Archived threads in /lit/ - Literature - 4269. page

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post em

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What is the best kind of book to read on public transport?

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How many books have you read?
Do you alternate between fiction and nonfiction like an autodidact ought?
How often do you write?
What do you write with/on?

Spill the beans, /lit/.

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Isn't it possible that some of the time travelling characters have actually read the book?

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Just one more day, my friends.

One more day before a meme gets a new face.

Starting tomorrow, this is the cover of Infinite Jest.

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How do I understand the Iliad /lit/?

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>"[Slam poetry] isn’t even silly; it is the death of art."
-Harold Bloom

Is he right?

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Did I get memed into buying a Kindle? I've downloaded a dozen books from Amazon's own store and half of them aren't even scanned properly or proofread for basic issues. Calibre never creates decent files for me on any setting.

After conversion, the line breaks are everywhere, mostly mid-sentence. The page breaking is even worse. I have spent hours trying to find a decent version of even one single desired book and get it to format correctly.

Money is really not an issue for me, I would pay happily $20-30+ for working ebooks from a reliable source, there just isn't one. How is this any easier or more convenient than a real book? Paper books always work, you can obtain any edition or translation, they look great on a shelf, feel good in your hands, you can carry them anywhere and they never need to charge.

Fuck ebooks.

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Why did he shoot the fucking arab?

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ITT: We create /lit/ top 100 non-fiction books

Post your top three non-fiction books.

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>be me
>english major
>live in a suite with three koreans
>all stem majors
>early afternoon
>reading a novel in the common room
>one of the koreans comes home
>does a double take
>smiles
>"you're reading a book???"
>smile guiltily
>"yeah, i guess"
>laughs heartily and shakes his head
>goes in his room and shuts the door

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Anyone read books on math? I need recommendations.

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I'm disappointed that David Foster Wallace is treated like such a joke around here, because I figure most people on 4chan are the same, and I also figure I'm like most people on 4chan, and he's quickly becoming a bit of a hero to me. Ever since I became shackled to my computer and stopped interacting with anyone outside of my mom and brother, and even when I do that it's mostly in a kind of baby talk that we kept up with after we grew out of childhood as a joke and has now become some kind of pre-post meta-apathetic "ironic" "joke", I've steadily felt worse and worse, and only in the last few months have I begun to put my finger on what issues are causing me to feel like that. When I found DFW, it's like my prayers were answered: the more of his work I read and the more interviews I listened to, the more my eyes were opened. Irony, sincerity, entertainment, the information age, depression, fear, boredom and why the society we were raised/are in made/makes us think that's so scary; everything that's been gnawing at the back of my mind for years and I didn't even know it, presented and explained and unpacked. Honestly, if I could bring back anyone I wanted to from the dead and talk to them for 15 minutes, DFW would be in second place right behind my father, and a strong second. I don't want this to seem like some crazy religious deal: I get that he was a goofy, screwed up son of a bitch who ended up offing himself, but some people take the jokes too far, and it just makes me sad sometimes.