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/lit/ how do i get myself to be motivated to read more?
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you either do it or you don't. people have many interests in this world, and for some it is reading.
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>>8066229
you start by asking less questions and reading more
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>>8066295
thanks
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>To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.
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>>8066117
why is stalone not in jail?
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>And I ordered a double-double, but they gave me the double-double-double-double.
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>>8066127
TIMS SHOUTOUT
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What is your favorite piece by Anthony "icycalm" Zyrmpas?
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https://youtu.be/pkPEYPqwgLk?t=1085
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Anthony "Alex "icycalm" Kierkegaard" Zyrmpas
I was at how many people in the favorite book/movie/tv/game thread picked indie games as their favorites. More people need to read our lord and savior.
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Where to start with Icycalm?
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What are the best portrayals of the devil in literature?
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OP's pic related
Goethe's Faust (the first one at least) is of course one of the best versions
The "devil" in Grande Sertão Veredas is also great, but is totaly different approach
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Milton
>inb4 bible
biblical devil is a snoozefest
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Paradise Lost and Brothers Karamazov
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Anything you guys can recommend from this guy?
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>>8065939
I've heard The Man Who Was Thursday is good. I have it but haven't read it, so I can't say. Apparently the devil makes an appearance, from what I could gather from the shopkeep who recommended it to me, so there's that.
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>>8065939
No.
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>>8065965
thanks
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The Way of the Pilgrim 2016-05-21 13:02:02 Post No.8065890
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Can we talk about this book? It is really one of the most beautiful novels ever written. For those of you who aren't familiar with it, it was found in a monastery in the 19th Century, and is about a wandering Christian looking to learn the secret of ceaseless prayer.
for those interested, here is a collection of FAQ's (for Catholics, atheists, Protestants, etc.) and a reading list for Orthodox Christianity: http://pastebin.com/bN1ujq2x
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>For those of you who aren't familiar with it
Yeah, everyone knows about this book because it's in "Franny and Zooey".
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Hi Constantine
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Should I be embarrassed to read this in public? I feel like I need to read it at least once but I don't want my barista to think I'm a pleb.
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>>8065832
Do you read books to impress the people around you or you read books to enjoy a good story and learn something? Why do you care if your Batista thinks you're a pleb?
You can't know if a book is shit or good unless you read it yourself so there is nothing wrong with reading a shit book instead of just following what other people said about a book
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If you're reading in a coffeeshop then you've already surrendered authenticity as a person and joined the hipster normie hordes.
Also because it's entry level.
Also I bet you bought it from a bookstore in new condition because you felt like it was something you had to do.
Also I bet you display the cover while reading it.
You're so far down the inauthentic rabbit hole you may as well livestream yourself on YouTube as you do it
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>>8065832
You should read this instead, its far better
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Show me the best of british literature. 2016-05-21 12:03:33 Post No.8065782
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Show me the best of british literature.
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So i`ve read Dracula (i know Bram Stoker is irish, but it`s kinda near, no offense), and got really into this classy old romance stories, with a bit of fiction and horror in it. I`ve read Sherlock too, but now i don`t know where to proceed. I don`t know if i`m ready for shakespeare yet, because english is not my mother language, and i don`t want to read it in my language. What do you guys suggest?
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bait
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>>8065790
i`m serious bro. Did i say something awful?
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Read up on the British canon of gothic horror then.
Frankenstein
Melmoth the Wanderer
The Monk
Maybe Ann Radcliffe's novels and Castle of Otranto (boring imo)
Wuthering Heights
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Probably move onto something in the gothic mode like Conrad or Wide Sargasso Sea. I certainly enjoyed reading Conrad when I was trying to learn English. Really buffs your vocabulary.
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Whats your opinion on using existing religions in creative writing? Like having angels fight Greek warriors or Valkyries fighting demons? Or even African gods interacting with Hindu and Christian deities?
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>>8065767
>African gods interacting with Hindu
Dindu vs. Hindu
hahaha
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>>8065767
I think using existing religions isn't the real problem here...
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Exquisite Homosexual Misogyny
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>"I am afraid that women appreciate cruelty, downright cruelty, more than anything else. They have wonderfully primitive instincts. We have emancipated them, but they remain slaves looking for their masters, all the same. They love being dominated."
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>>8065620
Anything by Hemingway
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You rang?
Heterosexuals do it better; for they get to know women in every sense.
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>>8065627
>Schopenhauer
>heterosexual
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/lit/ recs on lust and/or forbidden relationships?
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>>8065579
The love letters I get from your mum.
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>>8065587
my mum is dead
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Let the Right One In.
Ex muslim atheist living in a muslim country here. Should i read the bible? Is it worth reading? What would i learn from it?
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>Ex muslim atheist living in a muslim country here
Rest in peace
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>>8065581
Technically i live in a secular country with a muslim majority population.
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t*rkroach :D
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Anti-sex/for celibacy philosophy 2016-05-21 08:18:48 Post No.8065455
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Anti-sex/for celibacy philosophy
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Any books/philosophers that argue against sexual activity/promiscuity/women (but not in the Schopenhauer sense)? Or argue for celibacy, etc.?
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>>8065455
the bible, epistles of paul the apostle
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Elliot Rodger, "My Twisted World"
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>>8065466
Nah. That's more of a cautionary tale against caring about having sex.
are there any published novels written by legit crazy people?
plz don't just post books written by sane people as a joke. i only want the real thing.
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Well, how do you mean,
>legit crazy people
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Philip K. Dick comes to mind.
https://youtu.be/4cK2MPgAHRk
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>>8065454
i wanted to leave it mostly up to interpretation, but he is a great example
i think we can go crazier, though
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>>8065453
This thread can be full of writers who killed themselves, because you have to be crazy to end your own life. Look for books by these people.
>Hemingway
>London
>Hart Crane
>La Rochelle
>Plath
>Mishima
>Woolf
>Toole
>Big Dave
The list goes on.
Unless you're an edgy faggot that considers suicide sane for anyone except the extremely old and infirm.
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I'm in need of some good horror novels.
Been picking stuff out at random. Suicide Forest by Jeremy Bates had a neat twist on Aokigahara but was otherwise meh. Read the novel version of pic related, was pretty entertaining. About a third of the way through A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay, and aside from the boring blog shit scattered within it's got a good premise going so far.
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>>8065427
The Croning, Laird Barron
Naomi's Room, Jonathan Aycliffe
Floating Dragon, Peter Straub
Experimental Film, Gemma Files
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>>8065427
The Willows
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Please do not post this image ever again. It is very scary. Yes, I am aware it's from the Exorcist.