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I've never read a book in my life (that wasn't for school) but recently I have had this itch to find a great book. Recommend me a great horror novel that isn't by stephen king and is actually scary and interesting.
>>8264125
why do you want a scary book? if you want to be scared, movies are way better for that. if you want a good book - lots of the best aren't scary
>>8264137
I'm not sure why but i'm just really drawn to horror and horror movies don't scare me at all. What genre are the best books generally? And what are some I should check out?
>>8264125
Finnegans Wake
Anyone else here a poet and don't know it?
With all the cameras today one might feel they are a Truman.
>>8264138
I dont get how anyone could think that they killed many, many innocent Japanese people and would want to be friends with one of the most evil people in history (Stalin) just because they take a bunch of selfies
I hope they don't blow it.
why are the reviews so bad? should I even read this?
Haha so funny OP you rated in one star
I started it yesterday, really makes you think.
>>8264766
is it shit ? I've never read a book with less than 3.79 on goodreads. I'm scared.
>>8264058
Neither.
Empson > Eliot > power gap > Kermode > Jameson > Bloom
Not even being edgy. It's simply that Bloom talks more than he has things to say. Especially on Shakespeare, he doesn't have anything interesting to say. His best is his early work on Wallace Stevens and Shelley. He's simply memed himself in pop culture by pretending he's the only one in all of academia who knows Stephen King is shit.
Jameson wrote some interesting stuff about utopia and how post-modernism...
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>>8264194
>Bloom
One time he returned a student's paper with nothing but the phrase "Admissions Error?" written on the front page in red ink.
>>8265046
Proof or tits or thighs or GTFO
Books on dictatorships/autocracy or strong authoritarian governments?
Thanks. Also, where to go after greeks?
>>8264020
What's the connection between frogposters and needing a strong authoritarian daddy figure?
Raised by single mothers?
After Greeks, go to Romans.
>>8264025
Please elavorate.
>/lit/ recommends a book
>It's a postmodern satire
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>>8263972
>I was born in the wrong generation and I identify as an 18th century aristocrat
>>8263972
>satire features a psychopath as a central character
>satire revolves around the psychopath's behavior caricaturing and critiquing the behavior of those around them
>/lit/ recommends a book
>it's postmodern wink wink nudge nudge hehe ;)
>try reading it
>Socrates: Sup dude. Want to come chill with me and my homies? We can talk about Hegel, who hasn't been born yet.. and eat some Cheetos.
>Thrasymachus: Sure bro. I was just playing Mortal Kombat with Roland Barthes and using penicillin to cure my illnesses, my homeslice. I'm down to chill with you. What's your Myspace?...
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Is continental philosophy and 60s onwards literary theory being kept alive by social media and clickbait blogs at this point?
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>>8263912
>kept alive
Yes, if you can call this form of torture living.
>>8263912
Stop with these pointless, shitty /pol/-tier bait threads
>shitty bait pic from social media
>retarded 1 liner
>please join my circlejerk guis! XD
Why do people still write gigantic novels? Can't anyone tell a good story in less than 200 pages? Don't you people get tired of reading 600+ tomes when you could be doing something else like learning a new language? Do giant novels get so much acclaim because they're legitimately good or because their readers have to justify spending so much time reading them?
>>8263847
Some people enjoy a story and want to last it as long as possible.
>>8263847
I once had a girlfriend who wouldnt watch movies longer than an hour and a half. She was a pleb too.
>>8263847
if you like the first 200 pages of a book, then you will likely enjoy the next 400+ pages. If you don't like the first 200 pages, you put the book down and find something else to do with your time.
Not every book needs to be 300+ pages and to no one's surprise, many books are no more than 300 pages in length. I fail to see the issue you are claiming exists.
does anyone use any apps or other tools when reading / for reading?
I use the merriam-webster app to check out words I don't know & the goodreads one to keep track of the books I have read or want to read
share your /lit/erary resources
pic semi-related
Aldiko
>>8263836
>I use the merriam-webster app to check out words I don't know
Why do you use an app when you can just use google on your browser ? Serious question familia.
>>8263865
1) for when I don't have internet
2) I can save the words
Looking for a book I read when I was a late teen...can't seem to remember the title.
It was about 2 japanese people (girl and guy) who would sneak behind their families backs to express their love (both families were enemies).
One of the moments in the book has the girl and guy describe how he just came all over her back and it reminded him of spider silk.
It's kind of weird I know, but It's all I remember and google isnt helping.
Thanks in advance. pic maybe related it couldve been mishima
bamp
>>8263753
Lomeo and Julietto.
Spring Snow?
Good books on student protests/protests in general?
>>8263714
this book has largely been debunked by more recent work in this area
>>8263692
Situationist international
ITT: Sci-fi books where humans are the bad guys.
>Now THATS what i call edgy
I think ancient holy books are very far from sci-fi.
They are more like fantasy, legend, mitology, etc.
trash thread
>>8263613
The screenplay of James Cameron's Avatar
Short story, I suffer from major depression and one of my female doctors told me to read this book, it's a novel. Help me /lit/
>>8263571
I read it recently and it's very well written, an immediate favorite that will definitely be read again. I would also recommend it to a struggling person.
What exactly is it you need help with?
Why did you feel compelled to specify the gender of your doctor?
Read it, don't be all to cynical while thinking about it. Overall it's a nice read.
What exactly do you want help with though?
You will never find that cute girl that likes DFW and the Wu-Tang Clan, will you?
Only because I don't like pseuds, otherwise it would be easy picking.
Hi, I'm the guy who posted the thread about his girlfriend letting him borrow the Gaddis books. I got a lot of shit in that thread because I said that she "let" me borrow them. It's true, she let me borrow them, and for only a month, so I have to read them quickly. Point I'm getting around to here is that she does like the Wu-Tang Clan, but she does not like David Foster Wallace. Anymore. She says she liked him when she was 16 but then discovered the authors who influenced him and realized that he was just a weaker mind ripping them off. Anyway, I have...
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>>8263549
lol, how is it that /lit/ folks just don't go to a decent or above-average liberal arts college. These kinds of girls makeup 40-50% of any liberal arts undergrad population.
Why are some people obsessed with the idea that people "pretend" to like and enjoy certain books, or any other media for that matter?
>>8263515
because they're projecting
>>8263515
plebs gonna pleb
Something wrong with her neck? Poor girl.
