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Anonymous Tue Apr 19 19:03:22 2011 No.1712032 [Reply] [Original]

Expectations & Reality.

Come at me bro

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 19 19:06:22 2011 No.1712039 I agree. Fuck you, /lit/ for hyping GR up for me so much.

>>	Quentin !!p3mpBqBwOeY Tue Apr 19 19:09:22 2011 No.1712042 File: 132 KB, 500x219, expectations reality.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 19 19:32:22 2011 No.1712075 >>1712042 I love you beer.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 19 19:38:22 2011 No.1712086 File: 314 KB, 2014x988, fwwhatireadwhatigot5.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >keep coming at me

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 19 19:43:22 2011 No.1712090 >>1712075 Ha!

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 19 19:44:22 2011 No.1712094 File: 159 KB, 1189x471, 1288728130994 readgot.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >a few non-oc....

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 19 19:45:22 2011 No.1712096 >>1712086 It seems like the "what I expected" and "what I got"s should be flipped in these. Maybe you're autistic?

>>	granderojo !bIGReDTC6s Tue Apr 19 19:46:22 2011 No.1712097 File: 213 KB, 800x400, empire.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 19 19:52:22 2011 No.1712106 File: 67 KB, 1023x308, 1288729848539 readgot.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 19 19:53:22 2011 No.1712108 >>1712094 everythingwentbetterthanexpected.jpg

>>	Scarsdale !!0WEZwDAT1uU Tue Apr 19 20:00:22 2011 No.1712121 How the fuck can you idiots not like GR???

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 19 20:17:22 2011 No.1712154 >>1712094 TBH I remember the movie being about as gay as it could be without actually being pornographic.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 19 20:37:22 2011 No.1712220 >>1712121 I have no clue. Maybe they hate amazing writing?

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 19 20:41:22 2011 No.1712237 >>1712106 I agree. Still a good book though

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 19 20:47:22 2011 No.1712256 >>1712096 well at least someone got it.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 19 21:45:22 2011 No.1712418 >>1712106 Oh god, this.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 19 21:46:22 2011 No.1712419 File: 54 KB, 951x475, trolled.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 19 21:50:22 2011 No.1712424 >>1712419 o filename almost got me

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 19 22:00:22 2011 No.1712441 >>1712424 What? I'm being serious about my impression of the book.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 19 22:08:22 2011 No.1712460 File: 159 KB, 1220x583, crap-recommendationt.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 19 22:15:22 2011 No.1712476 File: 40 KB, 509x385, everything_went_better_than_expected..jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1712097

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 19 22:26:22 2011 No.1712498 File: 76 KB, 560x469, 1300802157243.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1712460 I felt exactly the same way when I finished the book. It is an episode of I Shouldn't be Alive that ended the way it should have.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 19 22:30:22 2011 No.1712517 File: 285 KB, 1024x768, ixpel_city.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1712094 Can't tell if that Expectation still is shopped, what film is it from? It makes Casablanca look like a Han Solo fan-fic, it's perfect.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 19 22:33:22 2011 No.1712528 File: 485 KB, 943x518, grapes of wrather.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 19 22:34:22 2011 No.1712530 >>1712528 I spent over 40 hours in MS Paint with this work of art

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 19 22:42:22 2011 No.1712544 File: 422 KB, 1220x583, ringu.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] By the end of the trilogy I highly questioned how it was ever turned into a horror film...three times.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 19 22:45:22 2011 No.1712547 >>1712460 so ture

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 19 22:50:22 2011 No.1712552 >>1712544 but but... the thrashing malevolent water possessed by a spirit of pure hate and vengance!? Also 4 times, cant forget about Rasen and/or Ringu 0

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 19 23:57:22 2011 No.1712749 >>1712517 >Naked Lunch (film) >>1712530 Lol @time expenditure. good one tho - I really felt like I wanted that book to have more factual history of the working class and less elegaic tones

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 20 00:14:22 2011 No.1712777 File: 106 KB, 1322x573, 1296096266754.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 20 00:20:22 2011 No.1712788 File: 84 KB, 1008x401, 1296101430541.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 20 00:25:22 2011 No.1712796 File: 543 KB, 1155x752, Picture 4.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] marginally better than expected. fucking well written, though the themes have been a little overworked

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 20 00:47:22 2011 No.1712827 File: 392 KB, 1010x401, Picture 1.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 20 00:55:22 2011 No.1712833 File: 537 KB, 1010x401, 1303274839670.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 20 00:58:22 2011 No.1712837 File: 28 KB, 377x636, 1302598940280.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1712097 who's the guy on the VERY top right- with the pipe?? I ALWAYS FORGET HIS NAME T_T

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 20 01:05:22 2011 No.1712840 >>1712837 Althusser. The only reason I know this is that he died on the day I was born. I am his reincarnated soul.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 20 01:06:22 2011 No.1712841 File: 76 KB, 1220x583, catcher.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 20 01:10:22 2011 No.1712842 >>1712460 >>1712460 >>1712498 >>1712498 you both obviously missed the point of the book. read it again when you are not 19.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 20 01:25:22 2011 No.1712862 File: 29 KB, 280x358, look.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1712094 >see this >get curious >watch movie WHAT THE FUCK DID I JUST SEE?!

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 20 07:38:22 2011 No.1713261 >>1712528 Are you serious? That middle panel is exactly what the book was.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 20 07:48:22 2011 No.1713272 What I read: Neil Tyson's "Death by black hole - and other cosmic quandaries" What I expected: Fucking awesome cool stories on how the universe is. What I got: Tedious tellings of relatively lame things. An occasional good chapter though.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 20 08:12:22 2011 No.1713282 File: 161 KB, 1219x583, 454545.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

Deep&Edgy !pSkjEcB9sQ Wed Apr 20 08:14:22 2011 No.1713283

What I read: Friedrich Nietzsche's 'The Antichrist'

What I expected: More of the same

What I got: chandala chandala chandala chandala chandala chandala chandala chandala chandala chandala chandala chandala chandala chandala chandala chandala chandala chandala chandala chandala chandala chandala chandala chandala chandala chandala chandala chandala chandala chandala chandala chandala chandala chandala chandala chandala chandala chandala chandala chandala chandala chandala chandala chandala chandala chandala chandala chandala chandala chandala

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 20 08:52:22 2011 No.1713326 >>1712840 ted bundy died on mine :c

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 20 09:03:22 2011 No.1713336 File: 71 KB, 1019x413, 1270256435502.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 20 14:15:22 2011 No.1713721 File: 59 KB, 640x371, nazis.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] OC

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 20 14:23:22 2011 No.1713733 >>1713282 very accurate depiction

>>	Sunhawk !nZQ2xl.g.6 Wed Apr 20 14:29:22 2011 No.1713740 File: 48 KB, 800x318, wibwiewig.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] The Infinite Jest one made me laugh.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 20 14:29:22 2011 No.1713741 >>1713336 I'm starting to think that if A Confederacy of Dunces was made into a film that Ol' Mikey Moore should gain a few hundred pounds and be our Reilly.

Anonymous Wed Apr 20 14:39:22 2011 No.1713758

>>1712833
Um, no. Not unless Harry fucks Hermione while they are in magical fursuits. And Harry suffers from real clinical depression rather than his "sad orphan" act. And there's no two-dimensional supervillain foil. And there's actual parody of fantasy cliche, rather than shallow, slavish repetition of those cliches.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 20 14:43:22 2011 No.1713762 File: 73 KB, 348x286, 1299590914431.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1713758 >mfw sticking up for Harry Potter's literary merits

>>	Sunhawk !nZQ2xl.g.6 Wed Apr 20 14:44:22 2011 No.1713768 >>1713762 I'm still surprised that people over 18 read the series at all, although I concede is has some entertainment value.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 20 14:48:22 2011 No.1713776 File: 7 KB, 251x189, ralph.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1713762 Exactly the opposite, bro. The Magicians was far superior, only partly for the reasons I gave. I was merely pointing out how dissimilar they are, other than WIZERD SKOOL.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 20 14:48:22 2011 No.1713777 File: 3 KB, 126x121, 1299606826087.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1713762 >mfw you don't realize that Harry Potter is one of the best things to happen to pop/childrens literature in, like, forever.

Anonymous Wed Apr 20 15:09:22 2011 No.1713819

>>1712544
You have to admit that in that book there are the first four movies with just the ending of the first one as final impact.
I do remember it being too obsess with magic for some reason, the friend raping a girl thanks to the power of darkness and stuff like that.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 20 15:16:22 2011 No.1713836 File: 149 KB, 1342x652, harry_potter_and_the_philosophers_stone.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 20 15:17:22 2011 No.1713844 File: 93 KB, 500x340, 1299464434907.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1713777 >mfw my childhood was too full of Jack London, Jean Craighead George, Shel Silverstein and Dr. Seuss to have any Harry Potter in it

scout !!1wBNr3mLJL+ Wed Apr 20 15:29:22 2011 No.1713870

>>1713844
I think we are just too old for Harry Potter to remind us of childhood. I read HP while in jail, actually and it was nice escapist fiction--I can't really speak for its literary merits, I think the over-arching storyline was pretty thoughtful until the last book..and the books individually have all of the necessary elements of fiction..I don't think they are really bad but yeah Roald Dahl will always be superior to Rowling in my eyes,

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