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I'm looking for books that shake the core of your being.
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K on
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>>8072145
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch really fucked me up for a while
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>>8072145
Mein Kampf, the truth init will shake you.
WE ARE BREAKING THE CONDITIONING!!! GET YOUR FLORUIDE FILTERS NOW!!!! FUCK THE KIKES!!!!!!!!!!
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4chan, home of the Memelords 2016-05-22 23:22:32 Post No.8072139
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2016-05-22 23:22:32
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>see the greek's meme
>trying not to be such a pleb so I can shitpost with better accuracy
>Open ToC to Edith Hamilton's Mythology
>Last page is 462 before the index pages
You did not read all of these, liar.
Also, is her writing on myth's anything special? Does it go against, or is it more profound, than what one learns in a Myth lit course? I'm not trying to skip the book, but knowing half(ish) of the chapters are going to be review should keep my morale up enough to get through this book and onto the next.
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learn to write
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What are you talking about?
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Mythology should be used more like a guide for the works as you read them, otherwise you're going to forget all about them.
>tfw you realize only through human suffering can one enter into communion with God
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It's more like you gain a sense of entitlement through suffering—very Job-like in the sense that you think you deserve something at the end, since you had to endure all that shit.
So creepy to spin a sense of entitlement into some lofty, inspirational bullshit like "entering into communion with God", but humans aren't too rational, especially when it comes to issues of justice and religion.
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>>8072131
>Trw no one has ever "entered into communion with God"
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>>8072161
Are you an idiot?
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Gender/Queer criticism 2016-05-22 23:16:02 Post No.8072107
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Can someone explain to me how the Gender/Queer criticism lens works and what it does? How is it any different then the feminist approach? Does it only focus on gender and sexuality?
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>>8072107
Sounds like nonsense.
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Both arenas cover very different issues and have different concentrations in which inter-related topics are placed. You'll have to be more specific.
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>>8072120
Peoples identities are nonsense?
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I get sudden hard-ons while reading this book. Is this normal?
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I get erections all the time. It's normal. As long as you don't constantly think about having sex with twelve year olds, you're probably fine.
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>>8072118
Why would that be a problem?
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I don't know how, when even the sex scenes are presented in an unsexy, too-cerebral way.
You can pretty much tell the people who haven't read "Lolita"—they think the book is sexy/smutty.
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i must be dumber than i thought, i didnt get what all the fuss was about, he didnt strike me as particularly racist in the book
it just reads like she lost her mind for no reason had a bunch of nonsensical conversations with her uncle and yelled at her father for a couple pages
can someone explain it to me?
also why the hell calpurnia suddenly didnt gave a shit about scout?
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Go Set A Watchman isn't canon, they forced the book out of her on her deathbed. It doesn't matter.
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>>8072061
There's a good reason she didn't want it published.
Can we talk about Juneteenth now?
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wut
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Is this series worth getting into?
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If you haven't hit puberty yet. I loved it as a kid.
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>>8072054
Are you a furry?
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>>8072054
Is this series worth getting into?
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What are some good, 20th century Chinese novels written before the cultural revolution?
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>>8072032
Wait Chinese people can make art?
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Ping Pong Ching Ling Ding Dong Wong Fan Bong Bing Ping Chong Wang Chung Dang Hung Pong Ping Bong Bing Ling Ling Wing Wang Ching Chong Bing Bong Bong Bing Bing Bong Ching Chong Wang Chong Ping Pong by Wu Shu Mo Fan Tien Shin Han Lo Pan Do No Fo Ro Lu Bu
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Thoughts?
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Too autistic but worth the read if you have nothing else on your list.
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Even if this isn't YA fiction, it reads exactly like it is.
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>>8072030
Isn't being autistic the point of the book?
How does one properly make a teleological suspension of the ethical in the modern world? I'm ready to make a leap of faith and devote myself to the religious mode of existence, but I find it hard to truly suspend my own sense of objectivity and subjective ethics and embrace faith whole-heartedly. How did you do it, /lit/?
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>>8071983
You just gotta believe.
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FINGER YOUR ASS WHILE HIGH
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why don't youask your dad?
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Okay so, I am trying to get into reading. I want to find a place where I can actually hear about the books, instead of just seeing a bunch of titles and what not. I have watched basically all of better than food book reviews book reviews, some of them multiple times. I almost want to get every single thing he recommends, I've gotten a couple. But beyond him, a valuable resource indeed, what are some places where I can find good books. I look at the lit charts, it's just a bunch of books I know nothing about thrown together by the title and cover. Not helpful.
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>I have watched basically all of better than food book reviews book reviews,
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6/10, bit obvious
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>>8071978
what's wrong with better than food book reviews?
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How do I motivate myself to become extremely hard working when my massive brainpower allows me to clearly see the meaningless of everything, the impossibility of knowledge, and the triviality of all philosophies?
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>my massive brainpower
Please be a troll.
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Nihilism is the least productive view you can have. I find it best to just forget it exists.
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>>8071888
Get up and do it
How much time do you spend browsing /lit/ vs reading books?
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>>8071887
>he can't do both simultaneously
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>>8071887
But browsing /lit/ counts as reading...:^)
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In the past 5 years, I have spent about 4x more time browsing /lit/ than reading books.
I have spent about 30x more time browsing 4chan than reading books.
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>>8071883
Only whores like it.
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2016-05-22 22:24:32
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>>8071925
>Repent sinners
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>>8071883
I thought it was a quality novel. It was a fairly painful read, but I didn't have any desire to stop reading it.
Tereza was a fantastic character (or would have been had she been a bit more realistic) and her unrelenting cuckoldry wasn't fun.
To me the story seemed like an elaborate piece of metaphorical evidence to testify against Nietzsche's idea of eternal recurrence, but it was still a neat story on its own.
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I know this is a weird request, but I need someone who is the smart version of Russell Brand, while also being the Russell Brand of literature.
Basically, what I want is someone who can keep that engaged, passionate, funny, lighthearted tone (like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YR4CseY9pk) but on the written word, and who is also not a retard.
It can be about politics, but it doesn't have to. I'd actually prefer fiction.
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Slavoj ʒiʒɛk maybe.
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>>8071818
I'm writer. Ask anything.
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No offense, but I don't think you're intelligent enough for literature.
I'd stick to youtube, if I were you.