c'mon, lit geeks!! post your favorite books, recommendations, ones that look cool - anything books!!
post your awesome books!
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Kvlt Wench
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Kvlt Wench
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Brooks
Eyes Wide Open
Kvlt Wench
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Kvlt Wench
sews no mercy
Haven't seen the movie, but the book is excellent. He shifts in and out of past and present tense, and first and third person, and I barely noticed because it's so flawless. It's super tense too.
the top one is an old book of norse mythology that i got from a used bookstore in pittsburgh.
it's called "We Always Lie to Strangers" and it's a book of folklore from the Ozarks. there are honestly passages in the book like "A guest at a hotel in Appalachia overheard the bellboy say he'd heard about a woman in West Virginia who gave birth to a thirty pound baby" and it's used as a source.
i'm just going for the awesome juxtaposition here.
the two oldest books i own. left - 1944. right - 1942
Kvlt Wench
sews no mercy
Not hard at all, it's on a lot of best 20th century American novels lists.
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derek
Grey Eminence
I read so much and have so many favourite books I always find these threads such a test. Removing the classical corpus, I would say, if pushed, that Camus or Huxley are my favourite writers.
That said, since you want this place to be somewhat geeky:
That said, since you want this place to be somewhat geeky:
I think I might win in the geeky books category 
... Actually no I don't, nothing beats the Technical Manual.
Thing is though, they are actually pretty good reads
Anyway, I have some seriously old books too, here's a picture of the collection, they usually have an entire bookshelf to themselves but the room the shelves are in is getting extension work done, so we didn't want dust getting on them.
They're Punch Annuals, any historian will know what Punch is. The political magazine.
The oldest one I could get to:
1877
... Actually no I don't, nothing beats the Technical Manual.
Thing is though, they are actually pretty good reads
Anyway, I have some seriously old books too, here's a picture of the collection, they usually have an entire bookshelf to themselves but the room the shelves are in is getting extension work done, so we didn't want dust getting on them.
They're Punch Annuals, any historian will know what Punch is. The political magazine.
The oldest one I could get to:
1877
Karmic
speedy meatmonger
