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I'm at the bar watching a football game and there is seriously a guy sitting alone at the bar reading Infinite Jest. Not even kidding. He's drinking a LIIT or something.

Should I say something to him? If so what?

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>he skips the introduction

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This is a trivial thought but I want an answer. Why should I care about almost everything when, at the core, almost everything wants to take from me in order to benefit itself?

>Zizek ranting about late capeetalism

He makes relative shitloads from his books, talks, movies, articles, infinitely repeating himself, not being rigorous a lot of the time. He's a great entertainer disguised who passes as a philosopher most of the time (not to comment on his actual philosophising). He does this all for the sweet sweet money.

I only say Zizek because he says he's communist.

>lit
>tells people to start with the greeks
>tells people that not reading fictoin makes you a dumb stupidhead

lit, who all want to be writers for narcissistic reasons, mostly audience pussy and attention seeking reasons. Who want people to see the greeks as the cool stuff just so that lit itself can seem the most knowledgable on the "msot important topics".

I could go fucking on. It's all so trivial. At the core of everything is someone trying to take from me to give to themself. It's all so sickeningly trivial

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Any book similar to this comic?

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This year I've written a few short stories and I have an opportunity to reserve half a table at a zine fair that is happening in a couple of months.

I've never been to one before but I thought of putting a zine together with some of my short fiction, some illustrations, maybe poems too. I would charge maybe $3 just so the work didn't seem cheapened by a lower price.

Do you think this could be a good idea?

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Books are expensive. Where can I buy cheap, preferably new books?

No ebooks please.

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People often lie about reading classic novels, survey finds.
http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-people-lie-often-about-reading-classic-novels-survey-finds-20130906-story.html

the British survey are:

1. "1984" by George Orwell -- 26%
2. "War and Peace" by Leo Tolstoy -- 19%
3. "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens -- 18%
4. "The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger -- 15%
5. "A Passage to India" by E.M. Forster -- 12%
6. "Lord of the Rings" by J.R.R. Tolkein -- 11%
7. "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee -- 10%
8. "Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- 8%
9. "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen -- 8%
10. "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë -- 5%

would you, /lit/ ?

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What are some good books to give away for christmas?

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Which books have the same man-versus-the-unbeatable or man-versus-nature theme/feel as Moby-Dick?

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Notes of a dirty old Man,

>everywhere we hang onto the walls of the world, and in the darkest part of hangover, I think of two friends who advise me on various methods of suicide. what better proof of loving camaraderie? one of my friends has razor scars running all along his left arm. the other jams pills by the bucketloads into a mass of black beard. they both write poetry. there is something about writing poetry that brings a man close to the cliff’s edge. probably, though, all three of us will live into our nineties. can you imagine the world of 2010 a.d.? of course, the way it will look will depend a lot on what is done with the Bomb. I suppose men will still eat eggs for breakfast, have sex problems. write poetry. commit suicide.
>I think that it was in 1954 that I last tried suicide.

anyone read this? The collection is pretty good, with rare cases of Buk writing fiction, like a short story that seems inspired by Metamorphosis.
In "Notes", Buk is old and is more bitter than ever. What was absent from his earlier work is recurring themes of murder and vengeance. He also writes about current events, the death of the Kennedies, all the left-wing getting shot, the coming revolution (before 1968) (he says contradictory things, that revolution is ugly and that a revolutionary is someone who wants the power, like anyone else, so nothing gets better after a revolution ; and then he says he's happy to live in a time where he sees the little man uprising)

he also often talks about other writers ("poets"), most of whom he has known personally. He realizes that they're all supported by the wife or Mommy, which explains why their poetry is so gay. He expresses his feelings after reading a Movable Feast by Hemingway : some of them good writers, but the disappointment of seeing them smiling in pictures, selling out to rich aristocrat Gertrude Stein, who paid them to entertain them in Paris and write shit.

I'm not doing well these days, so this is the only thing I can read, quite relevant to my interests. He shits on most writers, except a few that he saves, like Kafka, Fante or Turgeniev.

Oh, and most importantly, in "Notes" (basically a collection of magazine articles), you see a sometimes suicidal Bukowski, who's bitter about the happiness of the faggots, the feminine mamma's boys, the wussies, the sellouts... Very honestly, he wonders if he's not weak too. He spent his life pushing people away, and when black thoughts are coming, he stares at his phone for hours, wondering which x-mistress he will call, or which friend. He realizes that always playing the tough guy who doesn't need anyone brought him to loneliness. And he still has money problems. All in all, lots of interesting feels.

Now post anything Buk related. Indulge. Have a drink.

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Did John Waters imply we get laid?

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Just bought crime and punishment

Anything i should know before i read it

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Serious question, besides the wiki obviously, how do you guys find new books to read? Is goodreads a trustworthy website for lists and recommendations? It seems like they are good for some things but very lacking in others (for example you can find massive lists of general history books but a search for "Japan history" or "Eastern history" lists turns up nothing. also they often mislabel historical fiction as non-fiction).

Please forgive my newfaginess.

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I'm tired of looking up words on my kindle and finding that they are not available in the default dictionary. Does anyone have a far more complete dictionary that they are using on their ereader?

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>finish a book
>see a relevant thread
>ask question or offer opinion
>"fuck off/faggot/retard"
>shamed into not posting
>lurk more, build knowledge/courage to contribute
>"kill yourself"
>mask thoughts with memes to subtly or ironically hint at thoughts
>"kek"
>kek indeed