ITT: "Classics" that shouldn't be remembered.
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>>8325524
>lol I posted it again
Kill yourself famalam
Does anyone read Tom Wolfe anymore?
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>>8325475
I read Bonfire last year. Pretty good.
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Kandy Kolored etc is a truly insightful take on post-ww2 American culture. I'll probably read some of his other work eventually.
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What does /lit/ think of my thrift store finds? 2016-07-26 23:52:23 Post No.8325414
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What does /lit/ think of my thrift store finds?
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What do you think about my thrift store finds? The whole pile cost $20. Comment, rate, discuss, do whatever.
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>>8325414
Cont.
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>>8325414
Pretty good
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>>8325414
Pretty bad, you'll find better for less in a continental European thrift shop.
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I feel empty and depressed, I can barely feel anything anymore.
Everything is so meaningless, I don't know where to go.
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make something out of nothing.
the mind has that power.
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>>8325405
I'm trying to find something that could bring me joy, but even after reading, writing and drawing, I still feel empty.
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How s turning 19 working out for you ?
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Is there anything comparable to this guy in the world of literature?
>Self taught
>Vast technical knowledge of medium
>Not afraid of going low-brow, hides his powerlevel a lot
>Great sense of humor
>Rejects most of the "high class" community of the medium
>Hated by most mainstream critics because of being too hard to pin down
>Has work through a large selection of genres and constantly mixes them
>Hates minimalism and leans on the maximalist side of things
>Extremely cynical
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Was Zappa the original meme?
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>>8325344
He was one of the first memers in music for sure if you consider obscure inside jokes that nobody understands a meme.
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Pynchon is the Zappa of literature
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Anyone else have a difficult time reading this book? 2016-07-26 23:18:08 Post No.8325293
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Anyone else have a difficult time reading this book?
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I've read tons of books but for whatever reason, I'm having a hard time reading this one. He seems to love using commas and the narration jumps around a lot. Anyone else have this problem or am I just retarded?
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what else do you read?
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i hated it, i wonder if GR is worth it
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>>8325381
read M&D instead
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Hello /lit/. It seems that everytime I ask the question "where do I start" on this board I get the same answer, "with the Greeks". I understand that the Ancient Greeks are basically the fundamentals of literature, but I wasn't exactly asking for a genre or a time period. I was asking for a BOOK. What BOOK do I start with? With the Greeks? What Greek book should I start with? Thanks in advance.
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>>8325109
One of those Cambridge short introductions or something.
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>>8325109
A number of Greek philosophers wrote some great introductory works to philosophy, you should start with them.
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the last link
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Just wanted to share my latest journal entry. Feel free to post yours too.
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just want to let you know you're gay
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Better Nate than lever LOL
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>>8325119
thanks anon
Damn. I'm 200 pages into this and I haven't been this impressed with a book since GR. Vollmann's prose is amazing. Unlike his other work I've read (which I've tally enjoyed) this book so far has been extremely consistent, quality wise.
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Really*, not tally. I'm on mobile and have big thumbs.
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Haha that sounds so gay. Tally ho my good man
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>>8325328
Ironically the 18th century was a far more heterosexual time period than nowadays.
The kind of men to whom that phrase would be current would likely think you a bit of a soft-handed arse bandit yourself; you wot couldn't slay a vole with a hatpin.
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ITT: Select a single book that encompasses a crash course in your chosen field of study. Philosophy, sociology, economics, whatever...
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>>8325072
ez
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>>8325072
The manual to Ford F-Series trucks
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The Engineering of Consent by Edward Bernays
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I've finally snapped. After literally months of reading almost nothing because Nicholas Nickleby was SO FUCKING POINTLESS AND BORING I've finally cast aside the spooks and decided to stop reading it.
What should I read next, out of the books in picrelated?
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>>8325047
dostoyevsky or rand
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>>8325047
>The Idiot
Because you are one.
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Read great novellas you've never read so you're never bogged down by mammoth sized books that you will lose interest in half way through.
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This guy wants to be a European so bad LMAO
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>>8324986
>wants to be European so bad
>dies the most American death ever (goes on a bender and coopted by political party strongmen for petty election voter fraud before being left to die in a Baltimore gutter)
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Is this the 'muh heritage' thread?
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Compare Poe to Cooper, Hawthorne, Melville or Clemons.
While the latter write about distinctly American settings & characters, Poe is always trying to ape the Europeans by referencing obscure greeco-roman mythology to show off his 'aristocratic sophistication'. A good deal of his stories are set in Gothic-style castles or something.
Poe wanted to be an aristrocrat but his adopted dad wouldn't let him lol
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Do Roald Dahl novels have literary significance?
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>>8324960
what the fuck is "literary significance" you pretentious sack of shit
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They do to me and a lot of other people around the world, I'd imagine
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>>8324978
is he as good as Pynchon, DFW, Hemingway, Dickens, Austen, etc.?
This thing is the best ereader, bar none. I don't believe anything else even comes close.
There is one caveat to the reader though. It only accepts PDFs. BUT, and I want to point this out, a properly formatted PDF looks so much better than an autoformated epub or mobi. The reader itself is very nice. I bought one off amazon and I've been using it for about 2 months. It's super lightweight, like less than any magazine. You can even read comics on the thing.
It has a really nice OS. Allows creating workspaces where you can use the pen to write, circle, underline, draw notes on the pages, or you can create whole note pages that you can link to. These work spaces allow you to group together certain files, like say a few books you're reading at the same time for a class, or a book and some notes, or pretty much any combination you can think of. I've never met anyone else who's even heard of this thing. I just thought I'd spread the word about this awesome thing.
It just dropped $200 dollars and is now $600. If you're serious about reading (and know where to get free pdf books), then this thing is seriously the ultimate reader.
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>only accepts PDFs
if you're going to shill a product at least lie about the god awful negatives to purchasing it
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>only accepts PDFs
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>e-readers
Enjoy your diminished attention span and inferior retention
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OK, so now you move to NY in order to become a socialite. Which of these latest bestseller books are you willing to read?
I'd take Daniella Steele. Even the Simpsons talked about her work and I was just about to find a decent female author for a change.
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>>8324926
I'm already here and no one gives a shit about what you read.
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>>8324933
You evidently spend your days here blowing cock to come up for the rent in Old Winslow Hotel. Go find a better! For instance: hire a consort and hit the museums.
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>>8324963
I don't know what language you think you're using but it's not English.