/lit/ - Literature

>>17210209

>>17210209
>what I read
This thread
>what I expected
De Bello Gaelico trifecta
>what I got
Recursive image of this trifecta

>>17210209
Obligatory

>>17210209

>>17211890
the good old copypasta about the stranger being like novelty pet rocks is the most accurate review of the stranger in history desu senpai baka

>>17210218
fpbp

>>17211890

>>17212850
Kek

>>17213212
begone with this schizo babble

>>17213276
What are you talking about? It’s true

>>17210209

>>17210209
what I read
>bible
what I expected
>I'll become a religious man
what I got
>stupid fantasy book about a man sitting on a cloud, how could anyone believe this?

>>17213212
To anyone confused by this pic this is actually fairly accurate. Right down to the “Congratulations!” From Eva

>>17210218
Uhh lol? Corn didn't exist in Europe in Roman times...

>>17210209
Steel Ball Run is /lit/, it is the greatest work of Japanese literature since the Tale of Genji. I HIGHLY recommend reading it.

>>17213212
>>17213276
>>17213589
my favorite part was this

>>17213613
It's a real shame it gets hyped up so much and I went in expecting it to be both the best jojo part and one of the best things to come from manga and ended up really disappointed.

>>17213911
Ah well, it's fine if it wasn't your cup of tea. For me it was both the greatest Jojo part by far and the best manga I've read by far.

>>17214009
I'm a different person replying but I unironically really did not enjoy it, and thought Stone Ocean, VA or Diamond was better. Felt sort of unnecessarily long and the main villain stand is somewhat confusing and the jesus stuff intersecting with that is just bizarre. Certain things were underexplored and other things were over explored. Also the final race turned me off of it entirely.

Just wanted to say that because it was very much pressed on me that I absolutely needed to read it and honestly any other part had more of an impact on me. I could have not read it and nothing would be different in my life, except more time spent elsewhere.

>>17214096
Entirely filtered
>>17213613
Based beyond all means

>>17214096
It's nice to finally find someone else who feels the same way about part 7.

>>17210209

>>17214229
the final race was fan service and the final fight was literally deux ex machina.

>>17214345
Yes and it was glorious.

>>17213007
The what I expected and what I got are spiritually identical

>>17210209

>>17213911
Part 3 was much better, I agree. How localized everything is and tightly fashioned. its just great. also agree on the hype. it becomes odious to talk about.

>inb4 someone posts the inverse

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>>17214203
This book any good though?

>>17214568

Read
>No Longer Human
Expected
>Lots of crying and emotional torture, a man getting his humanity torn from him
Got
>Pills, Prayer and Cuckoldry

>>17214568
what's the top right painting? looks creepy and cool

>>17213745
That doesn’t seem that bad

>>17213554
its both of these, hence the title war and peace

>>17215472
was it good?

Imagine my disappointment the way everyone talks up this book coupled with my love of Huxley. I found Joyous Cosmology by Watts far more insightful, poignant, and enjoyable.

>>17210209

>>17211849
this should be the OP for every thread like this

>>17210209
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>>17216278
That must have been really disappointing. I can understand completely.

>>17215472
>pairs well with 1984 or The Handmaid's Tale

>>17216278
erowid would have been the better "what i got" imo

>>17213554
It legit is a combinaton of those two images on the right you pseud

>>17210209
>>17210218
>>17213554
based.
It's really a book about how to be comfy, by going into the various forms of discomfort.
>>17216295
The whole thing was a complete surprise, it was just a bunch of drunk guys talking shit.
Glaucon should be remembered in history as the best of sports, for how he endured years of Socratic roasting

>>17210209

>>17212569
someone post

>>17210209

>>17216770
fixed cause I'm braindead apparently when it comes to doing simple tasks

>Read
Frankenstein
>Expected
A decent, fun classic horror story
>Got
An incredible tragedy and new favourite novel

>>17215281
But is it good?

>>17217059
Patrician taste

>What I read
Antisemitism by Arendt
>What I expected
critical theory
>What I got
"... is she a crypto nazi?"

>>17210209
>what I read
Great Expectations
>what I expected
Greatness
>what I got
500 pages on why not to simp, and greatness

>Read
My book so far
>Expected
The framework of the story I wanted to tell, with some stylist tweaks needed
>Got
Unrecognisable wordsalad written by a pretentious piece of shit with no idea what he means

>>17215281
>let's dedicate a whole chapter to describe the different types of boats we are carrying
Half the book is an autistic love letter to boats, but the rest is genuinely great (excluding the two very uncomfortable sex scenes).

>read
dracula
>expected
black magic n shyt
>got
House M.D.

>>17213212
I was shocked at how amazing this turned out to be.

>>17210209
so which books will make me feel like im reading the middle?

>>17213554
>tfw Tolstoy keeps btfoing the romantic pretensions of wannabe monarchists

>>17213609
ya but they use the corn in translations

>>17215076
Yeah it's great.

>>17216770
>>17216815
Real talk, can I pretend to read this book and then just go around quoting pic related when someone asks what it was about? I don't feel like reading such a long and complex book.

>>17213745
That's not the worst thing I've ever read I guess.

>>17218525
anyone who's stupid enough to fall for it also probably doesn't care abut Hegel and will think you're lame for talking about him

>>17213609
>>17218500
Corn used to be a generic term for all types of grains.

>>17218554
So I need speech 35, not intelligence 8?

>>17218504
>>17214203
but did you read the whole red night trilogy.

>>17213584
filtered.

>>17210218
timeless

>>17216278
idk I disagree. I think it's a good essay and Huxley had an interesting and influential perspective of hallucinogens.

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>>17216770
>>17216815
It's funnier without the context, wich you also falied to realize. Double fail

>>17213911
Let me guess - you read it before reading all the prior parts?

>>17214203
>>17218587

>>17213745
This is awful

>>17218525
As long as they are clueless on Hegel, (which most people are) go ahead

>>17219550
not the guy but i read jojo up until part 5 and the fact that people praise this shit baffles me
part 2 and 5 are great but everything else is just your run of the mill anime trash

>>17212850
Death does not occur on lifetime

>>17219938
>trying to be d33p
Based retard

>>17211849
banner material

>>17215510
100%

>>17213212
Best one

>>17212569
Someone post the pasta

>>17216257
Yes and No. The prose was some of the best I read last year, but the concepts were reflective of outdated fears (I E Crack Babies & Crime Rates). not to mention her "Religion" is 1000% distilled pseudo-intellectualism.

>>17220267
Please, stop shilling, please.

>>17220351
Book’s actually good, schizo. You’d know it, if you actually read it.

>>17220364
I will never read your abortion, BAP.

>>17217237
she's the last Aristotelian

>>17213886
kekked and based

>>17220374
>my abortion
Literally retarded. Books been advertised all over this site. You don’t think anyone got it?

>>17213212
Wait I remember seeing a link to this when the author spammed it on /x/ just for lulz. Should I unironically read this? Is it worth my time anons?

>>17220416
Yes. It’s the only one I read but it’s really good. I keep seeing others on this board shot on the guy’s books. No idea if the others are good.
He’s written several books, so it might be one of those instances where if you write enough books, you sometimes accidentally write a good one.
If it’s his only good one then I guess it’s why he’s been advertising it on this site.

>>17220431
*shit
Fucking autocorrect

>>17220310
Those fears are in no way outdated. I'd say there is less preoccupation with it in the media nowadays, but it has still deeply seeped into the American subconscious.

>>17220409
>>17220416
>>17220431
>>17220442
Stop shilling, please. No one wants to read it.

>>17213886
I’m not even pro civil rights but I wish it had been like the middle one, with dead birds, flaming crosses, and the lawyer guy going Rambo first blood on an army of neoconfederates. Would have been much better at convincing me racism bad than that gay John Grisham Court shit faggot sleeping pills ovary slime boring as hell mediocre turd slinging milquetoast Mary poppins pollyanna Andy griffiths garbage sentimental book it actually was

>>17220455
>everyone who talks about it is 1 person

I think you’re lost. This is /lit, not /x.

>>17220473
Why would more than one person want to talk about your miscarriage? BAP.

>>17220495
Ignore this poster. He’s the probably the guy impersonating Gardner on here.

>>17210218
corn? in Europe?

>>17214325
I really hope this is ironic

>>17215510
lmfao

>>17220460
>gay John Grisham Court shit faggot sleeping pills ovary slime boring as hell mediocre turd slinging milquetoast Mary poppins pollyanna Andy griffiths garbage sentimental book it actually was
kek

>>17215510
>>17220234
samefag

>>17213745
Damn, I'll have to give this a read.

>>17220597
It's true, but not in a good way.

>>17219550
No, I read all prior parts and actually own parts 1-4 in the hardcover jojoniums. My favourite parts are 5 and 8.

>>17219265
i remember being so disappointed by that story. I mean the ending was like guess im boogeyman now, time to die

>>17220450

The fears may be ubiquitous in the culture, but that doesn't validate them.

1. Crime Rates (in the US) have only decreased since this book was written.

2. There is no mass of horribly malformed crack babies.

the only thing we have to fear bla bla bla

>>17221438
Interesting. A steady decline starting two decades after Roe v Wade.

Almost as if...

>>17221821
Nice try LARPer