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>Book doesn't have a character in it called Landwolf

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I've always thought Woyzeck was close enough to Wojak

I had lunch with my grandma at a restaurang called Pepe last week.

I felt connected.

romp

>>8176035
Godel, Escher, Bach?

>>8176270
No, like literature. I watched a lecture on godel just today since you mentioned that though and it was pretty cool.

Ask in the /sff/ general. They might help you there.
Ps: don't read ready player one, I dare you.

>>8176046

>Ps: don't read ready player one, I dare you.

You're not the only one who tells me to avoid that book. Is this really so bad?

>>8176010
Lucifer's Hammer

>at a wedding
>talking with some fellow pretty educated nerds
>talking post-apoc books
>metion lucifer's hammer
>silence
>...anon isnt that the one where the comet strike starts a race war?

awkward in real life

I'm about to read it for fun. Read Angels & Demons a few weeks ago. Liked it.

Hey!

If you enjoyed that, try out Dostojevsky, he has really good themes.

There's something ironic about read and read being two different words. Both of which are separate from reed and red but unlike these two, the act of utilizing one or the other requires participation of the word itself in order to understand the context.

I love Montgomery but I'm not sure her books count as literature.

Alice Munro gets a little respect
the dykes here seem to like Atwood
and uhhhh.....
I like that Neil Young song about Johnny Rotten

I think Atwood is overrated but still a decent author. Munro is amazing.

your mom's diary

>>8175295
otto weininger

Nicomachian Ethics.

gravitation by wheeler

>>8174797
Ada.

>>8174797
catcher In the rye

i havent read since highschool though.

my dairy desu

my diary desu

>>8174707
hexagram 32 of the i ching

>>8174552
They literally don't act like that. Where the hell do you work.

for the same reason you feel the need to blog in a literature board

>>8174555

Minimum wage supermarket job pham, these guys are all in their 20s though.

>>8174132

Don Quixote

>>8174165
>when he rolled around on his back reciting medieval poetry in pain

>>8173561
the book is a million times better than the movie you stupid fuck. malcolm and Hammond both die. epic.

>>8173575
Personally I thought Wu's death was better in the book. Malcolm and Hammond's death were both feckless, and I think almost too forced. Malcolm's death as the final rebuke, and Hammond's as the victim of his own hubris. Wu died to his own creation, which could fall into the same category, but it was done much more brutally and, despite it being built up to, I was surprised when it happened.

>>8173575
Malcom didn't die in the book you insufferable mong. Fucking kill yourself.

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>>8172882
please, go back to your original board

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You saw this picture in the /g/ thread i posted it in, didn't you?

>>8172933
>LITERAL cum dumpster does thing lit hates, posting pics of look at me I read
>lit for some reason actually pays attention

I wasn't fooled. Everyone on /lit/ is a pseude and poseur and they always have been.

Who else are /notfooled/ here?

>>8170002
Anything named icycalm reminds me that I need to buy a massager. Also this isn't literature related, please leave.

>>8170035

>Who else are /notfooled/ here?

I am. Anyone who isn't a memekid is.

The translation posting is just that - a meme.
None of these kids speak Ancient Greek. They haven't read the Greeks in the original. They just like to shitpost about it because it riles anon a bit.

>>8166827

If English is your native language and you live in the U.S. or the U.K., I imagine most any higher institute of learning would offer German courses. I can't say how advanced they would be, but I'm sure they would be a lot more useful than the teach-yourself approach.

If I'm not mistaken, even some of my local community colleges offer some language studies.

>>8166827
Native American who moved to Germany as a kid. And got an A in German finishing school. (My "fuck you" to my trials and tribulations as a kid.)

If you are serious about learning the language, you will have to move to Germany/Austria for at least a year, assuming you know the basics. Pretty much all Germans know English. (At least the ones worth talking to.) Don't let them use it. Tell them you want to learn the language. Ask them to correct you. They want to but are just too polite to. Or they assumed you're just another pseudo. Impress them.

For an American English speaker, it's a very difficult language to learn. Worthwhile as fuck, but difficult, if you want to be fluent enough to have meaningful conversations.

Forget classics for now. Grind the basics. Listen to the language. Use the language. Look for online tutors (usually cheap, free if you can find an exchange thing).
But READ! Start with shit like Michael Ende and work yourself up. Aim to be able to talk arts and politics.

Some general advice:
- Learn the phonetics. It will catapult learning and you'll sound less like a bitch. If you can sing this, you're good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUV3KvnvT-w
- Generally singing is a good idea to learn any language. Just do it. Trust me. Also impress the ladies.
- Gender of articles is near meaningless. Learned purely by use. Look out for dialects. They switch that shit around sometimes. BUT LEARN THEM! Most foreigners give up and try to use some kind of genderless article like "de" instead of "der/die/das". Never do this! You'll sound unemployable.
- Mir/mich, du/dich, sie/sich, etc Learn the rules, grind that shit. Overcome this, or be eternally a foreigner.
- Many German words are easy to understand, because they make sense. Many or constructed by more simple words. i.e. Lonely = Einsam = "One-ly"
- Grammar is difficult, but doable. What is not doable, however, are the "exceptions to the rule". Only learned by usage.

Fuck dude. I know I'm talking this shit down and god knows this was a torement in my childhood. But I'm thankful as fuck to have learned this language. It's difficult to convey just how beneficial it was to my intellectual thought.

Good luck, m8.

>>8166921
German is a stupid kind of languages which nobody uses anymore. I'd recommend OP to learn Spanish instead.

>>8165320
Fucking embarrassing. Both the 'look at my stuff guis xD'-threads and your actual selection of books.

You belong on /r9k/

Who the fuck actually likes Stephen King? Everything else on your bookshelf is meme shit.

>>8165320
Can't bash it too much other than the potato quality picture (really like your Harry Crews selections). Personally, I'm not a huge fan of Stephen King, but I think it's perfectly fine if you enjoy him.

Also, Faulkner should have a nose.