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Dress as a geisha

>>8669496
sometimes tho? not all the time as i want to review other literature's aswell
xo

>>8669488
if you read a japanese author, you could do the review in japanese, or read a segment from the book in japanese, or compare between the translation and the original. i would watch anything along those lines

just give your videos your own interpretation/spin on the work instead of the "JAPANESE BOOK HAUL XXDDD"

what authors have you covered at uni?

>>8669480
>no different than fascists
Sage
>>>/pol/
>>>/out/
>>>/reddit/

>>8669498

it's as heinous as fascism and has even taken more lives

>>8669525
At the very least, we can say that we ought to judge a tree by its fruits.

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>>8669453
Self Pubishing

>>8669453
Google doc links on /lit/

>>8669468
This. It's the future

Poorly. Do English comp; you'll have more prospects and you can still take Lit courses.

>>8669398
Anywhere. Degrees don't matter nowadays. Just be smart and don't be a retard and you'll be fine

suck mybfucking nigger dick

>>8669388
>>8669388
>good luck reading this!
>I got bored so this is a letter blablabla

pure shit

norse runes used to poorly transcribe into english without actually writing in futhark? yawn

What the fuck sort of runes are these even supposed to be? Nearest I can gather is medieval runes, but if that's what these are then they've been mutilated almost beyond recognition.

>Good luck reading this!
>I got bored so this is a letter I wrote that is (indecipherable, ends with __"less!" Might be "useless" but fuck these runes man.)
>Love(?) you(?) so much!(Heart)
>I hope we(?) last.
>Talk to you(?) latter(actual spelling error)!
>Love(?) you(?).(Heart)

No but seriously what the fuck runes are these they suck balls.

Yes /thread pls sage

It drags ass when they go on the roadtrips

Can somebody explain me why 20ish years old women love this book?

It is a about a obsesed guy raping a preteen!

>>8669358
It started with Obama and Hillary

t. the redpill

>>8669358
>>>/his/

>>8669361
More like unacknowledged special access groups went rogue under eisenhowers watch

>>8669299
This was water.

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>>8669302
Reminder that this was a flesh and blood human being, a real tortured soul, who's death you're joking about. I mean, I know in the internet age its easy to become jaded and hardened, and I don't want to be a spoilsport. But I think when things get really rough and tumble as they often do on a site like 4chan, we lose sight of the fact that Wallace, regardless of what you think of his work, was a person just like you and me, and there's a certain level of respect he deserves because of that anon

AHA JUST KIDDING FUCKING GREAT POST ANON MY SIDES KEK

>>8669299

Open your copy of Infinite Jest and (re)read pages 692-698.

>>8669262
From what I've seen on /lit/ there's a lot of argument about whether it's meant to be pro- or anti-Islam, so at least it seems like there's some degree of ambiguity or balance

>>8669266
Seems promising. I really would like it to even try to be balanced, but I just don't think I'd like to hear a dyostopian novel about Muslims by the classic french goblin himself.

The book isn't pro or anti-islam, it's a fundamental criticism of the european way of life, in the absence of a mobilizing spirituality that serves a social function (christianity no longer can do this, the central experience of the book is that the attempted conversion towards christianity of the main character failed, while in the end it is pretty much implied that he converts to islam, not out of conviction but merely out of comformity). Houellebecq states, in his fiction and outside, that Islam both mobilizes and functions socially and is thus superior to the decadent european way. He's no pro-islam, he's not anti (not anymore), but his focus lies on the european way of living.

Sadly i haven't found an english translation of this, but this is a great speech he held: http://www.nzz.ch/feuilleton/zeitgeschehen/michel-houellebecq-europa-steht-vor-dem-selbstmord-ld.118845

>>8669241
wtf I hate Shakespeare now

>>8669241
It's a deliberate self-insert allusion to his own hackery. He was, indeed, a genius

Protip: no-one reads Shakespeare for the plot. His are always ridiculously contrived and slapdash.

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This is good, because it awakened all of the blue pilled Keynesians who thought they knew how to optimize the economy.

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In calling it "no pill", you are effectively categorizing this into a "pill"

>>8669277
Every novel is going to have an underlying message the reader is persuaded into. It's just how it works.

>>8669216
search the catalog for "sharethread"
There's an archive of African /lit/ there, take your pick.

>>8669216
my diary t b h

>>8669220
Yawn

Agreed.
Murakami>>DFW

who is that guy
he looks like a douchey pixar character

What should i read before Leviathan?

In the same way that Beethoven composed his best symphonies while deaf, the most insightful "reading" can be garnered from audiobooks.

>>8669168
But it is tho

>>8669168
What if you were listening to an audiobook of Homer, or Shakespeare, or other works that were made to be performed?

ching chong, nip
nong gong.
ching ching nong ching
gong.

>>8669152
>any language.
You're just asking for it, aren't you?

>>8669165
Well...