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Previous: >>8192694

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> Reading books with a glass of wine
Do people outside of try-hards who want to look oh-so-sophisticated actually, unironically do this? This has to be a meme.

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Let's play the "I've never seen that posted in lit before but it's amazing" game

I'll start with pic related

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Post things that you like that aren't books, and c/lit/s post books that you would like based on that.

I'll start:

>Twin Peaks

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Starting a novel is one thing, but continuing to write it is another. Let's see the first sentence of your second chapter. I'll go first.

Nine in the morning like three bowling pins knocked down by a thunderous God leaving the remaining nine for the great unwashed to aim for to pick up the spare to pick up the toasted french pastries that papa and I prepare every morning spared a morning of empty bellies as they go about their business in businesses or with business partners on their busy days of byzantine barbiturate fueled mock battles while papa has been here since last night painting today's specials on both the glass windows and floors and I have been prepping for that same amount of time drenching bread in time stream harvested pterodactyl egg yolk while speaking french incantations from a long forgotten grimoire recovered from the tomb of Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre but the missing piece of this triumvirate of breakfast fast but not cheap food lords is missing and without that missing piece there will be no one to man the cash register and we will be ruined for the morning rush and we may die.

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is this the best version of the hadiths?

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ITT: Books that improved your life. I'll start.

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>my name is Clifford Le Sergeant
>take sip of coffee
>swirl glass of wine in hand in front of camera
>I just read this book
>better than food
>contemplatively stare into the distance in silence
>'wow'
>dude sex lmao
>majored in film

Does /lit/ really like this pretentious fuck?

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Hello /lit/. What is the required reading in order to fully appreciate and understand Metamorphoses? I am worried I may not have long to enjoy it, your kind consideration is most appreciated.

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>itt fuck up classic lines

I'll start

to be or not be, that is my question.

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ITT: Post your favorite book, philosopher, album, and movie.
I'll start.
>Gravity's Rainbow
>Nietzsche
>Depression Cherry (Beach House)
>Boogie Nights

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Gimme a list of the most cynical, mean, pessimistic, hopeless writers you can think of. I want to read something that will shred every last bit of light within me.

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No, not in the sense that it made me a paedophile. That's neither the point, nor the case (except that I kept imagining quite vividly what Lolita might look like – I've settled for the mental image of a tween-aged Brooke Shields eventually... as did everyone...)
No, actually I'm talking about the fact that this book left me in a state of utter emotional disarray – that semi-psychotic state of mind you usually only feel after binging on psychoactives.
I somehow just kept springing every trap that Nabokov set up for the reader (except that I didn't believe for one second that HH might end up shooting Lolita – but then again, I never fell for HUMBERT's traps anyway).

To put it bluntly: Even though it was rather clear to me from the very start that HH was nothing but a sod, I couldn't help but sympathise with the character and start to regard Lo as this profoundly evil cunt (that reminded me so much of girlfriends with whom I had ugly breakups).
On the other hand, I knew that I was totally in the wrong, since we never really get to know Dolores anyway.

What are your experiences in that regard?

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Show me your comfiest reading place

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I've always preferred old books, mostly from the 19th century. The only book i've read and liked that was written in the last 30 years is Metro 2033, though I didn't read many modern books.

I need to modernize myself. Recommend some new novels to someone who loves old russian literature.