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What books should i read if i wanted to explore my angst-filled childhood? I'm talking about feelings like not being good enough, feeling 'behind' in regards to girlfriends and such, feeling an overwhelming burden of responsibility from your parents and so forth.
Any other anons know what I'm talking about? I'm referring to the prepubescent age if you are in doubt.
> pic is my grandfather and my uncle
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Adventures of Huck Finn.
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>>7680441
Which country is that?
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>>7680441
Infinite Jest. I'm not even memeing.
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Did I buy good?
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>Seeking intellectual validation from an online anime board
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sorry, I don't speak Deutschcuck
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>not buying the superior Fischer-edition
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How do you people stay focused when reading? My wanders off after reading one page, after that I have to reread sentences before I finally get what's written.
It's not like like I'm forcing myself to read, I really like reading but It happens with any damn book I read. Quite disheartening desu...
What gives? Any tips?
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>>7680371
Find a D E S I G N A T E D reading spot. All jokes aside, if you have a room at home or a favorite cafe where the only thing you do is read, simply going there will make reading easier and easier as you get more accustomed to it. Take your phone to listen to some background music, but don't take a laptop which can be much more distracting.
And then just read more. It gets easier with time. Also taking notes, whether in book margins, a separate notebook, or both, will force you to interact more actively with the text, and will prevent you from flipping a page if you aren't 100% sure what was written on it.
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>>7680384
This
What sucks for me is I've created my designated reading spot as waiting areas when I have nothing better do between either classes or other activities
It's actually fucked me up since I have trouble sitting down and reading at home
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Going through the same. It's annoying as fuck, might start taking notes like
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Suggested
sup /lit/, what's the difference between sci-fi/fantasy and "speculative fiction"?
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a sense of artistry
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No difference. Typical cunty "I don't like sci Fi fantasy but I'm gonna wrote it anyway" bullshit
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a difference in degree, and not one in kind; as such,w here you draw the line/if you should draw a line is hotly contested and nebulous
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Early fantasy and science fiction took place in times the authors lived in. Why did fantasy become overwhelmingly medieval and science fiction become overwhelmingly thousands of years into the future? Why didn't we get Great Depression fantasy, WWII fantasy, hippie counterculture fantasy, etc.? Why didn't urban fantasy become the most common form of fantasy?
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I'm going to suggest Tolkien as the answer.
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Maybe because people in the pre-modern world already lived in a magic world? Also the pre-modern world was pretty stable and stagnant.
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>>7680267
This.
Fantasy genre has been entwined with escapism since Tolkien. Most of fantasy writers dream of a world without modernity and the problems of today.
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/lit/ humour
But in honor of Homer (Poor blind bastard), and also because this is a literature board and the usual threads are shit: No images
Only text.
Images containing only text are allowed.
B.I. #14 08-96
St Davids PA
‘It’s cost me every sexual relationship I ever had. I don’t know why I do it. I’m not a political person, I don’t consider myself. I’m not one of these America first, read the newspaper, will Buchanan get the nod people. I’ll be doing it with some girl, it doesn’t matter who. It’s when I start to come. That it happens. I’m not a Democrat. I don’t even vote. I freaked out about it one time and called a radio show about it, a doctor on the radio, anonymously, and he diagnosed it as the uncontrolled yelling of involuntary words or phrases, frequently insulting or scatological, which is coprolalia is the official term. Except when I start to come and always start yelling it it’s not insulting, it’s not obscene, it’s always the same thing, and it’s always so weird but I don’t think insulting. I think it’s just weird. And uncontrolled. It’s like it comes out the same way the spooge comes out, it feels like that. I don’t know what it’s about and I can’t help it.’
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‘”Victory for the Forces of Democratic Freedom!” Only way louder. As in really shouting it. Uncontrollably. I’m not even thinking it until it comes out and I hear it. “Victory for the Forces of Democratic Freedom!” Only louder than that: “VICTORY—”‘
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‘Well it totally freaks them out, what do you think? And I just about die of embarrassment. I don’t ever know what to say. What do you say if you just shouted “Victory for the forces of of Democratic Freedom!” right when you came?’
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‘God, now I’m embarrassed as hell.’
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‘But all there is is the once. That what I mean about it costing. I can tell how bad it freaks them out, and I get embarrassed and never call them again. Even if I try to explain. And it’s the ones that’ll act all understanding like they don’t care and it’s OK and they understand and it doesn’t matter that embarrass me the worst, because it’s so fucking weird to yell “Victory for the Forces of Democratic Freedom!” when you’re shooting off that I can always tell they’re totally freaked out and just condescending down to me and pretending they understand, and those are the ones where I actually end up almost getting pissed off and don’t even feel embarrassed not calling them or totally avoiding them, the ones that say “I think I could love you anyway.”‘
—from “Brief Interviews with Hideous Men,” by David Foster Wallace
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I'm going to dump Charlie Kaufman's Kurt Vonnegut parody because it is rather fitting for this thread.
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3/5
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How hard do you think it would be to write a world-class novel in another language?
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English is pretty much the world language so if you want the widest base you go in English.
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>>7680109
Considering it's already insanely hard to write a world-class novel in your native language, I assume writing one in a second language would be even harder.
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>>7680109
Stay away from Jhumpa Lahiri. She is the reason for your "maladies".
Read Nabokov and Beckett.
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anybody else come here from /mu/ cause they got sick of the memes and are desperately hoping they don't suddenly lose interest in books in a couple months
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yup
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/lit/ is going to turn into /mu/ in a few years.
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>>7680081
>tired of memes
>posts meme
Please return to your containment board.
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Are there any books that present themselves as YA or genre fiction but then turn out to be literary?
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No. Best to make book-safes out of all of them.
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book of the new sun
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ITT: Shit /lit/ tricked you into reading
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Blood Meridian, Lolita, The Brothers Karamazov, The Crying of Lot 49, The Stranger, The Fault in our Stars, anything by Harold Bloom
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Quick Greek question;
If I say
Έk πτωχος γίγνεται χρηστον.
My chrèston should be accusative, right?
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>>7679876
Sorry about the lack of accents, I had to write that using the Google Translation pen, and it was too much of a hassle to take the time and add them.
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>>7679883
You can install the Greek language pack on Windows and use the virtual keyboard senpai.
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>>7679888
thanks family
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What does /lit/ think of this book? Is it actually anti-racist?
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>written by a straight cis white male
>anti racist
Surely you infinite jest :{D
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Extraordinarily pro-human.
Don't know much of what to say about racism.
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>>7679859
it's as anti racist as a book in the 1800's could have been
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What does /lit/ think about Meditations? 2016-02-09 21:21:28 Post No.7679833
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What does /lit/ think about Meditations?
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I like it a lot. Some of the advice given is still very useful, especially the passages pertaining to seizing the day, living life to the fullest, and being a man. I sometimes read some verses before doing something I am trepidatious about.
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>>7679833
I got more out of the Tao te ching desu, but it was useful for those of us with generalized anxiety.
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>>7679833
I read it, I honestly don't think there's anything to gain from it that you can't just wikiquote. The only stuff you miss is in no way applicable to you. I'd go as far to say that it's only around because it makes neat quotes for Reddit.
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Well I bought it in February of 2015 after seeing it mentioned in the School of Life video on Stoicsim.
It got ruined by the rain in May of 2015, after I'd finished it. (I carried it around in my backpack to make myself feel better whenever).
After putting it off, I decided to order a new copy in August. I get the book, but don't read it.
I end up giving it to my aunt's close friend, as I saw she needed it more than I did.
She posts quotes from it on Facebook, and messages me with mentions of the book. I guess it's a really powerful book judging by its ability to make people feel better.
I like it a lot.
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Did you read this lit? I'm new to lit criticism and this seemed like a logical place to start.
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>come to lit
>post actual lit criticism
>no one replies
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>BEE
>actual lit criticism
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After this are you going to be moving on to Chuck Palahniuk critical compendiums?
Decided to write some poetry and didn't really know what to do with it. Feel free to critique or contribute your own work
>Today I stared down the blade
>however I stood fierce, it's intent would not fade
>I sat attempting to battle the dark
>but unwary, my life did embark
>the light is gone, my body is weak
>death to end this sorrow, I seek
>I wrote my goodbyes, they were hard and sick
>I watched the clock as it tocked and it ticked
>my heart it is empty, my eyes they won't blink
>with few little words, my life she did sink
>with remorse and fear, I enter the light
>the deed now done, no will no fight
>my blood now free, it dropped to the floor
>I feel the regret, I am no more.
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this has to be bait, right?
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>Greentext is the new poetry.
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>>7679786
I am bleeding sunshine.
I am emptying my veines.
And when I'm done bleeding sunshine
this song will break my chains.
Your gaze completes my being.
But I'll make you gaze in vain.
I illuminate with fiction
the truth darkness cannot explain.
America is flowing,
slowly exiting my veins
I am giddy, cold, and glowing
And this song will break my chains.
The chains of I-I-I-I-I-IDENTITY!
The chains of I-I-I-I-I-IDENTITY!
The chains of I-I-I-I-I-IDENTITY!
(Why don't you want to be around your own people?)