Goodreads Disgusting Reviews

[DuneBro !!1UaC8mKw1gO No.7281375]

The last thread died. Post the most disgusting reviews for the best books.

We will never be free.

The spice must flow.

[Anonymous No.7281381]

The only thing more disgusting than that review was Dune itself

[Anonymous No.7281384]

>>7281375
>best books
>Dune

These threads are shit.

[Anonymous No.7281385]

>>7281375

I loved Dune but I agree with the reviewer about the characters being one-dimensional. They weren't why you'd read the books, however great they were.

[Anonymous No.7281402]

bump

[Anonymous No.7281406]

dune is anime tier

[Anonymous No.7281416]

>>7281406
/lit/ is full of frog-posting /r9k/ faggots these days tbh.
Prepare yourself for their wrath

[DuneBro !!1UaC8mKw1gO No.7281450]

>>7281384

You are Trash. What happened to this board

[DuneBro !!1UaC8mKw1gO No.7281455]

>>7281416
I miss the old days.

[Anonymous No.7281458]

>>7281406
Yeah. That people claim it's among the best sci-fi books ever written is an insult to the sci-fi genre.

[Anonymous No.7281463]

>>7281450
Your thread is the equivalent of frog-faggots or /pol/-faggots deliberately going to tumblr to find something to get outraged about in an attempt to get others to engage in a circlejerk with you.

Go to omegle instead, you perverted piece of shit

[Anonymous No.7281465]

>>7281375

This one really gets my blood flowing.

[Anonymous No.7281473]

>>7281455

Place is still full of casual hatred and feigned superiority, just like the rest of the boards.

What has changed?

[Anonymous No.7281499]

>let's all get angry about people's opinions
what board is this, /v/? we know plebs exist, why bother getting angry about it?
>dune
oh so you're the pleb, I get it now.

[DuneBro !!1UaC8mKw1gO No.7281521]

>>7281463
goodreads poor review threads have an old tradition

We have been making these threads for like 7 years dude

[Anonymous No.7281522]

>>7281499
What do video game people have to feel superior about? Genuinely interested, I've never visited the board

[Anonymous No.7281523]

>>7281499

>let's all get angry about people's opinions

Yes. Let's. >>7281465

[Anonymous No.7281525]

>>7281521
which is all the more reason to not do it if we're just repeating the same shit day after day

[Anonymous No.7281527]

>>7281521
I know. They're shit

[Anonymous No.7281529]

>>7281522
>What do video game people have to feel superior about?
That's exactly why.

[Anonymous No.7281531]

>>7281521
The tradition is to find poor reviews of good books.

[Anonymous No.7281540]

>>7281463
Literally nothing wrong with circlejerks, fuck off.

[DuneBro !!1UaC8mKw1gO No.7281543]

>>7281525

I understand that you are new. Just to give you a bit of background, /lit/ is a board that is much more intelectual than most others and it tends to grow at a different rate than shitposting boards like [s4s], /b/, or /r9k/.

This has lead to a decrease of memes from /lit/ and an increase in good threads. One of the long-standing traditions on this board is the "poor review" threads, which are satirical in nature.

This is board culture. Don't waste your bandwidth.

[Anonymous No.7281567]

>>7281543
nigger I've been here since randposting was a bannable offence and your threads have always been shitposting all the decent people would ignore. the fact that you've been spamming it for years doesn't make it "tradition", it makes you cancer. or, more appropriately, herpes.

[Anonymous No.7281572]

>>7281543
also dune is a shit book

[Anonymous No.7281586]

>>7281543
if this board is so intellectual, how come it's the most marxist board?

check mate atheist

[DuneBro !!1UaC8mKw1gO No.7281591]

>>7281586
fuck off /pol/

>>7281572

dune is g-great stop.

>>7281567
The goodreads review threads have never been banned and it is a staple of lit. Stop. You need to read a book and stop posting.

[uyu No.7281593]

>>7281543

This is my favorite pasta

[Anonymous No.7281602]

>>7281591
Fuck off Marxist pleb

[Anonymous No.7281609]

[DuneBro !!1UaC8mKw1gO No.7281612]

>>7281609
>I read 11%

[Anonymous No.7281614]

>>7281602
This. If you have intellectuality then you're into Fascism. Take the redpill

[Anonymous No.7281618]

lel. I'm all for reporting shitty meme threads but I find it funny that people only rail against it when it's a trip user doing it.

[Anonymous No.7281623]

>>7281618
To be fair, /lit/ triposters are 90% worse than regular ones for some reason

[Anonymous No.7281640]

>>7281609

It's like the first chick doesn't understand the idea of satire at all.

[Anonymous No.7281659]

Why can't women into literature?

[Anonymous No.7281689]

>>7281659
Because the have the mental and emotional capacity of children.

[Anonymous No.7281697]

>>7281659
>>7281689
Oh dear, is this where the frog people will gather now that the robot is back?

[Anonymous No.7281703]

[Anonymous No.7281719]

[Anonymous No.7281722]

>>7281697
Assblasted cunt detected, go back to sucking a dick so we don't have to hear your drivel.

[Anonymous No.7281732]

>>7281609

how are these posters wrong? DFW is a fucking fraud

[Anonymous No.7281735]

>>7281465
those are gold

[Anonymous No.7281741]

>>7281732
I bet you're a woman. Only intellectual males can understand the mind of the greatest ever writer.

It would be like a dog trying to understand the mind of God.

[Anonymous No.7281742]

>>7281609

>By the end, it feels like a practical joke has been played on you

FUCKING. BTFO.

FORM = CONTENT. DFW = GENIUS.

[Anonymous No.7281752]

>>7281741

[Anonymous No.7281764]

>>7281752
>buttfrustrated roastie whore detected

[Anonymous No.7281801]

>>7281732

He's actually the most thoughtful and sincere writer in the last 30 years, but okay.

[Anonymous No.7281833]

>>7281602
>>7281614
>The single most plebian ideology, one that advocates a bunch of idiotic thugs staging a "revolution" for their masters and is openly irrational in nature
Fuck off fascist shitbags. Stalin crushed the balls of your pathetic ideology.

[Anonymous No.7281876]

>>7281609
Funny how women pretend to hate DFW now when he was very fair to women in all his writing

yet a second hand account that he said "audience pussy" and he will forever be a villein.

[Anonymous No.7281901]

>>7281876
If women all of a sudden stop liking his work because of something he said outside of the work they probably never liked it to begin with.

[Anonymous No.7281908]

>>7281833
>>The single most plebian ideology, one that advocates a bunch of idiotic thugs staging a "revolution" for their masters and is openly irrational in nature
This is literally Marxism, fuck off, political pleb

[Anonymous No.7281913]

>>7281375
>>7281719
>>7281609
these aren't even bad reviews, they're just negative reviews of things you like

why do you feel like you've been personally insulted when someone doesn't like your favourite book?

[Anonymous No.7281918]

>>7281833
>everyone who isn't a Marxist is a Fascist
Nice bogeyman, fucking faggot retarded sack of shit.

[Anonymous No.7281921]

What drives people to leave 1-star reviews on obscure medieval theological texts and things like that? I swear, 75% of the time I go googling a Middle English poem to find the text, the first link is a 1-star Goodreads review.

Is this just STEMbots who have to read them for a distribution requirement and give a bad review in spite?

[Anonymous No.7281931]

>women

[Anonymous No.7281945]

>>7281931
>Kthxbai

[Anonymous No.7281951]

>Owain
>Sept. 11, 2015
>Lord Jim

[Anonymous No.7281965]

>>7281931
Fucking retarded whore, Nietzsche was a known womanizer; fuck off with that stupid shit about complaining being bad, solutions are for plebs, and only being made for the elites is a good thing, fuck plebs.
God, women are do fucking stupid.

[Anonymous No.7281971]

>>7281719
>>7281951
>men

[Anonymous No.7281972]

>>7281951
Par for the course with Presentism.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturenews/9140869/Dantes-Divine-Comedy-offensive-and-should-be-banned.html

[Anonymous No.7281974]

>>7281931
>>7281951

People judging older books by their own present-day ultra-PC standards is pretty common on goodreads (and everywhere else, sadly). Occasionally they have enough self-awareness to note that there were different norms/beliefs/expectations at the time, but they always follow that up with "but that doesn't excuse".

[Anonymous No.7281983]

>>7281971
Nice try, cunt, but at least not all of us are fucking retarded

[Anonymous No.7281997]

>>7281983
>"hurr all women are idiots"

Go back to your containment board.

[Anonymous No.7282004]

>>7281997
Assblasted whore detected

[Anonymous No.7282007]

>>7281971
Look at ANY classic on goodreads.

The majority of the 1 star reviews will just be women complaining "I didn't get it!" or "boring!"

Yes, there are men who do this too, but it's far less common.

I'd say the difference is that most men who are stupid are told so by everyone as they grow up, and therefore don't try to act fucking smart.

Women are coddled and told they're each special snowflakes and that their capable of conquering the world. So, when they don't understand something, they feel personally offended.

[Anonymous No.7282012]

>>7282007
*they're

sorry I'm drunk

[Anonymous No.7282017]

>>7281997
We hate women here because they are inferior, deal with it

[Anonymous No.7282021]

>>7282007
>Women are coddled and told they're each special snowflakes and that their capable of conquering the world. So, when they don't understand something, they feel personally offended.

Then blame that particular ideology. You're getting 'assblasted' over a symptom instead of the disease.

>Look at ANY classic on goodreads.
Why would I want to seek out shitty reviews for classics?

see this post >>7281463
>Your thread is the equivalent of frog-faggots or /pol/-faggots deliberately going to tumblr to find something to get outraged about in an attempt to get others to engage in a circlejerk with you.


'Aren't womyn dumb gius?? XD pls agree with me, and make me feel better baout myself!"

[Anonymous No.7282030]

>>7282021
So apparently we're not allowed to get made at the fact that we're sneezing a lot when we catch a cold, according to this post.
Women are so fucking stupid

[Anonymous No.7282032]

>>7282004
>>7282007
>>7281983
>>7282017
The robot returning to the school shooters' board is doing great things for /lit/

Will every thread now derail into 'woman hate thread's?

[Anonymous No.7282040]

>>7282021
You just admitted that women are stupid.
gg
>>7282032
Nice bogeyman, faggot, but I never went to that shit board.
Though hopefully every thread is turned into a women hate thread.

[Anonymous No.7282043]

>>7282032
>not realizing that this is a containment thread for them

Just ignore it and let them have their fun

[Anonymous No.7282047]

[Anonymous No.7282051]

>>7282043
Assblasted whore detected
>I-i-m b-better than them I sw-wear
KEK

[Anonymous No.7282059]

>>7282047
>It's rare for me, but my brain refused to allow me to stay awake whenever I picked it up

People treating their own shortcomings as the fault of the author.

[Anonymous No.7282076]

>>7282047
>>7282059
>not finding Conrad boring as fuck
Heart of Darkness made me so sleepy. I thought it was the most dreadful thing I've ever read.

[Anonymous No.7282081]

>>7282076
>assblasted roastie whore detected

how's that child-like brain treating you? you probably didn't even make it to the end of this post because you're so dumb

[Anonymous No.7282089]

>>7281931
>in
>so
>far
Women were a mistake

[Anonymous No.7282094]

>>7281609
It hurts how completely wrong their interpretations if the book are.

[Anonymous No.7282096]

>>7282076
It's called patience and focus.

Good writing sometimes isn't riveting. That's just how it is. If you can't get through that, you should stick with YA dystopian novels. I'm sure those will be within your attention span.

Also
>not using adderall for reading comprehension and speed

[Anonymous No.7282117]

>>7281609
There are perfectly valid criticisms of Infinite Jest, but these are not.

[Anonymous No.7282140]

>>7281465
To be fair to the first reviewer, I thought what Dantes did at the end of the book to Maximilian was really unnecessary and weird. The rest of his actions, for the most part, were justified though.

[Anonymous No.7282160]

>>7282076
HoD is notoriously bad with turgid prose. Just read a recent review where Clive James called it boring.

Lord Jim is better but still slow. /lit/ babbies can't handle their pleb shit being insulted

[Anonymous No.7282164]

>>7282081
You seem very vexed about this, friend. I did make it to the end, and I found it incredibly dull. I was already familiar with colonialism in the Congo, and I couldn't really give a shit about the boat. The last ten pages or so were enjoyable, the rest was absolutely mind numbing and exhausting. I genuinely felt physically deflated and just generally depressed.
>>7282096
So, because I can't stand HoD you are assuming I have never read anything slow paced? I hear people say Madame Bovary is very slow, but I enjoyed that. I just didn't give a shit about HoD.

[Anonymous No.7282177]

>>7282164
if you're a woman, then you're an idiot. FACT

[Anonymous No.7282184]

[Anonymous No.7282188]

>>7282184
what a roastie whore. Why are these women allowed to comment online? Cultural marxism gone mad

[Anonymous No.7282244]

Any review of a good book which criticizes it for being "Boring" or "Nothing happening". It really angries up my blood to see people so clearly failing to understand something and even going so far as to broadcast their total ignorance with pride.

[Anonymous No.7282271]

I fucking hate all women except Gertrude Stein

[Anonymous No.7282272]

>>7282188
Stop pretending to be a /pol9ker/ that meme went un-funny a week a go

[Anonymous No.7282295]

>>7281931
Big N would have a laugh at this TBH.

[Anonymous No.7282337]

>>7282271
Stein is a whore that contributed to postmodernity with her bolshevik-judaic writings. take the redpill

WOMEN ARE WORTHLESS

[Anonymous No.7282342]

>>7282272
Yeah if you aren't sincere about it then gtfo

[DuneBro !!1UaC8mKw1gO No.7282564]

>>7281913

because my taste is supreme like taco bell

[Anonymous No.7283257]

>>7281951

fucking hell, people are going to be arguing about whether conrad was racist or not for centuries i swear

[Anonymous No.7283303]

>>7281375
This fucking triggers me.

[Anonymous No.7283333]

[DuneBro !!1UaC8mKw1gO No.7283454]

>>7283333
What is this for, quads bro? The source coming to mind is that short story from Clive Barker...I think it's called "new murders in the rue morgue" from books of blood.

[Anonymous No.7283482]

>>7281801

He's certainly not

Fuck, I want teenagers to leave this board pronto

[Anonymous No.7283507]

>>7283454
Shit, I got quads? Radical. It's from Evolution of Bruno Littlemore, my favorite book that no one ever fucking talks about. Ask me anything, this book gave me battered housewife syndrome, I can justify all its flaws.

[Anonymous No.7283524]

didn't have to look very far

[Anonymous No.7283548]

>>7281465
>that second one

[Anonymous No.7283557]

>>7283507
Is that like a spinoff of 'Bericht an die Akademie'?

[Anonymous No.7283569]

>>7281640
Her post seems like satire honestly

[Anonymous No.7283575]

>>7281465
I like the name of this picture. Refused <3

[Anonymous No.7283595]

>>7283557
Haven't read that, but Bruno's dad is named Rotpeter. Nice to know where the name came from.

[Tallis !!y+12CeFwYOo No.7283616]

>>7283524
>attention deficet

[Anonymous No.7283643]

>>7281965
was is in part syphilis (in part) that made him go crazy

[Anonymous No.7283705]

>>7281931
"proper" philosopher? define "proper"

and then go refill my vanilla chai latte bullshit thing.

[Anonymous No.7283982]

>>7283643
He actually never had syphilis.

[Anonymous No.7284030]

>>7283643
>>7283982
His degenerate sister spread this rumour.

[Anonymous No.7284074]

>>7281951
This one is pretty amazing.
>It must be racist...but I don't know why.

Also, I hate to get into /pol/ territory, but victims of PC look to me like they've been lobotomized. At least HITLER WAS RIGHT types had to actually seek out their retardation independently. This guy read Lord Jim and he feels vaguely triggered, and that's it? Sad.

[Anonymous No.7284080]

>>7282047
>Women don't get Conrad.
News at 11. After that: why are all the guys you have sex with such jerks? A investigative report.

[Anonymous No.7284085]

Plenty of these could be written on behalf of other publishing houses or corporate interests, or even just other websites.

[Anonymous No.7284113]

>>7282140
This.
Why did not he just tell him that Valentine is alive? I mean, guy suffered for months for nothing. What if he killed himself before the Count told him? The Count could not possibly know that he will not kill himselft.

[Anonymous No.7284130]

>>7282140

I wholeheartedly disagree. I think that a lot, if not the majority, of his depth of character comes from his actions towards the end. I mean, fuck, he's been living for the sole purpose of vengeance for decades. If that didn't manifest itself as messing with his head, he'd be one-dimensional and unbelievable.

[Anonymous No.7284177]

>people criticizing authors from hundreds, if not thousands of years ago for being racist/sexist
>thinking that's even an actual criticism
"You know, 'Heart of Darkness' is well-written and shows the darkness of man in a way no one else has, but he says the N-word a few times, so it's trash."
>mfw

[Anonymous No.7284205]

>this was for the maze runner

I can't tell if they're trying to say it's good but you might wanna revise it before giving it to a kid or say it's awful and evil.

[Anonymous No.7284214]

Why are the mods so aggressive here? I've seen a couple of decent threads get deleted and there are at least 4 posts removed.

[Anonymous No.7284401]

>>7284214

Did any of the deleted threads have anything to do with literature?

There seems to have been an influx of frogpeople over from r9k, to judge from the quality and content of a lot of recent posts and threads. I don't mind the deletion of them, they're pretty shitty. God forbid the sort of self-defeating and chronically victimized ethos of r9k metastasises to /lit/

[Anonymous No.7284679]

>I read 30 or 40 pages and I can't even remember the writing because never before have I hated a character so much.

>Sometimes you just don't want to read a nasty, ugly book about someone horrible. Let alone fucking four of them. This one's for you, wikipedia.

[Anonymous No.7284704]

>>7284679
>even the hateful dont deserve humanization
bleh

[Anonymous No.7284868]

>>7284205
>evil

[Anonymous No.7284881]

>review of LW'S Philosophical Investigations
Exceeding the gold standard he set in the Tractatus, Wittgenstein outreaches every expectation in Philosophical Investigations to produce what amounts to the second worst poem ever written. The first was the original manuscript of the same , which, I am told, contained two additional aphorisms.

If we were so fortunate that Wittgenstein was, in fact not real but a figment of Douglas Adams' imagination, he would have been the hero of the Vogon art scene.

This book is crap. It is NOT philosophy. It's what happens when a German engineer reads fifteen pages of Theatetus and suddenly thinks himself a philosopher.

[Anonymous No.7284900]

>>7284679
>Wikipedia
>Wikipedia
>Wikipedia

[Anonymous No.7284947]

>>7284177
>criticizing ignorance on the part of the author
>not making the work be taken down a few pegs in the eyes of posterity

sure, giving anyone before the twentieth century flak for saying nigger is shallow critique, but reading what Chinua Achebe says about Heart of Darkness makes the racist angle a feasible avenue for critique

[Anonymous No.7285005]

>>7284205
>The author is clever. More than us, average people

Literally the Maze Runner was almost completely drafted when the author was like 16.

It reads like something a high school boy wrote.

This reviewer is currently raising children.

Shiggidy diggity im pissed

[Anonymous No.7285047]

>>7283524
Great post, really fucking angered me.

[Anonymous No.7285075]

>>7281375
Man, sure critical thinking of the masses is dead, even the ones who read:

Typical review:
>The writing is
>The characters are
>The plot is
>Personal anecdote
>Subjective impressions