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>>11908372
These threads are a good idea that always suffer from lousy execution, instead of cluttering up the frame with a thousand and one images JUST...PICK...ONE. It's supposed to be a setup for a punchline, there should be perhaps a subtle irony, or some unexpected sublimity from what was assumed to be unworthy material. Like somebody posting "Catcher in the Rye," what they expected is a picture of some dude leaning against a brick wall with a look of grim defiance, then what they got is a baby crying in a nursery. Or vice-versa. Or "American Psycho," and what was expected is a picture of Ted Bundy, and what they got is Lady Gaga in her dress made out of meat. Stop trying to be verbose, just express yourselves simply and honestly. You could have posted What I Read-Anabasis, What I Expected-*B&W photo of old, dry, bespectacled professor smoking a pipe* What I Got-*Poster for "300." Tell a joke, tell a story, this is /lit/.

>>11909625
go back

>>11909625
>please dumb these memes down!
>one image is enough!

I’d make a giant one with 200+ images but I’m stuck on a phone

>>11909637
Brevity is the soul of wit.

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>>11909637
this is the type of person who would rather read Jack Kerouac than TS Eliot

>>11909642
layered jokes > facebook meme

>>11909637
Yeah, and nobody would give a shit anyway, I totally agree, Fuck Autism, you guys and your inability to differentiate between stimuli causing a associative panic inducing you to act out on every input without prioritizing

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>>11909661
nothing like good old-fashioned memeology to rile up the pseuds

>>11909666
nothing like apes flinging their feces at the wall and eating what doesn't stick to concern the zookeepers about mental defects? you betcha

>>11909666
satanic trips of truth

>>11909625
yes but instead of making a long autistic post like a newfag, do it right. that's all it takes for posters to pick up on the difference

>>11908430
should i read this book?

>>11911156
depends

should one ever do anything

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>>11909625
>It's supposed
No it's not.

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>>11909625
this desu

>>11909625
good post

>>11909625
never really understood why people care about this. Like I go to these threads more often for recommendations or to get a sense of what certain books I've yet to read are like. I don't really go because I find these funny. The images that include collages are nice because it gives me an idea of some of the many things dealt with in a book.

>>11911492
im thinking of reading the bell jar by Sylvia plath. worth the read??

>>11913035
Yeah. I was in the middle of a major depressive period when I read it and it really hit home.

>>11908372
This thread, AIDS, Cancer

>>11911297
brainlet reporting in, someone explain the joke to me?

>>11911280
This one is better

>>11914910
This but with Eragon/ Eldest series

>>11911273
Fixed

>>11909704
Many manuals/textbooks of statistical disorders have been produced.
Where are the MANUALS/TEXTBOOKS OF MENTAL ORDERS?
Perhaps to create such a thing is to inhabit a civilisation. Perhaps not.

>>11915167
Inhibit*

>>11911271
Shit son
>>11911286
Poor execution
>>11911295
More garbage...did you guys even read these books?
>>11911297
Boo
>>11911300
Yuk yuk yuk
>>11911492
Kek here we go!
>>11914523
HAHA KANYE BASED!!!
>>11914617
10/10
>>11914987
Laziness

>>11909625
He's right you know

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>>11915318
It's a joke about how kanye is called 'ye'
I can see why this would go over your head

>>11908372
>called the Anabasis of Cyrus
>95% of the book takes place after Cyrus falls into the dirt

>>11909642
How to spot a retard: the post.

>>11915440
You got my attention.

>>11911273
Pretty accurate if you put the expected part into the got but just made it really small. Also the entire middle section where he lays about doing nothing.

>>11911291
It has far more of the bottom of your expected than your got.

>>11909625
calm down autist

>>11915147
"what i got" looks way better desu

>>11909625
this man is getting crucified for speaking the truth. stay based my man

>>11909625
based

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>>11916491
nice!

The Stranger

>>11916669
based

>>11911156
It's a bit confusing but darkly humorous in places. not a bad read. Every "I" (as in I am) is replaced by "Ah" (as in ah am) if it annoys you.

>>11916594
Explain

>>11916669
L'Etranger*

The whole book is literally all about samurai killing random people and/or themselves.

>>11916800
You thought it would be about literal wolves?

>>11916186
oh he doesn’t know about Kanye, what a pseud amiright

>>11916812
>The whole book is literally all about samurai killing random people and/or themselves.
But is it based or cringe? Red or bluepilled?

>>11916806
Are this board fucking french?

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>>11916823
Is*

Fixed.

>>11916823
>Are this board fucking french?
>Are this board
Well, it's clearly not fluent in English.

>>11916828
I intended to write "are you fucking french?"

This thread has been so shit.
>>11916669
except this
>>11916800
and this has me interested.

>>11916835
Oh, no I was just making a dumb pseudo-joke on how the image was in Italian and the poster wrote it in English by throwing in the title in another language.

>>11916858
It's portuguese.

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>>11916869
I feel pity for your ignorance.

>>11916818
It's okay you didn't get the joke

>>11916873
I think it went over your head.

>>11916877
You think you know how to meme. Kek.

>54 people in this thread

>>11916889
>You're only allowed to post once per thread on a discussion board
That's a nice selfie.

>>11916801
Dumb weeb humor, you aren't missing much.
Evangelion used that same line, its from a Robert Browning poem

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>>11916812
*killing for the honour of your landlord. And killing your trainees, because they are a dissapointment.

>>11911288
God that rhinoplasty scene still makes me wanna vom

>>11917039
lmao

>>11917043
i remember dropping this in hs because i knew it wasnt going to actually end. got to the part where he is living in like the school with that chick he picked up at that bar. is it worth finishing? i havent read kafka in like 10 years

>>11916822
This part of the book is exemplary for the whole book:

You are a samurai. Your trainee is buying food in the harbour and gets in a fight with a sailor. What should you do?

The books answer: The samurai ends both; His trainee for not being able to solve his problems in an adequate manner and therefore being a blamage to the landlord - and the sailor gets killed for daring to fight your trainee,

The book does not tell you, what the adequate bahaviour should have looked like.

>>11916822
Based but stupid. You will smile a lot.

>>11913035
If you like reading the (I have to admit pretty well written but ultimately) useless rambling of a girl without a personality, then yes.

>>11917043
Das Schloss = Patrizier-Geschmack
Der Prozess = Plebejer-Geschmack
Das Schloss ist unironisch sein bestes Werk

>>11917134
I can't deciper the name of the top left hand book.
Pleas halp.

>>11917151
Marcus Aurelius

>>11908372
Great idea for a thread. Oh god my sides hurt a bit now.

>>11917155
Aaaaaaah. Thanks alot! Have never seen this cover for his Meditations.

>>11915892
That’s actually a really great book

>>11917039

underrated post. this made me fart.

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>>11917164
these have always existed...
made me look at 2015 in the archives, have a best of

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>>11916798
i recently read the "Restored Edition" of A Clockwork Orange with all the "russian" words and it was very annoying. So this might be too... but I was asking whether or not the book is good. I'm probably going to read it cuz i have a copy.

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>>11917271
I am new to lit.
Its really refreshing. German literature forums are overhelmingly stupideous nowadays; full of publishers who shill for their self.

>>11917299
man this is so fucking accurate

>>11917118
The structure of it is like an endless spiral, since K. can't ever get to the castle and there are always new obstacles arising , so it not having an end is sort of fitting

>>11916806
L'Autisme

>>11917356
Where are the German literature forums I'm currently in Germany and I'm trying to learn German. /lit/ can be incredible but only once ever so often after you've spent hours lurking through trash threads every week for the past three years of your life, continuing until you realize how much of your free time is spent reading garbage.

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>>11917436
lel

>>11911156
yes, it's very good

>>11915318
>shit opinions

>>11917479
It's both of those things desu

What retarded newfag doesn't name these threads /corn/?

>>11909625
>Tell a joke, tell a story, this is /lit/.

>>11918139
this funny

>>11916806
the effeminate language

>>11916892
there are only like 12 guys who post once every six hours, wtf??

>>11918295
The corn meme was lukewarm at best.

>>11918139
very accurate

>>11915010
lol crying chad is my life story

>>11911273
>filename
got a chuckle

>>11916858
>Italian

>>11911288
I doubt I even got all the terminology in the rhinoplasty chapter but I felt light headed when I read it - on the verge of passing out. Somehow that convinces me it was a particularly great passage. I loved V, I think the only thing that stopped me from giving it a full five stars was the Moby dick ending.(Although I suppose it was still bizzare enough to fit the overall narrative)

>>11911271
Are those guys on the right cartel members about to be decapitated or something?

>>11913035
A lot of whining, neurosis, and entitlement. Still kind of a fun read, but don't expect to gain any insight into anything other than how unstable and insecure women who are well above average intelligence (yet still not brilliant) often are.

>>11915440
Is that Pablo Escobar?

>>11909625
Saved

>>11916669
>Albert Camus
>O Estrangeiro
You don't way?

>>11911305
>"Dude this little kid had a massive fucking dick"
What did Murakami mean by this?

>>11917271
Hearty chuckle.

>>11917289
What is that picture of? Is it the mass suicides in Berlin at the end of the war?

>>11918496
This made me laugh much harder than it should have.

>>11909625
>there's only one correct way to meme

>>11919027

only oldfags will get this

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>>11917278
Saving this to show my friend.

oc

>>11920985
doesn't everybody make the wrong assumption the first time they hear the title?

>>11923359
of course, but newfags don't know quentin

>>11923376
I thought that was secondary to the joke and I wouldn't bother remembering it I didn't already

>>11911504
10/10
>>11916669
não poderia resumir melhor