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Leave this board and never return if any of these apply to you:
>you read any form of genre fiction
>you barely know your classics
>you tend to believe that if you like a given work, it is justified on an artistic level
>you think everyone's opinion should be accepted and respected
>you speak a single language
>you read contemporary versions of Shakespeare or Milton
>you read for the plot
>you read for entertainment
>you rarely read nonfiction
>you don't have a solid grounding in philosophy
>you don't have at least have some understanding of the Three Tragedians and Homer
>you have little to no understanding of literature outside of your cultural horizon
>you have little to no understanding of literature within your own cultural horizon
>you mostly read contemporary literature
>you believe 'the author is dead'
>you make your literary analysis proceed from ideology
>you think intricate prose is 'pretentious' and that the author 'should just get to the point'
>your rarely read poetry
>you think Rhythm and Rhyme is just useless rules and laws restricting creativity
>you have a hard time explaining why you like a given work
>you have a hard time forming structured and relevant literary criticism
>you tend to refuse to judge works for yourself, rather relying on the opinions of literary authorities
>you rarely read for more than one or two hours straight
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>>9724201
While most of these do apply to me, I believe you should fuck off.
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>>9724224
love you too bb
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>>9724224
Please reread the post. If those apply to you, you're the one who should fuck off.
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What kind of fucking ending is this?
Bugs, you can't expect me to love this characters and worry for they so you can throw a Deux ex at the end, right?
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>>9724150
lol, kid
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end of the novel is Hector Kowabunga's happy hollywood ending
Zoyd probably got gunned down by the cops
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i dont even remember the ending, what happened again, i was mostly just relieved it was over, the copy i had smelled like shit, like synthetic vinegar or something ,very unpleasant, i think i donated it to somewhere to get it out of my life
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Greatest plot twists in literature?
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"Leopold" Bloom is actually a woman and half of Ulysses is thus hallucinated
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>>9724123
Phoebe raped Holden
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I don't remember other one than in 1984 -O'Brian who's supposed to be a part of the Brotherhood, is the very man that hunts the protagonist who wants to enter the Brotherhood. Not to mention that the Brotherhood perchance doesn't even exist.
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What kinds of books do your parents and siblings read, /lit/?
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>>9724097
Don't know, haven't spoken to them in months/years. Probably nothing and/or bullshit.
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>>9724097
They don't.
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My father keeps one book by his bedside but it has a gun inside of it. My mother is reading SPQR.
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What program does /lit/ use to read ebooks?
I've tried a couple ones but they're all shit in some way, like FBReader not being able to do double pages, or these chrome apps not having customizable font/background colors. Non-free ones like icecream are cancer also.
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Freda is pretty great.
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>>9724148
>doesn't work on windows 7
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>>9724155
>using windows
lollllllllllll
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Hi. Just wanted to share some thoughts.
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>>9723926
Like, kill your self then my dude hahaha
Life doesn't get better, it just gets worse until you're old and your body stops working too
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what a fucking retarded
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I would recommend going to church, Anon.
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Has anyone here read any self-help books that actually helped? Can you recommend any?
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http://www.adlibris.com/se/bok/the-real-happy-pill-power-up-your-brain-by-moving-your-body-9781510722989
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>>9723918
Starting Strength
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>>9723923
so essentially exercise is the answer?
any books with a character like pic related?
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Confederacy of Dunces
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When did you realize this edgelord was the most intelligent person in the history of mankind?
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His philosophy is impressive indeed.
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Would he support neo-liberalism?
>implying he would give a fuck about economy
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>most intelligent person in the history of making
>not a pessimistic nihilist
Non-nihilist systems are the epicycles of philosophy. They're liking seeing faces on your toast. Pessimistic nihilism is the new counterculture.
>mfw someone tries to prove me """"" wrong"""""
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Ask someone who has just finished the meme trilogy anything
will provide proof if needed
should i start finnegan(')s wake, even if i read a page every day or 2?
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>>9723644
Why was Gottfried cucked by Blazes Boylan at the tennis academy?
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>>9723655
nice trifecta reference
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>>9723644
fuck off shill
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Zizek is on This Week. He's on a roll
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>>9723578
>Zizek is on This Week.
When this week? What's he on?
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>>9723581
>What's he on?
Drugs
>When this week?
All 7 days of the week
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Who else is hyped?
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What is the worst book cover you've seen?
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>>9723407
Did you enter into the sweepstake anon?
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>>9723407
Is that Sean Connery on the left?
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look at the main guy in the front
now imagine that he's bald
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Hey /lit/ where do I start with if I want to get into Hinduism?
The Vedas? The Gitas? Mahayana? Ramayana? Upanishads? Qur'an?
Other texts? Which is best?
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start with LSD
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Start and end here.
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>>9723317
>Qur'an
>Hinduism
These people can vote
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Questions That Don't Deserve Their Own Thread
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Am I too dumb? I can't understand some books, like Shakespeare, Joyce, Dante and basically all poets. What should I do? I'm not a novice on literature, I read a lot of classics already like Crime and Punishment, Kafka on the Shore, Les Miserables and others, but I still have a lot of difficulty to understand some authors.
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>>9723313
Nah man you're probably just not interested enough to really invest into it. Plus shit like Joyce is honestly a chore, depending on the read. Just read what interests you . Plus if you're fulling understanding Kafka and other classics you can't be THAT retarded.
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Is postmodernism a meme? I had the idea to start with house of leaves without knowing about how it was formatted, and without even reading a page the entire thing seems pretentious as fuck. Is there another starting point for the genre, or should I just try to read through this and see how it goes?
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Is this book as insightful as /pol/ tells me it is?
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/pol/ likes it because it confirms their idea of (moral?) decline
I don't think it is possible for a single person to deduce from history or so on the path of in this case the West
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>that cover
>abridged edition
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>>9723242
Virtually nothing is as /pol/ tells you it is