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Wow he's... great, just great, a joy to ride and an incrediby intelligent man.
>a joy to ride
OP you sick necrophiliac fuck
>>7634958
fuck I meant a joy to read
>>7634958
Wow... you can't even make good threads. You lazy dumb fuck.
>the warosu archive will be back they said
>he's just on vacation they said
why do you need an archive of a mongolese art board?
>>7633425
To direct people to when they make the same threads over and over again.
>>7633471
why does it bother you seeing the same threads over and over again? life is too short for that kind of business.
Hello Lit, in my book club we have one member who believes in critical theory, very much a postmodernist. Which makes it very hard to discuss books due to her using these arguments of critical theory. She is a lesbian and wants to look at every book through a lesbian, female or feminist viewpoint. What is the best arguments to take on critical theory and in particular, post modernism? Counter examples maybe? Or maybe a few philosophers have argued against it? Let me know the best way to attack as it is driving me mad....
more like
Premodern: here's how it is,
Modern: it's not what it was, was it ever?
PostModern: who's to say what is or was one way or another?
>>7633375
you can 'do' critical theory without believing in its philosophical orientations. If she's making a strong case and the only thing you can do is strawman the boogyman of the postmodern, that's pretty childish.
>>7633375
If that's all she's doing with postmodernism she's a boring ideologue
Dont engage her, dismiss her as uninteresting.
>people who criticize a book because they can't identify with any of the characters
>people who write a book off as "too confusing"
>people who call a book pretentious
What triggers you, /lit/?
people who compare pynchon to shakespeare
Lit major here
Our classes have come to
>book x is shit because there are no female characters
>book y sucks because the protagonist is a weakling
>book z sucks because plot
>>7633070
that first one triggers me something fierce because 'relating' is the most narcissistic 'stupid pleb thing to say' when it comes to talking about media and I hear it constantly
Enlighten me.
8=D
>>7632247
>>7632241
This is water
Just finished marathoning this book. Is it good?
Should I read the sequel?
>>7635880
>is it good?
why do people ask this? or is this bait?
You just read the book, dont you have your own opinion of it? Why ask for the right opinion?
>>7635909
get with the memes gramps
What some good books about medicine that a layman will enjoy?
Pic related got me intrigued.
>>7635856
everybody and their mum reads oliver sacks
not that he's bad, i just figure you've heard of him
can't think of anything else, OP
good thread topic, though
>>7635876
I haven't! I had never heard of him, actually.
I'll check him out, thanks Anon!
Hey /lit, just need an opinion on my short story thus far. It's rough, not finished, no spellcheck etc but still, would be good to get some feedback. So in 6 posts here is what I have.
Yellowed.
People were pissed off. Global warming was still having its day in the spotlight with half of New England under water, overpopulation was pushing up to the 15 billion mark making it impossible to walk down your street without stepping in someones shit and Governments all around the world were continuing to smile politely in the face of catastrophe. All the while mind...
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Cigarettes had continued to raise in price over the years. Not steadily but in bounds. What was once a pack a day vice was now more like a delicacy you spaced out over a fortnight as you watched the world around you suffer till next pay. The cheapest pack of cigarettes when the tobacco plague hit was 90 bucks. No shit. The beauracratic talking heads argued that the tax was to ensure minors wouldn't be tempted and to make people reconsider whether they really wanted to spend upwards of a 100 dollars to kill themselves. But they knew the answer to that, we all did, so we...
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Then like that, Stahn's disease had the finally rectangled boxes disappearing out of store fronts at your local tobacconist; "come back next week maybe", they would say, tensing their grip on the weapon under the counter. People had started stockpiling, selling at hugely inflated rates, everyone was running out. Everyone except the tobacco companies who had everything on lockdown, trickling out their stocks to select customers and shops. Smokers were becoming volatile, lucky to get a drag a day as it was. The upper class are killed in the streets, everyone gains...
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The smokers (59% of the worlds population) decide that if you're not with us, you are against us, triggering a mass hysteria the likes of which made Jonestown, Apartheit and The Third Reich look like your childhood bully pushing his influence on the school playground to get lunch money. Anti-smoking activists lynched by mass mobs, non smoking sections in bars and public venues targeted in IED strikes, and tobaconnists strategically parting with dwindling wares to the highest bidder were always a fire bomb waiting to happen; only after their stocks were raided of course....
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Recently read Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and am fascinated with Joyce. Anything I should read before Ulysses? Odyssey maybe? Help pls /lit/
Pic slightly related
>>7635353
start with the greeks
Started with Edith Hamiltons Mythology. It seems a little basic, though.
Who here likes Gabo? What were favorite books of his?
Cien años de soledad
I want to get it physical but the cheapest ones are these with awful cover and I don't have money.
>>7635586
Puto captcha
>>7635592
You call that awful? BITCH THIS IS AWFUL.
/lit/ I've been asking my philosophy professor a lot of dumb questions, and today this was mine:
>Why do we hurt when we hurt others, and is mankind's capacity for violence something to overcome/live with?
What keeps us from hurting each other? We feel bad when we do it, so what is it, /lit/? God? Chemicals?
>>7634280
Two books for you:
On Killing by Grossman
http://bookzz.org/book/2036990/40c283
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker
http://bookzz.org/book/1207300/44d443
>>7634295
Thanks man!
these are literally the questions that evangelion tries to answer
i got you senpai
What's your favorite Lovecraft story /lit/?
Mine has got to be The Whisperer in Darkness, it wove together his influences and own creativity perfectly. This story is definitely one of his more original ones, showcasing his strengths. Another reason I enjoyed it may of been because this was the only Lovecraft story to genuinely unnerve me since reading The Colour Out of Space. His stories are always frightening for their implications, but the actual suspense and paranoia in this story is very much horrifying on it's own, rather than heavily relying on his broader themes.
Also worth noting, my favorite before this was The Dunwich Horror, which is still great. Lovecraft's stories set in rural environments aren't as common but still distinct.
>>7631292
Liked the suspense in The Haunter in the Dark.It also takes place in the city I was born in.
erich zann brah
What did you guys pick?
If you have a Prime account you get a choice of six of books from Amazon's publishing for "free".
real books
They all look so good, I think I'll get each one.
>>7635968
not too impressed by the descriptions of any of them. I went with Moonlit Garden. I'll give it a shot
Where do you go online for extensive critical interpretations of novels you've read /lit/? I find myself wanting to read other, analytical, opinions on texts but don't really know where/how to start looking online?
JSTOR
>>7634799
Preferably free. or is it?
>tfw 4chan is contrarian I can't even say how good 8 1/2 is.
Literally filler: the book
>>7634397
Literally pleb: the redditor
>>7634403
hey reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeedit
>>7634397
You're right! Your reductive take on a classic work has changed my mind and added great value and discussion to /lit/. Generations of critics and writers are wrong! YOU, OP, SITTING IN PAJAMA PANTS IN YOUR DORM ROOM'S TWIN BED, YOU KNOW BETTER. Bless us bless us with your wisdom
