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I really like dark stories, where secrets of society keeps the world populace from the " truth " that magic and monsters are real.
There are many books that in somewhat fit the description... but I often find these books are lacking in at least one of the following departments: believable or likable characters, an interesting main plot, a dark atmosphere.
Monster Hunter inc. Really hit the spot...
It somewhat reminds me of man in black... The reader gets introduced into the " real " world, through the eyes of a newbie...
It's a little B-movieish but in a good way... it's play's with the protagonists and therefore the readers expectations... built's up the characters nicely... has a dark gritty tone, the main story is presented in a way that keeps you interested , and it makes fun of twilight... XD
Are there any other good books or book series of this genre and how is this genre called. There are the world of darkness books but those books have absolutely flat characters... In my experience
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>>8254194
>XD
>Making fun of Twilight, a book that was never meant to be taken so seriously and made specifically for YA and girls
Sounds like you should read Harry Potter, since that's basically what you described. Although I don't recommend you reading it (because hopefully you've passed that stage in your life) but id also recc Dantes Inferno, it has many good features you've mentioned and great imagery
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>>8254194
Also The Lion, The Witch and, The Wardrobe
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>>8254216
Dantes Inferno - really done - how ever not really a - present time story but could be with some small changes...
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So I'm halfway through this, but I have an unabridged version of this. My copy is atleast over 60 years old, and some of the language is really hard to follow sometimes
Question: Should I buy a edited modern version of this book
Question: What do you do to tab nd search unfamiliar languages/slang
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1. No
2. If you're like me, and it's disconcerting to use a phone or computer to search up everything you don't know as you read it, write on a piece of paper unfamiliar words or terms. Then, when you're reading session is over, and you're on /lit/ waiting for replies, you can tab over and know what they mean rapid fire.
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if you can't handle swift's language, you're in trouble. it's not fuckin chaucer
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>>8255002
assuming OP is a native English speaker, agreed.
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What are you reading right now and what will you read next?
Currently reading: The Iliad
Next: Blood Meridian
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>>8254102
now: flannery o'connor the complete stories
next: portrait of the artist as a young man
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>>8254102
Crime & Punishment. I'm probably going to start reading Dubliners as well.
Next I think I'm going to read Mrs. Dalloway.
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Dead Souls. I'll probably start reading Heart of a Dog next.
Is Dan Schnieder worth a shit?
>pic-related
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>>8254059
Well he is Dan 'dick like a tin can' Schneider after all
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>>8254066
Yeah, I read the article where he was "ramrodded up the ass by some kind of hair-curler thing"
but i mean, you never know
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Hi /lit/
Long story short, I can't write for shit. I have a mass amount of ideas in my head and I imagine full on stories in worlds and stories and everything needed for a good book but I absolutely can not write. I just draw a blank even if I have the idea in my head. I want to write, or draw, or do something to convey these thoughts on to paper but I have no skills whatsoever. Please helps
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>>8254034
Paint
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"get good"
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>>8254034
Practice.
Try copying authors that you read, if they aren't extremely stylized.
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I thought this book was awful. I never had to read it in high school (which is when I'm assuming most people read it) and finally got around to doing so. The 'message' of this book is a hollow platitude ("hurrr power corrupts, socialism is bad") and the way it is delivered is so heavy handed that I was actually cringing. Also, the prose was completely bland and unmemorable (he's no Faulkner).
Is 1984 better? I was pretty much going to read both for the sake of reading Orwell because of how massively popular he is, but I don't know if I can handle more of the same.
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>>8254023
Its been a while. Did the humans know that the animals were sentient and talking?
If so, 1 this makes it a whole other story with way more pressing plots and themes. 2. pretty racist calling the west humans and the east animals.
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1984 is the only dystopian novel worth reading.
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>>8254023
1984 is pretty good just for the fact that so many of the techniques seen in this fictional alternate British society mirrors the modern west so uncannily.
Help me, boys, I can't stop reading Westerns.
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>>8253999
Hahahahahahahaha How The Fuck Is Genre Addiction Real Hahahaha Nigga Just Walk Away From The Book Like Nigga Close Your Eyes Haha
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Do not worry anon, they are the true manly subgenre, and surprisingly pertinent to our time of appeals to scientism and moral progress
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Hey /lit/,
What did you think about this book back in the day when you read it, and what do you think about it today?
Do you consider it overestimated or is it worthy of all praise and hype it had since it went off?
Also general discussion
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I'm actually reading it right now. I'm about half way through. Holden just told the elevator pimp to bring up a hooker.
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This guy sums it up pretty well I think
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5jiTs1sr0s
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It's a great book. It's wasted on highschoolers because all they get out of it is either "You shouldn't be like Holden" or "Holden is soo relatable".
Redditors call Holden whiny but don't seem to care that it's an amazing character study of a broken person and don't seem to acknowledge how sad the character story is. He is dealing with the death of a brother for crying out loud.
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Which Kafka stories would you recommend to a newbie?
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The Hunger Artist
A Letter to the Emperor
Metamorphosis
In the Penal Colony
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Whatever you do, don't read 'The Cares of a Family Man'
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>>8253858
metamorphosis, then trial
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>tfw search for "Enoch Powell" on Amazon
>Mein Kampf and some white supremacist shit comes up
Fuck /Pol/
Well lads, what is the recommended Enoch Powell? There must be more to the man ( he was one of the youngest professors and became a brigadier in the army and got a first in classics at Oxford ) than skinhead tier nonsense. Any books you can recommend?
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>>8253820
No one? Seriously?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enoch_Powell#Writings
ten seconds in google
Trust a leftist to be completely helpless.
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>>8253866
Aye but which ones of his writings? Reflections of a statesman is £40 on Amazon...
>Leftist
Fuck off
Just because one isn't rascist ( neither was Enoch IMO ) doesn't mean one is a leftist.
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Why does /lit/ hate Kant so much?
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because the phenomenology is a better transcendental deduction than the transcendental deduction and kant is an autism slave to his newtonian weltanschauung
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>>8253810
Because Kierkegaard is bae.
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>>8253819
But Kierkegaard, like other existentialists, has committed philosophical suicide
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Tell me bout dem rabbits again George, will ya?
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>>8253774
it is pretty incredible how much mileage cartoons have gotten out of lon chaney's delivery of that line.
I especially enjoyed the South Park episode where all the retarded kids were based on famous implied-retard cartoon characters of the past.
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>>8253806
I hated Krippled Summer at first but it slowly grew on me and I loved all the Looney Tunes esque antics they got up too, especially Nathan's plans backfiring on him in hilarious fashion.
So would you say all of Of Mice and Men was an allegory for the Garden of Eden and how women destroy man's perfect idealized paradise?
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>>8253806
having ground up on looney tunes, my whole experience of watching old hollywood movies has been, o fuck that's where that's from. Like the first time I watched an edward g robinson movie, or james cagney.
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How does one become more articulate?
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You must wish it to happen.
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>>8253767
Slow down iddiot.
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>>8253803
idiot*
sorry
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Is it worth getting the Wordsworth version of Descartes' Mediations, considering it's cheap? Or is it better to get the Oxford or Cambridge version of Mediations, with regards to translation quality?
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Get Hackett, famalam.
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>wordsworth philosophy
>mfw
What does the cover look like?
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>wordsworth
>anything of value
don't do it anon.
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why is historic materialism wrong? 2016-07-07 23:15:27 Post No.8253730
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why is historic materialism wrong?
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it sounds pretty logic to me.
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Vulgar economism is basically a Marxian cult that died with Second International thought
"Scientific" historicism is a relic of the 19th century
So is historical teleology
Most non-Marxist materialist historiography has dealt with the relationship between base and superstructure to the point that simplistic formulations are no longer tenable
Even within the Marxian milieu the same thing has happened (Gramsci, structuralism, poststructuralism)
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>>8253730
how are you so certain that it is wrong?
because of 20th century marxism-leninism?
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>>8253730
read this
http://sociology.fas.nyu.edu/docs/IO/225/What_is_living_and_what_is_dead_in_the_marxist_theory_of_history.pdf