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>A real page turner
>"Reads like a conflation of the Inferno, the Iliad, and Moby-Dick.....An extraordinary, breathtaking achievement."
>the last panel
>>8112032
"Powerful... A thrill-ride."
What are some good books on getting fit?
No Sun and Steel please. It's nonsense.
>>8112021
All you need is the basics if you are a flabby seat potato.
Read this and get the gist of barbell lifting and the mechanics involved. Don't read too much into the dieting section. If you start lifting this way for the rest of your life every week it will change your fucking life I promise you, fuck all that spiritual mojo shit. All you need is lift.
>>8112063
Are you speaking from experience?
>>8112021
>>8112063
Read Murakami:what i talk about when i talk about running.
Don't do SS
Is this book worth buying? I've never read anything by Coulter but I've seen her plug this book and she makes sense to me.
>>8111960
>conservacuck propaganda
>worth buying
No
>>8111960
Only if you've already read The Protocols of The Elders of Zion 600 gorillion times.
>>8111960
Why does her face look like it was stretched downward in Photoshop?
On simply technical terms, who is the most skilled writer in history.
doesn't need to be the best plot or write even good stories or something deep, only technique.
I'm sure it has to be some poet.
>>8111838
I'd argue Virginia Woolf or Joyce. Even though they weren't huge fans of one another.
>>8111838
you're acting like this isnt a completely arbitrary quality
>>8111838
In what language? And in what time range?
What should I read next /lit/?
Angels & Demons
>>8111765
That's not in the pile
>>8111771
I thought you meant a suggestion based on those.
I am in the process of reading along with audiobook of pic related and I am wondering, besides dubs did 4chan latched so heavily onto this because it referenced autism, has a character make a nigger joke, andBateman is into feminine dick porn
It also has hilariously violent descriptions, and there are funny parts where Bateman is just a straight up silly bastard
>>8111700
checkem
>>8111700
American Psycho has the same kind of nihilistic navel gazing in its ruminations which 4chan's userbase has come to adopt, and has a main character who is at once affluent and suffering immensely, an image many 4channers wouldn't mind projecting themselves onto. Its the Evagelion of books in that sense.
Hey, to those who have read this:
Did you read it with any sort of help—annotations, end notes, a guide?
I'm wondering how necessary notes are.
An annotated version would be incredibly helpful to a first time reader.
>>8111671
I initially tried reading it with notes but quickly became over-reliant on them. I decided it was best to put the notes away and use google if something was really bugging me.
But honestly, Ulysses isn't that difficult. The only people who are going to have problems are those who read it with the, "I have to prove my intelligence," mentality.
>>8111698
That's interesting that you feel notes were actually a burden. I can imagine that, if you mean you didn't like your reading being interrupted all the time, or felt like you didn't give yourself enough time to think about things because the "answers" in the back were too tempting to resist.
You said that Ulysses isn't that difficult. Are you from the UK? I imagine the language and the references are less of a problem if you're from that area. I'm American.
Alright, I got all the epubs of Asimov's The Foundation. BUT I just noticed that they add up to thousands of pages. They are worthy? Or I shall not fall for the meme?
I don't have time to loose, I want to spend a good time reading.
>>8111668
>I don't have time to loose
>time to loose
>to loose
Buddy, you seem like a real positive negativist. I'm sure it'll be worth every second of your time.
>>8111668
>hey /lit/ are these works by a classic, highly respected author worth my time?
>>8111668
just read the 4 foundation books if you like the first one.
Daily reminder that Hemingway deserves nothing but our tears for what a fool he has been
>>8111564
Yea.. you gonna have to expand on that Mr Vidal
"9/11 was an inside job." - Gore Vidal irl
>>8111867
And he wasn't even wrong.
>social construct
>>8111559
Why did you attach a picture of a frog u weirdo ;))
more like spook
>>8111639
Are you trying to flirt with me?
>"Sincerity becomes the honesty of people who cannot be honest with themselves."
David Foster Wallace
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>>8111520
did esme say that?
>>8111520
Willie BTFOs everyone in that book. I just got past the part where he fucking reams How to Win Friends and Influence People.
Lad was the absolute maddest man of em all.
>>8111520
Get your rare Gaddises here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3Czd7GwNy4
Monthly reminder that this abomination happened.
>>8111512
I'm new. What is it?
>>8111515
I'll break it down. The final quarter of last year witnessed a lot of Googledocs projects trying to recreate the Totalitarian book (or make a sequel, either). These efforts were almost always met with hecklers and people who'd delete all the effort out of spite (some people thought it was in accord with something called anarchic-synergism which they dubbed their "movement"). Miraculously, the book you see before you managed to reach a good 400 pages and was published by the end of December.
There...
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Can you reccomend good examples of alliteration in poetry or books?
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
Why is everyone obsessed with this fucking word?
>>8111507
Which word?
ITT: Writers and philosophers that definitely browse /lit/
me
The NRx is the dumbest shit.
>>8111220
/thread
Someone had posted a paper about 4chan some weeks ago. It was extremely well written. Did someone save the link?
Pic unrelated.
>>8111184
A paper about which board? Is it the /fit/ one or the old /b/?
>>8111473
About 4chan in general and its users. I forgot to save the link. It was well written, so definitely not /b/.
>>8111482
That's sort of a vague description, do you at least know what website supplied the article?
