Read, Expected, Got

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I may have put too much effort into this.

These are never funny
They're only relatable to the point of "oh I get it"
Why do these threads still exist?

>>9520602
>it's only good when it makes ME laugh

>>9520602
They're supposed to make anons interested or uninterested in the book.

>>9520602
Because they are relatable. They aren't meant to be hilarious, it's just a meme format. Like the iceberg memes. Not meant to be just joke images, but to be informative as well. They provide a generalization of a book with an element of personalization letting you see what a certain reader thought of it, and how they view the aesthetics in the book through the images they choose to represent it. Now if we each discussed the reasoning behind our choices, then the threads would have more substance and apparent value. But either way it is an interesting thing, with humor being just a part of the whole. It's pretty narrow to think of these as just 'oh-I-get-it's. They are windows into individuals in a sort of critical and review-esque form towards the book being portrayed. They are abstractions that ultimately bring the community closer together in their shared understanding.

>>9520508
Kek
This one is very true

>>9520702
postmodern af

>>9520661
sorry anon but it is retarded.

>>9520295
Is this OC? Because I've bought it and am unsure if this turns me on or off of it

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>>9520474
needs more yams

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>>9520295

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>>9521421
broh do you live in the 21st century

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OC is back on the menu, boys!

>>9521405
Liceale spotted

>>9520571
Accurate

>>9520661
How can one single man be so utterly correct about everything, holy shit!

>>9520602
because tbqfhwy lit doesn't have too many/good memes

>>9521361
kek

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>>9520295

Not a bad read.

>>9522018
not enough aliens.
Seriously that was book was kinda shit.
Possible shittier because it was so hyped up but still üretty meh.

>>9521989

So is it worth reading, then?

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>>9522018
kek

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my oc

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>>9521640
Second this, I read it few weeks ago expecting some sort of intellectual 40K universium with power and some serious predicting what future can be; no. I got muh power of technology, mathematics and importance of minimization, lots of dumb characters and see-trough plots. Way he tried to capture run of our own history >mysticism>trade>ideology>utopia was shit.
I don't even know why I read all three. I was planning to read others related to Foundation, but original trio was shit, so I guess I'll never give Assimov chance again.

>>9521537
I have it on my table prepared right now, is it worth it?

>>9522106
yes, it's extremely good

>>9522106
Yes, but only if you disregard /lit/ and /pol/'s interpretation that this has to do with politics.
His stuff about dealing with your own death is unbelievable courageous.

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It took me the first third of the book to realize that shit was gonna drag on and the actual post-apoc was not the point of the book, and those cockteases sprinkled all around the book were going to be the whole thing about it.

>>9522096
imagefag here, I've read the whole trilogy but I don't think I'm interested enough to read the prequels/80's sequels. I may be genuinely retarded but I swear to god I didn't see some of the most obvious twists coming. What did it for me was not the worldbuilding or "so deep social commentary" about plutocracy/theocracy/democracy but the interactions between characters and the quaint "there's lasers and spaceships and shit but we've still got newspapers and punch-card computer outputs because fuck you"

>>9522187
That I forgot. It was like fist on the eye. Too big to overlook it in overall rating.

>>9520295
How dense and hard to understand is GEB? It seems like it touches on a lot of concepts I'd been looking to read about, in terms of neural emergence and such.
Can I go in blind?

>>9522105
little bit. Only half way through after months though, gah

>>9522288

The author sets some excercises/thought experiments for you to do as you go and unless you have some maths/puzzle solving ability it's going to be pretty slow going if those kind of things don't come easy to you. It's possible but it will be slow, and if you skip them you'll miss a lot of what he's talking about and start to get lost.

>>9522935
What's this book about? I've been seeing it everywhere recently

>>9521336
His stuff at the end about how "Therefore, we must completely destroy existing civilization!" is pretty Quixotic and ridiculous.

His semi-Nietzschean analysis before that, though, about the ills of modern civilization and of a special form of the leftist mindset is pretty spot-on; not groundbreaking, but if it had been written in a more polished prose, it could have been a part of the writing of almost any public modern rightist intellectual and at least be accepted as a valid theory to argue for or against.

>>9520602
They're pretty funny sometimes to me, maybe you just don't have a sense of humor.

However, I've been here for a few years and have seen a lot of these threads, so I'm with you that it's getting harder and harder for them to make me laugh.

>>9522138
That pic in the middle though ... are feminists really denying that due to physiological differences men are almost always naturally stronger than women and more equipped to physical work? I'm no fascist but this seems to me like basic biology.

>>9522935
>Louis CK
>I Noah guy

OK, you got me. I'm officially a redditor for laughing so hard at something so stupid.

>>9523008
Not only that, but one of the "arguments" I've heard is that, even if there IS biological differences, what should we do? continue to let men be hyper aggressive because of their testosterone?
It's pretty mind boggling, because in the same breath they are admitting that there are differences and there aren't.

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>>9523023
Video related
Forgive the cringe title.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cmg4fV5mAKs

>>9523023
there are differences, but why treat eachother like shit if we can help it? We're naturally more aggressive, so it makes sense that we're usually ahead of the game after so long, but in this day and age why should we? Surely no one agrees that we should keep women down. They assert that they are being kept down and other assert that they are not (anymore). Just let folks do what they want to do

>>9523032
I'm not sure what you mean by treating others like shit.
Natural biological differences in the sexes doesn't mean we're pieces of shit to eachother.
Naturally aggressive doesn't mean we're out there raping women because of it.
>it makes sense that we're usually ahead but in this day and age why should we?
I don't really understand this question, but it sounds like you're saying those fucking white males need to be knocked down a peg?
How exactly are women being kept down?

>>9523042
>I'm not sure what you mean by treating others like shit.
i mean some people do think this way. Consciously or unconsciously. Not that you're saying that.

>I don't really understand this question, but it sounds like you're saying those fucking white males need to be knocked down a peg?
not at all what I'm saying. I'm posing a question.

>How exactly are women being kept down?
again, im not saying they are or they arent, i'm presenting the argument as I understand it. The crux of the matter lies there, and that's where either side should attack or defend it, not on the undeniable differences in physiology.

>>9523049
Completely misread your post, apologies.

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>>9522989
>on /lit/
>hasn't read TLOFIAT

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>>9520295
im about to start chapter 5

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ending gave me goosebumps

>>9523032
no one treats women like shit
women get treated like spoiled brats

>>9522177
You're pretty dense then. I didn't like the book (and I have a tattoo from it) but that shit is literally told to you plainly and nearly right away.

>>9523896
The thing is the book was practically ready to tell you "and the world ended the next day" at any point and instead it decided to do things like "Her hair was orange, and well we all know how people evolved to have orange hair, it all started with the vikings..." and a hundred segways letter you suddenly realize the thing is over.

>>9520508
my Got and Expected are the other way round, excellent book

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>>9520508

>>9524067
Top priority on my reading list anon

How did you like it? Ovid <3

>>9524065
i am very interested in this one, could you elaborate on it please?

>>9524096
>I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom. I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken his moral and mental vision, and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason. He must be able to detect no inconsistencies in slavery; he must be made to feel that slavery is right; and he can be brought to that only when he ceased to be a man.

>>9523979
Agreed. I don't really get the experiment he was trying with that book either.

>>9523986
It's really not, it's just an abridged version of Homer, Hesiod, Ovid, and co. for people who don't care to read them. If you've read them or plan on reading them there's absolutely no reason to read Hamilton.

>>9523032
women shouldn't be allowed to vote or use currency

>>9522989
Cum

>>9524420
I disagree but ok

>>9522977
I'll keep that in mind. I'm not exactly a STEM major but I have a pretty decent puzzle solving ability and a lot of willingness to learn.

What summaries I've read of GEB make it sound like it's an essential exploration of exactly the kind of themes I'm looking to read about. Is the rest of Hofstadter's work similarly themed?

>>9524619
"I am a strange loop" is quite good but it doesn't have the same kind of recursive formal structuring that makes GEB interesting.

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>>9524719
It was more like this for me.

>>9523896
whats the tat?

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>>9522105

>>9523088

> 88

Good job le edgy alt right man, you tell those leftards!

>>9522052
>üretty

germans out

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>>9520295

>>9520474
Is that book any good?

>>9525425
Yep, it's a light read. Was expecting "WE WUZ" and "evil whitey", but it's actually a fair take on African culture and how it interacted with colonialism when it came knocking (the latter taking up probably just a third of the book, surprisingly).

>>9525666
I'll have to keep my eye out for it

>>9525425
>>9525666
I really liked Things Fall Apart too.

>>9524804
it is the orange snake on the cover of the latest editions of Galapagos.

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>>9524896
nigga i dont even care about politics, homage to catalonia is boring, theres a whole chapter where he just complaints about the shortage of military supplies lmao.

>>9527235
>reading for the plot

>>9524067
What do you mean you expected Wikipedia

>>9524087
You should have already read Ovid, read him now

>>9524619
read "I Am a Strange Loop" before "Gödel, Escher, Bach", and the latter will be easier to understand

>>9522963

>Doom

>The silmarilion

What

>>9528042
Will do, thanks

>>9523032
There is a natural place for women. A place where they're happier and where they provide more value to men and society as a whole.
That place is not the same as that of a man.

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I don't have the interest in memeing, but this one i went in expecting "dude weed lmao" and actually got an interesting history lesson and dilemma about the validity of art produced under the influence.

>>9525642
fuck off

>>9525642
Take that, Wilde

>>9520661
Who's the dude in the "What I read" box?

>>9528344
Uncle Ted.

>>9528347
Ah! I knew he looked familiar. It's Uncle Ted - the math professor!

>>9522051
Stopped reading when I realised Anthony Royal was Ballard inserting himself into the story, such a ridiculous character.

The car crash thing gave it away

>>9524067
Don't see the point of reading it unless it's in Latin

Did bits of it in school, the Latin is beautiful but I've forgotten it but this point

>>9529165
Read The Third Policeman

Makes ASTB seem straightforward

>>9529359
Can't say I agree, ASTB is metafiction at its finest, TTP is a great display of metaphysics and questioning of reality. They're both fantastic and completely mind-boggling in their own way.

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>>9520295

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I haven't been able to post mine in one of these threads yet.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMbATaj7Il8

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except this one a month ago

>>9530052
>that nun scene
top kek

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>>9529359

>>9530617
what the hell. I am stoked to read this thing. I have no idea what it's really about, but I've heard really great praise for it.

>>9530638
It's alright.

>>9523028
I hate titles like that, I might like the video itself but the fucking title
>x SLAMS idiot leftist professors
>x leaves moronic leftist SPEECHLESS
>x schools immature brainwashed in 2 sentences
To top it off you get these videos recommended even though you don't click on em.

>>9530647
No I bet it's great.

>>9520508
You forgot all the times she calls Aphrodite a hussy

>>9530617
This pick makes no sense.

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OC
spent some time doing this

>>9525425

No, it's terrible.

>>9520295
Read: Norweigan Wood

Expected: More Murakami

Got: Finding Alaska

>>9522052

This, fucking wanted to kill myself for having wasted all that time on that shit

>>9521300
>>9521421
What's Knausgaard's writing like? I saw his novels lined up at my local bookstore and looked him up, but didn't decide to buy.

>>9530049
What is it with Mishima and those dads

>>9520602
For people who actually read.

>>9530869
you got problems m8

>>9522288
it's a popular-science book, written for the layman

>>9530055
this is spot on

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>>9530862
http://ergofabulous.org/luther/

Luther was a savage.

>>9521405
>borgeouise

Jesus Christ, you could at least try.

>>9520508
absolutely, this was the first book I read after coming to /lit/ and it bored the hell out of me

>>9531149
You know what's the funny thing about this? The idiot who made it didn't know assumption of mary, papal infalibility and the immaculate conception were not dogmatised untill 350 or more years later and the rosary became popular and officially recognised in 1569.

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>>9520676
nice

>>9522994
Disney's jack and the beanstalk adaptation? I don't get it

>>9522018

Read this as part of my look at the postmodern oeuvre.

Severely disappointing. Disgusted me that this book is so hyped up. Really it's just masturbatory bullshit for CNN and Reddit hippie types. Literally a praise of communism on the second page. Jewish soap and lampshade bullshit.

>So it goes xDDDDDD

>>9522278
Put that ctl-alt-delete comic with the guy rushing into the hospital and finding his wife having miscarried (and dead).

>>9531149
>Most references to people of the sixteenth century, including the papacy and the Jews, has been removed

Lame.

>>9531685
Way to read way more into the book than is actually there, while simultaneously accusing others of doing the same.

All of Vonnegut's characters are self-inserts, and the situations that happen around him are exaggerated abstractions that allow a framing of his own experiences and thought processes. The book is not about how bad war is, or Determinism or any of that. It's an aesthetic extrapolation of elements of one man's life.

Read Breakfast of Champions to understand Vonnegut better. Why The Children's Crusade is taught in schools over BoC I cannot understand, aside perhaps for its more evocative and digestible scifi imagery.

>>9524096
the book's euphoric af dude

>>9525421
Is there anything I need to read before I start this or can I just jump into it with little knowledge of ancient history?

>>9531919
Considering it's the codifying work of recording history as a science, you're pretty much intended to go in blind.

>>9529347
what the fuck are you on? latin is such a banal, utilitarian language. only in translation does such a work shine.

>>9522994
Did Fred just unmask Jeb Bush?

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>>9520295