Show me your e-books
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>>7666767
I read some books too in iBooks on my phone but mostly poetry and shorter works.
But it sort of trivializes my reading for some reason. I remember my books when they're physical copies
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What is the point of this thread?
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Are their books generally frowned upon by /lit/? Why? I went to the local bookstore and there were many of classics available for relatively cheap, the only thing that prevented me from buying some was because I thought I read on /lit/ that Penguin's translations are shit.
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Penguin is a good birde, /lit/ is just overreacting
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Give me an adequate answer goddammit /lit!
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They do tend to go cheaper, but some do commission new and improved translations. But you shouldn't be reading translations to begin with, or had you forgotten that?
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alright you janitor shit you have been deleting some really good threads and the ones you've been making have been garbage
how about you lick the diarrhea from your mom's nostrils and keep your hands off my goddamn board
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NO MODS NO MASTERS
NO MODS NO MASTERS
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>>7665800
Best thread in catalog
Nice dubs
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Beta uprising? /lit/ seems to be filled with robots lately.
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best german-language novels 2016-02-06 03:50:26 Post No.7665635
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best german-language novels
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what are the best german-language novels? my vote would be for jakob von gunten, the castle, radetsky march, and effi briest
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castle and those stories of mister keuner by Brecht.
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Das Siebte Kreuz, Berlin Alexanderplatz, Mann Ohne Eigenschaften, Buddenbrooks
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Faust
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What the fuck was this book about?I didnt understand shit.Did gregor actually die or did he return to being human again?Why has he turned into bug in the first place?Overall, what was this book telling?
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he didn't fit in and he was made to fit in in the end.
fuck the plot.
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What the book was about is open to interpretation and everyone can have an opinion on it, like with most literature. There's not correct answer. That's the good thing about books, make you think.
One perspective that I enjoy is that it's a critic on the way society treats the mentally ill and how those illnesses affect the person itself.
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It doesn't matter why he turned into an insect. What matters is that the book shows how quickly those close to you can turn against you. It's a reflection of guilt.
Hello /lit/, I'm looking for an introduction to english poetry, something that covers history of english language and poets, explains prosody in english poetry, and include some poems as sample and explain the archaic form of words.
Thanks in advance.
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Norton and Oxford both have pretty solid historical anthologies like what you're looking for.
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I've written loads of poems about what I imagine her excrement and urine smell like
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>>7667406
What should I search for?
This year's prize was given to Sarah Howe and her collection, "Loop of Jade".
Do you guys think one of the other poets would have been likely to win? I was personally banking on Les Murray.
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Her poetry (at least what I've been able to read online) doesn't seem very interesting at all, but she is very attractive and member of an ethnic minority.
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>it's a "minority woman undeservedly wins a cultural prize" episode
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>she is very attractive
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I have a week to write a short story for my literature course.
Any ideas, /lit/?
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write about having to ask fat pseudo-intellectuals from a bengalese shari weaving forum for ideas
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https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/
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You should be bursting with ideas my dude. Cmon...
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Is this truly that good, or is just another meme like IJ?
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>>7666443
Like all of the books /lit/ recommends, its pretentious trash
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I shit you not, this phrase is used:
I camelike an ad in the mail.
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>>7666443
It is truly good. Don't listen to anyone who says otherwise because they either didn't understand it or didn't read it. I'd give it a little over 20 years until it's recognized as one of the most important works of literature ever written.
>>7666554
Please actually read it before you spout shit about it.
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Bought some random old penguin classics copy of Crime and Punishment for 2 dollars, the magarshack translation. Is the translation good or should I just get a p&v or something similar
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>>7664913
mcduff is best but magarshack isn't bad either
i do not personally like p&v
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>>7664913
learn russian
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put my p in her v in the magyar shack
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Swedish students got mandatory feminist book 2016-02-05 16:40:25 Post No.7663842
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Swedish students got mandatory feminist book
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All of us students in 2nd-grade Gymnasium (me included), as in students who are 17-18 years of age got a specific book called "Alla borde vara feminister" [We should all be feminists]
It's originally a TED-talk that got adapted into a short 55-page book. Written by Nigerian feminist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and was actually a good read. I genuinely thought it was an amazing piece of literatture and while it didn't reflect on the world as a whole, but mostly nigerian or other less equal nations' equality, it was still very thought-provoking. I recommend picking it up if you find it.
And what are your thoughts on a feminist book becoming a mandatory read for us students?
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De e bra
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Every Swedish schoolgirl should be deflowered by Syrian refugees as part of the integration process
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>>7663842
Jag hatar att vårat land är som det är just nu. Allt är fel och ingen kan fixa det.
Låt elden stiga.
I have a master's degree from one of the best universities in the US. I have devoured literature all my life. I am a successful published author myself. Yet, I find Ulysses to be unreadable gibberish. After a few pages, my eyes glaze over. What is it about? Where is the plot? Where is the dramatic arc? Why does Joyce get to make up his own language? Why is Ulysses a classic and the very similar Finnegan's Wake a bust? They are both nonsense. It's time to put this charade into the dustbin of literature and focus on books that actually make sense.
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u r a pleb ,
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Pleb.
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>best universities in the US
There's your problem, OP. You hail from the laughingstock of the world, and in the kingdom of the blind, the guy who teaches about the color "red" is king.
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How does one become smarter, /lit/?
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If you have to ask...
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By challenging your present problem-solving skills.
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Observe people you think are smart. Act like them. When it starts to feel natural, adjust your assessment of people's intelligence based on your newly molded by attitude outlook. Repeat until satisfied. Serve cold.
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Is there a book that the entirety of /lit/ agrees on as being: great, without flaws, literally GOAT, etc.?
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Qur'an
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Im reading moby dick, but im finding it a bit slow at the beginning.
Did you feel the same way while reading it?
I also have to add i lost a bit of my reading routine or however you call the frequency of your reading times due to exams and vacations
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Moby Dick is incredible but I think everyone would agree that the chapters that consist entirely of inaccurate whale information are a flaw
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Dyslexia general I guess
Anyone else here have dyslexia, it makes reading difficult but i personally find that it makes books more rewarding
Every time I see the word rap, it looks like rape so I get laughed at by people at my lit. program
Last book I read was atlas shrugged but I never finished cause my brain muddled the page up...might get back into it
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>atlas shrugged
wew
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>>7658573
I can barely read at all, I usually use audio books or audio to text and I type everything
It's one of the hardest books I've actually read like with letters and shit
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>>7658577
I don't think you should feel bad for dropping Atlas Shrugged most people think it's a pretty terrible book