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Anonymous Fri Apr 16 16:29:15 2010 No.562586 [Reply] [Original]

Hello there /lit/tle boys, I was wondering if you could help me with my choice of reading material for tonight. I need something to distract me from my best friend being expelled from school on rumors of drug trafficking, and being rejected from the summer program that I was supposed to be a shoe in for. Also some other stuff. It hasn't been a good week.

Here's what I have in my room. I can do e-books, but I'm less likely to get distracted without the computer in my face.

-Shooting an Elephant, George Orwell
-Nausea, Jean-Paul Sartre
-Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand(joke gift from a friend; I've been reading it a few pages at a time, writing slanderous notes all over the pages)
-The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
-The Book of Genesis Illustrated, R. Crumb
-The Fall of the House of Usher, Edgar Allen Poe
-Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami
-The Year of the Flood, Margaret Atwood
-In the Miso Soup, Ryu Murakami

That's it. Not a great selection, I know. I wish I had some popular science books, but they're tough as shit to find around here.

Help me stave off depression, guys, what should I read?

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 16 16:34:15 2010 No.562595 File: 194 KB, 830x830, 1269734917311.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand(joke gift from a friend; I've been reading it a few pages at a time, writing slanderous notes all over the pages) You know you like it.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 16 16:36:15 2010 No.562603 >>562595 In your self-interest. Fucking do it. Read Lovecraft. Life may be shitty, but at least the Old Ones are still asleep IRL. Recognizing the contrast has to cheer you up.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 16 16:37:15 2010 No.562607 >>562595 >implying I'm not raging my way through at a turtle's pace

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 16 16:39:15 2010 No.562611 >>562607 >implying you would be reading it if you didn''t enjoy the experience

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 16 16:46:15 2010 No.562630 >>562611 >implying I've actively been reading it >>562603 What Lovecraft specifically? Might not be what I need right now, but I can give it a look.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 16 16:49:15 2010 No.562636 >>562630 >implying you can inactively read something

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 16 16:51:15 2010 No.562639 >>562586 Maybe you should read famous authors instead like Winston Churchill, JRR Tolkien, or JK Rowling.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 16 16:51:15 2010 No.562642 >>562636 >implying you misunderstood my implications and aren't just trolling with semantics

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 16 16:52:15 2010 No.562644 >>562642 >implying I'm trolling

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 16 16:53:15 2010 No.562648 >>562630 Anything in the Cthulhu mythos or shit like Cats of Ulthar. It's his style more than anything, and he stays consistent.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 16 16:54:15 2010 No.562652 >>562644 >implying greentext is ever not a troll

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 16 16:54:15 2010 No.562654 >>562652 >implying you can't make an honest point with greentext

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 16 16:56:15 2010 No.562656 >>562654 >implying you can

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 16 16:57:15 2010 No.562660 paradoxians ITT

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 16 16:57:15 2010 No.562661 >>562656 >implying that the impications of the previous posts are incorrect

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 16 17:00:15 2010 No.562671 >>562661 >implying the definition of greentext implications

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 16 17:01:15 2010 No.562675 >>562671 >implying you know what the definition of greentext posts is

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 16 17:02:15 2010 No.562679 >>562639 Your humor is lost on me, but I appreciate the effort. >>562648 Thanks, I haven't read any of that, I'll give it a look.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 16 17:03:15 2010 No.562684 >>562675 >implying you would bother greentexting with someone who didn't

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 16 17:04:15 2010 No.562687 >>562684 >implying I wouldn't

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 16 17:05:15 2010 No.562691 >>562687 >implying you're that desperately lonely

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 16 17:07:15 2010 No.562697 >>562691 >implying you have to be lonely to greentext

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 16 17:10:15 2010 No.562700 >>562697 >implying anyone who has been on 4chan long enough to understand greentexting isn't a lonely, disturbed individual

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 16 17:11:15 2010 No.562704 >>562700 >implying you are a lonely, disturbed individual

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 16 17:12:15 2010 No.562708 >>562704 >implying I wouldn't imply that

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 16 17:13:15 2010 No.562709 > -Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand(joke gift from a friend; I've been reading it a few pages at a time, writing slanderous notes all over the pages) you sound like someone who is really annoying

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 16 17:15:15 2010 No.562714 >>562708 >implying your implications imply intentionally

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 16 17:16:15 2010 No.562717 >>562709 Care to elaborate?

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 16 17:17:15 2010 No.562720 >>562714 >implying I would imply them if they didn't

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 16 17:20:15 2010 No.562727 >>562720 >implying you would imply them if they did

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 16 17:21:15 2010 No.562732 >>562727 >implying previously implied implications

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 16 17:22:15 2010 No.562733 >>562732 >implying implying implications

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 16 17:25:15 2010 No.562739 >>562717 > writing slanderous notes all over the pages

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 16 17:26:15 2010 No.562740 File: 29 KB, 240x320, 1270520759955.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >this thread

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 16 17:27:15 2010 No.562742 >>562733 >coherent implications

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 16 17:29:15 2010 No.562751 >>562739 Poor wording? Slanderous isn't the best, I'll admit.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 16 17:32:15 2010 No.562759 Read Nausea