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Anonymous Tue Apr 27 03:35:16 2010 No.602164 [Reply] [Original]

ITT: we post the last book we read.
pic related, the beach was a good 'un.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 27 03:38:16 2010 No.602170 File: 14 KB, 337x530, The-Bell-Jar.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 27 03:40:16 2010 No.602173 File: 9 KB, 280x305, 1984.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] insert generic comment comparing the novel to current events

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 27 03:45:16 2010 No.602184 >>602173 I'm reading this right now. I did notice what you mean, but more than that I'm enjoying the narrative.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 27 03:47:16 2010 No.602185 >>602173 and a generic comment insinuating you are in high school for just now getting around to reading it

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 27 03:47:16 2010 No.602186 File: 12 KB, 275x300, metapod.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>602164 read it a while ago. my face at the ending: >the fuck'?

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 27 03:49:16 2010 No.602189 >>602186 Was it a good read? It's on my to do list.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 27 03:50:16 2010 No.602190 File: 61 KB, 300x442, OTR_lo.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 27 03:51:16 2010 No.602192 >>602189 yeah its absolutely worth picking up

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 27 03:53:16 2010 No.602196 >>602189 its a damn good book overall but the last few pages it just gets fucking weird. (dont want to give away too much) also the book is very similar to the movie, i liked them both.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 27 03:53:16 2010 No.602197 File: 56 KB, 331x500, dna.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I lol'd. Alot.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 27 03:56:16 2010 No.602204 File: 718 KB, 1613x2517, Lasisilma.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] A surprisingly good book where the line between the real life of a soap opera writer and the fictional life of a soap opera character blur.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 27 04:00:16 2010 No.602210 >>602204 intriguing

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 27 04:19:16 2010 No.602236 File: 37 KB, 304x475, tindrum.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Poos

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 27 04:21:16 2010 No.602241 File: 35 KB, 216x345, wilde-dorian_gray[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 27 04:38:16 2010 No.602248 File: 45 KB, 306x500, gaiman_smokemirrors_306x50.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] "Snow, Glass, Apples" and "Murder Mysteries" where phenomenal. Poor guy can't write poems though.

Anonymous Tue Apr 27 05:13:16 2010 No.602277
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After reading For Whom the Bell Tolls, I thought this guy was a good writer. Turns out this book was a shitty love triangle drama bullshit. A couple of jackasses love some airhead slut, and I don't give a shit about any of them.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 27 05:15:16 2010 No.602278 File: 603 KB, 1052x1600, nightmares-bertrand-russell.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] It was actually his collected short fiction, but this is the closest image I could find.

Anonymous Tue Apr 27 05:17:16 2010 No.602279

>>602277
I wish you were a tripfag so I could hate you more. A Farewell to Arms and The Sun Also Rises were his best long works. For Whom the Bell Tolls should have stayed a Metallica song. But Hemmingway is called the master of short fiction for a reason. Go read Hills Like White Elephants or The End of Something.

Anonymous Tue Apr 27 05:21:16 2010 No.602287

>>602279
I liked Hemingway's style. I'm willing to believe A Farewell to Arms is good. But the fact that is is a love story makes me skeptical. Seriously, The Sun Also Rises was just a shitty story about a couple of faggots in love with a slut who didn't deserve their affection in the first place.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 27 05:23:16 2010 No.602290 Some of Stephen King's short stories and novellas are pretty good.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 27 05:30:16 2010 No.602297 >>602287 >The Sun Also Rises was just a shitty story about a couple of faggots in love with a slut who didn't deserve their affection in the first place. Except ONE OF THOSE FAGGOTS HAD HIS DICK SHOT OFF IN THE WAR. I thought that was pretty awesome.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 27 05:32:16 2010 No.602300 >floppy armed man crying fountains of blood with stars in his eyes.jpg

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 27 05:33:16 2010 No.602301 File: 30 KB, 209x350, ontheroad.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>602300 whoops

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 27 05:34:16 2010 No.602302 >>602297 DO YOU KNOW HOW TO USE THESE?

>>	Leo !LeperIonv6 Tue Apr 27 05:34:16 2010 No.602303 File: 166 KB, 432x707, man-who-was-thursday.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] The Book That Was Awesome.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 27 05:38:16 2010 No.602306 File: 828 KB, 1556x2400, the-story-of-forgetting.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Won't lie, this was way better than I was expecting. Liked it quite a bit.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 27 05:39:16 2010 No.602309 >>602302 Use what? A pronoun without an antecedent?

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 27 05:40:16 2010 No.602310 >>602309 Spoilers.

Anonymous Tue Apr 27 05:45:16 2010 No.602318

>>602310
The Sun Also Rises was published over 50 years ago. If some faggot on 4chan hasn't read it by now, that isn't my fault. Spoiling is going to Barnes & Nobles and yelling SNAPE KILLED DUMBLEDORE.

Saying something like "Orin fucked his mother in Infinite Jest" is not a spoiler.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 27 05:58:16 2010 No.602329 the Road

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 27 06:40:16 2010 No.602361 File: 218 KB, 425x648, AngelsTip.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 27 06:45:16 2010 No.602366 File: 3 KB, 87x136, images..jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] <<

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 27 06:56:16 2010 No.602371 >>602164 The beach sounded like a good book I might check it out now

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 27 07:00:16 2010 No.602373 >>602173 Someone is always reading 1984. I didn't think there was enough people on /lit/ for constant reading of 1984, but I guess there is.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 27 07:01:16 2010 No.602376 File: 22 KB, 332x500, kafka20on20the20shore.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Good. I liked it.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 27 09:46:16 2010 No.602615 File: 29 KB, 242x420, awake.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I thought it would just be pre-feminist twaddle, but it was decent.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 27 10:53:16 2010 No.602738 soooo much better than the movie

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 27 11:04:16 2010 No.602755 File: 33 KB, 309x500, haldeman_camouflage_2004_hc.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Meh. Not great, but it wasn't boring either.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 27 13:52:16 2010 No.603218 File: 227 KB, 544x800, interesting-times.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Not the best Discworld novel he wrote but still brilliant.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 27 14:01:16 2010 No.603245 Dying Inside, Silverberg-it was actually a /lit/ recomendation, and i loved it

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 27 14:14:16 2010 No.603273 File: 28 KB, 475x317, funny-pictures-cat-eats-pain-for-breakfast.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 27 21:44:16 2010 No.604874 Jimmy Doohan's autobiography. Pretty deep, eh?

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 27 21:46:16 2010 No.604887 File: 49 KB, 500x711, americangods.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] It was pretty good for the most part, the ending was disappointing though

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 28 01:30:16 2010 No.605942 >>602164 Yeah, the Beach was pretty good. Not the last book I read though.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 28 01:40:16 2010 No.605965 Forever Peace - Joe Haldeman Not as good as The Forever War, but still pretty great.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 28 01:42:16 2010 No.605968 >>604887 Could never finish that. Bitching cover though.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 28 01:42:16 2010 No.605967 File: 36 KB, 311x475, Crying_of_lot_49.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 28 01:48:16 2010 No.605992 File: 52 KB, 192x325, 9_billion_names_of_God.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] In fact I think whoever took the wiki picture for this was my book's former owner, it appears to be in the exact same condition

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 28 02:20:16 2010 No.606076 File: 51 KB, 327x500, mflg.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 28 02:22:16 2010 No.606081 File: 38 KB, 300x475, wuthering-heights.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Victorian Lit. class is fun...

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 28 02:26:16 2010 No.606090 >>606081 Is this any good. My grandmother bought me a copy and it's been sitting on my bookshelf for months now. :/

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 28 02:27:16 2010 No.606093 File: 32 KB, 200x282, hol_cover.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Right now I'm reading Dune. The kid just started seeing the future. He kind of reminds me of Durandal (wrong board, I know).

Anonymous Wed Apr 28 02:42:16 2010 No.606123

>>606090

I read it in two weeks, so I may not be the best judge, but it wasn't my cup of tea.

I absolutely loved Pride & Prejudice and Emma by: Austen, but I can't stand the Bronte dykes.

Next up is Great Expectations. I love Dickens, but I've never had the chance to read it. College is helpful in that way.

Anonymous Wed Apr 28 03:01:16 2010 No.606145

>>606123
Damn you. i got Great Expectations as a christmas gift and still havent found time to read it. too many other books to read. im on Romance of the Three Kingdoms right now and it may take me awhile to really dissect this one before i can move on to Dickens, which is next on my list FINALLY

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 28 07:16:16 2010 No.606438 File: 74 KB, 296x440, Day of the Triffids.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I read the beach at least once a year, it's my lover. < most recent.

Anonymous Wed Apr 28 08:40:16 2010 No.606506
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Seneca's letters to Lucilius.
If you disagree with his philosophy, you will find it rage - inducing and boring as shit. Which was the case with me. The only lines I liked were the ones where he quoted Epicurus.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 28 10:34:16 2010 No.606686 Madame Bovary I liked it a lot, but English translation was piss. You could detect sentences and comparisons that should flow like poetry, but it was all chopped up with rocky unmoving translation.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 28 10:36:16 2010 No.606688 Kerouac was a hack.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 28 10:47:16 2010 No.606710 >>606688 It rhymes, therefore it's true.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 28 12:52:16 2010 No.606997 >>606090 Yes it is awesome, read it asap.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 28 13:07:16 2010 No.607018 1984 Everyone who's claimed this is 'relevant' to how we (in Britain at least) live is a moron. Plain and simple. Nice read though.

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