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this isnt impossible to read, it might be impossible to write about, nor impossible to forget. It is an extraordinary work of art, but one that is unlikely to appeal to most. But we aren't the Average readers (hehehe), we take pride in a challenge. its comparable to Ulyssess in scope and prose (yeah I said it), gravity's rainbow in difficulty and infinite meme in length (although far more worth it). If you ever wanted to know what it was like to read a dream, without reading the wake, this is it. Although people here tend to be afraid of giant doorstoppers, I do think the first 300 pages at least are well worth giving a go, just to spend some time in this unique and stunningly beautiful prose. I can promise you that there is absolutely nothing else out there that can compare. Having now finished this is can easily say it is a book I will never forget. I think it will stay with me the rest of my life. this is very worth the read. miss macintosh is a book that others need to read because it begs for discussion and interpretation and I have no one to discuss it with :(
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>>8454142
*I can easily say
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>>8454142
no, it's a very normal novel by structure and ideas. It's just really fucking long and very overwritten
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>>8454266
have you finished it?
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>there hasn't been great Russian literature since this book
thanks communism
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Yeah, fuck Gulag Archipelago and First Circle.
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>>8454092
>only great literature from Soviet period was shitting on communism
proves my point
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>Imblying
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Whats going to help me overcome nihilism /lit/?
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>>8453939
Pessimism. Start with the antinatalists. Zapffe, Schoppie, Liggoti, Cioran, Benatar
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Virtue ethics.
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>>8453944
Litarally arbitrary nonsense.
When did you realise asceticism is superior to hedonism for the literary lifestyle?
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When I realized I will always be poor and ugly.
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>>8453943
Yup
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>>8453917
>When did you realise asceticism is superior to hedonism
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Give me a good horoor book that has been relesed in the last 10 years
Im saying ten years who people wont recommend sleeping pills like IT, I tried reading it, but I feel clowns are 0% scary
Points for unique concept/story with supernautral/paranormal stuff and not just ''killers''
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Check out Joe Hill aka Stephen King's literal son. I've only read NOS4A2 (which I think fits what you're asking for, btw) but all of his books are supposed to be pretty good.
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>wanting to be scared of books
Not very /lit/ desu
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Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach Trilogy.
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Is this book his best?
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>>8453902
Yes
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>>8453902
What should i read next, Steppenwolf or Narcissus ?
just read Siddhartha (and enjoyed it)
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>>8453912
Steppenwolf and the narcissus
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Anton Chekhov - The Horse Stealers 2016-08-30 13:13:24 Post No.8453886
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So I recently got into Chekhov, reading his short stories and last night I read The Horse Stealers. Now what I don't understand is the relationship between Merik and Lyubka. In short, Merik is a horse thief who tells Lyubka, straight in the face, that if he finds her mother's treasure that he'll kill both of them and set the house on fire making it look like an accident. Yergunov hears this (and does.. nothing?) and [SPOILER] the story ends with Yergunov seeing the house ablaze... Why would Lyubka then be so slutty towards Merik, why would noone report it to the police or whatever, what did I miss? As I said, really new to his works so yeah, halp?
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>posting an actual /lit/ question on 4chan's /lit/
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>>8453886
merik was a kind of dark triad guy, I'm not even memeing, she was mesmerized by him. That thing he said to her was kinda flirting, he was saying it in the way you would be left guessing whether he's being serious or not, which is thrilling (also notice her reaction to this violent threat - she asks what's it like living in Kuban - she has a very romanticised view of his life and travels while she probably never been anywhere but a few local villages herself). So she helped the thief steal the horse of a boring square guy just to be a part of something thrilling.
About the police - in the story itself you can read about an instance of the locals preferring taking justice into their own hands (by throwing Merik into an ice-hole and beating him up) to invoking the authorities. I don't know - probably because of the lack of trust or they considered it more trouble than just gathering together and fucking the thief up, maybe thinking it would be a good enough lesson. Although if the fire involved an actual murder like Yergunov believes it to, it most certainly would be handled by the authorities
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>>8454638
I'm not even OP but damn, that's a nice answer.
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DUDE EATING CHEESE AND DRINKING WINE AND STAYING IN LUXURY HOTELS FOR THE WHOLE FUCKING STORY LMAO
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The part of the book with the retreat was great.
Anyhow, what was the deal with the gf? Totally submissive and agreeing with everything the main char says and little personality of her own. Is it because she lost her first husbando and to avoid losing another she becomes a total sub? I assumed this would come up towards the end but she just fucking died. She was really uninteresting to me.
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>>8455143
Women were expected to act that way back then.
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>>8455143
Women aren't interesting people 2bh
Still, I prefer them to keep their boring opinions to themselves rather than share them
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ITT post only the most patrician people to have ever walk this earth and their feats
I start with Otto Carpeaux, he spoke portuguese, german, italian, english, spanish, latim, french, serbian, catalan, flamengo, ancient greek, galego and langue d'oc, also he wrote a enormous study on the ocidental literature that goes for 10 volumes, from greek to the post WWII and also wrote a book on the story of erudite music, it was a man that could tell Rubens and Van Dyck apart and read Homer and Virgil in the original
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wow he gooood
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im still gonna forget him tho
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>>8453897
>implyng patricians would care about plebs remembering them or not
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lit, I feel like all the other books that I'm reading right now are just warm ups to books like infinite jest or gravity's rainbow or the tunnel. Is there any way to make reading less boring while I'm training to read the high level books?
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stop treating reading like a fucking quest and just read what u want
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>>8453798
yeah but I don't feel like I'm ready to read books like those yet.
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stop reading american shit and start with the greeks
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Got this beauty for only 25€. Put the Grass-trilogy next to it as to show the scale. Quite excited, i have fallen in love with Schiller recently and can't wait to read more dramas.
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>>8453684
>DER KANON
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>>8453686
Ranicki is the german Bloom, except unlike Bloom he's not shit
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Reposting from the shelf thread.
Got this stack for 15 euros
lets share some personal philosophical beliefs we believe in that's relative in modern society. alchemy is real. You give to receive. You can only be bad to be good. Vice Versa. No one is truly evil. No one is truly good. Neutral is the only true permanent state. Fuck with me. Picture is unrelated that I used for my soundcloud.
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>Neutral is the only true permanent state. Fuck with me.
underage b&s make the worst threads. yikes.
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>>8453643
It's true though. Neutrality is the only permanent state you can attain. You're also being immature by trying to call me out rn.
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neutrality doesn't exist unless you are already drinking some kind of kool-aid that tells you where the neutral point lays
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Metamorphoses of Science Fiction
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Because the academic publishing industry is a disgrace, I'm not about shelling out 50$ for this book. I managed to track down PDF of it, but the first few pages were corrupted (up to page xi of the Preface).
A long shot - but does anyone have a scan of those pages, or have a link to a fully copy?
Also, general Suvin discussion.
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>>8453634
>first name is literally Darko
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>>8453638
Could hardly have become an engineer with that name
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>>8453634
Why do you care so much about the preface?
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Correct me if i'm wrong, 4chan doesn't seem to like Ray Bradbury very much.
Why is that?
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He doesn't think.
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Who's 4chan? Whoever he is, tell him he has stupid name, haha!
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> it's another "4chan is one person" thread
The Martian Chronicles will always be my jam.
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present one good argument against materialism/physicalism u cant
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>>8453577
Material is only as useful as the people who believe it to be, so therefore the belief itself overrides the importance of material. One cannot have one or the other in humanity.
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>>8453581
>Material is only as useful as the people who believe it to be
jfc your retarded
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>>8453577
explain how does life work in materialism?
btfod