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I casually walked through the romance section in s Barnes and noble. Is the entire genre nothing but shirtless white dudes and girls in fancy dresses?
>>7744579
Women fantasize about being rich and getting laid by fit, rich white men who are at least 6'1", so yes.
Halfway through Perdido street station and hating. Feel like giving up. I've only ever given up one book (twice tried to read naked lunch) and I'm feeling bad about it. Has anyone read this book? I've read loads of books I didn't like until the last half or until the end (man in high castle). Does this book get any better?
>>7744542
no. read Gene Wolfe instead. much better.
PSS is pretty consistent the whole way through. it is a pretty god dang long book though. i'd say it's definitely worth finishing. everything comes together nicely in the end.
have you read any other mieville? i liked the scar a lot more
>>7744542
Perdido Street Station
>hissed
>hissed
>hissed
>hissed at her
>"NO," he hissed
That book has the worst dialogue tags of any book in the English language.
Hey guys I could use some help. I'm trying to find a copy of Death is My Trade by Merle, and can't seem to find one under 300 bucks, or even just a pdf. What do?
Did they all get burned?
>>7744508
That very well may be the case, sadly.
>>7744485
Learn Hungarian, the translation costs like 2 bucks here, Merle is one of our official meme authors.
I stood in a graveyard today. I have already gone through my existential crisis, but I got an immense sense of hopelessness. I looked at the scattered gravestones and their markings. Some simply stone slabs, smoothed as if they'd been in an ocean's tides. Others were fading, clearly not as old as the previous. Some looked like little bits of stone propped up in a timeless, but now sadly forgotten, remembrance. Irony at its finest.
That is where we all end up no matter what our path in life. Rotting away. Gone. Forgotten.
Nothing to be done.
>only one existential crisis
I still cannot wrap my mind around what it must feel like to be a subvocalizer
Especially when reading 4chan posts. How do you live with it?
you have a bewilderingly childish idea of what subvocalizing is
>>7744472
I do not have internal speech when reading, unless I choose to do so.
What is bewildering to me is that most people apparently have to do this, and thus can only read at a fraction of the rate I can.
>>7744476
I rarely notice myself subvocalizing. The idea that it would somehow be actively annoying is ridiculous. The idea that some people are just subvocalizers and some people are just not is also ridiculous; there is no chance you have never subvocalized. Based on these two things, I have to conclude that you don't understand what subvocalizing is.
p.s. reading speed is almost certainly the single most superficial gage of reading ability.
mostly /v/irgin, how do i get into greek philosophy, what is a captivating book to start with?
Start here:
http://www.theosofie.be/A_PDF/Plato_Complete_Works.pdf
Heraclitus is the best place to start with Greek philosophy and he's quite captivating
Go see the St John's college curriculum.
Are there any books discussing the natural equality of man? It doesn't matter if the book's for, or against it.
>>7744431
might as well go right to the source.
A Modern Utopia - H.G. Wells
>>7744440
More like this please, but I'm more interested to read about arguments against equality
Is Dream Story a good book?
Can you read it to me?
What did /lit/ think about this book?
Pretty sad when he killed himself
Does it have a Manami-like character?
I think it's interesting that incest books make it a given that everyone sort of probably hates incest, but there's rarely a vocal, balls to the wall, "Incest is completely fucking degenerate and I'm here to stop it" character.
Is deconstruction a legitimate method of literary criticism?
>>7744349
No. State and consider the antithesis, stop there.
>deconstruction
>legitimate for anything
>>7744349
yea actually
I recently finished reading Dune. I kept hearing about it as being a classic book with a huge fan following. "The lord of the rings of the sci fi genre" I read...
I was hugely disappointed. I feel the world and story line could have been great, and maybe that's what people like, but the book itself didn't seem very well written. The storytelling seemed really rushed, especially by the end, like the author just got bored of writing at some point. It felt like half the book was leading up to this great battle, then it was over in a few pages and the end... I wanted to like it but just didn't.
Also decided to watch the movie after because why not. One of the worst piece of shit book to movie adaptations I've seen to date. That's a different rant though.
What does /lit/ think of Dune? Am I missing something about it?
My favorite books series.
>>7744335
Honestly, Herbert did rush the ending. So much action in something like five pages and it ends with... nothing, really. But Dune Messiah does a great job of wrapping up Paul's story and it's something like a third the length of Dune. It's worth reading if only so you can get a sense of closure. I personally think Messiah has much better pacing - I bet it was originally supposed to be a sort of 'Book 4' or something.
Children of Dune is decent but only worth reading if you intend to get to God Emperor, which is either the best or worst of the series depending on who you talk to. I say it's the best. Up to you to keep reading, though.
>>7744370
I think dune messiah was the best. How do mark spoilers if I'm replying to somebody?
Is it any good?
>African author
Of course not.
>>7744316
Pretty much this
>>7744313
The movie was pretty good
Not really amazing or anything but it was beautifully shot
What are some poems that are experimental in the way that they're put together or formatted?
E.g. different colored ink/text, backwards, upside down, whatever
Does anyone know of poems that use different colored ink/text interestingly?
No that's gay
>>7744295
>thinking new art is gay
go to bed granpa
Not poetry, but House of Leaves did this.
I rather liked it.
Are we going to have a 2016 "top 100 books of all time" poll?
>>7744176
Probably not in February though.
>>7744176
Until december.
Probably.
/lit/ 2016 BOOK POWER RANKINGS
1. The Bible
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POWER GAP
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9001. Infinite Jest
>that that
>had had
>Jar Jar
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