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What you read what you expected what you got thread ITT at your leisure

>> No.1251676
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Although your pretentiousness still kills me, one I made for another thread.

And because I hate you, sage.

>> No.1252951

>>1251676
Well I loves ya brah, I loves ya enough to bump this thread

Middle English isn't pretentious either, swineherd

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>>1252952

>> No.1252954

>>1252952
btw, perfect example of a vicious hermeneutic circle at work :(

>> No.1252968

>>1251334
What book did you read? OP.

>> No.1252969

>>1252968
The Harrowing of Hell, a story in the Auchinleck manuscript. Good stuff.

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>> No.1253007

WOULD YOU RECOMMEND IT FOR ME D&E?

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>> No.1253040

>>1252987
> what I watched
> watched
> Starship Troopers
If you WATCHED Starship Troopers and got that, then you did something very, very wrong.

>> No.1253044

>>1253040
No, I got what he was doing.

He didn't read the book, he looked at the book's cover doing a military briefing and fell asleep.

>> No.1253050

>>1253007
idk crapsguy depends on whether you bridge gaps of historical horizons with ease. I recommend everyone read a lil middle english

>> No.1253054

>>1253050
I'VE YET TO REALLY READ ANY MIDDLE ENGLISH, AND NOT THAT INTERESTED IN IT. I SUPPOSE I'LL LET IT PASS FOR NOW. THANKS ANYWAYS.

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Yep, pretty much

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>> No.1253128

>>1253115

I love his novels but never heard of these two. I gotta pick them up

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>> No.1253144

>>1253040
>>1253044
Nah, I read it, I forgot to change the "watched" to "read". I'm an idiot.

>> No.1253175

>>1252987

Seems right to me.

>> No.1253207

>>1253099
lol'd hard

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I edited this for you peoples at work.

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>>1253222
>in work
>on a sunday

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>> No.1253387

>>1253241

dude its tuesday.

>> No.1253389

>>1253241
Sunday? Wtf?

>> No.1253394

>>1253383

If you had seen the movie I don't see how you could have expected anything other than filthy junkie homosex.

>> No.1253404

>>1253387
>>1253389

>look at calendar
>motherofgod.jpg
>pray I still have job

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>> No.1253428

>>1253410

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>> No.1253436 [DELETED] 

What I read: 2001
What I expected: Pages full of acid trippy bullshit from the monkeys at the Monolith and my god it's full of stars part of the movie
What I got: A thoroughly enjoyable read with some slightly dated now but grounded at the time scientific concepts.

>> No.1253443

>>1253428
YES. THIS. GOD.

It's more annoying than Barkers use of the word 'howl'.

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More than pleasantly suprised, actually.

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Good book, though...

>> No.1253521

>>1253407
Yeah you just suck

4/10

>> No.1253761

>>1253476
agreed. On the good book point, anyway.

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It's a fucking tourist trick, man.

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>>1253888

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>> No.1254073

>>1252969
No shit? I'm writing a paper on the Townley Harrowing of Hell. Sweet.

>> No.1254091

>>1253952

I rather enjoyed the parts with Johny Fontana, especially where he describes his taste in women. The part about nailing a friend's virgin black daughter backstage during one of his gigs was awesome.

>> No.1254099

I lol'd.

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>> No.1254235

>>1251334
Hey OP, or anybody
Where is that third picture from? The one with the demon ass raping the white dude on the spiked wheel.

>> No.1254238

>>1254231

l o fucking l

>> No.1254264

>>1254235
looks like hieronymus bosch

>> No.1254274

>>1253436

you say that like what you expected is bad

>> No.1254734

>>1254235
Yeah i guess it's either Bosch oder Peter Bruegel.

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>> No.1255166

>What I read
Nine Princes in Amber
>What I expected (read it first a few years ago, father recommended it)
Political bullshit, subterfuge
>What I got
Murder, Random is awesome, this is fucking awesome

It is now my favorite series so far. Except the Merlin ones. Those are less awesome.

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Apart from a few select parts, this was boring as shit.

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Book is majestic.

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>> No.1255914

>>1255124
Haha, yeah I had this too. I liked it nonetheless. Fuck yeah, victorian era.

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hans zimmer is at the top of his game though I must say

>> No.1256005

>>1255995
Gotta agree, I just watched it a few hours ago.

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I should have taken the "80% of the book is unchanged" as a warning. It was still painful to read. I can't read hundreds of pages of aristocratic banter; it bores me so much I literally have no idea what's going on.

>> No.1256469

>>1256005
>>1255995

Anyone who went into Inception expecting anything *other* than an action movie has an irreparable learning disability, and that's a shame.

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>> No.1256522

>>1255995
I enjoyed Inception, but I'm glad I wasn't the only one thinking "Matrix" the entire way through.

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Fuck yeah, Gobrin ice.

>> No.1256586

>>1255212
That's one of the books on my shelf that I haven't read.

>> No.1256596

>>1253383
>>1253383
>>1253383

LOL! best image selections
i was about to go to bed but now have to post itt Fuck deepedge :3

>> No.1256603

>>1256596
cancel that. hope this threads up tomorrow.

>> No.1256639

>>1256566
Signed bro.

>> No.1256667

>>1251676
THIS

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>> No.1256830

>>1255995
This, epic thousand this timessery. All my friends loved the mvoie and although I didn't think it was bad, I really hated the fact you could do so much more with the premisses of the story. 'Let's travel to the deepest regions of one's unconsciousness! What's there? A snowy fort full of Russians!' So. Fucking. Gay.

>> No.1256834

>>1254114
If that's what you got out of Ivanhoe, you missed the point.

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This isn't exactly true, but it does kinda come off that way.