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There's been a discovery over at /pol/. You guys are better readers than us so we need your help 2017-07-15 01:31:44 Post No.9759289
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There's been a discovery over at /pol/. You guys are better readers than us so we need your help
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There's a book called "Baron Trump's Marvelous Underground Journey", and it alludes to some scary coincidences in our modern day. The author, Ingersoll Lockwood, also wrote a book called "The Last President", which is even freakier.
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>>9759289
WHAT THE FUCK
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schizophrenia is one hell of a drug
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I think the book was written about Barron's grandfather, like how Alice's adventures in wonderland were written about a real girl. Basically Barron is his own grandfather is what I'm saying.
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Literary titles with palace intrigue?
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>>9759204
>tfw I want to read that book in its original language
>doesn't fucking exist
why is Sweden so bad
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>>9759527
go to the library
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>>9759544
the library is for bums
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ITT: We pretend to be pseuds 2017-07-15 12:55:09 Post No.9759180
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Ah yes, 1984. This is my favourite book, I have read it over 5 times. It is a most thrilling rebuff of communism. It really strikes a chord with me through its terrible description of socialist slavery. Orwell is truly the greatest writer to ever have lived.
I can't stay and chat for long, I've just started reading Animal Farm, his second great masterpiece. After that I plan on reading "Homage to Catalonia" by Orwell, detailing his brave struggle in that terrible war, the Spanish Civil War starting in 1936. Other authors just aren't up to the standard of George I am afraid.
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if only i had bothered to pay enough attention to the peterson threads to accurately satirise them
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>>9759180
>pretend
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>>9759183
Ah Peterson, yes he is the modern Aristotle. What a great speaker. I was really taken by his thoughts on cleaning your room, a revolutionary proposition (yes I use "big words", owing to my wide vocabulary from the vast amount of reading I do). Unfortunately pseuds like yourself will never truly understand his teachings, being intellectual lightweights who have not even read Orwell.
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>Environment, genetics and events make us react
>We have no free will to act, just to react to whatever surrounds us does, with that in turn being a reaction to something else ad infinitum
>Determinism is real, free will isn't
Is suicide the only reasonable act of free will to break to cycle or even that is a reaction to the cycle? What's the point?
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>>9759151
Just enjoy the ride and die afterwards
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>>9759167
Is that literally all we can do?
Can't I become Emperor of Europe unless that was fated to be so?
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Bump, I guess.
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WOAH
WE ARE TRULY AND UNEQUIVOCALLY FUCKED MY DUDE
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This must be the fourth Orwell thread in the catalogue
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What I took away from it and from his other book "keep the aspidistras flying" is that the libidinal economy supersedes the political economy.
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>>9759117
What can you say, the kids love Orwell. We could put out 1984 action figures, maps, coloring books and maybe an expanded universe anthology.
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I'm new to reading, what are some books like dark souls
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The Iliad - Homer
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>>9758661
As if a Dark Souls fan would understand one page of the Iliad.
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>>9758655
>coming straight off vidya to reading
I dunno, go to the children's section of your local bookstore and go for your life
Either that or come back in 20 years when you've actually mentally matured into an adult
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Looking for a dense and academic book on the entirety of US history(perhaps not all the way up to modern day, but whatever you know what I mean).
As a non-American i've become really interested in American history, especially when I hear about things like the Whiskey Rebellion for the first time and I've now finished the Federalist papers.
What is the best book on American history? When I try to search for it 98% of all the answers are "A People's History of the United States", which is obviously not the kind of book i'm looking for.
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If you read German, then Karlheinz Deschner's Moloch. PDFs somewhere online.
Also, Bryce's American Commonwealth.
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No, I don't read German. Only Swedish and English(although I prefer to read in English)
>Also, Bryce's American Commonwealth.
Thanks the American Commonwealth looks really good. Exactly what I was looking for, gonna read up on some reviews.
although...
>1711 pages
>2699 gram
>paperback
that is quite the paperback lel hopefully it holds together while reading
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>>9758583
It's quite old though, how does it stack up against more modern books of History?
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how do i read/approach poetry? (if there is a book about this please tell me)
also where do i exactly begin? the only poetry i remember reading was the illiad and the odessey in hs. kthx.
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What episode does Yuzuko wear those glasses in? I could have sworn her glasses had thicker frames.
Anyway, start with Dylan Thomas. He is the only good poet.
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>>9758443
Poetry only matters when the authors were bleeding, physically, or psychologically.
I can only recommend Rumi and Rilke
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>>9758443
ABC of Reading by Ezra Pound
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How can I make myself like writing? I have a plot I want to publish but I hate the act of writing. And no, don't say dictation software; I stammer like a retard
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>>9758355
why do you need to like it if you already feel compelled to do it?
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>>9758355
turn it into a play or screenplay then, plonker.
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>>9758355
why do you want this plot published? is it an amazing sequence of events and collisions of characters that has never been done before yet will amaze and entrance us?
> "Ghost... mutt." - Marge Simpson
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/lit/ music thread. What do you listen to when you read? 2017-07-15 06:31:23 Post No.9758324
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/lit/ music thread. What do you listen to when you read?
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Or alternatively, what albums/songs/artists go best with what book(s)?
I've been reading pic related recently and The Caretaker's "Everywhere at the End of Time" fits the abstract, empty, beautifully nihilistic and bare passages of Soares.
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>>9758324
we already have a thread you braindead homo
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Even /mu/ understands that if you want to read/listen seriously it has to be one or the other.
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you already made this thread
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What are some of the best book titles you know? I remember reading one on here, but I forgot it. More obscure titles are preferred. Pic unrelated.
Eros the Bittersweet
In the Country of Last Things
The Sailor who Fell from Grace
Asleep in the Sun
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There's a novel by the German author Christian Kracht called "Ich werde hier sein im Sonnenschein und im Schatten"(I'll be here in sunshine and in shadow), which I always thought was very nice. I would have liked to name a novel that myself.
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Most of Steinbeck's (The Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden, Of Mice and Men, To a God Unknown, The Winter of Our Discontent, to name a few). Worth mentioning many of these are taken from other authors works. Winter from Richard III, for example.
One of my personal favs of all time tho:
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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what books do i needed to read to feel generally educated? i feel fucking retarded
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>>9758153
do i need*
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>>9758153
the more you read, you will feel even more retarded.
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lol
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Great book! BTFO conservatism.
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>>9758148
what's so funny?
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>>9758148
I don't see the problem
What does /lit/ think of the new penguin classics?
I've got Ten Days that Shook the World and Sanshiro and I quite like the new design. I think some of the choices for the series are kind of odd though
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it just look like the older ones with a more bright color
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>>9758098
What happened to the gorgeous art that used to be on the front? I still remember the cover they did for the Iliad and how nice it was.
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>>9758108
They bought into the millennial minimalist aesthetic meme.
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Hey /lit/. I need a really good book to get lost in (not fantasy or anything like that however) One where you get so completely immersed in the everything the book is saying that you can't put it down. Doesn't matter if it's a difficult or easy read. Preferably a longer book. A book with hidden treasures in it on rereads and a book that will alter the way you perceive things.
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my diary desu
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gravity's rainbow
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Island in the Stream - Hemingway
I disliked it early on but the further I went on reading the more I fell in love with it.
I haven't reread it yet though but I definetly will.
It isn't a long book though sadly.