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How come she never gets discussed on /lit/? She's fucking great imo
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She's still alive?
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Because she isn't a meme. Please don't make her one.
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who is she? I'd like to read her if she's good.
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Post Pynchon's quotes that'd convince me to read him
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>>8465450
someone post the passage where the dude eats poop
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>>8465450
To the bovine of this world - this tourist world at least - love comes, is undergone, and goes away unobtrusive as possible.
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>>8465450
A screaming comes across the sky.
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I want to get into architecture because I like looking at old buildings.
What book should I read to learn to differentiate between different styles and just appreciate it more?
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>>8465406
'An introduction to Architechture'
'Architecture: An Introduction'
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>>8465414
Thanks for your insightful recommendations you fucking dumbass, I'm actually asking people who have read or been interested in the subject and can give personal advice, not just hurr googled lulz, you fucking shitbag cuntnigger faggot.
Please kill your dog and eat it.
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>>8465406
stert with teh greek-boys
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Why do people say that his prose is so incredible? To me, his style (or styles) seems to be unique and clever, but I didn't find there to be an abundance of beautiful stylistic moments in Ulysses. In Proust and in Melville, for example, there are far more of these moments, at least in my experience. Joyce is exceedingly clever and occasionally fashions beautiful artistic passages (the Siren chapter was amazing) but not nearly as many as his reputation warrants. He pushes the limits of syntax and wordplay, but not necesarily in a way that simultaneously pushes the limits of artistic capability, at least not to the extent that many people say he does
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Proust is fucking dweeb. Can't believed I got memed into reading all his books three times.
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>>8465405
First of all, you didn't read ISoLT three times
Second of all, you didn't read it in french
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OP it just comes down to "to each, their own." I can see why some would be impressed and others wouldn't. It's about a reader's personal taste imo.
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Getting started: Economics
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Hi /lit/,
besides reading fiction books, I would like to start reading some non-fiction books. I have started with philosophy and altough I enjoyed it, it never really kept me interested enough.
So I decided to get deeper into economics. I wanted to start of with Wealth Of Nations and then Das Kapital. But I have no idea on how to proceed from there.
Any literature you guys can recommend? Multiple recommendations would be very helpful.
Thanks in advance.
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>>8465326
>Das Kapital
Fuck off, cuck shill
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>>8465326
Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell, but it may have a right-wing bias
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>>8465343
Those are the only 2 economy books I read about here.
What would you recommend?
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What is the name of your main character in your novel?
>Wolfgang von Herrmann
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Gregory Berrycone
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>>8465308
le assman
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>>8465308
Sounds stupid
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CRAWLING IN MY SKIN
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>tfw you're the underground man
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>>8465225
What an insufferable cunt
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>>8465225
10/10
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Hey /lit/,
About 4 or 5 years ago I read a superhero novel, but I have long since forgotten the name. A female character, I think she was a main character, had super strength and preferred a bow (with ridiculous pull weight) as her main weapon. The villain in the novel had a superpower of adaptability and was almost invincible.
Grateful for any help
Thanks, /lit/
*pic unrelated
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Shameless Self-bump
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/b/tard rebump
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>>8465219
my diary
Anyone here ever read Karl Marx's Capital? I looked it up and the Penguin edition, in 3 volumes, is close to 3000 pages.
Is it worth the read? I wonder what he had to say that made it so long.
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>>8465163
Unless you study the subject just read a book with excerpts and academic context tbqh
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Capital was never finished, what you're reading is only a small part of what was supposed to be a massive series. Only volume 1 was fully finished and published by Marx, volume 2 & 3 were never actually finished they were published after his death and edited by Engels... "Theories of Surplus Value" is the "4th volume" in a sense as well.
Volume 1 deals with the immediate process of production and value generation, 2 the circulation process and capital accumulation, 3 with credit and finance [the so called "transformation problem" comes in here]. It'll all be heavily esoteric if your not familiar with classic german philosophy and british economics and the issues therein which Marxs is critiquing.
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>>8465163
ive read all three volumes and theories of surplus value. is it worth it? yes. there is lengthy repetition in some works, pages and pages of algebra and production schema which can be dispensed with.
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Nabokov names the first half of In Search of Lost Time as the fourth greatest piece of 20th century prose.
So where does the first half end? The Guermantes Way or Sodom and Gomorrah?
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The gay scenes
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>>8465153
probably S&G since Proust was dead when the last 3 came out
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>>8465157
Faggot
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what is simpsons of lit?
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>>8465126
Anything found in a supermarket.
Not always bad, not always good. But everyone has access and usually binges on.
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infinite jest
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>>8465126
Dickens
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What happens in this book ?
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>>8465106
A schoolgirl has one emotional day, and experiences the dislocation of adolescence, the stifling weight of cultural expectations, the unreliability of adults, and the difficulty of authentic expressions of individuality. Also loses her anal cherry to the family dog in a beautifully poetic flashback explaining why she's finding her hard wooden school desk so uncomfortable.
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>>8465590
>Also loses her anal cherry to the family dog
You better not just be baiting me into this
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Today's haul. Total cost: $60 (give or take a few bucks for tax).
Used book stores are the tits. I think I like them more than my local library. Which do you prefer, /lit/?
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>>8465104
You spend 59 bucks too much.
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There is no way this cost you $60. Did you purchase the most expensive editions of each book? Even then it doesn't seem reasonable.
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>>8465223
The most expensive book was actual Dale Carnegie's, which I didn't get a discount on because it's brand new.
Other than that, all the books were half-price (based on their MSRP).
I can't complain. I'm already digging into Rosseau's book.
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Was he right?
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>>8465094
About women and SJWs and leftist cucks? Yes.
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>>8465129
What book of his has this?
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>Adults who like Harry Potter
It's always the most loathsome people
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>people who use the word "loathsome"
It's always the most affected people.
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>>8465075
>people who posts frogs
It's always the most loathsome people
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>>8465107
do you live in a town full of rednecks? loathsome is a pretty mundane word