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Overrated "Classics" Anonymous Sat Aug 26 19:52:03 2017 No.9943168 [Reply] [Original]

BNW is overall a boring story, with very inconsistent writing, shitty transitions, and really bland characters. The message was original at the time, but the dystopian/utopian has been done far better.

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 26 20:07:38 2017 No.9943203 Also the first two chapters are just pure boring exposition.

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 26 20:15:17 2017 No.9943220 What then, did you think of Asimov's Foundation books?

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 26 20:20:31 2017 No.9943238 >>9943203 the exposition is key for the book to make sense

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 26 20:22:01 2017 No.9943241 The old man and the sea

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 26 20:32:07 2017 No.9943267 >>9943168 The catcher in the rye

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 26 20:34:48 2017 No.9943277 To Kill a Mockingbird

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 26 20:38:25 2017 No.9943287 Ulysses

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 26 20:42:51 2017 No.9943299 Catcher in the rye

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 26 20:43:23 2017 No.9943301 >>9943299 oops wrong one. I meant The Great Gatsby

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 26 21:04:11 2017 No.9943340 File: 28 KB, 640x480, 1459548343662.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9943168 >reading BNW for entertainment value and not for its ridiculously prophetic ideas on society's direction I'm genuinely disgusted by people like you.

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 26 21:23:21 2017 No.9943387 >>9943238 Exposition doesn't have to be boring though. 1984's start is far more engaging

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 26 21:25:05 2017 No.9943396 >philistines

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 26 21:26:03 2017 No.9943400 >>9943168 anything shakespeare

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 26 21:29:03 2017 No.9943404 >>9943400 I unironically agree

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 26 21:30:04 2017 No.9943407 >>9943168 Nonce. Its vastly superior to 1984 / We. Maybe not We for certain. Its about liberal totalitarianism instead of socialist, so americans think hur dur thats stupid

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 26 21:31:42 2017 No.9943412 >>9943340 >muh prophecy Go read handholder's tail you coalburning sloot

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 26 21:38:20 2017 No.9943429 >>9943404 thank you

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 26 21:53:33 2017 No.9943484 >>9943168 Hamlet

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 26 21:57:47 2017 No.9943497 Everything by Dostoevsky

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 26 22:00:13 2017 No.9943502 >>9943168 >>9943203 >>9943241 >>9943287 >>9943400 >>9943404 >>9943412 >>9943429 >>9943484 >>9943497 >>>/r/eddit

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 27 07:17:00 2017 No.9944496 >>9943497 seconding this

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 27 07:55:52 2017 No.9944578 >>9943497 Femanons get out.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 27 10:20:32 2017 No.9944868 >>9943400 I strongly disagree.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 27 17:12:29 2017 No.9946078 >>9943277 Good lord the book is boring. Its just about some getting into shenanigans with a retarded kid

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