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What is the /lit/ version of Six Feet Under? 2016-08-13 23:57:58 Post No.8394211
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What is the /lit/ version of Six Feet Under?
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John green? Idk, tv is for idiots
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i wanna know too cause it's actually an amazing tv drama
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>watching mass produced TV shit
pleb
Reading the bible as literature. What is the best version?
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corinthians is great
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KJV obviously. If you can afford it though, i'd go with the Geneva bible
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I'm partial to Tyndale's version myself.
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I'm like 7 pages into knut hamsun's hunger, it's pretty boring.It's literally just like 'omg I'm so hungry' the entire timeI have the dover edition, there's a lot of text per page so 7 pages doesn't sound like a lot but it's more than the penguin edition. Just so you know.
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>>8394093
>game grumps image
>judging a book seven pages in
>thinking that hunger wouldn't be a major theme in a book called fucking Hunger
I hope you have a wife and three beautiful children and then watch each and every one of them die of leukemia
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>>8394105
I have no idea what game grumps is. I just saw someone use this as a reaction image on a yaoi facebook page and I thought it was funny.
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>>8394111
Well, still doesn't make the post any less fucking stupid
Read the damn book and then form an opinion, 7 pages is not enough to judge basically 99.99% of books
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Reading to fluently speak another language 2016-08-13 23:21:43 Post No.8394073
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Reading to fluently speak another language
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Does reading help at all, or is it a waste of time past learning grammatical concepts and vocabulary? Would I be better off watching dubbed anime? I've been trying to learn Spanish for over a year now and can read fluently, but still have trouble forcing myself to think in the language and speaking it.
I've gone through two textbooks front to book, and read 4 and a half books, and I can still barely catch anything in TV shows (though I can understand A LOT more in real life).
How far does reading really take you? I feel like it's a waste of time at this point, because there isn't a lot worth reading in the language (and I have a big backlog of English books I'd rather work on). I mainly learned it to put "Can fluently speak Spanish" on my resume.
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>learning grammatical concepts and vocabulary is a waste of time
>reading in a language you are learning, a good challenge in itself, is a waste of time
It's not, you pelmazo. Evidently, if you are having trouble with your listening skills then don't expect reading to help much. Go watch some videos or movies with subtitles, and then turn them off gradually to see how you fare.
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>there isn't a lot worth reading in the language
lmao date un tiro, plebeyo
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>>8394073
I mean it helps but it isn't really the same thing. I can read Dostoevsky in Russian and understand what's going on. I can't even hold a basic conversation when actually speaking, I can barely make out what they say, I lack all the practical vocabulary, etc.
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How long does it take for them to approve a librarian status request? I applied like 4 days ago and still nothing.
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How do I know if I'm a librarian?
I never applied for this shit but I've been editing books since a while, and below my picture I see top librarian #12
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Can you embed youtube videos in the comments, anyone know?
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It can take a lot of time. I forgot I even sent the request by the time it was accepted.
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I finished my degree in electrical engineering and now I miss my literature classes :(
Are there any free online courses/lectures in/on literature? All I could find is a couple of courses on edx which aren't that interesting.
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Somebody posted this the other day.
http://oyc.yale.edu/english
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>>8394038
Limited selection but this is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you!
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>>8393981
http://www.openculture.com/freeonlinecourses#Literature Courses
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Sup niggers
I'm looking to get into poety. I'm not really looking for some bleak academic entry kind of first look into poetry.
Which poems and what poets got your eyes open to the wonders of poetry? If you wanted to show someone completely new to poetry, what would you show them to incite an interest?
Is short poems with rythm the best way to get into it?
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self-bump
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Read the sticky and the archives. This thread come up three times a week.
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>>8393953
Nothing about entry level poetry or what got people into poetry in the sticky nor the wiki.
Also sage goes in the options field, not the name field.
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>>8393882
he wuz anonymouse
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He was the medic from the ending to ground zeroes.
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>>8393882
currently reading it and i'm struggling. it's my least favorite Pynchon and i'm 200 pages in. i've laughed a couple of times but not as much as his other work. the prose is fantastic but not as experimental or, dare i say, refined, as his subsequent work. seems he did not find his perfect pitch until Gravity's Rainbow.
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Just bought the 1912 revised edition of the 1545 Luther Bible
Did I dun goofed?
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Bump, plebs
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>>8393868
You goofed by following a heretic
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capitalism
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Have any of you ever gone on a prolonged retreat from social interaction to focus on reading and writing?
If so, would you recommend it?
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Paging Norwegian cabin guy
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>hermit
>not anchorite
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I will force everyone who posts in this thread to eat my shit
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Your opinion?
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>>8393723
What's it about?
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>>8393728
About fighting dogs.
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And evil chicken.
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So what did this guy actually get wrong 2016-08-13 21:02:35 Post No.8393703
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So what did this guy actually get wrong
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without reverting to "USSR killed millions"
what did this guy actually get wrong
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I feel like you wanted to post a picture of Karl Marx, but accidently posted a picture of Chess Grandmaster Magnus Carlsen
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>>8393703
that chess is about theory and not about talent. i'm not surprised that someone with autism would think that.
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>>8393706
Look on sci. Because that's what he did
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The Serial Experiments Lain of literature?
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>faux avant-garde for pseuds
House of Leaves.
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what is that
in the picture
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>>8394530
It's an old TV tube on an office chair
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Do you believe in fate?
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>>8393551
Depends what you mean. Not in any supernatural sense.
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Kinda
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>>8393555
I think I might be leaning towards supernatural, actually.
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Is this Derrida's legacy?
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>>8393531
This is the legacy of French continental philosophy from the 70s.
However, we still got geniuses like Baudrillard or Clouscard from this period. Clouscard is unknown here but he's definitely the only philsopher who could reconcile lefty/pol/ and alt-right/pol/.
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>this used to be considered humor
>now it is reality
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXcdYBh3hgg
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>>8394031
it was satire of things that were reality. it's not new in any way, you fucking abortion.