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>religion is the opiate of the masses

Why doesn't Marx get made fun of more for this quote?

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Are all of the neckbeard neets on 4chan that live on the margins of capitalist society proof of Marx's claim that the lumpenproletariat are counterrevolutionary?

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This keeps coming up for me as a recommendation from amazon. Anyone here read it?

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About to start it, thoughts?

Also im new to /lit/ so idk if this is a meme.

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Could anyone help me recall a short story I read some years ago? From what I remember its fairly well known. I'll try to recount the generality of the plot
>Open with scene of family in kitchen, discussing their upcoming picnic.
>Father is reading a newspaper and talking about how awful the world is, son and daughter are eating breakfast, mother is in the kitchen, grandma is just kind of there.
>Next they're driving. They eventually break down or are stopped by some men
>The men hold everyone hostage at gunpoint. This is where the bulk of the story is
>The men are gangsters or something. There's conversation between them and the family. The family is trying to bargain for their lives
>The leader of the men kills off the family members one by one
>The story ends.
I recall there being some mention of Florida and oranges quite often, maybe something to do with somewhere the grandmother went when she was younger? But that's all I've got.
Thanks in advance.

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Please leave and never return if you agree with any of the following;

>you read any form of genre fiction
>you think fantasy, science fiction, detective fiction, young adult fiction or horror are literature
>you barely know your classics
>you tend to believe that if you like a given work, it is justified on an artistic level
>you think everyone's opinion should be accepted and respected
>you speak a single language
>you read contemporary versions of Shakespeare or Milton
>you read for the plot
>you read for entertainment
>you rarely read nonfiction
>you don't have a solid grounding in philosophy
>you do not at least have some understanding of the Three Tragedians and Homer
>you have little to no understanding of literature outside of your cultural horizon
>you have little to no understanding of literature within your own cultural horizon (muh african authors)
>you mostly read contemporary literature
>you believe 'the author is dead'
>you make your literary analysis proceed from ideology
>you think intricate prose is 'pretentious' and that the author 'should just get to the point'
>your rarely read poetry
>you think Rhythm and Rhyme are just useless rules and laws restricting creativity
>you have a hard time explaining why you like a given work
>you have a hard time forming structured and relevant literary criticism
>you tend to refuse to judge works for yourself, rather relying on the opinions of literary authorities
>you rarely read for more than one or two hours straight

This is a board about literature. You're not welcome here. Please take your plebeian garbage to /b/ or reddit, where you will find both a demographic and a general atmosphere more consistent with your tastes and your culture.

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what are some of the last remaining sites since Facebook has eaten the web and the majority of people are facebooking on their phone and streaming netflix on a Saturday. Wiki, forum, boards, 'pedia. Whatcha got /lit/?

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OK, I finished this book and I wanted to get other opinions on it. I enjoyed it overall but I don't understand all of the love that it gets from critics. I get that DFW was trying to fracture the narrative, to better represent what life is actually like for humans, and I think that he did that beautifully. My problem is that I think it could have been done with much less pages. Something as a reader and a writer that I am always thinking about is whether or not the text earns its length and I think that Infinite Jest fails in this regard.
I saw an interview with DFW and he said that one of his biggest fears was not making himself clearly understood and so he would keep repeating his point over and over. I think this is very apparent in Infinite Jest and, once you grasped what DFW was trying to accomplish the entire text seemed very meandering and pointless. I appreciate what he did and, in the context of accomplishing what he set out to do, DFW was successful but I still don't get all of the praise that the book receives.
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Give me some books that will help me figure out what to do with my life.

I'm not talking about picking out a career. I mean something bigger than that.

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is this an accurate representation of people who have read infinite jest?

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I recently realized that the books I was trying to read are too difficult for me to read as I'm not entirely used to reading a lot. However, along the way to that assumption I finished a decent number of books and realized that the few Vonnegut books were enjoyable. Then I decided to try to get myself used to reading books using books that are enjoyable, easy to read, etc.

Any suggestions in vein of Vonnegut or something that enjoyable or easy to read and pushes my comfort levels a bit?

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Anyone got Ride the Tiger .mobi or epub file to share and other evola's works? I was searching bookz but there's pdf only.

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You need to stop memeing the spookman.


Stirner hates kings and stronger men and comes up with a petty leftist, yet egoistical system ; he is everything morbid about philosophy. His goal was to contain the whole world within his hegelian view of man and history, where he reinterprets God and freedom as teleological processes striving to accomplish themselves within themselves ; and thus, in a synthetic way, he derives this teleological quality from such concepts, onto the "ego", as to reformulate this Einzige which he invented (this is a typical lack of intellectual probity, I mean, the use of grammar as a philosophical tool : to say that "I" is a causa sui, a thing-in-itself) within this hegelian framework of his. He is literally the most degenerate of the degenerate systematic Germans that Nietzsche despised, being pure concentrated, no chemicals added, no sweetener, will to nothingness.

>b-but muh spoops !
Stirner is a leftist. In the word "spook" one should read "tyranny" and "oppression". His criticism of all forms of 'tyranny' reaches so far that he concludes that only the Ego remains as something that is not a form of domination against the individual. He wishes to free mankind (as individuals), and in this way, the consequence of his thought would most likely be that of an "irrational" Kingdom of Ends.

Stop memeing the spookman. He is a nihilist and a leftist. Which is redundant.

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>"He pilfered a copy of 'Ulysses', but it was possible the one book he did not finish. "What's the point of it? I suspect it was a bit of a joke by Joyce. He just kept his mouth shut as people read into it more than there was. Pseudo-intellectuals love to drop the name 'Ulysses' as their favorite book. I refused to be intellectually bullied into finishing it.""

Is Christopher Knight, dare I say it, /ourguy/?

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Why do you have little word which has q not following u?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_containing_Q_not_followed_by_U