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Let’s play a game:
Post one-star goodreads reviews of great books. Others try to guess what book it is.

>> No.12268652

>fart-sniffing
Ulysses?

>> No.12268658

>>12268652
Nope

>> No.12268677

Something Nabokov

>> No.12268693

>You know what I wish? I wish the whiny-ass characters in X would shut up, for once.

>“Just shut up!” I wanted to yell by the end. “Shut the hell up! Stop talking! I’m sick of it!”

>The whole story is just posturing, talking, and talking, and more talking. There’s no attempt to build X as a character, or any of the others. Everyone is a cardboard cut-out designed for a specific purpose in the story, and nothing else. This character will have a conversation with this one, and then that one will leave with this one to have another tedious, pointless conversation with another group of characters.

>People will go on for paragraphs at a time, for no apparent reason. The story doesn’t move anywhere for a long, long time, and when it does, when there’s some sliver of drama, it doesn’t ring true because the drama is not set up and the characters are not believable.

Edited slightly to not give it away.

>> No.12268775
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Reading one-star reviews of great books just makes being not allowed to own a firearm all the more difficult

>> No.12268915
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>> No.12269009

>>12268915
Hugo?

>> No.12269012

>>12268648
>one-star
Why are you guys so negative all the time?

>> No.12269017

>>12268915
>>12269009
If it is then that's the height of comedy

>> No.12269020
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>> No.12269030

>>12268693
Crime and Punishment?

>> No.12269038

>>12268775
Love in the Time of Cholera?

>> No.12269039

>>12269009
>>12269017
It is

>> No.12269047

>>12269039
I am laughing so hard at that pun rn

>> No.12269076
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>> No.12269084
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>> No.12269104

>>12269030
No. Here's another review, same book:
>Overall, I didn’t enjoy reading this book. I felt that the way it turned out was stupid and pointless. X made very poor decisions that lead to his downfall. Throughout the book, I felt that there were a lot of poor decisions made by X. Every situation that X faced, he managed to make a bad decision.

>> No.12269109
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>> No.12269111

>>12269076
Great Expectations

>> No.12269135

>>12269109
2666

>> No.12269136

>>12269038
Nope

(It's an American book)

>> No.12269139

>>12268677
Nein

>> No.12269141

>>12269084
Gatsby

>> No.12269142

>>12269084
Dosto Demons?

>> No.12269168
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>>12269111
>>12269135
good job, here's another pretty easy one

>> No.12269198

>>12269141
>>12269142
No, but it is russian.

>> No.12269211

>>12269168
Middlemarch

>> No.12269215
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>> No.12269223

>>12269215
>a cockroach
Kafka

>> No.12269229

>>12269084
War & Peace

>> No.12269232

>>12269198
Anna Karenina? War and Peace?
Dead Souls?

>> No.12269237

>>12269223
Yep

>> No.12269239

>>12269232
Anna, yes.

>> No.12269258
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>>12269211
yeah, maybe this one is a bit harder

>> No.12269268

>>12269104
Idiot

>> No.12269278

>>12268648
is it from james joyce

>> No.12269279

>>12268775
>>12269136
The Age of Innocence?

>> No.12269291

>>12268775
Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens?

>> No.12269304

>>12269268
No. Last one should give it away, I thought it was pretty funny too.
>Its very confusing to me that on the cover has a skull on it but the skull is used once in the whole book.

>> No.12269307
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>>12269279
Yes

>> No.12269319

>>12269258
Something by McCarthy?

>> No.12269337
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here's maybe an obvious one but i found it to funny not to post
>>12269319
no, think more upper-class

>> No.12269338

>>12269307
I don't have a guess but I really want to read a book that seems to be about hormone-driven marriageable-age creatures trying to outwit each other in word and on the dance floor

>> No.12269347

>>12269337
Dubliners?

>> No.12269375

>>12269258
Something by Hemingway?

>> No.12269382
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Not quite fitting for the game, too obvious. I just want to post it.

>> No.12269394

>>12269258
I googled to find out which book it was and what the fuck

>> No.12269398

>>12269338
>>12269307
Sounds like Austen.
Sense and Sensibility probably

>> No.12269407

>>12269394
yeah, it's a very weird review, i would never describe his prose that way

>> No.12269410

>>12269398
It's Pride and Prejudice infact

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This review just made me laugh

>> No.12269451
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>>12269417

>> No.12269485

>I think people love this book because of the way it makes them feeeeeel. It’s a highly romanticized account of a family of settlers in a magical town known as something (I forget what because I don’t care). But nothing really…happens. And while some of my favorite books are ones in which stuff doesn’t really happen, those other books have characterization or relatable internal dialogue or some other component with a depth that makes reading it worthwhile, whereas this book doesn’t delve much beyond the surface of things and seems only to rely on a kind of quirkiness to make its characters appear interesting when in fact, no they are not. I had similar issues with Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything Is Illuminated, which is probably why I didn’t care for that book very much, either.

>Anyway, sorry to all my friends who liked this book. I still love you even though I think you’re cray.

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sorry for lazyposting, don't know any ones that weren't guessed already

>> No.12269523

>>12269485
One Hundred Years of Solitude

>> No.12269524

>>12269521
Infinite Jest?

>> No.12269527

>>12269394
I can't even find it with google.

>> No.12269533

>>12269523
Yes, sir.
>people love this book because of the way it makes them feeeeeel
Well, that is the point.

>> No.12269539
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Here.
I had to heavily censor it for it to not be immediately obvious.
I chose this one mostly because the first paragraph is very telling.

>> No.12269543

>>12269527
Google her username, go on her profile and look at the books under the 'dnf' tag. There's only 9, 8 if you don't count Ulysses which you know isn't the book she's reviewing. Then you can open the reviews for each of them in different tabs and find which one is the one he posted.

>> No.12269545

>>12269020
Is that the fucking Unabomber

>> No.12269549

>>12269539
Gravity's Rainbow

>> No.12269555

>>12269549
Try again.

>> No.12269558
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>>12269543
I'm not making an account just to read a stupid review. just spoiler the title for me, I already guessed wrong

>> No.12269563

>>12269558
rabbit run by updike

>> No.12269564

>>12269524
nah

>> No.12269565

>>12269539
Hundred Years of Solitude

>> No.12269572
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>> No.12269577

>>12268648
The lady of our flowers.
And yes, I agree.

>> No.12269578
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>>12269565
That'd be correct.

>> No.12269584

>>12269572
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up? Kek

>> No.12269588
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>This book contains a couple of good quotes and analogies but it is written in a very quite difficult form to read. I guess translating it from its origin must have been a hard job.

>I have been hearing this book referred to for forever, so I finally had to read it. Turns out, you can't really read it. It's like sitting down to read Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. So, it's really my fault and I shouldn't take it out on the book, but if I had it to do over again, I'd just keep it on the coffee table to scare my enemies. Seriously, it's a classic and doesn't need my 5 stars, but don't say I didn't warn you.

>> No.12269592

>>12269563
thx m8

>> No.12269594

>>12268648
gr?

>> No.12269610

why are there so many Arabs on goodreads?

>> No.12269652

>>12269588
>Highly disappointing. Not nearly as awe inspiring as I had dreamed it would be. It was so basic and straightforward that I feel like I missed something. The character displacement or confusion, whatever you want to call it, was annoying and definitely took away from the message of the book. I don't know, maybe I'll try it again later in life.

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>>12269584
Yeah, lol

>> No.12269732

>>12269382
Reading Either - Or at the moment. I suppose the review is about Fear and Trembling.

>> No.12269745
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Here's a toughie courtesy of 'Chavonne'

>> No.12269775
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This is just the first part, I'll post more with more specific info if no one can guess.

>> No.12269779
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>> No.12269794
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>> No.12269806

>>12269779
The Bible.

>> No.12269812

>>12269794
The Catcher in the Rye

>> No.12269825

>>12269812
No

>> No.12269835

>>12269417
Is this A Doll's House?

>> No.12269838

>>12269835
Yes

>> No.12269847
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>> No.12269855

>>12268693
Atlas Shrugged?

>> No.12269856
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>> No.12269876

>>12269337
Nine Stories by Salinger?

>> No.12269881
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>> No.12269918

>>12269806
correct

>> No.12269954
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>> No.12269963

>>12269856
The Rainbow?

>> No.12269973

>>12269794
The Stranger

>> No.12269979
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>> No.12269985

>>12269979
Lolita.

>> No.12269986

>>12269794
Werther?

>> No.12269994

>>12269985
Not quite

>> No.12270012
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>> No.12270033
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>>12270012
Death in Venice

>> No.12270038

>>12269963
Close

>>12269973
>>12269986
No

>> No.12270066

>>12270038
Sons and Lovers?

>> No.12270067

>>12270066
Yep

>> No.12270076

>>12269979
The End of Alice

>> No.12270103
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>> No.12270121
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>> No.12270127

>>12268693
Iliad

>> No.12270132

>>12270121
Almost any book written before 1950

>> No.12270144

>>12270132
But you'll never guess which one

>> No.12270153
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>> No.12270163

>>12268648
the Recognitions?

>> No.12270164

>>12270153
Looks like The Magic Mountain to me

>> No.12270171

>>12270164
No

>> No.12270186

>>12270076
No

>> No.12270195

>>12269020
Devil May Cry 2

>> No.12270215
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>> No.12270224

>>12269417
>t.strindberg

>> No.12270274
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The shelf it was placed on got me

>> No.12270319
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>> No.12270433

>>12269876
a little late but yeah

>> No.12270473

>>12269304
I get that Hamlet is Hamlet, but some people are so retarded that they can’t function

>> No.12270494

>>12270319
Weininger's Sex and Character.

>> No.12270496

>>12270121
>>12270132
Something by Austen?

>> No.12270611
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Any takers?

>> No.12270618

>>12270611
Oh geez. They’re going to hell.

>> No.12271370

>>12270496
No, it's pretty much impossible to get because her assessment of it is so off the mark.

It was Paradise Lost

>> No.12271432

>>12270611
I can not believe people still think this quirky 'joke' is funny, clever, or in any way worthwile repeating for the millionth time.

>> No.12271475

>>12271432
It doesn’t have to be original. As long as it makes christcucks mad that’s all that matters. When I go into a library or bookstore I always move the Bible into the fiction section. Is it played out? Yes. Will it make the delusional Abrahamic cult mad? Oh yes.

>> No.12271505

>>12269258
wow. She has about 15-20 one-star reviews, and I had to go back and click this one because I just thought that couldn't have been right. Who? How? Why?!

>> No.12271534

>>12269652
This can't be... slaughterhouse-five, can it? God, I hope not...

>> No.12271551

>>12270103
that one with the bitchin-ass Heathcliff dude. Wuthering Heights, pretty garbage imo

>> No.12271567

>>12271475
I know you are meming but I will say it doesn't make me mad. I haven't even read the Bible. My reaction is embarassment and disappointment rather than anger.

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>>12269775
Part 2, might make it too easy.

>> No.12271596

>>12270274
The desert of the Tartars?

>> No.12271598

>>12270215
Civilization and its Discontents?

>> No.12271608

>>12269084
>You have to have someone to root for.
>It has to be a cookie-cutter good guy vs bad guy story.
>None of the characters in Anna Karenina were good.

>> No.12271611

>>12269666
Aeneid

>> No.12271628
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This one is pretty good

>> No.12271639

>>12270319
>Let's see how many adjectives I can use in one sentence to describe the author.

>> No.12271646
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>> No.12271685

>>12268648
You didn’t even give a single clue. Fuck you op

>> No.12271692

>>12268693
Something dickens?

>> No.12271697

>>12268775
Shakespeare?

>> No.12271753

>>12271370
Wtf

>> No.12271774

>>12271646
Finnegans Wake?

>> No.12271780

>>12271590
>>12269775
Brideshead Revisited?
>>12271611
yes

>> No.12271787

>>12271776

>> No.12271875

>>12271590
The one with the guy who pushes the other guy off of a cliff and the guy breaks his arm or something... I didn't particularly like it. When I read it. In the 4th grade.

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>>12268648

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>>12271774

>> No.12272774

>>12272701
Lolita?

>> No.12272838

>>12272774
Definitely. You can make out nymphet in one of the blurred words.

>> No.12272873

>>12272774
>>12272838
yep

>february taboo month
i thought that was cute

>> No.12272893

>>12272744
But that makes it no

which Invisible Man was it?

>> No.12272895

>>12272893
no FUN

>> No.12272935

>>12272686
Stoner

>>12271551
Yes

>> No.12272946

>>12271697
>>12269291

Someone already got it, it's The Age of Innocence

>> No.12273003

>>12272701
this one was too obvious so I'm also gonna guess that a female wrote this.

>> No.12273050

>>12273003
yes. its sh3lly from grumpybookgrrrl.com, whatever the fuck that is

>> No.12273405

>>12269539
How dumb do you have to be to react like this to 100YOS? It's essential middle-brow-chick core

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>may have been holding the book upside down
Janet, to be fair, outs herself as a retard

>> No.12273508

>>12273493
Hamlet

>> No.12273535

>>12273493
Hamlet

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>> No.12273583

>>12268652
>Ulysses
The OP said good books

>> No.12273586

>>12273508
>>12273535
no

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>>12270195

>> No.12273607

>>12269104
Instantly knew it was Hamlet. A bunch of dithering talking + bad decisions has to = Hamlet.

>> No.12273609

>>12269020
eternally based

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>> No.12273664

>>12273639
The Book of Disquiet?

>> No.12273703

>>12271780
Yes

>> No.12273707

>>12273545
Walden

>> No.12273739

>>12273639
Portrait of the artist as a young man?

>> No.12273783

>>12268693
Catcher in the Rye?

>> No.12273788

>>12269084
>novels needs a character that people can root for
>characters who are despicable and annoying can't be good

Anyway, it's Dead Souls

>> No.12273798

>>12269745
Nabokov's entire corpus

>> No.12273818

>>12273639
>"viscous" cycle
made me lol

>> No.12273837

>>12268693
obviously Atlas Shrugged

>> No.12273943

>>12273798
You get half points for getting the author.

>> No.12274023

>>12273493
The one Shakespeare wrote when he was young, I don't remember if it was Lear or Othello or the other one but it invokes silly amounts of edginess due to his advanced case of new-writer-itis.

>> No.12274030

>>12273503
Gravity's rainbow. Anything else and she's double-retarded.

>> No.12274032

>>12273545
Could be something by Kerouac, admittedly haven't gotten past 20 pages of his steaming pile of trite, egoist dick-suckery.

>> No.12274039

>>12273639
>only a dude could write this book
>"ryan"
yeah, sure, "ryan"...
Anyways, it's that one by the Russian, with the Nihilism and the suicide, the underground life and the jerkass, pretentious fourteen-year-olds wank to it regularly because they're edgy, missing the whole point that it is, as the "guy" in the review said, a sort of parable or fable.

>> No.12274058

>>12271628
The Adventures of Augie March?

>> No.12274065

>>12269847
the big book of memes courtesy of /lit/ and the elitiests

>> No.12274069

>>12268775
Gatsby?

>> No.12274072

>>12269847
>>12274065
Tundra specifically

>> No.12274172

>>12273664
It is

>> No.12274186

>>12269539
The Bible

>> No.12274200

>>12274030
nope, close tho

>> No.12274212

>>12273707
>>12274032
Nope

>> No.12274260

>>12274058
No

>> No.12274310

>>12273493
>>12273508
This could be a bunch of different Shakespeare plays.

>> No.12274337

>>12268693
Literally anything bu Updike.

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>> No.12274386

>>12274379
You're supposed to hide the author's name, genius.

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>>12274386
Kek>>12274386

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>>12274386
Kek>>12274386

>> No.12274695

>>12274401
grils&bois

>> No.12274738

>>12273503
Ulysses, you can see 'Joyce's Ulysses' at the end
>>12274401
The Recognitions

>> No.12274752

>>12268775
Wuthering Heights

>> No.12274759

>>12268915
Something something Dosto (C&P most likely)

>> No.12274861

>>12269794
Dorian Gray?

>> No.12274903

>>12269847
Everything is Illuminated?

>> No.12274930

>>12274738
>what is grammatcal context
it's something by pynchon that isn't gravity's rainbow.

>> No.12275093

>>12274072
Yep

>> No.12275929

>>12274172
It physically hurts to read the other one star reviews of the book of disquiet

>> No.12276284

>>12274861
No

>> No.12276443

>>12271534
The Art of War.

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>>12276443
>character displacement
>aow
what? WHAT?