/lit/ - Literature

Catcher in the rye?

Also, no shit you cried at red fern, fucking EVERYBODY cried at that book, it was about dogs fucking dying for some softboy bitch

>>15558993
I hate this attention-seeking bitch and her shitty generic reviews so goddamn much. But I’d still fuck

>>15559004
nope, interesting guess though.

>>15558993
She gave birth to bunnies?

>>15558993

>>15558993
>>15559004
it's bridge to terabithia

>>15559046
Stanislaw Lem?

>>15559046
Do androids dream of electric sheep?

>>15559049
Yes!

Here is another.

>>15559052
>>15559058
No, it's more contemporary. Here's another one from the same book.

>>15559115
Ready Player One?

>>15559115
>where is muh story???
god I fucking hate plebs so damn much. mass shootings are the best.

>>15559068
What is with these people who speak so overeloquebtly, desperate to convey an image of intellect, all in the name of justifying why they don’t read?
I’m not joking: this is a phenomenon, i just don’t know why

>>15559115
This comment makes me think of Gilead, but that doesn't line up with >>15559046

>>15559149
>>15559136
>>15559128
Last clue. The answer was Zero K by Don DeLillo.

>>15559244
forgot the clue shit

>>15559043
Ezra Pound clearly

>>15559297
kek
winner winner chicken dinner

hint: this book is a recurrent meme around here

>>15559319
Moby Dick?

>>15559319
Brothers Karamazov

>>15559319
Obviously Ducks.

>>15559338
>>15559331
>>15559323
not quite there friends

>>15559430
proopi kaur

>>15559338
The fact that the Beatles are still considered one of the greatest rock bands of all time...

>>15559437
yes

>>15559319
>>15559430

>A difficult read but worth every powerful moment

How the hell was this a difficult read? The amount of substance in her work is equivalent to a twitter inspirational quote.

This one might be difficult because the review is reffering to only a single short story within a collection, so there's your hint.

Also, I don't think that's actually butterfly the namefag.

>>15559430
Finnegans wake?

>>15559146
pseuds who won't read anything more challenging than Harry Potter, Stephen King etc
they try to sound smart because they are not, don't be fooled

>>15559482
Poe?

>>15559430
Infinite jest

>>15559146
The word you are seeking to describe this is bombastic.

>>15560346
>>15559488
see
>>15559443

>>15560074
The author was born after Poe died.

I'm always afraid one of my reviews is going to end up on here, because I'll accumulate thoughts about a book while I read and then completely fucking forget them when I go to write a review.

>>15559482
brainlet here, is it Kafka?

>>15560393
Given how many goodreads reviews there are, and how many books there are, I think your odds are pretty good.

>>15560393
Same here, and as a result my reviews look like they were written by an ESL retard

>>15558993
>not posting book
This tilts me, i hate the fucking guessing meta

>>15559146
It's so they can't be bashed for not "getting" it, since, clearly, with such a vocabulary they have to be well read and smart.

>>15560464
this desu

>>15559252
That sounds so based, i should read more Delillo

>>15560413
I know the story you're thinking of, and I agree, except I thought it took place in australia

>>15559482
A tricky one, since not only Borges didn't write anything 100 years ago, he also didn't write about lethal chambers or a 1920s America. The reviewer's stupidity plays a great part in confusing us.
Either that or is The King in Yellow

>>15560494
Ding Ding Ding! It was the King in Yellow.

>>15560481
I wasnt actually thinking of any story in particular, Kafka is just the one author that came to mind who fit the description and wrote short stories

What story did you think I was referring to though? I'm interested in it now

I like these threads

>>15559252
>thats it, thats the review
Why does this make me cringe

>>15560786
oh....well when I read it first I did not read so carefully, because reading it now it does not describe the story so well....but the story it reminded me of was in the penal colony

i only read the first chapter of this one, and i'll admit, I would agree that it is intensely dull.

>>15559252
Kayla's fat

>>15561106
>Sci-fi
>Nebula nominated
>Typical females complaining about sexism
>Smoothbrain filter
Shadow of the Torturer?

>>15561321
Nope. Here's another hint.

>>15561526
Red mars? Its pretty hard science and the characters are indeed quite flat.

>>15561568
Not quite. One last hint.

>>15561580
dune

>>15559046
BOTNS

>>15561106
>>15561526
>women's reviews: "muh feefees when reading the book but it's written like some essay cause muh feefees are important"

>>15561580
>men's reviews: "short and concise description of what it made me think"

>>15560471
Honestly the book isn't really great, White Noise or Underworld are far better.

>>15561580
Three body problem

>>15559338

"Ulysses has nothing on this" - Cosmopolitan

>>15561055

>Managed to plough through that section with strenuous efforts

that's an uncomfortable phrase

>>15561106

Almost certainly Dhalgren.

>>15563328
never mind, I'm retarded and can't read threads.

>>15559482
King in yellow. So easy, the lethal chambers gave it way.

>>15563242
Brave New World

>>15563773
hypersphere?

lol what a little bitch

>>15564240
No, it was published before that, also the authors only science fiction

>>15560453
guessing meta? it's the whole point of the game created by such a thread.

>>15559146
That's exactly what you do on this board every fucking day.

>>15559297
>>15559309
>>15559043
Sheeeiiit, I was gonna guess TS Eliot. Also an anti-semite who put on a fake British accent.

>>15563315
Pretty fluid, well-written one, though, I'd say.

>>15564919
I hate this guy, he's fucking everywhere.

>>15560797
infinite jest?

>>15564265
the other one