>love books
>decide to be a lit major
>have to read four novels a week
>have to read books of theory and criticism to supplement them each week
>have to write a short paper about each novel each week
>free time is spent reading books and papers for research or theoretical essays
>only reprieve is being on the shitter or in the shower
>have to think ahead to next semester
>realize that to stay on top i have to spend my study break preparing for it by spending all that time reading more books
>start hating books
>my only rest from books is my part-time low-paying hard-labor job that i need to feed and clothe myself
>not allowed to bring books to work so on my work breaks i browse /lit/
>every time someone posts a chart / guide i realize i've only read a fraction of the books
>plan to read them after graduation
>to-read list is over a thousand books
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>>9541335
That's one of the main reasons why I never wanted to study lit in an atmosphere like that: I knew it'd make me grow to resent it.
Hope it all works out for you, though.
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>>9541355
Thanks. Me too.
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>>9541335
How the fuck do they expect you to read 4 books a week? Not even philosophy courses make you do this. To get through it all you would literally have to read 400+ words a minute. Surely you teachers would know that not everybody is reading all the assigned texts.
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Should we learn Latin first or Greek first?
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ΠΛΣ ΡΕΣΠΟΝΔ
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Latin first. Greek will still fuck you up afterwards but it'll be gentler. I recommend Lingua Latina. When you're all done with that, De Bello Gallico. Then try Livy.
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>>9541151
Why would Greek fuck me up?
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: Two Hundred Years Together 2017-05-22 11:54:45 Post No.9540712
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: Two Hundred Years Together
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How is it the most banned book in the world?
Why has this not been translated into English?
How can someone so respected in the literary community be tossed aside, forgotten & considered a cook so easily despite the fact that this famous man put 10 years into his last & most important work?
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>>9540712
Pure coincidence
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>>9540712
I'm pretty sure it's not banned anywhere in the world.
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>>9540712
Probably because there isn't a big enough English audience who cares about the role of an ethnic minority in Russian history to make it profitable to translate? If you care about something that niche finance a translation.
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How picky are you about your book covers? 2017-05-22 10:11:05 Post No.9540359
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How picky are you about your book covers?
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>illustrated
What the fuck
Anyway, here's a book cover which is actually good
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>>9540359
Don't care at all. I have some bad ones too. Wordsworth the idiot with bad shoop pic. As I lay dying with James franco on the cover. Solaris with Clooney. Age of innocence movie cover. Anna Karen in a movie cover. What ever is cheapest.
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>>9540359
no way is that fucking real
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Any good homophobic literature besides the bible and other religious texts?
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the myth of boipucci
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homophobia does not even exist
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Plato's Symposium.
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So this is nowhere near as good as everyone led me to believe.
Does it get better past the beginning? About of a quarter in and highly tempted to drop.
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No, it's one of the most overrated books of all time.
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brainlet detected
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>>9540075
>So this is nowhere near as good as everyone led me to believe.
Oh wow, maybe OP will give me some hindsigh-
>Does it get better past the beginning?
How about you finish the god damned book before you try to talk about it?
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Whomst is the James Joyce of women's literature?
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Virginia Woolf
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>>9540042
There isn't one. The closest thing to a female James Joyce is Virginia Woolf
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>>9540042
That image made me visibly cringe. When Rowling passes the only thing I will think of is how she never again found any success with writing after Harry Potter ended.
The other people in this thread are right, though. Virginia Woolf is as close a female counterpart you can get to James Joyce.
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Anyone read pic related? Seen him mentioned a few times on here, don't know a lot about him, wondering if it's worth the 1300 pages.
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>wondering if it's worth the 1300 pages
what did he mean by this
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>>9539716
>wondering if it's worth the 1300 pages
You're not worthy to read Montaigne.
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Are these the pinnacle of genius writting? Specially the handsome motherfucker on the right
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>Are these the pinnacle of genius writting?
No. The 2 guys who are the pinnacle are Shakespeare and Tolstoy.
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>>9539583
in case you dont know who he is
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>>9539585
kek
good one
Is this a good introduction to literature?
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read whatever you want, dumbass. i get that youre a stupid child who is afraid of his own opinions but for fucks sake do you need to seek approval for every action in your life?
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>>9539689
how would you have opinions about books you haven't read
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>>9539579
It's not like you're taking up a job. There's ways to get more easily acquainted with the classics or a larger variety of literature in general, but the best introduction to literature is obviously to simply read what you want to read.
That being said, you can follow what you proposed but I feel like most people wouldn't be able to get through those books if they were the first they read in terms of literature.
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Never forget that I love you, son.
Keep working hard and one day you will achieve great things
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>>9539232
Thank you based Peterson, I know the cringelords on /lit/ like to signal against you and pretend that they are somehow more well versed in psychology than a 25 year psychology PhD but I still love you.
Brb cleaning my room, Jesus be with you.
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Do you think Rupi Kaur is aware of the fact that an actual 6 year old is outperforming her in poetry? How can we tell her?
Also, is this the end goal of a post-modern literary society? After all, good literature is subjective, anon.
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Yes
YES
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>How can we tell her?
twitter should do it
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>there are people on /lit/ right now who like rupi kaur
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Why was Yeats so into the occult and magic and /x/ stuff?
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It's what all the cool kids were doing at the turn of the century
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he knew what was up
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>>9539177
It's because he was looking for a more pervasive underlying magic with which to plaster his work.
Words are magic, so it makes sense to look into the occult arts etc to try to improve.
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Are there any good books critiquing capitalism that were written in this day and age? Marx would shudder in horror at the kids who twist his words today.
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Slavoj Žižek
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>>9540278
Also Chomsky
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>>9540278
Zizek offers exactly zero new ideas, please don't waste my time with him.
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Who are the beachiest writers?
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Hemingway.
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>>9539107
Also Camus.
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>>9539093
John Bannville the sea