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How difficult is this book?
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I have that same edition!
Is really old and it doesnt have the first page.
>hard
Is not hard, just enjoy the prose bruh
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>>8310775
Not very.
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What are some good authors/works about stoicism? Autist here trying to become less affected by the world.
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Literally everything by Beckett.
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>>8310772
You need a social life
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Read about buddhism and become less autistic. Empathy is a skill papi
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>I was only a freshman
>I loved Foucault so much, I had all the books and audio lectures
>I pray to him every night before bed, thanking him for the discourse I've been recurring
>"Foucault is love" I say. "Foucault is life"
>One of my patriarchial professors hears me and calls me a castrated Nietzschean sell-out
>I knew he was just jealous of my essay on biopolitics
>I called him an in-the-closet fascist
>He bdsms me in his dungeon w/o lube, then returns to class
>I'm crying now, and my bum hurts
>I lay in my shackles and its really cold
>A warmth is moving towards me
>I feel a presence
>Its Michel
>I am so happy
>He whispers in my ear, "This is my dungeon now"
>He grabs me with his heterotopic aids-ridden hands
>I'm ready
>I panopticinize
>He subjectivates my solar anus
>It hurts so much but I do it for Michel
>I feel my ideology dialecting as my eyes start to water
>I discursively react to his interpellation
>I want to pelase Michel
>He discourses a might treatise as he fills me with his love
>My professor walks in
>Foucault looks straight in his eyes and says. "In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating."
>Foucault leaves through my solar anus
>Foucault is love, Foucault is life
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>>8310757
has there ever been a serious thinker gayer or of equal gayness to Foucault? Because he seemed pretty motherfucking gay.
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>>8310757
Foucault hated identity politics. Stop memeing.
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Is it worth reading?
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yes dummy
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son, its top 3 of all time probably.
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Anyone else here loath David Foster Wallace and is glad he's dead?
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>>8310655
Me. He's a hack leftist postmodernist scum
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how could anyone hate infinite jest
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I dont know him personally, and memeing aside, he has written some very good books. So why would I?
Did I do good /lit/? What are your favorite poets?
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Read it outside without shoes on.
Robert Hass and Larry Levis are my favorites.
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Yes, but you would have done better had you bought the 1855 edition.
My favorite poets are John Milton, Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz, Gilberto Owen and Sor Juana
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I'm a big fan of Robert Frost, William Blake and Seamus Heaney. What are some of your favourite poems lads? Here's one of mine:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/53087
ive been memed and i loved every fucking second of it.
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>>8310632
You're goddam right.
Welcome to the wonderful world of Bolano
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Might as well ask in here: if I know one form of Spanish will I be able to read Chilean, Colombian, Argentinian etc literature? Because I often see people from Latin America or Spain say how they have difficulty conversing
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>>8310702
It's as hard a chav from England communicating well with a redneck from Louisiana or a nigger from Johannesburg.
However, the Real Academia de la Lengua Española has an online dictionary, with regional slang and shit, you can use.
http://dle.rae.es/
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=es.rae.dle
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What are your favorite books in the genre of/about/featuring postmodernism?
Also, what is postmodernism?
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>>8310624
Postmodernism can basically be thought of as modernism with mass technology and modern fears - apocalypse, lack of self, technology, mass media, consumerism etc.
Frequently dehumanises and maintains an ironic distance from its plot and characters. Uses tropes and common images from media both to express its themes about mass society and its plot, as well as an element of humor
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>>8310624
All you need to know is in: Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism by Jameson
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>>8310666
>Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
was expecting jack shit and memes, but this looks like an actual solid recommendation, thanks
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What are some good books that inspire you to live life to the fullest?
I'm depress and looking for a book that helps encourage me to take risks in life and search out adventure.
Thank you /lit/
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My diary
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>>8310622
@anonymous sorry?
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Same here man, wish I could help but I can't think of one.
Post some rare or funny photos of authors
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Above is Thomas Sterns Eliot lounging at the beach
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If you're going to make a DFW thread, don't be so sneaky.
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>>8310608
>tfw the mermaids won't sing to you
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What is this hack shit? Why do people think this is good?
This entire fucking Arya plotline is absolutely abysmal, and I'm convinced it serves no purpose other than to lengthen this already lengthy plot nonsense. She's not grown at all as a character since the first god damn sentence she's been introduced, and every single small chapter of her story is exactly the fucking same. "Wow she's safe going home, uh oh something happened now she's not. Wow now she's safe going home, uh oh, something happened now she's not"
I already know the Hound's going to take her back to the Lannisters because this shit is predictable as fuck, and that's going to make her entire arc these last 2 books utterly pointless. Either that, or it's another pointless detour and Arya will somehow be saved only to be thrust into doubt again.
How the fuck did this guy get so much praise for his "characters" or "plot"? I'm so fucking sick of it. I'm thinking of literally just putting this book down and never touching this hack again.
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The last paragraph is quite nice.
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>>8310590
>read pop genre fiction
>surprised it's shit
This board might not be for you.
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>>8310603
>You can only read philosophy or the classics
>You must never take a break
:^) Sorry friendo, you won't bring hurt to my butt.
I'm only reading this because literally all of my siblings praise the shit out of ASOIAF and GoT, so I figured it'd be nice to participate in the conversations.
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Where do you buy books? 2016-07-23 02:27:42 Post No.8310588
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Where do you buy books? I get mine from thriftbooks. Is there a better option?
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>>8310588
Local Half Price Books and Amazon.
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>>8310588
Mostly Amazon. All the stores around me are way too expensive even for used books.
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>>8310588
Half price books and thriftbooks for specific stuff i can't find at HPB
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What's your favorite contemporary fiction? Have you read anything released in 2016? Did you like it? Pic related - the most recently published book I've read
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>>8310546
I almost purchased this. but the cover is so gay I refuse to read it in public.
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>>8310555
Did you get the reference about the orgasm
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Zero K.
Didn't like it at first then really enjoyed it. Reminds me a lot of Point Omega and White Noise.
Tell me, /lit/, is Wodehouse anything more than an elaborate storyteller?
Is he even that?
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>>8310499
p. underwhelming stuff desu famalam. try Saki instead. much more based.
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Prose and Humor. Also a nice, sardonic look into the social etiquette of early-mid 20th century high society in Britain.
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>>8310499
>an elaborate storyteller
I don't see how, everything of his I've read was extraordinarily formulaic
Much comedy in the language, though, just not a reason to read more than a couple stories
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So was it just corn-cobby chronicles?
Subpar Conrad for me
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read the niggers and the retard. Pretty shit desu. thought it was supposed to be hard. had fucking italics. so much for it being hard. shit book. shit characters. waaaahhhh white people can't handle life waaaahhhh. don't worry the niggers will endure......
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Hemingway, Stein, and Joyce had a nice big lunch together at a cafe in Mississippi in 1930. Then they went to the washroom all three at once and shit out a silver haired bumpkin in a swead-drenched tweed jacket with a cute little moustache. 'Corn-cobby' is a meme, but Faulkner is still a literary weakling.