Sometimes their “leather-bound classics” are cheaper in store than online - even cheaper than Amazon. I found a copy of La Morte D’Arthur for like $15.
Otherwise, merchandise and criterion films for the IQfy gays.
Ask her what she's reading and just follow up with questions about her interests and the like. It's not super hard, just don't be too over the top about it.
>HOw does one approach a woman in public without being crepe
Be handsome, or at least in their league or above. And don't say anything weird. And take a hint and frick off if they signal that they don't want to talk to you.
Just grab 'em by the breasts
>Just grab 'em by the breasts
If all else fails do this to humiliate them, like they humiliated you.
A woman shoved me into a book shelf once because she didn't want to talk to me after I approached her. It actually hurt my back pretty bad. Now I'm really scared of talking to girls in public, especially latina's.
At the ones I frequent, all the slop like booktok books, shitty chicklit romcoms, and Colleen Hoover books are put on tables at the front of the store, so the shelves have plenty of space for actual good books. It’s got a bad reputation for being the big mass bookstore in the US, but they have a ton of variety and a lot of great books.
those nice cookies in the coffee shop
I love browsing around, sometimes you can find cool things from comparing versions. Like I bought Brave New World with the Revisited essays and those were exceptional.
I don't lift.
I don't run.
Both are artifical activities and copes for insecure men. Working out is harmful for your body and incurs stress and aging. Humans were meant to live a sedentary lifestyle and have brief spurts of activity during say play or hunting.
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Ok I don't work out either but this is extreme cope, anon. Going full powerlifter with no cardio is bad for you but cardio literally improves your heart and makes you live longer by improving your blood flow. The guys who say you have to work out as a man are moronic, but so is what you said.
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he quoting a memetuber from IQfy
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Damn I got filtered
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fatty
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>Humans were meant to live a sedentary lifestyle
even tho they werent
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>Humans were meant to live a sedentary lifestyle and have brief spurts of activity
Your own reasoning says that you should be running or going to the gym after working a desk job for 8 hours.
Why aren't you doing it?
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Humans weren't meant to work 8 hours a day either. 8 hours a week maximum.
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Humans weren't meant to work 8 hours a day either. 8 hours a week maximum.
Evolutionary success of the species has brought about many different types of humans with different energetic needs and expenses. Of course your dualistic minds won't be able to digest that idea.
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literally this.between resting i read a little here and there but thats about it. modern fitness is cope for undesired people
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literally this.between resting i read a little here and there but thats about it. modern fitness is cope for undesired people
Report back on us when you turn 35
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> Working out is harmful for your body
It’s hard to be more wrong than that. Well done
Plenty. It's a great store that I can spend hours just browsing. homosexuals on IQfy will whine because it's where normal people go and they don't discriminate about carrying gay books while not carrying super niche shit most won't buy. (buy it online if it's uber niche dumbasses). It's a great place and you should be grateful to have one near you.
True. It's a place I go whenever I've done whatever I need to do and want to relax and be with myself for a little while. I go there at least once a month.
Maybe new reprints but that’s it. I love their soft paperback Signet Classics. Other than that just order from ThriftBooks, eBay or support local used book stores like half price books
Not B&N, but in England, Waterstones is our equivalent, and my friend's dad (53) approached us holding a book he thought we would enjoy, titled: Black British Lives Matter.
I want to support independent bookstores but all of them suck. >one is your typical liberal bookstore with nothing but nyt best sellers and rbg mugs >one is a super cozy bookstore with amazing atmosphere but the book selection sucks >one has a shelf of nice easton/Franklin press books but the rest of the store is junk
Maybe my taste is too autistic but I just end up buying stuff at B&N and Amazon.
Most used bookstores near me are pretty pozzed. Not even just a little pozzed but just over the top, obnoxious, and garish with the amount of signage they put up. Luckily I found a bookstore that's cramped and just packed with books from floor to ceiling and they charged me twenty-five cents for a used western novel. I'm very lucky to have such a place nearby and I am going to be a regular customer. If you have a nice place like that you should support them if you can.
Women. The books from here are not so much worth it. I have never seen a book from B&N that is cheaper than it’s counterpart on Amazon. Just go if you want to, don’t buy anything though
The magazine rack, since apparently you can't even get basic Conde Nast titles at a lot of supermarkets anymore. But you can still go to B&N and pick up anything from the LRB or Lapham's Quarterly to import auto mags and other niche craft rags. And if you're looking for No Starch Press guides I'd recommend getting them there in the tech section since titles are often backordered for ages directly though the publisher.
Every B&N in my area has only had one single shelf case dedicated to poetry.
I know the Waterstones guy took over and was supposed to revamp the company but I haven't noticed a drastic change, other than a slight reduction in all the fricking Legos and other non-book stuff.
A lot of the B&Ns around me have drastically cut down their blu-ray section, with DVDs being almost nonexistent.
>go to big chain bookstore >pick up Mein Kampf, e-girlta, and The God Delusion >waiting in line for ages >light up a stogie >start loudly chatting up old ladies and families in line next to me >thumb through the expensive knick-knacks next to the checkout, knocking several onto the floor, and repeatedly tell my fellow line-goers to “look at all this horseshit” >complain that there are too few cashiers per customer, allege that this is the fault of “israelites” >finally reach the checkout >array the books so their covers are all facing up >toss them onto the counter in a radial formation, all facing directly at the cashier, a slightly overweight girl in her early 20s >she looks down at them and pauses, her jaw dropping in disbelief as the fuhrer himself stares back up at her >blow smoke into her face and ask “some kind of problem, toots?” >she coughs and nervously stutters the name of the book, as if to verify that someone could ever purchase it intentionally >“yeah” I reply, before placing my index finger on the cover of e-girlta, and leaning across to her side of the counter >“and this one’s about a pedophile” >her face is now wan with shock and horror >“oh my god,” she mutters >“God’s dead, honey” >everyone around us goes dead silent >pick up the books and leave without paying >no one even calls security
I skeptically picked up the makioka sisters from there recently and it’s now locked into my heart forever, so yes. Even though theyre gay, being a bookstore theyre forced to put a good book on the shelf from time to time.
I go there to get some manga if it'll be there because I've gotten my orders bashed up and beaten in the mail enough times. For typical books I don't mind some wear but I'll be damned if a single page of my YKK is bent!
Do you actually just go to bookstores just to browse? I’m always simultaneously overwhelmed by the selection yet unable to find anything good. The last time I actually showed up to a B&N, it was really hard to find anything, and they didn’t even have what I came for. I rarely buy books though, I’m mostly a library chad
There's a second-hand book store coming to my area soon. It's one of those chain-stores that sell coffee-stained Nabokov prints from the 60s. I think it's a bookmans. Anyway, they're much more interesting in terms of old books than a Barnes and Noble. Word from the wise.
shitposting aside, the chiltern classics are pretty nice as mass-market printings go. maybe a bit too gaudy to own, but ideal for gifting to people who might not know any better.
i miss Hastings but i dont mind wandering around a barnes and noble to escape the summer heat. plus they have enough kids shit to keep my son entertained
Their "leather bound classics" are pretty bad quality imo. Very cheap in feel and look
I don’t hate these as much as other people do. Obviously they’re not as nice as a folio or Easton book but for the price they’re pretty good for a hardcover (especially during the half off hardcover sale they have each year.)
book
Nein.
Harry Potter fan merchandise.
Sometimes their “leather-bound classics” are cheaper in store than online - even cheaper than Amazon. I found a copy of La Morte D’Arthur for like $15.
Otherwise, merchandise and criterion films for the IQfy gays.
Their "leather bound classics" are pretty bad quality imo. Very cheap in feel and look
They mostly carry books, so no.
you see some cute girls there sometimes the type who read
HOw does one approach a woman in public without being crepe
Just grab 'em by the breasts
Ask her what she's reading and just follow up with questions about her interests and the like. It's not super hard, just don't be too over the top about it.
>HOw does one approach a woman in public without being crepe
Be handsome, or at least in their league or above. And don't say anything weird. And take a hint and frick off if they signal that they don't want to talk to you.
>Just grab 'em by the breasts
If all else fails do this to humiliate them, like they humiliated you.
A woman shoved me into a book shelf once because she didn't want to talk to me after I approached her. It actually hurt my back pretty bad. Now I'm really scared of talking to girls in public, especially latina's.
Just be yourself. :^)
You don't, you pick up chicks at home Depot
>You don't, you pick up chicks at home Depot
He doesn't know.
At the ones I frequent, all the slop like booktok books, shitty chicklit romcoms, and Colleen Hoover books are put on tables at the front of the store, so the shelves have plenty of space for actual good books. It’s got a bad reputation for being the big mass bookstore in the US, but they have a ton of variety and a lot of great books.
Autistic goth IQfy girls
epbp
those nice cookies in the coffee shop
I love browsing around, sometimes you can find cool things from comparing versions. Like I bought Brave New World with the Revisited essays and those were exceptional.
Cookies ;-() the ones peanut butter cup chunks
Goyslop and the magazine racks
>le pol goyslop
nah
What is your max bench and 5k run time?
I don't bench
22 minutes
155
19 minutes
I don't lift.
I don't run.
Both are artifical activities and copes for insecure men. Working out is harmful for your body and incurs stress and aging. Humans were meant to live a sedentary lifestyle and have brief spurts of activity during say play or hunting.
Ok I don't work out either but this is extreme cope, anon. Going full powerlifter with no cardio is bad for you but cardio literally improves your heart and makes you live longer by improving your blood flow. The guys who say you have to work out as a man are moronic, but so is what you said.
he quoting a memetuber from IQfy
Damn I got filtered
fatty
>Humans were meant to live a sedentary lifestyle
even tho they werent
>Humans were meant to live a sedentary lifestyle and have brief spurts of activity
Your own reasoning says that you should be running or going to the gym after working a desk job for 8 hours.
Why aren't you doing it?
Humans weren't meant to work 8 hours a day either. 8 hours a week maximum.
Evolutionary success of the species has brought about many different types of humans with different energetic needs and expenses. Of course your dualistic minds won't be able to digest that idea.
literally this.between resting i read a little here and there but thats about it. modern fitness is cope for undesired people
Report back on us when you turn 35
> Working out is harmful for your body
It’s hard to be more wrong than that. Well done
Plenty. It's a great store that I can spend hours just browsing. homosexuals on IQfy will whine because it's where normal people go and they don't discriminate about carrying gay books while not carrying super niche shit most won't buy. (buy it online if it's uber niche dumbasses). It's a great place and you should be grateful to have one near you.
True. It's a place I go whenever I've done whatever I need to do and want to relax and be with myself for a little while. I go there at least once a month.
This
Complete bullshit. My Barnes and Noble has really niche stuff. Lacan, Whitehead, Gaddis, etc.
Maybe new reprints but that’s it. I love their soft paperback Signet Classics. Other than that just order from ThriftBooks, eBay or support local used book stores like half price books
No, it’s just flavor of the month NYT bestseller garbage with the some older classics that you could find anywhere else at a cheaper price.
You clearly haven’t stepped into one in years. They have pretty much everything barring weird niche shit.
Just because you can buy BAP there doesn't mean it's garbage lol
I've bought culture of critique and the collected works of Poe from there.
>culture of critique
lies
I told the cashier the name of the book and he ordered it for me.
Not B&N, but in England, Waterstones is our equivalent, and my friend's dad (53) approached us holding a book he thought we would enjoy, titled: Black British Lives Matter.
You should look for volume II: Built for BBBC
I want to support independent bookstores but all of them suck.
>one is your typical liberal bookstore with nothing but nyt best sellers and rbg mugs
>one is a super cozy bookstore with amazing atmosphere but the book selection sucks
>one has a shelf of nice easton/Franklin press books but the rest of the store is junk
Maybe my taste is too autistic but I just end up buying stuff at B&N and Amazon.
>independent bookstores
Have you tried going to ones that are USED bookstores?
I do and they never have anything I’m interested it. Two of the ones I mentioned are used bookstores.
Most used bookstores near me are pretty pozzed. Not even just a little pozzed but just over the top, obnoxious, and garish with the amount of signage they put up. Luckily I found a bookstore that's cramped and just packed with books from floor to ceiling and they charged me twenty-five cents for a used western novel. I'm very lucky to have such a place nearby and I am going to be a regular customer. If you have a nice place like that you should support them if you can.
Don't know why it gets so much shit, they sell a ton of classics and good modern fiction too. I got 2066 there recently
They have a lot of classics.
I go sometimes to see if I find anything that's local: city, county, or state-related fiction/nonfiction. Usually, there's something interesting.
Infetterances..
Women. The books from here are not so much worth it. I have never seen a book from B&N that is cheaper than it’s counterpart on Amazon. Just go if you want to, don’t buy anything though
This is true. It’s expensive as shit and not worth it when ThriftBooks/ eBay / Amazon exist.
It’s comfy to go there and just have a nice coffee while looking through books. And scour the area for cute girls
it's only worth going there in july and november for the 50% off all criterion collection blu rays
>He buys physical media.
your'e in a thread about barnes and noble
>namegay chamaar
I'm Brahmin by caste.
>pajeet
>advocates for the standard NPC bugman digital-only lifestyle
figures
The magazine rack, since apparently you can't even get basic Conde Nast titles at a lot of supermarkets anymore. But you can still go to B&N and pick up anything from the LRB or Lapham's Quarterly to import auto mags and other niche craft rags. And if you're looking for No Starch Press guides I'd recommend getting them there in the tech section since titles are often backordered for ages directly though the publisher.
Every B&N in my area has only had one single shelf case dedicated to poetry.
I know the Waterstones guy took over and was supposed to revamp the company but I haven't noticed a drastic change, other than a slight reduction in all the fricking Legos and other non-book stuff.
A lot of the B&Ns around me have drastically cut down their blu-ray section, with DVDs being almost nonexistent.
A barn maybe
Their board games are pretty good.
I always check out what board games they have on clearance
only thing good about barnes and noble is that they always have the new release books. other than that just go to half price books.
>go to big chain bookstore
>pick up Mein Kampf, e-girlta, and The God Delusion
>waiting in line for ages
>light up a stogie
>start loudly chatting up old ladies and families in line next to me
>thumb through the expensive knick-knacks next to the checkout, knocking several onto the floor, and repeatedly tell my fellow line-goers to “look at all this horseshit”
>complain that there are too few cashiers per customer, allege that this is the fault of “israelites”
>finally reach the checkout
>array the books so their covers are all facing up
>toss them onto the counter in a radial formation, all facing directly at the cashier, a slightly overweight girl in her early 20s
>she looks down at them and pauses, her jaw dropping in disbelief as the fuhrer himself stares back up at her
>blow smoke into her face and ask “some kind of problem, toots?”
>she coughs and nervously stutters the name of the book, as if to verify that someone could ever purchase it intentionally
>“yeah” I reply, before placing my index finger on the cover of e-girlta, and leaning across to her side of the counter
>“and this one’s about a pedophile”
>her face is now wan with shock and horror
>“oh my god,” she mutters
>“God’s dead, honey”
>everyone around us goes dead silent
>pick up the books and leave without paying
>no one even calls security
is this real?
Yeah I saw it he rode off on a harley
Yeah, I was one of the books.
Yes I was there
I remember.
Reincarnation.
I skeptically picked up the makioka sisters from there recently and it’s now locked into my heart forever, so yes. Even though theyre gay, being a bookstore theyre forced to put a good book on the shelf from time to time.
Is it possible to meet fellow weebs here?
Manga sales actually make up a pretty big percentage of b&n revenue. There’s always people in the manga section.
I go there to get some manga if it'll be there because I've gotten my orders bashed up and beaten in the mail enough times. For typical books I don't mind some wear but I'll be damned if a single page of my YKK is bent!
If I feel the urge to overpay for a book and a latte I will visit my local Barnes & Nobles.
no. you can order everything online and if you need recommendations then ignoring the hobo smell and talking to a librarian is better
sex toys
nice place to meet chicks, buy at barnes and noble bros
I see so many weeb cuties in the manga section of my barnes and noble.
They have a pretty consistently decent paperback novel selection
Do you actually just go to bookstores just to browse? I’m always simultaneously overwhelmed by the selection yet unable to find anything good. The last time I actually showed up to a B&N, it was really hard to find anything, and they didn’t even have what I came for. I rarely buy books though, I’m mostly a library chad
a kobo
They had a rare print of Mason and Dixon at the one local to me. Some homeless fricker with a bike broke the glass and stole it. I cry every time.
That man? Thomas Pynchon.
THD cannot come soon enough
cc sale starts in 2 days
Barnes and Noble is fricking Reddit.
Yall should be shopping USED book stores.
If you are looking for something in particular, then buy online.
There's a second-hand book store coming to my area soon. It's one of those chain-stores that sell coffee-stained Nabokov prints from the 60s. I think it's a bookmans. Anyway, they're much more interesting in terms of old books than a Barnes and Noble. Word from the wise.
I shopped Bookmans often as a teen growing up in AZ
Would steal dvds from various places and trade them in for store credit to buy books.
shitposting aside, the chiltern classics are pretty nice as mass-market printings go. maybe a bit too gaudy to own, but ideal for gifting to people who might not know any better.
i miss Hastings but i dont mind wandering around a barnes and noble to escape the summer heat. plus they have enough kids shit to keep my son entertained
Maybe a handjob in the corner behind the book shelves
those fake leather collectible ones
I don’t hate these as much as other people do. Obviously they’re not as nice as a folio or Easton book but for the price they’re pretty good for a hardcover (especially during the half off hardcover sale they have each year.)
Has anyone here actually met a decent woman at B&N? I'm curious now that someone's mentioned it.
They always have a fantastic magazine selection.
Sometimes really good sales/clearance.
I slept with a girl who's number I got because I bought a volume of one piece. She was half Mexican
ew
pussy isnt worth weab shit
Was she at least hot?
Criterion movies
Honestly they have good stuff when it comes to older stuff/classics
Got Herodotus, Last of the Mohicans, and Macbeth there. All were good.
Sadly the history section at mine keeps Shrinking