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Hey /lit/ still pretty new here. You guys seem to be pretty insistent that learning other languages so you can read books in the original text is better than reading translation. Surely if you don't have a good grip of the language you're not going to appreciate it as much. What's the point where you'll get more by reading it in the original? I used to speak French well enough to hold a conversation about 5 years ago (was never fluent) I want to get back to a decent level is it worth just starting reading in French despite not being very good or should I do something to relearn? I like Houllebecq so I'd maybe like to try that or would you recommend any other authors or books that are better for someone who's rusty.

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Are the pieces of criticism I cite and talk about in my literature review supposed to make up the bulk of the texts I talk about in the main body too?

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/lit/ I'd love to read a great novel about aliens coming to Earth.

Any suggestions?

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Hello, /lit/!

I'm middle aged and, despite being educated as an engineer, I work around mostly blue-collar types and don't get exposed to many educated people anymore. I feel like my English is getting worse, simpler. I've never been the psuedo-intellectual type, but I feel like I've been at a loss of words lately and unable to express myself and ideas. I think being around uneducated people all the time, is causing me to lose some of mine when it comes to the English language.

Does /lit/ have any recommended reading for an engineer who needs a brush up on English?

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>when you reach a new level of enlightenment and you have to reread everything you've ever read to check if your opinion of it changes

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Will skimmed milk ever recover?

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>spending $50k on a degree which you could have taught yourself thanks to all the freely available resources the internet now offers
there is no reason to study at a tertiary institution anymore.

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Rate my book stairs thread.

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E-books lack character.

Physical books are more than the words they contain. They're also tools to stimulate your senses and adjust your thinking.

When I don’t feel well, I’ll stare at a page for ever before realising I haven’t absorbed a word. When that happens, I try to understand why. What’s gotten in my way? On the other hand there are books I can take in effortlessly, no matter how awful I’m feeling. Why do those books draw me in? I think it may be a sort of mental tuning. It’s the feeling of the paper against my fingers, that familiar smell of pulp and glue, a momentary stimulation to my brain when I turn each page. These sensations regulate and focus my brain, they make it work better.

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was Shakespeare a catholic?

why is this important? why is there so much debate?

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I got a new, signed, easton press copy of neuromancer (blue book), easton press dubliners, and that other book is a really cool autobiographical comic strip about growing up as a woman in the middle east.

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Beowulf is one of my favourite works of art. Am I a pleb?

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How is a Nietzschean supposed to be a writer?

It's not a noble world, so contemporary realist novels become nearly impossible to write.

They are firmly grounded in the suburban middle class, whose idea of ambition is ascending to rank of assistant regional manager. This is the middlebrow world of Ayn Rand, the Nietzsche of used car dealers.

On the other hand, this is about all the ambition that peaceful merchant societies permit, unless you lose your mind and try to turn an architect into a terrorist (looking at you, Ayn Rand.)

Basically, if contemporary (1st world) society is completely infertile as a ground for Nietzschean drama, does that mean that drama has to be set in the past? Future?

I think fantasy lacks the psychological seriousness of events that take place on a recognisable Earth. Yet the Earth we know is one where all domination is indirect, buffered by money, essentially making a 3rd world dictator and Mark Zukerberg into equals. The human element of domination - indeed of society - is diminishing daily. What is power when a rich man and a poor man eat at a franchise restaurant using a bank card, then return to hotels in different price brackets to work on their laptops, which are also in different price brackets?

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http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1327357?book_show_action=true&from_review_page=1
>This is one of those books that really serves to remind a modern audience of why we should kill whitey
And what did she mean by this?

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When do you like to read the most?
For me it's early morning or afternoon, basically whenever my sister and parents are asleep/working/away. I can't concentrate when others are talking or hearing music. Maybe I should try reading at night as well.