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>people will actually go into public and "read"/stare at pages in these books just to look intelligent
>people will actually buy these books just to decorate their bookshelves with them
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>>8888286
>reading books in public
Why?
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>>8888286
i take some smelly shits too sometimes
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Who the fuck have you ever seen reading anything by Johannes Kepler in public
I study physics and I don't even know anybody who claims to have read those books except Hawking's, all that matters about them can be summed up in a handful of equations or a wikipedia article (or for the Principia, your Physics I class). Hawking's book does not belong in that list. They aren't full of masterful artistic prose either.
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Are there any books with protagonists who get what they want but are eventually worse off for it?
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>>8888283
This book is that incarnate.
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No there are none in the whole world.
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>>8888339
No, it's not. Henever becomes a Christminster scholar.
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is there any Literature about dinosaurs?
i'm feeling really sad so i want to read something that i know will cheer me up
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Lena Dunham has the body of a tyrannosaur
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Raptor Red
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>>8888234
Starting Strength
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Wilful disregard/Egenmäktigt förfarande by Lena Andersson, also, Swedish literature general 2016-12-26 10:24:14 Post No.8888202
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Wilful disregard/Egenmäktigt förfarande by Lena Andersson, also, Swedish literature general
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This book was a forced meme here in Sweden a couple of years ago, and now I finally got around to reading it. To be honest, I read it because I fell in love with a girl who talked about it, so hey, why the fuck not.
The book isn't that good, but it's got some good points. I think the idea is good, but then again, I'm in the mood for relationship novels right now. The execution, however, is terrible. As it is, the book just seems as if though no editor has read it.
First of all, phrases are repeated a lot, in a bad way. Words kick in again and again. The most common metaphor for sex is "their bodies met." Don't know how that sounds to native speakers of English, but the Swedish variety (deras kroppar möttes) sounds fucking terrible, especially after getting forced down the reader's throat.
I don't find Ester to be insane, which has been a point of critizism, especially after the book started getting praise from every fucking paper in this country. I think everyone on /lit/ can relate to the feeling of longing for someone so much that you take a detour just to walk through their neighbourhood in order to catch a glimpse of them. It gets a little too much towards the end of the book, but being madly in love for a year is nothing I find strange.
Andersson tells instead of showing, and, again, not in a good way. Especially during the second half of the book, stuff pops up with shit explanations, like "she remembered thing X he told her during that dinner" or "He had left a DVD in her apartment and now she thought of returning it" or some shit, instead of letting Hugo leave the DVD at page 40 and then not mention it until page 140 when Ester wants to return it.
The speech of the characters is unnatural, but I think that's in part because Andersson normally writes articles for Dagens Nyheter regarding culture, politics, and shit, and inserts her ideas in a rough way.
On the positive side, these ideas can be great food for thought. Not always, or even often, but often enough. It's got a lot to do with power within human relationships - unsurprising, since that's what the book deals with.
I've got some other things to say about it, but I also want to hear what you think, if you've read it.
Also, Swedish literature general.
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A few weeks ago Lena sat next to me on the subway.
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Nice book report senpai. What is your opinion on Elis Burrau, Anna Axfors and the whole Stockholm based poetry scene (FameFactory i.e.)?
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Wanna give a shout out to my man PO Enquist - imo the best Swedish author I've read. His masterpiece "Nedstörtad Ängel" is a really piercing tour de force about "love", check it out.
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I'm surrounded by family morons for the week (the bane of holidays, amiright?) and need to retreat to my room to live a cozy lit lifestyle. Working on a few sketches. Currently reading pic related and will start Howards End after, might even read a bit of Knausgaard to stay contemporary. Thinking of rewatching 8 1/2 or looking into Tarkovsky for the first time. Currently drinking nonstop English breakfest, might go pick up some snuff. Any other methods to stay lit af to survive this break? What do you do when you need to retreat from the plebs? Any aesthetic advice to further set the tone?
Looking for maximum comfy
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try killing yourself
its very literary i assure you
you modern day eunuch
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Catch the Cowboys game on the tube tonight and split a sixer with the pops.
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>>8888173
Maybe stop being such a poser faggot who's worried more about the appearance of being a reader than actually fucking reading
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>read Faust Part I
>5/5, I love it
>crack open Part II
>endlessly rambling dream/journey sequences with Goethe just showing off how much he knows about Greek mythology, Faust/Mephisto aren't even in the scene literally half the time
Seriously what did he mean by this?
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I've only read Faust part 1 and that was a complete mess of a play. It really shows that Goethe was cobbling together different ideas and narratives from decades apart and was in over his head trying to give it coherence.
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Nigga you crazy if you don't know every Faaust in the world ain't a freak. You could go platinum four times, you still wouldn't make what I make in a week.
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>>8888167
Marlowe's version is effortlessly superior.
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William Gass's The Tunnel 2016-12-26 10:08:56 Post No.8888154
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>Ah, Marty, I say to my dear, beloved, fat wife, sharpening my rhetorical claws with the long emery board of a metaphor, you do not realize that I fuck concepts; I fart metaphors; I assassinate similes, mademoiselle, make them fart with pain, simulated lust and paroxysms of false desire; I punctuate periods with my turgid and blubbery asshole, Marty, whereas you, Marty, sit there like a tub of melting lard simmering steamily in the hot spring air.
Truly a masterpiece of prose!
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So much modern lit is narcissism under the guise of bestowing a gift on the world.
DFW was truly abhorrent in this regard.
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pretty funny tbqh
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honestly, I don't get it.
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I want a book that has the ability to completely change your perspective on life.
What is something most do not understand about life until it is too late?
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>>8888074
>What is something most do not understand about life until it is too late?
I am someone who likes epiphanies about the way the world works. How language changes, how nature changes, how the body works - that kind of stuff.
I am not sure if that is what you are searching for, but if it is I could give you some suggestions perhaps. Just be somewhat more specific.
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On Women
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>>8888093
Yes, epiphanies about life is exactly what I mean. I haven't had that in a long time and I feel stuck in progress of my life at the moment, need fresh ideas or insights, epiphanies.
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Was Nietzsche really an inoffensive liberal like he says?
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>>8888072
Post where Kaufmann said that
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>>8888072
Kaufmann is a cuck but his scholarship is the only reason people take Neechee seriously in Ango-America
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>>8888072
No.
In fact, the idea of Nietzsche being some sort of freedom-loving liberal/individualist is dying off, and not a moment too soon.
Beyond those who are actually familiar with Nietzsche, this isn't very significant. Normies either think he's a proto-Nazi or one of the aforementioned freedom-loving liberals/individualists.
Everything that implies the latter was written in his youth, whereas Nietzsche became more radical with age. Given that he believed philosophers should be read chronologically, old/late Nietzsche trumps young/early Nietzsche.
In a weird/coincidental way it's similar to the Quran - starts off nice, then gets radical/violent/etc. Similarly, the 'end' stuff trumps the 'beginning' stuff.
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Hello lads. Just started a new book. Join me in reading the first few pages.
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>>8888041
a shock. that's all it was.
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>>8888041
fellow lads, what do you reckon the font is for this?
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Give me your best reccomendations to start with after """wrapping up""" with the classics.
Done with things like Dosto, Tolstoy, Hugo, Steinbeck, Dante, greeks, philo stuff like Nietzsche, Kant Scopenhauer, Plato, Aristotle, to things like Goethe Proust etc etc
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video games
when youre done with the greeks, you get with the geeks
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>>8887968
10/10 post
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>>8887958
Congrats, mate. You've made it. Welcome to the club. Since you've read so much, surely you know what happens now. That's right: time to kick back and enjoy the sweet fruit of your labour.
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What do you guys think?
Is that last paragraph just enough or too much?
Am i gona get roasted when i turn this in?
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>>8887944
Overwritten, keep it simple. Just because the subject is space doesn't mean the writing has to be overblown and dramatic, quite the opposite even.
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Yeah i kinda thought so too it was actually an essay on facts and scientific stuff so that last paragraph sticks out like a sore thumb
How could i end this though?
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Ex. "In conclusion, though the task of colonizing Mars is seemingly impossible due to the myriad of indeterminate variables and strict conditions, we believe it to be of the utmost importance, and will therefore commit to it, determined and hopeful for the future.
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Reviews pic related for Christmas after hearing it had major vibes towards unsettling horror (namely along the lines of like Jacob's Ladder, Silent Hill, The Fountain, etc.)
I've read the introduction and flipped through the bulk of the book and I'm pretty sure I'm going to like it. Any thoughts? It seems like it might confuse me a few times throughout.
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>>8887927
*Received pic related
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>>8887927
Read it twice in a row.
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>>8887927
I enjoyed it, but it's hardly horror and not unsettling. It's a book about a horror book about a house that isn't a house.
More of the story takes place in the footnotes and supplementary material than what is initially obvious. There are also many secret messages hidden in the text that alter (subtly and profoundly) the story.
MY DEAR ZAMPANO, WHO DID YOU LOSE?
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I would like some introductory books for economics and politics that would give me a base from which i could progress. New to this board and reading for leisure in general, please help out a pleb.
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https://www.balliol.ox.ac.uk/admissions/undergraduate-admissions/philosophy-politics-and-economics-reading-list
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Adam smith: wealth of nations
Karl marx: Capital
Thomas Piketty: Capital in the Twenty-First Century
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>>8887924
How new are you exactly?
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Is minimalism in art a low IQer ADD meme perpetuated by people unwilling to put in the work and who hide behind faux-depth?
I think a phobia of new technology is also a low IQer meme.
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>>8887887
no, i saw you in the other thread
go away
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>>8887887
>I think a phobia of new technology is also a low IQer meme
Unabomber was a genius
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>>8887887
Phobia of new technology has been around forever.