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What are some philosophical literature that would help me to make the wisest decision when facing a crossroad in my life?
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Wu-tang members Capadonna put it best when he said "i came to the fork in the road and went straight"
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Has anyone ever had one single old whore rape your entire family? 2017-06-08 08:11:46 Post No.9611611
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Has anyone ever had one single old whore rape your entire family?
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I mean literally rape. And I mean a woman. What was it like?
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and here I thought my Moby Dick shitpost was bad.
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>>9611611
Yeah, but it was for charity.
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>/lit/
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>If you frequent /lit/ you're not the kind of person who is going to be a true writer
>If you were, you'd just continue to read and write avidly with no compulsion towards anonymous recognition
Hows that realization working for you faggots? Or have you not recognized it yet? I'm gonna assume the latter.
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don't assume anybody besides you actually comes to lit for "recognition"
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>>9669304
BTFO
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>>9669304
This board is entirely for showing off, idk what else you think its for.
People are actually interested in each other's opinions.
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Get /lit/, /adv/ here, coming' straight to the source for this one
Taking a women's lit course in the fall, what are some authors/works I could pretend to know about in the effort to take advantage of that sweet, sweet muff buffet waiting on me?
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>>9669248
I mean besides what the professor assigns, obv.
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>>9669248
>women's lit
you're going to get raped in a very non-sexual manner, anon. you should read books by women who won't appeal to that course to heal.
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>>9669253
There's no way a boom is gonna harm me, bro
Let's just say I lift and would never be caught dead bragging about it in public
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Does /lit/ like Shakespeare? I've only read the stories that I've been made to in school but recently I found a collection of all his works on my mom's old bookshelf and started going through it.
What's your favorite work of his? So far mine is still hamlet but I'm looking forward to king Henry IV, V and VI since I've heard good things.
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You'll want to read Richard II before you read Henry IV Part 1 and 2, and then Henry V. The four plays are linked together, and, as it were, tell a single story about the rise of Henry of Monmouth and the House of Lancaster.
My personal favorite is probably Henry V or Hamlet.
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Shakespeare's best play is Anthony and Cleopatra, and Cleopatra may be the most vivid character in Shakespeare, narrowly beating Hamlet and Falstaff.
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I'm a big fan of Richard III.
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>>9669092
Free pdf on his website, bucko
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>>9669156
>implying I couldn't afford 100,000 copies of this bullshit
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>>9669172
pretty high on the pareto distribution hey sunshine?
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My college books - need opinions and vocabulary difficulty rate 2017-06-22 11:24:43 Post No.9668661
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My college books - need opinions and vocabulary difficulty rate
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>Beowulf - shorten version
>Marriage of King Arthur
>The Wedding of Sir Gawain
>Mansfield Park
>Jane Eyre
>Wuthering Heights
>Great Expectations
>Mrs. Dalloway
>The Room 19
>The Scarlet Letter
>Uncle Tom's Cabin
>The Song of Solomon
>Martin Eden
>The Sun also Rises
>For Whom the Bell Tolls
>Utopia - Moore
>A Clockwork Orange
>Brave New World
>The Time Machine
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>>9668661
High School level
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>>9668672
I don't study English literature or anything like that. These are just suggetions by our professor.
Not sure that they're all on high school level - for example I've read Dickens and the vocabulary is pretty difficult, full with slang and footnotes.
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>>9668756
>These are just suggetions by our professor.
So what the fuck is he a professor in?
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What's the most common type of male women find attractive in romance erotica?
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>>9668562
Mysterious rich dudes with big dicks.
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pirates
booty arrrgggg walk my plank ;)
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Why do you want to know?
It's not like they're anything like you
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Books that elicited a sincere emotional response. All of part three for me, cried a good bit.
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>>9668455
Kidnapped by stevenson.
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There's a few chapters that hit me a lot harder than I expected.
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>>9668477
I find it funny how these are the types of books that people who haven't read them/couldn't get through them would slam for being artificial, gimmicky, insincere, overly difficult and show-offy, but they're the first books in a thread on a Guyanese sock-knitting club asking about books that elicited a sincere emotional response in the reader.
As for my contribution, Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep, "Farewell, My Lovely", The Little Sister, and The Long Goodbye (ESPECIALLY The Long Goodbye ... ending fucking stupefied and floored me)
Still never cried over a book lol, just got really emotional inwardly
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Empire or Republic?
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>>9668453
>play-toe
Fucking Americans
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>>9668600
DO YOU WANT PIZZA?
DO YOU WANT HAMBURGER?
GEORGE WALKER BUSH IS MURDERER
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It doesn't matter, both will fail if its population are uneducated.
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What are some recommended patrician writing workshops? 2017-06-22 09:40:50 Post No.9668294
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What are some recommended patrician writing workshops?
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and where can we download it?
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how white is the man who took this photograph? bitch
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>>9668654
you forgot to post the workshop
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Clarion Workshop for science fiction & fantasy
Some excellent writers teach there and graduates have gone on to become excellent writers
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Hey /lit/, what do you think about the new pickup?
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I like it
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quel triumvirate triumphant! ;^\
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>>9668126
I swear every second-hand copy of Infinite Jest looks just like this. Do you people just violently whack off while reading this, or does attempting to read this actually throw you into a fit of rage?
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What the FUCK is irony? I've been trying to figure this out for two years now and I feel like Borges searching a hexagonal library for however many books, only I just want to know what the FUCK irony is. Is Borges ironical? Is DFW ironical? Oh! I get it! Irony is the opposite of sincerity. Wait, no, that's insincerity. Wait, was I being ironic at the beginning of this sentence when I said "I got it?" Or is that sarcasm? Holy shit put my dick in the dirt because I figured out why Wallace killed himself. It wasn't for the fame or because he suffered from depression or because fate willed it so that I might be prone to write him in as my Virgil for my 21st century Divine Irony. It was because he didn't know what it (irony [are these brackets or parentheses ironic?])
WHAT IS IT? Seriously guys. I'm not safe from it wherever I go. DFW, Joyce, Borges, Tolstoy, Proust, Shakespeare, the Romans, the Greeks, fucking PLATO. Fat fuck erudite Harold Bloom (God bless his soul) can't go twenty pages in any of his works without mentioning irony.
>I suggest that the recovery of the ironic might be our fifth principle for the restoration of reading. Think of the endless irony of Hamlet, who when he says one thing almost invariably means another, frequently indeed the opposite of what he says.
We've all heard this definition. I'm down with it. I can get behind it. (am i being ironic right now because although I'm down with the definition I don't know what it means? [because but]...) how the hell does that apply to the actual text? (Oh and btw I'm not talking about dramatic irony you fags). Is Hamlet ironic when he's contemplating suicide? "Oh God I could be bounded in a nutshell blah blah my personal favorite quote" Is that irony? Is him fucking with Ophelia at the play irony? Is him fucking with R AND G irony? G and R?
H.C. (GOD)dard: "I Henry VI opens, with a note of high irony, on the funeral of Henry V." God how. It's ironic that they're fighting after succeeding? THAT's ironic?
>"I don't know how to 'espress' myself," I would gloat over her admission with an ironical and brutal common sense worthy of Dr Percepied. - Swann's Way
>Why, then, try to make ourselves think that Shakespeare liked [Two Gentlemen of Verona], except in an ironical sense, any better than we do?
Please God help me. When Chandler from Friends cracks a joke: is it irony? When Pynchon says sez: is it irony? When the fuck is Joyce being ironic? Are socratic dialogues ironic? Is 4chan ironic? Is saying "nigger" ironic? Am I gay?
Pic unrelated. I think.
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pic is ironic, it relies on the viewer knowing more than it shows, and then socratesing them to tears for suspecting it meant what it clearly means. that's basic irony.
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http://www.earlymoderntexts.com/assets/pdfs/shaftesbury1709a_1.pdf
Read this.
Then watch some MDE or something.
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I ironically enjoyed your post. Or did I?
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How many books at a time do you read /lit/? I used to read only one and was very religious about it. Now I usually do three: one fiction in English, one fiction in Romanian (native) and one nonfiction (any language). My German is 'under construction' so hopefully I will be adding a fourth one.
What about reading in other languages? Do you fancy it, or do you prefer sticking to your native tongue?
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>>9668065
One book at a time. Anything else is plebeian
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Man I like this picture, feels good seeing them together
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I tend to finish 99% of the books I begin, because if I get used to dropping I won't finish anything. Starting few books before you finish them can make you drop very easly. I usually read one book in my native language and one in English. I need long time and effort to finish English so I sometimes read it intermittently with a native.
I don't know any other languages to the level of reading books, sadly. I tend to learn vocabulary by practical usage, like PC, movies and series, but unfortenately nothing catches my eye.
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/lit/ Recomend me books like 2666 but actualy good
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>>9667906
Try other numbers like 1984
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>>9667906
>Recomend me books like 2666
YES
>but actualy good
damn it, fuck you.
What didn't you like about it?
You could try Hopscotch but you might hate that. Has a similar vibe though.
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>>9667944
i didnt like the fact that large parts of it felt somewhat rushed although i admired the scope of it .