Reading for Beginners

Didn't that have a really long movie? I never saw it. How do the book and film compare?

I guess you are not the other guy so I am asking to you too, did you finish Brave New World?

You see there is a nice mountainous peninsula just east of italy...

The Heart of Darkness primarily (the inspiration for Apocalypse Now), The Secret Agent, Nostromo, etc.

The film has a bit of a cult reputation, but I enjoyed the book a lot more

Not read it yet, sitting in my stack

Not the OP, never read the book but I've suffered through the film and even fell asleep for a couple of minutes. I'm not a fan of film in general nor of Kubrick, so my opinion hasn't much of a value, but here it goes. The movie's fucking boooooring. I watched with this "artsy" girl. She was an obvious pseud, but since I'm less obvious pseud than she is, I somehow interested her. She invites me over to watch this movie, because "it's the best experience ever" Anyway, I come over, we pop half a pill (80mg), chat a bit and smoke some weed. When we start rolling she turn the shit on. There were at least 10 minutes of blackness. Nothing but black, then it starts with some monkeys doing monkey stuff. After 30 minutes of nothing some stone drops and something happens, I think, but your brain is so full of pointlessly long dumb shit, that you can't even notice. From there on I just tried to kiss the girl and fuck. She kept telling me to watch the movie so I gave up and dozed off for a couple of minutes. I woke up, there was some weird trip sequence and that was it. She let me sleep over, but we did not have sex. I dreamt of monkeys that night.

>"brave new world is a very dense, high-cultured piece of literature"
>actually it's not that bad, it's a fun read that's usually assigned to high schoolers and is a good starting place for someone new to literature
>"wahhh stop scaring people away from books :("
Are you serious?

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