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How does /lit/ feel about Selby? More specifically, The Room?
>>8226186
I really liked The Demon
DUDE
Is the same feeling of interpretational satisfaction fostered by East Asian schools as by Western schools? I heard that Asian students really struggle with understanding things like subtext because irony functions so differently there. But there are lots of great Asian authors and critics so I don't really see how interpretation could differ so much, unless it's a case of a majority of the East Asian population having no clue how to analyze things, which I think is probably the case.
Do Westerners maybe privilege digging the truth out of significance too much?...
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east asian culture is magnitudes more nuanced and subtle. it's mainly a function of confucianism and the highly stratified nature of society. communication must always be delicate and indirect
>Every grammar book has different ideas
I've arranged a meeting for Tuesday at ten.
>for Tuesday at ten
According to Huddleston & Pullum that's not a locative complement but an object complement.
>General syntax thread btw
>I give away my books when i'm done reading them
>>8226065
how does it feel to have tried to be an interesting thread maker and to have failed miserably question mark
What is the best cyberpunk novel you know guys? I really like reading one.
>>8225960
Richard K. Morgan's Altered Carbon
ITT Read, Expected, Got
What I read: Chesterton
What I expected: Woah really serious noir shit.
What I got: le absurdist humour
>>8225871
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What are some authors who you suspect ''write more than they actually read"?
Is this ALWAYS a bad thing?
>>8225698
>What are some authors who you suspect ''write more than they actually read"?
king
>Is this ALWAYS a bad thing?
not if you're reading philosophy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMTERytCNAU
:DDDDDDDDDD
I want to cut off John Green's lower jaw and force him to eat my pussy with his tongue hanging out of his head like Darth Malak.
A great satire series about the British empire in the Victorian era.
"I recognized the handwriting, and my heart gave a skip; when I opened it I got a turn, for it began, 'To my beloved Hector,' and I thought, by God she's cheating on me, and has sent me the wrong letter by mistake!
But in the second line was a reference to Achilles, and another to Ajax, so I understood she was just addressing me in terms which she accounted fitting for a martial paladin; she knew no better. It was a common custom at that time, in the more romantic females, to see their soldier husbands and sweethearts as Greek heroes, instead of the...
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I read The Gunslinger like a year or two ago.
don't remember feeling it that much and it taking me a while to get through.
is it worth continuing with the series or is the fact that I wasn't feeling it that much with the first book a good indication I won't be feeling the rest?
is it one of those series that gets better as you go along
No, The Gunslinger is the best book of the series, and if you don't like it you shouldn't read the others as they slowly devolve into bullshit and only people who really enjoyed the story/characters up until that point should read them. Also how did it take you a while to get through? It's like 200 pages
>>8225226
>Also how did it take you a while to get through? It's like 200 pages
I don't know. I guess because I wasn't really feeling it
I'm looking for a book filled with cold, philosophical speaking, like in A Picture Of Dorian Grey, but not so flowery, but cold and spine chilling.
The King in Yellow is a bit spine chilling. Not exactly philosophical though.
the conspiracy against the human race
the master of the day of judgment
Does anyone know of any Thomist or Aristotelian approaches to Althusserian structural causality or effectivity?
Uh... Start with the greeks?
Is it better to read the Discworld books in release order, or in one of the several different convoluted orders that fans of the series suggest?
You should probably read any of the series focused on individual characters in that order but which one you choose isn't all that important.
I'd go Rincewind - Death - Witches - Watch - Lipwig, skip the science and read the others whenever. Presumably you're not going to sit down and read them all sequentially anyway.
Why was it so good?
>>8223783
I'm reading the sequel now, really disappointed.
Pillars was great because of how easily it flowed from event to event, with the educational lulls in between. It also made me love each character, even William.
What do you think of using word clouds to summarize and/or analyze books?
Just read the book... what would reading a word cloud about it accomplish? Now comment sections on the other hand, word clouds for those can be pretty interesting.
