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Excelsior!

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 No.15075 [Open thread]

When I finish reading something I want to see what other people thought about that text. My next action to browse forums seeing what other people had to say about it. This is good for finding out if other people liked it, what kind of people like it and finding other similar readings. However, this method leaves a void for deep critical analysis. Posts on forums rarely try to argue about meaning or intention. The structure less responses often are just people writing; they think it is good. Seldom with conviction and without evidence.

Where do you find analyses? I tried using my university database but found there wasn't much for analysis. There was however a handful of articles proclaiming the relevance of Marx and gender studies to any given work. Search engine results mostly gave sites similar to spark notes and sites offering to write papers in exchange for money. The former sites often had content behind paywalls that was written high school students and teachers.

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 No.15089

>>15085

I read so I can circlejerk and be called a good or bad goy by my learned fellows over at >>>/reddit/.

Without being told what to think, I wouldn't survive. Please upvote and comment below!

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 No.15091

Yeah, I don't think you're gonna find what you're looking for.

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 No.15103

>>15075

The best you can do is to find a collective of literary academics (preferably centrists so you don't just read a goddamn manifesto with every essay) and read their say on the subject. Sadly, you won't find them congregating outside of academia. There used to be a time when respected critics like Orwell would publish their tome-like analysis too but that era has all but disappeared from the scene.

I dunno, man. I don't think you'll find what you're looking for now but if you do, give us a heads up.

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 No.15105

>>15082

this

the chad neoplatonic mystic who draws from the wellspring of the heavenly spheres

vs

the virgin vicarious analysis-reading sheep

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 No.15107

>>15085

upboat based fellow redittor!

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 No.15060 [Open thread]

post authors who are hypocrites and why

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 No.15076

He wants you to steal it, not pirate it.

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 No.15094

>Reading holocaustianity

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 No.14739 [Open thread]

I read a book as a kid about some Asian girl in an orphanage or something. The cover was a blue/yellow/green stripes and she was sitting on the cover wearing pigtails and a skateboard in cartoon style. Also what was the name of the mathematical philosopher who fought in WW1 he's well-known.

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 No.15113

>>15109

You're calling us faggots? Why exactly? Give me a good reason. Your reading comprehensions skills are very poor btw. You are the worst anon I've ever encountered outside of wizchan.

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 No.15144

File: c5198783ace7e2f⋯.jpg (58.89 KB,510x680,3:4,1.jpg)

This was the book.

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 No.15155

>>15113

>You're calling us faggots? Why exactly?

<faggot has cock embedded so far into all of his orifices, he's lost all capacity for reason

It doesn't take a rocket scientist, you fucking dipshit, to recognize homosexual tendencies, and you and all the cocksuckers in this thread have them in spades. Why haven't you killed yourself yet? Is this thread, and the hope that someone may return to interact with you, the only thing keeping you going? Might I suggest that you go down to your local automotive supply store, purchase as much antifreeze you can possibly afford, then return home and blend that shit into a nice and frothy suicide smoothie?

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 No.15604

File: b9d571e5c0e8d9f⋯.png (85 KB,327x300,109:100,b9d571e5c0e8d9ff5039ddbed1….png)

How would I go about making anal sex romantic? Mentioning a prostate orgasm feels impossible to make wholesome.

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 No.15775

A Canadian anon forgot the name of a book he read in high school. All he knows is that it was some taxi driving guy who complained about how he had no friends even though he would go drinking with them and all, and would get cards and gifts in an anonymous way.

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 No.14707 [Open thread]

>write a shitty fantasy fanfiction

>it kicks off

>write a few more and get really popular against the odds

>TV adaptation series starts

>even more people get into it

>the world hanging by your every blogpost

>demand soars for next installment

>TV series catches up

>decide to go off on a tangent and spend years writing 1000+ page prequel spinoff while blogposting about how you'll definitely have the next installment of the main franchise out soon

BRAVO

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 No.14996

>>14708

Pavlovian reflex

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 No.14997

>>14707

It's fanfiction of what?

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 No.15011

>against the odds

do you know how GoT came to be? hint, it was (((them)))

this was no accident

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 No.15018

YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.

>>15011

Barry, pls.

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 No.15037

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 No.15016 [Open thread]

I had a dream last night that I think might be taken from a book I read long ago, but I don't remember it. Here's some things that happen in it, and these memories might not be entirely correct:

>there is a group of at least 4 children, aged from 10 to 14 I think

>they go into the forbidden caves to have an adventure

>they get attacked by trolls and retreat

>(not sure if this happens before or after the trolls) the habitat of the subterranean mice gets invaded by the cats, who in turn get invaded by some larger animal. However, the group of kids manage to set everything right

>they go into the caves again, but get separated. The story follows each one separately from now on

>one of the boys is driven deep underground, where he encounters some blue ant-like creatures. They challenge him to walk through the following passage without stepping on any of them. They are arranged in complex patterns. He steps on some and receives psychological torture

>another one of the boys goes even further underground where he hallucinates. The narrator says something like 'the boy [who met the ants] wouldn't even begin to understand'

Does anyone know what book this is?

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 No.15017

That's The Goonies.

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 No.15019

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 No.15021

>>15016

>Does anyone know what book this is?

No, but keep us posted if you figure it out. It sounds pretty entertaining.

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 No.14910 [Open thread]

>US full-color edition

>UK black-and-white edition

which one?

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 No.14963

>>14910

I have the full-color edition, it's work it for the extra pretension

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 No.14993

>>14963

I got the colour one at a library, the book really uses like two colours for silly reasons

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 No.15020

>>14993

My previous comment stands

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 No.14985 [Open thread]

Translations can make or break a book. Can anyone recommend a good translation of Meditations by Marcus Aurelius?

I highly recommend Eknath Easwaran's translations of the Bhagavad Gita and the Upanishads, as well as Open Secret, Versions of Rumi by John Moyne and The Mahaharata by Andy Fraenkel. What other translations would you recommend?

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 No.10318 [Open thread]

Does anyone have any suggestions for good Lovecraft or lovecraftian themed books? I have a thirst

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 No.14435

>>14300

Not that any of these are bad, but you don't pick up a James story when you're in the mood for a Lovecraft. The focus of the horror is way too different.

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 No.14443

>>14300

When, long ago, the gods created Earth

In Jove's fair image Man was shaped at birth.

The beasts for lesser parts were next designed;

Yet were they too remote from humankind.

To fill the gap, and join the rest to Man,

Th'Olympian host conceiv'd a clever plan.

A beast they wrought, in semi-human figure,

Filled it with vice, and called the thing a Nigger.

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 No.14473

File: df2d8819748e145⋯.jpg (256.63 KB,535x400,107:80,serveimage (5).jpg)

The King in Yellow is a collection of short stories that were a big influence to Lovecrafts work

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 No.14976

>>14300

you are forgetting Brian Lumley

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 No.14977

>>10318

If you speak german go on youtube and search for "lovecraft hörbuch" and you will be flooded with really good audiobooks. From mountains of madness to the silver key there is almost every single piece written by Lovecraft

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 No.14717 [Open thread]

Yes goyim! Don't worry about your kids instead focus on your job! Don't be guilty that your children are being raised by the state be guilty that you're not being as productive as possible for the system!

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 No.14756

You must be a chick, hi there.

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 No.14872

>>14717

I agree, FUCK capitalism.

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 No.14874

I hate that because there are books about literally everything, everything can be said to be on topic

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 No.14877

File: f4d304174963bd3⋯.jpg (101.11 KB,686x582,343:291,0outa10.jpg)

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 No.14965

>>14717

I think I saw this in the bargain bin at target yesterday.

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 No.12724 [Open thread]

Can't recover the last thread, maybe I'm too dumb for it or something. So here's the new one, with a template.

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 No.14594

File: 3e714ef0e36ba48⋯.png (117.8 KB,625x790,125:158,good enough.png)

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 No.14595

File: 735373cd2b740a0⋯.png (114.6 KB,625x790,125:158,good enough.png)

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 No.14718

File: a2d2a6fb4ba1d17⋯.png (598.08 KB,1064x415,1064:415,fanny hill plot synopsis.png)

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 No.14745

File: 8047a371ba936f0⋯.png (361.98 KB,1600x600,8:3,what i read.png)

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 No.14964

>>14745

Wash your penis

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 No.14952 [Open thread]

I wait in my Ivory Tower of brutality

I cannot possibly tell you my passion

You shall call me a laceration

I only perceive and perform reactions

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 No.14961

>>14952

10/10

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File: 418db9f7c83d1f8⋯.jpeg (50.27 KB,333x499,333:499,1984.jpeg)

 No.14186 [Open thread]

>We, Brave New World, Player Piano, Fahrenheit 451

>concise refutations of the utopian literature of the previous century

>warnings about social and economic trends that are actually spreading throughout western democracies

>outcry against the dehumanization of man

>thought-provoking observation that one's man utopia will always be another man's dystopia

<1984

<dude fascism lmao

Why the fuck is 1984 treated like the greatest of the old dystopian novels?

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 No.14899

>>14897

In reality you can still opt out of mindless hedonism without attracting the direct attention of the continental dictator.

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 No.14907

>>14875

True socialism has never been tried, right?

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 No.14947

>Why the fuck is 1984 treated like the greatest of the old dystopian novels?

Because is the best one to use as propaganda.

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 No.14948

>>14947

IT WASN'T SUPPOSED TO BE AN INSTRUCTION MANUAL.

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 No.14959

>Why the fuck is 1984 treated like the greatest of the old dystopian novels?

because it's easy to understand even if you never read it, which means it's easy to shill, which means it's easy to brainwash the goyim (create context)

basically, 1984 is "dude fascism lmao". if you google "average IQ per country 2018" you'll easily figure out the answer to your question

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File: 065b34d2bc8cd91⋯.jpg (84.75 KB,720x405,16:9,lead_720_405.jpg)

 No.14938 [Open thread]

*dabs on manlets*

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 No.14953

le 4chan post

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 No.14901 [Open thread]

where can I grab pdfs? More specifically, this book.

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 No.14902

Have you tried >>>/pdfs/ ?

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 No.14935

Library genesis

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 No.14936

>>14901

TPB:

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:65958f183d57d5631cd574a72d9b058d076fa17d&dn=The+Field+Campaigns+of+Alexander+the+Great&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.leechers-paradise.org%3A6969&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fzer0day.ch%3A1337&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fopen.demonii.com%3A1337&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.coppersurfer.tk%3A6969&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fexodus.desync.com%3A6969

Looks like there is 8 seeders/clients. :)

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 No.14932 [Open thread]

What literature fora do you use, besides this? I'm quitting half/lit/ because of all of the politics threads, but I still need more places to talk about books than just this.

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 No.14934

Reddit.com

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