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Post based retard book reviews

>> No.12712956

>>12712926
>limp 7/10
His idea of the 1-10 rating system is absolutely fucked.
A 7/10 is a book that deserves a second reading.
Everything about his review screams 5/10.

>> No.12712992
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>>12712956

>> No.12713069

Why are there so many arabics on goodreads? It feels like 80% of reviews are english and the other 20% are all arabic. Very few other foreign language posts

>> No.12713089

>>12713069
they are all of Islamic scholars from the middle-ages, they are just really, really, really old and they managed to live this long.

>> No.12713126

>>12712992
this one hurts to read
women truly are incapable of understanding men

>> No.12713146

>>12713069
I would like to know this too. What makes this the platform they use? It's like how Line is only used by Japan, Taiwan, and american weebs.

>> No.12713324

>>12712992
good lord. I look at her not with contempt but pity.

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>>12712926
>book I really like
>let's see what people say about it
>open fagreads
>top review is one-star

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I found this one obnoxious because she cannot distinguish the entire point of the book. The sinners in hell are TORMENTED. The souls in purgatory endure pious SUFFERING for their transgressions. It's the natural progression from the inferno’s recognition of sin: the difficult road of renouncing sin

>> No.12713403

Does /lit/ unironically use goodreads? It's a trash site

>> No.12713404

>>12713403
To laugh (or get angry)

>> No.12713415
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>>12712992
It's funny because I remember reading this very review and hating it. The one I'm posting isn't retarded but it's one that always sticks in my memory for being an amusing insight into Thoreau's character based on his lack of respect using someone else's tools.

>> No.12713452

>>12713378
She is right purgatory is retarded Catholic idea

>> No.12713502

>>12713415
This is amazing.

>> No.12713597

>>12713502
>>12713415
I feel like I'm missing some context, what does he mean? He disapproves of thoreau’s use of an axe?

>> No.12713608

>>12713597
He borrowed an axe and didnt take good care of it. I'm not sure what else there is to explain, maybe I get it because I am a roughneck Cletus who comes from folk who work with their hands. The review reminds me of something some one like my grampa would say (except that Walden was my grampa's favorite book).

>> No.12713610

>>12713378
The reason you should have found this obnoxious is she/he/xhor isn't able to contextualize.

>> No.12713634

>>12713415
Wow. Stumbling on this incidentally is the second piece of evidence that Thoreau was something of a fraud. The first piece was realizing the proximity and frequent returns to civilization during his "escape to nature."

>> No.12713647

>>12713378
Purgatory doesn't exist

>> No.12713664

>>12713647
Can you read? Purgatory is an allegory for the renounciation of sin

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lol

>> No.12713956
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12713956

>>12713681
>I haven't read the book

>> No.12714019

>>12712992
imagine thinking teaching women to read was a good idea

>> No.12714073

>>12713415
Absolutely based and axepilled

>> No.12714272
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1/7

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2/7

>> No.12714287
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3/7

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4/7

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5/7

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6/7

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7/7

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>>12714272
>7

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12714353

This one is one of my favorites

>> No.12714366

>>12712926
There was one extremely retarded of Being and Time on Goodreads, see if I can find it.

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>>12714366
Ladies and gentlemen:

>> No.12714431

>>12714322
This shit has to be bait. The way he unironically throws the “it’s about fishing” meme at the end seems to be too fucking convinient. If it’s not bait, humanity was a mistake. I just hope God ends it quickly

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Not quite a review but it still pisses me off. Abridged books are the fucking worst

>> No.12714695

>>12713664
False doctrine

>> No.12714701

>>12714402
>nihilo-individualist topoi
What

>> No.12714703

>>12714353
He makes that book sound really interesting. Think I'm gonna buy it now.

>> No.12714708 [DELETED] 

>>12714586
>Abridged books
Why?

>> No.12714719

>>12714586
>Abridged books are the fucking worst
why?

>> No.12714721
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>>12712926
posting a classic

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>>12714402
>recapitulates the supposed content of the book with a glib single sentence that he probably got from the back cover
>proceeds to complain about "H-bomb's" introduction and the fact that he's a Nazi (shocking)
>stirner is a "proto-fascist"
>"misanthropy" and "illiberal" are dirty words
scintillating stuff

>> No.12714861

>>12714695
What does the actual doctrine say?

>> No.12714901

>>12714721
This post unironically makes me mad. This guy has to be joking. There's no way that's what he got from it.

>> No.12714934

>>12713452
It's in Orthodox too, they just call it something else.

>> No.12714951

>>12714721
This reminds me of that copypasta of the black guy on the train who says something like “you must be retarded because you’re reading Plato”

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>>12714951

>> No.12715003

>>12714990
Thanks <3

>> No.12715031

>>12714990
>That reaction image
Where can I find it? It would be a fine addition to my folder.

>> No.12715059

Someone post that review of the Quran in Arabic with the Max Stirner profile pic, gets me everytime

>> No.12715083

>>12714586
>12.8k votes
what the fuck. this has got to be one of the most blasphemous, infuriatingly faggy posts i've read
anyone who doesn't experience moby dick in its true, long, meandering, poetic prose form is truly missing the entire point of the book
fucking moby dick in fucking abridged form. can't get over this retardation

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>>12712926
This is from Antigone.
>The beginning was very anti-climatic
Is probably the most hilarious critique I've ever read.

>> No.12715093

>>12714721
I actually think this is Vox Day. He has some equally retarded hot takes on Plato.

>> No.12715105

Someone post that Stirnerian Quran review

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12715188

>>12712926
I dare you to read this.

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>>12715092
>this was written many years ago
>still had the same point in about 3 pages
what a retard

>> No.12715347

>>12715269
Book? It actually sounds cool.

>> No.12715367
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>> No.12715391

>>12715347
Pedro Paramo - dry and dreamy, but cool indeed

>> No.12715490

>>12715367
>postmodern and absolute crap are two distinct tags

but why?

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>>12714901
>>12714951
>>12715093
>>12714721
>Triggered Philosophags can't stand that he's spot on

>> No.12715543

>>12713452
Regardless, if that's a review of the Divine Comedy, it seems weird to critique the Catholic Universe and not Dante's fanfiction itself

>> No.12715570

>>12712956
Most Americans correlate 1-10 ratings to the US school grading system. 7 is a C or average, 6 is a D or Below Average and 1-5 is varying levels of shit. It's pretty easy to understand if you're /offthespectrum/

>> No.12715655

>>12713452

>Tertullian writes about purgatory
>Pope Gregory I writes about purgatory
>Pope Innocent IV uses 1 Corinthians 3:13-15
>Book of Wisdom 3:1-5 suggests there might be some salvation in the afterlife
>Martin Luther, 95 Theses: 16. Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven seem to differ as perfect despair, imperfect despair, and security of salvation differ.
>Martin Luther, 95 Theses: 17. It seems as must in Purgatory love in the souls increase, as fear diminishes in them.
>Martin Luther, 95 Theses: 71.He who speaks against the truth of apostolical pardons, be anathema and cursed.
>retarded Catholic idea

>> No.12715659

>>12713403
Like similar sites (Discogs, MAL, etc.), there's something nice about a site you can use as a database and checklist for things you've experienced (read, watched, listened to/owned) and things you'd like to. The userbases for sites like this are awful, but having an easy to use tool to keep your shit in order is nice.

>> No.12715682

>>12715031
Just crop it from there. The degradation of its resolution could only add to its quality.

>> No.12715776
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Can /lit/ understand these passages?

>> No.12715784

>>12715776
What book?

>> No.12715800

>>12715784
Critique of Cynical Reason by Peter Sloterdijk

>> No.12715801

>>12715490
funny :)

>> No.12715809

>>12712992
This woman has no idea how to appreciate the irony of a fisherman / hunter / herder suffering somehow by the fault of those they exploit and cause violence towards, in this case being punished by the very means of his shitty occupation. As in all cases where the misfortune of one of these untouchables occurs and is artistically described, the book sounds delightful. She has no taste.

>> No.12715815

>>12715776
It is a bit pretentious t b h
'Dies', 'quasi-neoclassically', I don't know what those words mean and I feel like there is really not reason to use those words when simpler words suffice.
Maybe I'm just a brainlet though ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

>> No.12715825

Can't be assed to find screencaps but I remember looking up Antifragile the other day and there were a ton of 1-star reviews crying that Taleb would freely shit on journalists and psychologists.

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>> No.12715864

>>12715570
>7 is average
>1-5 is varying levels of shit
what the fuck kind of system is that

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>>12714272
>quoting post-season 7 Simpsons

>> No.12715884

>>12714353
>read 41 out of 898 pages
>review it anyway
men were a mistake

>> No.12715901

>>12715833
That was a good thread

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>>12715884
Women were the original mistake

>> No.12715953

>>12715809
Not to be like, sexist or anything but of course she can’t appreciate higher level abstract thinking about literary irony. She’s a woman.

>> No.12716004

>>12715927
>adam copping a feel

>> No.12716061

Why can't anybody build a site like this that looks better and has more features? Letterboxd is the equivalent for movies and works so much better, Goodreads is an absolute clusterfuck

>> No.12716607

>>12714861
There are those who believe in Christ and will have everlasting life (heaven) and those who do not and while perish (hell).

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>> No.12716647

>>12713089
elaborate

>> No.12716656

>>12716646
why didn't she use weeny instead of tiny to rhyme and be a bit more aesthetic? I hate this review. Little discernible talent in being retarded.

>> No.12716674

>>12716061
LibraryThing already exists

>> No.12716937

>>12715092
>Written many years ago
>The beginning was very anti-climactic
I think I'm almost too stunned to get mad

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>>12715059

>> No.12717016

>>12716991
based

>> No.12717479

>>12715269
This has to be a joke.

>> No.12717540

Someone post the Kierkegaard ones

>> No.12717630
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>>12712926

>> No.12717636

>>12713378
I think a few centuries of torture is a fair trade for infinite absolute goodness

>> No.12717683

>>12717630
>(checkmark: read)
>I only read half of it

>> No.12718210

>>12716674
That site is pretty ugly as well

>> No.12718308

>>12713681
Holy Mother of Based.

>> No.12718327

>>12717630
this guy is so far up his own ass, unbelievable

>> No.12718353

>>12716004
Based

>> No.12718370

>>12717630
based

>> No.12718428

>>12717630
>"The straw which broke the etc."
>"etc."

Jesus christ

>> No.12718446

>>12714990
>a black guy calling anybody dumb
lol ok

>> No.12718699

>>12713069
Books are the most accessible medium of quality here. Games are expensive and TV in our cunts is shit tier even in the bollywood of MENA that is Egypt. Why they gravitate to goodreads in particular though I'm not sure.
t. Algerian

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>>12716991
based as fuck

>> No.12718766

>>12718699
Is good reads a good place to meet qt Arab girls? Maybe they want a green card?

>> No.12718767

>>12717630
This "person" should be chained to a pick up and dragged around town till he's nothing but a smear.

>> No.12718792

>>12718766
I don't think so. But then again I don't use the site that much so I don't know how easy it is to get to know people via groups and such.

>> No.12718796

>>12718792
Nah fuck you every chat box is a dating app if you are Chad enough.

>> No.12718817

>>12713403
I use it so I can boost my narcissism. It’s nice seeing all those books you’ve read stack up.

>> No.12718894

>>12713647
someone forgot to tell the catholic church for a few thousand years

>> No.12718985

>>12715188
Sharing a review of yours, butterfly?

>> No.12719002

>>12712992
She's right and none of you woman haters can explain why she's wrong.

>> No.12719086

>>12719002
she's wrong and none of you white knighting incels can explain why she's right.

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>>12712926
Yeah ok but guess the book though

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>>12714721
This but unironically

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>>12712992
What is wrong with women? Why do they see everything in a sexual light?

>> No.12719645

>>12715083
what is that point, anon?

>> No.12719662

>>12719261
Eliot's manifesto

>> No.12719677

>>12713403
Yes, 4 channels' /lit/erary citizens use Goodreads with no hint ; irony. How is that idea outlandish to you.

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>>12712992
>everything a man does, is in an attempt to attract mine or another womans attention

This is like the inverse of /r9k/ opinion of women.

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>>12715269
>talking shit about Pedro Paramo

>> No.12719935

>>12712926
what an idiot
a 7/10 is a 4/5
1-2 = *
3-4 = **
5-6 = ***
7-8 = ****
9-10 = *****

>> No.12719970

>>12714322
>old book is bad because it references things from its time
What the fuck does this guy want Melville to have referenced? Stuff from the future?

>> No.12720273

>>12714402
Seething collectivists will never not be funny even when they send me to gulag

>> No.12720614

>>12715682
>The degradation of its resolution could only add to its quality.

The biggest redpill

>> No.12721182

>>12713324
I got your back pham. I look at her with contempt for both of us.

>> No.12721228

>>12719261
my diary desu

>> No.12721437

>>12715776
It's not hard to read but it's badly written nonetheless.

>> No.12721443

>>12712926
I avoid these things like the plague. I get so fucking triggered.

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This is from Ernst Junger's diary in paris book that was just released.

>> No.12721865

>>12718985
I can't even imagine how miserable your life must be.

>> No.12722000

>>12714586
He made it sound too exciting.

>> No.12722097

>>12714721
100% true

>> No.12722107

>>12713664
That's an interesting thought. Is that Catholic doctrine, or the papists believe it's a real place?

>> No.12722111

>>12714322
>>12714272
>7

wtf

>> No.12722116

>>12714322
This review was as long as the book and twice as hard to read.

>> No.12722137

>>12714353
That's amazing, especially since I'm reading it now and really enjoy it for all of the reasons he dropped it.

>>12715884
Tits or GTFO. You know the rules.

>>12714703
>>12714703
Do it, it's good.

>> No.12722148

>>12715490
cute joke, son. : )

good to see you have learned to post and are finding ways to fit in on 4chan! please just be a gentleman and stay off the red boards like a good boy.

- mom

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>>12713378