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2016-09-14 00:42:58 Post No.8505985
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Anonymous 2016-09-14 00:42:58 Post No. 8505985 [Report] [View this topic]

what does lit think about reading theory?

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Anonymous 2016-09-14 00:46:19 Post No.8506003
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I gave up thought a long time ago, but have a funny picture.

Anonymous 2016-09-14 00:50:03 Post No.8506016
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>>8505985
its not necessary for the layman and thats ok.

very helpful if you want to take your understanding of literature to the "next level" beyond just reading primary texts

pseuds are militantly anti-theory

do it in moderation unless you're an academic, for the sake of your own sanity.

Anonymous 2016-09-14 00:53:08 Post No.8506026
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Smart people who intend on having a career in literature enjoy it, especially when it is challenging.

Casuals who are less interested in thinking about literature, its production, its reception and so on but enjoy novels for the plot and the human characters only ever read theory in their university English courses before they go on to teach high school or work in publishing.

Transient frogposters from /pol/ and /r9k/ (60% of /lit/ now apparently) hate theory because it's somehow associated with Hillary Clinton and libruls in their puny, puny minds. Generally it's best to ignore these virgin mutants, but occasionally, if one is certain of one's own patricianhood, it is beneficial to the board to smack these illiterate reprobates down.

Simply ask them what books they read and they start foaming at the mouth.

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Books that changed your life 2016-09-14 00:32:11 Post No.8505927
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Books that changed your life Anonymous 2016-09-14 00:32:11 Post No. 8505927 [Report] [View this topic]

For me it was two books, 1984 and A Brave New World, that opened my mind

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Anonymous 2016-09-14 00:36:00 Post No.8505946
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>>8505927
Schopenhauer's 'On Women' and Mein Kampf

Anonymous 2016-09-14 00:37:35 Post No.8505955
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Anonymous 2016-09-14 00:37:35 Post No.8505955 [Report]

The God Delusion

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>>8505927
Its not necessarily a book but reddit really changed my views politically and socially

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Anonymous 2016-09-14 00:30:02 Post No. 8505920 [Report] [View this topic]

So it is bad writing?

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Anonymous 2016-09-14 00:33:32 Post No.8505933
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Anonymous 2016-09-14 00:33:32 Post No.8505933 [Report]

To me it seems a little like the way Bret Easton Ellis writes but more amateurish

Anonymous 2016-09-14 00:34:15 Post No.8505937
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>>8505920
Now post the tumblr post that triggered you so we can have another pol9k thread

Anonymous 2016-09-14 00:35:21 Post No.8505944
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>>8505920
jeepers that's tedious and dense
is the character supposed to be dumb and insufferable?

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2016-09-14 00:29:43 Post No.8505917
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Anonymous 2016-09-14 00:29:43 Post No. 8505917 [Report] [View this topic]

So I've started reading this for the first time. I read 'A Brief History of Ancient Greece' and 'Mythology' to warm myself up but nothing prepared me for the absurd amount of names dropped, of people and places, in the part where he's listing off the battalions in book 2. I just know I'll struggle to keep track of all this. Any tips to improve my reading of this Anons?

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Anonymous 2016-09-14 00:32:50 Post No.8505930
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>>8505917
You only need to really know a handful or two of the characters

Anonymous 2016-09-14 00:39:20 Post No.8505967
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>>8505930
Well thank fuck. Can anyone confirm?

Anonymous 2016-09-14 00:40:03 Post No.8505972
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>>8505930

This. Just let it flow over you.

One thing that happens a lot is Homer will introduce a guy, go over his whole genealogy and life story, then have him impaled by a spear in the next verse.

So don't sweat all the characters, they won't be around long.

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2016-09-14 00:22:48 Post No.8505894
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Anonymous 2016-09-14 00:22:48 Post No. 8505894 [Report] [View this topic]

Where is the best place for me to hire a ghostwriter to help me realize my literary ideas?

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Anonymous 2016-09-14 00:34:09 Post No.8505936
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I'll write for u

Anonymous 2016-09-14 00:37:45 Post No.8505958
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>>8505936
What are your rates?
You can email me at [email protected]

Anonymous 2016-09-14 00:38:41 Post No.8505963
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>>8505894
a cemetery

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Anonymous 2016-09-14 00:17:14 Post No. 8505879 [Report] [View this topic]

What is the most disturbing story you have ever read?

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Anonymous 2016-09-14 00:19:52 Post No.8505884
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>>8505879
Any history book that depicts how far we've fallen in the West due to leftism

Anonymous 2016-09-14 00:21:02 Post No.8505886
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>>8505884
>Any history book
Because you don't actually read.

Anonymous 2016-09-14 00:21:53 Post No.8505889
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There was some Herbert Selby Jr. that was tough and uncomfortable to read.

Harlan Ellison is a good choice. A Boy and His Dog required me to distance myself from the concept of rape in order to enjoy it.

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2016-09-14 00:07:49 Post No.8505842
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Anonymous 2016-09-14 00:07:49 Post No. 8505842 [Report] [View this topic]

I wanted to share a writing.

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Anonymous 2016-09-14 00:10:12 Post No.8505850
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>>8505842
It's horrendous. You can't think

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Anonymous 2016-09-14 00:18:12 Post No.8505880
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>>8505842
i liked it

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2016-09-14 00:04:51 Post No.8505831
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Anonymous 2016-09-14 00:04:51 Post No. 8505831 [Report] [View this topic]

Are there any American authors on the same level as Tolstoy, Gogol and Dostoevsky?

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Anonymous 2016-09-14 00:05:37 Post No.8505835
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Anonymous 2016-09-14 00:05:37 Post No.8505835 [Report]

Melville aaaaand that's about it

Anonymous 2016-09-14 00:15:11 Post No.8505866
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Anonymous 2016-09-14 00:15:11 Post No.8505866 [Report]

Toni Morrison

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Anonymous 2016-09-14 00:15:54 Post No.8505872 [Report]

Faulkner, Pound, and Melville are above them

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Anonymous 2016-09-14 00:00:51 Post No. 8505818 [Report] [View this topic]

I just finished the first section of this and it's incredible so far. Not like other books from him I've read, but this is thrilling in a really subtle way.

Really reminds me of Calvino.

I've heard a lot of criticism that it doesn't feel complete - does it get worse? What happens in the next 600 pages that concerns so many readers?

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Anonymous 2016-09-14 00:02:57 Post No.8505820
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>>8505818
everyone gets raped. anally and vaginally.

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>>8505818
I think I wanna read this book after I'm done with Infinite Jest. I'm on a memeroll

Anonymous 2016-09-14 00:34:54 Post No.8505941
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>>8505818
>reading the savage detectives
>that whole chapter about how all poets are faggots
heh

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Anonymous 2016-09-13 23:57:32 Post No. 8505809 [Report] [View this topic]

>There is no objective truth

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Anonymous 2016-09-14 00:03:09 Post No.8505823
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Anonymous 2016-09-14 00:03:09 Post No.8505823 [Report]

but isn't no objective truth tries to be objective truth

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>>8505809
He's not wrong. Truths are merely a social construct

I'm a femenist btw

Anonymous 2016-09-14 00:09:35 Post No.8505847
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>>8505823
Yes, thereby proving the OP wrong.

/thread (in response to your post, not mine)

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help with this book? 2016-09-13 23:32:50 Post No.8505741
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help with this book? Anonymous 2016-09-13 23:32:50 Post No. 8505741 [Report] [View this topic]

Hi /lit/

I am from /ic/

So this girl who has been driving me crazy as of late gifted this book to me.

what am I supposed to make of this book? is it any good?

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Anonymous 2016-09-13 23:34:01 Post No.8505743
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>>8505741
self help crap basically

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>>8505741
fucking shit-tier, cut all relations you have with her, not even kidding here

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>>8505744
>calling rilke shit tier

I don't care if you're joking or not. kill yourselves.

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Anonymous 2016-09-13 23:26:59 Post No. 8505730 [Report] [View this topic]

How would you convince a STEM type (who only reads sci-fi/fantasy) to start reading literary fiction?

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Anonymous 2016-09-13 23:35:42 Post No.8505750
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> to start reading literary fiction?
I wouldn't.

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>>8505750
This

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>>8505730
Exactly the same way you would convince a humanties type to learn more about STEM

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Anonymous 2016-09-13 23:26:44 Post No. 8505729 [Report] [View this topic]

I'm thinking hitting up some bookstores tomorrow /lit. which books should I shoplift tomorrow if I can find them at the stores?

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Anonymous 2016-09-13 23:28:20 Post No.8505732
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>>8505729
Bottom's Dream

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Expensive textbooks to sell online or at some college campus.

Anonymous 2016-09-13 23:33:12 Post No.8505742
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Anonymous 2016-09-13 23:33:12 Post No.8505742 [Report]

Art / photography books innit

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/ñ/ Anonymous 2016-09-13 23:23:38 Post No. 8505716 [Report] [View this topic]

Any hispanons read that Agustín Fernández Mallo guy? 'pinion?

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Anonymous 2016-09-13 23:26:08 Post No.8505726
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¿Literalmente quién?

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>>8505726
>literatura contemporanea
Es lo que piensé

Sounds like it could be fun and he seems obsessed with Borges, but I'm wondering whether my comprehension is up to possible po-mo-ry

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>>8505785
... oh but this one has an english translation. We'll see.

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Anonymous 2016-09-13 23:13:13 Post No. 8505686 [Report] [View this topic]

I am ultra-pleb trying to get into reading. A good balance between engaging, with some depth and somewhat accessible is what I think I need to begin. Read stoner and that was near perfect in my eyes. Tried brothers karamazov and just couldn't get into it. Is blood meridian somewhat accessible?

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Anonymous 2016-09-13 23:38:16 Post No.8505759
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>>8505686
Orwell is a great start

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>>8505686
It's the merry band of adventurers again.

I'd be the cock desu.

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