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Books with great premises 2015-12-19 16:03:45 Post No.7480793
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Day of the Triffids: Everyone's going blind and killer plants are on the loose.
There are some books with great concepts which can be boiled down to one sentence and drag you in. It doesn't have to be just sci-fi; The Great Gatsby, in my opinion, has a great premise.
The execution may not always be perfect, but they have something unique. I've been reading books with very similar concepts for a while, and I'd like to read other books with more interesting ideas behind the conception. Is there any suggestions?
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A dude dies and one of his sons might have killed him
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Gravity's rainbow: a man's erections precipitate V2 bombings, also bananas
Infinite Jest: a movie so good you die, also legless quebecanuck assassins, failed tennis prodigies, and square-headed halfway-housers
The Tunnel: a historian frets over being unable to write an introduction and muses about cucking his wife and being a charlatan for 650 pages
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Blindness - Everyone's going blind
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what is phenomenology?
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>>7480673
In non-technical parlance, the felt first-person experience of something.
In technical parlance, a transcendental idealist philosophy developed by Edmund Husserl in the early twentieth century, which ranks among the greatest human intellectual achievements of all time (later phenomenology is a bit squishy and boring).
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>>7480673
It's reality as perceived from the inside
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>>7480680
care to elaborate a bit more? seems interesting.
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Hey, Lits!
So we have this chinese exchange student wo is eager to get into german culture via literature.
Does not have to be BY a german or IN german but more like about german/european mentality/ culture at core.
A clear kind language would be preferable since he is not on native speaker never yet.
What would you recommend?
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never=niveau
fuck autocorrect
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Mein Kampf
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Mein Kampf
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i wanted to gift my gf with a book related to physics, but not something technical like you would find on uni modules' reading lists.
I was browsing the physics section of a local library when i came across pic related.
Has anyone here on /lit/ read it already? is it any good? would it be appealing to a physics major student?
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I've heard that the maths is dodgy.
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>>7480560
but the author kinda says in the beginning that the math is dumbed down
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>>7480564
It's not only dumbed down, but inaccurate in parts. Check the reviews on its wikipedia page for more info. I'd only recommend it to your gf is she's already a big DFW, because if she isn't, she'll probably get frustrated with his style regardless of the inacurracies.
When it comes to pop science books, there are plenty of other better choices. Some physics related ones I like: James Gleick's Genius is a great biography of Richard Feynman, Brian Greene's The Fabric of the Cosmos is a great intro to cosmology, Lisa Randall's Warped Passages is a very acessible intro to string theory, and anything by Michio Kaku should be fun.
Do you write friendly or love notes in the empty pages at the beginning of a book when you give it to someone as a gift?
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>>7480520
I prefer the unmarked cards with nice pastel or season appropriate florals, just because not everyone likes their books marked, and people always seem to like opening up a note and reading it quietly and not letting anyone else do so.
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>>7480520
Only if I'm tryna bust my nuts up in they guts 2bhwu famm. Otherwise no.
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> summer 2014
> parents divorcing
> pick up White Noise
> note in front cover from my Dad to Mom saying he hopes she enjoys it
> note from my Mom to a friend saying she's so excited to get married
Just poetry my shit up.
We>1984
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>>7480498
Said everyone ever.
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>translations
>penguin translations
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>I'll take Who Says It? for a thousand, Alex.
>"We > 1984," or "Vinyl > MP3."
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Is this the best translation?
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the japanese
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>>7480483
Fagles and Lattimore are fine, stay away from Lombardo.
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>>7480551
What about Rieu?
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Daily reminder to read your bibles, Jesus' birthday is almost upon us friends.
>Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. -Matthew 18:3
what did he mean by this?
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That he knew he was a con man and was basically making fun of his own followers
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>>7480435
the date is symbolic and part of tradition.
>>7480436
peace be with you
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>>7480435
What's the date of His birth, then?
I read a book that argued if white people never interfered with Africa in the 14th century then Africa today would be the most advanced and prosperous continent. Africans would be leading the way in arts, science and engineering, writing the best poetry and philosophy. But the white men stole their secrets and enslaved them. I can't recall the title...
Anyone know the name? It also said something about how they were kings a long time ago
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>>7480111
wow she's so beautiful. Where did you get this photo from?
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>>7480111
The Kings of Korinthia: The Black Planet
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What's the best translation of Crime and Punishment?
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P&V, and I don't even normally like their translations. But they did a very good job with Crime and Punishment.
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>>7480110
What does P&V stand for?
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>>7480137
Pevear and Volkhonsky; I think they're shite. McDuff is my recommendation.
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>Write book about how it's OK to lie as long it sounds better than the truth
>Win prize
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If you don't lie at all you end up like Meursault
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>>7480073
KILLING AN ARAB
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anybody have the link to a literary magazine that was posted here i while back? each month they had a theme and it came out every two months, the latest theme was heat
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>>7479936
>tfw no gf feet to massage
why remind me....
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Can we please stop with the foot fetish thing? I like it to a degree but I just want to browse /lit/ for one day without stumbling upon some goddamn porno toe
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Can we please continue with the foot fetish thing? I like it to a degree and I just want to browse /lit/ and stumble upon more goddamn qt toes
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What's /lit/'s opinion on Dickens?
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he's not american enough to be respected
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>>7479804
Insecure little girl who liked to get his fudge packed in
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>>7479804
Alright but a wannabe poor man's Victor Hugo.
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Is Metro 2033 any good? I've had it recommended by a few friends, but I'd like your opinions on it.
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looks like pleb font so probably not
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>>7479801
It's Russian.
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>>7479798
I liked a roadside picnic better.
Is there a bigger meme than "reading for prose"?
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Fuck you for making another shit thread on lit you cunt
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>>7479726
>insinuating
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pic related 2bh