What books would you like to see adapted into a video game? I always thought Fahrenheit 451 would make an excellent point and click adventure.
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reading a book and understanding a book are two different things.
I have never read a book in my entire life (I had language based-developmental issues in my youth) and I'm sick of video games
What book should I read?
Njal's Saga, it is one of the best Viking Sagas ever written.
Read the saga of didrik of bern, not a Viking’s saga but pretty based
I started reading that recently, it is very good.
Depends. What are you into?
>50 shades of grey
>big bottle of lube
thank me later brah
Is that you mom?
50 shades is like, babby's first lewd fanfiction
it's so basic-b***h that it hurts
50 Shades of Grey is for teenage girls that just discovered boys or moms in their 40s. No in-between.
>moms in their 40s
Frick you zoomers are young. My mom's 65.
Obviously the Great Gatsby
1984
To start off?
Sci-fi: The Forever War
Fantasy: The Painted Man
semi-non fiction: The Kite Runner
Non-fiction : lmao if you're going to read for knowledge read a paper you fricking pussy
The Forever War was cringe.
t. Ender’s Game gang
He kind of shit the bed with the whole ender-extended-universe.
When I first heard he was going to do a new series about the rise of the hegemony I was excited, but then its just this weird alt-history bean fanwank.
I think the last one i read ended when he took his giant brained mutant babies and fricked off into deep space.
>newspaper
>knowledge
I assume he meant academic papers. Not newspapers, dumbass.
Academia is full of shit as well
>telling someone who has never read a single book to read academic papers
youre a special kind of moron tbh
>thinks all academic papers are indecipherable
so many just read like some graduate needed to get it done the night before
Maybe by Ernest Hemingway, but I always see Picture of Dorian Gray the book people read when they start properly reading
I recommend reading manga
Based, but only if you don't watch anime (manga without the soul).
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
/thread
Self-improvement literature is a meme. They usually just tell you the most obvious stuff and the few times they actually tell you something novel, and have empirical evidence to substantiate their claims, it's something that has a tiny effect. And that's assuming they're even giving you the kind of advice you're looking for.
The reality is people just are who they are. Someone can tell you to stick to a schedule, but if you were capable of actually doing that, you would've done it long before someone had to fricking tell you to do it.
Call of the Crocodile
The Inner Game of Tennis
Animal Farm
Iliad
The Iliad is terrible and boring and I'm tired of pretending it's not
Black person you didn't like the metaphor of the land of the lotus eaters?
that's the odyssey
Mein Kampf
Song of Ice and Fire
The Chronicles of Narnia (in written order, starting with The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and ending with The Last Battle - C.S. Lewis really develops the universe over the course of the books, so there's some stuff that might seem underdeveloped if you go in chronological order) and the first Dune are a good starting place
if you like sci-fi, read the rest of the Dune series (the ones written by Frank Herbert at least) and pick up Rendezvous with Rama and find a good collection of short stories by Phillip K. Dick - The Minority Report and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep are both worth a read and are really short, but there are some lesser-known stories in there too that are pretty good
also, if you prefer sci-fi but also want a nice mix of fantasy and like C.S. Lewis's writing, go for the Space Trilogy
if you're more into fantasy then go for The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, in that order
the movies are some of the best of all time (the LotR ones at least, the Hobbit trilogy was moronic) but there's a TON of stuff in the books that didn't make it in (probably because a completely faithful adaptation would fill out something like 10 5+ hour movies)
if you really get into the LotR universe maybe read The Silmarillion
oh yeah, and if you want more sci-fi canon, Neuromancer is a must
just keep in mind that it's pretty heavy and might give you weird dreams
if you ever have kids, give them stuff from the Redwall series by Brian Jacques
fricking loved that shit when I was young, that's what got me into reading
didn't make me into a furry either, despite what people seem to think
Redwall series is fantastic, I still have maybe 10 of them on my shelf. Some of the only books from my younger years I didn’t get rid of
every Redwall book is the same
Robert L. Forward's Dragon's Egg is a pretty good sci-fi novel.
The Starship Troopers novel the films were loosely based on is a quick read.
And though this recommendation might get some side-eyes in here, the Harry Potter books are popular for a reason. They are pretty good.
>Harry Potter
the first three are decent, but 4 and on have parts that will make you cringe into another dimension with all the hamfisted highschool romance bullshit
Starship Troopers I can get behind through
speaking of Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land is also not too bad if you can tolerate the unpleasant way he inserts his fetishes into the book
I think 4 onwards contains both the best and worst parts of the series. Personally I feel that Rowling's reach exceeded her grasp starting with Book 6. Trying to write about the war coming home didn't really land that well, and like you said, the high school romance/drama stuff doesn't really gel with the broader world, but despite all that, I think she managed to stick the landing both in theme and prose.
Man half blood prince is my favorite of the series though, shit starts to finally get real and it’s very dark. 5 & 6 are great. The movies are meh but I will always defend the HP books. They’re easy reads and quite enjoyable.
homer price
Mein Kampf
Lloyd Alexander's The Book of Three Quintet. Probably best recognized for the lamentable Disney adaptation named after the second book, The Black Cauldron, it's an easily accessible fantasy series that shouldn't be too taxing to read compared to more large scale epics like Lord of the Rings. Despite being written for a younger audience, I think it really holds up as a good fantasy series for adults as well. In a similar vein, there's always the mega popular Harry Potter series, and if you're more of a James Bond fan, check out the Alex Rider series, starting with Point Blank. If you enjoy sci-fi and a bit of dry wit, I'd also highly recommend The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It's an all time favorite of mine.
Revolt Against The Modern World
Like I'm gonna let some cripple tell me what is and isn't spiritually aristocratic.
Ya gotta start off with baby shit like Ulysses by James Joyce
frick james joyce
American non-fiction. I recommend Up From Slavery, which is a collection of Booker T Washingon's writings in chronological order. If you don't feel pity for blacks RIGHT AFTER slavery you will after this book. If you don't hate modern blacks for all their stupidity, whining, and failures, you will after this book.
explain anon
Booker does a really good job of portraying the black life post-slavery in dixie. The amount of trials and turmoil they go through yet with the utmost optimism because they are free really can make even the staunchest critics of american blacks feel sympathy.
The other part is it completely destroys the narrative of modern day American blacks. The former slaves were so much more family focus, hard working, optimistic people (surprisingly very few held vitriolic feelings towards whites and even their former masters). The other kicker is there was "political progressive" blacks even back then and Booker rails against them hard. They wish to move blacks vertically with minimal effort through politics and not through hard work and economic merit. Booker wished to build a black culture that was so strong and so valuable that even the strongest of detractors of their race would yield to them because they bring so much value to American society economically and socially. He basically wished to achieve what the Asians did in the early to mid 1900s. Read The Atlantic Compromise to get an example of what he believed.
Unfortunately, blacks decided to follow other American leaders like Dubois who were of the other mindset. Dubois, a which white liberal acting, rich black man, who never was a slave, ridiculed people like Booker. If anyone with a brain is paying attention, you can see this stance has utterly failed black americans.
Ignore my typos, I'm tired
Cool anon, I will read your rec now
Interesting recommendation and genuinely nice blogpost anon. I’ll look into it
If youve never read anything before try something like robinson crusoe or huckleberry fin id imagine
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
How to Read a Book
The Myth of Sisyphus
Sounds fricking gay
Read what you're interested in but Plato's The Republic is a good start but you may need something simpler I don't know
dont read any of these pseud books for low iqs that trannies recommended, just read the luttle prince instead, a book for true reading enthusiasts
Das Kapital
Three Musketeers
A Fire Upon the Deep. Really good sci-fi novel and one of the few fiction books I finished.
Fantastic sci-fi. The intergalactic messaging service that was nothing but one giant Ganker board full of shitposting and scam bots was lovely.
War of the worlds and blood meridian
old man's war
blood meridian
The first books I read and enjoyed were e-girlta, The Metamorphosis and A Song of Ice and Fire.
The Count of Monte Cristo
Start with fanfiction. End with fanfiction.
Road to Serfdom
Infinite Jest
Mein Kampf, don't fall for israelite propaganda.
Work hard and become a Man the World will remember.
The Pearl and Of Mice and Men are both simple quick reads with complex ideas. Give it a shot my man.
Naked Lunch
Arab Dicks: The Novel
The very hungry caterpillar should be your speed
Watership Down. Might be harder read, but it’s a very comfy book.
That shit traumatized my sister and I as children. Mom gave it to us as "a cute movie about bunnies."
>DIGGER
>LISTENER
>RUNNER
>PRINCE WITH THE SWIFT WARNING
I just read it recently.
Having seen the movie first I thought it'd be gruesome or deadly, but the amount of dead rabbits wasn't too staggering compared to the movie. What the movie failed to do was catch the everpresent looming threat of death always hanging above the rabbit's heads, how everything is presented as a danger, the fear of moving, not moving, knowing you're pretty much the bottom of the food chain, the book makes a good point about it, though I gotta admit that putting that in a movie would have done either for a really boring movie or not one you could aim at kids at least.
Start with the classics
Mein kampf
The Bible
The Hunt for Red October or any other Tom Clancy novel.
>I had language based-developmental issues in my youth
No, you didn't. School is just a psychopathic hellhole that tries to destroy your life by saying that your genes are trash (because of MUH GRADES).
Frick school. School is the worst thing in human history, because no one seems to understand that school is not teaching, it is just destroying people and grades are literal poison with no other meaning than kill your interest in science.
With this in your mind, just read
>Make it Stick
teaches you how to remember things
>How to Read a Book
teaches you how to minmax reading
>Deep Work
is about how to break your averageness
>Atomic Habit
teaches you how important consistency and your environment is for learning
After this (and assuming you love fantasy), I would recommend reading Sanderson's books, like Mistborn.
Not that it's the best fantasy book, but the writing is as good as it can be and Sanderson has an insane amount of books that make it nearly impossible to run out of content.
You can of course read other /sffg/ approved books, but a lot are either very dry to read, like TLotR, or are written in a very pushing way (this just means that the writing style can distract from the story for new readers).
The biggest advice to start reading would be to start with audiobooks. While you don't use your eyes, you will get a feeling about how words can be more than just something on paper.
>I would recommend reading Sanderson's books, like Mistborn
Absolutely disgusting. Imagine reading a book by this pudgy looking city slicker.
No respect for this spineless c**t after he let his name get put on Amazon WoT.
The odessey
I don’t know, lets go shoot some hoops.
was this guy legit, or is it just bait?
Both.
He was a brain damaged attention prostitute tripgay that endlessly shat out bait for (You)s
If you do anything ironically for long enough, there's no irony left in it.
were (You)s a thing back when he was active?
Black person attention whoring has been a thing since we were in caves. Dopamine is a hell of a drug
No, maybe Ganker x had that feature but it wouldn't have been until the inline expansion.
The Great Gatsby being the book of choice there should give it away as bait. Absolutely nobody who has read that book enjoyed it.
its 100% bait. the great gatsby is a book for literal children most schools force you to read it
but he might be autistic
started off as legit but then doubled down and did it for attention
He is an FFXIV ERPer.
Quentin was the Real Deal in the era where everyone was "merely pretending" to be moronic.
Unironically only white kid in a school of Black folk.
Quentins a mentalist whos in jail for life lol
I always pictured him of an Elliot Rogers type. Like he read the required reads in high school, did well in high school and immediately just assumed he was the greatest and smartest person, despite being a smooth brain. Ya know? A real redditor type.
Quentin was legitimate, but his takes were such absolute shit that everyone thought it was bait, so it was posted as bait for so long that people think it's genuine.
He himself was a weed smoker
He was so profoundly moronic that occasionally one of his opinions would loop around to being giga based.
Very occasionally.
He was right about Bing Bing Wahoo though
Progress of projecting incel.
>What books would you like to see adapted into a video game?
A sequel to Mary Shelley's The Last Man, and a game based in Chambers' The King in Yellow. I'd also like a detective game a la Sherlock based in Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, Ph.D., LL.D., F.R.S., M.D., M.D.S.
>The Great Gatsby
>good
It's great!
How droll
Gatsby is fricking garbage. Very basic soap-opera tier story with nothing of value in it..
No idea why it's so popular
Americans have no proper literature in general. They are just too self-centered to realize this.
Resonates witht the simp crowd.
The historic reason is that they printed a bunch of copies and gave it out to GIs in WW2. It was a commercial and critical failure when it came out in 1925 and Fitzgerald died thinking he was a failure.
Bullshit, he married his psychopath qt because of his success from the book before she went nuts from him being famous. She was sent to Tuskaloosa’s mental hospital and burned to death in her bed during a fire. She still haunts the ruins to this day.
6 months after he released it the book sold fewer than 20,000 copies.
they got married because of the success of his FIRST book, not Gatsby
It's only popular because it's required reading in a lot of schools
It's good by American standards
Except I read fantasy and sci-fi and find any literature that isn’t Tolkien boring, so I still get the nerd reputation dispute being a reader.
Because you read scifi and fantasy
>Fahrenheit 451 point & click
Probably dogshit unless they make the e-girl cute
holy shit that would be so kino like the i have no mouth and i must scream game
i luv me point
i luv me click
simple as
instant buy if i get to play as (literally me) guy "not happy" montag
Wasn't that how Yu-Gi-Oh 5ds worked
naaaaaa
Imagine all the fricking stairs
in the book the stairs are actually the most dangerous/adventurous part, for one its completely dark, and they circle around the outer ring so it takes forever and they're have creatures in them meant to clean the tower, bristly cats bigger then bears, slugs, etc and slaves that use the paths to traverse between layers
fat c**t
>silk gardens
Imagine all the spiders
why is everything a the
>Silk Gardens
More fake flowers than an At Home?
I miss quentin so much
The ironing of using gatsby in this image that exemplifies that women ARE shallow prostitutes
>always hear about how games are full of violence, sex and bad behaviour
>finally get around to reading some books
>they're full of violence, rape and complete monsters
So do people who think vidya is literally Satan just not read books or what?
what would be a good book for me if these are my favorite games? (HL is my favorite story and especially storytelling-wise, though idk how a book would approach the kind of "in their boots" story telling of HL even if it tried)
no, its just that people got crazed about books first and got over it hundreds of years ago.
Hyperion
i had a dream where i was showing my dad ultrakill but i kept missing my coins like 10x in a row
>Duke Nukem at C
>Not liking 007 or perfect dark or Helen
Go BACK to r*ddit right now.
duke is good, but the reliance on hot very fun to fight hitscan really drags it down for me (also if i added modern stuff like 343 halo, id put alot of the lower stuff like duke and DOOM up a few).
also the rare duo wasn't "bad", it just did not interest me, though 1964 making it so easy probably doesn't help.
hexen just seemed obtuse and i just decided the game was not for me at all.
>my shitty taste
At least you're honest on your shitty taste, putting Daikatana (aka superfly babysitting simulator) higher than Perfect Dark, Doom 3 and Hexen proves that.
perfect dark and hexen are not totally below, i just knew they where not for me very quickly after playing it.
DOOM 3 deserves it's spot for being shit in every way.
bad action,no challenge, no horror, just sad mediocrity.
see
>DN3D in C tier
>doom eternal in S tier
ngmi
>9 games you've barely played in a tier list
so why even make a list? what a fricking homosexual
Doom II should be in C or D because the level design is just complete garbo outside of a couple exceptions
>can buy a book about murder and rape at your local big chain retailer
>you're a degenerate if a video game has nude people in the bath
A picture is worth 1000 words because most Americans are illiterate.
Obsessed lmao also stop speaking american you little pussy
Yes, we know Europeans like to groom children with nudity and sex in child-focused media.
You don't need to keep reminding us.
>Yes, we know Europeans like to groom children with nudity and sex in child-focused media.
hollywood is called pedowood for a reason
I had a lying streak as a kid and my mum blamed all the books I read because they were fantasy and she's very devout, so thought all the monsters and dragons were satanic
quentin was a homosexual lol
not only this. but he ERP'd in FFXIV and was a huge homosexual even for that general.
Unfunny wojak tier edits.
I feel like Candide could have been made into one of those shit 90s platformers. That book is hilarious btw
Hmm, what books would I like to see in videogame form? That's a tough one. One would have to posit just what stories could translate well to the interactive entertainment medium? For this I suggest
>The Little Train that Could
>Go Dog Go
>Chris Jericho's Second Autobiography
>A collection of Milwaukee Tools instruction books
>Chris Jericho's Second Autobiography
Dimes game idea
God, he’s so punchable
that guy's a professional kickboxer he would kick your fricking ass
I could punch him in his sleep while wearing a suit of full plate armour
He doesn't sleep he's hustling 24/7
I wouldn't take advice from someone who has been probably kicked in the head multiple times seriously.
>dies to a gunshot
that's not intelligence that's ADHD and or too much meth
>mutt hue
>mutt ears
>mutt "opinions"
Pottery
peasant phenotype
Unironically a glimpse into extrovert psyche. That's how fried dopamine receptors feel like. You're bored unless you're snorting coke while getting a blowjob from 10/10 while driving you Ferrari at 100 mph
going outside is too much stimulation for me and I've stopped drinking completely.
They hated him for speaking the truth
>Bald grifter whos trying to manufacture a playboy persona to sell courses on picking up girls doesn't want his audience educating themselves
Checks out
>I need stimulus!!
>I need to frick 8 used b***hes
>drink t'll I kill my liver
>god it feels good being smart
and normalnigs are expected to be taken seriously? Lmao lol even
BASED moron making all bookgays etternally butthurt lmao just look at all the replies to this post.
he's so stupid that he doesn't even know the mechanisms of how he's stupid
I think this guy is a does boxing chess. I’m pretty sure his dad was also a chess grand master.
I still don’t understand why people think chess is for smart people.
He is right, watch any top 10 selling books at any time and they are alll entertaiment novels for morons
I saw another WebM of him reviewing a book about an upstart or some shit. He's taking this piss in this one or some shit.
He's just grifting, nothing he says matters beyond trying to get people to buy his seminar or whatever
Who would buy a seminar of a guy that claims to be a fricking idiot? I think this is some stunt to get more attention and people reacting to him. All publicity is good publicity.
He doesn't claim to be an idiot, he claims to be too smart for reading. It's in vogue nowadays for midwits to attack traditional measures of intelligence, either because they realize intelligence is declining or because they know their pet minorities are low in it.
Why does america produce these endless swathes of people encouraging endless hussle culture shit and frying your dopamine receptors out?
Blame the American Dream (TM)
It's funny, I was an avid reader a a child, but I found books increasingly uninteresting over time.
I don't like fictional books anymore unless they have pictures, I just get bored by them otherwise.
Non-fictional works such as history, philosophy and political theory are much more interesting.
I know this might be a baitpost but same
normie tier fiction books are boring as frick to me now, I'll only check it out if it's some Ganker-core shit like pynchon or that book Stoner
anything non-fiction is infinitely more engaging to read
It's really not, I used to read fiction obsessively but once I went to college and had to start reading for "work" I lost all desire to read for pleasure alone. I would rather read for information and watch something or play vidya for entertainment. In that sense my only fun reading is Ganker.
>Great Gatsby
How many frickers actually read that book instead of just hearing about how "it's a classic" from secondhand sources? Seriously, I've only met one person in my entire life that actually talked about the characters and plot rather than just vague "it was good" and that was an English teacher that also taught literature.
It's the Ronald Reagan of books, every moron has to parrot an opinion on it but nobody can talk about what it actually did.
most Americans read it in high school
>most americans read it in high school
anon please read that sentence again
do you think they actually read it?
there was one book most people in my school didn't actually read because it was a thick two volume social novel.
Black folk aren't people and they definitely aren't americans
most Americans are assigned to read it and are forced to sit in class and listen to the teacher and students who actually read it talk about it in high school*
>Teacher picks people to read paragraphs from the book
>Always picks some drooling fricking neanderthal who cant read and speak english properly
God I love american public schools.
Honestly I think teachers do it on purpose so they can run down the clock with as little work done as possible.
yes, that's exactly why they do it
your education doesn't matter to them
Personally if I was a teacher It'd be a fun exercise in sadism to make the dumbest kid read.
I've seen teachers just throw up the audio book for kids to follow along with while they just frick off back to their desk to do god knows what.
I always liked that just cause I could read ahead without getting yelled at by the teacher
tttttttttt-today junior!
>that one kid that read ahead to figure out which page had "Black person" on it and volunteered to read that page aloud
>when he gets to the world he emphasizes the hell out of it and the teacher quickly panics and tells him to stop
Every time.
There was this one girl in my 5th or 6th grade class that could not read to save her fricking life. I don't know what was wrong with her because she was perfectly fine otherwise. But when it came to reading she just couldn't do it. My class dreaded when the teacher picked her to read.
That's true. I should know, I didn't read a single book in High School except 1984, which ironically wasn't required of me.
It's easy to bullshit papers by reading the first page, the last page, and a summary online.
I was the opposite. My lit teachers always hated me because if I hadn't read half the syllabus already I'd be through it in a few weeks, and then spend the entire semester derailing the entire discussion of the book with my own analysis of it.
And then shitting out entire manifestos when we had to write papers that were so dense and full of meandering bullshit.
I had a few teachers that told me if I just stopped coming to class they'd pass me.
I actually had a teacher that would give out lower grades if you just regurgitated what was said in class. Ergo, I read by myself, ignored whatever was said in class, and stated my own thoughts. Got constant A's while everyone else had mediocre grades.
I was also an artgay so I developed my powers of obfuscating bullshit and contempt for the audience.
Like I remember the teacher talking to us about the use of language in our compositions which lead me to write "a consternation plagues my annals" which was several pages of a dude thinking about a lady's big juicy titty meat popping out of her shirt and then having to take a huge dump in the most benign inoffensive language imaginable to show that how you can always be offensive if you try hard enough.
>Some nignog in my language arts class who got held back asks the teacher if we're going to read 1984
>teachers tell him no and he says thank god because that book is what made him fail
>Think theres no way its that bad and go out of my way to read it
>Its way better than any of the books that were on the curriculum that year
I slept every single day we had to read the crucible, then just went on sparknotes the morning we had to take the quiz
>the crucible
The crucible is a play that's like maybe 150 pages long.
You're probably thinking of the scarlet letter.
No, it was the crucible. When we started reading it in class the teacher wanted everyone to pick parts and actually perform the play but when she realized everyone was too fricking stupid to read out loud, she just had everyone sit there in silence and read. They barely even touched on the historical context of it as well.
Acting out short plays was my favorite part of Gifted/AP English. We had an awesome teacher who really got into it and encouraged us to get creative.
In 5th grade I was supposed to read Tuck Everlasting. I'm not sure why but I just didn't read it. Don't even know if I owned the book. We had to do a project where we had to take magazine clippings and glue them to a bottle along with a short piece of writing that went along with the themes in the book. Again, never read the book, and this was pre-internet so I couldn't just search it up. Totally winged it and got a B.
>please read this book within 2 weeks, there will be a test about it
>it's 500 or so pages long
>frick this bullshit I've got vidya to play
>read a summary online and watch some videos about it a day before the test
>receive a good grade
I have not read a single book in high school. Ironically enough I started reading them as soon as I graduated and no one forced me to read anymore.
I had to read it in class
It only gets good like in the last few chapters, everything else is fluff
Also played the video game adaptation, it's pretty accurate, right down to the themes of wearing the gold hat and bouncing high
This is true of many things anon, some things become memed so much you can just namedrop it and everybody will accept it, because to call you out would expose the fact that they are also ignorant.
Assigned reading for most high schools in the US.
Personally I've always tried to make it a point to read the books in that "everyone talks about it but no one actually reads."
Satanic Verses was breddy gud, gravity's rainbow is genius, I refuse to take finnegan's wake seriously. Moby Dick is the finest pieces of literature ever composed.
One of these days I'll get around to eco.
I hate Reagan for this
Gatsby, Catcher in the Rye, anything from Mark Twain, Grapes of Wrath those are the mainstream normalgay level shit that not even the most autistic pseudo-intellectual would be caught reading. Its like someone telling you their favorite games are CoD, Halo and that they fricking love watching anime.
Grapes of wrath was an absolute Horseshit book "Le moronic man is shot because he is le strong moron" is such a simple point didn't need to read 200+ pages of boring prole talk to learn that. But gotta be honest I loved both Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry finn as a kid, I lived in Tennessee as a kid so it felt very authentic to that childhood experience.
>Le moronic man is shot because he is le strong moron
I thought that was of Mice and Men. I never read Grapes of Wrath though
Oh maybe it was, lol. Didn't read "grapes of wrath" either.
clearly
grapes of wrath is about a family following the gold rush to california and realizing california is a shithole
>Grapes of wrath
>"Le moronic man is shot because he is le strong moron"
fricking idiot
catcher in the rye is fantastic, frick you
t. edgelord
It is, and I love the absolute brain dead takes on it now about how Holden is a bad person and a bad example. Like, yes, duh, that is in fact the point of the book, thank you. No one should look at Holden and see him as something to aspire to. He's weak, ineffectual, pompous, and trapped in his own delusions.
Evangelion did it better and was 10x more entertaining
Twain is great and along with Melville legitimized american literature internationally.
He was a smart snarky old grump who knew how to phrase question.
I'm not even an American but don't you dare talking shit about Twain
It's not just a book thing. See: Citizen Kane (movies), Sakura Wars (games).
How many of those people praising them have actually watched / played them?
>Citizen Kane (movies)
I prefer the Tiny Tunes version with Montana Max as Kane.
I liked the movie.
>He never read I, Libertine
I read it. It’s shit. “Oh I made so much money but some c**t still doesn’t love me.” There’s nothing in there but some rich beta cuck orbiter pining over an awful woman. All of the motivations of the different characters are shallow and it’s just not interesting. If the character of Gatsby where around today, he’d be shitposting constantly on Twitter while still being bitterly alone like Elon Musk or Notch.
>Elon Musk
>bitterly alone
dude has like nine kids
He’s fricking a string of women to make a litter. He’s just like his dad and probably gives about as much of a shit about his kids as his dad did (very little). Don’t get me wrong, they’ll be well taken care of financially, but emotionally?
I read it and it was alright. 7/10
Faust would be fun, incorporating a SMT-like pact with a devil and making use of the Doctor's intellectual abilities to mess things up in medieval Germany.
The Devil and Daniel Webster would make a good Ace Attorney-style thing
Also would be all for a Robinson Crusoe/Lord of the Flies/Swiss Family Robinson styled survival game
And Cat's Cradle as a Tropico-style management game where you have to promote the same religion you pretend to oppress
Historical Faust supposedly met Barbarossa on his campaigns in Northern Italy. Would be pretty kino to siege Italian cities by summoning the forces of hell.
Witcher 3 Hearts of Stone was pretty Faustian
Fiction books seem like a waste of time to me, why would I spend 8+ hours reading a book to get 100% of the story, when I can just watch the shitty movie adaptation of the book in 2 hours and get 80% of it? Hell I don't even watch movies because they waste your time too with filler scenes.
why do anything?
The only thing you'll ever do that is optimal is breathing. You're even sleeping, eating and jerking off sub-optimally.
>The only thing you'll ever do that is optimal is breathing
Moth breathing isn't optimal.
People in high school used to think I was smart because I spent so much time reading books with pretentious-looking covers like this
are the books any good
I've been wanting to reread them, I'm worried they aged poorly after my teenage years.
The plot can be pretty meandering and the characters are less sympathetic than the anime early on, but the translation is decent, and Kyon's narration really sells it.
I was the snob that constantly read War and Peace, Crime and Punishment, Don Quixote etc. in the middle of class. When I was 15, I managed to weird out a girl who sat next to me because I had a copy of e-girlta.
>Everyone thought I was super smart because I was reading a lot
>Literally just reading young adult fantasy and Sci Fi like Percy Jackson
I lived a lie
ill read more books when they are easy to pirate
books are incredibly easy to pirate
What is Library Genesis
I've pirated about 50 books over the past year or two, it isn't hard at all, they're tiny files and there's no need for cracks or anything like that. Far easier to pirate than games.
https://z-lib.org/
you fricking moronic? here's literally millions of ebooks for a free download right now. Download a free ebook reader and go to town, i suggest the 40k series, you can spend the next few years catching up on all the various novels they got.
It's called a library. You should try one sometimes.
behold
http://libgen.rs/
or just go to a library homie, they literally give you books for free
if you want a series about what the world would really be like under a true patriarchy read the gor novels im not even joking this is the world that feminists try to make us think we live in
They made some very high quality film adaptions that I would recommend everyone check out.
ha
ha ha ha
good joke
They're fun if you like really shitty movies. Pretty sure MST3K did one of them.
They also made a tabletop RPG for Gor recently.
I knew this girl in college who was super into these books. It was pretty weird.
Holy shit, Quentin are you still fricking posting? You are probably the definition of a fricking incel considering you fricking tricked a whole generations of homosexuals to hate video games.
its not quentin its a bunch of his moronic followers who spend a lot of time on a video game for how much they hate them
>game where you have to go through an arduous 18 month ritual to summon your guardian Angel
>1984
>The Giving Tree
>Industrial Society
>American Psycho
>The Art of the Deal
Which books written in the last 2 years are actually good i.e. not airport trash or thinly-veiled feminist tirades about how men are evil?
I don't like the women in the pic
Plz give better women
i miss quentin
I remember reading, actually reading, books in school
The only one I remember specifically was fricking Twilight
So left enjoys a hobby for years and the book reader stops and fricks random bawds?
Both are pretty sad timelines
I have to drop the truth bomb in every quentin thread that he played FFXIV and eventually ran off with some T-word to an unknown server and was never heard from again
ok?
>Audiobooks during commute
>Vidja for 1 hour before bed
>8-12 hours of random homosexualy bullshit on youtube
Anyone else?
Unless its a long drive I feel like I have to listen to music in the car, if its long typically ill listen to music for the first half and then switch to audiobook or a podcast.
This comic reads like it was made by a high schooler with no friends who mostly sits by himself
remember to read the bible.
You don't even have to believe the religious aspects necessarily, there's just some fun and cool stories in there.
then read the zohar to understand what you just read
Greek and Norse myths are the best religions for cool stories. The bible is maybe one step above bottom tier.
>Norse myth
lol isn't that the one full of trannies and homosexuals, tho?
Well, according to an ~~*expert*~~ yeah. Believe what you will.
Didn't Odin literally transform into a woman to frick a donkey or something like that?
Loki transformed into a horse to seduce another horse (long story) and got knocked up by that horse.
Loki wanting to spoil some other Gods prized steed by turning into a troony horse and defiling it...
haha he sure showed them.
Horses are naturally bigoted
Actually Christianity/Judaism has really badass lore if you look into the more extended stuff that isn’t in the Bible like the angels, fallen angels, etc. or any of the apocalyptic parts.
Isn't most or a lot of it just taking gods from other cultures whose lands they'd conquer and turning into them demons? Still pretty cool nonetheless.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martinism
The old testament is pretty good.
> Getting your own ass kicked just to get the heathen king’s attention.
cosmopolis.
Blood Meridian.
It plays similar to RDR1 & 2 but instead of long conversations while you ride to the mission, it's a constant narration of your surroundings. It would also be 5x as violent.
Red Dead Stanley's Parable
Quentin was based
genocide by definition isn't something you do in moderation
>not rewarding yourself with a little bit of ethnic cleansing every now and then
Never gonna make it
it's ok if you genocide from time to time
I wonder how he'll feel reflecting on this as more and more place legalize dude weed lmao
Reminder that he was in jail
> All counter examples involve the imposition of others.
>Genocide
No. In moderation that would still be murder.
>Thievery
Actually, some countries do have exemptions for theft, typically if the theft was done so as to make someone (typically the thief) not die. Italy, for instance, no longer considers food theft theft if done by homeless people though they will still get reprimanded
>Rape
Well, considering the way the US is going with some of the BS I read online...
I cannot look at a picture of Veidt from Watchmen anymore without thinking of Quentin and the Diamond Dogs.
I can't be the only one. Can I?
You know you can listen to audiobooks while playing vidya, right?
I never would have finished Atlas Shrugged otherwise.
Uhh, excuse me? Sure a lot of dead white men being recommended here. Where are your women and bipoc recommends?
> manga
Try again, bigot.
The Color Purple, Pride and Prejudice, To Kill a Mockingbird, Little Women, A Wrinkle in Time. All great, all by women, some even of color.
Where is Quentin nowadays? Did he really get arrested?
>best threads about books are on Ganker
>best threads about anime are on Ganker
>best threads about childhood nostalgia are on Ganker
>best doodles are on Ganker
Is Ganker really video games or just "/b/ but we hate the porn and gore"?
no because best hentai is on Ganker
Threads that aren't about the actual topic of the board are avoided like the plague by invading poltard and tendie discords for some reason, so they tend to be the best
>we hate the porn
Take a look at the catalogue.
I meant 3D porn, not cartoon women porn
>take actual IQ test in-person recently
>98 IQ, 107 GAI
>basically moronic or average in every subtype except verbal comprehension where I got 121
>don't even read books that much
Frick this, I might as well use my newfound "talent" and read books for once in my life. Does anyone know any decent sci-fi horror novels? Something like Dead Space? I heard Ship of Fools by Richard Russo was great.
Maybe start reading books based on movies you liked.
I can recommend Solaris, but it may be to much for you, or maybe not.
You can't go wrong reading the classics like Asimov and Phillip K. Dick as well. And if you want horror with a little bit of sci-fi read Who goes there? The novel on what The Thing was based upon. It's like 30 pages if I recall correctly.
If we're going by movies I enjoy, I definitely want novels along the lines of the Thing or Event Horizon. I prefer the Thing a lot more, so Who Goes There? is an excellent recommendation, thank you for bringing it up anon. Solaris also seems decent as well going by the synopsis.
I have not yet read this one myself, but I think I can recommend you Roadside Picnic as well, if you liked any of the Stalker games, these games are inspired by this book (and the movie adaptation as well)
I liked the games, but I never watched the movie nor read the book yet. I also prefer Dead Space's Necromorphs and its more isolated futuristic sci-fi atmosphere, over STALKER's oppressive Zone so I'll have to give them a go after reading who goes there. As long as they're great, I'll give them a read.
Could be worse, anon. I took the same (or a similar) test in my first year of University and was told I was certifiably a moron (IQ was in the mid-low 80s) for the information retention/processing category. It takes me much longer to parse anything I read or hear.
Bless you, anon. I hope we make it as autistic savants.
What if I both read and play games?
Oh wait, I'm gay, so I can just find someone else with those interests!
Becoming an intellectual from reading books is equivalent to saying you'll become a pro gamer from playing games, ergo not possible (for most people)
You'll become at least decent or good by playing games so your analogy is pretty shit. The intelligence required to understand and fully digest more complex literature is something that the average person simply does not possess.
Fahrenheit 451 is the worst midwit drivel I've ever had the displeasure of reading. I wished we burned more books so that every copy of 451 could be destroyed so that no one would have to read that 256 page boomer comic again.
>think it's about totalitarian censorship ala "A Canticle for Leibowitz" or "A Brave New World"
>check it out
>It's just a rant about how TV is so awful
What a dumb book
>A Canticle for Leibowitz
I had to read that for my freshman high school summer reading list. Worst book I have ever read. Finishing it was a herculean effort. I was bored from start to finish.
it's more about how constant passive entertainment ruins your ability to function and think for yourself, as well as how crabs-in-a-bucket mentality (represented by everyone believing that TV is OK but books should all be burned) can completely frick over a society
there's definitely something to be said there, although the book is kinda crap
In theory it's also sort of about how the desire for faster information kills nuance and people who live in a world where they don't have to see anything they dislike will quickly grow to see it as offensive and worthy of a ban.
The entire book reads like a zoomer meme
Read Bradbury's other stuff instead, like the Martian Chronicles.
How the frick did everyone get filtered by that kino book?
I dunno anon.
I look at today and I think about how I used to be able to sit down and read, or I used to be able to sit down and write. And these days I struggle to do either- I'll constantly just wind up browsing the internet, checking my phone, jacking off, anything.
It feels like for me, the modern world and passive entertainment have completely ruined my attention span. And it's something I've been actively fighting to try win back, forcing myself to sit down and read or to stay focused on things. I don't have any development disorders, so I can only imagine how much of a struggle it must be for someone who does...
You didn't use to just be able to get low levels of dopamine constantly fed to you like today, it's definitely fricked up.
To you and everyone that can relate to this, enjoy your early onset neurodegenerative disease.
Having a job where I can't have my phone has improved my attention span and ability to read and write amazingly. It's crazy what De-zoomerfying can do.
Hardest part is just starting to read, once you actually get into the book, it's much easier. Try to do read a little bit, even if it's literally just one or two pages. And pick a book you're actually interested in, doesn't matter what genre it is.
>You didn't use to just be able to get low levels of dopamine constantly fed to you like today, it's definitely fricked up.
It's not about dopamine. It's about habit. You've habitualized yourself constantly checking things on the computer, jerking off, etc. when you're at home, and going against your habit to try to read a book distracts you with the constant urge to return to habit.
Go out and eat somewhere with your book. Eat your food, get comfortable, and start reading in the restaurant. You'll find an instant boost to your focus, because you're outside of your habitual urges. I know this, because I write and taking my laptop away from my house and the internet is the only way I can focus on writing instead of shitposting on Ganker like I am now. It was never about dopamine.
None because story is irrelevant in an interactive medium
Any film adaptations you like BETTER than the book? "The old man and the sea" was a horribly dull book but the movie was great
>What books would you like to see adapted into a video game?
Tarzan
>Spider-Man style vine swinging
>sneaking through trees/into African villages
>hunting animals
>human combat is a mix of wrassling, brawling and knife fighting
>second area would be "civilization" with finance side game, can climb buildings and deal with early to mid 1900s society
>have a disguise meter in the sense of police meter in GTA likes, don't want people to know Lord Greystoke is a wild man (or do for another type of game)
>third area is back to the wild, Opar and Pellucidar
I've always thought the Mistborn series would make for amazing Stealth games/Dishonored clone. Misborn Era 2 would make a fantastic team shooter.
Forgot pic
There was a mistborn game in development.
That's it. That's the end of the story.
I'd like Vidya based off of underutilized mythological settings such a the Ulster Cycle or Epic of Gilgamesh. And by based off of I mean being somewhat faithful instead of some animu bastardization.
>Epic of Gilgamesh - brought to you by Bioware
>Unskippable gay sex between Gilgamesh and Enkidu
Reading doesn't give you a social life
Lifting and getting fit doesn't give you a social life
Liking sports doesn't give you as social life
Nothing can cure being a sperg
heh, Morewiener
Razorfist has ruined those books for me. I can't read them or even think about them without being reminded of that cuck raving about them and raving about Witcher, it's poisoned them for me.
>tfw Quentin was right about everything
>read book
>get mad at author for whatever reason
>drop book
>Best selling modern fantasy author
>Had the biggest kickstarter of all time
>0 Adaptations of his work
How
can you name more than 10 video game adaptations of books? You can only use one Lord of the Rings game
>The Witcher
>Dune: Spice wars
>Lotr: Golum
>Hogwarts Legacy
>Rainbow Six Siege
>Metro
>I have No Mouth and I must Scream
>Neuromancer
>Game Of Thrones
>Call Of Cthului
>Castlevania
a lotr game
a harry potter game
spec ops the line
parasite eve
The witcher doesn't actually even count since they're sequels, not adaptations.
Were there any high school required reading books that aren't boring turds?
The only one I remember liking are The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Grapes of Wrath.
Absolute worst was Red Badge of Courage. "Ahh I'm a complete pussy! Uhhh wait actually nevermind I can handle fighting." Wow man, great fricking book.
I don't think it's possible to enjoy being forced to read and analyze books. In hindsight, I can appreciate some of the books we had to read, but some are just ass.
I really enjoyed all the books I had to read for highschool, I can't remember most of them these days but they weren't your American classics. It was shit like Further Back Than Zero.
The weirdest thing is how there isn't a The Expanse video game yet.
You got it lmao
https://www.ign.com/articles/2017/02/03/dark-souls-developers-have-worked-with-the-expanse-writer
People don't even realize this guy is responsible for the virgin walk meme that was later transformed into the virgin vs chad dichotomy
Man was a pioneer
Intellectuals are the most chained
I'd love a linear action game like TLOU, but set in the Dresden Files and playing as Harry. Investigating clues, blasting vampires, running from the law, everything
I'm writing a book about giant monsters
Who had a copy?
https://www.lulu.com/shop/herman-melville-and-anonymous/moby-dick/paperback/product-7wgny7.html?page=1&pageSize=4
mein kampf, i want to play a game where i make the hollocaust happen
Stormlight Action RPG
Quentin's comics always make me laugh, that guy was completely delusional, although i did agree with him about stoners.
I miss the old DUDE WEED meme.
WTF you mean you miss it? First post in any thread about weed is "DUDE"
I miss Quentin. I wonder which cemetery he's buried in now.
Audiobooks > paperbooks
How do I stop falling asleep when reading?
Read better books
Progress of a Quentin:
>shitpost on Ganker
>have no friends IRL
>pretend to read books at lunch for months on hand to cultivate a 'cultured' air
>but it's the Great Gatsby which is on the
California school reading list and thus nobody cares (not that they would anyways)
>get utterly DESTROYED by Anon doxxing you and making shooting threats to your school with a similar trip code
>vanish off of the internet forever
Every time I see one of his shitty comics I will remind them.
This is the fate of all shitposters and tripgays.
/lit/gay here, reading literature (YA crap and LNs don't count) is not "fun." It's like weightlifting but for the mind. It isn't comparable to doing something for entertainment.
And also, as nietzsche said, no book can teach you what you don't already know.
Weightlifting is fun, though.
Frick yeah it is brother
weightlifting is fun, also if you don't find learning fun you are going to stay a brainlet forever
>Gankergay
You gayboys are insufferable. Basically any board dedicated to intellectual persuits is full of gays who think way too highly of their own intelligence, despite being as moronic as the rest of us.
>any board dedicated to intellectual persuits is full of gays
American moment
It's not the intellectual persuits that's the problem, it's the type of anon that frequents those boards.
Ganker - Dunning-Kruger
He is completely right, Gankergays are insufferable. Book threads on Ganker are way more comfy than whatever Ganker can give you.
Ganker is just post-2016 alt-right secondaries circle jerking about no-name philosophers like Evola.
get fricked
That's how they were before 2016, but they were commies instead.
I've never read Brave New World because someone told me the ultimate message was about how life is horrible without struggle, which I disagree with.
>I've never read Brave New World because someone told me the ultimate message was about how life is horrible without struggle, which I disagree with.
Everything about this sentence is ridiculous lol
Maybe I'm thinking of After Many A Summer.
how am I suppose to understand this without any wojaks in it?
>decide to finally read 1984
>weirded out by everything about the setting being so extremely exaggerated to a ridiculous extent
>finish it and read the final comments and analyses that usually come at the end of a book
>it was always meant to be a hyperbolic satire
God fricking damnit
I only read for fun. Life is shit and I refuse to waste it on stuff I would have to force myself to read.
jesus
I don't see what's the point of reading a lot of books, I won't be able remember all of it one week from now, I'd rather just watch a movie or read a synopsis.
No 13 has ever fricking said they preferred reading to video games
>waaah
Time to have a nice day tourist.
8=============D =(0(=
women dont read, they cant talk about a book past harry potter
Wrong. Romance books have been the best selling genre for over 100 years.
And then women seethe when men try to enjoy sexy things in media because all women are vapid hypocrites.
>Great Gatsby
>The 1920's NTR story
Kek
homies acting like books make people happy, smart and successful are disgusting
>tfw my elementary school was doing some sort of reading program that would divide you up by reading level
>my reading level was on the top tier because I actually enjoyed reading and wasn't a ESL
>for book reports and shit, you had to pick out a list of books on your reading level
>you couldn't go up or down, you HAD to stick to your level
>all my books on my level were stuff I wasn't really that interested in because they were all books you would read in high school (Great Gatsby, Catcher In The Rye, To Kill The Mockingbird, the usual shit)
>however if I had a level lower than me, they had an option to just pick whatever book you want from the library so if I just did a bit shittier on the reading assessment, I could have picked whatever
I want to punch whoever the frick made that system god damn
I did like Flowers For Algernon though.
Fricking hell I had something similar
>Reading level tested freshman and sophomore year of high school
>Low scores meant you only had to read the bare minimum required reading that year (one or two books), write a report on them, and take a test.
>High scores meant you had to do the same as low scores, plus three to four additional books that you would also be tested on (no report though)
>Spent some years doing triple the amount of work than some my peers simply because I accidentally proved I could read big words a little faster.
>Flowers For Algernon
My brother of black skin
>Flowers For Algernon
Damn its been some years since I read that one. Pretty good though
How is Flowers For Algernon? Never had that in my HS.
>didn't start reading until 13
You have permanently and irreversibly fricked up your development, and are most likely moronic. You could tell this was made by someone who doesn't actually read.
God I hate the Great Gatsby.
Anyway I'm reading the Neuromancer and really enjoying it, any anons got advice for a book after that in the same vein?
Red mars, but only if I get the option to launch phobos into the south pole to kill the asiatic b***h and her lackeys
God I fricking hate the great gatsby. By far the most boring book I was forced to read in high school.
I think my favorite forced school book was probably the giver.
Anyway, I don't really think books like the Great Gatsby are very good for hopeful kids in high school anyway, books really targeted for broken middle age men who are coping they can't have a luxuries' lifestyle.
What about if you read and game?
I like listening to audiobooks when I play games.
i will never read a book
>made to read How Many Miles to Babylon in school
>teacher keeps trying to get us to accept that the two MCs are gay for each other during group discussion
They will literally never understand
Anyone know if Solaris is a good read?
I'd have loved to see more games with Harlan Ellison at the helm, honestly. Cyberdreams apparently meddled with his vision hard with I Have No Mouth. Tangentially related:
>reading just for the sake of saying you read
While the main story would suck as a game, I feel like the world of The Dark Tower would make for an excellent game. Even if they don't take advantage of thinnys and interdimensional travel, you still have a setting that's essentially a mix of westerns and medieval times, but with plentiful beasts and paranormal creatures, alongside advanced ancient ruins from a previous apocalypse.
>reading non-technical literature
gross
imagine not getting excited to learn about the intricacies of how rocket engines manage heat, why universal answer to anything hydrogen is "bad idea" and how many breakthroughs and engineering masterpieces of the soviet union, many of which are still unmatched, were squandered by the collapse.
You're unironically more likely to get laid playing video games than reading books. Nobody reads books anymore and nobody cares if you do, but gamer girls are huge bawds. My friend fricked four girls when we were teenagers playing an MMO.
>caring about how meatspace works
Great Gatsby had such a cucked ending
The problem with the American Dream is that it is an illusion and all dreams come to an end.
Reading books is an overrated pseud move. You don't gain intelligence from it. You don't gain perspective. All you do is indoctrinate yourself with some halfwit's scrawlings that got published to rinse fools such as yourselves.
Reading taught me a few words I didn't know but had always wanted a word for. Unfortunately, if I didn't know the word, that means most people don't, so actually using them is a waste of time since you'll have to just end up explaining yourself anyway.
House of Leaves
Black God's Kiss or other Jirel stories
This image is fake by the way. Quentin would never do something immoral like polyamorous relationships.
>In college
>See a confident dude bro
>Professor tells him to read
>Guy sounds like a 5th grader, pronounces difficult words as if its the first time he's encountered them
Great litmus test
>Having to do a big presentation back in HS
>Required doing a lot of posters with information for the presentation plus some models
>Groups assigned at random, ended up with a guy who had a broken bone recently, couldn't use one hand
>Dead weight through the whole proccess, me and the three other guys don't sweat it because we're not moronic
>Day comes
>Teacher picks the handicapped guy to expose with the correct assesment of "You probably did the least here"
>Dude reads the whole presentation off a paper at a level fit of a kid learning how to read
I'm still malding
>enjoys himself, lives for his own satisfaction
>do homosexual shit just to show off, lives to impress others
yeah i know who im choosing
Whoever made this never read Bukowski, a top writer who said no matter how much he read or appeared intellectual never managed to frick a girl. He started fricking more often when his books got popular.
Well, yeah, he got some fame and money. That's what women want.
i wonder if the guy that made this image really thinks women will be impressed when you tell them that you read mediocore trash like gatsby
Women don't care about what you like as long as you make enough money to support what they like.
>Great Gatsby
>one of his favorites
Shit taste detected
Rec a 21st century author with a style like no other.
Jasper Fforde
I read plenty of books as a child and stopped as I reached high school. books suck. or at least, english teachers suck because they take all the fun out of reading.
yes I would like to be able to analyze movies and literature but I'll never be able to.
The edge chronicles, or a movie, whatever
I would do terrible things for an RPG from the edge
Twig/quint saga would be epic. I'm still salty basically every shitty kids book got a film adaptation but the Edge books didn't get shit.
>What books would you like to see adapted into a video game?
Roadside Picnic
Video games and animation are both objectively better and smarter art forms than books, society is just yet to properly accept them.
I wish some phylosopher, author or Roger Ebert put you in your place, gamer.
I've read only a few books
>Dune
>1984
>Animal Farm
>The Hobbit
>Fight Club
I like these crossover threads. They makes me realize how much I dislike games now
>has read 1984
>hasn't read Brave new world
that strikes me as very odd for some reason
Not him but I haven't read that book either despite reading 1984, why is that odd?
not that anon, but they tend to go hand in hand
they describe two different ways of achieving the same thing, and are both pertinent to the modern world now more than ever
Huh, maybe I'll give it a shot. I only read 1984 because of the "literally 1984" meme but it turned out to be a good read.
The other anon is right, they're both eerily prophetic, but in completely different and opposing ways
It's like watching the 1984 movie, but not Brazil
I'm that anon
I'll check it out, I've been meaning to get back into reading anyways
>What books would you like to see adapted into a video game?
none, they are books you are suppose to read them.
I want a good Vampire Hunter D game, damn it. I know there was a tie-in game for the Bloodlust movie but that game fricking blows.
Some of Robert E. Howard's non-Conan stuff would be cool too. I love Conan and all, but something like Solomon Kane has tons of potential for an interesting game.
Vampire Hunter D as just a simple action adventure would be so nice.
I don't trust anyone adapting books into video games.
But if there was one thing I'd love to play as a game, it'd be the MYTH Adventures series. Even if you don't cling to canonical events the setting itself would be either wonderful or hellish with the dimensional system. The Bazaar alone would be a procgen nightmare. The infodumps and lectures would better fit in-game lore books, and the culture references to 1990-2000s America was admittedly really fricking weird in a pandimensional fantasy/light-scifi setting.
Also Animorphs would probably be a very solid open-world undercover war game, although the characters start off around 12/13 in the books which might not work as well in-game unless you have some sort of aging system like with Fable. Very paranoia inducing with you trying to find and sneak into/out of the Yeerk bases and having no idea who's an enemy until it's too late.
>Animorphs
Shit, I forgot all about that. How long is the series now?
54. But they're fairly thin. By wordcount they're about 1.45 million, and for comparison the Harry Potter books are 1.08 million and the LotR trilogy is 0.48 million.
What Ray Bradbury novels could you realistically turn into character action games?
>Quentin
reminder, this frick thinks the Devil May Cry Reboot is a legitimately good game
Literally what's wrong with it outside of Donte
>tfw just want to go on low tech space adventures, fight with big knives, and meet space cuties
How about Ganker book recommendations. Picked this up on a whim. It's not what i was expecting. But I'll finish it none the less.
>ScarJo and Zooey
based taste for such an unbased opinnion