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ITT obsecure intellectuals I need to know of.
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>>8340525
Baruch Unobtainia
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Paul Butfield.
>he doesn't understand the purpose of the Cass Mastern material in Warren's All the King's Men.
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>>8340520
Utter cancer of a thread, mayt.
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>>8340558
What do you think the purpose of that section is?
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>>8340520
>bragging about reading airport fiction
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The girl I'm desperately in love with had to read four of this Robert Cormier's books for school. I've never heard of him. Is he worth reading so I can talk about his books with her, or should I just try to turn her onto James Joyce.
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>>8340387
>doing shit you wouldn't usually do just to pander to girl
top cuck, my friend, top cuck
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>>8340411
Shut up, you unloving autist. You will never understand.
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>>8340459
liking girls is a meme
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girls
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme
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Looking for a good book on determinism.
Which philosophers cover it best? I think it's a pretty interesting concept and I also think we would be able to predict people's actions if we had enough data on them (genes, relationships, behaviors, psychology, etc).
Anyway, I wouldn't mind contemporary perspectives on the subject but I'd prefer something a little older/foundational.
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The only book you ever need is The Bible.
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>>8340371
we can just delete this entire board now
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>>8340362
why do you need a book? just think about it, it's pretty simple (as is everything true)
Wew
I'm writing a story about a man who dies, but even after his death the story continues to be from his perspective, and shows the funeral and his friends and families reactions to his death. After his death he stops being a character and becomes the 'narrator'
Am I Pomo yet?
Would anybody read this?
Should I kill myself?
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Stealing your idea and publishing it.
Faggot.
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>>8340259
Does that mean it's good then?
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>>8340266
Yea it's a nice concept but your story should also have a good concept and your writing must be good in order to be a good short story or novel
Im new to buying literature, but ive wanted to read these, and i was hoping for recommendations or advise if these are good or not
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That is probably not the best place to start.
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>>8340238
I hear penguins is awful
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do NOT get that antioedipus. it's got typos and i don't think they've corrected it.
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>2016
>noone writes letters anymore
>after you die, having made it as a writer, there will be no collection of letters you wrote in your lifetime to be released to your fans and scholars so they can better study your persona and authorship
>instead there'll just be an internet dump of your "ayyy lmao"-style text messages and the dick pics you drunkenly sent to slags
Who /wrong generation/ here?
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>>8340208
>mfw my shitposting will never be immortalised
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>>8340208
>a public dump of my internet activities
holy nightmare fuel
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>>after you die, having made it as a writer, there will be no collection of letters you wrote in your lifetime to be released to your fans and scholars so they can better study your persona and authorship
Thank god, holy shit. Just look what happened to Joyce. At this point, more people have read his fart letters than Ulysses.
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I fucked up.
I just spent $150 Australian on a single book.
Console me.
http://www.foliosociety.com/bookcat/9202/DFH/dune-frank-herbert
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That is a nice book.
Not a fan of the art style though. Whatever.
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>>8340154
no consoling you, try to return it
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>>8340154
>$150 Australian
I'll loan you the $2 American, op. It's okay.
Discuss
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>>8340044
no uSage+report
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>>8340044
My type of humor so I liked it.
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>you will never have such a joyous, enlightening epiphany like Yossarian does in the final 10 pages of the book
More. I need more. More complexity. More difficulty. More. More. More. More. More. More.
GIVE ME MORE GOD DAMMIT. DON'T GIVE ME ANY OF THAT GASS BULLSHIT EITHER. THAT FAGGOT COULDN'T EVEN WRITE THE FIRST PAGE WITHOUT TAMPONS. GIVE ME A GENIUS LIKE GADDIS.
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>>8339991
we make charts specifically to render these threads redundant. and yet here we are.
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>>8340000
I've seen all of the commonly suggested authors in those fucking charts. None of them come close to Gaddis. Not. Even. Close. Keep your smartassed comments to your fucking plebeian bitch ass self, you worthless smarmy loser.
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Fucking worthless as always. I'll just write it my damn self since you faggots can't muster a suggestion beyon barth and pynchon since you're utterly vapid faggots.
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Hey /lit/, can you recommend solid books on politics and government?
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You're going to need to be more specific. Do you want political philosophy or treatises? Fictional dystopias or satires? You need provide more information on what you're looking for and if this is just a bait thread let me know so I won't waste anymore time.
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>>8339990
I liked pic related.
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>>8339990
Politics by Aristotle
Political Writings of Thomas Aquinas
Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
A Road to Serfdom by F. A. Hayek
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discuss
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>>8339963
I personally do not like tier lists.
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>>8339963
cervantes isn't even that good
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>>8339963
GRRM should be in at least demi-God tbqh
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>Its a yrstruly chapter
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>its a steeply and marathe chapter
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>>8339959
>it's a 6 page long footnote
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>>8339959
what character is this?
What does /lit/ think of House of Leaves?
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>DUDE BORGES LMAO
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>>8339849
Why does nobody ever talk about the first two books in the trilogy?
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>>8339849
meh
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Russian Book in Library about Kurt Cobain? 2016-07-30 20:33:04 Post No.8339839
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Russian Book in Library about Kurt Cobain?
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Hey /Lit/ first time im using this board. I'm in the library, and I see this book and the front cover looks like a bio on Cobain.
Wondering If and Russian Bros can at least translate the title so I can get a translated version.
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The title is Legends of Ancient Hening (?)
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It's an anthology of Ukranian sci-fi and fantasy author Henry Lion Oldie's novels The Aimshouse and Songs of Peter Sliadek. Cobain sold seperately.
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Why would you want to read a translated russian biography about Kurt Cobain?