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Can you suggest a book about Human rights in the Soviet Union ?
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The Gulag Archipelago
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>>9470999
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn-The Gulag Archipelago
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Thanks
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Do you prefer reading literature in its original language, or in your native language?
To go one step further, did you learn a language specifically for that language's literature? For example, learning Russian if you're interested in Russian literature.
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The books written in my native language are mostly fucking trash, i also generally read foreign books in english since the translations are often better than in my native language
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I prefer to read books in their original language. If I don't speak the language, I'll choose the English edition over my native language.
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>>9470934
If I can understand the original language, I read in the original language.
If I can't, I try to avoid English translations because the simplicity of the language often ruins most translations. I would consider Spanish or French.
No, I wouldn't learn a language solely to read literature. I would if I were a scholar working on russian literature, but I'm not. I study philosophy and I'm focusing on Kant philosophy of science, it has been my main reason to attempt to learn german since most journal that publish research on kant are either in german or expect the author has read the works in german.
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Why is /lit/ so fucking stale
Always the same books being talked about
Nobody ever discovers anything new
How many times can people see another recent purchases thread where someone posts pics of the meme trilogy coupled with blood meridian and a delillo book
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>>9470917
be the change you want to see.
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Because mods keep deleting my Land threads.
Plinko faggots.
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Be the brappost you want Stacy to be impressed by.
Hi /lit/ how does it feel to know that no matter how many "high brow" books you read, I will still be better than you. You sit there sneering at people who like to read fantasy and scifi. Well guess what. We're the ones that dig deep into philosophy without it being mind bogglingly boring. We're the ones that are able to reach into today's youth and teach them about love, life and what it means to be a person through wonderful storytelling, characters and plot. Not your snot inducing drivel.
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nice tits
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>>9470876
start with the greeks
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Most of those books are very bad even by the low standards of genre.
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Writing banned from Reddit -- review?
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LINK (no download): http://docdro.id/yYkEgIw
Hi /lit/,
Redditfag here with a response to a prompt on r/writingprompts that I just drafted. I know that the chance that it will be deleted from Reddit and cause me to be banned forever and the chance that I'll only receive a couple of "Reddit fag" replies on here are about the same, but I'd like to see what reaction it gets.
It's not your typical writing prompt response, though it still might be shit. So, if you want to shit on me for being a horrible writer and Reddit fag, please read it first, and then proceed with your insults. Thanks.
Note that the piece isn't intended to be sexually pleasing. It is intentionally disgusting. Picture is an intentional trigger.
LINK (no download): http://docdro.id/yYkEgIw
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OP here. Sorry for inconsistent capitalization in the piece. I'm not an idiot. I couldn't decide whether t capitalize the male pronouns.
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wtf that link rickrolled me
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OP - fuck you. It's not a rick roll. I'm not that stupid.
>470 likes
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>>9470821
>stop liking what i dont like
This is your life OP
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>>9470837
>Rothfuss often treads the thin line between prose and poetry
If you think this is acceptable then the downfall of Western civilization is on you
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>>9470842
apart from that, it seems reasonable. it also pointed out a few flaws, the same I found when reading it.
I wouldn't have given 5 stars, but ratingt is very subjective.
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>Fantasy novel
>Setting is another world/universe where real world religions never occurred
>Religion is called "Church of [X]
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get a job
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>Fantasy novel
>All races are humanoid
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>Sci-fi novel
>Humanity is the chosen race
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Writing Routine / Writing Help
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How's your writing going? What's your routine like? Do you even keep one?
Mine:
>30 minute run to clear my head
>write 8 pages (4 pages / 8 sides) of fiction / non-fiction
>read 20 pages of a book
Then I'm done for the day.
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>Routine
>Done for the day
Reading and writing is a passion. I do it when I want for as long as I want.
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>>9470783
Yet you fail to quantify the time or the amount.
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>writing anywhere as much as you read
I don't understand how anyone is confident enough to do this. I can't write unless I read 100 pages or more
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If Marx came on /lit/ before publishing and asked the board about his idea on commodity fetishism, would everyone just bully him and call him a teenager?
You can substitute any other philosopher you like.
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Go to bed, Reddit
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>>9470770
This, fuck off reddit
saged
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>>9470766
Report goes in all fields
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Who's the greatest American poet of the 20th century?
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Pic related for me, but I really haven't read much poetry.
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Charles Olson
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Bukowski
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDiLfQUBnyA
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would the four or five of you who've actually read this say it's worth it? it's finally getting reprinted in the summer and i'm wondering if i should pick it up or try out his earlier work or not
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>>9470713
Just fucking download it and give it a go
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I've read it
Short answer: yeah, but you're going to hate yourself through some passages.
The book tries very hard (and very effectively imo) in creating its own mythos, repeating itself over and over always with slight deviation each time, Jim Mayne, the book's protagonist, ends up being stretched across several (often contradictory) stories. Unlike a similarily difficult book like Ulysses, you don't have the whole internet to help you out on the particularly challenging sections, some of which are just as hard as The Wandering Rocks. You really kind of are on your own (or with me and the handful of other masochists who read this tome).
I don't quite know where to start in talking about WnM so if you (or anyone else) has any questions that i can try to answer, pew pew away
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can we dump some renaissance/classical art? (i know this artist isn't renaissance but i really like it) anyways I was just watching some Bob Ross and I was like damn I really want to learn about real art so can I learn about real art?
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Be honest
Is plato worth reading or would a wikipedia summary suffice?
It seems like most of the "lessons" or philosophical arguments are already in the common vernacular
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>>9470640
Plato was a plagiarist, you should read Socrates instead.
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>>9470640
>suffice
Suffice for what?
being a pseud?
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Plato is worth reading if only because he was a great writer. He's like the reverse Spinoza/Kant (who were brilliant minds who wrote unintelligible garbage)
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where do I start with Sebald?
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Rings of Saturn, obvi.
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Start by checking these dubs
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>>9470624
This. Then the Emigrants.
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What are some books with a unique, nontraditional depiction of hell?
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>>9470515
my diary desu
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>>9470515
Pedro Paramo.
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>>9470515
The Communist Manifesto