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I'm sick. What's a good book to read while being bedridden for a few days?
>>7690149
How the Poor Die
read the sticky
>>7690149
The Maimed
Let's say the cut-off point is 1900. I don't want 20 posts of people arguing about whether that's a legitimate cut-off point or not. Old or new books, /lit/?
New. Old books are too stodgy with their prose, plus, the tenets and sensibilities of storytelling were VERY different then. It's not always entertaining for a modern audience.
Yet another subject /lit/ has no opinion on, huh?
I prefer new books. They speak to contemporary problems and ideas that I can relate to and there's less of a cultural gap. Though I think it's a severe failing that I'm so woefully underread in the classics particularly Renaissance and 18th ce works.
I would prefer to read a randomly chosen new book than a randomly chosen old book, however, my favorite books are old books.
What word best describes reaching the same conclusions as others had before you through individual experience?
I can't seem to find it.
>>7689882
Intelligence.
>>7689882
Confirmation
Proof
Corroboration
>>7689882
Good question OP. Are you asking for the feeling of realizing someone has already thought of this before? or something more like the actual objective process of reaching the same conclusions of others without reference to their work
>reply to five posts in five threads
>go to work for the morning
>come back
>receive five replies
>every single one is "Yes"
This is the worst fucking meme yet
>>7689812
Yes
>>7689812
>reply to threads
>the conversation just goes on without acknowledging my post
What did you gentlemen think of this novel?
Any other to recommend?
Besides the essentials ofc
btw anyone into polish language? I need someone to fuck me over my prose thetorical t b h
Not Polish, Cimmerian.
Damn, that woman must have been a real bitch to him, lol.
It's more /tv/ than it is /lit/. It's a period piece.
>>7689345
stop promoting your shit here
>>7689345
Then go promote it on /tv/.
>>7689345
Keep promoting it.
All of philosophy is based around the idea of whether it's better to be yourself or to change
thats why philosophy is gay
just be yrself
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Books about oratory and rhetoric?
The World's Famous Orations - Bryan
The Peloponnesian War - Thucydides
Most Socratic Dialogues - Plato
Rhetoric - Aristotle
Hey /lit/ I want to into Buddhism.
What books do I read?
pic unrelated
>>7689091
>pic unrelated
/co/lit/ fusion memes... comic book authors in the 100 favorites list... I'm seeing a pattern here.
Can we round up some pessimistic, exit level lit from more diverse places in the world?
I'm not SJWing, but there's so much European/American/Japanese lit of this sort that I'm really curious what exit level literature from somewhere bright and sunny like Vietnam or Thailand or India looks like. Anyone know about this kind of stuff? Is the neurosis of pessimism the same in these places as it seems to be in the more represented countries?
>>7689015
Can you provide examples of what you already are aware of? Sounds interesting.
>>7689015
New flavor of the month seems to be Silence by Endo. I thought it was depressing as fuck.
>>7689779
Japanese tho, my bad
i've just started reading infinite jest. you guys told me it's just a meme but it's actually one of the best books i've ever read!
t. a pleb
what do you like about it
hey guys I'm new I justed started reading le meme book and figured I'd start the 5th IJ thread on /lit/ XD
why do people do this?
So I had a small school project about writing a short story , and since its my first time writing its obviously going to be really bad. So i thought some feedback would help.
Here goes :
The Medieval Tower
Two years have passed since the end of the massacre. Two years have passed since the peasants revolted against the royal family and attacked the tower which housed the royal family.
The year is 1486, and Anna and Charles, the recently united couple, had finally finished their wedding ceremony. Anna and Charles both came from middle class families. Anna lived by the jungle before moving into Vermont, the village where Anna and Charles met. Growing by the jungle, Anna’s father taught her the ways of the bow, this helped her come out as a courageous...
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the night. This forced them to work in the inn they stayed at to pay their rent. These circumstances only lengthened their journey.
After 9 days, the couple had finally reached their destination. As Anna raised her head to look at her new home, her pupils dilated and she started breathing more heavily. The couple was so excited to live in this new home that was home to a very peculiar historical event. To any other person, the house looked horrible, and rightly so, from the outside, the house looked very gloomy, the windows were broken and the stone was eroded....
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The sun set and the couple were finally done organizing the house. Charles sat in the living room to rest while Anna started making dinner in the kitchen right beside him. Not 10 minutes passed until the screaming and banging sound resumed.
Anna heard the sound and exclaimed “I told you!”
“Not the time to argue, let’s figure out where the sound is coming from.” Charles replied.
Charles and Anna followed the sound carefully, after 20 minutes of looking they found out that the sound was actually coming from the piece of wall that faced the main entrance.
Anna...
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what does /lit/ think of Yahtzee croshaw?
>>7688775
Actual garbage. Mogworld is MMORPG fanfic. His humor makes it readable but his writing is cringe inducing.
I picked up Shadow and Claw thanks to the memeing on this board and read Torturer this week. It was pretty cool, got a couple of questions though:
1. Are there any good sites/books/analyses on the work that will help me pick up what I missed?
2. Does the narrative pick up or is the style pretty consistent all the way through?
Starting Claw of the Conciliator soon.
It's more or less consistent, but it peaks around Claw and Sword; also don't forget to read Urth of the New Sun if you're aiming to read all of it.
>1. Are there any good sites/books/analyses on the work that will help me pick up what I missed?
There’s be lots of spoilers in a serious analysis, probably. If you don’t want to be spoilered, first finish with the series. And then read it all again, probably.
>>7688772
>1. Are there any good sites/books/analyses on the work that will help me pick up what I missed?
Ultan's library, videos on yt by Marc Aramimi, an article on First Things.
>2. Does the narrative pick up or is the style pretty consistent all the way through?
Style stays largely the same, but the plot itself grows in scale.
