Just finished this. I'm blown away by how complex the novel is and yet how fun it is to read.
General V. discussion, I guess. What was everyone's favorite chapter?
I read V. as sort of symbolic of a mechanized degradation in the west. She was losing her humanity throughout the novel (being a cyborg in the end) and the situations she was in became more and more barbaric, arguably. Basically saying technological advancements are making us lose our humanity. Pretty obvious stuff, right?
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>>7542871
Its on my shelf right now, and I haven't read it.
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>>7542922
Give it a read my man
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V was good but it was almost 10 years ago that I read it. I should read it again.
Recently finished Mason and Dixon and I would have say I consider my favorite novel. Really think it's Pynchon's magnum opus.
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Any good reads with transgender protagonists? 2016-01-05 03:32:20 Post No.7542546
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Looking for something new and interesting. Maybe relatable.
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Ovid.
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Orlando by Virginia Wolf is probably your best bet. Also, checking wikipedia. /lit/ may have an official trap but we still share some audience with /pol/
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write a love letter to your muse
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>>7533710
Which muse is that? Image search isn't helping me.
(Yes, I've just asked sauce on a Hellenic demigod)
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I fucked up and now I fill up notebooks writing letters to you. Doing that gets me through the worst nights. I hope that you'll get to read them if anything happens to me.
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>>7533998
I don't think it would even be a particular one, if it were meant to be a literal muse in the first place.
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What are the most depressive books you have ever read /lit/?
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Depressing? Bloke chills on a beach and starches a nigga. That be some gangster as shit, cuz. Ain't nuthin' to be 'fraid of, I TELL YA WAHT BOBBY.
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>>7545536
If you think Camus is depressing, you don't understand Camus.
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Not depressive but definetly made me feel sad
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Let's be frank with each other, /lit/. 2016-01-06 04:44:15 Post No.7547643
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Let's be frank with each other, /lit/.
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This book is not very good. It is entirely too long, and the digressions it lapses into for dozens of pages are neither interesting nor engaging. The problem of "the Entertainment" thoroughly lacks any compelling feature. The characters are bland.
In short, it's boring, and unlike other books that might be boring, Wallace's prose isn't engaging enough to generate interest.
Wallace was a pretty good writer, but this book is a dud. His real genius comes out in his nonfiction, and to a lesser degree, his short stories. We all need to admit this to ourselves and we'll be better off.
It's a part of growing up, or should be. It's like realizing Hemingway is actually a shit novelist, and his real brilliance is in his short stories. Sooner or later it's a fact every reader must face.
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le no discernible talent face
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Yeah I thought this book was severely overrated.
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Why is Nihilism so frowned upon by most people?
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It's not frowned upon as long as you have intelligence and a wicked sense of humor to supplement it
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either they think its a phase for edgelords
or they don't like to confront a nihilistic perspective
little do they know, the passive objective maturity they think they cultivate is also a phase.
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One needs the proper attitude in order to fully appreciate what it entails
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My mother just got diagnosed with uterine cancer and has one year to live. During this time I need to act as a beacon of optimism, show no weakness around her and also get a gf so she can die knowing her son is heterosexual and not a virgin. I also need to keep up with college because if I get kicked out she'll no doubt blame her illness and by extension herself.
What are some books that will help me cope with this? Literature, poetry, philosophy. I need anything I can to help me transform into the man I now so desperately need to be.
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>>7546240
I dont think that what you need to do right now in order to achieve those goals is to read the recommendations from dumbfucks on the internet.
>Kicked from college
Go read your college notes and study whatever the fuck you are studying
>getting a gf
Well go out there with friends or some shit like that
>beacon of optimism
Care for your mother, make her life enjoyable.
The less she needs is some dumb autist of a son. So just behave and care for her.
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>>7546240
No way! Op, today I lied about my mother having cancer in order to get out of something. I was worried karma would make her sick for reals, but it seems your mum took the bullet instead- cheers!
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>>7546268
Basically I need some books I can pour my negativity into, and also some books that will teach me to be less emotional. Maybe some that deal with coping with death.
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http://www.esquire.com/lifestyle/news/g2544/80-books-every-person-should-read/?slide=77
>contributor to buzzfeed
>black woman
>pick 9 books by women (out of 10), 7 of whom are black
>yfw if a white male did this he'd be a RACIST BIGOT
>"What can we say? We messed up. Our list of "80 Books Every Man Should Read," published several years ago, was rightfully called out for its lack of diversity in both authors and titles."
kek'd heartily
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Fuck you I shouldn't read anything.
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>>7545410
>should
Or else what?
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>>7545410
Dismantling the patriarchy is exhausting. You sheep get spoonfed and then think you invented taste. Shed your privilege and see the world for what it is.
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ITT: Literary one-liners that are burned into your memory forever
>He says that he will never die.
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Wouldn't it be pretty to think so?
yes I said yes I will yes
aujourd'hui maman est morte
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>To what base uses we may return, Horatio.
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She had been anally and vaginally raped.
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Why are women so much more literary than men?
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>YA fiction
>literary
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>>7544611
They're just more intelligent. All the greatest literary works in history were written by women.
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>>7544611
They're all reading different books, and they don't have nearly enough alcohol. Not literary/10.
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So /lit/, how's the novel comming along?
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i gave up
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I'm an incompetent writer and had no business ever trying. I don't know how to express what I want to say or how to write decent prose.
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how can you not write prose? Its literally word diarrhea. just spew out meaningless redundant bullshit and BAM amazing prose. Its bottom of the barrel writing.
Even bad prose deserves an award for being good in its own right Just for being bad prose. because again, all prose is bad.
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Oh shit it just arrived.
So, incoming masterpiece or /lit/ meme of the year?
I hope you elitist jerks can at least write well.
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>>7540190
Read the first page online then flicked to the 100 and something page.
It's FULL OF QUOTATIONS!!!
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>>7540190
Is it finally on sale somewhere?
Link?
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>>7540242
I literally just Googled it. And I'm not helping you.
I'm growing more interested. Might blow some Xmas money on this. Was Totalitarianism in A Tundra any good? Or am I in for some meme shit?
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ways books fucked over your life 2016-01-04 06:53:28 Post No.7539081
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>diagnosed autistic as a child
>read a lot of scifi and fantasy from the library
>developed an obsessive fixation on dune
>decided that LSD was the closest approximation to melange
>decided to attempt to become Paul Atreides
>decided to major in philosophy and do tons of acid in college
>spent four years in a psychedelic schizo coma
>now have a useless degree and a brain too fried for grad school
>currently NEET, formerly barista but it didn't pay enough
How have books fucked over your life?
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>>spent four years in a psychedelic schizo coma
well, what was that like?
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>>7539105
yeah please elaborate that sounds raw as fuck my guy
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If you actually got enough real LSD to stay lit for four years, I'm jealous and would guess that you went to Brown. That was pretty stupid though. I think very occasional moderate trips on shrooms (like annually) can be productive if your expectations are in the right place. Sorry about your brain.
They helped make me reflective so that I couldn't take my own will to power seriously. Fortunately I still make good money, but I could have been so much more ambitious if I didn't overthink such things.
Book holding thread.
What is your preferred hand configuration.
In b4
>muh kindle
>muh hardback
Paper back master race
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Smoking while reading master race.
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>>7535009
Like yours, but I'm a leftie and hence hold the book with my left hand. Right hand is in contact with the book too, though, as my index finger will be on the bottom right ready to turn to next page while my right hand thumb is resting on the bottom of the page and my fuck-finger is supporting the book so it's not only my left hand
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>>7535018
That is, my index finger will be always-already on the next page.
Regards,
a real man
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I know you fucks can read, but can you write? Tell us a little about what youre writing. Why aren't you writing about the rise of communism? r8 without h8 is appreciated
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>>7529358
I wrote this.
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>>7529358
I've written maybe four things, all of them awful, two of them NaNoWriMo attempts.
I wrote a short story about Socrates vs the Grand Inquisitor.
I wrote a transcription of a series of four dreams I had about an evil interdimensional-wandering Scythian Enaree.
I wrote a novella about a complete idiot who joins an anarchist club after his lover is murdered by police, falls out with them, and somehow winds up involved in intrigue about a sentient AI just by virtue of bumbling through life randomly.
I wrote a novella about a transsexual psychotic recovering terrorist aspirant who believes they have a dragon as a companion spirit or something. It was written as a memoir.
Not currently writing anything except this post. I need to read a lot more before I try my hand at writing again I think.
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>>7529381
woah fucking nice one.