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I've heard it's good, but people are idiots.

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That's it. I just can't read this book. I read 'The Name of the Rose' and 'The Prague Cemetery' and thoroughly loved them, specially the former.

But Foucault's Pendulum makes me want to rip my ballsack open and watch as my testicles roll down the stairs. I've read almost exactly half of the book and I'm seriously thinking about dropping it. Does it get any better?

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What does it really mean to "Find your own meaning in life"? It's a commonly repeated phrase, but few people go into detail about what it means. Sure, there's the obvious interpretation that a person should do what they love regardless of societal expectations, but there must be more depth to the idea than that. For instance, you might be able to attach a feeling of universal importance to things most people deem trivial, and model your whole world-view around that. Thus, by adjusting your values to match with your current life, you can ensure a basic sense of fulfillment at all times simply by adhering to whatever you choose.

What do you make of it?

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I'm not as sad as Dostoevsky,
I'm not as clever as Mark Twain,
I'll only buy a book for the way it looks,
And then I stick it on the shelf again.

What did he mean by this?

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care to fetch me a proper ebook version of pic related, /lit/?

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DUDE RITUAL SUICIDE LMFAO

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Let's see 'em.

I'll start

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No spoilers please lol. I want to read Moby Dick soon. I want to know what to read before hand to understand it.

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Why do we hate self-insert fanfics when the biggest self-insert fanfic in history is a world's classic?
Is Utopia by Thomas Morus and others.

And Paradise Lost is just than classical bad boy fanfic. Why we hate the newer ones and love the old ones?
We need to stop.

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>lack of enthusiasm for postmodernism justifies a return to modernism
>the purpose of literature is to provoke thought and expand our worldview
>death of the author is justified by psychoanalysis
>the best reading of a text is one that speaks to social issues
>positivism couldn’t possibly have any consequences
>radical politics are a good idea
>higher education is a scam
>there is no canon

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Can you guys recommend me some books with detailed description of war, art of warfare, army manouvers, descriptive battles, military organizations and so on in a sci-fi, fantasy or a fiction setting (maybe something like Malazan Book of the Fallen series). Maybe also throw some good Non-fiction and historical books in there. Thanks!

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I a lot of us are in our 20's, and understandably our main /lit/ focus is to consume as much good literature as we possibly can.

I am as guilty of this as anyone, but i do realize that upon first read a book is so foreign to us that it's impossible to fully "grasp" the work. We get exponentially more out of a reread.

I read around 40 novels a year, and that's already too slow a pace to ever finish everything i'd like to read in my lifetime. But I think maybe there would be value to spending 3-5 of my yearly quota rereading my favorite and highest rated books from the past.

Is that too many? Too few? Does anybody here reread? Is it worth it>?

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I am a little embarrassed to post this thread, and I am not sure if anyone on this thread can help or has experience with this type of thing, but its worth a shot.

Awhile back I started having a curiosity for erotica literature and more recently have had strong desires to start reading mythical beast erotica. I don't even know where to start, but I know this feeling is not going to go away.

Has anyone on this board every dabbled into the erotica involving any sort of mythical beasts? and if so are you able to recommend any titles? So far I have found a couple on Amazon, but none of them have been that spectacular.

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What albums/pieces suit which books? I am reading The Illiad and I was thinking that some kind of Greek symphonies would probably good for it, any recs?

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Post modernism is the best thing that happen to literature, desu