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Anonymous Sat Oct 26 19:28:06 2013 No.4216883 [DELETED]

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It's time for Guess that Goodreads review!

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 19:36:06 2013 No.4216900 Valis.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 19:37:05 2013 No.4216905 >>4216883 The Bible

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 19:38:05 2013 No.4216908 this thread

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 19:40:05 2013 No.4216911 Fez

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 19:42:05 2013 No.4216915 problem child 2

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 19:44:06 2013 No.4216917 >>4216911 >>/v/

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 19:45:05 2013 No.4216922 >>4216905 not sure why but this always makes me laugh

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 19:46:05 2013 No.4216925 >>4216883 >negative comment about a writer Now that Goodreads' main aim is promoting books for Amazon, I thought they were deleting these?

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 19:51:05 2013 No.4216940 enders game

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 19:54:06 2013 No.4216945 File: 35 KB, 855x447, untitled.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 20:19:06 2013 No.4216976 >>4216945 I actually agree with him ;_;

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 20:26:06 2013 No.4216989 >>4216883 ayn rand book for sure

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 20:33:05 2013 No.4216999 >>4216883 Ender's Game?

Anonymous Sat Oct 26 20:40:05 2013 No.4217019
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After finishing this book I felt so uplifted and happy that I needed to discuss it somewhere and, knowing that /lit/ wouldn't care for another thread about the book, went to the Goodreads review section. The two of the three highest reviews were from people who didn't finish the book, gave it a low score, and mocked it. One girl left a one star review saying "the book is too complex to understand it's crap". The book touched me so deeply and these people trashed on it for being nonlinear? Really depressed me.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 20:42:06 2013 No.4217025 >>4216883 mein kampf?

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 20:45:05 2013 No.4217036 File: 10 KB, 539x109, dddddd.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4217025 cheater

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 20:48:05 2013 No.4217041 >>4217019 A Palahnhiuk novel?

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 20:48:05 2013 No.4217042 >>4217036 Are you going to call every correct guesser a cheater? You can Google search any of these reviews.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 20:51:05 2013 No.4217045 >>4217041 Nope.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 20:53:05 2013 No.4217048 >>4217019 Is it a post-modern doorstopper?

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 20:55:05 2013 No.4217053 >>4217048 It's not gigantic if that's what you're implying.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 20:55:05 2013 No.4217054 >>4217053 Crying of lot 49? Th fact that the author supposedly has ADD digressions makes me think of pynchon.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 20:56:05 2013 No.4217056 >>4217045 Hm. Just taking shots in the dark. Is it Heller's Catch-22?

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 20:57:06 2013 No.4217059 >>4217054 Close! >>4217056 Absolutely correct.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 20:58:06 2013 No.4217060 I can never really trust goodreads when almost every book has an average score between 3 and 4 stars and the "best books" list is the same as the "worst books" list.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 20:58:06 2013 No.4217061 >>4217019 >Deficet Don't you love the feeling you get when you realise that you are probably more knowledgeable than 98% of the people?

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 21:05:05 2013 No.4217078 File: 15 KB, 803x197, untitled.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

Anonymous Sat Oct 26 21:12:06 2013 No.4217085

>>4217059
This is one of my first times posting on /lit/
lol, I feel accomplished.
Also I loved the book as well. I don't remember it being difficult to follow at all, though. Just very colorful in terms of the cast of characters. It was one of the first novels that made me actually laugh while reading it.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 21:43:30 2013 No.4217128 >>4217078 Is that some Dick

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 21:47:31 2013 No.4217139 >>4216976 You don't have to like it, but come on. Wallace is nothing if not unpretentious and sincere.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 21:59:31 2013 No.4217172 >>4217078 Wolfe or Herbert.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 22:00:31 2013 No.4217175 >>4217078 Heinlin

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 22:05:30 2013 No.4217185 File: 101 KB, 207x308, 1380410263774.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4217078 >This review is from: Valis (paperback)

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 22:05:30 2013 No.4217186 File: 370 KB, 500x375, yzJoOb2.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1923820.Holy_Bible#other_reviews

Anonymous Sat Oct 26 22:10:31 2013 No.4217190

>>4217186

>set filter to one star
>second review
>these shelves
>Shelves: angels-and-demons, books-to-use-as-weapons, lost-the-will-to-live, made-me-want-to-choke-myself, made-no-sense, will-read-for-all-the-wrong-reasons, train-wreck-romance, ghosts, zombies, dystopian, faeries, books-that-changed-my-life, go-choke-on-your-sexism, papa-dont-preach, purity-myth-crap, rule-of-abeko-you-broke-it, your-slut-shaming-is-disgusting, so-boring-i-ate-my-own-face, wtf-is-this-racist-crap, oh-god-the-whitewashing

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 22:13:31 2013 No.4217192 File: 110 KB, 821x606, Screenshot from 2013-10-26 22:12:58.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4217190 >your-slut-shaming-is-disgusting

Anonymous Sat Oct 26 22:25:30 2013 No.4217209
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Mizz Sandie's bookshelves (The Idiot):
> classics, annoying-characters, bored-so-bored, dissappointed, meh, recommended-to-me, used-to-own-but-got-rid-of, what-a-waste-of-time, why-is-this-a-classic-why, youre-doing-it-wrong, let-me-edit-that-for-you, please-be-over-soon

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 22:38:30 2013 No.4217228 File: 169 KB, 629x543, tworeview.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] The first review kind of gives it away but the 4chan comment amused me

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 22:44:30 2013 No.4217238 >one star Gaddis reviews >several people linking Franzen's shitty essay

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 23:19:31 2013 No.4217290 >>4217059 >catch 22 >add What.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 23:30:37 2013 No.4217303 >>4217186 oh my god and they all think they're so clever the worst part about this is that the bible is actually one of the centerpieces of the western canon and disliking it probably means you actually have bad taste.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 23:33:37 2013 No.4217308 File: 492 KB, 500x252, jim reacts to a mundane event in the only way he knows.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4217303 >the worst part is not that they are stupid, it's that they have bad taste

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 23:33:37 2013 No.4217309 >>4217185 Valis is a terrible place to start for someone who hasn't read PKD before.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 23:34:37 2013 No.4217311 >>4217185 Congrats, have a cookie.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 23:36:37 2013 No.4217315 >>4217303 You do understand that at this point the majority of those images are produced with the explicit purpose to 'troll', right?

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 23:36:37 2013 No.4217316 >>4217308 eh if the bible was actually bad then i wouldn't even care that people wrote a bunch of smarmy reviews about it saying it was bad and reusing the same jokes

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 23:37:37 2013 No.4217318 >>4217315 >images what are you talking about

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 23:50:38 2013 No.4217331 >>4217318 He though you were replying to >>4217186's pic, one of those "faces of atheism" things.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 23:52:37 2013 No.4217332 >>4217331 oh well i think it should be obvious i wasn't lol

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 23:58:37 2013 No.4217339 >>4217309 I think it can be read as a first book nicely. Especially the first one of the trilogy. Still, it's true that if you're interested in the author, it's advisable to start somewhere else.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 27 06:02:20 2013 No.4217732 >>4217186 wait a minute... he's not really bald..

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 27 20:45:07 2013 No.4219595 >>4217732 So he shaved himself to look better? He must have hair like a vagina

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