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>>8962547
best book of all times
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major marvel
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i don't understand it and I don't like it
I have never read a book (ever). I'm 22. What would be something good to start off with?
Don't get me wrong; I can read, but I've never sat down and read something. So please make it something accessible and nothing too /lit/core.
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>>8962451
1984
Blood Meridian
Heart of DarknessOblivion by DFW
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>inb4 start with the Greeks
It would help to know some of your interests or TV shows, movies, music, etc. you already enjoy
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>he lets lit dictate his opinion on which books are good or bad instead of reading them for himself
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>>8962428
literally no one actually does this
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When someone on lit says well-regarded book is shit I like to read it to see if they're just being contrarian cunts.
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>>8962435
this, get out more op
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Who /heinlein/ here?
Just finished Time Enough For Love. I was saving this book for last, and I've read nearly every one of his books now. He's been extremely influential in my life, helping shape my political views in my formative years and, even more importantly, convinced me reading was a form of entertainment. I prefer his earlier works and his amazing run of YA novels.
I'd love to discuss him and recommend works for first-time readers. Must-read author for fans of sci-fi.
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All I know is Starship Troopers (which is GOAT) and Stranger in a Strange land which just made me laugh because like half the book was an obvious self-insert sitting around by a pool giving lectures while groupies brought him drinks. What would you recommend for someone who's more into the sci fi aspects than the hippy counterculture stuff?
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>helping shape my political views
which is what, lolbertarian?
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>>8962421
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is my very favorite, and speaks to the libertarian in me.
Read A Door Into Summer. Futuristic tale of revenge. I love it, and you could blow through it in a day or two. Starman Jones is also excellent.
If you liked Starship Troopers, which was about the Space Marines, there's Space Cadet, which is about the Navy of the future, set in space. Heinlein himself was a Navy officer. Also really good.
Stranger in a Strange Land and Cat who Walks through Walks were not my favorite. That's his later stuff right there.
Really though, there's so many titles I could recommend but those I mentioned were my favorite.
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Please explain Orcs and evil corruption in LotR to me. They were corrupted elves, yes? So do beings corrupted by evil get shrivelled and thin? I think of Gollum who was corrupted Hobbit and was shrivelled up, but then what about the Nazgul? They do turn thin in essence (they go invisible)... but that's weird, man... does this mean that they're so thin that you can't even see them?
What about the Uruks? The Orcs are corrupted elves, then Uruks were crossbred with men... is there some kind of corrupted evil gene that gets passed on?
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Any of the Tolkien books other than LOTR/Hobbit worth reading?
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>>8962376
'corruption' is a metaphor for both degeneracy and race mixing. Tolkien was a fashy goy
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>>8962385
Read his essay on Faerie Stories. It's good stuff.
Other than that he mostly spent his energy on Middle Earth and translating medieval material.
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It just occurred to me, most philosophers, even major ones, spend basically their entire careers reacting to a prior philosopher, either trying to refute them or taking their ideas and expanding them further.
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>>8962359
Solipsists don't.
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As opposed to?
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>>8962359
It's almost as if we live in a deterministic universe where meatpuppets are not unmoved movers
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anybody read this bad boy? just finished rewatching twin peaks & fire walk with me in preparation for the upcoming series, and was wondering if this was worth a read. or any of the other twin peaks novels, for that matter.
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>>8962351
im a big twin peaks fan but i havent read it. i think ive heard its not really worth it. but also i guess id be more interested in stuff lynch does with twin peaks than mark frost.
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>>8962366
>but also i guess id be more interested in stuff lynch does with twin peaks than mark frost.
yeah this seems a reasonable approach. looking through now though, and apparently frost has written a few novels. wonder how those are.
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A book about, or based on a tv show? So I can waste my life base on entertainment made for television! My that's brilliant! Can I get it for an extra edition price?
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this is the best novel ever why aren't you guys reading it
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i actually planned on reading this later this year
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>>8962338
I am going to read it because the more a book gets posted here the more likely I will be to read it even if it isn't good. This has been getting posted a lot. The more you post it the more likely us retards will read it. this place is great for advertising.
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>>8962356
I really recommend you don't. He has invented a new prose for the contemporary era but that doesn't mean you should waste your time reading it. Maybe if you like awkward love stories you'd like it
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Name one thing Thomas Aquinas was ever wrong about.
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To imply he was wrong about anything would require me to adopt his stance on objective truth, on which he was incorrect because all truth is subjective.
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>>8962280
God existing
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>>8962280
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3yKxvW9yNA&t=8s
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>Just as the Bradys were getting locked in jail, Lara randomly asked me, “Have you ever gotten a blowjob?”
>“Um, that’s out of the blue,” I said.
>“The blue?”
>“Like, you know, out of left field.”
>“Left field?”
>“Like, in baseball. Like, out of nowhere. I mean, what made you think of that?”
>“I’ve just never geeven one,” she answered, her little voice dripping with seductiveness. It was so brazen. I thought I would explode. I never thought. I mean, from Alaska, hearing that stuff was one thing. But to hear her sweet little Romanian voice go so sexy all of the sudden...
>“No,” I said. “I never have.”
>“Think it would be fun?”
>DO I!?!?!?!?!?!?! “Um. yeah. I mean, you don’t have to.”
>“I think I want to,” she said, and we kissed a little, and then. And then with me sitting watching The Brady Bunch, watching Marcia Marcia Marcia up to her Brady antics, Lara unbuttoned my pants and pulled my boxers down a little and pulled out my penis.
>“Wow,” she said.
>“What?”
>She looked up at me, but didn’t move, her face nanometers away from my penis. “It’s weird.”
>“What do you mean weird?”
>“Just beeg, I guess.”
>I could live with that kind of weird. And then she wrapped her hand around it and put it into her mouth.
>And waited.
>We were both very still. She did not move a muscle in her body, and I did not move a muscle in mine. I knew that at this point something else was supposed to happen, but I wasn’t quite sure what.
>She stayed still. I could feel her nervous breath. For minutes, for as long as it took the Bradys to steal the key and unlock themselves from the ghost-town jail, she lay there, stock-still with my penis in her mouth, and I sat there, waiting.
>And then she took it out of her mouth and looked up at me quizzically.
>“Should I do sometheeng?”
>“Um. I don’t know,” I said. Everything I’d learned from watching porn with Alaska suddenly exited my brain. I thought maybe she should move her head up and down, but wouldn’t that choke her? So I just stayed quiet.
>“Should I, like, bite?”
>“Don’t bite! I mean, I don’t think. I think—I mean, that felt good. That was nice. I don’t know if there’s something else.”
>“I mean, you deedn’t—”
>“Um. Maybe we should ask Alaska.”
>So we went to her room and asked Alaska. She laughed and laughed. Sitting on her bed, she laughed until she cried. She walked into the bathroom, returned with a tube of toothpaste, and showed us. In detail. Never have I so wanted to be Crest Complete.
>Lara and I went back to her room, where she did exactly what Alaska told her to do, and I did exactly what Alaska said I would do, which was die a hundred little ecstatic deaths, my fists clenched, my body shaking. It was my first orgasm with a girl, and afterward, I was embarrassed and nervous, and so, clearly, was Lara, who finally broke the silence by asking, “So, want to do some homework?”
Your little sister has read this book.
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Why does he have to look for Alaska?
Just get a map dude lmfao
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I don't have a little sister.But I've read the book.
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Why is this cunt so obsessed with Alaska when he has a Romanian qt asking his fucking permission to blow him?
John Green needs to stop projecting his numale pussy-on-a-pedestal bullshit onto his characters, but then he'd probably sell fewer books.
What is the definitive book on the alt-right?
Inb4 Mein Kampf, get out nazis >>>/pol/
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>>8962275
It even talks about the relation between interracial cuckoldry and fascism.
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>>8962282
As I understand it, the alt right is anything but racial cuckoldry.
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Which words piss you off?
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I didn't realize how much I hate the word "anyhow" until I started reading Silence
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I hate the word "both" because I keep running into people who pronounce it with a gutteral "l" sound between the o and th. "Bolth," but it should obviously be "bowth."
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Where should I begin with my reading of Ezra Pound? He produced decades of work and lived a fascinating life, often seen as a figurehead and curator of the modernist movement. Are the Cantos 2deep to get started with? What do.
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Damn it all! all this our South stinks peace.
You whoreson dog, Papiols, come! Let’s to music!
I have no life save when the swords clash.
But ah! when I see the standards gold, vair, purple, opposing
And the broad fields beneath them turn crimson,
Then howl I my heart nigh mad with rejoicing.
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In hot summer have I great rejoicing
When the tempests kill the earth’s foul peace,
And the light’nings from black heav’n flash crimson,
And the fierce thunders roar me their music
And the winds shriek through the clouds mad, opposing,
And through all the riven skies God’s swords clash.
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Hell grant soon we hear again the swords clash!
And the shrill neighs of destriers in battle rejoicing,
Spiked breast to spiked breast opposing!
Better one hour’s stour than a year’s peace
With fat boards, bawds, wine and frail music!
Bah! there’s no wine like the blood’s crimson!
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And I love to see the sun rise blood-crimson.
And I watch his spears through the dark clash
And it fills all my heart with rejoicing
And prys wide my mouth with fast music
When I see him so scorn and defy peace,
His lone might ’gainst all darkness opposing.
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The man who fears war and squats opposing
My words for stour, hath no blood of crimson
But is fit only to rot in womanish peace
Far from where worth’s won and the swords clash
For the death of such sluts I go rejoicing;
Yea, I fill all the air with my music.
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Papiols, Papiols, to the music!
There’s no sound like to swords swords opposing,
No cry like the battle’s rejoicing
When our elbows and swords drip the crimson
And our charges ’gainst “The Leopard’s” rush clash.
May God damn for ever all who cry “Peace!”
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And let the music of the swords make them crimson
Hell grant soon we hear again the swords clash!
Hell blot black for always the thought “Peace”!
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>>8962269
>For the death of such sluts I go rejoicing
I love this man. He manages to make me laugh about thots while painting a picture of the strife of Renaissance Italy simultaneously.
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hi i'm dumb and i wanna read books, i need a basic recommending reading list so i can start somewhere
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read the sticky
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>>8962241
u expect me to read all that shit
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What are some essential Naturalism texts other than Moby Dick and Darwin's works?
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Émile Zola works are pretty good desu
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>>8962217
How is Moby Dick Naturalism?
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