>Idleness, we are accustomed to say, is the root of all evil. To prevent this evil, work is recommended. But it is just as easy to see from the dreaded occasion as from the recommended remedy that this whole view is of very plebeian extraction. Idleness as such is by no means a root of evil; on the contrary, it is a truly divine life, if one is not bored.
>Idleness is not the evil; indeed, it may be said that everyone who lacks a sense for it thereby shows that he has not raised himself to the human level.
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>>9976175
Rebuttal time:
http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/05/18/reviews/pynchon-sloth.html?mcubz=0
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What's a book you've read that you wouldn't be surprised to find out that you're the only person on this board who has read it?
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>>9976104
Infinite Jest
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>them lips
ananas more like nigganas ROFL
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Guys I just started reading this book. I am only about 20% through the thing, but every time I read, I begin to feel more and more confident about my self. I feel enlightened.
Do you guys also feel this way?
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>>9976099
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxNzuCCh1T8
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boy when you finish it do we have a surprise for you lol
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>>9976117
If I ever finish it. This book is loooooooooooooooong.
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I am two hundred pages into this and it is quite possibly the worst prose I have ever encountered. The dialogue is either cliché bad Hollywood movie tier or just completely incomprehensible and the magic wooden puppet is just embarrassing. The coin spinning metaphor is already completely over done to the point of obnoxiousness. Yet I find myself strangely intrigued by the plot and the world building. Is that the case with this series? Cool story/world but terribly written because I can probably deal with this if the story is meaty enough.
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>>9976058
Can you post some quotes?
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The series presumably becomes exponentially better.
But I refuse to read it cause the first in op is so bad you can't believe the rest won't be nothing more than mediocre.
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>>9976058
The prose improves a lot after the first book. If you find it intriguing, you would probably enjoy reading some of the sequels.
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Women can't be good writ-
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>>9975953
I never seen someone saying that, total strawman. They can't be good at STEM tho.
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Doris Lessing
Elfriede Jelinek
Christa Wolf
Margaret Atwood
Agota Kristof
Anne Hébert
Andrée Chedid
Assia Djebar
Lydie Salvaire
Clarice Lispector
Tove Jansson
No, women can't write, you fucking /pol/turd
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>>9975953
only thing women are not good at is being rap musicians
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>When he wakes up he has a surprise lol
Is there anything more pretentious, more attention-seeking?
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>>9975881
bugs...
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Lay off the carrots lol
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/lit/... easy on the memes
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*obliterates pants*
UH OH
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>>9975850
Go on...
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>>9975895
i cum every time
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>When God wakes up he has a suprise lol
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But seriously why did he kill God?
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what does /lit/ think of the required texts for my creative writing class?
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Why are you reading if it's a writing class
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>>9975923
not sure to be honest. I guess he just wants us to read good examples?
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I'd drop the class immediately. Huge waste of time.
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Best post-apocolypsecore?
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>>9975740
Infinite Jest of Oryx and Crake
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>>9975740
I don't get the appeal of the road. Maybe I'm biased because I had to read it for school but the characters were just not interesting to me. The world was just bland as well. I know that was kind of the point but thats a shit point. What insight do I gain from the book? The relationship between the father and the son is completley stereotypical. He teaches and loves the son and the kid then learns to live without him after the book is over.
The writing is a unique style but after a while it just becomes tedious to read. Mabe you can enlighten me anon.
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canticle for leibowitz
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>When Gregor wakes up he has a surprise lol
what did he mean by this
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>>9975679
Was Gregor not surprised?
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Nice coinky dink... just finished the book a couple of hours. Really loved it bruh... still not sure which i preferred that or the trial
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>>9975679
6/6
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Are there any books you just flat out refuse to read? If so, why?
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Anything by pynchon
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I refuse to read The "Holy" Bible. It is a collection of irrational mythical tales written by stone age farmers. The people writing the "scriptures" had none of the benefits of science and access to none of our advanced knowledge. If anyone suggests I read it, well, I suggest you take a science class.
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Please answer truthfully. If this little boy, in his exhaustion and tears, asked you to destroy the entire universe, and you actually had the power to do so. Would you do this for him?
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>Filename
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no wtf
>>9975594
epic meme fellow r/christianity habitué
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>>9975588
>kill everyone just because some people had to be slaves for a minuscule period of time
Why would God ever do that?
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What's the book that will help me move on from her, /lit/?
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Back to /mu/ with u
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nothing you stupid fucking beta cuck
nice quads tho
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Forget books. Stop leaving your room and listen to shoegaze 24/7 for the next six weeks.
Does this board need moderation?
More discussion of novelists and poets and less discussion of "lit humor", "redpill", general questions that are only slightly related to literature, & Science Fiction & Fantasy, I would think is needed for there to be a point to coming here in the first place.
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Only if I get to mod
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If you want more moderation go to reddit
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I occasionally make blatant, completely unrelated to literature shitposts just to check if there are still mods left