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What is /lit/'s opinion on eReaders?

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What do ya'll think of Balzac?

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Lads I've got an interview at Oxford coming up next week, any of you have any tips?

Assumed this would be the best board to ask.

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Is it normal to have an existencial crisis every 5 fucking minutes?
Like, give me a fucking break, most philosophers are failed poets phonys, they dont get it at all.
One moment I think X is right, 5 minutes later I realize Y is the answer, then Z and you know how it goes
What the fuck, /lit/? Is this just how living is or am I mentally ill?
It has been this way since I have memory

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Sup /lit/

Though I'm an avid reader, it's my first post here.
I need some philosophical books, several months back I broke up (I started it, became mutual) with a lady who I later realized was the love of my life. I doubt we will have any chance of getting back together. Alongside this I have many other serious troubles in my life, but my mind has found it fit to mostly focus on this lost love.

Anything you could recommend that is philosophical, maybe dark, that can help me deal with this break up? It would help a lot more if the topic is about love etc. as well.

Thanks

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thoughts on the most recent translation of Crime and Punishment?

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Is anybody interested in reading my manifesto when I publish it next month?


Title:

Antidentitaire


Chapters & Sub-Chapters:

1. Man Awoke: The Tragic Birth Of Human Consciousness
>An Historical Narrative Of Morality From External Law To Internal Burden
>Vegetarianism In Early Civilization
>Depression Among Non-Human Animals

2. The Town And The City: Establishing The External "Other"
>The Evolution Of Urban Settlements As Metaphor For The Emerging Human Self
>Analysis Of Etiquette Among Western Bourgeoisie Society
>Orientalism And The Borders Of Humanity

3. Room At The Bottom: Inherited Identity As Existential Cure
>Serfdom And Its Contents
>Existentialism And Despair In The West
>Nihilism: The Shadow Of Freedom

4. Liberated Atoms: Late-Capitalism And The Crisis Of The Self
>Isolation And Solipsism In Contemporary Society
>Anti-Buddhism And The Marketplace Self
>The Internet As Heaven's Waiting Room

5. Kingdom Come: The Technological Self-Exile Of A Species
>The Existential Need For Virtual Reality
>The Dissolution Of The Reality Server
>Paradise: Software For Solipsists


Word Count:

140,000

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We haven't discussed Gene Wolfe in a while
What's the happenings?

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Greentext the plot of your novel
>Doomsday prepper spends a few months in a bomb shelter after nuclear blast
>Multiple groups fighting for power
>kaleidoscopic wasteland, everyone's insane
>Main character kind of wanders around and meets people and shit

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All right, /lit/, I'm falling for the 'start with the Greeks' meme.

It will probably take months if not years. I figured I might as well learn Ancient Greek along the way.

I know that Athenaze exists. Is it good? Any other good resources to recommend?
My native language is French. Obviously, I can also speak English to some extent.

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top ten novels + top ten films, not necessarily in order; no repeating authors or directors. give your choices, roast everyone else's, you know the deal.

novels
>moby dick by herman melville
>the leopard by giuseppe lampedusa
>don quixote by miguel cervantes
>flashman by george fraser
>ficciones by jorge borges
>huck finn by mark twain
>recognitions by william gaddis
>story of my life by giacomo casanova
>stoner by john williams
>to the lighthouse by virginia woolf

movies
>blow-up by michelangelo antonioni
>videodrome by david cronenberg
>barry lyndon by stanley kubrick
>days of heaven by terrence malick
>the confession by costa-gavras
>repo man by alex cox
>heat by michael mann
>au hasard bathlazar by robert bresson
>kids by larry clark
>murmur of the heart by louise malle

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Why do people often say that Ayn Rand is for the immature and only makes sense when you're 16?

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/lit/'s thoughts on madame bovary?

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From what I've read of Murakami, he's been good. But pic related is indulgent shit. Bad.

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"Socrates was put to death by drinking a chalice of poison, hemlock."

Continue this sentence with your most aesthetic prose.