Read. Expected. Got

where is templeton

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>>9227006

Anyone have a good album of these?

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Am I pleb?

Too lazy to edit a photo so I'll do text.

Read
>Infinite Jest

Expected
>humor/irony on the human condition

Got
>The Breakfast Club (with tennis)

>>9226901
THIS GETS POSTED ALL THE GOD DAMN TIME, STOP!

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rate my new meme

>>9227845
God I hated that book.

7

>>9228508
Legit made me kek.

>>9227845
You got part of what you expected with the Sordo part of the story.

>>9228717
Fucking lol

>>9227194
This seems legit

>>9227375
I don't quite understand the difference between what you expected and what you got.

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>>9226639

>>9228919
>mfw you expected for bowie but the adaptation ruined the novel

>>9227257

I tried looking some stuff up about this guy, and I can't tell if people are legitimately praising his writing or if this all just some big inside-joke trolling that I don't get.

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>>9226995
Is it actually just crazy ramblings? I was thinking about buying On Certainty soon, unless you think it's shit

>>9229093

So did you enjoy The Screwtape Letters then? I haven't read it because I thought it would be preachy.

>>9229093
Not actually crazy, just pointless. I should've tried the Investigations since everybody says it's his best.

>>9229102
I enjoyed it, despite not being religious (although I'm also not militantly non-religious). CS Lewis is very witty, and he's clever in the way he uses his characters to prove his point. I wanted to read him because I wanted to understand why someone intelligent and highly educated would convert from atheism to Christianity, and I certainly think it was worth my time.

Additionally, this is completely subjective, but I found his writing style and the interaction between the two characters in the book both charming and endearing.

>>9227033
god tier

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>>9229093
Is that Swift?

>>9229393
correct, i fucking loved Gulliver's Travels btw -- the Laputans and the flappers were my favorite part

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>>9228943
its actually good in that it completely exposes the aesthetic fraudulence of world-building and conventions of genre

>>9228919
Is the novel better than the film?

>>9229549
>>9229558
>>9229562
sooo should i nevertheless start with the greeks?
Seems disappointing

Someone post the one with Dostoyevsky's White Nights
it was spot on

>>9228892
any books that are like what you expected?

>>9230077

I just finished The Exorcist this weekend. If I were to do one of these it would just be the same image three times.

>>9229628
fwiw, Plato died before finishing this 'trilogy' of dialogues (same with Laws).

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Might be slightly exagerated but i really hated that edgy try hard book

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ITT: books are fucking disappoint

>>9228867

fucking lol

>>9230482

I think most people are just joking or being sort of sarcastic.

I did the maltese falcon one and it really is a good noir novel even if I was surprised by how much the book tries to be funny and how Sam Spade is just too cool for school.

>>9229628
There is such a richness in Plato the more pressure you apply to even menial aporatic works like the Laches the better your understanding of argumentation will grow to be. And yes, you are pathetic if you undertake a systematic study of philosophy without an understanding of the platonic dialogues and the role of dialectic.
Taking advice from /lit/ on Plato is usually disgusting most of these pseuds have never read the 7th letter or cannot differentiate between historical Socrates and the character displayed in the Symposium.

>>9229102
I thought it was great. This and The Great Divorce are more of stories rather than dissertations on religion, though they both have religious themes.

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This applies for most of the Memoirs I've read actually.

>>9230482
it's more like we just get what we don't expect despite their reputation

>>9229511
Hilarious book.

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Time to get some OC in this thread
1/2

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2/2

>>9228888
wasted get

>>9231639
what does that means?

>>9231639
wait. death note is 10/10?

>>9231677
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nh0gM9Fb5TA

>>9228917
>what i expected

what are you fucking retard?

>>9228508
still better than that Dan retard

>>9227845
dude, fucking same. that bokk was a waste of time

>>9227033
accurate

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>>9228867
At first I thought it was mirroring the colour repartition on this, but good job nonetheless

>>9231639
lmao accurate

>>9231637

lol, resisting to fap reading I Am Legend is tough

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OC

>>9228705
My man

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oc, this one pissed me off

>>9232463
Toppest of keks.

>>9228717
accurate

>>9228892
Should I re-read this one? I picked it up when I was pretty young, so the homo descriptions freaked me out and the abstract writing threw me off.
I went into it thinking it was some kind of surreal sci-fi.
Is it worth it?

>>9232614
a bomb?

>>9232460
kek

>>9232614
I remember the duel with the man in a prosthetic disguise happening whilst he has to catch a train being so absurd I burst out laughing. The whole car chase thing as well when they're trying to escape.

>>9230482

Further motivation to pursue Interiorism.

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>>9226639
Just made this at work, plz r8

>>9229628
Timaeus does have contain mumbo jumbo, but it will at the very least help you understand some interpretation of Genesis better.

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Fresh content right here lads.

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>>9234227
alternatively

>>9234020
wow you got nothing out of that book. I mean yeah there's that dialogue between Jesus and God but the best parts (and majority) involves Lucifer and great romanticism era prose.

anyone got the Republic one?

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>>9234235
>prose

>>9227194
ye nigga

>>9230665
I disagree. I think that the fictional narrative is just a soap-box for Lewis' religious views.

>>9232399
So it's just a Disney movie?

>>9234235
>claims to know shit about Paradise Lost
>Romanticism
>prose
I loved it btw

>>9233498
it was very different in tone than what i expected, but that was fine, it was just the last 10 pages that made me mad

>>9234106
>kek, didn't actually read Nietzsche

>>9227033
but potatoes haven't been invented on mars

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>>9226639

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>>9226639

>>9226995
wittgenstein will go down as the biggest charlatan in philosophy. mark my words

>>9228717
lmao

>>9234090
was it good tho?

>>9227845
this is a good one

>>9234964
Yeah, man, he was a great storyteller.

>>9227397
t. someone who didn't finish Infinite Jest

>>9227845
kek'd

>>9234916
aww I loved Maisy

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>121 replies
>no corn in sight
What is going oooooon?

>>9228892
Maybe this book was shocking at the time, but now it just reads like one long /b/ shitpost.

>>9228867
>niggerman

I still crack up like an immature little shit just thinking of that story.

>>9234942
>not John Stewart Mill
>not even G.E. Moore
>instead, the man who proved 'private language' does not exist

Why? Wittgenstein was pretty based famalam.

>>9227845

if you didn't like this book it's because you're a pseud pleb brainlet.

>>9235090
Look again m8

>>9235208
But only after 110 posts

>>9234106
I had the exact opposite experience.

>>9227033
pmt

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>>9229562
This is not okay

>>9234331
I've always felt like the entirety of the Treatise was Hesse self-inserting and talking himself out of suicide.

>>9228717
I seriously hope you didn't expected more, Camus is a meme.

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>>9235514

>>9234051
Try reading Brave New World now.

>>9235176
xdxdxd!!!1!!1111

>>9228705
accurate

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>>9235514

>>9234289
>>9234522
I mean the beauty of the language obviously, not the metric.

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>>9234916
>Maisy mouse goes to the library

What did she mean by this?

>>9235176
I liked the book but come on. Robert spent 99% of the book thinking about that one damn bridge

>>9231686
lmao its basically is

>>9236563
>whatever
>read whate ver
i don't like that font.

>>9236572
yoba eto ty?

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>>9226901
fixed

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I really liked it though

>>9227194
You expected Urizen?

>>9227845
in forcing myself to read this shit book but i just hate it. drop it for good?

>>9234724
>tfw this gets less and less replies every time

sad

>>9228888
underrated post

>>9229562
underrated post.

>>9239476
source on the drawings?

>>9239603
genuinely don't know, I think I took them off /v/ years ago when I used to browse it

>>9227845
This book is bad

>>9234724
Does anyone have that one where what is read is a book about corns and what is got is Caesar's commentary?

>>9240055
Fuckkkk that ass

>>9239949
>whites love grapes, chicken and watermelon even more than blacks
>white bedsheet heads use it as a stereotype against blacks

>What I read
Ecce Hommo
>What I expected
Dark story of how Nietszche became the man he was, his trials and tribulations
>What I got
Diet advice, gastroenterology, self praise, and anti-german rants

>>9235239
this, desu

>>9240100
The whole point of these threads Mr. Redshitor, is to explain the book you read in a comedic way. You're doing it wrong.

>>9230790
What did you mean by the what i got

Thousand yard stare?

>>9240268
I think it was more of a maniacal face I made while reading it.

>>9232806
Yes, But only if you have done copious amounts of drugs in your youth. I helps the understanding.

>>9235092
>>9232806
The descriptions of Interzone and philosophical analysis of anarchy is very interesting, just you have to look at diffrent elements.
>>9241783
Haven't done any drugs, but I am verified schizotypal and psychopath. So maybe I just analyzed it in realtion to my experiences, and it was very touching description of how medical institutions, and how underdogs of society exist, and what anarchy can lead to.

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>>9226639
might as well post mine.

God, I had such high expectations. Hope is truly the first step on the road to disappointment.

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it was a fun read tbqh

>>9235265
t. retard or someone who did not read it

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>>9241820
"I warned you about hope, bro."

>>9234090
there's plenty of both though

>>9228472
Did you enjoy it? I really like Spitzweg so what you got seems appealing to me

>>9228508
made me HEH

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>>9226639

>>9243453
it's tedious sometimes, but it has a cozy spitzweg feel. if you read dr faustus by thomas mann, it resembles that magical mood.

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>>9226639

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>>9226995

>>9227375
>reads a book literally called drinking together
>doesn't expect old men to be drinking together

>>9232463
(you) for effort
3/10 for most repeated joke on fit

>>9234916
Maisy > all /lit/ posts taken together

>>9242781
This meme is well-made but it really doesn't make sense. Machiavelli isn't just Scar, obviously, but his philosophy is still too complicated and grey, and he can't be Mufasa either.

>>9244233
I see you didn't truly understand Mufasa's ideology

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OC

>>9234229
Hah, good one

>When you read Ostrovski expecting good stuff and you can see young Bulgakov making M&M out of the Storm

>>9234156
there was a better one where the expected was super sci-fi spaceships in combat and the what i got was a couple people crying at a group therapy session

>>9235121
>John Stewart Mill

Hey what's wrong with mill?

>>9244472
Absolutely nothing, and the charlatan cannot even spell his name right so his point is invalid.

>>9232806
Yeah, if only for the wonderful imagery. Worry less about what stuff means and just picture every word. It's kinda like the movie brazil, except without the sappy love story or limitations of film. I've done very limited amounts of a variety drugs, and that helps, but it's definitely not necessary

The mugwump and Dr. Benway stuff are great.

>>9245634
this :^)

>>9237891
It's good and has merit, but my man Roberto needa chill the fuck out.

>>9245792
>italian women

doesn't surprise me

>>9245792
You make it seem like there's only people fucking. There's a good dose of banters and feels too. Also it's so meta you'd be surprise

>>9241743
you could replace the first photo with any of his other books and this would still fit.

>>9228917
Reading this at the moment. Is the second part better than the first?

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>>9228867

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>>9245792
also, MODS MODS

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>>9246513
not this

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>>9246513
>>9246522

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>>9246416
>>9228917

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Original content

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>>9226639
No one cared who I was until I invented the ice cream.

>>9246563
good or not? you have justice and an angry black guy which seems interesting, but then you have Dylan in there which kinda nullifies everything.

>>9246755
His picture is really Terrible and has nothing to do with the book.
It is a good book, just read it for yourself. It is not about muh Black oppression. It is about the death of a culture. Race has nothing to do with this book.

>>9246970
kek

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We had this one a few times already and I just made this in 5 min on paint but whatever.

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>>9226639
Not recent, but hey.

>>9228821
can anyone tell me if Ancient History is any good?

>>9239646
>Christ-Chan is no longer a new meme

Well that gives me a bit of perspective on how long I've been here

>>9245792
Gonna need a source on the bottom left pornstar.

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>>9235514

>>9249297
>>9235949
>>9235527
t. translation reading Americans that feel smart and special because they bought something FOREIGN

get a grip

>>9240086
literally "i know you are but what am i?!" the post

>>9244233

Mufasa taught that it was the right and obligation of the lions (royals/aristocrats) to eat their subjects in order to preserve balance in their realm. Seems pretty Machiavellian to me.

>>9246514
Kek

>>9249469
This "predators have malicious intent" meme needs to die. I'm sick of seeing sharks, lions, panthers, and other apex predators demonized in media because they kill to survive. It's nonsense.

Your metaphor functions, but is misplaced. Lions get a bum rap as it is, and on top of that, they have spikes on their dicks. Just leave'em alone ffs

>>9245634
>what I read uncle ted
what book is dis

>>9251008
Industrial Civilization and its Future.

AKA The Unabomber Manifesto.

>>9246416
It doesn't stop reading like an /r9k/ manifesto if that's what you mean.

>>9249308
More like people who enjoyed the book reacting to condescension from someone who didn't.

>>9237578
I just started this, are you saying it never progresses from the first 30 pages?