/lit/ - Literature

>>19689127
That’s for Ulysses, right?

>>19689141
Yes. Although guessing the book would also make for a fun thread

>>19689156
This bitch is going to make me finally read it.

>>19689127
Just a portion of it because the rest is trash.

>>19689127
Poor Maggie. I hope you got over this experience and are well and happy.

Not really possible to guess the book, I think, as it's so vague. Hint: 20th-century play

>>19689127
Question: how did you know it had so much swearing if you didn't... never mind.

(There is absolutely no bad language in this book.)

>>19689326
Something by Beckett? Endgame?

>>19689350
Yeah, Godot.

>>19689173
What’s this

>>19689481
call of the crocodile. just a warning, once you read it you can never go back so choose wisely

>>19689156
No one hates white men more than white women do lmao. No wonder you poor bastards go to Asia to get gfs

>>19689156
Made for BBC.

>>19689344
Based. Filthy language is for filthy minds, no need to contaminate your thought with theirs.

looking at 1 star reviews of your favorites is always fun/infuriating

>>19689127
Oblivious and obviously filtered Goodreads reviews would make a great meme format. Unfortunately, people like making others guess the book when there's already only a niche amount of people who've probably read it and happen to be online.

>>19689961
Filtered/pseud but based at the same time.

>>19689928
the comments

>>19689481

Review of We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, cringe onions review.

1/2

>I wanted to focus on the music chapter but I stopped reading after: “Certain it is that the violin is the noblest of all instruments (…)“ (p.231). Opinions on music from non-musicians are hollow.

He connects architecture, maths, and music—which is new to me. The above statement, combined with a lack of references and structure let me conclude: He expresses his perception. Opinions from generalists are hollow, I am not interested.

>>19689156
>doing the bare minimum
>reads 10%

>>19689156
>white men
>joyce was irish
what did she mean by this

>>19689156
rent free. white pride world wide.

>>19689156
I wonder what books she likes

>>19689173
This sounds unironically interesting. Is it worth it or is it some kind of meme review?

>>19690024
Amazing. He filtered himself out of the book, yet wrote an actually decent paragraph in it's style that I would love to read more of, even though it's a parody of the style
What the fuck

>>19689919
Lmao

>>19690426
It just about sums it up well so yea. Its pretty unique I’ll give it that

>>19690595
I think it was a "she" but might be a tranny based on the picture (so "he"...I don't know) Anyway, Woolf isn't that pretentious with her stream of consciousness prose in To the Lighthouse and leaves a lot for the reader to interpret whereas s/he just used purple prose and cliched headiness. Also, Freud lives rent-free in his/her head; they're unaware that William James was the influence behind "stream of consciousness" and Woolf didn't read Freud until the late 1930s.

>>19690338
I looked up her profile out of curiosity, it's all just typical romance shit with topless men on the cover. The comments on this review are also fairly rage-inducing.

>>19689156
As a representative for intersectional lefties I wanna reiterate that we disown these girlboss clowns who will read a shit book by a black author and infantilise them by patronisingly calling it "urgent and important"

>>19690046
>>19689928
Curious as to what this one is, sounds like infinite jest LOL

>>19690160
Why do you keep saying things are "onions", it's even more cringe than your awful takes about everything
You're such an identifiable anon you should get a trip so I can filter you

>>19692022

>>19692051
You fucking retard it's a word filter. How new are you?

>>19692060
I try, I really try to understand them. I truly do. But women really make it hard to like them.

This is truly an awful book. It has an overriding incoherent theory of a ‘morphology’ on history and the author’s frustrations against democracy, and it has a sympathy for Nationalism while fascism flows throughout the second volume (yes, I read both volumes I and II).

First, the author is not really ‘erudite’ and he has an incredibly shallow grasp of complex subjects but it runs a mile long, and he is definitely frustrated with his country losing The Great War and by Volume II having lost the war.

Goethe and Nietzsche are his inspirations especially in Volume I, but by Volume II he barely relies on them because his full on fascism comes through. In Volume I he spoke incredibly intelligently on ‘entropy’, ‘Einstein’s General Theory’, and ‘theory of groups’ from Topology. He ties those items into his nonsense on all of history repeats itself through different forms, and that there is no truth but only myths and that ‘that history of humanity is meaningless, culture gives us meaning, leading to Civilizations which will inevitably disappear’. All civilizations will end with a ‘Caesarsism’ collapse, according to him, and you know what, darn those pesky little Enlightenment Ideals like democracy, equality, fairness, reason over faith by authority, or that the other fellow not a member of your tribe just might have something worthwhile to bring to the table.

The author moves around a lot and tries to make everything that has ever happened fit his weird theory. He has an ode against ‘double entry accounting’, for example; he states that it was discovered in 1490 and was as important as Columbus discovering America; he’s probably right, but he doesn’t like it because of his weird take on money and power and politics. He’s certain that women have their feminine place and men have their lordly place and puts that into his twisted narrative. Myth is all there is and truth is nothing but a complex word game with a series of facts, at least that is how this author plays the game.

There is a fascist strain that oozes thru out this book. Trump and his Republican enablers would just lap those parts up. Trump has many times made statements such as ‘only I can save you’; he’ll say that about the stock market, immigration, or a host of other things. Spengler thinks that for most of us destiny happens but only a few make destinies. We are doomed (and I think Spengler wants us) to be led by someone who will pull us up by our bootstraps (I wanted to use that metaphor of ‘bootstraps’ because it is impossible as far as I know to pull myself up by one, and the Nationalist leader will not be able to do such a thing either). (1/3)

>>19692072
Spengler believes ‘blood, soil and character that is formed by the small towns’ makes people cultured and Jews without history are not capable of forming a worthwhile image of themselves as are the ‘Negroes’ of Africa.

Trump calls himself a ‘Nationalist’ because he does not want ‘inclusive Patriotism’ but rather an ‘exclusive Patriotism’, a belief that the definition of ‘right and wrong’ starts with the appearance of a self proclaimed charismatic strong leader and ends with the simplistic jingoism such as ‘make America great again’ or as Spengler says ‘my country right or wrong’ (Spengler actually used that expression in one of his extended ramblings on history) which will inevitably lead to the end of logical and rational debate because the methodology is to manipulate ones passions through emotional appeals against people who are not part of your tribe as defined by the supreme leader who is only charismatic to those who have made him so from their own manipulated feelings. Tolerance of the other is anathema to exclusive patriots or Nationalists; ‘build that wall’, ‘lock her up (without a trial)’, make sense only to those who process their truths through emotions based on fear, hate and intolerance.

Spengler does not like the rational. The rational to him is where the urban elite (he calls them ‘megapolitans’ or something like that) consensus uses the abstract to take away from the real facts in the world; in addition he’ll blame money, commercialism and controls foisted upon us by democratic processes which will inevitably lead to our own downfall. He desperately wants to bring back the wonder and awe of the Homeric Greeks and the gratitude that they would say we owe to the universe all of which we have misplaced today (1920ish), and he wants us to re-embrace pride in ourselves as individual parts of a Nation greater than ourselves; our foundation for meaning must come from something greater than ourselves such as national pride therefore allowing us to embrace an exclusive patriotism, a Nationalism tending towards fascism in the mode of Benito Mussolini. Truth, for him, would emanate from the nation not the individual. The individual needs the state with a great leader and each individual’s meaning can only come from a state as lead by a great charismatic leader. (2/3)

>>19692079
It’s obvious that this book was very influential in its day. Joseph Campbell ‘universal myths’ theory as shown in ‘The Hero with a Thousand Faces’ which I disliked as much as this book partially because it too has within it a nationalistic narrative similar to this book. Heidegger clearly is pointing to this book as the ‘greatness of the movement’ when he made the statement in the ‘Introduction to Metaphysics’ that "the works that are being peddled about nowadays as the philosophy of National Socialism but have nothing whatever do with the inner truth and greatness of the movement (namely the encounter between global technology and modern man)", and I suspect Heidegger was contrasting Spengler’s book with the most vile best seller ever ‘The Myth of the 20th Century’ as one of the ‘works that are being peddled about nowadays’. Spengler definitely dislikes ‘the encounter between global technology and modern man’ and believes it weakens us and separates us from the soil, blood and culture.

Spengler wisely down plays race except he didn’t seem to like the ‘Negroes’ or the ‘Jews’, he does walk a fine line and mostly focuses on a nation (or peoples, or culture) instead of a race. I would say that all Nazis would be able to enjoy this book, but that doesn’t mean one would have to be a Nazi to enjoy it. One could just as easily be a Nationalist, or exclusive Patriot, or ignorant of history and philosophy thus thinking this book was erudite, or curious to look at what was prevalent in 1920ish Germany and how the Germans were more than happy to soon embrace a monster for their leader.

I recently read a book, ‘Critic of Everyday Life’, by Lefebvre. It’s three volumes long, and it’s a Marxist work and the overlap between these two books was surprising. For Marxist class is the ontological foundation for all truth, for a Nationalist (and Fascist, which Spengler definitely was, but wiki tells me he was not a Nazi supporter) the Nation as seen through the privileged tribe as interpreted by a charismatic leader who will always make every fact that disagrees with them a ‘false fact’ or ‘fake news’ the source of all truth. For one who has read both (especially Volume I of ‘Critic of Everyday Life’) there will be a lot of obvious overlap between these two works.

A Nationalist like Trump (that’s his label for himself, not mine) and his Nationalist followers would get a foundation from this book that they clearly don’t have. They’d have to ignore the goofy ‘morphology’ part of the book, but this book would help them better understand themselves. (3/4)

>>19692081
The author inverts all of the lessons of The Enlightenment: rely on your feelings not reason, be exclusive not inclusive, nation trumps the individual, certainty in one’s own truths that comes from pride from one’s own tribe and anyone not a member of your tribe is not as good as you; and truth comes from the authority of one’s leader who you have elevated to a charismatic status. All of these items are within this book and wrapped in weird mysticism that the author definitely has. For example, he’ll say Euclidian spirit is finite and relative to all the other morphological shapes, while Faustian truth is infinite and absolute and leads to the death of the civilization. One can easily follow the author’s mystical convoluted story, but most readers will just ignore that crap.(4/4)

>>19692081
Use paint to make a meme you lazy fuck.

>>19689173
I thought Gardner posters were left in 2021

>>19692071
And she's in university studying literature and she's read 513 books in 2021, how's that even possible?

>>19689156
. and raping bitch-cunt women is *sparkles* delicious *sparkles*

>>19692062
Oh yeah, I forgot LOL
Been a while

>>19692040
judging by the thumbnail and writing, sounds like Gravity's rainbow, but there is a female character in the first half of the book.

>>19690046
Is this Foundation

>>19692031
You are not important enough to be called a representative.

>>19692217
She's probably a starbucks barista getting an online asu degree

>>19692081
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>>19692072
Lmao this is mental illness

Goodreads is pseud central. Everyone wanking themselves off to the latest midwit take.

This one is less offensively boorish and self-righteous than most. Heather seems like a reasonable person. It's sad that she gets so close to appreciating the stories but can't reach that final inch.

Book: Cathedral by Raymond Carver

>>19689173
Based

For this one all reviews are same, so I picked one with south park character.

>>19692465
The one review you see here, that is related to yours in conflict, that author evokes in it's reader. Is unironically my favorite non pro reviewer observation on any piece of art Ive seen.

Most of her reads are smut novels...I think that's a common theme with filtered broads on this thread. She particularly liked the one about Navy SEALs ("SEALed with a Kiss").

>>19693312
Also, more proof that retards (and pseuds) without an actual take focus on prose "quality" and translations.

>>19689895
Welcome to (((modern))) society.

>>19692360
I don't agree with their politics, but as the CEO of self-appointed titles and positions I support their claim to be a representative for them.

>>19689319
>says this
>still gives it 4 stars

>>19689350
>>19689359
I forced my mom to read Endgame out of sheer autism once, she hated it and referred to it as "that awful play with the people in trash cans"

>>19693415
My ex gf made me go see Avengers and the only thing I remember is that a security guard was reading Endgame.

>>19689319
Based and true.

>>19693404
He is correct in everything, both rating and review.

>>19689326
looks like this bitch

>>19693664
Was that oatmeal?

>>19693312
T R I G G E R E D

http://www.shelfinflicted.com/p/about-us.html

>>19693664
Hot

>>19689127

>>19694045
She strikes again. Why is it midwits like this bitch always self-identify as "introverts" when it's obvious to anyone that they're attention whores? (i.e. She unironically writes this in a "book review" that's 70% autobiographical rambling and 25% "look how cheeky I am!" boomer humor...the other 5% references the book I guess).

>>19689156
>her profile
Ahahahahaha what the fuck man

>>19690293
when did the meme that only germans are white start? and who started it?

>>19692040
>>19692290
its a canticle for leibowitz
all of the one star reviews are mad that the book about monks in a monastery has no women or that it involves so much religion

>>19690024
Isn't this the autistic guy who was seething about stream of consciousness the other day?

>>19694501
Lowest form of critique nowadays is women (and their subjects) complaining about the quantity and quality of written women. If a story doesn't contain or address women, they will say it's a sexist work and therefore bad. If it does contain women, they will say that no man can write women correctly. Those critiques can have a basis in reality but if we are being honest then you will know they will complain regardless.

>>19689173
Call of the Crocodile is a good idea with terrible execution. It reads like a badly written early creepypasta like "No end house" and the like, if you're a late zoomer that makes it worth a read but Gardner's prose is childish and repetitive.

>>19694510
It’s a girl: Audre. What I don’t get is that she’s complaining about consciousness while consciously conscious and using her consciousness to critique a piece of art.

>>19694341
You were filtered. Baby Maker (A Real Man #17) is a modern masterpiece.

>>19689895
>>19693331
>>19689156

>>19692072
>>19692079
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>>19692082
Didn't read lol

>>19689928
only sexless dykes seethe about this. no one hates women more than other women. why would i want to read about cunts when i could read a book full of attractive men.

>>19694294
>wall of text high enough to give tower of babel a run for its money
damn you know that is one lonely, miserable bitch.

>>19694698
this is blatant pornography

>>19694341
this is so profoundly embarrassing. it's even worse than the dudes who jack off to futa porn, because this is operating on dangerous levels of delusion.

>>19694924
She doesn't care. Those people live in an echo chamber.

>>19694168
This guys reviews generally are funny

>>19694341
>>19694698

How do I become a fertile baby maker like Tex, bros?

>>19692366
ASOIAF

>>19695026
I am likewise triggered by that kind of treatment of someone else's axe, if true.

>>19694341
>>19694698
That is honestly just
Why are women like this

>>19694341
repeal the 19th

hmmm.... why most of these are women?

>>19694698
women are so funny XD
our brains really are different

>>19694341
I now hate George Eliot even more than I already did.

>>19695484
>>19695797
This is basically the equivalent of pornhub being socially acceptable and us all having accounts which we share with friends and family (most of us using our real names so people can view what we've "read,' what we want to "read," and what we are currently "baiting").

>>19695988
>man
>biological clock
Laughing Pepe.gif (I don't want to contribute to the bump limit for pictures).

>>19695988
seriously, it's just vulgar, and sad. society has encouraged these women to destroy themselves, now they read books about hot vivacious mega-chads who are looking for a woman just like THEM, who also enjoys pizza and tacos and the office, to run after them, drag them away from their office job, hold them down and breed them. and this is what they do instead of waking up to reality, piercing the bubble of their self delusion that is suffocating them, going outside and getting a husband. they are wasting themselves. all pornography is an atrocity but these bodice rippers are the worst sort and target the softest demographic from the most insidious angle, leading her by the hand to destruction and damnation. in 10 years all these women will be in their 40s and ripping their hair out that their egg carton is empty.

for the sake of public morality and improvement of the human condition, all pornography, in all media forms, must be banned, and bodice rippers included.

>>19696068
>https://jenikasnow.com/tropes/
Check out the "tropes" section of her websiite.
>>19689156
Maybe she would have enjoyed it if she read Molly's "yes" soliloquy. Since it's at the end and she couldn't get there, there's a good chance she's whatever the female equivalent of a one-pump-chump is...

She's also a fatty. Aside from >>19694698 she's read Jenika's BBW books (pic related).

>>19696117
>tfw you will never grift off pathetic obese femcels writing low quality smut they will buy by the truckload between bites of cake and mcdonalds fries

>>19696160
Literal cash cows. (Also, no one pointed out how pathetic dropping a book into a toilet is let alone writing about doing so publically. She's a real lady).

>>19696213
never understood reading on the toilet. it's just trashy, and if it takes you long enough to take a shit to read a justifiable amount of pages, you've obviously got some health problems to worry about. Let alone dropping a book in the toilet... is your bathroom so messy you had nowhere stable to set the book and knocked it in while wiping? were you bending over to look at it? how the fuck does that even happen?

if she wasn't a vulgar cow she might have a husband and not need to flick her bean to cheap cliche bodice rippers to begin with.

>>19689156
You just know that in real life she's a chunkster with acne scars who wears cat ears in public

>>19695988
I am laughing so fucking hard at the inner monologues of these two characters, this shit is comedy in its purest form

What I find more interesting is reading 1star reviews for chick-lit award winning best sellers like Life of Pi because those reviews are still bey white women except instead of snark the reviews are often underlined by a sense of confusion about why they don't like it that often comes close to self-awareness, like a robot asking what "love" is in a movie or something.

>>19694825
>Why won't women date me?
>ITZ DA JOOOS!!!

>>19696374
>avatar face
literally down syndrome

>>19693404
>waaahhhh books shouldn't make me sad!

>>19696466

>>19690160
I feel dumb that i never saw the obvious metaphor of Winston being like Churchill, stuck between superpowers and resisting with no real hope of overcoming it, and eventually embracing it.

>>19696492
>I- I may make women feel scared when they're around me, b-but at least I'm not brown

>everyone was having a good time until a seething leftist got offended

>>19696483
Death in Venice?

>>19696534
>2022
>slaving for whores

>>19696642
Correct.

>>19696501
I think both you and he reading too much into it, and committing the cardinal sin of projecting the present back onto the past. Winston isn't a common name now and is heavily associated with Churchill, but in Orwell's time it was an ordinary name. It'd be like inferring that a novel written now with a main character called 'Joseph' is referencing Joe Biden.

If Orwell chose the name Winston for any particular reason, it's probably because it's a quintessentially English name. Not Biblical, like John or Joseph, or classical like Alexander and Anthony. Not even royal, like Charles or Henry. Just an ordinary name for an ordinary Englishman. I've always felt that Orwell went out of his way to remind the reader that although he lives in Airstrip One, Winston is still English. The tyranny of totalitarianism isn't something that only happens to the Other, far away. It's something that can happen to us. In fact I think that's one of the main reasons Nineteen-Eighty Four is better than Brave New World or We; the latter take place too far in the future, when almost everything that connects the characters to the reader is gone, beyond the universal, non-specific commonality of being human. The characters in 'We' don't even have names. But the characters in Nineteen-Eighty Four are the children of 1948; Orwell prompts the reader to think about the future the children they see around them now will have.

I think that's a key reason Nineteen-Eighty Four resonated more with the public than books that might, technically, be better science fiction. Orwell wasn't just writing a scholarly exploration of a possible future, he was writing a warning. A bit like some of Margaret Atwood's work he took care to take bits of the present and draw a clear line to the future he was envisaging.

>>19694045
>98% percent of Catholics (technically I'm one) uses birth control
Uhm, sweetie, I ...

>>19690595
Someone did this for Ulysses in German and it's amazing, though sadly won't be of use to many here.
https://www.amazon.de/gp/customer-reviews/R1EZ8A1HEV1KTP/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_viewpnt?ie=UTF8&ASIN=3730601571#R1EZ8A1HEV1KTP

>>19696117
>USA Today Bestselling Author

>>19693392
Sorry friend, but as the CEO of racism and big-time investor of misogyny, I'll have to strip you off of that title.

>>19689156
Right, so where's the review exactly?

>>19690024
Holy shit this is gold kek.

>>19694341
Imagine publicly displaying what kind of porn you have watched. Its like if Der coomer wrote a negative review of Citizen Kane.

>>19696501
>>19697138

The Churchill overtone in "Winston Smith" is obviously deliberate, as Orwell himself said. Remember he wrote the book in 1948. The association was absolutely unmistakable for any English-speaking person. Lots of babies were getting named Winston (first or second name) at about that time. Wasn't John Lennon called John Winston Lennon?

If the book is set in 1984, Winston Smith was born in about 1948. Orwell wants to link fantasy and reality. He's saying, we could easily go from here to there.

Also of course he wants to make Winston Smith's eventual failure as a hero even more pointed.

>>19689127

>>19694501
>Canticle for Leibowitz
>A book about the apocalypse, the aftermath and how Catholic monks are trying to rebuild shit back together
>"REEEEEEEEEE WHERE'S MUH WOMEN"
>WHY IS THERE RELIGION?

Someone needs to nuke goodreads and all these little shits

>>19696068
Most based thing I’ve read in a while, keep up the good work

>>19696466

>>19698393
nice analogy. have a (you) for making me chuckle

>>19694341
>Hates white men
>Fantasizes about being ploughed by them daily.
Many such cases.

Leaving this one with spoilers just so people can enjoy that second line. Try as I might I can't detect any irony in there.

>>19690046
>It's a monestry
My sides

One of the best examples I've seen of a female looking at herself in the mirror whilst pretending to review a book. Normally they slip up and put the odd factoid in there, but not this time. This time we get absolutely nothing about the work at all. Well done, I suppose.

Not that it matters, but the book was The Sunbird, by Wilbur Smith

>>19692217

Still not making an account on your shitty site to write free content lol

>>19698393
I once noticed that one of my opponents on Chess.com, whose profile included a photo and their real name, used the same user name and avatar on porn-aggregating website fantasti.cc.
Chess and Ass-to-other-girls-mouth were his primary passions, and he didn't care who knew it.

>>19690024
lol

>>19698393
>>19698902
kinda based desu

>>19694341
yikes

>>19689359
Jesus, but Godot is so fun and enjoyable.

>>19698902
I wonder how often someone has gone full Diogenes honesty in a tough job interview? If so, has it ever worked? Would certainly have novelty value if nothing else.

— Why do you want to work here?
— For the money. And it will look good on my CV if and when I get a chance to leave you for somewhere better.

— Why did you leave your last job?
— I knew it was only a matter of time before they found out it was me putting bananas on my negro co-worker's chair.

— What do you do in your spare time?
— I watch fanmade pornography of Sailor Moon getting gangbanged by farm animals.

I have nothing to add except to say that the amount of femlings and simps I see using the word ‘sexism’ in reviews has a direct correlation to how good that book ends up being

>>19694341
w*men are hopeless

>>19698902
I have also seen this kind of shit on Reddit. You'd have an argument with someone and on their profile you notice that in between shitting on you they're posting on giantessfutanari or whatever.
I really don't understand how someone could let erotica consume their life to an extent that they proudly display it as part of their identity.

>>19693696
i think its just phlegm or sputum

>>19689156
Good luck getting nonwhite men to listen to your horseshit, harpy. lmao

>>19698393
actual lol, cracked me up here anon

>>19694341
based
>>19698393
my friend did that to max out his achievement trophies on pornhub

>>19692507
What book/poem

>>19689156
What is Ulysses even about? asking for some kind anon to redpill me.

>>19698967
I started doing something like that in my last year of English at uni.
My first year I was very tied up and anxious about sounding academic and correct, and I got middling grades.
Second year I got very relaxed and started just writing how I would, got good grades.
For the last year I started getting annoyed and would
>put stuff in my essays just to annoy my tutor on a personal level (he was a published author so I could find out his likes and dislikes pretty easily)
>go off on tangents about whatever I was interested in at the time of writing
>attribute things like philosophical differences between writers to "personal taste" rather than the political or social currents in whatever context they lived in
>argue that historical authors who supported things like slavery suffered from "liberal defects"
>use rap genius as my referenced source for poems even though I owned whatever book it was
>put completely unrelated things in my references, like Metal Gear Solid 3 for no reason whatsoever
I figured I was going to pass anyway, so I might as well enjoy myself.
I would also shitpost in the class forum.

>>19692366
What fucking book is this

>>19694341
Maybe all she needed to engage with the story was a buff dude on the cover

>>19695026
I mean, the man's right. Not only in the sense that Thoreau ruined that guy's axe but in the wider sense that he was basically an incompetent urban piece of shit who lacked the skills or even the common sense to really manage in the wild.

>>19694698
>TEX

>>19695988
>DEX

>>19696117
Seriously expected the male lead in this to be named Mex.

>>19696534
I mean... yes?

Imagine how painful it would be to be so completely domesticated and castrated that the most anxiety-ridden women of all time felt comfortable around you, and also being a darkie on top of that.

>>19689198
Same I just bought a copy.

>>19700323
If he’s talking about A Hero of Our Time he needs to kill himself

>>19700331
It is indeed A Hero of Our Time.

>>19692366
this is still /lit/'s greatest accomplishment

Absolutely fucking filtered.

>>19700331
>Christine
>he
Come on dude, only a woman could have such a dumb fucking take on Lermontov.

>>19700396
Please, I need to know what book this is.

>>19700461
Lucky Jim.

>>19700471
Thank you.

>>19692532
Based optimistic waifu who simply can't stand negativity.

>>19700427
female humor

>>19700549
There's no such thing, but have another one for your trouble:

>>19700538
You're welcome.

>>19700591
>I have no idea what I read
>4 stars

>>19700609
That's w*men for ya!

>>19700591
>>19700643
Are these both House of Leaves?

>>19700598
Interested in this.

>>19700643
Classic Simpsons reference and, to be fair, Paul Tremblay sucks. Obviously filtered but not a terrible review.

>>19700731
Lone Star: A History of Texas and the Texans.

>>19700698
You better believe they are.

>>19701172
This is going to be something incredibly stupid like Decamerone or the Arabian Nights, isn't it.

>>19701237
It's from Tales of the Dying Earth.

>horse girl reviewer
>book has explicit scenes where a centaur boy masturbates / fucks his centaur gf

>>19694698
>$0.00 on Kindle

>>19694844
>on /lit/
>doesn’t read
seems about right
also checked

>>19701256
>centaur boy masturbates
That sounds difficult.

>>19701355
he rubs his cock against the room's furniture

>>19694698
With a few tasteful alterations, it could become a classic on the level of Lolita as an exploration into the dark sexual fantasy which is shunned and condemned by society but which burns with an intense, irrepressible passion. What fun!

>>19701376
had a good laugh at this post anon

>>19701387
>for-school
chad studies

>>19701397
I wonder

here's a kind of esoteric take, esp with the grouping of Ares

>>19701254
What?


What?


Jack Vance? Rape?

What?

I'm going to finally finish Ulysses now out of pure spite and hate.

>>19693415

Your mom is based

>>19694341
Fucking kek, and the dude is a borderline stalker on top of it.

>>19702027
wew lad

>>19702027
>BROO WHAT WERE THEY SMOKING WHEN THEY CAME UP WITH THIS???????

anyone who has said this line past the age of 14 needs to end their life

>>19702027
>YA
>marvelous books

>>19702027
...

...Okay, this one fuckin' did it. I am speechless. Lord, let this be a troll.

>>19702027
>extremely strong characterization
other than bell liking books and katniss using a bow and loving her sister i couldn't tell you one thing about any of their characters. theyre just cardboard cutouts. why do normalfaggots use terms they dont understand?

>>19700423
Sauce please

>>19702142
this is Magic Mountain.

>>19702202
Yes.
>>19702197
Look at her shelves, you'll find it pretty quickly.

>>19702027
They have a point, 100 years of solitude was an ABYSMAL novel. Truly horrible. Although the reference to the YA novels was cringe.

>>19701438
You know, I don't entirely disagree with him, although as you say identifying Ares as a good guy is stretching it a bit.

One of the things that always stuck with me about the Odyssey is that Odysseus is insulted when the people he meets ask him if he's a trader, but takes no offence when people ask him if he's there to rob them.

>>19702238
>Look at her shelves
Impossible to even find the user, at least without getting and account on that pile of shit, just fucking link it

>>19702319
>100 years of solitude was an ABYSMAL novel. Truly horrible.
based patrician. i dumped that schlock around the time the bitch was eating dirt and random crap.

>>19702197
The Legacy Of Totalitarianism In A Tundra

>>19694341
I'm literally reading George Eliot for the first time right now
I don't know how I'll get this out of my head

>>19702570
Okay she gave Eliot two stars
Three stars less than she gave Falling For The Playboy (Bedtime Reads #2)
I'm genuinely relieved

>>19701883
Check the thread retard. >>19696117

>>19694482
Germans are of what most would call a swarthy complexion with the Saxons of course excepted. The amount of truly white people on the earth is shockingly low, only being found in Saxony and England

>>19702368
lel
guy who posted it here, I think I agree.
I read Works and Days before the Iliad and just re-read it. The parable of the Hawk and the Nightengale, followed by the section on Justice, seemed in many a rebuke of the actions of many of the Acheans (specifically Achilles and his treatment of Hector). Even in Hesiod's time I don't see how quick-footed Achilles could have been praised so.

>>19702480
It's only funny if you know he's talking about Mein Kamf.

>>19702480
Manny (>>19694168) sperged over posting a review of Mein Kampf on Amazon as an "experiment" and wrote extensively of his experience on Goodreads.

>>19694482
I don't know who started it, but the "only Englishmen and Saxons" meme was at least expressed by Benjamin Franklin. Bizarrely he even claimed that Scandinavians were swarthy, IIRC.

>>19702859
Here's his review...I'll post an excerpt from one of his books next.

>>19702699
you cannot fathom how much i don't give a fuck

>>19702962
>80 years later and they still seethe this hard that the president of germany wanted to stop hyperinflation, rampant sexual debauchery, and unrestrained exploitation of the working class by big bankers
>these same seething retards think they're the good guys

>>19689156
Are there any black men who are butthurt about Ulysses or any of these books? I never see men of color complaining about white men liking celebrated works of classic literature.

>>19702962
An excerpt from Manny's book, wherein he schools Socrates with the aide of a Harry Potter reference.

>>19703044
thank god for people like this so i dont' feel as bad about myself by comparison
kiwifarms candidate

>>19696348
I'm too selfish...

>>19696466
Yes. Cope.

>>19703156
He's the #1 all-time top reviewer on Goodreads and the #2 all-time most followed. kek

Here's his year in books:
>https://www.goodreads.com/user/year_in_books/2021/1713956
Lots of kids' books.

>>19703156
Forgot the proof.

>>19703204
>cares more about getting sales for other people than about being "interesting, truthful, creative, or entertaining"
>doesn't see a cent for those sales
>the authors probably dont even know who he is and will never speak to him
>he does it for free
>that mugshot

He does it for free. Imagine--for FREE.

>>19692031
Seconded.

>>19701256
Based and I am picking this book up immediately.
>Brazilian Jewish centaur
Never mind, fuck.

>>19702859
This started funny and ended depressing.

>>19692072
You don't know anything about fascism.

>>19694341
Poor little Silas

>>19702480
fucking kek

>>19694168
this guy's review of Democracy, the God that Failed is so fucking funny.

>>19693415
>I forced my mom to read Endgame
The one about letting your manipulative hectoring parents just die already, and moving on with your life? That Endgame?

>>19694045
>Gender: FEMALE
All caps confirms

>>19703649
>spent a decade on humane, approachable interactive systems
>this book is the antithesis of my whole life's work
I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream, right?

>>19703656
Sounds based. Pandora's Star?

>>19703761
I think that was it. I had like 20 tabs open and that was one of them.

A good scifi or fantasy with a little bit of hot lesbian shit? Nothing too LGBTQPISAIIAP nor the main focus just in it.

Colour of Magic read more like a Guliver's Travels type book- stuff happening but ultimately not much story. Are the other Discworld books more story-y?

>>19689156
"White men be like.... Bottom text"

I honestly feel bad for people who say this shit. It's literally just a socially accepted way of being an edge lord.

You don't have to like Ulysses, but what the hell does it have to do with the whole "mediocre white man" trope?

The majority of these people are just intellectually incapable of engaging with texts with any sort of literary merit and are so insecure that instead of maybe just admitting that, feel the need to tear down great works (shoehorning in the most eye rolling contemporary takes).

>>19703191
Still a bigger accomplishment than anyone here will ever have.

Might Colleen be Irish? Why yes, I think she might!

Rent-free for five hundred years.

What makes this review is her admission it took her 150 pages to 'get into' Game of Thrones.

Imagine forcing yourself to read GRRRRRRM for a hundred and fifty joyless pages. "Must... persevere... modern.... classic.... "

>>19689908

>>19704865
800 hundred. And it wasn't free.

>>19705022
This has so much potential to edit in thick Thanos and Broly

>>19704873
Imagine getting filtered by rabbits

>>19698797
>Iago
>likable
Has clown world gone too far?

>>19703479
kill women?
>>19704865
seethe

>>19699286
>>use rap genius as my referenced source for poems even though I owned whatever book it was
That is worth a kek and (You) by itself.

>>19704865
I wonder why a group of people we starved en masse to the point of still having not recovered from the demographic impact are mad about the english.

Also who gives a shit about the royals? That's the most American bullshit i can think of, the fucking kiwis like the royal family more than actual englishmen do.

>>19692256
You need to go back.

>>19705581
>recovered from the demographic impact
This isn't a thing, dude. Why do you think species can go extinct? "Recovering" as in returning to the curve you would have been on minus the disaster just never happens, it's literally impossible, plus disasters like starvation and plague are the natural regulator of population numbers anyway.

>>19701376
nice edit

>>19698902
I don't see why people do nothing to cover their tracks, e.g., it's what got waldun's backstabber in trouble.

Another classic. It seems as though the teacher really did flip a coin, because the book in question is as unlike Updike as it's possible to be:

Emma

Is "Vi" male or female?

Why would you suffer through twenty (20) collections of poetry by someone you hated?

Why, having suffered so, would you then READ A NOVEL BY THE GUY?

So many questions.

The book: Post Office by Charles Bukowski

>>19697422
Lmao

>>19698811
lol same

>>19705763
The best part about this is that Rachel likes Updike and hates Austen. She must be a completely bizarre woman.

>>19703244

>>19705784
FUCK I guessed Ham on Rye

>>19689326
I want to piss on her face

>>19689156
Lmao she is a coomer, I guess maybe there really is something to nofap

>>19692022
Imagine how fat these people are that they can fit Ulysses in their gigantic toilet.

>>19692465
Heather understands that a review is merely a personal opinion and not a scathing blogpost which dismantles the product for EVERYONE.
Heather doesn't speak from a pedestal or podium, she speaks from her comfortable reading chair.

>>19706072
No, no. I can't endorse that.

Why not take her vigorously from behind while reciting Lucky's monologue?

>>19706153
Exactly. When I become Minister of Culture and Manny is forced to eat his own beard in the town square, Heather will have nothing to fear. A woman who can't enjoy Raymond Carver may still make a fine wife and mother.

>>19689156
>life's too short to read Ulysses, and i sincerely concur

Luckily life's long enough to spend it posting reviews of books you don't like though.

>>19689156
>>19694341
Women are unsalvagable sweet christ

>>19706642
>admits to being a retard
>vote still counts as much as anyone else's
we have the refutation of democracy in one image

This thread is what happens when women try to read something more than YA novels. Fucking subhumans

>>19701172
Dying Earth, Jack Vance

>>19706897
Yep.

>>19706943

>>19706943
Holy shit.

This whole thread is fuckin' hilarious but also SO demoralizing.

>>19706943
What to expect about women?

>>19703244
>/pol/tard can't into even the most blatant irony due to lack of socialization and subtlety of thought
>still seething at some reviewer because he shat on daddy Hitler
Lol

>>19694341
These lefty girls are all the same.
>White man BAD!
*See a white Chad*
>Fuck me Daddy I'm a white man's whore!!

a classic from /sffg/

>>19707054
you will NEVER be a woman
you have no eggs, you have no womb
you are a crude mockery of natures perfection
you are the blackface of gender

if homer were alive again and could see this he'd blind himself all over again

How much time have you guys spent reading "cringe" reviews? How many pages in an actual book do you think you could read in that time?

>>19707377
its depressing to think how many books i could have read by now if i weren't wasting so much time fucking your mom

>>19707341
that tumblr style with all the gifs and images of pop culture icons and movie stars every few lines is the worst, most insidious cancer ever to beset mankind.
>>19707377
seethe

>>19707343
Kek, is this Ender's Game?

>>19706958
>600 years ago
Very close to taking the Lord's name in vain here lads......

>>19707880
Don't do anon, it's not worth it.

>>19707911
TELL ME RIGHT NOW that this isn't Pechorin she's talking about. SAY IT, ANON!

>>19707911
Oh wait, phew, filename says it's Oblomov. I may live.

>>19707894
this is norm macdonald's book, right?

>>19708273
Yes.

>>19708627
Based niggerman.

why do goodreads reviewers hate reading?
whenever they find a book where the prose does anything beyond action and dialogue they get bored and annoyed. it's as if they take the "books are like movies in my mind" meme seriously and approach books as screenplays and anything that deviates from the three act structure and does anything besides move the action forward is a failure.

>>19709033
>just wants to know what happens, doesn't want to actually read anything or appreciate the beauty of writing
writefrens, it's ogre

>>19707748
>whore thinks that courtship means fucking around