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2012-12-25 02:56 3278396 Anonymous A New Twist on an Old Favorite (Untitled.png 672x385 7kB)
Know those "What I Read | What I Expected | What I Got" threads?
Let's have one where we post what we're about to read and what we're expect, and then laugh at each other's misconceptions.
4 min later 3278412 Anonymous (great gatsby expectation.png 672x385 195kB)
7 min later 3278417 Anonymous (cosm.jpg 672x385 103kB)
7 min later 3278419 Anonymous
Underworld.
A more spawling, less tangential Infinite Jest
11 min later 3278424 Anonymous
>>3278412
do ho ho, prepare to be bored out of your mind
13 min later 3278432 Anonymous (Untitled.png 672x385 346kB)
>>3278419
Like this?
50 min later 3278502 Anonymous (valis.png 672x385 232kB)
Expecting Philip to get zapped then religious stuff happens and then crazy shit.
55 min later 3278520 Anonymous (hmc.png 672x385 352kB)
56 min later 3278525 Anonymous
>>3278520
You're on the right path, kiddo.
1 hours later 3278554 Anonymous
>>3278502
Yeah, that's about right.
1 hours later 3278591 Anonymous (1356400591916.png 672x385 288kB)
1 hours later 3278617 Anonymous
>>3278591
add a picture of a dirty potato or cabbage or something and you've got it about write
1 hours later 3278630 Anonymous (gatsby.png 672x385 243kB)
>>3278412
I haven't read it either.
2 hours later 3278677 Anonymous (death-in-venice.jpg 1680x960 1210kB)
2 hours later 3278736 Anonymous (about to read.png 1703x1127 229kB)
What am I getting in to.
2 hours later 3278741 Anonymous
>>3278677
Spot-on if you were to watch the movie adaptation
2 hours later 3278746 Anonymous (1356400591916.png 672x385 164kB)
>>3278412
That pretty much sums it up i lol'd
2 hours later 3278748 Anonymous
>>3278746
Prepare for a surprise then.
2 hours later 3278750 Anonymous
>>3278736
>What am I getting in to.
A world of pain. It's a crime to create all of that blank space.
2 hours later 3278760 Anonymous
>>3278750
>>>/g/
2 hours later 3278771 Anonymous (531251.png 764x395 354kB)
2 hours later 3278801 Anonymous
>>3278746
Oh boy..
2 hours later 3278808 Anonymous
>>3278502
VALIS was so good, enjoy man. And yes, you are expecting the right shit
2 hours later 3278810 Anonymous
>>3278771
More or less, I'd say. It's a great read, that I do remember.
2 hours later 3278811 Anonymous
>>3278771
hahahaha oh boy, nope, more monks less bad asses, also latin, lots of latin
3 hours later 3278817 Anonymous
>>3278630
>not using some sort of symbol to symbolize symbolism
3 hours later 3278819 Anonymous
>>3278811
I do not expect badass but a good post apocalyptic story.
3 hours later 3278841 Anonymous (tehanu.png 672x385 280kB)
5 hours later 3279017 Anonymous
>>3278817
The word "symbolism" is a symbol.
5 hours later 3279018 Anonymous
>>3278841
Shrink the feminism a bit (but don't remove it) and add the Tao Te Ching.
At least if it's like the first books.
5 hours later 3279033 Anonymous (4343556666tggg.jpg 670x390 44kB)
5 hours later 3279035 Anonymous
These are... like jokes without a punchline, terrible
5 hours later 3279044 Anonymous
>>3278746
prepare to be disappointed
5 hours later 3279046 Anonymous (-tao.jpg 320x240 13kB)
>>3279018
What has Tao Te Ching got to do with Ursula Le Guin?
6 hours later 3279056 Anonymous
>>3278810
>more or less
Nigga the entire book was boring fat old monks participating in one of my favorite science fiction stories
6 hours later 3279061 Anonymous (about to read.png 672x385 422kB)
Soon... so soon.
7 hours later 3279128 Anonymous
>>3278417
Lols, I see you were in last night's "what I got" thread as well
7 hours later 3279142 Anonymous (about_to_read_expecting.png 675x408 365kB)
8 hours later 3279188 Anonymous
>>3278432
HA!
9 hours later 3279207 Anonymous (at swim-two-birds.png 672x385 222kB)
20 hours later 3280428 Anonymous
>>3278432
I expect this every time one of these threads pop up, and the one time I don't expect it, you do it. Well played.
20 hours later 3280471 Anonymous (atr.png 672x475 200kB)
I've never read anything by Murakami before.
20 hours later 3280492 Anonymous (about to read.png 822x425 328kB)
Either this or depression. Hoping I've got it wrong.
20 hours later 3280503 Anonymous
>>3280471
Expect to be hugely disappointed, it's probably his worst book. It is not even slightly related to Orwell by the way.
20 hours later 3280507 Anonymous
>>3280492
That chick is actually kind of cute. TOO BAD SHE HAS STDS.
21 hours later 3280526 Anonymous (1356400591916.png 672x387 232kB)
21 hours later 3280537 Anonymous
>>3280492
>>3280507
That's a parody btw, she's not serious. How sad that poe's law applies.
21 hours later 3280547 Anonymous
>>3280537
It's not a parody, it's an attack. A strawman. Dishonest rhetoric from a right-wing nutjob.
21 hours later 3280548 Anonymous (plzbetrue.png 672x385 368kB)
21 hours later 3280559 Anonymous
>>3280492
You're going to be very disappointed.
21 hours later 3280574 Anonymous
>>3280507
>kind of cute
yer homoing
21 hours later 3280585 Anonymous (pecctfgm.jpg 672x384 77kB)
am i close?
21 hours later 3280595 Anonymous
>>3280574
So I have a thing for cross-dressers.
21 hours later 3280600 Anonymous
>>3280585
yup, pretty close. Also, paranoid diatribes, furniture and a nasty old landlady.
21 hours later 3280604 Anonymous (1.jpg 672x383 95kB)
21 hours later 3280608 Anonymous
>>3280604
mostly. also depression and debauchery and probably some other d word that i can't think of.
21 hours later 3280610 Anonymous
>>3280507
>cute
22 hours later 3280641 Anonymous
>>3280492
Not this at all; just first world problems by the daughter of a headmistress from the American bible belt. "They told her she could become anything so she became a vegetable."
It's more comparable to Böll and Hesse; what little kink there is, is rather emetic than erotic.
22 hours later 3280662 Anonymous
>>3280548
Pretty much spot on
22 hours later 3280701 Anonymous
>>3280662
Why the money?
22 hours later 3280705 Anonymous
>>3280701
Because shit is so cash
22 hours later 3280716 Anonymous
>>3280641
Sounds promising. If you're acquainted with German (Austrian) literature, do you know Ingeborg Bachmann? How does she compare to Plath?
24 hours later 3281072 Anonymous
>>3280526
Here in Portugal a film was made based on that book. Search for: "Filme do Desespero"
26 hours later 3281226 Anonymous
>>3278419
No way, Underworld is way more boring and baseball-obsessed than Infinite Jest. I like White Noise so much more.
30 hours later 3281713 Anonymous
>>3279033
go back to crack'd
30 hours later 3281741 Anonymous (1356400591916.png 908x390 471kB)
30 hours later 3281746 faggot
>>3281741
why read it?
30 hours later 3281748 Anonymous
>>3280547
>a right-wing nutjob.
the best kind of nutjob
30 hours later 3281756 Anonymous
>>3281746
Because he doesn't want to be a sheep or a parrot?
30 hours later 3281760 Anonymous
>>3278746
While I believe 1984 makes for a better read I find that Brace New World is much more relevant unless you live in North Korea, China, or Britain (in which case both are fairly relevant).
30 hours later 3281764 Anonymous
>>3281746
Because I never read it and I like to read?
30 hours later 3281841 faggot
>>3281764
>>3281756
Are those arguments? Why don't you choose to read something relevant, or worth your time.
31 hours later 3281852 Anonymous
>>3281841
>relevant
>worth your time
That's subjective and unless he reads it, how will he know if he likes it or not?
31 hours later 3281855 Anonymous
>>3281852
And I don't even like Rand.
31 hours later 3281891 Anonymous
>>3281841
Who are you to decide what is relevant or not?
How do I know she is a piece of shit unless I read
it?
31 hours later 3281907 Anonymous
>>3281841
What a fitting name, you should keep it.
31 hours later 3281958 faggot
>>3281907
brylant thats elegent shipotsting
>>3281891
Who talks about yne? I never said she's a POS, but I've made it clear that I think Atlas Strugged is a waste of time. I don't understand what would draw one to read her works other than a passing interest in those who reference her.
31 hours later 3281962 Anonymous
>>3281958
> but I've made it clear that I think Atlas Strugged is a waste of time
Thus the question, who are you to decide on this matter? Are you some sort of staunch reader, or perhaps a widely acclaimed literature critic for us to be taking your word?
Your opinion is expressed in such a way as it is to be absolute.
31 hours later 3281964 Anonymous
>>3280471
any more comments on this? Someone got me this thick book for christmas.
31 hours later 3281965 Anonymous
>>3281841
sum1s bein edgy xDxD take ur asspie pills boy
31 hours later 3281967 Anonymous
>>3281962
>2012
>still being trolled by a faggot
31 hours later 3281972 faggot
>>3281965 >>3281967
>3edgy5u
d'u get cut, sry i hurt u
32 hours later 3281989 Anonymous
>>3281972
For having such a trip name, you deserve that treatment.
32 hours later 3282027 Anonymous (about to readandexpecting.jpg 673x390 141kB)
32 hours later 3282034 Anonymous
>>3282027
>spaghetti
Don't lie, that's because of the LaughingGirls.jpg on the cover, isn't it?
32 hours later 3282038 Anonymous
>>3282034
That, the completely unrelated movie with the same name, and my reaction to revolutionary road when I read that (which was really funny but also cringeworthy) are the three reasons.
33 hours later 3282059 Anonymous (bro k.png 1150x936 492kB)
33 hours later 3282073 Anonymous
>>3282038
>rev road
>funny
>cringe
geez, and there was i in love with the work of Yates. Guess ive misread him
34 hours later 3282104 Anonymous
Im new to this board... but reading this thread is making me realize that only few of you have any kind of literary competence. Either that or most of you are in high school (judging by the amount of The Great Gatsby posts and remedial assumptions with exception of >>3278630 , which by the way you wouldve had to have read the novel to know of the green light and its symbolism).
34 hours later 3282108 Anonymous
>>3281748
indubitably
34 hours later 3282109 Anonymous
>>3282104
newfag detected. Enjoy your stay.
34 hours later 3282112 Anonymous
>>3282109
Newfag detected? He just said he was new here.
34 hours later 3282113 Anonymous
>>3282109
...
really? Were you able to detect that because I BLATANTLY STATED IT? You sir are a sharp one... douche
35 hours later 3282129 Anonymous sage
>>3282113
no you didn't. you left out the 'fag' part. Faggot. Have some chips.
36 hours later 3282208 Anonymous (1356400591916.png 1344x770 1330kB)
36 hours later 3282269 Anonymous
>>3282104
I'm >>3278630
I saw most of the Robert Redford movie in high school. I've also heard a lot about it.
Would you mind pointing out the few competent ones in the thread?
37 hours later 3282287 Anonymous
>>3278746
The difference is that I would actually like to live in the world from BNW. Government-provided hallucinogens and consequence-free promiscuous sex? Sign me up!
37 hours later 3282376 Anonymous
>>3278811
Latin? How much Latin?
I was looking forward to reading A Canticle for... but it's full of untranslated Latin I don't think I'll be convinced.
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