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To those of you who have done an English degree at a college/university, how long did your 10,000ish word dissertation take? (I think Americans would call it a bachelor thesis, if the word dissertation means nothing to you)
Googling it, people seem to range from the opinion that you can do it in a week easily, to the opinion that if you haven't started 6 months in advance you're screwed.
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>English degree
>hard to write a thesis
lel
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I didn't write a thesis. The whole program was a joke, and the degree is utterly worthless. At least I made some cool friends and fucked some hot chicks.
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>>9239484
I already had a thesis in mind by the middle of my junior year and a lot of potential research angles. Going from there about a semester to research, two weeks to write, two weeks to edit and revise, 39 pages in total.
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Has there ever been a comic book that's been published by a university, or perhaps another literary publisher besides New York Review?
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No, shut the fuck up.
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Pantheon
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I just found one published by the University of Iowa. Maybe you shouldn't speak of things you don't know.
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Post an author and a song that perfectly matches them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIfIvDI2U1w
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>>9239382
>misfits TV casualty defining DFW
you are like a baby watch this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLRjFWDGs1g
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Reading the Valis trilogy about halfway through Divine Invasion and enjoying it. (I've read the novel collection and thsee are the final three).
Now I'm wondering if the Exegesis is worth getting, it's almost my birthday and gotta come up with a present my parents can give
Can someone give comparison of the trilogy and the exegesis.
Or just a description of it, is it readable? interesting relating to the novels?
I wouldn't mind having a view in his mind but if it's unreadable...
Or, nonenglish native so not sure if this or is correct, give your view on it.
Also: I don't mind doing some research to understand parts better I. E. Reading historical texts or other books.
Tl:dr;
How did you end up here?
Also: a quick rundown of the exegesis in a sales pitch.
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I havent read it yet but what kind of shitty parents do you have that a 10$ book is what you're hoping for.
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>>9239629
What's wrong with wanting books for your Bday?
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>>9239629
Hard cover it's 37 something euro.
Not shitty at all, they still want to give a present that I might/hopefully enjoy.
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Go to Amazon. Bring back gold. >100 Years of Solitude 2017-03-14 11:11:54 Post No.9239328
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Go to Amazon. Bring back gold. >100 Years of Solitude
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>>9239328
I hate deckled edges too.
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A book just arrived from Amazon and it has such edges. They're infuriating. I feel so bad touching the edge of the book while reading.
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>>9239335
I'm not a fan either, but she thought the paper was cutted badly [sic]
Fuck Bob Dylan, Milo isour guy
>https://genius.com/Milo-ought-implies-can-i-cannot-lyrics
All of his lyrics are /lit/ as can be.
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>>9239286
Tell me more.
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>>9239286
Shame he's a bit left wing nutjobby
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http://www.passionsjustlikemine.com/influence
Enough said
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Is there a book that you've found to be better in one edition than the other?
Maybe the cover appeals to you, or it's a hardback with a really good binding, or you really like the ones with the ribbon in the spine for a bookmark.
Maybe it has a different foreword from a different printing, or this one comes with annotations.
Or maybe you prefer separate volumes that you can carry in a pocket rather than an Omnibus.
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>>9239239
actually yes
i have the folio society edition of the sound and the fury
it's printed with the text in different colours for the different timeline fragments
apparently this is what faulkner wanted but printing technology wasn't up to it at the time
anyway it makes the book a lot more readable
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>>9239348
>£60.00 for colored words
This is retarded
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>>9239348
Are there cheap versions with this print?
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Has anyone read Styx his "Against Communism: A Tract Against an Absurd Ideology"
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1544654898
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>>9239138
I like his vids, but I don't think enough of him to want to read his book. Same with any other YouTube intellectuals.
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>>9239138
Someone needs to tell him that this blurb is terrible:
Communism is often mentioned even now long after the extinction of many regimes claiming the title; the Soviets, Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge, and many more. In retrospect, observing human history and biology, what can be said regarding this system? I here delve into my own judgment of the same; its weaknesses and failures, why its offshoots are almost as unreasonably bad, and the central problem with Marx and his own theories, why, specifically, he built a philosophical system so completely lacking in merit.
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>>9239154
I've bought two of his books. I like reading them because they are written by Styx but the writing itself is amateurish.
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what does /lit/ think?
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>>9239082
I liked it
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>>9239082
His dream-pixie boi books are inferior to this, his masterpiece.
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>>9239082
Not close to Murakami's best. It's his YA novel.
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Would you say Sam Harris is 'Star Trek TNG' and Jordan Peterson more 'Lord of the Rings'?
One is about secularism and rationality and slightly autistic, the other is obsessed with archetypes and good vs. Evil?
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>>9239019
I'd say both of them are pop-intellectuals who have profited off of a poor public education system in the western world.
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>>9239019
Sam is Twilight and Jordan is Harry Potter
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No, Harris is Gummo and Peterson is Tree of Life.
What is the meaning of the Grand Inquisitor?
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Jesus good, clergy bad.
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people are still asking this question?
>God creates dinosaurs
>God destroys dinosaurs
>God creates man
>man destroys God
>man creates dinosaurs
Think about it
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>>9240122
i fucking love you
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So I went to the library today just to pass the time and I was sitting there reading, minding my own business when this dodgy looking man comes up to me and asks if i know what time the library closes. I thought he genuinely wanted to know so I told him it closes at eight. But then he asks me if the book im reading is any good (Harry potter and the cursed child). Not wishing to engage in further conversation, i tell him yes and return to by book. Then he asks if the other harry potter books are good, and I say yes they are, trying to make myself quite clear that I wish to be alone, at which point he goes away.
I'm just surprised and slightly disturbed at the desperate measures guys will resort to with complete strangers just to get the attention of someone from the opposite sex. I'm not even remotely attractive, and if this happens again I intend to make myself quite clear and say that I just wish to read my book in peace.
It was just a bit pathetic and creepy really and it ruined my inner peace just a little bit. Not a lot, just a bit. I shouldnt have to endure that. And in a library too, of all places.
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>someone talked to me
>how dare they
unironically kill yourself
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If anyone in line towards our certain doom cares enough to shake the hand of the girl next to you and try to accomplish something more then a simple conversation, or worse no conversation at all. Please do so now.
Lets show this sexually starved woman with a immature and abhorrent taste in books the time of her life!
Baby is it six o'clock yet? because I would-like-to-have-sex!
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>>9238963
>woman reading YA trash
Please leave this board.
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What are some books about the British getting what they deserve? 2017-03-14 09:47:23 Post No.9238933
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What are some books about the British getting what they deserve?
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>>9238933
Read book about Revolutionary War
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>>9238978
kek
>dude, i think my wife is cheating on me, lmao
>dude, i think i might be a shitty poet, lmao
>dude, walking is a bitch, my feet hurt, i'm hungry, lmao
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>>9238809
Lol yeah this book is boring as fuck holy shit.
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>dude im a pleb lmao
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That sounds great, like having a friend.
I'm the shitty poet. Will someone let me fuck their wife?
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Does /lit/ take notes on books, use post-it notes or other tools to highlight certain passagens? I'm thinking of doing a careful analysis of a certain trilogy from a local writer and wondered how I could organize my reading. I've got a bunch of post-it notes from different sizes/colors/shapes and want to use them effectively. I also bought a small notebook to jot down a few of my thoughts about the novels. Are there any English majors here who have done in-depth analysis of books? How did you approach the work in question?
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Please respond.
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>>9238717
>2017
>read books
>mfw
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>>9238717
i usually mark the most interesting pages with semen
it's fairly counterproductive tho