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Thriftbooks.com Summer Sale 20% Off
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2016-05-03 21:14:00
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I thought I'd be a /lit/bro and tell you guys that Thriftbooks.com is having a summer sale ending May 9th(?). 20% your order. One of you will probably make use of this.
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Are you a '/lit/bro'? or are you a 'GUERILLA INTERNET ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN BY THE MAJOR PUBLISHING FIRMS AND AMAZONbro'
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>>7995863
I'm a /lit/bro. I saw the deal when I woke up and thought someone on /lit/ mind find it useful.
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Post one of your absolutely favorite books that you think everyone should read.
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There are a lot of translations of the Bhagavad Gita out there, but Ranchor Prime's is one of the best and easiest to read.
It is a religious text, but you don't have to believe it to appreciate it. If Hinduism isn't your bag, just see it as an alternate way to view the world.
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It's finals, /lit/ (the tentative academia thread) 2016-05-03 21:06:41 Post No.7995411
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It's finals, /lit/ (the tentative academia thread)
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Whose got finals? who loves em? who hates em?
I'm especially curious as to hearing about projects that people feel passionately about for their finals, or that you've found what you're saying has become important to you otherwise.
People who aren't in school anymore get in here too; miss doing finals? are there any kickass papers you wrote that you remember fondly?
does anyone in academia here do creative work? I tend not to, but this semester I am for the first time and so far it's pretty terrifying.
finally (I think), did you take any courses this year you loved or find worth mentioning? What the hell are you taking next semester? I haven't even thought about that shit
I'm writing pretty much three different papers about one book that I absolutely love, but even so it's getting sort of draining.
The one I'm doing right now is at least mostly about Deleuze, I just use the book for my arguments. Problem is it was due by the 'afternoon' today and now its 5pm here.
oh, I almost forgot one of the most important parts; study music reccomendations. post youtube links or whatever if youve got anything extra special you listen to as you study, or that you find perfect for writing
these have been getting me through a lot. perfect for when its time to finally put the book down and start writing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-34mZr-sLs8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJ7wg043a8s
(I couldn't find the image I intended to use, so i had to go w the backup)
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>>7995411
Praise the Lord by Sergei Rachmaninoff
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>>7995411
quite the order but here we go:
>Just finished up finals for all my classes sans a 3 page paper on King Lear that i'm editing with my fiance tonight
I took a course on Early British Literature that really triggered my dick with early Catholic doctrine even more than it had been already. Also introduced me to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight which was a great read.
Next semester is interesting. One course on literacy and education, one on Existentialism (mostly Kierkegaard i believe), one on the history of the English language and its grammar.
STUDY MUSIC:
>Miles Davis - In a Silent Way
>Brian Eno - Ambient 1
>A Winged Victory for the Sullen
>Satie
if you're weird like me though you write papers and shit as you listen to free jazz. In which case:
>Don Cherry - Where is Brooklyn?
>TEST - Ahead
>Jimmy Lyons - Other Afternoons
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>>7995620
thank you!
I just spilled coffee on my nice new Blake book (from the library) and seeing a proper response was just what I needed.
I used to listen to a lot of Mingus while I did work, but I never got beyond that into jazz. I still have a few tracks of his on my writing inspo playlist on youtube, though, which is otherwise mostly old videogame music, weird japanese avant garde, electronic albums about space, and whatever peculiar black metal I can find.
I miss studying Shakespeare. I was really passionate about him in high school but got over it really quickly when I started smoking weed for some reason. I've always wanted to write something about the Tempest. In the hospital over the summer I started taking notes on it but it never went anywhere, I started Light in August and it fucked me up too much to do anything else.
also this album is incredible for getting lost in writing you don't wanna do
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWGjYg2LmZQ
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Name a more comfy narrative
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I have had a wierd habit lately of putting this Titanic video on and reading until the ship goes down and I've been finding it pretty comfortable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rs9w5bgtJC8
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Who are some of your favourite /lit/ reviewers on Goodreads?
My favourite is https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/4100763-hadrian
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Just to check: someone's already written a story about a famous actor/actress who is tasked to save a world because aliens think our action movies are documentaries and can't comprehend the idea of fiction, right?
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>>7995333
Galaxy Quest
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>>7995336
Thanks!
I was pretty sure it wasn't an original idea.
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>>7995339
You shouldn't let that stop you. Maybe you can do a better job. Maybe your version can be more famous.
What translation is recommended for the Iliad and the Odyssey?
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>>7995302
Fitzgerald/Chapman
First/second read
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pope's
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Fagles, Lattimore, Fitzgerald
Sample these and pick the one you like.
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Hi! Could you recommend me some good novels where the protagonist(s) is captured by some kind of "savage" tribe? Could be a desert island scenario. Thanks.
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>>7995279
Typee
He wasn't captured but he lived among them.
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The guy who wrote moby dick wrote another one that sounds like that. the name escapes me right now
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How did this motherfucker get so based?
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>>7995276
By eating organic, obviously.
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>>7995276
what if Jon Scieszka wrote a Winnie the Pooh story?
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He's a taoist sage m8 consult the literateur.
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Who here has read Ada?
What did you think about the book and what was your favorite thing about it?
Was there any important things that a reader might have missed on their first read through?
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There are a million things a reader almost surely missed on their first read-through
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It's Lolita except instead of pedophilia it's incest. Also nowhere as good.
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>>7995270
>Ada or Ardor
Pick one fucking title you pedo communist
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Hey /lit/.
How do you pick what book you'll read next? Out of all the possible books at your immediate or not so immediate disposal?
What does your process of researching a book before deciding to commit to it consist of?
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>>7995260
complete random selection via random number generator
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hey that's my library
and I mostly just pick the book that comes to mind from what I heard on /lit/
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>>7995260
I stare at my unread books every morning while eating breakfast. By the time I need a new book one has usually stuck out for some reason.
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Garden of Eden by Snu Voogelbreinder
Im looking for a digital version of this book.
I've had a look around but not come up with anything.
Can I get some help?
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There's a pdf copy on libgen, but it's near 200mb.
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=3967CC69780B1E080D1DF517B01504D9
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Is a meme a spook or is a spook a meme?
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>>7995153
I don't know, but is a meme a meme?
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a speme is a mook
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>>7995163
I shot speme all over your mom's face last night
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I'm buying this book for my future girlfriend's birthday, since she read the first part.
Is it as bad as it seems?
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Bumping because I really need to know.
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>>7995141
Depends, is she a pleb?
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>>7995218
She's giving her first steps to become a patrician
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Is this guy actually worth reading?
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Not really. His better counterparts are Peter Kreeft for more pleb introductions and Edward Feser for the best contemporary Christian philosophy that isn't purely read by academics.
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>>7995090
no of course he fucking isn't
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