/lit/ - Literature

>Effected my morality
Affected.

>>1836758
I can see how this would effect you.

7.7/10
How did you get this?

ITT: polymeric haters (capcha)

>>1836744

Tell me how you ended up with a 7.7 rating of this book?
I'm fucking curious.

>>1836744
motherfucker

>>1836744
Why not 7.8?
I thought it was a solid 8.2.

>>1836744
bastard

>>1836758
that review was affected...*snicker snicker*

>>1836758
Effect:The power to produce an outcome or achieve a result; influence: "The drug had an immediate effect on the pain. The government's action had no effect on the trade imbalance."
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/effected

Used correctly.

>>1836769
>>1836772
>>1836775
Wizardry. (I also have an unbelievable ability to tell you what time it is, usually down to the minute, if I know what time it was when I left the house) (I can also guess within 1-2$ of how much my groceries will cost).

Power of estimation.

>>1836786
So what constitutes a 9 in your book?

>Melancholy as a con, expecting comic relief
1/10 for reply
>slow start
Oh shit nigger, that shit had a fucking amazing start. What the fuck are you doing?
>Stereotypical
Not in the 1800s.
>(maybe that’s why they become stereotypes, because they are common)
what

>>1836787
I've written a couple of these book reviews on /lit/.

I've done Metamorphosis (8.4), 1984 (Went from 6.5 to 7.3), Les Miserables (8.2), I've done War and Peace but have not saved it (didn't get 9), A Room of One's Own (3).

I've read loads of books, and I'll be doing loads more of these reviews.

Hamlet would prob get 9+

Even though it is a play and all that bullshit, I should still do a review.

>>1836792
There was comic relief in the book! The goofiness of making the kind peasant boy...S-somehting hold Ivan Ilyich's legs up all night.

The start was rather...slow... (paraphrased) "Some dude who works at the government office has a colleague who croaked and now he is all antsy about doing a favour for some chump and filling the position with one of his wife's relatives."

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRING

and that is all.

>>1836800
what the fuck is wrong with you? The purpose of that set-up was to point out the morality flaws of everyone in upperclass Russia, and to foreshadow his realization - "his face was peaceful, like he had just discovered a great truth, but also foreboding, as if he wanted to send a warning to the living". The character it followed saw the wake as an inconvenience despite being Ivan's "friend", everyone tried to get their own personal gain from his death, including his wife, and everyone left early so it wouldn't interrupt bridge night.

That's fucking great, jesus. Fuck you.

>>Used correctly.
Fuck off and die. You have no business reviewing masterful pieces of literature until you've at least read enough to pick up proper language usage.

>>1836786
af·fect1    
[v. uh-fekt; n. af-ekt] Show IPA
–verb (used with object)
1.
to act on; produce an effect or change in: Cold weather affected the crops.

Effect
–verb (used with object)
10.
to produce as an effect; bring about; accomplish; make happen: The new machines finally effected the transition to computerized accounting last spring.

Learn the difference.

>>1836806
Good point. I'm not saying it wasn't essential, I'm just saying it was a little dull. Not every scene in a movie can be exciting, because some scenes serve to set up the climax and other things etc.

Don't be so upset. I've read way longer and more boring books.

>>1836807
>>1836810
>to produce as an effect; bring about; accomplish; make happen

What I said:
>Effected my morality (my notion of life and death) in a positive way
>Brought about positive change in my morality

Used the word correctly. This is why I graduated with honours and you didn't.

>>1836825
The word doesn't mean"brought about positive change;" it means "brought about." If you did not have morality then "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" caused you to gain a sense of morality, you could say that the book effected your morality. If you mean to say that the book had an effect on your morality (other than creating it), you use "affect".

By the way, I will be a senior in English at Yale next year, on tract to graduate magna cum laude. I'm also a member of phi beta kappa. Go fuck yourself in you god damned pretensions, presumptuous ass.

>>1836842
Thank you for admitting that I used the word correctly.

>>1836865
Fine, if you honestly meant to say that you had no sense of morality until you read the book and then it gave you a sense of morality, you used the word correctly. But, if the book had such an incredibly profound effect (used as a noun here and therefore spelled with an "e") on you, you should have given it a ten.

>>1836870
*sigh* You're just being sour now.