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Well maybe you should replace the main characters names with your favourite characters names, make it seem like an AU

>>9044652
read in the potty

/lit/ sure gets a lot of these "I want to read but can't focus" variations threads.

>>9044613
Both can be found here (well, only an abridged version of the American Literature book unfortunately):

http://gen.lib.rus.ec/

>>9044627
It's still better than nothing.
Thanks Anon, I was literally going to be not able to pay this month's rent.

>>9044647
you were going to sacrifice paying rent to buy a few books? listen owning books is nice but go to a goddamn library if you cant afford them. that is what those are made for

No
95% of those are useless pseud books, also:
>Bible isn't no.1

>>9044595
That list is the result of a poll of every anon (including posturing pseuds) who sees that thread and didnt say "oh this will be posted on imgur" listing their top 3, and then having some autistic anon collate said results into a meme list.

No joke. Go to goodreads, give over the top ratings to books you enjoy regardless of whether you think they are "great", and use their recommendation engine. It actually works, especially for novice readers of literary fiction.

>>9044595
a) At the beginning
b) Start with the Greeks

In all seriousness, read the shortest ones first, so that you can build some momentum. Personally I recommend The Stranger for a first book.

it's usually about the concepts underlying those words

>>9044587
how can people be afraid of pictures on a screen? I will say that I think the "uncanny" is better portrayed in literature than film.

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>>9044587
>The words don't activate his imagination and make the scene play out like a movie in his head

>>9044575
idk but it sounds smart

>>9044575

This quote is stupid. If you can't talk about it you're going to be silent about it anyway.

He meant we can't speak with any surety of things which are beyond sense experience and therefore unknowable. But didn't Hegel say: "the This of sense...cannot be reached by language."?

>falling for the German idealism meme

Start with the Greeks.

1. pick up book
2. aim
3. throw at general direction of the trash

australia pls go

Good job retard

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>>9044456
>If I court moe women, you'll couch with moe men

What did shakespeare-san mean by this?

No Terrence Mckenna just did too many drugs

>>9044415
>Did Joyce inspire to build a seed for the living world, time-space in a nutshell? Is this the most unique and accomplished book of all time?
he only inspired if you're an inspie

>>9044715
this
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>that classic, index finger in the footnotes section reading method
she's a keeper

What kind of look is that

In college I was a big infinitejest head and I gave it to the girl i was dating with this corny line I regret now, I said "if you really want to understand me, read this book." Turned out she really wanted to understand me, because she started reading it that night, which I didnt expect, and which made me a little nervous because I myself had actually not gotten past p 380. Dont get me wrongh I loved the book to death, but it was mostly those 380 pages that I had so much affection for. She was a big reader but she read like retarded YA books like harry potter and the hunger games nd a bunch of books w dragons on rhe cover so I didnt think shed even make it that far. But she read it every night when she came home from class andsje kept getting further and turther and as she neared p 380 I started to actually get very nervous because this YA reading i mean i loved but this total pleb you know was going to pass where I'd read up to jn my own favorite book. One night after shed stopped reading I said hey so how are you enjoying it, and she just gave me this weird look and turned the lights out. The next day she passed p 380, kept reading, and kept reading, every night, until finally she actually finished the whole thing. I was there when she finished it, pacing in front of her, chewing my nails, waiting for the verdict. After what felt like an hour she closed the book and looked up at me. I stared at her expectantly, looking into her eyes, and she looking into mine, and time seemed to stop as sweat poured down my forehead and my heart pounded and she continued to stare at me. My look begged her to say something, and she did. "you're a fucking retard," she said.

>>9044149
The virgin mary

>>9044149
thanks for posting your diary desu

>>9044149
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_de_Clisson

wow harry that's a lot of roth

>>9044112
>Vice: I was hoping to talk first about The Western Canon.

>Harold Bloom: Do you mean the whole category, or what I wrote about it?

>I mean your book.

>But can we make an agreement? Let’s forget that damned list.

>Ha. Do you mean the appendix in the back of the book that lists all the canonical works?

>The list was not my idea. It was the idea of the publisher, the editor, and my agents. I fought it. I finally gave up. I hated it. I did it off the top of my head. I left out a lot of things that should be there and I probably put in a couple of things that I now would like to kick out. I kept it out of the Italian and the Swedish translations, but it’s in all the other translations—about 15 or 18 of them. I’m sick of the whole thing. All over the world, including here, people reviewed and attacked the list and didn’t read the book. So let’s agree right now, my dear. We will not mention the list.

>It’s a deal.

>I wish I had nothing to do with it. I literally did it off the top of my head, since I have a pretty considerable memory, in about three hours one afternoon.

>It does seem like the sort of thing that a publisher would ask for to make the book more palatable to a casual reader.

>It doesn’t exist. Let’s go on.

Does lit have a list of books in chronological order?

th prologue is already killing it.
it is like a joke that you have to explain. it's not funny anymore. besides, stop it already with the me vs sheeple crap

>>9044086
the first paragraph and I'm already annoyed. If I wanted ham-fisted philosophy, I'd watch shonen anime. Sorry, OP

Can you at least comment on the sexual part? It comes in around page 57. I worked extra hard on that part to make it good, please say something nice about it

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>>9044015

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>he claims that there's no free will but can't actually define free will

MY

>>9043879
My/your diary desu

LE

>>9043868
>I want to die hemorrhaging internally at the age of 50.

>>9043885
i think that was mostly the booze

>>9043885
>I want to die a kissless virgin at moms house