Read Expected Got

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Just finished this book and was bitterly disappointed. The first chapter was amazing though.

can someone post the template pls

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Any actual zizek readers care to enlighten us?

>>7446722
Meant to make a thread?

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>>7446722

he's a big waste of time

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Posting an absolute classic

>>7446760
Thanks. I found him quite entertaining in the videos, like the autistic philosopher 4chan deserves. I wasn't sure if I should make the investment of money and time in his book.

>>7446687
not even close.

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dont worry...i got it...

>>7446781
yeah it's unfortunate. the reason he's able to write 2 books a year is because he recycles (self-plagiarizes) like crazy. so if you wanna know what all of his books are like, skim his latest next time you're in a bookstore and you'll have a pretty good idea of the normal Hegel/Lacan/Lenin mashup

>>7446895
>that's a funny joke, here's how you could make it less funny

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>>7446760

>They Live

Smooth

>>7446918
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

>>7446947
i enjoy this new pasta :)

>>7446895
That sort of thing would have been lacking in depth, I thought

Yes we now must have depth in these things
Serious business plaisantins s'abstenir

>>7446954
guys. just make an Infinite Jest macro already

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thousand hours in gimp

>>7446682
Thread after thread after thread, and only now do I realize I've been trolled.
Why, /lit/?

>>7447042
What are you talking about?

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>>7446682

>>7447076
hehe hella :P)

>>7446951
i dont, motherfucking says 'west' instead of america. not a single european thinks corn is maize when used in such a context

>>7447131
Julius Caesar isn't american tho

>>7446947
>>7446951

The best bit is that he's autistic enough to care and write it, but not autistic enough exchange wheat for barley.

>>7447040

Yous a dumbfuck

>>7447211
Why?

>>7447311
The German translation must have been awkward

>>7446722
I met Zizek once. The guy is insane and wouldn't shut up.

>>7447364
And this was a surprising fact to you?

>>7447369
I mean he had no reason to talk that much, it was before his lecture. Funny though as spanish dude asked him for an autograph and then he ranted about how Argentinians think they're white. kek.

>>7447311
He spends his time cleaning a lot?

>>7447377
>I mean he had no reason to talk that much, it was before his lecture
How did it escape you that he was completely neurotic?

>and then he ranted about how Argentinians think they're white
Now you're just memeing

>>7447391
>How did it escape you that he was completely neurotic?
I never really kept up with him or his works.

>Now you're just memeing

I swear I'm not lying, he was talking about how Argentines view themselves as a part of Europe that got separated from Europe.

>>7447377
Confirmation that he posts here.

>>7447311

I laughed.

>>7447364

Gross. I hope you brought a towel to clean off all the spit.

>>7446697
What book is this?

>>7446964
I read this during a big mexican lit binge, hot on the heels of Rulfo, Fuentes, Azuela. Completely out of nowhere.

>>7446760
kek'd for a good minute

>>7446769
I kek'd

>>7446870
that's pretty funny.

>>7447402
They are, kinda. In the sense that you can find a lot of skinny bitches with small tits unlike in any other south american country.

>>7446947
What the fuck

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>>7447040
Like, five minutes in Microsoft word

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This book is so fucking depressing

>>7447163
this is old pasta bro, anon was just dishing it up for newfags like you

>>7447076

Quality

>>7446575
lol this is mine

>>7446569
Someone explain what is desirable in the "what I got" frame here, if there is anything.

>>7447040
You read wrong.

>>7448889
Thales?

>>7447420
good one, just needs some quirky russians

>>7446769
Hey, that's the post with the million replies I samefagged to prove a point!

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>>7448490
pretty accurate

>>7447311
I'm like 65% in and I really don't get this...
Something to to with translation?

>>7447371
The German titles of My Struggle are hilariously shit

>Sterben: Roman (Das autobiographische Projekt 1)
>Dying: A Novel (The autobiographical project 1)

>Lieben: Roman (Das autobiographische Projekt, Band 2)
>Loving: A Novel

then come
>Playing: A Novel
>Living: A Novel
>Dreaming: A Novel

German publishing: Not even once

>>7446947
Is this the "imagine being Arnold" of /lit/?

>>7446947
it was funny the first time and it's still kinda funny the second time

>>7446947
>tfw I would have gone with a collage of images of wheat instead

>>7448846
not to mention repetitive and full of itself.

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>>7446569

>>7446947

10/10 autism

>>7446918
>>7446947

is le corn the most based /lit/ meme ever made?

>>7449493
your expectation was dumb

>>7450160
ur dumb

Friendly reminder that using words is cheating.

>>7448490
>bug is crying
help

>>7447038
>the prison scene

>>7450272
you're an idiot

>>7449285
that's cringe

>>7446927
yeah okay bud thanks for sharing

>>7446569
>More of these?
No. FUCK OFF

>>7446769
/lit/ will never make a post this good ever again

>>7447076
Underrated.

>>7450231
If you're not reading it in English, it will be far worse. The whole point of the book is to have exceptional prose little plot or likeable charachters.

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>>7450231>>7450231
>Read
>Stanley Kubrick's Lolita
>kek

>>7446947
wew lad

>>7447311
kek'd

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>>7446569

>>7451386
The prose was why I decided to read it in english but it still didn't carry the book much. My friend said it would be all prose and less content, should've listened to him.

>>7451767
this meme is shit

>>7447076
thought about strange loops

>>7446687
>not shooping several John Dillinger throughout the What I Got pic

>>7449275
>top right
holy shit that's a blast from the past
was it ever confirmed she was really dead?

>>7456919
No, the idea that she was dead was just made up by the OP of the original thread. As far as I know nobody knows who she is, but those pictures are probably not of a dead woman. That said, it's been like 8 years, so she might have been stabbed by a crackhead or run over by a car by now for all we know.

>>7450224

Nailed it.

>>7457798
Issss facking REAAAAW

>>7452760
nice

>>7452760
I don't get it, I thought most the book was about him struggling with people like his girlfriends family and girlfriend from accepting who he was

>>7458730
it would seem neither of you has read that book

>>7458620
>ice bucket
>ice king
o I get it

>>7449939
>>7448846
Alberto Caeiro is master race

>>7451386
yes because other languages translations can't have exceptional prose

/lit/ is getting plebier by the hour

>>7458986

/lit/ is /r9k/pol/it/ on the weekends

come back wednesday

>>7458986
>defending translation

>>7446575
is that a jizzing cock in the middle square?

>>7459148
v.nice.

>using text in the image rather than finding an image that conveys the concept(s) of the novel on their own

Shows you don't really get it.

>>7459189
>Shows
heh

>>7448892
Being an autistic nerd is generally considered undesirable.

>>7450220
p good

>>7459134
That actually makes a lot of sense in the context of the book.

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saved from another thread

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>>7449285
>Das autobiographische Projekt

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>>7450220

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>>7446569

>>7458620
kek

>no lmao at these try-hards

>>7447040
You sneaky bugger you didn't read past the first 20 pages.

>>7450361
like turtle eggs i believe...

>>7447038
Have this book, got past the part about amalfitano, it was enjoyable but a bit slow

should I pick it back up again?

>>7449493
Atlas Shrugged is the only book I've ever given to charity

>>7449285
The first thing I learned when I moved to germany is that they can't title for SHIT. In ten years living here, there is only one title I found cooler in german than english and that was "women" by Bukowski. In german the title is (in german) "the love life of the hyenas"

>>7460171
>that fucking episode.

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>>7447040

>>7461309
>i only like fast-paced books
>muh adrenaline

Are anyone ever actually happy about what they got?

>>7461722
Yeah, the one I posted was obviously pleased. I'll let you find it.

>>7461725
Or, i can let you find yourself, not your image, but your actual self

>>7447076
nice post

>>7461735
WHOAH

>>7460259
lol p. much

>>7461229
lmao

>>7464143
accurate

>>7461705
Pills? I don't think we read the same book.

>>7461333

Kind of ironic

>>7447341
Its one of Wolfe's weakest novels, sadly. Interesting premise that went no where.

>>7459073
there he is

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wonder if anyone of you read it or just saw the movie

>>7449939
fuck off.

>>7450224
>just chilling w/ mom
fucking lol

>>7458986
>>7459073
i think that there are many translations that are good representations of the original prose

however lolita's whole artistic conceit is nabokov's love of the english language, so yes, it's hard to match the prose in translation for lolita.

>>7452760
Expected:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Dg-g_LdncY
Got:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QdSLeQ0494

>>7459134
The only two things a normie knows about Ulysses are:
>Irish Jews
>One long paragraph on cumming

>>7460259
kek, it is a nice little book though

>>7461639
nice

>>7461639
clever

>>7461644
that's cool but taken straight from the book. I guess bukbuk thought it would be too obvious.

>>7447311
I don't get it.

>>7447038
He gave you the fucking template. How do you mess up this badly?

>>7465526
fuck i want this book

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>>7447402
God, im laughing, this made me like him even more.

>>7446769
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/S7361120#p7365034

>>7461639
I'm too fucking stupid to get it.

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>>7446989
Thanks!

>>7450231
lolita is good, fuck you

>>7469623
it is a pretty specific reference--in the book, the main characters are on a trip to Jupiter that is actually secretly a trip to Saturn.

any for other DFW?

>>7464371
I'm going to re-read it one day, but I got a theory that everyone in the town may have been animated dolls.

>he puts memes in the meme

hello 9gag

>>7448827
http://youtu.be/UJDGLKTenK0

>>7461333
lol

>>7446575
what did you expected lol

>>7447341
why voodoo vince??

>>7461333
kek

>>7474993
One of the main characters made a fortune selling mass produced voodoo dolls He also does a weird magic trick where he switches places with a man sized voodoo doll to escape from prison.

>>7449279
No' it's about a later part.

>>7472006
Hmmm, I could see that being true.

>>7446947
kek

>>7447076
you really posted the shit out of that post

>>7448737
loved this

>>7448490
was about to make this myself only photoshopping a cockroach body on a sad NEET pepe

>>7461210
I remember reading this and thinking, "I just spent several hours reading about a fucking dog."

>>7469659
it still does what you expected though

>>7475733
I mean. I think it had more to say than, "lol look at this fuckin' dog beat the shit out of other dogs." Something about development and the impact that we have on nature and even each other.

>>7475668
Could you elaborate more on this?

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not oc

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>>7478079
>read a book by camus
>expected satre's philosophy
>got camus' philosophy
idiot

>>7478106

Even if that were an accurate interpretation of what happened (it isn't) that isn't even idiotic.

tldr: no u

>>7478079
>>7478200
>...we must supply our own light.
That's Sartre's philosophy. I'm assuming that he expected what he did from Camus because he doesn't actually understand the distinctions between the different existentialists (or existentialists and absurdists, if you like).

>Not giving a fuck, etc.
That's Camus in a tiny, incomplete nutshell.

The expectation wasn't necessarily idiotic: The Stranger isn't a bad place to start if you're exploring existentialism, but thinking that this amateur mistake is worthy of making into one of these images/posting it is idiotic.

p.s. explain to me what the fuck you interpret as having happened then

>>7465526
Started reading it yesterday, don't get it at all. I mean I've only read essays called cybergothic and another one about Lovecraft (letters one) and it's literally just a bunch of words strewn across the page that are supposed to mimic the aesthetics he's trying (?) to invoke. Have no idea what the point is, tons of sentences have no sense whichever way you put them, just fluff.

Is he trying to be a french 'philosopher'?

>>7478362
kek

anyone have the image an image for the VALIS trilogy?

I remember someone posted a really good image for it which inspired me to read it but I forgot to save it

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>>7479006
?

>>7479018
not that one but thanks anyway, it was a bit crazier

>>7447341
Holy shit, someone other than me played Voodoo Vince?

>>7460171
top kek

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>>7479032

>>7478223
Not the original anon, but if I wanted to read Satre, where should I begin?

>>7479433
existentialism is a humanism

>>7460171
I dun get it

>>7471882

This one is extremely good and underrated.

>>7447038
whats the middle from?

>>7479333
still nope, but ty again

>>7446760
Just realized this was the new corn

>>7469628
heh

>>7477970
Meme Black Science Man With French Name oversees eugenics project that allows Earth to be repopulated by STEM majors.

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>>7479675

>>7479445
ty senpai

>>7475668
Add Jeff Bezos
Add 500 pages of fantasy engineering manuals
Add some reference to "Neal Stephenson can't do endings". Seriously, what the fuck was the last third of the book.

>>7446947
Jesus christ lad

>>7469787
It is kinda meandering t'bh

>>7461644
>in german the title is in german

hmm

>>7485327
I don't get it.

>>7485346
you're late on the memes friendo

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>>7485327

>>7485370
Ah, know I get it.

>>7485438
*now

>>7478362
hated that book

>>7485485
No space vampires ?

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>>7446569

The movie is absolute shit in comparison.

Renaissance gangsters.

>>7478079
You were expecting the wrong things and you're an idiot

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>>7461333

>>7450220
Funny but there was a lot of meal descriptions also.

>>7479518
the stage play

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over 9000 hours in mspaint

>>7467131
It's available on Amazon for around $5 dollars on Kindle.

>>7478269
It's striking to read his Dark Enlightenment/ Neoreactionary writings now after having read his early writings. He basically went from your stereotypical French obfuscated philosopher writing about Marxist-Feminis-Post-Modern nonsense to hardcore right-wing post-Libertarian Reactionary. His prose style has also significantly improved and has refined itself down to a very readable level.

I'm not sure what the value of that book is though. I haven't read all of it yet but a lot of it seems to be style of substance. It's weird and interesting to read but there's not much philosophy to be found there

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>>7479333
>>7479671

>>7488698

Hello Bernard

>>7486821
what is this

>>7485991
>No space vampires ?
That's included in the expectation of fan fiction.

I get all my book recommendations from these
Thanks guys

>>7489101
http://notalkingplz.tumblr.com/post/106576709906

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>>7489746
>s h i l l

>>7455728
it's not a strange loop anon. it's just recursive.

>>7489010
Why do you say that?

>>7489010
Oh shit, yeah, now I got why you said that.

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I think the Anon who posted the template got banned, his post is gone

>>7478362
nice.

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>>7488698