#2005

here’s some but not all:

. education
. the past and legacies
. pretentiousness
. sitting still and concentrating for ages
. waterstones

#2006

which one did you include?

i started reading some Ibsen stuff last year but put it down and forgot about it. need to get back to it as i was quite enjoying it

#2007

Bloke who does the sports pages in the Guardian, presumably :wink:

#2008

Say what you like about Waterstones but it smells fantastic

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#2009

:medal_sports:

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#2010

I remember it smelling neutral but I haven’t been inside one for years

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#2011

Now picturing someone sitting with a piece of sheet music and just reading it. Do people do that?

#2012

it can stand for the opposite of all those things too

(the opposite of waterstones is jjb sports)

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#2013

i’ll give you this one

pretentiousness depends on the book/author

the rest are fine

#2014

think it’s really presumptive to try and educate people though isn’t it and the idea of canons and schools of thought. gross

#2015

I reckon some people do, when they can read the notation well enough to hear it in their minds.

#2016

anyway I feel better now I’ve got that off my chest :slight_smile:

#2017

These are all things to do with literary culture, not books themselves

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#2018

Ok see the thing is, this thread is for discussing our personal favourite writers and the ways in which they bring us joy (and sometimes frustration).

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#2019

That would be a cool skill to have

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#2020

yeah that’s fine enjoy your thread!

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#2021

Would be pretty awesome

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#2022

i love a stroll around Waterstones. that reminds me my loyalty card is full so i should decide on something to spend my free tenner on.

i temped there a few Christmasses ago and then for quite a few months after i hated going in as i always felt obliged to make awkward small talk with the staff (even though they were all lovely and i really liked them). was upsetting having to avoid the place for so long.

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#2023

i think it’s nice that people can decide to educate themselves by buying a book of their own accord.

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#2025

sure but they’d be better off educating themselves by writing a book imo. Never mind though I’m not the be all and end all of opinions