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1 Star Reviews.

The Metamorphosis.

>This novel, The Metamorphosis, in my eyes was boring and had no point in my view. I hate this novel and I rate it very low because it is very fictional and I do not think that changing that much would ever occur to mess up somebody's family that bad.

>It was pointless! How did he turn into the bug? Why were his parents so heartless of his death. They just went on with l life and could care less that their only son has DIED! I am very disappointed.

>I don't see anything philosophical, moral or intelligent about this book. It's a boring, nonsensical story that has no point and on top of that is an excellent example of extreme ennui. If anyone other than the intellectual, snob critics' pet "Kafka" had written it it would have been flushed down the toilet where it deserves to be.

>> No.5333332

>>5333306
This one actually rustled my jimmies

>I'm lifting Jeff Berry's review: Intricate wordplay is all well and good, except when you'd rather read a novel than translate one.

>I held on to the bitter end never slipping into the current of Pynchon's writing. I think there were a couple times I may have been holding the book upside down not that it mattered.

>Note to self: when a novel is compared to Joyce's Ulysses resign it to the "to be read NEVER" pile and move on.

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>>5333306
good job op, you rumbled my jumbles

>> No.5333353

>Richard Dawkins has some excellent insights into biology, however that is clearly the only place where his expertise lies. The further he reaches from his area of specialization, and the further he strays from his personal experience with religion (Christianity), the more inane, misguided, and flat-out ignorant his arguments become. There are great takedowns of religions outside Christianity, however Dawkins is too caught up in his own prejudiced bias and lack of experience to articulate them properly.

>> No.5333366

>>5333353
Nice try.

>> No.5333371

>>5333306
>>It was pointless! How did he turn into the bug? Why were his parents so heartless of his death. They just went on with l life and could care less that their only son has DIED! I am very disappointed.

lol

>> No.5333387

>As a professional philosopher I found this book to offer some interesting points on neuroscience, but exhibit some serious deficiencies in philosophy. Harris too often begs the question against the naturalistic position he is arguing for, and he fails to adequately account for the well-recognized weaknesses of purely utilitarian ethics. An unsuccessful exercise in popular philosophy.

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>>5333387
>>As a professional philosopher

>> No.5333396

>>5333387
That's actually a decent point, though.

>> No.5333399

>>5333306
>the road

>Punctuation: Commas notable only for their paucity, the word " and " for its superfluity.

>Characterisations: A man and a a boy

>Plot:They walk down a road

>Style: Well, none really

>One star is one too many

>> No.5333403

>>5333399
>style: well none really

plebs eh

>> No.5333407
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lol

>> No.5333417

That seriously jistled my rimmies.

One of my favorites:

>It sure feels good to wear leather jackets and be in a highschool literature and evil class in Boston

>> No.5333423

>>5333332
It was Mason & Dixon by the way

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>>5333306
topkek

>> No.5333430

Swann's way

>I think Proust was mentally ill. I got to page 168 when he began discussing the smell of his chamber pot after having eaten asparagus. He cannot be worth a year of my time.

>> No.5333438

>>5333430
rofl

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t-thanks

>> No.5333449

>>5333441
Pretty impressive.

>> No.5333455

>the trial

>I had high hopes for this book as I had read countless excellent reviews. The idea behind it is extremely interesting as the term "Kafkaesque" is heard frequently in today's media. I was left seriously disappointed. I was left wading through a constant stream of random information while never actually finding anything like a meaningful plot. Another "classic" which does not deserve the status.

>> No.5333457

>>5333430

well he did force his friends to torture mice so that he could jack off to their suffering....in order to explore the sexuality of pain or some bullshit

he was also an asshole to everyone he knew...

>> No.5333459

*Gasps. Shrieks. Attempts to escape but cannot.*

That's me, floundering around in the Pit of Eternal Tedium, otherwise known as George Eliot's Middlemarch. It was assigned to my English class, or I would have escaped the Pit much earlier, with considerably less damage to my brain cells caused by trying to understand what the heck was supposed to be happening. This is without a doubt one of the dullest books I have ever read. (Since I have read "Robinson Crusoe", this is saying an awful lot.)

I do not understand the appeal in this book. What's to love in a large cast of characters having tremendous difficulty with everything because they are too helpless to do anything about it? Worse, every single one of these characters is supposed to be partly sympathetic. Except maybe Raffles.

There are so many things I dislike about this nine-hundred-page novel that I'm having trouble sorting them into anything cohesive. First and foremost, we have the characters, all of whom I have a continual desire to throttle, except for Mary Garth. (She earns a whole half-star by herself.) Am I supposed to feel sorry for Bulstrode and Casaubon? Am I supposed to like Dorothea? And what's with Ladislaw? He doesn't do anything during the whole course of the book - Dorothea is the one who eventually proposes, for heaven's sake, and all Ladislaw does is talk and look angry.

Now that I've worked off my first excess of emotion, I can say that yes, I know that this is an excellent representation of villages, humanity, life itself et cetera, but I don't like reading about life itself. It doesn't particularly interest me, and it really doesn't when I don't like any of the characters.

Since everyone else seems to agree that this is a marvelous, wonderful book which every writer ought to read (and incidentally, some say that if you're a writer and you don't like it, you shouldn't be a writer. Supercilious presumption.), I'm going to end my review here. I didn't like Middlemarch and I doubt that I'm ever going to.

>> No.5333472

>>5333459
>but I don't like reading about life itself. It doesn't particularly interest me

dear god

>> No.5333485

>>5333459
Also of Middlmarch:

"Dorothea Brooke is SUCH a tiresome goody-goody. She has no demons, no resentments, no earthly appetites, no weaknesses, no prejudices, no jealousy, no envy, no regrets, no hang-ups, no earthly appetites, no sense of humor, and no personal needs of any kind -- just a vaguely smug desire to "do good."

I hate. Her. I HATE her. I hate her so freakin' bad!!!!"

>> No.5333490

>>5333457
source on that ? That sounds like those internet rumors that everyone spreads but nobody ever cares to check. I've heard interviews from his housemaid, and she seems to have got along quite well with him.

>> No.5333521

>>5333459
>>5333472

that same reviewer game Lolita a 1/5 and
catcher in the rye 4/5 and harry potter 5/5

doesn't like books about life, but 90% of the books she reads are chick flick, romance, and dinner party bullshit.

>> No.5333523

>>5333490
Ernest Hemingway told me

>> No.5333530

>>5333521
>that same reviewer game Lolita a 1/5

Let me guess: was it because she didn't like the protagonist and she found the pedophilia icky?

>> No.5333532

>>5333523
He just told you about his latest gay wet dream.

>> No.5333549

>>5333490

It appears in a lot of books about his life / biography.

>Finally, Carter sensitively tackles the contentious issue of Proust’s friendship with the brothel-owner, Albert Le Cuziat, whose establishment Proust may have financed and certainly frequented and where, according to some observers, he reached sexual climax by defiling a photograph of his mother and watching the torture of rats.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/3653990/The-duckling-turned-into-a-beautiful-Swann.html

>> No.5333570

>This book not only ruined a week at the beach but also damaged my self-esteem. After years of hearing that this was such a difficult work to read, I confidently and pridefully picked it up in an effort to prepare for a trip to Ireland. I finished it out of nothing but determination and the last shreds of my dignity. I have no idea what any of it meant, and I could not find coherence in more than 10 pages at a time. Did I have the thoroughness to investigate literary criticisms to try to understand what I had read? No. I just wanted to get the hell away from it and be done with this humiliating event in my reading life. I made sure to take a picture of myself with the statue of James Joyce in Dublin, to have a reminder for myself that I'm not as smart as I thought I was.

Here is the kicker, this was one of the responses

>You summed up my feelings too. I felt the same also when I finished reading 'The Great Gatsby'.

>> No.5333579

>>5333549
Interesting. I have two cats at home, that might be enough for a good novella.

>> No.5333598

>>5333570

I can kind of appreciate the review because at least they're being honest. But that fucking response? WHat the fuck? Comparing Ulysses (Or finnegans wake?) to Gatsby?

>> No.5333604

>>5333598
>yfw she was talking about Dubliners

>> No.5333616

I gave them the benefit of the doubt. Dubliners is like entry-level modernism. Oh well.

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5334337

pic is The End of Eternity
following is 1984

I am going to go against the grain with this one. Whilst it may be true that the book serves as an educational warning against totalitarian thinking and so on, and while yes it is well written and widely regarded as a classic, I personally hated this book. George Orwell creates a world that transends all possiblity, compassion, love, hope, faithfulness and reason, to expose false thinking. Whilst we all know such a world is philosophically and scientifically impossible, that seems to be irrelevant, create such a world which bypasses all human decency to highlight the kinds of thinking which goes on in this real world of ours at certain times and places. But what is the point of creating a hideous and impossible world to expose so-called underlying truths of our existance, when we can't even exist without hope, without individuality, without love, and so on on. These very good attributes, along with our negative tendencies, are the very things which define us.
I'm sorry to say of all the books I have ever read on philosophy, science, and general fiction I fail to see the point in this book. Mr Orwell has gone way way too far in my opinion, and by doing so defeated the very purpose of writing the novel. His book Animal Farm, in comparison, was a work of genius, because it portrayed people (in this case animals as satire) as they often are. I also much prefer the Lord of the Flies in this kind of educational genre, again primarily because it is still in the realm of the real and the possible, and not some deliberately overdone zombie-like world where zombies are deliberately set up not to have feelings, and then the reader is asked to be in awe when it is found that they have some.
A waste of time.

>> No.5334368

>>5334337
did any of your write that?

>Orwell is one of the most overrated novelists of this century. He's nothing more nor less than a second-rate hack who profiteered by preying on the worst fears of modern man. Today, his book is the modern bible of the paranoid disgruntled white male and other conspiracy nutcases. Yet another fairy tale, albeit a grown-up one, warns us to LOOK OUT for that proverbial boogy man--Big Brother, in this case, being the latest in a long line of aliases he goes under. Perhaps Orwell's "Newspeak" should include these additions: "Propaganda is Truth"; "Truth is Absolute"; "Freedom springs from Fear"; "Extremism is Virtue." This book has never made anyone stop to think, but, instead, to fear and hate one more faceless abstraction. Contemporary paranoia gets a much more powerful portrayal in the works of Thomas Pynchon, such as "The Crying of Lot 49." At least IT has the virtue of being well written.

>> No.5334388

>>5334337
>implying that isn't an incredibly apt review of TEoE

>> No.5334397

>>5334388
End of Eva was good tho

>> No.5334434

Apparently everybody hates Moby Dick. I started skimming through some of the 30,000 1-star reviews and stopped.

>> No.5334673

>>5333396
(thats the joke)

>> No.5334721

>>5333306
>critics' pet "Kafka"

Why is his name in quotation marks? Is he an impostor or something?

>> No.5335040

1. I am a nerd
>paragraph about reviewer's personal history
2. I had to look up the definition of "cyberpunk" on Wikipedia.
>paragraph where reviewer explains how she can't grasp simple concepts like cyberspace and simstim decks
3. I never finished the book, because writing this review was more fun.
>Reviewer coughs up one star for the book because she was too stupid to understand what was going on in it, despite being a self-professed "nerd"

Women...am I right? Just because you don't go to a bar every night doesn't make you a nerd you fucking twit.

>> No.5337116

>>5333306
He is right though, it is a pointless story.

>> No.5337156

>>5333521
catcher in the rye is a book about life tho

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>>5333407
I very much like the typos, a nice touch.

>> No.5337163

>>5333616
>>5333598
it was ulysses

>> No.5337176

"I didn't like it.It was in Gaelic and I was not aware of that when I bought it. Is that enough."

(finnegan's wake untranslated)

>> No.5337179

>>5337116
>He is right though, it is a pointless story.

But he thought being pointless was a bad thing...

>> No.5337184

>>5333455
This is the thing that annoys me the most reading reviews. Everyone expects every single book to be the answer to life or some shit. To be perfectly tailored for their world view and philosophy. If you write a convincing racist, and offer an insight in the mind of a racist, they get their panties in a bunch because ''the book is racist'' It's ridiculous.

>> No.5337187

>>5337116
>>5337179
pointlessness as a theme =/= the story was pointless

>> No.5337194

>>5333485
Lold.

I like this reviewer

>> No.5337201

>>5337187
>pointlessness as a theme =/= the story was pointless

pointlessness was not a "theme"...at all.

It's far more accurate to say the story was pointless.

>> No.5337202

>>5337187
>>5337179
The problem is it is also boring. Camus's Plague can get boring too in some parts of it, but it has many points, for example.

>> No.5337206

>>5337201
but the story does demonstrate certain ideas so how can it be pointless

>> No.5337212

>>5337206
>but the story does demonstrate certain ideas so how can it be pointless

those ideas never achieved a point.

>> No.5337218

>>5337212
but the point of the story is to demonstrate the ideas

>> No.5337223

>>5337218
>but the point of the story is to demonstrate the ideas

no that was never the point.

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>>5337223
>>5337212
if the point of the story was to be pointless is it truly pointless

>> No.5337230

>>5337228

It was never a point of the story to be "pointless".

It was simply pointless due to a lack of a point.

>> No.5337256

>>5333441

Well, at least he wasn't a prick about it.

>> No.5337307

>>5337202

I read The Metamorphosis when I was like 15 and I never thought it was boring.

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>>5333306
It is a strange sort of person who thinks they need to contribute an amazon/goodreads review to the critical canon surrounding the classics.

>> No.5337342

>>5333407
That review just got more magical as it went on.
>the dark religions that Ligotti is involved in
>this is fodder for every suicide-murder fanatic out there

I hope that reviewer never reads any of Ligotti's fiction. He might bust a vein.

>> No.5337386

>>5337342

although his reasoning is wacky, the 1 star is an apt review of Ligotti, as a human and as a writer.

>> No.5337395

>>5337316
it is a strange sort of person who thinks the classics are immune from criticism

>> No.5337413

>>5337395
The reviews are never critical, just moaning that reflects the reviewer's own ignorance.

>> No.5337426

>>5337413
This is true, nothing wrong with criticizing the canon if you have something actually useful to say but it usually just ends up being

>omg it was so boring
or
>I don't get it

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>>5333441

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>>5337226
>"opiate of the people," after all

>> No.5337634

>>5333306
although Flashman isn't exactly literature its one star reviews are funny because its all SJWs crying about "Dats Rasicst " and "muh sogny"

>> No.5337665

>>5334368
That review is a solid 8 on D&E scale.

Captcha: 8

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>>5333306
>had no point of view
in what capacity does this make any sense
>>5333425
>THERE WAS A WHOLE CHAPTER JUST ABOUT A TURTLE

>> No.5337695

>>5337395
Obviously they're not immune from criticism, that's why I referred to the "critical canon surrounding [them]."
Do the people who write these reviews imagine someone will say, "Oh, well, I wasn't sure if I wanted to read Ulysses, but now that I know <3ChubbiGurlz~ thought it was disorganized and boring, I'm certainly not going to pick it up."

>> No.5337709

>>5337695
people here seem stupid enough to read (or not) books based on the recommendations from other people on /lit/ so i don't see how that's so out of the question.

>> No.5337721

>>5337709
It's noy really stupid, just a matter of tastes. People who like Pynchon, Kafka and Borges would probably find fitting recs on /lit. People who don't like any of those would be well served on goodreads.

>> No.5337723

>>5333306
You know what they say, let the plebs pleb.

>> No.5337740

>>5337721
no, conforming your tastes and ideas on what's good and bad on this forum of all places is pretty really dumb.

>> No.5337754

>>5337709
see
>>5337413
/lit/ can be pretty shit but it's pseudo-intellectual at worst. People regularly ask what they were missing from a book in hopes of enjoying it more, or at least understanding the merits it has accrued, quite the opposite of the kind of thing that passes for a review on Goodreads.

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>>5337721
>People who don't like Pynchon, Kafka and Borges are Goodreads plebs

>> No.5337785

>>5337709
It isn't just books, though. I might read an amazon review or listen to /lit/ about Pynchon or Tao Lin or Ligotti.
But, the classics are already wedged into culture. Everyone knows Nietzsche was a sexist, a 1-star review of Beyond Good and Evil really isn't contributing anything.

>> No.5337787

>>5337116
wow stop posting any time.

>> No.5338136

>>5333306

>I rate it very low because it is very fictional

7/10 my eyelid twitched

>> No.5338155

>>5333399

>Style: Well, none really

If The Road had one fatal flaw it's that it tried too hard to coast by on its style. Wotta dunce

>> No.5338170

>>5337773
I wanted to add (and Melville, and Dante, and Flaubert,...) but I was lazy.

>> No.5338392

Technically I read this book in German, and if I could give it zero stars, I would. I read the first sentence (in German, mind you) around 3:30 in the morning earlier this semester, and was convinced I was loosing my mind and that I couldn't be translating it right. It read: "Gregor Samsa awoke on morning to discover that he had somehow transformed into a giant cockaroach". After typing the sentence into freetranslation.com and finding out I actually had read and translated it correctly, I thought for sure the author had lost
his mind.

I'm sorry, but all this stuff about him being a symbol for Jesus and struggling for mankind is a bit over-the-top I think. He's a cockaroach. There's no explaination for it, and his family is only mild freaked out at the fact that he suddenly turned into a giant bug. If the family tried to take him to the doctor, or sell him to the circus, or perhaps even give a damn at all, the story might have kept my attention for more than the first few pages

>> No.5338474

>>5338392
That one hurts me because reading Kafka in english is suffering.

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>>5333306
>How did he turn into the bug?
mfw i have met people that think that is a valid critique

>> No.5338510

>>5337785
>Everyone knows Nietzsche was a sexist,
oh wow are you fucking retarded?

>> No.5338576

>>5338510

every man was sexist back then, by our standards.

>> No.5338585

>>5338510
"234. Stupidity in the kitchen; woman as cook; the terrible thoughtlessness with which the feeding of the family and the master of the house is managed! Woman does not understand what food means, and she insists on being a cook! If woman had been a thinking creature; she should certainly, as cook for thousands of years, have discovered the most important physiological facts ..."

Beyond Good & Evil

And that is just the most bizarre example, and therefore the most memorable. Philosophers don't have to be perfect.

>> No.5338605

>>5338585
>reading like a pleb
enjoy gleaning superficial meanings your whole life idiot

>> No.5338608

>>5338492
>imploying it isn't

>> No.5338637

>>5338605
>being so fanatically dedicated to someone that you refuse to admit he could have ever made a mistake

Nietzsche wouldn't approve of that attitude, ya know.

>> No.5339068

>>5333425
>THERE WAS A WHOLE CHAPTER JUST ABOUT A TURTLE
Wrong Steinbeck though. Plus, I dig his style. Let me describe the setting, get it out of the way, the stage is set, and then I'm going have the story.

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>I think all aspiring writers should remember this: good writing should be easy for the average reader to understand. I read a lot and I am fairly certain I am of above average intelligence and I really struggled with this book. That's a bad book.

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http://www.amazon.com/Holy-Bible-King-James-Version/product-reviews/1585161519/ref=cm_cr_dp_qt_hist_one?ie=UTF8&filterBy=addOneStar&showViewpoints=0


Hehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehe

>> No.5339110

>>5339079
>I'm really smart I promise
>this book's just stupid

>> No.5340422

Admittedly, this is a two star review, but all the one star ones only complained about Hurley's translation:
>I was recommended Borges' works by one of his innumerable over-educated sycophants and I will never forget the tremendous time I wasted attempting to grasp the supposed value of his life's work (when I should have been writing my dissertation). Each time I read one of his pedantic, mediocre peices of short fiction, I was convinced by these elite book review troglodytes that I would like other examples of his work if I continued reading since "all of his stories are so unique." I found the exact opposite to be true. One story after another about mazes, mirrors, mystical mathematical formulas and books, books, books. The ideas were transperant, the language boring in the extreme. His poetry is trite. Who needs this? Borges reads like a petulant graduate student at University of Chicago who failed repeatedly to get his/her short fiction published in _The Atlantic Monthly_. Particularly among academics, literary elites and like people, many seem to cite Borges and worship his genius more than read him--and certaintly _no one_ reads him critically. I read most of his work, and I can tell you, outside of a few interesting turns of phrase, you'd be better off reading a Yale dissertation on the semiotics of self-superiority. People incessantly talk about how imaginative Borges is. The vast majority of popular SF and fantasy writers are more imaginative. Even many of the despicable magical realist "geniuses" make Borges look rather plain. Borges merely litters his works with elite literary references and a kind of faculty cocktail party wit to make it more palatable to the kind of people who never step foot out of Manhattan or Cambridge. If you're this kind of pompous fellow, you'll want to sleep every night with a portrait of Luis by your side and a series of mirrors, as it were, slowly attempting to seek some kind of trans-substantiation with this benighted old librarian. If you're the kind of person who prefers reading about interesting characters, enjoying nuanced use of language, and grasping subtle, daring ideas that transcend purile academic banter, run far, far away from Jorge Luis Borges. Even top authors from all over the world and every historical period get bad reviews. The adulation of Borges merely underlines the fact that this is more about a cult of personality among (those who think themselves) intellectual elites than a serious attempt to evaluate his fiction. I think his fiction is better considered a kind of academic experiment, relegated to quirky local fiction publications and coffee house poetry slams, and not an example of literary genius. In that sense, 30min spent on one of his short stories gets you the drift of his entire body of work, and that's about as much attention as he deserves.

>> No.5340544

>>5338605
Oh come on, not all sentences have to be "what if truth is a woman?". Some of them you can just read as "women dumb bro". At best, you can say that Nietzsche was a useful sexist. His criticism of women applies to men as well if they possess traditionally female traits.

>> No.5340554

>>5334434
>tfw no one likes the whale encyclopedia parts of Moby Dick except me
Do these people not get that these sections of the book are Ishmael's inner thoughts and that there's always some transient truth that he tries to expose at the end of each chapter?

>> No.5340583

>>5340422
>over-educated
What?
Is that an actual term, or just the ultimate sign you're talking to an anti-academic yet somehow pretentious "the classics are boring/don't fit my world view, so don't read those" cunt?

>> No.5340644

>>5340583
everybody's over-educated if you're under-eductaed and don't know it

>> No.5340652

>>5340422
first third was spot on. the rest was just rambling

>> No.5340660

>>5340422
>transperant

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>>5333455
>I was left wading through a constant stream of random information

I actually physically cringed and made a noise resembling what I would imagine a dying monkey being hugged too hard might let slip.
Sort of a "aurrreeeeegggggghuuuuuuuuughfuck"

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>>5337386
>the 1 star is an apt review of Ligotti, as a human and as a writer
>Ligotti
>1 star writer
Getting baited like no tomorrow most likely but what the fuck.

>> No.5340940

>>5340544
You're acting as if being sexist is something objectively bad.

>> No.5340980

About LOTR:
>This book have no depth and noone can compare these with DragonLance ChronicLes or Dark ELf series. OnLy war scenes and beeing the first fantasy novel made me give one star...too bad...Salvatore, Hickman & Weiss ruLLaz...

>Admirers of Tolkien's work marvel at the man's capacity to create a vast imaginative world. He could certainly do that - whether he could say anything even remotely interesting with it is another matter. Tolkien appeals to the young and immature because his world is enormous, detailed, and clearly ordered, unlike our own, which is only enormous and detailed. So it's a very pleasant escape from reality, but in the end it's nothing but a padded playground for the childish. I blush to remember that there was a time when I'd learned to write in Elvish. This skill has not served me in later life. This fella wrote one good children's book and a tiresome three-volume novel for delayed adolescents; the flood of derivative and gossamer-thin drivel that has come out since his death is something I hope he would have been ashamed of.

>> No.5341002

>>5333306
You must be my soul mate. I understood that was pure garbage even in high school but no one would agree with me.

>> No.5341032

>>5340980
10/10 would take recommendations from

>> No.5341111

here's some more quality material to bump this thread:

from the amazon page about ASOIAF:

>I got these thinking it was "where Lord of the Rings" left off. Wow...so wrong. While the story line is good, it degrades women. If you have been raped or have triggers in that area, this book will hit that trigger in the first 50 pages. I read through to the 2nd book and had to stop. At some points I felt like I was reading a trashy romance novel, then reading about gang rapes, sex trafficking, and it doesn't end there. The way men in the book view women made me sick. There are a few redeeming characters but it didn't make up for the rest. The abuse of women is disgusting.

and this one was actually a 5 star review, but it was too good to not include it:

>really stinky books dont sniff them. they shouldnt smell this bad why do they smell i dont like it (but very good to read)

>> No.5341117

>>5340980
That last paragraph would be interesting if it wasn't true of all good literature.

>> No.5341261

In diesem Faden sehen wir die Bildungselite Deutschlands, dem Land der Dichter und Denker, die sich auf eine zivilisierten Diskussion mit unseren Nachbarn einlassen.
Oh halt, ihr seid ja doch nur Assi-Kevins aus /b/.

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>>5333306
not strictly a review but i'll just leave this here

>> No.5341602

>>5341578
jesus christ.

i found another one, this time about the Bible:

>I am a confirmed atheist. I decided to re-read the Bible, just to remind myself of its contents.

>I had to put it down after the first page... HOW can intelligent (or even not so intelligent) human beings put blind "faith" in the nonsense in this book?

>The world was created in 6 days? My *rse.

>> No.5341616

>>5341602
the bible is worthless. doesn't take a genius to realize that

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>>5341616
>the bible is worthless. doesn't take a genius to realize that

>> No.5341622

>>5341616
of course it is.
but the "confrimed atheist" part is too good.
you can tell just from the wording of his review that he browses r/atheism

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>>5333306
>This novel
>mfw it's a novella
>mfw plebs

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>>5341578
>literally began reading the odyssey an hour ago
>loved the first chapter
>"well let's see what's on /lit/"
>that pic is the first thing I see

GOD FUCKING DAMNIT /LIT/!
CAN'T I ENJOY ONE THING WITHOUT RAGE?


>>5341261
Als 4chan-Abgesandter des österreichischen Kulturministeriums freut es mich Ihnen, als Vertretung unseres deutschen Nachbar- und Brudervolkes, die Botschaft der Republik zu übermitteln:

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIOMzshSyy8

Beste Grüße,
Bund und Länder des österreichischen Staates

>> No.5341631

>>5341602
This one may not be as retarded but still. On TBOTNS
"The women always seem to end up as playtoys for the narrator, running around naked, desiring him, sparring with him coyly, but ultimately, conquered; and the camera pans away. They always approach him, desire him, pretending they don't want him, then give themselves up to him. It's the same old story of an awkward, emotionless male protagonist who is inexplicably followed and harangued by women who fall in love with him for no given reason, familiar to anyone who's seen a harem anime."

>> No.5341633

>>5341627
ha, i was the one who posted the german post.
it was meant to be posted on /int/, i had the wrong tab open.
sorry.

>> No.5341636

>>5341578
>tfw you now feel the urge to catch up on the manga
there goes my afternoon

>> No.5341668

>>5333407
>>5337386
>Christians

>> No.5341680

>>5341578
Even /a/ laughs at narutofags.

>> No.5341784

>>5341602
>confirmed atheist

Does this mean your trillby needs to be reviewed by a committee before you can join the ranks of fedoracore?

>> No.5341799

>>5341631

Besides to manipulate, deceive, and cajole poor Sev, yes, all women did in fact fall in love woth him.

>> No.5341998

>>5340422
>all those university namedrops

wow, do amerifats really define themselves by which glorified day care they went to? no wonder so many of them are unemployable loud cunts

>> No.5342280

>>5337316
ugh she's gonna get all fucking pissy now someone posted her comics again.

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>>5339104
pure gold