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Request for mobster/mafia readings 2017-08-03 02:30:10 Post No.9843816
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2017-08-03 02:30:10
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So, /lit/, im a huge fan of mob films and games, but i've never read any book of this type.
Could u guys reccomend any books set in the 60's or 40's? If its mob related, that would be awesome.
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So, /lit/, im a huge fan of mob films and games, but i've never read any book of this type.
Could u guys reccomend any books set in the 60's or 40's? If its mob related, that would be awesome.
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shit im retarded. tried to do a new post...
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Hey, /lit/. I'd like to discover more science fiction but something less cyberpunk and something more clean and pristine in aesthetics. Not necessarily a clean-cut, middle of the road novel, but something that's aesthetically pleasing (like Mirror's Edge for example, I know it's a poor example because it's vidya and not literature, but that's the sort of pristine aesthetic I mean).
Which books do you think would fall into this category? Most of the sci-fi I've come across is dirty, grubby, etc.
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Zamyatin's We takes place in a city of glass basically
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Brave New World
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>>9843809
Starship Troopers or Hyperion
The first is more a novel of ideas.
The later is more like a novel, with sequels and all
I just finished "The world according to Garp". It was entertaining. I think Irving tried to portray the absurdity of life and to tell a story that is nice to read and feels as real as possible.
Of course it is no high class literature.
What do you think about it?
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I'm often told I have a very pleasent voice, I find it fun to read aswell.
Should I start doing audiobooks and are there any recommended books to start with?
It sounds like fun, allot of work aswell.
But I think it will bear its fruits.
Do the people of /Lit/ ever listen to Audio books?
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>/Lit/
Only highly stylized retellings ala
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CZZo_y3TB8
or non-fiction on long car rides or during workouts.
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>Only one enemy remained; two if you counted the sun.
WOW
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>that part about the dog
fuck.
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If only someone would've made him pancakes.
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/ñ/ Hilo general de literatura en español 2017-08-03 01:24:30 Post No.9843614
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/ñ/ Hilo general de literatura en español
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2017-08-03 01:24:30
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Didn't see the /ñ/ thread, so I created it. Get in here, bardajes.
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Dross...
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La verdad que las threads en español son mil veces mejores que todas las demás threads juntas.
Simplemente para romper el hieloy para tener (you)scuales son sus cuentos favoritos en español?
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Recomiendenme colecciones de cuentoscontemporáneos
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Can anyone assist me on some "best of" Russian translations? Looking for the best of Quiet Flows the Don, a collection of Chekhov, maybe Gogol (although my research so far seems to be nothing but famine), and Brothers Karamazov. Also, why is the literary media so pro P&V but the culture here is so anti P&V? inb4 leftist media
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Is there a more redpilled book?
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Anything by john rawls
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my diary desu
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>Halt, citizen! Recite a poem at least ten pages long or receive ten years in Her Majesty's Royal Prison!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIGml1G6-fE
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>>9843399
Yes sir!
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This edition any good? 2017-08-03 11:39:22 Post No.9843343
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I read the penguin modern classics edition of the castle and it was fine. idk if this is same translator though
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Do you people read stuff like Mothers Horse Eye or the SCP Foundation?
Btw, I know is from Reddit the first, so shut up, I dont care, this is a honest question
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not really no
SCP was originally an /x/ project but got overrun
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no, but it's on my to read list.
It seems a bit edgy, but I'm honestly impressed by how it was executed- it's a really excellent example of how modern technology can be used to enhance and transform the experience of a medium. Instead of just a book, the writer(s?) used a social website to create a somewhat interactive event that, y'know. Made it MORE than just a story. Regardless of how good the story actually is, it's still really interesting because of that alone.
Anyway, is there a collection of it, so I can just read it all in one go, instead of going down some reddit list?
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Idk, I have watched a video about it (the Down the Rabbit Hole from the user Fredik Knudsen) and I curious if is so good as people paint it. It would be cool to see, and yea, is truly interesting the was new tech and authorship can mix and make some amazing effects.
Did /lit/ knows Roverandom?
This novel is really beautiful
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Abstract machines of faciality 2017-08-03 10:59:12 Post No.9843259
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Abstract machines of faciality
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2017-08-03 10:59:12
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Can someone please explain to me Deleuze and Guattari's concept of "Abstract machines of Faciality" touched upon in A Thousand Plateaus?
I am reading an essay at the moment that mentions this concept in passing.
>Deleuze and Guattari have proposed an "abstract machine of faciality" that balances the signifiers (white wall) of the human face with its subjectivity (black hole). They assert that the 'face has a great future, but only if it is destroyed, dismanted,' and that faciality is ultimately a matter if the "body without organs, animated by various intensive movements" across a "face-landscape."
What the hell does that even mean?
Also while we are on the topic of these two fellas, does anybody know a good secondary work explaining the basic foundations of their philosophy? I intend to read work authored by them eventually but at the moment almost anything I've read of their's passes way over my head.
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>>9843259
They're just pranksters man, don't take this shit so seriously
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*theirs'
apparently this idea was meant to expand on something Artaud wrote:
>"The body is the body/it is all by itself/and has no need of organs..."
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Essential works on American Exceptionalism?
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The Politics of Heroin
A Peoples History of the United States
Killing Hope
Dirty Wars
Kill Chain
Dark Money
Shadow Wars
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Manufacturing Consent
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>>9843246
Guns germs and steel is super redpilled
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make a top 10 and get recommendations
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2017-08-03 09:26:20
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let's do this anons: name your top 10 books and recommend/get recommendations according to the lists, i'll start:
1. beckett - trilogy
2. bulgakov - master and margarita
3. bely - petersburg
4. bernhard - wittgenstein's Nephew
5. marquez - one Hundred Years of Solitude
6. dosto - demons
7. camus - the plague
8. kafka - metamorphosis
9. hesse - the glass bead game
10. pinecone - tcol49
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btw, what's up with deleting the bugs meme