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what book should i wish for christmas?
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The Story of Philosophy
Wind Sand and Stars
The Stranger
Essays of George Orwell
On the Good Life
Family Happiness and Other Stories
These are all books that should steer you toward escaping your mom's basement and she would therefore gladly get you
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>>8861516
I ask for big hardback collections I would never buy myself.
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>>8861516
Don't you mean "what book should I wish for for christmas?"
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Books written by artists.
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I really suggest his poems
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Why it's so hard to follow the train of thought? There's never a bit of emphasis. His prose is awful.
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>>8861421
Reminds me of Blood Meridian
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>>8861421
Idk this seems fairly linear to me but this is all I've read of his. The prose isn't anything great but it gets the job done and is only mildly distracting
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It's that old-timey Victorian prose, hyuk. Not that difficult. He's talking about boats and the mouth of the Thames. Read the sparknotes if you're missing something.
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Did you ever meet people you suspected were /lit/-izens ?
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>>8861415
Yup, though I later confirmed they weren't. Just similar taste in literature.
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>>8861415
Who gives a fuck. Try to make a better thread next time
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No, and thank goodness.
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>Lit is absolutely filled to the brim with people who talk about books they've never read and think every political, philosophical or economic ideology other than their own is simplistic as a result.
I see this largely happening against socialists, libertarians and nihilists, and these misrepresentations are largely made by literally everyone, including those groups.
Why are you such lazy and narrow minded people?
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>>8861189
wow what a nigger
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>>8861198
Egon pls I know it's you.
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But they are simplistic and juvenile.
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Haven't read a single book outside of school assigments and decided to buy The Flowers of Evil by this absolute madman to get into literature "seriously". How fucked am I?
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You're gonna be fine, m8, I believe in you.
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>>8861110
Translated to German
>>8861116
Thanks, senpai.
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Is okay, just drink wine and hate women and you'll be in the proper mood.
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How many pages did you read today?
>4
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>>8861074
About the same.
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55.
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>>8861074
I read like a 30 page paper on the life cycle of Islamic State foreign fighters; if that counts.
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I haven't read any plays since GCSE. What would you recommend?
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>>8860991
Beckett
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>>8860995
Yeah he sounds good. Where should I start? Godot?
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>>8861006
Yeah Godot and Krapps Last Tape are his best plays in my view.
Happy Days, Endgame and Not I are also great
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What do the august perigrinators of /lit think of the Mage of Northampton?
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Sadly one of the best comic authors ever.
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>>8860906
Jerusalem was the best thing I read this year
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He just looks more like Rasputin as he ages
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why do people think YA is good?
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That's sad. It's his easiest book.
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>>8860896
Senpai I read the thing in three hours according to my e-reader and then I see this autistic shit.
Btw Hilarius is top waifu.
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I want to kill myself when I realize that anime isn't real.
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Pretending you read > actually reading
Actually reading:
>boring
>waste of time
>lots of words
>nerd glasses because you read with bad lighting too much
>pretentious
>"anon, do you want to come to the party.. oh, i see you are reading again. maybe next time :)"
>start playing video games out of frustration
>handing in your book reports too late because you overthink it and write up a whole bunch of garbage in a pathetic attempt to appear intellectual while everyone else just wrote a page or two
>social outcast
>loser
>you forget everything you read anyways
>"you spend all your time reading anon, recommend me a book!" "u-uhm Lolita b-by Nobako-" "isn't that about a pedophile, anon? are you a pedophile?" "n-n-n-o, i-i...."
>virginity
>no sleep because books are too long
Pretending you read:
>"oh anon you are so smart!"
>lots pretty books on the shelf
>smart
>educated
>rensaisance man
>life of the party
>popular
>"you are a well read and greatly educated man, can you recommend me a book so that i may ascend to become even the ever palest shadow of your greatness?" "you are a great friend of mine mark, we have known each other since our early childhood where we spent much time on the sports field. i know your father was and might very well still be an alcoholic, so i believe the portrayal of alcoholism in Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry will deeply connect with you on a very personal and intimate level. it has great prose."
>success
>fast cars, the knowledge how to operate them and the understanding that self help books are for weak minded pussies
>well dressed
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>>8860786
Id rather be the first one, since i am that.
Kinda funny deserved a (you)
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I literally haven't read a book in at least two years, but I'm here 24/7 and start arguments over shit I've never read all the time. I know exactly what presses people's buttons at this point.
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>>8860794
pretty sad to be honest anon
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>want to add themes of love and romance to my novel
>realise I have never been in a relationship in my life and don't even have the slightest understanding of the concept of love
oh god, I don't know what it's like to kiss someone
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So sad.
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> themes of love and romance
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>>8860493
Melville never killed a whale, use your fucking imagination
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Opinions on this dandy guy?
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Is it true that this one was also a homosexual?
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>>8860466
As far as I know, no. Maybe bi?
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>>8860488
Anyway, I like his poetry, even if repetitive at some times.
He encapsulated the ennui of Paris living (and any city living) perfectly, but the mystique, melancholy also. (poem VII)
I like l'art pour l'art -- most of his sonnets are perfect, but his longer poems (like those that were banned in the first few editions of Les Fleur de Mal) didn't pull me in, like, for example the cat poems, XXXIV, LI, LXVI.
His Connections (IV) lays the basic idea of symbolism, and synthesis (the unity of the senses).
And his influence on later poems, is undeniable.
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What's the greatest series ever written, and why is it A Song of Ice and Fire?
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>>8860383
>stylized hardcover box set
>series isn't done
triggered
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>>8860396
you can get expansions as dlc
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>>8860396
eh the series will never be finished. At best we'll get one more.
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Fun fact: the Norwegian title for The Fault in Our Stars is "Fuck Destiny."
Any other books that have great titles in other languages?
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>>8860255
Agatha Christie's Ten Little Niggers had been translated into 21st century English as And Then There Were None.
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>>8860255
Infinite Jest is actually Nenhum talento discernível in Portuguese, it means "The Endless Entertainment."