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Hey /lit/, I just finished watching Inside Out for the first time. It has been over a year since I've cried like that, and it felt good... Now, I have read some great books from this sub, but I desire a good cry. Give me some great books that made you shed more than a few tears.
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Perhaps sorrow isn't popular tonight.
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lmao ur a fagit
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I plan to handwritten a love letter.
Wat do?
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don't it's a bad idea
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Step 1: learn English.
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Don't write like that.
Which version of the Bible would you reccomend to a first-time reader? I'd prefer for it to be as close to the original as possible
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Then use the Oxford Annotated
Annotations point out ambiguities and explain both narrative context and translation choices
Get fucked nerd
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>>7416105
Thank you friend
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I would read two bibles. Yes, this is kind of a task, but the KJV is 100% essential reading for being part of western culture. Read both KJV(N O T NKJV) and the oxford annotated.
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Keep working on that novel! I've read some of it and it's really good! You just have to believe in yourself. You can do it!
Everyone on /lit/ will make it in this world.
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EITHER HELP ME TIE THIS NOOSE OR FUCK OFF WITH YOUR PLATITUDES
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>>7416059
y-you too :3
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sleep tight, comfy pup
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How do you construct a flat character and make it actually work?
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Make her pretty with nice legs.
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>>7416045
Read Flatland for some tips
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imply depth cf iago
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Give Me The Funniest Book You've Read
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Anything by Kafka
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Sirens of Titan
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>>7415942
The Stranger- Albert Camus
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Hey /lit/,
I'm a philosophy undergraduate at a well-respected institution that thinks about philosophical issues mainly through an Analytic lens. In the interest of avoiding dogma and enriching my education by engaging with different perspectives, I'm looking to start up a Continental philosophy reading group. I've read some stuff by Heidegger, Derrida and various media theorists myself, but I'm not sure what the level of familiarity will be for the whole group. We're especially interested in perspectives outside of traditional Western metaphysical/linearly-logical/rationalistic modes of thinking. I'd like to dive right in to discourse analysis and deconstruction stuff, but I think it might be productive to work through something a little more foundational first, like Nietzsche or Heidegger, to get in the frame of mind of thinking in modes other than what we're used to. Anyone have any thoughts on potential good places to start or things to eventually read? The basic idea is that the academic institutions that shaped us, the transcendental or Analytic concerns we're inclined to take for granted, and the rational standards we hold concepts and arguments up against all ought to be more thoroughly interrogated.
Many thanks!
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>>7415927
>little more foundational first, like Nietzsche or Heidegger
>foundational
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>>7415931
We've all already read the Greeks, Kant and Hegel.
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I never get the chance to use this so Im just going to do it now
Is it bad if I imagine every character in books as anime?
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>>7415889
that is the only patrician way of reading.
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yes, it means you are thirteen, regardless of how old you've managed to not die so far
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>>7415889
No desu senpai
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Can I get the same enjoyment from reading a PDF as I do from reading a book? 2015-12-03 02:54:07 Post No.7415831
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Can I get the same enjoyment from reading a PDF as I do from reading a book?
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probably not
there's an exclusively sensual pleasure to reading a book-book that you can't replicate on a screen. the rigidity of the pages, the smell of the decade it was published in, the texture of the covers, etc, etc.
but whether these things matter much is a different topic. they do exist tho.
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>>7415843
Autism, folks
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>>7415844
rude
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So /lit/eraries, What's you're favorite Cyberpunk books?
I just started reading Neuromancer again for the 2nd time. I read it when I was back in highschool and loved the hell out of it. As I don't remember much of what happened I figured I return to it.. I gotta say it doesn't hold the same charm. In fact I'd say it's a tad cliche to me.
But that being said, what are your favorite Cyberpunk / Sci fi books, and authors? I recently read to books by Alastair Reynolds, which I wasn't too thrilled with either. I'm starting to loose my faith in good sci fi or cyber punk. What do you guys recommend for a good, solid, fun, but serious Cyberpunk or Scifi novel?
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Neuromancer got me into both philosophy of mind and AI theory for the rest of my life, just with that one scene where the flatline laughs the same way twice.
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Snow Crash. Published in 1992, it may as well have been written yesterday.
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Naked Lunch, really, I'm not trying to be pretentious or obnoxious. I don't think Cyberpunk like Neuromancer could possibly exist without Naked Lunch
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Hey there friends.
I'm doing some xmas shopping for a dear friend and I want to buy her a book.
She's interested in being a lawyer and likes to read about fucked up criminals. She's currently reading Charles Mansons bio.
Is there anything you can suggest?
I thank you in advance.
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>She's interested in being a lawyer and likes to read about fucked up criminals.
You're dear friends with every single white woman ever?
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>>7415804
Every last one.
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If she's enjoying Manson, Helter Skelter would be a nice follow-up.
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So most every famous writer from Hemingway to DFW got their start writing/being correspondents for literary journals or major publications.
How does one start down that path? Just write and submit your works to a bunch of different publications and hope it gets picked up? Is it even possible in our time?
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The modern equivalent is being a hipster whore, tweeting and sucking cock until someone lets you write awful blogposts about blockbuster movies.
Skip the corresponding, get right to the illicit gay sex, alcoholism, and blowing your brains out.
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>>7415779
>Just write and submit your works to a bunch of different publications and hope it gets picked up? Is it even possible in our time?
wtf do you mean is it even possible
of course it is
just send out your work you autist.
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>>7415787
I'm not questioning the actual process of sending your work out there.
I'm just saying how would someone these days get a written work published in something like The Atlantic. I know that specific case and others take online submissions, but thousands of people must submit shit per day and those that are actually even read and reviewed probably wouldn't get published.
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can you read while you're baked?
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like, can you bake while you're writed? write? right?
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>>7415734
yeah, sci-fi or whatever; any kind of light reading is chill
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Personally I can't I get too lost in it and end up not realizing what I just read.
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Thought you would like to know what the best books of the year are
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>>7415691
Call me uncultured, but this year has been, to me, pretty stale in really all forms of media: no good albums--at least, none as good as last year's-- no good movies, and, worst of all, no good books: it's really kind of disappointing.
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>>7415691
>goodreads
what did you expect
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>>7415714
To Pimp A Butterfly and Divers are top tier as far as pop albums go. I haven't listened to much art music lately because college/literature/work.
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What's his best work? I just finished reading "The Colour out of Space".
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>>7415682
My favorite was the one with the computer brain. Don't remember the name.
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