>Tfw I can't remember anything from most books I've read other than a vague summary of the plot, if I liked it and why I did or didn't enjoy it.
Why even bother?
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I know this feel. I wouldn't feel like I wasted so much of my life on books/film/TV if I could at least remember more of it. And my memory's actually pretty good in general.
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I do not remember what I ate yesterday, yet it still fills me. Books are the same way.
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>>9461985
You treat books as if they were consumable goods? Lol what a loser.
Post; Give recs; Discuss; Whatever
To start -
http://unlimited-ebooks.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/3/9/13397081/carver_raymond_-_vitamins.pdf
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>>9461925
What's your sell on Carver?
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>>9461930
just read his short stories and see if theyre dank or not
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>>9461931
Read what we talk about when we talk about love and thought it was meh as fuck. Chck out mavis gallant, somerset maugham or donald barthelme for dank af short stories desu senpaitachi.
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Read the first four Dune books. Generally enjoying them, but God Emperor was testing my patience a bit.
Should I read the last two for completion's sake? I heard they're not as good.
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Serious question; Why is this so highly regarded in sci-fi circles? Is it just that it came out during a bad era for sci-fi and has become a sacred cow?
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Pretty much. Most sci-fi was dreadful aside from the big names. Even Herbert's other non-books are unremarkable.
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>The cover of the book is an image of the cinematographic adaptation
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>>9461908
>having so few books that you have to care what every single one looks like
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>>9461908
I KNOW
THAT I HAVE LET YOU DOWN
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Also why don't we talk more about Petrarch here?
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>>9461853
Are there any good biographies?
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>Wake up one day and feel like climbing a mountain. Just for fun, no particular reason why. Then when you finally get in the top , decides to open a book. Your book of choice is Meditations from Marco Aurelius.
Yfw this skinnyfat fuck is actually fitlit/.
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Any good /lit/erature about boarding schools or life at a small college? I'm going to the latter soon.
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>>9461848
Never let me go
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The Confusions of Young Törless for the former, The Secret History for the latter.
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>>9461905
I also came here to shill The Secret History
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>claims to enjoy literature, which is mostly made of novels
>dude stop writing novels lmao
What did he mean by this?
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>literature
>mostly made of novels
Novels have only been popular for 200 years at most, and excluding one-offs like Don Quixote it barely existed for most of the history of literature. The vast majority of literature is actually poetry.
Also, Borges couldn't read for half his life, so it makes sense that he wouldn't have the patience for three hundred page novels.
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>>9461845
"To classify it as perfect is neither an imprecision nor a hyperbole."
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>>9461918
its is
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Refer to this http://www.iep.utm.edu/descmind/
Is there a neurological link between our mind and our body?
How free are we if:
>our mind controls our body,
>our body controls our mind,
>nothing controls either,
>something besides us controls both,
>or both function separately.
/phil/
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>they are one and the same thing
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>not even wrong
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>memearrow
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Can you describe a simple situation using Hemingway´s style? 2017-05-04 01:12:44 Post No.9461716
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Can you describe a simple situation using Hemingway´s style?
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Dead baby shoes, dripping with semen.
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>>9461721
What a great first post.
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Is R.Kellys "Trapped in the closet" an epic saga? 2017-05-04 01:11:30 Post No.9461712
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Is R.Kellys "Trapped in the closet" an epic saga?
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Serious question. An epic saga is a very long poem telling an intricate story thats meant to be kind of sung-spoken. "Trapped in the closet" has all of these. Does that make "Trapped in the closet" an epic saga?
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>>9461712
Yes. You literally just pointed out how it completes all the necessary criteria.
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i remember that came out when i was in college and as far as i can remember no one was gay, i was like how the fuck do u name ur shit trapped in the closet and then it's not about some gay shit
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>>9461726
You remember wrong senpai. The preacher from the beginning is gay. He says to R. Kelly before revealing his lover "Since we're all coming out of the closet."
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Where to submit weird/horror/fantasy short stories? 2017-05-04 01:01:00 Post No.9461686
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Where to submit weird/horror/fantasy short stories?
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Back in the day there were tons of pulp magazines where anyone could submit short stories and they might publish them if good enough.
Does any sort of similar medium exist today?
The only one I know of is Tor.com but they're a bunch of SJWs who state in their submissions page:
>we will only be considering novellas that inhabit worlds that are not modeled on European cultures
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>>9461686
If you don't mind having your stuff read out in audiobook form, there's a few linked podcasts (Escape Pod for SF, PodCastle for fantasy, and Pseudopod for horror) that pay 6 cents a word.
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lol op i used to think the same thing, "genre fags are such pussies, i bet it will be a lot easier to get published by them, let me write some hack pulp shit to get my writers resume beefed up, then go for the serious lit" but then i realized i'm a total scifi dilettante and have no knowledge of the genre will probably just come up with some tropey shit
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>>9461686
you can self-publish now senpai
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>pointless character backgrounds and description due to the fact that every character, major and minor, is either hysterically angry, hysterically sad, or in bed with a fever
>boring and bullshitty discussions about the "big important heavy hitting topics" like Napoleon, society, religion, the existence of God
>religion scattered throughout for cheap puffed up effect
This is like the emperor with no clothes. What a heap of shit. So much of what is considered genius in literature (and philosophy) is just the most hideously ornate crusty and mostly pretentious shit that bores people to death.
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Chesterton is everything Dostoevsky tries to be. Not even memeing.
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>>9461620
lol that guy was the step dad of my boy harry potta
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I'm glad people are finally feeling disenfranchised from blatantly arrogant minds of the 1800s that wouldn't pass for much of anything but sympathy today.
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GOD IS ONENESS! The fact that everything is connected... The Big bang was proven right earlier this year... evidence of the universe expanding outward on itself. That proves the existence of "God"
"God" being another word for "Source Energy"... All that is is comprised of some form of energy. Scientific fact.
It is alive and we are literally apart of it. Like the cells in your body to you, you and animals to earth, earth to the galaxy, the galaxy to the universe, and the universe to the cosmos, and so on and so on FOREVER. WE/US/GOD/ENERGY are infinite.
THE DEVIL IS TWONESS... The Illusion of separation. The illusion that being different is something to fear. this is the REAL devil. It destroys the world. It creates things like RACISM and WAR. its OK to know things are different. But it is nothing to fear of feel better than.
When these two ways of thinking combine, we get THREENESS, THE HOLY TRINITY.... which despite what some may say are actually just Mind, Body, and Spirit. Right Hemisphere of your brain, Left hemisphere, and the thing in the middle THE PINEAL GLAND.
When we ALL learn this part of the truth, we can grow as a race. we can do things to help our planet and ALL its inhabitants.
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>>9461541
so Im one with black men and trannies? nice try, libcuck
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based
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Who likes Nathaniel Hawthorne? Just started The Marble Faun and it's pretty sweet.
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>>9461469
>reading Americans
kek
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>>9461473
das raciss
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His tales are fantastic. I even think the Scarlet Letter is pretty good, having read it again as an adult fully able to appreciate it.
I feel i'm forced into it. It's all over footnotes for Divine Comedy, and often in Shakespeare. Any ideas on translation to go with?
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>>9461424
The Arthur Golding. (You) won't regret it.
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I've just read the start of it, but Rolfe Humphries' is pretty good.
Now I'm curious about Golding
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>>9461645
no, no no. That's for Shakespeare. Get a truer one first.