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1949523 No.1949523 [Reply] [Original]

ITT: Books you love that aren't considered "intellectual classics".

>pic related

>> No.1949535

Too lazy to find the cover, but Neuromancer.
Haters gon' ect. ect.

>> No.1949563
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>> No.1949579

>>1949563
lol

>> No.1949582

>>1949579
lol but true

>> No.1949583
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>> No.1949588

>>1949583
>nyrb
>not intellectual

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>> No.1949600

>>1949588
Its about little kids on a pirate ship. But I guess I'm not a good judge of these things.

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it's about some little kids on an island

>> No.1949605

Harry Potter, various Stephen King books, Redwall series, Lord of the Rings, The Life of Pi, The Kite Runner, the list could go on...

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>>1949523

Oh, the vi-bra-tions. ..
Oh, the Unitarians...
Apostate seminarians ...
Grok the groovy
Pranksters and Hell's Angels ...
Whose Angels?—

Onto the bus! and it was so fine, with Angels
hooking down great jugs of wine
And grooving on the sunlit ocean like euphoric
Nature freaks,

Passing joints and Haw!—Haw!—Hawing! but
coursing through their raucous bawling—
A precognitive Early Churchly Gnostic note:
Ecstatic Peace!

Kesey knows precisely what he's about! No
motorcycle beatnik rout
But a trip more vital than all the Kantian prattle
in the world.
He has reached the unreachable! Taught and
learned from the unteachable!
The Young Turks owed it to the Church to give
the Prankster trip a whirl.

Oh, the vi-bra-tions...
Oh, the Unitarians ...
Apostate seminarians...
Grok the groovy
Pranksters and Hell's Angels...
Whose Angels?—
Why the consternation?

Arise ye antediluvians,
Groove on
The Pranksters and Hell's Angels ...
Noah's destination
Is where it's at:
Now showing at the Mount Ararat,
Apis the Bull in Après le déluge,
Groovy movie with a thousand castoffs:
Whose Angels?—
Hell's Angels ...

Dear Lord, prepare to blast off

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1949608

Haters are going to hate. Do ya, I beg.

>> No.1949612

>>1949600
>Others lauded Hughes for contradicting the Victorian romances of childhood by expressing the children without emotional reduction

sounds pretty deep to me. also the writter is friends with dylan thomas.

>> No.1949620
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Haters gonna hate, but I love the ocassional so-called 'thriller'. Has to be good, well written with thoroughly developed characters though, and not full of phony bullshit. Pic related.

>> No.1949634

Really? There's 8 people on /lit/ who don't feel uncomfortable admitting they don't need to read "high" literature all the time.

>> No.1949701

cormac mccarthys blood meridian.

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>> No.1949789

>>1949701
0/10

>> No.1950577
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1950577

Fuck it's awesome.

>> No.1950602

Everything by philip k dick

>> No.1950607

>>1949710
Also: has anyone read anything else by Mr. Sacks? Is he any good in his other books?

>> No.1950647

>>1950607

The man who mistook his wife for a hat is pretty fun.

>> No.1950657

>>1950647
That's the one with the Unbearable Lightness of Being cover, right?

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yup

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>> No.1950945
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Yes.

>> No.1951385

>>1950664
yes. this. i am not alone :')

>> No.1951393

THE THREE MUSKETEERS
THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME
THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO
LES MISERABLES
TO A DEGREE - WAR AND PEACE

>> No.1951400

>>1951393

stupid, stupid fucking answer, capsfag.

>> No.1951408

>>1951400
HOW SO?

BECAUSE THEY ARE CLASSICS? IT DOESN'T MEAN THAT THEY ARE INTELLECTUAL. WHAT CAPACITY OF INTELLECT DO YOU REQUIRE TO UNDERSTAND AND ENJOY LISTED WORKS? PLEASE TELL ME. ESPECIALLY IN COMPARISON TO THAT OF CLASSICS THAT WOULD BE DEEMED AS BETTER SUITED TO THOSE OF INTELLECT, YOU'LL SEE THERE'S QUITE A DISPARITY BETWEEN THE TWO GROUPINGS.

THANKS FOR YOUR TIME AND WHINING THOUGH.

>> No.1951416

>>1950945
This, this so much.

>> No.1951417

>>1951408

because you can plainly see the OP's intent....the other replies "got it", then your douchey ass steps in with your cock hanging out and responds with War and Peace. Go fuck yourself, capsguy. Go fuck yourself right in your ass.

>> No.1951432

>>1951417
I DIDN'T HAVE A LOT TO WORK WITH, DID I? SINCE I ONLY READ PRE-WW II

SORRY FOR PARTICIPATING IN THE THREAD, FUCK HEAD.

>> No.1951463

>>1951408
This. I wouldn't class war and peace or similar works as 'intellectual'

granted, I wouldn't class any book as 'intellectual' because it's such a useless, nigh-meaningless label, but still