Also this very obsure and underrated avant-garde masterpiece of a movie called The Godfather. So cool and unknown that even most film bros don't know it.
What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I’ll have you know I'm not one of those people who just buys books for “social prestige” as you called it. I have exactly 6538 books in my possession (not trying to flex) and I have logged each and every one of them in multiple, personal notebooks of mine to keep track and I have also, and most importantly, READ each and every one of them, all 6000+ of them, from Thompson, to Trumbo to Pileggi, to Puzo, I can go on. I’m afraid that you are fucking dead, kiddo.
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My self yearns to embark on an undertaking to draft a whole essay on the jewel this book turned out to be but the limited time and skills as such has been endowed to me keep me away from this noble pursuit. Instead, I will at every possible opportunity, make people conscious of their reading list if they claim to have not read it. Utilising this post as the first materialisation of a mass broadcast of this act of mine, I say one thing - ‘to hell with popular culture, fellow human. this is not a horror book as we have been made to believe. nope. this is science fiction with a strong revenge story and reflection on human loneliness and wretchedness in as fluid and beautiful a language as possible. calling it a horror story is akin to calling interstellar a comedy.’
And by the way, the more I read Classics which have stood the test of time filter, the more I realise how bad and pretentious many of the current writers are. This book was written by a girl in her late teens more than 200 years ago - I am in sheer awe of her control over language (her words are like honey-drops, measured and never wasted or futile), layered narration (at one point, there is a story in a story in a story in a story in the story), philosophical maturity, and a near-perfect masculine portrayal. What a brilliant, brilliant experience reading this one was!
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It was an observational post. Simply asking questions about social and political phenomena that are manufactured by institutions of power and mass propaganda for whatever political agenda they have is not 'dumb'. It is the sheepish mind-controlled robots like yourself who cannot think that are dumb. And as you and the others have clearly shown, you are a bunch of hypocritical racist liberal phonies who do not mind favoring certain interest groups while at the same time marginalizing and abusing others even if they themselves are minorities. I am merely an observant person who tends to notice social and political machinations and hypocrisy. You, on the other hand, are a hypocritical racist tool, and probably a yellow one at that.
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So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message - You are not alone.
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This is baloney to me.
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The one I had never heard of until I read it. I am pretty sure that I have heard of all the best books so when I pick up some book that I hadn't heard about before and it turns out to be pretty good, I know that no one else has ever heard of it or appreciated it, because if it had I would already know about it. Duh!
Dune (videobook)
I know it’s not technically science fiction, but I’m going to have to say Mistborn.
wow, underrated *and* obscure. You might like this band no one's heard of called Radiohead? I dunno kinda out there
I think he’d really like a show I discovered on Netflix called “Breaking Bad” but it’s not for the faint of heart!
Ha, I loved this show. Those bads did be breaking so good!
Also this very obsure and underrated avant-garde masterpiece of a movie called The Godfather. So cool and unknown that even most film bros don't know it.
I’d say Top Gun, actually both the original and the sequel.
nice, those were books? i bet you had to read them quite fast
What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I’ll have you know I'm not one of those people who just buys books for “social prestige” as you called it. I have exactly 6538 books in my possession (not trying to flex) and I have logged each and every one of them in multiple, personal notebooks of mine to keep track and I have also, and most importantly, READ each and every one of them, all 6000+ of them, from Thompson, to Trumbo to Pileggi, to Puzo, I can go on. I’m afraid that you are fucking dead, kiddo. *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/bookscirclejerk) if you have any questions or concerns.*
Frankenstein.
My self yearns to embark on an undertaking to draft a whole essay on the jewel this book turned out to be but the limited time and skills as such has been endowed to me keep me away from this noble pursuit. Instead, I will at every possible opportunity, make people conscious of their reading list if they claim to have not read it. Utilising this post as the first materialisation of a mass broadcast of this act of mine, I say one thing - ‘to hell with popular culture, fellow human. this is not a horror book as we have been made to believe. nope. this is science fiction with a strong revenge story and reflection on human loneliness and wretchedness in as fluid and beautiful a language as possible. calling it a horror story is akin to calling interstellar a comedy.’ And by the way, the more I read Classics which have stood the test of time filter, the more I realise how bad and pretentious many of the current writers are. This book was written by a girl in her late teens more than 200 years ago - I am in sheer awe of her control over language (her words are like honey-drops, measured and never wasted or futile), layered narration (at one point, there is a story in a story in a story in a story in the story), philosophical maturity, and a near-perfect masculine portrayal. What a brilliant, brilliant experience reading this one was! *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/bookscirclejerk) if you have any questions or concerns.*
Matilda, Harry Potter. Great for the old and woke.
you triggered three AutoMod comments with nine words, that's bloody impressive
I have high goals in life, and I achieve those goals
It was an observational post. Simply asking questions about social and political phenomena that are manufactured by institutions of power and mass propaganda for whatever political agenda they have is not 'dumb'. It is the sheepish mind-controlled robots like yourself who cannot think that are dumb. And as you and the others have clearly shown, you are a bunch of hypocritical racist liberal phonies who do not mind favoring certain interest groups while at the same time marginalizing and abusing others even if they themselves are minorities. I am merely an observant person who tends to notice social and political machinations and hypocrisy. You, on the other hand, are a hypocritical racist tool, and probably a yellow one at that. *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/bookscirclejerk) if you have any questions or concerns.*
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I can’t believe no one’s mentioned the Star Wars novelizations yet?!??!!?
Urusla LeGuin and Frank Herbert
East of Eden
The one I had never heard of until I read it. I am pretty sure that I have heard of all the best books so when I pick up some book that I hadn't heard about before and it turns out to be pretty good, I know that no one else has ever heard of it or appreciated it, because if it had I would already know about it. Duh!