countryside estate, a Labrador Retriever which you bring along for your walks. Furniture is often very old and inherited from your ancestors, none of that modern furniture garbage

>>21564268

Have you seen our current government - Patel, Zahawi, Sunak? Colour does not matter - wealth does.

>>21564324
Every. Single. Time.

>>21563341
>>21563358
This type of thinking only makes a lick of sense if your entire library is just fiction trash. I can't relate to you "people."
But even the few fiction books I own, I own because I like them enough that I'd like my children to have the chance to read them easily.

>>21566390
>Why is an aga oven considered upper class?
Not upper. Upper-middle. Upper class would be whatever Rayburn has been lying in the kitchen since 1950.
>a Holland & Holland shotgun which you use for shooting, a Land Rover which you use to drive in your countryside estate, a Labrador Retriever which you bring along for your walks. Furniture is often very old and inherited from your ancestors, none of that modern furniture garbage
There's a crossover here between upper-middle and upperclass but I'd err on the side of these things generally indicating an upper class lifestyle. However the lab is very middle now, as are H & H guns which have sadly gone the way of Hunter wellies.
>>21565829
There are tell-tale cultural signs that can be very effectively used to place you on the map of the class spectrum. The upper-middle class (I distinguish here between the rest of the middle class which has its own intricacies between the lower-middle and centre-middle) prizes home cooking, organic/ home grown produce, literacy (particularly being conversant with the greats of English lit) and passing down family heirlooms. Thus the home of the upper-mid is arranged to reflect these passions. You also have to bear in mind that this section of society is notoriously insecure about not being upper-class and so will ape them at every turn. Copying the styles and tastes of what they believe to be "in vouge" with their social betters

>>21563341
And she has "written" on a famous "paper".

i keep all the books i read on a shelf in the order i read them. I've been doing this since 2016. now, when i look over my shelf, i see the books i've read and fondly remember them, but i also recall the times when i was reading them. it's a nice thing that helps me remember books and see how i've changed over the years

>>21563341
I've relegated all non-fiction to digital format and by that cut 50% of all books I would have bought. Though, sometimes I buy letters collection, diary or a journal. Also, I've culled my fiction wishlist to 344 books. Hopefully, I will finish that mini book quest before I decide to kys.

>Have personal library at home
>Don't need to go to public library among homeless people using computers for porn, zoomer losers reading manga, and trannies reading to toddlers

>>21563916
>that bare midriff on the little girl

and already we can see the cultural rot beginning

>t. confirmed by my 85 y.o. dad, America peaked in the 1950's, every decade since has been worse than the one before

>>21566608
>the greats of English lit
Who would these be in your opinion?

>>21564760
>>21565828
>Stack physical books.

You're doing God's work, anon. We're going to see utter Orwellian insanity in the next 20 years. Sadly, merely thinking ahead and seeing around the most obvious corners, being anything other than an unquestioning 100 IQ farm animal, makes you a "conspiracy theorist."

>tfw currently reading and collecting the Folger edition of every Shakespeare play because I love holding them and seeing them on my shelf
>maybe one or two of them will somehow survive long after my death...maybe :(

>>21567040
uh.....

>>21567040
>bare midriff
That's a sash, you doof

>>21566029
Suburban life has been around a long time before the 1950s (although it was after WWII that they expanded so much).

>>21567048
My own opinion is that I vastly prefer American lit but to give you an idea of what those in a similar social stratum:
The bard (ofc), Milton, Keats, Pope, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Shelley, Book of Common Prayer, Blake etc.... A lot of English lit is utilised for its quotability. Most households have a book called the Golden Treasury which is a compendium of the greatest works of the greatest English poets. My parents used to read it to me before going to sleep every night. If you haven't got one, get one and spend a year taking it everywhere with you. It's a cheat code to erudition.
Aside from poetry, it's the usual lot: Austen, the Brontës, Hardy, Dickens, Conrad, Forster... Again, the important bit is memorising quotations (I find this a bit silly). It's not enough to have the book on your shelf, you should be able to reel off a quip or two in a witty fashion.

>>21563341
She genuinely looks like an AI generated lizardperson

>>21566523
I have same feeling about my history books, I won't touch them ever again nor use them for any research

>>21563341
Selling books to secondhand stores I get, but what the fuck does putting them in the recycling solve?

>>21563341
something interesting I found about about people that trade/give away/recycle books is that they are a single group defined by a single characteristic, when you take out of the equation old books (as in prior to the 80s imo) as these ones can be given away etc due to a variety of reasons desu.
now these peculiar ones always buy books based on any reason but the book itself - it's trending on X social media, it has a nice cover, it's written by award winning X, it's written by a minority representative where minority is the group accepted by consensus as of today, the cover has pretty colors in their opinion, it's written by a celebrity, it has a certain number of pages (usually under 250), it's easy and fast to read (so that they can tick that 100 books a year challenge on their social media) or the subject tackled in it is reinforcing their world view. any other possible reason can be fit into one of these categories.

There's books for a dollar each at thrift shops. Poorfags who don't read aren't being gatekept by the price of things.

>>21563916
Kek, that's upper class nowadays.

>>21563341
>buy a kindle
>pirate hundreds of books

>>21567243
Of these I only really like Shakespeare, Pope, Shelley, and absolutely adore Blake.
>the Golden Treasury
Thanks I’ve actually been looking for a pocket sized poetry anthology.

>>21563341
>middle class cult
>middle class bint opining in THE middle class rag

>>21564078
Is he out of Romanian prison yet? fucking kek

>>21566523
This but for nonfiction.

>>21563935
90% of Americans describe themselves as middle class, while in England it only refers to the top 10% of society at most, just below the aristocracy.

>>21563341
So?

>>21563881
Please tell me you have gone full Bernard Black

>>21567092
Have children, educate them well, and leave your books with them.