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2016-12-01 18:37:33 Post No.8787611
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Anonymous 2016-12-01 18:37:33 Post No. 8787611 [Report] [View this topic]

What's the worst book of all time?

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Anonymous 2016-12-01 18:39:58 Post No.8787617
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Anonymous 2016-12-01 18:39:58 Post No.8787617 [Report]

probably something influenced by anime.

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>>8787611
Your diary, desu.

Anonymous 2016-12-01 20:18:10 Post No.8787894
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>>8787611
I think you're mistaken. What you posted is a postmodern masterpiece that deconstructs the entire anime subculture without the author even intending to do so. Its the single greatest philosophy book ever written to convert surface level anime fans. The "story" if you could call it that, is so contrived, so shitty, so gut-wrenchingly awful that it parodies itself and loops around into being a cult classic. Anyone who otherwise considers anime a "guilty pleasure" could read it and realize how shit their favorite medium is. Only the deepest, most corrupted of weebs could shrug it off.

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2016-12-01 18:30:46 Post No.8787594
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Anonymous 2016-12-01 18:30:46 Post No. 8787594 [Report] [View this topic]

>The Decameron
>The Canterbury Tales
>The Castle of Crossed Destinies
>Hyperion

Could /lit/ help me find some more story within a story books? Unsurprisingly, goodreads is absolute shit and I couldn't get it to recommend this type of book.

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Anonymous 2016-12-01 18:38:29 Post No.8787614
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>>8787594
If on a winter's night a traveler by Calvino
Wuthering Heights
Chimera, by Barth

Anonymous 2016-12-01 18:41:56 Post No.8787622
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Anonymous 2016-12-01 18:41:56 Post No.8787622 [Report]

Already read If on a winter's night a traveler, I should've specified I wanted it closer to the format of the Canterbury Tales. As in there's a few characters and they each tell a story.

Anonymous 2016-12-01 18:43:00 Post No.8787627
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>>8787594
Youtube lets plays are basically the modern equivalent of this

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2016-12-01 18:07:23 Post No.8787523
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Anonymous 2016-12-01 18:07:23 Post No. 8787523 [Report] [View this topic]

Give me your worst covers

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Anonymous 2016-12-01 18:08:52 Post No.8787530
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kr3iYamSxxI

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>>8787530
kekkek. Say what you will, she made serious bank with her covers. It's such a bad fault in our culture that are doesn't need to be good to be spread anymore, it just needs to be obnoxious enough that people talk about it lots.

Anonymous 2016-12-01 18:15:56 Post No.8787556
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>>8787523

Is the swat guy supposed to be holding a lightsaber...thing....or something? Can't really tell as it blends right into the explosion behind him....by the way why isn't he burnt to shit?

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2016-12-01 18:03:14 Post No.8787503
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Anonymous 2016-12-01 18:03:14 Post No. 8787503 [Report] [View this topic]

Can you recommend me any essays from the 19th century or older complaining about social decay?

You know, similar to nowadays with conservatives or le 90's kids

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Anonymous 2016-12-01 18:11:03 Post No.8787540
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>>8787503
Take the redpill, it's the end of days. Whites and blacks have relationships and homosexuals aren't hanged

Political correctness gone mad

Anonymous 2016-12-01 19:38:49 Post No.8787781
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>>8787503
boy look at all those medieval peasants hammered off the gin. if i had to survive in that shithole back then i'd avoid the gin and be one of the surviving few

Anonymous 2016-12-01 19:41:10 Post No.8787789
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>>8787781
If you were living then you wouldn't want to survive

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2016-12-01 18:00:41 Post No.8787494
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Anonymous 2016-12-01 18:00:41 Post No. 8787494 [Report] [View this topic]

If nothing is real then why does it spontaneously seem so?

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Anonymous 2016-12-01 18:01:49 Post No.8787499
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Anonymous 2016-12-01 18:01:49 Post No.8787499 [Report]

Because our brains are fucking amazing.

Anonymous 2016-12-01 18:03:33 Post No.8787507
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Anonymous 2016-12-01 18:03:33 Post No.8787507 [Report]

Because the concept of realness only exists in language to describe the consistency of your delusion.

Anonymous 2016-12-01 18:04:25 Post No.8787511
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>>8787499
the only correct answer

BrasCubas
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Travel Books. BrasCubas 2016-12-01 17:42:56 Post No. 8787419 [Report] [View this topic]

So I've decided to backpack. I'm from BR hue and I'll be backpacking to europe. I've never done it before, so I'm having multiple feelings ranging from anxiety to orgasmic-on-the-road-happiness.

So, what books should I take? Walden and The Catcher in The Rye is already in my bag, and I'm also taking Fleurs du Mal. I'd like to take more european books rather than american ones, since I'm visiting the latter. And sadly, I can't seem to find Swann's Way.

There's this polish film I watched, "All These Sleepless Nights". It got me inspired as hell. All the nightlife and living and spontanous kerouac-esque scenes got me going. And now I'm thirsty for this. You guys should check it out. I'd like to find more travel and bohemian books.

Any suggestions?

Peace out

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Anonymous 2016-12-01 17:45:56 Post No.8787431
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>So I've decided to backpack

More like buttpack, right? You should go to Morocco, I hear the dicks is big there.

Anonymous 2016-12-01 17:49:21 Post No.8787444
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>>8787419
If you're content reading in English, don't even bring many books with you, just buy them over there.

BrasCubas 2016-12-01 19:18:38 Post No.8787734
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>>8787419
I might as well buy some. But I want them suggestions, anons

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Finding life purpose 2016-12-01 17:23:11 Post No.8787351
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Finding life purpose Anonymous 2016-12-01 17:23:11 Post No. 8787351 [Report] [View this topic]

I know people on this board read a lot and have high standards so i would like to hear which book/s for finding life purpose would you guys suggest?

Thanks in advance

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Anonymous 2016-12-01 17:27:48 Post No.8787366
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Anonymous 2016-12-01 17:27:48 Post No.8787366 [Report]

I'll save you a lot of reading.

>There is no inherent purpose in life.

>Find a purpose for yourself, stick to it.

Anonymous 2016-12-01 17:29:44 Post No.8787381
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>>8787366
>Find a purpose for yourself, stick to it.
This. We're all on different journies.

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>>8787366
>>8787381

Sorry for making it unclear.
I'm looking for book which will sort of guide me how do i find my life purpose. How do i work on myself? Just some directions. I realize that i won't find my life purpose IN books but in myself. I just need some guides how to find it in myself.

I hope that makes any sense

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2016-12-01 17:13:32 Post No.8787324
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Anonymous 2016-12-01 17:13:32 Post No. 8787324 [Report] [View this topic]

What does /lit/ think of Kerouac?

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Anonymous 2016-12-01 17:29:54 Post No.8787382
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Anonymous 2016-12-01 17:29:54 Post No.8787382 [Report]

drivel

Anonymous 2016-12-01 17:31:14 Post No.8787386
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Anonymous 2016-12-01 17:31:14 Post No.8787386 [Report]

more like kerouhack

Anonymous 2016-12-01 17:33:24 Post No.8787395
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Anonymous 2016-12-01 17:33:24 Post No.8787395 [Report]

On the Road was pretty good, gonna read Big Sur eventually

Brb gonna Kerouac off

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2016-12-01 17:10:44 Post No.8787319
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Anonymous 2016-12-01 17:10:44 Post No. 8787319 [Report] [View this topic]

i love it to read book

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Anonymous 2016-12-01 17:13:35 Post No.8787325
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Anonymous 2016-12-01 17:13:35 Post No.8787325 [Report]

i hate.

Anonymous 2016-12-01 17:21:05 Post No.8787345
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Anonymous 2016-12-01 17:21:05 Post No.8787345 [Report]

is nice

Anonymous 2016-12-01 17:21:50 Post No.8787346
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Anonymous 2016-12-01 17:21:50 Post No.8787346 [Report]

luv ta git wit it

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2016-12-01 17:10:00 Post No.8787316
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Anonymous 2016-12-01 17:10:00 Post No. 8787316 [Report] [View this topic]

Is William Vollmann any good? I'm thinking about reading Europe Central or You Bright and Risen Angels on winter break, but which one is the best entry point?

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Anonymous 2016-12-01 17:14:50 Post No.8787330
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Anonymous 2016-12-01 17:14:50 Post No.8787330 [Report]

I can write better than that hack, tbqh.

Anonymous 2016-12-01 17:29:10 Post No.8787377
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Anonymous 2016-12-01 17:29:10 Post No.8787377 [Report]

He sounds like he's just the Frank Miller of /lit/ but many have respect, however distant, for his work as a whole. Haven't heard from the Dying Grass again but it was all praise when it came out.

Anonymous 2016-12-01 17:51:39 Post No.8787452
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>>8787316
Europe Central is probably bretty good to start.

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2016-12-01 17:07:35 Post No.8787308
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Anonymous 2016-12-01 17:07:35 Post No. 8787308 [Report] [View this topic]

Adam & Eve are created as lords of wisdom and lords of the world.
Only one rule is placed before them: to avoid their own death.
The serpent, however, claims that their natural, selfish, free existence is incomplete, illegitimate, evil. Rather, the only way to true knowledge of good and evil is by subjugating their desires to his.
For, he claims, if they undergo the asceticism and martyrdom of eating the fruit they know will kill them, they will in fact not die, but receive some as-yet unknowable true blessedness & godliness.
But the serpent has lied. Adam & Eve, by rejecting the wisdom of the body, are made into slaves, ashamed of themselves.
It must amuse the serpent to have his modern victims think they're cleverer than their ancient parents, as they make the same mistake attempting to rectify the original even as the warning is right in front of them.

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Anonymous 2016-12-01 20:45:42 Post No.8787975
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I GO HARD IN THE MOTHERFUCKIN PAINT

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>>8787975
no need for books homebre. just keep yourself armed with boss factoids about the accomplishments of nba great moses malone and everything should go according to plan

dude was a beast on the glass

http://www.nba.com/history/players/malonem_bio.html

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>>8787308
Bronze age goat herders were egotists?

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2016-12-01 16:57:31 Post No.8787290
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Anonymous 2016-12-01 16:57:31 Post No. 8787290 [Report] [View this topic]

Solve this /lit/
Find the book titles the signs allude to, and prove your knowledge.

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Anonymous 2016-12-01 17:01:18 Post No.8787294
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>>8787290
Animal farm
Fear and loathing
Watership down

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>>8787290
>Find the book titles the signs allude to, and prove your knowledge.
Most of them seem to point to my diary. I wonder why.

Anonymous 2016-12-01 17:08:53 Post No.8787312
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>>8787290
East of Eden
Animal Farm
Alice in Wonderland
Liberty Road (ugh..)
20,000 leagues under the sea
3 men in a boat?
Midnight's children
I guess the SOS is Robinson Crusoe or something.
I feel like most of the rest are on the tip of my tongue but w/e