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1638883 No.1638883 [Reply] [Original]

So /lit/, why haven't you read this?

>> No.1638885

Because it sucks.

/thread

>> No.1638891

>>1638885
>Judging a book you haven't read.

Why am I not surprised?

>> No.1638893

>>1638891
go away plox

>> No.1638894

waiting for the movie

>> No.1638896

>>1638893
We can talk about Wilde and other pseudo-intellectuals if you'd like.

>> No.1638906

>>1638891
yes i guess i should read twilight too before i judge them

>> No.1638910

i read that book.

>> No.1638912

You assume to much. I have a Ulysses shrine and a James Joyce hairdoll.

>> No.1638913

>>1638906
Except Twilight isn't acclaimed as the best novel of the 20th century.

I bet you like DFW; and that's giving you the benefit of the doubt.

>> No.1638917

>>1638910
>>1638912
Well what did you screwballs think of it? Would you say it's better than Moby-dick?

>> No.1638920

>>1638896
>Wilde
>intellectual
Of course Wilde would have been fashionably pacifistic

but i think that if he heard you call him that he wouldn't be able to stop himself from punching you right in the nose

>> No.1638926

>>1638906
>>1638917
what the fuck is wrong with you two

you SHOULD read twilight before judging it

>> No.1638927

>>1638920
Are you Tybrax?

>> No.1638934

I haven't read it yet because I only started reading for entertainment a few months ago and don't believe that I'm ready to read something that challenging yet. I'm looking forward to reading it once I've become a better, more in-tune reader in practice, and also once I've read at least several of the myriad works that Joyce allegedly alludes to.

>> No.1638945

>>1638934
Excellent! Be sure to read some Homer and early Joyce first. Then it shouldn't be too much of a struggle.

>> No.1638954

Never read it, never had a burning desire to read it. I don't think it deserves to be called the best book of the 20th century.

>> No.1638965

>>1638954
And what work do you believe to deserve that title?

Gravity's Rainbow need not apply.

>> No.1638978
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1638978

>>1638917

Of course! It's the greatest book in the Western Canon.

>> No.1638984

>>1638978
Name one that's better. Come on, I dare you.

This goes for everyone.

>> No.1639633

>>1638965
Trial or castle. if they count as novels. Kafka is a on a different level to Joyce. Joyce hid his limits with big words and intricate structure and the like. Kafka had a narrower range, but his fiction is bottomless. That's more valuable.

>> No.1639635

>>1638978
Divine Comedy is the most important work in the Western cannon.

>> No.1639644

I'm working my way up to it as we speak. Just started Dubliners after finishing Portrait of the Artist. My hopes and expectations are great, Mr. Joyce. I do not wish to be disappointed.

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>>1639635
I'll agree.

>> No.1639659

the same reason I didn't read Harry Potter.

I don't care how popular it is, if it doesn't sound interesting I don't read it.

>> No.1639662

>>1639633
You are so awesome to me right now.
No samefag.

>> No.1639663

It's a good one. Also try Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby

>> No.1639671

>>1639662
How can you samefag making one post. Enlighten me.

>> No.1639673

>>1639662
Sorry, I understand now.

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>>1639671

>> No.1639700

I don't own a copy, I guess.

>>1638894
>waiting for the movie
funny.

>> No.1639718

I have. I didn't enjoy it, but I don't have a particularly curious mind. I don't really buy into contemporary literary analysis, and all that malarky.

Which makes me ask myself, why am I on /lit/? I need to go back to /v/. You guys are even making me type in something resembling English.

>> No.1639740

Still working on Finnegans Wake. Dont remember what year I started now...

>> No.1639855

another useless tripfagged /thread.

>> No.1639942

I read the first page of Ulyses and just gave up. It looked really bad. Still, it may be an amazing book if you can understand it.

>> No.1639965

>>1639942

I've read that first page a couple times and said fuck this.

Then in January I persevered and a few pages later really started to get into it (even though there were times when I didn't know what the fuck was going on). By the fourth chapter I knew the book was going to be one of my all time favourites. I can't wait to re-read it soon
So just keep going man

>> No.1639980

>>1639965
>chapter four
that's were she takes a dump on him, right?

>> No.1639983

>>1639980
I never saw such a stupid anon as the anon.

>> No.1639987

I have, and I loved it. I can't understand what problem people have with reading it, it's not bad at all. Well, maybe chapter 14.

Finnegans Wake however...

>> No.1639996

everybody in this thread is misinformed and confused

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1640798

>mfw not one arse full of farts referance.

>> No.1640821

>>1640798
Had to go there, huh tripfag?