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Anonymous Fri Sep 3 13:05:30 2010 No.1096819 [Reply] [Original]

Books you read when you were a kid which you wish you'd waited to read.

Pic related: I read it when I was 12 and missed the subtext entirely. I enjoyed it purely as a sci-fi read.

>>	Darnielle !GneuXPFtrY Fri Sep 3 13:08:30 2010 No.1096824 I first read Catcher in the Rye when I was nine years old and didn't understand much more than the text on the page. Cats Cradle was awful though. Sorry you had to read that at all OP. I've been there too my friend :(

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 3 13:14:30 2010 No.1096833 >>1096824 I reread it this summer and I thought it was just great. I'm really enjoying Vonnegut now. I was definitely a literalist child.

>>	Darnielle !GneuXPFtrY Fri Sep 3 13:16:30 2010 No.1096839 >>1096833 How old are you? I enjoyed my first time readings of most of Vonneguts stuff too. It's all about growing up and realizing that it's shit man.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 3 13:17:30 2010 No.1096841 >>1096839 I'm 21 now. It's all about taking a gnostic approach to his stories.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 3 13:19:30 2010 No.1096845 >>1096839 >>vonnegut >>shit man choose one

>>	Darnielle !GneuXPFtrY Fri Sep 3 13:19:30 2010 No.1096846 >>1096841 D:

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 3 13:19:30 2010 No.1096847 Ok, could someone tell me what's so great about that book because I thought it was OK at best..

>>	Darnielle !GneuXPFtrY Fri Sep 3 13:21:30 2010 No.1096853 >>1096845 >In the first grade I was reading at a fourth grade level Typical Vonnegut fan

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 3 13:22:30 2010 No.1096856 >>1096847 It's about finding whatever truth moves you, and moving with that truth through the world.

>>	Darnielle !GneuXPFtrY Fri Sep 3 13:22:30 2010 No.1096857 >>1096856 >Retarded Typical Vonnegut fan

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 3 13:25:30 2010 No.1096862 >>1096857 >>1096853 >>retarded opinion >>ad nauseum arguments >>typical attention whore

>>	Darnielle !GneuXPFtrY Fri Sep 3 13:27:30 2010 No.1096865 >>1096862 It's not an argument, don't worry your pretty little Vonnegut reading head about it.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 3 13:29:30 2010 No.1096871 >>herp i'm so smart you don't even get how dumb vonnegut is look at me i'm so counterculture I hope you're proud.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 3 13:29:30 2010 No.1096872 >>1096862 >argument: "typical attention whore" Actual ad nauseam argument.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 3 13:35:30 2010 No.1096890 I find myself utterly taken in by your clever samefaggotry. Any defense of your opinion? Also >>Go to /lit/ to discuss one of the great American authors >>find a festering pile of shit

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