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you can post here if you've read books and therefore are smarter and better than most people. for example, i read a thomas pynchon book. i also read a david foster wallace book and ulysses. so you can see, i'm better than most people will ever be. feel free to talk about the books you've read, or also you can post if you think you're better than me and i'll tell you why you're wrong. you're also welcome to post if you haven't read books because that means you're living a comically empty life and we can laugh at you.
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crime and punishment is a pretty good book OP you should read it
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Sep 28, 2014 19:33
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every important piece of literature i've read has been 100% a waste of time and utterly meaningless within the context of my life
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Sep 28, 2014 19:33
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i like douglas hofstadter and i prefer tolkien's nonfiction
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Sep 28, 2014 19:34
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i take it back mark twain wrote friend of the family a lot and it was pretty subversive
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Sep 28, 2014 19:35
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I think kids should be forced to read The Great Gatsby because it tells us that all success and popularity is built upon lies and ruthlessly crushing those around you, that ultimately no one will love you for who you are but only what you give them and that the little guy never wins
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Sep 28, 2014 19:35
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Secondly they should be forced to read Huck Finn because it's funny
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Sep 28, 2014 19:36
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Morris Tenenbaum and Harry Pollard changed my life.
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Sep 28, 2014 19:36
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I actually sat down one time and read an Ann Coulter book in the library just to see why she was so popular and it destroyed my faith in humanity.
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Sep 28, 2014 19:38
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Harime Nui posted:Secondly they should be forced to read Huck Finn because it's funny the three things everyone should be forced to read are huck finn, 1984 and 'pierre menard, author of the quixote'
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i unironically read a michael savage book and agreed with it when i was a teenager gently caress i was so stupid
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Sep 28, 2014 19:39
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I read War and Peace and bring it up in conversation as often as possible knowing that few if any of the people around me have or will read it in their lifetimes. I could just make poo poo up about stuff that's in it for any situation and people wouldn't know. Professor Shark fucked around with this message at 20:01 on Sep 28, 2014 |
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Sep 28, 2014 19:39
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I don't know if it's what you're looking for, but you should definitely check out A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin.
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Sep 28, 2014 19:40
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logical phalluses posted:the three things everyone should be forced to read are huck finn, 1984 and 'pierre menard, author of the quixote' the wiki page on the last is a real treat
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The Hissing Butt posted:I don't know if it's what you're looking for, but you should definitely check out A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin. YOu may as well just skip Martin and go stragiht to the source, Tolstoy's War and Peace, instead. Martin's literal inclusion of dragons comes across as very lacking in subtlety compared to Tolstoy's French army. Professor Shark fucked around with this message at 20:01 on Sep 28, 2014 |
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Sep 28, 2014 19:42
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atlus shrugged
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Sep 28, 2014 19:42
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stoutfish posted:atlus shrugged the fat rippled
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Sep 28, 2014 19:42
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The Hissing Butt posted:I don't know if it's what you're looking for, but you should definitely check out A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin. ok, well, you've just proven yourself to be an idiot. go post about infantile fantasy trash in the book barn. this is a thread for people who've read books that are intellectually important and who are therefore quantifiably better people as a result.
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Sep 28, 2014 19:42
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TK4fjMhGn-I
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Sep 28, 2014 19:43
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the giver
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Sep 28, 2014 19:44
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Gilgimesh pieces were the best. I've read both bibles, the quran, the sustenance of life. it's all the same story. Maybe it's better we are ignorant, you know? jesus is which, a zeus son. Made from the ashes of a sad woman. A turtle.
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stoutfish posted:atlus shrugged or not, since Tolstoy was an actual Russian and spent hundreds of pages in War and Peace detailing the struggle of the Captains of Industry to innovate and make their lives better only to be held back by the unintellectual peasants. The country estates that many charactres escape to is the inspiration of galt's glutch. Professor Shark fucked around with this message at 20:01 on Sep 28, 2014 |
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Sep 28, 2014 19:46
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If someone made a book about jesus as a turtle, well you got a best seller there.
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Sep 28, 2014 19:47
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ColdReaches posted:Gilgimesh pieces were the best. Instead of Mesopetanian comicbooks you could read War and Peace. THe brotherly bound in the Russian army is much better conveyed than gilgamesh and enkido. Professor Shark fucked around with this message at 20:01 on Sep 28, 2014 |
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Sep 28, 2014 19:48
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Slaughterhouse Five taught me to live for the moments.
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Sep 28, 2014 19:51
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stoutfish posted:the giver great for grade 6, grown ups should consider War and Peace as an actual literary challenge. The naive and theatric Russian society before the crushing reality of Napolen's invasion is a much stronger arguement against the innocence in society Professor Shark fucked around with this message at 20:01 on Sep 28, 2014 |
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Sep 28, 2014 19:51
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Professor Shark posted:great for grade 6, grown ups should consider War and Peace as an actual literary challenge. The naive and theatric Russian society before the crushing reality of Napolen's invasion is a much stronger arguement against the innocence in society oh look, it's the motherfwiggin law of fives
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Sep 28, 2014 19:52
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amityville anus posted:Slaughterhouse Five taught me to live for the moments. I think that Pierre's experiences in War and Peace better encapsulate the affect of war on the human psyche Professor Shark fucked around with this message at 19:58 on Sep 28, 2014 |
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Sep 28, 2014 19:53
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Harime Nui posted:I think kids should be forced to read The Great Gatsby because it tells us that all success and popularity is built upon lies and ruthlessly crushing those around you, that ultimately no one will love you for who you are but only what you give them and that the little guy never wins Wait they stopped forcing kids to read that book? Also Holden Caufield is a bitch and would be sitting around cussing at Call of Duty all day in 2014. mazzi Chart Czar fucked around with this message at 19:56 on Sep 28, 2014 |
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Sep 28, 2014 19:53
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Professor Shark posted:I think that Pierre's experiences in War and Peace better encapsulate the affect of war on the human psyche Hell no. Pierre's experience was other worldly. He was totally detracted from it and sort of supermanish. Now,the Rostov son, that guy was the normal experience. He had signs of PTSD, and he Tolstoy describe how rostov liked the simplicity of a battle field. Professor Shark posted:Grown ups should consider War and Peace as an actual literary challenge. The naive and theatric Russian society before the crushing reality of Napolen's invasion is a much stronger arguement against the innocence in society War and peace is not a literal challenge, it is a great soap opera with with a lot of essays squeezed in. It's easy to read, just crunch out a two to five of the under 3 thousand word chapters a night and you will be finished within a year. The crushing reality of the Napolen's invasion was hilarious, at all at once all the rich people in moscow were like...WHAAAAAT FUUUUUUCK! I gatta get the gently caress out of here now! And they loaded up so much of their world goods on carts it was like a hillbilly cartoon where the hick family would move in one shot on their cart. Tolstoy is always mocking Napoleon, like history painted him as this great conqueror and Tolstoy was no "no you dumb fucks. It's the arm and how they work." Like history painted the burning down of moscow as this great plan. Hell no, moscow was loving wood that would light on fire at the slightest aggravation. Napolen's arm loving didn't know that poo poo and when they were cooking and smoking they lit tons of house on fire all at once. mazzi Chart Czar fucked around with this message at 20:05 on Sep 28, 2014 |
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Sep 28, 2014 19:56
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Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston
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Sep 28, 2014 19:56
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I read a bunch of garbage crap for retards
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Sep 28, 2014 19:57
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The House of the Dead taught me that prison gays existed even in 19th century Russia.
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Sep 28, 2014 19:57
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Corey Plumper posted:I read a bunch of garbage crap for retards but enough about mcsweeney's
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Sep 28, 2014 19:57
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The Bible. It taught me to surrender my will to Jeezo and accept him into my heart. I now live for him alone and my life is filled with meaning as I glorify God.
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Sep 28, 2014 19:57
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Harime Nui posted:I think kids should be forced to read The Great Gatsby because it tells us that all success and popularity is built upon lies and ruthlessly crushing those around you, that ultimately no one will love you for who you are but only what you give them and that the little guy never wins Gatsby is actually a terrible book and Fitzgerald was a terrible author, This Side of Paradise being even worse. Tolstoy better displayed the social climber in War and Peace with Pierre's first wife who lures Pierre in, takes advatnge of his position in the social hieracy, and ultimarely uses it to leverage a better marriage before dying from abortion complications
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Sep 28, 2014 19:58
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May'naise Sandwiches & Sunshine Tea by Sandra Belton
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Snow Crash has a street smart hacker samurai who likes thrash metal so it basically shows the path to enlightenment.
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Professor Shark posted:Instead of Mesopetanian comicbooks you could read W&P. THe brotherly bound in the Russian army is much better conveyed than gilgamesh and enkido. Sandskirt people were better artists
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mazzi Chart Czar posted:Hell no. Pierre's experience was other worldly. He was totally detracted from it and sort of supermanish. Now,the Rostov son, that guy was the normal experience. He had signs of PTSD, and he Tolstoy describe how rostov liked the simplicity of a battle field. poo poo you're right, it was the cooler rich kid and the lamer "rich" kid that experienced war better than Proto-Goon-Pierre. I like how in War and Peace Alexander (?) falls off his horse and the enemy is shooting at him and he's like "Hey, why are we doing this? Don't they know I'm a really nice guy who's popular?"
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