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ITT: badly summarize a book.
>tfw no gf

>> No.13017953
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13017953

1000 page drug PSA

>> No.13017959
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13017959

GTA Online

>> No.13017974
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>I shleep

>> No.13017987
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13017987

what the fuck

>> No.13017992

>>13017987
That's not a bad summary at all

>> No.13018003
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>closeted bisexual falls in love with both his childhood friend and the friend's mom
>>13017953
better one:
>Canada wants independence but people are too addicted to drugs and tennis to care

>> No.13018107

>>13017936
You forgot
>tfw sister gf but no mommy gf

>> No.13018118
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>>13017936
The west sucks

>> No.13018148
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13018148

Man up, pussy.

>> No.13018168

>>13018148
this book is honestly garbage

>> No.13018215

>>13018168
Really? I loved it. But I am a sucker for those overwhelmingly bleak stories with an ultimately uplifting message.

>> No.13018231
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13018231

Russian people are insane.

>> No.13018235

>>13018231
this applies to all of his books desu

>> No.13018490

>>13018231
kek

>> No.13019001

>>13018231
reading this made me feel very mentally weak for a good while. seeing someone good like the prince be so consistently manipulated and shit on got to me lads.

Books to overcome this despair?

>> No.13019089

>>13019001
You might like Dostoyevsky's "The Prince"

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>>13017959
>>13018235
lmao

>> No.13019098
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13019098

basically the matrix

>> No.13019108
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13019108

space is time

>> No.13019111

>>13018003
>closeted bisexual falls in love with both his childhood friend and the friend's mom
he says badly summarize, not correctly summarize, anon

>> No.13019115

>>13019089
is there another title for that? i'm having a little difficulty finding it

>> No.13019121
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breathing is rape

>> No.13019130

>>13019121
pretty based imo
means im not a virgin at least

>> No.13019136
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13019136

>I am a faggot

>> No.13019148
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13019148

this book is your idea of an idea of a book

>> No.13019154
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13019154

>IQ84

>> No.13019177

>>13019136
>knowing enough Japanese to immediately know what this is
why? why does this exist? what demographic is this for? I don't understand?

>> No.13019178

>>13019154
I don't know if it just translates poorly or what, but that really was a boring slog for me to read.
I don't mind a slow book if it's well written or has some good treatment or characters or themes etc., but this one was just boring shit, page after page.
Is his other stuff any better?

>> No.13019189

>>13019094
Based Ellul poster

>> No.13019283
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13019283

>>13019177
>for every thesis there is an antithesis
http://www.eastpress.co.jp/manga/

>> No.13019295

>>13019283
is that the fucking manifesto? jfc who buys these?

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13019550

You take yourself way too seriously, bro.

>> No.13019590
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fuck the chinese

>> No.13019597
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be gone, thot

>> No.13019601
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>doctor kills man and doesn't feel too bad about it

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>>13017936
DARKNESS
IMPRISONING ME
ALL THAT I SEE
ABSOLUTE HORRO

>> No.13019622
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tech bad, nature good

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13019642

Scott did nothing wrong

>> No.13019643

>>13017936
Frankenstein is such an amazing book

>> No.13019684
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13019684

>/r/thathappened

>> No.13019693
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13019693

Whitoids are just like niggers but white

>> No.13019696
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13019696

Get in the fucking school Shinji

>> No.13019699
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13019699

Three volumes to take a shit

>> No.13019700
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13019700

Just b urself bro

>> No.13019708
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13019708

Chad takes revenge over Virgin

>> No.13019714
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13019714

What christcucks believe

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/pol/ LARPing simulator

>> No.13019723
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Edgelord quest

>> No.13019727
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13019727

Just Eat

>> No.13019744
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Just Eat

>> No.13019745
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Fuck peasants

>> No.13019750
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13019750

Jews did it

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Shameless russian ripoff of Nineteen Eighty-Four

>> No.13019963

>>13019684
>cavale

>> No.13019964

>>13019001
>Books to overcome this despair?
Humiliated and Insulted

>> No.13019967
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13019967

>got milk?

>> No.13019972

>>13019178
>Is his other stuff any better?
no, it's all kitsch

>> No.13019973
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13019973

>*Seinfeld theme intensifies*

>> No.13020066

>>13019951
1984 came out later, mongoloid

>> No.13020244

>>13019723
I don’t think you’ve read the book bud

>> No.13020285

>>13019094
why not lul

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>>13020244
>big words thrown everywhere to describe the most retarded thing
>shitty female characters serving as the mc's sex toys and devoid of any personality whatsoever
>symbolism to appease to edgy pseuds
>lack of overall character development in the side characters

Fuck off with your pretentious pseud trash we want upfront and straightforward books.

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>>13017936
On an isle full of dinosaur people are eaten. Dont play gods!

>> No.13020335

>>13020066
That’s the joke, silly boy

>> No.13020353
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>>13017936
A castle full of wizard kids gets attacked by villian minions.

>> No.13020361
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gay niggers from outer space

>> No.13020419

>>13019967
Lel

>> No.13021035
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If only you knew how bad things really are

>> No.13021271

>>13019700
More like:
>optimists BTFO

>> No.13021324

>>13019951

This book is pretty bad, but the protagonist disliked his 'monkey hands', and I found that funny hehe.

>> No.13021335

>>13019967

That ending is genuinely one of the most beautiful images of human empathy and brotherhood in all of literature.

>> No.13021778

>>13019700
>Wash your penis
ftfy
"cultivate your garden" = "clean your room"

>> No.13021782

>>13017953

He said 'badly', anon.

>> No.13021801
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13021801

women are never happy with what they have and your best friends will betray you for some pussy

>> No.13021804

a guy you dont really care about did some stuff and some stuff happened to him

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>>13021804

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jews can think up some weird stuff but since its legible enough for children we let them read it

>> No.13021819
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borges hates pagans and thus ends up killing a bunch of cute twinks and burning down an abbey

>> No.13022130
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13022130

Need more Drugs!

>> No.13022716

>>13017974
like

>> No.13022872
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13022872

I do not live in a society

>> No.13023995
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a Chad, an Australian, a homosexual, a slut, a housewife, and an emo walk into a bar...

>> No.13024035
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roasties BTFO

>> No.13024124
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Dude samovars lmao

>> No.13024144
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13024144

guy's mom dies and he has a nervous breakdown, then he copes by writing about someone else having a nervous breakdown and writing about someone else having a nervous breakdown whose wife has a nervous breakdown and writes about her and her husband's nervous breakdowns

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>tfw no father figure

>> No.13024261
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two homeless teenagers get raped, bond over their shared experience, wander around the US, fuck like rabbits, troll the employees at a diner and a hospital, get illegally married, almost destroy the Earth, and die alone, forgotten, and covered in honey on some random mountain,

>> No.13024289

>>13021778
Almost trips. Wonder what you fucked up

>> No.13024364

>>13019973
Thanks, you just ruined this beautiful book for me.

>> No.13024369

>>13020298
>b-b-but Severian is an unreliable narrator!
>the astute reader sees through his obvious Chad projections
>the mastery of the book is seeing through Severian's lies of vanity