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Post one star reviews of one of your favorite books on goodreads/amazon.

>> No.10415340

>>10415332
My therapist said I shouldn't post in these threads anymore

>> No.10416629
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>>10415332
Let the day perish wherein I was born.

>> No.10416721

>>10415332

Critiques of the Iliad:

- genealogies/soldier lists are too long
- muh misogyny muh violence against women
- war is bad waaah

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Cucks, I swear

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>>10416721
> favourite book is the Iliad
> mfw

>> No.10417612

>>10416772
>gif battle
My kind of gal

>> No.10418602

>>10415332
christine isn't wrong

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M&M

>>10416770
I want to ejaculate inside Maddie’s vagina if you know what I’m sayin

>> No.10418827

Do you guys have people like this in your social circles?

>> No.10418828

>>10416629
This has to be satire....the only other possibility is r/atheism

>> No.10418834

>>10416770
The true definition of a brainlet right here.

>> No.10418839

>>10415332
>"I hate the idea that we need an all-powerful man in the sky to have a sense of right or wrong"

JUST

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Should be easy to figure out

>> No.10418862

>>10418856
These people seem to be well into their 30s. This is worrying.

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Fugging brainlets

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>>10418856
Came here to post this

>> No.10418896

>>10418882
>>10418856
>>10418887
Nice to see so much good taste in one place

>> No.10418897

what the fuck is fear and trembling /lt/'s favorit book or something?

>> No.10418904

>>10418856
HOLY SHIT ANON IS THAT FEAR AND TRAMBLING?
Bcs my print is the same book
>>10418882

>> No.10418908

>>10418897
Let's make fear and trambling the next culture of critique

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1/3

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>>10418916
2/3

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>>10418921
3/3

>> No.10418931

Anything by Gene Wolfe will attract the most retarded reviewers.

>> No.10419033

>>10418931
Are you referring to his fans or his detractors.

I find people either vastly overstate his worth or dismiss him as genre fiction

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>> No.10419083

>>10416772

She's cute desu. I'd go for it

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>> No.10419114

>>10419033

I'm definitely talking about his fans in this thread about 1 star reviews.

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>> No.10419158

>>10419145
>>10419145
>prosaic patriarch disguised as an enigmatic nihilist;
clara out here w/ the big words and semicolons

>> No.10419164

>>10419083
She looks fat

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I ended up laughing more than I was bothered by the review.

>> No.10419386

>>10419061
King Lear?

>> No.10419822

>>10419386
Obviously

>> No.10421122

>>10418814
you mean like in a sexual way?

>> No.10421627

>>10418897
>>10418882
>>10418887
>>10418896
what translation amigos?

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>>10421627
This is the one I read

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The book is "100 Years of Solitude."

It's the 'yawn' at the beginning of this damn review that gets me raging so hard. What a douchebag.

>> No.10422860

>>10422842
Every time someone says "hard to follow" I rage. 99% of the time they're dumbfucks

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>> No.10423014

>>10422673
thanks

>> No.10423060

>>10422934
I already do this.

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>>10423094

>> No.10423149

>>10416629
Hilarious up until the last sentence, like if his statement was not clear enough or if he was afraid that some moron would not understand his joke.

>> No.10423181

>>10422860
Exactly. The language used by Garcia Marquez isn't even that verbose, nor is the prose complex. What a moron, I'm fuming.

>> No.10423185

>>10423094
Jesus, how can you shut yourself off to all of those authors?

>> No.10423202

>>10423094
What book?

>> No.10423267

>>10423202
The Blind Owl, same as the post after it.

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>>10419145
What book is this?

>> No.10423291

>>10423267
Thanks, I wasn't sure if they were for the same book or not.

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>only one 1-star review
>she even acknowledges she's just too much of a brainlet to appreciate the book

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>>10423276
lol

>> No.10423329

>>10423293
What book is she on about?

>> No.10423331

>>10423329
Seiobo There Below by Krasznahorkai

>> No.10423340

>>10423312
>acknowledges what a great book it is
>gives it one star anyway

Also seven people thought this was a good enough review to like, think about that, seven individuals though that this is a vaild review.

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>> No.10423344

>>10423331
Oh, well that is a fair criticism in that case.

>> No.10423355

>>10423341
What book?

>> No.10423360

>>10416629
Hahahhahahaha what the fuck

>>10416766
>Liking Ann Coulter
I remember a friend of mine bringing a book of hers in High School. We had a laugh at the chapter literally called "Attack France" because they didn't support the war on terror.

She has to be some kind of elaborate performance artist to be so autistic.

>> No.10423371

Jesus Christ guys post the fucking book you're pulling up reviews for

>> No.10423374

>>10423355
Moravagine

>> No.10423384

>>10418828
No, most people genuinely think these things. I would say that review is honest.

>> No.10423425

>>10422934
>my diary desu

>> No.10423463

>>10423360
We all know Coulter is just another vapid opportunistic attention-whore, no need to respond to the troll.

>> No.10423473

>>10423463
>>10423360
Please respond to my troll ;_;

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>> No.10423717

>>10423360
>>10423463
Outrage culture is the post-irony zeitgeist. Enjoy it.

>> No.10423731

Post good goodreads reviews, seems like a much harder task

>> No.10423761
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How about we post 5-star reviews of shit books?

>> No.10423794

>>10423761

what's hilarious about that review is that all the women reviews on the front page are trashing the book

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>>10421627
Hong translations (Princeton University Press) are the definitive ones for all of his books. They are amazing, and I can't recommend them enough.

>> No.10423836

>>10423826
Appreciate it

>> No.10423850

>>10419200
pretty good review, desu. de gustibus non est disputandum

>> No.10423862

>>10418814
>M&M
Master and Margarita? If so, there's no lack of excitement in that book.

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>> No.10423939

>>10423276
I have never laughed so hard in one of these threads before, thank you.

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>there are no characters that are well developed that share genitals with me therefore it's artistic merit is decreased
People fucking suck

>> No.10424140

>>10418856
>>10418882
>>10418887
Those commenters have passed their eternal fedora test. Kierkegaard is kinda the last chance for these nerds.

>> No.10424148

>>10423278
90% chance it's Schopenhauer
10% chance it's a book my any other male

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:(

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>> No.10424817

>>10419083
>>10417612
what the hell

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>> No.10424921

>>10415332
This better not be a crime and punishment reviews

>> No.10424970

>>10424261
what BOOK?

>> No.10425372

>>10418916
holy shit im 1 paragraph in and this guy has already outed himself as a piece of garbage

>> No.10425489

>>10423094
>Camus or Kafka or Vonnegut
>absurd or deconstructionist or meta
Aren't these three pretty straightforward aside from a little sci-fi and/or magical realism?

>> No.10425521

>>10418814

i love that book right up until he introduces the master and margarita

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>>10416629
>>10418828
>>10423384
it's clearly a joke review

>> No.10426075

>>10419100
she's right desu

>> No.10426292

>>10426025
Well, yeah, but it was probably posted by a fedora wielding dork who genuinely thinks that it was insightful and really epic

>> No.10426365

>>10419145
Cioran?

>> No.10426389

>>10422934
>>10423060
Haha same

>> No.10426396

>>10423149
>he was afraid that some moron would not understand his joke.
Yeah, obviously. Whether he wrote it as a joke or not, he still thinks he's the smartest guy in the room.

>> No.10426399

>>10423276
this is legit funny

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>>10423181
You're the one getting upset over dumb shit like this, so who's the real moron

>> No.10426410

>>10423794
>a guy tries to impress women by raving about a book that other guys have told him women like
>women hate the book
now THAT'S poetic.

>> No.10427088

>>10424841
"Houston, I've lost my sides."

>> No.10427095

>>10416772
she seems pretty interesting desu

>> No.10427538

>>10426075
You're wrong.

>> No.10427554

>>10422842
>how could this book change your life?
>here's how this book changed my life and views of love

>> No.10427586

>>10424841
>if you're a nazi you'll love this book
Well now I have to read it

>> No.10427620

>>10419054
>Maike

>> No.10427642

>>10427554
>yawn
>i could not sleep without lights on after i finished reading it

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Amazon reviews are even better.
This is Crime and Punishment btw

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>>10418882
>philosophy is dependent on sociology and psychology
what the fuck?

>> No.10427996

>I have no counter arguments so I'll just circle jerk in my little bubble

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have a handful of them fampai
jason kim got the hard hitting critique

>> No.10428219

>>10428203
None of them are wrong

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>>10429130
>Shelves: poop

>> No.10429164

>>10415332
>when half of the one star rating on my favorite book are because they were shipped poorly and don't read well on a kindle
kek

>> No.10429165

>>10428203
>I read an audio version
Do these people actually consider having someone read to you as reading?

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come on

>> No.10429964

>>10429218
this seems like a parody of a bad review, i just cant believe that someone can talk like such a faggot in real life and not be joking

>> No.10429994

>>10423276
underrated

>> No.10430005

>>10424841
What book?

>> No.10430606

>>10418908
The meme pentalogy.

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>> No.10432020

>>10429218
Cute

>> No.10432031

>>10432001
Flint has the face of a person who would write something like that.

>> No.10432041

>>10424261
Is this, by any chance, "Absalom, Absalom!"?

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Besides the confusing five-star rating, someone buying a Peter Sotos book and then being disappointed that it doesn't offer enough details of a little girl's murder is so fitting that I have to wonder if it's just Sotos writing bullshit reviews of his own books.

>> No.10432051

>>10432001
I've been thinking of starting this recently, after I saw it mentioned in Pessoa's "Book of Disquiet". Is it good?

>> No.10432062

>>10432051
I liked it very much

>> No.10432142

>>10423761
Odds that a friend or relative is taking the piss out of poor Thomas?

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It's always females that write these autistic reviews.