Current Events > Just finished reading 1984

(+) Yeah! (+)

What the fuck
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ye
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Yeah, not the feel good book you were expecting, huh?

I was fully convinced that there would be some glimmer of hope, and went slack-jawed when I read "THE END"

the Appendix on Newspeak being so large feels like a deliberate deception to the reader's expectations
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Now go for challenge mode and survive reading Atlas Shrugged.
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Pastryarchy posted...

Now go for challenge mode and survive reading Atlas Shrugged.

But skip that long ass speech that would take a day to finish.
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I have only heard bad things both about Atlas Shrugged's prose and the message it tries to deliver
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Doe posted...

I was fully convinced that there would be some glimmer of hope, and went slack-jawed when I read "THE END"

the Appendix on Newspeak being so large feels like a deliberate deception to the reader's expectations

Now you know why I stopped mid-book after someone spoiled it.

Doe posted...

I have only heard bad things both about Atlas Shrugged's prose and the message it tries to deliver

good.

Its a great book, damn shame conservatives have pretty much ruined it.
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Had to read it for highschool.
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I thought 1984 was a children's book until about halfway through.
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What is a 'pseud' on /lit/? "Pseudo-intellectual?"
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I read 1984 on a NAVY deployment and it reminded me of the NAVY.

The blue coveralls, not being allowed to speak your mind out of fear of persecution, no displays of affection, the constant contradictory opinions of the people I worked for..

Ugh.
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I can't get any non-biased opinions on Atlas Shrugged.

I own the book though so I should just read it myself I guess
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Doe posted...

I have only heard bad things both about Atlas Shrugged's prose and the message it tries to deliver

she advocated for Laissez-Faire Capitalism and went on to die while on welfare.

as long as you recognize that her central belief - that it's heroic to be a self-centered douchebag - is completely wrong, there's no harm in reading it.

though, yes, the writing itself is pretty atrocious too
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worth reading in your opinion?
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^ see that's what I'm talking about.
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Is Lolita actually a good story or is it a /lit/ meme
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MakoReizei posted...

^ see that's what I'm talking about.

*sigh*

her premise that everyone acts in their own self-interest is philosophically contentious and biologically wrong. Anthropology and archaeology have repeatedly shown that humans practice mutualism - Darwin and Kropotkin, two evolutionary scientists, have shown mutualism in action

she claims that A=A, which is easy enough, but then she basically leaps directly to the conclusion that laissez-faire capitalism is the best system for everyone - unsupported, even by her own definition of logic.

Max Stirner is a good alternative - egotism is much more consistent, both internally and with reality
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Doe posted...

Is Lolita actually a good story or is it a /lit/ meme

oh man lolita is fucked

it's great

but like

super fucked up
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Doe posted...

Saving thia
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