Probably meditations or some popular philosophy book.
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Why exactly would you buy a book and not read it ?
So other people think you did read it. Perhaps for the binding color in a background. Maybe to impress people while holding it in a cafe. To burn.
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Among my friend group it's House of Leaves.
"Wow, it's such an eerie unsettling journey. I really love it." "you started it last year, did you finish it?" "well ..."
I saw another lemmy user claim they had to take a 17 year break from it.
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A Brief History of Time was the classic one amongst self-described sapiosexuals