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Post your face when you've realized that The Pilgrim of Zola and Jessica is the best literature work produced in the 21st century.
Feel free to read it at: http://imgur.com/a/WDwyW
This looks uninteresting
Marlon James has filled the spot for nigger talk xploitation in literature, that stuff's old and forgotten
That's way too much nigger ramblings for me to decode
Do you guys know any good alternative sites to discussing literature? don't say reddit or goodreads
>>8068235
my irc tbqh
OP, if we knew of one, would we be here?
Honestly.
>>8068235
The sad reality is that this is the best alternative.
>need to write an essay with a friend
>I wrote a first draft, I admit that I had a poor reading of the source (some chapters of Anti-Duhring)
>sent to friend
>he's 10 year older and has a masters degree (I'm 22)
>he simply improves the text in every way
>he adds things that I knew but, for some inane reason, didn't put in my own text
>also, the text flows so much better
I feel so fucking embarrassed. I don't know why I didn't put half the things he put in there even though I knew them. When he sent the text back to me it made so much more sense. He also had a couple of hours to read and make corrections, while I spent much more time.
How do I become a better reader and a better writer, friends? I'm tired of being humiliated in the academy. I don't know if it's because I'm just being lazy and not reading the texts properly, or maybe because I'm not writing all the author's points down. All I know is that when I read what I write after some time I just feel disgusted. All the paragraphs are so simple and bleak, they barely give any good information.
Sorry for any mistakes, english is not my first language.
kys
>>8068029
thanks
>>8068021
I feel inadequate in academia too.
I guess just write down your ideas and work longer on the text, read slow, and read more than once.
>le California man
>>8068000
/fa/ af
>le Mississippi man
>>8068000
>>8068019
is this the start of a
NEW
EPIC
MEME?????????????
Pick a century, and its corresponding paragonal philosophical work. I'll start:
XIX century - "Phänomenologie des Geistes".
XXII century - "Fanged Noumena"
there aren't many centuries
>>8067973
The best are few also.
Do you go on goodreads? If so, why?
no
i do pee pee instead
Whenever I google a book, the average rating from goodreads appears, and it's always about 4/5.
i once made a post on 4chan and it got haha inside?
I need a book with an alpha character who cucks the shit out of people. Heathcliff from Wuthering Heights was the most alpha character in literary history. Just read Mayor of Casterbridge which was a big disappointment, and now I'm in need of a good cucking story.
Ulysses
my diary desu
Did cyberpunk become obsolete because it, unlike biopunk, failed to recognize that Cartesian dualism got proven false by analytical philosophy?
>>8067903
i likke memes
I bet this was really impressive in your head, OP.
>>8067903
that ass is fat
I've read 1984, Fahrenheit 451 and Brave New World so far. Dystopically speaking, which book should I read next?
>>8067865
have you read We?
>>8067865
High castle dicks
poo in loo by ranjeet
/lit/ what are some books that help make me a chiller/less awkward person that is better at hiding his intellect? something that talks about nuancing your emotions and your expressions? right now i have the persona of a well read person but most of the time people dont seem to understand what i'm saying
>see semi-cute girl sitting on a bench waiting for the subway
>straighten my back, insert satin-embroidered bookmark between the pages, stuff Infinite Jest back into the inner pocket of my personally-tailored trenchcoat (I also carry a hollowed-out Stephen King novel to hide my Bible in for when I'm at a party or other social ocassion)
>take off glasses
>approach
>"Ah yes, a wonderful bench to wait for said subway train! I suppose it's true what they say - 'The subway will set you free, but not until it is finished with you!'" I laugh, then wink at her
>she removes her headphones
>I continue, "Where goest thee? To the library, it is my presumption? Then speak unto the driver, and say, 'Ye great driver! Forward to the library, and step on it!'"
>"Sorry, what?"
>"'Tis but a recommendation, haha! What listened thou today?" i try to shift the conversation away from literature
>she looks confused, widens her eyes, smiles vaguely
>subway pulls in
>she stands up and scuffles off toward it
>"Onward! Climb mountains, and breathe the mountain air! Live not in swamps! And remember: 'Thou shalt' not, but 'wilt' thou shall! Hear, hear!" i shout at her, but i had already decided it wouldn't work out between us anyways
>"Stare not into the abyss!" i attempt once more, but the doors slide shut and she disappears in the subway crowd
>get bored of our conversation
>leave
i've really started to think that dumbing yourself down to talk to people is the way to go. it's not just girls either, by the way, as i hardly know any men of my age who understand me. is this an age related issue perhaps? will more mature people be able to appreciate my knowledge?
this isn't funny or clever or ironically cute as a badly written bait or anything
please stop posting such trash and keep the discussion to literature
tl;dr
>>8067849
Yes, please stop this shit. If you're going to bait, it better be at least enough to make me breathe loudly out of my nose.
Hey /lit/ so what do you prefer reading? First person stories or third person? How do you feel it impacts your ability to enjoy a book?
Personally when its first person and the protagonist is female or otherwise nonhuman its hard to get invested.
>>8067723
Wait I know this shit
This is from the testing log of SCP-093, Red Sea Objects
Those are the Unclean, that's a D-class
Cool
>>8067723
>female or otherwise nonhuman
kekd
Recently, I had a friend ask me whether I believed in god. I replied, "Fuck now. Why should I believe there is a god..."
Now I don't care about any of the theological bullshit. What is interesting to me philosophically is what assumptions underlie the question "Is there...?" or "What is?" Simply put, what gives something ontological weighty.
This also brought me back to addressing the problem of solipsism, objectivity,
and subjectivity. Sure, there are some common sense responses to solipsism, but really can aomeone break down logically why I should believer other people exist. I don't want a "It doesnt matter because operational, neopragmatism" response. Just please lay it out simple why other people exist. What it means to exist. Etc.
If any of sagely /lit/izens wanna take a crack at this or point me in the direction of some good /lit/ on the topic, please do so.
>books
Stop, just stop. Live your life man
Leí Don Quixote en el año pasado, y quiero leer otro libro en español. ¿Qué debo leer ahora?
(Español no es mi lengua primera; lo siento por mi mal español. Hablé Igbo antes de aprendi español, y no creo nadie aquí saber ese lengua.)
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>>8067599
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Any mystery/thriller fans on here? Who is your favorite author? Who is your favorite fictional detective? Do you avoid or seek out series that have a TV series adaptation?
>>>/tv/
kill yourself.
the scooby-doo novelization
>>8067460
I've been reading some Dashiell Hammet and Red harvest was great. Apparently that's where The man with no name and Yojimbo came from. I used to read Agatha Christie when I was younger and the most interesting novels are the ones where the narrator is unreliable and is the criminal. Sherlock Holmes tends to be critical of previous detectives and Hercule Poirot echoes that by being critical of him. Doyle tended to get into the supernatural and the mysterious side of that in his later works, though some of this shows in his earlier stuff too.
>"humourist"
>>8067399
How do I write with humor without being a tryhard? Should I have friends to keep me in check?
>>8067407
i recommend "my diary desu" for an example
>>8068041
My book isn't an autobiography.
