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>Favourite book
>Guilty pleasure
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>>8456194
>Moby Dick
>2D traps
100% straight btw
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>favorite book
Notes From Underground
>guilty pleasure
watching these videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyCGAEhS7VA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxb6IstGQbk
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>book
The Beetle Leg
>guilty pleasure
The Big Bang Theory; other awful sitcoms4chan
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I have a problem, guys. My bookshelf is pretty lacking. What are some quality books I could probably pick up from a used book store?
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Atlas Shrugged.
Ronald Reagan biography.
O'Reilly 'Killing _____' series books.
The Bible.
One of those 'How religion/Jesus/Christianity can turn your life around' self-help style books.
Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman.
Bullies by Ben Shapiro.
End the Fed by Ron Paul.
1984.
Art of the Deal.
Crippled America.
That should cover about everything.
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>>8456254
nice try, but you forgot IJ.
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Hypersphere
Is Duolingo the best way to learn a new language? I want to use it to supplement my Spanish that I'm already learning in school
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>>8456151
it's a good way to learn up though Spanish 2 in high school. Less use after that, if any.
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>>8456165
I'm nearly at a level comparable to AP Spanish and the grammar they have towards the end of the Duolingo course is equal if not more advanced
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>>8456151
No, it's not.
Duolingo is good for vocabulary. There's a whole fucking sticky on /int/ about the best ways to learn a given language, go there
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have you bought any books from them?
would you recommend anything essential they are selling?
I feel like reading some fringe, or even classic, leftist stuff
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>>8455801
>leftist publication
Your on the wrong website, kid.
Take the redpill or head to /r/books
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>>8455811
Fucking slit your throat
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Why are so many people on this board dumb enought to see things as leftist or rightist even if it is the implication of the author? They are meaningless and very limiting terms even in question to pololitic's and thought. Categorizing thoughts and actions in such a way leads to mass misunderstanding and ignorance and arrogance of what someone is potentially saying.
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Romance (preferrably Lesbian) Literature 2016-08-31 00:41:23 Post No.8455762
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Romance (preferrably Lesbian) Literature
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/u/ here, I've been looking for books to read as a reference to my own writings, to learn from.
So far I've been recommended:
>The Price of Salt, or Carl (Patricia Highsmith)
>The Gods of Tango (Carolina De Robertis)
>The Gravity Between Us (Kristen Zimmer)
Please don't mind the "The X of Y" titles, I would sincerely appreciate some other recommendations.
Even normal romance would be alright, I'm looking to do justice to the picture in my head, bring it to life in such a way that it can be considered a beautiful ideal which true life wouldn't compare to, something that many would long for.
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I would also be interested in literature about the purest form of love
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>>8455794
Thanks for the support anon.
Please we would appreciate any recommendations.
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first things first barely any women write great literature and if they do they typically arent dykes, so as much as i wish i could help you, i really cant.
Sappho is the only lesbian source material I can think of that is worth anything.
Is Literary Science a real science?
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>>8455728
No, most of its expositors aren't even very good writers. Go to jstor, type in a book you like, and read any of the criticism, and tell me that that is a worthwhile pursuit.
This is why you need a state church, as a form of welfare for middle-class intellectual types.
Professional academia in the humanities is mostly a sick joke, besides the tiny portion of it that is actually useful (dictionaries, papyrology, real textual criticism)
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>>8455728
>This is why you need a state church
Is this common in your country?
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>>8455728
No!
>tfw you drudged through 200 pages through IJ
>everybody says it picks up at that point
I haven't touched the book in months should I go back and re-read it or just start up again?
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>>8455697
get to page 201 at least.
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>>8455697
reread, stop being lazy
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>>8455697
I read up to page 300 with the same thing in mind. It's been over a year since I've read any serious amount beyond that. I enjoyed some moments so far, but I just don't see myself finishing it anytime soon, if ever.
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For those of you who have read this, what are your thoughts on his argument?
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I thought it was good, a good argument. And I know arguments.
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>>8455685
Makes sense if you accept general utilitarian premises, I think.
I've read parts of it but it didn't interest me enough to read all of it, since I don't accept such premises.
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>>8455685
What did you think of the argument against reading this book?
>Start writing a fantasy series this summer with a pretty specific set up
>Write 50k words
>Start thinking it's actually pretty good and wondering whether it might be enough to get an agent interested
>Bored browsing TV Tropes one day
>Find out there's another series with literally the exact same premise although other than that pretty dissimilar
What do lads?
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>>8455630
Be specific.
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>>8455630
Keep going, anon. You'll be fine.
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>>8455635
I don't want to give away the plot, but lets just say that it's the equivalent of writing a book about the destruction of a super powerful magical ring.
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> top 5 Shakespeare plays
> favourite publishers
> favourite Shakespeare critics
> favourite adaptations
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richard the third, othello, macbeth, the taming of the shrew ,hamlet
throne of blood
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> King Lear, Richard III, Macbeth, Julius Caesar, Romeo and Juliet
>Arden, hands down
>Foakes, Kermode, and some others
>Haven't seen much adaptations, but I like Olivier as Richard III
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> top 5 Shakespeare plays
antony and cleopatra, coriolanus, as you like it, taming of the shrew, richard iii
> favourite publishers
dunno, the shitty paperback ones are usually good enough
> favourite Shakespeare critics
mark van duren, empson, borges
> favourite adaptations
throne of blood, i guess
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what are your thoughts on blogs & magazines?
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Good blogs and magazines are worth reading. Bad blogs and magazines aren't worth reading
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>>8455476
what are some good blogs then?
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>>8455487
Those with good posts.
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Lit, I don't know where I'm going with my life and I feel like I have nowhere to go, I'm trapped. I don't know what I can even do, I don't even know how to get a job, college isn't even for me, school has never been a good fit for me. I don't know what to do, I feel like I should be living my life, I feel like there's more to life than just doing stuff inside my apartment my parents pay for all the time. Please recommend a book that I can read, because it always seems like when you're going through something someone comes along and says that there's a book you should read for the exact same thing you're going through. Please.
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>>8455455
Shit go to a trade school, plumbers make bank.
Read a book on plumbing.
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>>8455461
All I've got to say is I'm glad there's people in society who do that, and not me.
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>>8455472
Point is if you hate traditional school try a trade out, they usually pay well and you get to be outside.
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Which world/book is better?
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>fantasy
Both are garbage.
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They are both far more derivative and far less innovative than either of their fan bases would like to admit
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>>8455436
Eddison was better.
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Anon this is stupid exercise at the very least. I've read all Dante, all Plato in greek (I'm italian and I've had classical studies), I do enjoy philosophy, theatrical pieces, law books (I'm a lawyer myself) biographies, do you think I meant to compare Asoiaf to them, or to Joyce - not a big fan of his personally, even of course I've seen what there was to see about him in Dublin and Trieste - Shakespeare or Petrarca?! OF COURSE, as ANYONE would grasp, I was speaking of 'commercial' books, fantasy, kinda fantasy or kinda-historical (not historical essays or biographies) books. Being snobbish doesn't prove your intelligence, it proves just you're narrow minded. Both 'The Tudors' and 'Wolf Hall' were kinda-historical TV series.. but hte first was sh***, the second one wasn't. Is is some independent indie movie shown at some film festival? No, but this doesn't automatically mean it's sh*. You clearly haven't read the Asoiaf books (I did only because a friend of mine insisted), otherwise you'll know what I'm talking about. You quote some sexual sh* and assume the whole saga is sh*. No, it's great. There is not a line or a word which is 'casual', the foreshadowing game he plays with the readers is amazing (I've never seen it brought to this level and it takes time, intuition, knowledge of history and literature to grasp the right clues, interpret them the right way and avoid the red herrings), there are endless clever dialogues, the historical and literary inspirations behind the characters are great (my fave one is a mix of Emperor Claudius, Richard III and Odyessus, with of course his own individuality), the ethymologies of the names offer very interesting insights, the way he deals with religion, secular political institutions and war is spectacular. Hunger games? sh*, Twilight? sh*. Gregory's "historical" books? sh** and so on and on. Asoiaf by GRRM? VGood 'realistic' fantasy (ossimoric but true). Shardlake by CJSansom? VGood. Nicholas Le Floche by JFParot? VGood. Hilary Mantel's books? Vgood.
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What video is this from?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KT7HkqrqvC4 the best one, of course.
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Please, friends, share your favorite moments!
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Explain what makes a book good.
Genre fiction is derided as lowbrow trash, and works like Ulysses or Gravity's Rainbow are held in high regard. Why? If you have to defend that difference, what exactly is it that makes that writing special? I've only heard people dismiss it as snobbery and personal preference and I want to know what the truth of the matter is.
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>>8455388
P R O S E
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>>8455402
What does that mean to you?
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good prose style
thematic depth
literary innovation that isn't overly gimmicky
non-reliance on tropes
great characterization