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4036619 No.4036619 [Reply] [Original]

The game Half Life 2 is to /v/ what the film Drive is to /tv/ what the album In The Aeroplane Over The Sea is to /mu/ what X is to /lit/

What is X?

>> No.4036623

go fuck yourself

>> No.4036627

i don't agree that all of those things are similar things to their respective boards

>> No.4036633

>>4036627
They're all
>discussed too much
>generally regarded as being good
>have been done to death on their boards

>> No.4036634

there is no consensus on almost anything here

>> No.4036636
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A song of Ice and Fire obviously.
>It's the most talked about on this board.

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Game of thrones

>> No.4036640

1984?

>> No.4036641

>>4036619
I mostly lurk but I would say Brothers K. I haven't even read it but I've never seen anyone have a bad word to say about it. Everything else is too contentious.

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>>4036636
Second

>> No.4036645

>>4036636
>that image

What if you who they both aren't particularly fond of either of them?

>> No.4036646

>not Tai Pei or Infinite Jest
Come on

>> No.4036649

Infinite Jest

We've had this thread before

>> No.4036653

>>4036645
>What if you who they both aren't particularly fond of either of them?

>That sentence

Jesus christ.

*What if you know who they both are but aren't particularly fond of either of them?

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>>4036645
>What if you who they both aren't particularly fond of either of them?

>> No.4036658

>half life 2

Great!

>drive

Great!

>itaots

ugh!

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>What if you who they both aren't particularly fond of either of them?

>> No.4036664

>>4036636
>implying finnegans wake is a book

>> No.4036666

I have a degree in psychology and yet I still have no fucking idea why people ever answer this question with anything other than Infinite Jest.

>> No.4036669

Infinite Jest is the answer.

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>> No.4036681

>>4036666
Because IJ is actually good.

>> No.4036701

it's infinite jest, now delete the thread

>> No.4036713

>>4036681
so are all the things OP listed, well, maybe not drive.

>> No.4036718

>>4036713
Please.

>> No.4036728

>>4036634
Yes there is.

>> No.4036735
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/lit/ canon

>> No.4036738

>>4036619
You mean a book that people claim to hate despite having an unbeareable need to discuss it daily? I'd say Infinite Jest, Ulysses, The Brothers Karamazov or Crime & Punishment.

>> No.4036749

>>4036738
And Murakami in general.

>> No.4036758

I guess lit has a triumvirate (Gravity's rainbow / Ulysses / Infinite jest).

All of them great books. Gravity's rainbow is the universally liked, Ulysses and IJ both have a love/hate relationship going on, most people deeply go one direction or another.

Most people love one, like one, hate one.

personally, I go IJ>GR>>U

>> No.4036774

>>4036735
Correct.

>> No.4036776

Catch 22

>> No.4036779

>>4036758
>personally, I go IJ>GR>>U

My ranking is the same. Infinite Jest has the benefit of cultural proximity so it spoke to me the clearest out of the three. Depression, addiction and the difficulties of establishing true interpersonal relationships are themes which are close to my heart. Ulysses is something I think I'll appreciate more with age and experience.

>> No.4036787

pretty well nothing goes here, one day its DFW next it's Borges or philo

>> No.4036798

>>4036735
this

>> No.4036827

>>4036658
>hating ITAOTS
I feel for you

>> No.4036840

>>4036749
>not liking Murakami
Why? He's absolutely brilliant.

>> No.4036859

Shoplifting from the American Aparel

>> No.4036874

>>4036840
>>>/reddit/
>>>/guardian/
>>>/oprah's book club/

>> No.4037297

nothing

>> No.4038604

>>4036619
Lolita.

For /g/ it's gentoo.

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>>4036874

>> No.4038641

>>4036645
Nicely done.

>> No.4038652

>>4036827

Do you feel admiration for your betters?

>> No.4038656

>>4038625
what is the deal with this shit? I mean, I don't get it... the "tips fedora" thing and all the rest? from what I knew, it was one of those reddit "euphoria" things... why is it on 4chan, let alone /lit/ ?

>> No.4038659

>>4036619

Infinite Jest by DFW

without a doubt

>> No.4038661

>>4038656
It's here on 4chan so we can mock and belittle it.

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>>4036713
>maybe not Drive

>> No.4039329

>>4038656
It's originally a tumblr thing. On 4chan people just seem to use it to marginalise opinions they don't like by suggesting the poster is ugly/autistic/Republican. Most people who use it seem to not fully understand the particular associations of the term and just use it interchangeably with other popular buzzwords like "edgy" and "hipster". Yeah, 4chan has really gone to shit.

>> No.4039352

>>4039329

oi pommy it was always shit

>> No.4039373

>>4039352
Not quite this shit. There are a lot more 16 year olds and Facebookers around these days.

>> No.4039382

>>4039135
I thoroughly enjoyed it, but I would hardly call it's an example by which to measure all cinema

>> No.4039386

Infinite Jest. No doubt.

>> No.4039414

>>4039135
Drive is a great film but it's not what tv makes it out to be. It's no masterpiece by any means.

>> No.4039418

Every time I go to /tv/, I make a thread about how much I liked drive, and people tell me that it's shit.

>> No.4039438

>>4039418
the same thing happens on /mu/ with ITAOTS and /lit/ with IJ and probably would also happen on /v/ with Half Life 2. I'm not sure about the latter though because I've never been on /v/.

>> No.4039662

> Drive

And that's the reason /tv/ is a terrible place

>> No.4039682

>>4039418
Well, it is shit. Though, I get the sense you do it for trolling purposes.

>> No.4040526

>>4039414

That's because nobody with an anything but a passing interest in film browses /tv/

>> No.4040676

>>4036666
quads confirms Infinite Jest as the king of /lit/

>> No.4040721

>>4040526
This

>> No.4040746

The Stranger.

>> No.4040758

Probably Infinite Jets, the seminal work of avid aeroplane enthusiast Daffyd Funster Walrus.

>> No.4040853

>>4036633
A fair bit of /tv/ doesn't like Drive and a solid half of /v/ recognizes that HL2 is no longer relevant or even all that great.

>> No.4041055

>>4039329
*tips fedora*

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>> No.4041084

>>4041055
*tips fedora to your hot dubs*

>> No.4041090

>>4040853
Perhaps it's not aged terribly well.
But it will never be irrelevant as a specimen on the evolutionary ladder of the fps genre.

I wouldn't say Drive advanced the medium of film like Halflife 2 advanced it;s own medium.
This is not a judgement of the quality of either, but a mere observation based on their impact on their medium.

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>>4036619

Probably Crime and Punishment

>> No.4041101

>>4039373
it's always been shit it's just that you were a 16 year old facebooker.

>> No.4041123

>>4036641
You probably mean The Brothers Karamazov. The Brothers K is another novel by David James Duncan. Either way, you're wrong. It's either Gravity's Rainbow or Ulysses, maybe War and Peace.

>> No.4041316

>>4036636
i seriously don't know who the guy on the left is

>> No.4041325

>>4036735
>bunch of dull bricks toted around by people who want to look smart

it checks out

>> No.4041338

>>4036735
/thread

>> No.4041416

>>4038604
This question is for and from animals.

>> No.4041516

>>4041316
James Joyce.

>>4036636
What a pretentious and annoying image