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>aks pret eart amb ea rr as drt a "mars" asdf
>ad rto a gine a o faor ptaoro earo.

Eartore epaor etroa vffage glrot arptoa vnaske siastre strfd vdasak peost altdgass bgaset sgta steas. Isa dgeao isa ratas? asOk asdot Wean! adsn goeat eperin arnr "earth". ePreo engi anglae gneati atrng aptrio anbioame.

>2017
>adiatn dait great america

Aoriar mofarr raf gfjaf

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This legitimately has one of the best climaxes in fiction.

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You have two seconds to explain why rent speculations has not killed the middle class.

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Can you recommend me some misanthropic books, books about human tragedy banality etc...
Not talking about kafka, camus, dostoevsky etc, i'm talking about just books writen by certain authors that depict human idiocy.
Names like Louis-Ferdinand Céline come to mind, can you recommend some books thx ?


>inb4 edgy

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Holy fucking shit!
This book went from masterpiece to utter shit in the span of one chapter. How can an Israeli kike have such SJW bias and how did his editor let him get away with it. He literally proposes a biological justification to why patriarchy came to dominate and then literally says "but this isn't convincing, women can do it better." and then spends 20 pages telling the reader about his OPINIONS about why matriarchy makes more sense.

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Is this a good book?

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who in the everloving fuck thought this was a good book cover

also gaddis general i guess

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Yes yes well done, Slytherin, well done Slytherin, HOWEVER - there are some last minute issues we need to take into account.well, actually there's only one issue, and that's that Slytherin house is a part of one of the dullest franchises in the history of movie franchises. Seriously each episode following the boy wizard and his pals from Hogwarts Academy as they fight assorted villains has been indistinguishable from the others. Aside from the gloomy imagery, the series’ only consistency has been its lack of excitement and ineffective use of special effects, all to make magic unmagical, to make action seem inert.

Perhaps the die was cast when Rowling vetoed the idea of Spielberg directing the series; she made sure the series would never be mistaken for a work of art that meant anything to anybody?just ridiculously profitable cross-promotion for her books. The Harry Potter series might be anti-Christian (or not), but it’s certainly the anti-James Bond series in its refusal of wonder, beauty and excitement. No one wants to face that fact. Now, thankfully, they no longer have to.

>a-at least the books were good though
"No!"
The writing is dreadful; the book was terrible. As I read, I noticed that every time a character went for a walk, the author wrote instead that the character "stretched his legs."

I began marking on the back of an envelope every time that phrase was repeated. I stopped only after I had marked the envelope several dozen times. I was incredulous. Rowling's mind is so governed by cliches and dead metaphors that she has no other style of writing. Later I read a lavish, loving review of Harry Potter by the same Stephen King. He wrote something to the effect of, "If these kids are reading Harry Potter at 11 or 12, then when they get older they will go on to read Stephen King." And he was quite right. He was not being ironic. When you read "Harry Potter" you are, in fact, trained to read Stephen King.

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Any of this stack worth buying?

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>tfw too many books to read

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Are there any books on African colonialism that aren't pozzed?

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what's the best source for an imbecile to learn about poetic meter, rhyme scheme and the like?

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"You may be unconquerable, if you enter into no combat in which it is not in your own control to conquer. When, therefore, you see anyone eminent in honors, or power, or in high esteem on any other account, take heed not to be hurried away with the appearance, and to pronounce him happy; for, if the essence of good consists in things in our own control, there will be no room for envy or emulation. But, for your part, don't wish to be a general, or a senator, or a consul, but to be free; and the only way to this is a contempt of things not in our own control."
-Epictetus

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Hi /lit/.
Title says it all: what do you usually drink while reading or writing? what are you drinking right now?
Im drinking some Spanish beer while reading Schopenhauer.

Cheers!

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What's a good place to move to and delve into the literary life?
Somewhat like Paris or Switzerland used to be