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Hi /lit/ I need help. I'm fired up about after watching picture related.
Does anyone have a good leads on books about the 2007 financial crisis?
Das Kapital
Probably the Big Short, the book that movie was based on
Too Big to Fail by Andrew Ross Sorkin
There are about a million (real) characters. I can barely remember any of their names and couldn't while reading, I don't think it matters too much.
Or you could just read the book The Big Short by Michael Lewis
Camille Paglia is based the only living female who is /lit/ quality
her advice on writing here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ymn-X8vOQ80
I disagree
it contrasts the idea of needing to do structured writing everyday...first one needs to plan, organize, study
She's the hero we need.
what am I in for /lit/?
>>7858321
Everything. He's gonna talk about everything and you'll be better for it.
Also
>>muh Jesus
the ramblings of a faggot who deserves eternity in hell for being such a boring cunt
>>7858321
Literally everything
ITT: Books men will never understand
I'll start.
>Austen
I dislike this postmodern universe where my vagina is now male.
>>7856825
and we're all the better for it I guess
apron, simply apron mein freund
What are you reading and drinking today, /lit/?
Pic related.
>>7850544
A Short History of Portable Literature by Vila Matas.
Vittel mineral water.
Tfw quitting smoking and can't drink neither alcohol nor coffee because of smoking habits, stuck with tea
>having a double-double from Tims and reading Windelband
>might buy a bottle of fortified wine from the wine store with the clerk who thinks I'm hitting on her but I'm actually just friendly and autistic later, and read Gramsci all night
The last one was stagnant, show us what you found anons.
>>7847989
>dawkins
*tips fedora*
libertarian fag.
>>7847989
everything was ok until i saw dawkins
>he reads fiction
jeez, grow up already anon
could you explain what is juvenile about fiction?
>>7862082
he's baiting
>>7862082
If you were a mature adult, you would read about your career/profession or your hobby. If you read fairty tales, you're either a child or a retard, and if you have the time to read long form stories you need to get a fucking job
I just bought this. What am I up to?
Some people say it's better than GR. What do you think?
i think it's better than GR
>>7861677
Read it and find out.
It's not your granddad's literature
https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/4c86s1/your_top_5_best_books_of_all_time/
Do you aggre or disaggree? I think these are very nice lists from real literary masterminds
"The Road" Cormac McCarthy
"Death of an Ordinary Man" Glenn Duncan
"A Drink Before The War" Dennis Lehane
"Gun With Occasional Music" Jonathan Lethem
"It" Stephen King
Another 5 star snippet. A thought out response which inculdes only the highest of art
I don't know enough english to say it properly, but your behaviour is very sad. Why do the minds and lives of other people bother you so?
>What's your favorite female author, anon?
Aimee Bender or Virginia Wolfe
I don't read books.
Doris Lessing
Hey, couldn't help but notice you scrolling there. Tell me, what do you think "excellence" in scrolling is?
I think is managing to find the best threads while scrolling.
>>7857208
And the "best threads," being good, naturally partake in the good?
>>7857213
Of course.
hi /lit/. I am learning french for some time now and I will start reading books in french. Can someone, who is native speaker or speaks is very well help me with a list o chart od best french literature, from classic to moderen? I heard that Camus in good for the beginig, so I read the essay L’été and I understood most of it.
Pierre de Ronsard
Joachim du Bellay
Agrippa d'Aubigné
Honoré d'Urfé
Molière
Pierre Corneille
Voltaire
Marquis de Sade
Benjamin Constant
Alphonse de Musset
Hugo
Balzac
Verne
Marcel Proust
Romain Gary
>>7860232
I'm doing the same. I'm about a quarter through L'étranger now, next I was thinking about Voltaire or continuing Sartre with Nausea.
>>7860430
*Continuing existentialism with Sartre
What are Albert Camus' best work?
The Plague has impressed me the most.
>>7859909
Sisyphus shrugged desu senpai
>>7859909
>are
I would say his best work are The Fall.
>read the great gatsby
>go on reddit for people's thoughts on it and analysis'
>upboats on comment that says that Gatsby was misogynistic and viewed daisy as a thing to possess
>Saying Daisy is a badly written character
>Found the Great Gatsby to be boring
>hated all the characters
Seriously I hate /poltards/ as much as SJW' but damn both sides piss me off to the...
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Why is social justice seen as a bad thing again?
>>7861068
Because the people that push it behave terribly (getting people fired from their jobs for disagreeing, being extremely agressive, ect...). Also, many points brought up by neo-progressives (aka SJWs) do not reflect reality (gender wage gap, 1-in-5 myth...). Many of them are also complete ideologues who would never (ever) change their opinion on the subject, even when presented substential evidence. Many of them only support "equality" for one side. You'll rarely see Feminists, for example, demanding a...
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>>7861068
Because it's not actually social justice, but a cult engineered to distract us from real issues such as overpopulation, climate change, food security and Muslim extremism. It's a threat to humanity.
>engineers division along racial, socioeconomic and sexual lines
>teaches people to avoid thinking critically
>teaches people ignore history and the wisdom of their elders
>isolates its...
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Has a better novel about alcoholism than Under the Volcano been written? I think not.
bump. I haven't seen /lit/ talk about this book. The prose is some of the best I've read, on a par with Nabokov, perhaps even better.
>>7860305
> The prose is some of the best I've read, on a par with Nabokov, perhaps even better.
Bullshit, post excerpts
>>7860316
>They were the cars at the fair that were whirling around her; no, they were the planets, while the sun stood, burning and spinning and guttering in the centre; here they came again, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto; but they were not planets, for it was not the merry-go-round at all, but the Ferris wheel, they were constellations, in the hub of which, like a great cold eye, burned Polaris, and round and round it here they went: Cassiopeia, Cepheus, the Lynx,...
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