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mostly /v/irgin, how do i get into greek philosophy, what is a captivating book to start with?
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Start here:
http://www.theosofie.be/A_PDF/Plato_Complete_Works.pdf
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Heraclitus is the best place to start with Greek philosophy and he's quite captivating
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Go see the St John's college curriculum.
Are there any books discussing the natural equality of man? It doesn't matter if the book's for, or against it.
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>>7744431
might as well go right to the source.
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A Modern Utopia - H.G. Wells
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>>7744440
More like this please, but I'm more interested to read about arguments against equality
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Is Dream Story a good book?
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Can you read it to me?
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What did /lit/ think about this book?
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Pretty sad when he killed himself
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Does it have a Manami-like character?
I think it's interesting that incest books make it a given that everyone sort of probably hates incest, but there's rarely a vocal, balls to the wall, "Incest is completely fucking degenerate and I'm here to stop it" character.
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Is deconstruction a legitimate method of literary criticism?
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>>7744349
No. State and consider the antithesis, stop there.
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>deconstruction
>legitimate for anything
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>>7744349
yea actually
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I recently finished reading Dune. I kept hearing about it as being a classic book with a huge fan following. "The lord of the rings of the sci fi genre" I read...
I was hugely disappointed. I feel the world and story line could have been great, and maybe that's what people like, but the book itself didn't seem very well written. The storytelling seemed really rushed, especially by the end, like the author just got bored of writing at some point. It felt like half the book was leading up to this great battle, then it was over in a few pages and the end... I wanted to like it but just didn't.
Also decided to watch the movie after because why not. One of the worst piece of shit book to movie adaptations I've seen to date. That's a different rant though.
What does /lit/ think of Dune? Am I missing something about it?
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My favorite books series.
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Honestly, Herbert did rush the ending. So much action in something like five pages and it ends with... nothing, really. But Dune Messiah does a great job of wrapping up Paul's story and it's something like a third the length of Dune. It's worth reading if only so you can get a sense of closure. I personally think Messiah has much better pacing - I bet it was originally supposed to be a sort of 'Book 4' or something.
Children of Dune is decent but only worth reading if you intend to get to God Emperor, which is either the best or worst of the series depending on who you talk to. I say it's the best. Up to you to keep reading, though.
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>>7744370
I think dune messiah was the best. How do mark spoilers if I'm replying to somebody?
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Is it any good?
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>African author
Of course not.
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>>7744316
Pretty much this
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>>7744313
The movie was pretty good
Not really amazing or anything but it was beautifully shot
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What are some poems that are experimental in the way that they're put together or formatted?
E.g. different colored ink/text, backwards, upside down, whatever
Does anyone know of poems that use different colored ink/text interestingly?
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No that's gay
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>>7744295
>thinking new art is gay
go to bed granpa
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Not poetry, but House of Leaves did this.
I rather liked it.
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Are we going to have a 2016 "top 100 books of all time" poll?
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>>7744176
Probably not in February though.
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>>7744176
Until december.
Probably.
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/lit/ 2016 BOOK POWER RANKINGS
1. The Bible
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9001. Infinite Jest
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>that that
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>had had
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>Jar Jar
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>Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo
Thoughts?
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Thoughts
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It's a really cool book
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Really enjoyed it. The narrator switches were both interesting and effective storytelling tools. It also had a lot of nuanced symbolism and interplay between the characters.
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Hey/lit/ lets rate each other's aphorisms.
I'll start.
Maturity is the slow process by which who you want to be and who you ought to be converge to become the same thing.
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Maturity isn't a process though. It would have to be maturation.
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>>7744118
Ah true. Fair criticism.
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What does everyone here think about Steve Alten's work? He is my favorite author. I love his Meg Series and I will reread it all before the next book comes out.
>megalodons being badass giant sharks
Whats not to love?
Also the Loch is pretty cool, One day ill read Vostok, I have it on my kindle I just haven't gotten a chance.
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>purchased some stuff from his site recently
>Have a chance to be in his next meg book and if enough sales immortalized forever in his current meg book thats releasing soon
>purchased during a special tiime and will get a signed copy of his book.
Truly I have won this round of life
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The quality of photoshopping and inconsistent resolutions of the source images they used for that cover bothers me.
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If William H. Gass and Gene Wolfe are the new memes (in place of Pynchon and Joyce respectively, obviously), who is the new DFW?
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>>7744054
Yuri A. Kunt
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OP I'm pretty sure this anon is calling you a cunt.
Comment?
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Zadie Smith
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>Dostoevsky, Fyodor. Dislike him. A cheap sensationalist, clumsy and vulgar. A prophet, a claptrap journalist and a slapdash comedian. Some of his scenes are extraordinarily amusing. Nobody takes his reactionary journalism seriously.
Christ, I knew Wallace was a hack but this ridiculous. No discernible talent is right.
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Graham Greene said that.
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>>7744049
Pretty sure it was Joyce
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>>7744045
my dad sent me a link to this article and i had the exact same response: http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2016/02/what-pundits-dont-get-about-trump.html