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2016-07-04 09:34:42 Post No.8239308
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Anonymous 2016-07-04 09:34:42 Post No. 8239308 [Report] [View this topic]

Thoughts on Cicero / Essential readings?

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Anonymous 2016-07-04 10:07:32 Post No.8239353
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>>8239308
Based. On Friendship is a good one to start with. Cicero is actually basically all that exists of middle stoicism; if you're interested in that De Finibus is essential.

De Officiis is especially important for Stoic peeps but an excellent read for anyone.

Anonymous 2016-07-04 11:49:50 Post No.8239473
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Anonymous 2016-07-04 11:49:50 Post No.8239473 [Report]

Contemplating on reading some of him after current reads.

Anonymous 2016-07-04 17:38:12 Post No.8240311
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>>8239353
Cicero is actually basically all that exists of middle stoicism

What the fuck am I reading? He was a Platonist.

Anonymous
2016-07-04 09:26:21 Post No.8239297
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Anonymous 2016-07-04 09:26:21 Post No. 8239297 [Report] [View this topic]

Is Lord of the Rings set in the ice age?

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Anonymous 2016-07-04 13:40:02 Post No.8239701
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>>8239297
JRPG Token explained numerous times that Lord of the Rings happened in the past of our world.

Anonymous
2016-07-04 09:15:13 Post No.8239283
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Anonymous 2016-07-04 09:15:13 Post No. 8239283 [Report] [View this topic]

>he read Inferno but not Purgatorio and Paradiso

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Anonymous 2016-07-04 09:24:51 Post No.8239296
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>he thinks he's patrician because he read Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso in English

Anonymous 2016-07-04 09:30:28 Post No.8239302
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>>8239283

Yes I did and it was fucking dreary. Translated poetry is a travesty.

Anonymous 2016-07-04 13:44:33 Post No.8239712
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>>8239283
I'm not going to paradiso anyways.

>>8239302
Read the prose version

Anonymous
2016-07-04 07:12:38 Post No.8239091
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Anonymous 2016-07-04 07:12:38 Post No. 8239091 [Report] [View this topic]

I want to get better at writing /lit/ give me all the resources you got.

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Anonymous 2016-07-04 07:17:09 Post No.8239105
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This was the best book in existence desu

Anonymous 2016-07-04 07:33:41 Post No.8239132
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>>8239091
fuhk, du was there srs a monster at then end?

Anonymous 2016-07-04 07:38:28 Post No.8239142
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reddit

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2016-07-04 07:06:03 Post No.8239076
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Anonymous 2016-07-04 07:06:03 Post No. 8239076 [Report] [View this topic]

What did he mean by this?

pic related

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Anonymous 2016-07-04 07:06:51 Post No.8239078
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Anonymous 2016-07-04 07:06:51 Post No.8239078 [Report]

4chan is the cave.

Anonymous 2016-07-04 07:13:37 Post No.8239096
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>>8239078
damn...

Anonymous 2016-07-04 07:13:44 Post No.8239097
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>>8239076
He was telling them to read The Tunnel.

Sylvia Plath
House of Leaves 2016-07-04 06:48:33 Post No.8239034
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House of Leaves Sylvia Plath 2016-07-04 06:48:33 Post No. 8239034 [Report] [View this topic]

Has anyone ever read this? Is this worth the read? It seems really odd and confusing from what i've heard of it, but I'm very much intrigued.

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Anonymous 2016-07-04 06:51:08 Post No.8239038
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>>8239034

Le comfy quirky reddit book.

It's not confusing just annoying.

Anonymous 2016-07-04 06:57:45 Post No.8239057
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I liked it, Its pretty interesting. Didn't find it confusing either, Although when i finished it I was a little disappointed.

Sylvia Plath 2016-07-04 06:59:51 Post No.8239059
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>>8239038
Is it a reddit book? I heard about it because a band I like has a song named after it.

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2016-07-04 06:41:08 Post No.8239017
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Anonymous 2016-07-04 06:41:08 Post No. 8239017 [Report] [View this topic]

Have any of you read this? What did you think of it?

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2016-07-04 06:24:06 Post No.8238979
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Anonymous 2016-07-04 06:24:06 Post No. 8238979 [Report] [View this topic]

This is an excellent novel. Don't listen to the memesters.

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Anonymous 2016-07-04 06:29:02 Post No.8238991
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>>8238979
I saw it in the bookstore recently and I sat and read the beginning portion and was completely underwhelmed.
I'll still probably buy it and finish it, but it didn't really appeal to me

Anonymous 2016-07-04 06:32:26 Post No.8238997
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>>8238979
DUDE DRUGS LMAO

Anonymous 2016-07-04 06:45:54 Post No.8239027
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>>8238979
Not really.

About halfway through and I've yet to see anything interesting happen.

Really wish I would've taken /lit/s advice and steered clear.

>>8238997
Yeah, it's basically this.
We did DRUG and then I talked to some people who not be in the story in the next five pages.

Anonymous
Publicity Feels 2016-07-04 06:23:46 Post No.8238977
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Publicity Feels Anonymous 2016-07-04 06:23:46 Post No. 8238977 [Report] [View this topic]

>finally get around to starting a 'blog'
>make first post
>search for blog post title on google
>results are "Liveleak---Halloween knock outs" and "sikhawareness.com"
>hello darkness my old friend

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Anonymous 2016-07-04 06:26:54 Post No.8238987
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>>8238977
>make a thread about your eternal loneliness
>only get one response by some guy reminding you that you're an utter failure

kys my man

Anonymous 2016-07-04 06:30:57 Post No.8238994
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Try a Youtube channel next time.

Anonymous 2016-07-04 06:33:21 Post No.8238999
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>>8238977

If you are going to bitch about lack of publicity at least give us a link to the blog

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2016-07-04 05:51:31 Post No.8238895
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Anonymous 2016-07-04 05:51:31 Post No. 8238895 [Report] [View this topic]

Let's be honest, at the end of the day, this book is pretty good, even if it's overread.

Gatsby is one of those characters you'd love to meet one day and hang out with

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Anonymous 2016-07-04 05:52:43 Post No.8238897
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>>8238895
>overread
what are you doing

Anonymous 2016-07-04 05:57:03 Post No.8238909
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Anonymous 2016-07-04 05:57:03 Post No.8238909 [Report]

I really dont think it's that great. All it has going for it is the allure of posterity.

Anonymous 2016-07-04 05:58:23 Post No.8238911
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>>8238897
not reading it right now

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Anonymous 2016-07-04 05:50:33 Post No. 8238892 [Report] [View this topic]

Which authors truly have insights on human experience? At least, subjectively, to you.

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Anonymous 2016-07-04 05:59:45 Post No.8238915
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Anonymous 2016-07-04 05:59:45 Post No.8238915 [Report]

James Joyce because Ulysses presents a perfectly formed human being from whom all can be grasped

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Marcus Aurelius

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john green

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Anonymous 2016-07-04 05:46:48 Post No. 8238883 [Report] [View this topic]

Sup lit. My novel just got a publishing deal from the big five. I do not read though. The last novel I read was in high school and I only used cliff notes. How is my book so good when I hate reading? Am I just that good?

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Anonymous 2016-07-04 05:47:33 Post No.8238886
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Anonymous 2016-07-04 05:47:33 Post No.8238886 [Report]

nice b8 m8

Anonymous 2016-07-04 06:01:25 Post No.8238922
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>>8238883
yo sick good work man. I can't wait to get published.

Anonymous 2016-07-04 06:04:27 Post No.8238931
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Anonymous 2016-07-04 06:04:27 Post No.8238931 [Report]

lmao I have publish in top 5 years before

Anonymous
Why average reader is so stupid? 2016-07-04 05:17:14 Post No.8238824
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Why average reader is so stupid? Anonymous 2016-07-04 05:17:14 Post No. 8238824 [Report] [View this topic]

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17927395-a-court-of-mist-and-fury

This is the highest rated book on Goodreads beating Brandon Sanderson' books? Why an average reader thinks young adult and fantasy is the epitome of literature?

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Anonymous 2016-07-04 05:22:09 Post No.8238835
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I am still not unconvinced that Goodreads isn't a prop for Amazon sales. Almost any book you go to will have a direct link to purchase it through Amazon. Keep in mind too how many people are paid or have bots leave positive reviews for their products- who's to say many popular reviewers on Goodreads are not also paid reviewers and promoters?

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> Why an average reader thinks young adult and fantasy is the epitome of literature?

No one thinks this shit is the epitome of literature but for most people it's going to be more entertaining than a fucking ancient tome about a monomaniacal sperg chucking harpoons at whales and 250 pages of pseudoscientific whale morphology and sailing equipment.

Anonymous 2016-07-04 05:47:52 Post No.8238887
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>>8238835
It basically is. It's owned by Amazon and they even provide guidelines to authors for how best to use it for marketing. Goodreads legitimately is really popular. I don't think they have to pay people to use it. The goals of authors, popular readership, and Amazon align pretty closely in this case.

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Anonymous 2016-07-04 04:43:18 Post No. 8238732 [Report] [View this topic]

>professors writes "calling things a meme is not an argument" on top of paper

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Anonymous 2016-07-04 04:45:03 Post No.8238737
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Anonymous 2016-07-04 04:45:03 Post No.8238737 [Report]

Considering how progressive universities are, he'll probably get fired soon.

Anonymous 2016-07-04 07:57:43 Post No.8239171
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>>8238732
Calling something "not an argument" without an argument is not an argument.
~~it's actually a meme~~

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>>8239171
calling something a meme is NOT AN ARGUMENT

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Anonymous 2016-07-04 04:40:59 Post No. 8238725 [Report] [View this topic]

hey guys, I need your help. I want to write a good mystery story, and I have a general plan written out. The thing is that I want the reader to be able to solve the mystery themselves so I want to leave in clues and stuff in the writing. I want to know how to do this without it seeming blatantly obvious?

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Anonymous 2016-07-04 04:42:44 Post No.8238731
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>I want to know how to do this without it seeming blatantly obvious?

I meant:

>how to do this without the clues seeming blatantly obvious

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