>Factotum is well written and an accurate insight into the life of blue-collar blues >the bible is boring as fuck every other chapter is some fucking roll call >The stranger is unironically decent >audiobooks are an entirely acceptable way to digest literature
>audiobooks are an entirely acceptable way to digest the plot ftfy
Anthony Jones
infinite jest seems way to long to read and crime and punishment seems dull
William Mitchell
>every other chapter is some fucking roll call that just isn't true user and you know it, whether it's boring or not is another matter
Jeremiah Mitchell
>audiobooks are an entirely acceptable way to digest literature
only if you're not doing anything else. For example driving and listening to an audiobook is distracting af both ways.
Also, there's nothing wrong with genre fiction
Isaac Wood
>>The stranger is unironically decent I dunno why people say "The Stranger" is bad. I find it a very well written although sometimes wierd, but this is because Camus was a existencialist, so his works do follow the same line of thought.
Impopular opinion >The Quran is more boring than The Bible >The Divine Comedy is Dantes self-insert fanfic >I like the Twilight series, tho I know is shit. >The Quran isen't as bad as people portray it
Kevin Perry
I didnt like the writing style at first because it felt so colorless but when I finished the book I thought it was brilliant. I can see how some people would be turned off by the drab colorless writing style but it really ties into the whole theme.
Zachary Bailey
James Joyce is the greatest writer, and greatest artist of all time.
Ayden Morales
Agree in this. The start is a bit strange too, but I think when you get in the mood, it goes easier.
Jack Harris
>every other chapter is some fucking roll call this is the iliad.
Camden Brooks
Western history would be infinitely more interesting if Homer replaced the old testament and Plato replaced the new testament.
Kayden Cox
>way to long to read I don't get this.
it's like, it's just like reading 3 shorter books, except it's one book. you just get to spend more time in the world and more time with the writer and the characters.
Joshua Lee
>the bible is boring as fuck the begatting is boring but if you like poetry i don't get how you couldn't like a lot of it the KJV is great
>Pessoa is a hack >Anything other than Lolita is Nabokov wanking himself off >The Recognitions is for pseud >Solipsism is the be all end all of philosophy
Luke Morales
cant believe i share a board with u
Daniel Brooks
think of it like a penis. A small one will not satisfy anyone besides a few people, but when you see a huge, girthy one, you start wondering if your going to leave the bedroom alive. you want the perfect 6-7 inch penis for maximum pleasure and comfort. point is big books are intimidating
Blake Phillips
This is one of the worst analogies I've ever seen, though.
Aaron Williams
it reads like something I'd written and then realized it's silly and not post it
Jose Morales
This is a bad analogy because as soon as I read penis I started drooling uncontrollably and couldn't focus on the rest of your post.
Asher Green
>unpopular
you mean wrong.
Adam Nguyen
Whoever doesn't like The Stranger has sand in their cunt
Ryan Carter
Franzen is the best contemporary American author.
Bentley Gonzalez
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Landon Kelly
This
Brody Brooks
>He hasn't driven for 4+ hours solo while listening to On the Road
Jace Fisher
Pulp genre fiction is high art because like high art is exists purely for its form and the satisfactions that form offers over, or beside, what pure representation could. There is actually no division between Sherlock Holmes stories, an H.G Wells Romance, and an intricately patterned novel by Nabokov (that isn't Lolita, which is accidentally representational.)
Brandon Brooks
>>Pessoa is a hack Here's something I can agree.
Kayden Hall
I think audiobooks for epic poems have the potential to be as good or better than their written equivalents since they were originally performed orally.
Ryder Lewis
>every other chapter they're called books and this is incorrect
Robert Moore
A hard boiled detective novel/pulp is great when it's well written.
Samuel Morales
Veeky Forums is the best board for shitposting on Veeky Forums and as such has some of the funniest moments I've come across online. I rarely engage in on topic discussion here LMAO
Luis Gonzalez
>>The Divine Comedy is Dantes self-insert fanfic
not wrong.
Cooper Walker
There is literally nothing wrong with Jordan Peterson
Caleb Stewart
Just go outside and spread your buttcheeks open to the nearest bum. You will get the dick you want quickly.
Cooper Ramirez
>If my grandmother had wheels she would have been a wheelbarrow
Carter Garcia
>Foucault is worthwhile
Elijah Cruz
I've started to dislike Pepe and like Wojack, before I despised Wojack for his pathetic, ugly weakness but I now realize he has no choice but to suffer and Pepe deserves death for his irreverence and candid faggotry
Zachary Price
Pic Related is such a boring fucking meme, holy shit
Robert Perry
Idk about you but I love the brainlet wojack evolution. I actually laugh out loud when I come on Veeky Forums and find one I haven't seen. And when it's paired with a tasteful shitpost, I laugh that much harder. Idk what is, empathy prolly, but that meme just fills me with joy and I feel alright with the world
Jaxson Rivera
>the bible is boring as fuck every other chapter is some fucking roll call t. tried to read in order and didn't get past the historical books
Brandon Watson
I hate James Joyce. I think he is a hack. He doesn't value the inclusive nature of creativity he thinks that creating something unique and new means that you have to be cut off from society.
The only decent thing he did was create brap posting.
Nolan Miller
fpbp
Nolan Foster
pepe is a reddit meme and anyone posting it on Veeky Forums in 2018 was probably born after 9/11
Liam Young
Muh cuckold socialist Jew book where I talk about pooping and not forgetting to buy the soap and now not forgetting the soap is in my pocket oops I sat on it Stephen is like me son that died whoopsie
Jeremiah Sullivan
> The Stranger is unironically decent
Yes but how is this an unpopular opinion? It's considered a classic.
Zachary Ramirez
>the bible is boring as fuck every other chapter is some fucking roll call
t. Gave up before finishing Genesis
Jordan Ortiz
Disgusting post, user. This is a staunchly Islamic board. Delet this.
Kevin Wood
>Aesthetics magically disappear when you read them out loud
Brainlet ahoy!
Jaxson Butler
Good post, not wrong.
William Campbell
Not a Peterson-supporter as I haven't read his books but I'm not sure why people connect him with the alt-right. I've seen some clips from interviews and podcasts and he seems like a rational, well-mannered guy. Not sure why he causes so much controversy.
Saying that, I thought that about Milo Yiannopoulos at first because I didn't know what he did but seeing more of what he's about, he's definitely out there to provoke a negative reaction. Not seen Peterson do that though.
Gabriel Young
I feel the same, any meme just gets driven into the fucking ground and people just have no restraint. I hope memes as we know them die out
Josiah Price
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David Ortiz
7 inches is big you dumbass. 5 inches is what you want.
Dominic King
The alt-right really doesn't exist. It's a movement that doesn't move, essentially. He's connected with the alt-right because of the whole trans issue, which was his claim to fame.
Aiden Ward
Veeky Forums is 85% populated by pseuds
Landon Roberts
>high art exists purely for its form What the fuck!?
Nathaniel Price
>>Anything other than Lolita is Nabokov wanking himself off I agree and I love it.
Isaiah Torres
>tfw pretty sure my schlong is 7 inches hard fühls good
Luis Butler
>poetry is pretentious >Shakespeare is boring >Bible is boring >there's nothing wrong with reading only for the plot
Ryan Gutierrez
Unless you have a photographic memory you literally cannot analyze a text if you're listening to it. It's as simple as that.
David Roberts
uhh...nobody analyzes a text on first reading though? There would be no point as you wouldn't be able to fully comprehend the literary devices used without having solid knowledge of the plot. Therefore, audiobooks are fine, unless you are re-reading (obviously).
Anthony Hernandez
>currently reading more than one book at a time what do you also listen to music, jog, watch tv, and lurk here at the same time? fucking pseuds
John Smith
two digit man dares to post his hot opinion
Owen Hughes
reading 5 books atm (including audiobooks), a lot more fun this way. I have a different book depending on my mood and intellectual energy. For instance, I am not exactly going to wanna read infinite jest while im on my fucking commute.
Eli Lopez
Joyce wasn’t a very good writer.
Eli Edwards
sartre is shit, kierpoogore is shit, hegel is shit, kant is shit, almost all germans are shit actually except nietz. kafka is cool, but you have to read conversations with kafka to understand it, or at least it was like that for me. yung wittgenstein is everything that matters in philosophy, if you understand stuff you dont have to read anything else. you can actually independently solve philosophy pretty much, but if you didnt, you can just read yung witt and that's that.
Angel Sullivan
Folio Society is as tacky as Barnes & Noble Leatherbound editions.
Dominic Stewart
you watch too much porn
Jaxon Stewart
I agree, it’s so jarring to read several fiction books at once. It seems to me like it’s mostly people who’re trying to force themselves to read a big old classic that they don’t enjoy, so they distract themselves from it every couple of chapters by reading something they actually like reading.
Jonathan Nelson
I only watch cam girls
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Julian Carter
And that's why audiobooks are only good for getting a sense of plot >Brainlet Ahoy!