Have you ever seen a cute girl reading an actually good book in public?
>>24701396>People see what your reading and engage with youNot me. I purposely take off the sleeves and/or tilt the book down so people can't see what I'm reading at all, and I have a scowl on so no one comes up to me.
>>24701494This is the way to go about reading in public.
>>24701494I mainly read outside just to get out more and it's nice, but anything over 400 pages I leave my book at home and take my kindle so I'm not seen reading a "big book" like some pseud fag.
>>24698911Never. Hell, when I have met some cute girls who claim to read and try to talk to them, they don't even know the books they claimed to like.Before you say it... Yes, it's probably because I'm ugly.
>>24698911No. Never saw a cute girl reading anything but on her phone.
I wasn't expecting this book to be so fucking funny. The first half wasn't anything out of the ordinary for a realist novel, but the second half, once Emma starts her affairs, is non stop genius comedic situations after another.The clubfoot guy. Rodolphe writing the letter. The theater. The punchline at the climax with Emma hearing the blind guy. Good lord. So good.Probably the funniest book I've ever read.Discuss.
Did they ever make a good movie adaptation of this book?
>>24701470No. They keep trying to turn Emma into a misunderstood tragic heroine.
>>24701487That's what she is though. Misguided as her education was, she is a tragic figure.She read all of her romance novels, though consumed might be the best word in this case. She grew up believing that was what love was, and that when she married that's what she'd experience.Then her father basically marries her to Charles, who's a loser, and she's constantly searching for her romantic life.The issue with making a movie about Madame Bovary is that this is no longer the mid 19th century society, with it's romantic sensibilities and the beginning of the change of women's roles in Western nations.
>>24701500Maybe if they set it in Iran?
>>24701500>who's a loserThey weren't well matched, as they were completely different in temperament, but Emma wasn't a catch either. She was hot and that was literally her only positive quality. Otherwise she was the most stupid person in a book full of stupid people.
I just finished Things Fall Apart and I can't believe how good it was, even better than The Dance of the Lizard's Tale. I'm surprised nobody talks about it. I wish they had made us read this instead of Beloved or Blue Eye. What did you think about it? Maybe they should hve censored the parts where Okwonkwo disciplines his wives and stands up for his traditions but then the ending was amazing but also heartbreaking. The egwugwu were terrifying. Does he have other books worth reading?
yeah bro this is a trilogy, read the other two books as well. doesnt get better than thigs fall apart imo but both are good, specially the third. cool that you brought achebe, dont remember if I ever saw a thread about him before
>>24701507>In 1957 he sent his only copy of his handwritten manuscript (along with the £22 fee) to a London manuscript typing service he had seen an advertisement for in The Spectator. He did not receive a reply from the typing service, so he asked his boss at the NBS, Angela Beattie, to visit the company during her travels to London. She did, and angrily demanded to know why the manuscript was lying ignored in the corner of the office. The company quickly sent a typed copy to Achebe. Beattie's intervention was crucial for his ability to continue as a writer.[41] Had the novel been lost, he later said, "I would have been so discouraged that I would probably have given up altogether." The next year Achebe sent his novel to the agent recommended by Gilbert Phelps in London.[42][43] It was sent to several publishing houses; some rejected it immediately, claiming that fiction from African writers had no market potential.
>>24701523damn good job ms. Beattie maam
It was required reading in my senior year of high school. I didn't much care for it.
No, I will NOT put the period inside the quotation marks. It just looks and feels wrong; it feels like having sex with a penguin.
>>24701464God it looks so fucking ugly. OP must be retarded. A faggot too.
>>24701437This has seriously always bothered me too, and I also refuse to do it
how do you go from this>It just looks and feels wrong;to this>it feels like having sex with a penguin
>>24701437The real answer is that you use either convention as you see fit. There's a reason why we're "supposed" to use a comma at the end of a sentence spoken by someone inside a larger sentence. I don't like it either, however as my father always told me, "Don't do things just because people demand you do them, do what you think is right and fuck everyone else." So, just structure your writing to accommodate your preferred style. Can't do that? Then you can't fucking write for shit and you don't deserve this advice.
>>24701511>"Don't do things just because people demand you do them, do what you think is right and fuck everyone else."Based
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>>24701485I want to marry her. Is it just so I can have her do that to all of my books? No, but mostly.
>>24701485Why did she make Gandalf Italian?
>>24701485I wonder where she lives and what her address is
This is more like Dark Souls than The Book of the New Sun isSo why do people shill The Book of the New Sun when people are asking for "soulslike" books and books like "Elden Ring" instead of this?
>>24700939Most people have not read the Faerie Queene,
i'm reading it right now and can't believe how entertaining it is. every canto is plot twist upon plot twist, fights, monsters, sexy evil ladies, nefarious sorcerers etc etc. and yeah i get the dark souls thing, even down to people talking in self consciously retarded olde-tyme speech that isn't even how people spoketh backeth then
>download pdf>Y cladd in mightie armes and siluer shielde>delete file
>>24700939I’m going to be honest, I’ve never played a second of those games in my life, I haven’t even watched a let’s play of them. I just use “soulslike” as shorthand for “gothic horror with knights”
Was Allan Bloom right about higher education? If not, who was?
>The [present participle] of the [proper adjective] [noun]so sick of this titling meme
>>24700980why? the only memorable part about it was his filipino boy lover
>>24700867He underestimated how bad things really were.
>>24701445Is it as common as>The End of {noun}?Money, Love, Oil, Faith....
what did he say about rock n roll again?
What do you think of yuval noah harari and his books? I'm reading Nexus and 3 pages in he is complaining about nazis and 10 pages in he is on a diatribe against donald trumpWhat do you think of this author's books?
>>24700106He is the epitome of >nothing is true, we’re just heckin specks of dust on a floating rock, but also you need to follow my very specific libtard worldview that also includes giving Jews the right to exterminate our enemies
>>24700106unironic pseud
>>24700106Part of the educated class that certain man in Cambodia got rid of in 1976.
>>24700106Finite time to read good books and you read jewslop LolLmao
>>24700106This man is the most evil thing Israel has ever created
The entire problem with Marxism is that it assumes a virtue in the lower classes that simply doesn't exist. The proletariat aren't good, they're crude and ugly and oafish and they beat their wives and molest their children. They're not good, they're bad. Everyone is bad. Human nature is wicked and depraved, and that's why communism will never work.
>>24701183You are a reddit meme.
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>>24698289Everyone being evil would support Marx's argument because the workers would have no qualms killing and ripping the wealthy apart to steal everything to have.The real mystery is why they don't. And for that we have Freud.
>>24701172Serfs did have legal rights as a matter of historical fact.
What's one book you enjoy immensely but would be embarrassed to admit so?
>>24699505qrd on this book? is it some romance for men incelkino or something?
>>24700887Simple. Would you have sex with a 6 year old kid? No, right? Of course not. So then why is it suddenly okay if you put a 1 to the left of it?
Why do McCarthy fags always swallow the bait?
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern WorldI enjoyed it a lot and it practically got me into reading history
>>24700922it's not incelkino but it's a degree of romance wish-fulfillment. a depressed boring guy trades his lifespan for money and then gets together with a girl during his last few months. it's a very unsubtle story of "value yourself and appreciate the little things in life you dumbfuck hurr durr" but i found it charming anyway.
Was he one of us?
>>24700022Sodomizing Mick Jagger doesn't make you a fag. Makes you a man.
>>24700035Tbf from the right angle I would be tempted.
I don't know the extent to which the list can be trusted, presumably not having been composed by Bowie himselfI am especially skeptical of 62 and 63
>>24700022Bowie was a schizo and his baseline personality was a British chud but he also had to make another flamboyant stage personality to not go insane and advance his artistic career.
>>24699559>Was he one of us?Yes. He was the greatest.
Why do you guys hate self-help? Is there even a self-help chart from /lit/?I mean, you could learn about manipulation, creating habits, becoming better step-by-step everyday, masking your lack of empathy.That's a lot of very good stuff
>>24701082>Why do you guys hate self-help?Because is not helpful? People who get shit done don't need shit like this
>>24701180>people called humanists>NYT bestselling authors are fagsThat's not very humanist of you, anon.
>>24701118>iykykI don't know desu
>>24701131OP here. Pretty damn based I have to admit. I'll definitely read some historical stuff once I'm done with my current bookshelf.
>>24701114Basedbros, now THIS is redpilled!
How would I RP this game as Doc Sportello?
This game glows. Such a cool aesthetic and premise wasted in dogshit terrible ideas that only the most cucked loser would agree with.
>>24700053I disrespect your opinion, I doubt you could substantiate any argument so I'll just disregard what you said unless you follow-up with specific examples. I'm happy to argue with you.
I've started this game five times but never made it through the second day.
>>24700053The aesthetic sucks, you have a shit taste.
Has /lit/ ever produced anything worth reading?
>>24701286>My audience includes dissidents, federal agents, and military propaganda officers.>Words are a very powerful thing. The Scripture is evidence of this. A word can save a life or end a life, mind your words!>>24701296A single kind word can save a life. When Nabi Muhammad, peace be upon him, lost his best friend, a Christian ascetic who supported his early prophetic revelations, he was so depressed that he attempted suicide multiple times.The holy angel Gabriel, who revealed to him the Holy Koran, saved him with his words each time he tried to commit suicide.A word, just a word, can save a life. Mind your words!Allah grant rest to Aaron Bushnell, cyber defense officer specialist in the 531st Intelligence Squadron at Lackland AFB in San Antonio, Texas.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24701286>>24701296I pray you will abandon your worship of Satan and turn to Christ. He is the way, brother, and He waits for you with open arms.
>>24701316To the spiritually broken and defeated, I come to you with the Word from the Messenger of God, salallahu alayhi wa salam, through the holy archangel and announcer of God's will to mankind, the blower of the trumpet, Gabriel, directly from the Almighty:Do not kill yourself! Never give up!Rise and fight against Satan's evil forces.Live and survive and fight until God's will is done.You who would turn your swords upon yourself:Stop!Carry your sword for the Lord instead against Satan and his forces.
>>24701318I worship only God.Satan is the clear enemy.I reject and oppose Satan.Christ commands worship of God.Read your Gospel, Luke 4:8, worship God alone.Follow the way of Jesus Christ, peace be upon him, and worship God.This is the First Commandment, Exodus 20:3, worship God and God alone.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
First we must ask ourselves>what is /lit/?
ITT: Cover art that you shouldn't have found hot but did.
>>24696929>Monkeys are sexyAre you, perchance, south american?
>>24699613Those monkeys are clearly built for loving semiconsensual coitus
>>24699633>loving semiconsensual coitusThat's one way to get your face ripped off
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>>24699613No, I am in fact very white.What can I say? I like monkey girls. Actual monkeys are grotesque, though.
