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saul bellow

>>8390952
The Willows by Algernon Blackwood

>>8390952
Stoner
Mrs. Dalloway
The Trial
Nausea

>>8390897
Read her fucking books and find out.

Munro is brilliant.

BEE created 'dubs man', so he's popular on 4chan

>>8390906
why do you think shes brilliant

I liked Norm before it was a meme to like Norm, and BEE is a worthless passive aggressive whiny bitch, but Norm was weird here. Is he fucking Munro or something?

>>8390874
WHY DON'T YOU START OFF THE DISCUSSION INSTEAD OF JUST POSTING MEME BOOKS WITH THE EQUIVALENT OF 'WOW REALLY MAKES YOU THINK', 'WHAT DID HE MEAN BY THIS?' ETC.

What did you like about it? Tell me why it has literary value for you.

sage

>>8390886
It transformed me from a ragey betacuck just like you into a much better person. The philosophies of Rand and Evola led me to stop caring about others as much and made me put myself at number one. This new mindset has helped me accomplish more in 2 years than the past decade but I wouldn't expect someone like you to understand.

Good story, awful morals.

>>8390865
Its an excellent meter to track the rate of new male posters to /lit/. Only absolute newfriends make this post, and they always do.

>>8390876
Old to literature, old to 4chan, but new to /lit/, you have spotted me my friend.

>>8390883
pls gb2 reddit

Its pretty excellent for the most part though I'm not sure what kind of discussion you expect to have when you haven't even read the book yet...

>Has anyone read it?
Huh. Yes, no one has read it. Really makes you think.

I read an excerpt for one of my survey classes, which I enjoyed. It's crazy long though

top kek, lad.

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> She: What's the last book you read for pleasure?
> Me: I have long since transcended the concept of earthly pleasures and devote my days to purification of my soul to prepare myself for facing my Heavenly Father
> She: We will call you back
This is a true story.

haha. great thread.

The Sayings of the Desert Fathers

>>8390774
are you trying to tell me to read the bible?if so, shame on you

>>8390757
No Longer Human

>>8390788
Fag

>>8390716
I could read Latin decently when I was in school. Doubt I could do it now, I just go the easy way and look for the translated text. I still like the sound of it though, especially in poems, Ovid's for example

A few, but they don't post much because the board's quality is shit. The one's who meme about reading only in an original language are autistic, illiterate, numbskulls, who only speak one language, and need not be taken seriously.

ea mihi futuenda est

h for hawk is a good pick

>>8390670
You know these are carefully selected by advisors to be as inoffensive as possible and to appeal to the maximum number of people? Think about how bad Obama would get bullied if he had Pinecone on there

>>8390678
so you're saying we need to hack the presidential kindle? i bet it's all YA

>>8390606
trust me, you suck ass at writing. admissions office knows this. just make up a story about overcoming the odds or some shit. no one will ever remember your admissions essay.

>>8390613
It would be nice to have an essay that actually helps me get in though.

I refuse to write some cliche garbage.

Honestly, don't try to sound smart or intellectual unless you can show, with results of some sort, that you're smart or intellectual.

Admissions offices are mainly looking for one type of student: the person who will bring the college lots of fame and/or money in either the distant or (preferably) near future. They don't just want people who are smart and talented -- they want people who can put the name of their school in bright and shining lights, as free advertising. The good thing is that there are many ways to be *that* kind of student; the bad thing is that high schools rarely, if ever, cultivate those mentality/skills.

So, going back to you:

Would your intellectual appetite work as a basis for your personal essay?

Maybe.

If you can show that you're not just a consumer of those subjects but have "interesting" ideas of your own, then sure, go ahead. Of course, you'll come off as young and dumb, but that's perfectly fine -- being willing to embarrass and reveal yourself to strangers is probably a good thing. Being earnest about learning and being interested in the *applications* of what you learn, though, outweigh whatever awkwardness you might create in your admissions audience.

So, keep that shit in mind and write your damn essay.

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>>8390602
holy shit is there anything else with prose as amazing as this? moby dick? the more i read the more i become in awe..

>>8390638
you'll probably get a kick out of beckett too. you might also like faulkner but it's not as fun.

>>8390644
thanks, i actually picked up as a lay dying from a thrift shop today so i'll make sure to check that out as well. i'll look up some beckett.

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>>8390591
>star wars
this is a +18 website, and also a literature board.
This is not fucking r/books.

>>8390591

Aren't only the Clone Wars cartoons still considered canon from the old tie-ins? Now only stuff released after the Disney buy-out are canon. Personally, though I enjoyed the movie, Episode VII didn't even feel like real Star Wars to me, so I think I prefer the Star Wars Legend continuity as they are calling it now anyway.

I remember reading the Darth Bane one and liking it but I was literally twelve. Why do you want to read Star Wars novels when there are so many great books you won't have time to read before you die?
Also none of them are canon anymore, I'm fairly sure, not that it makes much of a difference when the franchise is about to get shit all over. I predict a set of redditor lardasses that care about this kind of thing will eventually have some kind of canon schism when more and more Disney content gets put out. Star Wars was my life in middle school and all of this makes me a little sad.

>>8390522
Great short story writer.
Good essayist.
Mediocre novelist.
Not a philosopher.
Cool guy.

>>8390528

what about as a playwright?

Myth of wew is terrible, no substance
Stranger is awful
The fall is OK
He seemed a neat guy. But small

Stop it. Stop lying.

Post a syllubus for proof.

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>>8390521

>>8390521
fucking sad lad

Step 1: no more anime.

start with the greeks

>>8390415

You have to understand before you can agree or disagree. Learn to suspend judgment. That's at least half of being a good reader as far as philosophy goes.

The other half has something to do with being able to recite/recall conclusions, arguments, definitions and assumptions.

Only plebes think you have to agree/disagree with every argument you encounter.

in a phrase: It's not a vacuum, it's a filling of the vacuum.