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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 20:19:25 No.7304091 View Reply Report Delete

Quoted By: >>7304097 >>7304108 >>7304111

>/r9k/ the book

I just finished this, /lit/, and I have no idea what to make of it. I found it hilarious, sure, but I find myself wanting something more of it, though I don't know what. What feels did this make you feel?

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 20:20:08 No.7304097 Report Delete

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>>7304091

Same

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 20:22:45 No.7304108 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>7304168

>>7304091
>I found it hilarious, sure, but I find myself wanting something more of it
That was my exact reaction as well. I have the same problem with Douglas Adams too: his books are smart and funny, but nothing more. They're missing pathos, tragedy, sacrifice, and all the other things that make a book an amazing, deep experience. I just can't care much for books that only make me chuckle a bit.

It's only my personal taste, though. Lots of people seem to find them complete works.

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 20:23:11 No.7304111 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>7304138 >>7304168

>>7304091

I'm only some 50 pages into it. Put it down a few weeks ago and started reading the Gogol I hadn't gotten around to yet.

I was alternating between amusement and disgust for those 50 pages. Mostly disgust though. Does it get markedly better? I'm going to finish it, but it really didn't captivate me that much.

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 20:23:51 No.7304114 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>7304138 >>7304144 >>7304147

I found this text extremely problematic in it's depiction of a young politically active strong womyn as being interested in the opinions of a reactionary obese, autistic neckbeard.
this could lead obese autistic neckbeards to the delusion that womyn want to hear what they have to say.

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 20:25:23 No.7304122 Report Delete

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Do the coloreds know how they're depicted in this?

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 20:30:17 No.7304138 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>7304154

>>7304111
It is absurdly distasteful, but that's the joke. I enjoyed it, but it sure as hell isn't everyone's type of humor. I could compare it to It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, in a way, but I don't enjoy that show.

>>7304114
>>7304122
lel

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 20:31:35 No.7304144 Report Delete

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>>7304114

I would say Traditionalist, not strictly reactionary.

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 20:32:02 No.7304147 Report Delete

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>>7304114

I find your fatshaming, neurodiversity shaming and body-hair shaming rhetoric extremely problematic, you vapid fascist cunt.

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 20:34:04 No.7304154 Report Delete

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>>7304138

Funny, I love that show. I chuckled quite a bit during the small part I've read, so I think I'll see it through to the end. But holy fuck is he atrocious.

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 20:36:43 No.7304168 Report Delete

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>>7304111
>>7304154
I should also mention that it's taken me months to get through this book. I'd pick it up and read a couple chapters in a single and then not pick it up again for weeks. It was enjoyable while I was reading it, but it didn't captivate me.

>>7304108
Interesting that you compare it to Douglas Adams, I'd agree with you. I think I was disappointed by the lack of resolution. It was funny that all the other characters caught in his tornado ended up better off because of him, but that didn't feel like "real" resolution. Whatever became of Reilly? He got away. Which, again, was funny, I appreciated the humor of that. But I was offended! He suffered no ill fate, or tragedy as you put it. He learned nothing. It's frustrating.

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