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Anonymous Tue Jan 31 17:37:17 2017 No.9045112 [Reply] [Original]

Is it worth a read?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 31 17:39:15 2017 No.9045117 >>9045112 Yes, if you're in 8th grade. Otherwise I'd just read a plot synopsis, considering the fact that it is a culturally relevant novel. But if you're into dystopianism, check out We by Yevgeny Zamyatin.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 31 18:01:54 2017 No.9045180 No. It's the sort of thing that's been taken out of context and elevated to meme status so hard by normies and Redditors that there's no possible way it can deliver.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 31 20:35:23 2017 No.9045665 yes. well written, imaginative, and I enjoyed the whole philosophy in regard to thoroughly breaking down the protag and making him betray his ideals and reality. . and it's concise.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 02:57:07 2017 No.9046541 >>9045112 I'm writing a narratological analysis about this for class. It's interesting how big brother/new speak gradually merges/blends into the focalizer. Read "The unsung artistry of Orwell"

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 03:01:30 2017 No.9046549 >>9046541 >narrotological >focalizer Pseud spotted

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 03:10:13 2017 No.9046564 Definitely

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 11:14:51 2017 No.9047761 It's entry level. You should have read it already,

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 11:24:57 2017 No.9047794 Of course.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 11:27:48 2017 No.9047799 >>9045112 Huxley is better and more relevant in 2017 Cold War is over

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 11:36:41 2017 No.9047814 I haven't read it but I've been told it's childishly overdramatic and ridiculous. Is this true?

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 11:40:23 2017 No.9047820 >>9047799 Huxley's BNW is far more scarier than 1984, because it's what we are being led to. Bot are very good

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 11:43:39 2017 No.9047832 Yes, indispensable and you should have read it already. It's not really about the dystopia it's about the facets of human nature that draw us toward totalitarianism.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 12:04:12 2017 No.9047897 >>9047832 >>9047761 Any other books you think that everyone here should have read already? I'm not OP but I'd like to see if I've missed anything. Keep it to the real essentials and not some meme list.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 12:10:17 2017 No.9047920 >>9045112 definitely yes, all these other comments are just pure /lit/ elitism at its finest - can't believe it.

Anonymous Wed Feb 1 17:44:29 2017 No.9049061

>>9047897
Antigone
1984
Brave New World
Hamlet
Macbeth
Crying of Lot 49
Lolita
Dubliners
The Stranger
Metamorphosis and In the Penal Colony
Catch-22
Labyrinths
Great Gatsby probably

I would say The Little Prince and the Tao The Ching but that's just be me. The above are the things I would expect any poster here to have already read.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 17:48:07 2017 No.9049071 >>9049061 >In the Penal Colony Why not The Trial?

Anonymous Wed Feb 1 17:49:11 2017 No.9049073
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>>9047832
>It's not really about the dystopia it's about the facets of human nature that draw us toward totalitarianism.

If you think that's the main point of the book then you are fucking retarded. Consider the metaphysical implications at the very least.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 17:50:06 2017 No.9049075 It's just a shittier, British verison of We

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 17:52:09 2017 No.9049077 >>9045117 Second the We recommendation

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 17:52:22 2017 No.9049078 >>9049061 >solid greek play >high school >high school >high school Shakespeare >high school Shakes >lame pomo >solid pomo >Joyce's least interesting prose >solid existentialism >actually great >pomo >really great but pomo >high school ehhhh

Anonymous Wed Feb 1 17:55:17 2017 No.9049081

>>9049078
>>solid greek play
>>high school
>>high school
>>high school Shakespeare
>>high school Shakes
>>lame pomo
>>solid pomo
>>Joyce's least interesting prose
>>solid existentialism
>>actually great
>>pomo
>>really great but pomo
>>high school

>ehhhh

ehhhh

Anonymous Wed Feb 1 17:57:28 2017 No.9049088

>>9049081
>>solid greek play
>>high school
>>high school
>>high school Shakespeare
>>high school Shakes
>>lame pomo
>>solid pomo
>>Joyce's least interesting prose
>>solid existentialism
>>actually great
>>pomo
>>really great but pomo
>>high school

>ehhhh

>ehhhh

ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Anonymous Wed Feb 1 17:59:36 2017 No.9049092

>>9049088
>>>solid greek play
>>>high school
>>>high school
>>>high school Shakespeare
>>>high school Shakes
>>>lame pomo
>>>solid pomo
>>>Joyce's least interesting prose
>>>solid existentialism
>>>actually great
>>>pomo
>>>really great but pomo
>>>high school

>>ehhhh

>>ehhhh

>ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

uuuuuggghhhh

Anonymous Wed Feb 1 18:00:38 2017 No.9049093

>>9049061
>tfw know what all of these novels are but only read 1984 and half of Brave New World

I've been "discussing" the Great Gatsby for years and I am familiar with the plot and I "get" the novel because I did read some of it but there were parts in the middle I skipped over.

Same for the Stranger, Metamorphosis and like 10 other books.

Also your list is missing F451.

Anonymous Wed Feb 1 18:04:31 2017 No.9049103

>>9049092
>>>solid greek play
>>>high school
>>>high school
>>>high school Shakespeare
>>>high school Shakes
>>>lame pomo
>>>solid pomo
>>>Joyce's least interesting prose
>>>solid existentialism
>>>actually great
>>>pomo
>>>really great but pomo
>>>high school

>>ehhhh

>>ehhhh

>ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

>uuuuuggghhhh

guhhhhhhgwu

Anonymous Wed Feb 1 18:10:48 2017 No.9049108

>>9049103
>>>solid greek play
>>>high school
>>>high school
>>>high school Shakespeare
>>>high school Shakes
>>>lame pomo
>>>solid pomo
>>>Joyce's least interesting prose
>>>solid existentialism
>>>actually great
>>>pomo
>>>really great but pomo
>>>high school

>>ehhhh

>>ehhhh

>ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

>uuuuuggghhhh

>guhhhhhhgwu

YEUGH

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 18:36:25 2017 No.9049158 >>9049071 Cause I haven't read it

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 18:49:55 2017 No.9049185 >>9049061 >Crying of Lot 49 Why would anyone care about this book outside murica?

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 18:50:42 2017 No.9049187 >>9049078 Of course they're high school, this is shit you should have read before you even found this board. That's the idea.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 18:53:27 2017 No.9049195 >>9049093 Well get to work ya big phony. Oh and Catcher in the Rye should probably be on that list.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 20:45:55 2017 No.9049554 >>9049195 Someday I will. I just don't feel the will to read as much I as used to.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 21:01:44 2017 No.9049599 Yes Its only a few hours long and its a great book. And pretty relevant to contemporary politics atm. No reason not to read it desu

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 21:03:06 2017 No.9049602 >>9047799 Unfortunately Huxley is boring as fuck.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 2 05:10:48 2017 No.9050518 >>9045112 yes but you will not find anti trump propaganda in there

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 2 05:12:15 2017 No.9050520 >>9049078 Hence why it's "stuff you should have already read" you idiot fuck

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 2 05:13:43 2017 No.9050523 File: 44 KB, 657x527, 1475899701679.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >TFW 1488 ETHICAL VEGANARYANMASTERRACE TOOBEEONNEST

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 2 05:24:22 2017 No.9050546 Now DRUMPF has been elected, you HAVE TO read it.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 2 12:41:30 2017 No.9051402 Pretty bad. >main character has dream sequences that miraculously predict the plot Honestly considered dropping it once this happened and I don't know if I regret finishing it. It's an interesting idea but with terrible execution.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 2 12:47:48 2017 No.9051415 >>9045112 No. Overrated as fuck

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 2 12:55:59 2017 No.9051444 The problem is that you haven't already

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 2 13:45:39 2017 No.9051593 >>9050546 ikr

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