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How come I'm so much better than you?
>>7751959
you're not.
>>7751966
Yeh, good one. But seriously, why?
>>7751959
Well, if you truly are, then its probably because you are more disciplined than me. Why that is so i cannot say. Can you ?
/lit/ why don't people read ; i want to read real books again /lit/
>>7751840
Most women I know read tons. Its low tier trash, but at least they make an effort at NYT bestsellers and pulitzers and such.
I know very few men that read at all.
is that time again boys and girls ;)
>>7751807
>King
Everything else that might have been in either of those two stacks is ignored as a result.
/lit/ - muh materialism
>haul
I've only seen teenage girls use that word.
ITT: Post the best work of literature that's come out of your country
>inb4 Puerto Rico is not a country
I know, but I'm not gonna post something from the states
puerto riqueño cara de verga.
>>7751675
Me has hecho llorar
>>7751675
Te odio
ITT: books women will never understand
Didn't a woman write it?
I cant imagine any woman, deeply catholic or not, being touched by this book.
Is Bartleby Jesus?
>>7751556
No he's Bartleby did you even read the book
>>7751564
10/10
I'd prefer not to say
>Your essays will never be as good as the ones by Michel De Montaigne
I´m feeling kinda feely tonight, so please post your /lit/ feels.
he's only one of the greatest essayists in history so you should probably aim a little lower
montaigne's essays are pretty horrible classical quote + gossip-tier shit
>>7751440
Yeah, but it still hurts, you know.
Also:
>You will never read Harry Potter and Tintenherz again for the first time
>You can´t read every book in the world
>You speak neither french nor russian nor italian nor that much spanish, so you have to read every classic translated
Feels really bad, man.
What does /lit/ think of "nice" books? When I can, I love to collect books from publishers like Folio Society, Easton Press, Heritage Press, and so on. I don't buy such books just because they are nice, but if there's a title I really want, I'll wait and find it in a nice edition.
What do you have, if anything?
ITT: Post your high-quality editions or just be a simpleton and call me a faggot for having nicer books and better taste than you.
>pic related, my current top shelf
old editions are always nicer than folio garbage. capitalists are literally laughing their asses off that you'll drop dough on a "nice" edition of a public domain work that you can find an actually nice edition of for a buck.
doesnt matter to me. those books are made to serve as decoration for aesthetes who value form over function, which is the opposite of what literature should be.
the nicest book i own is a quran i found in a box next to a dumpster. i like it and because of the antiquity and reverence of the text deserves some stage dressing. moby dick, however, does not.
>>7751452
Aww, man! Folios are my favorite! I guess I'm just a sucker. I only buy them second-hand, so I guess I'm still managing to outjew the capitalists, to some extent. I buy 90% of my books at Half Price Books, and the other 10% at local secondhand shops around the area.
The things I really like about Folios are both the paper quality and learning about the type that was used (This book was set in Polybius, etc...).
I don't know why I like that so much, but I do.
Someday I'll own...
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Hey /lit/,
Wordplay question here, is there a term for when a character's first and last name combine to represent a real object?
Example:
Winter Green
Cherry Blossom
etc.
I've been Googling like made but to no avail.
>>7751384
For a forum about writing, I'd think that there would be more responses being, well, written.
It's possible that we don't know or the word doesn't exist.
>>7751384
I don't think there is a word, nor does there need to be. On a slightly unrelated note, my favorite example of this is from Lolita:
>Dolores Haze
>dolorous haze
Is this supposed to be meaningless babble on purpose?
>>7751373
git gud
>meaningless
>>7752548
>meaning/unmeaning dichotomy
I need a non fiction opinionated book that shows the authors viewpoint (can't be vague like the communist manifesto or atlas shrugged, has to be over a specific topic like obesity, global warming, smoking, ect).
I'm looking for one about the Iraq 2003 war, preferably one that is anti that war
thanks in advance
>>7751363
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three_Trillion_Dollar_War
http://bookzz.org/book/767770/ba5cca
Seems to be what you are looking for, reputable authors a plus.
Also
http://edmoise.sites.clemson.edu/redirect.html#2war
Bibliography for works on that war
Why does it have to be "opinionated that shows the authors viewpoint"? Is a non fiction book not supposed to do this? Is this a high school english critical analysis class where you critique authors for for letting their beliefs get in the way?
Why is it opinionated to oppose the 2003 Iraq War?
Anyway, something by Chomsky
Rogue States maybe
>good night moon
what did he mean by this
I think he meant (just a guess), "goodnight, moon"
Sicker than your average nigger killer.
>>7752358
Underrated.
Hey /lit/, what are the best translations for the following
>Dead Souls
>Master and Margerita
>Fathers and Sons
>A Hero of Our Time
pretty bad stuff you got there desu, master and margarita most of all
>>7751305
Try life and fate by Grossman
>>7751316
noted, thanks for the recommendation
but what are the best translations of the ones I listed? is the Nabokov one of A Hero of Our Time approved?
What does /lit/ think of Kenneth Burke? Or is /lit/ too pleb to study rhetoric?
who?
Why are folio books so slim?
Because the pages are 15"+ tall so the book requires less pages
>>7751321
I mean the aspect is weird. Not that they have few pages. They seem so slender compared to regular books. Feels like I'm reading a pamphlet.
