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itt we summarize books poorly Anonymous Wed Apr 24 21:41:53 2019 No.12999955 [Reply] [Original]

i'll go first
>six people transcend their mortal bodies and become a spiritual hive-mind after a mutual friend dies

>>	« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !mxvabIoSIE Wed Apr 24 21:52:15 2019 No.13000005 >A novel is compiled by all the wordles of the world

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 24 22:09:02 2019 No.13000106 File: 85 KB, 491x800, the hobbit.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12999955 >midget is tricked into satiating jewish greed under the watchful eye of an old homosexual

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 24 22:18:30 2019 No.13000162 >>12999955 Wtf how More like >people get old also waah wahh modernity hurty

>>	« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !mxvabIoSIE Wed Apr 24 22:22:58 2019 No.13000182 >Camp councilors strike; parents never informed \| hijinks ensue

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 24 22:26:48 2019 No.13000200 File: 17 KB, 220x290, House of Leaves.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >guy's mom dies and he copes in the worst possible way >>13000162 actually illiterate

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 24 23:45:28 2019 No.13000567 File: 27 KB, 329x499, GEB.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >brains are made of circles

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 24 23:48:25 2019 No.13000580 >>13000005 stop tripfagging tripfag heres your >you you >you slut

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 25 00:27:27 2019 No.13000717 File: 6 KB, 181x278, Unknown-6.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >Marco Polo makes up some shit because he misses Venice

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 25 00:33:06 2019 No.13000737 >>13000717 This made me laugh real hard, but Polo never mentions anything real in the book, or his origin from venice.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 25 00:36:22 2019 No.13000750 File: 499 KB, 1653x2560, Infinite Jest.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >Canada wants its independence, but everybody's too focused on tennis, drugs, capitalism, and art house films to give a rat's ass

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 25 00:41:22 2019 No.13000768 >>13000567 Currently reading. A bit more than I was thinking I was getting into. The long verbose rants could really be shortened but I still enjoy it when I have the stamina

Anonymous Thu Apr 25 00:45:18 2019 No.13000780
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>two autists pretend to be the same person but then accidentally become that person, everybody is fine with this
>>13000768
yeah, it's exhausting, but it's definitely worth it. shame it has such a reputation here

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 25 00:48:30 2019 No.13000791 File: 932 KB, 1556x2400, 91yNF5xdR4L.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12999955 >Boomer father can't catch up with the times. Still tries to hang.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 25 00:48:41 2019 No.13000793 File: 42 KB, 292x499, Memory of Earth.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >the plot of the Book of Mormon, the setting of Dune, the general feel of Aniara, and a pinch of misandry and homophobia

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 25 01:05:42 2019 No.13000855 >cuck walks around

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 25 01:50:35 2019 No.13000993 >>13000737 There's a whole dialogue between him and Kublai near the end about Marco Polo's memories of Venice and how he just makes up cities to describe the various facets of it. >"Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased."

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 25 01:53:38 2019 No.13001004 >>13000768 I dont care what /lit/ or /sci/ say that book is fun and interesting.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 25 01:54:14 2019 No.13001005 >>12999955 only a woman could write something that heinous

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 25 03:55:37 2019 No.13001337 >>13001005 >we summarize books poorly if i’ve made this book unattractive to you, i’ve done my job. in reality, it’s actually good and you should read it

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 25 05:38:10 2019 No.13001590 >>13000791 Kek

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 25 06:18:13 2019 No.13001698 File: 429 KB, 756x1199, verwandlung.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >Some dude turns into a bug and dies

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 25 06:32:29 2019 No.13001733 File: 17 KB, 200x293, 200px-Gravitys_rainbow_cover.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] niggers tongue my anus u.s.w.

>>	« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !mxvabIoSIE Thu Apr 25 10:28:15 2019 No.13002491 >>13000580 Ummm. Kill All Normies? >>13000855 Job!

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 25 10:50:22 2019 No.13002614 >>13001733 better one >man has rocket fetish, rocks fall everyone dies

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 25 10:52:38 2019 No.13002628 >>13002491 >Job! Ulysses, you worthless tripcunt bitch

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 25 10:52:44 2019 No.13002629 File: 538 KB, 700x1027, crash-de-j-g-ballard-en-frances-libro-pelicul.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] mom makes pancakes

>>	« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !mxvabIoSIE Thu Apr 25 10:56:04 2019 No.13002651 >>13002628 It’s so vague it works for both Bitch

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 25 11:24:26 2019 No.13002799 >>13000855 I didn't know there was a Forrest Gump novel

Anonymous Thu Apr 25 12:38:36 2019 No.13003083

>nine theologians dream a labyrinthic library of mirrors in which a gaucho named Jorge Luis Borges and a tiger named Jorge Luis Borges speak the languange of God and dream each other in a knife fight -- a short story by Jorge Luis Borges, the fictional author of "The Aleph", a fictional book

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 25 12:41:47 2019 No.13003097 File: 26 KB, 334x499, 12 Rules for Life.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12999955 >He parses myriad ethical quandaries.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 25 14:42:04 2019 No.13003675 File: 38 KB, 331x500, 51DPLEkzuxL.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Napoleon loses in the end

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 25 14:54:56 2019 No.13003737 >>13003675 is there war and eventually peace?

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 25 14:55:58 2019 No.13003743 >>13003097 >actually understanding this fuck, i spend way too much time here

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 25 15:01:24 2019 No.13003778 File: 22 KB, 241x400, les miserables cover.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Remember to tip your prostitutes.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 25 15:10:10 2019 No.13003844 File: 25 KB, 314x500, 41ED+av59nL.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >Be more than your enemy and plan ahead and you will most likely win

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 25 17:08:43 2019 No.13004526 File: 107 KB, 320x487, Fanged Noumena.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >I wish people used Unicode for their books instead of ASCII

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 25 19:40:29 2019 No.13005230 File: 20 KB, 332x499, Sophocles.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >incest is the key to enlightenment

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 25 19:43:02 2019 No.13005246 File: 56 KB, 181x143, 2019-03-01 00_35_53-c07.png (PNG Image, 680 × 273 pixels).png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13000791 >hang

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 25 19:47:44 2019 No.13005270 File: 33 KB, 586x906, images (35).jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >move into the woods bro

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 25 20:03:36 2019 No.13005355 >>13000855 Ulysses?

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 25 21:37:09 2019 No.13005852 File: 34 KB, 413x630, Demian.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >tfw you're bisexual and you fall in love with both your childhood friend and his mom and end up transcending your mortal body

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 25 21:44:20 2019 No.13005881 File: 7 KB, 178x283, atd2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >some brothers try to avenge their father's murder, some kids fly around in a balloon, and some other stuff

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 26 00:40:45 2019 No.13006761 File: 337 KB, 1400x2135, The Great Gatsby.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >rich people are mean

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