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How difficult is it?

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Why is modern literature so terrible?

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In Which We Try to Discuss the Current Scenes Edition! C'mon don't let it die last year it was a great group

/lit/ has an Infinite Jest summer reading book group!
If you have an interest in this book -- whether you have read it or not -- please consider joining us!

We will be reading Infinite Jest from June 3rd (today) – August 11th with an average pace of 15 pages a day.

Discussions will take place right here on /lit/, hopefully we will keep a thread floating around most of the time, but should activity slow down new threads will be made Friday for discussion to avoid daily spamming of dying threads.

TODAY'S READING is pages 380-398, scenes 82 to 85. Full schedule to follow this post.

*Infinite Jest is widely available in bookstores and in free ebooks formats online

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SCENE BY SCENE GUIDE:
>http://faculty.sunydutchess.edu/oneill/Infinite.htm

REFERENCE SITE:
>http://infinitesummer.org/

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I want to speak against communism, so I should probably read Marx

Where should I start with him?

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White Wine
I sat at my computer staring down the list of online drugs we would soon be purchasing: Molly, Northern Lights Marijuana, and pure, uncut, Peruvian Coke. Graduation was right around the corner – a month and a half to be exact. Three years and thirty bricks ago I had been a failure, a dropout, an all-around loser; now I’m was drinking tiger’s blood, fucking bitches, and winning. There was Wendy with the nose ring, clit ring, and punked out, skull-tatt, arm sleeve, Kali, curvy with skin the color of aged oak, and Claire, the clean shaven bleached blonde, she could swallow a softball. They were my coven.
It started the night we went down into the steam tunnels. Kali’s hazel eyes caught a glimpse of the Zippo flame and burned with lust. She put two tabs on her tongue and stuck her tongue down my throat. The LSD took hold of me; colors became sound, sound became feeling, and feeling became beyond fantastic. The tunnel was long and damp; the pipes were steaming hot; her kiss was warm and sent tremors through my core. Claire chimed in and offered me some coke.
Sometimes students got lost in the tunnels – their corpses served as rotting sentries guarding whatever secrets those now-closed-off corridors may hold. Wendy teased us; she stripped out of her Alice In Chains tee and let her perky, pierced nipples lead us. Deeper into the darkness we went, the walls were dripping wet.
We fucked like a mad tea party – biting, scratching, moaning, moving. Rainbow tracers reverberated around their bodies and highlighted their shadows like neon signs against the grey steam. Their lips were like tiny bubbles tingling my skin with every soft prick. We climaxed and our bodies quaked into a thousand rays of light.
Black Hat hackers advertised easy to move malware and credit card scammers sold dumps, fullz, phished accounts, and scans. Steam tunnel maps, illegal e-books, and pirated software floated around freely. I met a legit hitman; he gave me a few good tips on how to kill a man. Wendy watched my back and kept a shovel on hand.
Claire’s bleach blonde hair hung low and her nose shined bright when she lifted up her head from that last line of blow. “Woohoo! Today is the fucking day. Let’s graduate bitches!” she said with her rocker chick hands. We started off as degenerate undergrads, graduated to misguided, and held 2 middle fingers up to the upper class. We crashed parties and crushed kegs, pulled all-nighters and wore the same clothes for 3 days. Too many blunts kept me calm and her voice kept me high – music major, her notes spelled out X.T.C. in my mind… Kali was sexiness and divinity.
Through the kickflips and banged up knees, broken bones and skull fractures they’ve been there for me. Three trippy, fly, chic home-girls and a screwed up kid from St. Louis, Missouri. We’re crossing the stage and tossing our hats – taking a toast to Love, Sex, and Dreams.

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Odd request but does anyone have this book and can upload a picture of the sleeve cover to print, or know where I can find a picture of it large enough to print? I ordered it off amazon and the dick sent it sleeveless without mentioning it was sleeveless.

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Hello, I have a question as a newfag to books.
I recently started reading Plato and have sometimes really really hard time focusing on it and forget what it was about really fast. I would read 2 pages, just to remember I forgot everything, because my mind was somewhere else.

Is writting down the parts of the book I'm struggling with in a separate book something you do also? I don't know if I'm just dumb or have some focusing issues, so I write almost sometimes the whole page down in my notebook and it helps me tremendously.

Is this just normal, or is my memory fucked up? I know over time my reading focus and memory should improve, but I have quite stressful life and no peace at home usually (kids) and I find it hard to maintain motivation to read something. Any suggestions?

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Looking for books to read. Nothing about politics or economics. Fiction and Non Fiction are both acceptable. Looking specifically for something not just any Tom, Dick, or Harry has read before. Something not so out there or well known. But it has to be well informative, interesting, or something along those lines. Much appreciated.

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>has had had

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What are some good books about love polygons?

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So someone on /tv/ told me my philosophies are too casual and childish.
Can you fine /lit/erate gentlemen give me some books and discussion on a mature and intelligent philosophy?

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Is it true if Plato didn't show up to class Socrates would just cancel the whole day? kind of a dick move I mean I know he's the golden boy but that's unfair to his other students right?

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>mfw i realize Brave New World is just Notes From the Underground-lite

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Apologize

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So /lit/, you guys consider yourselves wordsmart... but have you ever beaten the computer at scrabble?????