what you read/what you expected/what you got thread
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>>7298767
AtD is High-tier Pycnh, it just isn't talked about 'cause people feel intimidated by it's lenghtmuch like Papa Pynch's sexual prowess
>>7299183
Lol
>>7298773
This. Against the Day is his 3rd or 4th best novel.
>>7299183
Clever
>>7299183
heh
>>7299317
was this a good read m8?
corn
>>7300715
ask goodreads fam
>>7300715
Fuck yeah it was.
Not to tout my own corn, but...
>>7298840
I have a copy this shit is legitimately good.
Its so authentically none-standard that is sucks you in and catches you off guard.
>>7302137
Picture for ants?
Does anyone have one for One Hundred Years of Solitude ?
>>7302218
Joke for dinosaurs?
>>7302137
>>7300715
I liked the Cossacks a lot better, but it was good
>>7299317
Most accurate one in thread so far.
>>7298840
Author's description of the front cover:
>The top of this page shows what the front cover of the book looks like. It is actually a scene from the story itself and clearly demonstrates what the story is like. Nearly every aspect of the story is included in this one scene. A cloudless blue sky is present and the ocean is visible 10,000 feet below. The ocean is a bit foggy, with a very high 40-mile visibility. A platform made of bricks with 3 seats, one of which 1/3 the size of the others, hovers above the ocean without falling (a status effect Knuckles added to the platform causes it to levitate). Knuckles is the orchid-colored, small-sized, fur-covered "man" centered in the foreground near the closest edge of the platform. He is viewing a window that shows the stats (strength, speed, HP, etc.) of the blue ball. The blue ball is one of the elemental masters, the one for water. Two of the human characters are sitting in their seats on either side of Knuckles. Ivan is on the left with the orange shirt and longer hair and Tu is on the right. The text is basically an outline type of style with the colors based on the electromagnetic spectrum.
>I actually created this scene using both GIMP and Excel. GIMP was used to draw the scene. Excel was used to do all the calculations (for lighting, fog, vertex plotting, and the shadow casting). This is, perhaps, the greatest single piece of artwork I've ever done, especially at this kind of size (5400x8100 pixels actual - click on the image to view it at 1/4 this size (1350x2025)).
>>7302572
Is this book actually worth reading or is it just an autistic meme?
>>7298840
Breh, whats the fuck is this ?
>>7302615
>he hasn't read The Legeond of the Ten Elemental Masters
>>7302587
I honestly don't believe anyone could successfully read the whole thing. It's maddening.
>>7302637
See for yourself.
http://www.ulillillia.us/stories/10elementalmasters/home.shtml
>>7302637
>Knuckles resembles a human, but with differences. Knuckles is neither male nor female, though referred to as a "he." Three-quarter-inch-thick dark-violet-colored (FFA000E0) fur covers his entire body. He is only 25 1/3 inches tall, 4 inches wide, and 2.5 inches deep. Knuckles gets his name from his large hands, 40% bigger than a human his size would have. A reflective, glittery, greenish (FFA0FF00) haze a half millimeter across borders his pupil. Knuckles has no nose and a mouth 2/3 as big. Every other aspect of his is that of what a human would have for his size. For details on the numerical colors (in parenthesis), see Appendix 5.
>Knuckles casts teleport and everything appears 3000 feet above a rural area near the ocean outside Lagos, Nigeria. The ground, upon arriving, cracks apart. Eight seconds later, it caves in revealing an endless area of dense lightning strikes and sparks that cannot be made out individually. They are generally blue-white (FFD0D0FF) with a few yellow-white (FFFFD0D0) or blue (FFA0A0FF). The visibility through them is only two feet. They are so bright, 40,000 lumens, that, when in camera view, everything else darkens (from the camera adjusting).
>>7302647
That FAQ page is fascinating.
Also, pic related is what amazon has to say about it...
>>7302666
I'm honestly offended that you think comp sci people are like this.
>>7302748
We are though.
>>7300715
One of Tolstoy's best novellas
>>7299200
This is very good.
>>7303005
Don't feel so bad for not reading it then.
>>7302711
Ah, I just picked it up. Quite enjoyable.
>>7300715
Not him but I cried hard at the end. More than any book I can remember.
>>7302647
>that perpetual holiday price
>>7298840
What the fuck? I just read the first few pages and looked up his website.
How can this not be autistic?
>>7305355
too spooky
>>7302441
... you read it in Italian? Why?
>>7299200
lol
>>7306614
What's surprising about people reading things in Italian?
>>7308460
icy you
>>7302572
>he mentions blue
>he doesn't mention the accompanying HTML color code
That is a fraud!
>>7302544
Are you Hungarian?
>>7298740
>we really SHOULD replace H P Lovecraft with her head!
>>7300715
Honestly, no new insight for me. It was actually more optimistic than I expected since that one chap was so kind to him until his death. I guess if it taught me anything it's that life is better than a misanthrope expects it to be, for ever unbelievably callous person there is someone as inexplicably warm hearted. The horror of things being the absolute indifference the world presents to you when everything is taken into account.
>>7302748
Confirmed for never having taken computer science classes
I made this one myself
Attempt at OC.
How are you making these btw? I just made a PP slide, screenshot into paint, but I suppose there must be an easier way.
>>7308912
https://pixlr.com/editor/
>>7308912
paint desu senpai
>>7309358
Jesus Christ, we even have censored words now?
>>7309363
What was it meant to say?
>>7309363
>not knowing what word filters are
>not appreciating the admin bants
Newfag and/or reddit detected
>>7309363
lol PENIS weeaboo duck
>>7309444
nice trips desu senpai
>>7309368
Paint t-b-h i-m-o
I think the mods are trying to make a new weeaboo, or maybe they are just as annoyed as I am with the whole imo desu.
>>7308912
its funny because the bullfight makes this entire post accurate
>>7309557
I appreciate that you've used the superior Gould recording of The Goldberg Variations desu (to be honest) senpai (family)
>>7309363
How new can you be?
>>7302711
So true! It was kind of lame
>>7299183I dun get it.
>>7309577
Does that mean that the bullfight is the finishing touch, or the thing that legitimates the otherwise inaccurate picture?
>>7309741nice one
>>7308840
Is this a good translation then?
>>7309363
faggot
dick
cunt
nigger
kekold
degenerate
testing testing don't mind me
>>7313180
kek
kek
kek
fuck
negro
shit
desu senpai
fucko
desu imo
this is very memelike desu, senpai
>>7298740
>>7299183
Can someone explain the joke to a dumb guy?
>>7315012
Sure, where's he at?
>>7315012
one of the most famous lines in that book is "Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent."
so he couldnt speak of it before he read it, but now that he has read it, he can
>>7314984
kek
saved
>>7313842
Add the thinker to the final column and you're set
>>7305355
Why would you expect nazi opinions from Adorno? He practically championed art entartete
>>7302979
>>7315012
Expectations can't be real without actually knowing something, more or less. It's interesting how memes are becoming strong enough to be entire aphorisms on their own.
>>7309728
What? No! Nazis are boring. Achieving trans-dimensional enlightenment through some cheap jewelry made by some defeated gaijin, that's something else.
This post brought to you by the I Ching.
Fresh OC hot off the press.
Sorry my formatting is kind of dumb on the last frame.
>>7315591
OHHH FUUUUCK I'M SORRY HOW DO I FIX THIS? I READ OLD TEXTS I BARELY KNOW HOW TO USE A COMPUTER
>>7315595
Just crop the image in whatever program you're using.
>>7305439
Ulilililililila is beyond words OCD and rainman like without the chrischan failures.
desu imo
>>7302979
So it's full of friendship and companionship?
>>7314824
And of course the trademark Douglas Adams shit ending.The rest was fine though.
>>7315769
It's the first of his books I've read. I didn't know what I was getting myself into.
>>7315978
Yes you came to the wrong writer for the Thinker m8
Personally I like him, I also recommend the first Dirk Gently.
But again, it also has a very shit ending. He builds up so much stuff happening and it's like Douglas Adams wrote a huge climax but his publisher forgot to actually put it in and then the readers an idiot if he can't figure out that guy in the red suit was apparently supposed to be the devil and the fridge at the end was supposed to be giving birth to a new god?
I remember when I first read Life The Universe And Everything and the ending was so shit and completely failed to explain or resolve any sort of conflict the plot had built up that I actually pirated several copies of the book online just to make sure that my copy wasn't missing a chapter.
It's still fun though.
>>7315990
>It's still fun though.
Indeed. I really enjoyed Adams' sense of humor so I didn't mind that other aspects of the book may have been lacking. It is what it is.
>>7300715
I dare you to find anything as good and as short.
>>7316035
>I really enjoyed Adams' sense of humor
>>7315990
>It's still fun though.
>>7316556
please say 'pleb' next time, dumb frogposter
>>7316556
Oh no! You really got me.
Just because you don't enjoy absurdism doesn't mean nobody else can.
>>7316615
I didn't finish it
>>7315234
i didnt expect nazi opinions but opinions about nazis
>>7302925
This picture pisses me off every time I see it. Talk about a shallow reading.
>>7308819
>>7313059
Yes very good. The origianl middle-english version on the left hand page and a modern translation on the right hand side. Would recommend/10
fresh oc desu
>>7316777
forgot pic
>>7308560
You'd be better of with Robert Silverbergs anthology Worlds of Wonder. It collects a bunch of short stories from the 50s and early-60s that influenced him and he includes an essay about each discussing the technique and style the structure
>>7309358
>desu senpai
Seeing your shit /tv/ all night was bad enough
>>7313842
Why would you expect some animu bullshit
>the solar sailor
That's in the next book
>the woman on the colony
And that's the book after that
>>7316809
>your
"t b h" and "f a m" have been wordfiltered into those respectively, bru
>>7317220
s.h.m and c-uck too
>>7315414
that's extremely accurate. that kafka guy was one hell of a player.
>>7317220
What filters to "imo"?
>>7316628
finally a good one
>>7316898
>that platinum
>>7315978
Tbh senpai
>>7317383
Add marmalade and bread and it's perfect
>>7318133
>>7318518
So, is it good? I only read Seawolf by London and liked it a lot, even though that was years ago and I would probably criticize parts of it now (the second half being a bit dull, for example).
Wolf Larsen is one of my favourite characters in all of literature though.
>>7316719
Camus is shallow desu. Shouldn't even be considered a philosopher.
>>7319605
best
proud of this one
>>7319658
Explain.
>>7319670
he talks about a language between a worker and manager consisting entirely of the worker giving one of 5 command nouns ex. "beam!", "slab!", etc. for something like three pages. He mentions the slab a lot and i'm sitting on a rock in a field of rye trying to focus on this book and all i can think is that fucker from ccd.
>>7319685
manager* giving commands
>>7298767
Bleeding Edge is great, though.
>>7315414
I feel ashamed that I read this book just a few years ago and have already forgotten so much of it. There was just so much damn lounging around... it all ran together into a blob in my memory.
>>7319685
Ok. Now I get the joke, I think.
I'd put Hegel in the got box. Late Witt is surprisingly Hegelian, On Certainty in particular.
>>7302711
top kek
>>7319594
Not him, but if you enjoy Larsen as a character you'll likely enjoy White Fang; the main character and themes are essentially the same and there is a far more satisfying ending. I am biased though as it was the book that taught my ten year old self there is more to literature than just the drivel marketed toward my age group.
>>7316821
>the solar sailor
>That's in the next book
The ships of the Heirodules are discussed in the Book more than in Urth.
>the woman on the colony
>And that's the book after that
What book is after Urth?
>>7319779
Dunno, the ending of Seawolf was maybe not satisfying but I deemed it fitting.
I'll look into White Fang though, thanks.
>>7319779
Also, forgot to mention, that your experience with White Fang is essentially mine with Seawolf.
>>7319701
Hegel is a mind virus. When you get a handle on what he's all about, you see his influence everywhere.
>>7319788
>>7319793
I must admit that I'm undecided whether I agree with his ending. It was definitely foreseeable, but to me that just made it all the more infuriating, and I'm still trying to figure out why. Currently I blame it on how London's intense fascination and portrayal of the character seems to contrast the cruelty and protagonist's bland 'ride off into the sunset' at the end. It honestly seemed as though he was so hell bent on proving his point that he adulterated the way everything turned out, went against his natural instinct and judgement. This is, of course, just my subjective interpretation. He is the author and therefore the only source that can claim what is canon and not. I'm not saying I don't accept the ending and I'm not screaming that he ended his story wrong or anything. I guess it just seemed forced.
I must admit that I'm interested in how you will perceive White Fang, since you're reading the two books in the opposite order I read them. Larsen is a stellar character exemplified by the setting and protagonist's viewpoint, though White Fang seems more polished (and less raw) overall.
desu senpai
>>7319960
So fucking true. I really had myself psyched up for so,e cyberpunk romp in the hands of the master, instead it was the usual discursive nonsense plot- wise and overall the worst of his novels
>>7319960
that book was just one big 'jews did 911' meme after meme
>>7320008
Wait. Why would Pynchon go against his own?
