Don’t forget the smut. So much smut.
Lmao, Sarah J Maas catching strays.
That’s a very Dutch sounding name ngl
The part a out randomly generated awards are so on point. Altough it could work with author names as well well. P. E. Nmyass
Ok but I would read ‘All The Fire That We Hold Tomorrow.’
That book is so hot right now.
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Please take it away from me, it burns.
Oh, I’ve read Cwayed. Interesting style.
Is this about the US, is the US alright?
I was in a bookstore yesterday. I did have a chuckle at this self-help book called something along the lines of “How to Politely Tell People to Fuck Off”, which proudly stated to be written by a social therapist or some other Pokemon evolution of a psychologist.
Otherwise it was novels from mainstay authors, young adult stuff whose quality was undecypherable from their “my cousin knows Photoshop” covers and a bunch of pseudo-academic highly specific texts from local self-published authors.
I was disheartened to see that the native minority language section keeps shrinking, especially among children’s stuff. And while I was looking at that I also noticed the manga section is bigger than the graphic novel section and that is bigger than US comics, which were now nonexistent. More neutral about that one.
You know very well that the US is not alright, lol
Is there a country you would consider alright?
No not really, but most are less fucked up than the USA
We’re #1!
Most? Like Venezuela and North Korea? Ethiopia? Yemen? Cambodia? Ukraine? Russia? Sierre Leone? Mexico? Canada? Italy? Greece? Iraq? Iran? Sudan? South Africa? Sweden? Afghanistan? China?
You really think Canada, Sweden, Taiwan, and even the PRC are more fucked than the US?
i mean, taiwan is facing cold war era shitposting, and im pretty sure the PRC is like, a meme, there’s probably some shitposting going on over there with war im guessing.
Idk whether or not it’s worse, but there’s a good chance it is.
大战还没开始，就一点没有美国现在的糟糕。 真在它们俩国家都没有匈牙利那么乱。
I get you’re trying to be clever by listing a bunch of places that the US has either bombed, couped or threatened into destitution but that doesn’t really make them less “alright” in the sense we’re talking about here. And even for living standards, many of those are much nicer lmao. Then what’s left… Yeah Russia also sucks, ok? If that’s your bar for a country being alright then we’re really scraping the bottom of the barrel.
Canada, Sweden lmao. Italy? Your Murican is showing
Lived in Canada and still have a lot of relatives there. They are worse off than the US because of a lot of the stuff Trudeau has done
More than half of those have higher average living standards than the US.
As a Canadian I’m very confused by this guy, I think he might have brain damage
i count like 5 that probably have a higher standard of living.
a good chunk of those countries are literally at war.
I count at least 7 that probably have considerable human rights violations going on somewhere.
No they don’t
Politically however it seems to be all right lately.
Bruh
for all the idiots that downvoted this, it’s a joke, it’s a little thing called “word play”
the joke being “all right” as in, it’s all right, literally, not alright.
which proudly stated to be written by a social therapist or some other Pokemon evolution of a psychologist.
TBF a social therapist is exactly the type of person that should write that book, they have extensive experience with helping people socialize appropriately, judging by the working title.
I just learned the book I’m reading has a glow in the dark cover
I’m too early on in the book to know what that means
Here bookstores have become mostly selling useless trinkets nobody needs, music and games.
Thank chist I have dropped book reading as a hobby otherwise I’d be pretty upset.
Don’t forget about the stand with a sign that says “Booktok made me read it” and it’s the same 3 books repeated ad infinitum and despite all being first editions they all have sprayed edges.
I hate what book tok has done to the book world.
Awards are meaningless. “NYT bestseller”, just as meaningless.
Books are personal, like art, you probably will not actually like the vast majority of what you see. Even if you appreciate the effort that went into it you wouldn’t want it hanging in your home. Some of it is just hotel art. Mass produced for consumption, everyone sees it, but it has no staying power at all. A lot of books are crap, and I really like books.
Around 2010, I worked for a company where one project was to increase the social profile of our company. We hired a marketing company to help us improve how our CTO, CEO, CFO, all the C-level folks looked to the public. Pretty much, throwing money to make these people get famous, so the company to could make money from all the news.
A year later, CFO was on talk shows discussing his new book, which was a NYT best seller. The book was garbage and full of content scraped from a dozen other “thought leaders”.
The thought leader circlejerk where hundreds of them have ghost writers write their shit, all of them tell the same 10 stories, all of them quote each other, all of them buy their way onto NYT best sellers list because some thought leader friend wanted to do the same so they inflate the sales. Then the Ted talks, the podcast tours, the constant INNOVATORS bs. Yuck.
Yep. The recycling of profundity.
I’d rather read a book that had “NYT Least Best Seller”
that’s what Archive Of Our Own is for
Ya don’t have to read those books, y’know.
Theres a local used bookstore which is only vaguely organized, smells of decades if not centuries old paper, the politics section is just piles of conservative nonsense and two rows of well organized works by economic philosophers, and theres a cobweb covered copy of Dianetics on top of the Sci-fi shelf. It is truly cozy and glorious.
There are always copies of The Prophet, by Kahlil Gibran. There are always copies of The Two Towers or Return of the King, but frequently no copies of The Fellowship of the Ring. There are always copies of the Chronicles of Narnia books, but never an entire set from the same printing. The staff will always have an author that they will defend their excellent writing while acknowledging that they were horrible human beings, e. g. H. P. Lovecraft, Ernest Hemingway, and recently we get to add Neil Gaiman. If you’re very lucky, someone came in and sold a first autographed edition that’s worth $100+ but the buyer screwed the pooch and priced it at $10.
Edit: Hang out long enough, and you’ll get to hear a customer come in and ask “Can you recommend a book for me?” without providing any more helpful details, and you can hear the staffer’s soul break just a tiny bit more.
Very on point, other than small indie or used book stores, the main part of every book store is filled with books with meaningless titles and art. And only likes to tell you about its awards and reviews.
My god, am I grateful for our local indie bookstore.
I feel like this is more specifically just your average Barnes and Noble. We have two small bookstores in town, one mostly selling used books and the other is mostly new, and they are the best. Soft instrumental music, a nice atmosphere, stands displaying local authors. They’re great.
Amusing greentext - but doesn’t match the bookshops that I was in recently. There are some really good bookshops.
does not sound like parallel, sounds like modern internet/reality has infected bookstores. It just needs books created by AI on influencers and it’ll be complete
