what was the book you've read the most pages of in a single day, and how many was it
pic related, 450
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>>7592274
I read about 120 pages of Anna Karenina the other day. A productive day for me. 450 though? I can't even imagine. That's pretty incredible. How long did it take you? I'd say 120 pages took me well over 3 hours but probably under 4.
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>>7592340
well, monte cristo is bit easier than anna karenina, but still, it took me full day, never felt like a chore though
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>>7592436
Same, OP. Knocked that masterpiece out in like 3 days. I did take some adderall, but I didn't need it, Monte Cristo is one of the most fun reads ever.
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Hello /lit/, since you (or /sci/) are considered the genius tier of 4chins, I bring my question to you.
What is the most up to date philosophical equivalent of Newton's (or Whitehead/Russel's) Principia? I'm looking to read THE book on philosophy no matter how long it takes me, but I'm not familiar with any modern philosophers. Bonus if it involves mathematics/science, but I'm looking for something along the lines of the ultimate book of knowledge avaialble to modern man.
>i'll ask /sci/ too to avoid bias
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>>7591835
READ THE STICKY
START WITH THE GREEKS
DEVELOP YOUR OPINION
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>>7591835
SWTG
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Let's have a thread about worthwhile contemporary poetry, maybe without the useless slam-poetry bashing that happens every fucking time. Rec stuff you enjoyed and found beautiful.
I personally adored Anne Carson's Autobiography of Red and Meyer's Beowulf - both of which you can find online without any difficulty. Does anyone else love retelling of ancient tales/myths/narrations? Do you have any suggestion?
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>personally adored
Ugh. You make me sick. Sage. Hidden.
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>>7589286
I wanted to rant at you but it'd be quite useless. Sorry for not being a native English speaker and not adding three or four layers of irony to my enjoyment of a poem, I guess.
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i greatly enjoyed Autobiography of Red. I wasn't expecting to enjoy it so much. it was assigned reading for a class I took on Ovid's Metamorphoses. very heartbreaking book
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yo /lit/ are there any good living writers?
everything I have ever read has been written by a dead man and it makes me sad
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Dead authors aren't actually good. We only say they are out of fear of being haunted.
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me
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>>7588406
link your stuff
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What are some of Wodehouse's best? Maybe some english anons can help me out. He doesnt seem to get much attention in America
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Idk I've only read a Jeeves andthology and short story anthology. Following this thread as I absolutely love his tone and humor
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Hey /lit/, I need the title of a book. It is about a colony on Venus where it only stops raining once every 3 years. In the colonies school, there is 1 girl who claims to have seen the sun, but none of the other students believe her description of it. Then the rain stops one day, but they lock her in closet while it happens. I read it one day when I was in the library, but I can't remember the title. I think it was written by Ray Bradbury. If you could give me ANY information about it, I would be most thankful. Thanks!
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>>7592591
You sure it wasn't mars?
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Ray Bradbury somthing shit.
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>>7592609
ALL summer in a day?
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What does /lit/ think of The Establishment?
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You gotta be a wee bit sheltered if you thought chavs didn't exist desu
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>>7592425
fucking gay desu
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>>7592425
>two threads at once
Come on reddit, keep it in your pants.
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where to start with georges bataille?
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>>7591382
I haven't yet but I'll be starting with Eroticism: Death and Sensuality, which seems to be his main work. Jurgen Habermas writes a good essay on him.
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>>7591569
Habermas essay?
That's a good starting place though. Or his essays in evil and Literature. Reading the story of the Eye is worth it and its like super short.
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Lord Auch
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So where's the /lit/ archive?
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Testing to see if Im still banned from lit
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Archive breaks sometimes. Might be back eventually.
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>>7592872
The ban screen should tell you if you're not banned any more.
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Hey guys, out of pure curiosity, let's say you're single-minded enough to read all of a certain author's oeuvre, plus his biography: will you start with the biography, then go on with his actual works, or do it backwards?
I, for one, try to read the biography up to the point where he wrote a book, then I'll read that book, before going back to the biography, up to the next book, rinse and repeat until I'm done.
Pic more or less related, I'm just hitting the Hamsun for now (hitherto he's been my favorite litterator)
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Depends really, I'd probably read a few of their works, then read a biography once I'm more interested.
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I read a novel or whatever it is that they are writing and then check their biographies if the said work I read interests me.
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Who was the greater author? Shakespeare or Robert Burns?
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/14209134.Shakespeare_and_Burns__two_literary_giants_to_be_compared_and_contrasted_at_special_conference/
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Is this a serious question?
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I'm desperate /lit/. I've been trying to remember the name of one book since 5th grade (College Freshman now). I have spent many nights since 7th grade trying to find it, the cover art is burned into my head but I just can't make the connection. If anyone is able to help, you will be in my gratitude.
>The book was black. Small dimensions.
>Cover art depicts a boy, possibly curled up and possibly holding something.
>White art on black background
>There is a red sun
>He is part of some kind of tribe/nomads
>His mother has gone missing, it's his internal conflict
>They live in a camp with walls
>Something is wrong, something about the sun consuming the world
I can only say thank you now. It has been utter hell racking my brain for a clue. I don't even care if it was shit, I just know it connected with me.
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>>7592260
5th grade, you say?
Probably Das Kapital by mentally ill Karl Marx.
That's what they're trying to teach kids these days, and its babbies first political interest. When you grow up a bit youll realize capitalism is great for you
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OP here, I found it. Shadow of the red moon.
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I first heard about this book in 2012 when my Mom had told me about it, but I haven't been interested to read it til now.
Should I read it?
and, Is it any good?
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Yes
Yes
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It's shit. Read Brave New world.
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>>7591612
Better yet, read them both
I'm thinking of reading this, but there are few obstacles in my way (apart from book's lenght) for me to finish it. In my first language only the first four volumes have been translated with no sight of the rest of the translation on the horizon, and even though my english is good enough to browse dank memes and read something that's not too difficult like Murakami or Steinbeck, Proust might be too hard for me.
Should I just read the first four anyway, or maybe it's not worth starting? How much would I be missing?
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>>7590321
Just read.
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Its not really a plot based book. You could read the first 100 pages and take a lot from it.
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>>7590468
>it's really not a plot based book
Said the pleb that hasn't read past half of volume 1
Tell me how there is no plot in vol. 5 -6
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Call your friends, call yourfamily, The Tunnel has made its appearance on the interwebs.
I read this book a couple of months back and I was taken completely aback by it. It's got more text gimmics than you could count (and was published 5 years before Mark Meme Danielewski's House of Leaves), an almost infinite amount of limericks about a promiscuous nun, and a plot which is as gripping as it is hard to follow.
I borrowed it from the local library and scanned it because 1. more people should read it and 2. I know all of you fags are too lazy to do it.
DL: https://mega.nz/#!QRcWXAqL!kWChg_EOaJdM4bFnxg-z9GmP0dIu0f_MMI-IZgfs12g
It's a 70MB pdf file, already compressed from a 400MB original. If anyone complains about the size, I'll have to make crude yo momma jokes and tell them
>Year of our Lord 2016
>Complaining about file size
Happy reading, /lit/.
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>>7584623
i've got an epub that's like 1kb
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>>7584629
>epub
>getting the text and fonts right
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>>7584635
>text and fonts right
secondary concerns for lit, no?