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kafka the metamorphosis
vonnegut slaughterhouse-five

You think we know your personality and your preferences to recommend you a book that you'll like? It's up to you to search for a content that you enjoy, we can only recommend something good IN OUR OPINION, nothing more. Also, there was /lit/ faq, check it out.

>>8403336
>I like themes of isolation/searching for meaning/ the unknown haha.

Haha

Classic rhetoric for the modern student

>>8403331
lend me your ears by max atkinson
you talking to me by sam leith

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini

bump4

>>8403323
my diary t b h

>>8403387
Please be in LONDON

Bump?

>>8403322
Also want to know this.

Solaris by Lem has this theme, but it's fiction, I don't know if you want that.

>>8403288
Is this literature?

>>8403292
Harry Potter is literature. So is lord of the rings

>>8403294
no, literature entails literary merit

It was funny the first time, but you can fuck off now.

>>8403267
What's happening is part of a phenomenon I wrote about a couple of years ago when I was asked to comment on Rowling. I went to the Yale University bookstore and bought and read a copy of "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone." I suffered a great deal in the process. The writing was dreadful; the book was terrible. As I read, I noticed that every time a character went for a walk, the author wrote instead that the character "stretched his legs." I began marking on the back of an envelope every time that phrase was repeated. I stopped only after I had marked the envelope several dozen times. I was incredulous. Rowling's mind is so governed by cliches and dead metaphors that she has no other style of writing.

But when I wrote that in a newspaper, I was denounced. I was told that children would now read only J.K. Rowling, and I was asked whether that wasn't, after all, better than reading nothing at all? If Rowling was what it took to make them pick up a book, wasn't that a good thing?

It is not. "Harry Potter" will not lead our children on to Kipling's "Just So Stories" or his "Jungle Book." It will not lead them to Thurber's "Thirteen Clocks" or Kenneth Grahame's "Wind in the Willows" or Lewis Carroll's "Alice."

Later I read a lavish, loving review of Harry Potter by the same Stephen King. He wrote something to the effect of, "If these kids are reading Harry Potter at 11 or 12, then when they get older they will go on to read Stephen King." And he was quite right. He was not being ironic. When you read "Harry Potter" you are, in fact, trained to read Stephen King.

Our society and our literature and our culture are being dumbed down, and the causes are very complex. I'm 73 years old. In a lifetime of teaching English, I've seen the study of literature debased. There's very little authentic study of the humanities remaining. My research assistant came to me two years ago saying she'd been in a seminar in which the teacher spent two hours saying that Walt Whitman was a racist. This isn't even good nonsense. It's insufferable.

Is anyone elses favourite book from the series Goblet of Fire?

I think I'm the only one ;_;
All my normie friends say it's their least favourite.

>>8403231
Start with the Greeks.

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>>8403234
You don't say?

>>8403231
everything doesnt have to have a rational reason you reddit

read the play its pretty good

>>8403182
The foremost thing to remember is that Shakespeare's ancient historical plays are divorced from history, so an essay on the historical relationship between the two borderlines on out of context. Regardless, Sulla and Caesar aren't really people in the play, they are the framework for the development and conflict found within Brutus and Marc Anthony.

>>8403182
>my classics teacher is really confusing and doesn't teach us anything
Read Gallic War, Civil War, and Plutarch's Life.

If you are a pleb:
Holland, Tom (2003). Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic. Anchor Books. ISBN 1-4000-7897-0.

If not:
Weinstock, Stefan (1971). Divus Julius. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-814287-4.

>intelligent, immigrant woman
So many things wrong in just three words.

>>8403172
>woman
Julian Barnes. Works like a charm.

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>>8403178

Never heard of him before but he sounds interesting. Should I also read him?

Metroland or Flaubert's Parrot? Both sound interesting on first glance but I don't want to read about them beyond a sentence or two if I'm going to give them a shot myself.

Siddhartha is met with universal acclaim because it's so aware, so simple, so meaningful, and just so damn cozy to read.

>>8403168
If that's how you currently feel, you should read something that argues a conflicting view and stop masturbating.

Also
>What's some
Stop this.

>>8403180
Haven't read much arguing in favor or against it
>Just my current feels
so basically considering masturbating a bit but not too chronic or anything, don't worry
>or makes a compelling case against those ideas but related to the subject

Brave new world

>>8403118
reddit: the picture

>>8403118
THIS IS WHAT ANALYTICS ACTUALLY BELIEVE

>>8403129
t. someone who has never read post-40s analytic philosophy

>It is a pretty poem, Mr. Pope, but you must not call it Homer.

its not homer but its pretty much better than homer

pope is supremely underappreciated

ask homer

>>8403107
It's not deep, it's baby's first philosophical reflection except is hidden under 10 sentences of pretentious bullshit

>>8403156
Not even pretentious, just poor.

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Deep or Drivel?

fuck you

>>>/tv/

>Implying there are actors better than McKellen

>>8403100
Yeah, he's stellar, it's not really a contest. Fassbender gives a very different interpretation though, and I preferred his supporting cast.

>starting with 'however'
>using an apostrophe
>using the word 'hurt'

it's were btw

However, both countries' economies were hurt.

OR

However, the economy in both countries was hurt.

>>8403008
also it should be economies