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ITT: Books that are so dense that every line has so much going on.
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>>8965959
It's like poetry
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>>8965980
Yes, quite.
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my diary desu
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Horrible but extremely popular writers.
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>>8965954
Dan Brown, JK Rowling.
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He's literally better than 99 percent of people who ever attempted to write seriously.
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It's ironic and also fucking balls to the wall retarded that this guy once gave advice to aspiring writers that they should cut everything that can be cut. Stephen fucking King, of all people, saying that.
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what's you favorite film adaptation? For me, I'd say it's either The Great Gatsby from 2013 or American Psycho. DiCaprio and Bale ideally personified their characters and both directors perfectly rendered the atmosphere of the prose from books.
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2013 Gatsby is one of the worst films I've ever seen
Actually got nauseous watching it
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Never read the book, but the Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy movie was a masterpiece.
>>8965967
This. I like Moulin Rouge but Baz Luhrman's adaptations are heinous. Romeo + Juliet was the worst thing I've ever seen.
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>>8965967
>>8966022
I'd fight you irl. Kidding, I don't know, it's just my little foible. I fell in love with this movie and it's hard for me to imagine how can one hate it. You didn't even like implementation of modern songs into the soundtrack? For me it was so refreshing and fascinating.
>Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Thanks for reminding me there is a book. Saw this film few years ago and also loved it, gotta rewatch it someday.
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What are some good short story books any of pic related?
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Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O"Connor
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H E M I N G W A Y
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What books do you like to glance at or read while taking a long shit?
pic related.
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>>8965868
Rosseau. It's entertaining enough and serves as backup toilet paper if I run out
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>Washroom
Fuck off, kike.
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>>8965868
>tfw have incredibly regular and swift bowel movements
>inn and out of the bathroom in seconds
>never any time to read
I envy the constipated.
How do I stop subvocalizing?
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practice
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i just looked up what this is and didn't know i was supposed to stop
>>8965869
pls tell us how to eben start practicing this
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>>8965869
How do I practice? Should I use nootropics?
Are kids lit worth reading as an adult?
I've never read stuff like Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz as a child.
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>>8965830
yeah, if you read for the plot
i really love harry potter
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Alice in Wonderland is a great read even as an adult
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>>8965830
there's two kinds of kids lit (which can overlap).
It can be written retardedly, and kids like it, because they are the only ones who could like it, because they are stupider than adults. The adults who write these are stupid themselves, and calling themselves children's authors is sort of a cop-out.
Other kids lit can just be something about kids, and kids lives, about dealing with school and parents and shit, so kids relate to it.
The latter can still be good as an adult.
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The phenomenology of spirit.
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Just bought this, what am i in for /lit/ ?
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>>8965790
oh
it's one of my favourite books
make sure to read marx afterwards
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>>8965790
You will literally NOT be able to read this without a guide of some sort.
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>>8965998
yeah he will
if it's a he
bitches hate hegel
they can't understand it
are all women low-key autistic?
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Name one thing he was wrong about.
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>>8965784
women
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>>8965784
islam
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muslim women
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Any good literature on the "proper" use of psychedelics?
I know beneath all the pseudo-spiritual Bill Hicks shit there must be some actual, practical, psychotherapeutic use for it. I even heard it's making a comeback in wonk-approved psychology. So please guide me.
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>>8965731
Thikal
Phikal
/thread
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>>8965731
Isn't Timothy Leary the dude for this?
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>>8965735
Woops, i meant Tihkal and Pihkal
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Are there any dank /lit/ books with gay male protagonists?
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my dairy de... no wait
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It's actually good
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>>8965681
your dad diary desu
Hi /lit/
im currently a 20 year old computer science student
i want to become Žižek when i grow up. I am already working on the tics, i'm good at rubbing my nose, and i often pull on my shirt.
What do i read to become Žižek?
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You're going at this all wrong. You need to get bitten by Žižek.
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>stem
you're not gonna make it
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>>8965661
HHHHAHAAAAAHHAAAAA
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Anyone else get sudden flashes of absurdist thoughts throughout the day? They come and go quickly, with no warning. Things like "why does getting ice cream makes me happy, it's meaningless", or "why do people work, when they are all going to die anyway". Despite disagreeing with these thoughts, they keep coming.
What are the rec absurdist/existencialist literature I can get into so I can make sense of these thoughts?
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>>8965654
>why does getting ice cream makes me happy, it's meaningless
Your brain's designed by evolution to seek sweet (aka full of carbohydrates) things, hence it makes you happy to get them
>why do people work, when they are all going to die anyway
Because not working leads to early death from starvation.
Seriously, what is up with teenagers these days, it's basic shit man
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this better be bait
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I think the term you are looking for is reductionist thinking.
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What class of people are best suited to being contemporary philosopher-kings as outlined in Plato's Republic?
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>>8965625
J E W S
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>>8965625
Uh, philosophers?
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I really want that shirt. I would wear it debate practice.
>This piece of shit
I saw a thread on /lit/ about this, but didn't really look at it.
Then I went to Waterstones today and saw STACKS of this fucking thing. I picked one up and read a few pages.
Holy fuck. How does win a prize? How does this get published? It's the most trite, sentimental shit. There's no poetry in it. No discernible talent. These are the sentences you'd expect of a teenager, given line breaks to look like poetry.
Do I just need to be a feminist PoC/minority to win at life?
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had to watch her ted talk on rape for class (teacher is a huge feminist) and it actually made me want to rape more
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>>8965635
Here's a TED talk you can show them next time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yFhR1fKWG0&t=2s
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>>8965645
ya she'd probably be down for the state enforced homosexuality