Let's have some reviews and discuss them.
He's not wrong.
>>7746579
That's kinda true, though.
Sometimes, I understand why people ironically support totalitarianism.
>>7746689
Hot. What book?
>>7746689
I bet Kathy is a real drag on date nights. No doubt when her husband is ready to fuck she is on her phone looking at instagram.
>>7746706
120 Days of Sodom obv senpai
>>7746677
which book is that?
>>7746712
Oh. There's all sort of sick shit in that, why would she get hung up on the anal?
>>7746708
she actually looks like she's in her 40s?
>>7746747
She should be an hero and lead by example.
>>7746747
You can just tell she's the kind of girl that is into choking and rough sex
>You will never be this retarded
>Life will NEVER come this easy to you
I wish guys, I wish
That's a good deconstruction of the Socratic method tbqh
>>7746810
What she says in the first paragraph is mostly right though. People love being pandered too about how smart they are for reading books.
Most of the upvoted quotes on goodreads are about the author mentioning this in some way.
>>7746779
Sometimes I find it hard to believe there are girls who aren't into that.
Do you have a round face and soft voice?
Can someone explain the "plato" meme? does it have to do with the kurt cobain greentext?
>>7746718
The Tunnel, which the person in who wrote the review did not understand at all.
>>7746677
This sounds like a good read. What is it?
>>7746841
>Do you have a round face and soft voice?
Im a dude, bro
>>7746810
She's not wrong though. Her only mistake is not realizing that the all-male book group is that way because it makes alienated, bookish men (the book's target audience) feel comfy and special. She just failed to realize how that played into the same masturbatory themes she pointed out earlier.
Why ARE women so stupid?
Are they just dumber by default? Is it a lack of interest in becoming more intelligent? A built-in sense that they're already cool enough to have opinions, so there's no reason to refine them?
What is it? Why are women so awful?
>I didn't quite finish it, actually, I got to page 165. But I was so revolted by what was evidently going to happen next that I refused to read further.
Guess the book and what happened.
>>7746874
Yeah, but probably not a very imposing one of you only think crazy girls like it rough.
>>7746810
ignoring her post, F451 really is mostly dull and silly
>>7746891
>you only think crazy girls like it rough.
Thats not what I said. And if you must know im a bearded bald space marine
>>7746852
The Tunnel by William Gass. Don't expect to understand it without supplementary materials--I didn't.
>>7746881
Most men on Goodreads are equally stupid.
Sara on Ernest Hemingway's the Old Man and the Sea
Can someone post an actual good one they have seen. I ask because i've never actually see one. I want to see if any of you anons can.
>>7746579
This review = mfw reading Plato's Ion dialogue because power + knowledge =/= better person.
>>7747163
The middle class makes me want to cry.
>>7746908
By suffocating any feelings of mediocrity with indulgent escapism and the smell of our own, self-actualized farts.
>>7747163
>I understand the book
>writes this review
>>7747163
>I'm leaving a disclaimer on everything I"m expecting to react to with the most shallow acknowledgements possible.
>Now that that's out of the way, this satire has that I don't like in it, so I feel the need to openly criticize something for supporting my viewpoint.
>>7747163
>picayune
>>7747163
>McDonald's
>sexual equipment
>my daughter's bra
>the definition of life
>Life of Pi
>picayune
absolutely disgusting on every level. that is quite a find m8.
>>7747163
>the amount of stupidity in that second paragraph
Even worse than the actual review
>>7746908
Yeah it's best not to take certain women on Goodreads seriously. Especially not as a reflection on the gender as a whole.
>>7747238
>XD le trigger warning
>>7747238
>*shudders*
>>7747238
>instead of reading the book, you should read an attention-whoring essay by a race-baiting professor
Hmm.
>>7747238
I need a drink now.
Everyone always posts negative reviews of books they like, but are there any positive but terrible and cringey reviews of books you like?
>>7747259
Most of them.
>>7747238
Two beautiful different types of stupid.
Oh I am not the only one. I saw one user list almost every philosophical book I want to read in his library and sadly, I got to see some comments on other works of literature he supposedly read. I was flabbergasted.
I think it's safe enough to mention that the person, even after reading countless great books, failed at his epic attempt to look clever by saying Socrates wrote better books than the author he criticized.
Not only is that ridiculous as the books were of a completely different genre, but to not be aware that Socrates himself wrote nothing down is mind blowing.
I think Russel is a huge faggot, and the book this is from isn't great, but, I am always reminded of what he says in the Plato summary of "The History of Western Philosophy". He says "a stupid man is always translating things into terms he understands", and that basically sums up a lot of the reviews you are going to read, especially on GR.
>>7747274
Maybe he was saying that the book was so bad than even Socrates who wrote no books, had written better ones.
>>7747275
>dat pic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_cVxrEDQT8
>>7747280
Well, it ain't easy to explain, but that book was written by a priest and it told the story of the people in the rural ares. It is not exactly a book for entertainment and it's certainly not supposed to be philosophical. Blaming authors for not writing like Socrates is downright crazy
>>7746881
Men are stupid as fuck as well.
>>7747250
And most importantly, you should never entertain ideas you do not agree with.
>>7746579
Can't screenshoot, but I read one of Brief interviews with Hideous Men, where the reviewer scolded it for being pretentious try-hard pomo trash and lazy metatextuality parading as genuine cleverness.
She then hailed Octet as the greatest short story of the last quarter century.
>>7746712
nope
