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>highly recommended modern book
>comes to chapter 3 or so
>the main character and his friend brags about how much they know about oasis(the virtual world that they are inside), 80's movie and video game trivia.
>they are basically jacking each other off
>it's fucking disgusting
I can't belive that i got tricked into reading this book.
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It's Reddit the book dude
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Can anyone tell me what components make something reddit-tier? So far I have
>Athiesm
>Liberalism
>Video Games
>Randomness
>Degeneracy
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>>9432306
Nostalgia. Definitely nostalgia.
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i don't get it
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I'm just about to start this book. What should I know before getting into it?
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>>9432225
idk lad i'm a brainlet
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>>9432225
French
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>The greatest "Russian" author of all time was actually Ukrainian
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>>9432218
so?
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>>9432218
>Ukrainian
What is this word? I am unfamiliar with it.
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>>9432238
try going to school
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Never read Edgar Allan Poe. Is he just a meme or is it worth reading his entire body of work?
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>>9432017
Yes God, please!
And don't you dare skip the poems, they are my favorite.
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There aren't many authors whose entire body of work you should read, but Poe is definitely worth reading. As the other Anon said, the poems are particularly fun and interesting.
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>>9432021
Annabel Lee is so fucking pretty (the poem, not the victim)
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Just bought a first edition of JR for $4 (pic related is it.) Did I do good, /lit/?
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>>9431994
looks a little rough, but as long as it's not falling apart, i'd say you did well. great book.
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>>9431994
well it's no fake twenty dollar bill
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>>9431994
Yeah old books are great.
What's your excuse for not having read the only (thus far) great author of the 21st century?
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She wrote Beloved, right? I've been meaning to read that. Some of the excerpts I've heard have been beautiful
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>>9431817
Song of Solomon is her masterpiece.
Rest is a bit shit. So no, not the 'only great author of the 21st centry'.
But here's what you really want: niggers and women are inferior to the white rational logical man like me
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>>9431817
her hair looks like grey wool. i don't read grey wool-haired people. i'm just biased that way. if i have to miss out on the greatest literature of the 21st century, so be it.
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This was actually pretty good.
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>>9431801
3/5
It ain't comfy
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>>9432222
Nice quads but why wasn't it comfy to you? It gave me a rainy day, nostalgiac feeling.
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judge the last book you read without resorting to good-bad, beautiful-ugly, conscious-sublimated, realistic-ideologic, reactionary-progressive, stimulating-anaesthetic, authentic-inauthentic dichotomies.
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it was good
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It was funny
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>it was stimulating
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is this passage from american gods trash?
“I can believe things that are true and things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they're true or not.
I can believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny and the Beatles and Marilyn Monroe and Elvis and Mister Ed. Listen - I believe that people are perfectable, that knowledge is infinite, that the world is run by secret banking cartels and is visited by aliens on a regular basis, nice ones that look like wrinkled lemurs and bad ones who mutilate cattle and want our water and our women.
I believe that the future sucks and I believe that the future rocks and I believe that one day White Buffalo Woman is going to come back and kick everyone's ass. I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating and that the decline in good sex in America is coincident with the decline in drive-in movie theaters from state to state.
I believe that all politicians are unprincipled crooks and I still believe that they are better than the alternative. I believe that California is going to sink into the sea when the big one comes, while Florida is going to dissolve into madness and alligators and toxic waste.
I believe that antibacterial soap is destroying our resistance to dirt and disease so that one day we'll all be wiped out by the common cold like martians in War of the Worlds.
I believe that the greatest poets of the last century were Edith Sitwell and Don Marquis, that jade is dried dragon sperm, and that thousands of years ago in a former life I was a one-armed Siberian shaman.
I believe that mankind's destiny lies in the stars. I believe that candy really did taste better when I was a kid, that it's aerodynamically impossible for a bumble bee to fly, that light is a wave and a particle, that there's a cat in a box somewhere who's alive and dead at the same time (although if they don't ever open the box to feed it it'll eventually just be two different kinds of dead), and that there are stars in the universe billions of years older than the universe itself.
I believe in a personal god who cares about me and worries and oversees everything I do. I believe in an impersonal god who set the universe in motion and went off to hang with her girlfriends and doesn't even know that I'm alive. I believe in an empty and godless universe of causal chaos, background noise, and sheer blind luck.
I believe that anyone who says sex is overrated just hasn't done it properly. I believe that anyone who claims to know what's going on will lie about the little things too.
I believe in absolute honesty and sensible social lies. I believe in a woman's right to choose, a baby's right to live, that while all human life is sacred there's nothing wrong with the death penalty if you can trust the legal system implicitly, and that no one but a moron would ever trust the legal system.
I believe that life is a
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game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you're alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it.”
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>>9431644
>on the amazon top ten
I don't even need to read it to know it's trash
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Is it meant to depict someone with totally nonsensical beliefs? Because it does that pretty well, I feel.
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What interesting books do you know on the topics of "confirmation bias" and "self-deception"?
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When Prophecy Fails
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My diary.
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>>9431588
Dan Ariely's books, particularly Predictably Irrational
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>He read hardcovers
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The words are the same, no?
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>>9431551
Hard covers belong on a reading stand, not in your hands.
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>>9431551
>Good thread died for this
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/lit/ opinion on Greg Egan?
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He's a writer
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>>9431557
that's not an opinion, can't you understand a simple question?
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>>9431569
Yes, it is
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Damn, I miss this little nigga. I'm reading the "last" book of the Foundation Saga, Forward the Foundation, and it is awesome.
It's a pity that he didn't complete the saga.
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What are good hard sci-fi books, or whatever the fuck that means? I read the Last Question and it was pretty good.
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>>9431840
>I read the Last Question and it was pretty good.
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>>9431840
Hard sci-fi means the "science" in it isn't just magic, and the author makes an effort to come up with plausible mechanisms for space travel etc. I think. Asimov was great at this because he was also a pretty good scientist.
Read foundation and then I, Robot. or the other way around, actually.
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What do you think of this philosophy?
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"The only way for fairness to be possible in morality, is for all individual consciences to be experienced by the same source consciousness, that way this single source experiences all the good, and all the bad"
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>>9431480
THAT PICTURE GOES AGAINST THE REDPILL
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>>9431488
the "live and let love" redpill?
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>>9431480
Morality is a spook
This Shit is Amazing!
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>>9431415
>reading books with women in it
numale cuck
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>>9431415
>reading the inferior version
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>>9431436
i hate the japs
why do they have to give me such strong
>no gf
>no daughterfu
feels