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What's the quality like on those B&N Collectible editions? I'm thinking about picking some up, but some reviews say that the paper isn't great quality or the inking and stickers on the cover can come off.
>ywn be american
>>8130291
the fact that the cover is a fucking sticker is enough to make me not want one
Shit quality: do not buy. I have the Huck Fin from before I knew better and it fell apart after a single read.
Pretty tight sitting at an airport bar drinking mezcal and tequila reading Under the Volcano while sitting across from a 30-something year old man reading a JK Rowling pseudonym novel. AMA.
>>8130090
photos you senor homo.
>>8130090
>drinking
how does it feel to be a degenerate?
>>8130096
he's lying.
So, I read this book for fun and not in school...what even happened? Nothing?
>>8130023
>being so dumb that even TCITR is too deep for you
>inb4 rape phoebe meme
>>8130023
>reading for fun
>>8130023
>what even happened?
He literally tells you
>nothing?
pretty much
the title is the theme, and the whole thing could've been wrapped up in the scene at the end with the older drunk guy to the end scene with Holden and his sister at the carousel
In terms.of literature what will replace the novel?
Will dfw be worth shit in 100 yrs? Or anything less than 40 or 50 y/o?
In one hundred years I don't think people will be reading at all outside of things needed for their specific studies or careers.
who knows
think of less boring questions next time
>>8129971
>Implying humanity will survive
Even 50 years more is quite a stretch.
I think I am now officially desbooged, the only problem that remains is how to best explain what is a spook to my spooked friends in a way that they can understand, any tips on how to do that?
>>8129945
You must kill them, it is the ultimate ghostbuster tactic.
>>8129952
this OP
but do yourself first
>>8129945
make them watch this vid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6QMmrM4BmI
>He came in with an armload of firewood and got a fire going in the hearth and sat before it and rested. Then he turned to the girl. He took off all her clothes and looked at her, inspecting her body carefully, as if he would see how she were made. He went outside and looked in through the window at her lying naked before the fire. When he came back in he unbuckled his trousers and stepped out of them and laid next to her. He pulled the blanket over them.
Oh boy
And I thought Lolita was smutty. Franzen you dirty dog
I love ASoIaF lots of action and pretty hot too
Can /lit/ recommend me any fictional books about creation of society? Post apocalyptic/ideas for new types of societies and the execution of those ideas.
I did not know how to search for this specific theme from the sticky's links.
=/
Lord of the flies
The mysterious island ( aka the convenient island)
>>8130924
This and Brave New World.
BNW in particular with how society is pretty much restructured into a class driven hedonistic dystopia.
How can I improve my reading skills?
I would like to read faster while understanding the text
by reading more
>>8129822
dude, i barely understand myself, let alone anyone else, especially not their damn scribblins. it's all confusing. just read slow and pretend.
>>8129822
Read more
What does /lit/ think of The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith?
>>8129805
I think it was a huge influence of Marx.
Hard to read desu but a must if you want to read Marx.Adam Smith was wrong in some regards and his style of writing is a bit weird but a very interesting book if you can get through the bullshit.
Extremely good but boring once he talks about corn, i fucking hate corn rent.
Also the currencies, very annoying.
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What are some books that only white upper middle class college sophomore males read?
I just ordered:
>Infinite Jest
>Granvity's Rainbow
>The Recognitions
>2666
>Stoner
Please help
>>8129768
Read Less than Zero
>>8129775
Thanks, I will look into it.
>>8129768
At least 3 people in that pic are of questionable racial purity. Also Bolano is a Mexican
How many pages have you read today? Why are you not reading right now?
>>8129750
None. I'm not reading right now because I'm on hiatus.
>>8129757
>hiatus
Why?
>>8129750
Finished the last chapter of Notes from the Underground this afternoon, currently reading Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius.
Idk how many pages, I don't count pages.
>Grapes of Wrath
>Scarlet Letter
>Animal Farm
>Dracula
>the stranger
>war and peace
>notes from underground
>to the lighthouse
>fathers and sons
>moby dick
>>8129763
>moby dick overrated
>>8129748
>Dracula overrated
Know how I know you all are idiots? Greatest writer of the English language seldom ever mentioned. I know it's not because you think literature shouldn't make you feel, because I see six Infinite Jest posts a day.
Could it be you haven't read it?
>>8129623
It's assigned reading in high school and college. That's why
>>8129623
there is literally a great expectations "thread" next to this one but of course most people on /lit/ haven't read dickens. the average age of this board is about 13 and they would rather have a thread called "my favourite philosopher is better than yours" than actually talk about great writers
>>8129623
i read David Copperfield. it just kept going and going and going. I like dickens, but i like other authors more.
>wake up after 12 hours of sleep
>inject caffeine in to my arteries
>turn up heavy metal music to 11
>read one page of picrelated
>fall asleep for another 12 hours
>>8129599
>19th century English lit
seriously hope you guys don't do this
>>8129599
>>8129607
Brainlets detected.
>>8129599
it was pretty good, the second half seemed to drag, the childhood of Pip was one of my favorite bildungsromans so far.
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz...
>>8129561
George Eliot is a literary genius. Middlemarch is arguably the finest English novel ever written.
>inb4 frog people
>>8129579
this is truebut Maggie Tulliver is in Mill on the Floss
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>>8129579
>Middlemarch is arguably the finest English novel ever written.
