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Books that are just an excuse for the author to showcase his knowledge.
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>>9112175
I don't get it.
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>>9112152
Most of them desu
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books like this?
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my diary desu
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>>9112126
Probably Stoner to be honest my family member.
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Nadja
Why do I still think about parts of Swann's Way about 3-8 times a day even though I read 3 books after I finished it?
>Inb4: you have autism
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Why the fuck are you talking about. Fuck off.
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>>9112078
But it makes me really sad
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What was the entertainment?
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>>9111938
solipsism
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>>9111938
The fact that you read the whole book and wasted your time is in and of itself the infinite jest.
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>>9111938
I like the detail.
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what are /lit/s thoughts on this short story? does it have any literary value?
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Yeah it does
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Let's talk about it
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>>9112057
I would prefer not to
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oh man!! soo many books have been stolen!! insanity http://www.theverge.com/2017/2/15/14592830/rare-books-stolen-2m-thieves-london
t sounds like something out of a Dan Brown novel: thieves cut open the skylights of a warehouse, rappelled into the building, and made off with nearly $2.5 million dollars of rare books. But the heist truly happened to a shipment of books destined for last weekend’s California International Antiquarian Book Fair.
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>>9111831
You write like you're on fucking 9gag. Even redditors write better than this. What is this excessive use of exclamation marks and lack of punctuation? Are you 10 years old?
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>>9111831
hopefully they scan + upload them all
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>>9111838
im almost 11 thanks.
ITT: post our best poetry
>scared
>i reach for the tissues
>but accidentally
>blow my load all over my face
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>>9111803
am i gonna make it /lit/?
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>>9111824
shoot
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>muh Dostoevsky is too boring
>muh Tolstoy is too long
>muh Joyce doesn't make sense
>lol Orwell was a genius
>"You only read those snobbish old-people books so that you could pretend to look smart and mature. Well news flash! You don't! If you were mature then you would read what you truly liked and wouldn't care what people think"
>*goes back to reading YA fiction*
What do /lit/?
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Tell her that Ulysses transcends the dichotomy of good and bad literature.
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>>9111785
Russian authors are shit, but the plot any one of Joyce's short stories is just as engaging to a young adult as they are to Herodotus Bloom.
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Nothing
Why would I give a shit what some dumbass thinks
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there are people on this board right now that think they can be true literary critics without reading pic related
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>>9111778
nah
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>>9111778
>literary criticism
Doesnt exist, taste is totally subjective.
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>>9111778
Have read, it was a good piece of fantasy literature. Especially the part with the talking snake, and the holy-zombie prophet.
:^)
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>go to second hand bookshop to get one (1) book
>come out with a dozen
>still didn't get the book you were looking for
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>>9111726
Every time, anon
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>>9111754
They had East of Eden and Madame Bovary in the fucking bargain bin for 50c each, how was I supposed to leave them?
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>>9111790
I picked up Jeff Vandermeer's Authority and McCarthy's The Road for $1 at my public library's bookstore. Went in looking for Philip K. Dick. I was pretty pleased though.
It's over /lit/ I've given up on writing my novel. I just don't want to do it anymore.
What are some novels about saying fuck everything and retreating into mediocrity
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>>9111705
how old are you? chances are you just need to read more and exist longer
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>>9111712
my 24th was three days ago
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Who else read Redwall in elementary school
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>>9111685
EULALIAAA!!!
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The Long Patrol.
And the one with the mouse named Nimbalo.
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>>9111685
Thinking of reading it to my 6 year old, so I dug it out of my mums attic. Turns out it was much, much denser than I remember.
This shit was what I was all about though.
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What should I read from Hume before reading The Critique of Pure Reason?
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His short most famous work
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>>9111665
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
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>>9111665
enquiry concerning human nature is more concise and clearer than treatise but treatise is more comprehensive. I'm actually reading critique of pure reason right now and refer back to hume frequently, so it's not like you'll be finished with him regardless. I'd also recommend at the very least the first twenty or so pages of prolegomena because kant really summarizes his project well including the whole synthetic/analytic distinctions.
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I have yet to see one person refute any argument presented in this book. THAT says something.
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Probably because most people haven't read or heard of that book.
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>>9111649
I am saying personally, after reading this book a little while ago and analyzing every argument, internet or out in the world, and every action, and everything, I have not found anything to contradict what this book conveys.
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Why should I start with the greeks? I really don't get it. Im a newfag tho, if that helps
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Western Civilization starts there.
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>>9113117
The Greeks did a lot of philosophy. Then no one did anything. Then during the Enlightenment, Europeans did a lot of philosophy, much of it referencing the earlier philosophy by the Greeks. Then in the modern era, everyone did a lot of philosophy, much of it building on the Europeans, who themselves built on the Greeks.
If you want to know what the fuck anyone is on about, you'll start with the Greeks.
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>>9113117
i want to violent-brutally-tormentely-force-queer-blacked-gayly rape this pricess white red probably slutty since 13 tit cow bitch