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My Struggle by Guy Fieri

>>7823646
does steppenwolf count as a coming of age novel?

also, the sorrows of young werther fo sho

>>7823646
catcher in the rye by fuck you

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This one is about a kid who starts a civilization in his back yard to escape the torment of normies

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Here's my favourite Robert Munsch book that isn't "Love you Forever"

I don't remember much about the actual written content but the illustrations are just wild and the exploration of the mythology of Inuit and other circumpolar peoples is really cool

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>>7823633
Mouse dentist debates whether to see a fox patient and what constitutes sufficient grounds to refuse care.

>>7823568
m8 i fully understood anaximander when i was 8, try not to be such a pleb near me

>>7823568
>Is it just me or is it REALLY hard to understand what the fuck the presocratics are saying?

be honest with us are you having trouble understanding their words and ideas or the ideas and words modern philosophers have written and attributed to them?

>>7823801
The words are clear of course, it's just that I don't really see the depth people read into them. Like I read Heraclitus and watched a lecture on youtube about him and while his core points are pretty obvious and accessible without any outside exposition (world is always changing, the process of change is what the world is ultimately made up of, justice is defined by its inverse, generally pessimistic outlook, presages stuff like Stoicism, ect) but yeah, I just don't get how or even why people read so much more into this.

trump is the anti christ

>>7821493

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My life is a tragedy.

>tfw ywn be as homo as op

>>7823510
he's completely right

Film and literature aren't anywhere near analagous. All films are lowest common denominator shit 2 hour long advertisements for this or that and aimed at idiots. Only some books are shit and aimed at idiots. You've seen a film and it's on to the next one and the mountain of bullshit films in the 1.99 display at Walmart grows and grows. They're forgettable, literature is timeless

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Its a guilty pleasure

I'm sorry I only read REAL philosophers like Kant

>>7823532
>REAL philosophers like Kant
Cringe

Just invent a word and explain it as a regular slang in your universe

>>7823440
Saul Goodman.

A 'fixer'?

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>>7823402
Don't know honestly.
Pessoa is as pop as it gets here in Portugal and for some reason everybody and their mother loves him. I had to read him in school because it was mandatory but now I don't anymore because his writing is stale. I also find it shameful that english translations are cheaper than the ones in their original language. As if they weren't already fucking expensive compared to the medium price you pay for a book here. The publishers are jacking off each others cocks with the money now that he's a meme author and sells tons.
That being said, read Jose Saramago

>>7823402

isn't it supposed to be divided like this:

de - sas - sos - sego

?

Shameless bump...

I am but I'm halfway through Plato

>>7823342
>cozy
Isn't he famous for being an obscurantist? Anyone who deals with phenomenology isn't cozy.

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>>7823351
Just look at him wearing the sweater his wife knitted for him. Top cozy!

idk

>>7823339
Thanks for the bump at least?

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>>7823344
nice dubs

my personal experience is that they'll give you shit just because you're trying and showing passion. usually, they don't even read it and make fun of you for being dedicated and serious about something.
further proof: ive been on both sides of the situation and that the exact reason why I made fun of them

>>7823285
May I see it?

do your friends know shit about lit?

reference to the greeks would be cool too! I know a lot of the characters are based on greeks, but my teacher has never mentioned this (seems pretty important to me?)

Fuck off. 'Simple text'. You know jack shit. Don't even know the Greeks. I hope you aren't thinking of doing lit at uni, you waste of space.

There's a Sandman number about it. IT won a Hugo prize, if i remember well.

>>7823274
Quick addition, there exists a German translation in the Insel Bücherei No.567. Also perhaps a Russian translation somewhere in the internet, too.

I'll give the thread a bump, since you guys aren't really responsive, then deleting.

/lit/ is slow as fuck fyi

bump for one of the most interesting questions in the theory of literature

i don't think it's better or worse, it's just a different angle

>>7823077
I think it's better for political works, and worse for aesthetic ones, since in that case the only purpose it serves is to tie the work to the world of gossip, slander, and other social power plays.

>inb4 all works are political

droning politicians who can't abide something existing without using it for power, plz go

My whole life was EXACTLY like that until recently (couldn't put two fucking words together). I honestly think that in my inmost heart I just gave up or the drug damage took its toll.

Just keep practicing. Read "The Elements of Style," it should rub off on you.

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>>7822998

eh just wait for it to pass