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ITT: I WANT MY MONEY BACK reading experiences

>> No.4752730

Stephen King's IT.

The tween gangbang scene just ruined the novel for me.

>> No.4752741
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4752741

I'm not very choosy with my sci fi, but this was just atrocious.

>>4752709
What did you hate about this? It's been a long time, but I thought it was interesting (and enraging).

>> No.4752742

>>4752709
I didn't think it was that bad of a book. It wasn't mind-blowing, but it did serve as a solid entry point for criticisms about the World Bank.

>> No.4752791

>>4752742
>>4752741
I just found it obscenely pretentious and self serving, and the curiosity about local mysticism he had going on just made it seem like he had some fetishization of the otherness of the experiences he had in comparison to how he understood his upbringing. It read like he was trying to absolve himself of guilt for culpability, while he's still enjoying the benefits of having lived his life in such a way, it's disgustingly hypocritical when he speaks vindictively of the flaws of others. Not to mention how he shifts into treating the text like some spy thriller in order to fulfill some desire to paint himself as sexy and full of intrigue. That preoccupation with the James Bond lifestyle is just pathetic when juxtaposed beside his pretenses of caring about fundamental issues.

>> No.4752833
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4752833

anything nietzsche. just feels like the ramblings of a lonely, bitter man with an inflated ego.

no offense nietsche fanboys

>> No.4752846

>>4752833
but there's a lot of stuff in a lot of places that just feel like ramblings of bitter lonely men, anon

>> No.4752850

>>4752709
iwanttobelieve.jpg

>> No.4752855

>>4752846
yes, and i prefer to avoid that very stuff

>> No.4752860

>>4752855
then why are you here

>> No.4752868

>>4752860
i lol'd.

>> No.4753011

>>4752833
It's hard to not always interpret his kind of thinking as some act of escapism of a bitter impotent man, it does undermine the lofty principles he purports to be demonstrating.

>> No.4753022

>>4753011
wait. are you approving or not

>> No.4753040

>>4752791
Well his sensationalism did serve to get more people to actually read about the subject. If he'd been what you wanted him to be it would be a dry little tome that only Chomsky would have read.

I have to agree about his self-whitewashing though. Fuck that guy.

>> No.4753044

>>4752833
That's not how you spell Harlan Ellison.

>> No.4753049

The Ego and its Own. Absolute trash. However, i gave it to my 13-year old cousin, and he absolutely loved it: I guess that says a lot about the people who enjoy stirner.

>> No.4754901

Cat's Cradle and S5.

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4754899

Most Pen/O. Henry Prize collections.

>> No.4754908
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4754908

absolute drivel

>> No.4754923

Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf. One sentence summation of the entire book: "WAAAAAAA PAY ATTENTION TO ME WAAAAA"

>> No.4754934

>>4754908
>opinion_discarded.webm

>> No.4754936

>>4753022
It doesn't have to be one way or the other, anon!

>> No.4754941

>>4754908
What didn't you like? I personally loved it. More enjoyable that W&P for me.

>> No.4755192

The Bible.

Was I edgy enough /lit/?

>> No.4755254

>>4754923

Gonna have to agree here. It might potentially be an inspiring existential tale for a woman to enjoy, but as a male, it strikes me as repulsively quaint...

To The Lighthouse is a much more reflected consideration of the female condition, to my mind. And The Waves is a masterpiece of human empathy in general.

But Mrs Dalloway? Just... go to bed. :/

>> No.4755322

>>4752833
You do know he had a thing about tongue-in-cheek humour, right?

>> No.4755500

>bleeding edge

>> No.4755520

>>4754908
Russian literature is typically awful. But Tolstoy is a fucking god you insignificant piece of shit.

>> No.4755524

>>4752833

You have to be smart enough to read/finish his works. Unfortunately, you sound like quite the opposite.

>> No.4755526

>>4752855

Have you read anything that you liked? Have you read anything?

>> No.4755533

>>4754901

+1


>>4754908

Best book I've read yet.


>>4755520

Russian literature isn't awful at all.

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4755548

Not my money, because it was a gift, but would certainly want back the time I spent reading it.

>> No.4755729

>>4754908
10/10 made me mad

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4755744

I jumped on the band wagon.