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How reliable are they /lit/, would you trust them, to check your paper?
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>>7840128
As long as you use the same one your school uses.
>>7840133
I used the one the school uses, and it shows my stories are plagiarist, While the one I always says no plagiarism detected
So guys, I think I'm missing something. I just don't understand everything I read, I sit down I take in the words on the page, I even reflect on what happened chapter by chapter but I can't seem to understand it. I just read fahrenheit 451, which is the reason I'm here right now, when Guy says that he doesn't understand, that there just words on a page, it made me realize that that's how I've been reading forever now. Maybe I'm just being an idiot or maybe it's because I haven't read enough but I honestly don't see anything...
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Keep reading. Read something easy and read shmoop chapter summaries and analyses as you read. Understand how they reach those conclusions. Continue that, then start trying to analyze yourself. Keep it up. You'll get better with practice.
A well-written book makes you understand what you're suppose to. In this case, it's not that you don't understand Fahrenheit 451, it's that it only made communicable sense in fractions. Which follows, because it was speedwritten in 9 days on a typewriter.
>>7840099
This anon is retarded, ignore him.
Anyone know of any good secondary literature to Homer that might grant some insight into the poems?
/r/ing this but for virgil
>>7839943
Cambridge Companion to Homer, on Bookzz.
There was one of.those meme chart for starting with the greeks that included some secondary sources on the Homeric epics. Have a look at that too.
does anyone on here even know about simplicissimus?
Its a great, weird, brutal, honest and funny story, written a few hundred years ago.
are there even translations from german? has anyone read both the english and german version? how horrible is the english translation?
do you think that its the best book of the 17th century?
ive never even met anyone that knew this book.
>>7839790
Know about it? Sure, but haven't read.
>are there even translations from german?
Of course
If you feel there's something strange about it being so unknown I can't explain it but what other long stories from the 17th c do you know about?
>>7839839
I am not studying literature or anything I just picked it up in the libary one day.
It just seemed so obscure and kind of like a hidden book.
it would also be cool to know how they translated "Knan" and the other weird words.
Do i need anything other than Heidegger, Lacan and Set Theory before trudging through this?
A delusional belief in the intellectual value of this sort of academic text is required.
I'm trying to find "Container Atlas: A practical guide to container architecture" book for a report I'm doing. Anyone got any tips on where I might be able to download it for free?
>>7838844
Read the sticky.
>>7838875
Already did that, searched for it there, nothing....
It just occured to me that there are way more (orders of magnitude more) people who make a living teaching and studying literature than there are people who make a living creating it.
mmmmkay
The hero needs the poet; the poet needs the hero. No reason to fight if no one remembers - nothing to remember if no one fights.
How does /lit/ feel about the word "stupider" and it's use?
s'cool
what do so many people think it isnt a word?
>nonfiction book about an academic subject
>the author talks about his/her personal experience/life
No. Just no. Maybe save it for the afterword but 9 times out of 10 I don't give a shit.
>>7837419
>/lit/ shitposting thread
>OP blogs his faggy opinions
No. Just no. Maybe save it for the DFW threads but 9 times out of 10 I don't give a shit
>>7837433
/thread
i havent read any cortazar but my friend offhandedly mentioned some story of (i think) his that riffed off the metamorphosis where some guy turned into a salamander
what story is this
i can't help you, i'm an axolotl
>>7837325
thank you, friend!
Lewis somehow manages to create a very interesting and, yet, at times, very boring story about a fictional future (relative to Lewis, that it) in which "I can't believe it's not Huey Long" establishes a fascist dictatorship over the United States. Other than some boring bits, and some dialogue that reads strangely, the book is excellent over all.
Anyone else read it?
I've been meaning to read this for some time, it only seems appropriate now.
>>7837090
No. How does it compare to All the King's Men by Penn Warren? That was another fictional treatment of Huey Long and, although there was an awful lot of fat that could have been trimmed, a pretty terrific novel.
Thoughts on Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne series by Brian Staveley ?
Just finished it on audible and I see nobody is talking about it. Pretty good series overall
>>7837076
>Third tier fantasy
>audible
I wonder why no one is talking about it, since sci-fi and fantasy have a general now.
>>7837084
what makes it 3rd tier ? what are some first tier stuff ? ...also whats wrong with audible ?
>have ideas
>don't write them
>write ideas
>don't read them
>read ideas and have new ideas
>don't write new ideas
Do I have to remind you how mediocre you are?
I don't have ideas
Should I objectively kill myself
>>7836999
>talking about yourself in second person
Weird
What are good books on Rasputin? Not just plain facts, but well written and I like a bit philosophy in my books.
General Russian books you'd recommend are welcome too.
>>7836637
Ra Ra Rasputin
>>7836645
Lover of the Russian Queen
How's everyone doing in terms of their year goals? I'm going after my standard 52 as always, but I've been tackling some lengthier works and I'm not sure I'll make it this year.
1. Invention of Morel - Casares
2. The Short Stories of Gogol
3. Critique of Pure Reason - Kant
4. Phenomenology of Spirit - Hegel
5. Complete Short Stories of Kafka
6. The Trial - Kafka
7. Confessions - Augustine
8. City of God - Augustine
9. Proslogium - Anselm
10. The Knight with the Lion - Chretien
11. Don Quixote - Cervantes
12....
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>>7836451
>spending less than a year on CoPR and PoS
Fuck off back to /r9k/, pleb
I was aiming for 40 but Quixote is really slowing me down. Love it though.
No idea how you are ripping through all this dense philosophy so quickly
>>7836479
He's a fucking idiot
