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Surely you have to admit that, whilst not literary masterpieces, they're infinitely better than most if not all young adult trash
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>>7639364
Shoo
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>>7639373
But they're at the very least competent, anon!
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>>7639364
they're pretty much average examples that somehow hit the mainstream jackpot.
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What is the literary equivalent of Earthbound? Quirky surreal and able to make someone as embittered as me feel childlike with wonder?
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>>7636683
Good examples off the top of my head:
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,
Dirk Gently,
2001: A Space Odyssey
Big Trouble
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Murakami's weird shit might be what you're looking for, even if he gets shit on around here
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>Japanese Twee
Murakami.
Have any of you read Mira Gonzalez'z work? What do you think of it?
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>>7632495
Go home, Mira.
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Go home Mira.
You're high again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzOiievj9Wk
Are you fellas gonna participate?
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This guy's a fag
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Are Edgar Allan Poes stories worth reading?
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Quantify the worth of reading.
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>>7640677
better for children but they're still entertaining. much better than his shit poetry
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Some are pretty dull, but at least the well-known ones are worth your time, sure.
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I can never remember what happens in the books I read, the main plot turns or even the characters names sometimes. Yet when I read the book again for the 2nd time, it is never the same and I get bored really quickly.
How do I hold information better?
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>>7640538
Just write it down somewhere. Jot down character descriptions and major plot points somewhere.
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>>7640548
Why would you want to do that? There's Wikipedia for that.
OP, you read to live the experience of reading a work of literature, not to remember "what happens" in it. Think about it this way: does knowing the details equal reading a book? No? Then having read it does not imply remembering such details.
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In the Miso Soup - Ryo Murakami
The 120 Days Of Sodom - Marquis de Sade
1984 - George Orwell
The Age of Spiritual Machines - Ray Kurzweil
The Andromeda Strain - Ray Kurzweil
Beyond Good and Evil - Friedrich Nieztsche
Brave New World - Alduos Huxley
The Consumer - Michael Gira
Cows - Mathew Stokoe
Farenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Journey To The End of Night - Louis-Ferdindand Celine
Juiliette - Marquies de Sade
Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom, and Other Writings - Marquise de Sade
Lolita - Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
The Metamorphasis - Franz Kafka
Naked Lunch - William S. Burroughs
No Longer Human - Osamu Kosinski
Notes From Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Painted Bird - Jerzy Kosinski
Stoner - John Williams
Story Of The Eye - Georgies Battaile
This Spoke Zarathustra
Unbroken - Laura Hillenbrand
The Wasp Factory - Iain M. Banks
The Woman In The Dunes - Kobo Abe
The World As Will And Representation - Shopenhauer
I am just trying to get into reading. Anyone know what book I should start with?
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Animal Farm is an easy read.
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Start with the Greeks
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Proceed with the Persians
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Trying to track down a book I read in high school. It was set in the 70's and followed the story of a teenage employee of a country club who's in love with one of the members' daughters. It also turns out her grandfather was a Nazi (something not even she knew).
Anyone heard of this one? I've tried searching and no variation of "70's country club teen romance nazi grandfather" brings anything up.
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im also looking for a book, glad i didnt have to make my own thread. its about a girl, possibly adopted, in her teens. basically she takes care of her abusive grandmother, who at the end turns out to be a ancient egyptian or something (babalonian) something along those lines, and she has been possessing bodies of people forever basically and at the end possess the grandaughter.
its very much like the skeleton key movie. any help would be appriciated
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>>7639309
The book that you are thinking of is the movie Caddyshack.
I'm sort of having a meme but sorta not. Watch Caddyshack and that will go a long way toward scratching your itch.
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Hey /lit/, moron learning English here.
Which sentence is correct? Google Translate says they're equivalent, but I don't think so.
>We both know what need to be done.
>We both know what needs to be done.
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Second one
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Second one
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The first one if you don't want to be a square.
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has anyone else read this book?
I'm about 4/5ths of the way through and I'm not really enjoying it at all . . . every hundred or pages or so it gets exciting but in general i just want to be done with it. I'm almost finished so i might as well go the rest of the way.
has anyone else read it? and if so, what are your thougths?
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>>7639040
It's a lot of fun, very nice in german.
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>>7639040
I loved it. Obviously can't assess the original but the translation was beautifully written. Without wanting to meme, it almost sounds like you're reading for plot or something.
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>>7639040
I found it rather enjoyable, much more than Cat & Mouse at least.
best android app for reading books? I use aldiko because of white pages and esthetics. What about your choice?
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Get a blue light filter
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>>7638474
you should seriously consider suicide.
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>>7638973
Honestly id happily kick your teeth out, you skinny peice of shit.
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Cortázar
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Eddie Murphy
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Cort. Cortázar.
Cort. Cortázar.
Cort. Baltazar.
Baltazar.
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So I'm starting with the greeks, and I bought pic related.
But I'm wondering, because this is poetry, is it supposed to be read in a certain way? Should I read it aloud? I've read that some people consider this translation to be 'stacked prose'. Are there better poetic translations?
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In the intro to that I think it answers your question. I don't know if its true or not though.
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>>7632155
Fagles is the absolute worst translation of the Iliad fyi
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>>7632159
Pleb: Fagles
Normie: Lattimore
Patrician: Fitzgerald
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Can someone explain this author and why I should or shouldn't read him? I tried getting into the naked lunch, I couldn't tell if I was reading the introduction or if they book was really about describing the effects of "junk" and the methods of treating it. The reasons I wanted to read burroughs in the first place, is because he apparently had a lot of influence on the industrial scene, with artists such as throbbing gristle.
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Just read his quotes instead
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He's important. He's influential. Whether you find him enjoyable or not doesn't matter.
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Naked Lunch: read it like you would look at this picture, or like you would listen to mellow-harsh breakcore. Lay down on it and feel where it shakes but you're not getting a tattoo. Hope this helps.
Just ordered this off Amazon for ~6.50. The Last Podcast on the Left recommended it and I've been pretty intrigued by John Wayne Gacy. Does /lit/ have any recommendations for true crime books?
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Oh my goooooooooooood
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>>7640554
In Cold Blood
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>>7640573
What?