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Me, judging from the cover
>oh cool, it's gonna be a Red Sonja ripoff about a warrior chick fighting monsters and shit
reality
>Tara just gets the shit raped out of her non-stop
>>8276418
>shit raped out of her non-stop
Do you mean that figuratively, as in she keeps getting defeated in fights, or literally, as in non-consensual sex?
>>8276468
literally non-consensual sex. The first 15 pages or so are describing Tara's upbringing in a secluded castle and her lithe, sexy, 16 year old body. She leaves the castle to be a warrior and go on a great quest, literally the first people Tara meets are a bunch of dudes who surround her, take her captive without a fight, strip her, paw at her 16 year old boobs and and vagina, and take her to be a slave for the prince. Then follows about 50 pages of Tara constantly being drunk on aphrodisiac wine and having tons...
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>>8276481
>Then Tara and the 12 year old girl are thrown in a cell together, and immediately start having sex.
excerpt pls
Is there such a thing as a good method for convincing people?
you might want to check out rhetoric
>>8276363
dont try to convince them, thats the best method
>>8276363
The socratic method. Google it, OP.
What would be the absolute minimum Western canon? (Less than 20 books.)
>look up st johns college great books program
>read the most well known book from the authors listed
P much that
Moby Dick should be the one American representative.
>>8276291
The Bible
Any good Japanese novels about WW2? Would be interesting to read from the perspective of a gook writer
>>8276288
>Japanese
>Gook
It's a sad day when even 4chan can't get racism right.
>>8276288
I'll sum it up for you
>we dindu nuffin 2 : tokyo drift
t. korean
Confession of a Mask
ITT: literary characters who would be really good at Pokemon GO
>Alexei Karamazov
>walks everywhere all the time
>first half of the book is just him walking all over the place
ITT: literary characters who would be really bad at Pokemon GO
>The Tempest
>Alonso, King of Naples
>gets owned by a storm
>stranded on an island
>ends...
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What a bizarre idea for a thread.
I'm not going to give a response.
This is literally Characters who walked a lot: the thread.
Pretty much any character from the French philosophical movement.
Are any of the Star Wars novels actually worth reading?
I'm not expecting anything stellar but surely they can't all be trash?
>>8276279
>surely they can't all be trash
define "trash"
>surely they can't all be trash?
Why can't they?
I believe the consensus is that the Thrawn Trilogy is worth reading (in the sense it's a great story, not in the sense it's great literature), and the rest is steaming manure; but I'm no Jedi Master.
There is always the Thrawn trilogy, which made even fans start taking the books seriously simply because it tells a cool story. The X-Wing series is also great and has excellent characters. I don't think anyone will argue about how good either of those series are.
Besides them most of the stuff is middling and you'll hear people picking out favorites here and there. It's best to go by the authors really, since a lot of garbage fantasy writers get Star Wars contracts. The good ones are:
Timothy Zahn
Michael Stackpole (if you can put up with Mary...
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"I am enlightened by my own intelligence"
What literary masterpiece is this quoted from?
a teenager from reddit
>>8276254
Aalewis, from reddit
"‘In this moment, I am euphoric. Not because of any phony god’s blessing. But because, I am enlightened by my intelligence.’""
>>8276254
A meme that reddit actually got to prior to 4chan.
Bravo, reddit.
the person in this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkPR4Rcf4ww) argues that for something to be considered "kafkaesque" it has to not only embody oppressive nightmare-ish qualities but it must also possess some element of irony in it.
that being said what is the element of irony in the metamorphosis? does one exist?
>>8276208
The irony is that the metamorphosis into a useless insect who directly causes the lives of the family to be worse than they would otherwise be is the cause of the entire family he had been providing for to themselves metamorphosise into far more independent and "better" human beings than they had been before the literal metamorphosis occurred.
>>8276208he already was a bug
>>8276208
>A bug with a funny voice trying to explain his family why he hadn't get up earlier
Why do libraries nowadays stoop so low as to now rent out video games? Should the library be purely entertainment-based or should it be a bastion for the great arts of the past? Something in between, or different entirely? And why has the popularity of reading books gone down as other media has sprung up? What's so alluring about playing a video game vs. reading a good, captivating book? What say you, /lit/?
>>8276202
because video games are instant entertainment
couldn't tell you how many times reading has pissed me off that I don't touch that book for awhile.
at least with video games especially halo
if the storyline gets boring i can hop online and play other people. no matter how shitty I am i'll get a match I can win.
>>8276202
Almost as bad as genre fiction 2bh
>>8276202
Libraries provide resources for their community. Yes, the original idea was for them to provide academic resources, but it's a reasonable thought to expand on that concept. People wanted genre fiction so libraries carried genre fiction. Then they wanted movies and now they want games. Especially now that most academic sources can easily be found online, there is little incentive for libraries to focus their physical collection on academics. I can't speak for all library systems obviously, but the New York...
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Name one reason one shouldn't read this on an e-reader?pro tip: you can't
I don't own one. I don't feel the need to get one. I already own the book.
You can't abrasively read it in public and have people recognize the sky cover, ask you about or comment on the shear physical enormity of the book
>>8276211
I'm okay with that. I usually (if not always) read while lying down. The book is so big and heavy it makes my arms tired pretty fast.
GOML faggots
http://www.arealme.com/vocabulary-size-test/en/
>>8276193
>>8276193
pure ideology
>>8276212
>you are shakespeare
Do you want to read more than you do read?
How to read more everyday? Does it get better and easier? I get tired quick, it drains me.
It depends on what you're reading. A big misconception that most people on this board fall victim to is that you must read a 'canon' in order to be a 'reader.' Never quite understood this. I read about things that I find interesting and want to know more about. Try researching on Google about vague topics that you would like to know more about, or themes that are relevant to your past experience. Hopefully you will get a sense of the style you prefer, and will get less bored. Try reading some short stories first if you get intimidated by long narratives....
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I spend more time searching books to read and buying them than actually reading. Feels bad.
How to unlearn what Jesus taught me? Will close reading of Machiavelli suffice?
Why would you want to do that?
lol wut?
>>8276122
I feel it harms me. It takes Jesus to practice what Jesus preaches. I'm no Jesus.
>he introduces characters past the first third of the book
>>8276119
>he introduces characters
>he introduces characters on the second to last page of the book
Fuck you, Pinecone.
>all of the book's chapters revolve around introducing new characters
well that really took an unexpected turn near the end
I recently read this book too. That shit is bleak, even by O'Connor's standards.
>>8276125
If you have read her short stories you might have read some of the chapters. She adapted the novel from her short stories, I think
