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I'm 95 pages in so far, should I finish it?

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Much like moby dick, I just got memed into picking up this extra spicy homo-erotica called Picture Of Dorian Gray. Im really having trouble taking these English men seriously. I also find Basil and Henry to be creepy with their predatory behavior towards Dorian and they obviously have feelings for young Dorian Gray. I'm 1/4th of the way in and Dorian seems like he is the perfect trap for Victorian era England.

Does this pedo/homosexual theme end or what? Why is lit suggesting this book?

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Feynman is a poster child for critical thinking, intelligence, and efficiency. Even the way Feynman read scientific papers was brilliant—read abstract, guess conclusion, and then check conclusion for surprises to see if the article was worth reading. This man was nothing short of a person who understood exactly what he was doing and for what purpose. I want to take advantage of my common sense more often, and I think it is something wholly unconnected to science but rather connected to all kinds of problem-solving. How would you best describe Feynman's problem-solving ability, and what steps can you take to emulate it in one's studies and every day life?

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What is the genuine lit. criticism of Harry Potter? I know we like to spam H. Bloom's writing on the series, which I can't deny has some water to it, but I think it's a compelling thesis to assert that Harry Potter as a seven book sequence has far surpassed any other piece of literature in the last 30 years for popularity, longevity, and impact on the world around us.

JK Rowling may not have been a perfect author, but I think it's undeniable that her literature has had a huge impact on the world. Before anyone says that its not literature, and that it's just a series of children's books, I would like to counter that with the idea that children's books being the most important books of our time is not inappropriate or unreasonable when considering the fact that most of, if not all of, written work today is written at somewhere along the level of craftmanship as far as complexity is concerned of a children's book.

Save for esoteric blindly hoping, staunch traditionalists who fear to step out from the shadows of the fast receding literary greats of the 20th century, and even before then, I don't think there is anyone that can assert that there has been any great production of literature in the last 30- 40 years that can say it has the same amount of impact as Harry Potter has.

I would compare DFW to the academic world of literature to JKR to the state of our world as a whole. JKR's Harry Potter is the last piece of sincerity before postmodernism ravaged the medium (Just look at the author's twitter now), while DFW's writings were the last pieces of sincerity that people read as the beginning of post modernism, or at least felt inoculated to admitting it existed at that point. The only difference between the two writers is their breadth and market; DFW was in the heritage of literature as a whole, while Rowling was writing as a layman from a cafe in scotland somewhere.

What do you guys think?

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Hi /lit/.....
I decided to educate myself and start reading almost a year ago. I can feel that im getting away from people, I hate them. When they start talking beside the normal "hi, how are you?" They dont say anything else basically. Their inner monologue doesn't make sense. Any advice?

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>reading Inferno by Dante
>find normie-scribbling on THE FUCKING VERSES
NOT EVEN MARGINALIA
REEEEEEEEEEEEeee

(the one in red is song-text,
the blue one is a date-time timestamp, also with song-text
and the pencil one just says 'lmao I was young then' pointing to the date)

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What's the SMT: Nocturne of /lit/?

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Lets do it again!

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What do you guys think of Hunter S. Thompson?
Could you guys recommend me similiar authors?

Also general drug literature thread I guess

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Any books or advice to help with my fear of dying?

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Buonsalve, per chi è interessato ad iniziare , o ricominciare, una lettura delle opere platoniche in ordine cronologico, è invitato nel nostro gruppo Telegram. Per essere aggiunti, contattate @Furfurruppo.

Cito qui il monito del creatore di questo gruppo:
" La chat di gruppo non sarà strutturata come un semplice gruppo di lettura, non saranno infatti stabilite deadline di lettura et similia, ma sarà più da intendersi come un gruppo di discussione che permetta il libero scambio di opinioni e di conoscenze sull'Opera platonica.

In corrispondenza all'attività prima descritta sarà avviato un percorso di lettura integrale dei dialoghi, con l'obiettivo di mantenere viva l'attività del gruppo e offrire nuovi spunti di riflessione. I dialoghi verranno letti in ordine cronologico, utilizzando un manuale per riferirsi ad interpretazioni di esperti in materia. Come precedentemente anticipato non saranno presenti deadlines, sarà infatti a discrezione dell'utente adattarsi alle tempistiche generali del gruppo, e a sua discrezione sarà anche la decisione di leggere o meno uno specifico dialogo. L'obiettivo è quindi quello di creare un confronto tra utenti tramite la lettura dei dialoghi, e non la lettura dei dialoghi in sè.

Si farà riferimento all'edizione Laterza dei Dialoghi (ampiamente disponibile nelle biblioteche o sul web), mentre per il manuale verrà utilizzato "Storia della filosofia antica: 2. Platone e Aristotele" edito dalla Carocci (978-8843080441)

La chat è pensata come un gruppo di discussione moderato, con una bassa frequenza di messaggi. Cerchiate di essere il più chiari possibile, prediligendo lunghe e articolate riflessioni al posto di corti messaggi atomici. "

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Where do I go from here?

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I'm looking for books on European history that don't preach to me about how it's bad to only care about the history of Europe.

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How did Dante's Hell come to be?
I'm a bit confused here..is it the crater that Satans fall from Heaven left or does it come from the earthquake when Christ was cruzified ? or both?