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>>7392711

Think of a first name.

Think of a last name.

Done.
You fucking autist.


Thanks for the pic of Stewart, though. She's fine.

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>>7392721
The names that came to mind as I read your post were "John" and "Smith." One of those is already my name and together they are a shit pseudonym. Thanks for nothing!

>>7392725
Then you're a moron.

>>7392650
English major here. No.

>>7392650
if you like it :3

>>7392650
I want to go to school to get an English degree but I know it will be a waste of money.

>>7392634
It's called Filthy Hippieism.

>>7392634
cite sources or go to /his/

>>7392634
anarchoprimitivism

>>7392623
Since he has a cult of personality, I would say thousands of dollars if you put it up for auction.

about 10 replies, easy

>>7392639
if im just replying to you does that increase his reply count?

Mostly they are fine. Good for English texts, but they can carry some good translations.

I never read any of these but I frequently heard the translation is awful. However, I wouldn't care too much about Plato and other philosophical texts as long as the key terms aren't butchered and work in verse—like Virgil—should never be translated, it loses all its sense. Eventually find a version en vis-à-vis with both the original language and a annotated English translation.

Plato's Aeneid is my favorite philosophical text desu

You've always been fucked

sounds gay

>>7392507
How much have you finished?

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What is "a"

>>7392386

A miserable pile of secrets.

>>7392386
>>>/w/ittgenstein

>>7392340
>Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut

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>>7392348
Forgot pic

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you can make anything sad - spencer madsen

I personally cannot vouch for Kobos, but I just copped Amazon's base kindle for 49.99 as part of their Black Friday deal. If the Kobo can do what Amazon's kindle can, I would recommend it (when the kindle isn't on sale because it seems they are the same price, retail).

I love my kindle paper whatever the fuck it's called. You can get free books through torrents and project guttenber... no one can tell what you're reading... it's portable... the highlight and vocab saver are awesome too.... does my run on sentence make you buttmad?

btw does anyone have a kindle search tool for free books?

>>7392310
>>7392309
I would get a kindle over it but I hear kobo is better for pdfs and no ads.

>>7392114
comic nerds seem to love dr doom cause he is a well written villain or some bullshit, idk never read it but you might want to check it out.

Blood Meridian has a good villain imo. The ending was meh, but throughout the rest of the story i enjoyed how The Judge was written. He always had a strong presence and everything he did held an aura of mystery around it.

For shit villains, try ASOIAF. Tywin Lannister is quite obviously modeled after whatever Chad F. Normal called GRRM fat in middle school

>>7392114
>>What makes a great villain?

same thing that makes a great character

>>Who is the single greatest villain in literature, in your opinion?

iago. or cordelia. YEAH I SAID IT.

>>7392122
Cheers for the recommendations lad

>>7392124
>same thing that makes a great character
True. What is it though about villains which make them so appealing, often more so than the hero? It's fair to say most people prefer the Joker to Batman, Iago to Othello, etc

>>7392034
We can all agree that from a literary standpoint the symposium is far and away Plato's best, right?

>>7392034
>>>/his/

Head over to the /youngadult/ board.

I haven't got around to this. Never convenient to pick up. This book is the one I have been most interested in from Volly, try to elaborate a bit my lad.

>>7391962
Excellent thread

>>7392019
The book is a criticism of mans expansion of technology in relation to natures reaction of said expansion. The characters are all metaphors for this exponentially changing human race and the creations of things such as electricity and themes of industrialism. The war with nature (bugs) provides a view into the fight nature couldn't put up in the real world. Honestly after reading it I don't know whether to continue living my life or locking up in a cabin in the woods and living off the land.

>>7391931
ebin thread my man

bleed much?

that actually legitimately bothers me. some people pull it off naturally but with most assholes the affectation is palpable.

same thing w caps

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Overrated. Like Japanese films, it LOOKS like a novel but there's really no content. It's pure imitation of American or European models without anything inside, like a replicant out of Philip K Dick.

>>7391938
>there's really no content

gb2reddit

your presence makes the board infinitely shittier

i dont even like murakami

>>7391938
Yep, I feel the same way about Roth, Delillo, Pynchon, McCarthy, Faulkner, Fitzgerald and their like. Shitty science fiction by Dick is all I read.

THREAD HIJACK.

Do any of you /lit/ guys know of any decent-as-far-as-TV-series go TV series?

>>7391803
fuck you autistic chinaman

>>7391803
There aren't any.