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I've read about 250 pages over the last 3 days, just under 300 pages in. I don't see why everyone has been saying that the book only picks up about 200 pages in, I've been enjoying it more or less from the start, what exactly was supposed to have changed?
>>7865317
kill yoursefl
>>7865360
As soon as I finish IJ
Is pic related any good?
>Naomi Klein
I imagine not
>>7864662
Yes.
>>7864729
wait, just kidding I meant to say "no"
What are some of the comfiest books you have read /lit/?
Book Thief is straight up YA, get it out of here
Comfiest book I ever read is pic related
>>7864246
let's all agree to get rid of this stupid ass 'comfy' meme
How the fuck is "as i lay dying" comfy in any way?
Do you consider foul odor from a decomposing body to create a comfy atmosphere?
Can /lit/ recommend any good literature about the Iran-Iraq War, The Gulf Wars,The Arab Spring and Middle Eastern Foreign Policy etc?
I'd like to have a better understanding of the current political climate by looking back to previous conflicts and seeing how they led to events that are occurring today.
Thanks in advance /lit/
>>7863587
"Taming Riki" was pretty fucking great in a really bleak depressing way. check it out
>>7863587
Tim Mitchell's Carbon Democracy
Cannonball
*hides behind giant meme*
If the Paris meme is dead, what is the cultural center of the world today?
>>7861548
the internet
Syria.
>>7861558
this desu
/lit/ humour thread senpaitachi?
reading this right now too :(
>>7844865
R/E/Gs are the GOAT tbqhwyrn
>>7844856
>What the author wrote: next bar tab and rent
>What underaged banned thought: "Authors control meanings by assigning texts to them"
>What undergraduate gonna undergraduate thought: "The author is dead, readers control all meaning."
>What anyone who has done the least literary criticism thought: "texts have an impenetrable depth of meaning and only discipline practices can recover meanings from texts"
apparently that caption was written by an early computer program from the 1940s
>Reading a book
>It's not bad
>Find out author is a woman
>Drop it instantly
spooky
So you're a moron?
>>7866917
I honestly thought I was the only person who did that.
Hey guys, I'm trying to develop a thesis for an essay I have to write about Cormac McCarthy
I read two of his books (The Road, All the Pretty Horses) and I have to develop an argument about what he is trying to say through themes.
It has to be a ten page essay so help me out, I need this thesis to be broad to cover a lot of ground
Thesis Structure: "Cormac McCarthy reveals through [BLANK] (characters, settings, ect.) that [BLANK] (theme)
If someone could help me out, that would be appreciated
>>7866692
If you read the two books why is this hard? I haven't read any McCarthy yet.
he spat
like something
and then
they rode on
YeCarthy reveals through tortillas that he spat and rode on into a corncob pipe filled with savages and scalps.
Do I have to read Heidegger in order to understand Being and Nothingness?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnKuS-d4waU
>>7866511
>pynchon mouth
>no tits
why make this? why her?
>>7866511
damn i'd beat guts
>>7866511
Only if you want to see how Sartre completely misunderstands Heidegger.
I've read Lolita, what else by him is essential?
just Pale Fire but you are probably going to want to read more after that anyway
>>7865312
>Essential
Pale Fire
Ada or Ardor
Speak, Memory
>Meme
Strong Opinions
>Secondary
Rest of his works
Be aware that being "meme" or "secondary" does not imply bad quality. Strong Opinions is a meme because it's the book from which the listing of his recommendations was taken; his other novels are secondary because they are not as essential as the ones mentioned above. His short stories are decent to good, and his poetry is hit or miss. Haven't read his translation with commentary of Pushkin's Eugene Oneguin, but I have read that it is very, very literal and is more of an excercise on translation that an actual translation.
Pnin is a good break for in between his more serious stuff. It might actually be my favorite of his
Is he the best thing we have in this century?
>>7864075
i am a coke dealer and yes, he is the best thing that ever happened to me
something something hegel, something communism, sniffle, bump the coke, something something plashtic penishes, and so on and so on
Does the Coke Slav actually do coke?
Challenge: http://www.goodreads.com/book/random
the first english (or whatever other language you can read) book you get, you have to read.
>>7863505
Not gonna happen, nig.
>>7863641
Pussy.
Fact: 90% of books are shit
I don't like these odds so I won't do this.
why was the pig named napoleon tho
>>7862932
reddit general?
>>7862932
Because it was written by an Englishman
>>7863039
internalized francophobia
really problematic baka
Your mother jerks off pigs. She gets down on her knees and crawls through the pigpiss mud slop and snuggles up to the pig, her fingers tracing along it's belly until she finds it's cock. She begins tugging and stroking as her twat moistens, her breasts swelling and her nipples begin to stick out like erasers on a fresh #2 pencil. She grunts with satisfaction as the pig begins eagerly thrusting into her hand, her grip now tightening to maintain control of the pig's greasy corkscrew cock. She lowers her head to watch the cock work in her hand, groans with satisfaction and begins working her clit with her other muddy hand, her hips gyrating with the rhythm of the pig's thrusting. "Oh fucking jesus god yes.." she gasps. She changes positions, still maintaining control of the feverishly thrusting cock as the pig's squealing intensifies. She leans forward and with her lips almost touching the pig's ear, she whispers your name and begins to shudder. She turns her attention again to the pigs swollen member rocking in her hand. She presses it between her hand and her face, the pig thrusting it against her cheeks as she drools. With a massive grunt and a high pitched squeal, the pig's balls explode, beginning a massive shower of hot, sour pig jizz. You mother cups one hand under the fountain of steaming genetic material gathering it in her hand as the thrusting comes to an end. The pig shudders and begins to walk to the trough of slop in the corner of it's pen, but your mother tackles it to the ground. She lifts it's tail and smears the handful of pig load into the pig's own fetid butthole, turning flakes of crusty pig shit into a pigshit-pigjizz mud slop on the pigs ass. Now she tilts her head to the sky and screams your name, not once, not twice, but three times. She slams her face full force into the pig's butthole and it's wreath of shitsemen pudding, her tongue machine gun flicking the rim and then burying itself to the hilt inside the pig's hot colon. Your mother works her tongue around the inside of the pigs ass, and then as a few incoherent syllables escaped her now brown lips, spurts of female ejaculate spurt from her pulsating cunt. Exhausted, she collapses in the mud, rolls over onto her back, and lights a cigarette. She takes one long drag, looks again to the sky, and speaks your name one last time before she drifts off to sleep. That's your mom. Your mom does that.
I'm a coward.
Put your knife in me.
Thanks for informing me of this book's existence :^)
>>7862739
what do you have against pig jerkers?
What are some good 'Nam texts?
It Aint Me from C.C.R.
Dispatches, by Michael Herr.
/thread
>>7862213
Things They Carried is the canonical example
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