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ITT: awkward endeavors and confessions regarding /lit/erature-related things.
> younger brother is adamant that he will make a career out of writing
> he tells me all his friends think his writing is good
> I say I want to support him as I'm interested in writing too and that I'll read some of his work
> he sends me it by e-mail, I open it
> it's full of typos, mixed tenses, over-use of hyphens and semi-colons, especially when they're not appropriate, the vocabulary is mostly monosyllabic...
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Anyone got that pasta saved about the guy going into the book shop with no books and The Great Gatsby has a back 2 school sticker on it? He farts uncontrollably
Dog-earing your own books, as long as the pages aren't glossy, is completely fine.
I have tremendous interest in post-structuralist and critical philosophy and how it relates to film. I'm looking for films to add to the chart. I don't usually come here I'm on GoodReads or on /r/books most of the time, and I'm french. Sorry.
Only good film in that chart is OGF.
>epiphenomenal
You mean 'third-person' perspective.
>>8224086
>russell crowe
>good
And shits on it, because it is terrible
https://www.traditionalright.com/victoria/
>>>/k/30422117
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From the OP of the second thread, highlights of the first thread
>William S. Lind (born July 9, 1947) is an American monarchist, paleoconservative, columnist, Christian, and a light rail enthusiast.
Preface
>The state upheld its unpleasant responsibility of setting torch to faggots, was what marked this as an act of Recovery
Chapter 1
>We lost a lot of guys on Iwo, and they were men, not women. Of course, these were the years of “political correctness.” Our...
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/k/ is always so predictably one-dimensional.
why not read a book for its literary merit instead of pandering to your own interest(s) then circle-jerking in your echo chamber.
>>8223628
Oh, believe me. We do that and there's a place for it if we want to post about it. It's called /lit/.
This book is specifically a propaganda piece for the phrenology of the military sciences: multigenerational warfare.
Do you ever troll the fuck out of your professors?
I mean you could, just for a laugh, or to take a shot at bourgeois society, or just in passing.
>>8222987
that's how you get A's
>>8223029
It really isn't.
Something I figured out toward the end of my undergraduate academic career (since at this stage you're simply expected to demonstrate that you are articulate and know how to use facts, argue, etc, and not to actually develop large-scale projects or have original thoughts, although those are nice when they happen), is that professors are also human beings who like to get their egos stroked a bit (i.e. reference what they've taught you in their courses especially while writing...
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>>8222987
>professors
>implying lit professors are competent people in even the ivy league schools anymore
How difficult is it?
>>8222822
Just long
>>8222822
looks good , whats it about?
not hard but long, kinda like my dick
Why is modern literature so terrible?
Terrible target audience.
>>8216595
publishers getting more handsy with school and uni partnerships
it all went to shit when they started merchandising in libraries
blame corncob tortillas yecarthy for de-legitimizing "high literature" into being oprah book club worthy shite
now all we're left with is 2 categories: YAshit and oprahshit
In Which We Try to Discuss the Current Scenes Edition!C'mon don't let it die last year it was a great group
/lit/ has an Infinite Jest summer reading book group!
If you have an interest in this book -- whether you have read it or not -- please consider joining us!
We will be reading Infinite Jest from June 3rd (today) – August 11th with an average pace of 15 pages a day.
Discussions will take place right here on /lit/, hopefully we will keep a thread floating around most of the time, but should activity slow down new threads will be...
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>>8216336
Schedule with calendar dates, thanks to the anon who corrected them.
I'm about 200 pages ahead of you guys but reading slower
I really like the Clipperton scenes coming up and look forward to you guys catching upEspecially with the Lenz stuff I'm at
Is there any reason the name of the Wheelchair Assassins isn't actually proper French? It's not even a Quebec dialect.
I want to speak against communism, so I should probably read Marx
Where should I start with him?
don't bother, just read r/theredpill
>>8207623
Read Ludwig Von Mises. Specially 'the anti capitalist mentality'. You can't go wrong with the Austrians.
White Wine
I sat at my computer staring down the list of online drugs we would soon be purchasing: Molly, Northern Lights Marijuana, and pure, uncut, Peruvian Coke. Graduation was right around the corner – a month and a half to be exact. Three years and thirty bricks ago I had been a failure, a dropout, an all-around loser; now I’m was drinking tiger’s blood, fucking bitches, and winning. There was Wendy with the nose ring, clit ring, and punked out, skull-tatt, arm sleeve, Kali, curvy with skin the color of aged oak, and Claire, the clean shaven bleached blonde, she...
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>>8228625
Vapid and vacuous. Congratulations, you've captured the zeitgeist!
>>8228627
1 out of 3 ain't bad, it least it's not a total miss. Care to expand on your thoughts? Problems?
>>8228642
>it least
*at least
Odd request but does anyone have this book and can upload a picture of the sleeve cover to print, or know where I can find a picture of it large enough to print? I ordered it off amazon and the dick sent it sleeveless without mentioning it was sleeveless.
If you order it directly from the author's website it will come with the sleeve (in my case anyway) and he will even sign it.
This is for about £30 or whatever equivalent.
>>8228480
Aww shit I fucking spent 60 on amazon.months ago. It is going for like 110 used now.
>>8228484
https://irvingbooks.com/xcart/
£29 here
Hello, I have a question as a newfag to books.
I recently started reading Plato and have sometimes really really hard time focusing on it and forget what it was about really fast. I would read 2 pages, just to remember I forgot everything, because my mind was somewhere else.
Is writting down the parts of the book I'm struggling with in a separate book something you do also? I don't know if I'm just dumb or have some focusing issues, so I write almost sometimes the whole page down in my notebook and it helps me tremendously.
Is this just normal,...
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And the other thing is, my library loans out books for 25 days. I sometimes struggle to understand everything in the book, because I also thing everything that is in there is important. So I find myself writting down half of the page in my notebook for 10 minutes. After time, this adds up pretty quickly to 2-3 hours. How can anyone read a book with 400+ pages in 20 days is beyond me, especially if you aren't familiar with the content and are really struggling with. Sometimes it even feels like I'm wasting my time trying to understand something. However, I do have this...
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>>8228439
I also think*
>>8228435
>as a newfag to books
>via 9gag.com
get out
Looking for books to read. Nothing about politics or economics. Fiction and Non Fiction are both acceptable. Looking specifically for something not just any Tom, Dick, or Harry has read before. Something not so out there or well known. But it has to be well informative, interesting, or something along those lines. Much appreciated.
>>8228208
check the wiki and do your own homework
>>8228208
my diary
>has had had
>>8228135
you've been has had
that that
English is a shitty language.
It's good for small talk between working class plebeians and nothing else.
What are some good books about love polygons?
Anna Karenina
>>8228125
Romeo and juliet, o wait...
>>8228125
Emilia Galotti
So someone on /tv/ told me my philosophies are too casual and childish.
Can you fine /lit/erate gentlemen give me some books and discussion on a mature and intelligent philosophy?
>>8228122
SWTG
yeah right here pal
>>8228122
Standard Greeks + Plotinus' Enneads.
