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Can't take this shit anymore lads 2016-07-19 12:07:39 Post No.8296916
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Can't take this shit anymore lads
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>tfw you don't even read books anymore because you can't bear to give up on Nicholas Nickleby and if you give it up then you'll be considered a definitive pleb
>tfw so much literature is self indulgent UNENJOYABLE no fun allowed bullshit
>tfw pomo trash takes this to another level and the forced lol so randumb sense of humour is excruciating
>tfw mccarthy is genuine trash with only the road being worthwhile
>tfw the academia-media-publishing industrial complex and its lackeys (many of whom browse /lit/) treat literature as not enjoyment but as a medium to tee off their ramblings and to try to gain cultural capital by talking about their tastes
>tfw reading is as much a pointless worthless status symbol as travelling (lit is the pseuds equivalent of instagram whores)
>tfw laughing when watching the dying embers of reverse-fedoras praising religion as profound when Stirner lays it all out for all to see
>tfw stirner doesn't even say anything that a non common unpretentious person doesn't know, it's just that lit doesn't listen to any idea unless it has been presented by a published author
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>>8296916
>the academia-media-publishing industrial complex
I'd like to thank you personally for making me really reduce my time on /lit/ and spend it on better, more enjoyable things. The last time I read a post by you, I was saddened that someone would spend every single fucking day on this place - then I realized my hypocrisy, I do it too. In response to this epiphany, I called up an old, almost alienated but very dear friend, whom I just visited for the first time in years. It was great, life-affirming and joyous.
Then, as if inspired by providence, I get back on /lit/ and see you again. Thank you for making me see that I must be persistent, that I must continue to shun this simulacrum of social interaction, and that joy is to be found as soon as I leave the screen.
Thank you. Keep inspiring people to get out of here for good frogposter.
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>>8296916
Wow, Reddit is REALLY mad this time guys.
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hey /lit// rewrite this into something better
you can't, because it is already perfect
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elemental masters is a literary masterpiece
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>>8296896
Pretty cringe senpai
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>>8296896
What kind of meme is this? Kids these days, I swear to God...
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What do writers even do all day? Judging by their outputs, not much. Even the "hard working" ones say they work about 15 - 25 hours per week.
If you buy books are you just funding some rich Chad's or Stacey's NEET fuckfest lifestyle?
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As long as the book money isn't funding shit like terrorism or Hillary clinton, I don't give a fuck where it's going.
Buying books isn't a charity you autist
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>>8296867
>female sexuality is gross
>CHAD
>STACY
>NEET
>twitter pic you're outraged about
Go back to /r9k/, you fucking retard
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just about to start reading this 2016-07-19 11:44:21 Post No.8296855
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just about to start reading this
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2016-07-19 11:44:21
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Im new to /lit/ and new to reading as a whole really. But ive been finding the ideas behind existentialism very interesting.
Is this a good book for a somewhat noob? what can i expect?
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bump please help me
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double bump plz
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Just fucking read the book dear god.
If you need approval before even starting a novel, you'll never be a good reader anyway. Get your fingers out of your ass and make an opinion for yourself
https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/4teozs/have_you_ever_had_to_stop_reading_a_novel_because/?st=iqtd8ga5&sh=6b8345b0
>they post LoTR and Harry Potter
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>I don't get it therefore it's shit
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Someone also posted 50 Shades of Grey. I REALLY hope they were joking, but knowing Reddit it could be true.
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>>8296818
There are myriad identical posts on /lit/
I don't understand what it is with you kids that you are so fascinated with reddit.
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So im starting Das Kapital today.
Any tips or advices that may enrich this reading?
Im doing this 4 knowledge.
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>>8296807
marx was a hack
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>>8296807
Leftists are mentally ill.
We are anti-Marxism and redpilled. Go to leftypol if you want to talk about this trash
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Adam Smith > Karl Marx
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Greek mythology novels 2016-07-19 11:01:48 Post No.8296768
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Do you know any good novel on Greek mythology?
Are also fine Greek prose poems.
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latro in the mist
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>>8296768
Mary Renault. Start with The King Must Die.
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Read mythology by Edith Hamilton of your a noob
What works of speculative fiction do you like?
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>>8296755
Certainly not fucking Margaret Atwood.
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God she's such a hack
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>rockets and squid headed monsters
get out bitch your work is shit and only thought of as good by people who dont know any better
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What are some good YA romance novels?
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The Sorrows of Young Werther - Goethe
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The Red and the Black
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Middlemarch
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Hey lit,
Looking for books taking place in small spaces, but contain grand ideas and emotions. E.g.
>Moby Dick
>One houndred years of solitude
>The Moon is Down
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The attic one.
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>>8296591
The Life of Pi for sure.
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Sometimes a Great Notion, Ken Kesey
Old Man and the Sea, Hemmingway
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why do writers seem to peak early on? wouldn't you just continue to improve or does skill plateau after a point
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youth, ego
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Selection bias.
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Yes because life just keeps getting better and better.
It's like a video game.
Does anyone else here agree with me that The Divine Comedy is overrated?
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>>8296462
No.
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Is not overrated. Stop this shit.
Works from the past are regarded as great not because they are in and of itself beautiful or masterfully written, but rather that they helped literature progress and inspired other great authors.
Don Quixote is now not as impressive as it was the moment it appeared but is still good literature
Divine Comedy was huge at its time but nowadays is just beautiful
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>>8296473
>Divine Comedy was huge at its time
Of course.
>but nowadays is just beautiful
Maybe not so much.
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I was thinking about giving J.G. Ballard a go, since my father has all his works laying around.
Which book of his do you guys recommend?
What is your opinion on him?
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Here's the order I read them in so far and I think it worked pretty well:
Crash
High-Rise
The Drowned World
The Atrocity Exhibition
Concrete Island
The Burning World
I feel like I left one out but it's not coming to me right now
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>>8296448
Literally
BASED JIMMY
the author. He's one of those authors with entirely their own voice and style, and it makes you feel rank and doomed and filthy, but in a sexy way. Don't miss his autobiographical stuff - he grew up (for at least a couple of years) in a Japanese POW camp.
He said that it was there he learned that life is basically a stage set, and all the pieces can be arranged at whim. That's something that stuck with me.
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>>8296448
His short stories are gold.
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I'm looking for books about Venetia. It can be 7th century, 1797, modern days, anything goes.
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Death in Venice by Thomas Mann (it sucks, but atleast it's really short)
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>>8296446
Anything by Donna Leon
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Shakespeare
Marlowe
Schiller
Venice was the center of world oligarchical power from the sack of Constantinople to 1797, so it is the setting for many early modern historical plays.
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Do you hear the musica universalis ?
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How geometrical is the color of your music ?
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>>8296414
yes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWINpXNd5KE
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The butterfly effect is the concept that small causes can have large effects
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