Read; expected, and got thread

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>>8361835

>>8361835
strangely accurate

nice meme

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posting full rez corn

>>8361839
fool

>>8361835
How is Brothers Karamazov anything like Pulp Fiction?

>>8362066
Top kek. Is that what it was really like?

>>8362384

Only because I'm a typical post Keynesian econ student

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This was a surprising book.

>>8362496
Whoa you got me interested

>>8361966
answer this op you faggot

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>>8361835

Can someone post the porn one from the other day? That girl was a dime (sorry I know it's a celibate board).

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Very funny. Well worth a read.

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>>8361835

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What a disappointing book.

>>8362521
Her name was Veronica Radke

>>8362496
Wait what? Consider me baited

>>8361966
>>8362509
it's entry-level literature, and Pulp Fiction is entry-level kino

>>8362596
What you expected was also in the book, anon.

>>8362754
Oh really? I didn't read the whole book. I lost interest after a while.

>>8362746
>kino
Back to /tv/, fag.

>>8362595

>What I watched

?

>>8362768
>too pleb for stendahl

kill yourself

>>8363890
>another parlor-romance intrigue
>600+ pages long
>banal comments on religion and upper class like every other 19thc novel
>all of the characters are deceiving and petty
You're telling me I'm pleb if I want to read this crap all the way through? You must be joking.

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>>8361835

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>>8364352

>>8362503
Pretty good senpai. The original title was supposed to be The Drunkards.

>>8364361
It's an oddity, that book. It's as equally compelling as it is questionably written.

>>8364352
Is this actually any good?

>>8364352
I loved that book as a kid, blew my mind.

>>8362600
Thanks I love you.

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I've made this one a while ago

>>8361966
I think he was going for the debate over divine intervention

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Most accurate one I've got.

>>8364563

Had a really good introduction.

Then it devolved into "damn kids these days and their rock music" and I couldn't continue.

Might finish it someday. Maybe it's not worth it though.

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Best I could do, it's late.

>>8365445

Accurate.

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>>8362066
>>8362384
>>8362389
Fixed:

Someone may post his experience with?:
-Mein Kampf
-The Satanic Bible

>>8363591
I just used other template without see that little word.. Is the same shit, stop being so autsitc

Also:
the fucking end is shit, and Pavlovich is a closet homo (I think)

>>8365490
that mustache is so fucking cool

>>8365621
Not at my computer but I've read the Satanic Bible. The author essentially whispers in your ear that all the devil shit is a system to focus your psychosomatic energy around and to scare Christians for the fuck of it and then goes on to lay out a Nietzschean personal philosophy mixed with "magic" incantations which are actually pretty sweet. I was expecting some evil shit but it turns it out it's very level headed and barely qualifies as a religious belief.

>>8361936
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

>>8365743
That's because it's not supposed to be religious, it's just using satanic worship as a metaphor for philosophy of following your desire for carnal pleasures

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Hot OC

>>8365415
My experience exactly

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>>8365786
LOOKS LIKE MY KiND OF BOOK

>>8365765
I fucking hate this board so much.

>>8365412
Socrates is way over your head

>>8365940
>Not recognizing old pasta

Kys

>>8364352
Did people who say they loved the book as kids read an abridged version ? The endless lists of plants and fish are incredibly boring.

>>8365607

What's the difference?

Laughing_niggers.gif

>>8365682
Currently marathoning this, I'm halfway through and I was still wondering whether Tolstoy actually believed in his character's misogynistic point of view or if he'd be proven wrong later. I guess this anwers my question.

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>>8364361
That to me seems like high praise.

>>8366067
I'm pretty sure he hates this board because the only way we can communicate is through old pasta

>>8361835
This makes zero sense.

>>8366092
That's just Jules Verne's style. Remember that people didn't have access to Wikipedia or nature documentaries or even aquariums a lot of the time, so all this description of the sea floor was fascinating

People wish someone would put as much effort in describing them as Verne did the ocean floor or the surface of the moon. The guy was dedicated and also understood character, which is important for an adventure/science story

>tfw someone reposted your pic
:)

>>8367006
Not OP but you obviously never read the book if you dont get at what he's getting at

>>8365786
>playboar

>>8361835
this meme needs to stop

>>8362746
you missed the point not only of the book, but of the OP post

>>8362041
>no IKEA

>>8364824
I'm reading it right now, the first half is really comfy so far.

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>>8361835
Overall, still a good read.

>>8367505
Holy fuck that turned out bad.

>>8362503
This is accurate.

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OC

Got Mishima ones?

>>8367505
I think Melville delivers and surpasses with the chase.

>>8367551
Valid for The Castle aswell.

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OC

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>>8361835

>>8367584
sounds about right.

don't think about it.

>>8367638
yeah, those two parts were, rather questionable.

>that sperm whale circle jerk.

>>8362496
Jesus.

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>>8361835

>>8366131
inventive

>>8362513
Accurate, but damn do I love me some Shirley Jackson.

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>>8367620
It was a good read. It made me think how lit would appreciate it. Pessoa was really obssesed with being recognized and feeling like an outsider. He would have shitposted here. Also, soon i'll start his short fictions.

>>8365419
This applies to any Kant, honestly.

>>8367755
i've read all of pessoa, i'm portuguese and he was my mother's favourite writer, so she had all the books, so i've read and re-read them countless times.

i love all of it, the desdain he had for his onw intellect, the ability he had to write poetry from the point of diferent people, the outsider effect, etc...

10/10 portuguese writer. the only one i like more is Luis de Camões. with Eça following close behind

>>8365419
You do have to be a little prepared for Kant, just remember he's a German philosopher writing for other German philosophers. He is hugely interesting though and with the right translation and presupposed knowledge (of which there isn't a massive amount) you'll get a decent grasp of his writing (he repeats himself in different ways quite a lot). I would recommend reading him, just be warned it's a little taxing but highly rewarding. (if Critique is giving you trouble read prolegomena first)

>>8368012
> (he repeats himself in different ways quite a lot)
I feel I might add -*different but meaningful ways- though the meaning often remains the same I feel

>>8363762
this also applies to Proust

>>8368012
>>8368027

It's really not worth the trouble, metaphysics is dead after all.

Just read his Stanford Encyclopedia entry.

>>8365870
lol

>>8368044
gross

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Still worth a read though

>>8367615
Very accurate

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do not read

>>8366131
Kek

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i still have yet to be called out on the obvious with this one

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>>8367582
if anything more for the castle

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>>8368433

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>>8368436

>>8365400
man this serious was comfy when I read it as a kid

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>>8367584

>>8367796
Eça is a great artisan of the portuguese language but his stories were just for his time. He would be making telenovellas or writing weekly articles at Publico if he was alive now.

>>8368478
i don't agree.

>>8368419
top kek

>>8368277
Thanks, now I can get rid of it

>>8368243

Be fair, pretty much the last third is bullfights

>>8368446
I recently re-read the first book and was surprised as to how good it was.

Also: Sabriel a cute

>>8366131

It is high praise, it's more imaginative, exciting, and memorable than anything H.P lovecraft has ever done. And it was done before. It's like everything that makes "weird fiction" good turned up to 11. It's a shame the author died in WW1 before making another novel.

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>>8368277
I find it annoying that that cover art gives the best visual feel of the freman

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No tortilla's where we going

>>8364824
~50/50~

>>8368419
>tfw when John was the only human person on all that whole world

Also:
Lennina died? irght? I mean, how fuck someone can die for a whip?

>>8367474
Really?

>>8367418
GR15 faggot
>>8368266
Me too

>>8365786
solid

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>>8365445

Good one.

>>8362389
Are there pre-Keynsian econ students? Isn't that just saying ' I am an economics student"?

>>8367505
Thought he wanted to make it looks like a philosophy treatise but with whales instead of arguments (make sense when getting into account several references to philosophers in book)

>>8367217
>Remember that people didn't have access to Wikipedia or nature documentaries or even aquariums a lot of the time, so all this description of the sea floor was fascinating

But these descriptions don't even help the reader imagine what the sea floor looks like, most of the time he gives no details about color, shape etc he just writes lists of obscure scientific names.

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True for any Murakami really.

>>8370458

I've seen his books in Waterstones. Comfy covers/etc, but the impression I get from /lit/ is that he's thoroughly average.

>>8370476

Average and easy but very comfy.

Guilty pleasure really.

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>>8370458

>>8362746
>entry-level literature
No, it isn't. When it comes to rather old and established forms of art, you can't make the usual popular/famous = entry-level generalization. High culture doesn't function like pop culture, the greatest geniuses tend to be relatively famous and known.

>>8370690
entry level doesnt mean its bad, just that its probably babbys first book and they havent cultivated their own taste at all