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2016-07-01 05:17:34 Post No.8227863
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Anonymous 2016-07-01 05:17:34 Post No. 8227863 [Report] [View this topic]

Natasha is a whore?
y/y?

Also, General audio book thread
>inb4 inferior medium
I listen to it at work

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Anonymous 2016-07-01 05:22:08 Post No.8227871
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>>8227863
>work
>2016

Anonymous 2016-07-01 05:23:21 Post No.8227877
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Anonymous 2016-07-01 05:23:21 Post No.8227877 [Report]

Inferior medium.

Anonymous 2016-07-01 05:24:49 Post No.8227883
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>>8227863
Natasha is the biggest sl00t in the book and Nikolai Rostov is gay for the Tsar's dick t b h.

When reading a long book (900+ pages), I tend to bounce between the audiobook and the physical text so I can listen to that shit while playing Euro Truck Simulator. Anyone else bounce between the two mediums like that?

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2016-07-01 05:05:03 Post No.8227822
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Anonymous 2016-07-01 05:05:03 Post No. 8227822 [Report] [View this topic]

How can I counter persistent underhanded sarcasm?

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Anonymous 2016-07-01 06:43:04 Post No.8228071
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Anonymous 2016-07-01 06:43:04 Post No.8228071 [Report]

With genuine naivete

Anonymous 2016-07-01 06:45:50 Post No.8228080
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Anonymous 2016-07-01 06:45:50 Post No.8228080 [Report]

Stop countering it.

Anonymous 2016-07-01 06:46:41 Post No.8228085
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>>8228071
this, weirdly enough.

Anonymous
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Anonymous 2016-07-01 04:30:27 Post No. 8227726 [Report] [View this topic]

How's the writing career coming, /lit/?

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Anonymous 2016-07-01 04:33:29 Post No.8227736
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Anonymous 2016-07-01 04:33:29 Post No.8227736 [Report]

~~kek~~

Anonymous 2016-07-01 04:43:30 Post No.8227760
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Anonymous 2016-07-01 04:43:30 Post No.8227760 [Report]

Essays, as of June 5, 2016

>http://freetexthost.com/xr0alni1rd
>Alchemical Diamond bodies

>http://freetexthost.com/k6pbnqohhm
>Universe creation

>http://freetexthost.com/pvk1bh2tq3
>The Mathematics of Soma body mechanics

>http://freetexthost.com/uxjrfxfytp
>Quantum State transfer

>http://freetexthost.com/cvi4kku6aq
>Soma and Buddhism

Anonymous 2016-07-01 04:45:03 Post No.8227765
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>>8227726
>the closest you will come to a literary career is 'post successful!'

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2016-07-01 04:17:55 Post No.8227665
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Anonymous 2016-07-01 04:17:55 Post No. 8227665 [Report] [View this topic]

Sincerity or irony, which is more pleb?

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Anonymous 2016-07-01 04:19:00 Post No.8227673
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Anonymous 2016-07-01 04:19:00 Post No.8227673 [Report]

sincerity is no longer possible

Anonymous 2016-07-01 04:21:22 Post No.8227682
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>>8227673
arent you being sincere right now?

Anonymous 2016-07-01 04:21:23 Post No.8227683
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Anonymous 2016-07-01 04:21:23 Post No.8227683 [Report]

new sincerity and unironically being ironic is the hip thing

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Short Story Critiques Anonymous 2016-07-01 04:01:39 Post No. 8227598 [Report] [View this topic]

Hello /lit/ I have posted many stories here before. Some with good reception and others with lots of criticism.

This is a thread for short stories, I will read and critique any posted here. I have posted one I am working on for a competition as well.

Thanks /lit/

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>>8227598
Here is the story

Anonymous 2016-07-01 04:13:57 Post No.8227651
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>>8227598
bump

Anonymous 2016-07-01 06:10:11 Post No.8227998
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>>8227598
Its pretty good. You need to finish it though.

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Anonymous 2016-07-01 03:21:08 Post No. 8227433 [Report] [View this topic]

Why is it so great, /lit/?

What should I expect before reading it

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Anonymous 2016-07-01 03:21:54 Post No.8227436
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Anonymous 2016-07-01 03:21:54 Post No.8227436 [Report]

STOP ASKING DUMB QUESTIONS

FUCKING FAGGOT

HOPE YOU DIE TODAY

Anonymous 2016-07-01 03:22:13 Post No.8227438
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Anonymous 2016-07-01 03:22:13 Post No.8227438 [Report]

your wrists might get sore depending on how long and in what position you read it

Anonymous 2016-07-01 05:36:21 Post No.8227915
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Anonymous 2016-07-01 05:36:21 Post No.8227915 [Report]

>>8227433
Because it is.

Now read it. Take your time with it--comfiness lies ahead.

Anonymous
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Anonymous 2016-07-01 03:09:04 Post No. 8227395 [Report] [View this topic]

yo /lit/ what type of books do you listen to with your audible membership

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Anonymous 2016-07-01 03:11:01 Post No.8227405
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>>8227395
what?

Anonymous 2016-07-01 03:19:38 Post No.8227426
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Dostoyevskeet skeet skeet skeet

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>listening to books

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2016-07-01 02:50:20 Post No.8227339
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Anonymous 2016-07-01 02:50:20 Post No. 8227339 [Report] [View this topic]

Have you ever wanted to set a book on fire?

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Anonymous 2016-07-01 03:30:48 Post No.8227481
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>>8227339
Thought about torching my copies of Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged; gave them to the goodwill instead.

Anonymous 2016-07-01 03:32:41 Post No.8227497
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my diary desu

Anonymous 2016-07-01 03:34:26 Post No.8227505
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Anonymous 2016-07-01 03:34:26 Post No.8227505 [Report]

To The Lighthouse.

Seriously who the fuck is doing what and are they actually doing it or just thinking about doing something??

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Anonymous 2016-07-01 02:48:18 Post No. 8227331 [Report] [View this topic]

Is pic related worth reading?

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Anonymous 2016-07-01 02:52:14 Post No.8227341
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This is a retarded question.

Yes. (don't forget her essays too.)

Anonymous 2016-07-01 02:53:28 Post No.8227346
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>>8227331
The best. Yes.

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>>8227346
>>8227341
What is her best then

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2016-07-01 02:19:45 Post No.8227244
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Anonymous 2016-07-01 02:19:45 Post No. 8227244 [Report] [View this topic]

what are your thoughts on audiobooks?

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>>8227244
listen to them every day at work

Anonymous 2016-07-01 02:35:51 Post No.8227291
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I'm interested in Stanley Lombardo's Illliad and Odyssey. Moby-Dick might be good too.

I'd rather stick with stuff I'm familiar with. I don't think I could just plunge into a thing I never read before.

Anonymous 2016-07-01 02:38:42 Post No.8227301
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>>8227244
I use them sometimes for nonfiction when I go on long car rides.

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Anonymous 2016-07-01 02:11:39 Post No. 8227216 [Report] [View this topic]

>Nowhere is the hostility of the Anglo-American tradition toward the dialectical more apparent, however, than in the widespread notion that the style of these works is obscure and cumbersome, indigestible, abstract—or, to sum it all up in a convenient catchword, Germanic. It can be admitted that it does not conform to the canons of clear and fluid journalistic writing taught in the schools. But what if those ideals of clarity and simplicity have come to serve a very different ideological purpose, in our present context, from the one Descartes had in mind? What if, in this period of the overproduction of printed matter and the proliferation of methods of quick reading, they were intended to speed the reader across a sentence in such a way that he can salute a readymade idea effortlessly in passing, without suspecting that real thought demands a descent into the materiality of language and a consent to time itself in the form of the sentence? In the language of Adorno—perhaps the finest dialectical intelligence, the finest stylist, of them all—density is itself a conduct of intransigence: the bristling mass of abstractions and cross-references is precisely intended to be read in situation, against the cheap facility of what surrounds it, as a warning to the reader of the price he has to pay for genuine thinking.

When are you going to wake up to the fact that obscurantism is an ideological pseudo-idea constructed by bourgeois philosophers to suppress critical thinking and the necessarily dense form it must take if it is to say anything meaningful?

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Anonymous 2016-07-01 02:35:24 Post No.8227289
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Created by more than just philosophers. Media, stem. They all want you to think the truth should be as easy as an apple falling on your head.

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>>8227289

But the patron saint of continental tryhard philosophy and professional Santa Claus lookalike Karl Marx even says "philosophy is to the real world what masturbation is to sex".

Is it so hard to believe that books written in English and not academia-speak might have more to say about life? Could it be that there's more to be discovered reading Moby Dick or Ulysses than Jameson's entire body of work? By criticizing the foundations of post-structuralism, do we really attack every difficult or ambiguous sentence in a book? No. Jameson got meme'd into spending his career writing fake books for failed states and edgelords hamming it up as bohemian philosophers whose reflexive insult of choice is "bourgeois".

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>>8227398
>But the patron saint of continental
>marx

so you don't read books huh how is that going for you

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Hidden Gems Anonymous 2016-07-01 02:11:20 Post No. 8227214 [Report] [View this topic]

Hey guys, I found first editions of Celine Journey to the End of the Night and Hemingway Farewell to Arms. Opinions on the works?

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Anonymous 2016-07-01 02:23:16 Post No.8227260
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Anonymous 2016-07-01 02:23:16 Post No.8227260 [Report]

Way cool anon

Anonymous 2016-07-01 02:27:31 Post No.8227272
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Anonymous 2016-07-01 02:27:31 Post No.8227272 [Report]

In before "existential nihilistic dredging" and "Hemingway is da bessst!!!"

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Anonymous 2016-07-01 03:23:06 Post No.8227442 [Report]

Celine had some stark views about reality coming from the madness of war, but dammit if his writing wasn't spot on! Bukowski was right to choose this man as an intellectual muse.

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Bukowski Anonymous 2016-07-01 02:02:46 Post No. 8227185 [Report] [View this topic]

drop your favorite bukowski books/quotes.

"Find what you love and let it kill you"

"There's a bluebird in my heart, but I pour whiskey on him, and inhale cigarette smoke."

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Anonymous 2016-07-01 02:57:40 Post No.8227356
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Anonymous 2016-07-01 02:57:40 Post No.8227356 [Report]

disgusting

kowski was a shitty fat hack

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>>8227185
If you're all about Buk quotes, then you've missed the point.

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>>8227185
>Work sucks

As a NEET its kind of my Credo

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Anonymous 2016-07-01 02:02:17 Post No. 8227183 [Report] [View this topic]

What sort of "prerequisites" do I need to have erad before getting into the transcendentalists? I'm particularly interested in Whitman and Emerson.

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Anonymous 2016-07-01 05:29:51 Post No.8227895
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Emerson is a very challenging writer, and primarily an essayist and poet. Whitman is also challenging but Whitman has a layer of accessibility covering all his mystical esoterism and mystery. Whitman is not typically classed among the transcendentalists, though he was influenced and knew many of them.

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>>8227183
>What sort of "prerequisites" do I need to have erad before getting into the transcendentalists

bad taste

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>>8227183

(cont.) both authors will give of themselves in proportion to the commitment you give them as a reader.

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Anonymous 2016-07-01 01:58:55 Post No. 8227169 [Report] [View this topic]

Lit, I just fucking hate myself, I feel embarrassed being around people, I don't like being around people because I feel like when they finally figure out what I'm all about and what I really feel about being uncomfortable around them and having all these non normie thoughts going through my head that they'll think I'm repulsive. People make me angry as fuck. I have not made a single friend or left my house to do anything with other people for the past year and a half, and that's just counting the time I've lived in this apartment. Is there a character or a story that embodies this sort of feeling?

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Anonymous 2016-07-01 01:59:40 Post No.8227173
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>>8227169
My diary t.b.h

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>>8227169
The Tunnel by William Gaddis

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Notes from the underground, but Crime and punishment to some degree as well.

Go to a doctor and take SSRI for your social anxiety, Anon.

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