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Why does /lit/ hate harris?
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Because he is popular. Welcome to 4chan.
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>>9527083
He's reddit in the form of a single man.
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>>9527083
Because he speaks the truth about race differences.
Everyone should read books and write alongside them a fully fledged summary with relevant citations, ideas, interpretations, criticisms etc and integrate them into a new/existing Wikipedia article so they never have to read the book again and neither do future generations.
Try to prove me wrong. Just try.fictionfags need not apply
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>>9526977
this made me dumber
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We is 2015 pasta now
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Anons, why does /lit/ never discuss this author? And expanding this subject, why these most "realistic" authors, that are famous worldwide and part of the western canon, are so disregarded here?
And on a similar note, the fact that this board loves modernist and avant-garde authors like Joyce, Borges, Pynchon and Wallace and on the same side hates post-modern philosophy and sociology is so confusing to me.
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Are greentext stories the logical conclusion of Hemingway's philosophy of writing?
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>>9526763
>on the same side hates post-modern philosophy and sociology is so confusing to me.
That's just /pol/ refugees most of /lit/ don't have a problem with post modernism
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"It" does discuss him. Fairly often.
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>Join writing group
>Expect to meet an underground circle of literate edge-lords working together to create beautiful things that no one reads
>Four members are middle-aged women who write chick lit
>One guy is an autist who reads poems he wrote from when he was a teenager
>One guy has written an entire novel but hasn't used paragraphs or speech marks once
>That same guy didn't even realise speech marks were a thing
>Only book he's read is half of something by JK Rowling and it isn't even Harry Potter
Anyone else experienced this?
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Yes I experience the exact same thing except there was one other member who didn't contribute at all. Small world.
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>>9526578
>One guy has written an entire novel but hasn't used paragraphs or speech marks once
Oh well that sounds experimental and interesting, wonder why he chose to eschew conventio-
>That same guy didn't even realise speech marks were a thing
-Oh. Oh no.
>Only book he's read is half of something by JK Rowling and it isn't even Harry Potter
NOOOOOOOOOOO
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>>9526578
read ensaio sobre a cegueira faggot
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Reminder that reading one book at a time is a brainlet mode. At the very least you must always be in process of reading
>2 books on hard science subjects
>1 book on history
>1 philosophy book
>1 literary fiction novel
>2 poetry collections
>1 genre fiction novel
>1 manga
>1 book that you re-read
>1 erotic fanfiction
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people who regularly read 'hard science' are fucking cringe
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reading 2 in current events
2 in philosophy
2 in literature
1 in hard science
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>>9526548
How many manga do I need to read to make it the equivalent of one book?
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>Pick up a classic book
>Introduction is 30 pages long
Honestly, what the fuck.
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>>9526219
>Pick a ____ book
>Don't read the introduction
There you go.
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>pick up a classic book
>read the introduction
>its a pseudo-intellectual posturing about nothing pretending to be an authority on the authors life episode
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>pick up classic book
>read introduction
>learn a bunch of important shit about history that reveals proper context of the work, letting you appreciate it in newer, more profound ways
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I know you guys aren't big genre fans but that makes this even better. Our next writing project we should finish a game of thrones for George.
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>>9526197
There's already tons of dedicated communities that have figured out every plot or thought of something better than Fatman so i don't see the point.
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>>9526241
Who fucking cares about finishing it seriously you dumb retard. Let's finish it in our style.
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fuck off george
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Thoughts on this?
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>>9526096
A book only men can understand desu senpaitachi
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My Grandfather likes these books. He also listens exclusively to military marching music and never served a day of military service in his life.
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>>9526096
Old man wishing for youth tier, but if you are at the sea for a summer vacation and are reading on the beach, it may be ideal
I figure I should own a copy of the bible, but I don't know which one to go with. Any recommendations?
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>>9526071
NABRE, REV, or Douay Rheims
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What are you trying to get out of reading the Bible and what is your reading level.
If all you care about is prose and literary influence read KJV. Otherwise, the NABRE is a really great study bible that provides annotations on locations, people, historical context that without makes the Bible confusing.
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King James Norton critical edition
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Book recommendations for an unbiased historical account of the American Civil War. Thanks /lit/
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>unbiased
Everyone's going to bring their bias to a work like this. I haven't read them, but people always recommend Ulysses S. Grant's memoirs.
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I read this, was very good.
Like all wars, the war is a giant mess of a few dozen different reasons as to why the war was fought.
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>>9526031
>no, the war happened because of THIS reason
that sort of shit, and the general habit of using superlatives like, "he/it was the most influential person/thing in bringing about x" is why most history sucks, especially new history where they're so specialized they feel the need to defend their choice of study area. biographies are nearly universally guilty of this too.
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Find 1 (one) error in any of the three volumes of Marx's Das Kapital.
You can't.
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>>9525912
Maybe, but Stirner eternally btfo communism anyway and make Marx throw a Tanty.
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communism doesnt work dumbass
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>>9525932
Real communism has never been tried :)
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fiction about revolutionary war
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recommend me books in which the protagonist is part of some big revolution. It can be sci-fi, historically accurate, doesnt matter. The last one I read that I liked was Dune, for example.
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>>9525767
maybe 1984, not really war though.
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>>9525777
read 1984, really liked it. Have something with a similar premise written more recently?
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Tell me this and tell me no more:
Is it The Sun Also RISES, as in the sun sets but it rises as well,
or is it The SUN ALSO Rises, as in a great many things rise like helium balloons, erections and dark knights, and the sun does too?
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>>9525673
In French, the title is translated as "Le Soleil se lève aussi" (and not "Le Soleil aussi se lève"), so we only get the first meaning.
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>>9525673
its definitely the first one. weird im just re-reading this right now and about to finish. have to say i really like it. only other hemingway ive read is the one with the fish and farewell to arms. what else should i read? anyone have any experience with his non-fiction stuff?
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>>9525697
In my opinion his non-fiction work is some of his most valuable work. Some of what he reports on really has been left by the wayside of the historical record, particularly that from the inter-war period. I believe it's collected under the title 'By-lines"
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What are some gender neutral first and last names. I'm going to change my names so I can have a better shot at getting my novels published.
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>>9525620
>The male occupies the masculine and the neuter; the female only feminine.
Peter Johnson
John Dixon
Dick Longfellow
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Why would you actually change your name when you can just use a pen name?
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>>9525671
This
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Where do I get ino with Sylvia Plath ? 2017-05-19 02:02:35 Post No.9525489
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Where do I get ino with Sylvia Plath ?
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Is she just a meme ?
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Into the oven.
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Ted hughes is better.
confessional poetry is oprah-tier cancer
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I'd also like to get into her, if you know what I mean.