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Post the longest doorstopper you ever completed
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Der Magische Berg by Thomas Mann
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>>8957018
harry potter and the philsopher's stone
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>>8957055
>Der Magische Berg
I think you mean Der Zauberberg
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Let's get a recent purchases thread going here lads.
What have you bought recently?
Pic related, I'm especially happy with the Pope book that I got for a pound from oxfam.
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>>8956962
Wow i didn't realize how short the epic of Gilgamesh was
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>>8956986
you could read it in an hour
http://www.aina.org/books/eog/eog.pdf
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Hi lit
Please recommend me some good novels/lit to read in Spanish. I am currently at a rusty intermediate level from high-school Spanish, where I was taught more about Spanish than how to speak it. I have not done any extensive reading in the language and would like to improve my understanding, and become able to read it with little difficulty. Would it be ambitious to start with Don Quixote?
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>>8956893
>Would it be ambitious to start with Don Quixote?
Yes. Cervantes wrote tones of short stories.You can start with that and see if you understand it.
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>>8956893
Read Jorge Luis Borges
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I will look into both of these thanks
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/ssrg/ Short Story Reading Group: The Man Who Would Be King #2
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Attempt #2 Edition
Welcome to the fourth story! All are invited to join in at any time, or to come and go as you please. Thank you all for participating.
>The Man Who Would Be King by Rudyard Kipling
>14,298 words
>Reading time: 1 hour 12 minutes
>About the Author
http://docdro.id/b0gjdVT
>Poll
http://www.strawpoll.me/12066544
Discussions start in this thread and will finish on Thursday. The next reading is The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (6,153 words). Discussion for it will run Friday through Sunday.
>ebook
https://mega.nz/#F!tVUyAAya!MhE3co1AQ3tXjLS-iX4CTw
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Would_Be_King
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8147
Pro tip: On the left side of Wikisource you can click "Download as EPUB" to download a well formatted epub.
>audiobook
https://archive.org/details/man_wwb_king_0810_librivox
>ebook for next reading
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Yellow_Wall_Paper
>Many stories will be pulled from The World's Greatest Short Stories (Dover Thrift Editions) which is $4
http://www.bookdepository.com/The-Worlds-Greatest-Short-Stories-James-Daley/9780486447162
Old threads:
>>8951620 The Man who Would Be King
>>8919723 The Death of Ivan Ilyich
>>8898002 Bartleby, the Scrivener - Melville
>>8889062 The Necklace - Maupassant
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Anyone finish reading yet? Still planning to read it?
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>>8957568
I'm feeling really sad give me an hour.
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>tfw the reading group you decided to do is the worst one
Well, the Iliad one might be worse off. We should probably just stop.
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>reading the scribbles of Latin American """intellectuals"""
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>>8956605
I just thought I'd stop by and assure you that this was in fact a great idea for a thread.
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>>8956620
Thank you. I thought so as well.
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>American intellectuals
These faggots never read Ingenieros
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Who has the best friendship in all of fiction?
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Ishmael and Queequeg
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>>8956583
Easily Don Quixote and Sancho Panza
Can't even argue
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>>8956583
Ray Smith and Japhy Ryder
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what diaries (other than Anne Frank) has anyone here read and what did they take away from them?
After reading the excellent War Diaries of Harold Nicolson, I looked about for further diaries and have since read the following:
John Evelyn
Donald Friend
Charles Greville
Derek Jarman
Samuel Pepys
Evelyn Waugh
In the case of Greville, I read a thick volume of edited entries but the full work, which would fill more than 28 vols, has never been published. The others I've read in their complete versions.
What I most enjoy is the range of perspectives a diary can provide; into historical times, psychology of the writer, the artlessness and honesty of a bared soul. Even the Waugh at his most maudlin can entertain and provide insight. Today on wikipedia I came across
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_diarists
which is the most comprehensive I've seen yet.
Dear readers, I'm hoping for some recommendations as to other excellent ones, some discussion on the genre and will answer any reader questions regarding the ones I've already read.
pic related - Donald Friend self portrait
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I've read the diaries of Kafka, it was quitekafkaesque.
No really I liked it but it just reinforced what I already know about his life and his outlook on it from his novels.
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DIARY
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I'll start: pic related
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>>8956508
Books should not be burned.
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>>8956534
The Koran should be burned
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Can you say why that opinion regarding a tale of two cities?
I'm reading it right now, and while it's not densely complex, au contraire, it is a novel that appeal to the masses, probably the genre fiction of the epoch; it is a well written novel, and Dickens describes events/places in an almost autistic precision.
>I am primarily the creator of a new code of morality which has so far been believed impossible - namely, a morality not based on faith, not on emotion, not on arbitrary edicts, mystical or social, but on reason.
How would you reply?
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by shooting a huge piss geyser into the air and catching it in my asshole
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>>8956489
I would tip my fedora enthusiastically
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>>8956489
Telling her that the Fountainhead was a terrible book.
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Does /lit/ still play with toys (action figures, toy soldiers, lego, etc.)?
What impact do you think it has on your imaginative abilities? One would think that it could help enhance your imagination, and thereby help you form and come up with better plots and stories when writing.
>inb4 "you have autism"
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>>8956394
no
if i did it would probably have a negative impact on my imaginative abilities, because toys and the kind of things you imagine toys can do are completely different from the way things really go and peoples lived experiences
now that i think about it playing with toys probably damages your imagination, since you are just stuck in your own head. first hand experience is far superior for one's imagination.
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Is Johnny just losing his mind like his mother did? What is The Navidson Record? Who is Zampano? What is The House of Leaves? Discuss.
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>Is Johnny just losing his mind like his mother did?
Yeah, isolation, sleep deprivation, dehydration and hunger tend to do this to people
>What is The Navidson Record?
Navidson's documentary on his house in Virginia
>Who is Zampano? What is The House of Leaves?
We don't know a lot about him but he's the one who wrote, or rather dictated, House of Leaves which is a book on The Navidson Record. Possibly a former owner of the house himself.
Johnny finds his work at the old guy's place and discovers his inner autism as he becomes obsessed to the point of starting to believe in everything written in there and quitting his job etc.
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>>8956904
Let's not forget there is zero proof of anything that Zampano wrote points to the truth, yet Johnny is still full on turbotinfoil hat mode.
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>>8956358
This books is a redditcore tedious mess that I've been putting it to good use as a doorstop.
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https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLghL9V9QTN0jTgA1qrhWrBCB_Ln4xlVlB
What do you think about him?
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>>8956341
Good for teenagers to strip away all the pretentious baggage that they might associate with literature but I worry that this style of education or entertainment does not sponsor a healthy reading habit or reading deeply and intently.
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>>8956346
>does not sponsor a healthy reading habit or reading deeply and intently.
It doesn't sponsor reading at all. Students just use it to fool teachers into thinking they've done their required reading. This is just a hip, fun supplement to sparknotes.
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>>8956341
That's cool OP, but can you summarize the thug notes for me in a series of 140 character Tweets?
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yay I got published
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"I don't even know where to start here. This is the single most offensive, misogynistic, racist, and anti-everyone publication that I have ever read.
I wanted so much to hate it based on the underlying angry tone... but.. the author's masterful writing is too good to ignore or dismiss as simple shock work.
Other than being utterly ultra-violent and incredibly offensive to just about every social group in existence, I am almost embarrassed to say that there are sections that made me laugh out loud, and others that made me more uncomfortable than any book has a right to.
This book is NOT for kids. This book is NOT for the easily-offended.
It is a study in heartache, obsession, and insanity. It is thought provoking, horrific, and somehow beautiful all at the same time."
number 2
"four stars because it's well-written-- and infuriating enough to compel me to review it, so that counts for something. just a twisted, dark, disturbing read. e.g. talk of necrophilia, seriously. nothing redeemable about it, at all. how can this book even be available on amazon with its lewdness? this author ought to be committed... to a mental health facility."
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>>8956262
kek
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I heard you guys like big words.Can anyone help me understand what this means?
>The intent of this performance was to attempt to poetically illustrate sexual perversions in relationship to and inspired by "queering" an architectural space. (Referencing consciousness and human connections.) Formula as follows; to begin, try presenting visual theories (or cues) of connecting to a space sexually by activating said space and or generating potential sexual desires and energies through using sound and imagery. Do not utilize obvious sexual references. Allow time for desire to develop. End result, creating a unified safe queer space.
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>>8956249
"I'm gonna cummmmmmmmmm"
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>>8956249
How many fuckin bait threads so you people need?
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>https://vimeo.com/32685243
Radical, dude.
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I was just reading this crime and punishment book and I got so sad seeing how rudely Raskolnikov treats Razumikhin. Razumikhin is so fucking nice and Raskolnikov doesn't deserve a friend like him, he's a completely inconsiderate asshole.
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>>8956245
bros are like that sometimes.
finish the book before starting a thread about your feelings.
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>>8956245
they're not real people lol
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>>8956245
Raskol rejects Razu because Razu makes him feel extra guilty. Razu is being the nicest guy possible and Raskol can't handle that because he feels he doesn't deserve it (being a murderet and all).