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Translated titles that sound better than the original
>Pic Related is "Vinhas da Ira" in portuguese.
Translated titles that are absolute shit
>The count of Monte Cristo
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The Grapes of Wrath is one of my favourite book titles ever. How the FUCK is Vinhas da Ira better?
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>>8733565
Can you read portuguese? It sounds really nice.
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Awful thread.
Let's make it about good/bad non-literal translations instead.
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>mediocre writer decides to be incomprehensible so nobody would see how mediocre he is
and thus postmodern philosophy was born
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>>8733539
>>mediocre writer decides to be incomprehensible so nobody would see how mediocre he is
Stop judging me!
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And is promoted and subsidised by the academia-media-publishing industrial complex.
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>mediocre thinker decides to be incomprehensible so nobody would see how mediocre he is
and thus continental philosophy was born
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What version do I buy?
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The blueprint cover.
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Get the meme one
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>>8733301
What's the meme one? I'm trying to get into reading and mostly use /co/.
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>Dumbledore will never be your own personal teacher
>Ginny will never be your gf
>Molly will never be your mother
>Hermione and Ron will never be your best friends
Why even live?
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>>8733268
Fuck off, reddit
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>>8733268
>You will never fuck loli Hermione while Ron is forced to watch in the corner.
Life truly is suffering.
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I got this feeling when I read "The Secret History"
Id just transferred to a new college and it reminded me of my own life desu, but without any of the interest friends and tight social group
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How important to you is your personal code of ethics, or 'doing what you think is the right thing'?
Can you name an example where it has been truly tested?
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Literally no importance
No convictions
Would literally deny the holocaust if it ment people would agree with me
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>>8733454
I agree.
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>right
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Redpill me on why writing is so hard. I should be able to sit here and write for twelve hours straight thanks to my pseudo-autism powers. Instead, I have to stop every half hour to do something else or I go crazy.
Is anyone else like this or am I suffering from a slight retardation?
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>>8733130
>Is anyone else like this or am I suffering from a slight retardation?
Well you're a frog poster so I'll leave you to figure that out
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>>8733130
You're not alone
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>>8733134
Our president was elected with frog magic so I resent that
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Does anyone know of any good books about Allende, Mujica, and other revolutionary/reformists of South American nations?
I read a book about the Tupamaros already, it was pretty good. It is hard finding decent books in English.
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>>8733108
Bump, I've looked for books providing a close detail of the Shining Path for years.
Another supposedly solid book about the Tupamaros here OP
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1: Learn Spanish
2: Read Spainish literature because fuck all the spics in Latin america, they are pretty much a non continent.
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There's a book about the first election campaigns of the Workers' Party in Brazil called Without Fear of Being Happy. It's from Verso Books and it's pretty good. The Revolutionary Lives series had a title called 'Salvador Allende: Revolutionary Democrat' that I've heard is very good.
is it worth reading a book if you know how it ends? Most notably the death of the main character.. i know caring about the plot is a meme but gosh darn it im a sucker for a good meem ya know?
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If the book is Anna Karenina then yes because her story is the shit part anyway
If it's not then you know this spoiler is nothing to get mad about
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>>8733057
you'lll only miss out on one of many things a good book has to offer
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>reading for plot
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Why are schools teaching Kafka?
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Everything about his work is demoralizing, nihilistic, fatalistic (you are doomed and can't do something about it) and narcissistic (da poor me against da evil society). It's emo literature.
Why do we give kids such downers. How about teaching them something positive?
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>>8733042
art isn't some moralist tool for indoctrinating the youth you idiot
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>>8733042
Why did you create this thread?
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>>8733045
Well Kafka and other Existentialists indoctrinate the youth too, only with negativity.
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anyone else read this? just finished, really liked it. did anyone else read anything by this guy? checked out buddhas little finger from the library, what should I expect? also does anyone have recommendations for more contemporary russian authors.
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It was a nice 5 hour read that, quite good as well but the ending was quite surreal and I'm not sure what quite happened
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>>8733037
What you liked about it?
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>>8733072
first of all I thought it was really funny, especially liked the parts about kissinger and the colonel urgachin character.
and somewhere around the halfway mark the book really takes a turn for something that I felt was quite nice, especially once the mission starts.
>"and me, I thought, all my life I've been journeying towards the moment when I would soar up over the crowds of what the slogans called the workers and the peasants, the soldiers and the intelligentsia, and now here I am hanging in brilliant blackness on the invisible threads of fate and trajectory- and now I see that becoming a heavenly body is not much different from serving a life sentence in a prison carriage that travels round and round a circular railway line without ever stopping."
i thought the twist was really well written.
what did you think about it?
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K /lit/, I've started to read the Wheel of Time saga today. I'ill be able to do it? What should I expect?
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Tedium.
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wasting hours and hours on fantasy trash
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entire 500+ page books where literally nothing happens
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Who will play him in the inevitable biopic?
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>>8733004
>Implying Bernie will get a fucking biopic
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>>8733004
Should have been Steve Jobs too.
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Go back to /tv/, faggot.
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It could be argued that this is one of Zizek's major "actuality" books, right?
Does anyone have an EPUB version? Or a pdf version that's nicer than the shit smeared scanned version I have.
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Does anyone have a pdf of Slavoj's Antigone?
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So no one has an epub version of this?
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>>8732884
Do I have to understand Lacan before reading this, or can I just jump in like a pseud?
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What does /lit/ think of the Styx?
Has anyone here read any of his books?
I've been watching him since a few months and was wondering if he writes as good as he speaks
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>>8732865
I don't know what you're talking about.
I doubt it's literature related.
>if he writes as good
In short, fuck off
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>>8732869
It's Styxhexenhammer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj_iectt9WQ&t=0s
He's written a number of books:
https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_pg_1?rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3AClifford+Herschel+Moore&sort=relevancerank&ie=UTF8&qid=1479374094
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>>8732871
Find one of his books to discuss then, or fuck off with this emaciated cuckporn-watching four-eyed AIDS-ridden piss-stained shitcunt desu
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Thoughts on Nobel laureate Toni Morrison?
Even Harold Bloom endorses her
>“In fact her maturity and blood kinship converted her passion to fever, so it was more affliction than affection. It literally knocked her down at night, and raised her up in the morning, for when she dragged herself off to bed, having spent another day without his presence, her heart beat like a gloved fist against her ribs. And in the morning, long before she was fully awake, she felt a longing so bitter and tight it yanked her out of a sleep swept clean of dreams.”
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>>8732740
catholics [small "c"] should be rounded up and executed.
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Genuinely great even though she's a black woman meme on /lit/. Beloved gets too much attention. Her ideas got exhausted in her later years.
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swag