Is this series worth reading? Any fans here on /lit/? I've been reading classics mainly and I'm looking for something light to hold me over until I start college in January.
Currently reading a PDF of it, seems like a fun series and I'm considering buying it. Thoughts?
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Its pretty amazing.
Its sad that the fan base is all reddit fedora street memers.
But you should keep reading them. They get better and better until they dont.
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They're really good. Just avoid #6, which is written by a different guy and is shit.
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>>7384675
Long time fan. Actually, Hitchiker's guide is pretty much my bible. It being a reminder to me that nobody has any idea what they're talking about and it's always more complicated than it seems and the whole thing is obsurd. Life, that is. In short, it's an amazing series but I think it should have ended after "So long, and thanks for all the fish"
That ending was absolutely perfect and the following book was meh.
Let's post our favorite novels, then other anons judge you based on your selection.
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decent taste OP, it's a shame you're a pleb who only likes his most famous novels
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here's an original one for /lit/
ah well, it's the truth
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>>7384669
Pretentious try hard
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Books you hated that everyone loved
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I hated the second and third book of the hunger games and some of the Harry Potter books. I also hated 1984 and the mist.
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Book of Disquiet
I'm a canon-whore and heard good things about it from both NEETs and normies. After reading it I kind of realized I'm neither. It was unbearable and I love exit-level literature.
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Huck Finn. Couldn't even finish the book and had to get spark notes so I could pass that unit.
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Has /lit/ ever asked a professor for an extension on an assignment? Ever been denied?I just did and I feel pathetic.
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>>7384634
Look, if you can finish it, and the teacher gave you the extension, you should be happy and use it as a learning experience to FUCKING DO YOUR GOD DAMN HOMEWORK YOU FUCKING SHITHEAD CLASSICS MAJOR HOLY SHIT
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>>7384634
I wrote a paper so far in advance that I forgot to bring it to class the day it was due. I asked the prof. if I could run home and bring it to her in under and hour and she said no, I could just write it then. It was a paper that was 6 pages long with references to a movie and two books. It was also a freshman history class. I gave it to her regardless and still got a solid zero on it.
tl;dr Quit being a fucking bitch
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Having missed a class meeting I looked at the syllabus to see what we went over. To my shock the term paper was due. I had not thought of a topic, yet alone started a paper at all.
I went to the professor's office hours and spewed some bullshit about a topic idea, and the research I had for it. We had a nice little conversation about it and he gave me another week to turn it in.
I got an A- on it.
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Hi /lit/.
I am looking for a book like pic related. It's basically a movie about not being happy with yourself. It has a little bit of fantasy and irony in the way the theme is developed.
Also general recommendations thread.
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>>7384630
Kafka in general
Notes from Underground
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>malkovich malkovich
Malkovich malkovich malkovich malkovich, mmm
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>>7384630
I don't understand why so many people come here saying "I like x movie. What books are like x movie."
Someone please explain this to me.
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Does any know of any books where wizards are super powerful and only a small part of the population like in warhammer fantasy or in the elder scrolls lore?
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3.5 players handbook
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>>7384607
Bumping
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Mistborn series by Brandon Sanderson
Not exactly wizards, but mistborn are characters with semi-magical powers like wizards and they're extremely rare among the population and are ultra powerful in comparison.
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I'll just drop this here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvsoVgc5rGs
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Interesting, this is actually making me want to pick the book up
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Listened to the whole thing
I wish he brought up more edgy examples
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That was great OP, now I'm listening to that guy talk about Nietzsche
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1J7OoErWvs&list=PL6rzdODmcL64MwchkZavZbeUYMqWIFD-7
Lyricism/Poetry thread?
Struggling with writers' block lately. Just don't feel like I'm writing anything of quality, lyrically. Are there any generic habits I can start forming - like maybe writing in a specific formula every day or something - that can help me to improve? Really what is there to do other than simply writing more?
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Dump what you've written.
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i thought writers block only existed to novelists? don't poets only write when they get inspired?
go for a walk outside always helps me think thoughts
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AND IF THERE'S CRACK IN A BASEMENT
Thoughts?
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>author's name bigger than title
dropped tbhfam
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I'm reading this now and I'm loving it. I've also read Lolita and Real Life of Sebastean Knight and this is my favourite so far
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Anybody who thinks that is Nabokov's best novel clearly is just in love with brevity. Nabokov fell in love with the English language, my friend. The proof is in Lolita and Pale Fire, not in Pnin, which is a sad little tale about an inadvertent exile, mistaken for comedy.
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How do I write a college essay that isn't garbage
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What topic?
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>>7384448
This is how you learn, my friend. Trial and error.
Besides, all college essays during your undergrad are going to be garbage.
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>>7384448
I don't think it matters. My college essay was about how depressed and useless I was and how they probably shouldn't admit me and they admitted me.
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I'm doing a six credit hour workshop, two hours a day three days a week for three months, on shakespeare to finish my Masters degree. I need to buy a very large number of shakespeare's works. I'm still very lacking in collecting classics, and thus have not chosen a uniform publisher for these types of things.
Over christmas break I need to do that because I don't want to waste a bunch of money buying these books just to replace them down the road to have a pretty book shelf.
What does /lit/ advise? What are my options for publishers who cover a great deal of the classics, preferably beyond Shakespeare? I want hard back, uniform, with nothing silly like colored pictures on the covers or preferably even colored spines. I have no real budget, I just ask that presented options still be in print or widely available.
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>>7384436
The Great Books of the Western World has Shakespeare split up in two books. You could probably get them pretty cheap.
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>>7384493
Only two books? And it isn't tiny print, thin pages, etc?
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Shit, matching simplistic hardcover books. It's the dream anon. TV shows and movies piss me off because they make it seem like everyone with books has this setup.
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Where should I start with Lovecraft?
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Dagon and The Music of Erich Zann
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Don't
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Is the Necronomicron the best collection?
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I want to read something with characters with massive/big powers, like, earth-shattering shit. Why? Because its fun, that's why. Of course, no comics.
Anybody has any suggestions?
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>>7384408
the prose edda
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>>7384414
Ok, that helps. Keep 'em coming. Amazon shit is also does the trick. I'm a normy and actually have a job.
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>>7384408
Worm. Its a capeshit webserial that's actually really good. Lots of grey morality, Premise boiled down is basically otherworldly powers fucking about with earthly reality. MC is a teenage girl who controls bugs
Would recommend
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What are some books about gaining confidence?
No shitty "self-help" books full of fillers, please.
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>>7384365
Just stop being such a fucking faggot you fucking faggot.
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The Ego and His Own
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>>7384375
I have read it.
It's not related to confidence at all.
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I read a bunch of Ezra Pound for a class and I really want to keep going. What do I pick up specifically to tackle him head on?
I've read both his prose and poetry in a limited amount, and am interested in both. If I'm interested in buying everything he wrote is there a reasonable collection I can buy in a few books? If not, I'd appreciate some fairly large collections to start.
Any advice is appreciated.
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>>7384284
Cantos should be one volume, his poetry another.
I took this one IIRC out at my library, it's pretty comprehensive:
http://www.amazon.com/Ezra-Pound-Translations-Library-America/dp/1931082413/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1448328917&sr=8-1&keywords=pound+poems+and+translations
As for the Cantos, I don't know, someone else can tell you.
Don't bother with any of his prose collections. His prose writing is really dreadful.
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Here's a picture of a typical LoA hardcover. The Pound volume was more of a maroon color but otherwise looked the same. The insides were good, the pages a little thin for my taste but w/e, the typeface was OK, and the poems were formatted properly.
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>>7384316
And here's a screenshot of one of Amazon's scans from a LoA Whitman volume to give you a sense for what I mean about the typeface. It's not awful, but it's not my favourite.