Has anyone read this book?
I really enjoyed it.
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>>8156593
>by a women and a liberal
into the trash it goes
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>>8156602
>Peter "euthanise disabled infants" Singer
> a liberal
Do we have anyone who actually read the book.
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No one?
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Is metamorphosis by Franz Kafka good? I read metamorphoses by Ovid, and I thought it was pretty good.
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The original one is better.
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>>8156583
No. His whole theme is life is unfair and there's nothing you can do about it. The sole act of being born is a sin. A very jewish concept, if you ask me.
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>>8157011
>theme is life is unfair and there's nothing you can do about it
no that __unconventional__ life is unfair
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Revenge, Vengeance, Psychology. 2016-06-13 01:49:37 Post No.8156521
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Revenge, Vengeance, Psychology.
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Interested in looking for literature that has to do with exacting revenge on ones enemies without causing physical pain. More like an informative work that deconstructs how to exact revenge on your enemy psychologically and emotionally; almost like a guide. Anybody have any works like that?
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'My Twisted World' by Elliot Rodger
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>>8156530
doesnt that end with a masscre?
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>>8156521
Oldish thread but if you're going to pursue revenge on somebody you'd better make sure it'll make you feel better afterwards instead of even more bitter.
This'll give you the gist of the science behind it:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/pieces-mind/201309/revenge-will-you-feel-better
tl;dr you'll have to convince your victim or whatever that they truly deserve what's coming to them in order to feel any better, which is almost impossible if they don't actually deserve it. Don't go overboard, or don't do it at all. Unsatisfying revenge is a counterproductive waste of time.
No.
he said.
“No,” he said.
“no,” I said.
“I know,” she said.
“Thank you,” she said.
“Come with me,” she said.
“Talk to me,” she said.
“Don’t worry about it,” she said.
It made me want to cry.
no one had seen him since.
it made me feel uneasy.
no one had seen him.
the thought made me smile.
the pain was unbearable.
the crowd was silent.
the man called out.
the old man said.
the man asked.
He was silent for a long moment.
he was silent for a moment.
it was quiet for a moment.
it was dark and cold.
there was a pause.
it was my turn.
There is no one else in the world.
there is no one else in sight.
they were the only ones who mattered.
they were the only ones left.
he had to be with me.
she had to be with him.
I had to do this.
I wanted to kill him.
I started to cry.
I turned to him.
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>>8156493
When I was reading the first part of it I thought this thread was going to be about making fun of writers with shitty dialogue and prose.
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i give it a 0/1
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>>8156622
Damn, only one from perfection.
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Well /lit/ is 12 Years a Slave a classic?
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>>8156345
>burgers
get shot already you cuck
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>>8156345
It's like watching 2 chat bots talking to one another
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>>8156345
Of course
Is this still viable? I usually don't read books out of pleasure, but since I won't do shit this summer I thought about reading some before heading back to college. Which one should I read first? To show you guys what I'm into I can tell you my favorite manga is Berserk
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>le god tier shit tier inane garbage
>IS THIS VIABLE GUIZE ? XD
Yeah man the stranger is totally le god tier and Lolita is le shit tier !
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>>8156314
That chart was created by one of 4chan's most infamous trolls. He was also very successful considering how often this shit gets passed around today, still.
If you want to get into serious literature, the /lit/ starter kit is a much better selection of books for pleb like you.
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If you like anime you should read Gravity's Rainbow
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what do you do when you've run out of things to say?
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be quiet.
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lean in for a kissy
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>>8155976
Observe
Contemplate
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Did this book give you any revelations.
Or anything you'd like to say about your experience reading it.
Also, what should one read to learn more about the period.
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>>8155929
Yes, it made me realize that whatever you do doesn't change the endless cycle of life, you are as important as the dust swinging under your feet.
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>>8155929
It helped me get a reference on Mike Tyson's Mysteries.
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Not much, mainly because I was already pretty familiar with the concepts of buddhism before reading it.
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Principles of good writing?
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Practice
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>>8155793
Is there anything practice isn't important to?
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>>8155760
>Principles
>Good
What did /lit/ think?
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stopped and quit about 30 pages from the end. just didn't care. such a shit book. the shrike is a fag.
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>>8155748
It's a masterpiece; I don't know what the hell that other anon's talking about. Simmons' horror fiction is also great. Pic related.
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>>8155758
>the shrike is a fag.
He speaks so highly of you, though.
Who is your favorite Pynchon character?
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The Paranoids
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The one with the funny name.
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Pig Semen Bodine
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have you read any good books about relationships?
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>that hint of arch cleavage
FFFFFFUCK
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Between men and women?
And good in the sense that they have explanatory power? Because The Shining is also a book about a relationship.
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>>8155335
Not my diary desu
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Books you like specifically for the narration style
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>>8155329
Bump
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>pick up book
>not sure if I should suffer through the introduction or not
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>>8155227
I prefer reading it after reading the book. It often poses interesting views, but they tend to give away half the plot as well. And you can only really appreciate the views after having read the book yourself first.
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>>8155262
>Detective stories with spoiler heavy introductions
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>>8155227
>pick up book
>the author of the introduction is monstrously biased and completely misunderstands the author/book whose introduction they're writing
This happened to me with every single Nietzsche/Schopenhauer book.
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>MS: You have always been an advocate of the primacy of the aesthetic: “To read in the service of any ideology is not, in my judgment, to read at all,” you have argued. Is it still possible in our post modern age to prioritize the aesthetic values of a work over the considerations of race, class and gender?
>HB: In my view, all these ideologies have destroyed literary study in the graduate schools and in the academies. Whether you call it feminism, which is not really feminism, has nothing to do with equal rights for women, or whether you call it transgenderism, or ethnicity, or Marxism, or any of these French manifestations, be it deconstruction or one mode of differential linguistics or another, or whether you call it — what I think is mislabeled — the new historicism, because it’s neither new nor historicism, but simply a dilution of Foucault, a man whom I knew and liked personally, but whose influence I think has been pernicious, just as Derida’s, with whom I also shared a friendship until eventually we broke with each other. All these “isms” are preposterous of course; they have nothing to do with the study of literature or with its originality. As I’ve said before, the esthetic is an individual and not a social concern.
Does this mean that the reader should not subject the work to anything but his own taste?
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My problem with Bloom is that, as far as I can tell, he is solely focused on a work's aesthetics. It's a bit like Oscar Wilde, I guess; he seems to believe that only a work's pure artistic value gives it merit. This gives him pretty good taste, but I wonder if this means he doesn't value literature for its moral and philosophical dimensions.
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>>8155105
>My problem with /lit/ is that, as far as I can tell, you shitters are solely focused on a work's aesthetics
A revelation
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>>8155086
>meminism
>one's personal aesthetic taste
YES WHAT A FUCKINGnot falseDILEMMAat all