ITT Your reaction to the most recent book you read I don't think I see many threads like this on /lit/, and I wanted to try this with you >Book of Ezekiel, from the Holy Bible

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ITT Your reaction to the most recent book you read

I don't think I see many threads like this on /lit/, and I wanted to try this with you

>Book of Ezekiel, from the Holy Bible

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 4 02:05:17 2011 No.2117038 File: 207 KB, 413x362, yess.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >Hammer's Slammer's

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 4 02:06:17 2011 No.2117041 File: 1.98 MB, 295x216, 1317079137671.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >Naked Lunch

>>	quack !!C5Hb1xgiVd4 Tue Oct 4 02:09:17 2011 No.2117048 whoops >the scarlet letter

>>	quack !!C5Hb1xgiVd4 Tue Oct 4 02:09:17 2011 No.2117045 File: 472 KB, 508x270, that asshole from ocarina of time.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 4 02:10:17 2011 No.2117050 >>2117041 Great gif.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 4 02:12:17 2011 No.2117052 File: 140 KB, 600x429, what-the-fuck-is-this-shit.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >Birthday Letters - Ted Hughes

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 4 02:13:17 2011 No.2117056 File: 35 KB, 480x640, 1316906124612.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >Catcher in the Rye

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 4 02:19:17 2011 No.2117071 File: 14 KB, 497x501, 0016.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >Catch 22 Brilliant satire. The ridiculous comedy elements coming into play to intensify the tragedy of war casualties. Overall, wow.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 4 02:19:17 2011 No.2117072 ADwD >Nothing Happens: The Book

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 4 02:24:17 2011 No.2117079 File: 86 KB, 360x270, 01-frustrated.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >Everything Is Illuminated Why the fuck was nothing illuminated? False advertising.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 4 02:28:17 2011 No.2117086 >>2117079 Don't ever read "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" if lying titles irk you.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 4 02:37:17 2011 No.2117098 >>2117086 The blurb on that book implied it was funny. Was it?

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 4 02:38:17 2011 No.2117101 File: 8 KB, 645x773, 1317343587560.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >Crime and Punishment The whole book was fucking depressing but the ending was beautiful.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 4 02:38:17 2011 No.2117100 >>2117098 If you think the programming on MTV is funny, you'll adore the book.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 4 02:42:17 2011 No.2117103 File: 757 KB, 980x710, SHIT.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >Quotations from Chairman Mao

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 4 02:43:17 2011 No.2117106 File: 74 KB, 399x388, saadfroog.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] One Hundred Years of Solitude

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 4 02:43:17 2011 No.2117107 File: 18 KB, 300x439, suicide.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >Jude the Obscure.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 4 02:50:17 2011 No.2117117 File: 9 KB, 200x232, nicedno1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Snowcrash

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 4 03:02:17 2011 No.2117131 File: 31 KB, 500x461, i_hug_that_feel.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Flowers for Algernon

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 4 03:08:17 2011 No.2117133 File: 99 KB, 493x467, StraightJacket.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] House of Leaves

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 4 03:25:17 2011 No.2117153 File: 32 KB, 640x480, Hedonismbot.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >Dante's Inferno

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 4 03:27:17 2011 No.2117155 File: 70 KB, 715x800, PdjxG.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Fifteen Lives and a Cat's Story

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 4 03:28:17 2011 No.2117156 File: 26 KB, 279x320, dude face.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] The Dead Zone by Stephen King

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 4 03:32:17 2011 No.2117160 File: 3 KB, 126x114, 1278398827075s.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Old Man's War

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 4 03:38:17 2011 No.2117169 File: 38 KB, 500x396, weeping-frenchman..jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >Austerlitz

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 4 03:39:17 2011 No.2117173 File: 170 KB, 400x400, What the fuck am I reading.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >Neuromancer

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 4 03:40:17 2011 No.2117174 File: 51 KB, 500x375, sad dog.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] The Corrections by Franzen

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 4 03:40:17 2011 No.2117175 File: 16 KB, 350x259, gorered.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Tue Oct 4 03:44:17 2011 No.2117179 File: 33 KB, 558x418, 13929597356422007825.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] The Basque History of the World

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 4 03:46:17 2011 No.2117183 >>2117169 Another Sebald fan! :)

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 4 03:48:17 2011 No.2117187 File: 200 KB, 296x432, 1313661869290.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2117175 I just read Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. pic related

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 4 03:52:17 2011 No.2117193 File: 1.01 MB, 172x162, 1294519798052.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >Bonfire of the Vanities

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 4 03:54:17 2011 No.2117194 >>2117193 Hated that book. Seemed so artificial.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 4 04:16:17 2011 No.2117214 File: 126 KB, 1600x1600, image.php.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >The Sailor Who Fell from Grace With the Sea - Yukip Mushima

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 4 04:18:17 2011 No.2117216 >>2117214 Yukio*

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 4 04:40:17 2011 No.2117229 File: 351 KB, 576x338, alex scream.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Society of the Spectacle - G. Debord

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 4 05:11:17 2011 No.2117261 File: 28 KB, 500x399, 1267936544180.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Effendi.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 4 05:14:17 2011 No.2117265 File: 507 KB, 1257x1645, reactiondick.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] The Trade of Queens by Charles Stross

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 4 05:17:17 2011 No.2117269 File: 57 KB, 500x430, tumblr_lmp0clHRa11qcc8ul.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >A Storm of Swords

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 4 05:27:17 2011 No.2117276 File: 552 KB, 400x225, 1315015683674.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Aspects of the Novel by E.M. Forster

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 4 05:30:17 2011 No.2117279 File: 34 KB, 600x463, 64LK.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] The history of Sweden part 7(in Swedish only, by Herman Lindqvist)

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 4 05:45:17 2011 No.2117285 File: 96 KB, 640x480, 1290592441326.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Madame Bovary

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 4 05:49:17 2011 No.2117289 File: 30 KB, 500x344, 81 Oh Nature. You're So Awesome.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >Hiobs Spiel: Frauenmörder by Thomas Meißner

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 4 05:50:17 2011 No.2117290 >>2117289 Tobias, not Thomas. Holy shit.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 4 06:00:17 2011 No.2117302 File: 64 KB, 309x368, 1316709533486.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] The Beast House

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 4 06:06:17 2011 No.2117308 File: 60 KB, 600x399, jesse-james.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] The Assassination of Jesse James by The Coward Robert Ford - Ron Hansen

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 4 06:45:17 2011 No.2117327 File: 30 KB, 409x333, 131397662370.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >1984 >re-read after several years >now with extensive knowledge of North Korea >North Korea is seriously 1984 and I feel bad for them

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 4 07:07:17 2011 No.2117340 File: 33 KB, 471x355, 1250307676316.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] The Lathe of Heaven - Ursula le Guin

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 4 07:16:17 2011 No.2117351 File: 48 KB, 500x338, tfw-thefall.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Albert Camus - The Fall

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 4 07:57:17 2011 No.2117382 >>2117308 You turned into Dax Sheperd?

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 4 08:24:17 2011 No.2117412 File: 116 KB, 400x536, 1279759233010.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >War and Peace

>>	Tom !!Z4KHMxHjKY6 Tue Oct 4 08:26:17 2011 No.2117415 File: 59 KB, 600x800, 1314816367120.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] the collected essays, journalism and letters of george orwell

>>	Brendsies !!Lnf+NwmjL7c Tue Oct 4 08:46:17 2011 No.2117434 File: 3 KB, 104x126, awesome.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] On Writing by Stephen King

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 4 09:10:17 2011 No.2117459 File: 37 KB, 495x308, O-Face-376.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] ALMOST TRANSPARENT BLUE - MURAKAMI, RYU

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 4 09:20:17 2011 No.2117468 File: 9 KB, 319x389, commitments.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >infinite jest

Anonymous Tue Oct 4 09:21:17 2011 No.2117471
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>Idoru by William Gibson
It wasn't that bad, but it wasn't really interesting over all. I also realized that it has always been part of his style to have fucking amazing concepts and doing nothing cool with them.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 4 09:25:17 2011 No.2117481 File: 24 KB, 500x281, pain183.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Adwd

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 4 09:26:17 2011 No.2117484 >>2117229 I have the movie and the text in .txt format. Should I really read them? I mean, it's no as if he did a mvoie adaptation, the guy cared as much for the movie as he did for the texts...

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 4 09:28:17 2011 No.2117489 >>2117484 Neither are that good overall. Kubrick has done much better and the use of classical music and certain shots are purely aesthetic pandering. An empty experience.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 4 09:33:17 2011 No.2117495 File: 30 KB, 450x451, not_this..jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] re-read a few stories from Dubliners.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 4 09:34:17 2011 No.2117499 >>2117489 You have to realize that Debord was going for an anti fucking everything revolution. I have just read a bit about his movement but shit was pretty extremist. He was aiming to a very different thing than kubric.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 4 09:34:17 2011 No.2117497 File: 3 KB, 81x96, 1255916626814.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] A Dance with Dragons

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 4 09:35:17 2011 No.2117500 >>2117495 Don't you love when you re read something and ten minutes in you realize that you don't really care about it and that it's pretty useless to re read it?

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 4 09:37:17 2011 No.2117504 File: 68 KB, 410x324, 1316862972477.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Patrick Rothfuss - The Wise Man's Fear

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 4 09:43:17 2011 No.2117510 File: 25 KB, 300x229, hipster-chick.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2117500 Not really - made me realise how pretentious I was when I was younger. pic related

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 4 10:00:17 2011 No.2117530 File: 76 KB, 301x276, Screen shot 2011-04-17 at 2.03.48 PM.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >Cathedral by Raymond Carver

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 4 10:02:17 2011 No.2117535 File: 38 KB, 400x648, pb.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Lolita

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 4 10:52:17 2011 No.2117574 File: 46 KB, 230x259, 20090331-umpalumpa.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >In the Hills, The Cities It's a short story, but jesus fuck.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 4 11:02:03 2011 No.2117580 File: 15 KB, 200x245, w233939.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >mfw that story

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 4 11:11:17 2011 No.2117591 >>2117574 BJ Novak?

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 4 11:16:17 2011 No.2117595 >>2117591 Clive Barker. >>2117574 /x/ would lose their shit. Not a single creepypasta can compare to that fucking ending.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 4 13:20:17 2011 No.2117698 File: 56 KB, 600x800, sung.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Yargo

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 4 13:33:17 2011 No.2117714 File: 21 KB, 368x369, shaq.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >The Virtue of Selfishness.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 4 13:35:17 2011 No.2117719 File: 28 KB, 500x368, 1317589223993.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Naked Lunch

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 4 14:26:17 2011 No.2117772 File: 113 KB, 471x490, 1310536416264.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] > "Reaper Man" Dat ending. Jesus, it's like a scene out of a Miyazaki film.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 4 14:32:17 2011 No.2117782 File: 67 KB, 500x600, 8889724962.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >Cirque Du Freak

Anonymous Tue Oct 4 14:37:17 2011 No.2117788
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>Cormac McCarthy's Child of God

>The main character shoots a young girl, and then drags her corpse back to his cabin in the woods. He then makes the long walk to the general store in town to buy underwear and a new dress for his corpse.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 4 17:05:17 2011 No.2118039 File: 93 KB, 500x400, 1262584641_e1d9e0e063.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] What reading Beowulf felt like.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 4 17:17:17 2011 No.2118059 File: 94 KB, 784x1020, Holden_Caulfield_by_Oranjes.png.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >Letters to a Young Contrarian

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