Books you threw in the trash after the first eight pages?

Kids should be reading Heidegger and Kant, maybe then they'll actually like reading

he's 14 you cocksucka

This book is essential for fully understanding the current state and continual trajectory of man's soul in the 21st century. Few books have been written that absolutely capture the condition of the masses under nihilism, the utter hollowness of being at this stage of history. It had to be unintentional, no author, no matter how great, could sit down with intent and produce such a scathing condemnation, such a brutal unflinching confession of their own lack of worth and that of the system that produced someone capable of writing such a book in the first place.

If you can't make it through the book you have no business commenting on society.

I left a girl over something similar. She refused to read anything but chick-lit. I realized she had not drive to become greater than what she already was and did not want her inertia riddle genes mixing with my own.

>You should read this because it gives a window into the mind of bitch boy failures that live in a world where they feel entitled to a better life but believe they have no means in achieving it and therefore value nothing but escapism and informing the world of how terrible it is
>Except for the eighties those were awesome
>It's a book that literally affirms every prejudice you have about millennials you should read this to know your prejudices are valid
This is you right now.

Read it if you are not a coward. I dare you. Read it and understand.

I had a friend who said he liked the newest star wars movie. I threw a shoe at his head and went on a 8 minute tirade about why he was a disgusting pseud with pleb tier tastes. We're still best friends

>the masses under nihilism
>muh meaning
Make your own!

Thank you for removing yourself from the gene pool.

Imagine being this autistic

don't worry, you would have gone to different high schools, slowly drifted apart, and then stopped communicating after college.

tell me about it - my laaame 5yrold step-brother watches Peppa Pig.

but srsly WTF??!!

dude at 14 i used to like a lot of dumb movies too, like who gives a fuck at that age

it's the people who are 24+ that should know better

> people in this thread losing friends because their friends are plebs

How about find some common ground on things you like and agree on instead of creating a larger divide between yourself and social interaction?

nice story stand-by-me NERD

I'd like to be convinced to try again. I really really WANT to like this book. It just feels so sterile.

I throwed twilight just at that lenght.
When the mc ask the vampire "you have superpowers like spiderman?" I was out.

kek

>t. people who have settled for retard girlfriends because m-MUh vagina!!! i-i cant waste this opportunity...

Wow you are so le cool and le smart for not liking [shitty novel]. Time for your le Veeky Forums approved pat on the back for being such an intelLEctual!

>that whole page where he gets philosophical about masturbation

If you're ever wondering why you should just go pornfree altogether, read this poem by Ernest Cline.

The line "guys need porn" is so forceful. Do you want to be similar to Ernest Cline? No? Quit porn.

No seriously? Any user have an excerpt?

>The line "guys need porn" is so forceful.

It's superficially similar to "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons".

That line by Eliot masterfully captures the entire persona he has constructed. There is such an immensely beautiful sadness in the tragically banal insignificance of Prufrock.

Likewise, that line by Cline masterfully captures what is obviously not a persona to him, but rather himself. The self-satisfied vulgarity, the insistence on being a slave to your own baser impulses ("guys need porn" is the only line said twice), the visceral imagery of a fat, sweaty nerd who finds a way to hate and judge everyone but himself (i.e. the porn actresses) even while he is dick-in-hand masturbating, masturbating to things he himself claims to hate. There is Prufrock in him, but instead of sad wistfulness, he is filled with the vulgarity, anger and the basest lack of self-reflection. I think the line by Eliot is to the feeling of sad beauty what the line by Cline is to the feeling of being repulsed, morally, aesthetically and spiritually.

It's not intended that way, and I am no fan of shock art, but that line by Cline is forceful, it is visceral, and it is engaging, you'll have to give him that. Where Prufrock paints you a picture of the wistful everyman, Cline paints you a picture of the utterly debased, hateful and spiteful nerd. Perhaps this character is too topical to be truly timeless, unlike Prufrock, but Cline did provide an excellent snapshot in that terrible, terrible line.

Getting philosophical about masturbation is beast. Ernest Cline is just jacking himself off though, and not in a cool erotic way: amor... titillatio... petit mort... but in like a panting cheeto grease cum way. As if some spartan autist like Newton jacked off. His substitute for eros was to spill people's blood for muh coins.

>“I would argue that masturbation is the human animal's most important adaptation. The very cornerstone of our technological civilization. Our hands evolved to grip tools, all right—including our own. You see, thinkers, inventors, and scientists are usually geeks, and geeks have a harder time getting laid than anyone. Without the built-in sexual release valve provided by masturbation, it's doubtful that early humans would have ever mastered the secrets of fire or discovered the wheel. And you can bet that Galileo, Newton, and Einstein never would have made their discoveries if they hadn't first been able to clear their heads by slapping the salami (or "knocking a few protons off the old hydrogen atom"). The same goes for Marie Curie. Before she discovered radium, you can be certain she first discovered the little man in the canoe.”

looks like mindless fun, and a nice 3d experience

>Knocking a few protons off the old hydrogen atom
>A few protons
>Hydrogen atom

This makes me unreasonably angry.

>applying a marketing demographic label to the great thinkers of the renaissance and beyond in order to personally obtain honor by association as a means to justify excessive masturbation

Who is this person choking Jordan Peterson and what is their patreon

This book reads as if DFW was wrote a rip off of Joyce, and then an even less slanted author wrote a rip off of that rip off.

I read the entire thing, it was trash. I swear the author learned the word "Rubenesque" the day before he sat down to shit out the book, probably while masturbating over 17th century "art." The book reads like a fanwank version of an 80s video game and television Wikipedia article, with terrible dialog, little character growth, deus ex machinas out the ass, and a simplistic plot with no nuance or subtlety.

>The Fault in Our Stars
Hazel is one of the most obnoxiously written characters I've ever read, and not in the good way of loving to hate a character. I dropped the book after this line:

"Look, let me just say it: He was hot. A nonhot boy stares at you relentlessly and it is, at best, awkward and, at worst, a form of assault. But a hot boy . . . well."

What the fuck,Green? Turtles All the Way Down was actually pretty good though, because Green tones down his tendency to make shitty jokes constantly and actually captures what it's like to have OCD pretty accurately.

>Twilight
I didn't get angry reading this like I did with The Fault in Our Stars, but it's boring as all hell and Bella is a really bland Mary Sue character. I got about halfway through before dropping it.