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I've read most of the stuff on this starter kit list but I'm new to this board, any other recommendations to add to my cart while I'm finishing it?
I like dystopian art such as BNW and 1984, and literature that messes with psychology and morals, religion, etc.
Do Androids Dream, Dante's Inferno, and Brave New World are a few of my favorites. I'm going to pick up the General Zapped An Angel as well, because I'm a big fan of neon genesis evangelion.
Any recs like these that aren't on the list would be much appreciated!
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My diary desu
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>>8240539
Moravagine by Blaise Cendrars
Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe
Teatro Grotesco by Thomas Ligotti
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Some works that probably fit your description (especially the morals and religion parts) are The Age of Innocence by Wharton, The Reader by Schlink, The End of the Affair by Greene, The Brief History of the Dead by Brockmeier, and A Doll's House by Ibsen. A work that I think should be on the starter kit but that I don't recall being on it is Wuthering Heights by E. Brontë.
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Are writers narcissists?
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Everyone's a narcissist but people who make art have to be more actively self-involved
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I don't know what other board to put this, but I want to discuss the following, since I'm sure it's a topic that literature has deal with it.
after spending time browsing diferent boards, I've started to watch diferent stuff, by example wildberger in math, the art renewal center for art, fedoras and feminism, the decay of morals, the fact that poethry not longer uses metric, modern art.
It seems after watching people who claims for a return to classical values, that there is some kind of conspiracy, a sort of attack on the ideals that western culture hold for millenia.
It seems that the values that western culture that were based on order, justice, beauty, logic, has been replaced by uglyness, decay, inmorality, feelings.
It's conspiracy thinking to think there's a common effort by diferent people (not wanting to mean jews or cultural marxists) to attack what is naturally normal (beauty, justice, morals, order)?
Am I a conservative, or can someone more read than me explain this feeling.
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You suffer from edgy faggot-fedora syndrome.
Try going outside more, it's been known to cure a few of your sort.
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How do i know is my poetry good?
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honestly, yours is always going to be bad
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>>8240260
how do you know that?
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Just pulled these off my family's old bookshelf and need to know which are good which are bad and if there are any god tier or shit tier present and if so which ones
Thank
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>>8240254
all shit
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>>8240254
Throw out The Citadel, Island of the Blue Dolphins, The Reader, and Love and its Place in Nature.
May as well keep the rest
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>>8240254
Tolstoy, Shakes, Camus, Kafka, and Descartes are varying levels of patrician works.
Of mice and men is a nice cozy read if you like crippling depression.
Not bad for a come-up
Without looking at a picture draw DFW from memory or any other authors.
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>>8240234
holy shit son you have LITERAL no discernible talent
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Plasma Universe and Stellar Consciousness
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Keep each other company ?
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Like we're made of Star Light ?
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No fault in the stars,
The only shaking was the crowd
To the music in their hearts
It was a start
Without a finish
But still shined
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>>8240177
Dubs found their way
>>>/tv/71618199
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>had had
>that that
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>>8240025
>avoir eu
>que ça
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>>8240025
These are the most autistic threads on the board.
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>>8240025
>oli olemas
>seda, mida
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>I don't care about smelly stupid workers I just want muh high culture
what did he mean by this
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Nice misreading.
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>>8240036
>reading
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>>8240016
Well I mean socialism is about doing away with the concept of classes and under communism everybody would be allowed a taste of the high life.
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has anyone read this? what did you think?
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>>8240012
No, not yet, but if it's worth anything, I've seen a good amount of people here praise it.
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Does /lit/ scribble and underline in their books?
I don't see why people treat it like a mortal sin. It's a great way to remind yourself of great quotes, and it always makes for an interesting re-read. Bonus if it's a second hand bought book and you get to read someone elses scribbles - it's so intimate.
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i do it but only ever in pencil. god forbid i lay ink onto a work that isnt mine
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I use sticky notes as to not deface the book.
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>>8239948
I just use post it notes.
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Walter Benjamin in deutsch
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How hard are Benjamin's works in german? My german is pretty rusty since I haven't used it for a couple of years. I am really interested in his works though, but the only complete anthologies are in the original language.
Also, can someone recommend me some relatively accessible literature in german? I am going to uni next year and would be nice to have my third language freshened up.
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>>8239910
Next year meaning in a couple of months.
>derp
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>>8239910
Well they're pretty much incomprehensible in English, so you can't do much worse in German.
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That's what I gathered.
Currently going through Den Begriff Der Geschichte, the original text in one pdf and translation in the other. Not as bad as I feared, but it is going to be really long, tiresome reading. Would be easier to read in translation.
But already from going through a few paragraphs it is apparent that certain nuances simply get lost in translation.
No rec's on good german lit?
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Why does /lit/ allow and never delete threads about obvious left wing philosophers and writers, but immediately tanks and deletes anything remotely right wing?
I don't want serious conservative thinkers to be refered to the /pol/ echochamber of alt right buzzwords who reduce everythin to silly (((zion))) conspiracy theories.
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Because allowing those things immediately turns /lit/ into an echochamber of alt right buzzwords who reduce everythin to silly (((zion))) conspiracy theories.
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Neither belongs here honestly
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Why do right wingers have a persecution complex?
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Good war memoir stories/books? 2016-07-04 15:08:50 Post No.8239884
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Good war memoir stories/books?
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I recently read The Things They Carried and I thought it was a phenomenal book. I'm wondering if there's similar works out there? I haven't checked out any of Tim O'Brien's other books or stories yet, but that's pretty high on the list.
Pic related - Speaking of Courage was probably one of my favorite stories.
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Dispatches and
My war gone by, I miss it so. Those are the only war journals I've read but both were really good.
I am interested in similar books as well.
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>>8239884
So wait, is this book a war memoir or fiction? Or somewhere in the middle?
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Dalton Trumbo - Johnny Got His Gun
Stream-of-consciousness, told from perspective of a WWI soldier who lost all four limbs, his eyes, ears, nose, and mouth to a mortar. I found the first 95-100 pages to be kind of dull and repetitive, but it very quickly picks up at that point. Highly highly recommend.
What is the best argument against aesthetic relativism?
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>>8239820
Aesthetic values are imposed by culture. Thus aesthetic relativists hate the culture they originate from, and you should call them cucks.
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>>8239827
>Aesthetic values are imposed by culture.
Cuck.
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The 1980's.