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Read/Expected/Got Thread Anonymous Tue Feb 28 03:03:51 2023 No.21721394 [Reply] [Original]

I miss this type of thread. Post em’ all!

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 28 03:29:43 2023 No.21721491 File: 450 KB, 1918x748, 1677554974885.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 28 08:21:36 2023 No.21722457 >>21721394 I don't understand how The King in Yellow got its reputation. The first story reads like a Futurama episode.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 28 08:32:01 2023 No.21722494 File: 687 KB, 1448x624, book.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 28 08:51:29 2023 No.21722556 File: 385 KB, 456x580, 1677553431393044__01.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21721394 Which books actually are centred on this incomprehensible bullshit?

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 28 08:56:01 2023 No.21722571 >>21722556 my diary desu

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 28 10:32:43 2023 No.21722811 >>21722494 >still up

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 28 10:38:11 2023 No.21722820 >>21722457 I think it's just through Lovecraft's shiling. It's got some neat ideas, and the excerpts from the play are sufficiently creepy, but there's just not much to it.

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Anonymous Tue Feb 28 10:53:12 2023 No.21722839

I like these threads except they're always ruined by those anons who post 10 renditions of some sci-fi or medieval fantasy garbage or some esoteric shit.

No one knows or cares about your LOTR in space bullshit, so there's zero need to make a WIR,WIE, WIG meme for it.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 28 10:54:25 2023 No.21722840 >>21722824 who's behind the Aristophanes bust?

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 28 10:56:41 2023 No.21722844 File: 128 KB, 960x915, 1671197437666209.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21722840

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 28 11:00:06 2023 No.21722847 i made one about suttree that I was proud of but I lost it :(

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 28 15:33:38 2023 No.21723435 does anybody read here?

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 28 15:56:29 2023 No.21723511 File: 671 KB, 2372x724, 1677554983601899.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21723435 No

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 28 15:56:44 2023 No.21723512 >>21722556 Valis trilogy by PK Dick comes to mind, but needs a space theme of some kind

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 28 15:57:43 2023 No.21723515 File: 862 KB, 1334x534, 3633CEE9-685F-49D1-A02B-B817F035AC59.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 28 16:03:06 2023 No.21723536 >>21723515 Call of the Crocodile was surprisingly deep.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 28 16:14:11 2023 No.21723582 >>21722556 The Illuminatus Trilogy, it has Lovecraft as a character and The Cult of the Yellow Sign as a plot point

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 28 16:22:22 2023 No.21723621 >>21723582 Good call, please disregard my Valis suggestion in favour of this one

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 28 18:39:28 2023 No.21724331 >>21722824 good one

Anonymous Tue Feb 28 18:49:24 2023 No.21724364

>>21721394
I read the first story recently because I heard that Lovecraft took some ideas from it. I'm honestly struggling to understand what he saw in it, aside from, I guess, the idea of reading a manuscript so spooky that it makes the reader mad. Actual garbage story, and the prose isn't nearly good enough to make it worthwhile. Are the others any better?

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 1 01:22:28 2023 No.21726014 File: 739 KB, 2710x1097, cotc-read-expected-got-2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21723515 More like...

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 1 01:24:48 2023 No.21726032 File: 403 KB, 2016x778, heinlein-stranger-read-expected-got.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 1 01:27:36 2023 No.21726045 >>21722457 >The first story reads like a Futurama episode. how? You realize that the narrator is mentally insane right?

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 1 01:30:37 2023 No.21726057 >>21721394 Genuinely one of the lamest books I've ever read. The first four stories are serviceable at best and the rest of it doesn't even bear mentioning with the exception of The Prophets' Paradise, which is the best thing in there.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 1 01:58:32 2023 No.21726161 >>21726032 >massive orgy in spain I dun gedit

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 1 02:16:06 2023 No.21726228 >>21726161 Did you read the book? Far too much of it was focused on promiscuous sex, and a church founded to promote said sex. What a letdown.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 1 02:21:22 2023 No.21726248 >>21726228 I only started to read it because my brother reccd it to me. A lot about afterlife and death but no sex. Maybe I shouldn't read it then.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 1 02:25:03 2023 No.21726259 >>21726248 It starts out strong, but devolves into an entirely too 1960s-era book.

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>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 1 02:44:16 2023 No.21726352 File: 363 KB, 2016x778, robinson-crusoe-read-expected-got.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 1 05:18:45 2023 No.21727017 >>21721394 >>21722457 >>21726057 >>21724364 King in Yellow is the KING of filtering pseuds, right above Moby Dick and Ulysses. Go back to watching some rick and morty.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 1 05:22:38 2023 No.21727040 >>21723511 /thread

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 1 07:32:05 2023 No.21727414 >>21722556 Necronomicon tier

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 1 08:09:46 2023 No.21727500 File: 567 KB, 1369x586, 1677553431393044.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21721394

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 1 14:07:10 2023 No.21728144 >>21727017 >he got filtered by Rick and Morty cringe

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>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 1 14:17:22 2023 No.21728173 File: 367 KB, 800x320, stoner.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] It's excellent, though.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 1 14:37:37 2023 No.21728221 >>21727017 Nah, I enjoyed Moby Dick and Ulysses thoroughly. King in Yellow is garbage.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 1 14:40:54 2023 No.21728232 >>21722457 True Detective

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 1 14:42:12 2023 No.21728237 >>21726265 What you read is like food for your mind. WHY THE FUCK would you eat shit?

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 1 14:43:12 2023 No.21728241 >>21726032 I got 75% through this book before dropping it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 1 16:10:55 2023 No.21728572 File: 622 KB, 2508x1011, C83E9898-7AAD-4474-B761-BF67AFB90C56.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] It wasn’t that good desu

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