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most /lit/ places in London?

>> No.13950224

>>13950206
The bottom of the Thames.

>> No.13950228

>>13950206
2 Leigh Street
but really you'll have to be more specific. London is the most /lit/ city in the world, you can't throw a brick without hitting half a dozen writers
are you looking for museums? bookshops? places that feature in books? pubs with literary connections? etc etc

>> No.13950244

>>13950206
The nearest airport, and then the first flight to Dublin.

The V&A museum is beautiful though. I lived in Chelsea which used to be an artist's borough but is now a yoga retreat for middle-eastern trophy wives.

>> No.13950250

Most /lit/ thing is to take a dip fully nude in the River Thames

>> No.13950252

>>13950206
Leave on the train and go somewhere nicer like the Cotswolds.

>> No.13950368

>>13950228
all of those things

>> No.13950465
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>>13950368
ok here's a few
>museums?
british museum, british library, v&a, charles dickens museum

>bookshops?
skoob, oxfam on bloomsbury street
warning do not go to any of the bookshops on charing cross road, they will rip you off

>places that feature in books?
221b baker street, diagon alley

>pubs with literary connections?
the lamb in bloomsbury, ye olde cheshire cheese, the george inn near the globe theatre

also westminster abbey (poet's corner), st paul's cathedral, bloomsbury in general (look for blue plaques)
also buy pic related

>> No.13950562

Last time I went I spent my mornings lying on the grass near the Italian Gardens, before it became overrun with people, reading The Wind in the Willows.
Richmond Park was also very nice, a bit southwest of London from what I remember.

>> No.13950567

>>13950206
There's a William Blake exhibition on at the Tate at the moment that I've been meaning to go to - I'd check that out OP

>> No.13950711

Why doesn't London just build skyscraper apartments so I can afford to live there?

>> No.13950745

>>13950465
>warning do not go to any of the bookshops on charing cross road, they will rip you off
Quoi? Any Amount of Books sells books out front for a quid, and you can find good deals in the basements of both it and Quinto. Only been to Skoob once but it was noticeably more expensive than those two.

Also Fopp is just off Charing Cross Road. Limited range, but good books, range changes often, and two new books for £5.

>> No.13950750

>>13950711
Pretty sure The Shard has apartments. Not sure that helps on the affordability front

>> No.13950752

Highbury

>> No.13950755

>>13950465
>>13950745 here again. The book stalls on the cover of that book, on the other hand, are pretty stupidly expensive for second hand (assuming they're the ones under whichever bridge it is)

>> No.13950769

>>13950206
Greggs

>> No.13950802

>>13950206
Wherever Londonfrog binges his fastfood.

>> No.13950839

>>13950206
Take a 1 hour bus to Oxford and just wander around for a couple days, leave the city center and walk down the Thames, port meadow, University parks.

>> No.13950846

>>13950244
Most /lit/ places in Dublin?

>> No.13950900

>>13950846
Get dinner at the Winding Stair, you can go along the Ha'penny bridge to it at night, there are pretentious places like Catch-22 and Kafka around Grafton Street, but Ulysses Rare Books and Hodgson & Figgis are both beautiful shops right by. Buy something and read with the gulls in Stephen's Green. And if you want to go see Joyce's tower, fish by Dun Laeghrie's pier and do some painting first, then dip in the fourty foot.

If you want to just take in the sights, walk to the GPO and then head to Hacienda. It's a speakeasy. From there, you can cut along the Liffey for newer bars, or head to the Cobblestone for traditional music. By that point, you should be drunk, and if the sky has gone violet and the streets aren't polished with rain, wait by the river and listen to the old songs ring out from our drunks.

>> No.13950918

>>13950206
Any public loo.

>> No.13950931

>>13950802
Based

>> No.13950945

>>13950745
>Any Amount of Books sells books out front for a quid
yes and they're mostly useless crap like cooking with string or a lithuanian translation of how to look after your schnauzer
now go inside and look for anything vintage or antiquarian
i did go in one of the shops down there recently and they did have a few nice big arty books for a reasonable price but i can't remember which shop it was. henry pordes maybe
i picked skoob because it is pretty well known and has a good range of stuff but there are other good secondhand bookshops in the area e.g. judd books

>>13950755
i think the pic is from the stalls on the south bank near the south bank centre and yes, they are to be avoided as well

>>13950567
me too anon, it looks awesome. i'm probably going to go in november, maybe on 28 which was blake's birthday

>> No.13950960

>>13950465
Welcome Collection is top tier museum action. In terms of bookshops I think a lot of success can be had by going to non-specialist Oxfams in highfalutin areas. The one in Bloomsbury will stick a quid or two on the price of stuff that's really desirable whereas one in I dunno, Chelsea or Greenwich will usually have some good shit for maybe £2/£2.50.

>> No.13950966

>>13950960
>Welcome Collection is top tier museum action
they have a really interesting library there too
too bad it is frequently overrun by hipsters with macbooks

>> No.13951529

>>13950945
>yes and they're mostly useless crap like cooking with string or a lithuanian translation of how to look after your schnauzer
kek, true. But not exclusively. Always worth a quick look.
>now go inside and look for anything vintage or antiquarian
I don't know anything about the fancy book fetishist side of things. But for normal secondhand books I'd say they're decently priced (for London) and have a good selection. Ditto for Quinto.

>Judd books
True, and not just secondhand. Good discounted new academic books there.

>> No.13951555

>>13951529
...and while we're doing London bookshops, if you happen to be in Chiswick Bookcase London does heavily discounted new books, like Judd and Fopp (but with much bigger selection than Fopp, obviously).

What others are like that? Oxford used to have The Last Bookshop, which did the same thing, but it closed down. I guess it's books that were overpublished, but unlike something like The Works they have legit good books.

>> No.13952723

Osbie's Maisonette

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>>13950846
I just go to Stephen's Green where the benches join the pond and stair at foreign womens arses while I read my tattered second handers. You can also read under the O'Connell street monuments but the arses there are less fine and far too crowded to appreciate unlike along the vistas of the Green.

>> No.13953977

>>13950802
Someone needs to create a Londonfrog Tour