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Is this chart accurate? Tell me how a hundred years of solitude isn't a masterpiece and ASOIF is shit.
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>>8252664
You fell for a poorly executed meme chart and took exception to the strangest examples.
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>>8252664
Yes, it's completely accurate.how are you even capable of typing, you massive fucking idiot?
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What are some modern authors that describe contemporary life in the same way this OP wrote his post?
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>>8252545
John Green.
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>>8252551
Heh
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>>8252545
Tao Lin
Tbh Dosto is kinda close albeit from a while ago
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are you ready for zenith part 2?
why don't we get together and write a YA satire. but make it so goddamn good that the YA kids think it's serious and fucking love it. then we become NYT best sellers + get money + get chick's = more time to focus on actual writing since we don't need real jobs.
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>>8252517
we got a pretenderrrrr
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>>8252526
lol
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>>8252517
>Stop taking the internet so seriously
/fourleafclover
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Hey, y'all.
I have a lot of difficulty enjoying experiences due to over analysis in the moment. For example when a friend tells a good joke that makes me laugh and about a second into laughter I'm asking myself with sincerity "why am I really laughing? if this is a means of bonding, shouldn't we be more thoughtful? or maybe genuine relationships should be totally organic." etc. and then I'm no longer laughing and the moment has passed. I'm not trying to jerk myself because I'm so thoughtful. I rarely come to any helpful conclusions and its mostly annoying and restrictive to my being able enjoy normal human activities. I want to be able to just "go with the flow" or whatever.
Will philosophy help me this or exacerbate it?
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maybe you're just thinking about that kind of thing a lot at the moment and it rises naturally
maybe you have ocd and intrusive thoughts
maybe you haveautism
if its a good joke and you actually got pleasure from the joke itself i think it should be pretty straightforward, whereas if you're laughing out of social obligation you can usually feel it. the difference always seems pretty clear to me.
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pure autism
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>maybe you have ocd and intrusive thoughts
That would actually make a lot of sense given my history. I'm gonna look into that. Thx, m8.
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Were any of the books good enough to be worth reading today just for aesthetics?
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>>8252436
I am a literature professor and no.
"Aesthetics" implies enjoyment, and we could hardly allow ourselves to enjoy anything conscientiously while people are starving to death in Africa.
At the very least we should choose to only read books written by those people.
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>>8252444
You're not a professor, you're 19 yo.
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>>8252457
Well, I guess your IQ is no less than 70 after all
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why is one of the most popular halloween costumes called "frankenstein" when it's the creature? how has this been allowed to go on for so long?
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who cares nerd
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>>8252399
how do so many people have it wrong and why is it so common to refer to the creature as frankenstein?
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>>8252416
>Frankenstein THE monster
instead of
>Frankenstein's monster
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Ficciones or Labyrinths ?
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>>8252305
both
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>>8252309
Which one first?
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>>8252305
Labyrinths.
Why is Anna such a fucking thot
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>>8252295
Is this good? I finished War and Peace, is it a huge world like that?
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>>8252471
Read it you idiot.
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>>8252628
You guys are mean
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I'm trying to read more, and I was wondering what you guys think of audiobooks. Are they good? If so, where do I find them for free or cheap? Also, any audiobook recommendations?
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>>8252263
>I want to read more
>give me something to listen to
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>>8252263
I've got a recommendation: how to be a pleb by pleb narrated by pleb
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>>8252263
Audio books are good as long as you are not reading highly technical literature. Librivox provides them for free.
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Dubs decides which book I read first
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Don't read either one.
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>>8252077
so? what did you pick?
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>People often cry up the universal progress made [...] throughout the ages, and probably mean by that more particularly the progress in knowledge. Certainly knowlege is progressing, its advance is irresistable, it actually progresses at an accelerating speed, always faster, but what is there to praise in that? It is as if one were to praise someone because with the years he grows older, and in consequence comes nearer and nearer to death with increasing speed.
What did he mean by this?
>europe & modernity general
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Do weird pics like that have a name? I dig the aesthetic tbqh
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>>8252037
It looks a lot like those weird Watchtower pictures. Jehovah - core?
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>>8252025
what a fucking retarded statement.
who said this? is this the pseudo intellectual dribble that modern philosophers come up with?
you want to know what there is to praise in that? how about the fact that increase in knowledge in most fields of science directly corresponds with longer, healthier and more fulfilled lifes for everyone you IQ 100 wannabe intellectual?
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What novels are the pillars of Modernism?
I've already read all books by pic related and also your diary desu...
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>>8251895
Robert Musil
Hermann Broch
Proust
John Dos Passos
Faulkner
Sherwood Anderson
Djuna Barnes
Fernando Pessoa
Paul Valéry
John Gould Fletcher
Jorge Guillen
Federico Garcia Lorca
Ruben Dario
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>>8251970
Also Woolf
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Knut Hamsun - Hunger
Kafka - The Trial
Woolf - To the Lighthouse
Hemingway - A Farewell to Arms
Joyce - Ulysses
Proust - In Search of Lost Time
TS Eliot - The Waste Land
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A book in Fernando Pessoa's private library
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'' The celibate's apology by a misogynist''
http://casafernandopessoa.cm-lisboa.pt/bdigital/2-10
What you think? Did he have a good taste for books? :D
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>>8251839
Looks interesting. Thanks OP.
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>>8251843
You're welcome. The anonymous writer seems to have been a very cultured man.
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>>8251839
It's basically what Schopenhauer said, but with Arthur was a better writer.
How do you feel about the true crime genre?
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>>8251814
There are some gems, but they are few and far between.
Bugliosi has several really decent ones.
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>>8251814
Loved the genre when I was younger but there's a fair amount of shit. There's a reason Zodiac is praised so highly and I feel that out of all of the true crime books I read, I got an eerie feeling with how good Graysmith detailed San Francisco and the general atmosphere at the time.
One of my other favorites is The Night Stalker by Philip Carlo. I blasted through that entire book in a week or two - probably the fastest I've ever read 600+ pages in my life.
Is pic related any good? I know the basis of it but not sure if it /lit/erature.
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>>8252427
I think it's pretty good. The concurrent plot about the World's Fair architect really elevates it. It takes a wider view to try and paint and picture of the time and the place rather than just focusing on the grisly details of the crime. Doesn't feel voyeuristic like some novels in the genre.
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What does /lit/ think of pic related? And Paulo Coelho in general?
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>>8251787
Delete this shitpost immediately.
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>>8251787
The absolute worst book I have ever read from beginning to end.
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>>8251787
My wife likes it, almost as much as the True Blood novels, Janet Evanovich and Twilight. Not exactly a glowing endorsement