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What are you reading, /lit/? And what is your reaction?
>Woah!
>I didn't know The Odyssey was this long!
I've been stuck on The Odyssey for what feels like so long and I'm getting scared that I'll never read normal prose again.
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Reading Homer is a meme. Prove me wrong.
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>>8858124
>classic adventure
>depending the translation: beautiful prose
>understanding a cultural artifact
no, it is no meme my friend
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>Castle to Castle
>(...)!!!!!!
Just good old Céline, and I'll probably have a damn good time.
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You are going to be trapped on a island alone. What books will you take with you?
The limit is around 2000 pages (no tricks or cheats allowed, the island gods will frown upon breaking the spirit of the rule).
Escape is impossible, and you have everything you need to live comfortably, so survival books are not necessary. You also have lots of notebooks to write in.
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Titty magazine
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>>8858079
No illustrations allowed. You can take erotic fiction but the coconuts will be your only visual stimulation.
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>>8858069
Bible
Phenomenology of Spirit
Philosophical Investigations
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>he's a reader
>he spends most of his free time reading books
>sometimes he does nothing but sit there reading for hours
>his bookshelves are overflowing with books read and unread
>he doesn't care whether or not it's a classic or a modern best-seller, but just reads whatever's interesting to him
>he rates and catalogues his books on sites like goodreads and sometimes writes reviews
>he reads other people's reviews for different viewpoints but still tries to make up his own mind
>he tries to read all sorts of novels, plays, poems, and stories from different time periods and genres
>he reads non-fiction books on a wide variety of subjects including biography, history, science, philosophy, etc.
>he's happy to talk to you about books and what books to first read to get into an author, and what some next steps to explore further are
>he reads literary criticism and theory trying to find out how to read with more insight
>despite knowing he'll never make a career out of it, he writes every day just for pleasure
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>>8858051
Literary people always look so wan and haggard.
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>>8858051
>Thinking you're "open minded" because you read shitty popular best-sellers
Of course there are good contemporary writers, but at any given time (including right now), the vast majority are shit.
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I do all these except
>he rates and catalogues his books on sites like goodreads and sometimes writes reviews
>he reads other people's reviews for different viewpoints but still tries to make up his own mind
>he's happy to talk to you about books and what books to first read to get into an author, and what some next steps to explore further are
Sounds like normie shit
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Stop searching for inherent value.
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why
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>>8858035
If you are going to meme, at least meme right.
The picture needs to be cropped so that it only has his eyes, nose, and mouth. You probably want one that is zoomed in more.
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>>8858035
You need to crop closer for this meme
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What are some good books on dealing with the shittiness of life and the feeling of being overwhelmed by the burden of one's past mistakes?
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>>8857890
probably one where the OP is a faggot and kills himself
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>>8857890
Diary of a Wimpy Kid.
Just your speed. Run along now.
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Marcus Aurelius - Meditations, Epictetus - Enchyridion. Anything from stoic philosophers truly helps when you are dealing with pain.
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What are some of the books every artist should read?
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>>8857888
the whole western canon
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>>8857898
I'm working on it
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>>8857888
memoirs of the blind by jacques derrida
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Why do philosophers have such cool names?
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>>8857860
nicknames likesay
plato wasnae really called wide cunt
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>>8857875
Please do not speak scots ever again. it is embarrassing
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>>8857860
Wow, I didn't really that Grimes was a disgusting greasy-face shemale (look at that moustache).
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Thoughts on pic related and esotericism in general? About halfway through and finding it very persuasive. Any Straussians or anti-Straussians around?
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fuck strauss
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>>8857882
why? so much hate on Strauss for no reason
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>>8857851
Strauss is good, and I wanna read this book. Good taste, senpai.
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Faulkner's best work?
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>>8857812
I'd like to know too.
I've read AILD and TSaTF and loved them, don't know if I should read LiA or A,A! next
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>>8857812
That has got to be the dumbest quote ever. God I hate Faulkner.
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>>8857820
Yeah, I generally just by e-books if I don't know the author too well, but I thought I'd have a physical copy on my bookshelf.
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I did some sleuthing found a LOT of literary agents represent each other. Most of them have interned or been involved in each others agencies at one point. WTF. How unfair is this shit? It has become clear to me that no one really has a chance.
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>>8857785
yes, it is completely unfair and the odds are stacked against you. they have their own agendas they are trying to push, they have their own styles they are trying to push, they will stop reading your manuscript at the earliest opportunity and move on to the other hundred in the stack alongside it.
your options are: deal with it and hope you somehow trick them into representing you OR self-publishing.
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#Girlboss
"I read books"
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>>8857785
>most agents represent each other
As opposed to agents representing themselves or going unrepresented?
>worked at other agencies
No shit, people start somewhere and change jobs depending on pay and other things.
You're choosing the dumbest shit to bitch about and say you have no chance. None of this actually effects your chances, stop crying and makung excuses for being a no talent hack.
Give your maman a hug
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AUJOURD'HUI
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>>8857746
I would, but she died today.
Or maybe it was yesterday.
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ITT: Post your favorite poet
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pindar for epic.
blake for lyric.
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>>8857745
What's your favourite fragment by her, OP? What about your favourite English translation?
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What's the best biography you've ever read? 2016-12-18 04:51:53 Post No.8857716
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What's the best biography you've ever read?
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I haven't read many biographies, but I thoroughly enjoyed The Last Days of Byron and Shelley by Edward Trelawny and James Joyce's biography by Richard Ellman.
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>>8857716
The gospel of Luke.
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>>8857716
Mao the Unknown Story
What do you think of this one?
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>>8857700
Just read it last week. I enjoyed it, though I can't help but think Hesse was a little full of himself when he went through the effort of concentrating what is essentially homebrew doctrine in such a small book.
Also, it is pretty gay. Nothing wrong with that aspect, but I was not expecting such homoerotic tension..
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Pretty much my favorite book. I loved the simplicity of the dialogue and narration. I found that to be very striking.
One quote I always remember is
"So what can you do, Siddhartha?"
"I can think, I can wait, and I can fast"
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>>8857700
Hesse
Why don't you read some Fromm too? Maybe some Kundera?
is there any greek worth reading besides Homer?
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>>8857678
Yeah there is
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>>8857678
Nah read the romans instead
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>Read pleb
>Not finding an isolated Greek tribe who have kept the oral tradition alive for 10,000 years and listening to it being recited in perfect Homeric Greek.
Fucking plebs are ruining this board.