I'll start with Plato's Republic
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This one would be understandably quite upsetting.
A clockwork orange
>>24843800THE ALL CAPS make it extra boomer but somehow it’s at least honest about not getting any of it. The man wanted his safari story and it wasn’t one. Fair enough. >>24843791Shit like this leaking IDpol brain stew into her “I didn’t get it” review is just atrocious. I try to be honest about not getting a book up front writing reviews. I went through some classics in “spiritual” books - Ishmael, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, The Alchemist, and I don’t connect with it at all. The points seem tortured, vague handwaving “can’t we all get along, your purpose is right where you left it man, dude nature is rad and shouldn’t be destroyed” type stuff. But clearly lots of people love it and it’s the most important books they’ve read.
>>24843791I love seeing people think they are cool for being unintelligent
Thus spoke Zarathustra
>>24843793Based.
The gloves come OFF, mr. incel tolstoy
>>24843964trvke
>>24843964>"I honestly think Nietzsche really needed a girlfriend">review is by a girlhey wait a minute
>>24843964If he converted to Christianity, improved his personality, got a cute dog and a nice girlfriend he would be much happier and his philosophy much better.
>>24844062the horse meltie was neetzuh realizing that he was a pathetic self-hating chudcel the entire time
>>24844062Fair play anon. You've baited a (You) out of me.
>>24844065Agree>>24844157He would have a different philosophy if he was happier
>>24844160>He would have a different philosophy if he was happierWould he have
Socrates reviews a book
The stranger ...It seems like it comes down to either anger issues about being confronted with being not as intelligent as you'd wish or a complete lack of curiosity about characters that are not Mary Sue
>>24844167He wouldn't have chronic masturbation problems either
>>24844179Same with 1984, it's all "eww Winston is unlikable and sexist"
>>24844184No, I don't think his philosophy would have been better if he were happier.
>>24843782One is first of the opinion the father failed to "ensure order". After the father's rebuke, his son, however, began to address him more formally. Clearly, some order was ensured.
>>24843791based
>>24844179Or it's ipad babies unable to go five minutes within being entertained Or the very special intellectual
>>24843791>not reading a novel in the intended order, skipping chaptersDo people actually do this?
>>24843964Holy based.
Found one
>>24844062>converting to Christianity>having a sinful relationship out of wedlockAll you Christfags are just larpers nowadays.
>>24844236Frankenstein is overwritten trash though.Classic case of a female author striving to look more intelligent than she is.
>>24843791Why did we allow people under the age of 25 to have access to the internet?
>went to read some A Study in Scarlet reviews>it's all mormons complaining about how their cult was portrayed in the booklmao
>>24844248Nietzsche says this exact thing. It's crazy
>>24844264Because it’s funny to laugh at their lack of cognisance.
>>24843791>go through her profile>her 5 star ratings are all porn
>>24844254Found another one
>>24844237It's not uncommon in English lit courses nowadays to study only certain chapters in Ulysses. It seems very likely that she only read these for university.
>>24844254Shelley was a queer but he was NOT a woman.
You ever encounter a person and think to yourself:"Holy shit, you're actually real. I thought people like you only existed in twitter memes, but no. You're a living, breathing parody."
>>24844278I will forgive every single one of these if they had to read something for school... Being forced is no fun but if they chose a classic because they wanted to make themselves seem more intelligent, then their lack of enjoyment becomes mine
>>24844293Itt: anon discovers girls
>>24844306all females are like this? no wonder everyone is killing themselves
>>24844293Oh she’s like one of those Wednesday Addams dark academia playlist on youtube kind of people, if she’s been there since 2014 then she has to be at least 23.
>>24844320Tryna get the most out of her student debt
>>24844314If you know more than 5, you'll know at least 1 like this, as always the ones with nothing to say are the loudest
>pick book about people being immoral >wHy ArRe pPl bEinG iMmorAl??1
>>24844375This helps explain why revisionist historical fiction is so pozzed.
Tao te ching: a bunch of bologna
>>24844392Maximum filteredWorld and Will as Representation… how succinct!
The World as Will and Representation* Didn’t want you fags searching for the wrong book on account of my retardation now did I?
>>24844459I don't understand how people are even allowed to do this. Not only is this not a review of the book, she explicitly states that she hasn't read the book she's rating. Why doesn't the site delete her review? Is the userbase allowed to get away with being faggots because the owners are also faggots?
>>24844480Goodreads consists mostly of faggot midwits… no, that’s too kind, retards. Here, take a look at their favouriteshttps://www.goodreads.com/list/show/153860.Goodreads_Top_100_Highest_Rated_Books_on_Goodreads_with_at_least_10_000_Ratings
>>24844490It's not just Goodreads, people who rate books and movies etc. on numerical scales are midwits no matter where they post. The social media profile aspect is pathetic and the idea that everything is either good or bad or on a scale between those ... People make me wanna kms
>>24844245He's literally right though
>>24844585Get over yourself
>>24844392As a mysticism appreciator I don't think this is so bad. These types of texts are supposed to induce an "aha" moment around the truth, namely non-dualism, but it has not made much contribution towards humanity. Science, rationalism and industrialisation has accelerated humanity to heights that none of these easterners could ever have done. This is what happened in those societies; The priest caste engaged in meditation, so potent that they neglected the rest of the world. The people around them died at the age of 20 from dysentary and not once did these guys ever thinkg "hmm maybe we should be a part of society instead of escaping via mystical practises"
>>24844603He's right though. Movie, music, and book review sites have been flooded with retard zoomers who make """reviews""" 1 sentence long, and then plug their instagram. And these aren't niche cases, these are the most popular users. You have to scroll for like 2 straight pages on any popular movie review section on Letterboxd before you'll find an actual review.
>>24844248Having a girlfriend is not sinful. Are you some hardcore Calvinist or something?
>>24844392He’s correct though.These texts don’t work without a master there to beat the neophytes for struggling.
>my opinion is irrelevant, i will post it anyway
>>24844705Yes, the daodejing isn't meant to be read like a novel or aphorisms, but it's part of a spiritual practice. It's not a good read and if they're in a book club and just reading the ddj page by page, I think that's a really funny image
>>24844772She's a repeat offender, and always with the sexual fantasies about western philosophers too
>>24844761What's there not to get about The Prince? We can argue if Machiavelli was genuine or not,but otherwise it's pretty straightforward
Is it over for us, hegel bros?
>>24844392This is the best one cause he's nit a total retard
>>24844853I have no idea what she is talking about. I have zero ideas about black studies and Hegel. Does she have a point?
It's easy to pick these for hate-reading purposes but I prefer the oddball / appealing ones. Maggie is probably a fine person and she needs to cheer up. It's perfectly possible to live a happy and productive life without enjoying Waiting For Godot.
>>24844879No, she doesn't, though she is very accurately repeating an argument that many scholars made throughout the 90s and 00s, so it's by no means coming out of the blue.
>>24844907Yea the oddball ones are the best
>>24843782Not funny. Only the honestly retarded reviews are funny.
>>24844761>I didn't get it, it's on me for being retarded, that means the book is bad 1 starNot sure if based or not
>>24844772Charissa really is begging for corrective rape, I bet she masturbates thinking about it
>>24844821I take it back, Charissa is fucking based and she can rape me if she likes
>>24844853I don't even know what this person is saying or what Hegel said but a slave is a slave because he is a slave, otherwise he would be free. I mean, didn't negroes have better lives in a materially abundant society like America even as slaves than in bumfuck fucking Africa?
>>24844907Yeah, reading paddybabble makes me want to kill myself too
>>24843791>the bare minimumconsider me successfully ragebaited
>>24843964>>24844002>>24844459>>24844821>males who i dislike must be incels>boys, if you do this, you will be lonelyWhy are they all so manipulative? It's disgusting.>>24844375Watch them flounder when the author is a gay man that they can't call an incel.
>>24844179Fair criticism. Camus sucks
>>24846750One must imagine Camus not sucking.
>>24843964Kek, true
>>24844278That’s very strange. In my course on Joyce we read all of Dubliners, Portrait, and Ulysses. I don’t see much value in only reading a couple of chapters and then moving on to something else.
>>24844853>Okay, I’ll make this brief.
I still think Nietzsche's works would be better if he weren’t an incel
>>24844392He's right.
