/lit/ - Literature

What I read
> The crying of lot 49
What I expected
> Great american postmodern literature
> Parking lot number 49, destruction of natural order
> Trumpet player symbolizing something
What I got
> Opening sentence is about something with tupperware
>rest of book is shit

>>5036991
gr8 b8 m8 you really got me rustled

>>5036975

can someone post the template?

Since this is the third thread with these in last two days, we can start to pay attention to quality.

Use one picture for each box, or two at max, not a dozen because these are meant to be witty and snappy, not long and bizarre (Scared Cat?)

>>5037371
Are you being serious here?

>>5036975
We need more quality control. It seems you are just slapping a bunch of images together with little to no coherent overarching message. Just splashing 5 different images together does not send a more constructed message, but rather muddies what you are actually trying to convey.

>>5037378
srsly
make a joke, or at least a nice clean 'i expected x, but got y!' picture
rather than a spammy mess of random clipart images in each box trying to convey everything you thought at every point before and after reading the book for some reason

Unworthy list of medicore SHIT
>>5036975
>>5037306 (Would be alright if you kept it to just one pic of flowers.)
>>5037399

How to do meme
>>5037379

>>5037381

easier to ask than make my own in paint or whatever

>>5037410
I think they get the message but they just don't give two fucks about your opinion.

Because the inconsistent line width in OP was killing me

Remaking one of mine from the last thread.

>>5037493
2/10, condense your concept further

>>5036975

>>5037502
1/10, just a mess with nothing to say, no clear juxtaposition between the expectations and reality
pointless

>>5037504
It also perfectly captures your post, and my reaction to it.

>>5037449
it's still inconsistent
are u new to ocd? fuck

>>5037533
excellent

>>5037528
10/10 would kek again

>>5037378
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>>5037410
Holy shit, shut up.

>>5037592
someone is butthurt that they had just finished adding the 10th hilarious internet picture to their expected box and has suddenly realised that the mood has shifted

Why is /lit/ so /v/-tier?

>>5037600
Stop being a fag and contribute to the thread instead of trying to start an argument

>>5036975

>>5037618
we need to go deeper
just a thread full of more and more butthurt expectations images, each side lashing out all the more viciously at the other
we can get like 5 degrees more meta than this, come on guys, i believe in you

>>5037604
secret teachings is the best intro to the mysteries i've read. pretty good summation and the appendices are excellent

>>5037620
>>>/lit/

>>5037624
>implying it is Initiation Into Hermetics by Franz Bardon
Best book to start actual practice with by far because it doesn't have lmaoheshitoncarpets
like Crowely and it's pretty much the precursor to Book 4 which is the real best intro.

>>5037665
secret teachings is a basic introduction to all the mysteries, not just hermeticism. besides, the appendices alone should lead you to the real books of import

>implying crowley is of any revelance

Just finished this.

>>5037683
>implying anything other than Hermeticism is worth studying
>implying you haven't been led astray
>implying Crowley isn't one of the occult greats equal to Moses or Abraham

>>5037787
Nora had it coming.

>>5037378
>>5037400
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>>5037504
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>>5037595
Actual, actual autism

>>5038042

>put that coffee down

lol

>>5037783
lol, you keep Crowley was naything more than a drug addicted (literal) faggot.

and, yes, hermeticism, is important but there are so many more prophetic philosophies, some way more practical.

please tell me one of you can relate

also filename

>>5037790
9/10
bretty good

>>5038075

>(literal) faggot

This is a literature board. We don't need this ignorance here. Take it to /b/.

>there are so many more prophetic philosophies, some way more practical

Do you understand the irony behind judging the prophetic in terms of the practical, right?

You sound like the kind of poster who always wants to have an opinion on everything simply to have one.

>>5038116
animated is a strange russian word, how did you come across that in Tolstoy?

>>5037502
>>5037604
>>5038042
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>>5038084


These are all complete and utter shit. The posters of these images get off the internet and go play outside.

>>5037600
/thread

>>5038188

dude i see it in like every other page

>>5038198
bit harsh, but I agree with the sentiment

>>5038198
Why did you post this comment instead of being outside then, you hypocritical fuckface?

>>5038180
what i meant by pointing out crowley's latent homosexuality was that thelema was merely a justification to be gay and do drugs and basically just to fuck freely. crowley's work is just a b/s bastardization of GD, masonic, kabalah, etc... spiced with satanism. nothing original or prophetic.

as for the hermeticism, i was responding to this
>implying anything other than Hermeticism is worth studying
so, if this was you then i redirect your own post back at you, anon.

Fresh.

Here are some ones I made earlier. Might make some more

>>5037306
Na. Where are the naked butt pussy fuckin redskins?

>>5038623
Couldn't find a picture of that.

Anyone have Dune?

>>5038203
http://www.planetpdf.com/planetpdf/pdfs/free_ebooks/War_and_Peace_NT.pdf
ctrl+f gets me 64 instances. I'd say it's still an uncommon enough word for it to be used that many times, but you're exaggerating, yeah.

OC, finished the book yesterday

>>5036975
+ some feels

>>5037528
8/8 m8

Some OC for you. This is really one of the funniest books I’ve read.

>>5038232
I'd like to take a journey inside your mind to see what it's like to literally not know what things are.

>>5038253
You misspelled Babylon 5.

>>5039399
Yes this is probably the work that most deeply explores the feeling of jealousy and loneliness. Nothing about the Gomorrah part though? (This came surprising for me.)

>>5039406
Anybody got the one for Gravity's Rainbow?

Anybody got the one for Gravity's Rainbow?

>>5039406
now?

>>5039469
Perfect.

nsfw

>>5039529
Are the other stories in the series the same?

>>5039573
the first and second are good.

3, 4 and 5 are same

>>5039301
But that book had a fight and a ton of bulls.

>>5039565
oh come on

1984 was great.

>>5039671
it really wasn't

Pretty much. Really liked it though.

>>5039692
lol that's kind of the plot of the book

>>5037415
obviously not

>>5039690
Yes it was.

>>5039698
i really didn't like it

>>5039398
>implying that was a bad thing
whales nigga

>>5039690
Yes it was.

>>5039699
I did.

>>5039398
>tfw i made this and it always bothers me that i accidentally cut off the edge of the right box and it keeps getting posted

>>5039705
>not giving the whale an exit

>>5039797
Do you confuse Romans and Greeks?

>>5036975

I don´t even know what the fuck any of that means, but it still made me laugh for some reason.

>>5039818
No, I know Marcus Aurelius is Greek and Leonidas is Greek. But I though that the attitude of the spartans in 300 was almost everything I expected from the book.

jk m8

>>5037749
If this is an accurate representation of what you got from the Inferno, and not just a funny picture, m8 I'm really sorry. the Comedy is one of the greatest aesthetic accomplishments of humanity.

>>5039818
No, I know Marcus Aurelius is Greek and Leonidas is Roman. But I though that the attitude of the spartans in 300 was almost everything I expected from the book.

jk m8

>>5039334
I just finished the first book in the trilogy. Really enjoying it so far.

This fucking book.

>>5039896
The quality is consistent throughout the series. If anything it improves.

>>5039870
It's merely poking fun, I thoroughly adored it.

>>5037790
I've yet to read Lolita. Does the protagonist actually fuck an underaged girl?

>>5040554
Yes

10/10 Best book ever.

>>5037790
lel. boners

>>5037379
superior

>>5037379
lel

shards of the afternoon or whatever?

>>5037502

>>5039393
you forgot the part where they sacrifice all those bulls and pour out libations every other goddamn minute.

>>5040580
I've never been religious, but the fire and brimstone interlude in PoTAaaYM made me legitimately scared of hell for a little bit there.

>>5037634

>>5040676
That was pretty fucked up yeah. That whole act centered around religion and Stephen's descent into sin fucked me up and almost inspired me to stop being such an immoral piece of shit

>>5039503
is it only me that found candide to be extremely tedious?

>>5039503
Wait, I'm confused. Do you mean the actual Ben Garrison, or the /pol/ edits that made him look like a racist and pissed him off?

>>5041316
That fucking image. Do you have the original?

>>5041312
if you don't look at the big picture, sure, it is.

>>5041316
I mean it like a political joke since the whole book is one, but I had no pic to express it so the next best thing would be Ben Garrison.

>>5041320


not him, but heres the unedited version.

>>5041337
>>5041316
i don't know which ones of these is worse

>>5041358
The one that doesn't have Shrek

>>5038116
That's probably from the translation?

>>5038084
God I want to be in drag on a ton of amphetamine with a bunch of other fairies

>>5039890

This is my main gripe with hard science fiction. By reading your novel, I have accepted the premise that there is a sentient ocean. You don't have to prove it to me. The themes of humanity searching for its own history in the universe, of alienation, of frustration and anger at failed attempts at communication and understanding the other, can all be explained without devoting a hundred pages to Kris ignoring his ocean construct wives and reading textbooks about how neutrinos work.

>>5041421

This is also my criticism of Moby Dick. I get it. We are rebelling against all forms of classification. Special classifications are irrelevant. Racial classifications even more so. This was a nice diversion and has added context to the main themes, but it's over now and we don't need more- Melville please stop. Melville.

Melville please.

>>5040633

>>5037425
Funny cause it's true

>>5039890
>posting pictures from the remake
fucking disgusting

>>5041608
>caring about pleb movies
>>>/tv/

>>5040627
Yes. That last image is from 'Meshes of the Afternoon' (1943) by Maya Deren.

>>5041653
>Implying Tarkovsky's Solaris is pleb

>>5041653

> Tarkovsky
>pleb

Pick one and only one

>George Clooney's Solaris
>pleb

Pick two

>>5041666
I just watched this, expected Begotten-tier bullshit but it was pretty good instead.
Thanks.

>>5038610
you forgot the ether

>>5040580
What's E Oar doing there?

Highly recommend, never see it mentioned on /lit/ though.

>>5040446
I haven't read this book since high school, but goddamn do I love it. Weird as fuck.

>>5040446
Youve gotta be joking me. thats what you got out of that book?

>>5036975
What I read
>Atlas shrugged
What I expected
>A good book
What I got
>Not that

>>5037378
>Scared Cat
wha's this reference for

>mfw

>>5037528
Nice
Epic
I like it

>>5038253

Obviously missed the whole Dominion War story arc.

>>5038116
Lost in translation.

>>5043438
Hey, me too.

>>5042835
being depressing and mopey

>>5041337
>4chan pass

Gets me every time.

>>5037502
That "shit's on fire, yo" and the bear were epic, anon, don't listen to that other faggot.

>>5041337
Wolfenstein 8/8 maskek

>>5041312
i just found it crap

>>5037528
nicely done