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ima shy.
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>2016
>still hasn't read Menexenus by Plato
Why not anon? It's one of the master texts of western philosophy.
Aka OP just read the book.
Listen here you nincompoop, you already made this thread last week!
This is you final warning.
If you do it again I may be forced to report you!
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Thanks for everything /lit/
Post your favorite /exit/-core literature
Pic related.
>>7724824
What the hell is Werther's problem anyway?
Basically
>Guy who becomes infatuated, has several psychotic outbursts in front of the woman and her family, shoots himself in the face and blames the suicide on her
Werther would be nothing but some kind of greentext story 2016 that people would wince at
>>7724841
Surprisingly a lot of lit is like this.
The frog men have always existed, they aren't a modern phenomena.
Is it possible to create decent suspens without having to resort to crime/murder/violence?
>I've never seen a Hitchcock film
>>7724730
>suspens
This is quite a tough read for me, but sometimes I read something which I actually have the intellectual capacity to understand and it makes it worth it.
LSD led me to this book.
Has anybody read it? What did you think of it?
>>7724272
i think that you one of a simple mind.
Aym Rand is pure shit and I hate her
what does lit thinks about this?
It's well received here. Great thread.
Up to Book 4, it's good.
>>7722834
what is the problem after the fourth book?
>tfw set out to make a great work of art but only edgy "poetry" comes out
>tfw throw away everything you ever wrote because its too embarassing
how do i write good?
Dont throw anything away, save and salvage once you get gud.
Just keep practicing, study technique and refine.
>>7726163
Write a book on how to write a book.
>>7726163
quit memes
Im chinese and my grammar is really bad
I somehow end up studying history in University but I think my grammar will doom my essays
How can I improve?
操你妈,你是文盲呀?
〉/lit/ is for the discussion of literature, specifically books
你这破贴和文学有鸟关系??
>>7726110
Lurk /lit/ for 8 hours a day
The only downside is that it's really bad for your intellect.
Seduce your professors.
>introduction
>Foreward
>spoilers literally in the beginning of it
>introduction written by some pretentious cunt literally misses the entire point of the book
What books were better than their movie adaptions, /lit/?
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>>7722959
most of them
>>7722996
I don't think so, most books that were turned into movies almost seem intended to be shown on film.
They seem more like fluffy movie scripts than books.
Maybe it's just the YA book-to-movie craze that makes it seem that way.
>>7723012
like what?
just about every piece of /lit/ i've read is better than the film adaptation.
Which book makes the best factual arguments for capitalism? I am already sold on the ethical and philosophical arguments for the free-market such as personal liberty, the dangers of a large government, the immorality of progressive taxes etc. but now I want to venture into factual and historical proof of capitalism's efficiency. Capitalism and Freedom by Friedman and Basic Economics by Sowell don't have enough factual evidence for me.
>factual and historical proof of capitalism's efficiency
The irony is that this is basically what you can read Karl Marx for.
>>7718952
Mises does a good job for capitalism in Human Action.
>>7718952
serious bump here, I'm in the same position as OP
doesn't Ron Paul have a couple newish books on capitalism history?
/lit/, write me an essay about the book Inside Out & Back Again with this topic:
Prove that Ha is a dynamic character with three pieces of evidence.
Paragraphs to be used are the introduction, three body paragraphs, and the conclusion.
Dubs get some kid's Skype by the way, just thought I'd throw it out there.
Go fuck yourself
>>7726124
/lit is not your personal ar... ghost writer.
I was on the internet the other day when I found this video on how to open a book without breaking the binding:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x42cSAxVego
Despite the video being rather weird (around the halfway point) and kinda cringe-inducing (Dan Brown = Literature?), I think the method is valid.
>crossposting from reddit
My dad is pretty autistic about books and has made me do this since I was like 12. Not sure if it really helps, the binding eases up as you go through the book anyway.
>>7726088
I don't remember the last time I read a printed version of a novel, but I still know to do this.
what is the difference between result, consequence and conclusion
Buy a dictionary.
Only give your opinion if you have actually read the book.
I also want to know
>>7725988
The predictable responses to this book's mention, push button automation responses, really, are indicative of the existential threat it poses to all forms of collectivism, including the current lurch to the left occurring' in the United States' democratic party.
It's really two texts. A yeoman novel of middling prose quality about a remarkable inventor who rejects the fundamental tenet of victimhood forged into all forms of collectivist thought.
The second text is an interminable, insufferable, repetitive, self-impressed close philosophical polemic which completely ruins the novel text, similarly to how songs ruin the narratives of musicals.
It is the novel text's story and ideas which are so dangerous to phase-passing leftists - without producers they would starve in about 8 days. Without producers they would freeze, in the dark, surrounded by broken machines they are ignorant to operate themselves.
All of which is true, and that is why the book is so hated. Witness:
I enjoyed it for the story and ignored the philosophical bits. It really was interesting and worth reading
