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yes

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>>8934606
>Shakesman
>Ibsen
>Aristophanes
>Neil Simon
>Noel Coward
>Cole Porter

>>8934611
circumlocution and liberals

>>8934506
no

I think the Dany is the daughter of Lyanna Stark and Rhaegar Targaryen. Thought's?

I liked the part where they played the game with the thrones

>>8934502
she kind of looks like a dude, but i'm not judging, more power to diversity in sf

>Kim

always thought it was a girl

never read, but now I might.

>>8934502
haven't read him. what do you think, friend?

>>8934418
This is correct.

>>8934418
You are objectively wrong on all counts.

>>8934516
You are objectively gay and subjectively having sex with yourself

sincerely,
J. Lacan

>>8934406
I stopped reading after Smerdyakov committed suicide. Can someone tell me summarise what happens next? I'm too lazy to finish it.

>>8934419
What the fuck man there's like 40 pages left.

>>8934419
trial happens, ivan tells the court that smerdyakov did it, prosecutor makes his case, defense makes their case, dmitri found guilty, little boy Illyushka dies, ultra sad funeral, everyone exclaims how they are sure they will come back to life and meet again. Dmitri will supposedly escape during transport to siberia, but we never really find out. The end. "Hurrah for Alyosha."

No, annotation is cancer. If you can't understand something while reading it in plain text, then either
A: you're not at the level of education or intellect necessary to read the text
or
B: the text itself fails at its job of expressing thought and ideas in a form that can be digested by its target audience

The exception of course being exceptionally long works but I'd posit that being so long as to be impossible to remember in sum never did have much value.

>>8934439
I personally haven't written annotation/notes, but I do imagine it would at least be a little worthwhile for revisiting later on.

>>8934451
It's no substitute for simply revisiting the text
And there's a difference between writing notes for specific use and annotating a book because your highschool english teacher told you writing in the margins would make your brain think smarter

A Farewell to Arms :3

Fascism for the million

You'd think a person would tire of tireless masturbation to Oscar Wilde and James Dean after decade upon decade of it. Morrissey, my man, List of the Lost sucked shit. I am reading Mein Kampf.

>>8934350
self bump if i may

>>8934350
It looks retarded based on the cover

it's not on bib.

author looks like a total cunt i must say

>>8934246
French Philosophy is Good, Actually.

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>>8934246
what you need to understand is that "intelligence" is a quantifier of one's ability to fit into a dehumanizing capitalist system, and that the attempt to categorize it as a measure of "health" is an attempt to naturalize that process of dehumanization.

Good, finally someone said it.

The French have ruined philosophy and intellectual thought for the past 100 years.

>>8934220
He very well may be.

>>8934220
No, Philip K. Dick is.

>>8934256
>living

And even Kim Stanley Robinson who did his PhD thesis on Dick says that most of his work was shit

>>8934153
House of Leaves

>>8934153
you're going to have to explain what's literary about this game and what it feels like

>>8934770
Not OP, but hello :)

Some of the best English prose in the canon.

Not even memeing. Don't let the archaic spelling and capitalization throw you. It's great stuff.

>>8934132
Honestly one of the best pieces of political philosophy ever written. And not just politics but religious theory and Hobbes' conceptions of science too. It's pretty much GOAT for the genre.

>>8934132
A real political redpill of the kind /pol/ can't handle.

>>8934099
>tfw you aren't even a native speaker and you know more than half of these words
Goddamn it feels good to speak a romance language

>>8934099
>>8934106
Are you trapped in the 1800s?

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You know it's true /lit/

there is no rating low enough for our op here

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>hehe he drew a butthole

>>8934002
You might want to try Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer.

Thunderstruck by Erik Larson is a interesting one that ties together the invention of radio communications and a murder in England.

>>8934268
Thanks I'll give it a look!

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>>8934002
This one's bizarre