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3273211 No.3273211[DELETED]  [Reply] [Original]

time for one of these

>> No.3273267

Post the fucking template.

>> No.3273281

>>3273267
Three squares and nine words. Fukken paint magic at work. Then again, I'm lazy too.

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>>3273267
I made the template last night in about 45 seconds. Deleted it after posting. Today, I deleted the pictures from the OP's image for your lazy ass.

You're welcome.

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>> No.3273377

>>3273357
You sold me.

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>> No.3273387

>>3273378
That's just stupid.

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3273393

They weren't bad, just not particularly funny.

>> No.3273397

>>3273387
I don't think it is, that's pretty much the message of Brave New World. Dumbass shit will be the death of us, because it drowns important things in a sea of triviality.

>> No.3273403

>>3273359
wtf no

>>3273357
sounds great

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>> No.3273413

>>3273397
But what about the question of free will? Individuality? Belief in any sort of god? Soma? Perfect society and possibility of its existence?etc.
The question is what YOU got, so it's ok if you only got the answer to what our end of the world could be, I guess.

>> No.3273419

>>3273413
I think you're over-thinking this. It's just a silly image, not a critical analysis of it's themes.

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Hey, /a/ here, what's going on in this thread?

>> No.3273438 [DELETED] 

>>3273397
>that's pretty much the message of Brave New World. Dumbass shit will be the death of us, because it drowns important things in a sea of triviality.

You've reiterated almost verbatim "Amusing Ourselves to Death" by Neil Postman. But you're probably just quoting the comic that circulates so widely. Why don't you try reading the novel itself?

>> No.3273440

>>3273437
Get. Out.

>> No.3273441
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Never been more pleasantly surprised.

>> No.3273444

>>3273438
I...did already? I literally have no idea what you're talking about.

>> No.3273451

>>3273438
Seriously, even fucking Huxley himself before he died talked about how he never would have believed how rapidly society would advance towards his dystopian vision in Brave New World. I'm not just pulling this out of my ass, it's kind of a big part of the book - the pacification of the populace through pleasure.

>> No.3273455

Can we have more of these about books that aren't always posted about? Like OP?

>> No.3273456

>>3273451
how rapidly society had advanced*

>> No.3273472

Pleasantly suprised

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>>3273472
Huh

It'd help if I posted my pic, right?

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>>3273444
Except...you didn't?

You see, my darling, 'Brave New World' is a lot more complex than Postman's words assert, because Postman is writing about a specific aspect of Huxley's book--that is, the subject of entertainment and the need for razzle dazzle over content. This is one small sliver of the book you pretend to have read.

Pretending you "have no idea what [I'm] talking about" won't help, because here are your words:

>Dumbass shit will be the death of us, because it drowns important things in a sea of triviality.

And here are Postman's:

>Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance...Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us.

But, since you don't seem too keen on reading much of anything, you probably just read pic related.

>> No.3273488

>>3273480
Fuck off. Where did I imply that that is literally the only thing the book discusses. You've got to be ignorant to pretend like the book doesn't discuss that.

>OMG MY WORDS WERE SIMILAR TO SOMEONE ELSES

Big fucking deal.

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luckily it took me less than an hour to read this overrated piece of shit

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>> No.3273494

>>3273403
the book, not the movie, retard.

>> No.3273495 [DELETED] 

>>3273488
No need to get upset, friend. We all get caught in situations where we pretend to know far more than we actually do.

It's a part of life. Just take your spaking and carry on.

>> No.3273502

>>3273495
I refuse. I refuse to be told I didn't read something that I did, in fact, read, on a literature board. You are a huge faggot, and you have thoroughly rustled my jimmies.

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>> No.3273505

>>3273475
How was the ending happy?

Raskolnikov teetered on the brink of liberation, fighting his conditioned associations, before succumbing to the totalitarian legal system. He gave in to the guilt that stems from his social programming, and ended in captivity with Stockholm syndrome. Dostoevsky showed us that slavery to social values gives us the illusion of freedom, and that's the best we can hope for. The ending was heartbreaking.

>> No.3273508 [DELETED] 

>>3273502
reading =/= understanding

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Man, if only the rest of the series could have been as good as this first book...

>> No.3273514

>>3273437
What anime is that?

>> No.3273517

>>3273514
Boku No Pico lelelelelele
just kidding bro, Madoka.

>> No.3273519

>>3273508
WHAT THE FUCK

ONE. OF. THE. FUCKING. THEMES. IS. THAT.

I wasn't writing a dissertation of the thematic content and motifs of Brave New World, I simply referenced one in a silly image, expressing my surprise at the differences to 1984 - something I found relevant. What the fuck? I literally don't even understand how you can contend that that isn't hugely integral to the dystopia presented in the fucking novel.

>> No.3273520

>>3273514

rainbow brite

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>>3273519

shut up steve!

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>> No.3273531

>>3273526
Just so you know, you're the retard here, not the other guy.

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>> No.3273538

I use Descartes here in the meme sense.

>> No.3273541

>>3273537
Wasn't that the point? I thought Edward was like, a modern day interpretation of Frankenstein?

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>>3273538
HERE

>> No.3273547

>>3273541

no, frankenstein was a misunderstood zombie that just wanted to live in peace

edward was just a huge fagoth

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>> No.3273553

>>3273423
this, so much.
Very aggravating.

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>>3273526
just sayin'

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Most disappointing thing I've read to date.

>> No.3273583

>>3273547
No, you're the huge "fagoth".

How on earth could someone not sympathize with Edward, he's such a misunderstood character, and certainly more likeable than the bitter, sadistic Frankenstein's monster. If any of the main characters of Frankenstein are to be liked in Frankenstein then it's Victor.

>> No.3273604

>>3273583

closet homosexual at sight!

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>> No.3273616

>>3273570
The second book was way better.

>> No.3273626

>>3273570
You were expecting action scenes in a book? You do know that movie adaptions often focus primarily on highly intense fight scenes. You're new to books, I guess?

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>>3273616
No it wasn't, they just took the most obnoxious know-it-all "never proven wrong" character, Ian Malcolm, made him the center of attention, then added a character that was just the same as him but twice as much a dick, Richard Levine.

It was insufferable to get through.

>>3273626
No, just the awful characters, and the overly moronic idea of "chaos theory" being presented as FACT and working like instant karma.

>> No.3273638

>>3273610
B-b-b-b-but it wasn't finished!

>> No.3273643

>>3273408
Y u cry bb?

>> No.3273647

>>3273553
>>3273423

I was fearing this. Oh, well, something else then.

>> No.3273651

>>3273480
wow what a huge cunt

this guy was such a huge cunt that I'm going to close the tab now

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Hell.

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>> No.3273706

>>3273685
Get out.

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>>3273706

No U

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I've never been able to relate to another book since this one, which is odd because I'm just a skinny fat american that's never even fired a gun

>> No.3273735

>>3273441
matt stover is the only scifi/fantasy I can stand, although even he is still pretty lame

>> No.3273765

>>3273706
It's true. Bukowski is the literatury /b/.

>> No.3273782

>>3273489
It's setting up the problem that his philosophy tries to solve.

>book meant to illustrate the problem a lot of people feel with the world
>expecting it not to be grim as fuck
Read the Myth of Sisyphus and the Rebel, and you'll see that Camus was a pretty chipper dude.

>> No.3273784

>>3273525
Welp, that's gone on my list.

>> No.3273786

>>3273544
Wait. You got Descartes' philosophy or you got GIVE HER THE DICK?

>> No.3273789

>>3273786
Never mind. Just saw the post before.

>> No.3273793

>>3273786

GIVE HER THE DICK part.

It's how Hikaru Genji solves all his problems, except for the cousin problem (BUT HE DOES TRY)

>> No.3273796

>>3273782

how does killing an arab man solve your existential problems?

>> No.3273800

>>3273796
I'm a vampire, hth

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>>3273525
Marcus was the shit

>>3273544
A book about giving her the dick?

>>3273658
>Mfw

>> No.3273806

>>3273796
You obviously don't understand existentialism if you believe that any act couldn't existentially solve the problem of some hypothetical person or another.

>> No.3273817

>>3273806

that didn't answer my question

how does killing an arab make things less "absurd"?

i'll save you the google search: it doesn't

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>> No.3273830

>>3273817
Camus wasn't about trying to make things less absurd. It's about embracing absurdity, although you can never understand it.

>> No.3273832

>>3273493

Why does Raymond E. Feist get so little discussion on /lit/? I mean, I know he's a fantasy author and everything, but he's not all that bad.

>> No.3273836

>>3273817
It doesn't. The problem isn't solved in the book. The killing an Arab is a symptom of the problem in question.

>> No.3273840

>>3273801
>A book about giving her the dick?
Yes. It is literally all the book is about.

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>>3273830

do you even read?

>> No.3273864

>>3273855
Is he with or without a cause?

>> No.3273871

>>3273634
I liked it.

>> No.3273877

>>3273864

with obviously, several causes

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>> No.3274022

>>3274002
so meta

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>>3273211

>> No.3274110

>>3274077
3deep5u

>> No.3274282

>>3273505
God, I hate you so much

>> No.3274364

>>3274002
What's that UTC-7 shit?

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>> No.3274885

>>3273340
you blasphemous fuck

>> No.3274895

>>3273408

seconded. this book was immaculate.

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>edit

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>> No.3275195

>>3273340
LOTR is amazing and youre a pleb and i hate you

>> No.3275216

>>3273489
If you didn't understand this book then are probably a bit dumb, I mean it was literally spelled out for you unless you just weren't paying attention.

>Won Nobel Prize for Literature
>overrated
Pick one the first one

I hope you're trolling because this is the first time I've ever gotten mad on /lit/.

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>>3273505
spoilers ... SPOILERS

>> No.3275232 [DELETED] 

>>3275227
If you read Dostoevsky for plot, you don't deserve to read Dostoevsky at all.

>> No.3275235

>>3275232
All books have a narrative you idiot. The plot is what keeps the book entertaining and it also introduces the literary content. Without a plot a book would not exist and would be fucking boring.

>> No.3275254

>>3275235
Guess Crime and Punishment no longer exists for you then.

>> No.3275261

>>3275216
Not that guy but I can't catch whatever people see in The Stranger. It is not a bad book but it is praised in /lit/ to death:

>Best book I've ever read
>Made me love literature
>2deep5u
>Better than fucking on heroin

No. Seriously, stop it. It is an OK book and I understand that absurdism is appealing to some, but the praise this book gets is just ridiculous and overhyped.

Also winning the Nobel doesn't mean it's not overrated. In fact I'd say it makes it overrated if anything

>> No.3275263

>>3275254
Nothing happens in it?

>> No.3275266

>>3275232
I like discovering the plot AND the characters, subtexts, etc., without having them spelled out for me by some jackass on the Internet.

>> No.3275267

>>3275261
I like Camus and I agree with you. It's literally just a way of setting up the problems his other works try to deal with.

>> No.3275329

>>3275263
I'm sure he would have you believe that.

>> No.3275362

>>3275261
Not same guy but that's the book that made me got into literature so yeah.

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>>3274002

>> No.3275394

I want to do one for 2666 but I can't even begin to grasp the mindfuckery of each part in retrospective.

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>>3273419
>not a critical analysis of it's themes.
so....the not funny one?

>> No.3275456

>>3275401
Not nearly repetitive enough to be Crash.

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>> No.3275495

>>3275434
You want me to critically analyze Crash in a R/E/G macro? What the fuck are you talking about?

>> No.3275505

>>3275434
>>3275495
Whoops. Sorry.

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>> No.3275527

>>3275513
Looks interesting, can I get a non-spoiler summary of this?

>> No.3275547

>>3275527
A middle-aged woman in post-WWI London prepares to host a party for her high-society friends while reminiscing about her past while a traumatized veteran tries to escape the memories of his military service.

Stream of consciousness style writing, very interesting side characters. Explores themes like PTSD, aging, and the difficulty of connecting with other human beings.

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>> No.3275571

>>3275372
Forgive my newbishness but what work does the name of that file refer to?

>> No.3275573

>>3275571
If On a Winters Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino, I presume

>> No.3275574

>>3275571
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_on_a_winter's_night_a_traveler

>> No.3275615

>>3275574
Thanks, google gave me some odd results.

>> No.3275633

>>3275615
That's a shame. You know, Google learns to provide you material based on other things you google. Compared to others, my google results seem to be very even.

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This is one hell of a novel

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One of the few books I've completely dropped.

>> No.3275682

>>3273426
Tool

>> No.3275735

>>3275673
Great fucking movie

>> No.3275812

>>3275735
Yep and a shame they don't make movies like that anymore.

>> No.3276207

>>3275735
>>3275812
yeah both the chick and the dude were incredibly attractive

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>>3276207
They're talking about Jacob's Ladder, you dolt.

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Got it for my birthday at 15 or 16, iirc.

It was pretty great, I enjoyed it a lot.

>> No.3276235

>>3276210
YOU DON'T SAY?!

>> No.3276237

>>3276235
Oh, my bad.
Well to each his own, then, I guess.

>> No.3276260

>>3273530
Middlesex is indeed different from lesbian/tranny schlock, I guess. I like how you got the theme of identity out of it. I can't place the feces though. Is that due to butthurt for a novel of +200 pages, or just idiocy?
It was overly long though

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>implying this isn't accurate

>> No.3276275

>>3276272
>>implying this isn't accurate
Yes I say yes it is yes.

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c'bootin & bamp

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>> No.3276306

>>3276294

>implying it wasn't all the stuff in the expected column

>> No.3276319

>>3276306
>implying you're not a faggot when you really are

>> No.3276325

>>3276319

Haha what? It was undeniably the stuff in the expected column. Sure it was right column too, but this is about books that completely belied your expectations. If you expected what you put in the expected column for Fear and Loathing, than you largely got what you expected.

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>>3276210

>> No.3276345

>>3276260
The reason why it was so long was because the whole book was Cal trying to deal with his unfortunate luck of being a child born as a Middlesex. That is the reason why majority of the story is so eschewed and ridiculous, because Cal needs to twist and alter things to understand his situation.

>> No.3276353

>>3275556

glad i'm not the only one that thought that TGG felt ethereal and otherworldly.

the metaphors, they're all just so damn illustrative.

>> No.3276362

>>3276325
Dafuq are you talking about? Sure it contained elements of what I expected -- the drugs, gambling, the panic. But that's not the point of the "What I Got" box you enormous cum gargler.

I expected it to be nothing more than a self-gratifying, hedonistic look at the material world, but it turned into something deeper and more meaningful that drowned out all the noise.

You're probably the kind of person who wrote in book reports that The Pearl was the story about a pearl, or Gulliver's Travels was about some dude meeting strange dwarves.

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>>3275216

sameguy here

>2012
>judging the literary value of a book by the prizes the author won with it
>TWO THOUSAND AND TWELVE

shiggy diggy

>> No.3277700

>>3273340
You sure you didn't accidentally read The Hobbit instead?

>> No.3277786

>>3277700

I read them both and i felt the same about both of them. They were boring but LOTR also had terrible pacing.

I enjoyed the movies a lot more.

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>>3273211

I had hopes, but they were crushed

>> No.3277964

one time I saw someone make an image of these with God Emperor of Dune where the "what I got" image was The Prince, does anyone have it

>> No.3277965

>>3277874

How the hell is the book comparable to Moby Dick?

Don't say 'fish' or 'ocean'

>> No.3277973

>>3277965
Old men

>> No.3277976

>>3277973

Kill yourself.

>> No.3277981

>>3277976
u mad

>> No.3277987

>>3277981

What makes you assume that?

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>>3277976

it seems to me that my response left you breathless, insecure and without a valid point to refute my argument

>> No.3278040

>>3278032

You didn't have an argument, just so we're clear.

>> No.3278044

>>3277965

did you even read moby dick?

>> No.3278052

>>3278044

Yes.

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>>3278052

stop arguing on the internet you humongous faggot

>> No.3278071

>>3278067

I'm not arguing. I'm replying to posts.

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>> No.3278314

>>3278311
So, was it good?

>> No.3278319

>>3278317
/lit/ warned you, why don't you listen? people never listen.

>> No.3278317

>>3278314
I felt cheated like a sheep led to the slaughter.
It is more of a coming of age edulcorated story for young adolescents rather than a philosophical essay on alchemy.

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>>3278319
Actually, I have read it long before I started browsing /lit..
It was a friend's gift. I assumed it would be polite to read it entirely..

>> No.3278340

>>3273610
That book wasn't meant for publication.
It was a lore book.

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>> No.3278352

>>3278350
Was it hot?

>> No.3278361

>>3278352

As much as being sexually aroused by a book written on a dominating, mind-fucking pattern second-person point of view, can be.

>> No.3278364

>>3278361
Oh. I just saw a cut dude with a whip and thought, "I normally go for women, but I'd hit it."

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>> No.3278375

>>3278372
So you expected horror but got cute?

Sounds like a weird experience. Was it at least a good book?

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>> No.3278395

>>3278375
The principle of the book is that Perec writes it without using the letter " e ", that is why it is called "vanishing". Basically, there is nothing foretold in the book as to what is the purpose of it, it is just a constant quest for a character seeking something (the letter).
Basically I knew before reading it that there was a twist to the writing, but could not imagine it so simple to discover... simply.
the rest is the absurd narration woven around the vanishing of the letter. It is like reading through a psychosis.

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>> No.3278407

>>3273647
Don't believe them. Neuromancer is a great book.

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>>3273340
Fix'd

>> No.3278505

>>3277973
i lol'd

>> No.3278508

>>3277988
Stoner was so fuckin' good, I completely agree.