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I love these. Anyone got any more?

>> No.6996627
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>> No.6996630

>>6996627
Do any books have that "What I expected" section?

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classic

>> No.6996777

>>6996771
i love this one

>> No.6996788

don't fucking post it

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>> No.6996916

>>6996627
too hot dont touch

>> No.6996950

>>6996630
It really depends what you expect ;)
>>6996627
Dank meme tbh, but in all honesty Id put some od WIE in WIG, it was a lot like this for me.

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>> No.6997389

>>6997224
man, I gotta read that one

>>6997318
never even noticed, should read again

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>> No.6997597

>>6996788
CORN
O
R
N

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>> No.6997739

>>6997318
kek, never noticed this.

>> No.6997753

>>6997739
>>6997389
Not exactly a surprise considering you both are sf readers.

>> No.6997768

>>6997753
I noticed it as a clueless kid, and it was in translation to boot. You don't have much of a point

>> No.6997773

>>6997753
Your post betrays your redditness tbh ( to be honest)

>> No.6997776

>>6997768
Well, if you did notice it* in a translation and as a young kid, then congratulations; you can fucking read.

>> No.6997794

>>6997773
>implying scifi and fantasy readers read for prose and aesthetics instead of plot

>> No.6997820

>>6997794
I agree that you're right, but it would be hard not to notice that

>> No.6997829

>>6997794
>Implying this kind of generalization can be backed up in a meaningful way
>Implying you aren't just a memer

>> No.6997877

>>6997829
Ok, list 5 great stylists in the science fiction and the fantasy genre that have published series in the last 20 years.

Hard mode: no Heinlein, LeGuin, Wolfe, Peake.

>> No.6997887

>>6997366
Same.

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>> No.6997943

>>6997204
Just finished ordering.

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>> No.6997957

>>6997915
HERE WE GO!

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>> No.6997966

>>6997960
>actually watching the movie before reading the book
One 4-letter word.

It's a good movie at least.

>> No.6997968

>>6997948
You shoulda seen that one coming, tbh.
I mean, he could have just called the book "Money".

>> No.6997995

>>6997968
¨technically¨ he did

>> No.6998008

>>6996771
What's the top right painting in WIG?

>> No.6998014

>>6998008
search for the first zar of russia, i dont remember his name, its about the death of his son

>> No.6998022

>>6997995
Well, sorta.

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>>6998014
"Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan on November 16, 1581" by Repin

Wow

>> No.6998072

>>6998036
Potentially Repin's best work, though he was a genius in general.

Why are Russians so good at art but so terrible at government?

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>>6998036
Repin is a god-tier painter

His subtle Chiaroscuro is achingly lovely.

>> No.6998080

>>6998036
yeah, pretty brutal

>> No.6998081

>>6998036
>killed his own son in a rage over nothing by accidentally piercing his head with a pointy stick

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I've only read this and The Sound and the Fury.Is he obsessed with incest or something.Is it some specifically southern thing?

>> No.6998124

>>6998081
striking his head

>> No.6998131

>>6997915
Does this mean it is boring?
What do I have to read if I liked >>6997224

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>> No.6998196

>>6998104
Southerners are obsessed with fatalism, and incest is a nice expression of that.
source: I'm a southerner

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>> No.6998212

>>6996901

SPOILER, jesus

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>>6998212
>he didn't read all of Tolstoy before he was ten years old

>> No.6998235

>>6997966
cuck?

>> No.6998249

>>6998134
Reading this now, chapter 2 gave me a headache but I got through it. What do i do?

>> No.6998253

>>6998222

god this kind of humor is so overdone on this board.

it's not funny the millionth time

>> No.6998257

>>6998104

no incest really in as i lay dying or light in august. Seems to be a primarily quentin compson thing

>> No.6998272

>>6998036
i remember being awestruck at a giant version of this painting at the hermitage in st petersburg

and in that moment, i realized how much of a pleb ive been all my life

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>> No.6998278

>>6996901
kek

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oc

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I completely underestimated the sheer magnificence and terrible beauty of Tolkien's world.

>> No.6998303

>>6998287
> Zoroastrianism

Really?

>> No.6998311

>>6998287
For me it was actually the other way around

>> No.6998323

>>6997931
underrated

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>>6998253
>he doesn't like this type of humor
cuck tbh

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>> No.6998345

>>6997318
George RR Martiiiiiiiin does the same thing

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>>6998335

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>> No.6998418

>>6997366

Good lord, don't compare that autistic drivel to catch 22.

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All time classic

>> No.6998700

>>6997915
lol

>> No.6998724

>>6997877
Your claim was about readers, not authors. Besides, you just named a few authors whose existence demonstrates that well-written SF exists.

>> No.6998923

>>6998724
Ehm, who said there were no well written sf works? You're all contrarian because you thought I was dissing the genre, lel, so very typical.

All I said was that sf readers don't usually read for style or prose, they read for plot, characters, world building and magic systems, evidenced by those two guys that didn't pick up the infamous repetition, and also by the millions of readers of shitty series which rely on those devices instead of good prose.

In a fantasy general someone actually recommended in all seriousness some generic military fantasy series that includes the PoV and inner monologue of a bear. That's the kind of shit sf readers indulge in, definitely not me.

>> No.6998976

>>6998681
I thought I would identify with the main character, but even I was disgusted. Literally the Elliot Rodger of literature.

>> No.6999184

>>6998104
Read Go Down, Moses if you want more hot, Faulkner, white-on-black incestuous action

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posting mine

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>>6999218
i wanted to read that
is it enjoyable?

also i feel like this cover is much nicer

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>> No.6999239

>>6998976
You were disgusted because he reminds you of yourself.

>> No.6999243

>>6999229
Grendel is amazing but you really need to have read or be reading Beowulf, I suggest Heaney's translation, and you'll need some kind of study guide or article to explain some of the intricacies of the story - every chapter has both a philosophical and astrological companion.

Also screaming squirrel monkey is best Grendel cover fite me 1v1

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>> No.6999253

>>6999249
care to explain the Touhou?

>> No.6999273

>>6999253
>Touhou

Didn't have a template, just used a random one and placed the pics over it

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didn't mean to quote in last post

>> No.6999284

>>6997915
Wtf?
Did anybody else notice that they didn't have corn in roman times? That was discovered in the new world. LOL

>> No.6999301

>>6996547
>implying the "expected" section isn't far more desirable
>implying A Portrait, great as it is, isn't immeasurably inferior to Ulysses and Finnegans Wake

>> No.6999318

>>6999228
ugh it's a magical book. written succintly to the vesy last word. bitch

>> No.6999323

>>6997204
Lmao @ this wiki synopsis

Edge: the book

>> No.6999324

>>6999284
Corn in Europe =/= Maize (corn in America)

Corn is wheat

>pleb

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>> No.6999332

>>6997915

It was an account of his battles. Propaganda for his cause. Not a storybook lad.

>> No.6999344

>>6996547
>I based my expectations off of /lit/ memes

>> No.6999345

>>6998209
ur exactly correct

>> No.6999370

>>6997934
That's a great collection

>> No.6999377

>>6998275
Kek is this supposed to be Tartt

>> No.6999384

>>6998681
Perfect everytime

>> No.6999385

>>6999284
>>6999324
acting out this charade every time, /lit/ treads on

>> No.6999448

Who has the Hegel one?

>> No.7000174

>>6999283
Vegan an adict to denner dude.
And ackshually it isnt a dragon.
great series btw

>> No.7000187

>>6999370
You have pretty shit taste then

>muh hypercapitalist dystopia
>muh theme parks
>muh marital problems
>muh normies

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>> No.7000206

>>6997995
capital is not money you fucking idiot

>> No.7000212

>>6998421
You better not be fucking with me because now I'm going to read this.

>> No.7000228

>>7000206
except it is you idiot

>> No.7000304
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>>6999448
I got it

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>> No.7000365

>>6999327
kek

>> No.7000424

>>6998287
wasted your time & money boy tbh

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>> No.7000457

>>7000304
>implying anyone actually read that book

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>> No.7000485

>>7000430
>celtic
>not hibs

confirmed for not being a leith native

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>> No.7000497

>>7000479
and there i was thinking I should read it. dang.

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>> No.7000500

>>6997915

(^:

>> No.7000531

>>6996901
>did that dog just have an inner monologue?
Exactly what I was thinking when I read that bit.

>tfw no hunting dog with supple legs that understands hunting better than you do and plays along with your incorrect commands so you stop harassing her and she can get back to flushing out snipe

>> No.7000541

>>7000497
pretty much as accurate a picture as you'll get but you can still read it, it's fun.

>> No.7000551

>>7000457
I did, twice. Stop justificating your lazy ass with "no one else does it anyway".

>> No.7000558

>>7000551
It's a meme you dib.

For real though, I actually do not really care about Hegel and never had interest in reading Phänomonologie des Geistes. It's just a joke that even some Hegel scholars deem the work pretty fucking convoluted.

>> No.7000572

>>7000558
it is indeed, in fact Hegel tried to write a introduction to his work but since he had to put everything in it (metaphysics, nature, religion, etc) there is no room for a deep stay at each one and it feels rushed.

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>> No.7000627

>>6998390
Needs more old sheriff dealing with his own mortality, but otherwise pretty spot on.

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Fresh OC.

>> No.7000861

>>6996901
loved the one about peasants

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>> No.7001033

>>6999229
Grendel is awesome. Beowulf is my favorite epic poem, though. Speaking of, I read the Tolkein translation recently (well some of it) and its fucking ass. He calls Beowulf a knight. It's fucking obscene.

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>>7000497
Why, you should read it.

>> No.7001096

>>6998354
If you haven't drank 7.5% two litre beers from a plastic bottle that cost no more than 2€ (two) your work will never be considered canon.

>> No.7001105

>>7000801

is it well written tho?

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OC

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>> No.7001445

I dont get it, Moscow? Les Miserables? It wasn't even that philosophical

>> No.7001459

>>6998253
I find it funny

>> No.7001468

>>7001367
The fuck is this and why were you expecting Vampire Knight?

>> No.7001479

>>7001468
I thought it'd be like VN because of the incest themes and it seemed like a typical teenage girl love fantasy book.

>> No.7001483

>>7001105
The first few pages dealing with the inevitability of death are incredibly beautiful. After that the prose kind of flattens out. Still, I never found it to be a boring read.

>> No.7001491

>>7000497
You should read it, if not for the fun of it then for how candidly Feynman discusses mastering so many different skills in a matter of weeks.

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>> No.7001503

>>7000322
kek

>> No.7001693

>>6998272
I saw this painting is in Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow

>> No.7001708
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>> No.7001760

>>7001708
I was just about to start this. Worth it? My expectations are about the same as yours were.

>> No.7001787

>>7000187
>I can't relate to these things so the book is bad
>I don't like Moby Dick cuz I don't know any whales : (
>I don't like Dune cuz I never been to a sand world ;(
>I don't like paradise lost cuz I never been to hell or fought personally w/ god :;(

youre a penis man

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>>7000228

>> No.7001806

>>6999327
well it looks like you got what you expected.

>> No.7001825

>>7001760
It is really, really good, anon. A sort of bohemian nihilism.

>> No.7001831

>>6998209
great except switch the last two panels

>> No.7001836

>>7001825
Ooh, that's fun!

>> No.7001886

>>6997366
true

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>> No.7001900

>>6996627
Kek, yes

>> No.7001928

>>7000228
Except it isn't you retard
t. econ major

>> No.7001949

>>7001054
This quote is golden. Is it legit though?

Also a story from Caltech:
Feynman interrupts a lecture of a great Polish mathematician Marek Kac by asking: "Is it true Mr. Kac that of the mathematics wasn't discovered, the development of physics would be delayed by something like a week?"
Kac answered: "Yes. Particularly the week the God created the world."

Feynman BTFO

>> No.7001954

>>6999236
Did you literally only read the first chapter?

>> No.7001966

>>7000212
It is a really thoughtful book, and he does mention a lot of philosophers and schools of thought, but it's mostly the story about the sexual failings of two brothers.

>> No.7001993

>>7001414
basically. god i hate henry miller

>> No.7002040

>>6998235
nigg

>> No.7002272

>>7000430
I had to stop reading that book because I found myself thinking in a Scottish vernacular and couldn't stop it.

>> No.7002317

>>7001033
Which translation would you recommend?

I know I will be nowhere close to how the thing was initially intended to be consumed but I would like to at least be familiar with what happens before I read Grendel.

>> No.7002340

>>7002272
Why would you ever want to stop?!

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>>7002272
Why so scarred anon?

>> No.7002404

>>6996547
>>7000000

>> No.7002456

>>7001806
wow classic le joke

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>>6997915
I don't get it

>> No.7002632

>>7002615
LEAVE

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>>6997915

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>>7002393
>tomorrow's just your fuuutuuree yeessterrdaaaay

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>> No.7002790

>>6997366
Is gravity's rainbow much lighter than I've been lead to believe?

>> No.7002820

>>7002790

No, it's twice as hard.

>> No.7002865

>>7000491
Butthurt Jew detected

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>> No.7002904

>>7002790
lighter in difficulty? it's pretty dense, nowhere near as hard as ulysses. the tone is just kind of shocking, it blindsides you and there's nowhere familiar to find your footing because there is truly nothing else like it

or do you mean lighter in tone? because the catch 22 and big lebowski comparisons wouldn't be wrong time to time. much of it is bureaucratic antics, and an inept private dick stumbling through drug houses and military bases. however that's only one face of the book, and much of it is very very dark, sometimes grotesque and unrelenting, other times sombre, morose, and surprisingly poignant

the picture is accurate to a point, but leaves much out of the equaiton i guess

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>>6998923
>implying the location of a bear's mind makes style and prose impossible
>trying to make a point, then claiming you weren't when you're btfo
Non-genre plebs, every time.

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>>7002699
What I got should be more like pic related
shit tier book

>> No.7002931

>>6998253
It's not as bad as kitchen-sink WEGs. /a/ does them better than this, step it up.

>> No.7002964

ITT:
people who can't figure out how to use paint claim I have shit taste

>> No.7002979

>>7001787
my muhs were themes, yours are just things that are in the story

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OC, please rate

>> No.7003249

>>6999273
>too fucking dense to make a white box

>> No.7003263

>>7003232
>not Penguin translation
pleb

>> No.7003310

>>7003263
>He didn't read the Waterfield translation

You're missing out, tbh

>> No.7003320

>>6998303
yeah. i usually just pick books by their cover and read them, and i was expecting some really cool documentary on zoroastrianism but it turned into shit real quick

>>6998311
you're not the first person to tell me that; i guess people read differently

>>7000424
trust me i know

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>>7003232

>> No.7003343

>>7003327
Nah, the H-man was more of a gossip than just a straight up liar. That's always something he makes very clear that he very rarely saw the shit he wrote about

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>>6996547
'twas a great book, though.

>> No.7003349

>>7002904
Cool. Thanks for the rundown. And yes I did mean tone.

>> No.7003371

>>6997915
>read war commentaries
>expect visceral battle stories
>mostly logistics
I mean, it's not technically wrong.

>> No.7003375

>>6997931
Are you saying the novel deals with the fall of the west, or is symptomatic of it?
>inb4 "yes"

>> No.7003389

>>7003375
'no'

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>>7003344

>> No.7003404
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>> No.7003408

>>7000981
Isn't that ecology book the one which mostly covers statistics?

>> No.7003414

>>7001708
I thought wine was haha in Islam.

>> No.7003418

>>7003408
Don't forget about the Lawrence of Arabia fan fic

>> No.7003422

>>7003343
Wasn't Suetonius the first historian to use living sources?

>> No.7003430

>>7003414
so haha.

>> No.7003431
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>>7001433
U R VERRY ORDINARY MAN

>> No.7003435

>>7001949
He probably said something of the sort in the book but it's heavily rephrased

>> No.7003436

>>7003422
Thucydides and Herodotus both used living sources.

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>> No.7003463

>>7003431
For u

>> No.7003467

>>7003375
>deals with the fall of the west
Thats the one

>> No.7003516

>>7002636
please no, corn father

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>>6999327
Fix'd

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>> No.7004194

>>7002636
please no, corn father

>> No.7004571

>>7001491
You mean reading about some guy sucking his own dick?

>> No.7004591

>>7003453
kek

>> No.7004598

>>6998235

Skub.

>> No.7005080

>>7001954
No I read the whole thing and there's nothing of any import other than BOATS IN THE ATLANTIC and "oh hey Paradise Lost was a thing". I get why it was groundbreaking at the time but its fairly meek today.
The gothic horror is weak, the science fiction literally non-existant, so on and so on but again thats largely because the text has been so heavily derived from.

>> No.7005090

>>7003404
Wow you're a giant faggot.
Listen man, Billy Pilgrim came unstuck in time.

>> No.7005094

>>6999318
Please be trolling. Gatsby was so focused on trying to suck Hemingways cock and be a big boy war hero that he forgot to write any sort of meaning into his book and didn't realise his wife had brain cancer.

>> No.7005190

>>7002636

Please no, corn father

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FRESH OUTTA THE OVEN

>> No.7005312

>>7005090
Well, I just hope this book can come unstuck from my brain.

>> No.7005963

>>7001367
Fuckin love Burial m8

>> No.7006043

>>7002654
oh yes.

>> No.7006048

>>7002871
My everlasting problem with books about war

>> No.7006230

>>6999228
>read gatsby
>expected count of monte cristo and prohibition?

well it's no wonder you're retarded.

>> No.7006303

>>7000572
>>7000558
>reading hegel is a meme
>a meme

>>6999283
>>7000174
>reading genre fiction

tip top, hippity hop, roly poly pleb

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>> No.7006372

>>7006344
oh god, I need to read this pre-Meiji stuff.

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>>6997366
Which novels meet the expectations which Gravity's Rainbow failed to deliver?

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>> No.7006610

>>7001928
Except money is liquid capital
t. econ/accounting double major

>> No.7006611

>>7002904
Pychon's tone is very weird to me. I find him so hard to follow but i "feel it"

>> No.7006614

>>7005290

there is no comedic play between what was expected and what was got. needs work.

>> No.7006618

>>7006610
lmao m8 tricked the fuck out of u
t. Baneposting/memes double major, check em

>> No.7006631

>>6997204
>A movie adaptation exists starred by Isabelle Huppert
HNNNG

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Fresh OC

>> No.7006686

>>7000499
so it was great?

>> No.7006697

>>7006665
Should've read White Fang

>> No.7006698

>>7002636
please no, corn father

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>>6997318

>> No.7006735

>>7002636
please no, corn father

>> No.7006745

>>7002636
please no, corn father

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>> No.7006771

>>7006605
that bad? I was thinking about reading it, but...
(on a similar note, Ready Player One by Ernest Cline?)

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>> No.7006794

>>7006771
Both really shit books. Worse than Hitchhicker
s Guide

>> No.7006799

>>7006794
b-b-but I *love* h2g2

>> No.7006811

>>7006799
Well, maybe they're just right for you then. /lit/ hates everything so don't bother talking about them unless you want someone to shit in your ear.

>> No.7006854

>>7002636
please no, corn father.

>> No.7006858

>>7000531
Where was this dog part? I can't remember properly.

>> No.7006973

>>7006858
>Pt. II, Chapter 15
‘Stiva!’ said Levin unexpectedly; ‘how is it you don’t tell me whether your sister-in-law’s married yet, or when she’s going to be?’ 25
Levin felt so resolute and serene that no answer, he fancied, could affect him. But he had never dreamed of what Stepan Arkadyevitch replied. 26
‘She’s never thought of being married, and isn’t thinking of it; but she’s very ill, and the doctors have sent her abroad. They’re positively afraid she may not live.’ 27
‘What!’ cried Levin. ‘Very ill? What is wrong with her? How has she … ?’ 28
While they were saying this, Laska, with ears pricked up, was looking upwards at the sky, and reproachfully at them. 29
‘They have chosen a time to talk,’ she was thinking. ‘It’s on the wing … Here it is, yes it is. They’ll miss it,’ thought Laska. 30
But at that very instant both suddenly heard a shrill whistle which, as it were, smote on their ears, and both suddenly seized their guns and two flashes gleamed, and two bangs sounded at the very same instant. The snipe flying high above instantly folded its wings and fell into a thicket, bending down the delicate shoots. 31
‘Splendid! Together!’ cried Levin, and he ran with Laska into the thicket to look for the snipe. 32
‘Oh yes, what was it that was unpleasant?’ he wondered. ‘Yes, Kitty’s ill.… Well, it can’t be helped; I’m very sorry,’ he thought.

>Pt. VI, Chapter 12
Running into the marsh among the familiar scents of roots, marsh plants, and slime and the extraneous smell of horse dung, Laska detected at once a smell that pervaded the whole marsh, the scent of that strong-smelling bird that always excited her more than any other. Here and there among the moss and marsh plants this scent was very strong, but it was impossible to determine in which direction it grew stronger or fainter. To find the direction, she had to go further away from the wind. Not feeling the motion of her legs, Laska bounded with a stiff gallop, so that at each bound she could stop short, to the right, away from the wind that blew from the east before sunrise, and turned facing the wind. Sniffing in the air with dilated nostrils, she felt at once that not their tracks only but they themselves were here before her, and not one, but many. Laska slackened her speed. They were here, but where precisely she could not yet determine. To find the very spot, she began to make a circle, when suddenly her master’s voice drew her off. ‘Laska! here?’ he asked, pointing her to a different direction. She stopped, asking him if she had better not go on doing as she had begun. But he repeated his command in an angry voice, pointing to a spot covered with water, where there could not be anything(...).

>> No.7007114

>>7006782
should be the other way around

>> No.7007171

>>7006590
Foucault's Pendulum?

>> No.7007188

>>7006344
underrated post

>> No.7007391

>>7004571
I'm not going to lie: there is much autofellating going on. But I think dismissing a renowned nobel prize winner as 'some guy' does him a disservice

>> No.7007427

>>6997366
Strange, I actually got what you expected out of the novel. Plus the sex and drug jokes, of course.

>> No.7007444

>>7005312
Just wondering, do you think the Billy Pilgrim actually time traveled and talked to aliens?

If so, the book went right over your head.

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>>7000485

>caring about the wee team

confirmed for being perpetual cuck to the mighty HMFC

>> No.7007505

>>7007444
God dammit, I'm too autistic for this postmodern bullshit.

>> No.7007898

>>7007444
No, I'm well aware of how the book explained how time "doesn't exist" and how everything past, present and future is all happening at once, thus when someone dies, they are still with us in some way. So it goes.

I just thought the novel was grating to get through.

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>> No.7008773

>>7002636
please no, corn father

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>>7002636

>> No.7008785

>>7008782
'bless me daddy'

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>> No.7008813

>>7008782
bless me daddy

>> No.7008834

>>7006782
Probably one of the better memoirs written this side of the Renaissance

>> No.7008863

>>7001993
fuck you.

>> No.7009089

>>7003404
youre a faggot.

>> No.7009096

>>7009089
You wish.

>> No.7010311

>>7007898
Actually, the whole Tralfamadorian outlook is just a way for Pilgrim to cope with his PTSD and what he is going through.

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>> No.7010595

>>7008806
Kek
>>7006782
Kek but made me compassionate, rip sweet prince
>>7007171
Eco is a hack
>>7002636
Please no, corn father
>>7001433
Lel

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Is this thread still alive?I don't want my wit to go to waste.

>> No.7010732

>>7003404
but muh Dresden