Read expected got GO

Pale king might have been the greatest novel ever written, had it been completed.

>>7631461
lmao

>>7631461
lolno. Not even close.

>>7631473
Loool

>>7631506
was it good, though?

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It had it's moments but really it just made me want to read Epicurus

>>7632818
Yes.

These threads always make me uncomfortable because there a passive aggressive feeling when some people post replies with the old template and some with that weird new one.

>>7633017
yeah
I can never tell if people are joking or being disparaging towards a book or author

>>7633017
Those who use the blue one have poor taste
It looks ugly

>>7632811
second box is more like Inherent Vice.

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>>7630958

>>7633224

What?

>>7633395
exactly

>>7633395
and pancakes

>>7633267
yeah tolstoy is kinda lame desu senpai
do anna karenina also

>>7631506
This is very accurate.

>>7633395
this book seems like something borges would have written if he was a redditor

>>7633233
Genesis has a bunch of lists of people who are completely irrelevant.

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>>7633540
spot on, although I got the feeling he was bullshitting and playing the ' I forgive you for your sins' card to come out as superior to his prosecutors

>>7633395
spot on

>>7633749
>they were just toasting an epic bredde

>>7634128

You read the whole thing and thought that?

>>7633224
To be honest, this applies to half of the OT
Jews sure love their bloodline

>>7634268

I want to read that book now.

Requesting one for Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro. I saw it a week ago, now I've read the book I want to see it again if by chance anyone has it

>>7633554
I haven't read this edition. What's wrong with it?

>>7634882
PENS
E
N
S

>>7634840
good

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>>7634907
????

>>7634907
I'm given to understand there are errors, then?

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Fresh off the oven

>>7633605
kek

>>7633586
top kékkek

>>7633267
this is close to the shittiest one i've ever seen

>>7633605

Kek. Pretty accurate.

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>>7633453
top fucking lel

need to put something in about curved dicks though

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>>7633605
should have the obligatory Achilles ref pic related

>>7634327
Couldn't agree more

>>7634268

Hahahahahaah

>>7636402
yes siddhartha is more like talk talk than fucking mercury rev u twat
get off my board
i bet you thought it came with a smiths cd too
fucking idiot

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fresh oc. (this is actually one of my favorite books I even got a first edition)

Does 4chan down again

>>7636693
Lmao

>>7636693
4chan was kil

sory

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>>7636402

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Still feeling the effects of this one

>>7636402
nice one

Blomjud's the shit

>>7634268
>expected: poo on ground
>got: poo in toilet
kek

>>7631473
best in thread.

>>7638193
This one's good!

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>>7630958

>>7633586
As one of the few people on this board who has actually read this thing from cover to cover, I kékekeéd.

Joyce really was the original shitposting memer and it's great.

>>7634882
There's a line in that edition that's cut off like half way through and turned from a long run-on sentence into "Your task in these dreams is often to pens"

Supposedly there are lots of other errors too but no one really goes into detail about them.

>>7638227
congratulations on being one of the few people on this board who has actually read this thing from cover to cover
good job i am very impressed and i enjoy the irreverence with which you can now treat it; an irreverence i will probably never earn
you are a god amongst us, but a humble god

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>>7633586
You were but missing the letters to Nora

>>7638233
That's Penguin for you

>>7636402

blomjud, my fuckin' my nigga

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBWhKQV4-7Y

>>7634976
>>7638458
what?

>>7638223

This is on point. I thought it would be about her depression and so on but most of it's her disparaging men that she finds unnattractive and generally acting like an entitled bitch.

>>7633267
I think this is pretty funny actually

the essays are easily the worst part of W&P

>>7633588
this one is much worse than the W&P one if same creator. this one is just dumb.

>>7636402
>comparing a book to music
Is this a joke?

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>>7634840
Pretty accurate.
Here's mine though.

>>7638593
kek

>>7638579
I ship /lit/ with /mu/

>>7638616
fucking gross you're one of those

>>7638610

Not enough about classrooms and worrying about learning maths and jumping around everywhere.

>>7634947
Is that bad? (Never read/seen any Harry Potter )
I'm reading american gods, I knew from the beggining it wasn't about anything epic, I like it so far

>>7633453
Actually kekking

>>7634947
Needs more forced Americana

>>7638193
The "got" section in Hemingway books is always alcoholism lol

>>7638478
(The first guy)
For some reason I expected realistic social satire about 19th century russia and bureaucracy. Did not expect the morbid, unexplained world Gogol created (not saying the satire didn't exist as well, ofc).

The second guy I dont get neither.

>>7633395
Don't forget about the really small thing that the other guy is making, fking a third of the book was jsut that

>>7638227
I have read extracts which I have derived much pleasure from, but I have yet to feel up to the effort of reading the whole thing.

>>7638485
you mean it's almost like a satire on how men treat women, wow

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>>7638193
Mine

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>>7630958
Is The Pale King better or worst than Infinite Jest?

>>7639495
It's not bad at all, just like the first Harry Potter books weren't bad either (at least back when I was 13 or so). It's just that I was expecting something different. I don't know. I may have to re-read it to fully get it.

>>7638593
I think the book has elements of the middle as well, if just for the quality of Hamilton's prose.

ITT: Mostly people who don't understand the book they read

>>7643144
What the fuck is that "expected" supposed to even MEAN

>>7643318
flowers for algernon style stream of consciousness in a southern gothic setting

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>>7638193
Hahaha too good.

>>7643144
What I got is pretty damn good.

>>7636402
>>7636410
hahahaha
holy shit

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>>7643167

>>7642088

>being this cucked

I bet you there's a pic of you somewhere holding an "I need feminism because..." sign.

>>7638227
It's on the second page ya blep

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Fucking plato

>>7641300

huh, never thought about it like that, but i do see what you mean

>>7631506
Going through the Egypt parts right now, fucking brutal.

>>7644762

Which version do you have?

>>7644762
It gets better in Book V after the Ionian Revolt.

>>7644719
This is why you never read Dover editions

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>>7645400

>>7645653
kek

>>7640232
>not appreciating a critique of the edgy cyberPUNK genre

Read Diamond Age

>>7642095
Haha my girlfriend loves these books but I've never read them

>>7645763
>girlfriend
Fuck off normie.

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>>7630958

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>>7645871
I've read half of Robots of Dawn when i was a kid. What do you think of the series? I'm thinking about reading it.

>>7636674
>>7636691
lol

WHERE IS THE CORN?

>>7640232

Honestly going into it thinking about the same as your expectations, I was pleasantly surprised! If someone has described to me the plot of the book beforehand I would never have read it in a million years, but it is so cool.

>>7645977
>about to read this
>lmao fedora
Am I about to get memed again by /lit/?

>>7645977
A lot of people on /lit/ don't seem to realize that Notes from Underground is a satire of that kind of thinking. It is very much like A Confederacy of Dunces in that respect - same with Oblomov. I don't think there yet exists sincere classics on NEETdom.

(Read Joseph Frank's essay on Notes from Underground to understand what exactly Dostoyevsky was parodying and his methods.)

>>7647353

It is an r9k posters journal but set in the 1800s. I wouldn't call it good, I wouldn't call it bad. His other stuff is better IMO.

>>7645693
It was meant to be funny famalam, I know it's a great book

>>7631506
This actually sounds more interesting.

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Still pretty good though

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I'm only halfway through it though

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>>7646490

>>7648587
>not posting the pasta itself


Step up.

>>7645826
I've read an academic text on Theravada Buddhism.

Is this 'gud?

>>7644719
Oye', what?

>>7645910
It's a detective story with robots (and yeast). Nothing more or less.

>>7648638
the kike runner

>>7642088
If it's satire, it's not very clever about it.

>>7648730
how in the hell did you get that from it?

>>7649029
It's literally in the book.

Read: Svejk
Expected: Catch-22
Got: Family Guy

>>7645555

quads speak truth. Needs a picture of a candybar with the fat chick

>>7646490
Thats the wrong one dumbass, it needs to have corn for the meme to work

>>7647789
I never thought about it this way, but very accurate anon

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>>7649273
Oh, my bad

>>7647353
Notes from Underground is fkn great m8, enjoy

>>7647810
Very Accurate anon. Even without the Harry image.

>>7649723
kek, that's a nice one.

>>7645977
he was making fun of the le fedora you twerp

>>7638593
Wikipedia editors probably copied her desu

>>7649933
i don't get it

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The one and only

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sorry anons, i was afk this weekend.

>>7650082

I'm absolutely laughing my ass off at the absurdity of this image. Anyone with even the faintest knowledge of history would know that the "corn" that Caesar speaks of in Commentaries On The Gallic War is not the corn that we in the west are familiar with, but is rather a poor translation for the word "grain" which in Latin is "Frumentum"

Myself and many others who have read the commentaries would know what you're trying to refer to with your image but it's wrong. Unless of course you were already aware of this and you are posting this ironically. In which case I commend you for your post but it's still blatantly wrong. I would have gone with a collage of images of wheat instead.

7/10

>>7650099
>posting the historical revisionist pasta

Popcorn was literally invented when attempting to render a corn kernel into it's contituent elements by the application of heat. The resulting pooped corn was then used at the colosseum to hand out to the audience. The true mistranslation of this ancient literature is 'Bread and Circuses' when in fact 'Popcorn and Circuses' was the documented phraseologyia.

>>7650099
>being this autistic

>>7638193

This is pretty spot on haha

>>7648638
This was my experience as well

>>7650302
I don't know what you expected, but it was exactly what I expected. And I certainly did get "Fallout" from it, u mong

>>7632844
is this a good entry level stoic text? I want to into stoicism

>>7647810
hahaha this was my favourite book when I was 12. Pretty accurate but you should have thrown in something about everyone being brown-skinned.

CORN
O
R
N

>>7645400
Just finished this. This book is such a masterpiece on so many levels.

>The Noble Savage sacrificing himself for a society that is indifferent to his suffering
>not getting chills

>>7633605
As someone who just finished reading the Iliad, this is highly accurate

>>7649933
doesn't make any goddamn sense

>>7650051
Pretty sure it's an Impala. Most of the Iliad is descriptions of people getting struck through the nipple by spears

>>7637054
French for dummies had me kek

>>7649090
You mean his phantasies towards homosexual intercourse? Man! I need to re-read this novel.

>>7650058
Never question Pla...I-I mean Socrates.You will only make a fool out of yourself.

>>7650822
accurate.

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>>7650756
Just awful

>>7647797
You're probably the most boring person who ever lived.

>>7649723
The Bible would've been awesome if it was Hulk Hogan instead of Jesus.

>>7651045
>that pic
>le physical attributes or behaviour correlates with 100% accuracy with mental states face

Disgusting, as it were.

>>7650832
Add some religious iconography in the corner and you're halfway there

>>7650141
>being new

reeee

>>7651383
Most people are not autistic.

>>7650784
More like his fantasies towards slaughtering young handsome men.

>>7643719
I heard he cooked that whole book up, probably wrote it from a motel while drinking himself to death, alone.

If that's "comfy"...

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>>7649384
Rrrrrrrreeeeeeeeeeeeeee

>>7634933
That one error.

The R/E/G image above is about it.

>>7648784
fucks sake, Im Spanish, and i came to /lit/ just to escape from the shitty actual literature of my country , why cant you let me rest?

>>7652685
U wut m8

>>7652685
dude, Coelho is brazilian...


but yes, Spain has a shitty literature these days

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>>7645977

>>7652788
How can people watch that show with a straight face? Is being a clueless sheltered cunt funny

>>7652802
>How can people watch that show with a straight face?
Most people laugh actually.

>>7652769
woah, really? not even kidding, I see his books being bought by everybody here, i thought he was spanish

>>7641300
Montecristo was published before though

>>7652802
Get a life, jews!

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The Trial

>>7653434
Why the fuck did you expect that you god damn imbecile?

>>7653459
Because your mom told me it was a good book

>>7653301
I don't get it. Please explain.

>>7653459
so mad wow calm down kafka-pleb-fag

>>7653468
it's a famed subversive stalinist era book, but then it turns out stalin is conspicuously absent, and jesus appears an awful lot

>>7653465
And she meant it. I'm certain she didn't give you that expectation though.

>>7653478
Oh okay. So you weren't saying that it's a pro-religious text. Jesus at the end doesn't really get your point across then imho.

>>7653484
my point was just that i expected loads of stalin, but instead just got loads of jesus

>>7653480
IDK she does kind of look like Frollo

>>7633453
I just checked, and in Norwegian, the original language, the title is literally "My battle/Mein Kampf"
Am i the only one surprised something with that title was published?

>>7653568
There was a debate about it when it came out, but ultimately nobody really cared. Knausgård is generally hated by the left wing here anyway, so it was just another drop

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got some OC here

>>7648784
what a shit fucking book

>>7653499
The entire novel is a takedown of Stalinist-era bureaucracy and society, though.

>>7653118
This is excellent

>>7653568
he stated that he did that partly because Mein Kampf was an evil book that foreshadowed death/destruction, and his (Noseguard's) book is also "evil" for broadcasting family secrets, although he sees his book as about life and creation.

>>7653957
it kind of was what you expected until the very, very end tho

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>>7630958

>>7654030
Hmmm sweet potatoes...

>>7653630
Heh

>>7642465

Leagues better, even for an unfinished book.

>>7649097
yeah, i was disappointed too.

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>>7633267

> "seperate"

>>7649796
forgot the pirate rape

>>7653662
now let's be honest.
you haven't read it, have you?

>>7634327
Kekk'd

>>7645977
This is perfect

>>7655151
>replying to an old as fuck meme
wew, chill out, show some self-respect, m8

>>7653434

this is quiet accurate. missing the point where the boredom of democracy and the waiting turn into madness, bitterness and depression

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>>7633605

>>7645612
would you recommend?

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>>7630958

>>7645977
accurate.

>>7650051
Built Ford tough

>>7657284
To be fair that's only the first 1/3rd or so of the book.

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>>7654030
kek'd, had to read this piece of shit in high school.