What's the point of reading if we don't even retain 99% of the books we read? No, seriously, test yourself on a book you read a year ago; chances are you either don't remember at all or get a lot of what you THINK you remember wrong.
Do we read purely for entertainment purposes?
Are we no better than /tv/ and /v/?
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What's the point in asking questions if you don't retain even 99% of the answers?
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>>9666735
>implying I wont test myself once every 30 days for the next 6 months to retain all the replies in this thread except for yours
deary me
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>>9666726
What's the purpose of eating if we shit it out the next day?
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Which way is better?
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i prefer women thanks
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>>9666704
all white people look the same, Poseidon lookin motherfuckers
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That would be Epicurus and I have no idea. I'm more of an Epicurus/Lucretius kinda guy but I vouch for him.
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#CapoteCrew GTFIH
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>Novella - Goethe
>Hungerartist - Kafka
>Chess novella - Zweig
>Lenz - Büchner
>Reitergeschichte - von Hofmannsthal
>Das Marmorbild - von Eichendorf
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Is there more like this type of book? I really enjoyed this novel.
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>>9666437
if you want the actual /lit version of that check out the virgin suicides. I feel like John green wishes he could be Jeffrey.
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>>9666455
Fuck I remember reading that as a teenager after my sister tried to kill herself. Tried to be my own private edge lord. It just fucked me up.
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>>9666489
i think it fucks eveyone up. I identified strongly with the boys. I was always in love with some girl, trying to figure out how to make contact with her cuz I was a puss.
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Buy me baby
Some fresh
Young love
To fill my lust
To fill my soul
Buy me sweety
Some innocent
Naive love
To open my eyes
To open my world
Buy me sexy
Some hot
Fire love
To melt my heart
To melt my god
Buy me, buy me
In endless dose
Some of that shit
Which you call
>Love
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What does /lit/ think of The Illuminatus! Trilogy? 2017-06-22 12:55:12 Post No.9666372
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What does /lit/ think of The Illuminatus! Trilogy?
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I wasn't well-versed enough to properly digest it but I found it fun in a Hitchhiker's Guide kinda way.
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Great book, a really wild ride. Nobody talks about it, but there's a pretty apparent Illuminatus influence on Infinite Jest. The Schrodinger's Cat trilogy is even better.
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I read Prometheus rising, i found it to be an interesting thought experiment, not something to take to seriously
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What are some books about really clever criminals? Preferably true crime.
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>>9666349
My Diary desu
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Crime and punishment
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>>9666349
Robert Sabbag - Smokescreen
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name a better essay
>protip: you cant
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>Chimamanda
is that a pokemon
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>>9666216
Painter of Modern Life
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I still don't understand whether this faggot was a Marxist critic hating on postmodernism or if he was actually a Postmodernist explaining postmodernism and in various account I have read he is sometimes depicted as the former and somtimes depicted as the latter.
Is this a typical case of misinterpretation caused by obscurantist language (e.g. people simply can't agree what Jameson is on about cause they don't really grasp what the fuck he is saying) or did he change his position at some point?
Case in point: his main work Postmodernism or the Logical of Late Capitalism I have seen variously described as the major critique of postmodernism and one of its major works.
I don't get it.
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>>9666174
He's a Marxist. He doesn't "hate" postmodernism, he just historicizes it.
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Oxford world classics vs Penguin classics?
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>>9666170
Oxford is clearly better.
But there are select few cases, like the Epic of Gilgamesh, where Penguin straight up has the definitive version in the English language
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>>9666170
Oxford for sure. Nicer paper, sturdier covers and better print.
t. owner of a bunch of Penguins
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I like Oxfords better generally, though occasionally Penguin has better translations on offer. Oxford volumes are also usually a bit cheaper, despite being printed on better paper, which is nice. They also look nicer on a shelf, though that's not something I really take in to consideration making a purchase.
Usually I just get whatever is available and cheaper. I find penguins tend to be better stocked, so I end up with more Penguins than Oxfords despire having a preference the other way around.
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What are some good decent book covers examples that don't look absolutely retarded and childish? Pic not really related
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as minimalistic as possible. basically just the title and author and nothing else.
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What do you think of this one?
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How do you read your e-books?
I have calibre on my PC, syncing with Calibre Companion on my tablet. But I'm unsure about which reader to use, any suggestions? I want to be able to save/export highlights easily.
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>>9666112
Moon+reader pro, anon. I think it's one of the best options out there.
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Daily Reminder That P&V Are A Meme 2017-06-22 09:40:47 Post No.9665982
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"Pevear and Volokhonsky finished “Anna Karenina” in September, 1998—or so they thought. Despite their growing reputation in the United States, they failed to impress the editors at Penguin in London. “They told us the book was unreadable,” Pevear said. “They told us it had to be more ‘reader-friendly.’ But Tolstoy himself is not reader-friendly! They said it was not at a stage to be copy-edited.”
<http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/11/07/the-translation-wars>
"Tolstoy notes the susceptibility of his contemporaries to the "charm of obscurity". Works have become laden with "euphemisms, mythological and historical allusions", and general "vagueness, mysteriousness, obscurity and inaccessibility to the masses". Tolstoy lambastes such works, insisting that art can and should be comprehensible to everyone. Having emphasised that art has a function in the improvement of humanity - capable of expressing man’s best sentiment - he finds it offensive that artists should be so wilfully and arrogantly abstruse."
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Is_Art%3F>
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>>9665982
t.spiteful
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>>9666108
Misunderstanding Tolstoy to that degree tickles me just right.
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What's your favorite poem from this book & why?
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Une charogne
Really makes me think about life and death and poetic beauty and shit and I like the words.
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"When we speak of someone as "well read," we should have this ideal in mind. Too often, I fear, we use that phrase to mean the quantity rather than the quality of reading. A person who has read widely but not well deserves to be pitied rather than praised, for so much effort has been misguided and profitless. " - Mortimer J. Adler
Wow, /lit/ btfo
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>/lit/ reads widely
>/lit/ reads