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guilty plessures Anonymous Mon Feb 9 18:58:51 2015 No.6121000 [Reply] [Original]

Terrible,horribly written pleb books that you still enjoyed reading.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 9 19:00:13 2015 No.6121006 >plessures >no space between commas >shittiest book in existence You're not from here, are you?

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 9 19:01:14 2015 No.6121009 If you acknowledge a book to plebeian, then you shouldn't have enjoyed it unless you, yourself, are a plebeian. There are no real guilty pleasures.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 9 19:02:18 2015 No.6121014 >>6121000 I still enjoy Dr. Seuss from time to time. I would never tell anyone I know.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 9 19:04:08 2015 No.6121021 i like murakami a lot, and i guess you guys don't that's the closest thing i can think of

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 9 19:05:47 2015 No.6121027 >>6121009 This. Stop pretending, plebs. The shiggies up.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 9 19:07:09 2015 No.6121030 Gardens of the Moon & Deadhouse Gates >>6121000 p-pic unrelated?

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 9 19:07:24 2015 No.6121032 >>6121000 >reading for enjoyment >reading pleb fodder

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 9 19:08:04 2015 No.6121034 >>6121021 ive never seen anyone here bash murakami

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 9 19:13:54 2015 No.6121056 >>6121000 Fine, I'll bite. I love everything Stieg Larsson has written, even his articles,

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 9 19:15:04 2015 No.6121063 >>6121034 >being this new

Anonymous Mon Feb 9 19:20:34 2015 No.6121091

I read Twilight and didn't really grew to hate it the way the memes told me I would.

I went in expecting a mediocre romance novel aimed at exciting preteen girls in order to get them to buy the book and got a mediocre, romance novel aimed at exciting preteen girls in order to get them to buy the book.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 9 19:21:50 2015 No.6121102 >>6121091 Yes, it's pretty formulaic. Most of those tween/teen books are.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 9 21:41:32 2015 No.6121564 >>6121032 >reading for enjoyment Is this a meme? Because I certainly consider enjoyment to be one of the primary reasons why I read.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 9 22:06:49 2015 No.6121631 File: 109 KB, 985x1050, Bible.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6121000

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 10 00:57:04 2015 No.6122214 PKD

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 10 01:49:10 2015 No.6122333 >>6121021 Is Murakami genuinally pleb or is he just a meme, guys?

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 10 01:53:11 2015 No.6122339 >>6122333 Damn nigguh i got trips

Anonymous Tue Feb 10 08:14:22 2015 No.6123132

Stephen King. I've read Under the Dome. I haven't read The Shining (yet). I love the guy anyway. Mr. Mercedes was a good book, I'm looking forward to the next one, even though I think trying to turn everything into a series is a stupid move.

Other than that, I also enjoyed Orwell, even though I've only read Nineteen-Eighty-Four. Why do people here dislike him?

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 10 09:31:45 2015 No.6123284 >>6121000 Jim Thompson, Donald Ray Pollock Noir/pulp got me interested in reading and I enjoy them if my brain is too exhausted for the real good stuff.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 10 09:37:33 2015 No.6123288 >>6123132 Some of his stuff is really bad. But I occasionally think about reread one of the works I liked as an edgy teenager (Shining, It, Little things), but Iam afraid they would be bad too.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 10 09:55:20 2015 No.6123328 >>6122214 >hurr genre fiction bad

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 10 09:58:10 2015 No.6123330 >>6121000 Its not something I still read, but in middle school I really like this guy called Harry Turtledove

Anonymous Tue Feb 10 10:08:41 2015 No.6123343 [DELETED]

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>Robert Greene and Machiavelli
>Anything Napoleon, French Revolution, and 19th century France
>Anything Michael Collins
>History of Britain and Ireland
>Spanish Civil War
>The war between Nazi Germany and the USSR
>Sci-fi
>Ancient Rome
>US Civil War
>Christoper Hitchens, Alain de Boton, GK Chesterton, Stephen Hawking

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muo8sIfgXkY

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 10 10:48:36 2015 No.6123420 >>6123343 GK Chesterton isn't pleb

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 10 10:50:32 2015 No.6123425 >>6123132 >Other than that, I also enjoyed Orwell, even though I've only read Nineteen-Eighty-Four. Why do people here dislike him? To be edgy and contrarian

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 10 10:54:16 2015 No.6123430 >>6123425 No, it's because Orwell is a shit author.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 10 10:57:54 2015 No.6123435 >>6123430 Have you actually read any of his stuff besides 1984 in highschool?

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 10 10:58:25 2015 No.6123437 >>6123420 >writes to lower class audience in a lower class fashion about lower class ideas 3 for 3 pleb

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 10 10:59:50 2015 No.6123440 >>6123437 then you're his audience, don't pretend you're some high class intellectual it is embarrasing for both of us

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 10 11:02:54 2015 No.6123449 >>6123437 > muh high culture > muh fedorah

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 10 11:06:01 2015 No.6123457 Ulysses. Shit was awful but I finished it

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 10 11:11:43 2015 No.6123472 >>6123435 I've read homage to Catalonia, animal farm, 1984 and down and out in Paris and London 1984 was rubbish, the rest was passable at best

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 10 11:14:48 2015 No.6123483 >>6123440 Actually, I had my butler read his Wikipedia to me. I'd love to keep this sport up, but I have a hedge fund to run. Good bye.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 10 11:19:16 2015 No.6123492 >>6121032 >not truly enjoying good literature No anon, you are the pleb

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 10 11:32:14 2015 No.6123515 File: 43 KB, 499x499, 1415988995385.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6123472 >talking about shit about Orwell without having read The Road to Wigan Pier >mfw your a pleb

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 10 11:43:12 2015 No.6123541 >>6121000 A fault in our stars Looking for Alaska >I LOVE YOU MR GREEN

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 10 11:49:36 2015 No.6123554 File: 26 KB, 330x500, 41sJJ1LDxRL.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6121000 pic related

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 10 11:50:43 2015 No.6123560 >>6121631 >shittier fantasy books

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 10 12:06:57 2015 No.6123592 File: 7 KB, 204x240, 1417185398704.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6121631 >implying this is pleb-tier

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 10 17:05:38 2015 No.6124496 File: 259 KB, 1160x1804, 812x2Z4vaSL.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 10 18:38:57 2015 No.6124868 I enjoyed the one Dean Koontz novel I read, though I'd probably dislike it now.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 10 18:45:12 2015 No.6124879 >>6121021 This, I loved Norwegian wood even though like a pleb for reading it

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 10 19:00:55 2015 No.6124930 >>6122333 Kind of an dumb meme. He uses similar story elements quite a bit and I had found a bingo card with elements in his novels.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 10 19:32:50 2015 No.6125048 >>6121000 Borges. Fucking bourgeois, academic writer.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 10 21:59:18 2015 No.6125666 File: 461 KB, 561x950, 1423623558492.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6121000 why do you enjoy this? you can honestly read better smut just by going on /mlp/

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 10 22:55:17 2015 No.6125884 >>6121000 did you guys know that this was literally adapted from twilight fan fiction?

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 10 22:56:44 2015 No.6125891 File: 424 KB, 500x500, 1422775636405.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6123430 >>6123435 >>6123472 To any lurkers in this thread, this is /lit/ summarized. Well done gentlemen.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 11 06:08:06 2015 No.6127199 File: 49 KB, 307x518, Tarnsman_of_gor_vallejo_cover.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Superior smut

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 11 09:03:18 2015 No.6127467 >>6121000 once you feel the sublime you cannot read pleb shit anymore without cringing

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 11 14:08:32 2015 No.6128429 >>6121564 It's a /lit/ thing. There is a load of pretentious faggots with mother issues and women hate projection. They try to be the utter intelectual-classy man, and they fail when believing that anything besides a few patrician books is total crap.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 11 14:10:16 2015 No.6128436 >>6121009 >There are no real guilty pleasures. I agree with this. Nothing should be considered a 'guilty pleasure'

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 11 14:12:44 2015 No.6128447 The discworld series

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 11 14:17:52 2015 No.6128468 >>6121034 Only certain works like 1q84. He's just very polarizing.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 11 14:23:26 2015 No.6128493 File: 104 KB, 500x280, DioCries.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6128447 Do you really feel guilty when reading them? ;_;

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 11 14:29:12 2015 No.6128518 >>6121000 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 11 14:31:03 2015 No.6128529 >>6121000 >Terrible,horribly written pleb books that you still enjoyed reading. Ulysses

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 11 14:31:17 2015 No.6128531 >>6123132 1984 is great

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 11 14:48:19 2015 No.6128592 >>6121091 I'm considering writing some formulaic piece of shit with the specific intention of building a massive, rabid fanbase of 12-year-old girls. Whose admiration I would then use to fuck them. I would be like the Gary Glitter of literature.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 11 14:52:46 2015 No.6128608 File: 5 KB, 225x225, svv.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6121000 you enjoy reading that some fucke up dude is "fucking" you. or just the idea of reading porn???

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 11 14:56:54 2015 No.6128624 >>6128531 The writing is mediocre and the message is very low brow.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 11 15:10:59 2015 No.6128674 >>6128624 I'm sorry you feel that way but most critics would beg to differ :^)

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 11 15:35:44 2015 No.6128797 File: 1.99 MB, 280x202, 1420939085290.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >Implying 1984 is bad

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 11 15:37:12 2015 No.6128804 >>6128674 Wow can you not?

Anonymous Wed Feb 11 16:04:55 2015 No.6128924
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The writing was dull, it's possible to work out what the author was reading at the time by looking at the various sections, the characters are flat and cliched, and worst of all, it steals a joke from Blackadder.

But I still found myself enjoying it. I don't know why, but I did.
I have to admit though, the premise was what made me buy it. The Royal Navy kicking alien arse was enough.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 12 00:52:04 2015 No.6131244 >>6121000 None. I was thinking of "/lit/: a board", but I don't enjoy reading it at all, I'm just addicted.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 12 01:14:36 2015 No.6131311 File: 129 KB, 1075x217, Plebs.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] This thread is useless.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 12 01:25:14 2015 No.6131332 Anything by Augusten Burroughs

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 12 03:10:19 2015 No.6131561 >>6128518 Read that years ago, just could not sympathize with that autistic pov

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