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2688243 No.2688243 [Reply] [Original]

this right here, is why i dont read many books

>> No.2688252

ok....?

>> No.2688265

>>2688252
its shit

>> No.2688267

>>2688265
>>2688243

So's rancid, rotten milk, but that's no reason not to eat cheesecake.

>> No.2688270

>>2688267
But cheesecake tastes bad.

I do love to read books though.

>> No.2688282
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2688282

>>2688270

>Cheesecake tastes bad

>> No.2688280

What films do you like, OP? Maybe /lit/ can give recommendations based on those.

I like Vonnegut but Cat's Cradle is my least favorite of his works. I like The Sirens of Titan. It gives the reader a greater sense of adventure.

>> No.2688281

Wonderful thread, OP.

>> No.2688300

>>2688282
Please don't hate me. My friends and family abandoned me when I told them about me and cheesecake.

>> No.2688314

>>2688280
Léon is my fav movie of all time, recent favorite is unthinkable

>> No.2688334

>>2688282
Is that... is that... who I think it is?

>> No.2688337

>>2688334
if you think its hugh laurie, then yes

>> No.2688338

>>2688314
Leon is a brilliant film, and Portman was so fucking hot in it too.

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2688349

>>2688334
Thats not hugh laurie THIS is hugh laurie.

>> No.2688351

DERAILED
>starring Clive Owen & Jennifer Aniston

>> No.2688516

I actually felt this way when I read Cat's Cradle a few years back, was my first time reading vonnegut. Might take a crack at it again when I give Slaughter house five a reading.

>> No.2688615

I really liked CC. But I like Vonnegut in general.

>> No.2688657

>>2688615
you didnt find the book utterly pretentious ?

>> No.2688765

>>2688657
I only read Slaughter-house 5, but based on that...Could Vonnegut ever be pretentious? He cracked jokes about everything!

>> No.2688777

Kurt Vonnegut is my favorite writer atm. Sirens of Titan being my favorite. What didn't you like about CC OP?

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2688785

Futuristic sci-fi is really about the present so some older sci-fi may not be so topical. But then some of it is timeless but not much

>> No.2688820

>>2688765
I just finished sh5. I have to say the man's writing style is very pretentious. It's as if he thinks he's too deep to use conventional techniques. It can come off really campy: "The soup was thick. Primeval bubbles surfaces it with lethargical majesty as Billy Pilgrim stared."- p95
Really?

>> No.2689105

cause it was great? I found a religion I like

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2689110

>>2688300
How could anyone like you? You hate Kurt Vonnegut, and cheesecake. In my eyes, you're practically sub-human.
>this right here, is why i dont read many books
You also sound fucking retarded. If this is a troll it's 10/10, because for some reason, you've angered me greatly.

Ok. deep breath. What have you read that you like so we can possibly give you something else.

>> No.2689115

i can feel that op. loved it when i was thirteen cuz it was all "poignant" and stuff. tried rereading some vonnegut recently and quickly realized that i should not disturb how i once viewed them

>> No.2689120

>>2688820
Considering he follows that description with this:
"An American near Billy wailed that he had excreted everything but his brains. Moments later he said, 'there they go, there they go.'...That was I. That was me, That was the author of this book."
I would be inclined to say that he doesn't take himself too seriously. There would be a LOT of authors I would single out as pretentious before even considering Vonnegut. I think that whole soup thing is simply his style of writing, which I found very eloquent given the right context.

>> No.2689122

>>2688820
He doesn't think he's too deep to use conventional techniques... He just recognizes his themes are too deep to even bother with conventional techniques. Historiographic meta-fiction basically works on the implicit assumption that certain events can't be written about in the traditional teleological fashion. Something as horrific as the bombing of Dresden doesn't lend itself to conventional techniques...
He's the opposite of pretentious if you ask me. Personally, I find him to be one of the more accessible writers of his generation.