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>Bought this yesterday
Did I waste my £8.99 /lit/
>>8100654
Read it and find out yourself you lazy bitch
>>8100654
No, it's a very interesting book.
>>8100673
Thanks I bought it because I played the game based on it and enjoyed it, so I was wondering if I wasted my money buying something based solely on its relation to something else.
Favourite page turners?
My hands.
>>8100640
Call be a pleb, but The Da Vinci Code is a page turner hate it or not
I'm going on deployment and have 26 audible credits available
Tell me what to get /lit/
What does a credit sound like?
>>8100599
Like the screams of 1000 autistics
>>8100597
Tell us what you like first.
I just finished the fifth book of Knausgaard's My Struggle.
Now I want to read more Norwegians.
Who are the best Norwegian novelists?
>>8100555
There are not many. Here are some:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/may/21/top-10-norwegian-novels-dea-brovig-knausgard-hamsun
He lists like 500 of them in the book you fucking idiot. Delete this thread.
I just finished part 1 of Hunger.
I feel really bad for the protag t b q h...
>cool guy, refuses charity
>"T-today's my lucky day! Things will finally look up!"
>waits outside bank for the only person left in town that he knows to trade off the last of his belongings
>"really like to help you man but see - not an ore to my name right now my man!"
>"here take it, it's nothing,...
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Can anyone recommend a book or a guide that will help me get more out of what I read? I read How to Read Literature Like A Professor some years ago, but I'm hoping there are better guides out there.
>>8100551
What are you trying to get out of your reading? You can read for pleasure, or you can read for learning - maybe even both. But I've found that trying to find meaning in every little detail ruins my enjoyment of a story. Just because an author describes a room as being blue doesn't mean he's referring to the sadness of his childhood growing up in a ghetto. Maybe the room is just fucking blue.
If you want to analyze fiction and "get more out of it", then take some lit courses at your local...
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>>8100573
I plan on literature being my minor anyways when I go back to school (hopefully in the fall), so I thought if I found a book that will help me be a bit more analytical in my reading it will give me a head start.
How and why to read, by Bloom? Why to read the classics, by Calvino? Just put those two into amazon search then look at the things it suggests
ITT covers you liked that the publishers replaced and now you can't get it anymore unless you find it used
Gonna post a few
Im scared of you and everyone
and wouldn’t you be overdone
The so slight so lice a linger
Tell you all right might finger
Trusting long sloppy bet
Turning Evil East Coast West
Return and chill to the western landed
for a year then re publican
in and out of rain and dry
to learn the drugs and culture why
I’m over back tight near the home that brought us in
alone, turned out, residences those for never being
borne without’
>rhyme
not poetry
>>8100429
what is it?
Anyone here speaks portuguese?
Are green texts a form of literature?
Are there people on the other 'pleb' boards who have writing talent but do not realise it.
Pickles are delicious but
>eating them warm
>>8100378
>tumblr_inline
>>8100378
i always loved those pastas for hypotetical "the big bang theory" episodes, where a very dumb joke would trigger an apocalyptic end of the world scenario. that anons writing was tight and funny.
Nobody likes to do the crossword with me... wanna help me /lit/? Please don't cheat
Popp
>>8100371
What is this for?
>doesn't even post it the right way around
How do you justify breathing?
Why Darconville's Cat takes it?
>>8100363
who is the draconville's cat in that story, the guy or the girl?
>>8100381
The cat is speaking to the reader.
Darconville has better prose
Name a book that presents a great mystery and doesn't let you down when it's revelead.
>>8100241
Inherent Vice
>>8100241
My diary desu
I got just the thing.
Best kind of books.
ITT: good autobiographies from surprising people.
>>8100158
The only time i will ever say i love mankind is in reference to the wrastler. Hes a fucking boy and a half
also inb4 my beautiful dark twisted world by ellie rodgies
I've read this book more times than I'd care to admit. It's so god damn enjoyable.
His children's books are surprisingly good too. One would have the Rock's stiff chairshots would have turned his brain into mush
Examples taken from this thread: >>8099477
Hemingway (Old Man and the Sea)
Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet)
Conrad (Heart of Darkness)
Tolstoy (War and Peace)
Dickens (Tale of Two Cities, Christmas Carol)
Cormac McCarthy (The Road)
Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)
Dostoyevsky (Crime and Punishment)
Mark Twain (Tom Sawyer)
Jonathan Swift (Gulliver's Travels)
Anything else you guys can think of?
that man has no dick and neither does the woman
R.L. Stein (Night of the Living Dummy)
>>8100122
That picture famously leaves out the male genitals because it was considered inappropriate to send into outer space.
I don't understand Chomsky's reaction here, can anyone give me insight?
https://www.samharris.org/blog/item/the-limits-of-discourse
Pic unrelated
>>8100017
>samharris.org
>>8100024
It's an exchange between the two.
What's not to understand?
Why isn't normal for screenwriters to publish and sell their unproduced scripts? Why isn't it normal for audiences to buy and read them? There are plenty of people who do this stuff with stage plays.
because it hasn't caught on yet, you fucking moron.
>>8099922
i have no idea but i can give u my half assed speculation like everyone else on this board if you want
