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Worst books you've ever read
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2017-11-25 at 8:58 PM UTCI mean I've read some abysmal teen fiction books but they're so far from good literature it seems like I shouldn't even call them bad in the same way, say, Steven King is bad. They weren't even trying to be good in the literary sense, just 21st century pulp.
Of books that are at least taken seriously, I have a special loathing for 1984. A sizable portion of the book is literally the main character reading a manifesto. Just fucking awful writing and people love that book to death.
Originally posted by Issue313 Steinbeck - The Grapes of Wrath. Its basically a thousand page Salon.com article about how evil the goyim are. To Kill A Mockingbird and Guns Germs and Steel are the same, I read them when I was young and didn't know any better.
In the realm of non propaganda, probably the books that went on way too long, like the Lord of the Rings, War and Peace, or anything by Arthur C Clarke.
Uhh, pretty sure that's not how Grapes of Wrath goes bud. Also LotR is long but it seemed like an appropriate length given what it is.
Originally posted by Daily The Stranger - Albert Fagu
Myth of Sisyphus (and the collection of essays it's published with) is better if you care about the philosophy. Still, it was a nice vignette of French Algiers. -
2017-11-25 at 9:14 PM UTC
Originally posted by Lanny Myth of Sisyphus (and the collection of essays it's published with) is better if you care about the philosophy. Still, it was a nice vignette of French Algiers.
I love philosophy - I just don't appreciate nihilism or the absurd. I don't understand how absurdism is not synonymous with defeatism. -
2017-11-25 at 9:42 PM UTC
Originally posted by Daily I love philosophy - I just don't appreciate nihilism or the absurd. I don't understand how absurdism is not synonymous with defeatism.
Absurdism and nihilism are two different things. Sure they're both based in the denial of essential or objective meaning but that only counts as defeatism from the perspective that that was the goal to start with. Which is a pretty easy idea to give up if you think about it. Indeed, absurdism is more or less defined by the sanguine acceptance of the lack of superpersonal meaning. -
2017-11-25 at 10:16 PM UTC
Originally posted by Daily The Communist Manifesto - Karl the Kuck & Friedrich not Nietzsche
I tried that book and gave up. I tried another Marx one, and had a bit more success. I once sat down with a Gramsci book, and zoned out after about an hour.
Schopenhauer once said reading philosophy is like allowing someone else to think for you, and that is exactly what communist books must be like, for those who are on that mental level. No brevity, no graphs, no bullet points, just a big long stream of consciousness.
Originally posted by Enter Here's one that I actually liked, that everyone seems to hate: Catcher in the Rye. Very comfy read.
Yes, quite comfy. Yanks complain cos it's on their school curriculum, and...
Originally posted by Lanny I have a special loathing for 1984. A sizable portion of the book is literally the main character reading a manifesto. Just fucking awful writing and people love that book to death.
Well done missing the point of 1984, which is as Beady-Eyed-Anglo anti-Catholic propaganda.
http://exiledonline.com/big-brothers-george-orwell-and-christopher-hitchens-exposed/
Uhh, pretty sure that's not how Grapes of Wrath goes bud.
I skipped the last 200 pages, but pretty sure it was just an expression of revulsion at the goyim. Steinbeck is the jedi who said that Redneck Americans regarded themselves as just "Temporarily Embarrassed Millionaires" for not being Commies like him.
You comfortably-exploited suburban goyim forget that with people like us everything is political.Also LotR is long but it seemed like an appropriate length given what it is.
Oh great, here come the hobbit-sexuals. You going to rave about Wheel of Time and Harry Potter and Circle of Thrones next? -
2017-11-25 at 10:19 PM UTCThe Lorax is globalist propaganda
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2017-11-25 at 10:51 PM UTC
Originally posted by jedi.Goldstein Well done missing the point of 1984, which is as Beady-Eyed-Anglo anti-Catholic propaganda.
I skipped the last 200 pages, but pretty sure it was just an expression of revulsion at the goyim. Steinbeck is the jedi who said that Redneck Americans regarded themselves as just "Temporarily Embarrassed Millionaires" for not being Commies like him.
You comfortably-exploited suburban goyim forget that with people like us everything is political.
Oh great, here come the hobbit-sexuals. You going to rave about Wheel of Time and Harry Potter and Circle of Thrones next?
Jesus christ dude, your entire world is colored by some incredibly narrow, tribalistic enhancement where everything ever done was for the sake of quasi-conspiratorial hidden political agenda. Your life must really suck.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2017-11-25 at 10:59 PM UTC
Originally posted by Lanny Absurdism and nihilism are two different things. Sure they're both based in the denial of essential or objective meaning but that only counts as defeatism from the perspective that that was the goal to start with. Which is a pretty easy idea to give up if you think about it. Indeed, absurdism is more or less defined by the sanguine acceptance of the lack of superpersonal meaning.
Oh, ok. It doesn't...what's that word? ring? It doesn't ring right with me? Whatever - it doesn't ring right with me. I'm generally quite an optimistic person and I acquire that optimism through symbols. Metaphors...mythology...religion...folklore...art. These things, to me, have meaning. I'm sure I don't need to explain why, but I would point towards Jung and Evola if you're feeling...pointless (not necessarily saying you are). -
2017-11-25 at 11:03 PM UTC
Originally posted by Lanny Jesus christ dude, your entire world is colored by some incredibly narrow, tribalistic enhancement where everything ever done was for the sake of quasi-conspiratorial hidden political agenda. Your life must really suck.
That sums me up better than anything I have ever read.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2017-11-25 at 11:41 PM UTCThe bible. Only made it up to the penultimate book by Moses before I gave up. I just wanted to see what all the fuss was about. My god, it literally took me an hour to make it through two pages once because I kept spacing out. The fact that this garbage is so influential really says a lot about humanity.
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2017-11-25 at 11:45 PM UTC
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2017-11-25 at 11:52 PM UTCpic of daily ready to fight someone irl who talked shit to her
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2017-11-25 at 11:59 PM UTCwtf howd u findme
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2017-11-26 at 12 AM UTCyour bones are like toothpicks
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2017-11-26 at 12:05 AM UTCleave me aloneu crep im a guy
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2017-11-26 at 12:06 AM UTCsnap
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2017-11-26 at 12:12 AM UTC
Originally posted by Malice The bible. Only made it up to the penultimate book by Moses before I gave up. I just wanted to see what all the fuss was about. My god, it literally took me an hour to make it through two pages once because I kept spacing out. The fact that this garbage is so influential really says a lot about humanity.
I'd be willing to bet the "average" Christian has actually read like 50% of the Bible, and most of that is just through church service readings and Bible study groups discussing the popular verses and books.
I don't know what that means necessarily but for a group that bases 100% of their faith and belief on the infallible Word of God it's curious that so much of it is ignored or dismissed.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2017-11-26 at 12:17 AM UTCstop refreshing the thread you weirdo i'm literally a 9/10
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2017-11-26 at 12:19 AM UTC
Originally posted by mmQ I'd be willing to bet the "average" Christian has actually read like 50% of the Bible, and most of that is just through church service readings and Bible study groups discussing the popular verses and books.
I don't know what that means necessarily but for a group that bases 100% of their faith and belief on the infallible Word of God it's curious that so much of it is ignored or dismissed.
I think more like 5% -
2017-11-26 at 12:20 AM UTC
Originally posted by mmQ I'd be willing to bet the "average" Christian has actually read like 50% of the Bible, and most of that is just through church service readings and Bible study groups discussing the popular verses and books.
No one really reads the bible critically. If they did they'd see what it really is, a creepy collection of bronze age stories about nasty jedis and various assorted semites running around making each others lives awful and being mentally ill and retarded.
I have been at many bible studys, and have always been amazed, like literally astonished, left in wonder, at the illogical moral lessons that the participants have drawn from the batshit insane and deeply creepy stories in the bible.
I could never read the bible alone at night, as it scared me, like a horror movie.
Judeo-Christianity is an insult to the entire idea of religion, and Islam is the retarded shit-covered offspring of that insult.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2017-11-26 at 12:36 AM UTC
