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Books /lit/ tricked you into reading Anonymous Sat Dec 24 04:06:52 2016 No.8879936 [Reply] [Original]

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 06:28:23 2016 No.8880125 >>8879936 Ι don't remember reading any praise for this here.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 06:40:13 2016 No.8880149 File: 15 KB, 306x306, 1472897242367.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8879936 >reading female authors >ever

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 06:40:52 2016 No.8880151 >>8879936 Subtle trick. Or not.

Anonymous Sat Dec 24 07:01:16 2016 No.8880177

>>8879936
Nah that's on you bud

We had to do it for school. Fucking sucked. Nineteen Eighty-Four fuck your Orwell for making your title so fucking long do you know how many times I had to write it in my essays? was immeasurably better.

The Road was worse though. McCarthy really dropped the ball with that one.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 07:02:18 2016 No.8880178 >>8880177 Thought Police detected.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 07:14:33 2016 No.8880199 >>8880177 The Road was great, you faggot.

>>	TWPoet !!mQAvKw6nzRr Sat Dec 24 07:21:06 2016 No.8880208 >>8880178 I hope you like rats.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 07:23:30 2016 No.8880213 >>8880199 It was shit. SHIIIIIIIIIIIIT I bet you liked Frankenstein.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 07:24:41 2016 No.8880214 What did you think of Metropolis?

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 07:25:27 2016 No.8880215 >>8880213 Although I never actually read either. Or the Handmaid's Tale. Just the bits we covered in class. >>8880214 Fucking glorious. You mean the film, yes?

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 07:25:49 2016 No.8880217 >>8880214 >>8880177 for you senpai

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 07:27:06 2016 No.8880219 >>8880215 How's the hsc treating ya? What was your related for mod c?

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 07:34:35 2016 No.8880234 >>8880219 A-levels my man. I somehow managed to get an A, probably by dint of literally fucking everything I could have up.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 07:38:03 2016 No.8880242 >>8880219 >>8880234 What the fuck are you two talking about?

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 07:38:24 2016 No.8880244 >>8879936 Mistborn Tbf I asked for a fantasy recommendation so I deserved it. At least it was the last fantasy book I'll ever read.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 07:41:19 2016 No.8880252 >>8880242 High/secondary school. >>8880244 Christ. Who recommended that? /sffg/? If it consoles you there's some legit /lit/ fantasy, and Mistborn definitely isn't it.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 07:48:02 2016 No.8880261 >>8880252 Nah this was when I first came to /lit/, long before /sffg/ was a thing. I have gotten much better taste, and I have discovered some of my favourite authors thanks to /lit/. So overall it has been a net gain

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 07:51:02 2016 No.8880265 >>8880261 You had pretty good taste if you knew Mistborn was shit. To sate my autism I will recommend The Worm Ouroboros.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 07:52:16 2016 No.8880267 The Book of Disquiet. Not that I read much of it.

Anonymous Sat Dec 24 07:57:44 2016 No.8880279

>>8880265
Cheers, I'm not doubting that there's good fantasy out there, but it's a genre that I used to binge on when I was a pre-teen and for now I really have no desire to go down that road again. I remember some of it fondly though. The Hobbit for instance is a book that I will probably read to my children.

>>8880267
I haven't read the Book of Disquiet but Pessoa's poetry is amazing. You could try it if you ever again feel like having your soul crushed.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 15:01:51 2016 No.8881377 File: 119 KB, 772x1230, Stoner-John-Williams.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] boring moralising and pretentious

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 15:29:09 2016 No.8881459 Tristram goddamn mo'fucking Shandy.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 15:31:10 2016 No.8881468 >>8881459 Fight me. It's like if /lit/ sat up and actually wrote something. It's full of literary references to the works Sterne squeed at. It's glorious.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 15:41:10 2016 No.8881491 >>8881377 >pretentious whaaat?

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 18:47:26 2016 No.8881955 >>8880149 There are some good female authors out there. I can count them on one hand, but they exist.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 18:56:15 2016 No.8881985 >>8881377 >moralising You didn't read it, did you...

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 19:01:45 2016 No.8882003 >>8881468 >glorious Nah. Soon as I saw that Schopenhauer thought it was the greatest novel of all time, I knew /lit/ had won.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 19:11:52 2016 No.8882028 >>8881377 how the shit is it moralising it's about a deeply flawed man fucking his life up since the starting page

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 22:55:02 2016 No.8882659 >>8880213 the fuck is wrong with Frankenstein

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 22:57:39 2016 No.8882669 >>8881377 this book is one of the GOAT fuck you

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 22:58:02 2016 No.8882670 >>8879936 My diary, desu

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 25 00:46:03 2016 No.8882933 >>8880149 jk rowling

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 25 04:52:46 2016 No.8883248 >>8882659 Boring moralising and pretentious. But she read Rime of the Ancient Mariner !!!

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 25 05:17:24 2016 No.8883271 File: 79 KB, 325x165, The_First_Law_covers.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8879936 >Melodrama. >Sledgehammer-wielding themes. >Cut-and-paste real-world culture counterparts; no originality whatsoever. (Angland? Seriously, Joe?)

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 25 05:27:06 2016 No.8883281 >>8879936 The women on the cover look like santa hats too

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 25 06:09:34 2016 No.8883322 >>8883271 >another book hated by /lit/ I'm sensing a theme.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 25 06:13:08 2016 No.8883330 >>8883322 Le meme theme

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 25 14:39:14 2016 No.8884375 >>8881377 this is story about cuck?

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 25 14:47:45 2016 No.8884400 File: 784 KB, 350x516, catch_22[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >b-but it's funny!

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 25 15:05:10 2016 No.8884457 >>8880177 '1984' is too long to write? You hate writing big words in essay assignments with minimum page counts?

Anonymous Sun Dec 25 15:07:20 2016 No.8884473

>>8884457
>'1984' is too long to write?
No, Nineteen Eighty-Four is. Made worse by the impulse to revert to 1984.
>You hate writing big words in essay assignments with minimum page counts?
It's infuriating. I ended up copying and pasting the damn title whenever I needed to use it, and I needed to use it a lot (In Nineteen Eighty-Four Orwell does... while in A Handmaid's Tale Atwood does...). And the problem with word counts is reducing them, not inflating them.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 25 15:30:19 2016 No.8884551 >>8880149 >>>>/pol/ >>>>>/out/ Fucking reactiontards.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 25 16:39:52 2016 No.8884824 >>8884473 >while in A Handmaid's Tale (from now on HT) Atwood does... Fixed that for you bud. Wow it's like I'm really in highschool

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 25 17:09:01 2016 No.8884906 >>8880149 This. All "great" female authors are only on par with "decent" male authors. Honestly, the entire gender can be skipped.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 25 17:13:36 2016 No.8884921 >>8884906 This. Same for non-anglo authors aswell.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 25 17:18:59 2016 No.8884943 >>8884824 Yeah it's almost like I tried that and got bollocked.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 25 17:22:02 2016 No.8884956 >>8884400 to be fair, it is, at times. The smugness and simplicity of his views on war killed it for me though

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 25 18:37:52 2016 No.8885182 >>8879936 Journey to the End of Night. God, you fucking edgelords.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 25 18:43:44 2016 No.8885194 >>8885182 this is a wrothless cemment

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 25 18:57:44 2016 No.8885227 File: 12 KB, 220x200, feelscrusade.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8879936 It kind of made me nostalgic for the times when people were afraid of Christians.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 25 18:57:56 2016 No.8885228 >>8881955 Virginia Woolf and Iris Murdoch and the Bronte's and...

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 25 18:59:20 2016 No.8885232 File: 32 KB, 600x443, 18mj61.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8885228

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 25 19:58:56 2016 No.8885456 >>8884400 You have to have been in the military to truly enjoy this. Same with Full Metal Jacket.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 26 01:31:29 2016 No.8886256 >>8884400 it had a kinda neat concept tho but yeah I found it kinda disappointing too I still have no idea how Heller managed to pan that shit out to 450 pages

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 26 02:07:34 2016 No.8886294 File: 32 KB, 600x403, Worthless Cement.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8885194 >worthless cemment

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 26 03:20:13 2016 No.8886402 >>8885232 Sappho jane austen george eliot hd elizabeth bishop marianne moore louise gluck afra behn etc etc

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