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8325912

Anonymous Tue Jul 26 23:03:10 2016 No.8325912 [Reply] [Original]

>/lit/ tells you a book is great
>it's actually complete shit

What is it's name?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 26 23:05:55 2016 No.8325922 >>8325912 Infinite Jest

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 26 23:08:21 2016 No.8325930 pynchon

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 26 23:11:03 2016 No.8325939 File: 132 KB, 640x960, 1461982048189.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8325912 But the stranger is a great novel. The protagonist kills an Arab. >inb4 >>>/pol/

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 26 23:11:48 2016 No.8325941 >>8325922 >>8325930 Uncultured swine. Anyway, The Idiot

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 26 23:12:13 2016 No.8325943 >>8325922 >>8325930 This. /lit/'s shitty college-level tier taste needs to die.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 26 23:16:13 2016 No.8325953 >>8325941 >likes shitty lolsorandumb garbage >dislikes one of the greatest authors of all time Go away

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 26 23:18:58 2016 No.8325966 >>8325912 Metamorphosis. Kafka's short stories were much better if not a little meh.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 26 23:30:18 2016 No.8326002 >>8325922 t. Someone who never finished the book.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 26 23:31:38 2016 No.8326006 >>8325912 Read it in french faggot

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 26 23:36:30 2016 No.8326019 >>8325953 Love Dostoyevsky, hated the Idiot. Also, >lolsorandumb Clearly you didn't actually try to get anything out of it

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 26 23:38:58 2016 No.8326023 >>8325966 The more you analyze the Metamorphosis and the more you learn Kafka's bio, the better it gets. I still prefer In the Penal Colony and A Hunger Artist Taipei was trash but i kinda knew it would be

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 26 23:46:35 2016 No.8326044 >>8325912 Lolita

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 27 00:41:37 2016 No.8326194 >>8326006 I've played with the idea of learning French for Camus but mostly Celine.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 27 00:54:54 2016 No.8326237 >>8325943 So what taste level should they have. List me some above college level that you think we should have all read prior to coming here.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 27 01:01:53 2016 No.8326259 >>8326023 this, i dont even read the books but what my teacher tells me about the authors is so god damn good and interesting, makes me want to read em

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 27 01:03:02 2016 No.8326261 >>8326194 Céline will be a tough one if you're not a native speaker. It's definitely worth it though.

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>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 27 06:09:34 2016 No.8326762 2666 How did I fall for this.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 27 07:03:01 2016 No.8326816 >>8326194 Excellent taste.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 27 07:05:06 2016 No.8326821 >life don't make no sense so just shoot arabs dude xDDDDD

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 27 07:09:16 2016 No.8326824 >>8325912 The Sun also Rises; a Tale of Functional Alcoholism and Frustrated Sexuality The bullfighting was pretty great, but didn't redeem it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 27 07:13:52 2016 No.8326827 >>8325912 Nabokov and Pynchon

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 27 07:18:43 2016 No.8326834 >>8326827 Nabokov is an unreliable narrator in real life.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 27 07:58:51 2016 No.8326880 >>8325912 Your pic related

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 27 08:10:13 2016 No.8326898 File: 281 KB, 1600x900, celine dion got fat.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8326194 >Celine AND IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII IIIIIIIII E IIIIIIIIII WILLLL ALWAYS LOVE YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 27 11:13:19 2016 No.8327388 >>8326469 >I'm autistic

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 27 11:14:21 2016 No.8327391 >>8326824 >The Sun also Rises I think you're an idiot.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 27 11:33:40 2016 No.8327438 No Longer Human.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 27 17:35:10 2016 No.8328560 >>8326194 >>8326816 Fuckin plebs, french is for Flaubert and Rimbaud not Camus and Celine

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 27 17:40:20 2016 No.8328574 >>8328560 Flaubert > Céline > Rimbaud > Camus Arrête maintenant.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 27 23:09:02 2016 No.8329577 >>8325912 The Stranger is memorable in a weird way. It relies too heavily upon interpretation and comes across lazy.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 27 23:19:35 2016 No.8329601 >>8325953 No one liked The Idiot when it first came out

>>	hahaha Wed Jul 27 23:27:53 2016 No.8329620 The Brothers Karamazzov, was a bunch of christian bs