Goodreads Thread

[Anonymous No.10255148]

[Anonymous No.10255153]

[Anonymous No.10255162]

>>10255153
holy fuck

[Anonymous No.10255181]

Don't look at reviews for novels you enjoy.

[Anonymous No.10255186]

>>10255148
not literally opera, but a soap opera for people who think themselves to be above soap operas is what TBK is

[Anonymous No.10255195]

Give me 1 (one) reason why I should care about the "opinions" of those who for all i know could just be chinese bots that simulate discussion?

[Anonymous No.10255208]

>>10255195
I thought the same thing when I realized how many negative reviews were just women who didn't understand the content. Take everyone's opinion with a grain of salt.

[Anonymous No.10255209]

>>10255181

I hate the shelves these retards have, their recommendation page must be an ugly fucking mess.

[Anonymous No.10255210]

>>10255195

This is a thread to laugh at them anon.

[Anonymous No.10255217]

>muh vagina

are women capable of holding an opinion that doesn't relate to their cunt?

[Anonymous No.10255230]

>>10255195
Why would the chinks bother

[Anonymous No.10255231]

So can these people not enjoy anything published before 2015?

[Anonymous No.10255271]

>>10255231
how can lvoecraft be a massagonist and a anti-semite when he married a jewish women? Checkmeat, alex

[Anonymous No.10255522]

>>10255148
Understandble
Wrong but understandable

[Anonymous No.10255542]

>>10255271
Anti-semites and jewesses make great couples

[Anonymous No.10255564]

>>10255217
no, cause thats all that makes them useful

[Anonymous No.10255581]

>>10255271
but she left when he went into /pol/ overdrive

[Anonymous No.10255583]

>>10255271
serious answer: he was an oldschool "cultural" anti-semite that believed jews needed to be assimilated and that by marrying her he was uplifting her beyond jewishness. she didn't really appreciate this and dumped him after a month.

[Anonymous No.10255584]

>>10255153
>slut-shaming
lol

[Anonymous No.10255598]

I once destroyed a table because of the Heart of Darkness and Moby Dick reviews. Maddening, sickening and enraging.
>Teaching a woman to read and write? What a terrible thing to do! Like feeding a vile snake more poison.

[Anonymous No.10255629]

This one isn’t that bad but that one name tickled me.

[Anonymous No.10255634]

>>10255629
>shakespeare
>palahniuk

[Anonymous No.10255688]

I would be very impressed if anyone managed to guess the novel. The line is quite famous, but not for the horrifically, violently racist part.

[Anonymous No.10255711]

ITT: women are vapid retards and incomplete human beings.

[Anonymous No.10255714]

>>10255629
>Chuck Pahlaniuk
>best writers in history

[Anonymous No.10255717]

>>10255148

[Anonymous No.10255723]

>>10255688
harry potter?

[Anonymous No.10255726]

>>10255688
I'm gonna say Heart of Darkness?

[Anonymous No.10255727]

>>10255717
kant was a manlet

[Anonymous No.10255731]

>>10255688
which language is the original in?

[Anonymous No.10255736]

>>10255717
>shag by a woman with enormous tracts of land
Is land ownership some sort of peculiar British fetish?

[Anonymous No.10255737]

>>10255723
>>10255726
No
>>10255731
English. Several of the author’s novels have appeared on /lit/ Top 100s though not this particular one.

[Anonymous No.10255741]

>>10255153

[Anonymous No.10255749]

>>10255714
B..EOTC

[Anonymous No.10255780]

>>10255688
I wanna say Huck Finn maybe?

[Anonymous No.10255784]

Why are it always women who write the most closed-minded cringe-inducing "reviews"?

[Anonymous No.10255790]

>>10255784
They're all feeble narcissists who can't see past their tits.

[Anonymous No.10255794]

>>10255780
Nope. 20th Century.

[Anonymous No.10255804]

>>10255688
Pynchon

[Anonymous No.10255810]

>>10255804
Earlier

[Anonymous No.10255823]

>>10255810
Faulkner?

[Anonymous No.10255825]

stop it

[Anonymous No.10255831]

>>10255688
faulkner?

[Anonymous No.10255832]

[Anonymous No.10255836]

>>10255823
>>10255831
Closer, but not American.

[Anonymous No.10255839]

;^)

[Anonymous No.10255845]

>>10255836
Joyce?

[Anonymous No.10255851]

>>10255845
Getting there, east a bit.

[Anonymous No.10255857]

>>10255851
Conrad?

[Anonymous No.10255863]

>>10255851
Woolf?

[Anonymous No.10255871]

>>10255863
Yes, congratulations. It was Orlando.

>He — for there could be no doubt of his sex, though the fashion of the time did something to disguise it — was in the act of slicing at the head of a Moor which swung from the rafters.

[Anonymous No.10255872]

Andrew BTFO's #Dostoshitski

[Anonymous No.10255873]

>>10255231
What about this terrible editor adding endings Lovecraft's stories?

[Anonymous No.10255882]

>>10255839

[Anonymous No.10255884]

>>10255872
forg

[Anonymous No.10255887]

>>10255871
tf.... was just about to buy it but wont support a racist white bitch

[Anonymous No.10255892]

>>10255884
Holy... I want more Andrew.

[Anonymous No.10255903]

>>10255892
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/407427-andrew?shelf=read

He reads a ton of pulp sci-fi, all of which he loves, C&P seems to be the odd 1-star-rating out. Hmm.

[Anonymous No.10255913]

>>10255736
idk, but it's good to see Kant triggers primmies

[Anonymous No.10255914]

>>10255181
>le-sigh

[Anonymous No.10255916]

>>10255839
Why is God always in the sky for these people?

[Anonymous No.10255956]

Dostoievski is the one author to which the pleb "people don't like it, they have Stockholm syndrome" applies.
His books are the most melodramatic, verbose, cheap apollogetic shit to ever grace the west.

[Anonymous No.10255964]

>>10255956
>t. underage embryo

[Anonymous No.10255970]

>>10255839

perfectly

calm

[Anonymous No.10255985]

>>10255583
she still sucked his uncircumcised goy cock and loved it

[Anonymous No.10255995]

>>10255884
I completely agree with him

[Anonymous No.10256007]

>>10255884
This is actually a well-written and coherent criticism, especially considering this guy mainly reads sci-fi.

[Anonymous No.10256009]

[Anonymous No.10256014]

>>10256009
>tfw no dadaist gf

[Anonymous No.10256015]

>>10255956
This is true, it's philosophy for people too lazy to read actual philosophy. In principle no better than Sartre or Camus.

[Anonymous No.10256028]

>>10255581
he went into /pol/ overdrive BECAUSE she left

[Anonymous No.10256063]

>>10256014
all women are dadaists

[Anonymous No.10256132]

>>10255916
These people stopped attending church around the age of 13. They've never read any serious theology. They have a child's understanding of Christianity.

These people have never read any serious philosophy. They're incapable of considering anything that is not material. I've heard their demagogues accuse Plato of basically setting the stage for the destruction of Western civilization (lol) because of his theory of forms.

These people are only familiar with the apologetic methodology that is based on looking at creatures and then reasoning up to God. And this they only get from snippets of youtube videos where a skeptical science enthusiast deconstructs a William Lane Craig talk.

[Anonymous No.10256143]

>>10256132
I'm the guy you (you)'d. I once tried to tell a tutorial teacher who introduced us to Platonic Heaven that I thought abstractions or maths was a representational vehicle for God or Logos. He just thought I was crazy.

I'm not a very religious person, actually an agnostic. So, I think I got the idea from Lennox tbqh

[Anonymous No.10256150]

>>10255688
What the fuck Raimi?????

[Anonymous No.10256151]

Life is too short to read Ulysses.

[Anonymous No.10256159]

>>10256132
What is a mature understanding of Christianity?

[Anonymous No.10256171]

>>10256151
I've read it twice brainlet

[Anonymous No.10256185]

Literally what?
Clearly there were some pages missing in my copy of Walden because I missed the part where he said his way of life was only the correct one.

[Anonymous No.10256190]

>>10255903
>Man with shit taste in books gives incredible book a bad review
Weird

[Anonymous No.10256195]

>>10256171
as a bloke with an english degree, i guess i'm supposed to extol all thing joycian and gladly turn myself self over to the church of joye. after all, that's what english grads do, right? we revel in our snobbery and gloat about having read 'gravity's rainbow' and 'ulysses' start to finish.

well, i may be in the minority when i say i didn't care for this book at all. i get that it's a complex book with innumerable references to greek mythology, heavy allegories, dense poetry wacky structures, and to some serves as a sort of mental masturbation. however, i think it's also pretty unreadable. maybe i'm old-fashioned, but i think books should be accessible and readable. it's something john steinbeck understood all too well. he most definitely wrote for the masses and the 'every man,' and it shows in his work. i prefer books that use simple language to expound on profound truths, not necessarily a book that requires me to constanty refer to other sources to help me understand what i've just read. this, of course, is just my opinion and should be taken as nothing more.

i'm hesitant to say that anyone who gives this book 'five stars' does so because 'ulysses' carries such a cachet amongt the academic elite and intelligentsia, but i think most of them probably do. sure, that's unfair, but i'm really kind of wondering how anyone ever finished it. it's a bit of bore, linguistical acrobatics or not.

if you do decide to read it, definitely get a copy with judge john m. woolsey's treatise on lifting the ban on 'ulysses.' it's a remarkable piece of writing and display's the judges thoughtfulness, eloquence, and fair-mindedness. it's the standard by which all judicial opinions should be judged [no pun intended!].

maybe you'll read 'ulysses,' maybe you won't. if you do and you don't care for it, that's ok. being a great reader doesn't mean you two the critical line.

[Anonymous No.10256203]

>>10256185
>white priv
She absolutely said nothing about that. Why make it about that? It's no where near as bad as the other reviews, you're just a Thoreau fanboy.

[Anonymous No.10256216]

>>10256203
Amanda plz.
Only feminist thotts cut their bangs like that.
>Thoreau fanboy
it's literally the only Thoreau I've ever read.

[Anonymous No.10256225]

>>10256216
>Bangs = Feminazi!
Goodbye, pleb. Your comments are better suited to the section - filled with illiterates - below a sensationalist YouTube video BTFOing university students.

[Anonymous No.10256231]

>>10256195
Ulysses is pretty readable just as a funny and touching story about people in Dublin, I have never read The Odyssey or The Bible

[Anonymous No.10256232]

Reading the 1-star reviews of the Commedia actually makes me feel good. It convinces me more and more that this poem is totally pleb-proof.

[Anonymous No.10256235]

>>10256225
Toastie

[Anonymous No.10256256]

>>10256195
You're saying with many words that you just find it pretentious. Which is by now not only hollow but also terribly cliché criticism.

His verbosity and linguistic playfulness are partly self-serving yes ( which I personally don't see as a negative tbqh; all art is) but mostly aims at creating a profound impression of the characters' psyche; so in that regard it isn't masturbatory/pretentious at all, since what is more "human" than trying to immaculately express the full experience of existing?

[Anonymous No.10256266]

My greatest fear is someone posting one of my reviews, desu.

[Anonymous No.10256267]

>>10256015
At least Camus can help you overcome teenage existential crisis. Dostoievski will only leave you a perpetually scared neurotic wreck.

[Anonymous No.10256271]

Post plebby 5* reviews of patrician books.

[Anonymous No.10256272]

>>10256256
>it's not pretentious, it's just like 2deep4u, my dude
Ulysses is the Ready Player One of "literary nerd" culture.

[Anonymous No.10256274]

>>10256267
Wrong. I became a nihilist bc of Camus in high school and decided to fuck all my friends' girlfriends. He was really no different tbqh.

[Anonymous No.10256277]

The dogs don't talk enough to achieve infactuation.

[Anonymous No.10256280]

>>10256274
"fuck pussy" nihilism is good when compared to "fuck life" nihilism

[Anonymous No.10256294]

>>10255717
This woman probably thinks she is witty and intelligent to. I wonder if she had to read Kant for her class. I wonder what her teachers thought of her. I wonder if these are the people I'll meet if I ever fall for the humanities meme

[Anonymous No.10256302]

>>10255839
>Likes Dostoe
>Mocks Christianity
Women

[Anonymous No.10256308]

>>10256294
> a literal edgy teen
> "to"
> thinks that kant is somewhat hot shit
fuck off

[Anonymous No.10256322]

>>10256185
She's annoyed the prose is to hard for her and feels slighted by the author because she is the exact person he mocks

[Anonymous No.10256331]

>>10256322
He didn't fucking mock anybody in the book. He merely reflected upon the things that felt like they were being lost as society transitioned into the modern age. He even spoke well of some of the changes at some point.
He hung out with a bunch of ice miners who went and skimmed the surface of Walden Pond during the winter with no bad blood between them

She clearly read a different fucking book or something.

[Anonymous No.10256334]

>>10256308
I just didn't take humanities in college dummy, thanks for attributing those other implications you agressive autist

[Anonymous No.10256336]

[Anonymous No.10256343]

>>10256336
>4.12 average rating

Why do most books not go below around a 3.5 rating on goodreads anyway? What is even the point of the average rating?

[Anonymous No.10256351]

>>10256343
It's the same with vidya ratings. People shit their pants if they see something they like get 7/10. Like 7/10 is fucking good. It just means it could have been better.

Everything is either a 10 or a 1 when it comes to ratings these days.

[Anonymous No.10256352]

>>10256272
damn. really changed my mind my man

[Anonymous No.10256385]

Is lit too contrarian for Dostoevsky now?

[Anonymous No.10256421]

>>10256352
>implying changing your mind was my intention
>implying it's possible to change a mind of a determined pseud with reasoning
>implying it's feasible to dissuade an average monolingual anglophone subhuman from relentlessly fellating his mediocre fartsniffing idol

[Anonymous No.10256443]

how dumb do you have to be to misunderstand Confederacy of Dunces?

[Anonymous No.10256462]

>>10256443
>Confederacy of Dunces is the Forrest Gump of literature

[Anonymous No.10256463]

>>10256443
that's what this simpleton was reviewing?

[Anonymous No.10256524]

>>10256143
For more on the Logos and logoi, see St Maximos, especially Ambiguum 7.

[Anonymous No.10256535]

>>10256524
>St Maximos, especially Ambiguum 7.
thnks dog

[Anonymous No.10256547]

>>10255181
>Steinsgate profile pic
Why do retards also have to similar tastes to me?It makes me question if I'm retarded.

[Anonymous No.10256552]

>>10255208
Why is it that its mostly women that have issues with higher literature?

[Anonymous No.10256554]

>>10256547
steinsgate is pretty bad desu

[Anonymous No.10256561]

>>10256535
You got it, brother.

[Anonymous No.10256562]

>>10255583
I have no issue with Jews that don't practice the Talmud. The problem with that is that the vast majority of Jews today do.

[Anonymous No.10256565]

>>10256336
>tfw you fuck her into the Libertarian Left

[Anonymous No.10256578]

>>10256552
the reason is that most people have problems with higher literature, but women read more than men do on average, so most of the dumb opinions in humanities are developed by women.

[Anonymous No.10256585]

>>10256554
Eh, I like it enough. It's definitely not "OMG this is revolutionary" like so many people like to circle-jerk about it, but it does it's job. Loving it to an autistic point where criticism means you're wrong is where it gets retarded, and that's the point most of the fanbase is at with Steinsgate, unfortunately.

[Anonymous No.10256590]

>>10255542
this

[Anonymous No.10256592]

>>10256336
Oh god, another one of these mindless drones.
>Guuuh, misogyny won.
No, you daft cunt, you and your kind being the new religious right lost you the election. Did these people learn nothing?

[Anonymous No.10256594]

[Anonymous No.10256600]

>>10256351
You can thank mainstream grading in general for that. The people have got it ingrained into their minds that 5/10 or 2.5/5 means its horrible trash when it reality it should mean that its just average.

[Anonymous No.10256610]

>>10255839
>I got fascinated by Nietzsche
>Absolutely hate the idea we need an all-powerful man in the sky to have a sense of right or wrong
some people should not be allowed to read smfh

[Anonymous No.10256611]

>>10255916
>>10256132
It's a kind of pagan thinking. "If there is a God, he's going to be the kind of God that I think of him as--like me." He's going to be a guy up there who moves through a thought process; he thinks one thing, and then thinks the next think, and then gets bored and so forth. This is an idolatrous conception of God.

[Anonymous No.10256618]

[Anonymous No.10256624]

>>10256618

[Anonymous No.10256630]

>>10256624

[Anonymous No.10256634]

>>10256630

[Anonymous No.10256641]

>>10256618
>>10256624
>>10256630
>>10256634
And the only replay (i kek'd)

[Anonymous No.10256647]

>>10256641

[Anonymous No.10256653]

>>10256578
Is that mainly because women on average have more free time than most men?

[Anonymous No.10256678]

>>10256653
I don't think so. Even women who don't have a whole lot of free time prefer to read more often then men who don't have alot of free time, or so I've heard.
I have no stats to offer, but I know for a fact that written erotica is more popular with women than it is with men, who prefer more visual forms of pornography. Women simply like things to be in words instead of images as men largely prefer them, so it's not surprising that the majority of idiot normie opinions people on this board see are from women.

[Anonymous No.10256683]

>>10256594
I liked this review up until the point where he explains why he hates the book

>>10256647
this is hilarious

[Anonymous No.10256715]

>>10256647
I looked through her reviews
Scott Pilgrim 5 stars
Jean Luc Nancy's Listening 2 stars
Angela Davis' Women, Race, and Class 5 stars
Great Gatsby 2 stars
Sin City 1 star
Game of Thrones (asoiaf) 5 stars

[Anonymous No.10256776]

>>10256594
>2/3 of the review is actually the reviewers blog
>John Williams doesn't understand SHOW DONT TELL ugh what an idiot
>one character wasn't 'realistic'
>creative writing class

Words can't express how big of a retard this guy is

[Anonymous No.10256783]

[Anonymous No.10256818]

>>10256783
classic

[Anonymous No.10256821]

>>10256594
his others reviews
>Imperial Bedrooms by BEE 4 stars
>Fatelessness by Imre Kertész 2 stars
>Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy 4 stars
>Selected stories by Robert Walser 2 stars
>Everything is Illuminated by JSF 5 stars
>Falling man by DeLillo 2 stars
>Bell Jar by Plath 4 stars
>Coriolanus by Shakespeare 2 stars
>Nine stories by Salinger 5 stars
>Brooklyn Follies by Auster 1 star
>The Stranger 4 stars
>The Lime Twig by Hawkes 2 stars
jesus fucking christ

[Anonymous No.10256822]

>>10256302
Where does she say she lieks Dosto?

[Anonymous No.10256825]

>>10256821
>Nine stories by Salinger 5 stars
Good taste

[Anonymous No.10256841]

>book effectively conveys everything it set out to convey thereby causing the reader emotional distress
>So it sucks
>but ohmigawd this character was totally awesome I can totally relate to her.

[Anonymous No.10256843]

>>10255736
it's a reference to Monty Python and the Holy Grail; it means "big tits."

[Anonymous No.10256854]

>>10255884
>that quotation about peter petrovich
you know, dostoyevsky was mocking that character with the sentence's structure. the reason that grammar was so preposterous is because it would be the emotion of a ludicrous man.

[Anonymous No.10256900]

>>10256594
>blames Williams for "tell, don't show" writing
>thinks Edith's personality "switched" outta nowhere
>*completely* misses the subtext that Edith was raped by her father
>and that Edith thought Stoner was doing something similar to Grace when Grace was playing in Stoner's home office (w/ closed door)
gg

[Anonymous No.10257029]

>>10256618
Kek that filename

[Anonymous No.10257049]

>>10255583
You got it backwards. She was the one who pursued him thinking she could change him with her shekeled poon, but his total lack of interest in sex extinguished that notion.

[Anonymous No.10257055]

>>10256647
Oh my...

[Anonymous No.10257068]

[Anonymous No.10257078]

>>10257049
and yet he, an anti-semite, still married her

[Anonymous No.10257122]

>>10256343

I think the stars have descriptions like
>1 - it was bad
>2 - it was okay
>3 - i liked it
>4 - it was great
>5 - loved it

So that probably throws it off a bit, along with people probably not caring enough to rate a book they dropped.

[Anonymous No.10257189]

>>10257078
it's antisemite, not anti------------semite. there's a difference. antisemite is the term historically used to describe anti-jewish sentiments. anti-----semite means literally "against the semites" which includes arabs and some christians etc

[Anonymous No.10257219]

>most of these reviews are written by women

[Anonymous No.10257225]

>>10257219
women read and communicate more than men, it's not surprising there are more

[Anonymous No.10257244]

>>10257189
well, good thing I wrote anti-semite instead of anti------------semite

[Anonymous No.10257252]

>>10257219
see
>>10256578

[Anonymous No.10257356]

>>10256336
I was at the airport the other day, and I saw this book, flipped it open on a random page and seriously, the first thing i read (not word for word but close enough): "One of the reasons I've lost, I
believe, is because I'm a woman". I laughed closed the book and went to my gate.

[\endofblogpost]

[Anonymous No.10257385]

>women

[Anonymous No.10257402]

>>10257385
>the only important thing in life is impressing a woman
why is this memed so hard

[Anonymous No.10257412]

>>10257402
It's how they convince themselves of their implicit value after being worse at everything on average?

[Anonymous No.10257510]

>>10257385

Is that Old Man or something else?

[Anonymous No.10257544]

>>10255956
Its true Knut Hamsun took him down on this too called it melodramatic and populist

[Anonymous No.10257611]

>>10256185
Why do they always refer to us as "dudes"? I see this shit everywhere.

[Anonymous No.10257635]

>>10257611
They subconsciously feel that the word man holds power. Dude is an attempt to belittle.

[Anonymous No.10257770]

you cant make this shit up

[Anonymous No.10257782]

>>10257770

I'm majoring in English at an overwhelmingly liberal university, and my professors explicitly tell students not to go "proving" that characters/authors were actually gay, especially since the gay/homosexual label is a modern invention and certain authors (Shakespeare for instance) would have had no ability to comprehend such a label even if you could find evidence that he fucked a dude. You're supposed to stick to things that you can actually prove from their work.

[Anonymous No.10257815]

>>10257782
I got BTFO for presenting a homo reading of a Lorca poem. It was pretty lazy desu.

[Anonymous No.10257923]

>>10257385
>"take your daughter bra shopping to impress me"
>no wife to have daughter with to attract wife
Fug

[Anonymous No.10257945]

>>10256232
Admit it, Dante is shit

[Anonymous No.10257961]

>>10257923
Take someone else’s daughter bra shopping

[Anonymous No.10258005]

>>10255884
>absurdly badly written
How autological

[Anonymous No.10258017]

>>10256547
You watch anime, of course you are

[Anonymous No.10258026]

>>10256443
Forrest Gump is the Forrest Gump of literature.

[Anonymous No.10258032]

>>10257945
... perfectly ...calm

[Anonymous No.10258082]

>>10256195
i didnt care for it. shallow and pedantic.

[Anonymous No.10258295]

[Anonymous No.10258434]

>>10256594
Isn't Williams an exemplar of 'show don't tell'?

[Anonymous No.10258449]

When you're so redpilled that the pills come out of your ears and eyes

Bonus points: the reviewed book is secondary literature on Adorno, nothing written by Adorno himself

[Anonymous No.10258458]

Goodreads is a good way to lose brain cells

[Anonymous No.10258466]

>>10258458
Ugh.

[Anonymous No.10258473]

>>10255887
>>10255871
forget the racism, that em dashing is absolutely atrocious and borderline parody.

[Anonymous No.10258477]

>>10258434
That's the best part of the comment, it's because he couldn't see the undertones that he even thinks that in the first place, triple irony

[Anonymous No.10258480]

>>10258458
You guys need to start including the name of the book in the posts fucking obviously

[Anonymous No.10258482]

>>10256343
You shouldn't take these ratings seriously. Harry potter #7 is rated 4.62 while Moby Dick is rated 3.47.

[Anonymous No.10258484]

>>10258480
No Longer Human - Osamu Dazai
fag

[Anonymous No.10258485]

>>10257945
The contemporary "man"

[Anonymous No.10258493]

>>10258484
>80 likes

[Anonymous No.10258501]

>>10255871
How is this racist? The Moors were one of our main enemies.

[Anonymous No.10258510]

>>10258501
Context isn't relevant to racism for those kind of people

[Anonymous No.10258512]

>>10257782
>Two loves I have of comfort and despair,
>Which like two spirits do suggest me still
>The better angel is a man right fair,
>The worser spirit a woman coloured ill.
>To win me soon to hell, my female evil
>Tempteth my better angel from my side,
>And would corrupt my saint to be a devil,
>Wooing his purity with her foul pride.
>And, whether that my angel be turn’d fiend,
>Suspect I may, yet not directly tell,
>But being both from me both to each friend,
>I guess one angel in another’s hell.
> Yet this shall I ne’er know, but live in doubt,
> Till my bad angel fire my good one out.

Please tell me what this sonnet is about if not a gay man struggling to accept his sexual identity.

[Anonymous No.10258522]

>>10258512
Homosexuality is such a boring and lazy interpretation, I can see how profs want their students not to jump to that since they must've read it a million times.

You could see the boy as good/Jesus and the woman as evil/the devil; you could interpret it as two passions that fight for Shakespeare's attention, one is 'female'/'chaotic', the other 'male'/'ordered'.

if you interpret it on a personal level then a romantic male bond does not have to be homosexual in nature, just think of Gilgamesh/Enkidu, or Ishamel sharing the bed with Queequeg.

[Anonymous No.10258524]

>>10256565
cute
where can I get a gnome chomsky? Would look good in my garden desu

[Anonymous No.10258526]

I found this on Soldier of the Mist. How can somebody be so unaware?

[Anonymous No.10258534]

>>10258522
>a romantic male bond does not have to be homosexual in nature
wut

[Anonymous No.10258543]

>>10258534
To be fair homosexuality is a sexual attraction. Technically he's right.

[Anonymous No.10258805]

Women must be destroyed.

[Anonymous No.10258840]

>>10258805

>Don't give up even when you're killing yourself and it's not at all worth it

This sarcasm proves that she will never understand.

[Anonymous No.10258843]

>>10256547
anon... im sorry, but anime is a medium designed for autists and retards.

[Anonymous No.10258985]

>>10255148
> opera: sublime arias are held together by a lot of yadda, yadda, yadda

Poor creature, if only she knew how RAPED she had been by pop music!

[Anonymous No.10259076]

Jung - psychology of the unconscious

[Anonymous No.10259078]

Jung - man and his symbols

[Anonymous No.10259088]

>>10258805
>unironically defending the great american sissy and his garbage
>>>/r/books

[Anonymous No.10259108]

>>10258534
You must be American or

You should check out
>Montaigne and Etienne de La Boétie
>Hamilton's letters to the Marquis de Lafayette
>King David and Jonathan ('your love was wonderful to me, passing the love of women')

The idea that any 'warm' feeling between two men is automatically gay is a retarded recent invention by the even more retarded puritan US-Americans

[Anonymous No.10259117]

> the concentration of sweaty greasy vulva smell ITT

Ladies, you seem desperate enough. Can we finally have zekks? Call 1-800-CNT-CLNR

[Anonymous No.10259180]

>>10257122
This. I'd get crucified if I posted my goodreads here, but reviews are just about what you liked, not quality.

I've 5-starred enders game and harry potter because I loved them when I read them, because they are excellent examples of children's literature. If everyone used the site to signal how patrician they were it would be a fucking hellhole.

[Anonymous No.10259186]

>>10259117
>not 1-800-CLT-CMDR
one job

[Anonymous No.10259188]

>>10255148
>"All I can say is nyet"

[Anonymous No.10259204]

>>10259108
Backtracking. You didn’t say warm feeling, you said romantic bond.

[Anonymous No.10259228]

>>10256159
Comprehending abstractions in the text, the bible is the first serious form of artistic expression. It's a collection of prose, essays, and aphorisms, not necessarily a literal set of guidelines given by some "man in the sky"

[Anonymous No.10259252]

>>10259186
I am not an exceptional lover. I just lick the cunt, and then it's clean. Well, hope to.

[Anonymous No.10259518]

Go into these threads I'm always afraid I'll find my review.

[Anonymous No.10259546]

Probably my "favorite"

[Anonymous No.10259568]

>>10255153
for a second I wondered if it was a review of the bible. gif using reviewers are usually the most retarded

[Anonymous No.10259577]

>>10255181
and? like the review does not even make sense. women exist does not mean they should be in X book. I bet the only reason such people don't call for robinson crusoe to have women added in is sex and "implications"

[Anonymous No.10259582]

>>10255688
hemingway?

[Anonymous No.10259589]

>>10255717
what a kant.
>suggesting that living like a stone age savage is enlightenment
double kant

[Anonymous No.10259596]

>>10256841
>Roastie can only relate to the only roastie in the book
Checks out.

[Anonymous No.10259601]

>muh patriarchy
>but here's a vapid long winded diatribe to wrap it in so that it looks like I'm smrt.
>Did I mention I'm a tutor and smrt?

[Anonymous No.10259610]

>no one is posting any of my screenshots
sad panda

[Anonymous No.10259618]

>>10259546

[Anonymous No.10259621]

>>10259601
all im seeing is a lot of personal issues and "its bad because it does not speak to me"

[Anonymous No.10259625]

Any Dahl reviews about his racism?

[Anonymous No.10259630]

>>10259621
Second to last "paragraph". It's clearly some
>stories about male power struggle are bad.
And she sets up
>muh current year
Earlier in the review.

[Anonymous No.10259633]

>>10259601
>hates le stories about schoolboys power trips
>reads books about stories with teen girl power sturggles

[Anonymous No.10259639]

>>10259633
bla bla bla, talks more about herself than the book. can't comprehend a simple tale of a dark savior

[Anonymous No.10259642]

>>10259633
Anon it's a thread to post infuriatingly retarded shit, not random reviews you disagree with.

[Anonymous No.10259644]

>>10259639
>I don't like Arrakis, I wouldn't like to go there.

[Anonymous No.10259656]

>>10259601
>>10259633
>>10259639
does she understand it's not her blog and people just want to know about the book, not her

[Anonymous No.10259663]

>>10259601
>you see anon, a women in a fictional dystopia of 20th century should be more like me, a real Real Life Twenty-Five-Year-Old Woman.
Its sad that she is a teacher

[Anonymous No.10259667]

>>10259656
Women can't look objectively upon ideas they disagree with. Like I think
>muh womyn stronk
is an over-rated trope
But I'd be lying if I said Pride and Prejudice wasn't a fantastic piece of literature.

[Anonymous No.10259674]

>>10259656
>Why is Winston not an action hero? why must he be a lifeless and beaten down man?
Its like the she does not understand the basics of literature and that this is not a wish fulfilling book

[Anonymous No.10259683]

>>10259667
women can, they are just trained differently. That is why you can sometimes spot women on 4chan when they say stuff like "I hated it so much, it should have been banned from publishing" etc, stuff that a boy learns not to say because he would be mocked. obviously #notallwomen

[Anonymous No.10259689]

>>10255629
>Chuck Pahlaniuk

Did he even read Fight Club or just watch the movie? Because Fight Club is an awful book. Good movie though.

[Anonymous No.10259704]

>>10259689
its a review of My Antonia (Great Plains trilogy #3) you could have asked him but he has not logged in in a year

[Anonymous No.10259706]

>>10255148
>>10255153
>>10255181
>>10255231
Women and numales were a mistake.

[Anonymous No.10259711]

What is the point of following dead authors? Do you expect an update?

[Anonymous No.10259727]

>>10257068
here is a hint. If you hate authors agenda focuse your review on the books flaws, instead of going "but muh god" or "lgbt turns me off" because if you lead with those no one will take you seriously

[Anonymous No.10259732]

>>10256343
because everyone uses their personal system of rating instead of using the goodreads values. They also give out pity stars and a single thing in a book can move their rating up or down by 2 stars.

[Anonymous No.10259798]

>>10259674
>I wish that Orwell had chosen a more dynamic character to focus on - rather than hinting that they might exist
He does the opposite of this though

[Anonymous No.10259806]

>>10259711
>tfw Shakespeare drops the hottest AOTY after 400 year hiatus

[Anonymous No.10259811]

>>10259798
she just can't understand a world without spunky rabbles were only rebellion is a false flag

[Anonymous No.10259817]

>>10259806
not Shakespeare but once modern authors are dead I would not be surprised if publishing companies keep using their names. stephen king 2199 "come revisit the lost flavor of small towns"

[Anonymous No.10259821]

>>10259546
>kill whitey
wtf i didn't know /int/ memes were mirrors of genuine views

[Anonymous No.10259826]

>>10259821
All memes are derivative

[Anonymous No.10259828]

Found these two reviewers when I tried to write a review for a biography about John Atanasoff.

[Anonymous No.10259832]

>>10259821
people who don't use twitter don't know but its full of such views

[Anonymous No.10259837]

>>10259828
What is a point writing a review for a biography?
If it has bullshit I upvote reviews that point it out but biography is not a story, its not meant to engage you or entertain you.

[Anonymous No.10259843]

>>10259828
>why does John Doe's biography focus on John Doe instead of other people

[Anonymous No.10259848]

>>10259837
I needed writing practice.

But as for why these people needed to leave a review, I do not know. If the book entertained them enough, then it's motivation for writing something.

[Anonymous No.10259864]

>>10259837
Well you can certainly enjoy reading more about Feynman than Goebbels and nobody can blame you for that, as a reviewer you can tell the audience what they can expect from the life itself (if it's unknown to them).
But apart from that there's a lot more that happens in a biography: does it present historical background necessary to understand the biography? Is it well sourced? What aspects of the subjects life are in the foreground and which are not? It also depends why someone is writing a review in the first place

[Anonymous No.10259873]

I remember, when I was in my late teens, I had finally worked my way into the bedroom of a schoolmate I had a crush on since my pre-teen years. He was a brown skinned, confident athlete with an air of cool and an incredible body that I couldn’t wait to discover. Everything was going swimmingly in our newfound courtship, until I unzipped his pants for the first time. After a fair amount of eager fumbling and foolish adolescent foreplay, I took off his pants, only to find attached this tiny, almost inconceivably small resemblance of a raisin - a miniscule currant from the most malnourished Saxifragaceae bush. I had taken my previous boyfriend from flaccid to firm before, so it wasn’t the mere fact that my beau nouveau wasn’t yet erect that was disappointing. It was the brutal reality that there wasn’t even enough flesh to be noticeable when fully hard. At his most erect point, he couldn’t possibly have been more than a baby thumb length's long or wide. That was one of the most disappointing days of my life. The second most disappointing day was when I actually wasted a whole two hours reading Otto Weininger’s “Sex And Character”. To avoid posttraumatic depression, I have to try hard not to think about those valuable minutes of my life that I will never be able to replace.

[Anonymous No.10259876]

>>10259663
>she's naive but doesn't realize it.
I can't believe this is a thought someone processed, self-approved, wrote, and posted on the internet.

[Anonymous No.10259879]

>>10256277
>expecting women to understand London

[Anonymous No.10259880]

>>10259873
What I was hoping to be intelligent, philosophical observations of human behavior and sexuality turned out to be a hatred filled diatribe about the evil brought into the world, by women, Jews and other “minorities”. I suppose this incredible let down was my own fault for not having looked more closely into Mr. Weininger's biography as a woman hating anti-Semite (he would argue that point), but the simple fact that this book has been held in such high esteem and that this guy actually earned himself the title of ‘genius,” hinted that perhaps he actually did have something to offer besides a slew of hostility and contempt towards any creature on this earth that is not an Aryan male. Whatever was I thinking? Perhaps my misguidance came from the fact that the first chapter I read from this book was actually somewhat unique and forward-thinking. At several points, the chapter entitled “Motherhood and Prostitution” noted a very underdog concept of the professional companion. Weininger gave praise to the courtesan for being like a great politician, for being an elevated sort of woman, offering more beauty and education to the world than average female (whose only concern, he claims, is to procreate). While, at points, he contradicted himself, in other points, he stood up for women who are often looked down on. "This is a man who embraces alternative perspectives," I thought, "a socially-educated, open-minded and interesting man'. I was wrong.

Allow me to offer you a small slice of the absurdity and dullness of this so-called “genius” with a few quotes taken from his “masterpiece”:

Himself a Jew who converted to Protestantism, Weininger comments on the materialistic, unintelligent, effeminate, egotistical, sexually impotent Jew:

“The true conception of the State is foreign to the Jew, because he, like the woman,
is wanting in personality; his failure to grasp the idea of true society is due to his lack
of free intelligible ego. Like women, Jews tend to adhere together, but they do not
associate as free independent individuals mutually respecting each other's
individuality. “

“As there is no real dignity in women, so what is meant by the word “gentleman”
does not exist amongst the Jews.“

“The Jew is always more absorbed by sexual matters than the Aryan, although he is notably less potent sexually and less liable to be enmeshed in a great passion. The Jews are habitual matchmakers, and in no race does it so often happen that marriages for love are so rare. The organic disposition of the Jews towards matchmaking is associated with their racial failure to comprehend
asceticism.”

[Anonymous No.10259882]

>>10259880
“We have now reached the fundamental difference between the Jew and the woman.
Neither believe in themselves; but the woman believes in others, in her husband, her
lover, or her children, or in love itself; she has a centre of gravity, although it is
outside her own being. The Jew believes in nothing, within him or without him. His
want of desire for permanent landed property and his attachment to movable goods
are more than symbolical. “

“Just as Jews and women are without extreme good and extreme evil, so they never
show either genius or the depth of stupidity of which mankind is capable. The
specific kind of intelligence for which Jews and women alike are notorious is due
simply to the alertness of an exaggerated egotism; it is due, moreover, to the
boundless capacity shown by both for pursuing any object with equal zeal, because
they have no intrinsic standard of value - nothing in their own soul by which to judge
of the worthiness of any particular object. And so they have unhampered natural
instincts, such as are not present to help the Aryan man when his transcendental
standard fails him. “

“Although the humanity of Jews, negroes, and still more of women, is weighed down by many immoral impulses…”

The inferiority and soullessness of the physically revolting woman:

“The phenomena of courtesy and chivalry are simply additional proofs that women have no souls.”

“Woman has no faculty for the affairs of State or politics, as she has no social inclinations…”

“The imagination of women is composed of lies and errors.”

“It is inconceivable why women can be considered good as doctors…”

“But even in the details of her body a woman is not wholly beautiful, not even if she
is a flawless, perfect type of her sex. The genitalia are the chief difficulty in the way
of regarding her as theoretically beautiful.”

“A woman’s nude body is distasteful to man because it offends his sense of shame. “

“The female, therefore, is credulous, uncritical, and quite unable to understand Protestantism.”

“And, therefore, I must again assert that the woman of the highest standard is immeasurably beneath the man of lowest standard.”

[Anonymous No.10259886]

>>10256783
Amazing.
She gets the point but somehow still misses it.

[Anonymous No.10259887]

>>10259873
>when you want to be /lit/ but cock is life

[Anonymous No.10259888]

>>10259882
Weininger on the shame and lowliness of love and eroticism:

“Love is murder. The sexual impulse destroys the body and mind of the woman, and the psychical eroticism destroys her psychical existence. Ordinary sexuality regards the woman only as a means of gratifying passion or of begetting children. The higher eroticism is merciless to the woman, requiring her to be merely the vehicle of a projected personality, or the mother of psychical children. Love is not only anti-logical, as it denies the objective truth of the woman and requires only an illusory image of her, but it is anti-ethical with regard to her. “

Weininger on male and female interaction:

“But the man who is not superficial, who has depth of thought as well as of purpose, the depth which not only makes him desire right but endows him with determination and strength to do right, must always look on woman from the oriental standpoint:- as a possession, as private property, as something born to serve and be dependent on him - he must see the marvellous reasonableness of the Asiatic instinct of superiority over women, as the Greeks of old saw it, those worthy successors and disciples of the Eastern school.“

Speculation that Weininger developed his misogyny due to his secret love for men, is not all that far fetched. He had nothing negative to say about sexual attraction between two people of the same gender and actually suggested that it is natural for men to love men:

“There is no friendship between men that has not an element of sexuality in it, however little accentuated it may be in the nature of the friendship, and however painful the idea of the sexual element would be. But it is enough to remember that
there can be no friendship unless there has been some attraction to draw the men together. Much of the affection, protection, and nepotism between men is due to the presence of unsuspected sexual compatibility. “

“Sexual inverts must be brought to sexual inverts, from homo-sexualists to Sapphists,
each in their grades. Knowledge of such a solution should lead to repeal of the
ridiculous laws of England, Germany and Austria directed against homo-sexuality, so
far at least as to make the punishments the lightest possible. In the second part of this
book it will be made clear why both the active and the passive parts in male homo-
sexuality appear disgraceful, although the desire is greater than in the case of the
normal relation of a man and woman. “

Apparently, while it’s immoral and inferior for women and men to have sexual attraction to each other, a man having sexual attraction to other men is completely pure and perfectly understandable.

His displeasure with the human race extends beyond this. Weininger also has plenty of contempt and distaste for the “incapable, effeminate Chinaman”, the “immoral and uneducated Negroes” and “the unproductive English”.

[Anonymous No.10259893]

>>10256783
>what are metaphors?

[Anonymous No.10259894]

>>10259888
Of course one would expect a person born in 1880 to have thoughts and opinions that don’t necessarily reflect what is socially accepted in modern days, but to have written such a talked about and long-standing philosophical bible on the human condition, one would also expect this “genius” to have been much more of the superior being that this incredible narcissist considered himself to be.

Weininger committed suicide at the age of 23 by shooting himself in the heart; a loss of life, yes, but no loss of genius. Unless you particularly enjoy squandering your time reading ignorant claims from youthful bombastic egoists, you may want to skip this one.

[Anonymous No.10259895]

>>10259888
bro its not funny if I have to read 3 walls of text. I have actual books I could give my time to

[Anonymous No.10259897]

>>10255688
Grisham?

[Anonymous No.10259902]

>>10259897
>>10259582
See >>10255871

[Anonymous No.10259908]

>>10259895
>can't be assed to actually read something
>on /lit/
checks out

[Anonymous No.10259934]

>>10259902
Who tf is that?

[Anonymous No.10259940]

>>10259817
You are joking, but for all we know King probably has hundreds of books he wrote but haven't published yet.

[Anonymous No.10259991]

>>10255717
>People incorporate religion, their deepest-held fundamental beliefs, which define their outlook, into their philosophy
The horror

Do people not realize they sound like absolute brainlets when they use "they have a different perspective than me so it's worthless" as an argument? I see a lot of otherwise pretty smart people getting into this too

[Anonymous No.10260016]

>>10255839
My eyelid begins to twitch and drone doom starts to blare within my skull

[Anonymous No.10260202]

>>10259991
It happens so often it has become a meme.

[Anonymous No.10260213]

>>10259821
It's very real.

[Anonymous No.10260220]

>>10259546
Better fuck Tyrone then Melissa so you won't have any white babies.

[Anonymous No.10260367]

>>10256678
My mother doesn't read at all but did start recently.
All my grandmother does though, is read.
Nothing really noteworthy though, just russian science fiction.

[Anonymous No.10260376]

>>10259837
>its not meant to engage you or entertain you.
lol

[Anonymous No.10260404]

>>10256009
best post itt

[Anonymous No.10260837]

>>10258512
The dichotomy between friendship and love?

[Anonymous No.10261626]

Why would you ever want to explain your thoughts while reviewing something?

[Anonymous No.10261656]

>>10255832
Seems like your average 4chan shitpost.

[Anonymous No.10261678]

>>10255916

Because they have a very immature understanding of faith.

[Anonymous No.10261701]

[Anonymous No.10261858]

>>10261701
I hate people who give low ratings just because they didn't understand something. Like why read anything then?

[Anonymous No.10261926]

>>10255884
Theres nothing wrong with that sentence other than his inability to comprehend it.

But yeh its boring

[Anonymous No.10261932]

>>10261858
squatting in the grass, groaning. Every stool was looser than the one before, and smelled fouler.

[Anonymous No.10262348]

>>10259546
>Ummm, ok. So I'm sitting here thinking, "Maybe it's your own footprint." But it takes this genius a whole day of scaring himself before he comes up with that explanation.
I'm pretty sure this is a masterful satire

[Anonymous No.10262355]

>>10259843
>reading comprehension

[Anonymous No.10262360]

>>10255839
I've not read doestoevsky or neitzsch so my eyes just kind of glazed over reading this

it does nothing to me I didn't even finish reading her rant I got like halfway

[Anonymous No.10262398]

>>10261926
It's structured dumb

It should be, "With the air of a man of goodwill who has just received some slight affront to his dignity and has firmly resolved to demand an explanation, he blew his nose." I cut out the part about the hankerchief just because it's also distracting.

basically you get the thing he did, ahead of the description leading to it, it's backwards. Probably a translation issue since its common for language to muck up sentence structure like this. Was it originally written in german?

[Anonymous No.10262425]

>>10256351
7/10 is actually terrible.

A 7/10 games = You'll like this if this is a niche/genre you enjoy, but otherwise it's hard to like it.

6/10 = same as above but gamebreaking bugs

8/10 = This game is about average, most people will probably like it.

9/10 = this game's above average, and even if you're not into this genre you'd probably enjoy playing it

10/10 = same as 9 but this time it's in your personal favorite niche/genre

any game below 6/10 is basically utter trash. Either you can't even play it, or the devs are asshats, or there's dumb bullshit politics being forced, or the gameplay is just that terrible - usually it's all of the above.

It's like how women score male attractiveness: 80% of men are scored as being a 5/10 or worse by women. Only the really good shit gets higher than a 7/10 in gaming, and nobody really respect a game until it's like 8.6+ / 10

[Anonymous No.10262499]

>>10262425
That's really retarded

[Anonymous No.10262513]

The 'book' was just a compilation of translated speeches.
I wish I had more information, but it seems as if this guy didn't care to give any.

[Anonymous No.10262525]

>>10262513
"I write a public review for me!"

[Anonymous No.10262581]

>>10255153
you can tell she is a deep reader not just because of her detection of, but her aversion to, "misogyny" (the memory of her father)

[Anonymous No.10262617]

>>10255688
> horrifying
> racism

c'mon it's not THAT bad

[Anonymous No.10262653]

>>10262513

what a faggot, if it was really just for him he'd leave a star and move on.

[Anonymous No.10262718]

>>10255181
this is cringy, but card is trash anyway, so by extension you are trash for implying you enjoy him, and you should ban yourself from all future threads and life

[Anonymous No.10262729]

>>10255217
the question you should ask yourself is, are men capable of relating to women in ways that don't relate to their cunt? this guy is a prime example >>10255564
there is no possibility of female "opinion" as long as the woman is an object. there is only the fact of objectification. just like, there is no possibility of black opinion as long as the black is enslaved. there is only the fact of enslavement.

[Anonymous No.10262735]

Shit writer,
shit review,
shit repost,
hate reading,
hating cringy hate readers,
I've discovered the fifth tier of pointless shit.

[Anonymous No.10262738]

>>10262735
You have seen nothing until you've visited youtube comment sections of atheism/religion videos

[Anonymous No.10262771]

>>10262729

nobody on 4chan knows any black slaves.