How does this make you feel /pol/?
>>74327624
amused.
>>74327624
what a waste of a book
I don't get it. Isn't Fahrenheit 451 regarded as being one of the finest novels around?
>>74327624
I like that book, but who gives a shit? It's a fucking book.
>inb4 muh hitler book burnings
>>74327624
He bought it, his loss
I don't get it
> but communism will work this time i promise
>>74327990
>>74328004
>>74328024
It's a novel about burning books. So, it's probably supposed to be ironic. A few years ago I would have cared that someone burned a book, but only an idiot reads print these days.
>>74327624
Tickled
>>74327624
>when they don't understand the poetry of their action
>>74328004
It is very good, especially the CODA.
>>74327624
very meta
I like how the part about it being minority groups and womens rights activists who were the first to start calling for the book burns is removed from modern versions.
>>74328185
Yeah, it's obviously a joke.
>>74327624
>burning a book about burning books
this is obviously a joke anon
>>74327624
I don't know. I've never read that.
>>74328165
>implying the don't
we're witnessing some abstract reverse anti-meming here anon
>>74328004
>>74328176
I never finished it in my class. is it worth rereading
>>74328113
This guy gets it.
>>74327624
>burning fahrenheit 451 because you dislike it
Perfect irony there.
>muh perfect form of communisn totally works, it just hasnt been tried yet guys
>>74328113
The future will be about deleting OC memes to suppress free posting.
>>74328004
its pretty gud, 7/10
>>74328455
>Communism won't work guys, I read it in a children's book.
>>74327624
Someone's trying really hard to bait/be edgy?
>>74328113
>but only an idiot reads print these days.
Millennial detected.
>>74327624
Fahrenheit 451 is a great book. A bandwagon classic,but great.
Fahrenheit 451 sets in a dystopian world in the 90s (written in the 50s). People have become so dumbed down and drone like due to draconian laws being forced on the people. Literature that makes people think is outlawed. It's such an important aspect of their society that they even employ "firemen" to burn knowledge away.
It's even noticeable that the people weren't even interested in bettering themselves other than what they were told. Any involvement with new knowledge or different things surely had repercussions. People were happy with being hollow minded drones.
Anyways, if you haven't read the book I'll just start you off saying the main character is a fireman who actually ends up stealing some of literature he was supposed to burn.
The person burning the book in the picture is a fucking retard.
>>74327624
It's really relevant. I would suggest you guys to read it again. I really feel like Beatty sometimes
>>74328575
Millennials are stupid because they prefer to read books in electronic form?
>>74327624
desu Fahrenheit 451 was a mess, at a moment the dude is chatting up jailbait, then having an existential crisis, then engaging in literary warfare with his boss, then fleeing from robots, then getting nuked, and ends up joining a walking library of hobos because he memorized a part of the bible for no reason
>>74328469
Arsenal gear when?
Also, nah. Most books are now available online, but just in case, I know plenty of people, myself included that keep archives of them on 4tb hard drives. If the future gets too fucked, we have the libraries saved.
>>74328575
>Millennial detected.
There is literally no reason to read print. Faggots cry about how a book "feels". But i'm not trying to fuck the thing. I'm trying to decode and digest the information within it.
>>74328574
>Muh version of communism
>the state
>history doesn't matter
Seriously, communism is fucking outdated and childish. You can't share resources among massive amounts of people that aren't homogeneous.
Get the fuck over it you little pussy bitch.
>>74327624
okay book i guess but the next thing he cooks on the grill is just gonna taste like book
>>74328113
>it's probably supposed to be ironic
You can never really tell with these retards. I'm sure there's some made-up internet law for that somewhere out there.
russia admits planet >>74328218
>>74328218
>>74328218
>>74328218
>>74327624
That's my favorite book.
The irony in this is just amazing
>>74328113
I don't know I mean reading something on print feels so much cozier to me and I enjoy it more
>>74328574
>communism won't work guys its never worked in any country that's adopted communism in the history of the world.
>Mention to my coworkera how things are getting a lot like 1984 when the cali audio recording stuff hit the news
>They look at me confused, after having brought up the recordings to start with
>Clarify, like the book
>They continue to look at me slackjawed
>They're all at least 10 years older than me
>Have no clue as to this classic piece of literature
>REEEE internally
>>74328868
Pretty faggy, but I don't really care.
I just know that I have 2 ebook readers with 64gb cards (one for fiction and one of non-fiction) that have about 100,000 books on them and fit in a small bag.
Larger than most libraries, senpai.
>>74328583
I saw the movie, the part where one ovthe firemen was monologuing about their duty and ended it with " it all has to go" while holding a copy of mein kampf got a chuckle out of me.
>>74327624
seems like satire
>>74328131
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOBXuCYB4jQ
>>74328653
Yes. They first rewrite them into something that doesn't challenge their beliefs, like making all the firemen Christian racists and all the rebels minorities and feminists, just to make sure there's nothing left to challenge their fanaticsl beliefs.
Much easier to do that when it isn't hardcopy.
>>74328947
The general public is fucking retarded, anon.
fucking normies.
>>74327624
not an argument
>>74328574
Or you know, you could just look at every nation both in historic and modern times that has ever implemented communism
>inb4 "muh nordick countries"
They are homogenous countries whose small scale allows for socialist policies to be successful. Even then, their economies are based on very specific commodities that will fuck them over once they run out.
>inb4 "Chyna"
China was a shithole when it was actually communist. The current government is about as communist as the US is a direct democracy.
>inb4 "socialism =/= communism"
"The goal of socialism is communism" -Vladimir Lenin
>>74327624
He's got the right idea. Books have never changed culture or politics, they just give intellectuals material to namedrop when they whine about how the world is terrible.
>>74329164
Wait really they changed all that?
Wasn't the book the MC memorized the bible?
>>74328947
>mfw i visited the airport a few weeks ago
last time i flew was pre 9-11-01
my god the shit they play over the intercom/radio
and that fucking scanning muhcheen
>if you see something, say something
>>74328793
You haven't heard of Poe's law?
>>74328574
>>Communism won't work guys, I read it in a children's book.
Or you could just read a fucking history book about the Gulags, famines, purges, slavery, and tens of millions of deaths.
>>74327624
the irony of burning a book about burning books.
>>74328947
>That feel when parents who was into scifi and encouraged reading inadvertently redpilled me before I was a teen by leaving stuff like Bradbury, Orwell, Huxley, and Asimov lying around the house.
Also a ton of classical literature and philosophical pieces, based parents to be frank.
>>74327990
oh hahahahaha yeah thats so funny. because he burned a book but it's about book burning hahahahahahahahaha le ebin i totally get it dude
>>74329491
>Parents who was.
I feel like someone's gonna call me out on that, so "parents who were"
It's funny that Orwell was a socialist and his major works so clearly illustrated the failure of totalitarian governments (socialism, communism).
>>74329491
I'm a middle-aged father with a house full of books and I'm always surprised at what my kids freely choose to read. My daughter picked up "Bleak House" the other day, for example. As long as they think it's their own idea they don't mind reading heavy literature.
>>74329618
Orwell gradually grew disenchanted with socialism over the years, until he came to believe (a few years before his death) that it could only work in England because of the distinctive English national character at that time: stoic, obsessed with fair play, decency, hospitality etc.
>>74328004
it was pretty shitty and nothing happened the entire book.
1984 and Brave New World are a million times better.
451 is the ultimate redditor persecution complex fedora book
>Surely you remember the boy in your own school class who was exceptionally 'bright,' did most of the reciting and answering while the others sat like so many leaden idols, hating him. And wasn't it this bright boy you selected for beatings and tortures after hours? Of course it was. We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy for there are no mountain to make them cower, to judge themselves against. ... Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man? Me? I won't stomach them for a minute. … [what we need is] More sports for everyone, group spirit, fun and you don't have to think, eh? Organize and organize and super organize super-super sports. More cartoons in books. More pictures. The mind drinks less and less.
Look at this poor fucker whining about dumb chads taking his crush
he whines a lot, also whined about some hypothetical people being offended
>>74327624
It's called satire faggot.
>>74327624
Post-ironic
>>74329823
Brave New World is scary as fuck. Scarier than 1984. At least 1984's society couldn't last because it was so actually fascistic. Brave New World is a setting where the ride legitimately never ends. Far closer to what we have now.
>>74329963
You do know that this is what Soros is literally doing.
In Brave New World, they destroy all culture around the world, all cultural sites, everything. As a result, the world is united and easily controlled because they have no deep personal philosophy.
literally fucking nazis, and they call us the nazis
>>74329031
How do you read in the sun?
>>74328113
i only get books still because reading shit on a screen gives me a fucking headache after a while
>>74329963
>>74330064
agreed. After re-reading both relativly recently I couldnt help but feel that brave new world was much more likely to happen
>>74329802
It's a good thing he died before it turned into a Muzzie hellhole, then.
>>74327624
Why are liberals obsessed with book burning /pol/?
>>74329963
>>74330064
I never got around to reading Brave New World and in this modern age I don't know if I could handle the depression it would induce.
>>74329618
Duhhh why do you think he had the main character of 1984 accept his position at the end?
>>74328725
This.
>>74328574
Let me guess, faggot, you have your "own version" of communism that is SURELY going to work.
>>74330064
Yeah, i'm well aware. And holy shit, it's been going on since the dawn of advertising in the 1950's.
What bothers me is that...it won't even have the easygoing, middle-class British mentality of the book. It's not going to be Orgy Porgy, it's just going to be fucking in the streets. We won't have feelies, we'll JUST have super-violent revenge fantasies on the big screen.
16 year old me would have killed himself if he ever thought I would say this legitimately, but...Brave New World will seem like a wonderful dream in 20 years time.
>>74330304
Have you tried the proper e-ink screens? They're a little more expensive but easier on the eyes than actual print.
>>74328113
lol i just bought this book.
theres nothing wrong with physical copies and alot of people find them better including me
I like collecting books and having physical copies.
I dont have to worry about charging shit
I can take it anywhere anytime
I dont want to stare at screens for a long time when i dont have to,espcially before bed because screens stimulate you.
apprently you absorb more information from physical books aswell
I also like the process of looking in book stores/libraries
>>74328219
are you serious?
>>74330410
No, we will have feelies.
VR is here, and within a couple years, we'll probably have VR suits as well, so you can feel sensations.
So I think we can all agree that The Fountainhead was pretty good, right?
>>74330461
Yep, it's true. Minority pressure and PC culture lead to the book ban.
>>74327624
iRONY
burning a book about firefighters who burn books
>>74329963
To be fare I would personally prefer a brave new world to a 1984 world. With the brave new world everyone is driven by desire/sexual freedom. That seems much more fun and "free" than the government controlling history and your life.
>>74330360
There's a part where the protagonist goes to a "feelie" (a movie plus sensations) whose plot is about a black man raping a blonde woman in a helicopter. This was published in 1932! It's as if Huxley could foresee the future of coalburning media.
>>74330461
Eh, whatever bro. But I am not sure about the charging aspect. You only have to charge ebooks once a month. I never cared much for the aesthetic pleasure of holding a book, or..sniffing it, or what have you. It's really just about the book itself for me.
>>74330479
No, you know....I think you're right. A VR version of gone home...
That is exactly the definition of a feelie.
FUCKING HELL.
>>74327624
you should at least put it under the grate s you could cook some wienies or something.
>fucking waste of a good fire
>>74330273
Recked
I only recently got into political satire/political dystopia
what are the required /pol/ tier books?
[spoiler]rand fags fuck off[/spoiler]
>>74330592
It's still about control, just through different means. The government in BNW still kills people who challenge its authority, but if you drug yourself with narcotics, entertainment and sex they leave you alone, just like our governments do in the real world right now.
>>74330592
They're controlled utterly by it, though. It's overtaken them completely, and they have been stagnated and hobbled by it completely. Nothing matters any more. 1984 was driven by hate, but..Brave New World didn't even have THAT base ideal. It was all just...slow, willing euthanasia..
And people would go and gawk at those who chose to go innawoods, keeping them in zoos as curiosities.
>>74328574
>Communism won't work guys, I read it in a history book
fixed that for you.
>>74330763
"Bend Sinister" by Vladimir Nabokov is one of the lesser-known books about left-wing dystopia.
>>74330273
I sit in the shade to read or switch background colours. I couldn't read a print book in the sun either, because the majority of the page is white.
>>74328574
Sorry mate, but Communism is as utterly doomed to failure as AnCap bullshit. It basically demands people quit acting human for it to work. A pipedream consigned to the ash heap of history where it belongs.
Behead All Satans
>>74330461
Completely serious. It was removed from a number of modern prints.
CELSIUS 451 IS A MUCH HOTTER BOOK
>>74328004
It's a book about book burnings. 451 is alledgedly the temperature books burn at.
>>74328004
Burning books don't melt steel grills.
>>74328575
>hipster detected
>therefore millennial also
>guilty of faggotry in the 3rd degree
>>74331104
it's the supposed auto-ignition temperature of the common book paper in that day
>>74330990
Page by page
>>74328219
Thats the part where the fire cheif talks about it right? He says something like "'Sambo' was offensive to negros, so we burned it, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' made white people uncomfortable, so we burned it." That was in the version I read in school like 6 years ago
>>74330352
Thank god he didn't have to see his vision slowly become a reality.
>>74328113
>everything in digital archives controlled by Amazon, Google, and Microsoft
>slowly but surely novels change
>literature changes to suit the needs of the current problems facing society
>only way to verify this is by checking old print copies
>retards like you claim that only crazy idiots and tinfoils still read print books
I for one can't WAIT.
>>74330990
Holy fucking shit, desu. I didn't even know this. I feel ashamed.
>>74331514
>>everything in digital archives controlled by Amazon, Google, and Microsoft
falling at the first hurdle, m8. check torrent sites. Basically any book you want is there, DRM free.
>not keeping digital archives of your own
it's like you WANT to find reasons to cuck yourself.
>>74331338
>>74330990
Do I have to buy an old print to get the original version?
>>74330763
The Fountainhead
Atlas Shrugged
>>74331514
This. I read electronically because it's free and instant, but there's nothing to compare to the printed word.
MAKES ME WANNA VOTE FOR BERNIE
>>74327624
I'm sure it was a joke
>>74331687
The best part about real books is that the government cannot take them away when they decide they're subversive.
>>74330763
Brave new world, 1984, animal farm. Atlas shrugged if you read fast. It's basically 250 pages worth of content expanded into four times that.
>>74330763
Read the Unabomber manifesto (Industrial Society and it's Future) just for the philosophy
Otherwise Kurt Vonnegut, start with Player Piano
>>74331823
this, I got the point like just over half way though, then got tired of it and quit
>>74331650
>torrent sites
Won't exist in this hypothetical fringe future.
And even if they do, no one outside of fringe "criminals" will be aware of them.
>hosting your own digital archive
Sure, if you have original copies. Let's say I'm just a 20 year old who senses something fishy is going on in 2120. Government's demolished most torrent sites it doesn't want around. I don't have any copies of my own because I was born into this world only recently and my parents didn't have a collection.
Fuck you, print stays.
>>74328575
>he doesn't pirate his books and load them onto a Kindle
Look at this grandpa. Look at him and laugh.
>>74331855
Vonnegut is hopelessly middlebrow and mostly liked because he's easy to read and sometimes provides little cartoons. His animus towards the US is also incredibly parochial.
>>74332018
>Let's say I'm just a 20 year old who senses something fishy is going on in 2120. Government's demolished most torrent sites it doesn't want around. I don't have any copies of my own because I was born into this world only recently and my parents didn't have a collection.
tbqh this is the exact reason everyone should own printed books
>>74332018
>hypothetical fringe future.
Then why should I care? We can all make up futures. Besides, in this "hypothetical fringe future", i'll still have my archives of hundreds of thousands of books on HDD, and so will many, many other people. Unless they use super EMP devices and spider robots to destroy them in this cuckhold fantasy of yours?
>Let's say I'm just a 20 year old who senses something fishy is going on in 2120. Government's demolished most torrent sites it doesn't want around. I don't have any copies of my own because I was born into this world only recently and my parents didn't have a collection.
If you were interested, you'd find someone who DID have them. Because plenty will.
How many people would be willing to GIVE you their original print of a book which was released over a hundred years ago, and is rare as fuck, even if it's still legible?
Print books don't last that long anyway, and end up in the hands of collectors. No problem with digital copies.
>>74328065
>we'll implement it in the exact same way as before
>woooooooow why didn't it work? Must be those white males!
>>74331650
>check torrent sites
Most retards can't even do this today. Imagine what it'd be like in the closely guarded future that the guy you're replying to is imagining
All the information would be locked off to all but the 1% of people willing to find it.
All political fiction novels are just propaganda of one sort or another. I say good riddance.
>>74332259
The point is that physical media is a lot harder to modify than digital media.
Now kindly stop being autistic.
>>74332282
Then again, most retards don't care about books these days either. They'll go to waterstones and eat up whatever chick-lit rape fantasy that they find on the bestseller shelves.
>>74328113
I read physical books because I prefer them. No shit about "muh feels" or whatever other shit people say, I just prefer reading off screen.
>>74332353
>The point is that physical media is a lot harder to modify than digital media.
Tell me how you're going to modify the hundred thousand books i've got on the unplugged hard drive in my desk drawer, smartass.
>>74328113
Good goy only buy digital don't worry nothing will happen to your files hehehe.... And make sure not to go to the book/movie/game shop you can just download/pirate/ order it from amazon hehehe...
>>74329802
Didn't even work there in the end
>>74332157
I don't know if it's the nature of the writing, but I really cannot stand Vonnegut. I wish I could reanimate his corpse so I could punch him in the face.
>>74332572
>buy digital
>buy
yeah, not an issue. And if you're trying to imply that zionists favour piracy, you've never seen hollywood jews crying over lost DVD revenue and cinema ticket sales.
>>74332435
Since the gov't knows you downloaded these books, they could always modify your life with a gun. Then it's goodnight Mr. Subversive.
>>74332730
The government keeps records of torrents I downloaded 3 years ago, in a different country, behind a proxy?
Fuck off. The government doesn't even know not to fuck up my names on the electoral register..
>>74332681
>implying they won't just get you to pay a $1000 fine for a $70 game
>>74327624
Fuckiing liberals
>>74332856
>implying they fucked it up by accident
Yes Goy the government is so incompetent don't worry they're just dumb they aren't a threat to you
>>74328113
A cigarette and a book will forever be cooler than an vape and a kindle.
>>74328065
>communism
You mean national socialism?
>>74332856
>The government keeps records of torrents I downloaded 3 years ago, in a different country, behind a proxy?
Yes, and they intend to come a-calling.
Ribs in peas, we hardly knew ye.
>>74332971
That's a newspaper.. and a cigar.
>>74332971
I don't know how anyone can even justify "owning" digital media. Your hard drive goes kaput and that's it or what if the company goes bankrupt and shuts their service down?
>>74329439
>You haven't heard of Poe's law?
meme.
I barely shitpost and actually say honest opinions.
/pol/ finds answers where normally they are not found.
>>74327624
>>74328219
I was highly surprised something so redpilled as that was on a high school reading list
>>74333296
I mean f451, animal farm and 1984 are all terrible literature
>>74333472
What do you read?
honestly reading anything but the Tao te Ching is a waste of time
>>74329854
Of course Russia misses the goddamn point of the book.
>Burning a book about burning books
He's probably being ironic. Either way Brave New World is a far better version of what a dystopian future could look like, except there would be no social hierarchy.
>>74332856
Ya it doesn't work like that. The information is already there. The con is that they have to look for it and don't always find what they are looking for. Busting people on torrents is likely never to happen.
Why do you think they pressure Sweden to prosecute thepiratepay? They can't round up all the torrent downloaders. It's ridiculous.
>>74327624
Nigger, I've been on /pol/ for years. You really think some random pic is going to cause an emotional response from me?
lulz
>>74333556
Pynchon, Joyce, Proust, Faulkner, Nabokov (excluding his pedo shit) are probably my top 5
The books I mentioned are contrived mostly built on cliches, like yeah I hate commies more than the next guy, but making a pig a symbolism for greed isnt good lit. The onyl notable thing out of any of the 3 books I named is the concept of thought crimes, but one good concept alone doesn't make a good book
>>74333981
>Joyce
>Faulkner
Commit suicide at any moment. Thank you.
>>74328653
Yes because apparently you think you electronic devices are immortal and will never be destroyed or wiped. Hell if it runs out of electricity, NO MORE BOOKS.
Also it's about separating ones live so you're not just spending all of it in front a screen. I guess us older people who grew up without the Internet in our faces 24/7 get that.
>>74328678
>I'm trying to decode and digest the information within it.
You can do that with a paper copy too. My problem here is that you faggots act like that's not possible anymore because YOU WERE BORN and now everything before you is suddenly obsolete. It's a young and dumb attitude to have.
>>74332119
>I'm admitting to being underaged b8
Good job kid. Read a book.
>>74333976
>I DONT EVEN FEEL ANYTHING ANYMORE
>>74328405
yeah, its a good book, especially if you read and like 1984 or brave new world you definitely like it
>>74333976
>>74334152
>CRAWLINGGGG IN MY SKINNNNN
>>74334088
Not surprising the moron that enjoys trash has qualms with the 2 authors from my list withe the most difficult prose
>>74328113
Woah, youre a fucking moron
>>74328004
It is great, animal farm is great too
>>74327624
>This is up there with Animal Farm when it comes to political commentary
Hahahahahahahahahahahaha dirty commie got triggered by parody
>>74333311
Especially considering that high schools literally teach about white privilege and feminist shit.
>>74328004
>finest
Haha nah...
Its good though I like it.
>>74328219
Really? I knew it was about censorship but I can't find anything to back that claim up. That would be great if it is true though.
>>74327624
Getting chased by the mechanical hound
Kids in school are supposed to read at least two out of Fahrenheit 451, Animal Farm, 1984, and A Brave New World.
But that's probably a thing of the past.
>>74335206
>that feel when you didn't get to read this shit at school
At least we did some shakespeare and got to watch hotel rwanda
>>74327990
>>74328113
Should at least recycle it.
>>74328219
Do you have a source on this?
>>74329823
>>74329963
>>74330592
>>74330782
1984 had no escape and no way to win though.
One might even say it represents today's political world, even /pol/ admits Dems and Repubs are one in the same.
Hell, we already have NSA and even if /pol/ is joking, who knows what watch lists we're on. Not to mention Facebook.
>>74334334
I was shitposting.
>>74335556
who cares about the watchlists
they can't get us unless they kill or inhumanely imprison all of us and doing that would just cause more to take our place
>>74335206
All I got was Animal Farm in my senior year of high school, back in 2006.
>>74335206
I read all of those except Brave New World
>>74333311
>>74334699
It was the 69th most challenged book during 2000-2009
http://www.ala.org/bbooks/top-100-bannedchallenged-books-2000-2009
>>74335206
We had 1984, BNW and Lord of the Flies as required reading, Yank stuff was relegated to films only
>>74327624
I think it's pretty god damn hilarious that liberals unironically hate classic sci-fi and dystopia stories like that.
>>74335206
I had Fahrenheit 451 freshman year.
Read Lord of the Flies sophomore year.
>>74332971
Reading and smoking sounds like a fucking pain in the ass. You'd have to keep putting down the book and picking it up, unless it was one of those really small ones that you can hold in one hand like my animes.
Sure as fuck ain't going to do it while reading Infinite Jest.
>>74328219
Okay now I'm fucking mad
>>74335206
We did 1984 and Animal Farm
The only non-British book I had to study was Of Mice and Men which was fucking terrible. Such a bad book
>>74328113
Oh boy a tripfag. Remember to give him attention
>>74327624
The ironing is just like pottery
>>74335909
You probably just like rabbits or are upset by misogyny
>>74335206
I graduated last year and distinctly remember reading Fahrenheit 451 my Sophomore year because it was the only one I enjoyed, though I was in the ~*special*~ college prep course.
HOWEVER, I don't know if anyone else shares my anecdote, but (almost) every one of my English teachers was a bitchy, single/divorced feminist who hated men. Really sucked, because it's my best subject, but I had to drop it my senior year because I just knew the teacher was a man hating cunt (and got confirmation later in the year from my friends who were in the class).
>>74335206
Flower's For Algernon was another one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjQUIxPXuXQ
>>74330763
The Hand that Holds the World by C.R. McMahon
He was a name fag at 8 chan and regularly writes short stories for them.
It is a short book but it is damn good.
http://www.lulu.com/shop/cr-mcmahon/the-hand-that-holds-the-world/ebook/product-22264177.html
>>74329031
And what good are all those e books gonna do when there's no electricity? Physical is superior in that aspect.
>>74336068
My English teacher was a short, elderly man who loved Frank Zappa and would play dadrock loud enough everyone in the vicinity of his classroom could hear during lunch breaks
>>74336179
What's the point when your glasses break?
>>74327624
This has to be b8. Specifically since Animal Farm, along with 1984 are almost 1:1 critiques on the modern day West. I mean as if burning the book about burning books wasn't an obvious enough sign.
>>74330763
We by Yvengy Zamatyin
Slynx by Tatiyana Tostaya
A Clockwork Orange
Shockwave Rider
A Canticle for Leibowitz
A Scanner Darkly
>>74336260
Aw shit, nigga be pullin this out from a classic episode of The Twilight Zone and shit.
Has anyone here read The Hand that Holds the World?
Or was it only spread through 8-chan's /pol/?
>>74330592
There's nothing free about being a slave to your own vices.
>>74327624
it only make sense after you read The Illustrated Man and The Martian Chronicles.
>>74330592
You realize that only the upper class people got that sex/drugged out life? More than likely the vast majority of us would be the poor fags who are bred to work and not think outside of our shit jobs and place in life.
>>74336260
Kek
>>74336040
No it was just boring as fuck, I lie we did one other American piece of literature which was "Death of a Salesman". That was actually good.
I just think "Of Mice and Men" is a meme book, similar to Kerouac's "On the Road"
>>74336260
What's the point if you don't have time now, anyways?
>>74327624
Tards gonna tard, mang
>>74328113
Reading books on the mobiles and tablets hurt my eyes. Plus having a physical collection is nice
>>74336673
It's basically the debate of murder. Lot of filler I guess.
The mob would have killed Lenny, and probably got away with it, while George goes on trial
>>74335852
look at the amateur who has to use both hands to read a book holy shit
>>74329963
1984 was scarier desu. At least in Brave New World if you start to think freely they don't kill you, they just put you in a society of people who do the same and leave you alone. In 1984 the ride never ends, no matter which authority you make it to.
>>74327624
I wouldnt fuckin know senpai, ive never read it. I am at page 900 of pic related, and if I ever saw someone burn it, I would probably beat them half to death for being a nigger
>>74336897
oh wait i forgot trump checks /pol/
never read it but I know the general story
I think it's funny
>>74335909
>>74336673
I know someone who is kind of a retard and Of mice and men is one of the only books he's ever read, and he actually understood it and liked it.
Take that however you will. I thought it was okay but entirely forgettable.
>>74332977
National socialism actually works
They killed hitler because they didn't want the world to know
>>74336982
>falling for the rand meme
>>74332157
Meh I thought player piano had some good thoughts on man becoming obsolete and whatever. Not cutting edge, but the man is writing fiction
>>74336982
I threw my copy away cause I was at page 400 and was done
>>74335716
Wait why the fuck was it even called to get banned? It's not something gorey or violent or sexual
The movie from the 60s is very cheesy
>>74336982
I don't like reading about some repressed kike's sexual and power fantasies.
>>74330763
Read "the camp of the saints" its the most prophetic of any dystopian book ive ever read
>>74331678
OK those aren't bad suggestions but I personally think she's a hack and I can't stand her writing
>>74337232
Uppity parents
>In 1987, Fahrenheit 451 was given "third tier" status by the Bay County School Board in Panama City, Florida, under then-superintendent Leonard Hall's new three-tier classification system. Third tier was meant for books to be removed from the classroom for "a lot of vulgarity". After a resident class-action lawsuit, a media stir, and student protests, the school board abandoned their tier-based censorship system and approved all the currently used books.
>In 1992, Venado Middle School in Irvine, California gave copies of Fahrenheit 451 to students with all "obscene" words blacked out. Parents contacted the local media and succeeded in reinstalling the uncensored copies.
>In 2006, parents of a tenth grade high school student in Montgomery County, Texas, demanded the book be banned from their daughter's English class reading list. Their daughter was assigned the book during Banned Books Week, but stopped reading several pages in due to the offensive language and description of the burning of the Bible. In addition, her parents protested the violence, portrayal of Christians, and depictions of firemen in the novel.
>>74337248
>>74337248
But the updated remake with gun-fu is actually pretty badass.
[Equilibrium]
>>74335852
It really ain't that bad.
It gets tricky if you're trying to read and have a cheeky smoke outside with a high wind. Pages flap all to shit and you've got ash and lung-caressing bits flying all around your head.
And I do like it a lot.
>>74330592
Do you want to birth a chaos god and collapse our civilisation you fucking hedonistic faggot?
>>74335206
I did all of those except f451 between grade 5 and 9, although I think only animal farm was assigned, pretty sure Lord of the Flies as well which I think is far better than animal farm.
>>74331650
>Need Internet
>Need access to 'illegal' torrent sites
>Have private literature reading electronic device
>Have power/electricity readily available
m8 I don't think you know how dystopian futures work.
>>74337602
Gunfu these digits
>>74335206
>>74335409
I read Animal Farm and 1984 in school, although from my understanding national standards in the US are a lot more uniform than they are in Australia, or at least they were.
>>74337158
>Falling for the liberal and doing good for others meme
>>74337220
>he doesnt read fast
That sucks bro, you missed a lot of dank shit, the book can feel slow at times in increments of 20 pages or so, I get where you are coming from
>>74337329
>Falling for the 99% of females dont want to submit and be dominated meme
Its basically what every woman would write about sex, you can tell she tries to justify cheating like how she did in real life however, I'll give you that. Typical female shit, but other than that the book was great at depicting the evil that is liberalism and cronyism in the government. Also hits the nail on the head of just how incompetent the government is and why people are led into communism
>>74337532
>her parents protested the violence, portrayal of Christians, and depictions of firemen in the novel.
Top fucking kek
>>74338062
I read to that in like 2-3 weeks
It was a bore, then I read that there was a speech that went on for 30 pages
fuck that, it hand nothing to do with how fast i read
>>74328574
>Communism will work guys, because I think it will in my head
k den
>>74330763
Atlas Shrugged
>Capitalist who work hard and are doers
>Liberal crony capitalists who virtue signal and bullshit their way to the top through shady deals
>How liberal pieces of shit institute communism
>Chick that likes to get submitted and dominated in bed
Berry gud writing is 8/10, only because i feel it is longer than it needed to be but after reading some passages that are 10/10 you are just left in awe of what you just read.
Ideology is also 9/10, very red pilled however a lot of the liberal opponents of the book are kind of strawman-esque, and could have been depicted as todays liberals and just as bad
>>74327624
Absolutely right.
There are no 451 or 1984, it's all brave new world now.
Mankind is shit not because of evil leaders or corporations but because of nature of mankind.
>>74338228
>Democracy will work guys, because I think it will in my head
literally USA politics for twenty years at least
>>74335206
Class of 2012 in a liberal area of the US, teachers were red pilled however cause private school and made me read BNW(incredibly red pilled), a lot of fuckin steinbeck(decent), and a lot of fuckin shaekespeare(which i thought was pointless)
>>74327624
Toasty warm. Burn another.
>>74338398
>muh superman ideologue
Fuck off shitter. The story tried to paint everyone in the nation other than a handful characters were liberal retards.
Shit book. By a shit writer.
>>74338196
>reading only 400 pages in 2-3 weeks
>it had nothing to do with how fast i read
fuckin plebs these days and their shit taste, baka desu senpai
>>74328065
I don't even know what the fuck you're trying to say.
Fahrenheit 451 was written as commentary on the government's hypervigilance for - and censorship of - communism. If you're defending the book, then you should understand that the book is quite literally Bradbury telling the government to get the fuck out of the business of regulating political messages in media. It is, on the narrow scope of communism, defending the communists.
If you're criticizing the book for its "lets not censor communists for their political beliefs," then you're just a cunt. It's called the first amendment. The reason you get to sit on this message board saying shit 90% of Americans would find repulsive is because it exists, and it extends to people you disagree with. Bradbury was ultimately a conservative individual - he was just one of the few conservatives of the time with enough integrity and principle to stand up for people he disagreed with.
>>74337763
So it's like Africa, Middle East, and South America
>>74328574
>one of the best authors of the time
>LOL CHILDRENS BOOK WHO CARES :^)
>>74338603
>It is, on the narrow scope of communism, defending the communists.
I meant on the narrow scope of censorship.
>>74338569
>Atlas Shrugged
>Shit Writer
Pick one, I am assuming you are a nigger because of what you just said, only niggers could truly be this inarticulate to read through all of Atlas Shrugged (im betting you didnt get past the first 100 pages, because of aforementioned niggery) and say she is a shitty writer. Also explain she is a 'superman ideologue', Jamal
>>74327624
Nothing, really. I burned my copy of Rules for Radicals after reading it. It's total trash, and I bet that whoever that motherfucker is has that book enshrined.
>>74327624
>sitting in history class at uni
>hear some fat white tumblrina talking about how scary it is that the world is turning into 1984 thanks to republicans and donald trump
>>74327624
>some edgy high schooler had to read it for their english class
Why should I care?
>>74338757
I wouldn't have been able to remain silent over that one. How in the fuck is the party that just wants to leave you alone turning the country into 1984. It's the liberals that want to throw out the Constitution.
The Road is just depressing
>>74338756
>burning books
fucking idiot, recycle it
>>74328663
Not even surprised monkeys can't read.
>>74338745
Its a BORE
BORE
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>>74338757
>sitting in community college
>watching /pol/fag posting about hot girl w/ bernie 2016 shirt who just turned him down for dinner
>>74331514
>>everything in digital archives controlled by Amazon, Google, and Microsoft
>>slowly but surely novels change
>>literature changes to suit the needs of the current problems facing society
at this point I am 100% convinced this will happen
>>74338398
For someone who's first language is not english, the long descriptions are fascinating. It is an amazing book to read, and it's one of the few times i told myself "this is what good writing feels like" after reading.
>>74328574
>The problems with communism are so basic they can be explained to children through the allegorical happenings to animals.
