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ITT: /lit/ Disappointments 2016-06-09 01:58:48 Post No.8142280
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ITT: /lit/ Disappointments
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2016-06-09 01:58:48
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I remember how excited I was to read about Sherlock doing battle with James Moriarty, only to find out he was half-assedly shoehorned into all of four stories.
>completely regular mystery
>it was a Moriarty all right!
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Whenever a book builds up to the protagonist achieving his sexual desires only to dismiss the action with "we had sex" or "afterwards we..."
Just... Leaves me empty. I don't know what I even expect.
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>>8142280
Yes. Still, i can't hate Arthur; The Mark of the Four and the Baskervilles's Hound are two great stories
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>Kékkek Kékkek Kékkek!
Yet, though venissoon after, had dust a buttended, ails what tongue coddeau he this?
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thx 4 rare joyce
Got any more?
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>>8142290
this
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It's a laugh like "hahaha" but with frogs.
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Rare? It's from the most famous book by Joyce.
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Anyone read this? What did you think?
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I didn't read it.
I think it's a good book.
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>>8142105
I'm reading his best of right now and I hope his novels are as good as his shorts.
Bests:
Death of Dr. Island
Forlesen
The Recording
Fifth Head of Cerberus
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>>8142105
I have. It is his best self-contained novel.
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>https://reddit.com/r/DIY/comments/4mqaio/i_attached_about_4000_books_to_my_living_room/
This is the most redarted thing I have ever seen
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has he read them, and why, he can't reread shit now.
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>4 gaylords of books
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>>8141967
looks like most of em are shit books anyway. no loss.
How can a non English major learn to analyze texts at the depth that English majors do? Do I have to read literary theory and to apply it to my reading? Where do I start? I've always enjoyed reading and have read quite a bit of lit in my days, but wanted to see if I could take my reading even farther.
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yes. learn theory.
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you're going to get a bunch of community college dropouts who will try to tell you there's nothing you learn in uni that you can't learn as an "autodidact." they are almost certainly retarded. ignore them.
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>>8141920
Don't "learn theory" but read some critical texts. Read some essays.
But the biggest thing is to take one text and to reread it a bunch of times. Even just one in-depth reading of something will make you read more attentively in all other things.
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if a pseud reads enough, and... 2016-06-08 23:31:38 Post No.8141730
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if a pseud reads enough, and...
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consumes enough /lit/, do they eventually becomes not a pseud? Seemed like the case for even the late great william gaddis.
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fake it til u make it
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>>8141730
>If people read a lot, do they become educated?
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>>8141730
Define pseud. (unironically asking, in order for the discussion to make any sense)
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>"Ah, gosh, Anon, you're reading a history of the Peloponnesian War? Where did you learn your Latin, old chum?! Oh..."
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>>8141589
I studied Latin at a prep school and then at a private New England university. Don't look at me like that you limey fruit.
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In a 4th year mixed graduate/undergraduate seminar on the Crusades one time, this PhD student in one of the most rigorous Latin-teaching Medieval Studies programs in the entire world was pontificating about how the Iliad was written in Latin
I had to sit in a windowless fart chamber for at least three dozen hours with him and a bunch of people identical to him
I hate university
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>>8141596
Presumably an Aeniad/Illiad mix up?
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Relate your favorite literature to Christianity or the bible here 2016-06-08 22:43:00 Post No.8141544
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Relate your favorite literature to Christianity or the bible here
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I do think that A Maze of Death shows what life may be like at the reconstruction or the continue of the progress after the declaration of Christianity certainly the negative or undesirable interpretation.
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I like cheese.
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we need more connections with eachother ( as christians)
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>>8141544
>when a cow licks your head
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Netiquette / file sharing issue 2016-06-08 22:19:46 Post No.8141432
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Netiquette / file sharing issue
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2016-06-08 22:19:46
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Why isn't everyone attaching a link to the book he/she is talking about?
Is it some kind of a board rule / is there an understanding about not to share books at this place / or are people just lazy?
Dumping an .epub file at some file hoster isn't a really complex thing to do.
I'm just wondering...
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Just search for the PDF on Library Genesis, are you really that lazy
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Not everyone is a digital cuck like you.
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>>8141457
Sure... that site exists. But woudn't it be more comfy to just link the specific book?
>tfw no Lovecraftian gf
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>>8141395
do you love providence, ri because you love him?
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>Tfw no average looking gf
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>>8141395
>tfw you will never have a lovecraftian bf
>you will never have your boyhole and soul molested deeply and tenderly by his beastly tentacles
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Which is more prestigious? 2016-06-08 22:05:38 Post No.8141365
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Which is more prestigious?
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2016-06-08 22:05:38
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Books on a shelf arranged in old fashion in order to impress people, or random book biles that accumulate like grains of sand on the beach of your intellect?
Hard mode: is it even cooler to just not have any hard copies? But then what about rare coffee table joints?
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Books on a shelf arranged by their numbers in the Dewy Decimal System is obviously the best choice.
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both. books on a shelf but then you have too many books so they spill over onto various surfaces in the room
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So, /lit/, where were you when it dawned upon you that the only logical conclusion to metaethics is nihilism and that nothing--N O T H I N G--apart from subatomic particles, their configurations, and their processes, exist?
No moral facts
No abstract objects
No mental events
Just
S U B A T O M I C P A R T I C L E S .If you are wholly ignorant of contemporary analytic metaphysics, philosophy of mind, philosophy of mathematics, and mainstream mathematics (BSc in maths will suffice), please refrain from posting ITT.
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>>8141354
I have accepted the divine perfection of inter universal Teichmüller theory into my Hodge theater
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>>8141354
It's been a while since I've seen such a Philosophy 101 freshy post.
Well done.
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>babys first set theory class
love it
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Reading multiple books at once... 2016-06-08 21:45:32 Post No.8141283
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Reading multiple books at once...
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Do you do it? Why? Was any combo particularly good?
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i like to have one long book, and a collection of short stories to dip into when i'm not in the mood for it
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I read one fiction and one non-fiction at once.
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>>8141283
1 fiction 1 non fiction. Or fiction and poetry
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post your misconceptions 2016-06-08 21:44:07 Post No.8141278
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I seriously thought this book was going to be about a factory that built robotic wasps to terrorize people.
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I thought it was going to be about an inclusive "white anglo-saxon protestant" community that produced people who adhered to a conformist identity like they were being mass produced in a factory.
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I thought it was going to be good
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>mfw the twist at the end is revealed to my 13 year old mind
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What are you subscribed to? 2016-06-08 21:33:23 Post No.8141225
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What are you subscribed to?
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Paris Review
XXL
New York Review of Books
Complex
Latham's Quarterly
Monocle
Daedalus
Vibe
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Paris Review
London Review of Books
New York Review of Books
Barrelhouse
Lady Churchills Rosebud Wristlet
New Yorker
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Respons
Axess
SignumI'm Swedish.
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>>8141225
The New Criterion
I'm poor and could only afford one.