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>tfw no qt Anne Frank gf

>>8743194
no, her father did

>>8743312
Do any scholars agree with this opinion?

>>8743194
It was ok. I jerked off to the lesbian passage when I was 13, but I wouldn't go as far as ultimate.

>>8743159
That's a pretty broad question and you shouldn't really be looking for books to convince you of an opinion. Read up on theology and read major religious texts like the bible and if it's a branch of thinking that you agree with or like continue to read more.

>>8743159
Reading books will make you less religious if you are not Kierkegaard.

The bible

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First for charts that aren't full of "urban fantasy" dreck

>Beginner's Guide to Fantasy
When did we sneak that one in?

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>>8742676
Last thread is when I first noticed it .

>>8742666
I also hate dreck charts.

>>8741655
for entertainment. just finished J R. hilarious.

>>8741655
To impress girls

>>8741655

Escapism

and not just for fiction

>>8741418
>culture
Because escaping your shitty life and occasionally jerking off to cartoons doesn't constitute culture.

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>>8741429
Pseud detected.

Every element of society, every norm, every tradition, every minority group and minor hobby, represents the cultural whole. Video games rake in more money than mainstream cinema these days, and its nearly impossible to find someone under the age of 35 who doesn't play them.

>>8741418
Video Games are the new kid on the block. In the past, they were simplistic toys. Arcade games didn't exactly give much material. Still, movies like "War Games" were made. With the recent emergence of realistic virtual worlds and interactivity like never before, its inevitable that the next generation of authors will include video game elements in their works.

>>8741445
how is he a pseud? hes fucking right. youre a pseud, your entire post reads like a high school essay on video games

I'm from sweden and it's the same for me. I read swedish authors in swedish but pretty much everything else in english.

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Yup, same here.

My mother tongue is tagalog, and I've virtually forgotten how to speak it over the years. It sounds, and reads like shit.

I read plenty in English, but have to say I understand stuff better in Dutch (i.e. the native language).
What is funny is how I can understand English words and concepts without being able to translate, or explain, it in Dutch.

I have trouble with that during English exams. Though I have also become aware that the English I write is heavily infested with Dutch.

The English I speak is still notably Dutch, but not as horrible as my classmates (or president). Very Americanised.

>>8740521
DFW's main message was that the need for us to always be stimulated or entertained and glued to a screen was pretty absurd, and his work is only becoming more and more profound with the dawn of the Internet and people staring at their phones 24/7. Read that article about how the kid walked in front of a train to catch a Pokemon in Pokemon Go and then try to prove me wrong faggot.

>>8740528
But I agree

>>8740528
the kid probably wouldve walked in front of a train if he saw a shiny looking rock tbqh

kids are stupid

His work captures a peculiar zeitgeist of spiritual seekers very well

>>8739871
>/lit/ - Literature
spiritual seekers... Thats my point, I strongly believe in the power of rational thinking, human nature etc. Maybe thats why i dont like it, imo spirituality is hippyshit. Any writers you recommend i might like more?

>>8739869
How old are you? I tried to read in my 20's and didn't really get it then. I'm an old anon now and i read it again lately and understood it better.
Hesse's books mean something if you have lived a little, been through a few problems, disappointments, heartbreaks etc.

Meet Samuel Rothschild. After his rich father collapses of a heart attack one day, Samuel is suddenly entrusted with the Rothschild fortune. But Samuel isn't as good at keeping money as his father was, and he's more of a party animal!

>>8736800
why would i read non fiction

France, late 80's. An unlucky but steasy young man who works in a record store suddenly can't fall asleep, strong insomnia and shit. It lasts for days until he discovers he can only fall asleep in movie theaters.

>>8747650
>his genius
He wasn't a genius.

>>8747650
Being a massively pretentious faggot is the only way not to squander genius.

>>8747653
Was too.

>>8747656
not him, and not trying to argue, but why do you think so? i've never read him but from the sound of it, the challenge isn't worth the reward

Maurice
The Confusions of Young Törless
At Swim, Two Boys

We have to get around to making a homo /lit/ chart one of these days.

>>8747500
Thanks. Incidentally I was going to read At Swim next, and this list will definitely keep me occupied for a while.

Also I totally support a homo /lit/ chart. Reading a book about faggots that wasn't pompous nonsense or just some mediocre young adult stuff was a pretty big deal for me.

>>8747512
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPviAKaHAN0

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>>8747425
The real question is: "why do you care?"

>>8747425
We live in a society where none of us can claim moral soundness by the morals that we were taught without living in extreme denial.
It's not possible, so to live in comfort you have to either continue living in denial or rethink those values entirely.

It was always a meme

It's a complicated history which involves print culture, locomotives, and women's histories.

>>8747367
go on

>>8747395
Nah

If you can't be fucked to punch "novel" and "history" into the MLA bibliography why should I write a dissertation on this anime image board?

I really like Jane Eyre, it's choc full of neat symbolism

A boy who has been abused all his life discovers he has a gift and enters a new world. He gets the chance to make the friends he never had but also is targeted by a prolific serial killer.

Linkin Park- In The End.
Nobel when?

>>8747149
>Even if nothing is true in it, I enjoyed reading about random deals and why they were made.
Isn't this what all fiction is?

>>8747155
Fiction never states that it's true.
Art of The Deal is supposedly a true story.

I tried reading it expecting to learn something about deals and compromises but instead found it had the same substance as one of his speeches. "Oh, I bought that building from the Astor Trust. They're good people. Very respectable family, and a pleasure to do with. It was a great deal, I would do it again today and I'm sure they would too."