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2756806 No.2756806 [Reply] [Original]

How long do you guys go into a book you're not enjoying before stopping?

I'm currently reading Brave New World and it just feels like homework, but i'm going to finish it merely so I can say i have read it.

pic unrelated.

>> No.2756825

post more of those entry pictographs

>> No.2756828
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>>2756825
I'll post what I have

>> No.2756834

>>2756828
nice one. you're sexy.

>> No.2756844

>>2756806
is Brave New World that bad? i just got mine a couple of days ago and haven't started reading it yet.....

>> No.2756847
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>>2756844
You might enjoy it i don't know, I was very underwhelmed. 1984 is my favorite book so I had high hopes.

>> No.2756848

i dont finish things i dont like just to say ive read it. i finish it because i started it and i dont want to set a precedent for giving up.

>> No.2756851

>>2756828
I fucking love the covers of those books. I plan on getting them all so I can have them look awesome as hell on my shelf. I don't even like Camus that much. The Myth of Sisyphus is baller, everything else is ok.

>> No.2756856

with a book i'm not that fond of, it will take me longer and there might be gaps in between where i read something shorter but I don't stop.

>> No.2756863
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>>2756851
Me too. I can't find them available to buy in the UK though.

>> No.2756866

>>2756863
Do you have Barnes&Noble over there? Every major bookstore I've been to has copies of all his works with those covers.

>> No.2756871

>>2756866
no we don't. it's strange how some franchises go international and others don't. I'm not a business major so I couldn't tell you why. Maybe someone will chime in....

>> No.2756877
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>>2756866
Nope, I usually buy my books from Amazon and I can never find it on there

>> No.2756881

>>2756871
Neither am I, but I imagine Waterstones would make tough competition with the massive foothold they have here (and also Amazon).

>> No.2756892

>>2756863
That info pic needs Kafka's Diaries.

>> No.2756903

>>2756877

Didn't read Nyarlathotep before The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath. "All of my what..." while I read it.

>> No.2756917

>>2756828
Suddenly, i want to read those books.
Thank you!

>> No.2756923
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>> No.2756931

>>2756847
Are you me?

>> No.2756933
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>>2756806


FTFY

>> No.2756953
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>>2756931
There's a strong chance we are one

>> No.2756954
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>I was very underwhelmed. 1984 is my favorite book so I had high hopes.

Try this.

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>>2756954
Thanks for the rec, i'll add it to my wish-list

Sadly that's all the getting into images I have, if anyone has any more feel free to post them in here.

>> No.2756979
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I have a couple. I give a book 50 pages to impress me before I give up, on average.

>> No.2758790

bump

>> No.2758823

>>2756806
Would people consider The Odyssey required reading before getting into Ulysses?

>> No.2758824

>>2758823
I'm also interested in this question.

Is The Iliad or anything else in particular recommended too?

>> No.2758825

>>2758823
The Odyssey is required reading regardless of whether you're going to read Ulysses.

>> No.2758826

>>2758823
The Odyssey is required reading in general. Get your shit together.

>> No.2758829

>>2758824
It's the first literature of Europe, just fucking read 'em. They aren't very hard to read and very entertaining.

>> No.2758834

>Not having read the Iliad and the Odyssey by the time you're 18.

Really, guys? Really?

>> No.2758836

>>2758834
I'm 12 gimme a break.

>> No.2758838

you shouldnt read books from the past since they wont be relevant to you unless you lived in that time

>> No.2758839

>>2758834
What kind of poncy fucking school did you go to?

In Straya we're given Tomorrow, When the War Began to read.

>> No.2758841

>>2758834
18? pft try12

>> No.2758843
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>>2758839
>his school didn't have Classical Studies

>> No.2758853

>>2758839

You don't just have to read for school, you know. I read both of those works in my free time.

>> No.2758855

>not having read Ulysses by 17
sure is a standard deviation less than the mean in here

>> No.2758864

>>2756863
I for one think that Kafka pictograph is absolute bullshit.
>not starting with The Judgment
>The Castle before Amerika
wtfamireading.jpg

>> No.2758868

>hurr you should have read all classics when you were a teenager

lol, typical /lit/

>> No.2758877

>Not reserving most of the classics for adulthood, when you can truly appreciate them

>> No.2758880

>>2758868
>>2758877

The works by Homer aren't that difficult to grasp, and are easier to read and pay attention to than most classic novels.

>> No.2758885

>>2758880

>>2758877 here. I agree, but stand by my comment.

>> No.2758887

>>2758877
>not reading every book once as a child and again as an adult

>> No.2758891

>>2758885

Fair enough, although I feel that books I read as a child an didn't understand then are so much easier now to grasp because I've read them before and can focus more on the author's diction, style, etc. I know some people don't like reading the same thing twice though.

>> No.2758902

>not liking Brave new world
>Brave new world not being your favorite book
>reading the classics cause "hurr durr they is claisisscs"
>slobering over Joyce's Ulysses
>not considering Jackals and Arabs as Kafkas masterpiece

Im out...

>> No.2758905

>>2758887
>reading every book
>implying such thing is possible

>> No.2758907

>>2758868

Most people do read the greek/roman classics at school. I'm surprised to learn from this thread that some schools seem not to enforce it. I remember having to translate that fucking boat race from the Aeneid for my latin exam. I hated those boaty bastards.

>> No.2758908

>>2758902
lol I bet you read BNW because ''hurr durr they is claisisscs" you hypocritical little bitch

>> No.2758915
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2758915

Depends. Now I'm reading the Bible and I decided I'll read it all even tho it's fucking terrible, worst book ever.

>> No.2758925
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>>2758915
1/10

>> No.2758931

>>2758915
>>2758925
tfw you can almost never see it rotating counter clockwise

i actually think clockwise looks more natural, with the feet positioning and body leaning and all

>> No.2758933

>>2758925

Thank you for posting that.
I stared at that .gif for five minutes and couldn't get it to rotate counterclockwise.

>> No.2759023

>>2756806

I agree with your opinion of Brave New World OP. The only reason I endured through that novel was to properly grasp its themes and ideas, most of which were more accurately expressed in Revisited.

>> No.2759125

>>2758902
>not considering Jackals and Arabs as Kafkas masterpiece
why would that be his masterpiece?