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>it's a coming of age story
>Delightfully quirky
>it's a "bildungsroman"
>hauntingly beautiful
Why do normies like to brag about using literature as escapism?
Right? That's what severe mental illness is for.
>my favorite book
>the best book I've ever read
Pick one you dumb bitches, you can't have two favorites.
>>7357663
It's just a pleb attitude to treat art only as escapism, something just to pass the time, and books as merely scripts for little movies they play in their head, mainly bad movies.
has anyone here learned a language just for the purposes of reading?
i want to learn russian, but i dont know if the time investment is worth it, especially considering it will probably be hard to learn.
Yes. And I hate that fucking picture.
>>7357614
what language? how long did it take you? and what don't you like about the froggy?
>>7357609
Are you always the same person posting this exact same thread
How smart are you, /lit/?
A man should not hold grudges against the world or himself, otherwise it becomes a tangled web constructed of loops of anxiety and self-doubt. There are web-makers in us all, and they may be hardened machinists knitting intricate cotton into the fabric of self-pitying life or simply spiders that run rampant within the skull. But the outcome is all the same; it is negative and compromising to the being
>>7357446
Cioran?
>>7357466
is that a yes?
Have you read the novel of the decade yet? It has been prophetical since the day of release.
Please read relevant contemporary literary fiction, friends.
I want to read this book + more relevant contemporary fiction but I always feel like I'm never "caught up" enough in the canon. For example, I know Submission revolves around a professor of Huysmans, who I haven't read. If I knew more about late 20th-century French literature my appreciation and understanding of the book would be much improved, but it may become irrelevant in the time it would take me to get caught up.
>I'm a loser but finally I can marry 3 women
SUCH PROPHETICAL
OP, you haven't read it, have you?
>>7357438
Sheesh, just read it
![thousand-and-one-nights[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/ft6DdFD.jpg "thousand-and-one-nights[1].jpg")
How is it the Thousand And One Nights, an indispensable centerpiece of the canon, is entirely ignored on this board?
If you don't read it in the original Persio-Iranian dialect, you haven't read 1001 Nights.
>>7357342
It's very simple: patrician pleb shit tier discernible talent corn upon all the living and the dead implying rate my bookshelf one of these continental implying analytic implying Katie implying
>>7357345
>not reading the Arabic version
https://ar.wikisource.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%84%D9%81_%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A9_%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A9
When you carry a book with you, do you hold it title-out or title-in? I don't like for people to think I'm peacocking, so I usually try to hide the cover of the book, especially if it's recognizable 20th century literature. I might let someone see that I'm holding Hardy or Johnson, if I need to hold it up to read it comfortably, but I wouldn't be caught dead showing off Joyce on a crowded subway.
(reading in public general)
>tfw it's comfortable to lean way the fuck forward, with elbows on my knees, when reading on a bench or a subway seat, but I probably look like a manchild getting way too immersed in a Lord of the Rings novel and/or having trouble reading the words
>tfw you almost bump into someone because reading and walking at the same time is hard
>tfw autism
Holy shit have we really come to this?
>>7357327
I'm self-conscious and autistic too so I worry about coming off as pretentious. I either leave books in my backpack or cover the title while walking.
>>7357333
I figured we might be able to discuss this without sounding retarded
actual literature threads are disasters
Tell mre /lit/ is there any real reason to buy the books you read as opposed to downloading them off the internet? The only real benefit to reading a paperback book that I can see is the possibility of striking up a conversation with another person in public.
They're dirt cheap, easier to read and more portable.
Also, a black person will steal your tablet, but they won't steal a book.
you can give it to a friend when you're done :^) (if you have any)
>>7357328
They're not cheaper if you're torrenting them for free :^)
What does /lit/ think of this book?
>>7357235
Shit to be honest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40JmEj0_aVM
>reading The Things They Carried
>it ain't me starts playing
baka desu senpai
Kind of boring but not bad.
>DUDE VIETNAM LMAO
best place to start with houellebecq?
bumping with interest
bumping with INSECTS
>>7357214
start with the greeks.
Your opinion about the books, based anons
There is entirely too much booty in them pants.
If that ass is the ass equivalent of Lord of Light or Book of the New Sun in terms of fantasy, Name of the Wind is the ass of a 45 year old crack addicted prostitute you pay 10$ for a blowjob because you are poor.
>>7357171
10/10
What are some good modern day literature that came out in the past 25 years or so? I'm getting sick of reading all these young adult books
>>7357120
start with the greeks
read sticky
>>7357138
Getting tired of your shit
>Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special, that it has a mission to enlighten, civilize, bring order and democracy, and that it uses force only as a last resort. And, sadder still, there always is a chorus of willing intellectuals to say calming words about benign or altruistic empires, as if one shouldn't trust the evidence of one's eyes watching the destruction and the misery and death brought by the latest mission civilizatrice.
Edward W. Said, Orientalism
>>7357092
based
>>7357119
giving it a name is to rejecting the truth
>>7357092
>that it has a mission to [...] bring democracy
that sound really unreasonable for everything before the french revolution
wow
such a shitty star wars ripoff
>>7357060
>(you)
>>7357060
ebin thred xD
>>7357060
Wow, you must be well read to intentionally misunderstand something :^)
Is all lovecraft this pants on head retarded?
I'm only 25 pages in and
>taken to the dark side of the Moon on a rowboat
>held captive
>before shit goes down an army of cats appear and kill all his captors
>he then talks to the cats and finds out the kitten he saved happens to have a grandfather cat that leads this army
I was fine until this cat shit. Also why does he name drop made up places all the time, it's not really...
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>complaining about the logic of a dream sequence
>>7357046
He's a shitty writer with some creative ideas. He was the Stephen King of his day.
>>7357053
It's not even the logic I have a problem with. It's just really fucking stupid and totally ruined the story for me
