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Hello /lit/,
could you recommend me a book about the feelings a man can have for a girl? I've already read Lolita.
Lolita wasnt about that tho.
>>7596956
Man's love is entirely narcissistic
Read Otto Weininger. Or Lacan
>>7596970
I can't read philosophy for the life of me, nor is it what I want to do at the moment (it took me a month to read "On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason" and I can't remember a bloody thing).
I want to learn aboutpedophilia, but it's such a taboo topic that I don't know where to look.
>>7596967
What was it about then?
In Mason and Dixon, Dixon keeps using the (apparent) pronoun "Huz".what does he mean by this?
I'm assuming it's some Quaker dialect but can't find anything about it online.
'us' you buttmonkey
>>7596846
Thanks, I was definitely reading too much into it.
Man I'm on Chapter 45 and I still don't know what the fuck is being said half the time.
Great book though. Took me a while to get into it but somewhere around the St. Helena chapters I really started to love it.
From the screenshot I'm thinking you're about 30 pages in? How are you liking it so far OP?
Hey, /lit/, does anyone know where I (Canadian) can get a decent bookshelf on a students budget (hopefully ~$60 cad, but ill begrudgingly accept higher priced ones)? Living in a dorm right now, so it can't be too big, but i just hate to see all my books piled up on my desk, you know?
Pic unrelated
Try Canadian Tire maybe. They have cheap furniture I think. If that is no good you could always go to Walmart. Check kijiji too.
>>7596552
Check pawn shops too and just low ball them, who the fuck at a pawn shop really cares about a bookshelf.
Which Uni you at op?
>tfw the /lit/ archive is gone
>Forever
>Newfriends will never know the superhuman glory of D&E's trolling
>Newpals will never laugh at Sunhawk's reading habits again
>Newbuddies will never see the original Pinecone threads
>Newchums from this point forward will always know /lit/ as that place where people complain about a Reddit invasion
Which is the greater nightmare, death... or life?
wait is it really gone forever? where can i find announcements about it?
>>7597803
On the archive
I need a cover for a novel...Are there any websites that connect me with someone to create/make the photo?
>>7596551
I can make the cover.
Tell me what you want.
>>7596551
make it yourself you dumb fucking piece of shit
>>7596623
I want a fat black person taking a dump.
but its a shot from behind
preferably a real photo.
>aye
>author tries to do some faux-English
>doesn't understand how -th works
>>7596131
Wherefore didst thy speakst 'gainst me, thou little swine? Thou art a gorilla warfare; art thou doth a retard?
>Copies Jack Vance's prose
>"Welcome, Here's your club card author number #999999"
I need short and interesting book (max 100 pages), preferably non-fiction. Give me your best recs.
Why short? Are you a pleb?
Brief History of Time
>>7596055
I need something short to alternate.
Looking for uncensored and as complete as possible Arabian Knights collection.
Madrus & Mathers trasnaltion was recommended to me, but then at the same time I heard that it was translated by a faggot and extensively gayed up.
>>7595745
It's Arabian Nights you fucking peasant.
>>7595745
>Arabian Knights
People have recommended the old Richard Burton version because it isn't too incomplete, though there was also something about it intensifying the sexual undertones whereas most other translators are on the contrary overly prudish...
what are your personal requirements to consider a book being "good"?
unread
>>7595733
>"good"
I want a book to make me feel some real emotion or make me think in ways I usually don't.
Something happens on the first page, and things keep happening. That and accessible prose that's not too shallow and not too lofty, that middle ground just right conversational prose like an old, trusted friend is relaying a story.
>The bud disappears when the blossom breaks through, and we might say that the former is refuted by the latter; in the same way when the fruit comes, the blossom may be explained to be a false form of the plant’s existence, for the fruit appears as its true nature in place of the blossom. The ceaseless activity of their own inherent nature makes these stages moments of an organic unity, where they not merely do not contradict one another, but where one is as necessary as the other; and constitutes thereby the life of the whole.
What did he mean by this?
>>7595722
That there is no inherent contradiction in eating breakfast for dinner.
This one is the the one that really gives me a headache though:
>The self is a relation which relates itself to its own self, or it is that in the relation that the relation relates itself to its own self; the self is not the relation but that the relation relates itself to its own self.
>>7595722
He writes for teenagers so:
Changing with age doesn't make someone's past or future self fake, just another part of one life.
>>7595722
>Bloom says, “You know, I don’t want to be offensive. But ‘The Fault in our Stars’ [regarded by many as Green's masterpiece] is just awful. It seems ridiculous to have to say it. He can’t think, he can’t write. There’s no discernible talent.”
>“But Stephen King is Cervantes compared with John Green. We have no standards left. [Green] seems to have been a very sincere and troubled person, but that doesn’t mean I have to endure reading...
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Legitimate question: I want to get into some very early forms of comedy in literature.
I hear of some greek authors way back then that would frequently write fart and dick jokes constantly in their classic works.
So /lit/, I ask you, genuinely curious: what are some good examples of crude humour in classic literature?
Pic semi-related: I know Ulysses has a lot of references and humour regarding masturbation.
Rabelais is the pinnacle of what you seek.
>>7593444
If fart and dick jokes can be found in high-brow centuries old classic literature, does this mean crude humor is the most patrician humor?
>>7593444
The Golden Ass by Apuleius is genuine historical giggle-smirk-tier.
What is your favourite book quote. Mine is:
“Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky
from Crime and punishment.
>>7592832
One of my favorites, something related from The Brothers Karamazov:
"Above all, don't lie to yourself. Tha man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love."
"It's not so big. It's regular"
Toru Watanabe
Norwegian Wood
We beat on, boats against the current, bourne back ceaselessly into the past
cliche I know
So i've read Mills Utilitarianism, Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals and Nichomachean ethics. What book on ethics should be next?
Beyond Good and Evil.
>>7592402
Critique of Practical Reason.
> Metaphysics of Morals
isn't complete without it.
>>7592404
>not Genealogy of Morals
Chart thread, please.
anyone here read on a phone? particulary the large phones like 6s plus and galaxt note, is the experience aids or is it somewhat tolerable?
>>7592222
I have a 6s plus and it's okay for short reading. I mainly use it for the digital editions of The New Yorker to read the online stuff and various other news sources. It's decent size, but I wouldn't want to read anything of great length on it.
>tfw no pen in hand to write with on a phone
;_;
>>7592222
I often read on my 5" phone. It isn't ideal but I always have a bunch of books in my hand. I have a kindle too but my phone gets more reading use.
I tried using my iPhone 6 for reading.
It's fucking terrible, I don't see how anyone can read on an electronic device, even if the screen is bigger.
