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Planning on reading Heart of Darkness; any good /lit/?
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Yes, it's amazing and extremely short so definitely worth the time.
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>>9421226
Book for boys
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Fuck off and read it
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Any /lit/fags have ADD?
How do you deal with it? Has it affected your literary lifestyle?
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Have to take fuckin' meds to be able to sit down and read a book for a while. No matter how interesting it is, I get half an hour into a reading session and suddenly get the urge to do 20 other things, all pointless or unneccesary. Sucks ass.
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>>9421206
Same here OP, but it's ok. Postmodernism means you can do stream of thought writing today and it's perfectly fine
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I do but I was raised by a single mother so I tend to think that's the real disease.
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What. The. Heck.
So I just quit my job to become a full-time writer and I discovered, to my absolute horror, that there is actually no wage involved with this?!? What do I do? I'm broke! I'm panicking like hell! Why aren't I being paid while I write? What the hell is this?!
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>>9421165
Time to turn tricks. Got an enema kit?
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>find publisher
>say you will write good book
>give first three chapters as an example
>ask for a wage to keep yourself fed and sheltered from rain as you write
>collect royalties after the book is published
Wow, that was hard.
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>>9421165
Nice meme OP.
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Dostoevsky or Tolstoy?
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>>9421123
Dosto.. although Anna Karenina is comfy af, and the only Tolstoy I've read, so my opinion is moot.
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>>9421123
Dostoyevsky. The Brothers Karamazov is the greatest book ever written.
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Tolstoy. He's not boring.
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Anyone read this, or other books like it? (Inb4 Ayn Rand)
Any redeeming value or is it as bad as it looks?
Curious to know if there's any interesting aspects to this debate or if it's all just shitty conjecture.
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Muh thread
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never read it, but I know its shitty because Sam Harris' view on objective morality without God is indefeasible
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From what I understand his position is basically just "assume utilitarianism and use science to determine what maximizes utility" but he doesn't justify his utilitarianism.
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daily reminder suicide is just around the corner
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>>9420771
good thing I live on a flat plain that stretches for miles in all directions
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More like a couple of steps away.
I welcome it, I am a degenerative being.
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Do you apply to real life lessons learned from literature? Do you perhaps adopt specific outlooks on life, mimic mannerisms of favorite characters, or seek a partner based on idealism derived from literary pieces of choice?
Ive never met someone who let literature envelope his own self, beyond just the mind. Most merely consume literature as a passing form of entertainment, to be taken in and swiftly replaced and forgotten by something else, while retaining only a handful of the information consumed, if at all.
Why is this? Could this be the reason why modern literature has stagnated and doomed to discuss only concepts of the futures of Artificial Intelligence and various social commentary?
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>>9420713
What the fuck are you blabbering on about?
>mimic mannerisms of favorite characters, or seek a partner based on idealism derived from literary pieces of choice?
Is that your definition of lessons learned?
You'd have to be completely autistic to think that anything that is actually worth picking up form literature can be directly applied to real life without any attempt at critical thought.
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>>9420713
>shakespeare for both england AND scotland
i fucking hate england so fucking much
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>>9421190
>Scots have to claim Shakespeare because otherwise they'd have some shit like Burns
>THEY hate US
Scots
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What are your thoughts on the mystery genre?
Who are your favourite writers, or what are some of your favourite tricks? Who are the biggest hacks?
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I've just realized that I've never properly read any mystery books.
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I like Agatha Christie
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>>9420747
me neither. bumping for good mystery novels.
besides, you know the obvious(sherlock holmes)
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In your best prose, describe Taylor Swift's feet.
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Green goobas hmm sucky sucky hot
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>>9420434
Wew boy, makes me wanna like, pull on my dick skin.
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>>9420434
Standardly podiatric.
>you'll never be a risque author whose book won't get published because it's too naughty
>you'll never go to Paris to a rinky little bookshop known for its fearless publishing that's ran by two cute, young lesbians.
>you'll never start a revolution in literature and stand on these steps with your angel publisher and admire Hemingway, drunkenly staggering your way with some 18 year old rich girl American ex-pats.
>Sylvia Beach will never give you "that" look, roll her eyes, and say, "go on. I've got books to sell."
Why live?
Now we have sonic fucking harry potter on the internet.
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>>9420379
I'd rather meet Sylvia Whitman than Sylvia Beach.
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>>9420405
She is fuck material for sure.
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Dont worry OP you can watch midnight in Paris and sad masturbate if you can see past Owen Wilsons nose. //lit//tv//
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>Is suffering necessary in human existence? Can one find joy in suffering?
I think suffering is essential to the human experience. We seek to eradicate suffering in our day to day life. We avoid it at all cost. But it is absolutely necessary. Without suffering, how can we know what it is like to be happy? How can we know happiness if we don't first know suffering? So why, at least in modern western culture, do we see suffering as something to avoid? Furthermore, If one finds joy in suffering, does that experience still remain to be suffering?
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>I joined a frat bc gang violence is scary
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>>9420367
if you have something worth fighting for, you are ready to suffer.
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>>9420386
Maybe the key is to find meaning in the suffering. Meaningless suffering is painful, meaningful suffering is priceless.
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Does Dean Koontz have any good stuff?
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>>9420366
No not really. Plenty of better options if you just want light-weight suspense.
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>>9420371
Could you give me some? That is what I want.
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>>9420366
It depends on what you consider good. He is a more christian SK without an equal delivery by the bunch.
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What is one book you recommend?
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I want to get into reading but I need some recommendations. Sure I can go to "/lit/'s top 100 books" but there are so many options. So what is one book you recommend?
Books I've read so far:
-Devil in the White City
-On the Beach
-The Pearl
-Of Mice and Men
-Fahrenheit 451 (favorite one so far)
P.S.
I didnt read many of the "classic" books usually read in high school (i.e. A Clockwork Orange, Lord of the Flies, etc.) because my English classes kept assigning fucking WW2 books, excluding Slaughter House 5..
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Heart of Darkness
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One of the best novels I've ever read
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>>9420348
Wuthering Heights. A great masterpiece that is easy to understand and doesn't really require any prior reading.
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>dude spanish civil war for 5 seconds
>dude I'm gay
>dude my gf is pregnant
>dude a fucking jew won't abort my child
>it's true, finally, after all these years, I have entered the age of reason
What the fuck was this book even about?
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>>9420341
Remember to never read manlets
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>>9420347
Christ this man was a fucking mess
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>>9420341
I'm charitable to virtually anyone respected by some form of an academic community, but Sartre is literally a fuckin' hack. Don't read him except after you've read Heidegger so you can BTFO people who like Sartre.
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ITT: Books from your childhood that could pass as great literature with some development
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Truly the pinnacle of western culture
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>>9420287
Damn near anything by Chris Van Allsburg
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>>9420311
>Man losing control over his consciousness and giving in to primal unconscious desire.