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How is it the Thousand And One Nights, an indispensable centerpiece of the canon, is entirely ignored on this board?
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If you don't read it in the original Persio-Iranian dialect, you haven't read 1001 Nights.
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>>7357342
It's very simple: patrician pleb shit tier discernible talent corn upon all the living and the dead implying rate my bookshelf one of these continental implying analytic implying Katie implying
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>>7357345
>not reading the Arabic version
https://ar.wikisource.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%84%D9%81_%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A9_%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A9
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Reading in Public general 2015-11-15 23:49:44 Post No.7357327
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When you carry a book with you, do you hold it title-out or title-in? I don't like for people to think I'm peacocking, so I usually try to hide the cover of the book, especially if it's recognizable 20th century literature. I might let someone see that I'm holding Hardy or Johnson, if I need to hold it up to read it comfortably, but I wouldn't be caught dead showing off Joyce on a crowded subway.
(reading in public general)
>tfw it's comfortable to lean way the fuck forward, with elbows on my knees, when reading on a bench or a subway seat, but I probably look like a manchild getting way too immersed in a Lord of the Rings novel and/or having trouble reading the words
>tfw you almost bump into someone because reading and walking at the same time is hard
>tfw autism
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Holy shit have we really come to this?
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>>7357327
I'm self-conscious and autistic too so I worry about coming off as pretentious. I either leave books in my backpack or cover the title while walking.
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>>7357333
I figured we might be able to discuss this without sounding retarded
actual literature threads are disasters
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Tell mre /lit/ is there any real reason to buy the books you read as opposed to downloading them off the internet? The only real benefit to reading a paperback book that I can see is the possibility of striking up a conversation with another person in public.
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They're dirt cheap, easier to read and more portable.
Also, a black person will steal your tablet, but they won't steal a book.
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you can give it to a friend when you're done :^) (if you have any)
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>>7357328
They're not cheaper if you're torrenting them for free :^)
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What does /lit/ think of this book?
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>>7357235
Shit to be honest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40JmEj0_aVM
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>reading The Things They Carried
>it ain't me starts playing
baka desu senpai
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Kind of boring but not bad.
>DUDE VIETNAM LMAO
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best place to start with houellebecq?
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bumping with interest
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bumping with INSECTS
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>>7357214
start with the greeks.
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Your opinion about the books, based anons
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There is entirely too much booty in them pants.
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If that ass is the ass equivalent of Lord of Light or Book of the New Sun in terms of fantasy, Name of the Wind is the ass of a 45 year old crack addicted prostitute you pay 10$ for a blowjob because you are poor.
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>>7357171
10/10
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modern day literature books? 2015-11-15 22:29:36 Post No.7357120
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modern day literature books?
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What are some good modern day literature that came out in the past 25 years or so? I'm getting sick of reading all these young adult books
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>>7357120
start with the greeks
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read sticky
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>>7357138
Getting tired of your shit
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>Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special, that it has a mission to enlighten, civilize, bring order and democracy, and that it uses force only as a last resort. And, sadder still, there always is a chorus of willing intellectuals to say calming words about benign or altruistic empires, as if one shouldn't trust the evidence of one's eyes watching the destruction and the misery and death brought by the latest mission civilizatrice.
Edward W. Said, Orientalism
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>>7357092
based
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>>7357119
giving it a name is to rejecting the truth
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>>7357092
>that it has a mission to [...] bring democracy
that sound really unreasonable for everything before the french revolution
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wow
such a shitty star wars ripoff
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>>7357060
>(you)
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>>7357060
ebin thred xD
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>>7357060
Wow, you must be well read to intentionally misunderstand something :^)
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Is all lovecraft this pants on head retarded?
I'm only 25 pages in and
>taken to the dark side of the Moon on a rowboat
>held captive
>before shit goes down an army of cats appear and kill all his captors
>he then talks to the cats and finds out the kitten he saved happens to have a grandfather cat that leads this army
I was fine until this cat shit. Also why does he name drop made up places all the time, it's not really world building when you just present odd location names and then move on.
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>complaining about the logic of a dream sequence
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>>7357046
He's a shitty writer with some creative ideas. He was the Stephen King of his day.
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>>7357053
It's not even the logic I have a problem with. It's just really fucking stupid and totally ruined the story for me
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/CITR/: Phoebe Edition 2015-11-15 21:56:50 Post No.7357019
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>I will never have a GOAT younger sister
>ywn have your own Phoebe
Why live, bros?
Those of you with younger sisters, I hope you realise how lucky you are.
I sometimes feel like Holden without a Phoebe.
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inb4 someone claims he raped Phoebe
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He rapes his sister, Phoebe.
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Funny thing, I really think my sister only a year older than me is almost exactly like Phoebe in personality.
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Why do people try to claim that free verse poetry has any value whatsoever? It's shit and shouldn't even be grouped in with real poetry. Literally anything can be free verse poetry, so it lessens the weight which the term poetry holds for actual poems. If your poem doesn't rhyme, then it's automatically lessened in value by several magnitudes, though it can be redeemed if it has a good structure and flows well, like e e cummings's work. This has been my free verse poem, titled "Fuck Free Verse Poetry"
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>>7356999
>If your poem doesn't rhyme
>pleb gets trips
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>>7356999
Get off my board, essentialist.
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I bet you don't like modern art either because it's not just all about "muh landscapes".
Get with the times, grandpa.
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This comes up on /tv/ and /co/ a bit... Please tell me you guys have read it and/or have excerpts?
I'd hate it to just be a holy grail..
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>Christian
>fantasy
>Linkara
gay
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>>7356982
Like you're not curious how hilarious it'd be
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Should I do it? 25€ is a hefty price for a bit of memeing though.
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Where did academia and literature go so wrong?
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>Kenyon College
Can you believe people pay 200,000 US for a degree from this place?
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>>7356955
he is an alumni.
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>>7357008
>he is an alumni.
>an alumni
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The ultimate literary battle:
The Iliad or The Odyssey?
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>>7356909
I liked The Odyssey more.
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>>7356913
Yeah, well, I liked the Iliad more.
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>>7356909
I feel that the Odyssey has had a bigger influence on popular culture and "storytelling" generally.
However, there seemed to be a lot more "proper" literary techniques in the Iliad. There's a more intense characterization and the prose (particularly during the battle scenes) is plain fantastic.
Remember, Goethe described the Iliad as "a glimpse into Hell", and Tolstoi thought it was "a miracle". The Iliad is the more highbrow work, I think.