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Are any /lit/izens going to AWP at the end of the month?
If so, does anyone want to meet up for an offsite event and drinks?
>>7811675
>translation: oh god please someone fuck me
>>7811696
Nah mang, I'm engaged. I'm curious to see if meeting /lit/ posters in real life will be like listening to the verbal equivalent of shitposting.
I would if I didn't live on the opposite side of the country.
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Are sci-fi authors like Philip K. Dick, J. G. Ballard and William Gibson memes, or actually worthw reading? I like sci-fi movies and would like to read more in the genre.
Recommend me 'literary' sci-fi.
>>7811660
If you bought into the meme that genre fiction is not worth reading, you are probably already beyond saving.
>>7811663
I'm not. Rec shit.
>>7811660
Dick is good, but Gibson has aged like milk.
Would you trade your mediocre brain for the brain of a genius with inhuman levels of intrapersonal intelligence whose introspects constantly every waking moment, finding profound but horrific truths of human existence that torture him until he eventually loses every sense of identity, humanity and kills himself at the ripe ol age of 30?
>>7811656
Fate already made that choice for me senpai. Probably will kill myself before 30 though.
sure
>>7811664
Will definitely kill myself before thirty. Mediocre brain though.
All right, /lit/, what is beauty?
A mirror
Is beauty derived from oneself or is it from an object that contains beauty in it?
>>7811618
Dat be like Euthyphro n shit
Can this entire book be read in one day?
I have a day off from work and I was wondering if i could actually read the entire thing tomorrow.
>>7811583
Get back to us on the day after tomorrow
>>7811583
probably
its not worth it though because its a bad book
>>7811583
The audiobook is about 6 hours, so I should think one could if one had to do it.
I don't get it
read more
because it's the P&V translation
I hope you have seen at least several russian movies
Have drunk russian wodka before
If not, you can't comprehend
What publication of Leviathan by Hobbes do you recommend, /lit/?
Oxford World's Classics (edited by J. C. A. Gaskin)
Hackett Classics (Edwin Curley)
or Penguin Classics (C. MacPherson)
>>7811501
Oxford is good and unexpensive. Hackett is a little bit more expensive but is also more scholarly. Don't know about the Penguin, but wouldn't trust it when you can access the other too. I have the Oxford one, I like it, although if I could I'd buy the Hackett edition.
>>7811569
cheers anon
the Hackett one seems to be definitive in content with the Latin additions - I think it's completely modernized in language with extensive citations/glossary etc.
Oxford apparently is too, but I heard a reviewer saying it kept anachronisms like "thou" and so on, if I were going to choose the cheaper one with the bonus of original language, I'd rather go all the way with it rather than some inbetween
sorry if I'm rambling a bit, it's pretty late here
>>7811611
so oxford is the way to go?
IMPORTANT
About to buy Infinite Jest
Hardcover or Paperback?
if Paperback, this one or the sky and clouds cover?
Which one will be cooler to show your young, book-loving nephews and nieces in 20 or 30 years?
/lit/ - muh materialism
>>7811523
he could be asking because of potential typos and print errors 2bh
Thanks to the lovely sites in the sticky, I've amassed quite a few academic textbooks I'd like to read for the sake of learning. It's daunting, though, to have 500-1600 pages to pull through. Is it realistic to try to read a textbook for fun or does it just take so fucking long you're likely to give up?
Anyone else read textbooks for fun? What's your take?
no one non-fiction here
/lit/ is only plebs and fags
I find that I like the idea of reading and studying textbooks (or any rigorous didactic nonfiction) more than the reality of actually doing it.
>>7811886
reading textbooks doesn't make you cool or smart. Textbooks are for passing a course, not getting to the truth of anything
you're just a pretentious faggot
Are there any other Science Fiction books like Dune? I read this book and it's gottne my back into reading, and I'd like to find other books like it.
what did you like about it?
If you want more like Dune, read its sequels I guess.
>>7811383
Only the sequels Herbert wrote. The rest is fanfic, and not even good fanfic.
>>7811383
I really liked the world building and coming of age story with Paul. Liked the Fremen culture and stuff.
It was 10x better than Ender's Shadow, that is for sure.
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Any recommendations on the Swedish literature?
>inb4 cuck literature
A Month in Sweden: A Day By Day of Islam and Multiculturalism
Start with the Qu-ran
The Dwarf by Pär Lagerqvist is great. August Strindberg is great, too.
>book you're currently reading
>opinions on it so far
>books you'll read next
- "Red Rising" by Pierce Brown
-I enjoy it so far. I've been making shit progress though
-Not sure what I'll read next
>IJ
>pretty good, I understand why it's memed so much here but I still like it. I've been reading it very slowly and I think it will take me a long time to finish
>kafka's complete stories or no one writes to the colonel
>>7811306
>Ulysses
>Almost done with it though. I'll read Molly's monologue tonight. It's undoubtedly a masterpiece. I never thought a novel could be so great and inventive at the same time. I feel like I should reread with supplemental material later.
>I have Mason & Dixon, Lolita and Blood Meridian to read, not sure which one I should pick up first.
What are your thoughts on book, /lit/?
I just read the book and want to know what to think of it, so I won't post any thoughts about it.
But, I might post some shitty yes or no question so I can tell myself that I'm not just looking for validation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6omsDyFNlk
>>7811274
>What are your thoughts on book
>>7811274
book is opinion
What's /lit/'s opinion on lovecraft?
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Interesting concepts with often mediocre execution
>>7811269
>What's /lit/'s opinion on lovecraft threads?
I need help with english. I'm not sure if this should go in >>>/int/ but i figure you're the ones more interested in the english language.
>a identification number
>an identification number
>a player identification number
>an player identification number
What is correct and why?
an identification number
a players identification number
You write an if the VERY next word begins with an I, A, E, O
Fuck you
>>7811267
Actually if the SOUND is a vowel. It's an hour, not a hour.
>>7811275
It's easier to remember this way, but you are right
