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Hey /lit/ does the Dover Thrift version of Rhetoric by Robert Rhys (192 pages) differ from the Penguin classics Art of Rhetoric by Hugh Lawson (304 pages) in any meaningful way?
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>>8220833
i like this meme
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>>8220849
I can't read Hebrew though :(
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>>8220833
I own both. I'll go and check.
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I've only read 4 books in my entire life, but I'm ready to stop being retarded
please tell me what books to read
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I recommended postponing reading Nietzsche, and to first study Aristotle for ten to fifteen years.
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>>8220795
The Ego and its Own
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>>8220795
The Twelve Chairs
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Books that could be half their sizes due to repetitiveness.
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>>8220775
It's good nonetheless.
The thing is, it makes you go through a prolonged experience of the character's state of mind. Suffering ain't short when you literally are so poor that you have to chew on old bones and vomit while doing it.
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>>8220775
It's only about 100 pages as it is
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High fantasy vs low fantasy
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Hi senpai, I want to write a fantasy novel but I don't know if I should write high fantasy like Lord of the rings or low fantasy like the first Game of thrones book.
Any thoughts? Which do you prefer?
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Don't write fantasy at all faggot
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>>8220722
High Fantasy allows for less restrictions on Imagination.
Just do it well if you're going to do it. Be original. I hate seeing simplistic cliche'd storylines and already existing world cultures superimposed on some generic Shannarashit fantasy realm.
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>>8220722
>I want to write a fantasy novel
Oh look, another one, here's your name-tag: FantasyWriter#8195420. Trust me your book will be anything but novel.
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What's the best list of the essential non-fiction books of the western canon?
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>>8220715
My diary desu.
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>none fiction
>Canon
Literally does not exist.
None fiction have a short revenant life. Unless you mean philosophy, in which case start with the Greeks
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>reading non-fiction
lol stay pleb
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This is my summer reading list for university. As a french international student I am not familiar with most of these anglo authors, outside of Borges' Aleph - which I've already read - and Durkheim's The Rules of Sociological Method - which I am planning to read in French. What books should I bother with, /lit/ ?
Also, what do you think of the list in general? I know nothing about the authors but some of those titles irritate me. Feel free to talk shit about it if it deserves the hate.
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/sci/ here,
Gowers Very Short Intro to Mathematics is actually quite good and also quite short. He's a well respected mathematician and actually knows how to write. Feynman's Six Easy Pieces is also worth a read. The rest of the "science" curriculum is trash, especially Brian Greene. Avoid.
enfin, nike ta mere espece d'encule :^)
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Koestler is actually a fantastic author and Nobel winner (for Darkness at Noon). Sleepwalkers is a fun book. At least check out the description.
C.P. Snow is a classic as well but somewhat dated, and a bit one-sided. Check out the Baden neo-Kantians and the Geisteswissenschaften and Naturwissenschaften division in addition - as a Frenchman, you are probably well aware of the clout of the "human sciences." C.P. Snow is representative of the Anglosphere, which tends strongly in the opposite direction with neo-positivist fixations and science fetishism.
Berger and Luckmann is a classic of American sociology but has been done elsewhere in about a dozen other forms that should be familiar to any Frenchman.
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We got lists for Japanese, Chinese, Russian, Italian, Mexican and French lit.
Any Suggestions for Turkish writers? Besides Orhan Pamuk?
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>>8220648
Koksal Baba
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>>8220658
nice meme
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TYT
It's been a while since I've seen one of these, but who are your favorite poets?
I've always loved WB Yeats, but I never really read anyone else besides Shakespeare and Eliot.
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>>8220546
Ezra Pound because he was redpilled about Jews
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Emily Dickinson for her dank ass rhymes.
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Jem Casey is the man for me.
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What does /lit/ think of The Ego and Its Own?
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>>8220519
A bit much spooky for my taste.
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>c r e a t i v e n o t h i n g
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It's a surprisingly optimistic and inspiring work—almost like a half-time locker-room pep-talk by the world's most motivational football coach, tough but sweet.
is it good? seems to have been popular when it released but it something makes me think it was trashy and simple.
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>>8220502
You really, really, really shouldn't read anything written by a women.
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>>8220512
Kys plox.
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>>8220512
or men either.
Play sports, drink, get laid. Books are for fatties and losers
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How do you like Kundera's writing style compared to other authors?
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>>8220464
What I wanna know is why I can't ever seem to find a translation of The Joke he approved of himself.
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>>8220464
I really like it, he's one of my favorite authors. But I could see how some don't
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what a giant pile of bullshit
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should have read the superior richard yates
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woops forgot you guys don't actually read.
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>>8220451
/thread
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I'm looking for books that are more like exercises in thought and set you up for an extreme amount of contemplation.
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Uh try philosophy? lol
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>>8220381
pessoa, calvino
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>>8220390
just ordered invisible cities. anyone have any more suggestions? I already have 3 books by pessoa, the book of disquiet is one of my all time favorites, I have yet to get into his poetry.
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Why is he so obsessed with phones?
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>>8220367
He wasn't spooked
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I don't know, or care. I made one promise to myself when I started reading seriously, and it's that I would never read this edgy fucking garbage.
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the obvious. he's trying to communicate with someone.
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I'm halfway through this. Is it good?
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>>8220327
>reading worthless roastwhores
back to tumblr, kid
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>>8220341
>reading Africans
back to tumblr, kid