Expectations thread

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Expectations thread Anonymous Tue Oct 28 23:40:09 2014 No.5651017 [Reply] [Original]

What I read
What I expected
What I got

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 28 23:57:32 2014 No.5651094 >>5651017 What I read: /lit/ What I expected: words about literature What I got: images and shitposting

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 29 00:00:10 2014 No.5651103 File: 84 KB, 1006x403, meta.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5651094

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 29 00:00:26 2014 No.5651105 >>5651094 so true. but i may never leave.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 29 00:01:52 2014 No.5651110 corn

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 29 00:01:57 2014 No.5651111 >>5651103 /a/ sucks

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 29 00:05:01 2014 No.5651122 File: 679 KB, 1291x595, lit.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5651017

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 29 00:06:29 2014 No.5651127 File: 840 KB, 1291x533, corn.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5651122

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 29 00:06:54 2014 No.5651128 >>5651103 I applaud you good sir for being so meta.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 29 00:08:28 2014 No.5651133 File: 44 KB, 490x330, autism.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5651127

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 29 00:13:11 2014 No.5651154 >>5651127 beet me to eet ;_;

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 29 00:14:16 2014 No.5651165 >>5651127 I don't understand this meme

Anonymous Wed Oct 29 00:16:19 2014 No.5651173

These threads are so stupid.

>This Victorian-era novel didn't have enough guns and asplosions to soothe my inner manchild
>This early 20th-century Russian novel had too many
>This 21st-century American novel was a miasma of pop cultural references I don't understand because I haven't left my house in weeks

Even the ones that are blatantly b8 are shitty

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 29 00:24:38 2014 No.5651210 >>5651103 Yeah, years ago these used to be better when they were simple, but now every box is so cluttered.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 29 00:26:18 2014 No.5651213 >>5651165 hernan cortés stole corn from argentina in the 20's

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 29 00:28:54 2014 No.5651227 >>5651127 ebinmem8

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 29 00:30:04 2014 No.5651231 >>5651127 >>5651133 top kek, every thread I can't tell whether or not the people who reply to this thing with "corn doesn't alive back then anon xDXxdD" are just trolling, are newfags or are just really that pretentious

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 29 00:31:37 2014 No.5651237 File: 984 KB, 1292x534, guns germs and steel.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I believe OP meant: "Le Corn Thread"

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 29 00:34:38 2014 No.5651253 >>5651127 So for the last 5 "Expectations Threads" I've calculated that the average number of posts it takes (after OP's) for this asinine image to show up is 8. God dammit /lit/

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 29 00:39:45 2014 No.5651267 File: 2.20 MB, 640x360, eyebrows.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5651127 here we go. Yet again.

Anonymous Wed Oct 29 00:43:04 2014 No.5651279

>>5651127
This has got to be the most retarded image I've ever seen on here.

>Expecting the movie gladiator
>Expecting a map that wasn't even from Julius' time
>thinking the translation "corn" means maize
>reading translations

What autist made this fucking image?

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 29 01:07:32 2014 No.5651405 >>5651127 Jared Diamond didn't event corn until the year 2016

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 29 01:09:01 2014 No.5651413 >>5651127 I thought corn was discovered in North America?

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 29 03:42:48 2014 No.5651832 File: 97 KB, 800x320, WIR___WIE___WIG_by_Qt75Rx1 copy.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I didn't read this as a child, and so decided to read it just recently.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 29 08:45:47 2014 No.5652301 File: 96 KB, 1002x377, sure youre joking mr feynman.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 29 08:50:33 2014 No.5652317 File: 77 KB, 1008x403, 1414228319744.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 29 09:03:28 2014 No.5652344 >>5651127 I'm pretty sure it wasn't until 1856 when Mendel genetically engineered corn so it couldn't have existed in Caesars time.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 29 09:07:35 2014 No.5652357 >>5651127 Lol you too? I read this too and all them went on about was food rations and corn.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 29 09:13:37 2014 No.5652370 >>5651413 bait or stupid?

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 29 11:33:51 2014 No.5652698 >>5651405 Fuck I LOL'd

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 29 11:51:16 2014 No.5652739 >>5652301 kek, you forgot the lockpicking

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 29 11:56:37 2014 No.5652753 File: 34 KB, 199x200, 1386841017634.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5651127

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 29 12:04:16 2014 No.5652775 >>5651165 The people who read the translated version of commentarii de bello gallico are retards who only know american english, that's the whole deal

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 29 12:06:33 2014 No.5652785 >>5652317 Have you considered suicide?

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 29 12:07:15 2014 No.5652790 >>5652301 you knocked my sides out of their strange state and right into charm state

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 29 12:09:44 2014 No.5652799 >>5652785 actually yes, but not because of this book. I'm not sure whether this is the book I read (it was Bertrand Russel's Best edited by Enger), but this was the only cover I found. Sorry if it offended you.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 29 12:29:35 2014 No.5652831 File: 966 KB, 200x150, 1414283645291.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5651127 ayy lmao

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 29 15:14:43 2014 No.5653302 File: 157 KB, 1638x668, 1405900236872.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] This one is so true

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 29 15:17:20 2014 No.5653308 anyone got template?

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 29 15:25:22 2014 No.5653335 File: 250 KB, 1665x680, tats.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5651210 I think people here think that the point is to do some phenomelogical free association with the experience of the book instead of a simple joke.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 29 15:26:11 2014 No.5653338 >>5653308 >needing a template for this Do you not know how to spell "what I read; what I expected; what I got"

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 29 15:28:38 2014 No.5653346 File: 1.19 MB, 1638x783, countzero.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 29 15:28:50 2014 No.5653347 File: 8 KB, 1291x559, 1414079401492.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5653308 for you

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 29 15:32:13 2014 No.5653355 File: 221 KB, 1291x543, Untitle3d.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 29 16:06:35 2014 No.5653486 File: 842 KB, 1304x542, template.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] when it first came out

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 29 16:27:42 2014 No.5653552 >>5652301 LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 29 16:30:00 2014 No.5653557 File: 703 KB, 1290x538, imolivertwistiamiam.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] put on the other thread but it died

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 29 16:33:08 2014 No.5653565 >>5653302 You're a simple minded cretin.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 29 16:35:40 2014 No.5653575 File: 115 KB, 1006x403, strugatzki.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] some russian scifi

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 29 16:38:19 2014 No.5653578 File: 362 KB, 1291x559, Shit Book.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 29 16:54:19 2014 No.5653630 File: 845 KB, 1291x559, 1414610930486.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5651017

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 29 17:02:27 2014 No.5653652 >>5651127 Did Caesar himself write this?

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 29 17:03:56 2014 No.5653656 Does anyone have one for the Great Gatsby?

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 29 17:08:18 2014 No.5653664 >>5653656 Make one.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 29 17:09:10 2014 No.5653667 >>5653335 What do you mean by that last pic?

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 29 17:10:34 2014 No.5653672 File: 43 KB, 1200x472, litshit.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 29 17:17:55 2014 No.5653692 >>5652317 Bad Religion is a pretty good band.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 29 17:21:41 2014 No.5653704 File: 108 KB, 1006x403, trial.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] from the first time I read it

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 29 17:26:06 2014 No.5653723 >>5651127 >le repetition

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 29 17:29:32 2014 No.5653740 >>5653704 nigga wat.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 29 17:39:12 2014 No.5653779 File: 559 KB, 2400x1013, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 29 17:42:24 2014 No.5653792 >>5653740 He was a ladies man

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 29 17:44:32 2014 No.5653803 >>5653792 how is that relevant to the main theme at all the whole thing with women even being mentioned in there was to point out that humans crave interaction with eachotherwhich Kafka lacked and couldn't participate in the ''regular'' way

>>	Grafield Wed Oct 29 17:49:26 2014 No.5653820 >>5653803 >being so mad about corn thread posts like I said, the first time I read it. I was 14 and I knew about the "kafkaesque" clichés you're insisting on, the whole ladies part came as a big surprise for adolescent me.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 29 17:52:45 2014 No.5653833 >>5651213 no it was cabeza de vaca boludo

Anonymous Wed Oct 29 17:57:25 2014 No.5653861

>>5653302
That's what makes BNW so much better than 1984. Everyone knows 1984 is a dystopia and inhospitable living standards. But BNW is terrifying because it seems so lucrative.
Huxley would be appalled if he saw modern society.

>>5652301
He always seems so much more proud of the women than say, him having tea with Einstein as a graduate student...

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 29 17:57:48 2014 No.5653862 >>5653803 yes these pictures should be used to expound on the main themes of books, not make irreverent jokes about unexpected aspects to them read/expected/got is serious business

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 29 17:58:33 2014 No.5653869 File: 581 KB, 1665x665, bloody meridian.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 29 17:59:45 2014 No.5653876 Anyone got a Moby Dick one?

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 29 18:00:43 2014 No.5653880 File: 500 KB, 1291x559, please stop saying pubis.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 29 18:01:00 2014 No.5653881 >>5651017 Damn you know how to throw shade like a fucking lunar eclipse.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 29 18:16:33 2014 No.5653944 File: 119 KB, 1006x403, werther.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 29 18:29:07 2014 No.5654015 File: 202 KB, 1665x680, 1414267994908.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 29 18:43:40 2014 No.5654083 File: 735 KB, 1291x559, helmet of horror.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 29 21:06:04 2014 No.5654707 >>5653881 what?

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 29 21:10:33 2014 No.5654729 File: 573 KB, 1858x935, Moby Dick.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5651017

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 29 21:16:26 2014 No.5654754 >>5653861 look, another one of these degenerate thinkers

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 29 21:18:15 2014 No.5654767 >>5653486 while this is true, i have to say that this book sparked my interest in literature beyond harry potter. it was the first book that really pulled me into another world that wasn't >special school for SPECIAL kids! like you!

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 29 21:34:37 2014 No.5654865 File: 628 KB, 1291x559, One Hundred Years of Solitude.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 29 21:43:23 2014 No.5654900 >>5653672 TOP KEK

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 29 22:02:17 2014 No.5654972 File: 866 KB, 1292x530, 1414610930486.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 29 22:10:49 2014 No.5655011 File: 213 KB, 1900x768, the helmet of horror.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5654083

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 29 22:14:39 2014 No.5655026 File: 133 KB, 500x500, 1375154694144.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5651122 >you will be the qb's gf

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 29 22:16:32 2014 No.5655035 >>5654767 pleb

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 29 23:45:47 2014 No.5655343 >>5654729 u forgot homolust

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 29 23:47:26 2014 No.5655345 File: 873 KB, 2188x1268, blood-meridian.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 29 23:57:23 2014 No.5655379 >>5651127 Corn is now officially more popular than Max Stirner.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 30 00:11:04 2014 No.5655411 >>5655026 >tfw you never be the qb's bf

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 30 00:13:19 2014 No.5655413 >>5655345 One chapter at the beginning felt like Deadwood the one where he fights in the mud

>>	LE PUBIS MAN Thu Oct 30 00:38:17 2014 No.5655473 >>5653880 Pubis le pubis

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 30 00:39:20 2014 No.5655475 >>5654707 Ayy lamo

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 30 00:41:01 2014 No.5655479 >>5653880 this is pretty hilarious I haven't read the book but Cronenberg's film is pretty amazing

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 30 01:21:41 2014 No.5655602 >>5655413 >the kid lambasted the door with his fist >then he and toadvine kicked that man >aw kick him honey >kick him >kicked him to death >then the set to hotel on fire >and ran out >

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 30 01:23:22 2014 No.5655604 >>5651127 Corn comes from Mexico you retard

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 30 01:25:50 2014 No.5655608 >>5652301 Still a good book >muh antigame

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 30 01:32:39 2014 No.5655624 File: 197 KB, 1292x539, Untitled.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 30 01:35:04 2014 No.5655633 File: 2.17 MB, 1665x960, blood.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5653869 fixed

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 30 03:19:14 2014 No.5655903 File: 838 KB, 1688x652, 1408723768841.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 30 03:29:46 2014 No.5655930 >>5651832 They get weirder

Anonymous Thu Oct 30 03:46:16 2014 No.5655964

>>5655930
yeah what was the deal with like the 4th one where it was suddenly just straight up telling Biblical stories

Even in just like the second one I remember insane things like talking mitochondria explaining crazy magic taking place inside people's bodies

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 30 07:47:32 2014 No.5656350 Does anyone have it for Neuromancer? New computer and a friend is going to read it so I wanted to give him the picture.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 30 09:18:34 2014 No.5656511 >>5655903 Bozo never became a successful comedian nor did he even kill himself. I dont get it.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 30 10:32:11 2014 No.5656751 File: 396 KB, 1600x627, benatar.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 30 12:37:15 2014 No.5657100 File: 323 KB, 1085x475, 1361144633763.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 30 12:49:34 2014 No.5657139 >>5655624 Should have read your Hamlet footnotes closer

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 30 12:55:21 2014 No.5657158 File: 73 KB, 1025x462, 1270256340212.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5657139

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 30 12:56:24 2014 No.5657161 File: 146 KB, 1008x400, 1270256853400.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5657158

Anonymous Thu Oct 30 12:58:00 2014 No.5657164
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>>5657161
All this ones are pretty old ones and it seems this kind of threads have grown a lot from old /lit/, both in a userbase more mature in their interpretation and in the technique put into conveying meta jokes through this things.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 30 12:59:02 2014 No.5657168 File: 74 KB, 1008x500, 1270257364549.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5657164

Anonymous Thu Oct 30 13:00:15 2014 No.5657172
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>>5657168
I guess there used to be less discussion, so people found that a very basic comment was enough. That Ficciones one is less than you'd see in a regular post commenting that that anon read the book.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 30 13:01:27 2014 No.5657177 File: 173 KB, 1008x389, 1270270432068.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5657172 I'm also seeing them for the first time after saving them in a /lit/ folder I had forgotten about. It's nice seeing we have grown a littl.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 30 13:02:31 2014 No.5657181 File: 77 KB, 1008x389, 1270412790042.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5657177

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 30 13:03:58 2014 No.5657185 File: 102 KB, 1008x389, 1270420927457.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5657181 Last one. I'm pretty happy that I'm erasing this shit from my pc.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 30 13:15:38 2014 No.5657220 >>5655343 >u forgot homolust it's just friendship, our crazy society now views everything sexually. Guys can't even call kids "cute" without being called pedophiles and mothers having seizures.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 30 13:16:40 2014 No.5657225 >>5657158 you must have terrible reading comprehension or a short attention span :^)

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 30 13:21:35 2014 No.5657246 >>5657220 >being this much in denial come out friend. /lit/ loves you

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 30 13:30:36 2014 No.5657269 >>5657246 I'm perfectly fine you disgusting degenerate.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 30 13:50:27 2014 No.5657338 File: 924 KB, 1604x641, what i read the seawolf.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 30 15:33:20 2014 No.5657787 >>5656511 robin is no longer human

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 30 18:11:07 2014 No.5658509 File: 174 KB, 1291x559, The prince.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 30 21:20:28 2014 No.5659386 File: 672 KB, 1292x552, 25253453455.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 30 21:28:02 2014 No.5659439 >>5658509 the whole "The Prince is satire" bullshit is promoted exclusively by people who know next to nothing about Machiavelli (other than, maybe, that he also wrote Discourses on Levy)

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 30 23:20:50 2014 No.5659958 Is there a 1984 one?

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 30 23:37:45 2014 No.5660027 >>5659386 one of the few short books I just could not finish, it was so bad. some things were really good. The first few pages had me excited too, but it was disappointing

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 31 00:24:59 2014 No.5660255 >>5657161 There is so much explicit and gory murder. Also genealogy. Because the best thing to do before you kill someone is explain to them how your great-grandmammy got raped by Zeus.

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