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ITT write a list of some of your favorite books.
I'll start:
Sand-dune by Frank Herbert
Brave New Universe by Aldous Huxley
The Devils of London by Aldous Huxley
1985 by George Orwell
A Clockwork Red by Anthony Burgess
10,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
Heart of Blackness by Joseph Conrad
Wayside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
The Empty Slate by Steven Pinker
Now you post your list.
>>7642521
>almost exclusively sci-fi
Still in the highschool i see?
>>7642527
For someone on a literature board you sure don't like reading.
>>7642532
Would you go to /ck/ and brag about liking instant noodles?
Is it as bad as people say it is?
No, but it's more on the conventional side and it does not consistently flash prose at you.
If you're looking for something like Gravity's Rainbow then you'll absolutely hate it. It reads something like a detective potboiler with the occasional Pineconeisms slipped in.
>>7642470
What's a pineconeism?
>book's protagonist compares his own situation by referencing an older, much better book with the same premise
Why would an author shoot himself in the foot like that?
>Wow, I turned into an insect (or "vermin," if you want to get technical) just like Gregor Samsa from Kafka's Metamorphosis!
Do any books actually do this though?
>>7642453
Camus in the Plague, though not exactly similar, brings up Dosto's 2 x 2 is 4 thingy. God Camus sucks dick.
>>7642453
Sounds like something Tao Lin would do.
Any good "lovecraftian" horror stories not written by old H.P?
>>7642317
The King In Yellow, Robert W Chambers. Big favourite of Lovecraft himself and referenced in some of HPSauce's stories.
>>7642317
Ramsey Campbell's "Who goes there?", aka The Thing. Published not long after " At the mountains of madness ".
>>7642317
Clark Ashton Smith's Hyperborian cycle.
without going into /pol/ memery what do you guys think of marx's writings ?
tldr desu
check out this meme I found on /pol/
Totally misunderstood Hegel.
What do you guys think of these books?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3ZKcvHuKjQ
I've only read East of Eden.
>>7641528
>Infinite Jest on the shelf
Does /lit/ finally have a queen?
I just read The Road
She looks like a female version of John Green.
How do I become well spoken?
Does it come with age? IS it a combination of wisdom, pacience and big vocabulary?
Read:
Rhetoric - Aristotle
>>7641264
You might think this won't do shit for you, but it will.
>>7641264
thanks anon
Write what's on your mind.
>One must wonder, how many thoughts does a man keep to himself for fear of society's reproach? How open to one another can we really be?
Why does your internal monologue sound like a pretentious early 19th century writer?
Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
>>7639741
Se rendre compte de l’horreur du flou du langage que nous employons tout les jours et qui est souvent notre seul outil. Du jeu qu’il y a entre chaque maillon de la chaîne de communication, réaliser les implications d’une telle imperfection : avoir peur. C’est le premier pas vers le silence.
Do you guys find it hard to push through a book when you begin to hate the supposedly sympathetic subject/protagonist? Pic related, but this is not the first time I have encountered this. At times I just want to shut a book and pretend the protagonist died.
Ive hated Jude Fawley, most of Marquez's whiny characters (especially Florentino Ariza), Humbert Humbert (and not for being a pedo), and the professors in 2666 among others.
No. This is a very reddit/goodreads review post, btw. Smarten up, bro
>tfw no Kindle edition
I've been looking for a book like this for ages. Has anyone read it? I have always considered the far-left to be mentally il and I am hoping this book can articulate what I have always desperately wanted to know, namely, the underlying reasons why someone becomes a politically correct lunatic
>>7644522
>I have a stated position
>I read to cement my position
>I cannot escape the hugbox and embrace new ideas
You are the /lit/ equivalent of an old man watching fox news cycles on repeat. Not making a commentary on your political positions which I tend to agree with, but rather your general ignorance
>>7644522
Also
>political tract
>by an MD
You realize there are no more politically incoherent individuals than MDs. Their political opinions all stream from tort-reform and instituting regressive taxes.
>>7644522
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFtOcj6nyfg
>why someone becomes a politically correct lunatic
because its hip you faggot?
How long do you read for in a single day and many pages do you read per hour? I'm setting a goal for myself to read for longer periods of time and at a faster speed and I want to set a realistic goal.
i read for about half an hour on the train, twice a day, averaging 400 pages
I prefer to take my time, read closely, weigh each word, each sentence, etc., ask questions, and so on, which generally puts me at a pace of about 30-40 pages an hour. If I'm speed reading, it would probably be several times that number, but honestly, why read anything that you're not completely interested in? If it's for school, I would think that a good rate of knowledge retention would similarly necessitate a more slow, deliberate approach. I'm a full-time college student, so I'll generally read for about eight hours a day, but rarely all in one sitting.
>>7644448
It's not that I don't enjoy it when I'm fully invested in reading, but I have ADHD that I'm trying to overcome. I'm aware it's a meme disorder.
>>7644303
>demotivational poster
Go back to 2005
>>7644306
why
>that feel when I'm sitting I'm a hospital chapel and just began writing a psychological torture adventure
I dont like where this is going...but I kinda like it.
Nice blog.
>>7644280
With that kind of attitude, I wont share my progress.
Hi, first time here, i told myself i should read more.
I am currently reading this because this girl i have a crush on considers it as her fav book.
It's truely fantastic, but i'm reading it in english and it's not my native language... Should i go on? I'm almost tired of reading it and i just finished the first part (fuck the scroll edition).
(Also, it's a bit strange for a non american to read it, i need a fucking map every time he crosses a state)
>>7644137
she's a psych patient or into drugs or both
depending on how old you are ie a uni student then sure this is appropriate. then drop tabs together and fuck her in a park.
>>7644149
>she's a psych patient or into drugs or both
Well, she's 21, used to take drugs, and is some kind of bohemian / hipster, so i guess you're half right.
and yep, i'm a uni student
well, first thing, if you want to learn to read you have to leave social life and stop giving to bodily pleasures. you have to become an abbott, an ascetic monk, a beaver. if if you live for the flesh you will never have a mind. intentions are flawed, you are in it for the wrong reasons. you can be an animal body or a human, but not both.
Didn't want to post this in /mu/, because fuck those pretentious chucklefucks.
>Rappaccini's Daughter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
http://youtu.be/8m2xKXHLmhY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdbLqOXmJ04
>>7644075
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuAhlWLBZ_M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyxoQIQaogE
