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Post your reaction upon finishing a book.

>mfw Thus Spake Zarathustra
He's the /b/ of literary world.

>> No.4166186
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>mfw One Hundred Years of Solitude

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flowers for algernon

>> No.4166198

>>4166195
Oh man, that destroyed me back in fourth grade. You want to hate him after he gets to the apex of his intelligence and starts being a dick to the people he used to care about and then gets his comeuppance but you just. can't. do. it.

>> No.4166197

>>4166161
Thus Spake Zarathrustra should be read only after one has read everything else that he has written

>> No.4166202

>>4166198

the parts where he realizes his former friends were actually douchebags was also sad

then his reversion back to a retard and forgetting that they were douches is even harder

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>>4166161
>Everything is Illuminated

>> No.4166207

>>4166197
>fanboying this hard

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>>4166161
>The Old Man and the Sea
>tfw you're just as tired as Santiago

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>>4166186
>reading spic shit

>> No.4168694

>>4168574
>>>/pol/

>> No.4168695

>>4166197
>one has
you could have said 'you have' but you wanted to sound smart

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>mfw Taipei

>> No.4168725

>>4168717

Did you like it? I stopped halfway through, part of me feels like I may be missing something but most of me says Tao Lin can't write worth shit and it's just more of the same

>> No.4168731

>>4168574
>being this constanza

>> No.4168735

>>4166197
Totally. One has to do so well-suite and groomed to and, if possible, one has to grow a mustache

>> No.4168736

>>4168725
The last fifty or so pages were really rough, but the ending made up for it.

>> No.4168737

>>4166202
>>4166198
Jesus guys. Spoilers are there for this very reason

>> No.4168739

>>4168695
you could have ignored his pretentious wording but you wanted to showcase your brilliant, caustic insight with a cutting remark

launching endless_loop_of_criticism.exe

>> No.4168742

>>4168695
im responding to OP but I'm not addressing OP's condition

im on your side, but in this case it was justified

>> No.4168744

>>4168574
missing Borges, Dos Pasos, Rulfo, Marquez and Vargas Llosa

>> No.4168745

>>4168739
you could have..
>launching endless_loop_of_criticism.exe
oh well, fuck it...

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>>4168735

>> No.4168768
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>The Sound of Waves

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>The Brothers Karamazov

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>mfw Cat's Cradle

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>>4166161
>mfw Brave New World
Because it was so shitty

>> No.4169649

>>4168737
Who the fuck hasn't read Flowers for Algernon? It's in like every elementary school English curriculum.

>> No.4169752

>>4169649
>everyone lives in my country

>> No.4169770

>>4169521
Reminds me of that scene from Gatsby.

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Heart of Darkness.

Having two narrators made it pretty fucking complicated and sometimes I'd have to back peddled a few pages just to understand what was going on.

Still y favourite novel though.

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Water method man.

Life is strange, funny and tragic.

>> No.4169901

>>4169896
>backpeddled
>I am on /lit/

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Post Office

Pro Tip: It fucking sucks.

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Dubliners.

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Heart of a Dog


loved it

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>the Dark Tower
King, you could have been someone. Why did you get old and boring?

>> No.4170003

>>4169964
Perfect .gif for that book.

>> No.4170028

>>4166161
i had the same reaction lol

he was more like /pol/ tho
fucking idiotic book