>>7533394
It doesn't fit with my worldview, it's shit.

Brace yourself.

>>7533399
So far it makes sense. It doesn't paint WHITEY DID IT or THE NATIVES OR X ARE STUPID

reddit's askhistorians have a bunch of posts explaining why each chapter of ggs should be read with care.

People post this 3 times a week here, imagine in leldit. The consensus is: Jared Diamond is a hack.

>>7533388

>History students become Historians

lol.

>>7533388
>implying history students aren't all sent down a chute into a trash bin to be collected and discarded immediately after graduation

>>7533435
Wow, really? Being entombed in my own corner of the humanitarian latrine, I thought they did pretty well. The more you know.

I-I already told you I was a high school drop out.

>imblying any sane berson wouldn gill gameron wid dere dare hanbs
Ok

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>6 months ago applying for phds
>readying applications for oxbridge
>talk to profs about it
>they all laugh
>"oxbridge's phds aren't competitive hahahaha they have no funding ahhhhhhhahahaha don't apply there"
>talk to dozens of professors, including many who got oxbridge phds decades ago
>do lots of my own research to confirm
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Goethe's Faust and The Trial

>>7533097
50 Shades of Gay and can't read

Left: Eat, Pray, Love
Right: The Hunger Games

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>>7532857
new sincerity avant la lettre

not the best writer but a lot of passion and enthusiasm and he gets it across well, both the happy and the sad parts. big sur is a legitimately great novel.

top lad

>>7532876
the only thing I know about Big Sur is the following quote:

“I have tonight begun reading a stupid, shitty book by Kerouac called Big Sur, and I would give a ball to wake up tomorrow on some empty ridge with a herd of beatniks grazing in the clearing about 200 yards below the house. And then to squat with the big boomer and feel it on my shoulder with the smell of grease and powder and, later, a little blood.”

~Hunter s thompson

>>7533233
Words of a jealous narcissist to be honest. Thompson is a meme writer compared to Kerouac.

>I swear after three days you'll feel like reading more and after a month or so you should be reading 50-100 pages a day for pleasure

This never happened though...

I will keep asking this each time you post it: what's the joke here? The only thing remarkable is the 5 pages a day bit.

I've been off /lit/ for like six months, aren't there any new memes?

>how to be a worse writer and reader for the sake of speed

Son, you what.

>>7532800
You don't. :')

>>7532821
>>7532812
Sour grapes.

>>7532800
Do something that occupies your mental voice while reading

start with the greeks

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>>7532694

Melal

Yeah, but it's been a long time. I remember I enjoyed it.

I've had about four false starts with this. I can't get past forty pages or so. Literally nothing is happening.

>le post modernism
>read any way you want!

>>7532506
>reading serbian novels
evbin

How To 69 Oneself

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Anything by this guy

>>7532501
catcher in the rye

>>7532483

The next page.

>>7532483
>the brothers brothers brothers karamazov brothers

what the fuck

>>7532496
these new artsy/ minimal covers are shite
aside from the camus covers those do a good job of telling the reader what to expect

American Psycho
Some Thomas Pynchon
I suppose a few classics (Lolita, Catch 22, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)

Honestly the /lit/ entry core is bullshit, just get in the habit of reading literature, not young adult.

Also avoid penguin editions if you can, they fall apart rather quickly

>>7532513
yeah not a bad suggestion. i just gave a coworker of mine an old paperback of catch 22. i figured its a good way to get someone into stuff with a little more substance.

OP you would probably enjoy david foster wallace. maybe Mccarthy if you want some stuff with a little more "Oomph" (blood meridian is an ultra violent western and all around classic) Don Delillo is also good and White Noise is fairly easy to read and deals with some interesting themes.

oh and Kafka. Definitely read some Kafka.

Create what specifically? Anything? A video? A paper? A diorama?

>>7532357
My instructor didn't explain this very well, she said we could create pretty much anything within reason that represents the theme, I had an idea, for a railroad game of sorts, a railroad must travel on a track which splits into multiple paths, the conductor must choose which path to go on, one path representing his self-interest, the other representing the interest of the passengers.
Kinda autistic, but, you get the idea.

>>7532437
Have a game where it's yourself against the rest of the class. Whoever wins gets a candy bar if they cross a particular threshold of points (lets say 25). Basically have a succession of choices that are either/or, with you either benefiting yourself in points or benefiting the class in points. Ask the class which choice you should make. Argue that it's in your self interest to make the choice benefiting you. When they say that's not fair, tell them that's the rules of the game, and since you made...
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You haven't been on /lit/ long enough if you think /lit/ cares at all about asoiaf. All we get are a few annoying /tv/ posters who visit seasonally depending on HBO's schedule; otherwise, gurm gets about as much attention as any other fantasy writer.

And... The seventh season of GOT will be the last.

>>7532254
Is that why there are 5 threads that are to do with GRRM and ASOIAF on /lit/ right now?

You just can't admit that ASOIAF is a legendary book series, and that it's better than your philosophical shit.

I mean really, name me one series that has managed to keep up with nearly or over 1,000 pages in each installment. That's right, there are none other than ASOIAF.

>>7532158
What about the faux wars they waged with the other autocracies of 1984's earth; how they dumped resources into a self-perpetuating black hole. And everyone was in on it.