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>protagonist is tall, skinny, early-20s male with dark hair
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write something different
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>>9579188
Back to /r9k/, ugly fat loser
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>antagonist is short, fat, late-40s woman with light hair
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Any /lit/ still here? 2017-05-31 09:49:52 Post No.9579130
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It seems reddit is quite content to just sit here and talk among themselves, I've already left the board some time ago as this place just became terrible, and its amusing to come back to see them arguing with themselves. Any old /lit/ know this feel?
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can't believe how infected this place is
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There's been a /lit/ discord for a while, where most of /lit/'s better posters took refuge in. If you haven't heard about it, some autist took the trouble of keeping track of it here
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1G-6L0KcAViKtIp8utIf_G-7p4DXq5IfQwYqK7b3NMic/edit?usp=sharing
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>>9579130
>oh look a person complaining about how 4chan isn't good anymore but avoids saying what year he left because he is old enough to at least know not to say how he joined in 2012.
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>reading the Bible but the not the sequel
Explain yourself
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>>9579100
>zero literary merit
>zero literary influence
>has been revised over 2,000 times due to errors
literal fanfiction. I don't know how Mormonism ever left the ground.
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It's a really bad sequel. The other one is a bit better.
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21.2% of all verses in the book contain the phrase "came to pass".
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What books will impress girls and get me laid?
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>>9578952
A checkbook
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my diary desu
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The Bible
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Why do the majority of booktubers have more chromosomes than I've had hot dinners?
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>>9578660
Because you're a coward
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>>9578660
are there any good booktubers?
But the majority of youtubers are retarded, so booktubers aren't special.
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>>9578660
>Jezebels and so on and so son
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Should I trust the Goodreads Choice Awards? I was very put off by the winner for the best humor book.
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>i didn't like what people voted for
>should i listen to what people voted for
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>>9578380
Of course not. Its dominated by pop mom voters
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>Reading contemporary lit
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Dozen or so books that describe the political landscape of the UK 2017-05-31 04:22:27 Post No.9578038
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Dozen or so books that describe the political landscape of the UK
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I have no idea who to vote for in the general election, I've voted 3 times already. I voted leave because /brit/ and /pol/ told me to, I voted conservative/UKIP second choice on the london police commissioner election(I don't live in london), I voted conservative in the recent local elections. Mummy forces me to go to the polling station to vote in person, I can't argue with her because she feeds me and I am unemployed, it makes her happy that I go.
I have no formal education on politics and the like other than general studies in sixth form which was just the class watching youtube videos on newsnight, it was just muslims and homosexuals arguing with each other, I didn't learn anything.
I'm begging you please give me some mandatory books on politics so I can make an informed choice this time even if no one is worth voting for.
>inb4 fuck off to /pol/
no
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The Abolition of Britain
The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam
Not With a Bang But a Whimper: The Politics & Culture of Decline
The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy
The Dictator's Handbook
Inventing the Individual: The Origins of Western Liberalism
Minima Moralia: Reflections on Damaged Life
The Revolt of the Masses
The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time
The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power and the Origins of Our Time
Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalisation of Democracy
The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution
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Read Peter Hitchen's column/blog but be warned - once you take the "Petepill" you can't go back.
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>>9578038
Corbyn is the only one offering something different and inviting for young people.
May doest give a shit and is being told what to do and say. Useless, and I say this as a former Tory voter
You only like Moby Dick because you have been conditioned to
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What book is that?
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>>9577933
It seems you bought a book written from the bottom to the top. This isn't how books in English are normally written, so you'll understand that I'm not going to want to read that.
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>>9577933
I have loved it for 25 years, since I read this at 10. When I was 18 I read the real version and I loved it then too. The finality of action is amazing, the Nantucket chapters are ripe with imagery and mounting suspense, and Ahab is an anti-hero extraordinaire.
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How can I get a copy of pic related? I can't find a torrent anywhere and physical copes cost over $100.
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>>9577908
welcome to my life 2 years ago anon.
i got a chinese version for $20
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>>9577915
you mispelled "my diary desu"
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>>9577915
I remember that thread. It's back in print in Swedish now.
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Thoughts on this book and its philosophy? Seems to answer a lot of questions.
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yes
bash them with sticks
i like it
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a truly excellent book, one i cherish. cleared up a lot of problems for me, glad to see it getting some attention here on /lit/
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Can you imagine Kafka having a Twitter account?
Can you imagine Kafka sitting in an MFA class listening to some overweight Nigerian dismissing the "first world problems" in his work?
Can you picture him attending writers' conferences? Sitting on-stage in front of 30 people (half bored retirees, half asskissers) talking about his art?
Can you imagine Kafka promoting his work in any way?
Can you imagine Kafka having ANY internet presence whatsoever?
Thought not.
And that, my friends, is why I'm a virgin.
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>>9577699
A lot of people I never expected do all those rounds. He probably would be an attention whore just like the rest of them.
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>>9577699
Kafka wasn't that weird, only unhappy. He wished to be a writer and not have to work in a bank because his father wanted him to. He just didn't have any literary success during his life and so he wrote as someone who has nothing to lose.
>Can you imagine Kafka having ANY internet presence whatsoever?
Oh yeah, because Kafka only thought about how to push the boundaries of literature. It's not like he had an extremely big collection of pornography, some of it involving bestiality.
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Are you 14 or just retarded?
>wasn't that weird
Wrong. He regularly left resignation letters on his boss's desk then begged him to let him stay the following day. He wrote letters about wanting to die, about feeling like a disgusting freak, and so on.
>in a bank
He didn't work in a bank.
>his father wanted him to
His father didn't have that much influence. Kafka worked part-time and his father looked down on his job anyway.
>didn't have any literary success
Yes he did. One of the women he almost married travelled to Prague just to translate his works because she liked reading them.
>the parents know what i'm talking about
>t. never occupied a real job
>t. childless
>t. millionaire
>t. water merchant
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>>9577617
"mmmhahah"
"splash around in the water"
*makes snarky ironic jokes then demands you take all his thoughts sincerely at the same time and recognize, like, the SADNESS of it all*
"just keep your head above the water"
"mmmhahah"
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what??
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>>9577617
Being a writer sure is easy
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Seeing Season 2 of Master of None and listening to non-stop italo-disco makes me crave Italy. Fellini, Rosselini, Pasolini, Antonioni help too.
BUT Please give me essential recommendations from Italian writers. I'm already keen on The Divine Comedy and Italo Calvino. I also dig Virgil and Apuleius. Need more to feed my Italian cravings.
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Luigi Pirandello and Italo Svevo
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dino buzzati
and yes, italo disco is best disco
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>>9577559season 2 was very good. l'avventura is good kino
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How is Jane Eyre about 'growing up rich'?
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What a terrible cluster fuck of a list.
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>guys guys this pic is bad haha
Who gives a shit? Fuck off.
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I haven't read a novel in years and only read philosophy works. I feel this is making me one-dimensional because I can't help but scoff at the simple, phil101 messages of the majority fiction that get praised as works of genius. I feel like most writers didn't even start with the greeks.
Please give me some works to help me appreciate literature again in a non-philfag way.
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>>9576991
idk try my diary?
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>>9576991
What sort of literature interests you?
Do you want something with no philosophical message at all, or just any kind fiction?
Personally I'd say The Lord of the Rings (if you're okay with fantasy) and Gravity's Rainbow if you want something more 'literary' and comical.
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>>9577003
I like Tolkien, but whenever I read him nowadays I can't help but focus on his edgy traditionalist-conservative outlook and how essential Catholic morality is to his whole legendarium. It's hard to enjoy it as a simple story.