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To anyone currently avoiding Dostoevsky, let me just say I was afraid like you until recently. I told myself it would be an endless bullshit slog like Dickens.
In fact, no.
Reading Notes From Underground now and it's really surprisingly enjoyable and relatable. The themes are relevant to modern life, the style is pretty contemporary, the social situations are recognizable enough that I laugh and cringe and sympathize.
The only part that worried me was the beginning where the narrator rambles about philosophy. Don't worry, though, the rest of the book isn't like that. It's supposed to show you the narrator is sad and full of shit.
Definitely give it a try if you've been avoiding the russians- it's a quicker read than some modern writers.
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Gr8 b8 m8
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>>7492608
(I'm not OP)
This isn't bait you fucking reddit cuck.
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>>7492608
>>7492619
Yeah, OP here I'm not baiting. I've been a reader most of my life but I always avoided the russians, I just had the idea that they were all boring 1000-page descriptions of rich people and table manners and I wouldn't get anything out of it (maybe this is true of Tolstoy? Dunno.) Anyway I gave Dostoevsky a try this week and Notes From Underground at least is really fun and easy.
I'm sure there are other people like me who enjoy /lit/ but somehow got the mistaken impression Dostoevsky would be boring. If you are one of them, give him a try. I was pleasantly surprised.
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>smoke a FAT BLUNT
>put on a Neil Young record
>put on the Moby Dick audiobook
>lie in pitch dark visualizing the prose
How is this NOT the BEST possible way to enjoy literature?
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>>>/reddit/
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>>7492580
Quality shitpost my friend!
/sage
/thread
/fuck off frog poster
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>>7492588
>shit post
I don't know where you thought I was being disingenuous, but let me assure you - I wasn't
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submit your diary entry here:
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HOLY FUCK I DON'T WANT TO FINISH THIS ESSAY
CAN I JUST CUT MY FACE OFF AND STAPLE IT TO THE LAST FIVE PAGES AND SUBMIT THAT
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>>7492569
Pick a day (1-30) and a month.
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I just finished Catch-22
It was pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty good
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Rate my poem, /lit/
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>>7492374
poem? try last will and testament.
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>>7492374
This is bait, right? It sounds like something a 50yo militaryfag on facebook would write.
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it'd be pretty funny if it was written ironically, I guess. It seems like it's not though, so I guess it's just kind of said b8
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Just seen robots talking about pic related.
Whats /lit/'s thoughts on this - anyone read it?
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>entry level sci fi
Science Fiction is what you read when you can't read.
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>>7492340
is that a meme?
people were saying it was 10/10
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Yes I believe a number of people have read it.
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So this was effectively a confession right?
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>>7492307
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This is why I'm sometimes afraid of putting out writing that has dweeby or morally corrupt characters.
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>>7492469
that's fine, we don't need more pedophiles releasing their smut.
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what is the general consensus (latin for agreement) about her?
Her are some assorted bits of her novel Selected Tweets
sext: hey baby wanna come over and be an emotional burden to me
i have a lot of fear-based sexual fantasies about santa claus
eating fruit by the foot in bed
someone buy this poor soul a big ass pizza i wanna make a mistake
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>>7492203
meant to say "Here are"
"we put a couch on our porch so i sit here wrapped in blankets literally all day. the neighbors are afraid of me"
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Mostly we don't like her (English for her).
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i want to die doing what i love: sleeping
i saw the best minds of my generation have sex with delusional bros who think they are the best minds of their generation
left the party so i could get in bed and watch a dialogue-free movie about babies doing stuff
it's me, your friendly neighborhood sobbing in public girl
i wish voldemort was after me so i had a concrete reason to be in fear all the time
lol i collapsed at the airport. 103 fever. excited to be in a country where codiene is legal. don't worry mommy i am okay
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I have been going through an existential crisis ever since I have started balding. What are some essential existentialcore?
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Existentialism is for pussies. Read some Epicureanism.
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Walden
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>>7492038
Tied up and loving it
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I've heard that 2015 is inherently, by nature, monumental year for social justice. Are there any books on this topic?
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>>7491990
2015 is the year where Americans have seen the true colors of violent black people, and liberals defending their chimpanzee-like attitudes.
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>>7491990
found the redditor
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Aren't the Americans asleep yet? What's up with these shitposts?
Daily reminder that you cannot win in intellectual discourses with me because I am openly hypocritical.
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>win in debates
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This is so fucking true
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What's so bad about hypocrisy anyway? 'Yeah, but you don't actually mean/do that' seems a pretty clear case of ad hominem to me. Shouldn't the status of the speaker be irrelevant?
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What is the best New York Review Book? pic related was absolutely incredible and I want to know if the have published others of equal or higher quality
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Most of their books are good, pick one with a nice cover
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DUDE
WEED
LMAO
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>>7491726
Normally I would but all their covers are nice, I needed a second opinion
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>woman tries to be "brave" and do something men do best
>fails miserably
More hilarious nonfiction stories like this? I'm in need of a good laugh.
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>>7491712
who hurt you anon
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>>7491712
just take a ride on the tumblr train. there are hundreds of thousands of accounts of exactly this.
enjoy.
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>>7491748
This desu senpai
Tumblr one big hamper of damaged girls.
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You get off a train and find that it's pouring outside. The walk home will be 20 minutes, but you have an umbrella. Your items will not suffer from being wet.
You have three options
A) Walk through the rain without your umbrella, soaked but not so much that you become sick
B) Walk through the rain using your umbrella, leaving you about 50% dry
C) Call a taxi and get home dry
Why?
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>>7491680
or, i could wait, i could pour water on myself before going out into the rain while stabbing passerby with my umbrella, i could devise a clever scheme using several umbrellas of the people around me, making a cluster of umbrellas to cover me completely, i could use wind pockets to travel mary poppins style, i could steal a car, i have many more options. fuck your lame ass options.
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>>7491692
10/10
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>>7491692
There's no room for whimsy here
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Has anyone here read The Alchemist? I know it is a popular book but many decide to ignore it. Can you guys tell me your opinions on it?
>greentext general conclusion
>less than one or two sentences
>am stoned
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no but i did take organic chemistry 1 and 2 in college in addition to doing a lot of alchemy back when i played morrowind. i'd recommend it.
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>>7491517
>>am stoned
DUDE
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Just read the Corpus Hermeticum and Asclepius
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Who is the best sex goddess in literature?
Pic related, a sex goddess.
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>>7491456
Hera, for putting Zeus in his place
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>>7491456
How can Mashiro be a sex goddess if she's autistic?