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Anyone here read books starring animals? I've really gotten into xenofiction lately. I thought Warrior Cats would be an embarrassing guilty pleasure but it's actually pretty well-written, I still prefer Seekers though.
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read this.
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Read Jack London. Call of the Wild is a good one.
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I wasn't really asking for recommendations, more so discussion. I know of quite a few good animal books. It's a shame most are about cats though.
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Lit about everyday people 2016-09-18 16:25:18 Post No.8522389
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What is some good literature about ordinary, everyday quotidian life?
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>>8522389
Ulysses. Portrait of the artist as a young man. Finnegans Wake.
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>>8522393
Thanks LOL. And good normal lit expressed in a straightforward way?
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>>8522389
The pale king
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What'a the most romantic line in literature
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Are you a beaver because dam
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I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you.
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that one that Mr Manhattan says about the sluts he was fucking when he's on some moon. some shit about her being born from rape or something.
So im ordering some books , can you help me deciding which books should i buy first, these are some books that i want to read and my budget is limited.
Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
The republic - Plato
Anna Karenina or W&P - Tolstoi
Crime & Punishment or The Gambler - Dosto
The Communist Manifesto - Marx&Engels
Leviathan - Hobbes
Paradise Reclaimed - Halldor Laxness (or any other book by Laxness besides Independent People)
Im open to suggestions too, i interested in politics and in nordic literature.
Thank you all
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also add Discourse on the Method to that list.
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Pretty decent list. I'd drop the Manifesto and only go for Das Kapital if Marx really interests you that much. I'd choose War and Peace over Anna Karenina since politics is your preference. And Crime & Punishment is just better than The Gambler.
Maybe consider Ibsen, Hamsun, Democracy in America, and Aristotle's Politics if you haven't already.
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>>8522387
Thank you anon. I heard that the Capital is a pretty complex book , thats why i dont want to jump into it straight away, is as difficult as they say?
Thank you for the other suggestions too, any specific recommendations for Hamsun and Ibsen?
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1987 Locus poll of the 33 best Sci-fi/Fantasy novels 2016-09-18 15:50:46 Post No.8522293
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1987 Locus poll of the 33 best Sci-fi/Fantasy novels
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1) The Lord of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien (1955)
2) The Hobbit, J. R. R. Tolkien (1937)
3) A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin (1968)
4) The Shadow of the Torturer, Gene Wolfe (1980)
5) The Last Unicorn, Peter S. Beagle (1968)
6) The Once and Future King, T. H. White (1958)
7) Nine Princes in Amber, Roger Zelazny (1970)
8) The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, Stephen R. Donaldson (1977)
9) Dragonflight, Anne McCaffrey (1968)
10) Little, Big, John Crowley (1981)
11) Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll (1865)
12) The Gormenghast Trilogy, Mervyn Peake (1950)
13) The Riddlemaster of Hed, Patricia A. McKillip (1976)
14) The Incompleat Enchanter, Fletcher Pratt & L. Sprague de Camp (1941)
15) Watership Down, Richard Adams (1972)
16) The Dying Earth, Jack Vance (1950)
17) Glory Road, Robert A. Heinlein (1963)
18) A Spell for Chameleon, Piers Anthony (1977)
19) Dracula, Bram Stoker (1897)
20) The Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum (1900)
21) Silverlock, John Myers Myers (1949)
22) Something Wicked This Way Comes, Ray Bradbury (1962)
23*) The White Dragon, Anne McCaffrey (1978)
23*) The Stand, Stephen King (1978)
25) Lord Valentine's Castle, Robert Silverberg (1980)
26) The Chronicles of Narnia, C. S. Lewis (1950)
27) The Shining, Stephen King (1977)
28) Conjure Wife, Fritz Leiber (1953)
29*) Deryni Rising, Katherine Kurtz (1970)
29*) The Worm Ouroboros, E. R. Eddison (1922)
31) Witch World, Andre Norton (1963)
32) Salem's Lot, Stephen King (1975)
33) A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L'Engle (1962)
>this guy absent
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>>8522293
This list is specifically for fantasy novels.
Did Lem write fantasy? I thought he wrote SF.
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>>8522293
It's obviously a fantasy poll, or PKD, Vonnegut, Asimov would be up there.
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>>8522293
Too much King
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>professor assigns his/her own book as required/recommended reading
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Obiquous in Italian university.
And people wonder why students leave.
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>>8522290
As in their fiction?
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Critical works
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Interested in starting readying the works of Ernest Hemingway soon. Any suggestions on which ones I should read?
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All of them tbqhfam.
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I only read For Whom the Bell Tolls and it's fucking trash. The only good thing about it is the setting and he does all he can to ruin it.
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Pass him on by, anon. He was a proto-meme in the schools for awhile, but he doesn't really hold up.
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Is there anyone who wrote their first great novel or short story past the age of 25?
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If there is or isn't, it doesn't mean that you can't anon!
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>>8522232
Oh fuck nigga is that some Ceylan
Hell yeah
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>>8522232
Based Kierkegaard
What does everyone think about Paul Auster...yes I devoted my first ever post on here to him, but I feel he deserves it!
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>>8522225
>I devoted my first ever post on here
>devoted
have an upvote, sir, and let us ride back into the sacred land of reddit.
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>>8522225
Lurk more faggot
Also sage
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Do a lot of people lurk here? What's the point of lurking an anonymous board?
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I'm looking for an intellectual tour de force which will stimulate my mind immensely.
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Samharris.org
Begin there, end there
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/thread
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>>8522080
This, the culmination of human intelligence.
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ITT: Criminally underrated books
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lmao y'all some true fuckin PLEBS
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>>8522057
Good taste op :)
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Can a kind anon strip this .azw file of DRM?
http://expirebox.com/download/f7655cb0461b7b9fc34352ef0458e45f.html
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hello
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bump for a kind anon to halp me
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sent ;)
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I don't like this guy. He seems smug as hell. I think it is also a class thing. He was worth over $1 billion dollars, like 20-30 years ago. You know what that means? We are all being lectured by a .0001 %. and what the fuck do they have to tell us? What do they know about our lives? Those who actually work? I ain't saying he doesn't have talent, but that after a point of success, authors lose all their credibility since their life is just a blob of rich people thoughts.
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I honestly have no idea how to reply.
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he looks like a 50 year old markiplier
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>>8521923
He used to be a crusty poorfag who'd write short stories for gas or rent money before Carrie got published. I do agree that taking writing advice from him is a one-way ticket to plebtown though.
How do you feel about Plato?
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Historically significant, but empirically it turns out we don't live in a world that can be captured rationally, so the resulting Western canon merely has entertainment value.
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>>8521920
Yo ima have to axe u to explain ur premises a lil mo clearly
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I just don't get it. If "Protagoras" and "Hippias major" didn't both have the name "Plato" on them, I would absolutely refuse to believe that the same guy wrote them. That, or that Hippias stole his lover or something.
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Hey /lit/, might seem like a dumb question but how do you properly appreciate a 'classic' book?
Although I often enjoy reading them, I feel like I don't completely grasp their full significance and meaning, only the basic tenets.
Is this something that comes with time and experience? Do I need to specifically devote time to critically analyzing them?
How do you go about it?
Thanks.
Pic somewhat related?
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Trying picking up a Norton's Critical Edition of the next classic you're thinking of reading. That should help you understand a lot of references and other things you might miss.
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>>8521840
yeah, these can be helpful. also, just read more and read things more than once as the years go by. something you don't fully grasp now may make more sense on another read in five years after more reading and life experience. you don't have to be an expert on something in the first read through. just enjoy it.
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>>8521820
Both of the other comments are good. Also you can try reading some books by Harold Bloom or Mortimer J. Adler's "How to Read a Book"