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What did you read today, anon?
Journey to the end of the night.
Nothing yet. I'm almost halfway done The Dharma Bums and it's a short book so I might try to finish it tonight.
i finished the man who was thursday
it was pretty good but didn't really hit the spot
Ha ha Ha !! It's so fucking true LOL !!
>>8006694
Go kill yourself, mediocre piece of putrid shit. No one is going to miss you.
>like teach... givem e.... a break? xD
>>8006702
Mad, faggot? I'm just sharing this awesome pic. Go kill yourself cunt
>Holy
>Roman
>Empire
>Soviet
>Socialist
>Republic
>Democratic
>Party
ITT: Writers you would have never heard about if not for /lit/.
>>8006285
haha that's funny cuz hez my favorite author.
to get back on topic, pic related for me.
>>8006285
John Green for me too.
Do Americans really read this?
>>8006309
They don't.
How do I stop feeling guilty about reading when I'm young and could be working (whether that's for a job or making money on my own)? My mind is cucked by capitalism.
>>8005490
reading is the better long-term investment in yourself, especially while you're still young and ways to go
Then read in your free time after work, in 'theory' you should have like 8 or 6 hours more in your day
read after you've worked
ITT: Try and write a better flash fiction piece. 12 words max.
it's like you made this thread for me
the result came back positive: op was a faggot
>>8005033
>wooooahhhh some kid's shoes didn't fit so we had to sell them! so beautiful!
more like so stupid
good punk lit?
define 'punk' how you will
I will that "punk" be defined as empty. Thus, the thread is over.
>>8004232
thank you for your contribution
>>8004203
Jean Genet in all senses of the term
Are there any romanians here on /lit/? I'm looking for the best your literature has to offer. I'm not too keen on poetry because my Romanian is basic, so recs for novels would be ideal.
I've read a short story anthology including likes such as Sadoveanu, Ion Creanga, Bratescu-Voinesti, Vlahutza, Caragiale etc. and appreciated it very much to not ask for more.
>>8002180
If you're not opposed to drama, try Ionesco.
>>8002188
Even though the guy was romanian, he wrote in French and most of the themes that Romanian lit deals with seems absent in his work, so I don't really consider him a part of its national literature, but thanks anyways.
>>8002180
Cioran
Do you listen to music while reading?
>>8001375
sometimes. A single song on loop. After im done reading i forever associate said book with the song and vice versa. It's pretty neat.
I started doing that a few years ago when i was reading Ask the Dust, idk why but It went along with Afterlife by Arcade fire that was on the radio.
If I'm in an area with distracting background noise, I'll often block it out with Erik Satie's Gymnopedies. That's it though. Anything else distracts me.
No???
How many here have actually read this?
Did you get anything from it at all?
you can't actually be a part of this board until you read it
I've asked some of the weird genius eccentric dudes that I've been lucky enough to know whether they've ever read it, and while a few have said that it is fun to pick up and puzzle out the language games Joyce is doing, and that the associative playfulness thing is kind of a neat take on dream states or the unconscious or whatever, they all said it's not really enjoyable to them. Mostly impenetrable, not worth the effort. These are, like, middle-aged scholars of Shakespeare and Heidegger's poetics, who are so well-read it scares me.
The general...
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>>8000239
They sound like plebs.
How do Buddhists reconcile the doctrines of anatman and of reincarnation? If there is no self, who is it that reincarnates?
How do Buddhists reconcile the doctrines of anatman and moralfaggotry? If there is no self, who can commit or be victim to bad deeds?
How do Buddhists reconcile the doctrines of anatman and of enlightenment? If there is no self, who is there to enlighten?
>>7980887
/lit/ - literature
>>7980900
Yes, I'm asking the lads here who've read sutras and the like. I know they're around from previous threads.
>>7980887
Here's your answer - your questions are invalid.
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/thanissaro/notself2.html
What are some of your favorite character descriptions /lit/?
"He was not conspicuously tall, his features were striking but not conspicuously handsome. His hair was wiry and gingerish and brushed backward from the temples. His skin seemed to be pulled backward from the nose. There was something very slightly odd about him, but it was difficult to say what it was. Perhaps it was that his eyes didn't seem to blink often enough and when you talked to him for any length of time your eyes began involuntarily to water on his behalf. Perhaps it was that he smiled slightly...
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>>8010776
>Perhaps
>>8010783
britbongs man, what you gonna do?
>>8010776
>Perhaps
>conspicious conspicuous
>backward
>____-ish
>slightly odd, but difficult to say
>doesn't show instead of tell in a character description
>cliche eyes didn't seem to blink
>slightly too broadly
Worst book I've ever read... Yours /lit/?
infinite jest underworld ulysses gravity's rainbow stoner the tunnel the recognitions
Make a rainbow with books you own.
No hate, only rainbows.
can you make a thread where you DISCUSS THE BOOKS instead of showing off your shitty collection?
>>8010649
Tienes un gusto de mierda por ese libro amarillo.
Por favor vete
>>8010748
QUEMADO, ja ja ja
>tfw energy eternally divided between reading the canon and trying to establish a basic knowledge of western literature and reading deeply into literatures of my own niche interests
>tfw your niche literature is just unknown works of classics authors
I promise you mlp erotic fanfics are not worth your time.
>>8010521
*are definitely
