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I'll spend this easter mostly alone, without internet or access to electricity, which means ill spend most of it reading. The probblem is that i dont have a clue what book to read.
So, any suggestions? The book needs to be long (1000 or more), and prefeerably thought provoking.
If i had to choose now, Infinite Jest is the book i'd choose, but i have not in any way made up my mind.
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This whole post makes me laugh.
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>>9339334
it sounds like the perfect time to read the bible and other catholic works in your backlog.
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>>9339334
>Easter
>The book needs to be long (1000 or more)
HMMMM I WONDER...
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Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov 2017-04-05 12:39:32 Post No.9339260
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Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
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Is this worth reading?
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Yes it is you idiot now read it.
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>>9339263
Thank you, daddy!
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The perfect example why there should be a QTDDTOT thread on /lit too
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What got you in to reading /lit/
How many books have you read
How did reading affect your life?
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>>9339229
The french history. /300/, more versed in ancient french history than others, a bit like a talesreader s
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I can't remember a time when I did not read.
Probably well over a thousand by now.
>I felt always as though I were hanging over a void; up there everything that had ever happened to me seemed unreal, and worse than unreal - unnecessary. Instead of joining me to life, to men, to the activity of men, the bridge seemed to break all connections. If I walked towards the one shore or the other it made no difference: either way was hell. Somehow I had managed to sever my connection with the world that human hands and human minds were creating. Perhaps my grandfather was right, perhaps I was spoiled in the bud by the books I read. But it is ages since books have claimed me. For a long time now I have practically ceased to read. But the taint is still there. Now people are books to me. I read them from cover to cover and toss them aside. I devour them, one after the other. And the more I read, the more insatiable I become. There is no limit to it. There could be no end, and there was none, until inside me a bridge began to form which united me again with the current of life from which as a child I had been separated.
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>>9339274
I appreciate it's suggestion but the quotes rather cheesy.
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Hey /lit/,
Who here is in grad school or looking to apply? Let's share our interests, our strategies, our coping mechanisms.
MA student thinking about applying to NYU for a PhD in 18C Lit.
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>NYU for a PhD in 18C Lit.
This sounds like a huge mistake, but I can't quite say how.
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Poli sci MA, finishing my coursework today (last seminar), looking to apply to UofT and McGill for social and experimental psychology.
I wouldn't recommend graduate training for >95% of the university grads I know. Especially for something like 18C lit. You'd have to be an exceptional case with an exceptional talent and interest in the field.
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MFA. currently volunteering, teaching poetry to kids. considering PhD in 20c poetry or comp. won't be for a few years tho.
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How do I make money off of writing?
I'm looking for stuff I can do without having (((connections))) at a magazine or publishing house.
Writing papers for students, erotic lit, what else?
I'm a student but I have enough free time to devote to this and I don't want a real job.
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Convert to Judaism and become a journalist.
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>>9339092
By the way, this was a joke. Don't do that. They worship the devil.
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>>9339089you can't
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Why doesn't Camus ever say why it is desirable to revolt against the absurd? And, what does it mean to revolt against the absurd? He says making up your own purpose/meaning in life is yet another distraction designed to dodge the absurd conundrum. So, what does he mean by revolting?
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>>9339048
Yo Albert! How's the comic?
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>>9339048
Life is absurd without God. Nihilism is the rational conclusion of a Godless existence. Come back to the light.
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>>9339078
Don't talk to me, you, shitty friend.
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please help a brainlet 2017-04-05 11:08:21 Post No.9339030
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o smartest board of the Hub help me please explain this to me I just wanna know how is the inseparability of subject matter and form only achieved solely by music
>Art, then, is thus always striving to be independent of the mere intelligence, to become a matter of pure perception, to get rid of its responsibilities to its subject or material; the ideal examples of poetry and painting being those in which the constituent elements of the composition are so welded together, that the material or subject no longer strikes the intellect only; nor the form, the eye or the ear only; but form and matter, in their union or identity, present one single effect to the "imaginative reason," that complex faculty for which every thought and feeling is twin-born with its sensible analogue or symbol.
>All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music. For while in all other kinds of art it is possible to distinguish the matter from the form, and the understanding can always make this distinction, yet it is the constant effort of art to obliterate it. That the mere matter of a poem, for instance, its subject, namely, its given incidents or situation — that the mere matter of a picture, the actual circumstances of an event, the actual topography of a landscape — should be nothing without the form, the spirit, of the handling, that this form, this mode of handling, should become an end in itself, should penetrate every part of the matter: this is what all art constantly strives after, and achieves in different degrees.
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It's not. Pater is a faggot. Go read something else.
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>>9339038
like what
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>what is abstract art and poetry
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US Man Credits Chinese Web Novels for Curing His Addiction to Drugs 2017-04-05 10:59:56 Post No.9339010
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>"Previously, all I'd think about after going home is doing drugs. Now, all my thoughts have to do with Chinese novels." Cazad has read some 15 web series over three different websites like WuxiaWorld.com, and has no regrets.
>"Even though they are just as addictive as drugs, online Chinese novels won't harm your health."
>Cazad firmly believes that the magical world depicted in the fantasy novel is real, and that superhuman feats in the books like transforming into dragons is something that normal people can do.
>"Through practice, people can see energy," Cazad explained to the China Southern Weekly. "At a high enough level, you can see different ripples of colors, thereby allowing you to tell when someone is lying, or in love."
>"I want to become one of the people in a mysterious fantasy novel," Cazad has said.
http://www.thebeijinger.com/blog/2017/04/05/us-man-credits-chinese-web-novels-curing-his-addiction-drugs
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>>9339010
So, it's autism then.
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Is this satire?
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If you use a Kindle/E-Reader, you're not reading correctly 2017-04-05 10:52:23 Post No.9338991
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If you use a Kindle/E-Reader, you're not reading correctly
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Why do you use this junk when your level of comprehension suffers as a result?
>A new study which found that readers using a Kindle were "significantly" worse than paperback readers at recalling when events occurred in a mystery story is part of major new Europe-wide research looking at the impact of digitisation on the reading experience.
source: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/aug/19/readers-absorb-less-kindles-paper-study-plot-ereader-digitisation
>Most studies have concluded that people read slower, less accurately and less comprehensively on screens than on paper.
source: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/reading-paper-screens/
>Half read on a Kindle and half read a paperback. Afterward the readers were tested on plot, character, objects and settings.The Kindle readers performed significantly worse on the plot reconstruction measure, i.e., when they were asked to place 14 events in the correct order,
source: http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2014/08/19/book-buzz-study-finds-people-absorb-less-on-e-readers/14291189/
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>>9338991
Have a pity reply
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I've read this before. do you know if they participants were heavy e-reader users? not saying that I don't believe it (I've also read about studies showing writing physically is better than typing) but I wonder if comprehension could increase with familiarity.
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>>9338991
Don't really give a shit, when I did not used Kindle I couldn't get the books I wanted and now I can get whatever I want and I get pretty much same level of comprenhesion.
who the hell gives a fuck about some study
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What does /lit/ think about this book?
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>>9338982
It's trash. They make you read it in Canuck highschool. The antagonist is a comically evil Nazi and a terrorist.
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Islamic propaganda
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>>9339122
Lol this. The characters are the result of extremely lazy writing.
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How do I come up with a high concept plot? A "page turner".
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I hate to say it, but you kind of have to be somewhat interesting yourself.
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>>9338890
I am interesting. That doesn't answer my question.
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>>9338969
You've already made us hate you. Fuck off.
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I have read this and now trying to get into /lit/. What are your thoughts about the book?
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i think this book was wasted on you, what exactly did you notice in this book?
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gee, I dunno OP, what are YOUR thoughts on the book?
You know, original thought, your best attempt to make meaning out of the random events surrounding you? The whole point of absurdism?
Or are you waiting for other to define derived meaning for you, you fucking pleb?
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>>9338842
>What are your thoughts about the book?
It's absurd.
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Why is Lovecraft so popular in Geek/Nerd culture? Is it because geeks are all racist deep down?
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cult, obfuscating writer who had an rpg based on his stories.
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How can we destroy geek culture? It's cancer.
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>>9338822
Just stop being a genrefag and embrace the true classics. Fantasy is all ripped off from older works anyway. We allow "geek culture" to fail by abandoning it for purer, more patrician, original source material.
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How do you find books to read?
Should I read every book of the author to learn everything what he/she wanted to give?
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in my diary desu
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You read what interest you. That's a purely subjective judgment. Otherwise you can create a backlog of classics and must-read that you build slowly over time.
>Should I read every book of the author to learn everything what he/she wanted to give?
Short answer: no. Long answer: it depends on the author, what you get out of his books but mostly no.
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>>9338807
no. no you shouldn't
So how do you think these lads would react if they learned that today the majority of their fan-base is composed of edgy teenagers ?
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>Nietzsche
Probably rethinking his amor fati
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>>9338680
probably an hero
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>>9338680
>ad hominem
hmm is that an argument? hmmmmmmmm... oh wait no it isn't
anyway, just because a teenager is a teenager doesn't mean he is wrong.