Whats the best lit to read in a hotel similar to this?
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No country for old men.
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Leaving Las Vegas
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>>8299478
Inherent Vice
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I read 8 pages of gravity's rainbow and then I felt uncontrollably tired and fell asleep for like 3 hours. Am I ready to join the club yet?
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>>8299454
stick to your anime, dumb pedo scum
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>>8299468
I just like anime reaction faces desu.
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The first eight pages is the best part.
>buy book in original untranslated form because /lit/ says that's better
>can't read it
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>>8299392
i kek'd out of my asshole
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>>8299392
kek
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Reading Literary Fiction Improves Empathy 2016-07-20 01:35:05 Post No.8299388
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Reading Literary Fiction Improves Empathy
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www.scientificamerican.com/article/novel-finding-reading-literary-fiction-improves-empathy
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Honestly this is like saying 'have sex because it is good for your heart'.
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>>8299403
No it really isn't
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>>8299388
can't wait to see how my daughter changes after reading looking for alaska!
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Any books about being a permavirgin?
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My diary desu
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>>8299374
The New Testament, the Bible.
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Notes from the underground
how do i come up with ideas
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>>8299251
>If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
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They come up at you.
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>>8299251
Copy people, you'll look smart if people realize your book is a modern day retelling of Gilgamesh or something.
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Which Edition Should I Buy? 2016-07-20 00:43:23 Post No.8299245
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Which Edition Should I Buy?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Protocols_of_the_Elders_of_Zion
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why are you buying that?
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>ordering that online
enjoy being on a watchlist and committing suicide by shooting yourself several times in the back of the head
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alright /lit/
next semester will be my last semester at a community college. however, i gotta take one literature class before I transfer.
this are my options
>British literature since 1785
>British Literature before 1785
>World literature since 1600
>World literature before 1600
>american literature since 1865
>american literature before 1865
which would you pick and why? most exiting?
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desu profs are more important than content in literature, if your school has a ratemyprof presence use that, or ask around about the profs
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>>8299247
i am well aware of that. im just wondering what people think.
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I would go World Since. Lots of variety and less fucking about with old timey talk.
Go American Since if you want ez mode.
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Finish IJ or read one of these? 2016-07-20 00:36:05 Post No.8299218
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Finish IJ or read one of these?
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Entry level faggot here. Should I finish the last half of IJ? (I read the last 15 pages and multiple ending analyses online that spoiled the story when I was drunk one time)
Or should I just start one of these 3 other books in the pic? If so which one?
Some more background: I'll account for the massive hatred of IJ on this board.
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>>8299218
>buying the non-meme version of IJ
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Finish what you started, then go down the line
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lol what a stack
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Were there any authors that were very outspoken about their desire to be remembered? since that is the motivation of 99% of writers
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>>8299183
nah it's just you and you're gonna get the opposite of what you wish for
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>>8299183
I must be dense because I genuinely cannot wrap my mind around this idea.
What is even the point in being remembered?
The universe will inevitably implode, our solar system will be swallowed by a black hole, humanity will die out or change so dramatically that we wouldn't recognize ourselves in it, etc.
No one will be remembered in the end. WHY BOTHER WORRYING ABOUT IT WHEN YOU'RE DEAD AND EVERYONE WILL DIE TOO?
When you're dead there's no such thing as time. When you're dead everything is gone and always will be gone.
what is this meme explain it to me.
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>>8299214
Not OP, but I just want to be remembered by society for SOMETHING. I want to get a great piece of political literature out there someday like people like Foucault, Nietzsche or (as much as I hate to say this)....Karl Marx.
I don't know if I'm intelligent enough for it, though.
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Should we privilege the author or the work?
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>>8299167
depends on whether they're liberal or not
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>>8299167
Yes, but not infinitely.
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your own interpretation.
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I'm done with this book. I'm not going to read it or even open it again. Its overrated, hideous, unreadable, banal, repetitive, immature and unfunny.
What's even funny about the adventures of someone who's mentally ill? I don't get it.
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>>8299146
>overrated, hideous, unreadable, banal,
>read it translated
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>>8299152
I can't speak Spanish, and I won't waste my time learning it just to read this one book.
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Is it OK to read most of the books on this list?
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Almost all of them are great, so yeah.
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>Is it OK
What did he mean by this?
>The Road
Probably better than anything else on that list, although I'm sure I'll be derided for saying that.
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>>8299142
No, you're not allowed. Thanks for asking though, otherwise you would've gotten in trouble.
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What's your /lit/ secret?
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i despise dave eggers/mcsweeneys/anyone who calls themselves a 'humorist'
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I don't read, I just post John Green threads
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Despite having a reputation in my circle for being a writer who is working on a novel, I gave up writing nearly a year ago when I realised that I'm only slightly better than average.
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English isn't my first language and I literally type the very first thing that comes to my mind, even if the sentence or the word makes no sense. An example:
>Of sorts, in time, despite the mindingly fugitive soul, we find the lost in time to be that which we value. It is no further from the truth to say the apologectic are due to an increase of youth, and thus, what we imply is the prospect of choice. Fret not, as time itself dwells on capable hands, yet mystic. Optimistic casualism is nowhere near the sand of wealth or, for instance, the essence of capability.
Do you also write non-sensical stuff for the hell of it, or am I the only one guided by random, foreign linguistic instincts?
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>>8299128
i do that sometimes too to kind of capture a type of stream of consiousness, it's great fun
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>>8299128
>The cherry was riper than a full force gale wind blowing its brains all over your carpet. If Cedric had any sense he would not plough so roughly but instances of bewilderment sparked a new smell from the back of his mind.
>Interestingly, there were no survivors but the boat sank down deeper into the congested traffic of our apple. But harken not your woes! The grit underneath your nails is not wasted on yesterday, but quickly it will pass and you can rest pterodactyllic knees on a verge.
I guess I can do it too.
Feels kind of pointless though, but hey, do whatever you enjoy and all that jazz.
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Same here. I often find myself rambling incoherently in English (not my native language). I don't write it down though.