/lit/ - Literature

These threads always fuck up the books.

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I guess I agree with this one kind of.

>>4643965
What do you mean by that?

>>4644008
Pretty sure he means that reading Eco was like reading Borges will all the fun parts stripped away. I disagree, but I could see someone saying that about The Name of the Rose.

>>4643965

>>4644041

OP here. I was actually just making a joke about how the entire story hinged on one butthurt monk's "NO FUN ALLOWED" zealotry. That monk was named after Borges.

This was more actually revisiting the book as an adult.

Posting what I have.

>>4644134

>>4644136

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>>4644158

OC, just finished this

>>4643965
sorry OP, but you are dumb, what YOU posted in " what I expected" thats the kind of thing I GOT when I read the book.

>>4643986
indeed they are

>>4644282
Gee, it's a good thing that everyone experiences all books and other works of art in exactly the same way! Otherwise your post would be retarded!

>>4644282
>My opinion is the only correct one

niggaz, do not post what you've got. Post what you've read yoursolves. Pasting stuff together in MS Paint ain't no magic.

>>4644375
lol yup

>>4644144
my sides

Anyone else read this?

>>4644154
it was the opposite for me...

>>4643965
Jesus, OP, that 'what I got' is hilarious.

>>4644375
You forgot the steampunk and hipsters.

>>4644153
this pic a million times.

>>4644147
I can't even bear to read this, I bought it but the beginning is so boring that i cant get into it

>>4644006
Tfw I made this

Anyone have the count of monte cristo one?

>>4644777

your mom's cunt
or maybe use a search engine
or just rummage through the things on your mom's cunt

>>4644074
don't worry op, I understood your pic, it made me smirk

>>4644490
lol

>>4644147
I actually really like Slaughterhouse Five, but the hipster bullshit cult around it is pretty annoying I have to admit.

>>4645207
Nice.

>>4645739
Really I thought it was like if 9gag wrote a book and fuck cat's cradle too/

>>4645739
>I like the book, but I swear I don't like the other people who like the book!

>>4645770
so is that actually how you read it or are you just pretending to be stupid to elicit a response

>>4645770
I think you're conflating "liking the book to any degree" and "liking the book enough to get a tattoo of it on your body forever."

>>4645776
same question in reference to you liking that shitty book.

>>4645770
>being this much of a tryhard

>>4645796
that doesn't even make sense

>>4645807
Yeah I thought you were probably just stupid. Po-tee-weet fagmaster.

>>4644226

I was considering reading that next and your "what I expected" pretty much sums up my expectations

OP posted too many reposts and ruined his own thread.

>>4645906
What are you expecting, OC?

>>4645821
> No mention of St. Petersburg
c'mon son

Pleasantly surprised.

>>4645739
Fuck I thought the Trystero horn was bad.

>>4645973
I just found that book in my mother's collection, it's a shame that the book is in spanish.

OP why you no give us template. I just want to create.

>>4645754
thanks its OC

>>4646010
here ya go

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>>4645207
I went into this book expecting the socialist propaganda but those feels came out of nowhere and hit me like a tank.

>>4646071
That one looks like shit, I made a de-jpged version.

>>4645967
Who was the guy in "what i got" again? I remember reading an article with that picture. Pretty sure it was about "zombies" or someone thought to be dead.

>>4646137
Clairvius Narcisse or something like that.

>>4646137
And the book is about zombies, yes. He was supposed to have been turned into a zombie by a vodoun priest, but somehow he broke free. He is interviewed by the author, who is an ethnobotanist looking for the recipe of the zombie poison.

>>4646137
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clairvius_Narcisse

>>4646146
Thanks. Aparently the fucker is still alive. Born in 1922. His wikipedia article says "Known for: Being a zombie" Lol.

>>4644147
I read that my senior year of high school voluntarily and I had to write a paper on it. I didn't particularly care for it. I never read anything of Vonnegut's again, except for a few essay's on fiction...which were shit in my estimations.

Is Monalisa Overdrive better?

>>4646200
Why don't you go shitpost verbally in your church instead of shitposting on /lit/?

>>4646269
I've been banned. They kicked me out and said they'd call the police if I returned.

>>4646193

faggot.

>>4646128
lol, pretty accurate

I post this in all the threads.

>tfw there will never be a film accurate to the book, because it would be too commie.

Some of these are really good. Nice work, guys.

>>4645854
I see the book as essentially a loose post-modern reinterpretation of The Tempest.
It's got a lot of things going for it - it has some interesting existential ideas and some cool mystical/literary/classical allusions.
The protagonist is presented with an elaborate and immersive 'masque' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masque)) and is given free reign to experience it as he sees fit.

But the book is ruined by the insufferable, apathetic and small-minded protagonist/narrator who makes sure the novel revolves around his depressing and boring attempts to bang various girls

It could've been so much more
I think the fact it was written in the 60s is part of it - people were obsessed with sexuality and unfortunately sexuality overshadows some of the more interesting aspects of the book

>>4646229
It's called Monalisa Overdrive, what do you think?

Seriously, people need to start judging books by their cover more.

>>4646269
Why you mad tho?

>>4646812
>Seriously, people need to start judging books by their cover more.

I'll keep it in mind...

>>4646914
Wordsworth's got nothing on this one.

seriously, you can't read this thing in public

>>4643990
Does anyone have the one where, instead of the list of names, it's Doomguy proclaiming "You are big! That means you have big guts! Rip and tear!"

>>4646128
very accurate, sad considering how cool "Dracula's Guest" and the first few chapters were

>>4644307
Nero really does get a bum rap. Fucking Suetonius.

>>4646914
>you will never fulfill the urge to smack the designer(s) of these and the person(s) that approved them.

>>4646940
You know they were both playboy editors and wrote the books based on "what if these schizo letters we get are totally write and we wrote a book about it", right?

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>>4647293
All of your expectations were present in the novel along with the "what I got" pictures

>>4644154
This

>>4644158

hah never made that connection.

>>4647646
I don't see it at all, C&P is a psychological character study and Death Note is a fantasy thriller.

For some reason, GIMP made the fucking image B&W

>>4647668
FOSS, not even once.

>>4646940
Use a fixed dust cover. You can easily make a 1-way dust cover from baking paper. besides, it keeps dog-ears away.

>>4644136
>The old man and the sea
>Expected a man fishing in a river

>tfw no shiggy

>>4647981
This.

God bless you for making that picture.

>>4647981
i don't like your attitude young man

>>4644152
lol this nigga

>>4646120
Fuck off, Walden was effectively a good book.

Baby Tree not included.

>>4647293
g8 cr0pp4g3 m80

>>4644083
I didn't like the book at all, I was expecting some great entry-level literature and I got some average beatnick prose

>>4648109
pleb

>>4647792
Yep, but it's better than using a cracked Photoshop.

>>4648437
That works out for my edition of the I Ching haha

>>4643965
I felt the same way about Foucalt's Pendulum.

>>4648437
What's the image in the lower right corner from?

>>4649111
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNLnkGu8mEQ

>>4646229
>good
neuromancer
idoru
burning chrome

>not bad
the difference engine
pattern recognition

>>4646128
Best scene in any book ever where Harker walks in and the Count's making his bed.

>>4649175
Haha
Also it's great how he must cooked all the food himself
>dracula slicing carrots in the kitchen
>'I hope he likes this'

what a soul-crushing read.

>>4644158
oh my dgdo

>>4644619
I suggest you read that book again. If you don't get it listen to Chris Hedges explaining it to you.

>>4644154
topkek
definitely accurate

>>4648340
Something like 90% of Photoshop's userbase disagree.

>>4648006
I'm reading that now. They don't go two pages without describing the landscape

>>4650395
This is great.

>>4644144
>no, glaucon, you stupid fagoot
every time

>>4646128
Nailed it

>>4650413
tfw my dad is a good guy at heart but he watches Fox news too much and bought Atlas Shrugged recently

pls no dad

>>4650445
I have the same kind of dad.

>>4650445
I agree with most of the ideas in the book but for fucks sake it has got to be one of the worst works of literature on the planet. I don't understand how someone can read nearly 1000 pages of trains and walk away saying "Wow, this really changed my life."

>>4647175
Nailed it. Love this book.

>>4646406
except the time machine is anti communist. The eloi are portrayed as living in a classless, laborless utopia before its subverted and they're revealed to only be capable of that society on the backs of tireless work by an underclass (who also eats them)

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>>4650471
heh, didn't even see yours when I posted mine. You're right, had I been 15 I probably would have been supporting some sort of quasi-fascism without realizing it

>>4644154
lol

it's actually pretty accurate

>>4644134
Oh god my sides

no on the road yet?

>>4650482

But that's wrong, you fucking retard.

The bourgeoisie (Eloi) can only maintain their lives of leisure so long as there is the proletariat (Morlocks) to do the work for them. That the Morlocks eat the Eloi is supposed to reflect that the working classes will one day cannibalise the bourgeoisie. The Morlocks are presented as hideous mutants because that's what industrial servitude does to human beings.

>>4646128
Damn you got that right.
>>4645973
Martian Chronicles blew my mind in the seventh grade.
>>4649079
Nicely done.
>>4649325
Thank fuck someone else read this. where is the AIDS?
>>4649925
I honestly thought starship trooper was a parody until I was directly given the author's quote saying it's not.

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>>4647983
perfect

god bless quentin

I'm new to lit and have no idea what the hivemind thinks about this but GODDAMN this was the most tedious post-apocalyptic book I have ever read.

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>>4644701

So it's not good then? I was thinking about reading it, but your post presents it as another nihilistic anxiety book with no actual character arch or meaningful resolution.

readed it in high school. i still think is a great book

>>4650928
read it, it's not long.

>>4646538
it's actually kind of both of those things, plus based levin

>>4650521
i got the 'rebel' vibe throughout the entire book

are you sure you read on the road?

>>4650920
I liked it. The scene with that manor house is superb.

>>4650424
In my opinion, the best part of the book is the last 80 pages.

The landscape (which is a character in itself) takes a back seat, and the book focuses on J. Holden and the Kid's failed attempt at redemption, and later demise at the hands of his former leader.

The part of Blood Meridian which I remember better than any other thing, is when the kid/man finds the old and dry women, whom he tries to help. But it is too late. She had been dead there for years.

The last line sent fucking chills down my spine like never before.

>>4647981
gtfo stoner was amazing

All in all, not so bad. But Dick had a serious hardon for the Japs and I don't know why.

>>4651317
Japanese culture is fascinating.

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>>4651475
Not really, no.

>>4651691
Got in Himmel...

>>4651693
needs more sodomy

>>4651773
you sure showed him

>>4651241
I put the book down and just sat there for a few moments after that. Fucking scarred me for months

>>4648006

You fergot all th' rapin' and scalpin', nancy.

>>4651883
same to you

>>4644074
Way to read for plot

>>4652006
Is anyone else terribly bored of this line? Seriously who gives a fuck

(And its totally not like plot, theme and character development are inextricably intertwined or anything like that.)

>>4645759
What are you even trying to say?

>>4650920
Are you sure you and I read the same book?

Sorry, /lit/, I fucking love Ender's Game.

>>4651949
I done reckon thas what Holden be there fo'.

You best be on yo way, ya hear?

>>4649142

Not bad at all. Studied this extensively at uni as a second language. First time reading it, didn't get jack. Second time was good.

>>4649925

C'mon, it's better than this.

>>4649079
I love those poems, but that made me laugh.

>>4651276
What failed attempt at redemption?

I thought that Holden was being insane and spooky by accusing the Kid of attempting redemption and failing

>>4652240
Is it that difficult to crop a picture? Really?

/fit/izen contribootin

>>4652386
back to neandertal pls

>>4652417

I'm just playin brah I actually enjoyed the book a lot

>>4652240
Is it a good read?

>>4652238
When the kid is older, he finds a bunch of slaughtered and mutilated corpses.

Nearby, he sees an old, kneeling woman, whom he tries to help. He "confesses" to her, by telling her about his life and hardships, but when he touches her to help her, "She weighed nothing. She was just a dried shell and she had been dead in that place for years."

He is too late for redemption of his sins. Years too late. He wants to be a better man, but can't. He can never undo what is.

He later transgresses completely, when he shoots Elrod and takes away a young boys only family. The Kid/Man is beyond redemption.

He then goes to "Hell or something like it" which is Fort Griffin. There he witnesses the slaughter of innocence: the dancing bear getting shot.
He is then consumed by the Fort Griffin Demon, J. Holden.

That is the simple version of it.

>>4643990
seconding this

all you students out there, for your own good, avoid taking it upon yourself to read this. Make a different choice should one be presented.

hue

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>>4643990
Bullshit, the Iliad is fucking badass and y'all don't know what you're talking about

>>4646200
Wow, if you cam out of Zarathustra wanting to shoot yourself you misinterpreted it to hell and back

>>4646917
that's a fucking awesome cover

>>4652686
I'm laughing maniacally and I'm afraid my neighbor think i have gone mad.

>>4652709
you can't deny it's more tedious for a contemporary audience than the Odyssey is.

>>4652800
I honestly like the Iliad better. I think the battle scenes are exciting. There are parts of the Odyssey I find more tedious.

>>4652800
I can deny that, actually, I've read the Iliad more times than I've read the Odyssey and I like the Iliad more.

>>4649081
Really? I really loved Foucault's Pendulum. I'll admit it needed a little bit of pruning, but I thought that it had a wonderful mix of a kind of pulp-fiction 'whoddunnit' that's hard not to find engaging, some of the most beautiful language I've ever seen written, and the space to explore some really interesting themes about the nature of language and belief. I honestly think it's one of my favourite books.

>>4650530
and it was great

>>4652112
Don't be sorry for your opinion.

>>4652434
It's fine. Make sure to pick up the version that anon used since the illustrations are superb.

>>4652592
Oooooh.

Could you at all point me in the direction of what to read in order to understand the long version?

>>4650536
It should also be noted that the Morlocks are the ones who know how everything works.

>>4653118
blood meridian

>>4652592
What do you think of the theory that the kid got raped at the end by the judge? I think it adds a whole new level to the story.

>>4653418
lol. To be fair, Ender's Game was written in 1985. Orson Scott Card was pretty optimistic about the direction of internet

>>4653477
Well, that's a very naive way of looking at it. He wasn't optimistic about the internet, he was optimistic about the human race. It's not a matter of medium.

>>4649079
lel

>>4644164
Lol, people actually read Finnegan's Wake?

>>4653559
it's canon in some universities

>>4652896
Yes it was; I didn't mean for it to look like I was disappointed.

>>4646128
holy fuck dead-on accurate, my friend

>>4651475
what is the name of that anime?

my 8th grade english teacher said this would be a fun read for the class he was right

>>4653913
could be wrong but it looks like welcome to the nhk

>>4650445
I think of it as the finest pulp fiction novel ever published. I try not to think of it more than that.

>>4644153
X100

but the part with scrub, the cook, and the sharks was good

I would have added a grey hulk with Leto's face in the "what I expected" but I'm lazy

>>4653118
Read Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy

>>4653162
I don't read it as rape as much as just a form of spiritual consumption.

The Judge consumed the kid and made them one.

But rape and murder works too.

>>4654318
>But rape and murder works too.
Obviously there is quite a lot of evidence that The Man/The Kid was brutally murdered by The Judge but it doesn't explain that the man taking a piss next to the showers was calm about what was inside while the man who entered was horrified.

>>4646229
Absolutely not.

Gibson has had his dick sucked far too long off the back of Neuromancer and Burning Chrome. He's an insufferable prick and the vast majority of his work has been terrible.

Neuromancer might actually be one of my top five favorite novels of all time, but having been written by Gibson, I always rank it down a few.

>>4654336
I read it like he was not as much calm, as he was catatonic or shocked. I imagined a shaky, trembling voice: "I wouldn't go in there if I was you."

>>4654318

The judge is described pretty asexually I think. Pale, hairless, childlike features, he doesn't strike me as a sexual being, even considering the child predation.

>>4654372
He does not rape because of sexual desire, but out of an eternal conquest for power over others.

>>4646434
Joyce was 10% about being a perfect Jesuit, 90% about Nora's butt.

>>4652686
you must be new to /lit/ though.
This shit is super new, few weeks new, True Detective new.

Are there any of these where the "What I got" actually turned out better or more interesting than the "What I expected?"
I want a book that'll be better than my expectations

>>4654445
Naw it happened this morning. I checked /lit/ in between classes and saw this 200 post cesspit thread of anti-natalists vs anti-anti-natalists. Neither side had any clue what the fuck they were talking about.

I'm not new to /lit/ but this thread was probably the worst megathread I've ever seen on this board. The janitors actually deleted it prematurely because it was so fucking awful

>>4654454
Actually it's the second thread I've seen about anti-natalism

The first was short, somehow the second thread gained momentum.

>>4647175
fuckin lol

>>4643965
I recently started reading this -unfortunately a translation- and fuck, how long are those description? Maybe I should have just watch the film.

>>4654450
Someone should do one for Trout Fishing in America.

Original Content.....seriously, I thought I was walking into Milo and Otis....and I got one of the most depressing books ever.

>>4654621
Fucking Key & Peele spoiled the end for me.
Fucking light skin niggers. And it wasn't even funny.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTIPQdlLKTA

>>4654624

>everything about this post

This board is 18+.

>>4646128
Worst "classic" ever.

>>4654626
Sorry I offended you there, nigger.

>>4654633

>being this much of a try hard shitcunt

You go get 'em, slugger.

>>4651691
Absolutely disgusting!
Why didn't a teacher stop this?

>>4651691
>american education

>>4653913
>>4653990
It is Welcome to the NHK.

>>4646179
Opposite 4 mi

>>4650423
Change the gay sailor picture to a white guy sucking a massive dark dick

>>4645669
needs more dicks, but otherwise pretty good

For any Australians interested, its still a very relevant book despite being written 50 odd years ago.

And that IQ map is actually 'real'. It just counts the indigenous population. Interpret that how you will.

>>4654802
Labor is the cancer killing the ABC

2000+ hours in corel painter

>>4653532
>Not a single picture of an axe or a door with a doorkeeper

Continue reading the book.

>>4654906
>double breasted wool coat

Stop posting repeated books. Fuck.
Every thread people dump the same shit.

>>4655095
>Every thread people dump the same shit.
>where do you think you are
It's because the pretentious e/lit/ist in here only want people to read certain books and nothing else. They books that you are "allowed" to read is in a very very small pool.

>>4655011
I did finish, I just got lazy and didn't want to spend more time making the pic

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>>4655095

Relax, it's only books

>>4654272
here you go

>>4650928
it is literally the exact opposite of what you just said

>>4655124
Lol I've made 3 OC in this thread alone. Just because you're a lazy faggot doesn't mean everyone else is

>>4656211
I did one, I don't see why anyone would post old ones

infusion!

>>4650512
>mah negroid

I'm too tired to make a legit one, so here's one I made that proves I'm weird and have a horrible taste in books

>>4658492
so the narrator is just an onlooker?

>>4646079
same here bro

>>4650413
top kek

>>4645738
I don't get it?

>>4654581
/r/ the full version of the crying ghost babby image.

>>4659539
That's nonsense. How does it relate to Palestine and Israel?

>>4659584
you retarded or something? google it.

>>4650482
The morlocks and eloi only evolved into such because of class divisions.

>>4659599
>That's nonsense. How does it relate to Palestine and Israel?

>>4659609
About the quality I would expect from a person who made that abortion.

>>4659616

I don't understand your statement.

>>4650512
I dont get this. I couldnt find any biblical references in that book.

>>4659539
>>4659609
>>4659887
>>4659937
>/pol/ ruining yet another thread

>>4660319
test

>>4651996

Haha, I thought about posting about this book but it was actually the reverse for me. That ending made me uneasy, but it might be because I knew nothing about it going into it.

forever bitter

>>4650920
I read it directly after reading two non-fiction accounts of survival:
"A fortunate life" set around WWI (not the entire focus of the autobiography but a pivotal point in the man's story).
"If this is a man" by Primo Levi, principally set in a concentration camp in WWII.

Here is what is interesting, the two factual autobiographies were filled with strong themes of survival against the odds. Making do. Never giving in, even though so many were perishing around them.

Tl;Dr I agree with you

>>4653532
Like a dog