It's time for one of these again

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Anonymous Sat Aug 30 20:07:06 2014 No.5364596 [Reply] [Original]

It's time for one of these again

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 30 20:08:01 2014 No.5364600 File: 8 KB, 1291x559, Template ReadExpectedGot.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Template

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 30 20:09:10 2014 No.5364604 >>5364596 pls explain

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>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 30 20:14:24 2014 No.5364623 File: 581 KB, 1688x1065, borges.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 30 20:21:49 2014 No.5364646 File: 35 KB, 300x450, twilight-of-the-idols.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Expected http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPlhKP0nZII Got http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otCpCn0l4Wo

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 30 20:23:58 2014 No.5364653 File: 1.14 MB, 1672x632, kons.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] not really that far yet, but my impression so far

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 30 20:26:35 2014 No.5364666 Never read the book, but I lel'd. Roman Empire was immensely reliant on corn as a food source from what I recall.

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 30 20:30:22 2014 No.5364684 >>5364646 How long until parachute pants become cool again?

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 30 20:32:58 2014 No.5364691 >>5364596 >>5364666 i dont think corn even existed in europe until it was brought over from the americas... i could be stupid tho

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>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 30 20:34:39 2014 No.5364701 >>5364691 maize was brought from the americas, where it originally came from south america, but corn was also just a general word for grain

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>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 30 20:35:50 2014 No.5364706 >>5364666 >>5364691 PROTIP: Prior to American linguistic hegemony over the Anglosphere, the word "corn" referred to indigenous wheat rather than New World maize -- see, for example, Britain's 19th century "Corn Laws."

Anonymous Sat Aug 30 20:36:27 2014 No.5364709

>>5364701
>but corn was also just a general word for grain

But all the books and translations were written after maize started being called corn, so why the fuck do translators keep putting corn in their books when they know full well that no reader will know what grain is being referred to?

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>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 30 21:01:57 2014 No.5364816 >>5364780 Inaccurate, but beautiful.

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>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 30 21:12:37 2014 No.5364863 >>5364850 >I expected cats and/or cradles love you anon

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 30 21:12:55 2014 No.5364864 File: 1.29 MB, 1688x652, SweeneyTodd.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 30 21:22:50 2014 No.5364891 >>5364864 Source on the claymation in expected?

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 30 21:25:55 2014 No.5364902 File: 419 KB, 1664x646, To Kill a Mockingbird.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 30 21:29:32 2014 No.5364912 >>5364891 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045464/

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 30 21:33:55 2014 No.5364927 >>5364912 thx buddy

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 01:02:24 2014 No.5365607 >>5364653 It gets worse.

Anonymous Sun Aug 31 01:07:18 2014 No.5365620

>>5364604
It's a bit of a joke that half of de bello Gallico is Caesar talking about securing the grain supply. The other half is him sorting out shit that happens when someone (Caesar, but he always blames someone else) forgets to sort out the grain supply.

Other highlights include how long the legionaries marched for, how many men were sent out to forage, and how camp was set up that evening.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 01:18:27 2014 No.5365665 >>5364864 The attics creeped me out so much

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 01:23:54 2014 No.5365686 >>5364666 >pre-atomic age civilization was immensely reliant on a single staple crop as a food source from what I recall. FTFY It's funny because was is mostly logistics.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 01:27:38 2014 No.5365696 >>5365686 *war is mostly logistics.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 01:41:53 2014 No.5365738 Anyone's got the "The Republic" one?

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 01:51:05 2014 No.5365763 File: 348 KB, 1016x1292, republic what read got.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5365738 u mean dis pic?

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 01:57:41 2014 No.5365785 >>5365763 >u activated his trap card oh god, that's why everyone liked socrates in hs, he's the original yu gi oh! now i know how to get my future children into philosophy

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 01:58:06 2014 No.5365787 >>5365785 kek'd

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 02:00:57 2014 No.5365801 >>5365785 >liking yu gi oh in highschool yea... i bet you were one of those people...

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 02:13:27 2014 No.5365831 >>5365801 it was a yu gi oh reference in the first place but you can change it for any mental challenge anime like dead note or kaiji. it's all pretty much the same in this case.

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>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 02:17:52 2014 No.5365842 >>5365832 what the fuck am I laughing so hard?

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 02:17:55 2014 No.5365843 >>5364596 Good job using "maize" which didn't fucking exist in Europe at the time, genius. There were so goddamn many grain types you could have used that would have been relevant.

Anonymous Sun Aug 31 02:28:04 2014 No.5365863

>>5365831
you said "that's why everyone liked socrates in hs, he's the original yu gi oh"
if hs stands for highschool (which is what im assuming), then it was you who implied it was popular then, which is a delusion only held my the minority that played it

Anonymous Sun Aug 31 02:42:47 2014 No.5365896
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>>5365863
i've never seen anyone play yugioh, but i've seen teens liking dead note and i believe you can buy merchandise in teen stores like hot topic. all those shows are pretty much the same.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 03:01:06 2014 No.5365931 >>5365763 aside from the joke, I think The Republic is hella better than Politics. Most people I know like Aristotle more, but when I ask them about Plato they are like "yeah I didn't understand him lol".

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 03:21:02 2014 No.5365979 File: 755 KB, 1291x566, lookslikeshit.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Read the unabridged version, that last stories have no horror aspect at all and are just ouiabooo bullshit.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 03:45:43 2014 No.5366029 >>5365979 True, the last stories are about different artists living in Paris, but that does not make them bad stories. In my opinion they are like nice little desserts to the supernatural horror of the main course.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 03:46:45 2014 No.5366030 >>5365979 >ouiaboo Nice.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 03:48:26 2014 No.5366034 >>5364828 He even looks like he's feeling feels.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 03:49:08 2014 No.5366035 >>5366029 You liked them? I thought they were really cheesy and uninteresting.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 03:50:58 2014 No.5366039 File: 10 KB, 261x175, 1404527993932.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5364623

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 03:52:17 2014 No.5366042 >>5364646 So, I'm not the only one monikering Nietzche as the 19th century rap artist?

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 03:54:32 2014 No.5366044 >>5365842 you and me both buddy

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 03:56:20 2014 No.5366048 >>5366035 They were not that bad. Quaint is the best way to describe them.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 03:57:02 2014 No.5366050 >>5365620 The fact that he switches seemlessy from 1st person to 3rd when referring to himself was the only fun part of 4 years of latin

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>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 04:33:27 2014 No.5366083 >>5364706 >American linguistic hegemony over the Anglosphere Like that ever happened.

Anonymous Sun Aug 31 04:42:38 2014 No.5366093

I've been three yrars lurking only this board. I don't go to any other board since I first came from /b/.

Three years ago I decided to start reading so I read Lolita in six months. I felt like an intellectual and got a copy of infinite jest. I still have a bookmark on the page 150 and never read a book again.

I hate these threads.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 05:02:28 2014 No.5366113 >>5364828 >tfw trying to green text and realizing the computer hasn't been invented yet

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>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 06:21:00 2014 No.5366222 Anyone have one of Moby Dick or The Iliad?

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 06:26:56 2014 No.5366227 >>5366093 read more

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>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 07:43:57 2014 No.5366375 File: 675 KB, 1291x935, 1409443681048.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Yes.

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>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 08:25:47 2014 No.5366481 why are these expectations always so much better than the real thing

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 08:31:51 2014 No.5366495 >>5364850 lellllllllllllllllllllll

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 08:33:32 2014 No.5366501 >>5366093 >read Lolita in six months why would it take you so long

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 08:37:08 2014 No.5366509 File: 839 KB, 1291x600, 1409443681048.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 08:38:22 2014 No.5366512 File: 271 KB, 1710x646, The Gaucho.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 08:40:26 2014 No.5366518 File: 901 KB, 2400x1800, Magritte-The-Lovers.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5366481 I don't think having your expectations met triggers the type of reaction which would give you the incentive to contribute to a thread of this nature.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 08:49:02 2014 No.5366531 File: 1.34 MB, 1638x668, LIEU SOLITAIRE.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] reposting mine as usual

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>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 09:14:41 2014 No.5366604 >>5366590 Worth reading? Been thinking of getting it.

Anonymous Sun Aug 31 09:21:00 2014 No.5366620

>>5366604
I read it for a war/security class, there are some really interesting sections, but as the image alludes, there are vast stretches of the book which talk about fairly mundane things, I'd say read the important parts, the chapter where he discusses the trinity.... "war as a continuation of politics by others means", etc. A lot of it can be skipped over.

Anonymous Sun Aug 31 09:25:06 2014 No.5366629

>>5365931
I think they're quite different in many aspects, Politics is a more "scientific" study of the forms of the State, while the Republic is an inquiry into the form of Justice, but if we were to compare their constructions of the ideal state, Aristotle does a shitty job. If you really like The Republic, Nicomachean Ethics reads as a nice extension of the ethical ideas explored in Republic.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 09:29:28 2014 No.5366638 >>5366620 Thanks, been wanting some understanding of basic military strategy and tactics and this seems like a good place to start.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 09:31:08 2014 No.5366642 >>5364706 good post

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 09:32:14 2014 No.5366644 File: 66 KB, 643x362, irony.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5364646 ouch

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 09:32:33 2014 No.5366646 File: 554 KB, 1600x600, what I expected woolf.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 09:32:38 2014 No.5366647 File: 570 KB, 1099x1462, 1392217148190.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 09:36:43 2014 No.5366657 >>5366647 Wait, they made a movie adaption? Was it any good? And yes, i do live under a rock

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 09:38:59 2014 No.5366665 >>5366657 It's /as/ good as the book

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 09:39:12 2014 No.5366667 >>5366657 no. it lacks all the good stuff (the noods)

Anonymous Sun Aug 31 09:41:47 2014 No.5366675

>>5366657

I heard it sucked hard. Read the book, it was surprisingly good. Read it more for war than science-fiction, and more for the human condition, especially that of soldiers, or anyone who has to do the dirty job, than for action.

I read this as I was in the process of testifying to seriously fuck shit up in my company. Been selected to testify and speak for my people (meaning my workmates).

As a result of my actions, shit went down, for the greater good, but the consequences were never the same again.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 09:43:42 2014 No.5366683 >>5366675 I actually do plan on reading it once i make my way through the already rather large backlist i have already

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 09:43:57 2014 No.5366684 >>5366675 that book was terrible, dude.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 09:44:42 2014 No.5366686 >>5366620 > the chapter where he discusses the trinity.... "war as a continuation of politics by others means" except not >"war as a continuation of politics by others means" do you even hegel bro

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 09:44:58 2014 No.5366688 >>5366683 don't. it's a book for little kids.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 09:46:00 2014 No.5366690 File: 6 KB, 200x200, 1403453684725.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5366688 I'm gonna do it anon I'm gonna read that book and you can't stop me

Anonymous Sun Aug 31 09:46:23 2014 No.5366693

>>5366683

Read it, don't trust anybody's opinion on it. I was lukewarm about the book when I started, but it quickly grabbed my ass. Then I was raped with feels, over and over again.

>>5366684

You're one of those people who don't appreciate it, like colorblind people don't like rainbows.

I enjoyed it tremendously.

>>5366688

It's not and never was. It won both Nebula and Hugo awards, and neither is award for children's lit.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 09:47:25 2014 No.5366696 >>5366688 >don't. it's a book for little kids. >do it, it's a book with kids Fix'd. The inspiration for it was war diares from the Civil War and Asimov. There's a reason why it's recommended reading for soldiers, you know, not children.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 09:49:37 2014 No.5366701 >>5366644 copyright laws are the worst thing since the holocaust

Anonymous Sun Aug 31 09:49:52 2014 No.5366703

>>5366686
>do you even hegel bro
not him but I hegel a lot. Clausimausi hegels, too, and so does Marx. Hegling means "fuck the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_thought#The_law_of_non-contradiction " so War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength. Back in the day all of the Germs have been edgy like that.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 09:51:03 2014 No.5366707 >>5366690 Speaker for the Dead, its sequel, is good too, though vastly different.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 09:55:38 2014 No.5366717 >>5366696 That's because they are too dumb for tolstoy, for vasily grossman and for erich maria remarque

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 10:00:07 2014 No.5366720 >>5366604 Definitely if you're in to strategy, skip the tactics and outdated stuff.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 10:02:16 2014 No.5366726 >>5364653 i never imagined him ripped despite all the working out

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 10:07:08 2014 No.5366738 >>5366726 He's 15, wouldn't be at that point so early and he had only a few years behind him.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 11:17:18 2014 No.5366919 File: 1.06 MB, 1662x545, tfw you'll never be MI.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Absolutely loved it.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 11:23:19 2014 No.5366937 >>5366919 When i read it, it was a shit load of talking.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 11:29:20 2014 No.5366955 File: 657 KB, 1526x545, the talking was good tho.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5366937 So this?

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 11:35:39 2014 No.5366969 >>5366955 Klendathu was like a page in book.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 11:47:28 2014 No.5366993 >>5366969 You shouldn't really read it for the action; it's the talking parts that are the most delicious parts.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 11:58:53 2014 No.5367035 >>5366093 so you have been only on /lit/ for years without actually reading and you are just lurking? What do you get from this? What are you enjoying on this board then?

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 12:10:27 2014 No.5367073 >>5364703 That story was great, it caught me totally off guard with it's wackiness. Shame he never finished it

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>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 12:18:57 2014 No.5367105 >>5366993 I know it is the best part of the book.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 12:21:01 2014 No.5367113 >>5364709 your book was translated by a brit

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 12:25:33 2014 No.5367140 >>5367086 You forgot the claypot and the laz0r

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 12:33:15 2014 No.5367158 Any of the brother karamasov?

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 13:08:38 2014 No.5367275 >>5366083 >As if that ever happened. FTFY, Americlap.

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>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 13:17:41 2014 No.5367314 >>5367158 >s

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 13:21:01 2014 No.5367328 >>5367314 No, I want one done of the Chinese edition that has censored every mention of multiple siblings due to their one child policy

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 13:25:32 2014 No.5367353 >>5367328 >I want one done of the Chinese edition that has censored every mention of multiple siblings due to their one child policy What the fuck?

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 13:29:03 2014 No.5367364 >>5364623 Fucking Borges, why is he so good

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 13:40:08 2014 No.5367414 File: 249 KB, 1291x559, detectives.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] i really really expected this Now i recommend this book to everyone

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 13:43:47 2014 No.5367428 >>5366604 Maybe if you want to have a very archaic, imperialist vision of international relations.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 14:04:15 2014 No.5367553 File: 630 KB, 1291x559, ging.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] God Is Not Great is his worst book, right? He's better than this?

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 14:04:51 2014 No.5367556 >>5367428 International relations cannot be archaic in any way because the study is based on human natural drives and they don't change. If you read Clausewitz you'd know that.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 14:05:57 2014 No.5367562 >>5367553 What didn't you like about God Is Not Great?

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 14:07:41 2014 No.5367571 >>5367553 Christopher Hitchens is one of these liberal universalists that from what I see post-modern left starts to reject and soon enough they'll despise him too

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 14:07:43 2014 No.5367573 File: 813 KB, 1292x552, overcoat.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Y'all have no sense of composition.

Anonymous Sun Aug 31 14:09:11 2014 No.5367581

>>5367562
I didn't feel very structured or analytical, maybe it's not meant to be. The chapters were named after a certain sub-topic but after a couple of pages it felt like he was just going off on a rant.

I agreed with a lot of what was said but it just didn't impress me.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 14:10:13 2014 No.5367589 >>5364623 I've never understood this one. I've read the book and I know about sacred geometry. Can you explain this one?

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 14:13:10 2014 No.5367603 >>5367589 How many stories does the story contain?

Anonymous Sun Aug 31 14:13:21 2014 No.5367604

>>5367581
Fair enough. I've only read bits and pieces of God Is Not Great. I think Hitchens is one of those people who's better to listen to than to read. I dislike his attacks on religion, not because they are poorly argued but because they don't provide any alternative. From what I can gather Hitchens' proposed alternative to the church is just Humanism, which I hardly think would work for the masses.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 14:14:24 2014 No.5367610 >>5367603 An infinite amount?

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 14:16:02 2014 No.5367621 >>5367604 >I think Hitchens is one of those people who's better to listen to than to read. Yeah, I agree with you here. I like his speeches on YouTube but you don't get the full Hitchens experience on paper.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 14:19:13 2014 No.5367638 File: 701 KB, 1292x552, grav.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] This is high praise, btw

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 14:21:21 2014 No.5367651 File: 1.32 MB, 1688x652, catcher.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5364596

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 14:24:36 2014 No.5367663 File: 195 KB, 537x497, 44e9134e56775539306a694f38e0fb74c06d06cc.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5364828 >just read Notes from Underground Spot on

Anonymous Sun Aug 31 14:26:01 2014 No.5367664

>>5367428
While I agree with you wholeheartedly, it is still one of the seminal works in theorising security and war and much of the scholarship to come afterwards and still to this day engages directly with On War. There are undoubtedly huge issues with the book, which is good because it's ripe for critique. To simply negate it out of hand, when as I'm sure you know, it's still a huge blueprint for policy makers to this day, is very shoddy scholarship.

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>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 14:28:09 2014 No.5367670 >>5367651 >reading Catcher in the Rye instead of Franny and Zooey I remember being in high school too.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 14:32:30 2014 No.5367682 >>5367670 >feeling superior for reading a lesser known work I remember when I was in high school too.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 14:32:59 2014 No.5367685 >>5367670 You will be surprised to hear this, but there are countries where this shit isn't on high school reading lists. And I'm quite glad about that

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 14:33:50 2014 No.5367689 >>5367669 >tfw no qt in the tub to read with

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 14:36:39 2014 No.5367697 File: 550 KB, 1304x560, gomb.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >implying people on 4chan read

Anonymous Sun Aug 31 14:40:25 2014 No.5367708

>>5366688

If something can be understood by young people, that doesn't mean it's just for young people. It leverages sci-fi tropes extremely effectively to say something deep about the effects of war on the young. Even the fact that Ender's not throughly characterized is folded into what the military system does, and how it does it, and this helps readers experience that by allowing them to insert; it takes narrative tools usually used for escapism and uses them for the opposite. You're like somebody who'd condemn the Odyssey for being interesting to young people by saying it's all monsters and adventure.

>>5366675
>>5366684
>>5366693

All the people shitting on Ender's Game are people who have a very shallow appreciation of literature, or who are fetishists of one kind or literature or another, probably, because we're on lit, hysterical/psychological realism with a lyric prose style. It's like people who can only enjoy things if they're on drugs, they have such a high threshold for stimulation.
Yes, it's not a great book like Tolstoy's great, but it's a good one. Very few people on lit have any sort of middle ground for evaluation. Great or shit. It shows how adolescent their taste is.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 14:45:08 2014 No.5367723 >>5367651 >phil fish sides in orbit

Anonymous Sun Aug 31 14:48:18 2014 No.5367731
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I have this sense,

that I am one

with my skin

Plus this—plus this:

that forever the geography

which leans in

on me I compell

backwards I compell Gloucester

to yield, to

change

Polis

is this

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 14:52:47 2014 No.5367750 >>5366644 Get proxtube.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 14:59:39 2014 No.5367773 File: 1.10 MB, 2368x562, dune.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I'll admit, i didn't hear much about it beforehand.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 15:00:10 2014 No.5367777 File: 1.10 MB, 1665x666, i claudius.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 15:31:18 2014 No.5367869 File: 343 KB, 1600x768, The Crying of Strip Poker Cheating.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 15:32:23 2014 No.5367874 >>5367777 good image

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 15:50:30 2014 No.5367948 >>5366501 I don't knoow about him. I read the first few pages, had to do something and then lost the book. It took me like a whole year to buy another one.

Anonymous Sun Aug 31 15:56:30 2014 No.5367971

>>5367708
>Very few people on lit have any sort of middle ground for evaluation. Great or shit. It shows how adolescent their taste is.
I don't think that there's too much of a real boner for psychological realism with a lytic prose style since you can see how there's very rarely in dept discussion about it, but it's so very true that quote.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 15:58:55 2014 No.5367978 >>5365863 Hey fuck off yu gi oh was awesome It's still a pretty good game to play

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 16:00:19 2014 No.5367981 >>5367978 >hey! most of my peers have advanced and moved on to better things, but I've stayed the same stagnant manchild! No one cares, you fat loser.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 17:02:31 2014 No.5368292 File: 1.11 MB, 1316x600, in praise of older women.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] why oh why would you recommend that book /lit/?

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 17:09:05 2014 No.5368335 >>5368292 >julianne moore is not aging gracefully at all such a bad feel. and i still want her to rape me

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 17:30:38 2014 No.5368424 File: 8 KB, 220x135, 421226-julianne-moore-220x135[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5368335 >implying

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 21:04:07 2014 No.5369217 File: 891 KB, 1298x540, Le black march.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 22:04:59 2014 No.5369431 >>5368292 That book was disappointing. >>5368335 Julianne Moore is fucking beautiful for a ginger.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 22:07:26 2014 No.5369439 File: 321 KB, 1291x559, 1244212.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 22:08:16 2014 No.5369442 >>5369217 This book was so emotionally draining. So many damn feels.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 22:16:01 2014 No.5369470 >>5369442 More like you're a pussy.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 22:41:36 2014 No.5369534 >>5369439 >leftist detected

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 22:42:22 2014 No.5369538 >>5367689 hot

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 22:42:42 2014 No.5369540 >>5369534 >Stirnerite cultist detected

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 22:51:36 2014 No.5369578 >>5366512 this x10

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 23:30:29 2014 No.5369687 File: 712 KB, 1291x853, john-fante.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 23:38:34 2014 No.5369702 >>5369431 >no freckles She's a daywalker at worst.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 31 23:42:51 2014 No.5369710 File: 1.29 MB, 1942x662, WITH FIRE AND SWORD.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 1 00:40:04 2014 No.5369888 >>5369540 >spooks

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 1 01:17:35 2014 No.5369992 File: 1.28 MB, 1665x665, factotum.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 1 04:11:59 2014 No.5370382 File: 271 KB, 1291x541, 987413298741.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Still really enjoyable though.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 1 04:51:36 2014 No.5370472 >>5367073 It doesn't feel unfinished though, the newspaper excerpts was a great way to finish

Anonymous Mon Sep 1 05:48:33 2014 No.5370590
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huge lettdown after the good "cultural history after renaissance"

the first chapters are about: atlantis, theosophy, age of aquarius
covers the whole fin de siècle crackpot spectrum (aka evola-mode)

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 1 05:55:30 2014 No.5370610 File: 442 KB, 1107x1135, enders game.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 1 05:57:03 2014 No.5370621 File: 558 KB, 1120x448, for sale baby shoes.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 1 06:00:06 2014 No.5370627 >>5370621 I see what you did there.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 1 06:00:55 2014 No.5370631 >>5364703 I read the book based on this picture, how come it abruptly ended like that?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 1 06:02:05 2014 No.5370636 >>5367299 Seriously, fuck that book.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 1 06:03:22 2014 No.5370640 >>5367571 He seemed pretty pro traditional gender rolls, and general social order, really the only thing about him I can see appealing to the average sjw is his atheism.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 1 06:05:05 2014 No.5370647 File: 149 KB, 1600x768, cosmic trigger.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 1 06:08:45 2014 No.5370667 >>5369710 >Implying what you got wasn't better than what you wanted POLAND STRONK!!!

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 1 06:11:21 2014 No.5370675 File: 213 KB, 1900x768, the helmet of horror.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

Anonymous Mon Sep 1 06:32:21 2014 No.5370729
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>>5367299
>>5370636
Don't get the hatred for this book, because in my opinion it's unwarranted.

It's a simple book trying to send a positive message.

Does the hatred arise because people over-hype it, or just the crowd it attracts in general?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 1 06:33:21 2014 No.5370732 >>5370631 Dostoevsky never finished it

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 1 06:37:26 2014 No.5370739 >>5370729 The hate is only here because it's not a sophisticated literary novel. It's a light, life-affirming read, and that's despicable to many people here.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 1 06:39:13 2014 No.5370744 File: 220 KB, 1600x768, snow crash.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5370739 It's life-affirming in a retarded way. Anyone with more than a dozen brain cells will simply walk away with a more anti-life-affirming attitude.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 1 06:41:27 2014 No.5370747 >>5370744 Being an overly analytical cynic doesn't require that many smarts either.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 1 07:19:10 2014 No.5370784 >>5370744 Also Neal ends almost all his books the same way.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 1 12:51:46 2014 No.5371795 File: 641 KB, 1292x564, journeytotheendofthenight.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 1 14:17:42 2014 No.5372063 >>5369217 Any books that are actually the "What I expected" of this image?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 1 14:39:16 2014 No.5372145 >>5367697 >reading głąb-rowicz >lel (post)structuralist hack

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 1 14:52:00 2014 No.5372178 File: 236 KB, 1600x661, shrop.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 1 15:00:33 2014 No.5372210 >>5367299 Dullest tripe I've ever read. Mind bogglingly cliche too

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 1 15:01:31 2014 No.5372215 >>5367651 That "what I expected" sounds like a great idea for a book though.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 1 15:05:02 2014 No.5372223 >>5367869 Thanks for reminding me that I checked this out of a library three months ago and never returned. Fuck my poor ass life

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 1 15:06:12 2014 No.5372229 >>5372223 That one is completely on yourself, buddy.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 1 15:14:02 2014 No.5372251 >>5372229 Spaghetti spilling is imminent when I talk to the library about the fine. They'll let me buy it from them right?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 1 15:15:47 2014 No.5372255 File: 225 KB, 1283x558, coetzeedisgrace.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] i swear coetzee is such a hack

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 1 15:18:12 2014 No.5372261 >>5372251 Depends on the library.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 1 15:25:27 2014 No.5372285 File: 281 KB, 2000x1800, 1q84.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

Anonymous Mon Sep 1 17:45:15 2014 No.5372878
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>>5369431
She's gorgeous, I'm just sad that she's getting old in a bad way.
>for a ginger
There are only two types of ginger: ugly gingers and ultra hot gingers.
and most ugly gingers are males.
>>5369702
>no freckles
>implying

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 1 17:49:34 2014 No.5372892 File: 97 KB, 498x594, rotating feel.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5369710 the guy on the first cover sort of looks like wojack (feels guy)

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 1 17:57:35 2014 No.5372928 File: 294 KB, 1141x669, mumbo jumbo.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 1 18:02:52 2014 No.5372945 >>5366332 That looks interesting

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 1 18:02:59 2014 No.5372947 File: 532 KB, 1291x559, 1409443681048.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] the girl is eating honey i just wanted to make that clear

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 1 18:30:23 2014 No.5373051 File: 742 KB, 1294x552, CITR.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] better than I thought it would be

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 1 18:57:00 2014 No.5373166 >>5364646 Yo I told you! Sound the bell, school is starting sucker!

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 1 19:07:52 2014 No.5373202 >>5372255 I read this. It really sucked.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 1 19:08:32 2014 No.5373205 >>5369217 Oh man I read this last summer and I can confirm that feels were felt harder than ever before

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 1 19:13:21 2014 No.5373217 File: 590 KB, 1297x545, AmIsupposedToFeelSorryForThisMonsterCunt.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 1 19:37:32 2014 No.5373289 File: 849 KB, 1291x532, hayo0.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 4/5

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 1 20:36:54 2014 No.5373351 >>5367669 I thoroughly enjoy the picture of what you expected

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 1 20:36:55 2014 No.5373352 >>5365763 Anyone have the socrates trapcard pic on its own?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 1 20:42:53 2014 No.5373371 File: 712 KB, 1600x600, Oddessy.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 1 20:59:46 2014 No.5373418 >>5366220 Was it good?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 1 21:24:13 2014 No.5373501 >>5369217 hyper kek for how true that is.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 1 21:44:12 2014 No.5373565 >>5366512 And it's still wonderful

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 1 21:50:19 2014 No.5373582 >>5367708 >All the people shitting on Ender's Game are people who have a very shallow appreciation of literature Whats your reddit username bro?

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 2 10:43:52 2014 No.5375609 File: 657 KB, 1291x559, Repent.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 2 11:22:20 2014 No.5375719 >>5365842 chuckle so hard

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 2 11:38:12 2014 No.5375762 File: 171 KB, 1291x559, thekindlyones.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5364596 Don't mind the other thread

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 2 11:48:42 2014 No.5375785 File: 272 KB, 1292x559, 849fk3ne.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 2 11:50:13 2014 No.5375789 >>5372178 that poem is great

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 2 13:09:30 2014 No.5375934 >>5375785 This is great. Much better than my one.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 2 13:31:34 2014 No.5376007 >>5369217 I would agree entirely but I think there was more to it than just feels. However, I lel'd

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 2 19:26:26 2014 No.5377431 File: 384 KB, 1291x559, next.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 3 03:31:29 2014 No.5379330 >>5375762 Well that sold me

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 3 03:58:10 2014 No.5379384 >>5375762 I love looking at these for books I haven't read or even heard about. What could this book possibly fucking be about?

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 3 04:04:35 2014 No.5379395 >>5377431 It really just seemed like Crichton would choose a scientific development at random from his newspaper and then write about how it shows why humans shouldn't play god

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 3 04:18:27 2014 No.5379429 >>5377431 I want to reread it now

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 3 04:22:23 2014 No.5379439 >>5379384 It's a fictional autobiography of an intellectual, homosexual, incestuous and coprophile SS officer who participates in the Holocaust.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 3 04:26:14 2014 No.5379455 >>5375785 need a pdf of this, stat. can't find any files on bookz

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 3 04:27:14 2014 No.5379461 >>5379455 check en.bookfi.org, they have epub/pdf of valis

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 3 13:20:28 2014 No.5381151 File: 51 KB, 400x393, 1363112997884.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5364596 Oh fuck man I haven't been on /lit/ in about a month, I just finished reading Commentaries last week, this had me in tears

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 3 14:04:31 2014 No.5381339 File: 667 KB, 1291x540, comm.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 3 14:13:04 2014 No.5381382 >>5381339 that 3rd panel sounds pretty clear actually, no intention of reading that doe

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 3 14:14:29 2014 No.5381391 >>5381339 >>5381382 That third panel is retarded. The equation would be different for literally very person ever. So it would be different between seller and buyer also.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 3 14:16:28 2014 No.5381395 >>5381391 Read the book. >>5381339 More than half the first chapter, at least.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 3 14:17:31 2014 No.5381400 >>5381395 >Read the book. Does it say that the equation would be different for every person ever?

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 3 14:30:59 2014 No.5381457 >>5367573 10/10 that pic is amazing

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 3 14:32:37 2014 No.5381460 >>5381400 I'm guessing the next line could perfectly be >But that's just an example that doesn't take in consideration that it would have to be different for each person

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 3 14:37:06 2014 No.5381480 File: 725 KB, 1291x559, theidiot.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 3 14:39:10 2014 No.5381490 >>5375762 This really got me interested, might read this book. Not the first time I have choose a book because of these.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 3 14:47:30 2014 No.5381535 >>5370784 What, badly? Deus Ex Machina? I actually really enjoy the ideas he presents in The Diamond Age, but both books have horribly shit endings.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 3 14:50:34 2014 No.5381556 >>5367777 is that a good or a bad thing?

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 3 15:19:12 2014 No.5381689 >>5369710 >poland >cossacks

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 3 15:35:03 2014 No.5381771 >>5381556 Yes.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 3 15:38:19 2014 No.5381789 File: 313 KB, 1009x389, 1380007311629.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 3 15:38:43 2014 No.5381793 >>5381460 that would include Marx's economic theory being logical, so I kinda doubt it

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 3 15:40:20 2014 No.5381805 >>5381789 I don't get it. How did you receive a diagram of a whale? Was that included in the book or something?

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 3 15:40:23 2014 No.5381807 File: 695 KB, 1008x963, 1380023742680.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 3 15:41:34 2014 No.5381816 >>5381805 yes, it's included

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 3 15:47:22 2014 No.5381839 File: 794 KB, 1496x884, 1380053110850.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 3 15:49:39 2014 No.5381847 >>5381805 Looks like someone put the book down before page 17.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 3 16:04:53 2014 No.5381911 >>5381805 this is bait

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 3 16:18:15 2014 No.5381970 File: 665 KB, 1290x549, notes_from.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 3 16:24:02 2014 No.5381988 >>5373217 is that cover real?

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 3 16:25:28 2014 No.5381993 File: 1.40 MB, 1485x769, buddenbrook.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 3 16:48:25 2014 No.5382099 >>5381839 kek

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 3 16:53:05 2014 No.5382123 >>5381807 >muh stoicism

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 3 16:54:09 2014 No.5382127 >>5364596 Corn in Europe before christ? No way sir

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 3 16:58:19 2014 No.5382139 File: 344 KB, 799x319, whatiread.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5364596

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 3 19:16:54 2014 No.5382767 >>5369687 you missed the point. He's being self-deprecating never mind

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 3 19:35:51 2014 No.5382837 >>5382767 dont waste words on anyone who uses the fedora mymy.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 3 20:08:56 2014 No.5382989 File: 640 KB, 1501x551, bellcurve.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 3 20:20:05 2014 No.5383035 >>5382989 Is it just Dysgenics lite?

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 3 20:30:46 2014 No.5383079 >>5364623 Perfect.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 3 20:33:37 2014 No.5383091 >>5382989 ...why would you expect that out of The Bell Curve?

Anonymous Wed Sep 3 20:33:51 2014 No.5383093

>>5383035
No, it's actually about how meritocracy will create de facto castes, due to intelligence (and by extension, success at life) being heritable, and people tending to marry people similar to themselves. The stuff about Black/White IQ differences is literally just one chapter, and I don't remember it talking about dysgenics as-such at all.

Everyone focuses on the supposed niggerdeath aspects of the book (even those parts are cautiously stated, as if it was an obligation that they wanted to get over with as quickly as possible) and overlooks the analysis of cognitive stratification that only becomes more relevant as time goes on.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 3 20:34:46 2014 No.5383098 >>5367610 Finite, but massive.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 3 20:38:08 2014 No.5383116 >there are people who read sci-fi

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 3 20:38:45 2014 No.5383117 Am I the only one here who likes the idea of books, but won't actually read any of them? I'd like to have a huge ass library and just read all year round but instead I sit on 4chan and read about how you've read books.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 3 20:44:34 2014 No.5383145 >>5383117 Pathetic.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 3 20:51:02 2014 No.5383174 >>5367414 I'm 150 pages in, why does it feel so feelsy? >tfw will never have clammy mexican teenage sex >tfw will never live the literary lifestyle >tfw my own journal will never be this interesting or well-written

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 3 20:51:28 2014 No.5383177 >>5383145 I know.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 3 20:54:30 2014 No.5383185 >>5383174 Yeah, it made me nostalgic for things I never experienced, it was very effective in that way.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 3 22:39:24 2014 No.5383568 File: 185 KB, 1616x730, hmmd.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 3 22:40:46 2014 No.5383572 >>5369217 That's the best book cover I've ever seen

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 3 22:49:39 2014 No.5383603 >>5383572 >/pol/ trying to into aesthetics How cute the pleb is trying, lol.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 3 23:14:39 2014 No.5383690 >>5383603 >Assumes I'm from /pol/ It's just a great cover man. I've never seen that picture before. It's menacing looking, and their faces tell a story. Probably the same story the book tells

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 3 23:16:03 2014 No.5383697 >>5367651 Did you even read the goddamn book? It's not like at all you dumbfuck.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 3 23:17:00 2014 No.5383701 >>5383690 I'll give you the benefit of the doubt then, but you can easily tell why I assumed it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 3 23:23:12 2014 No.5383723 >>5366198 I really liked God Emperor, it got really philosophical, but that was always part of what made the series great. Also, it's better if you imagine the book as sort of a character study of Leto.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 3 23:41:09 2014 No.5383791 >>5367651 I think you have to be a lover of New York City to appreciate the book.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 4 00:07:09 2014 No.5383886 >>5381480 wat

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 4 00:08:13 2014 No.5383891 >>5381789 the ending fits the second picture. fuck you

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 4 02:16:32 2014 No.5384355 >>5381460 >the book is correct because it could very well be

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 4 02:18:53 2014 No.5384368 >>5384355 No, your complain is stupid because it's based on nothing. Maybe the book sucks, you could try reading.

Anonymous Thu Sep 4 02:29:17 2014 No.5384414

>>5384368
>based on nothing

It's based on the exact words of the book.

If this was anything more than an exercise in futility, he would have added "but this is different for everyone" in the beginning of this little example.

I've been reading on btw, and he hasn't said it yet.
If he's going to say it any later than this I'm going to consider it bad writing.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 4 04:39:43 2014 No.5384685 >>5382139 You forgot the fedora at the end.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 4 08:21:14 2014 No.5385165 >>5364653 I haven't read Kafka on the Shore but if I remember correctly in all his novels I read protagonist is pretty ripped. What's up with that?

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 4 08:25:39 2014 No.5385181 >>5367869 this makes no sense at all

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 4 08:27:44 2014 No.5385187 >>5366113 I just open a russian edition of Krokodil on some site it's litteraly full of green text. It took me some time to figure out that those where hyperlinks.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 4 09:07:03 2014 No.5385285 >>5385181 Yes it does. You just can't think.

Anonymous Thu Sep 4 09:39:44 2014 No.5385372

>>5370675
Helmet of horror is pretty weird. I have a friend who's really into western mystism and he swears it's a very profound interpretation of such and such buddist tradition and that it totally made a whole bunch of think clear to him. I was just "huh?"

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 4 09:55:48 2014 No.5385420 >>5383116 Why not? Sci-fi is fun.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 4 17:06:48 2014 No.5386864 >>5367581 It's not meant to be analytical, it's meant to be engaging. If you want an analytical read, I suggest The God Delusion by Dawkins.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 4 17:20:35 2014 No.5386926 >>5366684 it's a little over the top and manipulative, but it's a pretty impressive achievement. it's basically perfect for what it is.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 4 17:27:03 2014 No.5386945 File: 100 KB, 994x387, and it was amazing.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] well i guess that'll teach me to judge a book by its cover

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 4 17:28:26 2014 No.5386954 >>5367651 this book went miles over your head m8

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 4 17:32:56 2014 No.5386977 >>5372063 read some ernst juenger, maybe?

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 4 17:40:59 2014 No.5387018 File: 573 KB, 1858x935, 1402302629925.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5381789

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 4 17:44:50 2014 No.5387051 File: 273 KB, 1283x528, 1409598947577.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5372255 ftfy

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 4 17:49:57 2014 No.5387076 >>5387018 what are you even trying to communicate here?

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 4 17:53:44 2014 No.5387092 >>5387018 i like you

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 4 18:10:20 2014 No.5387182 >>5383886 he wants to fuck with two girs but spills spaghetti instead

Anonymous Thu Sep 4 19:28:00 2014 No.5387545

>>5387076
>>5387092

I didn't make the picture -see the filename- but I liked it and saved it since Moby Dick is one of my favourite novels.
I don't know why anyone could expect it to be about "cute" whales -or the Popeye stuff- though.

Such a pity that I don't find any people IRL who like Moby Dick too...

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 4 19:55:23 2014 No.5387647 >>5387545 Shit, I'd be happy to find anyone who's even read it, less alone like it.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 4 20:11:55 2014 No.5387709 >>5387647 I recently found a girl who actually read it... and told me 'it was the worst book' she ever read.

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