the absolute worst of GoodReads

>>9150683
Hmmh.

>>9150683
Holy cow how can a single person be this stupid ?

>>9150683

found a good one op
>>9150683
>Post the most cringeworthy goodreads reviews you have seen here, or book reviews from other sites like amazon.

man this guys a real tight assed faggot

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>>9150683
This lady's got some real bangers.

>>9151044
>pompous old man propped up by other pompous old men

That's a rather apt description of Paul Auster, most boring writer on the planet

>>9150683
>doesn't get the point of a book taught in secondary schools
Are you fucking joking?

>>9151044
>already setting your conception of a book when you're only twenty pages in
>ur a wite man
Wow

>>9151044
she is a big woman

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>>9151085
4 u

>>9151044
>book about white men

ew ew no thnx.

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brace yourself white guys, death is coming ;^)

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Try to refute this.
Protip: you can't

>>9151474
She's not wrong.

>>9151478
Of course she's not, fella! :^)

>>9151478
It should be "huge" nor "enormous" tracts of lands.

>>9151454
carli claire tier

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>>9151411
>Percieved as white

>>9151454
lol'd

I kept saying to myself "well, maybe she really loves reading and had already read Poe, I'll give her the benefit of the doubt."
silly me

>>9151454
the dates don't make any sense

>>9151044
The moment someone starts bitching about "white men" or "straight white men" or "cis straight white men" they loose all intellectual credibility in my eyes. This is from someone who sits around reading queer nigger marxist theory all day. It's like these people unironically think that racism, sexism, etc. would immediately cease to exist if this single group (straight white men) was exterminated. You will never, in a million years, hear this type of person talk about misogyny among black men, or racism among white women. Everything is "muh straight white men". It's exactly the type of binary thinking that critical theorie(s) are trying to transcend in the first place.

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>Look up masterpiece that brings up even slightly controversial topics/themes
>Every 1 star review is from women or numales

>>9151597
Let alone the fact that the average white man is as much a pawn in the system as everyone else.

>>9151454
>>9151559
This is the first time I've noticed the "May 2015" - "I'll start next year" thing too
Makes me think this is bait

>>9151474
Kek a woman who actually made me laugh, thats new

>>9151474
This is actually true.

>>9151044
Well, I'm a white man and agree with her description of Paul Auster, only retarded americans can think this is good.

>>9151454
i looked up this book and it's $11

>>9151440
This is exactly what Nabokov thought about Dostoievski.

/lit/ btfo

>>9151474
more like best

>look up nietzsche reviews
>all bad reviews are just "he was a misogynist"

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>>9150683
has this been posted yet?

>>9151454
my friend owns this exact edition, one of like five books he owns. he writes poetry too

>>9150780
She's a woman.

>>9150780
It's a "she".

>>9152109
What book?

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>>9151474

>>9152192
The Legacy Of Totalitarianism In A Tundra

>>9150683
Hes right tuou

>>9152192
Its a book about /lit/, literally.

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>>9151454
>she genuinely like that cover

Honest question: when you guys see people like this one, don't you just want to kill yourself?
I know, it's irrational, but as soon as I see people like her (or, since we're on /lit/, when I see booktubers with shelves filled with fantasy trash) the urge of offing myself becomes qlmost unbearable. It's almost like a tic, I cant do anything about it.
Am I the only one?

>>9152223
you're not alone, but you're definitely autistic

>>9152109
>>9152217
What are the qualifications required to get a book on goodreads?

>>9152286
Existing.

There are thousands upon thousands of books on Goodreads with no reviews and no ratings.

>>9152109
it's time for a new masterpiece lit

>>9151044
post her profile

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>>9150683
>be a man and go clean out the refrigerator, or wash the curtains, or vacuum under the furniture of go buy buy some tween daughter some sexy underwear

>>9151051
>>9152077


So I'm guessing you didn't read The City of Last Things, and are passing judgement off of 1-2 of his more popular books because it makes you feel intelligent. Christ I hate stupid faggots like you

>>9151411
I HATE BEING WHITE SO MUCH I'M THE WORRRRSSSTTTTT

>>9151454
My blood pressure just went up a lot
>>9152223
No, I am the same way anon. I'm too idealistic (and probably too autistic) to share the world with people that I think are poor excuses for life but still are somehow happy in their flippant disregard for dignity. Then again, I don't have any friends, so fuck me I guess

>>9152223
damn now I wish I had saved the picture of the /lit/ guy who bought ALL the Penguin hardbacks in one order.

>>9152077
Auster has the misfortune of writing in an era where people think that a man writing about men is justifiable grounds for criticism of his work. Glad to hear that you consider yourself among the ranks of the gender critics, you tasteless cretin

>>9151454
Retroactively conflating Poe with the ilk of Tim fucking Burton by copying the 'lolsocreepy' aesthetic on the cover

Man oh man. Publishers are geniuses, audiences are scum

>>9152388
whitey genocide when?

>>9152401
If he was a black man or a woman or a trans lesbian crippled muslim or whatever it would be just as dull

>>9152223
no i read fantasy

>>9152388
>kill whitey

wtf I thought this was just a /pol/ meme

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>>9152388
I love going through and reading reviews for politically incorrect adventure and pulp novels.
Also why so so many girls on that insert .gif's and stupid meme images into book reviews?

>>9152441
/pol/is always right.

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>>9152467
>the plot is really exciting
>gives it a 1 star because not poltically correct

The Gender Wars can't come soon enough

>>9152441
Have you been under a rock recently?

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And her favorites shelf is filled mostly with trashy teen fantasy.

>>9152662
>Poor worldbuilding
That phrase alone triggers me to peaks previously thought unimaginable.

>>9152662
REEEEEEE

>>9152662
65 comments praising her for her bravery.

>>9152077
>I'm a white man
No one cares, faggot.

>>9152662
Not only is this chick plebeian, but an intellectual coward.

>>9151474
Everyone in Europe was in a Christian worldview at the time, and Kant single-handedly created secularism. It's funny considering that without his philosophy she wouldn't have been able to formulate her argument.

>>9152367
Auster is a genuine hack though, he's like the American Murakami. He had one decent book and a mountain of derivative trash.
>you didn't read the city of last things
>the city of last things
>the city

>>9151474
I chuckled.

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>>9152662
I'm speechless.

>>9152662
What the hell is a demi-feminist?

>>9152662

lel

Imagine being stuck in a tutorial with this girl as she goes on and on about her PTSD triggers.

>>9152793
shes just making shit up, she compared Marquez to Veronica Roth

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I'm this guy >>9152223

>read >>9152662
>immediatly start thinking about offing myself while scratching nervously my arm and grinding my teeth

I refuse to believe that she is a real person.

>>9152662
What the fuck is a demi-feminist?

>>9152867
Another social justice buzzword.

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>>9150683

>>9152793
>>9152867
Hivemind

>>9153065
>imagine the girl comes out as a lesbian
>It sounds awful when you put it that way, doesn't it?

Nope

>>9153065
Someone's excited.

>>9153065
Is she saying that being gay, like being a vegan, is a lifestyle choice?

>>9153065
>Ugh, how dare they have a novel where the protagonist suffers.
>I can't believe she has to choose between her family and her identity, how unfair.
>This is not at all like those YA fictions I read where everything is roses.

>>9152467
>Also why so so many girls on that insert .gif's and stupid meme images into book reviews?
Because women are retarded.

>>9151096
>>9151510
A lot of fat women have this look on their face when they smile that screams "I'm embarrassed to be alive".

>>9153065
I dont know how she got the gay stuff out of it. The girl turned into a plant, and her mental illness went far beyond veganism, at the end she just wanted to be watered and painted with flowers.

>>9151899
I love how nobody has responded to this one...

I can't fucking stand white men. Death squads when?

>>9152441
It's so obvious she's not serious that you must be autistic not to get that.

Or do you think Don Quixote was written by a black aubergine?

>>9153260
It's worse than that. She's implying that vegans are oppressed, and they suffer the same kind of problems that gays face. Now THAT'S offensive.

>>9152662
>If you like me grew up reading marvelous books like Harry Potter, Percy Jackson, Twilight, The Hunger Games
>Those pictures
I wish I didn't know better and could just pretend to myself that this person is being ironic.

>>9152662
>Shelves: no-thank-you, mysoginist, unrealistic, slutshaming, heroisaboypretendingtobeaman, pleasegrowupman, sex-scenes, slut-shaming, unsafe-read, excrutiating, overrated, pedophilia, misogynism, misogynist
I like how she has mysoginist AND misogynist as shelves.

>>9152685
Yes, this meme needs to die.

>>9150683
This piece of shit took a great story about failure and aging and hated it because it didn't immediately support her political philosophy. I haven't been so pissed reading a review in ages.
Thank you anon.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5470.1984

Sort by newest.

>>9150683
the absolute worst of literature
I'm talking about /lit/ and this thread
it does contain some of you, I will say that at least

>>9152662
She's not entirely wrong

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fucking women

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We did it boys.
We found somebody too stupid to understand Watchmen.

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Hehe

>>9153260
10/10 insight.

>>9155779

How dare she have her own taste that is not in accordance with the Accepted Refined Taste (ART)™ as espoused by Harold Bloom?

>>9152441
>Believing the "/pol/ is a meme" meme

>>9152662
Those kind of reviews makes me want to get the books, sometimes to my own perill.

The last nail in the coffin when I was deciding whether or not to get Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder was a review saying how bad it was because it was basically a old man telling young women how to think. muh mansplaining

It got to me and I ended up buying it. Was a mistake.

>>9155800
>Didn't like 1984
IT'S THE ONLY GOOD NORMIE BOOK YOU MOTHER FUCKERRRRR!!!

>>9155800
Jesus Christ, I didn't like 1984 myself but that's likely one of the most autistic things in this thread. How can one even have such a warped worldview, and more importantlly why do they care so much about the opinions of others so much?

>>9152754
>Everyone in Europe was in a Christian worldview at the time

By that time all the intellectuals were Deists.

>>9156060
You are implying something you should not be implying.

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this one kills me between being a borderline /pol/ stereotype and a total misinterpretation of the material. the book is Flicker and while there is a nostalgia for the golden age of Hollywood it's not because it was homophobic or whatever. I guess she wanted there to be a big disclaimer from the author saying "I LIKE OLD HOLLYWOOD FILMS BUT THE PEOPLE INVOLVED WERE BIG MEANIES :("

>>9155794
your folks must be proud

>>9152662
Disgusting

>reading negative review of game of thrones on goodreads
>THIS MAN IS A PEDOPHILE
>ask her to provide a single example
>FUCK OFF TROLL

I hate women!

>>9155821
It's just funny because the only story she likes is the simplest one about a girl who can't decide between staying with her abusive dad or running away with her boyfriend

>>9152223

This doesn't actually bother me at all, it's just funny dumbasses, but I do have one sperg trigger.

People laughing at stupid things that aren't jokes during small talk, especially when they laugh really loud and boisterous, immediately brings out my inner frogposter. It takes every bit of my will not to say something autistic.

Functioning normies of /lit/, what's the one thing makes you frog out in public?

>>9152441
You haven't heard? /pol/ is always right, friend

>>9157331
It's not like you're not bombarded with examples from the get-go.

>>9152662
From her profile:

Cheating is my deal breaker and hard limit when it comes to YA/NA romance. I'm starting to avoid "adult" erotic romance for that reason. I'm okay with manwhores but once Hero and heroine have kissed any kind of physical contact (kissing, making out) with other woman is UNACCEPTABLE.

I don't care if Hero has been bewitched, blackmailed, deceived (that's idiotic), convinced heroine is dead, imperiused, threatened, tortured into submission (that's weak) or "doing it to save the heroine" (that's stupid). CHEATING RUINS ROMANCE BOOKS


Cheating is not a mistake is a choice.

If a Hero is really in love with the heroine why would he be remotely tempted by another woman?
I don't care if that's more "realistic" the whole point of reading romance is to find a man (emphasis in man I'm not into boys except Will Herondale) that you wouldn't find in real life.

If you like me hate OW after H and h kiss, send me your recs. Just take into account that I used to rated books with 4 and 5 stars that present cheating when the story was interesting. It's better if you PM to ask for safety info. (less)

>>9157693
This cant be real...

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>>9157693
She reads books in the same way my grandma watches TV.

>>9153707
>"I'm embarrassed to be alive".
Lol I never thought of this but you are right. I'd say when most butter golems smile, it can be described as such.

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>>9157693
>tfw this was written by an actual human being
>tfw there's a person out there living a full human experience, and this is what emerges from her own existence

I may be stupid, but at least I'm not her.

>>9152662
>implying that book isn't complete garbage

>>9157693

Jesus, somebody got cucked

>>9157693
This is actually sad

>>9152223
Stop letting other people get to you. Honestly it just fuels me and makes me feel more superior to plebs
>le tip XD

>>9157693
:(

>>9156332
>first line is literally "oy gevalt"

Someone please photoshop a "Jude" badge from nazi Germany on her profile pic

>>9154340
Well she didn't really say anything besides "Pynchon is a meme"

>>9155800
The funny thing is, most people on 4chan seem to look at the world this way

>I didn't like this thing, so if you say you liked it, you're probably lying or forcing yourself

>>9152367
THE.CITY.OF.LAST.THINGS

wat?

>>9159357
For shorthanded shitposts ya. Not in a "review". And I never think it's because you're lying or forcing yourself, it's because you're fucking stupid or you have bad taste.

>>9159369
Large subsets of people sincerely believe that differing opinions are impossible. Other large subsets believe that differing opinions are possible, but stem from utter stupidity.

A small subset of people understand that someone liking something I don't doesn't necessarily make them a retarded Hitler

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>>9157693

I feel bad for her to be honest.

>>9159379
>A small subset of people understand that someone liking something I don't doesn't necessarily make them a retarded Hitler
I don't believe this to be true in reality.

>>9155830
to be honest
It's not a bad book
If you're under 16

The ones to truly trigger me are the moby dick and heart of darkness reviews, I'm not sure if women are even capable of understanding them

>>9151096

God damn, I hate fat people so much.

>>9151478
>>9152063
>>9152072


Is she, dare I say it, our girl?

>>9152109
sounds like crowley

>>9151044
>this was more or less insufferable from start to finish
is she talking about her review?

>>9159574
Same. And that goes for The Scarlet Letter as well, though I thought they would be more understanding of that one

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Brave New World 1 star because the first page was boring.

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>>9161695
Feminist bullshit about not being called zym or zyr or whatever: 5 stars absolutely amazing.

>>9152388
Just finished reading Crusoe for my 6y.o, it's a neat book

>>9161695
Only boring if you're stupid.

>>9161713
Well the reviewer has read 2000 books on feminism...

>>9151899
i can understand people dropping GR, but reading it from start to finish and thinking it's "horrible" as if you were above Pynchon baffles me, you really have to be a fucking retard

>>9161706
Did you make sure to make him check his privilege afterwards?

>>9150683
y'goys know that amazon bought out goodreads, right? i wonder what a company that has a vested interest in the sale of literature would want with an established book review website! o mysteries of mysteries!

>>9151411
>/pol/ was right again

>>9152401
>Makes an argument built on gender politics
>Calls someone else a gender critic

>>9151411
>so am I
/LIT/
IS
ALWAYS
RIGHT

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>>9151044
>>9151411
>>9151454
>>9151474
>>9152109
>>9152388
>>9152467
>>9152662
>>9153065
>>9155779
>>9156332

>there are people who believe in gender equality

>>9151440
Yeah, if you apply it to the aesthetics of genre fiction, conflict that isn't exciting always turns to melodrama, and story, becoming plot, will lack suspense. The problem isn't that s/he's wrong, it's that he's expecting the bells and whistles of a Tom Clancy novel. It's like saying There Will Be Blood is a shitty movie because its special effects aren't to the standard of Rise of the Planet of the Apes.

>>9157693
Who hurt her?

>>9155830
It's a kids book.
I read it as a kid and am currently re reading it.

Yes it's not a masterpiece but it is mind blowing when you're 14.

At least it was for me

>>9156047
Shut up pleb.