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There was a site with a bunch of Japanese novels. It had the contents of the Japanese Literature v9 zip too (as I uploaded it), but it had much more than that. It also had some western literature and stuff, but its main purpose was japanese lit.
These books have now been purged.
So, I made a MEGA folder with all the stuff. Just the Japanese lit folder is about 900MB. The full thing is about 3.5G.
Have fun: mega://#F!51Q0waSI
Key: !4Ut-eePQr9YSjHJJTQs7Ew
Mega has the advantage of letting you download folders as zips, and of having a download...
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You're doing God's work, anon!
Thank you.
Free access to 100% literature 100% of the time devalues it.
I can't think of a word, /lit/. What's a title to give to like, a king's right hand man- a bodyguard/advisor/best friend/greatest warrior/most trustworthy companion?
Call him "friend"
Dat boi
>>8143378
Vizier
Are we a society in decline?
>>8141096
because there are now multiple and more exciting mediums of entertainment.
reading was never a very exciting thing to do, it just had no competitors.
>>8141096
There is no correlation between intelligence and literacy. I have met complete morons who read daily. Reading even seems to make some morons think they're anything but, which is far more unpleasant than an illiterate fool.
>>8141106
*tips*
Is it really better than the movie?
Absolutely. It's an entirely different world and Deckard is almost an entirely different character.
>>8139159
Not really, no. He wasn't a good writer. Also the movie wasn't that good but I'd still take it over his writing.
If there's one board that will provide the best jokes, it's this one. What're some of the best jokes you've heard?
>>8138903
You.
Two archers are marching through a field.
They are on their way to what they'be been told is their next battle site. They stop to eat lunch and the first archer sees a small fly resting on his quiver.
"We don't usually get flies at this elevation, huh. Guess this guy is living the solo life."
They finish lunch and carry on.
In four miles, around ten thousand flies traveling in a dense and horrible cloud burst forth from a nearby cluster of trees. A vicious and awful entity, the swarm makes a violent buzzing noise. That sound alone...
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>orange you glad I didn't say banana
Fuck meme trilogies. Design a course syllabus and reading list of 5-6 texts. Give a brief description and list any prerequisite courses necessary for enrollment.
How to get into literature
This is a course for plebs who want to get into literature. There are no prerequisites because books should be fun for everyone
reading list:
The Little Prince
Slaughterhouse-5
Crime and Punishment
The Odyssey
Ulysses
>>8133831
American Post-War Literature.
Description: a course that teaches students about the state of American literature post-ww2.
Prerequisites: none, really.
Reading List:
The Beetle Leg by John Hawkes
The Recognitions by William Gaddis
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country by William Gass
The Sot-Weed Factor by John Barth
Women and Men by Joseph McElroy
Take It or Leave It by Raymond Federman
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
The Public Burning by Robert Coover
Milkbottle...
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>>8133849
I came to talk shit but instead award your impressive effort with a (you)
I know people like to shit on Dan Quayle for how he once misspelled potato, but I picked this book up at a Goodwill store on a whim, and it was surprisingly quite good.
Has anyone here read Dan Quayle's book? Thoughts?
>>8147006
Did you take that photo yourself, there's a weird watermark there.
>>8147006
>how he once misspelled potato
It's worse than that.
He went to an elementary school for a press event, and he was watching the children as they learned and one child got up and spelled the word potato on the board.
The child spelled it correctly, but Dan Quayle took it upon himself to correct the child and tell him that Potato is spelled.
>P O T A T O E
So he wrongly tried to correct and elementary school student who actually...
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>>8147024
George H. W. Bush's Super Market moment where he was perplexed and amazed by the scanners, was almost as embarrassing.... ALMOST. H. W. Bush and Quayle were two bumbling morons.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akLjzTisZoI
http://www.nytimes.com/1992/02/05/us/bush-encounters-the-supermarket-amazed.html
What is the best book to read while you're on the toilet dropping a deuce /lit/?
>>8146948
joyce love letters
>>8146948
Ann Coulter, then you can wipe your ass with the pages once you're done.
>>8146948
My diary desu
>reading my copy of Gravity's Rainbow
>all of a sudden the book stops working
>get a notification from the hooded ones saying that my Patrician Club license has expired
>I have to go through all seven trials and the vocational initiation of the high brow again
>tfw the hooded ones wouldn't let me into their underground meetings because they could sense my Patrician's License was fake
>tfw had to make my own Patrician Club
>tfw I'm the only member
Who are some writers similar to Richard Yates?
>the hooded men watch me as I hold bowling balls
>I don't understand, but I comply and they scrutinize my hand-hold and I try to impress them with how long I can withstand their test
>suddenly, I realize, they're watching my wrist strength and they know I've never read a book heavier than a novela because my wrists aren't buckling
ITT: books /lit/ tricked you into reading.
I stopped about halfway through, you almost got me.
i LOVED this book and was actually going to ask if you guys have any recommendations for things similar to this? i've looked at some other atwood books but they sound lackluster in comparison to this one and so i haven't settled on anything yet
>>8146511
Tits or GTFO
Also this one. That ending was terrible.
>friend starts writing critique group on WhatsApp
>he posts first page of his novel
>people like the world-building
>tell friend he's cramming too much into one page and suggest he should write more than a page before asking for critique
>post my own short story (full draft)
>one person says he doesn't think he will get it so he doesn't read it
>nobody...
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I'll read your short story OP.
>>8146381
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9yvb03R2qs
>>8146387
Some other time. It's for a contest, so I don't want to post it anywhere else until the results are released.
I think part of my problem is that I was writing a short story about research and Jorge Luis Borges while everyone else in the group wants to write hard science fiction about future space exploration and wars, so nobody is interested in what I want to write. I think I'm also way too critical of everyone because grad school has made me really blunt about peer review.
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Who /Ayn Rand/ here?
>>8146064
the fountainhead was better than shitposters give her credit for
>>8146067
I doubt the anons criticizing her have actually read any of her works
>>8146067
i loved the Fountainhead. Atlas Shrugged was meh
Better than Book of the New Sun?
both shit. the shrike is is a fag.
>>8145968
no, you must be kidding it is like comparing pleb tier with masterpiece.
>>8145968
much worse
The lif so short, the craft so long to lerne,
Th’assay so sharp, so hard the conqueringe,
The dredful joye alway that slit so yerne,
Al this mene I by Love, that my feelinge
Astonieth with his wonderful werkinge
So sore, ywis, that whan I on him thinke,
Nat woot I wel wher that I flete or sinke.
For al be that I knowe nat Love in deede,
Ne woot how that he quiteth folk hir hire,
Yit happeth me ful ofte in bookes rede
Of his miracles and his cruel ire;
That rede I wel, he wol be lord and sire:
I dar nat sayn—his strokes been so...
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>tfw spent a month trying to decipher this shit
How the fuck do english majors get taught chaucer? Is there a guide on how to pronounce the words properly because it's impossible for me to decipher them on paper.
>>8145903
Here's a translation I found online:
The life so brief, the art so long in the learning, the attempt so hard, the conquest so sharp, the fearful joy that ever slips away so quickly--by all this I mean love, which so sorely astounds my feeling with its wondrous operation, that when I think upon it I scarce know whether I wake or sleep. For albeit I know not love myself; nor how he pays people their wage, yet I have very often chanced to read in books of his miracles and his cruel anger there, surely, I read...
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>>8145903
you probably can find an adapted version, either simply annotated or both annotated and with modernized spelling
I've read two of Kant's shorter works, and would decide on reading Critique of Pure Reason depending on how intrigued I was with the work after reading Korner's introduction on him.
It turns out that Kant's really among the most difficult writers I've ever read: I had a hard time reading Prolegomena and Groundwork, and even with Korner's lucid prose, Kant is still difficult to penetrate.
What are your thoughts on Kant?
The guy has a huge fucking forehead
Read the SEP article on him and then get acquainted with his terms, not that hard. Prolegomena is basically CoPR-lite.
that the philosophical community describes understanding in terms of penetrating into someone elses ideas instead of accepting, enveloping, and integrating them reeks of phallogocentrism
