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HELP ME /lit/. Help me make my dream come true please.
I'm a 19 years old french guy who wants to go to college in the us. I took the TOEFL test, a week ago. Results came in yesturday.. I got 96 (high score).
The universities I'm applying to want me to write an essay about my life and why I chose that specific uni, hobbies etc...
PLEASE I'm begging you. Help me write a perfect essay to increase the likelyhood of the admission, so I can change my future and that of my family. I'll be forever grateful.
Email me: [email protected]
and...
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If you're the actual person and not someone trying to dirty their webresults, you'll understand that you should never put up an identifiable e-mail address on a public space -- especially not 4chan, which is crawled -- and will delete and remake this thread.
Damn dude...
>>7786071
>wants to go to college in the us.
Why?
You would get a much better education in Europe, assuming you're not going applying to a top-tier private school, and wouldn't be up to your neck in debt.
If I were looking for a version of the bible in english to read for academic purposes (ie to better understand english lit and it's impacts) which printing should I buy? Preferably paperback, I have no interest in the thing holding value.
OP here. Apologies for using an apostrophe in "it's".
>>7786029
KJV
>>7786029
New Oxford Annotated Bible with Apocrypha, 4th edition. There's a PDF of it you can find in Bookzz, I think. Also get a King James Bible, the Oxford World's Classics is cheap and nice, but the Norton Critical Edition in two volumes is the greatest, albeit rather expensive.
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>>7786004
Fuck of now anon
We do not want you posting
return to reddit
clever
>>7786011
Subtle.
1. What is this book about?
2. For those who've seen it, what are your thoughts on the Orson Welles film adaptation?
I love Welles but The Trail is one of my favorite books so I'm hesitant to watching the film becuase I'm afraid it won't do the book justice.
Should I see it?
>>7786039
It doesnt do the book justice but you should still see it. He makes a lot of changes but he tries his best to stay true to the events that happen in the book. Of course he does it in the usual baroque Welles-ian kind of way which some people argue goes against everything that Kafka was about. I still enjoyed the film with the exception of the ending.
If you like Gilliam's Brazil then this is a must watch
The ending of the movie tho.
I saw some of this guys books in the return bin at my university.
It's just word vomit right?
>>7785740
>i live in the trash can of ideology
90% of it is. 9% of it is insightful. 1% is gold.
>>7785742
>He thinks he can get out of the trashcan
>>7785740
>I saw some of this guys books in the return bin at my university.
The only thing wrong with this sentence is that 'return' is not 'trash'
What does /lit/ think of Anne Rice? I like her writing, but she's popular so idk if you guys are hopeless contrarian or not.
Pic related is my favorite Rice book.
Why am I not surprised
>>7785716
I read all these as a kid, up to Blood and Gold.
They're awful, only the first few are even entertaining. They quickly devolve into basically "safe" porn for women, where men with no sex drives just want to please them in MMF threesomes.
Reminds me of shit like Dexter and Twilight today that feature "dangerous" men who would never hurt a woman, lack sex drives, and just want to appreciate them while having sex.
I'm the only straight male I know of who has ever read these...
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>>7785813
The most informative and unmemey post on /lit/ all year and it's a review of horny grandma threesome fiction.
Say the last words of a famous book and let the other person try to guess it. I'll start
He drew a deep breath. ‘Well, I’m back,’ he said
>>7785615
That would be Ulysses by David Foster Wallace.
Too easy need try a harder one...
LoTR
>And I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers—shrivelled now, and brown and flat and brittle—to witness that even when mind and strength had gone, gratitude and a mutual tenderness still lived on in the heart of man.
>>7785643
Are those the flowers Weena gives to the Time Traveler in that HG Wells book?
Books about this subject matter in fiction/non-fiction.
>>7785324
the confession by tolstoy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_(book)
camus myth of sisyphus
Let's have a Moby-Dick thread. It's arguably the greatest novel ever written, after all.
Is there any figure in literature more miserable than Ahab when he see Fedallah lashed to the side of Moby-Dick? What complete existential despair. "From Hell's heart, I stab at thee!" isn't a cry of defiance, it's a last shout into the void. It's sobering.
>>7785258
was fedallah even real? or just some sort of ahab's alter-ego, demon?
>>7785551
i questioned the reality of a lot of the characters, the whole story was told by Ishmael anyway, so it could all be a tale woven by a mischievous old sea salt.
how did Melville got away with all the gay parts
How do I become a Body without organs?
>tfw you're just her buddy without orgones
It is not the slumber of reason which engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality
>>7785151
Get an autopsy, stupid.
Trying to have an existential crisis here /lit/ give me your best books to induce this feeling.
Why the hell would you WANT an existential crises, ignorance is bliss anon.
>>7785098
Being and Nothingness
>>7785106
To see what all the hype is about.
what do you guys think of white noise by Don Delillo?
I personally found it really boring and did not finish the book.
Finished it yesterday. Absolutely fantastic novel, a very interesting and fun look at American society/culture. I will say that I doubt it would appeal to non-Americans or Americans born after, say, 2000.
It's one of the most dreadful novels I've read. It's got boring prose and is more like a horrible essay stating the obvious with a bit of a symbol somewhere around there. I don't understand why this is a staple novel for late 20th century literature.
it's the most trite analysis of american culture i can think of.
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Alright /lit/, a lad I want to bone is going to be coming in from another city in a couple months.
I've read a decent amount of philosophy but it's mostly technical and painful reads (Kant/Wittgenstein/Analytics) that don't take up much space on my bookshelf and hence don't impress.
What are some easy philosophers (who naturally, aren't complete crap) that I could blow through (compared to Kant) and fill up my shelf.
I know most late Stoics (Aurellius, Seneca, etc) are quite simple to read (Meditations, Letters from a Stoic), anything...
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How is Problems of Philosophy by Russell, easy read?
>>7785008
Fill it up with lots of Dawkins, random sci fi, a john green here and there, and some feminist lit. Next, I want you to add "per se," "as if," and "I can't even" into your vocabulary. Watch some Bill Maher and adopt his humor as much as best you can.
I fucking promise her snatch will be wet, m8
>>7785176
>Dawkins, random sci fi
>her snatch will be wet
That's not how it works, reddit.
Do i watch the movie or read the book first?
You're asking this question in /lit/, right?
Also that looks more like timothy hutton than tom hanks.
>>7784778
I'm also asking on /tv/
>>7784782
OK. I think the answer is always read the book first. Unless it was a book adapted from a movie. Like Gremlins.
From most patrician to least: Reading for:
themes > prose/form > plot > characters
>>7784650
Wrong
Prose > plot = characters = themes
Though if you make such distinctions you are surely a pleb
If by "patrician" you mean "desire to represent superiority", then yes, you're correct.
For people who actually understand art, it goes plot = character > themes > everything else.
>>7784659
/thread
