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what's some required reading in high school that you actually appreciated then?
also required reading that you're still convinced is not worth reading
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Gatsby, for sure. I honestly couldn't put it down after reading the first page. Even though it's pretty short, I only think half of my class actually read it at all. Such a shame.
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THE SUN ALSO RISES
Catcher in the Rye
Moby Dick
Shakespeare tragedies
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>>10030038
The only patrician selections are Beowulf, and Shakespeare.
>Hunger Games
>Khaled Hosseini
>winter is coming
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Post your favorite novel of all time
pls no bulleh
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>>10028653
I'm not sure what my favorite novel of all-time is but I really liked that book also and I'm fully aware Murakami isn't popular on here.
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Love this book. Read it as a kid so its nostalgic.
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Why are French books always so unbearably long? Haven't they heard that brevity is wit?
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>>10028128
>unbearably
pleb
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read Echenoz, he's postmodern like Pynchon and 1/10 lenght
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>>10028128
Rameau's Nephew, Candide, Adolphe, The Stranger, Southern Mail....
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Is he a predator?
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>>10027683
Why should he be?
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>>10027683
Writes from the perspective of teenage girls so definitely.
not srs
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>>10027683
He certainly looks like one.
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How do I cope with being a pleb? 2017-09-15 05:16:25 Post No.10027369
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How do I cope with being a pleb?
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I don't know how I should be feeling about this. I don't know if I should be ashamed of myself (as I often am), or if I should be thrilled about being this excited about something. I've read a couple of books in my life but never before I was actually seduced by a book. You probably know the feeling when you read non-stop and you can't wait to know what's going to happen next. Although I could sense and appreciate the vision of many classic authors, I never felt motivated to continue reading their books. However, something strange happened yesterday. I heard about how Hollywood was making a film based on The Room, telling the behind-the-scenes story of that trainwreck. Later I discovered that this movie was based on the book "The Disaster Artist" and, since I was curious about how the mind of someone like Wiseau works, I decided to give it a shot. And I'm glad I did. I didn't even want to sleep because I was so hooked on this damn thing, and I know I must sound like some kind of shill but I really was. The book is nothing special, it has no special literary merit or anything, but I just thought it was so funny that I couldn't put it away. I feel like the biggest pleb in the world, I even feel beneath the readers of GRRM and other fantasy crap, but I just can't lie that I felt more engaged by some stupid book about some model-looking white guy enjoying all the priviledge of being white and beautiful with his very peculiar and rich friend than with the biggest classics of literature.
Does this mean that I'm a pleb or I should just read more? Maybe I should look for different kinds of books? This is a very strange feeling, familia.
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>>10027369
you fucking moron. You absolute fucking idiot
read whatever you like, it doesn't matter what some virgins on an image board think about your taste
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>>10027380
I don't care about morons, or virgins even. The thing is, I'm actually intrigued about this. You have to understand that I'm a very contemplative person; I enjoy challenging films and in-depht discussions about Kant's transcendental aesthethics and Habermas' theory of communicative action. I take pride of the identity that I created for myself, but now I think it was all a lie all along. I feel strange, and I think I'm in my right to feel this way.
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I've had the same experience OP. I read so much for the pseud cred that when I come across a book I really like it becomes shocking to me and I suspect the book may be bad because of it.
How can a book be good if it doesn't have purple prosed moralistic monologues or lolsorandumb post modern style kookiness? I can barely believe it
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> Bugs... easy on the carrots
Re-write this sentence in the style of a poet you like.
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(on the carrots); bugs
,easy
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Carrots, Bugs
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>>10026891
Bugs!
Easy on those those phallic carrots
you patriarchal shitlord
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>there's no QTDDTOT in /lit/
Huh. Welp, I guess I'm creating one.
I only read books ocassionally, can you guys recommend me a fun, inspiring book to carry me through the college finals? Fiction or non-fiction, whichever is fine. Basically I'll be studying and reading, my other hobbies are turning me into a brainlet. Thanks.
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>>10026580
Are you religious?
What are you studying?
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>>10026590
I'm in Law School, I'm not religious.
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>>10026686
En Route
Brideshead Revisited
Shadow of the Torturer
Lord of the Rings
Divine Comedy
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What are some Twin Peaks-esque books?
Nothing can let me down more than season 3 did.
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The Crying of Lot 49, The Third Policeman, and unironically pic related
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Murakami's Wild Sheep Hunt and Dance, Dance, Dance
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>>10026248
If season 3 let you down, you never liked the series for the intended reasons anyway.
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Worst book you've ever finished?
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The Martian was decent light reading.
I don't really have an answer, though, since I just don't finish books if I don't like them. I'm not an English major, so no one is forcing me to read. If I'm not getting anything from a book, why continue with it?
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Trash
>tfw reading Ullyses in spanish and this will trigger lit autism
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got em
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hay alguna editorial que haya sacado una traduccion fiable al español?
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>>10031813
Of all the books to read translated. that ain't one my little frogposter
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How come I have never seen /lit/ discuss this modern masterpiece? It succeeds in subverting the norms and expectations of the novel in ways unseen since Joyce's later works.
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fuck off winston
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It's really mediocre, or so I've heard.
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>>10031689
It's actually very good indeed. Give it a chance, you won't regret it.
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I just wanted to say that I love you all. I think you have to be a special person to end up at a place like this. Get your life in order, you deserve it.
Anyway, who's your favorite philosopher and why?
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>favorite philosopher
Nobody else takes the flower question seriously
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>>10031581
>the flower question seriously
PB Shelley was a better philosopher than him. Try trying.
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>you deserve it
xd
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Weeew use gizoogle to gangster translate literature 2017-09-16 04:21:22 Post No.10031497
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Snow-Balls have flown they Arcs, starr'd tha Sidez of Outbuildings, az of Cousins, carried Hats away tha fuck into tha brisk Wind off Delaware,-- tha Sledz is brought up in n' they Runners carefully dried n' greased, Nikes deposited up in tha back Hall, a stocking'd-foot Descent made upon tha pimped out Kitchen, up in a purposeful Dither since Morning, punctuated by tha ringin Lidz of Boilaz n' Stewing-Pots, fragrant wit Pie-Spices, peel'd Fruits, Suet, heated Sugar,-- tha Children, havin all upon tha Fly, among rhythmic slapz of Batta n' Spoon, coax'd n' jacked what tha fuck they might, proceed, as upon each afternoon all dis snowy December, ta a cold-ass lil laid back Room all up in tha rear of tha House, muthafuckin years since given over ta they carefree Assaults."
-- first sentence of Mason & Dixon
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>>10031497
Nikes deposited up in the back hall
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STATELY, PLUMP BUCK MULLIGAN CAME FROM THE STAIRHEAD, bearin a funky-ass bowl of lather on which a mirror n' a razor lay crossed. Y'all KNOW dat shit, muthafucka! A yellow dressinggown, ungirdled, was sustained gently behind his ass by tha mild mornin air yo. Dude held tha bowl aloft n' intoned: --INTROIBO AD ALTARE DEI yo. Halted, he peered down tha dark windin stairs n' called up coarsely: --Come up, Kinch! Come up, you fearful jesuit son! Solemnly his schmoooove ass came forward n' mounted tha round gunrest yo. Dude faced bout n' pimped gravely thrice tha tower, tha surroundin land n' tha awakin mountains. Then, catchin sight of Stephen Dedalus, his thugged-out lil' punk-ass bent towardz his ass n' made rapid crosses up in tha air, gurglin up in his cold-ass throat n' bobbin his head. Y'all KNOW dat shit, muthafucka! Stephen Dedalus, displeased n' chilly, leaned his thugged-out arms on tha top of tha staircase n' looked coldly all up in tha bobbin gurglin grill dat pimped him, equine up in its length, n' all up in tha light untonsured hair, grained n' hued like pale oak.
HOLY FUCK
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screamin comes across tha sky. Well shiiiit, it has happened before yo, but there aint a god damn thang ta compare it ta now, nahmeean?
It be too late. Da Evacuation still proceedz yo, but itz all theatre. There is no lights inside tha cars. No light anywhere, so peek-a-boo, clear tha way, I be comin' thru fo'sho fo' realz. Above his ass lift girdaz oldschool as a iron biatch, n' glass somewhere far above dat would let tha light of dizzle all up in cause I gots dem finger-lickin' chickens wit tha siz-auce. But itz night. Dat punk afraid of tha way tha glass will fall--soon--it is ghon be a spectacle: tha fall of a cold-ass lil crystal palace. But comin down up in total blackout, without one glint of light, only pimped out invisible crashing.
Inside tha carriage, which is built on nuff muthafuckin levels, da perved-out muthafucka sits up in velveteen darkness, wit not a god damn thang ta smoke, feelin metal nearer n' farther rub n' connect, steam escapin up in puffs, a vibration up in tha carriagez frame, a poising, a uneasiness, all tha others pressed up in around, feeble ones, second sheep, all outta luck n' time: fadeds, oldschool veterans still up in shock from ordnizzle 20 muthafuckin years obsolete, hustlaz up in hood clothes, derelicts, exhausted dem hoes wit mo' lil pimps than it seems could belong ta mah playas, stacked bout among tha rest of tha thangs ta be carried up ta salvation. I aint talkin' bout chicken n' gravy biatch. Only tha nearer faces is visible at all, n' at dat only as half-silvered images up in a view finder, green-stained VIP faces remembered behind cap-proof windows speedin all up in tha hood.
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does you move around in the universe or does the universe move around you?
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Nothing moves
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Did you guys know that logic is biracial?
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Everything flows.
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Anyone have this edition? Does it have notes?
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>>10031284
No. If you want notes, go for the Norton Critical or get an old copy of the Bobbs-Merrill edition, which is the best edition of Moby Dick ever published.
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I have this edition.
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>>10031284
das a smug whal