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Anonymous Sun May 26 17:03:56 2013 No.3793975 [Reply] [Original]

ITT: Post a book, rate it

7/10

>>	Anonymous Sun May 26 17:11:56 2013 No.3794002 File: 48 KB, 325x500, 1369597984698.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 4/10

>>	Anonymous Sun May 26 17:16:55 2013 No.3794016 File: 29 KB, 200x308, 200px-Harry_Potter_and_the_Order_of_the_Phoenix.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 9/10

>>	Anonymous Sun May 26 17:16:55 2013 No.3794018 epic /b/read

>>	Anonymous Sun May 26 17:19:56 2013 No.3794028 File: 64 KB, 316x466, satanic_verses.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] A bit confusing sometimes, but a terrific novel, otherwise.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 26 17:19:56 2013 No.3794029 File: 86 KB, 380x533, stranger.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Worth the time

>>	Anonymous Sun May 26 17:20:56 2013 No.3794030 >>3794028 forgot grade 9/10

>>	Anonymous Sun May 26 17:41:55 2013 No.3794067 File: 81 KB, 333x500, gravitys-rainbow-penguin.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] q[1-exp(-xt)] / [1+exp(-x*t)]/10

>>	Anonymous Sun May 26 17:43:55 2013 No.3794072 File: 740 KB, 640x1098, aynshrugged.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 10/10

>>	Anonymous Sun May 26 17:51:55 2013 No.3794086 File: 32 KB, 525x700, gfcar3842.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 10/10 I love her

>>	Anonymous Sun May 26 17:55:55 2013 No.3794091 File: 119 KB, 1050x729, aeneid.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Been reading this, I swear it's the most beautiful thing written before the Enlightenment. 9/10

>>	Anonymous Sun May 26 17:56:55 2013 No.3794094 >>3794091 It's the Aeneid by the way, in case that wasn't clear from the filename. C. Day Lewis' translation.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 26 17:58:55 2013 No.3794098 File: 32 KB, 312x312, shieeetttttt.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3794072

>>	Anonymous Sun May 26 17:58:55 2013 No.3794100 File: 41 KB, 238x315, lightning-thief.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 9/10 probably the book i've read the most and get goosebumps every time. not ashamed.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 27 14:45:56 2013 No.3796521 >>3793975 Ugh, I hated The Great Gatsby. It's like Fitz was desperately trying to show up the Princetonites with his heavy-handed symbolism and characterization. "Literary classic," my ass.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 27 14:54:55 2013 No.3796535 >>3794029 Time? That was one of the quickest books I've ever read.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 27 14:58:55 2013 No.3796544 >>3796521 >feckin Greeks

>>	Anonymous Mon May 27 15:25:56 2013 No.3796600 >>3794072 don't feed

>>	Anonymous Mon May 27 16:04:55 2013 No.3796709 File: 12 KB, 200x289, flowers.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 6.5/10

>>	Anonymous Mon May 27 16:18:56 2013 No.3796749 File: 73 KB, 497x715, TSP.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3793975 Continuing with Fitzgerald, I loved this 9/10

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 00:30:56 2013 No.3798184 >>3794100 musik

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 00:35:55 2013 No.3798197 File: 264 KB, 800x597, 1984.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 86/10

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 00:37:55 2013 No.3798198 >>3798197 >86 8/10

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 00:47:55 2013 No.3798216 File: 34 KB, 303x475, richard-yates-revolutionary-road.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 7/10 - I hate Frank but April is such a Bitch. God Damn. I wish I could write about suburbia they way he does.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 01:08:55 2013 No.3798242 >>3794086 7/10 at best, and it's clear that she'll be ugly in a decade or two.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 01:10:55 2013 No.3798244 >>3798197 6/10

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 01:14:55 2013 No.3798251 >>3798244 I can see how other people would say so but I'm paranoid so, yeah

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 01:30:55 2013 No.3798277 File: 499 KB, 1410x2100, infinitejest.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 11/10

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 01:33:55 2013 No.3798283 >>3798251 its a well respected classic and if you have a sort of paranoid sort of, THE WOLRD IS WRONG WE ARE MACHINES, WORKING FOR THE MAN kind of philosophy i guess its your thing, you must be on the 15-19 range of age?? am i right??

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 01:36:55 2013 No.3798286 >>3798283 You found me out it's my guilty pleasure, but yes I am 19, no the man is not keeping me down, nor are robots taking the world over in any likely scenario down the road. I like the premise of the book

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 01:47:56 2013 No.3798301 >>3798286 its cool, you seem like a nice guy, what other authors of books do you fancy?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 01:50:56 2013 No.3798305 >>3798301 Jack London George Orwell Freidreich Neitzche ... Your putting me on the spot here this is the first time I've come to /lit/

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 01:50:56 2013 No.3798307 File: 21 KB, 267x400, 274942.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 8/10 dem lucrezia moments

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 01:52:56 2013 No.3798310 File: 26 KB, 200x297, 200px-LarryMcMurtry_LonesomeDove.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3798307 eh/10

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 01:53:55 2013 No.3798314 >>3798305 dude! its fine, this is a good place to discuss books, get recommendatios, and have a nice time, this is one of the most sober boards in 4chan, hope you came here to stay

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 01:58:55 2013 No.3798321 File: 45 KB, 432x648, the-bell-jar.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] What does /lit/ rate this book?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 01:58:55 2013 No.3798323 >>3798314 I figured as much, I just feel guilty I haven't read a good book in over a year now. I was thinking about Thus Spoke Zorathustra or Beyond Good and Evil >Most sober ???

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 02:01:55 2013 No.3798325 >>3798323 by sober I mean, not agressive, subdued, its not /mu/, thats what i mean

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 02:01:55 2013 No.3798326 >>3798323 Ignore that other faggot, we don't want you here. Go away.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 02:03:55 2013 No.3798327 >>3798325 You're an idiot, this board is almost as bad as /mu/, maybe just as bad.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 02:03:55 2013 No.3798328 >>3798323 I would recommend some Dostoievski, good blend of psychology, philosophy and ficcion, nietzsche was a fan give Crime and Punishment a shot

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 02:04:55 2013 No.3798330 >>3798327 >>3798326 they are just messing with you

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 02:06:55 2013 No.3798332 >>3798330 This is 4chan everything is taken with a grain of salt

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 02:06:55 2013 No.3798334 >>3798328 Will do

Anonymous Tue May 28 02:11:55 2013 No.3798342
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10/10

Voltaire is the wittiest writer I've ever had the honour to read. The ease, with which he utilizes language, with almost childlike playfulness, made me laugh multiple times throughout the book.
The way he makes puns at philosophical thinking, seriously, if you havent read this, youre pretty much a non-human.

>"Optimism," said Cacambo, "what is that?"

>"Alas!" replied Candide, "it is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst."

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 02:19:56 2013 No.3798353 File: 66 KB, 334x521, king-solomons-mines.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 8/10 couldn't stop reading it

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 02:29:55 2013 No.3798361 >>3798342 >not reading Candide in French I pity you.

Anonymous Tue May 28 02:31:55 2013 No.3798365
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>>3798321
I loved it 9/10 pretty heavy stuff.
I think it is undervalued by male readers who miss out on some of the oppression feels or those who dismiss it for being high school reading list tier.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 02:31:55 2013 No.3798366 >>3796749 tender is the night ... 10/10

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 02:32:55 2013 No.3798368 Jesus Christ, I go away for an hour or two and the collective IQ in this place has dropped by what seems to be about 30 points

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 02:33:56 2013 No.3798369 >>3798368 and

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 02:35:56 2013 No.3798371 I've read everything pre1950 in this thread, written by men

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 02:36:55 2013 No.3798372 >>3798321 8.5/10 .... honestly, i was expecting a little more vis a vis her poetry, but still pretty darn good. i'll read it again in a couple of years and probably amend my opinion.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 02:38:55 2013 No.3798373 >>3798328 loved the brothers karamazov ...10/10

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 02:55:55 2013 No.3798389 >>3798366 Fuck off. How can you claim Tender is the Night is better than Gatsby? I understand wanting to be subversive, but that's absurd. Tender is the Night was a chore to read.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 03:09:55 2013 No.3798409 >>3798389 The trick is to realize that they are both objectively bad novels, valuable only for the insight they can give into the Zeitgeist of the period.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 03:15:55 2013 No.3798418 >>3798197 7/10, 2 for the ending

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 03:19:55 2013 No.3798424 >>3798418 Did the fact that the protagonist was deathly afraid of rats ever some up before the ending?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 03:20:55 2013 No.3798426 File: 57 KB, 335x500, super_sad_true_love_story_large.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 5.9/10

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 03:21:55 2013 No.3798427 File: 19 KB, 314x475, 10029427.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 7/10

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 03:21:55 2013 No.3798429 >>3793975 5.5/10

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 03:21:55 2013 No.3798431 File: 15 KB, 300x450, academically adrift.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 6.4/10

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 03:22:55 2013 No.3798434 File: 18 KB, 280x400, newts.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 6.1/10

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 03:23:55 2013 No.3798437 File: 107 KB, 1600x899, The Sense of an Ending.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 7.5/10

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 03:23:55 2013 No.3798438 File: 23 KB, 200x311, 200px-DanielQuinn_Ishmael.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 10/10 most amazing story ever.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 03:23:55 2013 No.3798439 File: 111 KB, 300x454, senselessness_300_454.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 7.2/10

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 03:25:56 2013 No.3798441 >>3798438 trollin trollin trollin, rawhide

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 03:25:56 2013 No.3798443 File: 25 KB, 239x400, 24054.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 9/10 (nostalgia tier)

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 03:27:56 2013 No.3798446 File: 167 KB, 1600x1200, EmbassyTown (2).jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 6.9/10 "SIXTY NINE DUDE" air guitar

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 03:28:56 2013 No.3798450 File: 313 KB, 407x704, 3212936302_faf043f1b1_o.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 8.8/10

Anonymous Tue May 28 04:03:55 2013 No.3798512

>>3798389
i didnt think the great gatsby was that great (though it had a lot more potential than titn) but mostly i thought the imagery in titn was superior as fuck. maybe this had to do with fitzgerald relating more to the characters in titn than he did with gatsby, but that's just speculation. anyway, that's only my opinion. i'm assuming you think gatsby is ... what exactly?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 04:14:56 2013 No.3798525 >>3798409 idk, there's something to be said for flowery prose, but yeah, titn was lacking in substance which is why i thought gatsby had potential. still, i remember being really moved by some of the passages in titn. #truth vs. beauty

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 04:52:56 2013 No.3798578 File: 34 KB, 301x500, chronicles.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 9/10. Great book.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 05:00:56 2013 No.3798591 File: 21 KB, 275x423, childhoods-end.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 7/10 the first and third parts are good.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 05:09:55 2013 No.3798598 >>3798277 agree also obligatory 10/10

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 05:10:55 2013 No.3798599 File: 14 KB, 220x306, Kafka_Der_Prozess_1925.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3798598 forgot pic

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 05:54:55 2013 No.3798633 File: 44 KB, 350x490, crimen.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 9/10

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 06:59:55 2013 No.3798692 File: 23 KB, 308x475, C-1997.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 10/10

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 07:01:56 2013 No.3798695 File: 16 KB, 200x293, The_Fault_in_Our_Stars.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 20/10

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 10:15:55 2013 No.3799061 File: 88 KB, 948x1429, canticle.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 8.5/10

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 10:50:56 2013 No.3799139 File: 19 KB, 308x488, cover.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 10/10

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 10:51:55 2013 No.3799144 File: 170 KB, 318x460, catcher-in-the-rye.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 4/10

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 10:58:56 2013 No.3799158 File: 104 KB, 315x500, The_box_man__Abe_Kobo.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 8/10

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 11:09:56 2013 No.3799175 >>3798446 I can almost feel the soft cover... and smell that scent of a new book..

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 11:21:55 2013 No.3799203 File: 257 KB, 1794x2694, c_hushhush.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 7/10

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 16:43:55 2013 No.3799888 File: 183 KB, 621x1045, hesse_narcissus.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] just so damn beautiful

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 16:44:55 2013 No.3799891 >>3799888 forgot to rate 9.5/10

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 17:57:41 2013 No.3800056 File: 16 KB, 259x400, 9780307387776.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 8/10

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 17:59:42 2013 No.3800063 File: 9 KB, 260x406, Jerry_Spinelli_-_Stargirl.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 10/10, lol. Short read though.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 18:13:40 2013 No.3800089 File: 29 KB, 200x316, 200px-EverythingIsIlluminated.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 8.5/10 The movie was better, IMO

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 18:13:40 2013 No.3800090 File: 100 KB, 228x320, i-am-number-four-book-cover-300px1.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 9/10

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 18:19:40 2013 No.3800107 >>3794091 >>3794094 Have you ever studied it in school? I found having to learn passages of it off by heart completely destroys any enjoyment from it. Same with Cicero's writings.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 18:22:41 2013 No.3800112 File: 17 KB, 200x306, 200px-PerfumeSuskind.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 12/10

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 18:27:40 2013 No.3800130 >>3800112 I'd give it 8/10

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 18:30:40 2013 No.3800140 File: 24 KB, 948x1462, 9780679723165_custom-73821098f001c7bca124cefad545a20be024a3a0-s6-c30.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] onion/10

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 18:32:40 2013 No.3800149 File: 39 KB, 200x287, 200px-The_Tin_Drum_cover.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 9/10

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 18:35:41 2013 No.3800156 >>3798427 never read it, what's this about?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 18:38:40 2013 No.3800170 >>3799203 I read this a year or so ago, it's alright for YA fiction but not superb Patch was a badass though

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 18:40:41 2013 No.3800179 File: 66 KB, 510x680, City of Thieves.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I'd give it a solid 7-8/10

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 18:44:40 2013 No.3800190 File: 41 KB, 400x430, i suck at girls.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 9/10 would read again & gift

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 18:45:14 2013 No.3800196 File: 34 KB, 306x500, electric church.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 8/10, was interesting questioning morality of religion

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 18:51:14 2013 No.3800210 >>3800179 Sobbed like a bitch.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 18:53:14 2013 No.3800217 >>3800196 >questioning morality of religion Retarded. It's not religion that gets people murdering other people, it's just an excuse. How can anyone dispute "be nice to everybody"?

Anonymous Tue May 28 18:54:14 2013 No.3800224

>>3800210
Yea, I read it over two days and got really depressed at the end. It was at that stage when you're so engrossed in a novel you can't stop thinking about it.

I got the exact same in ASoIaF when it got to ASoS. I'd been reading like 8 hours solid for the two or so weeks before, and couldn't stop thinking about it, and when the bombshell hit I couldn't get my mind off it.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 19:05:14 2013 No.3800268 >>3800224 >mentioning that series on /lit/ I think you just derailed the thread without meaning to.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 19:07:14 2013 No.3800273 >>3800268 Shit, sorry. I don't normally browse /lit/, and I didn't know people were hostile to it or anything...

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 19:09:15 2013 No.3800285 >>3800217 >How can anyone dispute "be nice to everybody"? >Implying that 'being nice to everyone' is the only thing people take away from being part of a religion. FFS. /lit don't normally produce retards like you so I suggest fucking off.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 19:13:15 2013 No.3800296 >>3800273 It's generally well regarded, but a few can't get past the idea of fantasy, so threads about it are often times shitty, as the books detractors haven't read what they're criticizing.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 19:31:14 2013 No.3800349 File: 7 KB, 200x279, 200px-Ethan_Frome_first_edition_cover.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3797260 7/10 >Pic 8/10

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 19:35:14 2013 No.3800359 ITT: ALL BOOKS ARE WONDERFUL

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 19:38:15 2013 No.3800362 >>3800359 more like ITT: 7/10 = Average

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 19:40:15 2013 No.3800368 File: 6 KB, 160x200, paradise lost.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Maybe the best book I have ever read and according to some one of the best ever written. The fact that In the original Latin in was a poem blows my mind.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 19:43:14 2013 No.3800378 >>3800368 I've been wanting to read this, why is it so good? a-and what does >The fact that In the original Latin in was a poem blows my mind. mean?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 19:46:14 2013 No.3800391 >>3800378 troll obviously. it's written in blank verse...

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 19:54:15 2013 No.3800422 >>3800391 368 here. I didn't know. I thought it had meter and rhyme in Latin.

Anonymous Tue May 28 20:01:14 2013 No.3800442

>>3800378
The scope is awesome, literally cosmic. The character development is so rich and full I became very involved with the characters; almost attached to them.
We all know how it ends but I still found myself wishing there was some other way out of this.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 20:06:14 2013 No.3800457 >>3800422 it was written in english you daft punk

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 20:38:14 2013 No.3800552 Is American Psycho any good? I'm about to start reading it just out of boredom.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 21:08:14 2013 No.3800602 >>3800552 loved it, identified heavily with bateman so evaluated it 10/10 for me

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 21:43:15 2013 No.3800658 Remains of the Day decent writing but boring 4/10 can't into prose

>>	Anonymous Tue May 28 21:55:17 2013 No.3800688 >>3800658 also if he lied about working for Darlington because he dislikes talking about his previous work experiences why the fuck does he talk about his previous work experiences for the entire book

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