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>your favourite book
>your major

>> No.6793049

Qur'aan.
Biochemistry

I'm not even a Muslim anymore.

>> No.6793055

The Castle
Neuroscience

>> No.6793058

Stoner
Painting

>> No.6793066

>>6793047
Suttree
Pharmacy

>> No.6793067
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6793067

>>6793047
Daily Divine Digest
pic related

>> No.6793094

Invisible Cities
International Relations

>> No.6793102

>Bible
>Philosophy/Mathematics

>> No.6793107

Sir Gawain & the Green Knight
Forestry - Soils

>> No.6793110

the unconsoled
music

>> No.6793122

the unbearable lightness of being
philosophy/library and information science

>> No.6793127

>>6793122
Always meant to read it. What's it like, Anon?

>> No.6793129

Penny Red: Notes from the New Age of Dissent
Women's Sudies

>> No.6793137

>>6793102
Pure math?

>> No.6793143

>>6793047
Cien Años de Soledd
Computer animation

>> No.6793144

the stranger
cs

>> No.6793147

IJ
theatre, film and media studies

>> No.6793148

>>6793137
yes
Got into it after reading a book (!) about Banach and Tarski when I was kid.

>tfw you'll never study mathematics in Lwów in early 30s

>> No.6793151

White Buildings
floriculture

>> No.6793157
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>>6793129
I hope you're trolling. If not, I'm disgusted.

>> No.6793175

>>6793122
honestly i'm not great at describing things but it's super unique but easily readable, light and playful and also serious, but overall thought-provoking and moving. it's not super long or hard so i would recommend reading it, it was the first book i read from kundera and have since read all of his works and he's now one of my favorite authors.

>> No.6793179

Grapes of Wrath
Enviornmental Science

>> No.6793189

The Aleph
Linguistics

>> No.6793195

>>6793127
>>6793175
oops sorry here you go

>> No.6793198
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6793198

The grapes of wrath

Math/Econ

>> No.6793213

>>6793148
Are you a genius?
Did you take college math courses in high school?
Did you compete at the international math Olympiad?

>> No.6793220

White Noise/The Sense of an Ending
Double major in Lit/Phil

>> No.6793223
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>>6793047
Double Major:
>Physics
>Religious Studies

Book:
>pic related

>> No.6793229

>No Longer Human
>Unmanned Aircraft Systems

>> No.6793246

Blood Meridian or The Bible
International Business/Spanish

>> No.6793250

>>6793047
Ecclesiastes
Math/CompSci

>> No.6793254

Ulysses
BTEC Lv 2 Sport and Leadership

>> No.6793270

Catch-22
Economics and Philosophy (but majoring in economics as they might say in the states)

>> No.6793306

>>6793213
>1
That's a very relative term, i'm talented but never been a prodigy
>2
Yes
>3
No, but in philosophical - yes

>> No.6793313

>clockers
>Psychology (behavioral neuroscience) and Philosophy dual. Turned out to be an interesting combination.

>> No.6793322

>1984
>Translation Studies

>> No.6793345

V.
Computer Systems Technology

>> No.6793350

>>6793047
Ride the Tiger
Sociology

>> No.6793355

Master and Margarita.
CS.

>> No.6793366

Starting Strength
Russian Studies

>> No.6793370

Ferdydurke
High School graduate

>> No.6793399

>>6793370
Polish?

>> No.6793410

Book of the New Sun
Law

>> No.6793412

>>6793399
murrican

>> No.6793417

The Feast of the Goat
Criminal Justice/Law

>> No.6793423

Spring Snow
Computer Science

>> No.6793437

>>6793412
..and knows Ferdydurke.
Nice

>> No.6793443

Mason & Dixon
Engineering

>> No.6793446

>>6793306
>>2
>Yes
what courses

>> No.6793459

>Dorian Gray
>Physics
I'm also extremely shallow and a vapid narcissist.

>> No.6793479

>>6793047
The God Delusion
I'm finishing high school

>> No.6793495
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>>6793047

>Riddley Walker
>English + Philosophy

>ctrl+f
>literally no other english majors
?????

>> No.6793504

Paradise Lost
I'm not a student anymore.

>> No.6793506

>>6793495
.... Come on.
>>>6793220

>> No.6793531

>>6793175
I've read unbearable lightness, which book would you recommend next?

>> No.6793537

>>6793506
To be fair, the proportion is still out of whack.

>> No.6793544

>>6793531
i'm someone else and i think immortality and the book of laughter and forgetting are the best

>> No.6793548

>>6793366
Klokov?

>> No.6793556

Blood Meridian
Journalism

>> No.6793581

Walden & Civil Disobedience
No degree/entrepreneur

>> No.6793594

>>6793479
lmfao

>> No.6793596

>>6793504
ya but you had a major/concentration right?

>> No.6793610

>>6793596
Yes, but I'm not studying it any longer, so I have no major.

>> No.6793618

>>6793049
>biochem

may I ask what you have done or are planning to do with a BSc. in Biochem?

>> No.6793622

>>6793610
he's asking what your major was you fucking idiot

>> No.6793624

do androids dream of electric sheep
computer science

>> No.6793630

>>6793479
Congratulations on making me wonder whether there could really be genuine mad christposters on this board

>> No.6793631

Gravity's Rainbow
English/Film Studies double major

>> No.6793633

>The Odyssey
>Philosophy/Mathematics

>> No.6793651

>Poetry
The Death and Life of a Severino (Morte e Vida Severina)
>Prose
One Hundred Years of Solitude
>Phil/Sociology/etc.
History of Sexuality vol. 1
>major
Law

>> No.6793657

Niebla by Unamuno
Degree in English translation

>> No.6793665

Don Quixote
Criminal Justice

>> No.6793674

>>6793047
East of Eden / Lolita / Brighton rock / beyond good and evil

Music

>> No.6793676

>Moneyball fuck off liberal shit
>Law

>> No.6793683

>>6793047
>Herman Hesse's 'Demian'
>Philosophy

>> No.6793698
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6793698

>Blood Meridian
>Philosophy

>> No.6793772

>>6793047
all these philosophy majors wasting money on stuff they could learn for a dollar fifty in late charges at the public library, lel

>> No.6793833

>>6793622
And he's saying he's a drop out, you retard.
>mfw /lit/ anons can't do critical reading on their own board

>> No.6793853

The Iliad
History

>> No.6793858

>>6793772
>quoting a shitty movie
smh

>> No.6793865

>>6793833
And that anon was asking what his major was BEFORE he dropped out you absolute retard

>> No.6793881

>>6793865
> I did a semester of college and took Physics 1
> I'm a physics major

>>6793610 "not studying any longer, therefore I have no major"
That's the right answer. Stop being autistic.

>> No.6793883

Swann's Way
Mixed media art - experimental film

>> No.6793927

>>6793047
Absalom Absalom
English

>> No.6793938

>>6793858
>implying you could do better
smh

>> No.6793946

>>6793938
smh
please go back to worldstarhiphop

>> No.6793950

moby dick
philosophy

>> No.6793965

>>6793544
Thanks, I'll check those out

>> No.6793968

>>6793618
Freshman at a polytechnic university, so as of yet haven't everything straight entire. Thinking, if I continue as I am, about clinical research if not settling for pharmaceutical. What really irks me is whether I'm on the right track.

The Qur'aan isn't actually my all-time favorite book, but it nonetheless never fails to give me weird vibes whenever I recite it.

On the top of my head the most influential "essay" I read was Twain's "What is Man?" as it introduced me into philosophy when I first arrived to the US. I don't have a stand-alone favorite book, probably since I'm so under-read. I do like Avicenna's poetry, Rumi and Pound's. They have an odd perception of depth to them.

Recs, anyone?

>> No.6793974

>>6793938
>you cant critique anything unless youve created a better version of it
so Stanley Kubrick would be unable to call Episode 1 shit because "lets see your star wars prequel thats so much better stan!"

neat

>> No.6793994

>>6793974
work on that reading comprehension bud

>> No.6794002

>>6793946
smh, smh

>> No.6794013

English Lit

A Confederacy of Dunces

>> No.6794027

>>6793974
I just ate a big bowl of frosted mini wheats and going to take a shit and watch netflix
to your point Stanley Kubrick died a long time before these meme stars wars movies prequels came out. is that your point?

>> No.6794033

>>6793698
Why is that list backwards?

>> No.6794081

>>6794027
its a hypothetical stan

>>6793994
"implying you could do better"
could is an empty phrase, because I might feel that I could have been a better leader than Napoleon, but without having any backing for that claim in actual military leading experience I wouldn't be able to convince anyone. aka the only time you can say someone is capable of something, is if they've done it.

Certainly, you can argue that Stanley could produce a better prequel. But then I would rebutt he couldnt (or that I could as well). and we would be at a standstill, because we would be discussing a purely hypothetical movie never made.

if stanley HAD made a prequel, we would at least have the ability to compare two ACTUAL movies rather than an actual movie and a hypothetical movie.

>> No.6794113

>>6794081
i meant it in this way, that anon has likely not created anything worth publishing. Like Ezra Pound said, never take a critic seriously that is not also an artist with concrete work.

So many retards can spew baseless bullshit and without their shit art behind them they can hide behind subjectivity

>> No.6794122

Olaf Stapledon, Last & First Men
History (Medieval)

>> No.6794150

>>6793110
You gotta a soundcloud?

>> No.6794158

>>6794113
this is a board designed for sharing opinions anonymously

i dont think an anonymous board that shamed people for possessing opinions without having a concrete works backing them up would last very long

i understand what youre saying; i would never publicly shame Matt Damon for Good Will Hunting, particularly with no works of my own, but its such a weak argument to say "youre only allowed to possess an opinion on film/art/lit if youve contributed something concrete"

and in my experience of watching films Good Will Hunting is a bad film. im not acting as some holier-than-thou critic, im just saying

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>yfw there are NEETs and dilettantes on this board who comment as though they know anything about literature and philosophy

>> No.6794167

Moby Dick
Math

Barely any time for reading anything besides math textbooks these days.

>> No.6794197

Death of Ivan Ilyich
Math

>> No.6794227
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6794227

Mason & Dixon
Math

I'm always surprised by the abundance of mathfags on this board

>> No.6794234

>>6793110
novel is so fucking underrated vg

>> No.6794258

>>6794162
We just do it in order to upset you

>> No.6794312

>>6794162
i bet you went to public school

>> No.6794321

i know how meaningless and shallow it is to have favourites because i am an art history major

>> No.6794331

>>6793968
I have a BSc. in biochem. Had decent, but not excellent grades.

Now I work with a dude who dropped out of grade 10 as a painter.

Pharma is oversaturated.

>> No.6794342

Infinite Jest
No formal education

>> No.6794349

>>6794162
>NEETs

I think the term you are looking for is STEMbot. You can be a NEET and still be a litfag

>> No.6794354

The sounds and the fury.
Political science.
I'm surprised I'm the only one.

>> No.6794380

>>6793047
> I, Claudius
> Latin

Well, that fits.

>> No.6794387

>>6793047
Stranger in a Strange Land

Philosophy | Logic & Applied Ethics

>> No.6794389

>>6794162
>he isn't NEETking

top normie

>> No.6794394
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6794394

Kafka's The Castle
Political Science

>> No.6794400

Dubliners
Law

>> No.6794404

Don't have one, though I might go with the Phenomenology of Spirit.

History/philosophy dual major

>> No.6794409

>>6793495
>>6793537
Guess people tend to prefer spending their leisure time (aka shitposting) on boards that aren't dedicated to their professional field. STEMs on 4chan hardly visit /sci/.

>> No.6794410

>>6793047

Favorite is very hard to pick, but most days I would probably say Moby Dick.

Majored in English. Took a class on Moby Dick and studied it for a semester, so that might be part of the reason I like it so much.

>> No.6794607

>>6793047

>Duns Scotus- De Primo Principio
> Philosophy

>>6793350
Almost literally me in 2012. "Revolt Against The Modern World" was my favorite at that time. I switched to Philosophy and have never looked back. Though debating half the class and making them concede to my reactionary positions was pretty fun.

>> No.6794651

>>6794394
I've always wanted to read that book, how'd it go for you?

>> No.6794667

>English, with a minor in either communications or mathematics, haven't chosen
>gravity's rainbow, and Portnoy's Complaint

>> No.6794670

>>6793067
is that david bowie?

>> No.6794673

>>6793047
o pioneers!
american studies, emphasis on literature

>> No.6794783

Our Man in Havanna - Graham Greene
International Relations

>> No.6794854

The Things They Carried
Cultural Studies and Lit

>> No.6794878

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
History

>> No.6794886

>>6793102
>>6793148
hey another pure math and philosophy major! Cool!

>> No.6794904

>>6794670
Not him but yeah it is, probably from the set of Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence

>> No.6794914

Gravity's Rainbow
Social work

>> No.6794925

Anna Karenina or Sirius
NEET

>> No.6794970

>>6793772
It's much easier to find university level engineering and physics textbooks than books by Hegel and Plutarch in any public library I've been to (and I'm a librarian).

>> No.6794992

The Eye in the Pyramid
Computer Science drop out

>> No.6795013

The Iliad
Philosophy

>> No.6795036

Light in August

Chemical Engineering and History

>> No.6795037

>ASOIAF
>History

>> No.6795072

The Map and the Territory and/or The Leopard
Political Science and History

>> No.6795086

>>6794227
wildassberger

>> No.6795100

Math majors can you answer these questions
>>6793213
>>6793213
>>6793213

>> No.6795150

Sabbath's Theater

Mathematics / Finance

>> No.6795169

>>6793047
>your favourite book
The New Testament
>your major
Philosophy

>> No.6795312

>August
>English Ed / Literature

>> No.6795317

>>6795312
Augustus *

>> No.6795326

East of Eden

English

Steinbeck is just so damn good at Americana.

>> No.6795328

>>6795100

I will answer, I'm a Stanford math Ph.D. student.

1. No, I'm far from being a genius. If you go far enough in math you will realize eventually that you're retarded compared to top mathematicians unless you're legitimately among the smartest handful of people in the world.

2. No, I went to public school and didn't even take AP Calc BC in high school, but I worked my ass off in college to learn a shitload of math very quickly.

3. Nope, at my high school we never even heard of that shit. But now almost all my peers did IMO; many of them were multiple-time medalists.

>> No.6795516
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>>6793047
siddhartha

chemistry

>>6793058
>>6793066
>>6793094
>>6793345
>>6793366
>>6793423
>>6793443
>>6793657
>>6793853
>>6793927
>>6794167
>>6794673
>>6795036
>>6795150
>>6795326
I would voluntarily spend time with yall

>> No.6795523

Confessions
I work as an organist.

>> No.6795527

>>6795100
I'm a triple major because fuck everything is why: math, physics, and computer science; so I'mma answer these.

>Are you a genius?
I've never taken a real IQ test, so I don't know, I like to think I am... it eases the pain of having no friends.

>Did you take college math courses in high school?
Yeah, only up to Calc III tho...

>Did you compete at the international math Olympiad?
No.

Favorite book? I don't like to pick favorites of things... so I'm going to go with the book I've most recently enjoyed reading, which is the Tales from a Thousand and One Nights

>> No.6795540

Anna Karenina, doing nursing and midwifery.

>> No.6795556

>>6794033
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6nI1v7mwwA

>> No.6795583

Double Major
>English
>French

Favorite Book
>Lolita

>> No.6795586

>>6795516
Love Siddhartha

>> No.6795604

Invitation to a Beheading
Classical Philology

>> No.6795605

>>6795100
(>>6794227 here)

My answers are pretty much the same as >>6795328
Before college I wasn't great at math and I didn't like it. People always thought I was smart, but not for anything quantitative, and not to exceptional levels. I get good grades (undergrad going into senior year), but I have to work my ass off. Nowadays some people seem to think I'm a genius, but only people who don't know math well at all and aren't aware of the boundless tracts of the field I haven't touched.

>> No.6795617

>your favourite book
the critique of judgement

>your major
graduated english/philosophy with a minor in classics

>> No.6795619

Flowers for Algernon
Civil Engineering

>> No.6795620

>>6795617
How was classics? Do you think you could have done an English and Classics double major, for example?

>> No.6795625
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>>6795617
>the critique of judgement
Are you autistic?

>> No.6795631

>>6793322
Is this for real?

>> No.6795637

Darkness at Noon
Philosophy/History

>> No.6795648
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>>6793047
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Mechanical Engineering

>> No.6795676

Guns germs and steel
History

I understand the flaws in diamond's methodology but I think that outsiders strengthen the field with their input.

>> No.6795684

>>6794651
obviously he liked it.

>> No.6795687

>>6795625
hothead please

>>6795620
>How was classics?
I loved it. the classes combined grammar, art, literature, and history in a way that my English classes never did

>Do you think you could have done an English and Classics double major, for example?
i could have, but if i did it over i would do philosophy/classics

>> No.6795700

Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

>> No.6795703

History
One Hundred Years of Solitude

>> No.6795752

Blood Meridian

Forestry & Fine Art(minor)

>> No.6795827

Memoirs of Geisha
English

I'd like to open up an English school somewhere in Asia in the future.

>> No.6795833

>>6795583
>English
>French
pai debnts

>> No.6795848

>>6795100
1. Based on the last time I was tested, which was around 6 years ago, I'm close.
2. No, I was too busy feeling sorry for myself and wasting time to do the work
3. I had no clue about it until a couple months ago so no.

>> No.6795873

War and Peace
Psych

>> No.6795877

Bible
Neuroscience and Philosophy

>> No.6795878

1Q84

Genetics & Plant Biology

>> No.6795880

>>6793047

Ulysses

Chemical systems (Chemical engineering)

>> No.6795884

>>6795583
>>6795540

the few patricians here

>> No.6795911

Neuromancer
Pure Math with philosophy and physics minors

>> No.6795927

The Republic
Philosophy

>> No.6795943

Thus Spoke Zarathustra
CS

>> No.6795947

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Biology

>> No.6795950
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>>6793479

>> No.6795956

Warlock

Computer Science/Comp Neuro

>> No.6795968

>>6793630
you sound mad as fuck tbh

>> No.6795976

French literature
Best read : Lolita
Funniest read : Inherent Vice
Favorite play : Endgame
Favorite short story : The Chess Player (by Zweig, don't know the title in english)
Second favorite book : probably Crime and Punishment

>> No.6795977

Gravity's Rainbow
College dropout (twice) once drawing and painting 2nd time Poli Sci and economics

>> No.6795983

General Science, Government and Legal Specialty. Minor in Philosophy. Going to Law School.

Fucking hate the sciences and I'm terrible at math. Taking Gen Chem II for the third time this Fall.

>> No.6795984

Gravity's Rainbow. English

>> No.6795986

>>6795976
I think it's usually translated as 'Chess Story'. Also definitely a novella.

>> No.6795991

>>6795983

Forgot to add favorite book. Can't say I have a single favorite but Ender's Game and Confederacy of Dunces is up there

>> No.6795995

The Genealogy of Morals
Disappointment

>> No.6796006

The Voyeur - Alain Robbe-Grillet
Microbiology

>> No.6796015

>>6793047
>Candide
>Computer Science

>> No.6796028

>>6793047

Favorite Book:
>Blood Meridian

Major:
>Business Administration

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6796030

Serious question: I'm starting college at Duke this fall with plans to study biology, and then medicine after graduation.

I like to think I'm as interested in literature and critical theory as the average /lit/fag, but I was wondering:

Is pursuing a (second) major in English because of this worth it? Or should I just stick to muh serious major and just read on the side?

>> No.6796043

>>6796030

No, because you'll spend all your time wetting your med-school books with tears of toil. An English degree would not be worth pursuing. Just read the canon on your own.

>> No.6796049

>On the Road
>Bio and Psych

>> No.6796058

Ulysses
>I'm not gay

>> No.6796062

Hunger Games
Gender Studies

>> No.6796068

>>6793047

Can't pick a favourite book. Something by Umberto Eco most certainly.

Majored in Cybernetics

>> No.6796070

>>6794607
>my reactionary positions

good lad

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voyage a bout de la nuit

third year med student

>> No.6796075

>>6793047
The unbearable lightness of being

Sociology

>> No.6796090

Dune series
major in cs and double minor in math and philosophy

>> No.6796108

Torn between Siddhartha, Damien, The Stranger and Storm of Steel

Chemistry

>> No.6796121

>>6794607
Care to greentext some of these debates?

>> No.6796126

>>6796073
Nice, i see what you did there

>> No.6796172

>>6794113
I'll Ezra pound your mom

>> No.6796186

-Petrarca's Canzoniere
-Semiotics

>> No.6796229

Gravity's Rainbow
Microeconomics

>> No.6796550

>>6796108
Are you afraid of longer books?