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ITT books that to this day piss you off 2017-01-30 08:33:21 Post No. 9038612
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>ask anons for genuinely good scifi that's low-effort to consume (had just finished BotNS and needed a breather)
>anons recc Hyperion
>read first book
>decent, Father Dure's tale is great
>but feel like it isn't setting up fast enough and may not be able to deliver in the sequel
>read Fall of Hyperion
>oh, there's no reveal of a hidden antagonist, it's the AI
>AI was set up so obviously I was fully expecting a dupe
>entire rest of the book is overshadowed by a feeling like watching a botched magician's trick play out
>all the seemingly unrelated set-up turns into "THAT WAS THE AI TOO!"
(reading what I'm typing it sounds like a clever flipping of expectations, but it really doesn't feel like this was the intention and the whole thing falls completely flat)
>also suddenly the book is John Keats fanfiction by his biggest rimjobbing fan, the author
>Keats poems every other page
>everything is about Keats and how fucking amazing Keats and poetry is
>Keats is THE most compassionate person in recorded history, so much so that the AI expend vast resources on TWO artificial Keats resurrections because they think he's one of a mystical human trilogy of an upcoming spiritual human superintelligence
>fat guy poet writes a poem SO EBIN it twists the fabric of time and space and allows the spiky black-and-red edgelord OC AI agent to travel back in time and usher in the apocalypse
>now here's another snippet of our lord and savior Keats's poetry
>meanwhile AI = bad idea
>digitization of human consciousness = bad idea
>extreme genetic tampering to turn the entire human population into a hybrid with their favorite animal = product of a perfect utopia and the way of the future
>fucking IRL fursonas are THE way to go
>book ends with evil AI banished, evil internet addicts genocided, Keats's cyberbabby the upcoming Messiah and humanity headed toward its bright, furry future
>here's one last Keats poem
>this was recced as both GOOD and SCIFI
still mad
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>>9038612
>>fat guy poet writes a poem SO EBIN it twists the fabric of time and space and allows the spiky black-and-red edgelord OC AI agent to travel back in time and usher in the apocalypse
Your greentext was kind of blogpost but now I understand why it had to be this way.
Is this is an actual part of that book I want to have a fatwa put out on the author. This injustice must be met with blood.
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Lol my thoughts exactly OP. Fall of Hyperion may as well have been titled How Much I Want To Eat A Log Of Keats's Shit. It's even dedicated to him ('for John Keats, whose name is writ in eternity'), which made me immediately roll my eyes and think 'oh fuck he's really going all out.'
PS don't read Endymion. It's even worse.
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I read Kite Runner in school and it was shit. Aside from that nothing really.
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The setting was interesting but nothing fucking happened and it ended up as just some massive meta-wanking by PKD.
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>retards itt cant into keats and read hyperion for the plot
amazing. this is what reddit does to you
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I read lolita and fucking hated it, I didn't understand it at all in its purposelessness. It read like a Stephan king novel a "word lover" hebephile had jerked off on yet it is recounted as a literary masterpiece. It was a total waste of time.
>muh narratology
who fucking cares
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>>9038612
Henry Miller. He's worse than Bukowski and he's way worse than Céline. He's got nothing beyond his insufferable shtick. I haven't read John Fante yet because I don't want another disappointment on the whole gritty-modernist-porno-misanthropy front.
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I don't think I'll read more boring, inane and irritating drivel as long as I live. And this guy was awarded a fucking Nobel.
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>>9038612
The Stranger
>dude it's so life changing
>it's just the story of a guy being a piece of shit and hurting everyone around him
>I'm supposed to sympathize with him
>dude but like he realizes the absurd at the end :^)))
Fuck you Camus.
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>>9039165
You didn't understand it
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>>9038979
Fellating Keats doesn't make your shitty sci-fi series good.
Siddhartha is absurdly overrated by this board. It's not bad, but it's no more than passable (and that's only because of it's length).
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>>9039165
>it's just the story of a guy being a piece of shit and hurting everyone around him
You fucking what mate? The only person he hurt was the shitskin he killed.
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>>9039200
>treats his mother like shit and puts her in a home he never visits
>helps his neighbor to beat his girlfriend
>shoots the arab
>ignores the old man
>his mother's boyfriend
>uses the girl he's fucking emotionally
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>>9039240
>he has no obligation towards his mother
>he has no obligation towards his m8s whores
>Arabs need to be shot and that Arab had already cut his m8 and threatened him with a knife
>lets the old man in his room and keeps him company for a while
>some slut is attached to him for no reason
Literally not of his problem
the Arab shouldn't have violated the NAP
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Not only do I hate this book but I despise anyone that likes it. It's just bullshit stream of conscious modernist wankery that doesn't even have the common courtesy to come with grammar and a semblance of coherence. It's also repetitive as fuck.
>Walking along
>Oh no, cannibals!
>Time to run away
>Repeat
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lol that dog is MAD!
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>>9039082
I legitimately wish Eggy would die.
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