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I need to know if i should take the time to read such a vast book. Today i watched a movie in which said book was the protagonist favourite and the reason for another character's suicide, thats why i wanna read it. Excuse my poor english, fellow reader, but i am not a native english speaker
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what was the movie?
don't read it if you don't want to, it's time for you to make a big boy decision.
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Are you asking if we would rec it? Read it, man. I enjoyed it much more than most books I've read.
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I had fun reading it some people don't like it and I can see why
I think going into it thinking of it as a time commitment is a bad way to view infinite jest
Rate my bookshelf.
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Poor spic /10
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>>7987726
I've only read the Galbraith and the Egan. Both were great.
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>TFW Christian Stoicism within an agricultural collective is the truest way to live according to God
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Good thing I don't believe in that shit
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>>7987693
>TFW Christian Stoicism within an agricultural collective is the truest way to live according to God
>MUH GOOD WORKS
What's essential fascism core literature? I mean stuff like Futurism and Nietzsche.
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Two things that are fairly far from fascism. Actually read Marinetti, then tell me how liked he'd be by contemporary fascists.
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>>7987628
>Nietzsche
not a fascist. Just because Hitler re-appropriated his ideas doesn't make him a fascist.
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What are the best book covers you have ever seen?
This de Sade one is mine. Stylish AF, whilst very appropriate for the book.
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This has to be bait. That cover is awful. Looks like a fan-made mock-up of a Twilight cover on deviantart.
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>>7987617
Post a better one then. Go on.
What do you prefer - Penguin covers?
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What edition of Ulysses should I buy?
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>>7987584
you can throw one of those out right now.
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>>7987584
>he takes the memeposting seriously
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Anyone wanna recommend worm?
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ass web story that's gotten mildly populer over the last couple years. It's supposedly a big deconstruction of superhero stuff and I was thinking about reading it.
Do you guys think it's worth my time to start checking it out?
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Heard about it too, wouldn't be too opposed to checking it out. Seconding for an opinion.
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the first half of the story is a game of thrones set in a decaying city while the second half of the story is constant escalation of the stakes. worm is essentially a 'watered down version of marvel comics that have been injected with many of the tones found in watchmen. it's real edge however is that the whole thing is extremly well writen and that it just keep building the whole way through.
it's a must see for any superhero lover and i would recomend it to anyone over the age of 12.
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What do you think about Sherlock Holmes?
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i dont
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He's an unique character, so well constructed that he probably is the most plausible character in literature
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>>7987475
He made fun of previous fictional detectives and Poirot made fun of him. I don't know if it goes on and on though.
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From Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France:
>By this unprincipled facility of changing the state as often, and as much, and in as many ways, as there are floating fancies or fashions, the whole chain and continuity of the commonwealth would be broken. No one generation could link with the other. Men would become little better than the flies of a summer.
What did he mean by "flies of a summer"?
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Rising up in huge but temporary "success" for a short period and then falling, as regularly and as meaninglessly as the years passing by
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>>7987400
Selling paranoia. He scared. Conservatives are timid lot.
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>>7987595
why havent you died yet?
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I know it's fun to make fun of Sam Harris here and he is wrong about a lot of things, but can we at least give him credit for putting Chomsky in his place and showing the public what an establishment charlatan hack he is?
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I hear Harris seriously misunderstood and didn't read Chomsky and assumed what he was saying. The whole thing made Harris look ridiculous.
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I was about to say exactly this. When I read their exchange I got the very strong impression that Harris had absolutely no idea what he was talking about, that this wasn't even his field and he had no worthwhile knowledge on the subject.
I feel like Chomsky could have said as much to him, but since ol' Noam is a pretty nice dude he let him down gently.
This actually makes me want to see Sam Harris engage Zizek. That would be a spectacular shitshow.
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I don't think we'd learn anything, but it would hilarious to watch those guys clash.
Hi /lit/, I have a question about a psychological phenomenon I've been experiencing my whole life, but I've never heard anyone talk about. It's a category of feelings, but I don't know the word for it. The closest thing would be nostalgia. Think about the way that nostalgia can condense an entire year, if not more, into just a single moment, or a collection of moments. Those moments hold the entire context of the year: the atmosphere, the characters, the feelings, etc, and it all expresses itself as a single kind of feeling inside your mind. And then different periods of your life have the same category of feeling, but they all are represented as different flavors. For a while, I would call them "flavors of nostalgia," for lack of a better term.
But, it occurs to me that I can have these feelings about things I haven't personally experienced. I have an entire collection of them inherited from books, movies, dreams, stories, pictures, etc. As I've grown older, it's become easier to "collect" these feelings from different works of art, and by now I could probably name a hundred unique "flavors". Obviously, nostalgia isn't the proper term, because you can't feel nostalgia for something you haven't experienced, and anyway, nostalgia also has a tendency to be used towards trivial things, like good periods of time in your life.
Is there any name for this phenomena? Does anybody else experience it the way I've described it here? Why does nobody talk about this sort of experience? Do most people just see it as trivial?
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I think you would really enjoy My Struggle by Karl Ove Knaugaard
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Different parts of your life are associated with different feelings. It seems like the potential feeling you could have are endless, and if you live your life in a routine kind of way, you stop feeling new things.
You're very sentimental about this.
Not sure why it even would be described or pointed out like that. But then again why not. It reminds me of a monologue in the movie "Her" btw.
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might want to look into the phenomenology of syntesthesia or something similar
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What is your favorite Lovey Banh book? Mine is "And Read Korean Don't Touch My Dick: 6900 private PRISON MAKING 2.7 BILLION EACH (next door never send us a car)"
http://www.amazon.com/Lovey-Banh/e/B00MSC83ZW/
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Honestly, 10,000 Ants on My Underwear is my favorite book my her, and the $999 price is a BARGAIN!
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I'd always suspected Burroughs couldn't really have died
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>Probably the second or third best book I've read about a woman that has a fly in her vagine, but worth a read.
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Could the future of my brother Nietzsche be different regarding his works if Salomé paid attention to him instead of fleeing with the other guy?
I kinda feel bad for the guy to be honest, he was a cool dude and drowned in bitterness after that happened
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b-but then no rilke
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>>7987251
That guy would have been the same without her.
Nietzsche instead couldn't get over it
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>>7987288
He wouldn't even be Rainier, he'd probably have some faggot name like Marie.
Nietzsche was over it; you've read less of him than the apocryphal ponyfaggots have.
>-- Just one moment.
>-- Yes, sir, Stephen said, turning back at the gate.
>Mr Deasy halted, breathing hard and swallowing his breath.
>-- I just wanted to say, he said. Ireland, they say, has the honour of being the only country which never persecuted the jews. Do you know that? No. And do you know why?
>He frowned sternly on the bright air.
>-- Why, sir? Stephen asked, beginning to smile.
>-- Because she never let them in, Mr Deasy said solemnly.
>A coughball of laughter leaped from his throat dragging after it a rattling chain of phlegm. He turned back quickly, coughing, laughing, his lifted arms waving to the air.
>-- She never let them in, he cried again through his laughter as he stamped on gaitered feet over the gravel of the path. That's why.
>On his wise shoulders through the checkerwork of leaves the sun flung spangles, dancing coins.
Just marathoned Chapter 2 and dropped this book like a hot sack of shit. This isn't redpilled. Mr. Deasy did nothing wrong. He's just looking out for his hard-earned money. DEDALUS IS JUST A JEALOUS PUNK ASS BITCHokay seriously though, why is it so many great works of literature feel they have to sound off about der jude? even in tons of novels before 1945. whether they were for or against them, they still thought they had to get their 2 cents in. it's almost as though to be considered literature you had to say something about the jews, even though some surprisingly anti-jew sentiments run in some of the works still considered to be in the modern canon.
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Ulysses is pretty much all about der jude
Leopold Bloom is the son of a Hungarian Jew immigrant to Ireland.
He's been involved in shady money schemes and getscuckholded
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It's like how a story taking place in 2016 will almost certainly mention Trump.
The Jews were widely disliked at the time and whether or not you followed the sentiment, you still encountered it in weekly life.
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Because Joyce saw tons of casual anti-semitism in Irish culture and felt that it was misplaced. He was antisemitic in his youth too and felt bad.
I don't think that part is actually particular to jews though honestly, it's just prejudice in general. The joke of Deasy's joke is that 2 chapters later a jew in Ireland becomes the main character. Deasy is an idiot.
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Damn, this is so good! Do you know these books?
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>genre fiction
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>>7987188
Lel I hope your trolling. This shit is unartistic, unoriginal, and intellectually empty.
Genre fiction is shit that literally anyone can write given mildly above average intelligence and creative ability and enough training. Its just plot driven bullshit. Nothing to separate it from any other book with an "exciting" plot. Real literature speaks to the soul. Its about emotional expression and catharsis, existential exploration, and commentary on the place of man in human society and the natural world.
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>an insect