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Post books that didn't live up to the amount of praise they got.
Pic related is literally just "I'm fucked lmao here's 400 pages cluttered with sciencey exposition for you"
>>8018928
This is one of those books where everyone had the idea for the same fucking plot but in the end it was one guy who went ahead and put pen to paper.
My version had the astronaut staying on Mars because he thought it would be better if the mission failed because he didn't want humanity to spread its warlike nature to the rest of the universe.
Also he found out his wife was cheating on him and he told mission control to bring her into the office to talk so he could denounce her infront of the whole team lol.
>>8018928
It made a breddy gud movie, and most reddit/sci-fi/fantasy readers read books like they're movie scripts anyway.
>>8018948
Yeah I agree, and the book wasn't that bad either, it could just use a bit less exposition.
What are some books similar to Adventure Time? I really love this show and I really want to know if there's anything written similar to it.
>>8018924
This is bait, but still:
Salman Rushdie "Satanic Verses", and the oft memed about Gravity's Rainbow, sort of.
>>8018926
This is not bait. I wanted to get into reading again but I don't know how to start. So I posted a TV show I really liked, or I'm looking up movies I really like and similar to books and I find nothing.
>>8018936
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt, then.
If you are looking for something that is both infantile, dreamlike, and somewhat grounded in reality, magical realism movement may appeal to you. This genre usually focuses on spiritual in mundane, and the conflict between the two, although not as extreme as in AT. I've watched only a bit so i can't be sure.
This is generally a bad place to start reading, though.
the movie did exactly what the movie was supposed to do to me but im wondering how does the book compare? is it just as depressing or do the visuals and acting enhance it?
>>8018782
Selby is worth a read, in general, but I would go with The Room.
>>8019633
Jesus anon, throw in a trigger warning before you bring up The Room.
God help us if there's ever a film adaptation.
>>8018782
I'll be reading Last Exit to Brooklyn soon. Heard it was great.
who is that indian slam poet i forget her name
Free Waterfall Junior
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mo84zh7aCIA
>>8018762
I smell like curry, you smell like plastic.
My skin may be the color of dirt but at least it has color.
Whitey, you aren't a man, you're a mannequin:
Collecting dust in safe enviroments.
I've seen streets and subtle beauties hiding
From sights of those blinded by
HD monitors radiating fake emotions and captured lightnings.
I've almost finished this book, and I quite like it.
What are other books that talk about philosophical ideas in the form of a novel/story?
The stranger by Albert Camus
Permutation City by Greg Egan
1984 by George Orwell
A brave new World by aldous Huxley
hitch hikers guide to the galaxy for sure
What does Camus mean when he refers to "nostalgia" in this novel? It doesn't seem like he uses the term in the traditional sense.
Also, post general things you don't quite understand in books.
>>8018703
It's one of his favorite words, I've noticed.
>>8018703
Desire for comfort that wasn't ever actually there, in this case objective meaning
>>8018717
Not OP, but this is a fantastic, cutting, and realistic view of nostalgia.
I always struggle with it myself.
whats the literary equivalent of a hotdog?
Conferancy of dunces
>>8018635
The United States of America's Pledge of Allegiance
The Bible
Does literary fiction need a plot?
??? Seriously? Do you have to ask?
poo
>>8018600
What if the author just wants to write stream of consciousness and alternate with words that make beautiful sentences, and doesn't want to shoehorn in a plot?
Surely, those too sussed will just decide on a plot themselves after reading it.
>mfw autists sperging over the figurative use of "literally"
>mfw linguistics
>>8018581
yeah haha I literally want to kill myself when people do that
>>8018585
i literally hope you do
>>8018590
I sincerely hope that the implications that you emitted in the preceding post were true.
"a tour de force"
is this what reviewer do to authors they secretly hate so no one fucking reads the book?
>>8018565
I kek'd
>>8018565
wew that is a rare ludwig
but a tour de force is an strong approval which indicates to most that it is worth reading..!!!
you've got it all backwards my friend
what do you guys do when you take too much opiates and keep nodding off while trying to read?
read standing up dumbass
>>8018552
Take bumps of blow untill you're at the right level, obviously.
speaking of opium, how much is standard to do for the edible?
i kind of want to get into some a bit harder drugs, but i know literally nothing about them as i recently found out.
go
the more autistic the better
This thread needed love, so here
>>8018903
Okay I'm new here but what in the fuck is this and why am I laughing so hard
>>8019056
TheNone!line is what tips me over the edge, the first and every subsequent time I've read that.
Just finished this and really enjoyed it. Any other books like this?
>>8018364
Stop enjoying things.
>>8018364
Dazai's The Setting Sun is even better. I would go for that. Or Soseki's Kokoro.
>>8018381
sound advice. thanks, anon.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/06/fantasy-books-such-as-game-of-thrones-can-damage-childrens-brain/
>A private school head teacher has urged pupils not to read Game of Thrones books, claiming they can damage their "sensitive subconscious brains".
>Graeme Whiting also said fantasy titles - such as Lord of the Rings, The Hunger Games and Harry Potter - "encourage difficult behaviour in children".
>He told parents to steer clear of the "mystical...
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I'd want my kid to read something rather than nothing
>Shakespeare
>not sensational
>>8018290
You lost me at "subconscious." Only mongoloids with no understanding of psychology use that term.
I just got this book from a friend of mine, what are your opinions on this piece and the author?
>>8018254
>just got this book
How about you read it, share your opinions, and then ask ours?
>new york times best seller
into the trash it goes my friend.
>>8018281
say wat
