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How can you distinguish good literature from bad literature? Are there any objective criteria?

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>[Name of book] review search on YouTube.
>All of the reviewers are female.
>Well I guess i'm not reading this book anymore.

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Anybody else here bought the new Ben Brooks novel yet?

Title: Hurra

Synopsis: "Hooray for the sister who jump from a multi storey car park and wear underwear uncombined. Hooray for a funeral imagine going to Harry Potter, the latest vaquita and the two Murakamis. Hooray for sleeping late, beer for breakfast and parallel universes where everything is a little better. Hooray for important tattoos made with ink pen and sewing needle. Hooray for the father who lives in a tent and mother always says' I also have the right to leave. " Hooray for the flight to Paris, Berlin and Barcelona. Hooray for the only girl who understands you. Hooray for Ben Brooks, which gives the history of grieving sister in a family that is desperate and hilarious version of Salinger. Hurra, three cheers for "hurray" his most exciting, tender and desperate novel"

Blurb: "No one understands the world today better than Ben Brooks." THE GUARDIAN

http://www.casadellibro.com/libro-hurra/9788416290529/2978707

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What do I need to know before reading this, /lit/? Any specific previous knolwdge?

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What's the equivalent to this novel, but with man-girl relationships instead?

In b4 Lolita

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what the fuck did i just read?

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Can i get an analytic philosophy reading list since i can't find one in the sticky or anywhere else on the internet?

My current list:

Wittgenstein - All works
Frege Anthology
Russel Anthology
Gödel Anthology
Philosophy of mathematics - Selected readings 2:nd edition
Two dogmas of empiricism

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What was the book Lord Henry gave Dorian?

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Hey /lit/
rate my porn story
I plan to call it Might Intermythical Orgy

An inter-dimensional door opened in the Mount Olympus where Zeus was sitting in his throne. Allah thus spoke to Zeus in the following manner, without losing temper, but somewhat intimidated by Zeus’ presence.
“Zeus God of Olympians and the Greek world, I, Allah God, need to speak to you of a most important matter, one that involves many Gods and the welfare of them all.”
Zeus answered thus in the following manner
“Tell me you who have decided to come here, to Moun Olympus, travelling through space and time, the worries of your heart and how can I help to calm the sorrows of your heart.”

After Zeus spoke, Allah saw he was good, and a fitting God to recruit to the might orgy. Allah god thus spoke to Zeus and say
“I have travelled through space and time to let you know that Ganesha and me, well-known gods of highest rank, have the desire to have a mighty orgy with many Gods involved. We think that you, God Zeus, may be a fitting addition to our orgy.”
“I fine offer worth considering” said Zeus God, “how can I join if I may ask?”
“First you need to prove yourself sexually worthy, it is the only way I, Allah God, can know for sure that your position in our exclusive orgy will not be wasted.”
After Allah God spoke Zeus pulled down he clothes, revealing a penis in the form of a thunder, wo bright that Allah God though he would go blind because of it. Then took Allah’s butt from behind put his face into it, sniffing the godlike odor of Allah’s ass, and thrusting his tone deeper and deeper while tasting all the slickly juice from which mankind was once born. Allah moaned in pleasure and said
“I can’t take it anymore. Put it inside…”
But Zeus God did not care, and kept licking Allah’s inside, to move then to his testicles and suck his hard cock. Allah moved towards Zeus thundercock and proceeded to suck in the same manner. Allah screaming in pleasure, but Zeus remained calm throughout the sucking – this kind of pleasure were now unknown to him.
“Put inside… do it now!” screamed Allah as he got himself down in four and opened his ass for Zeus to penetrate. Zeus did so and thunder escaped from all of Allah’s holes, even his tears were electrified. Zeus grabbed Allah’s gray hair with one hand, and put his other hand in his mouth, hand whose fingers Allah started to suck instinctively. Zeus pumped harder and harder until and thunder came out from Zeus’ cock, a thunder that entered Allah’s ass and exit his mouth immediately after. The thunder resounded in the sky, and the rain fell upon the Greek people.
Zeus stood up and went to sit back in his throne, leaving Allah God laying on the floor, covered in sweat and with sparks appearing now and then on the drops of his sweat. Allah God, barely being able to move a muscle, said with a tired voice
“Application… approved.”

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What's the best book for the current interpretation of the Arthurian romance?

I know the basis of pretty much everything is the Historia Regum Britanniae, but I also understand the modern legend is quite different from it (ie Morgan Le Fay being just some sorceress instead of Arthur's sister and one of the main antagonists, who seduces and fucks Merlin, not to mention no Lancelot).

Is Le Morte d'Arthur the place to go? Or is there a superior resource?

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What's the best translation of Don Quixote?

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What is the oldest piece of /lit/ that is still worth reading?

Is there anything older than pic related that is worthwhile?

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Max watches a young boy navigate the dance floor with a silver spoon clenched in his fist. Destination raw bar. The shoulders of the boy's tuxedo turn into tumorous epaulettes as he reaches over the crushed ice on tip-toes for a bowl of black caviar. Retreating to a quiet corner of the room, he slinks to the ground and, with his pudgy knuckles turning white on the spoon's stem, eats the sturgeon roe like morning cereal. The boy's mother, twisting her neck away from a conversation, sees him and steps away. He knows he's been spotted. Leaving the bowl of evidence, but not the spoon, he staggers through the dancers to the center of the band stand clearing. He pivots from one happy couple to the next, his eyes dilated in fear, trying to see his mother through their swinging arms and legs. There she is, stooping, then crouching so not to spill a glass of champagne. "What's on your mouth?" she asks, dabbing the corner of his lips with a cocktail napkin. Something has welled up inside of him. She can see it in his un-blinking eyes as she steps back. "Honey, is everything okay?" Starting at his stomach, his body shutters, taking his hand to his mouth. His eyes close and the hand drops to his knee; a black squirt of squid-ink caviar clears the floor. The music crashes to a stop. "Unghhhhhhhhhhhhh." Splat. Max laughs and looks away, "holy shit."

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I don't understand Sartre myself. I mean he puts forward this idea of subjective meaning. But isn't something which we call "meaning" supposed to first and foremost be objective? So yes personal meaning might be objective within the context of the self (ie practical meaning) but "subjective meaning" is an oxymoron and a condition of it is logically incoherent. Am I wrong?

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>try to read a kindle
>retain zero information

what's so special about the paper jew