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is Frank Cauldhame a proto-4chan-user?
>NEET
>hates women, non-whites
>enjoys torturing and killing animals
>uses GBP system with father
>autistic effort in building contraptions
>feels no remorse
the list goes on and on.
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>>9315771
>everyone on 4chan is an edgy /b/tard sociopath
Nah, but i read that book not too long ago.
Can't say i enjoyed it exactly but Frank's autism was pretty imaginative, it felt real which caused the fucked up events described to actually make me upset. It's offensive because the violence isn't gratuitous, it's explained and makes sense in the context
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>>9315771
You've read all of it, right?
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>>9316826
yes, why?
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What do you do with dust jackets on hardcover books, /lit/? Do you trash them, save them, leave them on?
I have a little box full of them because I don't like them on the book, but I'm reluctant to throw them out. I just picked up some old library hardcovers for a couple of bucks, though, so now seems like a good time to maybe commit to getting rid of all the jackets I have along with these new ones.
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>>9315700
Trash. Do you keep the cardboard cover from dvds and blu rays? Fuck no. You throw it out.
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>>9315709
>Do you keep the cardboard cover from dvds and blu rays
Yes
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I always leave them on the books after I've read them. What else would I do with these dust jackets?
Who has the better lectures?
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>>9315678
They aren't even in the same field...
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>>9315678
Definitely Gregory B. Sadler. I don't think it's even debatable. He is /ourguy/.
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>>9315702
why do you think they are better?
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ITT: books virgins will NEVER EVER understand (breasts are okay when it's art, mods [fuck you cameron i said never understand not never enjoy])
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>>9315791
>"randy
>enjoyment"
>right over her asscrack
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thats a niiiice ass
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Attitude to culture tier list
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1. Enlightened populism
>The culture can only exist for the people, although academic institutions allow research, it doesn't belong to them; once a form of culture no longer has a popular following it has in effect been declared dead by the public.
>Happy to talk to 'normies' or people without prior knowledge about cultural things
>Despite this, feels a commitment to literature and writing no matter how popular or unpopular it is.
>Isn't proud of himself for it.
2. Naive but interested young people
>women, BookTube, goodreads
>earnest, willing to learn, never cynical
>have real feeling in responding to texts
>corrupted and opportunities sold short by the consumer industry, Young Adult fiction, John Green on a personal level and the Creative Writing classes
>our only hope for literature in the future
3. Dilettant superiority complex (almost always from people who just started reading / graduated from video games)
Tell-tale signs:
>Recommends and reads and knows nothing but 'the Canon': Bible, Homer, Dante and Shakespeare; although being unquestionable good, uses these authors --- the only he knows --- to hide his dilettantism, he says all the right things when it comes to culture, but couldn't tell you about it beyond Bloomian platitudes.
>complains about the dilettantism of others (usually schoolgirls) to hide his own dilettantism
>acts dark and edgy and depressed because this is apparently what writerly intelligent people do, rather than hiding his loneliness in mature obligation to others, he reveals his cosmic narcissism constantly.
>cynical.
4. Gamer tier
>alt-right
>sensationalist
>monolingual
>spends too much time on 4chan, twitter, reddit
>calls people cucks and posts antisemitic/racist memes
>claims to be so far above the herd of normies that he joins a different herd such as an online 'counterculture' of bloggers and twitter.
>see: Jordan Peterson
>the most mediocre platitudes at all
>a false view of European culture inherited from icons of patriotic bombast; identifies with his parents and grandparents over his contemporaries.
>believes the current times to be decadent, when his unthinking belief in decadence is part of the decadence which he doesn't realize, crowd mentality and meme culture.
>greenposts a lot
Usually the fourth type quickly becomes the third.
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>>9315630
Bump
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you don't think there's any hope for a type 1 kind of person to write good literature?
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>>9316205
No, because type one people don't exist anywhere.
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I'm a literature pleb, please give me some recs and why they are great, and good for me starting out
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read the sticky or lurk
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>>9315496
start with the geeks.
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>>9315496
Harvard Classics, Modern Library top 100 or Bloom's Canon are fine, and the Sticky starter guide is for people who never read in hs
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What happened to reading groups?
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>an activity that necessitates hours upon hours of silence and solitude
>lets make a group out of it
common sense i'm guessing
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Women decided it was to become a female thing and thus killed the reading group.
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We realized they don't work. The discussion is pedestrian and participation drops quickly.
Some people read fast and some slow, so the discussion is all over the place.
The discord ones are pretty good.
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Lovecraft's Racist Poetry 2017-03-30 07:15:48 Post No.9315443
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Here's a good one /lit/-- will it change your opinion on the master of horror?
On the Creation of Niggers
When, long ago, the gods created Earth
In Jove's fair image Man was shaped at birth.
The beasts for lesser parts were next designed;
Yet were they too remote from humankind.
To fill the gap, and join the rest to Man,
Th'Olympian host conceiv'd a clever plan.
A beast they wrought, in semi-human figure,
Filled it with vice, and called the thing a Nigger.
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wtf i love lovecraft now
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I just love how it makes people like Terry Gross flip out. He's such an undeniable writer that you can't discount his work but the mainstream will never be comfortable with the subject matter.
I don't even like /pol/ but thank God Ezra Pound was a fascist.
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Nah. As a poetry and Lovecraft fag I actually already knew about it. I'm a big libfag too but I appreciate Eliot, Pound, Lovecraft, The Nigger of the Narcissus, Wagner's music, etc. Hopefully at some point in your (meaning one's) personal development you outgrow self-righteousness and the need for all expression and artistic production to conform to contemporary standards, your standards, before you can appreciate it.
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Has anyone read The Benedict Option by lady killer and official /lit/boi Rod Dreher? Is it good?
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I support christians locking themselves up. But the book doesn't seem relevant for the time being with drumpf in power.
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>>9315441
Not yet. But it's well recieved in the Catholic intellectual circles.
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>>9315578
>made and lost a fortune in casinos
>sold wine
>on his third wife
>"two Corinthians" gaffe
>supports death penalty
>shady business practices
>suddenly changes positions on several social issues at the last minute to get votes, never mentions them again after
>no signs of repentance
Truly a devout christian we've got here, yup.
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>As far as I’m concerned, computers have as much to do with literature as space travel, perhaps much less.
All too appropriate for someone's who's been an immobile land whale for most of their life.
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>>9315420
Just because you can't find a way to write about a space travel with literary value it doesnt mean space travels have nothing to do with literature, Bloom, you talentless hack.
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Yeah, fuck progress, we should all sit in mud huts and recite Shakespeare to one another
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>>9315445
Oh but he did. He includes Le Guin and Voyage to Arcturus in his canon. And indeed, his only creative work was fanfic for Voyage to Arcturus. And as far as space travel goes, in the more mundane sense of moving through spatial ground, what does that include if not virtually all of literature?
The greentext was one of his more thoughtless statements.
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What are some good publishers on classic literature?
Since there's so many of them in the public domain, there's also a shocking number of alterations they can freely make -- especially foreign classics. Because of this, it makes searching for a good, legit version rather difficult and sceptical. Thus, I'm wondering if there publishers out there (if any) who preserve the original works as much as possible. For example, with the following books: Les Misérables, Moby Dick, Jane Eyre -- to name a few.
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>>9315365
Do you have nude pics of that girl?
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>>9315365
Do you have pics of this girl being gangbanged by feral nigs?
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>>9315365
Why does your pic say clothed?
What's going on with this pic here??
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SPOILERS BELOW till around p. 500
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Am I the only one who really hated the homo-turn on this book? I think it undermines what it shows about friendship in a really unfortunate way - with the breaking point being Willem and Jude. Plus, not everyone in this world is gay, man. Fuck you.
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None here actually read books, try reddit
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>>9315279
I read a review from a literary review which I trust which mocked its purple prosy and teenage cheesiness. So I won't read it.
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>>9315279
It seemed like female misery porn so didn't read
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> and the most convincing sex scene in literature is........?
Virgins need not contribute
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She stayed still. I could feel her nervous breath. For minutes…she lay there, stock-still with my penis in her mouth, and I sat there, waiting.
And then she took it out of her mouth and looked up at me quizzically.
“Should I do something? … Should I, like, bite it?”
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>>9315274
C'mon......give source. How do you expect a meaningful discussion if I don't know you pulled a quote or your ass?
WHO WRITES THE MOST CONVINCING SEX SCENES WITHOUT LURCHING INTO EROTICA??
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My diary desu
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ITT: interesting non-fiction books about music\film\pop-culture
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>Education teaches people how to think.
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>>9315185
>American education
>"unexceptable"
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>the only one that makes sense is marked wrong
Weird test.
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>>9315185
There is nothing wrong in that test.