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>buy hardcover version of The Idiot >finish it quick, quite
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>buy hardcover version of The Idiot
>finish it quick, quite enjoy it, the main character is definitely an idiot
>accidentally pull off dust jacket
>the front cover actually reads it is Notes From The Underground
>mfw
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>>7715150
I guess one could say that you were in fact "The Idiot" here.
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>>7715150
thats fucking impossible bro, i bet you haven't read any of those.
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>>7715167
fucking rekt
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boi am i laffin'
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>download notes from the underground
>every fucking page has an ad
>to delete it I'll have to convert it, edit, remove half of it and convert again

Fuck this shit
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>>7715769
How is that possible? Are you the hardcover of The Idiot that lost its dust jacket to OP?
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>>7715795
It was a shitty file, found a better one.
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>>7715769
Where are you downloading your books from my friend?
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>torrent notes from underground audiobook
>get comfy
>listen to superb voice actor read the text
>enjoy it thoroughly

stay mad, haters
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>>7715836
Nice straw man.
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'I am an idiot man ... I am a spiteful man.'
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>start reading my copy
>It's incomprehensible garbage
>realize it's the russian version
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>start reading
>epistolary format, like Novel in Nine Letters
>huh-well-okay.jpg
>does seem aptly titled
>that nighttime scene
>and the one at the party
>wow this protag really is an idiot
>agitated shifting in chair
>dust jacket accidentally falls off
>oh well no wonder
>book is actually diary tƅh
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>>7715150
>buy hardcover of The Bible
>finsh ti quick, quite enjoy it, the main character is definitely God
>accidentally pull off dust jacket
>the front cover actually reads it is The Quran
>mfw
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>haven't read slaughterhouse five in years but know it's the greatest book of all time
>order a hardcover copy
>it's longer than i expected
>quirky postmodern drug sex and extreme violence
>the arc of the U-2 rockets
>none of vonnegut's poetic language i remember
>remove the dust jacket
>i've been sold gravity's rainbow
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>>7716898
Leaving aside GR is miles and piles ahead,

>vonnegut's poetic language

Did I miss something?
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>>7715150
>buy hardcover version of a book by some dead american bloke
>labour over it, hate it, love it, lose my soul over it
>spend catatonic days in its pages bereft of light or resolution; when doth thou resolve?
>accidentally pull off dust jacket
>notice the name
>mfw the jest is infinite
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>>7716946
you have to know the dude in pic related to get the joke.
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>buy hardcover version of my drunk uncle's dusty book in the local library
>read it fast but did not understand a thing
>start laughing at my uncle
>accidentally rip the cover of the book
>"Ulysses"
>laugh even harder

Meme books.
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>Buy a hard-cover copy of In the Realms of the Unreal from my local art museum
>Stagger through it, amazed at Darger's intricate, yet autistic, prose
>The lavish descriptions of nude prepubescent girls makes me slightly uncomfortable.
>especially when there are multi-page descriptions of them being fucked.
>decide to check dust-cover to see if Darger was actually convicted of pedophilia
>dust cover falls off
>The front cover reads Lolita
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>Buy American Psycho at my local bookseller
>It's kind of shit
>really just a monotonous string of women being brutally murdered
>gets weirdly political in parts, and then just drops it completely
>characters appear and disappear almost arbitrarily
>dust cover falls off
>it's 2666
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>buy hardcover version of Moby Dick
>finish it quick, quite enjoy it, learned a lot about whales
>accidentally pull off dust jacket
>the front cover actually reads it is a whale encyclopedia
>mfw
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>>7718071
You missed a golden opportunity to make a feminist joke.
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>>7715150
you do realise the idiot is over 800 pages and notes from the underground barelly scratches 200, right?
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>>7718098
>Anon mourning Umberto Eco's death with some metafictional bants

We all hurt, kid
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>>7718188
Wait, he dead?
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