/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.22711128]

Post 1 star Goodreads reviews by people getting absolutely filtered.
Others guess what the book is

[Anonymous No.22711296]

>>22711128
Is it Blood Meridian?

[Anonymous No.22711302]

>>22711296
BM didn't win the Pulitzer

[Anonymous No.22711305]

[Anonymous No.22711306]

>>22711305

[Anonymous No.22711320]

>>22711128
Should be lonesome dove?

[Anonymous No.22711338]

>>22711305
>Post 1 star Goodreads reviews
>Others guess what the book is

[Anonymouṡ No.22711363]

<Pic attached> I found quite touching. If I ever meet Maggie I will give her a cupcake and tell her to forget the silly book.

Waiting For Godot


>>22711320
I'm not OP but it's definitely Lonesome Dove.

[Anonymous No.22711519]

>>22711128
an easy one

[Anonymous No.22711526]

>>22711519
The stand?

[Anonymous No.22711556]

>>22711519
This one is Ulysses. I’ve seen this review on here.

It’s incredibly comforting to know that Joyce has the ability to make women seethe 80 years from the grave

[Anonymous No.22711580]

>>22711556
Ding ding ding

I think I found a pretty hard one, added in two reviews

[Anonymous No.22711597]

written by a man

[Anonymous No.22711604]

>>22711320
I've only seen the TV series and they say "poke" like 100 times.

[Anonymous No.22711607]

>>22711597
Something about Shackleton

[Anonymous No.22711612]

>>22711607
yes

[Anonymous No.22711637]

>>22711526
I liked the stand :(

[Anonymous No.22711685]

>>22711305
>>22711306
Holy shit.

[Anonymous No.22711711]

>>22711128

[Anonymous No.22711722]

>>22711128
Women won't even allow female characters to suffer. What a bunch of insufferable faggots, damn.

[Anonymous No.22711735]

>>22711711
this is very obviously TBK, but i'm really not seeing how the involved dog analogy thing fits in here

[Anonymous No.22711844]

This review is a shining of example of how no matter how eloquently you articulate yourself, and no matter how many books you read, without an open mind you will inevitably hit a wall with your intellectual growth.

[Anonymous No.22711982]

>>22711844
Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea? Hes not wrong desu

[Anonymous No.22712174]

>>22711982
>Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea?
Yes
>He's not wrong
Nothing about Sailor is wish fulfillment. Each of the characters go through the entire story feeling like they're missing something, with every attempt at filling that void eventually ending in dissatisfaction. The violence is portrayed not as glorious but as a childlike attempt at feeling powerful, and in control, hence why it's performed by children. The dramatic irony here is that these kids are still prisoners of their own adolescence. Mishima glorifies them no more than Burgess glorifies the Clockwork Orange kids.
The fact that this reviewer used a different author calling Mishima "stupid" as proof that his legacy (and by extension his writing) is meaningless shows only how vindictive his attitude is. He's not intelligent enough to defend his stance, so he appeals to authority. Many such cases.

[Anonymous No.22712306]

>>22711128
>can't appreciate the dingus

[Anonymous No.22712342]

>>22711597
The withdrawal of all bellyaching about male drive when it‘s applied to establishing an anglo-liberal world order is really something but at least I have a newfound appreciation for Shackleton knowing he diverted resources from that.

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>>22711711
What a retarded subhuman. Must be a woman.

[Anonymous No.22712800]

>>22711580
Something by Faulkner maybe?

[Anonymous No.22712991]

not for the guessing game, just wanted to share this one

[Anonymous No.22713169]

>>22712800
No.
Hint: German author

[Anonymous No.22713175]

>>22711305
>>22711306
Jesus fucking Christ

[Anonymous No.22713192]

Almost every review mentions the title of the work or the author, makes it impossible.
Damnit

[Anonymous No.22713206]

>>22713192
solved

[Anonymous No.22713207]

>>22711556
Speaking of Ulysses
>This book not only ruined a week at the beach but also damaged my self-esteem. After years of hearing that this was a difficult work to read, I confidently and pridefully picked it up to prepare for a trip to Ireland. I finished it solely through angry determination, feeling my dignity diminish with each incomprehensible page. I have no idea what any of it meant, and I could not find coherence in more than 10 pages at a time. Did I have the thoroughness to investigate literary criticisms to try to understand what I had read? No. I just wanted to get the hell away from it and be done with this humiliating event in my reading life. In Dublin, I made sure to take a picture of myself with the statue of James Joyce, to remind myself that I'm not as smart as I thought I was.

[Anonymous No.22713236]

>>22711306
>>22711305
what causes someone to be like this?

[Anonymous No.22713785]

>>22713236
It's called education, try it sometime

[Anonymous No.22713804]

>>22713236
estrogen, low IQ, and yes, over-education, like >>22713785 said

[Anonymous No.22713817]

>>22711306
>>22711305
Why are women?

[Anonymous No.22713844]

>>22711305
>>22711306
This is what college induced mental illness looks like

[Anonymous No.22714013]

>>22711128
Lonesome Dove

[Anonymous No.22714028]

>>22711306
This woman needs to get fucked. Its pretty funny how women have looked at the male incel situation and sardonically remarked that perhaps the state should provide them with whores. Some have even meant this srsly, reflecting on how a lifetime without sex would embitter any man.
its equally if not more true of women. Women start going nuts when they don't get fucked. This woman hasn't had an orgasm in years. That's why she's all fucked up like this

[Anonymous No.22714031]

>>22713817
She hasn't cum in a decade. it makes you fucked up

[Anonymous No.22714033]

>>22711296
Lmao. If you had so much as read a single page of Blood Meridian you would know how ridiculous it would be for the author to suddenly talk in modern-sounding euphemisms in lieu of sex organs, (beans, carrot,etc)
Since you haven't read BM, I urge you to do so.

[Anonymous No.22714045]

>>22714033
should I really though? I'm very selective about fiction. /lit/ strokes that book so I get that its seen as good. But he writes in such a fucking boring way a lot of the time.

[Anonymous No.22714052]

>>22711306
>Half...HALF... the country didn't vote. You guys suck.
This is my favorite part, and a fantastic summary of this insane diatribe.

[Anonymous No.22714075]

>>22711128
Why is it always the women? Even the ones without pictures, one can immediately tell it's either a woman or faggot writing these.

There is always this image that the person reviewing is trying to convey of their own self and their worldview toward the reader, as if that mattered at all when critiquing a book. Reafirming their ego has as much of a stake in their opinion as laying their gripes with the book and thus these two become one in the same.

[Anonymous No.22714087]

>>22714028
good take

[Anonymous No.22714089]

>>22714075
because not getting regular orgasms really fucks women up. I'm not just repeating it to be narcissistic or be silly. I'm srs that is the real reason why. Look at this womans face. She has not been fucked in a long time in any satisfying way. Im not even saying this to belittle women.
Women cant cum without a wide variety of psychological sensations being felt, all of which require letting her guard down. Hence an orgasm is literally the result of a woman feeling safe.
These women have their guards up constantly and that's not what femininity is about, so they hate and resent it. And they lash out. She needs to get fucked by a man she trusts.

[Anonymous No.22714095]

>>22714052
really what it comes down to is women aren't meant to think about things on any sort of large scale they're meant for family and community level thinking. Frankly it's cruel to trouble their minds with this stuff. They should be happily worried about household stuff not far away abstractions that evil people have lied to them about to make them afraid and angry.

[Anonymous No.22714105]

>>22714095
>Frankly it's cruel to trouble their minds with this stuff. They should be happily worried about household stuff not far away abstractions that evil people have lied to them about to make them afraid and angry.
yes, its resentment from not feeling safe to just be women. They need to be fucked by men they trust. There are none of those around because men have become faggots. Women like this hate my guts because I tell them the truth. But they have sex with men like me. Because we tell them the truth.

If you want to help, be kind to women by telling them the truth and then giving them an orgasm. Preferably, because I am being semisatirical here: find one, do that, and then stick by her side.

[Anonymous No.22714115]

>>22714045
Hey. All literature takes a bit of an effort. This is why most people don't bother with reading beyond its utility for daily stuff. Maybe this is not the hobby for you then; movies seem to be more fitting for you.
You dont even have to leave 4chin.
You could to to /tv/ and sneedpost all day, big guy!

[Anonymous No.22714128]

>>22714089
>>22714095
Great insight, anons

[Anonymous No.22714134]

>>22714095
I just personally enjoy seeing people learn how large a cohort non-voters are, and not even trying to understand why that would be.

[Anonymous No.22714239]

I have a few.

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[Anonymous No.22714245]

>>22714115
what a fucking faggot ass response lmao
hahahaha

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[Anonymous No.22714270]

>>22714255
Heart of darkness maybe?

Also
>I really like to praise this book but it has no redeeming qualities

You just know people like this will backstab you the moment it is convenient for them to do so. they cannot even express their opinions on Goodreads in a sincere manner.

[Anonymous No.22714280]

>>22714270
Yep.