Who else here can read shit written in other languages even if you don't know how to write/speak them? I'm spanish and I can easily read stuff in french, portuguese and italian. Never studied none of them.
this is bait
>>7868305
It isn't you anglo monolingual cuck.
>>7868285
The only romance language I can speak is French but I swear to god I can sort of understand Portuguese writing. I have no idea why but I just feel like I know what it says.
ITT: words or phrases that bring shame to the english language
I'll start with "yummy mummy"
I'll take a stab with "oppressive marratives"
Semen demon.
>>7868211
This calls for the image with the long list of >mfw the British refer to X as wibbly wobbly
Which Philosophers do you think represent each individual 4chan board best?
I'll start:
/mlp/- Weird sexualised view of horses so Nietzsche
/r9k/- Absolute disdain for all women-Schopenhauer
/ck/- Epicurus perhaps?
/lit/ has been prominently represented in the Nausea by Sartre.
/out/- Heidegger
>>7868163
Nietzsches relation with horses wasn't sexual though ?
is the book worth reading?
>>7868032
As much as the film is worth watching.
>>7868032
Yeah, it's pretty fun. A lot of anons here talk about reading up on the politics of Russia at the time to get into the Brothers S but it's completely unnecessary. They're just enjoyable reads.
Roadside Picnic > S.T.A.L.K.E.R. > Stalker
>>7868041
How is the game better than the movie..?
I mean it was fun and all, but, how does it have any merit above that?
Hello /lit/!
What books would you recommend for an impressionable 18 year old such as myself? Thank.
>>7867824
Start with the Greeks.
>>7867830
Fuck that.
Start with Zizek kiddo
No need to get into a fight~
I'll try checking out as much suggestions as I can.
I liked the part where there was only one word on an entire page.
Totally not a gimmick.
>>7868767
What is wrong with using a gimmick? You could say poetry is using gimmicks
>>7867568
why is /lit/ so mad at this book? I liked it, yes it was gimmicky, but it was good.
“The first of our kind has struck fear into the hearts of America,” announced one commenter last year on the giddily offensive /r9k/ board of the notorious, anarchic site 4chan. “This is only the beginning. The Beta Rebellion has begun. Soon, more of our brothers will take up arms to become martyrs to this revolution.” The post, dated October 1, was referring to the news that twenty-six-year-old Chris Harper-Mercer had killed nine classmates and injured nine others before shooting himself at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon.
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Beta class consciousness is the only real class struggle
Beta-marxism is real
God Baffler sucks
>>7867380
>I think this is the best piece of journalism I have ever read about 4chan, what do you think?
probably, but that's not saying much as journalists tend to be pretty willfully? oblivous about internet culture in general and 4chan in particular
Do litizens use Twitter?
I'm curious.
yes. I use to loathe all social media but I made a twitter because some promotion needed an account to sign up. Now it consumes my life
/lit/ content to follow?
No, I already have more than enough ways to waste my time.
Imagine your an English professor and teach a course on world literature. Which books would you have your students read?
Gilgamesh
Beowulf
Odyssey
Ramayana
Tale of Genji
Inferno (sections)
Paradise Loft (sections)
Middle eastern poetry (Rumi, Ibn, etc)
The Tempest
Don't know what I would teach from the modern period.
>A board dedicated to literature
>A thread about higher education and lesson planning
>Imagine your an English professor
>Imagine your
>your
imagine your a english proffesor and you cant spel.
Normie here. What are the most important books about philosophy in the last 50 years?
I'm looking to expand my reading philosophy list past Nietzsche, as simplistic as that sounds.
kierkegaard you pleb
>>7867115
start with the greeks
>>7867129
this, desu
just finished this. it's a masterpiece. what are your thoughts?
Murakami is garbage tb h
I fell to the murakami meme last year 'IT GETS BETTER WITH HIS MAGICAL REALISM, IT GETS BETTER WITH HIS NON FICTION, ETC'. It never got better
>>7866576
japanese john green
>>7866576
I liked it.
I really liked the quirky little girl.
Why should I use goodreads?
i mean, i can keep a list of the books i read
You shouldn't.
>>7866196
I like keeping track of what, and how much I read for future goal setting and what books I'd like to revisit.
>reading used book
>previous owner wrote notes in the margins and highlighted
>starts out really heavy, notes everywhere
>by the third chapter they disappear completely
>>7866173
This is definitely A Thing
Lmao! They got lazy
>>7866176
>A Thing
Don't say that.
Can we have a discussion about this? I just finished reading it and none of my friends have, would like to hear others' opinions on it.
I don't read many books, but I am glad I had the chance to read this one.
So much wit, the blurry line between
humour and fucked up scenarios, everything felt so good.
It has great characters, which is one of the book's points, and a very nice writing ( at least as far as I can tell from a translation).
Funniest book I've ever read. I really liked it, but there's not that much to say.
I really enjoyed it, especially the chapter toward the end where Yossarian walks around the city.
Give me a short story that will leave me in tears, a book or play will do too. Please no meme answers.
In Search of Lost Time is a book that will bring out a lot of emotions
>>7865944
The ones that left me in tears were: The Sorrows of Young Werther, Crime and Punishment, The Doll, the abovementioned ISoLT.
I guess it'd be my first honest post on this board, god, it looks plebe af. Sorry guys, I tried so hard...
>>7866003
I've forgotten to add Master and Margarita. I guess I'm just more emotional when it comes to classics, Balladina have made me cry too, but idk about the translations of it, I'm polish and have read the original.