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Anonymous Thu Jul 31 11:56:43 2014 No.5219055 [DELETED]

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"'Laugh out loud funny'

That was the review that made me decide to read this book.

Laugh out loud funny...really? To conjure a mental picture of me reading this book, imagine someone almost catatonic with boredom from the total inanity of reading this novel...staring blankly into the middle distance as tumbleweed rolls across my path and a church bell clangs a deathtoll somewhere in the distance.

Laugh out loud funny? I guess you may find this book amusing, perhaps if you're a teenage hipster then you'll probably find it oh-so hilarious. But then you'll have to keep putting the book down at the end of each chapter to pat yourself on the back in congratulation to yourself for getting the joke. I guess you might also find the book funny if you're an utter moron. If you find farce funny, if you find people dressed in amusing clothes funny, if you find page after page of inane 'I'm rambling against the man but actually I'm an idiot' monologues funny then lucky you (yes I get it, it's meant to be ironic). I despised this book, there are several books I've found dull, not my thing, haven't liked the person particularly. I've never found one so enragingly annoying. Toole topped himself after writing this because it wasn't a runaway success. They then decided to posthumously award it the Pulitzer...draw your own conclusions. Utter dribble. "

>>	The Knight of Mirrors !!s2lmlI8P60f Thu Jul 31 11:58:32 2014 No.5219067 Your criticisms are lazy and surprisingly purple. Perhaps you found the novel's barbs to be a bit to close to home? (Apologies, I could not resist)

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 31 11:59:02 2014 No.5219068 Thanks for letting us know!

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Anonymous Thu Jul 31 12:00:34 2014 No.5219077

>>5219055
I've never "laughed out loud" while reading a book. Sounds rather pleb, reading for a few laughs, if you ask me. A few chuckles, maybe, a small "heh", but not outright laughing. People who force themselves to laugh in the library are often among the most annoying of "readers".

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 31 12:06:11 2014 No.5219106 >>5219077 >I've never "laughed out loud" while reading a book. Sounds rather pleb The irony. To be plebeian is to be narrow minded.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 31 12:06:13 2014 No.5219107 >>5219077 Same.

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The Knight of Mirrors !!s2lmlI8P60f Thu Jul 31 12:06:52 2014 No.5219111

>>5219077
Do you honestly believe that fans of literary humor are "forcing" themselves to draw pleasure from their intellectual travels? This is an immature idea: it implies that you and you along can decide what is funny and what isn't, and humor is well-known for it's subjectivity and variance from person to person

For instance, I find your adolescent narcissism quite funny. Ha! Ha!

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Anonymous Thu Jul 31 12:12:21 2014 No.5219131

>>5219106
I can appreciate the humor. Doesn't mean it'll get a reaction.

>>5219111
I don't believe the people who read quietly one minute, then spontaneously break into "HAHAHAAHA --AAAA-AHHHAHAHAHA" to be genuine. Maybe that's just me. I'm not deciding what's funny, but I bet when you read my adolescent-narcissistic post, you didn't start convulsing with laughter.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 31 12:12:54 2014 No.5219135 Why you copy pasting reviews, OP?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 31 12:13:57 2014 No.5219140 >>5219077 >he hasn't read nietzsche and schopenhauer

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 31 12:14:23 2014 No.5219144 >>5219131 Any display of emotion is posturing

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 31 12:17:25 2014 No.5219160 >>5219144 This. You have to act aloof and sneer at anyone displaying emotion or else you aren't cool, because someone is constantly observing you.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 31 12:18:08 2014 No.5219162 >>5219055 Jesus dude, why are you so mad?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 31 12:18:54 2014 No.5219165 >>5219131 Have you never encountered someone experience the same thing as you only to react differently? Of course you have, it happens everyday, but in this instance you have decided, for some arbitrary reason, that it's implausible. Why?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 31 12:19:26 2014 No.5219166 >>5219140 Why would I? Kant surmised humor perfectly before either of them.

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Anonymous Thu Jul 31 12:20:50 2014 No.5219176

>>5219131
Not that guy, but I have laughed quite loudly to a small handful of books. A few moments in The Illuminatus Trilogy and a few in Cosmic Banditos off the top of my head. Every now and then a very well crafted and unexpected gag will just hit you, and occasionally you can't help but laugh.

>>	the egotist !f5LEiNdftY Thu Jul 31 12:21:21 2014 No.5219179 I don't see why this is so controversial, it was a good book but it's hard to laugh at prolonged humor (not that it can't be appreciated)

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 31 12:21:50 2014 No.5219180 >>5219166 To laugh out loud, of course.

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Anonymous Thu Jul 31 12:22:42 2014 No.5219184

>>5219160
>>5219144
I know you guys are joking, but lots of people on /lit/ behave this way. Which is hilarious given that a lot of those same people love to suck DFW's dick.

“What passes for hip cynical transcendence of sentiment is really some kind of fear of being really human, since to be really human [...] is probably to be unavoidably sentimental and naïve and goo-prone and generally pathetic.” - DFW

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 31 12:22:56 2014 No.5219185 Completely agree, OP, This book is absolute shit. Anyone who enjoyed it should feel fucking ashamed.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 31 12:23:02 2014 No.5219186 >>5219179 hello feminister

>>	The egotist !f5LEiNdftY Thu Jul 31 12:25:20 2014 No.5219191 >>5219186 Nope, nice try m8

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 31 12:26:56 2014 No.5219197 >>5219179 >it was a good book lel. are you 15?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 31 12:28:20 2014 No.5219206 >>5219197 hoho tittertitter

>>	The egotist !f5LEiNdftY Thu Jul 31 12:31:59 2014 No.5219229 >>5219197 > say a mid-brow book was pretty good > 15 year pleb

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 31 12:33:46 2014 No.5219233 >>5219229 >mid-brow book Krist, this tripfag even categorizes the value of books into "brows". You are worse than Sunhawk.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 31 12:37:34 2014 No.5219247 File: 136 KB, 512x512, High_Brow.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5219233 Sometimes it's necessary.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 31 12:42:52 2014 No.5219263 >>5219055 Why would you buy a book expecting that it would make you laugh? Pleb.

>>	The egotist !f5LEiNdftY Thu Jul 31 12:47:44 2014 No.5219275 >>5219233 Using that categorization makes sense in this context.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 31 12:49:24 2014 No.5219285 >>5219233 I organize books into tiers. There's, God-tier Good-tier Eh-core Bad-tier And the dreaded Franco-tier

>>	The egotist !f5LEiNdftY Thu Jul 31 12:52:00 2014 No.5219299 >>5219285 >Franco tier Kek

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 31 12:54:46 2014 No.5219311 >>5219055 maybe you'd think it was funny if you spent more time around academics?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 31 12:56:00 2014 No.5219315 >>5219311 Yes, I hear those laughter-learning courses are terrific.

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Anonymous Thu Jul 31 13:04:21 2014 No.5219350

>>5219315
Hey those courses changed my life. Before, I had a nasally and quite jewish laugh-sneer "heh he he". Now I have a big barrel-chested "hob hob hob". Confidence has gone up, sex life has skyROCKETed (no pun intended hob hob hob) and I've even grown back some of the hair I lost to male- and checker-pattern baldness.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 31 13:16:30 2014 No.5219403 >>5219055 Who are you quoting?

>>	The Knight of Mirrors !!s2lmlI8P60f Thu Jul 31 13:45:05 2014 No.5219495 File: 223 KB, 753x966, The Oak of Absalom.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5219403 It's "whom", actually

>>	Not OP Thu Jul 31 13:50:41 2014 No.5219512 >>5219068 Oh fuck off with your kneejerk shitposting, it's stil better than "What's the literary equivalent of sour cream" threads. If anything, it at least tells you that /lit/ isn't one big hivemind yet.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 31 14:08:46 2014 No.5219582 Man this thread is autistic The OP post was in quotation marks Then you have these sperglords who can't laugh at anything so they interpret any laughter as some fake emotion What is wrong with you people

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 31 14:13:10 2014 No.5219595 >>5219055 This thread is laugh out loud funny. All its missing is an image-portmanteau of Ignacio and Harold Bloom, and it would make my day.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 31 14:31:26 2014 No.5219672 >>5219055 >muh valve