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OP I need the template
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How's the book?
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How many books are within ten feet of you right now?
For myself, I tally something in the neighborhood of ~430 in the shelves or stacked on the desk of my own room.
Pictured is one of the places I idly purchase books from on a regular basis in my region.
They're relatively inexpensive, but they do keep track of scarcity of editions, so it can creep up depending on title, they also possess a titanic inventory.
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>>9762023
Thats a beautiful shop OP, you're lucky. I dig the natural light and iron heater especially.
My room is 10x10 soooo. There's probably ~350 books 'round me right now. No, you can't have a picture.
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>>9762023
wow what a quaint shop
now, witness the power of a real bookseller (pic rel.)
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>>9762048
where's the love :(
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What's the most important thing you've learned about women through reading?
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They seem sensitive about being punched
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>>9761959
1. Do not trust a woman's tears in matters of love or property. (Dostoyevsky).
2. Pledge yourself only to the noblest and most perfect of women. (Cervantes).
3. To consider lust a man's game is to leave yourself unguarded to wiles and trickery. (Nabokov).
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>>9761974
I don't get the last one
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pic related is a metaphor for grief/depression:
-a perpetual reminder of an untouchable, dead past
-the impossibility of a worryless, truly joyful moment
-the utter bankruptcy of anything approaching colour (in the metaphorical sense of the word)
Also, I was blown away by its prose:
>"In dreams his pale bride came to him out of a green and leafy canopy. Her nipples pipeclayed and her ribs painted white. She wore a dress of gauze and her dark hair was carried up in combs of ivory, combs of shell. Her smile, her downward eyes. In the morning it was snowing again. Beads of small grey ice strung along the light wires overhead."
Would I enjoy Blood Meridian?
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The Road is an anti-nihilistic work. Reading it as a downer betrays that you missed its point entirely.
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>>9761877
If you enjoyed the road you would enjoy blood meridian MUCH more, and would also enjoy all of mccarthy's works
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>>9761877
>Would I enjoy Blood Meridian?
Nah. I think the theme of regeneration by violence is not nearly as accessible as the loss and grief expressed in the road.
t. Fallout player
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Why do you read "difficult" literature? 2017-07-16 01:43:21 Post No.9761861
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Why do you read "difficult" literature?
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I am reading because reading more difficult material changes the structure of your mind. There are too many books in the world, which is why I agree with Harold Bloom that you should only read the very best.
Like when you're young and naive, you listen to adults talking and what they're saying doesn't make sense, so to does the mind that hasn't approached heavy literature process information. I read heavy literature, because I believe that when I read heavier literature, not only is it an accomplishment, but it also programs, wires my mind in a way that is conducive to processing more complex information.
This is the reason why I read these books, and also because I want the deepest, most spine chilling stories that I could possibly hope for. Your general tripe doesn't entertain me, and I, by nature, am always seeking deeper existential marvels. It's just the way I am wired, I am always seeking. This is why I read dense, classic, intimidating literature.
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>>9761861
It's make my brain hurt, and makes me smarter.
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>>9761866
>It's
Looks like your not so smart after all lmao
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fuck that question, the real meat is "what genius and difficult work should i read next?". such idle thoughts of why are absolutely useless. I crave difficult, complex, and massive maximalist novels with exceptional prose. i don't give a shit why, i just want more. i only have like, two dozen, i need more, fuck. fuck. give me more. give me all the ones you know of, you shithole. fuck.
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How did this novel predict the future so well?
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We don't 'ppreciate yo kind here.
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>>9761848
Taye Diggs sure has fallen...
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Fuck Trump though.
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Are there any characters in literature as mature as Griffith from Berserk?
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yeah
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He's not even as good as some Tolkien characters, and even less so than the greatest characters in literature like Leopold Bloom, Raskolnikov, Ivan Karamazov, Hamlet, Faust, Ulrich etc
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>>9761837
>Raskolnikov
>mature
He's a baby who kills someone evil and literally gets deathly ill over it and is suspicious as hell about it and yet nobody suspects him because they're all idiots.
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When did you all become such irritating cunts?
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>>9761808
Yesterday. Why? Fucktard.
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/v/ here, you guys are alright
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>>9761819
A sure sign that we're fucked.
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Alright who wants to do this. Shotgun Mr. Gibbs and my Vogel. How do we go about doing this. We need like 10 people.
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I dun wanna hear your 18yo voices
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>>9761826
I'm 31 years old
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>>9762198
same difference
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Best complete courses on youtube? 2017-07-16 01:09:37 Post No.9761771
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Best complete courses on youtube?
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I'm getting ready to read along with the yale course on Milton. Any other good /lit/ lecture series I can find for free?
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the great courses series also has a class on milton that you can torrent from anywhere
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>>9761774
Is that one better than John Rogers'?
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>>9761834
no, the Yale one is better because it's longer and has more focus on Paradise Lost, but still why not use it too
http://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/life-and-writings-of-john-milton.html
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i was abused as a child and will probably live with this black hole inside of me for the rest of my life rec me some books for this feel
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i had a happy childhood and my whole life is still a waste of time
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There's a place for perpetual victims and this isn't it.
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>>9761752
my diary desu
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If there is a "rhetoric of economics" can there be an "economics of rhetoric"?
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>>9761724
who cares
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>>9761753
scholars of rhetoric, something /lit/ has never seemed to show much interest in.
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>>9761724
sure why not
how much does an ascending tricolon cost?
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The Shadow of the Wind 2017-07-16 12:19:09 Post No.9761650
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what does /lit/ think of The Shadow of the Wind? I picked it up kind of randomly because it was cheap at a bookstore and the back said it was like Borges. I didn't really think it was that similar to Borges but I still enjoyed it. Apparently there are sequels which seems unnecessary, but are they worth reading?
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>>9761650
Is definitely not Borges but the cognitive and empirical dialectic that can be seen in the previews to this work highlight his ... I am joking I have no idea what this book is
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I read this in Spanish, I have an English copy lying around somewhere but I've never read the translation. It was good, not the best I've ever read but something that I'll remember reading. I think the prequel was pretty good, maybe give it a read, don't bother with the sequel.
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>>9761650
was that the book where he cucks his friend by fucking his sister or something of the sort? also i always found it weird how they treated the blind girl for not wanting to fuck a 13 year old and fucking someone her age instead, it read like some kind of twisted teenager revenge port.
if i remember right it was good, but "young fiction"-good, not "literature"-good. definitely not on the level of borges, just a random spanish best-seller
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>watch kids' cartoon
>the middle school/high school is putting on a production of Romeo and Juliet as the school play
>episode is about the main character having to kiss a girl on the lips
Did middle schools/high schools actually do this?
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>>9761607
Put on productions where characters kiss? Yes, all the time.
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>>9761607
Yea, that's how I got laid in 3rd grade.
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>>9761607
Not only does this happen regularly, but you get much more awkward circumstances that arise out of it:
-Having to kiss your ex
-Having to kiss your best friend's girlfriend
-Having to kiss someone you're totally repulsed by
All three of these happened to me in four years of high school theatre productions.
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I want to write a shit, poorly written book for tweens like Twilight and The Hunger Games.
What are the prerequisites for such a book?
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>>9761476
Mediocrity as a writer. You're well on your way, OP!
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Understand women so much that you are one.
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>>9761528
Not even women understand women.