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Hi guys, the weather's getting nice and I'd like to read outside but I don't want to look weird. I don't want people thinking "wew, what kind of fucked up kid reads alone like this" while reading on the park or elsewhere in town.
What are good places where it's considered normal to read alone?
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>>8203437
the world that I've built in my diary desu
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At a Star Bucks.
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Reading is one of the sexiest things anyone can do. Start reading outside more. When girls walk past you they'll feel moist just from seeing your intellect at work.
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What's your favorite Shakespeare? I personally really like The Tempest.
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Macbeth
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>>8203209
Can Puck's speech at the end apply to some books as much as it can to the play?
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>>8203266
the end of a midsummer's night dream, forgot to include that
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How come people tell you to read more books every time you say something that isn't smart or every time you say something that begs some questions or something? Do people really think that just reading any old book will make you smarter? I'm sure that only if you have a dictionary with you could some story possibly give you new words, or if you were reading a book on a certain subject could it possibly make you more knowledgeable in that particular field. What the fuck lit?
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>>8202962
Read more books.
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>>8202968
Why not just watch a movie? Won't that tell you a story the same as a book?
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read more books.
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So, what are some books about the UK going down the pan?
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Brexit did nothing wrong.
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>>8202908
Reality
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>>8203108
Everyone's diary desu
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Know any good and surreal cosmic horror sci fi novels, /lit/? But nothing from H.P. Lovecraft.
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Check out Algernon Blackwood
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Algernon Blackwood, Robert W Chambers, Borges
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In the same line, is Machen any good? Great God Pan seems pretty rad.
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who are some philosophers that BTFO marx?
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None. He is the alpha and the omega of philosophy. There. Now get the fuck outta here, and go back to your continment board.
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>>8202693
you're so mad lol
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>>8202693
Just stop
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Explain the appeal of this work to me, please.
I'm about 30% through it and while I'm pretty sure I "get it" so far and it isn't that confusing or anything, it is very, very boring. It is neither funny or particularly interesting, most of the time.
I feel like I'm going through a needlessly tedious read just to "get" a rather simple, basic insight (a good one, but something I don't need this book for).
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It's a less erudite and less daring version of Pynchon's musings on the shady, comic side of war and the vaudeville absurdity of the U.S military wrapped within a linear, conventional narrative structure. But since it's coming from a firsthand perspective of WW2 and isn't blatantly fictitious it's still unique and interesting enough to stand on its own.
WESTERN CANON OMG THE UNIVERSE WITHIN ITS PAGES! - no, but still pretty good.
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>>8202354
Why the fuck are you reading fiction for "insight"? Its a fun book, you are suppose to laugh.
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>>8202354
Stop trying to "get it." Just read the damn book.
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what do I expect?
>inb4 corntilla
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>>8202314
A solid romantic start, a brilliant middle serving as the high point, and a feels ending which will leave you sad.
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>>8203590
This. The Crossing almost feels out of place in the trilogy in terms of tone. It feels much more desolate and raw
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Why does /lit/ recommends this to people? I started reading (up to page 100 now) and it's very boring and mediocre. It's not even funny, if that's what it's supposed to be. Do you guys like it just because Ignatius is a parody of a intellectual NEET?
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>>8202186
What country are you from?
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>>8202209
Wondering this too. If you've spent any time in the southern US, you'd probably like it more.
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>>8202186
You don't seem to have the right mindset for it, stop reading and come back when you're more seasoned (if ever).
>endorsements on the cover
Why do Americans do this? It's revolting.
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Improve this.
Protip: You can't.
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literally spooks: the visual guide
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I can improve it by removing Memecoult and the diploma-mill tier econ textbooks
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>>8202178
>the diploma-mill tier econ textbooks
Literally best econ textbooks to be created
Shame they're so expensive for a real copy, I feel bad for torrenting it.
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what are some good emotional books. I could use a good cry
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do people actually cry at books?
am I just a shell void of human emotion?
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>>8202099
I'm kind of a bitch tbqh
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>>8202074
My twisted world - the story of Elliot roger
I'm 24 pages into it rn and i can feel the bad stuff creeping around the corner
I've just Marathoned the first chapter.
Why should I keep reading?
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>>8201973
>marathon
>first chapter
kek
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>>8201973
lmao good one
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>>8201984
>being
>this new
kek
Been thinking about reading this. Is it any good?
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I'm reading it right now. If you enjoy memes, you'll enjoy it. It's really like if the intelligent people on /tv/ got together and wrote a Constanza parody.
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It's very good. However, it's not exactly a deep piece of literature. It's just a really well wound-together story with colorful characters.
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Reading right now. Very entertaining and easy to read. Main character is like the precursor to basement dwelling pretentious autists.
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What are good books about present events?
put simple: books that tell what's happening now just like history books will one day tell what happened now.
I'm interested mostly in geopolitics and China/Anglosphere.
Something referencing Russia and middle east (and US of course) is also of interest to me.
Thank you.
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https://careers.state.gov/uploads/b4/4b/b44b0803f5826b13a20ea6710cc2174d/Updated_FSOT_Reading_List_Aug2013.pdf
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>>8201885
Not literature
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>>8201885
A newspaper?
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Anyone read Donna Tartt - The Secret History?
I did today, boy does that bitch stretch the narrative or what. As soon as the funeral starts (and goes on) the book goes to shit. Literally 50 percent longer than it should be. And aren't the characters shitty and not only because of their characterization.
What did you think?
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Some walrus-like visibly-SJW girl in my lit 101 class a couple years ago said The Goldfinch was her favourite book, so I just assumed Donna Tart was trash immediately.
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I thought the whole part with them at the house was one of the best parts, fucked up
the rest does drag and become a mess but I also was craving the kind of over-doing it too much detail ending when I first read it
the closeted guy's descent into alcoholism (and the guy twin? I forget) was the worst part, and there only being two (barely there) girl chracters
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>>8201636
See, that's the point, Pulitzer used to denote really good lit so I have to check it out. She is good at descriptive language in SH but character motivations, depth, plotting, convos... all generic bestseller crap.
>>8201644
The book took a nosedive as soon the funeral preparations started, even during the whole search, I was incredulous towards the end.