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Favorite reading snack?
>pic related
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Bacon bleu cheeseburgers with fried onions.
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Just my regular food.
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>buy books
>put them on my shelf
>read wikipedia articles about them
>tell people I've read them
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>>8329508
Who is the evil space giraffe?
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If I'm not enjoying a book early on I'll usually check a plot summary to see if it's going anywhere interesting before I decide whether or not to finish reading it
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>>8329508
why?
What is the best translation of Critique of Pure Reason for a first time reader?
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I only know for a third time reader.
Sorry.
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My class last semester read the kemp Smith, and if was aimed itd be your first time, but I think the guyer is the one people usually cite.
What's a book you've pretended to have read when it came up in conversation?
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the Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
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>>8329430
None, I've read all the books.
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>>8329430
my diary hahahhaha
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How to stop being a mediocre pleb /lit/? Recommend something insightful and enlightening
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Preferably a short novel. Attention span can't bother beyond ten pages an hour.
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>>8329428
Voltaire's Candide is a really easy yet highly insightful read.
After that, just about anything old. Roman and Greek history, philosophy, comedy anything.
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>>8329422
start with the greeks.
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thoughts?
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>>8329347
epic reference upvoted xd
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This post makes me want to kill myself tomorrow
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Can /lit/ give me some disturbing/weird ideas to wright about?
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there's a skeleton inside you right now!!nice trips :^)
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>>8329337
so many memes
wow
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>>8329333
a sad writer man deals with suicidal thoughts and posts on a chinese board thing i don't know
I've never seen Knausgård featured on here, have any of you read the honest Norwegian best-selling sensation?
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>>8329317
nah he's shit
rather read 50 shades of grey
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We talk about this faggot everyday.
Read Proust or Powell. If you want something modern, read Ferrante.
If you wait twenty years or so, you can read my memoir based on the life of Miles Davis, Jon Rose, and, myself.
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>>8329318
50 shades isn't that bad. I read the first one.
is epistemology, taken to its last consequences, nothing but philosophy of the mind?
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>>8329265
What do you mean by this?
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>>8329265
i bet you thought that sounded really deep when you wrote it
in reality it just sounds like "please think i am clever, please please, I am so lonely"
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>>8329465
>projecting
I'm not a huge reader but I've read quite a few novels in my time, however I've never touched poetry.
Where do I start?
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>>8329256
the iliad probably
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>>8329256
The bard's sonnets, desu
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4chanlit.wikia.com/poetry
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I posted here the other night, but my thread archived without any replies.
Basically, I'm looking for an article, essay, or something of that nature about how any story that's written, whether intentionally or unintentionally, has themes, or perhaps even messages. And not in a moral guardian/SJW way. I want something I can use in an essay I'm writing.
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shakespeare in the bush?
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>>8329226
>my thread archived without any replies
>tfw know those feels
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>>8329235
Shit, that's great! Thanks!
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Psychology major here. What're the best few books/textbooks to get me ahead and started on forensic psych?
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>reading books for psychology
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>>8329190
dostoyevsky
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where you at pussyboi
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Has any philosopher in the history of mankind ever accurately defined what is "good" and "bad"?
If not what are the best definitions you've found?
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Nobody who tries to define good and evil in impersonal definite terms is worthy of the title "Philosopher".
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yeah i did
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Socrates and Platl went out of their way to say that there were no teachers of virtue and no way to pin virtue down using naive sophisticated tools like definitions.
So just don't look there lol
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Academic philosophy discussions - no pseuds allowed
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>academic
>philosophy
Pick one, faggot.
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>>8329073
>Academic philosophy
>wittgenstein
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I can't join, is it sensing my plebbity and rejecting me?
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So I've been reading this for a couple of days and I'm enjoying it a lot (Fucking Ignatius it's the sanest person around here) but I found something particullary interesting. The pic related is the edition I'm reading right now and it surprised me how, no matter how much I've flattened it, bended it and overall manipulated it while reading it it's spine hasn't cracked nor there is any sign of damage on the spine itself. I'm almost at the end of the book so you know I'm aplying pressure while reading it but yet there is no damage to be seen. Why don't all books follow this type of spine? I can't make a photo but it's basically like a yellow paste right between the spine and the pages themselves.
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What the fuck are you talking about?
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but spine damage shows it's been read, flaunting your patrician taste to plebeians
>not deliberately breaking the spine of all new books