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Anonymous Mon Jan 21 13:02:33 2019 No.12450304 [Reply] [Original]

Books that are a pain in the ass to read (and not in a good way) but very important to read thread. I'll start.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 21 13:07:17 2019 No.12450332 >>12450304 Why...just why? Top on the list of books to burn

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 21 13:09:37 2019 No.12450349 >>12450304 Why was it a pain in the ass?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 21 13:11:41 2019 No.12450362 It’s the other way around with this book lol.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 21 13:12:15 2019 No.12450365 Is this guys books any good?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 21 13:13:26 2019 No.12450372 >>12450349 Are you kidding me? It was boring as fuck in some parts.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 21 13:21:15 2019 No.12450416 >>12450304 highschool teacher forced me to read this garbage in sophomore year, threw it in the trash, never looked back

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 21 13:23:33 2019 No.12450429 >>12450372 I dunno I thought it was pretty great all around

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 21 13:23:56 2019 No.12450436 >>12450304 you should listen to your teachers, guys.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 21 13:24:36 2019 No.12450439 >>12450416 yeah sophomore year is tough! hope junior year is better for you man

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 21 13:31:16 2019 No.12450469 >>12450439 That was 2012. It's still trash. Fuck off.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 21 13:57:37 2019 No.12450633 >>12450304 Wow op, I read this book in a single sitting & rather enjoyed it compared to other books I've been forced to read like the stranger. The top of my burn list would be kinda sorta

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 21 14:02:47 2019 No.12450671 >>12450362 It's easy to read in a negative way and also unimportant? That sounds more like it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 21 14:06:22 2019 No.12450699 >>12450469 my apologies. i know its tough getting held back, but everyone finishes high school at their own pace, theres no shame in being an illiterate retard

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 21 14:24:48 2019 No.12450794 >>12450699 >Hah! I got him now, haha, im so witty xD You've nothing to apologize for. Have a good day anon. You need it more than I.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 21 14:25:55 2019 No.12450798 >>12450304 >very important to read had to read this piece of shit in a contemporary literature class poorly written, ham-fisted metaphors and boring as fuck

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 21 14:26:08 2019 No.12450799 >>12450304 beloved: Heuueueuuguugughgghhghghhgh blackkkkk people SLAVERIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII lol nigger baby comes back as a WAHMEN XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD FFFFUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG

Anonymous Mon Jan 21 14:56:12 2019 No.12450972
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>>12450304
>High school reading list book
>writer was a professional editor who, even if you want to argue is not good, you can't argue is easy to read.
Morrison is the epitome of clear and simple writing, and then she does dark subjects in that simple clear voice and normal people lose their shit. You might just be trash at thinking.

OP Mon Jan 21 15:05:33 2019 No.12451025

>>12450972
I didn't mean her writing was complex, I meant Beloved was boring as fuck in some parts. Complex writing is the good kind of "hard to read." We get it, you enjoy Toni Morrison because you don't have to think too much when reading her and it comforts you. Go enjoy some rupi kaur!

Anonymous Mon Jan 21 15:13:44 2019 No.12451073
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>>12451025
If it took you so long to read it that you could get bored, I can't imagine you getting through genuinely complex literature. Your bookshelf must be very patrician and the spines very pristine... it's okay, OP, thinking is hard.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 21 15:15:10 2019 No.12451085 >>12450304 Mein Kampf

>>	OP Mon Jan 21 15:15:53 2019 No.12451090 >>12451073 >complex literature Now what would a simpleton such as yourself classify as "complex literature"?

Anonymous Mon Jan 21 15:24:23 2019 No.12451158

>>12450436
Listen to your teachers, listen to your preachers
Lie down and get sucked off beneath the bleachers
Skipping AP Lit to get high with the crew, feel like The Stranger when it's all been done and through
Going thru the Metamorphosis, fucking goth chicks in all their orifices
Better luck next year, kid, you could be ditching class and learning lived experience shit, instead you're sitting on your ass, wooden chair, sucking the comparative analysis BA teacher's tit

Anonymous Mon Jan 21 15:28:00 2019 No.12451179

>>12451090
>>12451090
Well, the most 'very important to read' stuff for the average person is pretty simple.
But, I'll offer you War and Peace (or Moby Dick for Americans). It's not incredibly difficult but complex enough to challenge the average contemporary consumer you think I am.
If you can finish a fucking Morrison (I repeat, basic high school lit), and get through War and Peace (or Moby Dick which is pretty simple), maybe read the first part of In Search of Lost Time (because I know you couldn't finish the whole book itself). Then I'll give you a gold star on your report card. A+

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 21 15:31:02 2019 No.12451198 >>12450972 you are an illiterate pseud deserving of the title king tard

Anonymous Mon Jan 21 15:32:36 2019 No.12451208

>>12450304
reading this book at the moment. It's absolute garbage. Its in essence a slavery ghost smut book and the NYT lists it as one of the most important books of the last 25 years..
It was a pain in the ass to read because its so damn boring and it repeats a narrative we've been fed as long as we can remember

Anonymous Mon Jan 21 15:41:04 2019 No.12451256

>>12450304
I love Morrison's use of free indirect. I think this book might hammer in some of the narratives, but scenes like Beloved's birth, the slaves that are about to drown, and the women coming together at the end are just beautiful pieces that connect human experience with naturalism.

If you dislike her prose, that's fine, and I'd recommend Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, and Jazz over Beloved for their more stylized approaches or their narratives.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 21 18:18:01 2019 No.12452246 >>12450304 >ITT lit losing their minds because a black woman, a double whammy in subhumanness, wrote a better book than they ever could >durr it’s boring haha gotem

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 21 18:20:31 2019 No.12452260 >>12451208 >slavery ghost smut book Literally everything by Faulkner. Also, you accidentally made it sound good

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 21 22:09:05 2019 No.12453598 >>12450304 >niggers

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 21 22:11:47 2019 No.12453612 >>12450304 My diary desu

Anonymous Mon Jan 21 22:19:33 2019 No.12453652

>>12450304
I read this in college and I was shocked at what a steaming load of shit it was

>incoherent writing style
>just transitions into post modernism for no reason
>overly emotional tone and raging female tone
>muh slavery
>muh white guilt

Typical of something the academic system would give to you

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 22 00:49:04 2019 No.12454281 >>12450633 The stranger was nice, I liked the main character, and how could you hate such a short book.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 22 00:57:01 2019 No.12454311 >>12450304 There's nothing important about any Toni Morrison book.

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