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>you'll never read Infinite Jest for the first time again
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>>9820147
So far it's dude weed lmao the book
When does it get good I'm 250 pages in
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>you'll never read Infinite Jest for the first time
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>>9820147
I haven't read IJ yet. Been shitposting on /lit/ for a year at least, never picked it up because it's a meme. Is it actually decent?
Damn I think I have to pick it up. Sounds like it might have some effervescent single-shot gimmicks.
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Why shouldn't a person who has been wronged by members of a group of people enact revenge on all members of that group?
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For they know not what they do.
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>>9820108
It's really easy to take that logic to its idiotic extreme. Every person belongs to a common group, that of people, including the person seeking revenge. Where is the line drawn?
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>>9820129
Wherever you decide.
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Is there any notable literature by a black author that doesn't have to do with race?
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Amos Tutuola, Alexander Pushkin, Machado de Assis, etc.
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>>9820023
Giovanni's Room
Sci-fi Black Lady's stuff
Dhalgren and Denaly's other stuff
Famished Road
Invisible Man uses race as an existential narrative device, if you count that
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Which option should I choose?
>Reading heretics and chapterhouse and dealing with the cliffhanger
>Same, but reading hunters and sandworms afterwards, dealing with Brian's shitty writing
>Not reading heretics and chapterhouse
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>>9819995
1 or 3, 1 preferably. The quality dropoff is massive.
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this chart is so pseud-y and useless
it literally boils down to >if you enjoy it keep reading
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>>9819995
personally, i loved heretics of dune. i've reread that one 3-4 times. god emperor is always a challenge because it is so different from what has come before.
strongly recommend against any of the brian herbert/kevin j anderson crap
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Thoughts on this poem I wrote?
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>>9819988
Dupi Kaur?
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Holy shit this guy is such a hack. Enough of the over exposition and self-inserts. Foundation series 3/10, certified hack.
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them sideburns tho
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>>9819975
Agreed. Not literature.
Fun example of Platonic-despotism making its way into pop culture
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>>9819975
shit got me into reading back in highschool, way before i cared extraneous things like 'good writing'
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Do Russians like their great authors for the same reasons they're admired abroad?
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>>9819959
>Russians
>"like"
>an expression of positive emotion
The answer is no
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Do modern day Russians even read?
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>>9819980
In Svetlana Alexeivich's Secondhand Time, she tells over and over about the first thing people selling after the collapse of the USSR is their books. But yes, they have a huge culture of reading.
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What are some good books about laissez-faire capitalism ?
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the book of mormon
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>>9819931
i assume you are trolling but pls enlighten me.
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>>9819919
>reading fiction
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>4.3/5 on goodreads
>4.6/5 on amazon
>12.5 thousand customer reviews
>universally despised on /lit/
How do you people, who so pride yourselves on your supposedly refined palettes, defend your abysmally shitty taste?
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So it's like the Wal-Mart of literature?
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0/10 bait
Saged
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>>9819907
i have no idea what that is, I dont read genre trash
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What does /lit/ think of this work? Does he have any good points or is it just the raving lunacy of someone mentally unstable?
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He is one of the greatest thinkers of the modern era, if not the sole beacon of hope for humanity.
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I can't really disagree that society would be better off without the dehumanizing nature of technology but like... I like my computer.
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>>9819842
techno stuff bad, Luddite good
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ITT: fictional characters that you strive to emulate.
For me, it's Demian from Hermann Hesse's "Demian."
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so basically you aspire to be a lonely personality-deprived creep with vague religious/philosophical beliefs that are actually very contrived and lame by today's standards?
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>putting "the masterpiece" on your own cover
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what happens if we never send children to school?
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>>9819837
apprentice and business based guild systems immediately fall into place.
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>>9819837
They learn what they need to know and not what some bureaucrats decide what they want them to know.
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>tfw you weren't born into a life of violence, meaning and sexual degeneracy in the Amazon
>tfw you learned how to count
>tfw you learned how to read
>tfw you live in a society of more than 500 people with oppressive property rights
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>Looking back now, I can of course see that what happened to me wasn’t right, even if I was literally asking for it. I was a victim of sexual abuse. However, I want to make this perfectly clear. The whole thing takes up less space in my head than the time David Bowie called me out on a shitty Louis Vuitton knockoff. I responded by throwing up in his sink, but I’ve never bought a knockoff bag again.
Why was Milo at David Bowie's house?
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>>9819829
Does anyone have a digital copy of this. I wanna read it for memes but don't wanna spend money on it.
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He probably name-dropped him to seem cool.
What does /lit/ think of Milo? I think his whole 'le ebin flamboyant provocateur XD' act is pretty tiresome
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It really is fascinating to me that Milo literally doesn't exist anymore.
He went from some fagtron being everywhere in the media, to being a nobody.
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It's Okay to read Books by Despicable People
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I've been seeing all sorts of virtue signalling BS on the forum today.
>Steven King is a pedophile
>William Burroughs killed his wife
>the usual "But what about the Gulags"!
>the usual "But what about the Gas Chambers!"
>Bluepill/Redpill
>Nietzsche inspired the Nazis
>Tao Lin raped someone
etc etc etc
Guys, its perfectly fine to read a book written by someone who's life didn't meet the highest moral standards. The point of reading a book shouldn't be to do a posthumous psychoanalysis and indict the author on moral crimes and failures. You can totally do this, but it shouldn't determine what you do and don't read.
Read what your interested in! It's safe and okay to read about morally reprehensible behavior and actions. If you read some William Burroughs, you are reading a book, not engaging in murder, drug use or gay sex. His actions aren't contagious! His behavior will not degrade your soul/mind/whatever.
Of course there is always the "Learn from them, Don't make the same mistakes" attitude but this isn't even required really. It's also okay to read something and learn absolutely nothing. In fact, it's probably a better idea from some sense of 'mental training' to occasionally pick up texts which are totally incomprehensible. Ever try to read an auto manual? Ever try to read a piece of legislation? Ever try to read some autistic fan fic or deranged suicide note?
Reading is not a moral activity. We do not need to use reading to signal to others whether we are moral or immoral.
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Woah damn how'd u think of that.......... .....
Really fingered my ringer
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really primed my pineal gland
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yes kids. drugs are bad. i recommend some chicken soup for the spooks.
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is ataraxia the final goal of philosophy?
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Don't be quitetist lads
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>>9819780
no, revolution is.
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>>9819780
No. Ataraxia is the final goal of a state for its citizens. It is not the pinnacle of human experience, merely man's ability (through praxis) to moderate himself.