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Read Starship Troopers. first book in a long time that I really thoroughly enjoyed..
are any of Robert A. Heinlein's other books worth a read
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>>8219559
Stranger in a Strange Land and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress seem like obvious recommendations.
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I like how this one and Stranger in a Strange Land are basically polar opposites.
Nigga really shifted his views.
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People really like to criticize Heinlein for his ideological preachiness. Honestly that's kind of what I like about him.
Anyway The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is a real good one.
>by which
>upon which
>over which
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>thusly
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>off of
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>had had
should i read this or infinite jest?
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Both or neither.
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>>8219442
this
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>>8219442
No.
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What is some good fiction about growing up?
Particularly thelewdaspects
>first love / kiss / fuck etc.
>not-so-innocent interactions with siblings
>puberty-related stuff
>burgeoning sexuality
>wincest (or the regular, soul-destroying kind)
>inappropriate adult "friends"
Generally, all the stuff that Cinema is afraid to do, and only literature can do well.In b4 Lolita
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Joyce's A Portrait.
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This.
A comfy af coming of age story with a sympathetic main character (especially if you were a loser who fapped to his sisters when you were a teenager) plus wincest.
And it's written by a patrician writer so it has dat prose.
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ITT Our favorite philosophy books
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I'll start.
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The God Delusion
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Is Mistborn worth the 1700 pages?
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>>8219382
No. Don't make the same mistake I made. It's cringe-worthy with all the YA romance and anime-tier plot. He desperately tries to make it quirky and subversive but it just doesn't work. Don't even bother with it.
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>>8219382
For 1700 pages you could read Gibbon.
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>>8219382
Nope, it really should have been about 400 pages tops.
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Hey lit, sorry if this isn't appropriate but I had a question for y'all. Are contractions always grammatically legal? I've had a history teacher take off points for using the contractions "don't" and "shouldn't" in a paper. I've tried looking through sources for grammatical and writing rules he had sourced. Chicago Press manual of style 1906, but could only find a definition of a contraction which makes me think its entirely legal.
Please help me understand senpaitachi.
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contractions are grammatically legal but not really formal enough for a paper
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>>8219213
>grammatically legal
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Don't use contractions on a college paper, *especially* not a history paper. Grammar prudery is all most history professors have.
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Can /lit/ give me some good right wing writers/books that are not on this list pls?
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Yukio Mishima
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>>8219133
evelyn waugh
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CS Lewis
Are there any qt girls that actually read novels of substantial merit that aren't feminist prudes? All the girls on my campus read shitty YA and distopian novels. Ever met a girl that really loves to read good books, /lit/?
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I know one.
She is a Greek lit student and actually knows some of the language.
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>>8219001
She cute?
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>women
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and but so
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w/r/t [1]
[1] jest
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Why did Iago do it?
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Othello promoted someone ahead of him, and he also suspected him of having slept with his wife.
The idea that Iago's motives are mysterious, that he seemingly does it all "for no reason" is a weird myth. Iago straight up says why he hates Othello.
I've posted this before and somebody replied that, well, how can we *believe* Iago, you know, because he's so deceptive? This is a needless complication that muddles things without explaining anything.
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>>8219021
tl;dr: Iago did it for the kek's and memes.
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>>8219021
Pretty much this.
Also, 'Othello' was not written as tragedy in the traditional sense; Iago is actually the hero in it.
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What other stories have a comparable character to Tom Bombadil?
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>>8218940
tu puta madre
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jajaja eso
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hey /lit/ no memeing here, I'm genuinely curious as to what is your favorite Thomas Pynchon book? I myself find V and Inherent Vice the most enjoyable/rewarding
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>>8218867
Only ever read Lot49 and V.
That being said V. is superior.
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>>8218867
>white male upper-middle class college student detected
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>>8218867
None.
It's been awhile, /lit/. I haven't been here in a good while. Is there a recommended set of pic related? I want the Penguin Classics set in paperback, but can only find 1-3. Help me out.
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>dad gave me his copy of D&F
>inherited my grandfather's copy of D&F
feels good man
I also got my grandfather's Durant
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>>8218791
Do you have an entire set? Or a collection all in one book? Or the abridged version?
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>>8218784
Fuck the Romans
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two questions of DUNE
how does Leto breed against prescience? this makes no sense?
and, why can't' Paul tell the fremen to stop jihad? they worship him.
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Your English is terrible.
Leave. Come back, maybe, if you improve your grammar.
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>>8218869fuck you!!!
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>>8218771
The Jihad was ment to consume the universe, like Paul was never a God, but he was far more than a man. He was something no one ever planned, a monster. Fyde (Fade?) Also had the same genetic potential to become what Paul became but his life of privilege stunted his development