read expected got:

>>9738055
>>9738083
>"what i got" 9gag reaction images
>viewing books through the prism of memes

kys.

the Gutenberg mind truly ended with the millennials

>>9738101
Watch out. There's a pseud on the loose.

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oc coming through.
I actually loved this book. It was like Douglas Adams or Terry Pratchett minus (for the most part) the sience fiction elements.

>>9738101
>the Gutenberg mind truly ended with the millennials

there was a media science panel discussion at my uni last week and one of the professors kept insisting that the introduction of social media and use of smart phones from infancy finally replaced the gutenberg galaxy with global village and that, basically, millenials are now too retarded to comprehend lectures and need a constant school-like environment of seminars to function.

I wonder if STEM and generally BoS are experiencing similar problems...

>>9738101
>Gutenberg mind

The definition of the Gutenberg mind is exactly the opposite of your use. It's a mind ruined by mass media/social media consumption etc. So if it ended with millennials, you are implying that millennials no longer have this problem...

>>9738214
I think the Bell curve is just panning to the right more and more. The smart stay smart by pure cognitive ability, and the merely average actually become dumber.

>>9738375
hearts of darkness was a great documentary.

>>9738427
troll

>>9738482
How so? From all I had ever heard about it prior to actually reading it myself gave me the impression that it was going to be over-hyped by psueds. While the final image may be a bit hyperbolic I still enjoyed the book immensely and saw many parts that actually had real depth to them.

>>9738490
>real depth to them.
lewl

>>9738409
everyone becomes dumberer

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>>9738017

>>9738197
its a fun book. one of my first favorites.

>>9738581
What was so weird?

>>9738539
Switch the What I Got with the What I Expected and this would be spot on. Also needs a picture of a child's used chuck e. cheese menu maze

>>9738101
>wah it's the mellinials!!!!

It's the technology. If you introduced the same tech of today a hundred years ago there'd still be the lazy kids who don't care about anything

>>9738017
Template?

>>9738375
je

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>>9738881
dedicate your OC to me

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>>9738375

kek

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>>9738017

>>9738545
ok this looks interesting. Is the writing good? i.e. not quppiy fedora garbage that riddles scifi?

>>9738539
I still see the main character as the Swans tshirt beard dude.

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>>9738894
>>9738894

>>9739182
I don't know this Guy but I recently read some Adorno and this was essentially my reaction minus the positive connotations about communism.

>>9739201

>I don't know this Guy

He he, you sneaky bastard.

Which Adorno book did you read though? I'll attempt The Culture Industry this summer but Dialects was a pisstake to get through

>>9739163
Wat?

>>9739254
I've read a few chunks of the culture industry for Uni this semester. My course readings were essentially a mishmash of Frankfurt school and I plan to do some follow-up reading on the ones I liked during summer break.
Marshall McLuhan is full of shit but very entertaining to read, I'd recommend at least checking him out. Nobody knows him nowadays but he used to be quite popular and you can find lots of references in 70s movies and literature like >>9738197

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>>9739386
Sequel

>>9739172
It's pretty good but kinda falls apart at the end. Never quippy Fedora though.

>>9739289
Why is that cat missing from the second picture?

>>9739432
The cat is right there in the broom

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>>9738017
All this kind of thing

>>9739297
he ate the book

>>9739297
>>9739163
it was a delicious but cold treat.

>>9739477
Should be the same exact cat as the one on the left!

>>9739163
top kek

>>9738539
That coover looks nice. Mine is a dusty image of a door knob if i rememvber correctly.

>>9738375

topkek

>>9738590
>this doesn't get attacked
/lit/ is dead

>>9740055
Why did you read it iif you thought it was going to suck?

>>9740313
the movie was fucking trash

>>9739482
How much of a cynical asshole do you have to be to read the Bible like this?

>>9740410
this is the worst one I have seen yet and there are a lot of shitty ones in this thread already.
You should feel bad if this is OC

>>9738546
That's kinda stupid.

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>>9740420
It is OC

>>9739672
wtf is that?

>>9739386
How is that? I've always wanted to read it.

>>9738539
other way around

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Fresh OC

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>>9741019
Wrong pic

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>>9741028

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>>9741033

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>>9741034

>>9739175
That's Devendra Banhart.

>>9739424
>Never quippy Fedora though.
I suggest stopping after the third book if you want to retain this impression. Hell, maybe even the first. Miller literally wears a fedora for 90% of his time in the book, by the way.

>>9741066

kek

>>9738522

War really is 99% logistics and 1% fighting. Grunts are the stupidest.

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>>9740330
>cynical

How is it cynical when you can see my first consideration was that a vast majority of the world is predamned? Now you want cynical, try Calvinism on for size.

>>9738894
nigga thats too deep

>>9739419
>>9739386

I recommend getting a mariner's dictionary. It has helped me a lot. Found one at a thrift store for $1.

>>9740410
Wrong.

>>9739182
Exactly my reaction when I read it in my mid-teens. I just thought it was going to be a simple polemic about consumer culture and it went way over my head. I went back and read it recently having read a lot of Marx/Marxist thought and had a far simpler time with it. Debord is good. Debordians are trash.

>>9740357
I saw this before I read the book, every time I read the word "corn" I laughed

>>9742635
nice

>>9739163
I actually kek'd

>>9739312
>McLuhan full of shit
>reading the Frankfurt school
lmfao you have brain damage

>>9742685
Herodotus just sounds like it'd be batshit fun. I hear he believed that flying snakes were a thing.

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>>9742697
It is a LOT of fun. In fact I had to put the book down several times in laughter (in a good way). And yeah what you heard is correct about the 'flying snakes'. He even claims that he traveled and saw first-hand their carcasses piled on the ground. I think the general opinion among scholars is that Herodotus' "flying snakes" where actually locusts. They do make a kind of hissing noise in swarms, don't they?

The most hilarious story was of Hippocleides imo.

>>9740739
The series is well worth reading. There is alot of navel jargon but after I finished the first two novels I bought the box set and read the entire series.

>>9742739
Tell me no more, my man. I intend to read his Histories before 2017 is over, been exciting to dive into it for a while.

>>9742769
He tells of Indians that steal gold from the tunnels of giant ants that are the size of dogs and as fast as horses. The Indians make their escape on their fastest camels while the slower camels are used as a distraction and sacrificed to the giant ants.

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>>9740410
No idea how you got that out of Lolita unless you only read like 3 chapters of it. This is one for Lolita I made a while ago.

>>9742815

How did you not get that out of Lolita? It's at least half road trip look at middle america.

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>>9738017
How is this only the 2nd most popular book in the world? .-.

>>9738017
Why would anyone ever read this shit?

>>9738197
Don't know how to interpret your "Got" on BoC, but I agree I love the book.

>>9739182
Read the Commentary
Late Debord is best Debord

I literally use these threads to help me decide what to read next.

>>9743002
degenerate

>>9738375
Brando never read Heart of Darkness before playing Kurtz, he even wanted to change his name into something more American.

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>>9743066
oops

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good ole oc

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>>9744162
Legit how I felt after reading Ithica

>>9738539
>>9739175
What made you think of Devendra Banhart

>>9743066
this. for such a short book it dragged on and on so much.

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>>9743066
MFW

anyone have one of Atomised?

>>9744323
i didnt mean for it to seem like it was a drag. on the contrary, i finished it in a couple of hours.

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bad [spoiler/] OC

>>9742633
>>9740357
not corn, grain. corn is a new-world plant. idk why translators use fructum=corn instead of just barley or something

>>9742620
Why Steely Dan?

>>9742856
Part 2 was a road trip interspersed with child abduction, rape, and general paedophilia, you blatantly got both parts of your image.

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>>9738017

>>9739289
What is this book about? Always wanted to read it.

>>9742635
Shouldn't have laughed as hard as I did.

>>9745687
I would make one for IJ where its overquotes like "eliminating your map" and "howling fantods" and so on

>>9738539
The reflections and sound chapter is still good as hell. And the SOS chapter. Actually House of Leaves isn't that bad

>>9739172
in the TV show adaptation one of the main characters literally and unironically wears a fedora

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>>9739163
>mfw chilean
>mfw every other country in the world has the superior cover art for that book yet we get the shitty ones

>>9746885
Alfaguara and Anagrama covers are crimes against humanity.

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yes

>>9746969
I dont get it.

>>9747007
have you read it?

>>9739163
This one's fucking great.

>>9738877
kek
those Confucians kicked ass though

>>9741028
>>9741028
kek, what does the pig in a tux represent?

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>>9746566

>>9746394
Steely Dan got their name from a dildo in Naked Lunch

>>9738613
>freudian interpretation
Are you fucking retarded ?

>>9748105
>you must envision the apple as the Penis

>>9748144
cockroach=BAD
We're all cockroaches in this society right? eheheh so smart :)

>>9748105
Kafka himself interpreted it Freudianly in his diary desu.

>>9748156
Ill be calm but Georg does not turn into a fucking cockroach.
It is a DUNGBEETLE!
The maid specifically staits him as a DUNGBEETLE (MISTKÄFER).
I am sorry translations conspired together to lie to everyone that it was a cockroach but it is a DUNGBEETLE.
Please adress his metamorphosis correctly from now on.
Thank you.

>>9748172
I'm german, sorry for the wrong translation

>>9748175
Well why did you call it a cockroach then you fucking retard?

>>9748158
In his biography by Max Brod he clearly says that kafka refused the freudian interpretation because he considered it extremely superficial.

>>9748184
I don't know english very well...pretty easy desu

>>9748192
yeah ok.
And english speakers always call him a cockroach for that is apparently how it is translated to them.
I just find it insane that they would make such a big and trivial mistake in mistranslating such a significant work.

>>9748198
What's your position about freud and kafka?

>>9748187
It doesn't matter if he was uncomfortable about the role of his unconscious in his artwork and life, the interpretation of his uneasy relationship with his father permeating his works is still valid, and doesn't need to be referred to Freud as it does to the entire concept of the unconscious and of literary psychoanalysis (which Freud only rudimentarily and incidentally happened to be formulating in Kafka's day).

>>9748211
>Freud is a jew and should never have been allowed to leave and his work is trash.
>JK
I do not dwell on psychological problems or studies.
So I have no idea.
Sorry.

But share yours if you have an one that others might understand and find interesting.

>>9748218
The figure of the father is just a small "gear" of the machine of submission. The real fault of the father is not to opress directly his son but
naively pushing him under the control of the machine. In the metamorphosis the father let the envoy inside the house to chide Gregor.

>>9748218
Also, how could you explain the relationship between Karl Rossman and his parents in Amerika? He still loves them despite the cruelty of his father's punishment. He knows that is not his father's fault and that he was obliged to exile him.

>>9740323
one of the worst I've ever seen

>>9743672

I kek'd