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[Anonymous No.1371158]

[Anonymous No.1371180]

Pretentious hipster garbage bullshit

[Anonymous No.1371188]

What exactly are you looking for OP?

The book is fine, nothing compared to Plath's poetry, and it's a shame that it helped create such a stupid image for such an awesome poet.

[Anonymous No.1371201]

>>1371180
i know brother, they will never understand the honor of service to the emperor

[abxtry No.1371212]

so girls that like this you should be cautious about (assuming you weren't already made cautious by other things about them) that's what conclusion we came to right?

what about girl interrupted girls?

[Anonymous No.1371221]

>>1371212
make more sense

[Anonymous No.1371222]

>>1371212

[Anonymous No.1371233]

>>1371188
You gotta be preety stupid to kill yourself.

No troll

[abxtry No.1371241]

>>1371221
'chicks' that like this book you should be cautious about being friends with them/potentially being intimate.

>>1371222
idiot.

[Anonymous No.1371245]

>>1371233

No, not really. Plath didn't kill herself in a fit of passion to fix her problems, she simply just didn't want to live anymore.

[Anonymous No.1371255]

>>1371241
>'chicks' that like this book you should be cautious about being friends with them/potentially being intimate.

I don't know what to say about this sentence.

[Anonymous No.1371258]

>>1371245
You have swayed my opinion of Plath, thank you.

[abxtry No.1371275]

>>1371255
judging people on their tastes can be useful. i did say 'cautious', not 'stear clear completely'.

[Anonymous No.1371276]

bump

[Anonymous No.1371300]

head in oven action

[Anonymous No.1371307]

>>1371275
>>1371241
>>1371212
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and guess that English isn't your first language. Is it?

Anywho, I knew a couple of chicks that read this book and liked it. Well, actually, one of them read the book and liked it; the other liked the book very much but didn't actually read it. They were both pretty hipster.

I haven't read it, and have no opinion on it.

[Anonymous No.1371322]

>>1371307

"the other liked the book very much but didn't actually read it"

Majority of girls don't partake in the action to verify what they like, they just like things arbitrarily.

/digressing

[Anonymous No.1371339]

>>1371322
Quite a few people are like that, actually. Especially at Uni, from what I've noticed. People are pressured to become "intellectually refined" yet they are daunted by the effort it actually requires.

Fucking hipsters.

/digressing rant

[Anonymous No.1371350]

I liked it.

I really liked the slow decent into mental instability, whilst still being aware and conscious that that is happening to you. Thats sexy as hell.

[abxtry No.1371351]

>>1371307
english is my first language just ive not talked much irl recently & 4chan's pretty much the only place i talk online.

[Anonymous No.1371369]

>>1371350
>Thats sexy as hell.

wat

[Anonymous No.1371372]

>>1371350

insanity bears made sex appeal.

[Anonymous No.1371378]

>>1371369

Come on bro, you know that mental deterioration is hot. Just look at Marla from Fight Club. The fact that her life is a complete mess and shes completely fucking mentalally unstable is a huge factor in her attractiveness. Same for Esther.

>>1371372

wat

[Anonymous No.1371396]

make of movie of this one?

[abxtry No.1371405]

tbh i want a girlfriend that reads books like this & cuts herself like me. we could drink each others blood like we're exchanging the simplest parts of our beings. we could also get violent but not in the bdsm way, that's too cheesy. cuddling would be a must & we could also cry together. she wouldnt mind my skinnyfat body either.

[Anonymous No.1371417]

>>1371405

Emotional problems abounds.

[Anonymous No.1371435]

>>1371396


Ehh that's just asking for bad reviews

[Anonymous No.1371452]

>>1371396
>>1371435

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0844467/

[Anonymous No.1371470]

>>1371452

Dat Lumen as Esther Greenwood? What the fuck am I looking at?

[Anonymous No.1371484]

I started to read it but I just thought it was so stupid I had to stop. It's a lot of stuff about her working for this magazine and having to match her pocketbook to her shoes (horrors!) and getting food poisoning from caviar. I couldn't get to the point where I actually cared what was happening to her, so I put it down. :/
Girl Interrupted was much better in my opinion. The characters were vivid as fuck and it was pretty well-written. They're in this mental home and weirder and weirder shit keeps happening and it's like watching a train wreck or going on /d/ - you know it's going to be really gross but you just can't look away. The main character was kind of whiny, but she gets called out on it and that's kind of cathartic.

[Anonymous No.1371505]

>>1371484
The first half of The Bell Jar is pretty bad if you aren't looking for the right things. If you read just as it is without thinking about it, you'll basically be reading a diary of a generic young woman.

I'm not saying that the first half is anything subtle-spectacular, I'm just saying that there's some pretty interesting mental patterns that emanate from the book. Really it wouldn't do you any harm to skip to where Esther moves home with her mom, that's when the book becomes really interesting. I don't think Plath intended for people to just be amazed by her experience in the mental hospitals though, I think that she wanted to show how it was just another seemingly monotonous part of her life that she decided to write down and publish.

[Anonymous No.1371515]

>>1371405
Enough with the god damn inuyasha drawing, whore.

[Anonymous No.1371531]

I thought the book was great, I got a boner when she start bleeding profusely from her vag. I don't really understand how people describe this as a book about an insane woman, she wasn't insane at all imo; she just wanted to die.

[yxtrab No.1371529]

>>1371515
i'm not a whore, i'm just desperate for love....

[Anonymous No.1371562]

>>1371529
It sounds like the need some Twilight in your life.

[yxtrab No.1371617]

>>1371562
I've already read Twilight it was kind of unfufilling because of the lack of realism. I don't mean that because of the fantasy setting just so many factors like all the men in the town liking the main character even though she's nerdy & the main guy being 'perfect' & not noticing it but liking her. just kinda of no basis in real high school relationships.

[Anonymous No.1371622]

Good book, fell in love with Sylvia Plath when I read it. Infinitely better than Faggot in the Rye.

[yxtrab No.1371624]

>>1371622
>Good book, fell in love with Sylvia Plath when I read it. Infinitely better than Faggot in the Rye.
there's too many things wrong with this post.

[Anonymous No.1371626]

>>1371624
Come at me, bro?

[Anonymous No.1371632]

>>1371624
What, that someone has better taste than you do?
I don't think that is wrong, I actually think that it's pretty common.

[yxtrab No.1371646]

>>1371626
for a start, girl interuppted author is more psychotic so you're just entry-level.

secondly catcher in the rye is one of the best (in)english novels ever. you're probably one of those people who calls it 'angsty' or something.

[yxtrab No.1371650]

>>1371646
sorry i forgot to mention falling in love with an author because of their work is pretty phoney.

[Anonymous No.1371653]

>>1371646
>for a start, girl interuppted author is more psychotic so you're just entry-level.

Confirmed for troll.

[yxtrab No.1371663]

>>1371653
yeah ok but more importantly,
>>1371650
you're a sad bastard that needs to go pay for a hooker because you're so obsessed with sex.

[Anonymous No.1371838]

>>1371531

>I don't really understand how people describe this as a book about an insane woman

uh.. because she went to a mental hospital?

[Anonymous No.1371845]

>>1371838
She only went to a mental hospital because she attempted suicide. Suicide isn't an exclusively insane attribute.

[Anonymous No.1371859]

IMO, suicide is a statement of your sanity.
Continuing to live is evidence for mental illness.

[Anonymous No.1371865]

>>1371845


eh, its kind of hard for me to accurately portray the state of her mental being succinctly, considering its developed throughout the entire novel.

But I definitely got the impression that she was mentally unstable, progressively so. Never to the point that Id call her insane, because her internal narration indicates that she is aware of whats happening to her in regards to her sanity, which is what really attracts me to this book.

The idea that you can be mentally deteriorating but still be rational in regards to and and self aware.

[Anonymous No.1371867]

>>1371859

wow, what a revolutionary and deep thinker you are

[Anonymous No.1371901]

>>1371650
sauce on that pic?

[Anonymous No.1371906]

>>1371859

You're digging a nihilist hole full of shit with that statement. It's best to not jade our perception of the insane and come to the agreement that wanting to die or kill = insane.

[yxtrab No.1371910]

>>1371901
http://naturewhore.deviantart.com/
apparently....

[Anonymous No.1372045]

feminist trash

[Anonymous No.1372067]

>>1372045
Agreed. There is a lot of "feminist" literature worth reading and Sylvia Plath isn't it

[Anonymous No.1372085]

>>1372067
>>1372045

Sylvia Plath wasn't even a feminist.

[Anonymous No.1372234]

Just got through another thirty pages of this. It's a little obvious when she get's off her rocker.

You can totally see where it's going...
Why would someone ever compare it to Catcher in the Rye?

[Anonymous No.1372272]

Has anyone read her poetry? Should I get and of it?

[Anonymous No.1372273]

>>1372234

Well, its not really compared to Catcher in the Rye, but rather people call it the female equivalent of it.

Not exactly the same as comparing, just that they have similar influence and relatability to their respective genders

[Anonymous No.1372275]

>>1372234
Because people here are retarded superficial readers that's why

[Anonymous No.1372289]

>>1371906
pleasebetroll.jpg

[Anonymous No.1372329]

Okay, Sylvia Plath. When this shit came out it was REVOLUTIONARY. No body, no woman anyway, had ever seriously talked about the things she talks about in this novel (no spoilers). Catcher in the Rye wise, it's the same shit. People today might look at Catcher and say "look at this emo bullshit," but for its day it was no shit THE SHIT.