Why do people put in the time and effort to read these when they could be reading actual books and then watch the fucking show for a bit of escapism?
cause the show poops itself after season 4
Books are much better than films
>>7687446
They are way too long... People get off on all the nuggets GRRM hides throughout and speculate on theories. It's fun, entertaining, but not literature.
Saged.
Who here can tie DFW to Zombies and horror?
>inb4 do your own homework
Only story I can think of is "Incarnations of Burned Children", but I want to tie Infinite Jest in somewhere.
dfw fans are all mindless zombies, and it's horrifying
yw
The Entertainment makes people into creatures that only want the entertainment. Seems pretty zombie-esque to me you fuckin simple bitch
>>7686812
STIRNERIAN UNDEATH IN THE WORKS OF DAVID FOSTER WALLACE: AN APOLOGUE
When the unique one becomes identified with the creative output of their property they have transformed from an infinite creative nothingness into a finite, hollow spectre of the material emanations that they've chosen to champion.
They become less than nothing, sacrificing their state as the foundation of all being in order to become a pale imitation of an imitation. The protean water has become envious of the brittle cup that holds it.
etc. etc. etc. for eight pages and an easy B-
Alright, faggot, post your favorite book and nobody gets hurt.
there's already a thread for fav books. use the catalogue retard
Now and forever.
Nobody gets hurt?? Why would I want to post a book if nobody will get hurt?
Does media affect perception?
And if so does that mean that novels, movies, and so on, need to be socially responsible in both content and form, and judged on that basis?
The artist answers to no one.
>>7684561
Is that Swift?
This is now a Tay Tay thread!
Hey /lit/izens, I've recently been looking at ereaders and I realized that all of the ebooks I've seen have been more expensive than physical copies of said book.. Is this common? Am I just seeing some more expensive authors? Also is the a noticable difference between kindle and kobo prices? Inb4 piracy
wot
>>7682569
Pretty much every kindle e-book is cheaper or significantly cheaper than its print counterpart. The whole selling point of ebooks is how cheap and portable they are compared to print books.
>>7682569
There is no inb4 piracy. If you buy digital books you are as stupid as people who buy individual songs on iTunes. Amazon sets prices high, and there was just a huge court case between Amazon and publishers and authors regarding this. Buy your kindle and pirate books, pretend it's a library of the Internet.
What is the book equivalent of Kanye's new album?
Define 'equivalence' in this context.
It's been almost a decade since Kanye has made a good song. That album art is horrendous.
Have you ever made a major life decision based on a novel or writer's experience?
I can't decide whether to marry my gf, leaning toward breaking up in order to avoid domestic life and pursue my curiosities freely. but then I think about kierkegaard and how he tormented himself, having to basically invent a philosophy to deal with dumping regine. and that I will probably just be a miserable, no-name pleb and kill myself.
pic related, charles darwin's notes on marrying vs. not marrying.
>object to be beloved & played with. — better than a dog anyhow.
>terrible loss of time
http://genius.com/Charles-darwin-pros-and-cons-of-marriage-annotated
(he did marry)
>>7687513
You can't really make a decision whether to marry in 2016 based on experiences from centuries ago. The times are different, and marriage is different.
What should i read before, and which languages learn to understand Fnnegans Wake?
You have to read everything on this list in its original lanugage in order to understand Finnegans Wake: http://interleaves.org/~rteeter/grtbloom.html
Read the Acallam Na Senorach
You need to speak English, Irish, Old Irish, Latin Italian and French fluently to make sense of it.
Doesn't it frustrate you that there is so much trash out there that you have to sift through before you find something worthy of your investment? Lists or awards of various types are little help, as they are too often full of trash as well. How do you pick your next read?
>>7687397
Are you sure you just don't have bad taste?
>>7687399
Are you actually denying that the majority of what's out there is trash?
So this may be the wrong place to ask, but do you guys know any good places to pirate textbooks? I'm kind of a poorfag and really don't want to drop hundreds of dollars on college books.
put "imgur textbooks" into google and all the results will be pages of different places that will let you download textbooks for free.
>>7687305
gen.lib.rus.ec
Hey /lit/,
I've recently read Mary Shelleys Frankenstein (1918 edition) and now have to write an Research Paper about anything in the book but I can't think of any good questions/topics/theses. Can anyone of you help me?
>>7685509
If you hope to be an English major you have to learn to do this yourself.
Really? You can't think of a single thing in fucking Frankenstein to write about?
Write about how Frankenstein is garbage because it was written by a woman
Dearest c/lit/orises.
I'm a regular /fit/izen and this is legit my first time posting on here- so be gentle or I'll fuckin' wail on you nerds.
My 21'st is coming up and I'm looking to buy some decent books as a present to myself.
I usually read non-fiction, stuff on axis WWII, fitness. I'm not big on fiction, only read Stephen King, some of the divine comedy, and quite a bit of Blake's poems.
I was recently recommended by /fit/ towards Yukio Mishima- long story short; which ones do I get/would you recommend?
A hundred thanks, maybe less, maybe more.
>>7686991
>so be gentle or I'll fuckin' wail on you nerds
>Stephen King
We recommend that you kill yourself plz
>>7687010
Eventually, not anytime in the next year though- senpai.
>>7686991
S T I C K Y
fuck off with these threads
>Notes from Underground
>Crime and Punishment
>Consider the Lobster
>The Count of Monte Christo
>Dubliners
>Frankenstein
>White Fang
some of my favorites
can't be fucked to list 10 desu lad because ive only ever read 7 books :^)
what's the second-most patrician religion, after Catholicism?
>>7685906
The second closest one to catholicism, orthodox christianity.
Religion is the opiate of the masses so unable to be patrician.
Black liberation theology is the most patrician
I have to write a poem about police for my uni
Post your best poem about police/the criminal justice sys or that topic
>help me plagiarize plz
no
FUCK THE POE LEEC COMIN STRAIGHT FROM DA UNDERGROUND
YOUNG NIGGA GOT IT BAD CUZ IM BROWN
Bad boys, bad boys whatcha gonna do?
Whatcha gonna do when they come for you?
Bad boys, bad boys whatcha gonna do?
Whatcha gonna do when they come for you?
When you were eight and you had bad traits
You go to school and learn the golden rule
So why are you acting like a bloody fool?
If you get hot, you must get cool
Bad boys, bad boys whatcha gonna do?
Whatcha gonna do when they come for you?
Bad boys, bad boys whatcha gonna do?
Whatcha gonna do when they come for you?
You chuck it on that one
You chuck it on this one
You chuck it on your mother
And you chuck it on your father
You chuck it on your brother
And you chuck it on your sister
You chuck it on that one
And you chuck it on me
Bad boys, bad boys whatcha gonna do?
Whatcha gonna do when they come for you?
Bad boys, bad boys whatcha gonna do?
Whatcha gonna do when they come for you?
Nobody now give you no break
Police now give you no break
Not soldier man give you no break
Not even you idren now give you no breaksBad boys, bad boys whatcha gonna do?
Whatcha gonna do when they come for you?
Bad boys, bad boys whatcha gonna do?
Whatcha gonna do when they come for you?Why did you have to act so mean?
Don't you know you're human being?
Born of a mother with the love of a father
Reflections come and reflections go
I know sometimes you wanna let go
I know sometimes you want to let go
Bad boys, bad boys whatcha gonna do?
Whatcha gonna do when they come for you?
Bad boys, bad boys whatcha gonna do?
Whatcha gonna do when they come for you?
You're too bad, you're too rude
You're too bad, you're too rude
Bad boys, bad boys whatcha gonna do?
Whatcha gonna do when they come for you?
Bad boys, bad boys whatcha gonna do?
Whatcha gonna do when they come for you?
