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Anonymous Thu Jul 10 21:48:08 2014 No.5120899 [DELETED]

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ITT: Red flags that the book you're about to read is going to be shit

>Female author

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 10 21:50:27 2014 No.5120910 >You find it in the toilet after someone walks out who forgot to flush

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 11 00:49:30 2014 No.5121764 >>5120899 >NY Times best-seller

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 11 00:50:44 2014 No.5121774 > recommended by /lit/

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 11 00:51:31 2014 No.5121781 >>5121764 >Tour de force

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 11 00:51:49 2014 No.5121785 >Introduction by some jackoff who isn't the editor or anyone of merit

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 11 00:52:31 2014 No.5121791 >>5121764 I'm generally inclined to believe that almost all new books in stores are NY times best sellers, that mark is entirely ubiquitous.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 11 00:53:00 2014 No.5121797 >paperback

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 11 00:53:50 2014 No.5121802 >It is "The Fault in Our Stars"

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 11 00:54:19 2014 No.5121804 >popular

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 11 00:54:40 2014 No.5121806 >Open the cover to find three pages of praise for the book I'm about to read >Rothfuss tricked me once, never again >Open a literary classic >Very little if any praise, it's understood to be good

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 11 00:56:10 2014 No.5121815 >"smart, funny, and deeply blahblahblah"

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 11 00:56:56 2014 No.5121816 >>5120899 >Female author Frankenstein

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 11 00:58:21 2014 No.5121822 >"this book had me at the edge of my seat! I was laughing but than you realize the political commentary that is ever present in todays society, it will make you laugh, it will make you think but most of all you will love it!" Somev random faggot

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 11 00:58:30 2014 No.5121823 >Translated by Constance Garnett

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 11 00:58:38 2014 No.5121825 >"a supremely dark teller of tales from the deep underground of the imagination"

>>	le trole faec ಠ_ಠ !Avm1fqtITk Fri Jul 11 01:00:12 2014 No.5121836 >>5121764 >yfw you find out the NY Times best seller list is editorialized >>5120899 >the book tries to convince me to read it

>>	le trole faec ಠ_ಠ !Avm1fqtITk Fri Jul 11 01:01:16 2014 No.5121843 File: 227 KB, 1240x786, jenn.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5121823 >Constance Garnett P&V or nothing at all

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 11 01:06:18 2014 No.5121862 >>5121843 no stop no don't wri

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 11 01:09:20 2014 No.5121873 >>5120899 >Poor sentence structure >a lot of obscure language that have to use a dictionary every sentence

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 11 01:10:22 2014 No.5121879 >>5121873 that you have to use*

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 11 01:37:13 2014 No.5121951 >>5121825 I feel like I've heard this a million times

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 11 01:42:25 2014 No.5121968 File: 980 KB, 2048x1924, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5121951 I seem to have slightly misquoted it

>>	Hot Opinions !GxBnV/INL6 Fri Jul 11 01:44:48 2014 No.5121974 >>5120899 >irony or satire >critique or interpretation >Narrator input >hyphenated words all across the page

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 11 01:48:10 2014 No.5121985 File: 1.45 MB, 400x256, 1404359213103.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >The guy lists Lovecraft as an inspiration

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 11 02:12:21 2014 No.5122049 >>5121974 Redflags for posts that are going to be shit >Tripfag

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 11 02:13:15 2014 No.5122052 >The author doesn't give thanks to his dog

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 11 02:21:15 2014 No.5122076 Reviews on the front page

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 11 02:21:36 2014 No.5122079 File: 95 KB, 634x543, 10390540_289066947920085_7218978476732962431_n.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >straight white male author

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 11 02:22:31 2014 No.5122086 >>5122079 Let's not forget: >Black author >Asian author that is not Japanese or Chinese

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 11 11:02:58 2014 No.5123403 >american auther

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 11 11:05:15 2014 No.5123414 >Author is human

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 11 11:05:55 2014 No.5123418 >>5122049 >Tripfag named 'la troll faggot 0_0'

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 11 11:45:46 2014 No.5123582 >>5121816 frankenstein is shit, virginia woolf was your only chance

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 11 11:46:59 2014 No.5123590 >he thanks his wife for proof reading it >he couldn't do it without her so hard to resist throwing it in the trash right then and there

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 11 11:51:24 2014 No.5123613 >>5123582 It's good, besides Percy probably wrote it

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 11 12:33:46 2014 No.5123798 >>5121802 But anon, aren't you afraid of oblivion?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 11 12:36:41 2014 No.5123808 >>5121822 This

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 11 12:37:45 2014 No.5123812 >>5123418 > he has a butterfly in his name field

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 11 12:45:12 2014 No.5123832 >has over 1000 rating on goodreads

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 11 12:50:13 2014 No.5123852 >has a dedication page

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 11 13:24:11 2014 No.5123964 >>5121968 #rekt

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 11 13:25:50 2014 No.5123971 >>5121985 That fucking gif... Oh my god lol. I know it doesn't really matter but fuck that sucks.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 11 13:27:17 2014 No.5123976 Wrong board, kid. >>>/b/

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 11 13:28:23 2014 No.5123982 >>5121985 It's from Arrested Development.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 11 13:31:39 2014 No.5123989 >>5123976 Newfag

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 11 13:35:08 2014 No.5124000 >>5122086 Hey you almost forgot: >human author

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 11 14:20:11 2014 No.5124128 >>5123971 I had that same feel I ignored it though because I didn't think it was a, real feel based on how illogical it was

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 11 14:25:14 2014 No.5124150 File: 21 KB, 450x291, lkrn4fuElE1qjjck0o1_500.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >american author

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 11 14:41:59 2014 No.5124224 File: 323 KB, 290x240, 1380856142018.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >outspoken atheist writer

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 11 14:43:39 2014 No.5124235 >>"Compulsively readable"

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