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biggest number wins
Now post your list of gfs OP.
>>7532153
breeders leave
>>7532153
>197 books to buy
>how can i possibly afford dates
What kind of job can I get with a BA in English?
how good are you sucking dick?
>>7531960
If you're monolingual, then I have bad news.
>>7531974
Not very good
>>7531994
Could I not teach?
What are some (good) novels or short stories that have characters who become aware of the fact that they're in book?
What about novels or short stories that involve experimental interactions between character(s) and author?
Are there books that execute this well? It seems like it can get masturbatory pretty quickly
google meta literature
the recommendations you'd get here'd be no different than a ones you'd find on google or wikipediathe concept works better in films desu
>>7531863
At Swim-Two-Birds
not exactly what you're looking for, but If on a winter's night a traveler by Calvino is extremely meta and playful without being masturbatory
Anyone reading or has read the book? Currently reading it and while the pace is a lot slower compared to A Storm of Swords, I'm really getting into it.
Doesn't change the fact that it's still very slow-paced, though. Wish it picked up speed.
AFFC and ADWD are two of the worst books. The plots get a bit convoluted, and they are more boring compared to the other ones. That being said, it does expand the world more, and the interesting parts are indeed interesting.
Also, despite being two of the worst ASOIAF, they are still great books,
>>7531821
I agree on the interesting parts. The parts where things start to pick up are some of the best, but there's not much of them, sadly. Let's hope Winds of Winter has something more in store.
Rory Gilmore read a helluva lot of books - and Australian writer Patrick Lenton has compiled a list of all of them. So how many have you read?
http://www.buzzfeed.com/jennaguillaume/how-many-books-from-gilmore-girls-have-you-read#.jdxnPLe78l
http://www.buzzfeed.com/krystieyandoli/all-339-books-referenced-in-gilmore-girls#.fqbWvpA2VX
http://www.blackwhitereadbooks.com/#!faq/cxh2
>>7531810
>“I live in two worlds, one is a world of books,” she said. “I’ve been a resident of Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County, hunted the white whale aboard the Pequod, fought alongside Napoleon, sailed a raft with Huck and Jim, committed absurdities with Ignatius J. Reilly, rode a sad train with Anna Karenina and strolled down Swann’s Way. It’s a rewarding world.”
That's a decent selection.
>>7531810
>buzzfeed
aint clicking that shit nigga
>>7531820
generic selection
could easily google "good books" and come up with that list
I plan to read this guy to understand contemporary movements. What is his core book?
>>7531635
The God Delusion
Waking Up is pretty cool
Define "contemporary movements." If you're referring to the campus fringe / tumblr variety, I doubt any of them have read anything by Sam Harris. They're probably too preoccupied with feminist authors.
Lately I have become frighteningly aware of my own mortality. I've started to suffer from mild death anxiety.
What philosophers can help me cope with mortality and the transience of life? Are there any philosophers who have made credible arguments for an afterlife or benevolent God?
Thanks /lit/
Have you considered the other side of approaching death, meaning embracing it exactly because it is an end to existence?
Maybe that's not appealing to you, but honestly after reading a lot of Roman history (pre-Christianity), the idea of a good death has really started getting under my skin. Immortality through being remembered and all that.
>“I call upon my own courage to find release from this hateful life.”
>"What will make you hold life cheap?"
(Both from Livy)
'Death is nothing to us; for that which has been dissolved into its elements experiences no sensations, and that which has no sensation is nothing to us.' - Epicurus
Afterlife might be the most cowardly human invention ever.
What are some literary easter eggs? By easter eggs in this sense i just mean references to literary characters and works that caught you by surprise. Like Thoreau's Walden cabin in Fallout 4. Stuff like that
Augustus in The Aeneid
Wtf
>>7531433
Rousseau mentions something from Thucydides without mentioning his name in the confessions.
...that's called an allusion.
Hey /lit/
Got a kindle for Christmas, and enough gift cards for a couple books.
Have read about many of Carl Jung's theories, and am captivated by them. Want to read all of his books. I understand his writing style makes for a pretty tough read, though, and the passages from his books that I've read so far seem to confirm that. Which ones should I start with?
>Which ones should I start with?
the greeks
>>7531326
His ideas are old and dumb
So
Before you do that read The Man Who Was Thursday b/c it's free on kindle
>>7531326
I'm reading The Portable Jung right now because someone else recommended it to me. So really I'm just repeating someone else's recommendation.
Pleb here, started reading in october and i have a few books in my backlog, what should i read first?
-One hundred years of solitude
-Karamazov Brothers
-Myth of sysiphus
-Infinite Jest
-Lord of the flies
Thank you
I'd say Infinite Jest just because you need to be young or at least inexperienced in order to find it worthwhile.
If you save it to last, you won't find much merit in it in comparison to what you read prior.
>Empecé a leer en octubre
>Leo El Meme Infinito o Los Hermanos Karamazov?
Cómo eres tan bravo. Yo te diría que empezases con los otros que pusiste, o, en todo caso, darle a algo más accesible de Dosto o DFW.
>>7531240
>respondiendo en español sin ninguna razón
Anyone here studying lit or finished their degree? Was it worth it?
>paying 300k to read books
>>7531086
>living in a country that charges for higher education
i do comp lit and hermeneutics in a related field
i like it but you gotta dodge a lot of cuck shit m8
Ezra Pound discussion.
Has anyone here read The Cantos of Ezra Pound?
>>7530984
Parts. Maybe 30 out of the 120. Why?
>>7530989
What did you think of it? Did you like it?
>>7531005
I thought it was bad. A mess. There were good fantastic moments, but then there were hours of something very different.
ITT /lit/ writes a short story one line at a time
>>7536830
The end.
>>7536924
helluva start, keep going.
this is the story of a man named stanley
Write something in the style of a well known writer and others will guess who you are mimicking.
I see a couple children, their path stained with berries squashed
Their cotton t-shirts wet by the sprinklers
Elder man fallen asleep by the Firs
By wooden decks no longer pressure washed
Oh! See this boulder too heavy to lift!
Brought here by glaciers ice
Across the street vendor changing his price
A brother brings you a package. A gift!
what is that a photo of
>>7530960
creative minds
>>7530973
the girl is one the right in beautiful.
What did you guys think of this?
Thinking of buying a copy
>>7530914
Go for Hypersphere.
>>7531042
t. hypershere author
It's basically "/s4s/ The book"
