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Hello /li/ you know I'm from /g/ and this is my first time posting here, can you recommend me books to start being a /lit/fag ?
also thanks

>> No.4219970

>>4219958
please fags, in my entire life I've only read programing and tech books, I'm kinda bored ;_;

>> No.4219975

>>4219958
1984

then to make you think about the simple life without tech:

the pearl
moby dick
The old man and the sea.
some Jack London stuff.

>> No.4219979

I would recommend that seminal great American novel, "The Sticky at the Top of the Page, You Fuckwit."

>> No.4219978

what is wrong with that computer i dont understand i never used a laptop what are those supposed to be

>> No.4219984

You might enjoy sic-fi

>> No.4219986

read the fucking sticky you degenerate piece of shit

>> No.4219988

>>4219978
it's a thinkpad, people on /g/ loves them, and he is Richard Stallman, creator of GNU
>>4219975
>>4219979

thanks /lit/fags, how have you been?

>> No.4219990

>>4219978
He has anchored his computer to that rock to stabilise it and prevent data loss from small bumps to hard drive during movement (e.g. typing). He does this everywhere he goes, even if he's only opening the laptop for thirty seconds. It takes up to thirty minutes.

>> No.4219993

>>4219988
i just hope you are not using a kindle to get into the lit world.

>> No.4219996

>>4219990
so he's damaging public spaces in order to don't dmage his property?
that's so bourgeois it hurts me physically

>> No.4220001

>>4219993
what's the bad thing about kindle or e-books?

>> No.4220003

>>4220001
thats so pleb.

Also hurts your freedom.

>> No.4220004

Borges can write a short story with depth and only be a page and a half. Check out Ficciones and The Aleph. I imagine other short story writers like Poe and Chekhov would serve you well.

I started with short stories and short novels as to build my patience with the medium

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>>4219970

>> No.4220011

>>4220009
what's the /lit/ version of this?

>> No.4220012

>>4220001
real books have personality

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4220018

>>4220011
I don't know man, if there is I didn't save it.

>> No.4220022

>>4220012

This is pure bullshit and you know it. I myself buy only real books but not for any delusional self-justification.

>> No.4220025

>>4220011
Reading fine literature for ten hours a day makes you smart enough to not go to parties in the first place.

>> No.4220024

>>4220012
I don't get it, what's the difference?
e-books are ecology

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1/3

>> No.4220029

>>4220025
so, being a /lit/ fag will make more autistic?
;_; and I thought being a tech, geek guy was enough

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2/3

>> No.4220033

>>4220011
There isn't one I've ever seen.

>> No.4220035

>>4220029
Define "autistic".

>> No.4220037

>>4220024
I like to take books from the library. I dont know, feels different, everybook is unique.

ebooks are not that eco-friendly. They hurt mother earth in a different way.

>> No.4220043

>>4220024
You can't build up the paper cut scars around the base of your dick that drives all the literate chicks crazy with ereaders.

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3/3

>> No.4220044

>>4220035
I'm not referring to the real definition of autistic, you know the 4chan definition of this

>> No.4220050

>>4220043
that sound okay but in my city, I live in México, I don't have good library's, just commercial shit

>> No.4220055

>>4220044
It will make you more contemptuous of normals, but it will also allow you to communicate more effectively with other intelligent and well-read individuals.

Assuming you don't sperg and pigeonhole one genre or shy away from anything more complex than Harry Potter.

>> No.4220056

Yes OP, here are a few books you can use as a starting point to get into the literati world known as /lit/:
Zettels traum.
Ulysses.
Hopscotch.
To the lighthouse.
The sound and the fury.
Infinite jest.
J R.
Gravity's rainbow.
Atlas shrugged.
In search of lost time.
And lastly, Finnegans wake.

>> No.4220059

>>4220056
This is the typical lit behavior towards nonreaders, also known as assholeism.

>> No.4220096

>>4220056
You forgot TAI PEI TAO LIN

>> No.4220136

>>4220001
Dont listen to them. Go in a store, try a few, and get one if you like it (the screen readability, the ergonomics, etc.). It might be a big investment if you dont end up reading a lot though.

Love my Kobo.

>> No.4220146

>>4220059
But IJ is the perfect pleb book

>> No.4220371

>>4220146
Why is IJ pleb?

>> No.4220440

>>4220371
I don't find it pleb at all, but I think the book's length and how infamously tricky to understand it is attracts the would-be "intellectual" (...) crowd