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I'm in need of books about space. I particularly need coffee books about real space, but anything space related is fine.
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A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawkings
You'd probably have better luck asking /sci/
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Cosmos
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my 8th grade student keeps saying she wants to read pic related. I brush it off with "Nah, it's pretty difficult. I definitely recommend it when you're older, though. You should try ___ instead."
I have no idea how she even knows about it. part of me thinks she just wants to read it to be edgy, another part of me thinks she's doing some weird psychosexual shit that I should report before I end up on the news.
what do
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stop larping on the internet
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yolo op
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>>9468969
Let her read it. If she wants to fuck you after she's a brainlet and not worth the orgasm.
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In this thread we post:
What book got you into reading?
Would you recommend it to others?
Pic related; Harry Potter, No I wouldn't recommend it unless you're a teenager, then it's good.
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"1984" and "Brave New World" are some really nice books, I recommended them to all my classroom and everyone loved them
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>>9468984
I didn't really like 1984, can you tell what you liked about it? Seemed very cliche to me
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>>9469051
>Seemed very cliche to me
The dystopian cliché is only a thing because of Orwell. Dystopian novels existed before, of course, but he certainly popularized the idea.
1984 is shit and Orwell is a bad novelist, but your reason for disliking the book is retarded.
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>author of over 100 books on topics such as linguistics, war, politics, and mass media
Guide me, /lit/. Where should I start?
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>>9468848
Syntactic Structures. Read it next to a whiteboard and do the derivations.
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>>9468848
>reading the gnome
why
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>>9468848
>nothing remotely literary.
Wrong board desu
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>be English major
>have to take survey classes in literary history, focusing on particular periods of American and British literature
>read fragments of novels
>read shorter novels from great authors that aren't considered their masterpiece due to time constraints
>read only small selections of poetry from the great poets, but never any complete collections and barely any long poems
>read short stories from authors that are primarily notable for their novels
Was it unreasonable for me to expect to read the greatest works of all time as an English major? Am I just a fuckup for not reading these things before becoming an English major?
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read it in your free time spergo
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should've gotten a lit degree
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>he thinks bachelors are serious degrees
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>ITT: The Muppets are going to adapt another literary classic.
What book and who plays who, /lit/?
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>plato - apology
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>>9468725
The Canterbury Tales
The Divine Comedy
120 Days of Sodom
Sincere, non-meme answers:
Count of Monte Cristo
Le Morte D'Arhtur
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>>9468725
Stoner.
Kermit - Stoner
Miss Piggy - Edith
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rate
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>>9468721
3/10.
It's not awful, it's just all toilet humor.
I would read it waiting in a lobby if they had nothing else.
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Valuable for historical purposes, mildly amusing but a bit overbearing on its own.
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/pg/ - poems general
Best OC shit
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Two roads diverged in a yellow wood..
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A girl I loved I tried to woe
I did not know she was a Jew
I introduced myself to her
And said "Hallo, mein name's Hitler."
She laughed at me, my love was spurned
She first was gassed, and then was burned.
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I want a cuddle
please someone.
Sad.
R8 my poem
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>the antagonist changes his mind because he's too terrified about the idea that nobody will attend his funeral
>giving a shit about what others think
Dickens's standpoint is basically right, but isn't it a bit shallow reasoning? No thinking man would accept this as an argument to change your behaviour. Hell, throw me into a dumpster when I die, I don't care.
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It's more than that, it's both that, the fear of that death itself, fear of the unfulfilling life up to that point and extreme regret caused by the inevitable death of Tiny Tim should he not change his mind
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>>9468656
That story has four "spectres" in it. What do you expect from such spookines?
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>throw me into a dumpster when I die, I don't care
If I was dead you could bang me all you want. I mean, who cares? A dead body is like a piece of trash. I mean, shove as much shit in there as you want. Fill me up with cream, make a stew out of my ass. What's the big deal?
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is it possible to learn greek, latin, french and german at the age of 18?
Nothing bothers me more than knowing i probably never will.
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>>9468618
Yes, but you either need to go to a super fancy school or to be extremely self-motivated/interested
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>>9468618
The earlier you start the better, but you could probably do it in three or four years.
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a bit optimistic perhaps? Do you have any experience with language learning?
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What the fuck was his problem?
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>>9468599
I don't know. Did you read it?
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>>9468599
He was a negro
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>>9468599
Nothing's wrong with him. The book is about a perfect society where nothing wrong happens until white people show up. That's how I was taught to read the book in college.
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Should your dream project be your first project?
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>>9468572
no.
git gud first.
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>>9468572
eh, you'll probably have dozens of 'dream projects' so why not use your novice ones as practice? if you still want to write it and you're unhappy with the result, try again from scratch.
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>>9468688
How do I start writing? I want my dream project to be really good but I understand that having it be my first would just be a recipe for disaster.
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>eclipses Goethe and Schiller with a single play and a few fragments
>genius doctor
>tender lover of prostitutes
>ROW ROW FIGHT DA POWER
>dies from typhoid at 23
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plz dont harras people outside germany with this socialdemocrat shibboleth
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>>9468591
kys you fucking idiot
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Nigga looks like he has Klinefelter Syndrome.
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Is there some truth to this? 2017-05-05 06:53:43 Post No.9468502
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Is there some truth to this?
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Is there some truth to this quote, and in general this view where suffering is a fuel for creating beauty.
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Ya. But I can tell you right now that it's not the first kind of suffering stupid people like you jump to
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>>9468502
Some people make mistakes, other people act like mistakes is the only way to be, guess who is harder to change and if its painless
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Which one should I get /lit/?
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>translations
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>>9468490
I'm ok at French, but honestly I miss more reading the original than the translation (granted I've only read the first five pages of both)
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>>9468489
The stranger