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What are some books that are good to read to help prepare for a world without rule of law?
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>>9909019
You don't need a book. You just need to know how to make donkey cheese.
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>>9909019
Just read a history of Argentina
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So I'm reading this for my lit. class. How hard is it to get through?
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>>9909006
Just read it.
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>>9909006
It's not so bad but you may find it dense and meandering at times if you're not used to Dostoevsky's way of developing internal conflicts within his character's thoughts.
You'll probably enjoy it though, OP.
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>>9909006
If you don't enjoy it you're a fucking pleb
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I haven't read a lot in a long time, and I am looking for something, but everything seems to be just the exact same shitposts that I would see a year ago when I last browsed this board for more extended periods of time.
What would I read, if I like:
>Tolstoy
>Dostoevsky
>Kafka
>Baudelaire
>Pushkin
>Nietzsche
Loathe:
>Name of the wind writer
>whatever the name of the retard that wrote jack reacher was
>orwell, what a pretentious cunt that writes character worse than an indian soap opera
>harry potter bitch, she is completely oblivious of writing style and forces "interesting characters"
I know I am very entryfaggot level, I don't read a lot, anyway, give me something similar to my pleb taste.
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Sartre
Camus
Heidegger
Hegel
Oscar Wilde
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>>9908950
>Oh look at me i'm so intelligent smart XD i don't read those stupid books all the girls read, i read Nietzche XD
Fuck off
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>>9908950
The question is, have you read the Bible? If you haven't, get to it buddy. I mean the entire thing. It's the most culturally relevant and historically influential book of this world and you have no excuse.
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What do you recommend for starter poetry? Someting not extremely hard but at the same type culturally important. The equivalent of lit's starter kit for novels
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I started with rimbaud, emily dickinson, blake and the lovesong of prufrock.
I'd suggest reading them online though.
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start with the start of modern and contemporary poetry -- Baudelaire
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>>9909041
I would say Blake is a good start because he has a lot of shorter poems that you can power through. Always felt bad for my man Prufrock.
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Does anyone here have "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare" by Barnes and Noble?
I want to order it online, but I don't know whether the print is good. I can't find a phyisical copy anywhere. Particularly I want to know how the smallest font looks like.
Provide picture of random page please.
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You can literally download his entire corpus of work for free online. It takes like ten seconds in Google.
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Post your favorite short poems
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I never saw a Purple Cow,
I never hope to see one,
But I can tell you, anyhow,
I'd rather see than be one!
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My carriage chunters,
charting its colourless course,
crammed with coughs and chokes.
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>>9908906
December
I will sleep
in my little cup
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Are we living in the time of the last man?
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>>9908880
at least a billion people are barely above subsistence level right now, richie rich
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>>9908887
I don’t know if I’d go so far as to call them people.
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>>9908887
You can thank western medicine for that.
>Great! I Now have penicillin to cure the venereal diseases that would otherwise have left me sterile. Time to go have a dickload of kids that I can't feed!
Round characters can be static or dynamic.
Flat characters can be static.
Can flat characters be dynamic?
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Maybe if their dynamicity is flattening..
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Oh, why hello /lit/, I didn't see you there.
But while I'm here I have a question or two. I forget what I read all the time. How do I force my feeble mind to remember what I have read in a book? Please tell me your sekrits.
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>>9908744
Don't worry about remembering what you read. Read for form, not content. Use that mental space for critical thinking. Memory is overrated.
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>>9908744
Write a short synopsis and analysis after each chapter, you retard.
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git ou ah tha dert thae limmy!
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Is there any better feeling than buying a book filled with prose? 2017-08-18 06:19:29 Post No.9908593
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Is there any better feeling than buying a book filled with prose?
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Pic unrelated, btw.
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>>9908593
If you're buying it that would imply you havent read it completely so how would you know it's "filled" with prose? fucking pseud.
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>Is there any better feeling than buying a book filled with prose?
This is r/books tier "oh boy, i sure do love reading, amirite my fellow redditors" circlejerk, you should kys unironically.
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>>9908593
A book filled with poetry.
>you will never be the last field-marshal holding out in the ruins of stalingrad against the infinitude of the soviet horde, things going from bad to worse as memories of your wife and children in happier times flit through your mind and the weight of history and tradition prevent you from attempting a breakout
wow
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>>9908561
>tradition
Not even once
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>>9908561
>and the weight of history and tradition
Lol fag
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>not being at stainlingrad
It's a good feeling desu senpai
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Gonna read Don Quixote for first time. Please help me to find best translation. Looking for Buying Smollett's Translation, is it good ?
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raffel burton or bust. putnam in a pinch.
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>>9908496
Thomas Shelton. Everyone else, especially Ormsby and Putnam, are bitch ass hacks.
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Let's say that I'm a 99 year old contract killer from Iran's sleepy nuclear testing zone who spends his days drinking Robbitussin in place of of all other fluids, reading unauthorized biographies of Robert E. Lee (pbuh), listening to Owl City, and hanging out at creationism museums. What sort of books would you recommend me?
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>>9908474
H2B
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>>9908474
you gonna actually write something or are you just fucking off?
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lmfao this shit going on reddit
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how long do you think this one will stay up?
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>>9908448
More then we wanted, less then we needed it.
[Insert pseud quotes]
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>>9908448
If someone took this down, I think it would signal the death of the USA's sense of humor.
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reading nietzsche changed my life
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>>9908394
happy 15th birthday
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>>9908394
In what way?
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>>9908417
it took me ten years to understand him yeah