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I enjoy reading. But the only things I'm left with upon finishing a book are basic recollection of the plot and a rare quote.
How exactly does literature benefit me?
What am I getting that I wouldn't get by watching films or anime?
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>>9711955
Make sense of what is and isn't.
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I prefer non-fiction and forget most of it
But it builds my world so to speak, the way I see things, and it might determine how I behave
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>>9711999
How can you tell that it does?
Sometimes, I read a book and really like a character and want to behave like he does. But I can never keep up the act long enough.
But I think it has to do with the fact that I'm spineless loser more than anything.
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Why the hate? Part 2 ain't that bad desu.
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>>9711881
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>>9711881
I am currently reading 'Ute av verden', and the prose is seriously Eragon-tier bad. I actually sort of enjoyed the first part of Min kamp but I won't be touching anymore Knausgård novels, ever.
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>>9711881
I heard only the first two volumes are good, then he goes to shit. Possibly due to the media fame he received.
I remain unconvinced that calling his series My Struggle isn't a massive marketing gimmick and that he manages in the final volume to unite himself and Hitler in any kind of way that isn't stupid as fuck.
Just when you thought new-sincerity could be something...
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Describe a writer's prose style and other anons try to guess it. Fiction or Nonfiction.
I'll start with an easier one.
>squamous, unnamable
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biomechanical, emergent
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contemporary, druggy, yet deceptively plain
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OP here. Meant to say try to use two to four adjectives.
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"... in St. Petersburg, the most abstract and intentional city on the entire globe. (Cities and be intentional or unintentional) "
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>>9711705
Forgot: What did he mean by this?
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>>9711705
I think the underground man references St. Petersburg as "intentional" because of it was built with the intention of accessing the Baltic Sea, as well as moving the Russian capital towards the West, which was Peter the Greats goal with buildng the city.
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>>9711705
literally a city artificially created by the state
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Anyone like doing math and reading continental philosophy/literary criticism but dislike analytic philosophy?
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I dont know what that other stuff is but I-I like math. Does that count for anything onii-chan?
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I dislike all of the above senpai desu, is that ok?
You're on the toilet as the bowels do their job and you realise your phone is not within reach. Your mind creates a scenario or replays a scene from your memories.
It's a painful memory and it makes you visibly wince and you even say something out loud.
Who reacted to the scene produced by the mind?
a) the mind
b) (you)
c) no one
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Apologies forgot the last option:
d) Everyone
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>>9711429
>phone is not within reach.
>owning a smartphone
>being a full grown adult who cannot go without flashy lights and sounds for ten fucking minutes
>being this crippled with ADHD
>going on a literature board to say you don't read while on the toilet
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>>9711446
>goes off on filler background information and ignores the essential query
And you say I have ADHD?
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Starting a new general for our mentally challenged /lit/izens so that there's a place even they can be intellectually stimulated in without pretending to know things about politics/literature and shitting up rest of the board.
What coloring books are you currently working on?
Favorite publisher?
Favorite things to color in (flowers, animals, landscapes, etc)?
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All the idiots lack the self-awareness to come in here.
The coast is clear. We can talk about books!
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is this the peterson general
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>start with the Greeks
>start with Harold Bloom's multicultural canon
All you need to start with are four books. These four books are more influential on civilization than any other book.
>muh Pushkin
>muh Goethe
>muh Rabelais
>muh Cervantes
>muh Dante
>muh Virgil
>muh Plato
>muh Homer
Nope. We need the highest standards. These standards are Anglo standards.
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>>9711291
Good ol' Paradife Loft
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>>9711302
There's nothing funny about Early Modern Englifh spelling.
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anglo literature is inferior
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I'd like to learn the entire history of humanity from a historical perspective.
Any recommendations?
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You could start by learning what a bibliography is
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>>9711214
Travel faster than the speed of light for however many light years you want to see history back and then direct the most powerful telescope to be invented toward Earth.
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How does one write good short stories? And what makes a short story good in the first place?
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>>9711060
Just start writing them
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>>9711069
I get that practice makes perfect but surely there are some common mistakes among beginners?
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read short stories, note the economy of words and scenes, and when writing know where you want the story to end - write towards the ending, not from the beginning.
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> when one of your books gets water damage, but you do a good job of salvaging it.
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"water damage"
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>>9710918
Post pic. :3
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>when your e-reader gets water damage, but you do a good j....
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Does anyone have the ePub or Mobi?
There's an epub on archive.org, but it has poor formatting.
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>>9710837
https://www.amazon.com/Decline-West-Volumes-1-2-ebook/dp/B00O0YNYNW/
It's only 2.43$ and good formating
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Only in German
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>>9710837
Just buy the book pleb
You won't understand it though
>move to new city
>only bring war and peace, brothers Karamazov, moby dick, manufacturing consent, origin of species and the republic
>realise I'm a pseud fraud because I only picked important books, not ones likely to be enjoyable
>order ringworld, flow my tears, lots of light, and history of western philosophy from Amazon
>realise the pseuds will insult me for reading recent books and not having read the important ones
>realise I'm just like the "I just LUV books" crowd
>cancel my orders
Damn, I hate literary / book culture. Why can't I be left in peace without coming in to contact with pseuds who pretend the Greeks were gods or 6/10 women using books as beta orbiter attractors, or anyone who doesn't treat books as disposable entertainment.
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>>9710667
If you care about what others think and let that affect what you read then you're hopeless
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>>9710667
>Flow my tears.
Nice.
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>>9710667
War and peace and brothers K are genuinely enjoyable reads
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>literally D'Annunzio with a katana
Why does this board overrate so much this faggot
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>>9710649
You at least have to try criticizing D'Annunzio, otherwise your post has no substance, people have nothing to respond to other than the fact that you don't like both.
If you aren't just shitposting you should write better quality posts next time you are OP son.
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>>9710685
Italians are greasy wops
Good enough?
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>>9710685
I'm criticizing the fact that you'd rather talk about a copy than the original just because that fucking gook killed himself
OMG SO EDGY *_*
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I don't get what the appeal is for this book. I forced myself through the entire thing and I genuinely did not like it. Is there something I'm missing? Is this just babby's first Afghani history?
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>>9710632
The vast majority of people who name-drop that book just do so to virtue signal. It's their way of signalling that they care about the plight of impoverished 3rd world Muslims without having to know anything about Afghanistan or the deeper reasons for US involvement in the middle east.
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dude we wuz raped and sheet
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>>9710632
It was considered relevant when it first came out and milquetoast types love their oppression/child abuse porn.