Why is this so fucking good? Why is this so unique? I hardly believed books could make me feel this way and I would love to continue chasing this dragon if that is possible. It's modern so it cant be that great right? there must be superior works from throughout human history right? I have literally never read anything so compelling as this book. I did 5 months in county jail and read over 100 books and only keep a handful fresh in mind of important books I'd even consider on its level. I love this book so much I find myself racing down the page skipping sentences then rereading them thrice just to punish my self. Yes I am just relearning my love for literature but I would appreciate more than anonymous could ever know if you would recommend books that rival this in ENJOYMENT.
Why is this so fucking good? Why is this so unique...
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There's a lot of books in the world beyond Warhammer user, try reading more
While that was a humorous post and I literally laughed out loud, I've actually read a few warharmmer books and found them lacking in merit.
because you are a /pol sociopath who fantasizes about violence because you are angry about being a virgin
completely wrong. this would be funny except id like serious recommendations.
I accept the fact that i'm probably narrowminded but i don't understand why anyone would read books other than non-fiction educational ones (latest i've been reading is The Mind Illuminated)
I just fail to see how fiction in books could give you the same payoff as a film.
I've recently came to the conclusion that there is literally nothing in life that is worth my time like a good book is. Film has potential for greatness but it is just so unfulfilled
Flowers for Algernon
my brain's been fried from years of internet abuse but yeah, it's pretty incredible when you sit down and read. a good book blows any other narrative form out of the water.
Suttree
Child of God
All the Pretty Horses
>bro just kill people
You'd be surprised lad. There's a reason the "books were better" adage exists. Not simply because a book can be more detailed but it can also evoke, if written well, all the emotions/feelings under the sun. Your imagination of a scene can also provide a vast improvement over anything put to film.
Read I am Legend. Dont read any spoilers about it
Its nothing like the movie
Its a nice book but Cormac writes too much like its a movie script, though I guess thats why it has the impact it has on a lot of people who arent used to reading much, it presents the story in a way that appeals to movie/tv watchers and makes it easier for non-readers to digest it easily.
Gravity's Rainbow
Underworld
Infinite Jest
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I guess maybe i'm just wired differently because a book has never evoked anything for me and even when watching films or listening to music i love i don't really feel emotional about it. Like, i understand a mood, atmosphere, when something is sad etc. but it doesn't really evoke that same feeling in me. That's why i always feel like a fraud when normies can say "wow this song made me cry" and even though i claim to be passionate about music no song has ever made me cry.
Why is this the only book Yas Forums has ever read
When will infinite jest be adapted?
it's just a cool book
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Its the same with The Road and No Country for Old Men.
>what is prose
how about you add your favorites to this thread you fucking queer. if they are deserving of meme status they surely will be some day. its not like we want to only rave about this one book.
hello harry potter?
>because you are a /pol sociopath who fantasizes about violence because you are angry about being a virgin
Hey thats literally me,so would you reccomend this book for me?
You seem to be all to familiar with this train of thought.
Yes, say hello to the dullest franchise in the history of movie franchises. Each episode following the boy wizard and his pals from Hogwarts Academy as they fight assorted villains has been indistinguishable from the others. Aside from the gloomy imagery, the series’ only consistency has been its lack of excitement and ineffective use of special effects, all to make magic unmagical, to make action seem inert.
Perhaps the die was cast when Rowling vetoed the idea of Spielberg directing the series; she made sure the series would never be mistaken for a work of art that meant anything to anybody?just ridiculously profitable cross-promotion for her books. The Harry Potter series might be anti-Christian (or not), but it’s certainly the anti-James Bond series in its refusal of wonder, beauty and excitement. No one wants to face that fact. Now, thankfully, they no longer have to.
>a-at least the books were good though r-right
"No!"
The writing is dreadful; the book was terrible. As I read, I noticed that every time a character went for a walk, the author wrote instead that the character "stretched his legs."
I began marking on the back of an envelope every time that phrase was repeated. I stopped only after I had marked the envelope several dozen times. I was incredulous. Rowling's mind is so governed by cliches and dead metaphors that she has no other style of writing. Later I read a lavish, loving review of Harry Potter by the same Stephen King. He wrote something to the effect of, "If these kids are reading Harry Potter at 11 or 12, then when they get older they will go on to read Stephen King." And he was quite right. He was not being ironic. When you read "Harry Potter" you are, in fact, trained to read Stephen King.
>I did 5 months in county jail and read over 100 books
lol if this part is true it's because the books in jail fucking suck. I read like three because the rest were garbage. I got started on something by David Baldacci on my way out that seemed pretty cool but I wouldn't put it on the same level as Blood Meridian. Right now I'm reading Jung and Clancy.
ehhh i read no country, the road, several other good books inside desu. just nothing mind blowing
monte cristo
idiot
bros karamazov
therese raquin
bel ami
day of the triffids
grapes of wrath
east of eden
heart of darkness
steppenwolf
house of leaves
catcher in the rye
>character's hate the father
>He's just a Chad fucking lose bitches and drinking/gambling
Wish I had my alyosha folder on my phone to cuck you with the power of christ.
based
alyosha was based
I have a problem where I really like Monte Cristo for the first third or so but the pacing slows down to such a degree halfway through that I never end up finishing it.
You’re probably just autistic
Also if you don’t feel anything when you watch movies on what criteria do you “love” them?
it picks up again, he's just slowly preparing all of his plans to set them in motion
it's honestly well worth the read, even if you'd feel you need to force through some parts
i did not have that issue with the books tho
notre dame on the other hand....
This is just pseud blather. For one thing, “it presents the story” is itself a retarded statement. There is no story in any conventional sense.
Anyone naysaying McCarthy is a psued
Simple as
>90% of people in here have never read Moby Dick the whole way through let alone some excerpts they saw in high school
Little Women has had a million adaptations, none of them can hold a candle to Mrs. Alcott's written word
OP here. I read Moby Dick in 7th grade about 20 years ago but didn't really appreciate it. I've just read someone else recommending it after BM. Can you expand on why that is?
books do things no film or TV show can, because it forces the reader to picture the things they're reading in their mind, which elicits a stronger emotional reaction
There's a reason American Psycho is FAR harder hitting than the movie, even though it's also more boring for 80% of it, so maybe a bad example
now that you said that it makes me really sad
>Can you expand on why that is?
Because its an actual good book from a time books werent written in the hopes they would become a movie or a tv show, so people considered it as the end medium and actually tried hard to write good prose.
This
I will begin reading it asap. Are you really trying to tell me the prose in BM is bad? I understand your thoughts as I also just read The Road which I understand was partly intended to be a screenplay and which I felt was mediocre in comparison to more traditional books.
>I read Moby Dick in 7th grade
I really doubt that you read it, let alone understood a lot of the prose in 7th grade.The full thing is over 1000 pages long.
>Can you expand on why that is?
It's a classic in every sense of the word. To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be who have tried it.
Seriously isn’t worth your time unless you find 300+ pages of 19th century whaling facts a gripping read
>he didn't get it
I'm reading it right now but the chapter titles are kinda ruining it. Each chapter is titled like "Traveling to Tennessee, get in a fight, find a friend, new friend dies, get captured, move on to Texas ect. And then you read exactly what you were just told. I'm trying not to read the chapter headers now cause it's ruining it.
You would have to be an actual masochist to read every page of that novel
I was extremely autistic in middle school and read books constantly to avoid social situations. I literally won some statewide book report contest several years in a row. Then somehow in my adult life I've averaged half a book per year. Anyway I'm trying to get in to real lit now
Nah, Im admittedly shitting on it too much, BM's prose is definitely not as great as a lot of stuff, but its definitely his strongest book and still worth reading, as opposed to The Road or No Country.
How did you end up in jail, user?
That is annoying but at least you figured it out. Just like that time when I was 10 and learned to skip the episode openings to DBZ because of the huge spoilers
>east of eden
seconding
Why is this identical thread on /lit/ except this one has way more replies and sincerity
lit is a board for pseudo-intellectuals trying to show off how smart they are because they read some excerpt of a book in their philosophy 101 class
Yas Forums is for members of the based department
I was wondering if someone could tell me if it matters or not. I stopped reading them after chapter 5.