Can we all agree on the following:
> 1984 > Fahrenheit 451 > A brave new world
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We > all of them.
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>>8923418
agreed.
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>>8923418
BNW is the most disturbing out of all of them and is incidentally a utopain novel
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Looking for authors similar to charles bukowski. Been a bukowski fan for years and would like to expand my horizons in that area of writing.
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>>8923344
Fante
Celine
Henry Miller
They are all better than him
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>>8923344
>Bukowski
More like Buttcrackski
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Was looking into fante and celine. Thanks for the advice. Gotta check out miller. I appreciate it. Getting tired of same old drag with charles.
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Which online bookstore will actually ship me books in good condition? I normally use Amazon but they just throw the books in a box, with no packaging materials, and by the time they get to me they are often damaged. I am in the US by the way.
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>>8923317
>not supporting your local used bookstore
JUST
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>>8923317
I've never received a book from Amazon that wasn't packaged with some kind of packing material. The problem is that they make no effort to ensure the book is protected. The book is on one side of the box and the packing material on the other.
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>>8923322
>implying I even have a local used bookstore
>implying even if I did have one, it wouldn't be rife with useless normie garbage
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Just saw this. Not going to lie, I found it mostly boring. I guess it was just the story of the guy questioning his faith and the point of the suffering but, as a complete layman, it wasn't satisfying.
Why not just lie and say you're not a Christian? Is Scorsese just playing out his existential crisis on screen?
How does someone bear living in some Japanese shithole after growing up in Europe? Seeing those villagers living shitty boring lives early in the movie makes it really easy to see how they can only look at religion for meaning. Even in 2016 people get existential crises when entertainment exists, so imagine being bored as fuck back then.
I know I will be dismissed and insulted simply for asking the "dumb" (i.e., fundamental) questions.
Multiple people walked out, though I wasn't close to doing that. Also I went to an evening showing on my own and literally everyone else in the foyer was in couples. >tfw no gf.
Also, I went to an Islam study school when I was younger and have experienced many religious things first hand. I have first hand experience in finding it all boring. I will be trolled for asking the "dumb" questions by people with even less religious experience than me. Not that I should have to mention this, but there are many pretentious people who are cargo cult religion worshippers.
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>>8923192
Wrong board, fag
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>>8923192
>Also, I went to an Islam study school when I was younger and have experienced many religious things first hand. I have first hand experience in finding it all boring. I will be trolled for asking the "dumb" questions by people with even less religious experience than me. Not that I should have to mention this, but there are many pretentious people who are cargo cult religion worshippers.
This doesn't even make sense
t. M.Div
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>>8923192
>sunday school in sandland
>religous expert
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ITT: Discuss ancient Greek mythology, ask questions regarding the stories such as the illiad, claim your mythological waifus, etc.
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Why is Diana such a cunt? I don't even think Juno is as much of a bitch as Diana.
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i claim clio
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>>8923152
beat me to it.
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I don't think I'm intellectually prepared to read this at my present age and culture.
What am I in for?
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If this is your introduction to Nietzsche, then probably not.
Read Untimely Meditations first.
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>>8923138
Start with the Greeks you dumb faggot.
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>>8923157
Yeah this too.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y8_RRaZW5X3xwztjZ4p0XeRplqebYwpmuNNpaN_TkgM/pub
Do you really need to know anything besides Hume's ideas in order to tackle the Critique of Pure Reason?
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>>8923132
Leibniz and Newton
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>>8923132
>make people with different values afraid again
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>>8923256
I'm a Trump supporter, but I can understand this t-shirt if it refers to the small minority of thugs who want to use our movement as an excuse to get drunk and beat people up.
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>2016+1
>not being able to write a sonnet
What's your excuse, poets of /lit/
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Write me a sonnet based on this thread and my reply
Easy enuff
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>>8923096
>2017
>shitposting this hard
Even shitty highschool can write a sonnet.
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is literary criticism the endgame of literature?
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>>8923092
Nobody worth his salt writes to please critics
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>>8923092
Yes. And the endgame of literary criticism is silence
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>>8923092
Really, OP. Think for yourself.
The phrase "endgame of literature" is so vague it's almost without meeting. Literary criticism is writing which is itself a kind of literature. So it's an endgame of itself?
Is shark the "most evolved" animal?
Is the shift "the final solution" of baseball defense?
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>That chapter in no longer human where the main character enters a "longest human" competition and wins
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>that book in a song of ice and fire where they take the song of ice and toss it into the fireplace
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>>8923010
>that scene in shakespeare where he shakes a spear
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>that part in Thus Spake Zarathustra when Zarathustra spake
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I read this without the letters at the beginning and end the first time i read it, and now i prefer it that way
was it true Percy wrote the letters?
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>>8922884
Yeah, he insisted on putting the letters in and they're the worst part of the damn book. Percy was a fucking hack
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>>8924541
>Yeah, he insisted on putting the letters in and they're the worst part of the damn book. Percy was a fucking hack
More info on this?
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>>8922884
REMINDER THAT ANYONE WHO THINKS THIS WAS WRITTEN BY A WOMEN IS FALLING FOR LIBERAL BRAINWASHING. IT WAS WRITTEN BY A MAN
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Push a button, /lit/.
a - released in 2017
b - released in [year]
c - never going to be released. valar morghulis
d - i can't read, what's happening here
>a. it's happening this year
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a
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a
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>>8922780
It's never going to be released. I don't know why I even bothered to read the first two books. The series is garbage and it'll forever remain incomplete.
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>book has two authors
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>book has two books
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>both authors are women
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>author has two books
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Is "In Search of Lost Time" as good as it's said to be? At 4200 pages I just assume it's going to mainly consist of padding and filler.
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>I just assume it's going to mainly consist of padding and filler.
Yeah, of course it's mainly padding and filler in one of the most highly regarded books of the century.
Dumb fuck
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>>8922745
>"In Search of Lost Time"
>At 4200 pages
>found it
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>>8922977
plenty of great books have filler
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Hi /lit/ I saw this post and interested to read it all this 2017. My question is would it make a difference if I read it from a computer screen (PDF)? Or is it much better if I read it in a paper/book?
Thanks /lit/!
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>>8922703
Do whatever's easiest for you. Personally, I can't read books from computer screens, but I know people who prefer it. I don't think it takes away from the experience at all.
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>>8922703
Just as long as you read it, OP.
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Reading books from a fucking monitor while sitting in a chair is the most gruesome way to read a book.
Nothing beats a supporting pillow + bed + a reading light.