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ITT: books that /lit/ trolled you into reading
>not liking if on a winter's night
pleb detected
this book is actually a great filter - if you actually enjoyed reading and literature there's no reason for you to dislike it. if you're a fraudulent pseudointellectual faggot (aka most of lit tbqhwyf) you'll hate it
so grats op, you've successfully outed yourself as a pleb retard.
I can appreciate his command of language. I like some weird lit, but I just don't like this.
Satan appears before you and grants you the wish to give a book of your choice a sequel which is just as well written as the first. Which book is it?
>>7455229
The Bible
Only genreshit get sequels and Satan shit on genre threads before he disappeared from /lit/
Finnegans Wake
Which edition should I purchase?
Or, should I get another one completely?
Basic writing of nietzsche modern library
>>7455111
i don't mean to hijack this thread good sir, but if i want to start reading Nietzsche do i need to read someone else before? or i can get straight to him?
Avoid Kaufmann at all costs, I only read the Ludovici translations and I recommend you do the same.
I really fell in love with Albert Camus. Especially with "The Myth of Sisyphus". It has changed my whole perspective of the sense of life and the obligations we have.
How has it changed your life?
good for you
The World As Will and Representation
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Notes From the Underground
All of Kafka's novels
Hamsun's Hunger
recommended
Nietzsche desu senpai
What's his best work?
>>7454639
The Soviet Union
>>7455381
/thread
Read Georgi Plekhanov instead
>2,500 word essay due in a month
>Only written 334 words
>tfw studying all weekend for exam on Monday
>tfw after I finish that exam I have 3 days to write a 30 page paper
It's on a self-selected topic related to critical race theory. I think technically we were supposed to tell our professor what the topic was, but it's a bit late for that now. At this point in law school I'm just happy passing classes
this thread is shit
you could knock out 2500 words in no time if you weren't such a worthless sack of organs that anyone else could put to better use
you have a month
just stop breathing for the rest of our sake
fucking saged
>saturday
>wake up at 7 am to study for exams
>sit at desk at 8am ready to begin
>mfw it's 2:46 pm and i've just been fucking around online
Which philosopher or writer had the most JUST life?
Diogenes
>>7454473
I will? Sweet
>>7454445
should have killed the bitch once he found out his 'son' wasn't his.
The best opening sentence in literature is?
The self sucking opening scene from Huckleberry Finn
>>7454145
"Humanity… All of my suffering on this world has been at the hands of humanity, particularly women"
>>7454145
"Even Camilla had enjoyed masquerades, of the safe sort where the mask may be dropped at that critical moment it presumes itself as reality."
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How do you write female characters? I'm a male in my early twenties and I always write very poor, superficial female characters.
Could anyone recommend any male writers that portray female characters well?
""I always start with physicality when I'm writing as a woman. So I always have a vagina and think about having periods. I always start with an embodiment. And I think when I read men writing about women, they never seem to have thought about that. They've never thought: actually, you've got a cycle, you're different. So if...
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>>7453934
>I always write very poor, superficial female characters.
Are you implying that your male characters are deep and emotionally complex?
Wish people would stop asking this retarded question. People who can't write females are almost always incapable of writing men as well, and for precisely the same reasons.
>>7453938
not really . but they're viable and believable
So how does your accent fit into the prescribed US accents?
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/12/20/sunday-review/dialect-quiz-map.html
Pic related is mine, I'm from urban Australia
accurate
What does this mean? Im not even a native speaker.
I grew up in the states, but I didn't grow up in any of these places. I lived six years in Sacramento. Me and my brother both have weird, affected accents.
How come he has not responded to Sam Harris yet? Is he afraid he will get a bruising?
that man looks rather jewish
>>7453558
More he can't be arsed talking to Ben Stiller again.
No need. The correspondence that was published showed Harris to be completely outclassed and out of his element, to the point where any reasonably neutral observer would consider him a dishonest and in all respects vastly inferior adversary, essentially unworthy of Chomskys time.
Tldr: Harris got F'd in the A.
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Are there any young adult books that aren't shit?
portrait of the artist as a young adult by jim joys
>>7453271
>implying that's a YA novel
>>7453296
It's a book young adults should read.. IMO.
/lit/, seriously, how do I find literary friends? It's hard as fuck.
Why would you want friends?
Kill yourself op
it's not worth it
sifting through the obnoxious, and the /lit/-style autists will drive you crazy.
if you must, try poetry readings or open mics that cater mostly to writers/poets
>>7449807
ha ...
no but really
ITT we post our fav books and try to guess stuff about those who post 'em.
>Demons by Dostoyevsky
>Yes by Thomas Bernhard
>Absalom, Absalom! by Faulkner
>>7447314
You have a large extended family composed of eccentrics.
>>7447324
ok, see. here's a problem: why did you include the word "composed" there? "a large extended family of eccentrics" means the same thing. tell me—do you have many friends? any at all?
>>7447314
You appreciate tradition and things that are simple but elegant
Here's me:
The Recognitions by Gaddis
Gravity's Rainbow by Pinecone
Under the Volcano by Lowry
Okay /lit/, for the last 4 years I collected greentexts obsessively like an autist child, and now I compiled a book out of the best of them.
If you want to get it, go do it free.
Pic related.
Greentext stories are the second worst aspect of 4chan after memes.
>>7445115
>hates nearly everything about the place
>stays
>>7445115
Greentext stories are literally best.
