>>7649687
All of them are shit.

emma seems really neat to me, but my mom who is all-in on jane is mostly about pride and prejudice and sense and sensibility.

i've picked up mansfield park and persuasion at different times and i can only imagine i went the wrong way with austen at the start

Forget Austen. Read Eliot.

makes me sad

why'd you sell a book yer son got you?
or
maybe he's dead, poor Tom

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>>7648488
Quite a few, pictured is letters to the author found inside the pages, so I assume I have the authors copy as they are addressed to him and one side of a conversation about a reference.

I have an 1850s copy of Wellington's Dispatches and Orders that was originally purchased by a Lord's daughter for her brother, it has the Private Library stamp of their family in it. I looked up the family and iirc one of them is still a Tory peer.
Several bookmarks, the best being from a bookstore in Kodiak found...
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when i buy used books there's often high school tier notes in them in a scribe that looks more like a pensioner's

I find it wierd how Sam sticks up for Islam whem he hates Christianity

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Read the Qu'ran instead if you want a clear understanding of Islam. It's only like 500 pages of instruction and prayer.

pic related

As someone who is devoutly religious, I'm always suspicious of the liberal-bourgeois virtue of 'tolerance.' Why should I tolerate someone who is wrong, and wrong about such a fundamental thing?

>>7647948
suck my cock

>>7647948
You were on Reddit.

>diamond in the rough
This works in none of the context you mean it to.

>>7652069
>fantasy pic

Im not helping you, sorry

Fuck you

>>7652077

its kvothe from the kingkiller chronicles series you bloody twat

Install an IRC client, connect to the server you want then join the channel you want. The lit IRC is #/lit/ on rizon, I don't know what the books server is on but it says on the wiki.

>>7651969
I knew that stuff, I couldn't remember the site, so I looked through some info files and found it. It was undernet, which admittedly makes sense, but there isn't anything in the sticky about it.

>>7651969

Holy shit that lit chat is dead

>>7651960
Moby Dick

>>7651962

>>7651962

A1: Lawrence
A2: Gorki
A3: Feydeau
A4: Macluhan
A5: Kant
A6: McKenna
B1: Doestoevky
B2: Tolstoy
B3: Woolf
B4: Adorno
B5: Gaspard Tournachon
B6: Lavinas
C1:
C2:
C3:
C4: Gogol
C5: Kafka
C6:
D1:
D2: Freud
D3:
D4:
D5:Burroughs
D6:
E1: bECKETT
E2:
E3:
E4: Wilde
E5: Crowley
E6:

A1:
A2:
A3:
A4:
A5: Kant
A6:
B1:
B2: Tolstoy
B3: Woolfe
B4: Adorno
B5: Nerval
B6: Levinas
C1:
C2:
C3:
C4: Gogol
C5: Kafka
C6:
D1: Bourdieu
D2: Freud
D3:
D4:
D5: Burroughs
D6:
E1: Beckett
E2: Bergson
E3:
E4: Wilde
E5:Crowley
E6:

>>7651925
>A1: DH Lawrence
>A2:
>A3:
>A4:
>A5: Immanuel Kant
>A6: Terrence Mckenna
>B1: Fyodor Dostoevsky
>B2: Leo Tolstoy
>B3: Virginia Woolf
>B4: Theodor Adorno
>B5:
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Just write (prose) poetry. Or do like Borges and make like your summarizing much larger works as short stories.

Big lumbering tomes are overrated, a single good poem can give you far more effect than wading through 300-500 pages of hit and miss

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It sounds liek it's the perfect length for imageboard posts

As said, prose poetry or start participating in exercising your creativity, perhaps creative exercise may help you see extensions which don't cause a feeling of artificial inflation.

graduate high school

alternatively, get a GED

>>7651516
You first have to get good at closely reading.

>>7651516
a question

it was OK

fascinating analysis. cozy. thanks for that. made me think.

>>7651500
Fascinating reply.

>>7651061
homework help is here, friend
we don't do that
>>>/hm/

>>7651061
It's about the void left by the death throes of Christianity in the 20th century, and the various forces trying to fill it. The titular Invisible Man is not literally invisible - rather the rest of the world has been figuratively blinded to him by the burning bright lights of liberalism and Marxism (represented by the 1,369 lightbulbs early on in the book and the electric shock experiments later on).

>>7651061

/lit/ hates it because it was written by a black man and as we all know only white cis men are allowed into the western canon, and we'll just ignore that our lord and savior Harold Bloom actually liked it

that's about half the board

but you need to stop projecting on an anonymous mongolian drum circle forum

>>7651063
"but you need to stop projecting on an anonymous mongolian drum circle forum"

Wat

>>7651058
i'm pretty sure you're only now realizing how stupid you are but a part of you doesn't want to admit it
this is an anonymous forum, not high school, there are no points given for seeming nonchalant about or hiding one's own abilities
you may not be used to this
get good or gtfo

>The universe is an astonishing thing.
To assert that the universe is an astonishing thing, you'd have to contemplate the whole of the universe, not just a tiny speck of it. Assigning hazy, feel-good properties to 'the' universe is illegitimate at this stage.

>Our universe has somehow been brought into existence, perhaps through some kind of natural selection.
Or perhaps it's been there all along. Or perhaps there is more than one universe. Etc. You're just regurgitating the mainstream...
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>>7650987
There is nothing but the logos, shared by all things.

>>7651302
>To assert that the universe is an astonishing thing, you'd have to contemplate the whole of the universe
I've contemplated enough of it to say that it is.

>You're just regurgitating the mainstream cosmological model.
I'm not, this is my own conclusion so far.

>'Protects' and 'brute forces' are vague metaphors
They aren't metaphors.

>it...
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Can anyone recommend some good Danish literature? Sticky doesn't help.
Thanks, in advance

>>7651006
This post is so much more interesting than the garbage op. Read all of Kierkegaard.

>>7650973
Go to sleep, Watsky.