I have never been on /lit/. I do not know what makes you guys tick and what books you consider trash. I just want to know five books you consider trash and five books you consider to be worth their weight in gold to read.
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Start with the Greeks
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>>9338096
>I'm a newfag
Which Greeks do you recommend.
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>>9338096
/θρεαδ
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How to into Dick?
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It's the other way around, Dick into u.
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Have you tried the urethra?
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Pederasty in the Literary Tradition 2017-04-05 03:58:20 Post No.9338025
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Pederasty in the Literary Tradition
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What literature can be referred to about the idea of inter-generational intimacy, and/or homosexual pederastic relationships? Specifically, beyond personal acceptance by the author of such relationships - what is the Lolita of pederasty?
I know noted authors who have accepted pederasty and/or fantasized about relationships with young boys are
>Greeks
>Oscar Wilde
>Walt Whitman
>Allen Ginsberg
>Andre Gide
>Goethe
>Michelangelo
>Leonardo da Vinci
>Horatio Alger
>Shakespeare
I need to write a college essay on LGBT literature, and feel like to address the oft-mentioned literary tradition/acceptance of pederasty. Not in specific regard toMilo
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Death in Venice.
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>>9338025
Read Vergil's Second Eclogue. The shepherd-poet Corydon is in love with the young male sex slave of his master, Alexis. (The sex slave part is implied, not overt. The pangs of love are overt.) In short,
>Romans, too
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kek, I find it so strange that barely anyone ever seems to address the strong pederastic vein throbbing through 90% of pre- and early modern 'lgbt' lit. I wonder how many college girls and redditors know about Oscar Wilde's boy fucking and just don't care
also I made this list.
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i like dune
rec me other sci fi
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Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
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Whipping Star by Frank Herbert (the ConSentiency for dummies)
The Dosadi Experiment by Frank Herbert (the ConSentiency for patricians)
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>>9338004
Foundation by Asimov is similar if you liked politics in Dune.
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Thesaurus/random word help! 2017-04-05 03:49:56 Post No.9337984
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Thesaurus/random word help!
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Hey /lit,
I need help with a word. What would someone be called who always tells you what they are before giving their opinion as if their opinion is correct due to their title, example:
>As a history major, ...
>As a Liberal...
>As someone who reads the news,...
>As an animal lover...
They say it in a way to almost discredit you. What is this called other than asshole?
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>>9337984
pedant?
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Qualification? Someone showing they're qualified.
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>>9337984
Or an authority.
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>american literature is shit
>russian literature is goat
hmmmm
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((((France))))
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>>9337901
>Nobel prize for literature begins in 1901
>didn't exist during the golden age of Russian literature
>the best 20th century Russian authors had their work banned by the USSR and took multiple decades to reach audiences outside Russia, or even inside Russia
What did you mean by this?
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French master race
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>mfw reading Notes from Underground
It's like reading a biography of my life. It's physically painful for me to read and I'm only 5 pages in. Does Dostoyevsky reconcile all of this?
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nope. shit's hilarious tho.
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it's ok to be a walking contradiction like the writer
hey its ok anon
the more we know ourselves the easier it is to overcome ourselves
i started dieting and going out after this book
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>>9337910
But does Dostoyevsky give a solution?
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Is there any book that deals with giving up with childhood dreams and getting newer more mature dreams?
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>>9337646
what is this cat? tell me about this cat?
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>>9337646
dont even get dreams faggot, that is being and adult
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probably the pale king desu
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Does /lit/ annotate in their books?
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>>9337636
I don't. Reading is an aesthetic pleasure as well as intellectual; it really bothers me when books have any outside writing in them.
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No, but I buy 90% of my books used and sometimes they come pre-annotated by autistic children like this one.
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>>9337636
I badly want to for my own posterity but for aesthetic reasons, much like >>9337667 suggested, I find it abhorrent. I get a nice hardback copy of a book I cherish and it's like a trophy. I don't want to mar it at all.
So it is impossible to change something without being changed in return, right? I've thought about that with regard to books, as my alternative to scoring the pages with scribble is to memorize lines and associate my thoughts and feelings with them as a kind of mental notation. But in changing myself, my own reaction to the text, now the way the book feels to me has been made more permanent and I can't reinterpret it as easily.
So it's a trade that I struggle with. Sometimes I love the thing I'm reading and don't want to impugn potential future reads when I'm older and have a new perspective.
What is your favourite story?
What did you think of the Dream Quest?
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>inb4 LE RATS IN LE WALL reddit story NIGGERMAN LOL
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>>9337712
but I liked rats in the wall
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>>9337735
It's ok to like it but if it's your favorite you have to go back.
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>he hasn't reread his favorite book
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>>9337590
Why read it again? I've already read it. It's like going on an amusement park ride for a second time because you enjoyed it. I enjoyed the Mouse Trap play. I will never watch it again. I enjoyed reading Catcher in The Rye. I will most probably never read it again.
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>>9337601
Read Nabokov's "Good Readers and Good Authors". You'll find it if you google it. It will answer your question.
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I want to reread moby dick so I asked mummy to buy me a copy for my birthday but she bought me a disgusting hipster-tier minimalist art paperback
REEEEE I WANTED A HAAARRRRDBAAACK YOU STUPID BITCH
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Men spend their entire lives gripping with the ideas that fill the pages I softly gaze upon while defecating in a porcelain bowl.
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>>9337584
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>>9337584
Holy....
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>>9337584
Their work was never meant solely for you. In fact they more than likely came to some of conclusion with their own lives.
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Unaccomplished. Talk myself out of anything. Any big decision is paralyzing. Constantly overwhelmed. Know it's all irrational. Don't now what to do. What does /lit/ recommend as literary medicine?
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>>9337576
you're not smart but lazy you're average but in denial
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>>9337576
Your implied ideology of having to be accomplished is also irrational.
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>>9337579
>I'm a special snowflake you're not
fine. bye.
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How to come up with a good pseudonym?
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Think about it for ten minutes
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you just need a good adjective/adverb/??? for your first name, and then any combination of adjective + noun for your surname. then you tack on a degree or some shit at the end to make it sound more impressive
happy meathandles, esq
boastish hornbucket, MD
rosy anglerfish-susurration, jr
pretty basic desu
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>>9337551
Gorm-Torask, Whose Rage is Sulfurous
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FUCK, help me out
I can't remember a book.
The character is a serial killer that is incredibly boring and hard to remember.
At some point, he's covered in the blood of his victims and being interviewed by the police, and they just don't notice because he's so dull.
I think he might also be desperate for notoriety, but he's just too boring to be noticed.
Does anyone know the book?
It might have been Neil Gaiman, but I don't think so.
Aggghhhh I can't remember, help.
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Also, it was a (darkly) humorous tone, it wasn't serious.
If that helps.
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american psycho? is this bait?
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>>9337509
My diary desu