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Was it rape?
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>>7524906
I have never read the book, but after 4 years in college I can safely say that yes it was almost probably rape.
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>>7524909
"rape"
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I don't know where people got rape from. It could be just as likely it could have been a horrible murder so violent even the narrator, who's been fine with describing all the previous atrocities in the book, couldn't explain it.
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What books should i begin with if i wanted to start learning theology? After the bible of course.
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>>7512487
You don't need any books after the bible. You just have to look in your heart.
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Read a selection of writings from Anselm, Aquinas, and Augustine. Penguin has a selection for Aquinas. Oxford has a selection for Anselm. Augustine's "Confessions" should suffice.
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>>7512487
Read the bible over and over again, then Augustine. Come back after you do city of god and confessions.
New purchases thread.
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non-fictions book with subtitles are shit, invitation to a beheading is some of the worse nabokov, the short story compilation looks good tho
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Currently reading the Electric Kool Aid Acid Test. Which book should I read when I'm finished?
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I got the Loeb Enneads, and some Heidegger lectures.
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How pleb am I in french /lit/?
Read:
> Some Diderot (2 books)
> Montesquieu's Persan Letters
> Some Voltaire (about 6-7 books)
> Some Molière (about 11-12 plays)
> Some Bantam Star Wars
> A play by Muset
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Depends. Did you read these in the original French?
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not too pleb just kinda meh. read more prose
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You'll always be a plen until you read the complete works of France's greatest writer, Alexandre Dumas.
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/lit/ can a hardcore joycer explain why these covers make sense?
God mode: don't say "just read the book"
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Isn't the Ulysses one meant to highlight the final phrase in the novel?
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>we want the john green audience
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>>7528479
>Portrait of as a the Artist Young Man
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What are some books about cute girls being detectives?
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>>7528398
Godard made a movie about what was basically a female deconstruction of a hard-boiled detective AND it was based on a novel. The movie in question was "Made in U.S.A.", but I don't remember the name of the novel.
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>>7528468
>Made in U.S.A is a 1966 French film directed by Jean-Luc Godard. It stars Anna Karina, Jean-Pierre Léaud, László Szabó and Yves Afonso. It was inspired by the Howard Hawks film The Big Sleep and unofficially based on the novel The Jugger, by Richard Stark (a.k.a. Donald E. Westlake).
But I doubt there's moe in it like in japanese stuff.
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>>7528489
No, you'll have to look to Japan if you want the pedophilic stuff
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I've never seen a sociology thread on /lit/ so I have no idea if this will be a bust, so I felt like just throwing out a few things.
Who else here is into sociology or social theory, or studies it professionally? I stopped studying it after it became endless data analysis and quant with really boring basic theory.
Once a prof. told me we all had to decide if we followed Marx, or Weber, and all sociology can be traced back to one or the other and gave different conclusions. We had to pick a team. What would you pick?
-Who is at the forefront of sociology currently?
-Who is at the avant-garde of sociology?
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I was considering teaching myself the whole field. My proposed reading list in brief:
-Marx and Weber
- althusser,braverman, mills
-symbolic interactionism/phenomenological sociology
- berger/luckmann, garfinkle, goffman
- blumer, cooley
-ethnomethodology, social constuctionism
structiual/poststructuralism
- levi-strauss, foucault
post-modernism
-baudrillard, lyotard
-Actor-network theory
- Latour
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>sociology
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>>7528314
Bump for curiosity.
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You probably won't find anything here. A significant number of this site's users despise the discipline.
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What are your resolutions this year, /lit/? Are they something you actually go through with?
Mine is to stick to reading non-fiction, namely self improvement books.
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>>7528236
Read more philosophy and essays.
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>>7528241
Very good, Anon! Anything specific?
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Not to fail any subjects
Get at least one friend
Get a job
Get a girlfriend
Nofap for a month
Clear my backlog
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mfw plebs think that Russia didn't produce the greatest authors/poets in history
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He said, in English.
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>>7528176
>mfw you're so insecure about what you genuinely believe yourself that you need validation for your opinion on a Copenhagen paperpooping crunch sheet online
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>>7528180
Would reading them in their native language make them any worse?
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Favorite Character(s) in Literature
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Hector by far.
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Humbert Humbert
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Jeremiah Dixon
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>>7528141
This.
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post 'em
r8 'em
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My bookmark of choice
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Why would you want to look at photos of torn scraps of paper?
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Write me a rhyme about sleepless nights. Make it very emotional and about struggle.
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oh sleepless nights - where all my best thoughts come
what a shame that I've never had one
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>>7527758
nigger your english teacher needs a gun in a mouth. Please give me some Shakespearean shit to give my year 3 teacher.
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>>7527772
it's just my style
I'm suffering from minor social anxiety. I can go to store and walk through crowded area with no problem. My problem is that i still feel little anxiety when i try to express myself to the fullest. I really want to not give a shit about other peoples opinions and judgments.I'm looking for a book that will ease my suffering with this problem. My goal is that i can embarrass myself in public without no problem. Like some hobo who talks weird stuff to people. What would you recommend? The book can be a religious, philosophical, or some self help text. Thank you.
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To end up like that hobo you need to be schizophrenic, just take acid, ketamine, speed, coke and crystal meth as much as you can in 2016
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Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson
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>>7527601
>My problem is that i still feel little anxiety when i try to express myself to the fullest.
CONGRATS ON BEING JUST LIKE EVERY OTHER SENSIBLE HUMAN BEAN.
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I understand this might be a difficult or even bizarre question, but how does one go about enjoying literature?
Another way of asking this is: have you always enjoyed reading, and has the enjoyment always come first, or did you have to learn in some sense how to enjoy literature?
Finally, could you recommend some passages you found/find particularly rousing, and describe what/how they make you feel?
For some personal context, I have recently begun reading non-fiction voraciously (I am young and have recently found that I am interested in learning about history and biographies), and believe that my speed, endurance and comprehension are at the point where they do not negatively affect my enjoyment at all.
And yet, when I try to branch this budding interest in the written word into more artistic readings, I find that the norm is bored apathy with the occasional chuckle on particularly humorous passages.
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>>7527387
Any thoughts are appreciated, I'll probably repost this tonight since this is apparently a slow board at a slow time of day.
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>>7527387
i would "fuck" her if you know what i mean
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>but how does one go about enjoying literature?
do you not realize how retarded that question is?
>but how does one go about enjoying opiates?
>but how does one go about enjoying ice cream?
>but how does one go about enjoying buttplugs?
there's no process to enjoyment. you just do or don't.
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Anyone in /lit/ has ever read this austrian nigga? What yall think bout him?
Don't see much about him over here and I think /lit/ would enjoy.
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The Loser was pretty bad. I see why spergs would find identify with his boring and misanthropic view.
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he is pretty good and his prose is nice
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Extinction is his best book