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What did /lit/ think?
>>7748036
Ranks within the top 10 fantasies with literary merit. I enjoyed it quite a bit and regard it highly, despite its plot being blatant masturbation.
>>7748137
>despite its plot being blatant masturbation.
wut
>>7748140
It's pretty much a boy meets girl story. The girl happens to be a redhead, which is apparently the go-to trait of dream girls for nerds with no spice in their life.
>meaning/unmeaning dichotomy
>>7747909
>tfw my memes spread like wildfire
>>7747929
There can't be unmeaning m8
>>7748067
heh. hehahah... hehehahahahHAHAHEHAHAHAAHAHAHAHEHAHEHAHEHAHAAAAAHAHAHAHA
What does /lit/ think of the feud between Joyce and Jung based on the following sources?
Source #1:
https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/02/02/carl-jung-ulysses-james-joyce-review-letter/
Source#2:
From Wikipedia: “Throughout the 1930s he traveled frequently to Switzerland for eye surgeries and for treatments for his daughter Lucia, who, according to the Joyces, suffered from schizophrenia. Lucia was analysed by Carl Jung at the time, who after reading Ulysses, is said to have concluded that her father had schizophrenia. Jung said she and her father were...
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Be Jung and read Joyce.
>>7747905
Did you know Joyce liked to get shit on by his lover? Was totally into buttholes, farts and poop
>>7748062
“My sweet little whorish Nora I did as you told me, you dirty little girl, and pulled myself off twice when I read your letter. I am delighted to see that you do like being fucked arseways. Yes, now I can remember that night when I fucked you for so long backwards. It was the dirtiest fucking I ever gave you, darling. My prick was stuck in you for hours, fucking in and out under your upturned rump. I felt your fat sweaty buttocks under my belly and saw your flushed face and mad eyes. At every fuck I gave you your...
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Hey /lit/, first time poster. I'm reading Blood Meridian by McCarthy. First of all, if you haven't read it yet, go check it out, it's great.
Main question: I'm looking for music to read along with the book. For those who are unfamiliar, Blood Meridian is a Western, but a violent Southern Gothic more so than Spaghetti Western. Ennio Morricone just doesn't feel right.
Any suggestions? I've been listening to blues and doom metal. Movie scores are welcome as well. Thanks in advance.
>>7747854
EARTH
https://youtu.be/wEiRKpflgQA
>>7747917
yes
listen to hex on repeat until you're done
>>7747854
>
Happy days by Jim O'Rourke imo
Who /Kelly McGonigal/ here?
She talks about willpower and such. Is there anything useful from her that you applied in your life?
>>7747805
she's super cute and i can't remember what she said in that talk but it sounded reasonable
>>7747859
Don't call my fucking waifu "cute". Your mother is cute.
She's to smart to be considered cute. Go take a train to fuck yourself land. Choo-choo, motherfucker.
>>7747874
found the beta
What book should i read in order to get a gf?
>>7747787
none of them. never read anything, and you'll be swimming in the puss
>>7747787
Jane Austen, Bronte Sisters, Margaret Atwood, etc
>>7747787
What books do you buy your friends when you're trying to get them into reading?
I've decided I'm going to be that friend that gifts books only for birthdays/christmas.
>Hemingway for the boy that wants to become a man
>Secret History for the girl just starting uni
>Prince of Thorns for the guy that thinks GoT is good
>inb4 penguin
Original beat up copy for reference
>friends
lol
>>7747775
Trout Fishing in America
>The thorns taught him a lesson in blood
LOL edgy
>characters succeed by knowing worthless pop culture trivia from the 80's
>all of their friendships grew on the internet
>moral of the story in the last ten pages is to get a gf and stop being a huge neckbeard
>????
I mean, it was a terrible book regardless of that, but why would the author try to moralize at the last minute?
>>7747746
I mean, it was a terrible thread regardless of that, but why would OP expect us to give a fuck at the last minute?
>>7747755
Dumb post.
>>7747746
it's a fantastic book. some of the best prose i've ever seen, desu senpai. he's clearly a protege of Wolfe.
What does /lit/ use as a bookmark
I use cash because it's incredibly think so i don't have to worry about any kind of damage to the binding and also to motivate me not to lose it.
I couldn't think of a related image so here's a stock image of a book
I use crisp, newly exchanged $2 bills.
blank note cards
>>7747687
I rip out the pages that I don't like and use them
> Napoleon was the shit, he wouldn't hessitate to blast this bitch with an axe.
> Oh no, I hate myself for realizing that Im not able to utilize my crime as im beta as fuck
> Im not ubermench, ill lie down on this marvelous ottoman and hate myself and everyone for trying to help a beta fuck.
Was he right?
>>7747666
guys it's a trick, satan is trying to trick you into doubting god's laws
dont respond
>>7747666
I mean, he was kinda right. Don't you ever feel bad about not being able to save minorities from autocratic objectification in nonspecific atlantic industries?
>>7747666
Do you guys ever fear that reducing a complex character arch into three lines of greentext is damaging our ability to have actual discussion? The question has now been framed so that we are not discussing Raskolnikov's internal flaws, but rather whether or not he is a "beta pleb".
Anyway I think that Raskolnikov was destined from the start to fail to be an extraordinary man. He had to artificially create a climate of poverty and hopelessness (by isolating himself from his friends and refusing...
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Guy left this at my work, never came back for it, so i decided to take it home. Not familiar with it. Discuss
Pop maths for people who don't know maths.
Rucker's Infinity and the Mind was so much better in delving into paradoxes and all that Godel shit.
This note was on paige 222. Seems to contain titles of other book. they all seem to be pretty deep philisophical works.
>>7747635
Is that your handwriting OP? You seem almost intelligent.
How do they actually teach literature in uni? How the hell do they teach books so that it becomes a university course?
I've only taken an English class in high school, and it was mostly about how to write letters and stuff. When we read a book all we had to was talk about the main plot and characters, we didn't have to go "deep" like I assume they do in uni. I don't really know what goes on up there.
/v/ leakage
For starters, look at the Comparative Literature syllabus on the website of your nearest university. I'd post a real answer but I'm on dodgy mobile and frankly don't know if this thread is even deserving of one.
>>7747615
University is my favourite video game too.
>your current age
>how many books did you read last year
>how long have you been seriously reading for
>what's your favorite book
>who's your favorite author
>what's your favorite subgenre of literary fiction
>do you still enjoy reading
>>7747545
>34
>around 148
>Book of the New Sun
>Gene Wolfe
>Science Fiction/Fantasy
>I love it
>24
>precisely 1 (I burnt out in 2014 and haven't been doing much literary for a while)
>I started when I was quite young
>none
>none
>I am partial to magic realism
>I hate it. I hate it so much. This may, of course, be related to a rampant case of medication-induced restlessness I have going on at the moment. Being still enough to read is physically painful....
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>>7747545
>21
>Around 30
>2 years
>Dubliners
>David Foster Wallace
>NO PLOT
>very much so
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i have simple question here: famous big novels are researched really well. is there any website or kind of literature which would show where they are quoting from? which parts of the bible are around in jane austen? what carmina and books of the iliad are cited by the characters of samuel butler? what jazz songs are around in the great gadsby? if you don't know a place like this, online or elsewhere, do you believe it's necessary?
>>7747527
>>7747527
There will always be a stickler who find something unreal / not accurate about whatever you've written. If you're not too far off the mark no one cares. The hardest part would be the dialogue and how characters naturally are within your time setting. You need help though, most big novels nowadays have research teams. I wouldn't go too hard for the first try because it'll take you years. Realism's finished now anyway.
>>7749331
>Realism's finished now anyway.
What did you mean by this? Is it finished like Rock is finished or is it finished like Poetry?
How to find science fiction that isn't shit ?
I'll try to explain specifically what turned me off in the few books of the genre I read since about a year, please give me some books that aboid these perceived flaws and discuss
>Rendez-vous with rama
My favourite of the bunch but the dialogs are really B-grade and are full of humorous bits that really don't fit in with the narrative, also the characters are really bland and are basically heroes without flaws that just do anything when convenient. Also I didn't...
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>>7747458
book of the new sun
