What I Read, What I Expected, What I Got

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What I Read, What I Expected, What I Got Anonymous Sat Jan 3 20:09:27 2015 No.5946010 [Reply] [Original]

>implying you have anything better to do

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 3 20:15:48 2015 No.5946028 File: 840 KB, 1291x533, 1415033727654.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 3 20:17:39 2015 No.5946038 Template?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 3 20:20:33 2015 No.5946047 File: 239 KB, 800x800, pucci.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5946028

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 3 20:28:23 2015 No.5946075 >>5946038 Just make your own. It's not that hard.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 4 07:19:04 2015 No.5947965 >>5946028 Corn came from the new world.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 4 14:01:56 2015 No.5949136 File: 8 KB, 1291x559, read expected got template.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5946038

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 4 14:02:58 2015 No.5949140 File: 246 KB, 1291x559, kraken read expected got.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 4 14:08:34 2015 No.5949156 File: 165 KB, 1291x559, satantango is legitimately hilarious guys.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 4 14:13:52 2015 No.5949174 File: 1.45 MB, 1688x682, shitty metalcore band.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5946010 2/10 >>5946028 11/10 >>5949140 8/10 >>5949156 4/10

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 4 14:36:50 2015 No.5949253 File: 906 KB, 1672x646, 1408723768841.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 4 14:37:52 2015 No.5949256 File: 271 KB, 1710x646, The Gaucho.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 4 14:39:13 2015 No.5949260 >>5949253 Accurate

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 4 14:43:00 2015 No.5949272 >>5946028 actual meme.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 4 14:46:09 2015 No.5949279 File: 193 KB, 1646x646, Gravity's Pork.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 4 14:50:22 2015 No.5949289 File: 160 KB, 1008x576, wrong raymond.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] If you have to literally spell things out in the "Expected" and "Got" boxes, you're doing this wrong.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 4 14:56:19 2015 No.5949304 >>5949253 this is dumb

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 4 14:56:21 2015 No.5949305 >>5949289 this is gold

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 4 15:17:01 2015 No.5949373 File: 273 KB, 1283x528, coetzeedisgrace.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 4 16:24:29 2015 No.5949603 >>5946028 best meme 2014

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 4 16:26:03 2015 No.5949609 File: 840 KB, 1291x531, le way of männer.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Does anyone have the one for Guns, Germs & Steel where has /pol/ crossed out ?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 4 16:27:32 2015 No.5949612 File: 997 KB, 500x332, 1406718311405.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5946028 Too soon but still fucking epic man

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 4 19:11:00 2015 No.5950440 File: 259 KB, 1024x579, what i read what i expected what i got the white plague.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 4 19:14:06 2015 No.5950458 Jesus did Ayn Rand write that last paragraph in the image? That is more aphoristic than Nietzsche for christ sake.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 4 19:15:33 2015 No.5950465 >>5950440 Still a decent book, even with all the irish nationalism and lack of disease

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 4 19:16:20 2015 No.5950467 >>5946028 Can someone explain this meme? Corn didn't exist in the Old World at that time, did it?

Anonymous Sun Jan 4 19:18:34 2015 No.5950478

>>5950467
The word "corn" in British usage can refer to any cereal grain, especially whatever is the principal grain of a region. Caesar therefore speaks of "corn" (frumentum), although he of course knew nothing of the New World cultigen that the British call "maize."

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 4 19:18:53 2015 No.5950481 >>5950467 corn refers to grain, and i guess the book focuses on the role grains played in the gallic war

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 4 19:19:49 2015 No.5950486 File: 9 KB, 1291x559, clever ruse.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5946028

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 4 19:19:52 2015 No.5950487 File: 245 KB, 700x303, image3026.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I still liked it though

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 4 19:53:45 2015 No.5950652 >>5949174 agree with everything except the itaots reference, wat

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 4 19:55:10 2015 No.5950663 File: 422 KB, 822x333, House.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 4 20:01:16 2015 No.5950681 File: 41 KB, 562x437, 001.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5946028 OH SHIT THERE IT IS

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 4 20:02:03 2015 No.5950683 File: 221 KB, 800x320, ;_;.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 4 20:02:34 2015 No.5950685 File: 862 KB, 844x757, shaft tilt.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5946028 I thought corn was discovered in America?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 4 20:03:05 2015 No.5950687 File: 357 KB, 800x320, good novella tho.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 4 20:04:56 2015 No.5950692 >>5946028 Good English or Spanish versions of this book?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 4 20:08:11 2015 No.5950704 File: 115 KB, 970x468, 14105642652.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 4 20:12:06 2015 No.5950715 >>5949289 That book was heavily altered by his editor to the point of not being his anymore

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 4 20:12:29 2015 No.5950717 File: 263 KB, 800x320, there were no sandwiches.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 4 20:13:11 2015 No.5950721 >>5950715 No it wasn't, my mistake

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 4 20:23:10 2015 No.5950753 >>5950717 This one is just terrible. The whole point of these threads is to illustrate what the book was about with pictures, not words.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 4 20:24:34 2015 No.5950760 >>5950486 I don't get it.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 4 20:25:06 2015 No.5950763 File: 1.21 MB, 1291x654, 1420398116578.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Poor horse :'(

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 4 20:25:44 2015 No.5950764 >>5949279 oh my god, the castration scene i never laughed so hard while cringing and crossing my legs

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 4 20:38:56 2015 No.5950816 >>5950704 I really enjoyed this book. If I was forced to read it in highschool I might not have had the same views. Those parts where he is just walking around the city feeling alienated are just feelsy as fuck

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 4 20:39:56 2015 No.5950825 >>5950753 no its not.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 4 20:49:30 2015 No.5950857 >>5950753 'These' threads? I don't know anything about that, but it can't be the point of 'this' thread, since OP did it.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 4 21:00:05 2015 No.5950907 >>5949373 both of those boxes are stupid. if this is what you were expecting it seems like you didn't read the jacket, and if thats what you got out of it your a shitty reader.

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>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 4 21:06:15 2015 No.5950933 >>5947965 >>5950467 >>5950685 >>5950486 >>5950760 Who are you going to believe? The Holy Roman Emperor Julius Caesar, or government mandated "history books"

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 4 21:07:53 2015 No.5950939 >>5950763 >George Orwell >Ominous, red cover >Still expects happy animals living on a sunny, little farm.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 4 21:10:01 2015 No.5950951 >>5950933 >Holy Roman Emperor >Julius Caesar

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 4 21:11:43 2015 No.5950959 File: 135 KB, 1008x789, blank.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 4 21:13:11 2015 No.5950966 File: 2.27 MB, 403x297, 1419521023061.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5950959 Oh shit forgot to crop

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 4 21:14:11 2015 No.5950972 >>5950951 Are you implying Julius Caesar was neither Holy nor Roman? I'm baffled sometimes by /lit/'s stupidity sometimes.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 4 21:25:13 2015 No.5951014 >>5950486 You read 3 Shades of Grey?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 4 23:14:44 2015 No.5951638 >>5946028 ayy lmao

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 5 00:05:27 2015 No.5951909 >>5950922 is that a good thing or a bad thing?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 5 00:30:53 2015 No.5952005 >>5950763 wrong

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 5 01:16:28 2015 No.5952156 >>5950687 >wolf girl I swear to god that ending ruined the book. You can't just throw in borderline supernatural shit like that into a realistic story at the last minute and expect the reader to accept it wholesale.

>>	kitty !kitty/EnNg Mon Jan 5 01:28:59 2015 No.5952230 >>5950687 >>5952156 lol, really? it's amusing also you definitely can eat that horse, you can be free together

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 5 02:13:13 2015 No.5952375 >>5946028 Por favor não, pai de milho.

Anonymous Mon Jan 5 02:16:12 2015 No.5952388
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I'm didn't realize until now how long Dracula is compared to other classic horror novels like Frankenstein, Picture of Dorian Gray, and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Oh well. I read it. I can't un-read it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 5 07:49:40 2015 No.5952892 >>5952375 br br?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 5 08:27:21 2015 No.5952956 >>5950907 Hey man, there's bits that are unflattering to niggers and thus neo-nazism

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 5 09:33:10 2015 No.5953128 File: 107 KB, 970x473, What I thought of post office.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 5 09:46:15 2015 No.5953178 >>5946028 The classic that started it all

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 5 09:54:04 2015 No.5953201 >>5950486 It's OK, man, I get it. Especially since you replied to the post you are spoofing.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 5 09:56:56 2015 No.5953210 File: 97 KB, 400x346, 139831409357.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5952388 dubs of universal truth.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 5 10:01:38 2015 No.5953225 File: 205 KB, 1291x559, 1420398116578.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 5 10:47:55 2015 No.5953376 File: 661 KB, 1291x559, east of eden.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 5 11:02:35 2015 No.5953455 File: 338 KB, 1066x466, 1418362082729.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5953376 This makes me very happy. East of Eden is fast approaching on my reading list. The only other Steinbeck I've read was The Pearl.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 5 11:06:23 2015 No.5953477 >>5953455 Every time that pic gets dubs

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 5 11:11:32 2015 No.5953518 >>5953455 >>5953455 >>5953455

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 5 11:12:33 2015 No.5953521 >>5953455 Fuck.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 5 11:12:36 2015 No.5953522 >>5953477 Nicely done.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 5 11:16:26 2015 No.5953544 >>5953455 >>5953477 >>5953522 Fucking hell /lit/. We're not /b/, can we not do this

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 5 11:17:00 2015 No.5953547 >>5953544 Sweet!

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 5 11:17:27 2015 No.5953549 >>5953477 >>5953522 >>5953544 >77 >22 >44 This is fucking crazy. 44, you're part of the problem.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 5 11:20:07 2015 No.5953564 >>5953544 you fucked it up mate

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 5 11:24:35 2015 No.5953584 I never understood why anons make a game out of this. It's like you forget you're on an online platform for pretty much limitless discussion on anything.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 5 11:25:25 2015 No.5953587 File: 11 KB, 500x222, oh gosh.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5953455 >>5953477 >>5953522 >>5953544

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 5 11:28:55 2015 No.5953606 >>5953584 Nobody's forgetting anything, our discussions are limited because we are limited. And because actually limitless discussion is retarded outside of I2P or other 100% secure venues.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 5 11:30:17 2015 No.5953615 >>5953455 I read the Pearl back in gradeschool before I ever knew who the fuck Steinbeck was. Only other one I read was Cannery Row, which was great. East of Eden tops them.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 5 11:31:53 2015 No.5953624 >>5953606 Hence why I said "pretty much." I just think it's stupid, that's all. You don't "get" anything. There is literally nothing special about matching numbers in this context.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 5 11:35:13 2015 No.5953643 >>5953615 Brilliant. I was supposed to read the Sound and the Fury before it, but I may just skip straight ahead.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 5 11:39:55 2015 No.5953669 >>5953624 No anon, you don't get anything. They got gets.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 5 11:46:40 2015 No.5953689 >>5953669 Meaningless symbols. NOTHING HAS MEANING.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 5 11:55:48 2015 No.5953720 >>5953689 memes are meaning

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 5 11:57:21 2015 No.5953726 File: 25 KB, 1280x544, 1405882012206.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5953455

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 5 12:01:59 2015 No.5953745 >>5953720 and gets have the emptiest meaning of all.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 5 12:06:04 2015 No.5953756 >>5953643 Do it anon. I'm near the end of East of Eden now and it's been a really good read.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 5 14:32:16 2015 No.5954417 File: 52 KB, 500x424, 1412795033008.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5953455 >>5953477 >>5953522 >>5953544

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 5 14:33:54 2015 No.5954422 >>5946028 always funny

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 5 14:45:07 2015 No.5954466 >>5950465 >Irish Nationalism >A bad thing Pick one.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 5 14:52:01 2015 No.5954495 >>5953584 Just as in you read snippets of reviews in order to find one or two interesting details before delving deeper into the work for yourself.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 5 14:58:38 2015 No.5954518 >>5950652 Cause the book and album share a creepy sexual vibe, plus they're both from the south.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 5 14:59:40 2015 No.5954524 >>5950440 The only thing I remember from that was the nursery rhyme about masturbation and that it was fucking boring.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 5 15:10:27 2015 No.5954564 >>5954518 I don't remember itaots having a creepy sexual vibe, but it's been years since I've listened to it. where's the connection with faulkner?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 5 15:14:16 2015 No.5954577 >>5954495 I was talking about gets, anon. It's all good.

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>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 5 19:55:33 2015 No.5955761 >>5954577 Talking about gets, eh?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 5 20:11:35 2015 No.5955832 File: 176 KB, 512x512, 1402245455527.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5946028 Fuck you /lit/. The other night I've dreamed to do a math test at school about maize. Fuck the Anglosphere, his tiny vocabulary and his shitty translations.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 5 20:17:49 2015 No.5955867 >>5949174 lost

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 5 20:24:51 2015 No.5955894 >>5953455 my sides

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 5 21:13:21 2015 No.5956156 >>5954564 >I don't remember itaots having a creepy sexual vibe m8 It's one of Mangum's defining characteristics. http://ourdescent.wordpress.com/2008/05/14/sexuality-in-the-work-of-jeff-mangum/

Anonymous Mon Jan 5 21:42:20 2015 No.5956327

>>5949140
Jesus Christ, what a perfect way to describe that book.
It felt like he was trying to throw any story ideas he had left over into one book, when any of them could have been really interesting on it's own.
I usually like Mieville, but this was a massive letdown.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 5 22:43:12 2015 No.5956574 >>5953745 Someone was born before the 90s.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 5 22:53:03 2015 No.5956613 >>5950704 >>5950816 I hated that book, there's no meaning unless you are an edgy teenager and you feel that you're better than everybody else. Maybe reading that after puberty is not a good idea.

Anonymous Mon Jan 5 23:05:27 2015 No.5956653

>>5956327
What Mieville would you recommend to someone new to him? I was going to read either Perdido St. Station or The City and the City.

For what it's worth, I like sci-fi, esp. Le Guin, Wolfe, and Dick. I don't really like Lovecraft and I'm indifferent to Poe but I want to read something from the new people in "weird fiction."

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 5 23:09:20 2015 No.5956671 >>5950972 The holy Roman empire is different than the Roman empire that Caesar was in. Check your facts before you condescend

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 5 23:55:59 2015 No.5956810 >>5946028 the best image this "No Fun Allowed" board ever made.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 6 00:19:33 2015 No.5956900 File: 685 KB, 1348x564, hamonrye.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 6 01:12:22 2015 No.5957042 >>5951909 when you try to read it and inevitably fail the first time it's bad, but when you pick it up later with a bit of an idea what it's like from your first attempt it's incredible.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 6 08:08:15 2015 No.5957934 >>5956810 You're just too slow to appreciate /lit/'s brand of comedy. P.S. I shit myself from laughing at this post.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 6 08:22:57 2015 No.5957967 >>5952156 Unless it represents the old hermit going a little nutty on his isolation

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 6 08:25:48 2015 No.5957970 >>5950486 oh god, this shit became loss.jpg

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 6 08:31:23 2015 No.5957978 File: 684 KB, 1289x535, Screen Shot 2015-01-06 at 7.22.04 pm.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Honestly I don't know what I was expecting.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 6 08:33:02 2015 No.5957983 File: 142 KB, 1291x559, suurisuunnitelma.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 6 08:33:04 2015 No.5957984 >>5955761 Holy shit, I didn't even notice.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 6 08:36:28 2015 No.5957988 >>5957978 Couldn't you at least have come up with an entertaining lie?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 6 08:58:22 2015 No.5958031 File: 342 KB, 1838x1209, DFWshitstorm.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5946028

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