Starting a /lit/ reading group
if you're interested reply with possible book/novella/short story/essay's we can read
Will put replies in strawpoll to decide.
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the first LIT club will start after next week to work around any possible finals
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https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1xQaLISTgFkehNOXsbUSbSFeXTtrIBVcfstsr1yytxJo/viewform?usp=send_form
form for skype room invite
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is this the skype group?
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What would you like to see in a fantasy set in ancient Greek times?
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Seeing as I'm not 12, I'd mostly just be reacting to how well written it was and not just to the shallowest aspects of the setting, so idgaf.
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>>7458346
You're so pleb it hurts
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>>7458356
that says what would you like to see. a lot different from want.
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Does a book need to do more than tell a good tale to be enjoyable?
Does a book have to be filled with social/political/philosophical commentary/theory to be good?
I've been lurking here for a while and its really confusing to me as to what makes you guys tick. Seems like a good plot and being decently/well written just isn't enough for you guys.
Mind shedding some light on this for me?
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>>7458317
>Does a book have to be filled with social/political/philosophical commentary/theory to be good?
if you're a critical theorist
if you appreciate literature in general, then you want to learn something new about how people think by, more or less, seeing it done on the page.
you want to feel like you've lived a bit of other people's lives. not just watching a bunch of events happen like a movie but feeling it and experiencing it and gaining from it when you're out the other side, like real life (sometimes).
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>>7458337
But that can easily be applied to a bunch of shitty YA novels
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Maybe. Sometimes.
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Is there any reason to read this shit?
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to have a better understanding of the culture of over 1 billion people
though you could prob get away with reading some sort of condensed version or w/e
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Short version: no
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I general don't force yourself to read anything you are not compelled to read by your own curiosity
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Books that shouldn't be read in any language other than English? 2015-12-13 20:10:47 Post No.7458291
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Books that shouldn't be read in any language other than English?
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At the top of my head, The Catcher in the Rye seems like the most obvious choice, but what other novels are there?
> I'm not counting poetry because I'm currently resorting to only reading poems in my native language.
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>>7458291
All that were written in English
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I'm learning German, is it a good idea to attempt to read something like Hesse?
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>>7458882
/thread. Also, I'll go out on a limb and suggest "Waiting for Godot."
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Where do you guys get your digital e-books?
Trying to find Dennis Wheatley stuff compatible with a kindle has been a nightmare
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gen.lib.rus.ec/foreignfiction/
if epub use calibre to convert to mobi
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>>7458277
whew, good site
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Haven't read much literature overall.
Can read English reasonably well.
Could I enjoy Pynchon? or do I need to really understand English langauge or some deep shit
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meme author. fuck off
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>>7458216
Meme opinion. Fuck off.
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I guess the most 'complex' writer I've read in English was Gene Wolfe and sometimes I needed to re-read what I had read and use some dictionary.
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I want to read the Catcher in the Rye, but i am not fluent in english, so i will read a translate to spanish, i want to ask if i really can do that?
I mean, i've read here that certain books are not worth to read in another than their original language (Infinite Jest to be more precise) and i also experienced that by myself reading Alice in Wonderland
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If you are able to browse 4chan you should be able to read catcher
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>believing in translation memes
you're an idiot. make up your own mind.
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>>7457998
I think you are talking about reading it in english
Have you ever read a book in not your mother tongue?
Is scary as fuck to me, i'll read it in spanish or i will not read it at all, i only want to know if it's not a bad idea
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Bibliotik's been down for some time, what's up with that?
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>>7457965
It is run by incompetent nitwits with egos the size of Texas, and I suspect that their technical support does this as a part time thing, or else has more interest in books than servers and tries to address issues using google.
bookzz
btdigg
mobilism
tuebl
aaaaarg.fail
and if that fails sign up for overdrive with your local library or university.
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>>7458193
Thanks for confirming their ineptitude.
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what's the point of bibliotik when there is genesis?
why
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I just finished this novel and want to discuss it on /lit/, but we can't discuss it without discussing politics.
How can /lit/ host substantive debate while censoring uncomfortable opinions?
This is a serious question. I'm not trolling. I genuinely want to understand why this board is being censored.
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>>7457947
And please, don't tell me to take this to /pol/. Submission has been excerpted in The Paris Review, listed among the best books of the year by The New York Times, and reviewed by Knausgaard.
All of those outlets touched on the political elements of the book. Why can't we do the same?
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>>7457947
The plot and exposition was extremely ill-executed. He just uses his characters to ventriloquize long political diatribes. Literally a French Ayn Rand
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Should I read Husyman before reading this?
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Is it even possible to write an interesting female character?
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is it even possible to make a good thread on 4chan
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>interesting
>female
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Only if you're female or Tolstoy
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Where do you get all your good ideas for writing?
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Homer, Shakes, and Milton.
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My own life desu
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>>7457912
Couldn't tell you even if I tried. I'd be observing something and thoughts will couple and birth an ill-formed idea which I then spend a few weeks chipping away at.
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I want to have a better understanding of Gnosticism before I read Vails. What should I read?
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Barnstone, Willis; Meyer, Marvin (2003). The Gnostic Bible. Shambhala Books. p.880. ISBN1-57062-242-6.
Barnstone, Willis; Meyer, Marvin (2010). Essential Gnostic Scriptures. Shambhala Books. p.271. ISBN978-1590309254.
Also the Wikipedia page.
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>>7457825
Thanks!
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>>7457834
Give this a lesson as well my man; an In Our Time podcast on Gnosticism: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01s4rhz.
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Is don Quixote happy or miserable?
Is he a hero or not?
As a person who found Don Quixote a boring and tedious read can someone help me with these questions?
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You don't deserve answers.
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>>7457723
why? are you against explanations?
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>>7457710
Why do you care? You are clearly a moron and will derive no use from having your inquiry answered.
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What's the most interesting book about science you've ever read?
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>>7457641
This one because it shows that technology will make utopia possible.