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10159447 No.10159447 [Reply] [Original]

Im 50 pages in. When does it get good?

>> No.10159450

>>10159447
if you don't like it yet, you're not going to.

>> No.10159455

>>10159447
It already is good, maybe you just aren't intelligent enough to understand it?
Oh wait, this is a thinly veiled "le atheist literature is so cringy xD" thread made by an altright christcuck weenie, so funny....
Man op, what a gas you are

>> No.10159477

>>10159455
I can tell you how a I dealt with my wife, who hated that book with a passion and without explanation.

As well as harboring an intense hatred of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, my wife was notorious for refusing to get out of bed in the mornings, often sleeping more than an hour past her alarm before voluntarily stirring. Even then, she often rose very grudgingly, her protests expressed in impressive strings of expletives.

This led to a brilliant, and rather nefarious, plan on my part…

This quickly became a morning ritual, of sorts: minutes after her alarm would go off in the morning, my wife nearly returned to full slumber, I'd place my iPhone by her head on the pillow and, with the volume level set as high as it could go, I’d play, “Freeze? I'm a robot. I'm not a refrigerator.” on loop and swiftly run out of the bedroom

And so the swearfest would begin!

Two goals were accomplished from this, in the long run. First, my wife began getting up when her alarm went off on her own. Second, and possibly by some form of unintentional Pavlovian training (or perhaps a form a PTSD) due to my rather cruel daily prank, she decided to give the book a chance…and, as it turned out, she found it to be much more intelligent and less juvenile than she had previously thought. Eventually, she became a bit of a fan of the book.

So how did I deal with it? I suppose I didn't…not in any mature or effective manner, anyway. I was a dick about it… Then again, I did it out of love (in a slightly twisted fashion, for certain, but love, nonetheless).

But while I agree with you in that the book is extremely intelligent and highly complex, I can understand that the humor used to both enhance and mask that fact can easily offend and detract from the book's brilliant core. Frankly, you enjoy the book, and that's your right. That others don't enjoy it, well…it's their right (or problem) to hate it, as well.

>> No.10159851

I didn't like it either
I guess I'm glad I read it just so I can get the millions of references made to this book.

>> No.10159886

page 51

>> No.10159897

>>10159455
Are you a Rick and Morty fan too?

>> No.10159899
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10159899

>>10159447

when you kill yourself

>> No.10159903

>>10159477
This smells like reddit
This reads like reddit
This has spacings like reddit
I think this is reddit

>> No.10159993

>>10159447
Listen to the radio play instead of the book. That's the medium it was designed for, and the writing is a lot better.

>> No.10160212

>>10159447
It doesn't. There's no plot. You might laugh at a few things here and there but don't expect anything profound. The only thing I had a chuckle at was the bit about The Infinite Monkey Theorem.

>> No.10160232

>>10159447
It starts ge%ing good around page 42.