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>pick up a dual-language book containing collections of stories about Sicily
>it's not even written in Sicilian dialect
Fuck you Giovanni Verga

>> No.5691126

>>5691101
>pick up Les Misérables expecting the story of Jean Valjean
>first 100 pages are about a priest and his mundane life, including detailed accounts of his expenses

>read another like 25 pages
>Hugo is still droning on about that fucking priest

dropped

>> No.5691139

>pick up gravitys rainbow by pinecone because i read it was high brow patrician literature
>it's just toilet jokes

seriously m8s

>> No.5691148

>pick up Finnegans Wake because I heard it was difficult and the experimental nature sounded intriguing and i wanted a challenge
>can't get past 20 pages
>feel like a pleb

t-thanks joyce

>> No.5691164

>pick up Lautreamont's Poesies
>they're not even poems

>pick up Tristram Shandy
>does not even talk about Tristram Shandy

FUCKING DROPPED LOL

>> No.5691241

>be black
>read huckleberry finn
>nigger nigger nigger nigger nigger nigger nigger

>> No.5691268

>>5691101
>pick up Naked Lunch because /lit/ finds it so highly acclaimed
>nothing but gay butt sex, comparisons to cocks, and drugs
>not even mad because I should have expected /lit/ to like books about licking semen since they love Moby Dick
>burned a little because it was a waste of funds

>> No.5691273

>pick up 1984
>Oceania doesn't even exist

Realistic dystopia my ass

>> No.5691426

>>5691101
This is the third thread I see on the catalog with le melancholy dog as the op pic

This is not ok
Do you understand? No es bueno

That belongs exclusively for /r9k/

>> No.5691465

>>5691426
it was the only angry pic I had, sorry breh

>> No.5691820

>pick up Infinite Jest
>obviously assume that it'll go on forever like title had me believe
>finish it in 8 months

why Derrick Foster Willis?

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5691826

>>5691426

>> No.5691887

>Pick up Dante's Inferno
>There's fire in only like two cantos

The bookseller laughed at me when I tried to return it

>> No.5691913

>>5691101
But he uses a lot of sicilian idioms.

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5691950

>Read A Neverending Story
>mfw I get to the end

Fuck you Bastion you piece of shit I was promised an endless adventure.

>> No.5692128

>>5691126
seriously, what the fuck was that about. I dropped it 40 pages in because I had decided I had better things to do, I'm amazed you made it 125.

>> No.5692177

>>5692128
I thought it was a classic. "Surely the classic will start soon" I kept telling myself "surely Jean Valjean is right around the next page" but he never was.

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5692194

>>5691101
>Pick up Commentarii de Bello Gallico (Commentaries on the Gallic War) by Caesar thinking that it'll give me a deep understanding of history and war
>literally about nothing but corn

yeah, thanks for the profound insight, Julio

>> No.5692202

>The Dark Tower
>2nd last chapter. Tells me to put down the book and be happy with what I've just read.
>ignore and read the last chapter
>Ka is a wheel; picks up Cuthbert's horn..well, shit

>Murakami writing about NTR in The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
>totally dissatisfied with the conclusion, although the next date I go on should be in an aquarium

>> No.5693834

>>5691913
Sure but I was hoping to use the book to learn the Sicilian dialect. I enjoy the stories and I've been wanting to pick up Italian anyway but once I looked through it I was miffed.

>> No.5693849

>>5692194
Epic meme, brah XDDD

>> No.5694792

>>5692177
I read the book and loved it. I guess we have a different tolerance threshold.

>> No.5695568

>>5692194
you know however, as much as it may seem like ebin meme'ing this guy is right, despite the fact that it's actually referring to grain instead of corn, I felt like the entire novel was about grain, envoys and skirmishes

>> No.5695580

>>5691241
>be black
>read TKAMB
>nigger nigger nigger niggerlover

>> No.5695599

>>5695568
That's what was is like from the cesar's perspective. Why didn't you read Storms of Steel for a 20th century front line life?