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Does anyone else think that these books are competely pointless?
One of the worst posts I've ever seen here.
Everything is pointless.
>>8074180
shitpost. you don't even explain your opinion.
Is it acceptable to buy a Wordsworth edition?
>>8074172
its cheap, why not?
>>8074172
Only depending on what it is
Their translations are trash. If you open up their Essential Kafka, the first line says he was changed into a "verminous, terrible bug" which we know to be objectively shit translating
Their english ones are okay if you can take the shit aesthetics and whatnot
>>8074172
I bought the edition of crime and punishment pictured and it's very poor. I couldn't tell you what's good but I'd recommend not purchasing that one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3nMKN3akt8
he looks like he's dying
is he going to be alright bros?
>>8074137
I think he's looking well actually, he seems to have a lot more energy and determinism lately
>>8074137
Is the full video available anywhere?
Is this guy retarded?
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I just finished reading Ready Player One and holy god damn shit. It's been awhile since I read a book and this one had me zoned out for four hours reading the ending to it.
What are /lit/s opinions on the book or the upcoming movie coming out in two years? Also, any recommendations for future books? I loved everything about this book and I want more.
lame ass bait
>>8074115
Book is truly terrible.
>>8074115
Suffers from the same flaw of thinking that references are inherently worthwhile that cripples Family Guy and Ulysses.
Is this book supposed to be confusing at first? I'm nearly 20 pages in bit confused on what's going on and who the characters are, am I just retarded?
>>8074045
are you an esl student? if so then don't sweat it
>>8074052
No, I'm not.
It's a very light book actually
What's thr problem thay you have with it, exactly?
Why is reading literature shoved down my throat by lit and the media and "educated society" as something I have to do or else I'm a stupid and bad person? It seems like a marketing gimmick to me. If I sat and read all day then I'd have no money. But society wants me to use my limited free time to read while telling me that it makes me a more valuable person.
As if "muh human condition" has to be learnt from books written by the same sections of society (the ones with access to the media-publishing-academia industrial complex). (inb4 /lit/...
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oo boy
neck yourself
Society 1billion percent would rather you not read.
The return on big Mac's soda, sports, action hero movies and vidya is much higher.
Ideally you work until you almost pass out, go to a restaurant watch the game and spend all your money, go home jerk off to cuck porn, watch tv and play vidya until your to tired to think when you go to bed, collapse, wake, and repeat.
This book is pretty funny actually
>>8073979
"Stop it, boner" the book
>>8073979
Yup, as it was intended to be. Though most of the humor went over my head the first time I read it.
If you want light hearted and funny pick up Pnin
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>>8073863
pleb
What does /lit/ think about Isaac Asimov?
i never think of him
He's good, but I haven't read enough of him or sci-fi in general to really say how good he is within his genre.
I robot is cute teen reading. If you didn't read him then, pass.
What does /lit/ think about Sylvia Plath?
WOULD BANG 10/10 BEST NEW OVEN-HEAD WRITER PLEASE KILL ME BUT NOT
Your children are asleep and nothing but intellectual hypocrisy crushed by a forgotten understanding of the meaning of the
PRETENTIOUS BULLS HIT IS CRUSHING I CAN NO LONGER NAVIGATE THIS
hell on wheels leave me be.
Somebody get this hot head outta here
>>8073581
>>8073581
I get a really normal, modernist girl vibe from her. Perhaps Plath herself lived to extremes, yet to me she reflects the presence of the feminine that has come to understand and leverage itself to enunciate what is thrust upon it, what it also interprets and constructs (perhaps, only through associations, as she was mainly a poet). I must admit, I see her as a personage more than a genuine poet (though, obviously, she is one of the greatest poets of her generation),...
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Got pic related as a gift recently, is it any good?
imo he's a hack worse than murakami
>>8073207
Dont listen to this fuckwit, yes is good go and read it.
>>8073205
Is he the guy who studied under joyce?
Is there any literature about incest or fucking your cousin?
Unfortunately, no.
>>8072836
Fuck this gay earth.
>>8072821
eric gill's diary, or fiona maccarthy's biography of him
as a bonus, he also fucked his dog
>book is more than 512 pages
now I want to eat pussy
thanks op
what is the meaning of this photo? that said greentext makes pussy dry?
>book is more than 513 pages
dafuq?
Alright kid, market's tough. Real tough. But I think ya got it in ya to make it out here. Been reading that kids seem to dig on those series things, ya know, the ones with lots of books. Sounds like money to me!
Now it's your turn kid, pitch me a series.
Somethin' like one of those Hairy Pothead books, or that Perfect Jackson kiddo! Maybe one of them Hungarian Games!
Whatcha got kid? C'mon, I got a printing machine waiting for the next big hit, pitch it!
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But, the next day, when he recounts the previous day’s confessions to the girl, she only looks at him with a perplexed expression. After some investigation, he finds out that the girl he called is not the same girl he fell in love with. In fact, she doesn’t exist in this universe at all. She is the girl’s alternate...
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>>8072251
Hold on a sec kid.
...
Hello, yes, security?
Yeah, he's back.
>>8072251
I don't need this on /lit/ too, dammit.
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the moral, social and political philosophy chart
>>>/his/
report and sage
>>8071155
From the sticky: " Philosophical discussion can go on either /lit/ or /his/, but ideally those discussions of philosophy that take place on /lit/ should be based around specific philosophical works to which posters can refer."
This is a list of "specific philosophical works", so is a perfect topic for /lit/.
