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2016-12-20 05:16:15 Post No.8863695
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Anonymous 2016-12-20 05:16:15 Post No. 8863695 [Report] [View this topic]

>Considers himself a writer
>Doesn't write poetry at all

What's wrong with you, anon?

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Anonymous 2016-12-20 05:33:50 Post No.8863741
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>>8863695
I do write poetry tho ! I get ideas for lines and poems in my dreams and on the bus and in line and walking to class and so on. Sometimes i think of something really good and it makes me talk to myself and look like a total weirdo.

Ive actually been looking at poetry completely differently now after a class with a prof who was a linguist. I feel like theres been a whole layer of potery that ive completely neglected.

Anonymous 2016-12-20 05:38:47 Post No.8863751
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Anonymous 2016-12-20 05:38:47 Post No.8863751 [Report]

Heh. David Foster Wallace didn't write poetry, anon.

Anonymous 2016-12-20 05:42:14 Post No.8863759
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Anonymous 2016-12-20 05:42:14 Post No.8863759 [Report]

Ive never tried to write poetry. Okay let me try.

Wading in a dark sea
A drop of light
I swim to it
I feel its warmth
It runs

A dark night
As they all are
One shining star
The rest, dead

how'd I do

Anonymous
2016-12-20 05:01:25 Post No.8863655
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Anonymous 2016-12-20 05:01:25 Post No. 8863655 [Report] [View this topic]

For a long time I've rejected contemporary literature because I've considered it inferior to the classics. I came to this from various excerpts I've read and admittedly, presumption, but now, motivated by a whim and the desire to see what my contemporaries are spitting out, I'd like to give one book a chance.

I would like a recommendation for a work of literary fiction written within the last decade and preferably set in the States. If this offers me less in terms of intellectual stimulation and profound insight than what I am accustomed to reading (now I am spending time with Huysmans, previously it was Byron), then it will probably be no less than a year before I even consider doing something so extreme as this again. I will finish what I am reading now within a week and then I will start whatever, if anything, is recommended to me here. Please try to agree on one work because unless I am astounded, I will probably not engage with more than one for the time being. I feel symptoms of withdrawal and insufferable disgust when I venture further ahead than the 19th century for more than a few days at a time.

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Anonymous 2016-12-20 05:16:09 Post No.8863694
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Infinite Jest

it's as good as you're looking for and just as pretentious

Anonymous 2016-12-20 05:19:58 Post No.8863706
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Anonymous 2016-12-20 05:19:58 Post No.8863706 [Report]

>>8863655
Bait.

Anonymous 2016-12-20 05:23:45 Post No.8863715
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Anonymous 2016-12-20 05:23:45 Post No.8863715 [Report]

I feel you

I disregard any blurbs shilling 'Bestsellers'
It's like a merchant telling you to buy its top rares

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2016-12-20 04:08:36 Post No.8863528
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Anonymous 2016-12-20 04:08:36 Post No. 8863528 [Report] [View this topic]

Well do they?

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Anonymous 2016-12-20 04:10:49 Post No.8863534
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Anonymous 2016-12-20 04:10:49 Post No.8863534 [Report]

There's already a PKD thread going, nigler.

Anonymous 2016-12-20 04:14:27 Post No.8863546
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>>8863528
I certainly fell asleep and dreamed a number of times trying to slog through that 'book'.

Christ, if I have to read about that retard Mercer crap again in my life I will blow my fucking brains out.

Anonymous 2016-12-20 04:28:47 Post No.8863576
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Anonymous 2016-12-20 04:28:47 Post No.8863576 [Report]

No, they dream of unicorns.

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Book introductions 2016-12-20 04:02:09 Post No.8863513
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Book introductions Anonymous 2016-12-20 04:02:09 Post No. 8863513 [Report] [View this topic]

Do you Anons read introductions before you read books if they come with your copy? Do you think that they often add anything to the experience or have the ability to decrease the books effect?
(Pic unrelated)

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Anonymous 2016-12-20 04:15:50 Post No.8863554
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I always read them after at this point. I've regretted it too often.

Anonymous 2016-12-20 04:16:34 Post No.8863555
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Anonymous 2016-12-20 04:16:34 Post No.8863555 [Report]

Yeah usually I read them, I don't often find they help much (though sometimes they do), but if nothing else it's interesting trivia about the author

Anonymous 2016-12-20 04:26:58 Post No.8863572
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>>8863513
I normally read them after I read the book. They tend to color your reading of the book, instead of allowing yourself to naturally latch onto ideas/themes/whatever.
Also, they tend to spoil the plot.
inb4 >reading for plot
Even in famous literature I think part of the effect of the book comes from the plotting.

Anonymous
2016-12-20 03:41:57 Post No.8863456
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Anonymous 2016-12-20 03:41:57 Post No. 8863456 [Report] [View this topic]

Who is your maître à penser?

pic related for me

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Anonymous 2016-12-20 03:46:34 Post No.8863466
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>>8863456
Hitler and Schopenhauer are BASED as fuck

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>>8863456
Sammie is pretty based for a contemporary public figure.

Pic related is my senpai though.

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i started listening to marcus follin and i became so fucking redpilled that i can now carve viking longships out of trees with nothing but a smirk and my own permanent hard-on for the swedish flag

idk how he has such awesome thoughts with a head so narrow but these things just don't bother me anymore

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2016-12-20 03:32:19 Post No.8863421
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Anonymous 2016-12-20 03:32:19 Post No. 8863421 [Report] [View this topic]

>Waking Life on philosophy thread

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Anonymous 2016-12-20 03:33:36 Post No.8863427
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>>8863421
Sartre was a miserable fuck and don't let Linklater tell you otherwise

Anonymous 2016-12-20 03:34:10 Post No.8863432
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>>8863427
t. Heidegger

Anonymous 2016-12-20 03:36:48 Post No.8863443
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>>8863427
Sartre was such a sadistic gremlin I actually believe it, no matter how bad the world is, one like him can be consoled by the suffering of others

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2016-12-20 03:16:04 Post No.8863371
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Anonymous 2016-12-20 03:16:04 Post No. 8863371 [Report] [View this topic]

give me a poetry collection to give to my ex to fuck with her

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Anonymous 2016-12-20 03:19:41 Post No.8863377
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>>8863371
Literally: Rimbaud
Figuratively: Comte de Lautréamont

Anonymous 2016-12-20 03:21:38 Post No.8863384
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>>8863377
Why Rimbaud? Why de Lautreamont?

Anonymous 2016-12-20 03:23:20 Post No.8863392
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Anonymous 2016-12-20 03:23:20 Post No.8863392 [Report]

Give her Hart Crane. His name is fucking Hart which sounds like heart and girls love that, and also his poetry is difficult so her puny girlbrain will just have to assume it's great without understanding (don't get me wrong, it is great, but at least now she won't post quotes on facebook about it like she would with Phillip Larkin)

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2016-12-20 02:46:30 Post No.8863299
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Anonymous 2016-12-20 02:46:30 Post No. 8863299 [Report] [View this topic]

Will be getting a copy of pic related in a few days because I want to take a break from all the super dry historical shit I've been reading as of late.

Without completely fucking the plot for me, can you tell me, is it really as gross/perverse as they make it out to be?

I mean, it was written in the late 1700's. It can't be THAT graphic. Can it?

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Anonymous 2016-12-20 03:54:02 Post No.8863484
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>>8863299
>I mean, it was written in the late 1700's. It can't be THAT graphic. Can it?

gr8 b8

Anonymous 2016-12-20 03:54:57 Post No.8863489
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>>8863299
You know they used to watch people die in public squares for entertainment

Anonymous 2016-12-20 04:01:52 Post No.8863512
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>>8863299
>I mean, it was written in the late 1700's. It can't be THAT graphic. Can it?
Think of all the fucked up things people in the Middle Ages were thinking when they invented all those wacky torture devices. It's not like sadistic tendencies are a recent development in humans.

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2016-12-20 02:41:23 Post No.8863282
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Anonymous 2016-12-20 02:41:23 Post No. 8863282 [Report] [View this topic]

What's the worst book you've ever read? Go!

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Anonymous 2016-12-20 03:29:27 Post No.8863410
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My diary desu

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Anonymous 2016-12-20 02:20:29 Post No. 8863188 [Report] [View this topic]

Looking for thought provoking right-wing hyper capitalist literature that isn't Ayn Rand's crap.
Any suggestions?

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Anonymous 2016-12-20 02:21:47 Post No.8863195
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>>8863188
>any suggestions?
kill yourself

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>>8863188
>thought provoking
>right-wing

Makes u think

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Anonymous 2016-12-20 02:26:49 Post No.8863209 [Report]

>hyper capitalism
>right-wing

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Anonymous 2016-12-20 02:18:21 Post No. 8863182 [Report] [View this topic]

Is this book actually simplistic or am I just coming off of Faulkner?

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Anonymous 2016-12-20 02:20:54 Post No.8863190
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>>8863182
Ur brain is just too big, m8

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>>8863190
>tfw to smart for reading

Anonymous 2016-12-20 03:02:54 Post No.8863341
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It is simply written, yes.

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Anonymous 2016-12-20 02:06:00 Post No. 8863153 [Report] [View this topic]

Best book written by Vagina Woolf?

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Anonymous 2016-12-20 02:09:26 Post No.8863160
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>>8863153

Many people will say Too the Lighthouse or Orlando, but it's actually Between the Acts.

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Anonymous 2016-12-20 02:12:11 Post No.8863163 [Report]

Orlando, but it's too much fun for pseuds, they'll be along in a minute to tell you it's The Waves.

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>>8863153
the years

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Anonymous 2016-12-20 01:51:45 Post No. 8863115 [Report] [View this topic]

I will have a secret santa thing at work.
I made the mistake of asking for a book, just writing a vague description as a "scifi book".
What is the worse that can happen? will i be reading the hunger games for Christmas?

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Anonymous 2016-12-20 01:56:28 Post No.8863125
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Anonymous 2016-12-20 01:56:28 Post No.8863125 [Report]

Tough situation, but its nothing an office shooting can't help.

Anonymous 2016-12-20 01:58:53 Post No.8863134
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Anonymous 2016-12-20 01:58:53 Post No.8863134 [Report]

>sassy teen can't decide between handsome nice guy android and sexy mercurial alien

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>>8863115
>will i be reading the hunger games for Christmas?

That's the most likely outcome. Either that or a Star Wars novelization.

If they ask a clerk for help you'll get Dune.

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Anonymous 2016-12-20 01:50:45 Post No. 8863111 [Report] [View this topic]

Damn. Just finished this. Didn't think much of it until the final third, and even then didn't think it was amazing, but then I got to the end of the third notebook (not the epilogue) and I am completely floored.

Can we have a discussion thread for this book?

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Anonymous 2016-12-20 02:13:37 Post No.8863169
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>>8863111
autism is one hell of a drug

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>>8863111
I can understand you anon ;_; I hope yozo-chan is in a good place now.

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>>8863181
He was just so numb

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/Theology/ Anonymous 2016-12-20 01:43:00 Post No. 8863096 [Report] [View this topic]

I've been always interested in religion. For the last 8 years I've been mostly studying Eastern religions (esp. Mahayana B.) but I recently heard the call of Christ to become his Disciple and I want to get a good grounding in theology, esp. Reformed.

Please recommend me something profound, philosophical. Should I just go for Karl Barth?

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Anonymous 2016-12-20 01:44:12 Post No.8863097
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>>8863096
>virgin detected

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>>8863097
I'm actually a married oldfag

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>>8863096
Dont know much about Barth but here are some additional reccs:
Soren Kierkegaard
Paul Tillich
Jacques Ellul

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