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One star reviews

>> No.10687262

lel

>> No.10687272

>>10687234
>caulfield on acid
but that sounds awesome

>> No.10687286
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Infinite Jest.

>> No.10687305

>>10687286
>lowercase i for I
>cuz
>toooooo
>:-)

>> No.10687311

Smug millennial Goodread reviews are infuriating

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>>10687234
Plato BTFO

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>>10687234

>> No.10687344

>>10687286
she's right though

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>>10687332

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>>10687351

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>>10687351
>17 people found this helpful

>> No.10687368

>>10687351
Is this Last Days of Socrates?

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>>10687351
and another one

>> No.10687384

>>10687344
Nah, she's not.

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>>10687368
Yes, look at that man and laugh

>> No.10687396

>>10687384
Enlightening rebuttal.

>> No.10687400

>>10687396
Thanks.

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>>10687378
Is that a diss on Paradise Lost?

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>>10687393
words words words words

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>>10687425

>> No.10687438

>>10687378
>listening to gravity’s rainbow

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>>10687454

>>10687438
Bends my mind

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>> No.10687514

Was Goodreads/Amazon Review section one of the greatest mistakes of the Internet? These fucking retards may actually convince people not to read good books.

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>>10687514
Like this review

>> No.10687523

>>10687286
why are you allowed to rate books you openly admit you havent read

>> No.10687532

>>10687523
Amazon even lets you review books that haven’t been released

>> No.10687533

>>10687522
They're right. McCarthy ripped off the English Patient.

>> No.10687535

>>10687522
>would bracketed translations next to the Spanish be requesting too much?
An American wrote this, I guarantee it.

>> No.10687560

>>10687523
Marginally better than Amazon reviews
>"Great book, but arrived in terrible condition. UPS man was rude. 1 star."

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>>10687533
Dude was unstuck from time, stole the plot of The Last of Us for The Road to win a dumb medal.

>> No.10687575

>>10687560
Seriously. I wish Amazon would just give clear-cut instructions whenever someone decides to post a review: "PLEASE REVIEW THE FUCKING PRODUCT ITSELF, NOT ANYTHING RELATED TO DELIVERY YOU 20 IQ MOTHERFUCKER"

>> No.10687579

>>10687523
/lit/ does this but at least only autists come here and certainly no one with a brain gets their recommendations from here. These people are assigning "garbage" ratings to books that they are genuinely too stupid to understand.

Is the Americlap stupidity meme really this true to life? I feel ashamed.

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>>10687330
>These were some bad dudes.
You're goddamn right.

>> No.10687581

>>10687393
>He anticipated Nietzsche
>'Nietzscheian middle'

What did he mean by this?

>> No.10687585

>>10687562
"admirous"
>perhaps I am too cerebral for this novel

>> No.10687589

>>10687579
Have you even driven past a strip mall, walked through a food court, or attended a movie theater? The Americlap stupidity meme is grounded in reality, no question about it

>> No.10687595

>>10687579
If you think this is limited to America you are sorely mistaken. This is the disease of capitalism.

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>>10687579
stop bullying talented and brave amazon reviewers you hack, have you even written a book?

>>10687581
Baby's first Nihilist.

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>>10687637
>enlightened person

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>>10687651
two stars though

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>> No.10687703

>>10687675
>Plato's Republic is the basis for modern-day republics

>>10687688
>This book on 1500's Italian geopolitics is why my village got bombed

>> No.10687709

>>10687658
Soyboys need to be gassed.

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>>10687330

>> No.10687717

>>10687711
she's asking for a dick in the mouth

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>>10687709
do you even soy, boy?

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All of these reviewers featured ITT are the same people who have every Harry Potter book rated 5-star, re-read the entire series regularly, and re-watch every film at least once a year

>> No.10687745

>>10687675

I see people on here acting like that a lot.

>> No.10687799

>To know the vintage and quality of a wine one need not drink the whole cask. It must be perfectly easy in half an hour to say whether a book is worth anything or worth nothing. Ten minutes are really sufficient, if one has the instinct for form. Who wants to wade through a dull volume? One tastes it, and that is quite enough-- more than enough, I should imagine.

-Oscar Wilde

Don't finish shit books just because /lit/ memes you into reading them. Reading should be done for pleasure and aesthetics otherwise you are a pseud right wing /pol/ fag or a pseud neo-Marxist.

>> No.10687890

The Internet was a mistake. That includes /lit/.

>> No.10688227

>>10687799
I still don't understand how some retards don't read purely for enjoyment.

>> No.10688247

>>10687332
everything here is reasonable

>> No.10688257

>>10687799
t. Brainlet
If you don't even have the constitution to finish a book maybe go pick a better medium like film or perhaps jusr reread Harry Potter per every year

>> No.10688400

>>10687351
t. Anytus

>> No.10688444

>>10687438
They could listen to it at work or when they exercise, Pseud Prime.

>> No.10688587

This thread has made me believe for the first time that free speech is a mistake.

eugenics when

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>> No.10689136

>>10688257
I'd rather have these people read Harry Potter and other YA books every year than have them read books from the canon and come to a wrong conclusion that the book is stupid because they could not understand it or it has no plot. Some people should stay in the gutter.

>> No.10689151

>>10687234
I've never wanted to read a book so fast

>> No.10689163

>>10687523
>how do you know the food was bad if you didn't eat the whole thing?

>> No.10689174

>>10688640
LOL im dying

>> No.10689242

>>10688640
holy shit lol

>i just learned that america isnt a democracy and need to show people how smart i am

>> No.10689466

>>10687688
This one is not like the others. Sure, there’s something inherently goofy about giving a one star review to a classic and it’s not an intellectual analysis, but she’s not alone in her criticism here. Especially if you live in a place with real political violence I can understand the thought that the world might have been a better place if this book were never written

>> No.10689492

>>10687286
> reviewing a book you never finished

I mean, it is Infinite Jest, but who knows? You might fall in love with it at page 200 or so.

>> No.10689497

>>10687330
what the fuck, Brittannia, who the fuck are you to not be down with a bit of dude on dude action? Any straight woman in their right mind should have a thing for dude on dude action, right? I just love lesbians and I wish the opposite sex felt the same way about dicks getting slapped together and getting pushed into a warm dude booty

>> No.10689739

>>10689492
Only cowards quit before the rehab center chapters.

>> No.10689743

>>10687523
You are wise, anon. Get away from here while you can.

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>>10687644
I have that shirt

>> No.10690355

>>10690301
Are you actually proud of your wizardry by now?

>> No.10690368

>>10690355
Ask me again in 2 years

>> No.10690375

>>10690301
>that pic
Jane Austen IS shit though. The fact she doesn't get into it means the girl is one step further to be patrician.

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>> No.10690618

>>10690375
>>10690418
this
it's a well-written book about nothing

>> No.10691599

>>10687560
>>10687562
are you dumb? if anything amazon reviews should only be about the condition of the product and the delivery. Unless they are e-books.

>> No.10691619

>>10689466
That's implying that if a book written in the 1500s Italy is the sole cause for political violence. Even if the book was never written this still would have happened

>> No.10693443

>>10687234
Is this book any good? I've been meaning to pick it up for a while but I'm not sure.

>> No.10694645

>>10687332
>lens

quickly surpassing "bodies" as the most insufferable piece of critical theory jargon of all time

>> No.10694707

>>10693443
fucking amazing, read it.

>> No.10694758

>>10690618
So, it's like Seinfeld?