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What's the best book on STDs? I don't ever want to catch one of the nasty ones desu.
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>>9537086
I read the first 3 pages of twilight once and I contracted AIDS
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The king, baby
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That's a canker sore, not an STD.
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I'm a brainlet wanting to get into reading.
What is some /lit/ approved literature for someone like myself?
And also, I was wondering if there is a way to get a better attention span when actually reading. I always seem to dose off, and when I do actually read I can never remember what I just read.
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what do you like?
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>>9537021
start with classics, as well as bible, maybe some greek works.
everything else you read will work off of these works.
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>>9537031
I don't know it's been so long since I've last read anything.
Lets just say horror, and sci-fi.
What happened to /lit/ in the past few weeks? I've been noticing a weird rise in Game of Thrones, Harry Potter, shit and idiotic, reddit-tier bullshit.
Let's get some literature back in here. Make lit great again!
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>>9536994
Okay you can start by reading joseph mcelroy then you stupid faggot. Let's get hardcore.
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The /pol/ garbage needs to stop. I just want to talk about books.
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>>9536994
So do I, but we are here forever. What about you?
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Is greentext literature?
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That's a good greentext.
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Reminds me of this.
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Joyce is entry level, nobody is impressed
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Stream of consciousness was the pinnacle of literary technique. It is the ultimate literary style that ultimately shitted up the market with imitations of the real thing (very few authors do it well).
Post your favorite SoC writers, books and say why you love it or hate it.
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>pinnacle of literary technique
Its quite literally the shallowest most contrived form of writing imaginable, all it produces is garbage like Burroughs.
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>>9536850
It did produce garbage, but it also produced Finnegan's Wake.
And yes, these two things are mutually exclusive.
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>>9536850
>this much of a fucking pleb
The problem with SoC is that you have to be genuinely intelligent and well learned to pull it off. You also have to be a bit intelligent to appreciate it as well, which is why we have retards like this guy not understanding it and lashing out at those who do.
That said, it's a tossup between Joyce with Ulysess and Faulkner with TSATF for which one I think is the best.
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I just wanna say I love you litbros.
I have a relatively healthy social life (I'll go out socially 2-3 days a week, but other than that I'm nose to a book), and a recent gf (first one since fucking high school), but most of you here, despite 80% of it being humor, have, as a partial motivator, contributed to me growing in the past two years.
Thanks bros.
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Excellent blog post, faggot
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>>9536284
Have you read Herodotus yet, you dumb shit?
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Fuck you
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yay!!!
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>>9536138
ya got meme'd kid.
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>>9536138
>another anglo gets culturally cucked by superior American culture
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>>9536138
We are going to need a reading group for this. Remember lads you are going to have to bone up on his previous novels before women and memes. Prepare your buttholes.
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Was Alt Lit the last avant garde? Was its ouroboros demise just a reflection of our cultural inability to sustain an avant garde?
If it wasn't, what was/is? Where is it?
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I think the issue with Alt Lit had more to do with the movement's inherent instability than the instability of the current culture. Alt Lit identified the apathy and childishness of the current times, but only documented it, providing no means of transcending it.
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>>9535933
>the designator 'Alt' itself is not toxic trollbait
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Recommend some good books on redemption
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>>9535677
wtf is this Webm
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>>9535744
>he doesn't know about soccer
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>>9535744
>It's already summer
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Can we get a spooky book thread going? Any scary book suggestions that arent Stephen King would be wicked awesome.
Pick unrelated
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Thoughts on Dominic O'Brien?
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does it counteract the effects of cannabis use on memory?
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I can't remember
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>>9535452
this book wasn't very memorable
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Can you spot a psychopath/insanity by how someone writes? 2017-05-21 06:34:22 Post No.9535045
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Can you spot a psychopath/insanity by how someone writes?
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Are there any examples of this? Perhaps you can see it through neurotic writing? Don't know.
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That ugly Asian delusional autist that the frog people worship who killed all those people
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>>9535045
Read Edgar Allan Poe or Emily Dickinson and tell me these people aren't fucked in the head
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>>9535045
Why are Danish/Dutch people so god damn attractive?
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reccomend me some comfy nonfiction that feels like a good conversation with an intelligent friend
pic related: a supposedly fun thing i'll never do again is the gold standard
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The New Testament
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>>9534970
The black jacobins
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Finding a Form, by William H. Gass is one of the best essay collections I've ever read.
Any good books about birds?
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>>9534918
Can't write about what we don't understand.
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>>9534934
Why not? It's the most patrician animal species.
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Any recommendations on philosophy books. Never read one in my life. Where should I start?
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The Greeks.
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I've just finished At The Existentialist Cafe by Sarah Bakewell. Pretty good desu and it's made for people new to philosophy.
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Is Aristotle worth reading?
Which of his books do I read after finishing the essential 5-8 Plato dialogues?