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Anonymous Tue May 31 00:58:00 2022 No.20448637 [Reply] [Original]

Post bizarre book reviews.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 31 00:42:24 2022 No.20449619 File: 21 KB, 692x158, IMG_0895.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue May 31 00:47:35 2022 No.20449642 File: 13 KB, 631x125, 26535234.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue May 31 00:48:45 2022 No.20449648 >>20449619 S/he's not wrong.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 31 06:13:44 2022 No.20449931 >>20449619 Did you write this, screen cap it and post it on lit? Based

>>	Anonymous Tue May 31 06:20:40 2022 No.20449959 >>20449931 If I had wrote it I would have complained about the boring prose.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 31 06:24:56 2022 No.20449977 >>20449642 This is correct but it needs context or elaboration.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 31 11:25:07 2022 No.20450746 >>20448637 >in German [i.e., Ungeziefer] >cockroach

>>	Anonymous Tue May 31 11:38:39 2022 No.20450767 >>20449619 >Stoner >pathetic life Why do some anons think this? Compared to the average man of his time, who often suffered more and had less happiness in life, Stoner's life was good. Compared to the average man of today, Stoner's life was great.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 31 11:42:35 2022 No.20450779 >>20449642 I agree

>>	Anonymous Tue May 31 11:43:01 2022 No.20450780 File: 7 KB, 225x225, 1653451901276.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>20448637 >literal interpretations >taking everything at face value >being unable to grasp figurative language

>>	Anonymouṡ Tue May 31 11:50:47 2022 No.20450794 File: 21 KB, 700x125, Down with bosses.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I don't know what book this refers to, but fortunately that doesn't matter too much.

>>	Anonymouṡ Tue May 31 11:52:16 2022 No.20450797 File: 33 KB, 827x328, Pride and Prejudice.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] He's not wrong.

>>	Anonymouṡ Tue May 31 11:54:18 2022 No.20450804 File: 73 KB, 639x168, Goodreads #8.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Poor Maggie. Send me your home address, Maggie, and I will come and comfort you. The book: Waiting For Godot

>>	Anonymouṡ Tue May 31 11:57:34 2022 No.20450816 File: 142 KB, 640x260, Goodreads #6.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] She's right, you know. A frog could never pass itself off as a washerwoman to effect a daring prison-break.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 31 12:00:49 2022 No.20450822 >>20450816 But if you don't expect a frog to dress as a washerwoman, your first thought would be that the woman is just damn ugly.

>>	Anonymouṡ Tue May 31 12:02:20 2022 No.20450828 >>20450822 And small. (Or far away, I guess.)

>>	Anonymous Tue May 31 12:03:39 2022 No.20450836 File: 282 KB, 862x796, Screenshot_20220531-195946~2.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Ayn Rand, We The Living

Anonymouṡ Tue May 31 12:04:30 2022 No.20450838
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The best part about this review is that try as I might, I can't detect the slightest hint of irony in the second sentence.

This person is either insane or the greatest deadpan troll in the history of literary criticism.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 31 14:05:06 2022 No.20451285 File: 79 KB, 760x425, nail polis.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue May 31 14:32:50 2022 No.20451374 File: 65 KB, 1055x326, canneryrow.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] a good one

Anonymouṡ Tue May 31 15:18:56 2022 No.20451543

>>20451374
A good indoor sport. "Writing misleading reviews of books and posting them on GoodReads."

"Historical novel centered around a 19th-century gentleman-scholar in the USA. Despite his erudition he loves children, music and dancing. He falls in with a band of ruffians and wins their respect with his practical knowledge of geology and chemistry. One by one, they come to bad ends, but he takes solace in the fact that life goes on. A splendid adventure story for boys of ten and upwards."

>>	Anonymous Tue May 31 15:23:26 2022 No.20451560 >>20450836 Whats with the bizarre grudge millenials have against Ayn Rand?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 31 15:50:33 2022 No.20451694 >>20451543 Lmao Blood Meridian?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 31 16:11:06 2022 No.20451756 File: 27 KB, 618x125, fountainhead.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue May 31 16:14:18 2022 No.20451761 >>20451756 Do you think he even read it

>>	Anonymous Tue May 31 16:18:34 2022 No.20451777 File: 6 KB, 189x267, token.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>20450780 >he can't write an inspiring story without muh symbolism >he can't construct a functional world in which laws make sense >resorts to allegories You're a pretentious cuck

>>	Anonymous Tue May 31 16:19:37 2022 No.20451782 >>20450797 >man reading literature for girls Why?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 31 16:21:11 2022 No.20451791 Someone post the guy who analyzed Descartes saying something like there is a 50/50 chance that Cartesian skepticism is wrong because there either is an evil demon or not, but since demons don't exist, Cartesian skepticism is refuted.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 31 16:24:46 2022 No.20451807 File: 40 KB, 768x1024, 1648553174640m.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>20451560 >>20451756 >>20451761 >(you)

>>	Anonymous Tue May 31 16:26:12 2022 No.20451815 File: 24 KB, 360x450, literally me.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Ayn Rand is bourgeois Bourgeois are not human

Anonymous Tue May 31 16:29:32 2022 No.20451832

>>20451560
If you're actually a millenial, or younger, then you already know the answer. Ayn Rand only works in a boomer paradise world where low hanging fruit rewards people selfishly taking whatever they want while moaning about how hard they work and how lazy everybody else is. Meanwhile Ayn Rand was on welfare. This is like a duck telling an ox to work harder.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 31 16:29:33 2022 No.20451833 >>20450804 shut up maggie, you got a receding hairline

Anonymous Tue May 31 16:40:10 2022 No.20451899

>pour your heart and soul into your novels
>some retarded cunt npc gives it a dismissive and sarcast 1 star review

I can't imagine how many relatively honest and well meaning first time authors have gone through this. Could there be anything more seethe worthy? If this happened to me I would legitimately blow a gasket out of insecurity and rage

>>	Anonymouṡ Tue May 31 16:42:02 2022 No.20451918 File: 136 KB, 640x360, Cormac On Punctuation.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>20451694 Of course.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 31 16:44:14 2022 No.20451930 >>20451285 Classic

>>	Anonymous Tue May 31 16:52:59 2022 No.20451983 >>20450836 Considering how good the erotica in atlas shrugged was I’m willing to take this at face value.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 31 21:03:12 2022 No.20453150 >>20451832 Yeah bro zoomers and millenials work so hard. Boomers have no idea how hard it is to be a Starbucks barista where your coworkers are forced to use special pronouns because you're mentally ill lmao

>>	Anonymous Tue May 31 23:42:25 2022 No.20453850 File: 40 KB, 626x310, IMG_0903.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue May 31 23:44:53 2022 No.20453861 >>20449648 Just use they're

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 1 07:15:03 2022 No.20455481 >>20453861 Dilate.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 1 07:15:36 2022 No.20455482 >>20455481 ESL

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 1 07:48:00 2022 No.20455553 >>20455482 Shut up. It's standard to use "his or hers" or even just generic his, retard.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 1 07:48:31 2022 No.20455554 >>20455482 also, suck my dick.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 1 07:48:39 2022 No.20455555 >>20455553 Sure hon

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 1 09:02:41 2022 No.20455695 >>20453850 NOT THE HECKIN IMAGINARY PUPPERINO NOOOOOO

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 1 09:20:56 2022 No.20455734 File: 218 KB, 940x945, 1654075245060.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>20453850

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 1 09:30:07 2022 No.20455748 >>20453850 wtf I love Erica now

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 1 09:39:36 2022 No.20455760 >>20448637 Kafkaesque reviews*

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 1 09:40:57 2022 No.20455765 >>20453150 >Starbucks barista where your coworkers are forced to use special pronouns because you're mentally ill Trannies make up like 2% of the population or something. Or is it 1% now?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 1 10:31:00 2022 No.20455886 >>20455765 You have a very warped perception of reality if you think it's that high. The media and Internet would have you believe they're everywhere -- but statistically they're a rounding error.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 1 10:55:53 2022 No.20455949 >>20450797 actually based

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