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My mom thinks I'm weird because I bought 20 books. She thinks I'm a hoarder or something. Am I weird for buying 20 books?

>> No.17107099

>>17107089
No.

>> No.17107104

>>17107089
Depends on if you’re doing it to read or to just appear that you read.

>> No.17107112

>>17107089
Buying 20 books in one go is definitely weird

>> No.17107125

>>17107112
Surely not in times like these

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>>17107112
>bying 20 books in won go is defiantly wired

>> No.17107131

>>17107126
Based defiance

>> No.17107135

>>17107089
Yes. Unless they are on discount or those books are with limited printing. Otherwise you are a hoarder (weirdo).

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>>17107112
>>17107135

>> No.17107243

>>17107135
Maybe he's preparing for quarantine and not going to anywhere next month-two. But yes, 20 books is too much even in that case.

>> No.17107245

I'd buy 20 books at a time if I had the money. I have a wishlist of nearly a hundred books. When you hold on to things that are resalable and useful, like books, it's not hoarding. Now if you just bought random books and you aren't planning on reading them -- that might be hoarding behavior.

>> No.17107486

It's weird

>> No.17107627

Weird. Consumerist. Hoarding.

Thank you for giving money to publishers.

>> No.17107638

>>17107089
weird, childish, despicable, autistic and midwit

>> No.17107642

>>17107089
Ordering 20 new books at once is indeed weird

>> No.17107658

>>17107089
You're not weird, plus chicks love a guy who reads (or pretends to, like all of us in this board)

>> No.17107660

yes fucking consoomer, of course it is weird.

>> No.17107667

>>17107642
>>17107638
>>17107486
>>17107135
>>17107112
t. non-reader/tourist

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17107780

>on the way, running late
>on the way, running late
>on the way, running late

>> No.17107853

lmao WEIRDO! GROSS WEIRDO! why are you SO WEIRD?

>> No.17107890

>>17107089
I own hundreds of books, just get some shelves and make yourself a little library. Lots of friends have borrowed books from me so it isn’t entirely a selfish collection

>> No.17107908

>>17107112
>>17107135
Not OP but this is silly. There's way more than 20 books I intend to read, what's wrong with getting them in one go and reading them one by one over time? You sound like a bunch of bland NPCs who only see things from one rigid perspective

>> No.17107954

I buy large amounts of books st once because I dont want the delivery people to waste their time bringing me 20 packages rather than one

>> No.17107974

>>17107667
>I just LOOOOVE ordering dozens of fresh crisp books from amazon. I'm always sure to get the 2 day shipping with prime so I can start reading RIGHT AWAY

>> No.17107983

>>17107089
nah. don't forget to read them though

>> No.17107986

>>17107954
You people all claim to be against the globohomo whatever but all that goes out the window for the smallest convenience

>> No.17108055

>>17107667
Post your year of books

>> No.17108074

>>17107986
Not everyone here is an alt right autist. Globalist/globohomo is an autistic alt right buzzword that doesn't mean anything.

>> No.17108099

>>17107986
I know the delivery dude personally, small village

>> No.17108113

>>17108074
doesnt globalist in a leftist perspective mean supporting international firms and furthering global warming with shipping rather than buying from local, sustainable businesses

>> No.17108127

>>17108113
From a "leftist perspective" globalist is an alt right buzzword.

>> No.17108164

>>17108127
>>17108113
And also from the "leftist perspective" they see obsession with localism or nationalism as regressive and indulgent in ideology.

>> No.17108171

>>17108099
You're still ordering these books online, most likely from a large supplier like amazon

>> No.17108173

>>17108127
its definitely also used in more critical and extreme leftist circles when talking about the economical reality

>> No.17108190

>>17108173
If anyone considers themselves a leftist and their critique of capitalism is muh globohomo they are just crypto-fascists or dumb poseurs.

>> No.17108192

that's not fair op, you don't need that many books, according the theory of communism you are ethically obligated to send your surplus books to us

>> No.17108208

>>17108192
Not communism

>> No.17108228

>>17108192
It's always nice to be reminded that most posters here are illiterate children

>> No.17108430

>>17107089
You better read all those books little FAGGOT.
Also show books.

>> No.17108445

>>17108430
They still haven't been delivered.

>> No.17108459

>>17108208
he has the ability to send me books, and i have the need for books, deal with it

>> No.17108567

>>17108113
Globalist from a left perspective means international cooperation to bully countries that act as tax havens. With a planned economy there wouldn’t be dumb trinkets and gadgets being mass produced and shipped around, so shipping would be greatly reduced.

>> No.17108582

>>17108567
Communism has nothing to do with planned or market economy nor dumb trinkets.

>> No.17108613

>>17108164
anarchists are all about localism

>> No.17108626

>>17108445
OP certainly delivered on being a massive, cock-sucking faggot.

>> No.17108638

>>17108613
>Anarchists
Irrelevant. They are all shitlibs.

>> No.17108658

>>17108567
if i can't have dumb trinkets and gadgets i don't want your revolution, what do you think about THAT, mister?

>> No.17108666

>>17108613
anarchists are a homeless encampment with a dress code, nothing more

>> No.17108670

>>17108582
>communism has nothing to do with the economy
behold the communism understander

>> No.17108677

>>17108658
I think you will die in the wars following ecological and economic collapse

>> No.17108679

>>17107089
I have hundreds of books. Yes, you're weird.

>> No.17108716

>>17108670
A proper critique of capitalism has nothing to do with the distinction between planned vs market dumb retard. Planned economy is still capitalism.

>> No.17108936

>>17107089
I bought 32 on one occasion

>> No.17108967

>>17107089
your mom should have gotten an abortion

>> No.17108999

>>17108658
/lit/ thinks the modern world is a soulless shitpile but also loves stupid mass-produced crap too much to let it go

>> No.17109008

>>17108716
How do you stand with such a big heavy brain?

>> No.17109715

What books did you buy

>> No.17109728

I have around 200 and more books in my kindle

>> No.17109749

>>17108967
Based

>> No.17109758

indigo sends me a 20% off coupon during the month of my birthday so it makes sense for me to buy lot of books at the same time during that time

>> No.17109852
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>>17109715
I bought

1.) Herman Melville : Pierre, Israel Potter, The Piazza Tales, The Confidence-Man, Tales, Billy Budd LoA
2.) Gertrude Stein: Writings 1903-1932 LoA
3.) Gertrude Stein: Writings 1932-1946 LoA
4.) Wolf Solent by John Cowper Powys
5.) A Glastonbury Romance by John Cowper Powys
6.) The Death of Picasso: New and Selected Writing by Guy Davenport
7.) The Pound Era by Hugh Kenner
8.) Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
9.) Concrete by Thomas Bernhard
10.) Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais
11.) Rabelais and His World by Mikhail Bakhtin
12.) The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays by Mikhail Bakhtin
13.) Selected Poems by T.S. Eliot
14.) Personae by Ezra Pound
15.) The Souls of Black Folk, A Norton Critical Edition by W.E.B. Du Bois
16.) Pragmatism and Other Writings by William James
17.) "A" by Louis Zukofsky
18.) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: Text, Criticism, and Notes (Critical Library, Viking) by James Joyce
19.) Ulysses by James Joyce
20.) Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013

>> No.17109926

Maybe a little unusual, but as long as you actually read them all, who cares? I usually buy books 3-4 at a time, although I have a lengthy reading list

>> No.17109968

>>17107089
Unless you're buying weird books, buying 20 books can't be intrinsically weird. And if you actually read, it's admirable - the opposite of weird.

>> No.17109979

>>17107908
i wait till i have a lot of books i want to buy because the shipping cost

>> No.17109993

>>17107089
>20 books
>hoarder

>t.looks up at bulging shelves wondering how to cram in a few more

>> No.17109998

>>17107112
I used to go to fares and pick up dozens of second hand books for cheap.

>> No.17110126

>>17109852
Looks like you got meme’d bro.

>> No.17110179

>>17107954
I guess you don't buy on Bookdepository. You can buy 20 books at once and the fuckers will send them individually packed, they arrive randomly.

>> No.17110189

>>17107089
the difference between a hoarder and a collector is having an aesthetically pleasing display

>> No.17110411

>>17110126
how

>> No.17110425

I hoard books from second hand shops. Whatever strikes my fancy.

Fukc you.

>> No.17111027

No

>> No.17112399

bump

>> No.17112707

it's not weird if its a combination of an online order as well as trolling used book stores and thrift shops. i live in fucking leaf land of all places and books go from like $2-$5 at thrift shops

>> No.17112795

>>17107089
Buying 20 new books at once is being pretty wasteful with your money ngl

>> No.17112829

>>17107089
I would go to used book stores and buy used books by the dozens

>> No.17112849

>>17107112
Buying new maybe. But if I’m at a used bookstore with an interesting collection, you can bet I’m buying tons of books

>> No.17112907

>>17107135
Based retard

>> No.17112931

>>17107660
Hmmm kikes still hate books outside of degenerate porn

>> No.17113089

>>17107089
Reminds me of that old Bill Hicks bit
>Whatcha readin' for?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQV8mlrW1SE

>> No.17113151

>>17107089
That's a lot of books, but if you have money and the time to read those its all good.