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Can anybody rec me some literary novels about young adult women? preferably written in the last fifty years.
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the crying of lot 49, broom of the system, pattern recognition,
(all pretty much the same book though desu)
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>>8059874
i've read the first two, but the last one sounds interesting. thank you. any recommendations for books written by actual women, though?
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>>8059880
joan didion's play it as it lays is great
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Hello /lit/,
As one of the more intelligent corners of the internet, I wanted to share some thoughts with you, so that you could either expand upon or rubbish them with your learnedness and erudition.
One of the big reasons we strive for self-improvement - or, indeed, strive to create great works of art - is to appear attractive to the opposite sex, to make ourselves more worthy of the affection of others. The /r9k/ mentality is often rebutted by merchants of personal growth, people who advise the loveless and allegedly unlovable to go to the gym, start reading more, or do some other such salutary activity that will make them more romantically and/or sexually desirable.
I've been reading a lot on the Matching Hypothesis, which states, to quote Wikipedia, "that people are more likely to form and succeed in a committed relationship with someone who is equally socially desirable"[1]. This assertion is then backed up by quite a range of studies, all employing varying methodologies and arriving at (pretty much) the same conclusion: we're better off with those who share our 'social worth' (physical attractiveness being the main ingredient here).
All very well, you might say, but surely we should aspire to make ourselves have more social worth so as to find and flourish in a relationship with a 'better' partner?
The thing is, when you 'fall' for someone, whatever they were both (i.e. a 6/10, to use the tried-and-tested scale) they instantly shoot up to what is effectively a 10. You might objectively recognize that they are still a 6.5, but for all intents and purposes they're now a 10. This thought came to when I realized that the three girls I've had proper feelings for in my life have all been of a similar level of attractiveness, and that this might be more than a mere coincidence, and that I'm probably the equivalent thereof in male terms. What's more, when I had feelings for each of these girls, they were the only person I wanted to be with - no substitute, even if objectively possessing more social worth, would have done.
What's the point, then, in striving to make ourselves more attractive to the opposite sex? The Matching Hypothesis is the great leveler, ensuring the propagation of the human species by giving even the most hideous of our race the capacity to find and be happy with someone else.
tl;dr: self-improvement for the sake of romance is pointless, 'cus the Matching Hypothesis sorts us all out in the end.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matching_hypothesis
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>>8059847
>One of the big reasons we strive for self-improvement - or, indeed, strive to create great works of art
>is to appear attractive to the opposite sex, to make ourselves more worthy of the affection of others.
Stopped reading right there. Reply and explain why I should give your low-effort thread another chance.
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>One of the big reasons we strive for self-improvement
maybe the nerds on your autist board do this.
>you might objectively recognize that they are still a 6.5, but for all intents and purposes they're now a 10
this is some stupid ass idea. what if she hits and steals your money? your entire retard theory is based off the idea that once you get a girl you'll be happy, without considering the fact that she could break your heart.
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>>8059847
Tbh I like to think lifting and reading is for me, but my ultimate goal is good house, good kids, good life, good job And so i somewhat agree all self done stuff is for the grills.
But There is no greater feeling than feeling self accomplishment, so we also do it to give ourselves a pat on the back. Anyway what thw fuck do i know i havent accomplished anything in my life
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Subconsciously everything we do is for the opposite sex.
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I have nothing but a complete lack of surprise that Collected Tweets was a pathetic, abysmal failure of a book, and I have nothing but scorn and contemptuous laughter for the morons who have been supporting Tao Lin for years with patronage. Laziness and lack of organisation will ALWAYS shine through, in the end.
Tao Lin has based his entire schtick around "humorous irony" but this time, when he himself was put to the test ("can YOU make a good book, with all your supposed knowledge about it?") his true colors shone through for all to see. I knew it would happen, of course. I knew it from the first time I decided to bite the proverbial bullet and attempt to read Tai Pei.
Hopefully as a direct result of this, one or more of the members of Tao Lin's entourage will realise that they are, and have been, nothing but an abhorrent failure "half-assing it" through life, and put an end to it. Their life, that is. Now THAT I would give patronage to.
Make your suicides happen, Tao and Mira. It's the only chance at redemption you all have.
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>>8059793
Tao Lin pls go.
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Let's talk about Mira Gonzalez's sweaty socked feet.
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>>8059793
What's the point of this thread, exactly? No one even cares about Tao Lin anymore.
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Should I buy a kindle
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>>8059771
I would have used to yes but now my kindle displays adverts when on standby so I say buy a secondary brand instead
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you should buy a knife not a kindle
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>>8059776
Shit I read this as knife at first too
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what would fit better into the last book you've read, vampires, werewolves or zombies?
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>>8059691
vampires and zombies show up in the one I'm currently reading, no werewolves yet.
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Cyrus Annihilator reminds me of being younger
Everything ruled when I was 13
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Can "to set upon" generally be used in a way similar to "to set out on"?
I'm finding a lot of hits for "set upon the task of..." or "set upon a journey" in particular, but can't grasp how these expressions took shape. Wonder if one's a deformation of the other?
Probably overthinking it?
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>>8059627
>Probably overthinking it?
Hmm you think
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It depends what your definition of 'is' is.
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>>8059634
I guess what I'd come to expect, when looking into it too much, would be a reflective/ "to set (oneself) upon". Was it perhaps originally so?
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Pursuit of excellence or pursuit of pleasure and why?
Which do you put first, which would you ideally put first, which books do you like in relaiton to this?
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he
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Pursuit of thinking about things other than necking myself desu
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Is this the future of /lit/?
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Let me know /lit/ers
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it's the future of the world's most shit content creators being advertised among links to music that i'm too cheap to pay for.
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>>8059571
No, it isn't. /thread
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Is it wrong to steal from small bookshops?
My local one has outrageous prices for some shit (7 dollars for some penguin classic from the 90s) and there's never enough people watching that I steal shit.
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if you love barnes and noble and raping the local economy go for it.
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Fuck all bookshop, even charity ones and also libraries. They're all staffed by normie fuckers, mainly women who look down on you because you read stuff and aren't a Chad.
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of course it is you fucking moron
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roll for what you're reading next from your backlog
0-1 Blood Meridian
2-3 V
4-5 Meditations
6-7 Hamlet
8-9 As I Lay Dying
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henry rollin
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Just make a strawpoll
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what's the point of threads like this. just go to /b/ if this is what you want to do
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best anti nationalism books besides stirner?
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sti who? use wikipedia.
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Why on earth would you be anti-nationalism?
Do you oppose the anti-colonial nationalist movements in Africa too?
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>>8059532
>Why on earth would you be anti-nationalism?
becaus dielectrics. someone declares you nationalism the thesis. then someone declares you anti-nationalism. this is anti-thesis. synthesis is when yu rialize yuar samsing kompletely diffrant. das basic hegel basicly.
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Is there a more metal chapter in the history of literature?
>And as if the now tested reality of his might had in former legendary times thrown its shadow before it; we find some book naturalists- Olassen and Povelson- declaring the Sperm Whale not only to be a consternation to every other creature in the sea, but also to be so incredibly ferocious as continually to be athirst for human blood. Nor even down to so late a time as Cuvier’s, were these or almost similar impressions effaced. For in his Natural History, the Baron himself affirms that at sight of the Sperm Whale, all fish (sharks included) are “struck with the most lively terrors,” and “often in the precipitancy of their flight dash themselves against the rocks with such violence as to cause instantaneous death.”
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lmao "sperm"
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>>8059475
Sure is summer.
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>Nor, credulous as such minds must have been, was this conceit altogether without some faint show of superstitious probability. For as the secrets of the currents in the seas have never yet been divulged, even to the most erudite research; so the hidden ways of the Sperm Whale when beneath the surface remain, in great part, unaccountable to his pursuers; and from time to time have originated the most curious and contradictory speculations regarding them, especially concerning the mystic modes whereby, after sounding to a great depth, he transports himself with such vast swiftness to the most widely distant points.
>It is a thing well known to both American and English whale-ships, and as well a thing placed upon authoritative record years ago by Scoresby, that some whales have been captured far north in the Pacific, in whose bodies have been found the barbs of harpoons darted in the Greenland seas. Nor is it to be gainsaid, that in some of these instances it has been declared that the interval of time between the two assaults could not have exceeded very many days. Hence, by inference, it has been believed by some whalemen, that the Nor’ West Passage, so long a problem to man, was never a problem to the whale.
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Well this was pretty gay
Its like lord of the rings but double the faggotry
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>>8059427
you're so unique with your anti-liberalism
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>>8059427
She's a really great writer. Her prose is superior to any other scifi writer.
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great book.
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Just watched this and it scared the hell out of me.
What are some spooky books set in Puritan times, that deal with Witchcraft or religious horror?
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>>8059382
You might like this book; it's received excellent reviews
>Chilling real-life accounts of witches, from medieval Europe through colonial America, compiled by the New York Times bestselling author of The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane and Conversion
>From a manual for witch hunters written by King James himself in 1597, to court documents from the Salem witch trials of 1692, to newspaper coverage of a woman stoned to death on the streets of Philadelphia while the Continental Congress met, The Penguin Book of Witches is a treasury of historical accounts of accused witches that sheds light on the reality behind the legends. Bringing to life stories like that of Eunice Cole, tried for attacking a teenage girl with a rock and buried with a stake through her heart; Jane Jacobs, a Bostonian so often accused of witchcraft that she took her tormentors to court on charges of slander; and Increase Mather, an exorcism-performing minister famed for his knowledge of witches, this volume provides a unique tour through the darkest history of English and North American witchcraft.
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Pickmans Model is tangentially puritan/witch related.
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>>8059409
Not OP but i am interested.
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I always thought Lovecraft was just a meme, but I just read At The Mountains of Madness and it was incredible. What do I read next?
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http://www.goodreads.com/author/list/9494.H_P_Lovecraft
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>>8059253
That's a great cover.
If you're itching for me, can't go wrong with the man's inspirations; Arthur Machen and M.R.James are both great. The former has a relatively recent anthology by Penguin, and the latter has an omnibus from Oxford World's Classics.
Neither of the above authors have anywhere near the same kind of sci-fi leanings AtMoM does, but they were a huge influence on Lovecraft and GOAT-tier 2sp00ky in their own right. Lovecraft's essay "Supernatural Horror in Literature" is also a must-read, and a goldmine for other rec's.
Godspeed, OP.
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>>8061096
*itching for more