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Why do people like this book so much?
>muh racism
>muh southern charm
There are so many other books that accomplish the same themes; usually, they're way better than
>Atticus told me [thing] is bad, so it's bad since he's such a great guy
I don't understand the appeal. Is it because it's like mandatory high-school reading in America?
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>>9577395
>There are so many other books that accomplish the same themes;
Like?
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>Why do people like this book so much?
Because it's a well written book.
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>>9577395
Because it ticks all the anti-white boxes you mentioned for the Common Core jew. Makes it perfect for youth indoctrination.
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/lit/erary pet peeves thread.
What really gets your goat when you're reading, getting a new book, studying, discussing literature, etc?
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> go to bookstore
> try to buy a new book
> the exact book and edition I want is available but only one copy and that copy is covered in scratch marks, scuff marks, creases, etc
Seriously hate the people who thumb through a book so vigorously that they damage it and then they return it back to the shelf. Don't be a cunt. Buy the book. I also blame the bookstore for not chucking books treated like this in some sort of discount bin - nobody wants to pay full price for a book treated that badly.
No fucking wonder everyone buys their books online (if they buy their books at all of course).
It's worse when you can tell the person thumbing through it had been eating something at the time.
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Deckled pages.
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when a bookshelf isn't organised either by size or alphabetically. i think it's monstrous to just put all the books out of order on the shelf, really triggers my autism
also book collections that are exclusively young adult fiction are embarrassing too, genuinely
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What did Nietzsche think about black people? Did he ever mention them?
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>>9576873
It's safe to say he disliked them like nearly everyone before circa 1960s when liberalism poisoned the natural tribalism of the white race
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>>9576873
They were so insignificant as to never rouse his interest.
You seem to care though. I think his works are too advanced for you. You're better off reading something else.
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>>9576883
>tribalism
>neutrally defensive of black people
Read the Greeks.
I just accepted a scholarship to do a Masters of English Literature.
Has anybody here done one? What can I expect?
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>>9576607
>Has anybody here done one?
I wish...
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>>9576607
Lucky guy
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Poo
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Literature about nature.
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Most good books about nature are actually anti-nature. Blood Meridian, Butcher's Crossing, The Peregrine all warn against romanticizing the wilderness. Thoreau was a fucking hack.
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>>9576462
have you ever heard of poetry?
that's where the good nature stuff is. nature is more of a lyrical than narrative topic.
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Can't stop reading and re-reading Shakespeare 2017-05-31 04:20:24 Post No.9576323
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Can't stop reading and re-reading Shakespeare
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Whenever I revisit Shakespeare, I find all literature written after 1900 to be bland, and I don't want to read anything but Shakespeare.
Does anybody else have this problem?
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>>9576323
t. Bloom
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>>9576324
I know it sounds autistic, but it's true.
And I don't even consider myself to be extremely cultured or gifted with fine taste.
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are there any books yet that make sense of our current time? millenials, social media, sjws, alt right, identity politics, political identities, the rise of anti-humor, memes, mass botnet surveillance of everything, widespread postmodernism, widespread nihilism, mass shooters, 4chan, reddit, tumblr, lifestyle religiosity, jihad, NOT ALL MUSLIMS, internet addiction, porn addiction, vr porn, nationalism vs globalism, late capitalism, ETC ETC
nonfiction or fiction, looking for something that is to today what infinite jest was to the 90s. i'm sick of this world and it feels like the only way to freedom is understanding
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the book of mormon
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Read Dead Demon's de de de de Destruction
Not a novel but it does what you're describing better than any book published in the last few years
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The Rape of Maggie Marie 2017-05-31 12:23:06 Post No.9575584
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When I raped Maggie Marie
I watched the blood dancing in her eyes
As I choked her lifeless body
I pushed further deep inside
That feeling was oh so fleeting
I could barely contain the high
When I raped Maggie Marie
My God was I alive
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>>9575584
Freckles are a god tier trait
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christ, awful and harrowing yet malevolently powerful.
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>>9575584
strong five to light sixdesu
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>he will die in your lifetime
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>>9574993
anon...
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>>9574993
Bowie's dead though.
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>>9574993
Am I missing something?
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Is it bad that I relate to Hamlet and sometimes self insert into him?
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>>9574908
>and sometimes self insert into him
That's not bad, that's just kinda gay.
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>>9574908
Well it's probably not good
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Who are the best reactionaries to read? I'd prefer nonfiction. Mishima, Evolva, etc. didn't do much for me. I watched the Evergreen State protests and am considering a shift to the right. Thanks for any recs. No Peterson/Molyneux please.
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Donoso Cortes
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>>9574708
seconding this
also pic related
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>>9574523
From contemporary or relatively newer philosophy I would recommend de Maistre, Jaques Maritain, Dietrich Hildebrand, Hilaire Belloc, Alasdair MacIntyre (personal favorite), Edward Feser, James V. Schall, David S. Oderberg, Elizabeth Amscombe, Peter Geach, G. K. Chesterton.
To get where they are coming from, Plato, Aristote, Augustine, Aquinas, Suarez, Catejan.
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Does anybody else feel like Pessoa's "Book of Disquiet" is the end game of literature?
Beyond plot, beyond character development, beyond desperate attempts to entertain and humour, beyond sequences of events and behaviour, his book just seems like the answer to the question of what literature can and should do.
Know what I mean?
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>>9573621
Not really. He seems more like a whiny bitch
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>>9573862
t. embryo
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the most powerful self-insert in the whole body of literature, yes
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How do I become a great writer like Paul Schrader?
I'm reading the screenplay to Taxi Driver now and the writing is so vivid that I can see the film playing out in front of me as I read the words.
It's one of my favourite films - I've seen it about ten times - but the screenplay is incredible!
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>>9573306
Taxi Driver owes a lot to the diary of the guy who shot George Wallace. Tough to find a reasonably priced copy of that though.
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Try reading his book.
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>the writing is so vivid that I can see the film playing out in front of me as I read the words.
>I've seen it about ten times
nigga that's not the writing it's your memory
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Are you writing something niggers?
I am trying to write a novella that I can sell to tumblrinas.
I am474 words in. Aiming at 25k or so.
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>>9573156
What's the plot? How are you going to get the t****rinas on board? How do you intend to sell it.
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>I am 474 words in. Aiming at 25k or so.
approx. same here my dude
just writing really, really short prose for the most part, nothing longer than 3-4 pages, and nothing impressive
feels ADHD
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>>9573167
>What's the plot?
Young woman. Married. Drops college to help boyfriend to pay for his college education and bills. Now divorcee. Lonely.
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What is required leftist reading?
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bookchin
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>>9569992
If you're American you need to read the best stuff on "identity politics" so you can understand the left's greatest roadblock.
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>>9569992
8ch /leftypol/ reading list, faggot