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What's so great about this?

>> No.19494879
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>>19493809
follow ur owen steeppes boyo turn raft on the rail. two become onne. like a phamphlet for yore favoutire french fish&chip shop

>> No.19494897
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I don't really know, I can't describe it. It's just a very simple, very beautiful story. That's it.
Also, pic related, I love this minimalist cover, usually minimalist covers on books are hit or miss, but with this book I think it actually fits really well

>> No.19495014

>>19493809
He just really liked that fish

>> No.19495104

>>19493809
a title with words with 3 letters
and solitude, and manliness

>> No.19495112

>>19493809
I'm a woman by the way teehee

>> No.19495178

>>19493809
Nothing, it's shit.

>> No.19495187

>>19493809
The story is short, simple and themes are light, but it's done as well as it ever could be done. It's perhaps the closest thing to literary perfection ever achieved.

>> No.19495330

These guys explain the book really good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSu9WSfE2xk

>> No.19495449

You're too young to understand. Read it again in 10 years.

>> No.19495457

>>19493809
vibes

>> No.19495459

>>19493809
Cozy as fuck. Simple, quick read. What's not to like

>> No.19496004

>>19493809
Probably the worst prose I've ever read in a book.

>> No.19496049

>>19495449
This

>> No.19496056

It’s just a good story.

>> No.19496097

>>19496056
I like how he admits he wishes the boy was there to help him but he struggles anyway.

>> No.19496111

>>19496097

I like when he bludgeons the dolphin to death and eats it raw.

>> No.19496121

>>19496111
Back when I had a facebook I made the joke that I support marine mammal conservation because I want to eat whales and dolphins. They are seafood and red meat at the same time, it must be incredible.

>> No.19496152

>>19496121
Whale is probably really fatty and dolphin i imagine too muscular to be really tasty. Otherwise they would be staples of cuisine already, but they are not (excepting some very specific parts of the whale).

>> No.19496174

>>19496152
I'm completely sure there would be a good cut. The cuts on the cow that is the backstrap is where you get ribeye, tenderloin, and strip. Even if it is muscular you just stew or smoke those cuts until the collagen renders out like you would chuck or brisket. Plus even if it has that much fat you just render it and use if for frying. Imagine frying some halibut or flounder in whale lard. The biggest key to frying fish like that is salt it well ahead so it removes some moisture. I render my own tallow and clarify my own butter already.

>> No.19496285

I am convinced you cannot understand this book if you are not American.

>> No.19496301

>>19496285
Isn't it set in Cuba?

>> No.19496319

>>19496285

It’s written so simply anyone could understand it it’s borderline a 5th graders novel

>> No.19496324

>>19496319
lmao ok last man

>> No.19496325

>>19496301
>>19496319
>the state of /lit/

>> No.19496334

>>19495014
Those sharks were meanies

>> No.19496351

>>19496285
I hear only Americans reach old age, everyone else in the world just dies when they turn 50

>> No.19496977

>>19493809
its kino, you wouldnt get it