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/lit/ I've come to you for advice. Two pretty normal girls have asked me if I'm interested in starting a reading circle with them. As I like them a lot on a personal level I said yes but none of them are avid readers so it's gonna be hard for me to pick books.

I'm into the western canon and these two read nordic-noir and YA-shit so I'm gonna have to hide my powerlevel. Picking something like Steppenwolf or Notes from the underground with protagonists who's ready to off themselves is not gonna fly here.

Does /lit/ have any suggestions for good books that these two are not gonna hate? I'm thinking something that's not shit but also not too depressing or experimental.

Thanks in advance

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Anonymous 2016-12-26 08:50:18 Post No.8887856
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Anonymous 2016-12-26 08:50:18 Post No.8887856 [Report]

Lolita. Not even joking.

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>>8887856 this or 120 days of sodom

Anonymous 2016-12-26 08:52:35 Post No.8887863
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Trainspotting

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Bookchemist - Top 20 Books I Read in 2016 2016-12-26 08:41:41 Post No.8887829
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Bookchemist - Top 20 Books I Read in 2016 Anonymous 2016-12-26 08:41:41 Post No. 8887829 [Report] [View this topic]

How's his taste, /lit/?

https://youtu.be/4X6OQLHiLw0?list=WL

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Anonymous 2016-12-26 08:46:36 Post No.8887841
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(#2 is ~~Moonglow by Michael Chabon~~, #1 is ~~Against The Day byThomas Pinecone~~)

Anonymous 2016-12-26 08:59:32 Post No.8887886
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>>8887829
i understand you want more views but anon really

Anonymous 2016-12-26 09:05:47 Post No.8887905
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>>8887829
fuck off I will never watch one of your videos again now that I see you shilling on chan

Anonymous
2016-12-26 08:27:06 Post No.8887776
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Anonymous 2016-12-26 08:27:06 Post No. 8887776 [Report] [View this topic]

Why did he do it?

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Anonymous 2016-12-26 08:29:33 Post No.8887787
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Anonymous 2016-12-26 08:29:33 Post No.8887787 [Report]

The sun, man

Anonymous 2016-12-26 08:35:40 Post No.8887805
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Anonymous 2016-12-26 08:35:40 Post No.8887805 [Report]

>>8887776
Autism

Anonymous 2016-12-26 08:38:18 Post No.8887816
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Anonymous 2016-12-26 08:38:18 Post No.8887816 [Report]

>tfw you realize l'etranger isn't the arab... it's meursault

Anonymous
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Anonymous 2016-12-26 08:24:36 Post No. 8887760 [Report] [View this topic]

What's this guy's IQ? Must be at least 180.

Also, what's his endgame?

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Anonymous 2016-12-26 08:27:36 Post No.8887780
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>>8887760
probably like 140 max desu. minimalist fags don't have the IQ to process extremely complex things so they compensate by pretending that taking away is always better than adding

Anonymous 2016-12-26 08:35:50 Post No.8887808
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>>8887780
>he thinks taking away isn't an addition in its own way

kill yourself my man

Anonymous 2016-12-26 08:36:54 Post No.8887810
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>>8887808
nah man, learn to read, my main man

Anonymous
2016-12-26 08:19:46 Post No.8887751
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Anonymous 2016-12-26 08:19:46 Post No. 8887751 [Report] [View this topic]

Sub-vocalization? I am not the only one who reads a text and hears the words in my head, am I?

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Anonymous 2016-12-26 08:21:57 Post No.8887753
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I really need some help, I am scared

Anonymous 2016-12-26 08:23:37 Post No.8887756
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Anonymous 2016-12-26 08:23:37 Post No.8887756 [Report]

You are a big gay boffin.

Anonymous 2016-12-26 08:24:40 Post No.8887761
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Anonymous 2016-12-26 08:24:40 Post No.8887761 [Report]

Sub-vocalization is shit. To read out loud is where it is at, even though I understand we can't always read like that.

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/wprg/ War and Peace Reading Group: Day Seven 2016-12-26 08:07:02 Post No.8887705
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/wprg/ War and Peace Reading Group: Day Seven Anonymous 2016-12-26 08:07:02 Post No. 8887705 [Report] [View this topic]

Not OP Edition

The reading for day 7 is to finish Book Two Part One, pp. 317-370.

If you can, please write up topics for discussion for today.

>New poll for day 7
http://www.strawpoll.me/11960534

>Poll
http://www.polljunkie.com/poll/yagszq/war-and-peace

>Ebooks and audiobook
https://mega.nz/#F!4QVj1b4B!BMF7h3um_c5qWHQCP_aw6g

Previous thread >>8877795

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Anonymous 2016-12-26 08:09:28 Post No.8887714
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>>8887705
OP here.

Today was probably my favourite section of the book so far. We had:

>Nikolai returning home
>The Duel
>Andrei's return and the death of his wife
>Nikolai's debt to Dolokhov

The way Tolstoy portrays Dolokhov in these chapters is fascinating: there's this constant oscillation between giving the reader grounds for sympathy with him (his mother, his explanation of his worldview etc.) and the revocation of that ground (treating /ourguy/, Pierre, and best husbando, Nikolai, like shit). What does /lit/ make of his character?

What do we think of the implications of this change in Andrei's character. following the Battle of Austerlitz? How do we think his worldview has changed, and is this reflected in this chapter?

Did /ourguy/ Pierre do absolutely nothing wrong and did Dolokhov deserve it? ~~the answer is yes~~

Anonymous 2016-12-26 09:18:47 Post No.8887943
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>>8887876
Dolokhov is an asshole, who gets his kicks by being edgy and cries about it when it blows in his face.

He's that bully at school, that had shit parents at home living in poverty.

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2016-12-26 08:04:35 Post No.8887698
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Anonymous 2016-12-26 08:04:35 Post No. 8887698 [Report] [View this topic]

> (((Ebenezer)))
> hates Christmas
> loves money

What the Dickens did he mean by this?

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Kurwa 2016-12-26 08:07:08 Post No.8887706
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>>8887698
Scrooge is Jew :^0

Anonymous 2016-12-26 08:08:27 Post No.8887711
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>>8887698

>Ends up loving Christmas and not caring about money

He means the Jew can be redeemed.

There is hope, even for the Jew.

Anonymous 2016-12-26 08:12:04 Post No.8887722
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Anonymous 2016-12-26 08:12:04 Post No.8887722 [Report]

>raised in boarding school where you were socially neglected even on christmas
>get older
>abusive biological father disowns you
>your unironic best friend is your sister
>your sister dies
>live in a workhouse
>your employer is nice and you meet some nice girl but you're still tired of your own poverty
>eventually you're able to make some money so you can live life with girl comfortably
>she breaks up with you on christmas
>then your only friend is your business partner
>he dies on christmas
>your sister's son makes fun of you because of your distaste for christmas
>live alone
>slowly die while your employee feels only pity for you
>time passes
>get called a jew on 4chan

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Anonymous 2016-12-26 08:02:15 Post No. 8887689 [Report] [View this topic]

Wow I'm reading Infinite Jest and it's actually very addictive, why do people have a hard time reading it?

It's the most clever writing I've ever read too, wowzers.

Any other authors like him?

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Anonymous 2016-12-26 08:03:15 Post No.8887694
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Anonymous 2016-12-26 08:03:15 Post No.8887694 [Report]

Just one. Two if you count God.

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>>8887689
>why do people have a hard time reading it?

It's long, the main plot only seems to become apparent 700 pages in, some passages can be tiring, most characters are cartoons or robots, and the show-off vocabulary along with that "I'm just a, y'know, like, cool sincere dude" attitude can be condescending and insufferable.

I'm sure someone can post essays on why these qualities are intentional and make the book genius, but I'm just using my experience as to why people tend to be put off by the novel.

Anonymous 2016-12-26 08:15:42 Post No.8887737
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Anonymous 2016-12-26 08:15:42 Post No.8887737 [Report]

just got this book for christmas. Its really weird feeling

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Anonymous 2016-12-26 07:46:34 Post No. 8887644 [Report] [View this topic]

What are some books about people with depression + bad luck + bad life decisions?

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Anonymous 2016-12-26 07:46:58 Post No.8887649
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Anonymous 2016-12-26 07:46:58 Post No.8887649 [Report]

Hunger

Anonymous 2016-12-26 07:51:29 Post No.8887660
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Anonymous 2016-12-26 07:51:29 Post No.8887660 [Report]

The Sorrows of Young Werther

Anonymous 2016-12-26 07:51:32 Post No.8887661
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Anonymous 2016-12-26 07:51:32 Post No.8887661 [Report]

Third Policeman

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Anonymous 2016-12-26 07:22:37 Post No. 8887584 [Report] [View this topic]

Have any of you actually read a YA book before? The closest I've come would probably be infinite jest. I'm thinking of reading one just for the hell of it. any recommendations?

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Anonymous 2016-12-26 08:04:31 Post No.8887697
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Anonymous 2016-12-26 08:04:31 Post No.8887697 [Report]

I read a lot of it when I was younger, not sure if it was really called YA back then though.
The little I've read in recent years has been a mix of offensively bad to just really childish. But hey they're quick reads so yeah why not?

Anonymous 2016-12-26 08:10:02 Post No.8887716
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Anonymous 2016-12-26 08:10:02 Post No.8887716 [Report]

No. While the other children at school were struggling to make sense of The Rainbow Fish, I was going through my Camus phase. One day my neighbor in class leaned over and asked me, "What's this word?" I looked at the word and then looked at him. "You're not gonna make it," I said.

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>>8887716
what was the word?

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2016-12-26 07:18:32 Post No.8887564
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Anonymous 2016-12-26 07:18:32 Post No. 8887564 [Report] [View this topic]

>want a few books
>go inside pic related
>everything is twice the price on amazon
>they won't price match
>no used books
>'buy a nook tablet and play candy crush now'
>hipsters behind the counter
>shitty "coffee shop" inside store
>everything smells like stale muffins
Why haven't they gone out of business yet?

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Anonymous 2016-12-26 07:24:16 Post No.8887593
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>>8887564
makes you think

Anonymous 2016-12-26 07:24:56 Post No.8887594
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Anonymous 2016-12-26 07:24:56 Post No.8887594 [Report]

Because its like the Starbucks of bookstores. Overpriced shit and it's hip and popular to hang out it. Ironically enough, the Barnes and Noble near me actually has a Starbucks inside of it.

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>>8887564
>mfw there's a half priced books across the street from B&N
>mfw people only go there to buy manga

Anonymous
In 2016, I read 93 books 2016-12-26 07:17:34 Post No.8887559
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In 2016, I read 93 books Anonymous 2016-12-26 07:17:34 Post No. 8887559 [Report] [View this topic]

Here are the books I read:
Stand alone books:
A Study In Charlotte - Brittany Cavallaro
All the Bright Places - Jennifer Niven
American Gods - Neil Gaiman
American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
Beauty Queens - Libba Bray
By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead - Julie Anne Peters
Carmilla - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Carrie - Stephen King
Carry On - Rainbow Rowell
Coraline - Neil Gaiman
Doll Bones - Holly Black
Fangirl - Rainbow Rowell
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them - J. K. Rowling
Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
Fitzwilliam Darcy, Rock Star - Heather Lynn Rigaud
Girl, Interrupted - Susanna Kayes
Go Ask Alice - Anonymous
I'll Give You the Sun - Jandy Nelson
Invisible Monsters (Remix) - Chuck Palahniuk
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
Looking For Alaska- John Green
Pet Sematary - Stephen King
Speak - Laurie Halse Anderson
Ten - Gretchen McNeil
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
The Hellbound Heart - Clive Barker
The Killing Jar - Jennifer Bosworth
The Ocean At the End of the Lane - Neil Gaiman
The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky
The Picture of Dorian Grey - Oscar Wilde
The Secret Diary of Lizzie Bennet - Bernie Su
The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller
The Way I Used to Be - Amber Smith
Vanishing Girls - Lauren Oliver
Series or parts of a series:
The Hunger Games trilogy (The Hunger Games/Catching Fire/ Mockingjay) - Suzanne Collins
After - Anna Todd
The Divergent trilogy (Divergent/Insurgent/Allegiant) - Veronica Roth
Anna Dressed In Blood & Girl of Nightmares - Kendare Blake
Beautiful Disaster - Jamie McGuire
The Dream Thieves & Blue Lily, Lily Blue & The Raven King - Maggie Stiefvater
The Delirium trilogy (Delirium/Pandemonium/Requiem) - Lauren Oliver
The Precious Stone trilogy (Ruby Red/Sapphire Blue/Emerald Green) - Kerstin Gier
The Red Queen series and accompanying novellas (Red Queen/Glass Sword/Queen Song/Steel Scars) - Victoria Aveyard
The first four Harry Potter books - J.K. Rowling
The Peculiar Children trilogy (Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children/Hollow City/Library of Souls) - Ransom Riggs
The Diviners & Lair of Dreams - Libba Bray
Lament: the Faerie Queen's Deception - Maggie Stiefvater
The Grisha trilogy (Shadow and Bone/Siege and Storm/Ruin and Rising) - Leigh Bardugo
The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty - Anne Rice
The Boss series (The Boss/The Girlfriend/The Hook-up/The Bride/The Ex/The Baby) - Abigail Barnette
The Dolls - Kiki Sullivan
The Selection trilogy (The Selection/The Elite/The One) - Kiera Cass
The Mara Dyer trilogy (The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer/The Evolution of Mara Dyer/The Retribution of Mara Dyer) - Michelle Hodkin
The Fellowship of the Ring - J. R. R. Tolkien
The Girl from the Well & the Suffering - Rin Chupeco
The Perfectionists & The Good Girls - Sara Shepard
Th Lying Game - Sara Shepard
The Hallowed Ones & the Outside - Laura Bickle
Beautiful Creatures - Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl

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Anonymous 2016-12-26 07:18:15 Post No.8887562
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Anonymous 2016-12-26 07:18:15 Post No.8887562 [Report]

congratulations

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>>8887559
good job I sent you your prize in the mail

Anonymous 2016-12-26 07:20:01 Post No.8887572
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Anonymous 2016-12-26 07:20:01 Post No.8887572 [Report]

And what do you have to show for it?

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The Brothers Karamazov 2016-12-26 06:59:55 Post No.8887520
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The Brothers Karamazov Anonymous 2016-12-26 06:59:55 Post No. 8887520 [Report] [View this topic]

Dmitri was guilty, yes?

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Anonymous 2016-12-26 07:02:51 Post No.8887526
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Anonymous 2016-12-26 07:02:51 Post No.8887526 [Report]

What? No. He took it upon himself to act guilty because somebody has to, in his eyes.

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>>8887526
Actually he didn't act guilty. He even fled to america in the epilogue.

Anonymous 2016-12-26 07:20:17 Post No.8887575
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Anonymous 2016-12-26 07:20:17 Post No.8887575 [Report]

mitya was innocent

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bukowski BTFO Anonymous 2016-12-26 06:10:02 Post No. 8887387 [Report] [View this topic]

will he ever recover?

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Anonymous 2016-12-26 06:12:29 Post No.8887394
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>>8887387
>Googles artfucker1996
>unsurprisingly it is indeed a tumblr
Opinion disregarded

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Anonymous 2016-12-26 06:16:09 Post No.8887404 [Report]

I was born in 1988 and I've fucked girls born in 1996 who had Tumblrs

Their pussy could be sweaty and clammy and it still tasted like i had just won gold very event in the Olympics

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>>8887394
Ad hominem. Try actually making an argument.

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Anonymous 2016-12-26 05:16:30 Post No. 8887241 [Report] [View this topic]

How does this make /lit feel? pic related.

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Anonymous 2016-12-26 05:19:10 Post No.8887253
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>>8887241
sexydoorframes is technically correct
Aaron Burr is a faggot
Gabriela is a fucking dolt

Anonymous 2016-12-26 05:20:48 Post No.8887260
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Anonymous 2016-12-26 05:20:48 Post No.8887260 [Report]

a little miffed, but honestly WHO CARES

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Anonymous 2016-12-26 05:23:11 Post No.8887268 [Report]

>>8887253
no she isnt, shes only approaching correctness by asking what real literature is. Reading YA is watching cartoons, archetypes stripped of any questions at all. People who read YA are intellectual children

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