Just got a $30 Barnes and Noble gift card, any good recommendations. I'll pretty much read anything, really interested in new age, psychology, and Buddhist literature. Anything along those lines would be very great, but anything else is fine too!
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>>7505648
>really interested in new age
haha
Anyway, I guess you should buy The Great Gatsby and 1984 :)
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>>7505654
I still need to read 1984, I'll probably buy it.
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Can we start one of these next (not this) weekend? The first three books can be The Big Sleep, The Postman Always Rings Twice, and The Talented Mr. Ripley.
What books would you guys like?
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you can try, but it'll fade to nothing within a week.
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>>7505526
True, the Big Sleep isn't really that good either. I mean I guess if you're into that sorta thing it is but it didnt really have me in suspense.
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>>7505600
There are plenty of thrillers, but I wouldn't read Chandler for plot or tension, I read him for the prose and the humor. I mean, The Big Lebowski is more comedic, but otherwise it's a pretty good adaption of Marlowe.
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This is better than The Stranger.
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How is the dudes mindset in the stranger conducive to everyday life, I mean I get he's all existential etc but wtf is the point in possessing that mindswt
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>>7505450
Agreed. Moving on.
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this was garbage
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Who is your favorite author and meme?
Im Dannydingdong and i like pepe
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>>7505327
Hey guys come join the fun lit chat on tinychat!
Take a while to connect so let it sit on the connect page!
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>>7505327
DESU my favorite pepe is
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>>7505330
Hey man whats the link?!
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I'm in hysterics right now
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>>7505316
are there any niggers that could write without their accent except for dialogue? I'm pretty curious since I want to read one.
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>>7505332
Ralph Ellison
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>>7505341
tnx
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>book doesn't have any dialogue
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>book only has dialogue
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> Book has only monologue, main character has multiple personalities
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>book self-destructs after reading
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A Christmas Storytime: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 2015-12-25 21:20:14 Post No.7504647
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A Christmas Storytime: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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Since I've found myself with nothing else to do this Christmas Day, I thought I would storytime the entirety of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Not only is it one of the masterpieces of Middle English poetry, but it takes place during Christmastime, so I thought it would be appropriate. The translation is by A.S. Kline, because that is the one that I could find public domain on the internet.
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Most brits are nodding off till morn senpai
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>>7504647
FITT i
>Soon as the siege and assault had ceased at Troy,
>the burg broken and burnt to brands and ashes,
>the traitor who trammels of treason there wrought
>was tried for his treachery, the foulest on earth.
>It was Aeneas the noble and his high kin
>who then subdued provinces, lords they became,
>well-nigh of all the wealth in the Western Isles:
>forth rich Romulus to Rome rapidly came,
>with great business that burg he builds up first,
>and names it with his name, as now it has;
>Ticius to Tuscany, and townships begins;
>Langobard in Lombardy lifts up homes;
>and fared over the French flood Felix Brutus
>on many banks all broad Britain he settles
>then,
>where war and wreck and wonder
>betimes have worked within,
>and oft both bliss and blunder
>have held sway swiftly since.
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>>7504664
>And when this Britain was built by this baron rich,
>bold men were bred therein, of battle beloved,
>in many a troubled time turmoil that wrought.
>More flames on this fold have fallen here oft
>than any other I know of, since that same time.
>But of all that here built, of Britain the kings,
>ever was Arthur highest, as I have heard tell.
>And so of earnest adventure I aim to show,
>that astonishes sight as some men do hold it,
>an outstanding action of Arthur’s wonders.
>If you will list to this lay but a little while,
>I’ll tell it straight, as I in town heard it,
>with tongue;
>as it was said and spoken
>in story staunch and strong,
>with linked letters loaded,
>as in this land so long.
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Tolstoy's Reading List for all ages
>CHILDHOOD TO ~14
Tales from The Thousand and One Nights: The 40 Thieves, Prince Qam-al-Zaman
Pushkin’s Poems: “Napoleon”
The Little Black Hen by Pogorelsky
The story of Joseph from The Bible
The Byliny folk tales: Dobrynya Nikitich, Ilya Muromets, Alyosha Popovich
>AGE 14 TO 20
The Conquest of Mexico by William Prescott
Tales of Good and Evil by Nikolai Gogol: “Overcoat,” “The Two Ivans,” “Nevsky Prospect”
A Sentimental Journey by Laurence Sterne
A Hero for Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov
The Hapless Anton by Dmitry Grigorovich
Polinka Saks by Aleksandr Druzhinin
A Sportsman’s Notebook by Ivan Turgenev
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
Die Räuber by Friedrich Schiller
Yevgeny Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
Julie, or the New Heloise by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Gospel of Matthew: “Sermon on the Mount”
The Confessions by Jean Jacques-Rousseau
Emile: Or on Education by Jean Jacques-Rousseau
“Viy” from The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
>AGE 20 TO 35
Poems by F.T. Tyutchev
Poems by Koltsov
The Iliad / The Odyssey by Homer [translated]
Poems by Afanasy Fet
The Symposium and The Phaedo by Plato
Hermann and Dorothea by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo
>AGE 35 TO 50
The novels of Mrs. Henry Wood
The novels of George Eliot
The novels of Anthony Trollope
The Iliad / The Odyssey by Homer [in greek]
The Byliny
Xenophon’s Anabasis
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
>AGE 50 TO 63
Discourse on Religious Subject by Theodore Parker
Robertson’s Sermons
The Book of Genesis
Progress and Poverty by Henry George
The Essence of Christianity by Ludwig Feuerbach
The Complete Gospels*
Pensées by Blaise Pascal
Epictetus
Confucius and Mencius
The Lalita-Vistara: Or Memoirs Of The Early Life Of Sakya Sinha by Rajendralala Mitra
Lao-Tzu
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Of coures that socialist faggot would want to indoctrinate the kids with a bunch of Rousseau LOL
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>>7504466
insulting count tolstoy on christmas
sweet life you have faggot!!!!!!!!
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>The Iliad / The Odyssey by Homer [translated]
lol tolstoy was a pleb
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>tfw either too dumb or too ignorant to understand
>Can't understand why Bloom likes Blood Meridian and Ulysses but hates everything by DFW
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:C
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jus b urself
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>>7504165
just B.E. Yourself!
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>two craftsmen will never compete in the pursuit of their craft because they're both striving for the same ultimate perfection
Even 2000 years ago, this was just complete bullshit. Why does anyone respect this guy again?
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This is a description of an *ideal* state
Try again. Start from the beginning. You've failed.
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Plato's dialogues are basically an exercise in knocking down strawmen and hiding logical fallacies with rambling hypothetical stories. Him and his ilk ruined western philosophy until Descartes.
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>>7503818
its not though, he uses this as evidence for his existence of forms.
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Alright, which one of you disgusting people bought the entire Tundra series for Christmas?
I know you're here
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>>7503221
There is a fucking series ?
I never heard of this
What the fuck
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>>7503221
He was in the lit Christmas thread friendo
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Call me Big Papa
Thomas Freekin' Pynchon
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Tomasz Jebany Pynczon
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>>7503123
Tim-tom "fuckmaster" pincone
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>>7503128
Tommy "The Smug" Painkhon
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Reminder that you should read Gaddis this Christmas break. The Recognitions is a perfect place to start, so you can work up to reading the greatest American novel, J R
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Bit of a shit meme trilogy desu
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>>7503026
pleb
What does /lit/ think of Gore Vidal? Where do I start with his work?
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I recommend starting with the book that presents an extremely problematic depiction of trannies
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period piece tier I imagine. I've never read him.
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He's a writer of genre fiction. Not very good at all, especially in comparison to his contemporaries.
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I got my dad a copy of his favorite book (pic related) for Christmas, and I wanted to make the gift a little more personal. Any tips on writing inscriptions?
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Make sure to write inside the book and not on the cover or on things that are not the book
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why doesn't your dad have a copy of his favourite book
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>>7500429
good idea. I didn't even think of that