>1000 word philosophy essay due in three hours
>haven't even looked at the assignment yet
KILL ME
>3 hours
>1000 words
are you in high school or something
that's like two pages
you could do that in 10 minutes
WHAT DO
>>7490348
>are you in high school or something
Community college
Detectives and private investigators, Who are your favorites?
La Disparition by perec
The Big SleepOedipus Rex
I love Poirot stuff too
and the derrida/lacan joint book on the Purloined Letter was hilarious
Doc Sportello
>>7490380
did you watch the movie
>We do not believe that man is derived from the ape by evolution. We believe that the ape is derived from man by involution.
What did he mean by this?
Italians hate Pokemon
>>7490008
Evola was pretty much insane. At least if he's making sense it's beyond me.
>>7490008
man is preeminent in thought, so it cannot be that ape came before man, because nothing preceded man
the universe could not exist until man attempted to fathom it
Is it worth me buying books when I live 20 minutes away from a huge city library?
>>7489200
Just rent books dude, no point buying them unless you want to show off some guests
>>7489200
>library
is it worth the smell of piss, the hobo's, and the autistic people looking up porn?
>>7489236
Seriously what kind of library do you go to?
>See Force Awakens and suddenly interested in Star Wars lore again
>Ask around about EU and get recommended the Thrawn trilogy
>Already in the middle of other reading, but a nice detour until my obsession clears would be nice
>Find a copy of first book and begin reading
>First couple pages is boring, pedestrian narration from the perspective of some ship officer
>Exposition, exposition, exposition
>Bum-bum-bum! Action scene coming up!
Fucking dropped. Why do shiterature writers treat their stuff like it's a movie, and only use the mode of literature to dump exposition from every available character's head-space?
Are there any franchise cash-in novels that actually have any tiniest bit of merit?
>>7488617
>liking star wars
>>7488617
I remember really liking "Eve: the empyrean age" when I was 16-17, but honestly I knew nothing about literature at the time and can't say with any surety that it was any better than the books you just tried.
Why has it become cool to read? It didn't used to be this way.
capitalism tries its best to make anything that involves buying and selling cool. books aren't quite as cool as video games or movies, though, because those products funnel the profits towards corporations and not individual humans.
because it's easier to transmit text over a serial line than it is to force digitized sound down it. this leads to the death of oral tradition.. no, wait, that was Caxton and Gutenberg.
>Youre such a good reader Anon
>Teach me Anon senpai
>Read to us please, nyoro~
>Come to my dorm room later and talk about literature with me *wink*
Yes yes yes, its finally happening. I've waited so long for this day.
Does anyone else find quotations to be a convoluted clusterfuck of prosebreaking shitty rules?
Is the Cormac Mccarthy style of just eliminating quotation marks completely and having quotes in plain text on a new line the best way?
Personally it makes a lot of sense to me. It preserves the natural flow of the text without adding in ambiguity.
>>7487600
"No,"
I think there's an added bit of artistry with McCarthy in that it's never unclear who is talking or what is happening. But potentially there would be, which makes quotations easier. I think his artistry has to stand in relation to the typical convention. He's purposefully and knowingly doing it.
Why do girls pretend to like Bukowski?
Why do they pretend to like anything?
>>7484444
A fine sense of irony. The real question is why men sincerely like Bukowski?
>>7484445
bitchez, man. bitchez and hoes.
Times when people interacted with you while reading?
>get on plane
>read
>be getting off plane
>person asks me how I read so fast
>tell him I don't subvocalize
>receive blank stare
>reading IJ
>woman commends me for being able to hold up such a large book for such a long bus ride
>th-th-thanks?
>spaghetti
>it was all a wet dream
>>7479643
I imagined the woman as an old woman, as if she were calling you a strapping young man, which made this funnier.
I relate
>reading anywhere
>You aren't really reading, you're skimming.
>No way are you reading every word.
>Pressure to appear to read slower builds, quietly wait ten seconds before turning page
Some guy on /wsr/ told me that /lit/ was the best place to discuss theater, so lets discuss the curious incident of the dog in the nighttime.
Start with the Greeks.
>>7492113
I search the greeks and first link is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greeks_(finance).
???
Never heard of it. Watch Oedipus the King.
redpill me on doog
>>7491655
>redpill
You /pol/tards really have a hard-on for that pleb movie made by a tranny and his bro, don't you?
Ignoring the "redpill", Dugin definately is worth a look. He's often called a fascist by western academia, but Neo-Eurasianism is much more complicated and in my view it does transcend the simplistic left/right paradigm. You can find many of his translated essays on archive.com and his lectures on youtube. He's less practical than the European New Right though, and definatley more crazy than de Benoist who he often collaberates with
Just another faggot retard cuck disability-riddled cocksucking jerko spack wanker who deserves to eat a knuckle sandwich every now and then. Oh boy oh boy.
itt: /lit/ memes you fell for
>existentialism
thanks faggots, now I'm depressed as fuck
pynchon
>>7491041
This one understand why someone would be sad, however, doesn't the realization that life only has the meaning you give it and you are not tied by anything except what you tie yourself to make you feel liberated ?, I mean I know I could just grab my things and walk straight north without giving notice to anyone, I could but I don't want to because I enjoy my life I find that really relaxing :^)
>>7491067
oh sorry, didn't notice the picture, not related in any way c:
Best books about the sea, sailing, whaling, or fishing? Preferably nothing too modern
moby dick
>>7490829
Fleet tactics and coastal combat by Wayne Huges
Someone on reddit (inb4 >reddit) made fun of me for liking Military Doctrine and theory books but I don't know, you might like them !
r8 thread
>Ayn Rand
Everything else is excusable, but this is simply too much.
>>7490520
>American Harry Potter
Needs more Amy Acker autobiography
ok /lit/, who is the greatest author of all time?
W. Shakespeare
>>7490466
I was reading that he invented over 1700 words
>invented words
just let that sink in
