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Anonymous Mon Sep 23 17:49:52 2013 No.4134204 [Reply] [Original]

Thoughts on this?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 23 17:53:52 2013 No.4134211 it was a lot of fun the text stuff was neat and surprisingly effective and not just a gimmick. the mythology was neat the only problem was johnny truants bits were fucking tedious after a while

>>	House of Pleebs Anonymous Mon Sep 23 18:03:51 2013 No.4134232 >>4134211 Really? I thought all of the weird text was tryhard pleb tier shit.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 23 18:32:51 2013 No.4134275 I picked it up at my local bookstore, opened it, and closed it. how the fuck are you supposed to read it?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 23 18:33:51 2013 No.4134278 >>4134232 I read books to actually enjoy them, not to be able to scoff on anonymous message boards about how pleb/patrician something is.

Anonymous Mon Sep 23 18:33:53 2013 No.4134281

>>4134232
Nah, boring-ass johnny truant was the tryhard pleb shit: "Surely my bad life decisions and miserable petty problems are meaningful." A horror story with the laws of physics breaking down + a book where the conventional rules of formatting get thrown out is pretty synergistic and appropriate.

Anonymous Mon Sep 23 18:37:53 2013 No.4134288

>>4134275
it's actually pretty readable and not hard
it's very intuitive and the wackier stuff is just there for effect, you don't actually have to read the endless list of books about architecture going backwards upside down through the chapter to give the sense of an endless labyrinth
just get the general feeling from it

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 23 18:37:53 2013 No.4134289 >>4134275 I'm sort of like this guy, except I actually want to read it. I just really can't figure out how. It's been sitting on my shelf for a while now. Am I the only one who just can't figure out how to follow it?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 23 18:39:53 2013 No.4134290 >>4134288 what about all the appendices and letters and shit? it almost looks intimidating >>4134289 who said I didn't want to read it?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 23 18:39:53 2013 No.4134291 >>4134204 >One of the characters is called Johnny Truant Holy shit that's the most unimaginative shit I've ever heard. He might aswell have called him Johnny BadAss

Anonymous Mon Sep 23 18:41:52 2013 No.4134294

>>4134290
you just read them afterwards because they're interesting
or during if you want
none of the actual writing is that hard to get into, it's just a big collage of stuff and you can read all the bits

i think the strength of this book is how reader friendly it is despite all the messing about. it is kind of a pleb book in a good way

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 23 19:49:47 2013 No.4134390 >>4134278 boom roasted

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