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Anonymous Mon Jul 29 20:51:07 2019 No.13552114 [Reply] [Original]

This book isn't very good.
What's in the same vein, but better?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 29 20:52:14 2019 No.13552118 if someone says brave new world, this board should be nuked from orbit

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 29 20:53:26 2019 No.13552121 >>13552114 We need to compile a /highschoolcore/...oh wait...that’s most of /lit/‘s charts

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 29 20:55:35 2019 No.13552133 >>13552118 Anon, give me a hug. Brave new world is terribly written

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 29 20:59:52 2019 No.13552156 >>13552114 Why do you think it's not good?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 29 21:01:06 2019 No.13552162 >>13552121 So? Most of them are good just taught shitty

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 29 21:02:08 2019 No.13552166 >>13552156 Because he hasn't finished or more likely he hasn't started

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 29 21:02:19 2019 No.13552169 Bend Sinister

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 29 21:08:14 2019 No.13552199 >>13552162 >most of them are good Well we only read novels written by female authors, so my experience disagrees

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 29 21:10:51 2019 No.13552209 >>13552114 Cloud Atlas?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 29 22:18:16 2019 No.13552439 >>13552169 Thanks. Any other suggestions?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 29 22:21:41 2019 No.13552459 >>13552114 >They made us read it in HS so it must suck. 555-come-on-now.png

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 30 00:44:34 2019 No.13553034 Brave new world

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 30 00:48:28 2019 No.13553043 >>13552162 lol, name a single good book commonly assigned in highschool classrooms.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 30 00:55:45 2019 No.13553063 >>13552114 animal farm

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 30 01:01:43 2019 No.13553092 >>13553043 Huckleberry Finn

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 30 01:02:58 2019 No.13553099 >>13553043 Great Gatsby Huck Finn Shakespeare's plays and poems Walden

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 30 01:57:44 2019 No.13553269 >>13552114 that's as good as 'dystopian fiction' gets

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 30 01:59:35 2019 No.13553277 >>13553043 Catcher in Rye, The Bible, Great Gatsby, Huck Finn, Paradise Lost, Divine Comedy, Philosophical Investigations, Montaigne, Ulysses, In Search of Lost Time, Lolita, Finnegans Wake, Gravity's Rainbow, Diary of a Wimpy Kid

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 30 04:17:02 2019 No.13553605 Brave new world If anyone else disagrees, consider them some fucking morons that don't deserve to read one of the best books that literature has ever provided.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 30 04:24:40 2019 No.13553632 >>13552114 Fahrenheit 451

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 30 08:46:37 2019 No.13554555 >>13552114 1/2 of this book is literally just dude i have sex lmao

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 30 08:49:05 2019 No.13554563 >>13553043 Wuthering Heights

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 30 09:39:03 2019 No.13554751 File: 210 KB, 800x617, 511746739407609347609234877.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13552114 Equilibrium (movie) Hey, you didn't specify that it had to be a book, just "the same vein, but better"

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 30 09:48:37 2019 No.13554791 >>13552114 le guin, vonnegut,

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 30 11:12:33 2019 No.13555179 File: 222 KB, 822x844, uuy.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13552114 Gravity's Rainbow

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 30 11:13:12 2019 No.13555183 >>13552114 that book is fine

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 30 11:17:47 2019 No.13555203 File: 22 KB, 312x475, 8809.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13553605 And yet The Wanting Seed is better than BNW in basically every way.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 30 12:39:45 2019 No.13555550 >>13552114 Brave New World is a terribly written novel, and the only parts that will stick with you when you're done are the Shakespeare quotes. That said, it does present a more likely prediction of humanity's future than 1984.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 30 15:01:16 2019 No.13556168 >>13552133 Ideas are superior though

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 30 15:02:32 2019 No.13556173 File: 144 KB, 1024x762, a1a.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13552118 Large Novelty Land

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 30 15:42:38 2019 No.13556377 Brave new world.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 30 16:33:26 2019 No.13556616 >>13552114 that book titled after a line in Shakespeare

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 30 16:46:43 2019 No.13556663 >>13553043 In my experience, The Great Gatsby and 1984 were the only novels from highschool that weren't absolutely horrible

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 30 16:47:53 2019 No.13556669 >>13552114 Yevgeniy Zamyatin - We

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 30 17:17:38 2019 No.13556831 >>13556669 this

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 30 19:35:31 2019 No.13557532 >>13556616 The Fault in Our Stars?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 31 01:19:20 2019 No.13559266 Brave New World

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 31 06:39:57 2019 No.13560178 >>13556168 Agreed. It's just so poorly written, it's frustrating.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 31 06:40:41 2019 No.13560180 >>13552114 fuck off with this bait, 1984 and orwell are both brilliant and extremely prescient.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 31 07:03:34 2019 No.13560237 >>13553043 1984

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 31 07:56:08 2019 No.13560359 >>13553269 This is true, I like the book It's good... for a dystopian fantasy

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 31 09:03:59 2019 No.13560591 >>13553043 Crime and Punishment.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 31 09:06:01 2019 No.13560598 >>13553099 >>13553277 Great gatsby sucks shit

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 31 09:41:07 2019 No.13560755 >>13552114 1984 might be a little too obfuscate and parsimonious for you. Try something a little less callipygian, like maybe a comic book.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 31 09:44:14 2019 No.13560768 Kallocain by Karin Boye is really good!

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 31 09:47:09 2019 No.13560774 File: 165 KB, 1000x432, retard.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13560755 More preteens today have read 1984 than comic books

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 31 09:59:07 2019 No.13560821 >>13553043 Merchant of Venice

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 31 10:12:55 2019 No.13560871 >>13553277 Who the fuck studies In Search Of Lost Time or Finnegans Wake in high school? Most of the books you listed for that matter?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 31 10:49:50 2019 No.13560984 >>13553277 I wish I went to a school where dante was part of the curriculum.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 31 10:50:52 2019 No.13560990 >>13560180 this

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 31 10:57:06 2019 No.13561017 >>13553043 A tale of two cities, The Martian chronicles.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 31 11:06:15 2019 No.13561067 >>13560871 Proust in every high school in Europe probably, I've read him in hs.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 31 11:08:12 2019 No.13561080 >>13560984 Wait, Americans don't read fucking Dante in school?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 31 11:12:02 2019 No.13561102 >>13553043 Faust. The works of Max Frisch or Dürrematt, War and Peace, greek stuff.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 31 11:14:26 2019 No.13561113 File: 157 KB, 1400x2150, 710AF007-6A70-44C7-96D7-4D0AAF329683.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13553632 Actually Fahrenheit 451 senpai. It isn’t about censorship. Still one of my favorites tho

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 31 11:17:24 2019 No.13561124 >>13561080 I'm german

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 31 11:18:38 2019 No.13561130 >>13553632 This :3 The secret patrician choice, that everyone thinks is pleb but is really the best choice.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 31 12:16:54 2019 No.13561421 >>13553632 >>13561113 >>13561130 gr8 b8 m8s

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 31 12:53:08 2019 No.13561611 >>13561067 Where are you from? I'm also European (Ireland) and I've never heard of him being taught in high school. I want to go to such a based location.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 31 13:04:03 2019 No.13561667 Brave new world similar to it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 31 13:17:04 2019 No.13561725 Harrison Bergeron

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 31 13:17:56 2019 No.13561730 Fahrenheit 451

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 31 13:27:09 2019 No.13561762 File: 33 KB, 510x340, youllnevergetthislol.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13561611 What book (yes, I know potato students literally read one book for their end of school exams lmao) did you read in high school, and what were the options?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 31 13:32:36 2019 No.13561790 >>13553043 Madame Bovary

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 31 14:19:18 2019 No.13562020 >>13553043 The Metamorphosis

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 31 14:41:29 2019 No.13562135 Infinite jest or brave new world

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 31 14:49:03 2019 No.13562174 >>13560871 Do not assume we are american.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 31 14:51:13 2019 No.13562179 >>13552114 Check out some philip k dick my mate.

>>	Weeabo Jones Wed Jul 31 15:33:14 2019 No.13562368 A Clockwork Orange.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 31 18:51:01 2019 No.13563278 >>13553277 if this isn't bait where the fuck do you live?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 31 18:58:41 2019 No.13563307 File: 1.74 MB, 1096x1338, paranoia.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13552114 closely related is the paranoia chart which was created by me

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 31 19:00:15 2019 No.13563316 >>13561067 >teaching Huck Finn and iSoLT in the same country doubt it

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 31 19:15:22 2019 No.13563380 File: 818 KB, 1347x643, 1546304326142.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13557532 Bingo.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 31 20:15:06 2019 No.13563703 >>13552156 If you've read it, you would know why it's not good.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 31 20:38:37 2019 No.13563813 >>13553034 >>13553605 >>13556377 >>13556669 >>13556831 >>13559266 >>13561667 >>13562135 yes >>13553269 >>13553632 >>13560180 >>13560755 >>13561113 >>13561730 lol

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 1 02:34:56 2019 No.13565410 Brave new world

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