• How is it supposed to make your bookshelf look good if you’re busy reading it?

    Speaking of which, have you seen the typesetting? It’s like 60 words per page — just so it’s as thick as possible on your shelf. Maybe the most pretentious book ever printed.

    The Janus-faced De Gustibus gremlin strikes again! I prefer the stringency of Bowles to proto-Sirk Lowry but I also prefer Nabokov's intricate scalpel-carvings (in teak and ebony) to Hemingway's axe-hewn, roadside, tourist town totems. People enjoying Lowry's work are still fine Book People ... unlike fans of __________.

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  • I am superior because I am able to read it in its original German. All the Dudebros need to stick with the cucked translated version.

  • Imagine, if we had to r*ad shit to talk shit about it. What would I ever talk about.

  • To be fair, Amazon reviews are almost always about the physical quality and the condition of the ordered product. Expecting full-blown reviews of books on Amazon instead of Goodreads is ridiculous. But how would I know, I can't r**d.

  • On what end of the DudeBro scale does Lentz fall?

    It's at about: MY SHIT IS FUCKED UP SO I GOT TO SHOOT/SLICE YOU II out of IT’S STRAIGHT-UP DAWG TIME

  • “I don’t care about the book itself I only care about how fast it was shipped”

  • Idk -- I'm excited about this one but the dimes-square adjacent translator's social media presence is terrible and his brow ridge makes me distrustful of the translation.