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>>9085611
ruskiye svinye get ouf of Ukraine REEEEE Crimea is Ukraine, Abkhazia is Georgia

tvari nishasneye REEEEE ask putin how his mother is hahahaha and tell medvedev ya ivo mamu toze yibal

>>9085485
audio books?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4NlrDw2i4M

>>9085485
read before work, m8

>>9085485
Start reading short stories. Short and sweet, masterful writing. little commitment.

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>tfw started reading without subvocalization
>tfw this gave me a significant advantage in education and, subsequently, in life

>>9085452
But its in a different voice. Instead of me talking to you its
>what I expect you to think
The poster is adding they're own commentary

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>>9085459
>tfw use subvocalization when appropriate, such as when reading a dense textbook
>tfw use speedreading for news articles, 4chan shitposts, etc
>tfw I'm better than all of you

Lovecraft and comic books
Old pulp noir books too.

>>9085376
Reading for fun is what normalfags do. The only reason a true /lit/izen reads is to feel smug about it on an anime image board.

What's more likely, that someone spends hundreds of hours a year reading things they don't enjoy, and that we shape an enormous part of our lives for the very chance (though it's never actuated because you never meet people who read what you do) to impress people, or that we have fun reading the books we do?

It's a shitty book but this is /lit/ and all you have to do to convince us a book is worth money and praise is to tell us it's postmodern and has a high page count.

>>9085350
Is it supposed to be like infinite jest?

>>9085350
Don't forget it needs to have a nice book cover for /shelf/ threads.

Literature Thread

Literature in my opinion is one of the most underappreciated genres on the planet. When one who isn't very well acquainted with the genre thinks "literature" they think Shakespeare plays and the complex works the Greeks produced. Personally I think the concept of good writing is incredibly interesting subjects to read about.
Lets have a thread dedicated to literature as a genre and the geniuses who influenced it. (Homer, Cervantes, Shakespeare, Dante, ect)

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Redhook was lovecrafts best short story
king is a long winded hack
House on the Borderland is the best horror story of all time

>>9085417
wot

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Yes I'd like to solve

>>9085295
It's a comic book. You might argue for it being the best piece of art, but it is automatically not as good a piece of literature that uses words to do what Maus relies on pictures for.

>>9085309
It is depressing--but it forces you to come face to face with your own mortality.

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>>9085009
forgot to crop the bottom

also a template for the lazy

>>9084966
That's tough because samurai lived differently throughout history.
Book of Five Rings
Tale of the Heike

Just read the Hagakure

For Samurai during the Sengoku/Edo periods, try Shogun for fiction, and Everyday Life in Traditional Japan by Charles J. Dunn for information on their daily lives. (Along with many other citizens like doctors, farmers, etc)

Cleary's Soul of the Samurai, I guess a counterpart for that could also be of use to you.

read titus groan

now gtfo

>>9084955
Thanks for the suggestion. You don't like talking about fantasy books around here or what?

I used to read a lot of fantasy and science fiction before I got into literature, and Malazan is the only series I will ever revisit. Get passed the first book before giving up, it's absolute shit in comparison to the rest of the series. It's worth reading anon.

There's a containment thread for these questions, I suggest you find it. You won't get any real answers otherwise.

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>Enlightened Brow : Outsider Art

>God's Unibrow: Mystery Chimp

Lowbrow: Textual literature
Middle brow: Extratextual literature
Highbrow: Post-textual literature

I've read the Gutenberg Galaxy and understanding media, as well as a few of his essays. He is certainly one of the most original thinkers I've ever read, there's so many interesting thoughts and points throughout his work. His thoughts on electronic technology and its light speed were very much prescient if you just look around what the hell is happening at the moment.

>>9084961
I'm reading understanding media for the second time. It's one of those books that's a consecution of interesting and engaging ideas, like Becker's Denial of Death. I'm surprised /lit/ is not discussing him more.

>>9085023
Each chapter of understanding media has something in it that makes you put the book down and think about it for a while, I think a second read through you will get a lot more out of it because I found I didn't really fully grasp mcluhan's style and his metaphors until i got towards the end of my first read.

Mick Foley desu senpai

>>9084890
my diary to be honest famalam

It's like having an erection, but it's in your head. So you might want to try sucking some cocks.

>>9084888
My diary tbqh

El Tunnel by Ernesto Sabato

>Does /lit/ like crypto-semitic purveyors of anti-white religious thought wrapped in the pseudo-secular garments of liberalism and the Enlightenment?
No.

>>9084894
>crypto-semitic
How?

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>>9084894