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>>9123615
>why terry eagleton was wrong
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>>9123615
This really triggers my alt-right sensibilities and frogman mentality
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>>9123615
marx is cool but eagleton is an english department hack pretending to be a philosopher
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Are there people who actually read 300+ page novels on your PC's ? how do you do it ?
I just can't get comfortable reading , downloaded f.lux, closed window but nothing i do gets me "in the zone" .
Any tips ?
Keep in mind i can't get kindle and i'm living in a very rural place and actually buying actual books isn't an option .
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Nah, my eyes get tired really quick from the monitor., nevermind the constant alt-tabbing to 4chan and pornos
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Where do you live? Why can't you use Kindle?
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I read on my phone with a blue light filter. The reader takes up the whole screen (so no distractions) and it's easy to hold it in one hand and turn pages with the volume buttons
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Why is this so praised? The plot is a manchildren's wet dream and nothing more. Is the writing impressive to some?
I admit, I'm incredibly biased because I hate raunchy/deliberately edgy themes. And the first line is terrible
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>>9123491
>The plot is a manchildren's wet dream and nothing more.
you didn't understand the book
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>>9123491
>deliberately edgy
Have you actually read past the first line?
On another note, I think Lynch would make a much better film adaptation of this than Kubrick's. The writing style lends itself well to surrealism.
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>>9123519
What am I missing? Honest question, I hated it. I loved Pale Fire, too.
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Can you suggest a literary criticism book worth reading?
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>>9121482
Nabokov's lectures are always good
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>>9121482
Steiner his book on Dostoevsky and Tolstoy
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>>9121482
You're like a little girl. Read Paglia's Sexual Personae and experience first hand the history of art be dissected in ways your little girl brain can't comprehend
t. intellectual book boy
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I wanna talk about finding new books to read.
Aside from the obvious rec threads and jpgs, how else do you find new books?
Do you trust the synopsis on the back of the book to read it with no other knowledge?
Is word of mouth or a recommendation from a friend enough to get you to read something?
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Have you really never been interested in something before?
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>>9123234
What do you mean?
Sure I pick up a book if it looks good but a lot of the time it can turn out to be garbage.
I don't want to waste my time reading bad books, there are so many and only a finite amount of time, I'd rather have a better means of finding good books than trial and error.
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>>9123276
use your cognitive skills
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_love
>The famous feminist Gloria Steinem at one point stated, “you became a semi-nonperson when you got married.” She also famously coined the expression 'A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.' Steinem dismissed marriage in 1987 as not having a 'good name.' Steinem got married in 2000, stating that the symbols that feminists once "rebelled against" now are freely chosen, or society had changed.
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A fish might want a bicycle.
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Why wouldn't women want to get married eventually? You'd rather suffer old age completely alone?
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>>9123230
>old age is suffering
Only if you're an out-of-shape burgher, or a life-long drug addict, or some other kind of person who mutilates their own body
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What does /lit/ think about Dark Tower?
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>>9121219
>The Dark Tower
>The Dark Tower
This jump-starts my think-parts
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>>9121219
>The Dark Tower
>The Dark Tower
This really gets my noggin joggin.
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>>9121219
I read them all, for some reason. The first one is decent and over all I think was an interesting concept, the Stephen King muh genre fiction universe, but they get shitter and shitter till it's just horribly written nonsense. I don't know if he wrote the first one on drugs and the stopped doing drugs or the opposite but whatever he did it it fucked him up. He really disappears up his own arsehole as well
>I'm going to use this book about a transdimensional cowboy to tell you why the guy who ran me over was a prick!
In short, it's not worth sitting through, a waste of time.
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Just thought of a genius business idea
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Imagine building a huge library with books organised and sorted by the regular codes most books get at Universities and libraries but there is a sensor on the shelf to know when the book has been taken.
You then put the regular security equipment at the front door to stop people from stealing but you also put a touchscreen at the front door where people, before coming in, can check whether the book they want is being read.
In order to enter, you have to pay a small fee but you can spend as much time there as you want and read anything and if any book becomes misplaced, a sensor will alert the desk that a book is on the wrong shelf and the workers will put them in their correct place.
What do you think :)?
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>>9122912
I fail to see the genius and would never pay for that.
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>>9122927
Why not? You're not allowed to read books of major retailers and their books go out of supply. With my idea, they will never go out of supply and you won't have to buy it...You could even have a monthly subscription...
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Do you really think theft is an issue at modern public libraries?
I dont understand why anyone would come to this place when they could just call the public library down the street to ask for a book.
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A lot of posters seem to regard this as one of those novels that make you want to be a better person. But did anybody here actually commit more acts of love and compassion afterwards? If I got it right it's one of the morals - to not just love the universe and/or humanity but quite literally wash their feet (well that's actually figurative but whatever).
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I was overcome with a feeling of really sweet love and pity and sobbed at the end and then the next day went back to being a dick. But ideally you still get something out of the books that sits deep in you, and will come out in positive ways without you even needing to recognize it
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>>9121208
>I was overcome with a feeling of really sweet love and pity and sobbed at the end and then the next day went back to being a dick.
Yeah same here. The only difference that actually manifested in my was perhaps that I'm more friendly with addicts and mental patients. Used to have little if any empathy there.
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>>9121178
No book can make you a better person.
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Thoughts?
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the third is the best game
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>>9121167
Simplistic pamphlet about Russian nobles written in comfy prose (which is completely lost in translation).
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i more of a bloodborne fan myself
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Can anyone explain Zizek? What the fuck has Freud got to do with Marx?
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They were both German.
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Read Lacan.
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Looks like somebody didn't read his history of philosophy.
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If each board on 4chan was a book, which would they be?
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>>9122255
/lit is the main character of looking for Alaska
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>>9122255
>/aco/
>evil
Why tho?
>/tv/
>not evil
Hilarious senpai.
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Let them choose their own.
sup /lit/
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>>9120758
Is it fantasy or sci-fi?
WHAT IS IT LIT?
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sup red-I mean Gene?
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The Fifth Head of Cerberus is on the next shelf
That makes 23 wolves
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Writing. I want to get better at it.
I don't plan on actually writing a novel or publishing anything, but recently I've taken up the habit of writing daily (mostly because my shrink told me a diary would be good but I hate that format so I do short stories instead)
Google and YouTube give me either stuff like "40 TIPS TO IMPROVE YOUR WRITING!" or really inane advice such as "don't describe everything literally"
Aside from writing and reading a lot, is there anything I could do? Pic related seems like an almost universal recommendation
tl;dr writing for fun, what are some good resources for improving
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>>9120721
Get into poetry. It will teach you to be more sensitive towards things such as diction, syntax, and metaphor, all of which are staples of good prose writing.
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>>9120735
What do you recommend? I haven't read poetry since high school, no idea of where to start
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>>9120743
http://4chanlit.wikia.com/wiki/Poetry
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He warned you about The School of Resentment. People didn't take his warning seriously. Now literary culture is destroyed, and it's all your fault.
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>mfw It's taboo to like Joseph Conrad at a university
we deserve this hell
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>>9120719
this. id send that yiddish speaking clown straight into the ovens
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>>9120711
Literary culture was destroyed when you crawled out of your jew hole, and planted your big fat ass on it, you fucking obese piece of shit.