Wait, I was supposed to sympathize with Titus over Steerpike? What?
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Is there an edition of his Ethics for brainlets like me?
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>>9816214
Just read the wikipedia or sparknotes
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Is Ishmael, Queequeg, and Yojo gay?
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When you read, how much do you actually specifically remember?
I feel like I read so much that I never remember any specifics of stuff I've read, just the general idea and maybe some fun/particularly interesting moments
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>>9816164
Rote memorization is a thing my man. It works. Most people have to do things more than once, or think things more than once.
I remember important points, then go back and read again years later.
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>>9816187
Yeah, I suppose since I'm reading for pleasure I don't need to worry about whether or not I've memorized things, it just makes me feel like a brainlet.
Same thing happens to me if I read the newspaper, I'll read like 15 articles and wouldn't be able to tell you what most of them were about 5 minutes later
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Whats it like? Structure and whatnot.
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>>9815996
It's a creation story about two heroic brothers. It reads like any other myth: vague in places, lots of problems and monsters to overcome. It's mandatory if you're into Mesoamerican studies, it's not really fun otherwise.
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>>9816002
>not really fun otherwise
Awh :( I've been reading a lot of cradle stuff (Gilgamesh, Ba'al, Book of the Dead) and I tend to like stuff like that. Would you say this is drier or something?
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>>9816010
To me, it was just not relateable. It's a totally different tradition, and probably resembles what you may have found at Gobekli Tepe. Animal helpers, corners of the world associated with colors, and the brothers have almost an Orphic quality to them. If you liked Gilgamesh I think you'll be fascinated by similarities in the world-taming qualities of the brothers from all the way across the world.
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I know absolutely nothing about Christopher Moore - is he secret kino, or teenager trash?
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Flannery O'Connor thread 2017-07-28 02:20:05 Post No.9815718
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Well that escalated quickly.
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>>9815718
Can't believe this thread didn't take off. Oh well we need a good fight between Christposters, Muh On Women readers, and muh Flannery Waifu guys.
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Anybody got any good space horror recommendations? Books like Blindsight, Ship of Fools, or anything like Alien but in book form.
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Have you ever been fucked over by a library?
>Checked out a book from uni library
>Book was recently loaned to another library
>Loose pages and shitty binding
>Evidence that uni library didn't even bother to check the book after it was returned
>"It couldn't possibly get any worse, right?"
>It gets worse
>Book is so fragile that the hardcover rips along the fold from its own internal forces
>WTF
Fuck librarians, TBQH.
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If you have nothing to contribute, why make a thread?
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Gimme some good westerns. Can be traditional, contemporary, straight-faced, tinged with irony, post-irony, whatever. Just make me think about rock walls of orange and brown, pistols shooting every which and where and the miracle that is a little river of cool, cool water.
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Lonesome Dove (or really any McMurtry)
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>>9815643
BIG IRONNNNNNN BIG IRONNNNNNN
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my infinite Jest Book Review video 2017-07-28 01:43:21 Post No.9815585
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>>9815585
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dprR70HNOSk
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I miss a few years ago when we all unironically loved IJ, before we realized Bloom was right all along. I still love it, but it's kind of shit.
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>>9815621
that was when no one had actually read it yet
I think as a work it deserves some respect, and it is a one of a kind of thing, but by any measure of a significant work of literary art it falls short in every respect, which is all the worse for how annoying and ugly it is
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Care to add to this, /lit/?
What if they said itlewdly
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Is there anything better?
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it's the best but they never update it, i just torrented a yale course that was presented on coursera last night actually, fucked up my ratio on a private tracker with 1.8gig download that no one will ever download from me to get the ratio back, but it was worth it because yale shit is the best
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>>9815412
Actually going to Yale.
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>>9815221
Ernest Cline is probably Canadian that's all.
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this is beyond expected
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>Cuckdeau
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THHIS LOUSY MOTHERFUCKING COCKSUCKING BOOK.
Lads, it pissed me off something fierce. Somebody break this shit down because right now all I see is red.
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>>9815142
Did this book inspire the character arc of HAL?
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one of the best books ever written.
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How many pages it has?