This is one of the funniest books I’ve ever read.
>>24697862Yawn.
>“What’t it about?”>“It exposes the entire mechanism of our society’s movement, and all in poetic tones. Every spring is touched; every rung of the social ladder considered. It’s like a trial, with the author summoning both the weak but depraved magnate and the whole swarm of corrupt officials who are hoodwinking him. It sorts through all the categories of fallen women—French, German, Finnish, and all the rest—with stunning, thrilling accuracy. I’ve heard excerpts. The author is magnificent! You hear echoes of Dante and Shakespeare in him.”>“That’s going a bit too far!” said Oblomov in amazement, sitting up.>Penkin suddenly paused, seeing he truly had gone too far.>“You read it and you’ll see for yourself,” he added, now without bravado.>“No, Penkin, I won’t.”
zakhar is the absolute limit
>>24697862Ah, yes... reading... I was just about to... but it slipped away from me somehow. Well, perhaps next week, or the week after—it will still be there.
>>24697862Unironically I have tried reading it 3 times but quit 1/3 through
>>24699623Why?
I've never been tempted to read this. The life of a limp lazy pseud may be relatable and funny in the same way Relatable Memes are funny, but surely it's only a starting point. Does the book go beyond the level of a self-deprecating tweet? Spending all your time knowingly guffawing at feebleness just feels feeble and complacent itself.
>>24699655It has a plot, the guy is a virgin and falls in love with a girl ten years younger but has decided to between her and his laziness
>>24699683Interesting, thanks for the info.
It's like reading a very very good /r9k/ thread. You'll want to punch the guy multiple times just like reading any cunt on /r9k/ wasting away
>>24699655Of course it's only a starting point. Only the first 50–100 pages focus on his laziness and the childhood that formed it. After that, he falls in love, and we see how his character plays out in the relationships and society. It's a good deconstruction of the inactive person, showing both the comedy and the tragedy of living that way. Ironically, it can be quite motivating: you read it and think you don't want to up like Oblomov.
>>24697862He's literally me
>>24697862You know, the way this guy is lazy and how he described his perfect life, it's not that far away from my image of it. Thought he talked a lot of sense, actually.
>>24699635the part where the narrator describes what I believe to be Oblomovs childhood home is very very boring.
>>24699765Does he explain why he ends up inactive?
>>24701209His origin story, carefully implented into the story, tells how he got a job after finishing his studies. He quit after sending a letter to the wrong address. From then on, he stayed lying on his couch smoking pipe in a fine ass cloth like a perma-neet because no other of the many ideas wich came into his powerful mind seemed like a better option. Even simple things like reading a book gradually became too exhausting."Outwardly, I look like I'm doing nothing", he says to his manservant, "but inwardly I am thinking HARD on how to improve this country."
>>24701105It’s pretty funny, reminded me of Hobbits except presented as unappealing
>>24698098Most books have no soul so 4chan stops to question wtf is the plot of the book slop and why are there so many failed authors sadly card carrying communists have infiltrated the democratic party and pose as librarians and the education filament so now we have actual ghost writers writing in a office cubicle in south east Asia as DFW bizarrely predicted.
