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Post some reading inspo. Just inspo for people who are having trouble finishing a book or finishing their literary works.
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Possibly the worst idea I've ever seen for a thread, good job.
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that op pic is awful
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>>7951252
I think you may be in the wrong place, son.
I think you had better try THAT literature board.
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so you guys don't like the female booktubers? well this is /lits YouTube channel. I reviewed a book. booktube discussion. are there any good ones? why do people watch this stuff? shouldn't they be reading desu. https://youtu.be/dEVX42Pg1xw
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you think this is fucking somethingawful where i want to see your quirky hipster ironic video you fucking queer? do you want me to follow you on your twitter afterward too?
get killed faggot.
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>>7965287
yikes what the fuck is this
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>>7965305
Dont listen to this man Op, you're very clearly an intelligent and well-read fellow who has a lot to offer as a Book tuber. Unlike all of those bitches, who are only interested in increasing their evolutionary fitness, like centipedes or cockroaches.
Maybe in a future video you could show your bare chest? id' like that. Maybe with that nice gray jacket, open so we can see.
Jm2c
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What are you reading right now /lit/?
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>>7964951
ayy lmao
I love science fiction too, anon.
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>>7964951
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>>7965001
bumping
I'm also reading this.
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ITT: books you'll never read
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>>7935728
It's not that difficult and is the epitome of a comfy read.
Ill probably never read a Joseph McElroy novel
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>>7935728
Infinite Jest tbqhwy
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The man without qualities
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>7963174
Marc Aramini getting a Hugo? /lit/ shitposters doing something with their lives
Recommendation Charts:
>Fantasy
Selected: http://i.imgur.com/3v2oXAY.jpg (embed)
General: http://i.imgur.com/igBYngL.jpg (embed)
>Flowchart: http://i.imgur.com/uykqKJn.jpg (embed)
>Sci-Fi
Selected: http://i.imgur.com/A96mTQX.jpg (embed)
General: http://i.imgur.com/r55ODlL.jpg/ http://i.imgur.com/gNTrDmc.jpg (embed)
>Hugo, Puppies, Wolfe, Aramini, Wright, cucks
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HUGO NOMS:
http://midamericon2.org/home/hugo-awards-and-wsfs/2016-hugo-finalists/
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>>7968907
This Marc guy looks like some kid from Jersey Shore lel
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Guys, I seriously need something new to read. I still can't believe I wasted my money on Soldier of Arete when I didn't even like Soldier of the Mist
What's some good asian-inspired fantasy?
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Times you went full ass burger
>be me in class today
>give presentation on Finnegans Wake
>drop the word "postmodern"
>professor says "I always thought postmodern meant flying space ships"
>launch into rambling about difference between modernism and postmodernism
>professor cuts me off: "guess I should have put up my sarcasm sign"
>students laugh
>mfw
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>>7968627
>teachers bday
>suprise party
>there were cupcakes
> one of the girls anounces its for the class
>hungry as fuck
>cut through line
>take two
>"anon"
>...
>"anon you can only have one"
>"sorry, i didnt eat breakfast"
>eat both infront of the class and teacher
this has nothing to do with books its just some dumb shit that happened today
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Hope he failed you, Finnegans Wake is late Modernism
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>>7968627
>be me in
oh wait. i hardly ever leave my house
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what the FUCK is this BULL SHIT
>Alan Moore’s Jerusalem – Only 600,000 Words Long Now
>Recent PR for Alan Moore‘s new novel Jerusalem that I – amongst others – published included details that seem to have come from his previous novel, Voice Of The Fire. Originally I thought this was because Jerusalem was expanding on the themes of the first book, but it seems that it was a slip of the mouse.
>So here’s the actual description of Jerusalem, including its length and publishing format. At one point some suggested it would top a million words, but that has been reduced somewhat…
>Rich and glorious, JERUSALEM is Moore’s most ambitious and best authorial work to date.
>Spirals between memories and tales from Moore’s family history, fantasy elements and historical dramatisations from Northampton’s past.
>Begun in 2008, JERUSALEM has long been speculated on by Moore’s fans and the literati – many have been following the book’s story for years. At over 600,000 words, JERUSALEM puts itself in the Top 10 largest novels in the English language.
>A grandiose tome about his hometown of Northampton, employing an extremely wide variety of styles, including a poem and a play.
>In the half a square mile of decay and demolition that was England’s Saxon capital, eternity is loitering between the firetrap tower blocks. Embedded in the grubby amber of the district’s narrative among its saints, kings, prostitutes, and derelicts a different kind of human time is happening.
>An opulent mythology for those without a pot to piss in, through the labyrinthine streets and pages of JERUSALEM tread ghosts that sing of wealth and poverty; of Africa, and hymns, and our threadbare millennium. They discuss English as a visionary language from John Bunyan to James Joyce, hold forth on the illusion of mortality post-Einstein and insist upon the meanest slum as Blake’s eternal holy city.
>Fierce in its imagining and stupefying in its scope, JERUSALEM is the tale of everything, told from a vanished gutter.
>Will be published in an Hardback and three volume paperback in a slipcase. Published in the USA by Liveright.
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Who cares it's literally less words than Atlas shrugged. Probably about as good too
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This is just like the Watch_Dogs downgrade.
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>called Jerusalem
>set in Northampton
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What would you all recommend as a good starting point for someone just getting into philosophy?
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The God Delusion
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start with anon's diary desu
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>>7969461
start with greeks
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>2014: Marxism
>2015: Reactionary Christian
>2016: Islam
What is next for lit?
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The Marxists are still here, the reactionaries are growing and there are no Muslims at all
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I have not seen a lick of Islam on here.
These days our meme seems to be Gaddis. DFW and Nietzsche are as omnipresent as ever, as well.
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>>7965705
Gassposters are growing in number too, but that's more of a good thing than a bad thing.
Hey /lit/ i had a thread a few months ago about Nietzsche that gained some attention. I'm a 5th year grad student wrapping up my dissertation on Nietzsche.
I have a couple of hours to spare if anyone wants to ask me questions.
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>>7963935
Explain "schwache Moral" and "starke Moral" (weak and strong moral) to me.
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What books did Nietzsche like? I've seen some authors that he liked thrown around a bit but not much into what he actually read of them or liked.
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>>7963956
I'd have to know in what context you've found these terms.
I can tell you about how Nietzsche conceived of morality per se and why he was opposed to it. A distinction would need to be made between an ethos and morality for this to make sense. Before I start, however, I'd want to know what portion[s] of text you're asking me to explain.
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recent purchases
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Hope you read all of Barth's first six books
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>>7961404
whats the point of this
I want to 'get over' philosophy. What are some good endgame philosophers that help one do away with it all?
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lel youre like someone who wants to be a tennis player but instead of starting by buying a racket and then going to train goes to buy a trophy.
you will only understand those "endgame" texts if you know what they are ending.
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>>7961193
Skepticism can help you commit suicide.
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>>7961193
television is the only way desu
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What's the most depressing book you've ever read? I'm talking soul-motherfucking-crushing. The kind where you curl into a ball for days and stop eating because, "what's the point?"
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my diary desu lad
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No Longer Human was the most depressing I ever read, probably.
But the one that made me curl into a ball and think "what's even the point of this" was Molloy
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>>7959673
Stoner
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ITT: Books you will deny you ever read
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Pic unrelated. Love that book.
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I read all 4 twilight books. It was awful
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>>7957956
I've been told that, if I want to be a writer, I should read shitty books as well as good books because it's important to familiarize yourself with what not to do as well. With that in mind, I've given serious consideration to reading the Twilight books, but I have as yet been unable to bring myself to do so.
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What is the most disturbing book you have read?
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The Room - Hubert Selby, Jr.
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Hogg
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Twilight