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>author uses an adverb
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>>9497800
>author uses a noun
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>>9497800
What's an adverb?
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>>9497817
>'Big' is a verb.
>'Bigly' is an adverb.
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Stop being generous
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>>9497596
I feel like she's a lot more popular in America than she is in Britain, likely because you guys are naturally more right wing.
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>>9497628
>naturally more right wing
Why are you equating the entire right-wing spectrum with egoism? Just call them for what they generally are: self-centered pieces of shit.
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>>9497596
stop being an inferior version of me
We are living in times of literary brilliance.Literature might be approaching its zenith.
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Why isn't it enough to just be pretty any more though?
You know some people aren't pretty or intelligent or braveI like to call those people /lit/ browsers
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>>9496993
Is she implying in this poem that intelligence is not something you're born with?
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hating on rupi is no longer cool
get with the times or >>>/pol/
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So I just started reading Blood Meridian, and i'm really enjoying it so far (about halfway through). I love the dialogue, the gruesome imagery, and it's nice to be challenged by a writing style i'm not used to. Plus it's just fun to read a western, makes me feel like a badass
But, is it necessary to know spanish to truly get this book? The further and further I read the more spanish and I encounter and I barely know any of the language. I forced myself to use a google translator to get through one of the chapters and while it took me forever I honestly felt like I got more out of it knowing what they were saying (It was the scene with the tarot card reading if anybody was wondering)
I was also wondering what you guys think about a film adaptation of this book. I think it could be incredible if a director had the balls to do it
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>>9496963
Pa. Why are eggs breakfast?
What.
You can put bacon on lunch.
Ye.
But if you put eggs on stuff it becomes breakfast?
The man spat and said the eggs are not for this world or from this world they come from the chicken but the chicken knows it not.
He wiped his chin and spat
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>>9496974
The kid spat dryly and drew the revolver from his holster, pointing against the nigger's head
the man gazed at him with a glassy eyed stare
the kid pulled the trigger, splattering his brain and skull across the dusty ground
naw i guarangoddamntee none a ye niggers'll make the same mistake twice
the kid spat
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"The woman looked up. Neither courage nor heartsink in those old eye. He pointed with his left hand and she turned to follow his hand with her gaze and he put the pistol her head and fired"
"The explosion filled all that sad little park. Some of the horses shied and stepped. A fistsized hole erupted out of the far side of the woman's head in a great vomit of gore and she pitched over and lay slain in her blood without remedy"
"He took the skinning knife from his belt and stopped to where the old woman lay and took up her hair and twisted it about his wrist and passed the blade of the knife about her skull and ripped away the scalp"
I love this book
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>last read book
>currently reading book
>will to read book
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>>9496725
The Old Man and the Sea
No, I am posting in this thread
I still have some will left in me
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The tower of swallow
The lady of the lake
Season of storms
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>>9496725
The Sellout
The Trial
All Man Is
Who is responsible for this?
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>>9496522
>Gaddis
>tfw read that first as Gaddaffi
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>>9496595
are you new?
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I read all of these, ask me questions
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Share your contrarian literary opinions
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>>9496432
Genre fiction isfun, and worthwhile because it's enjoyable to read.
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>>9496432
Marx was obviously a satirist.
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>>9496477
On this I think genre fiction is a sign of a mature reader. I do not mean only a genre fiction reader but if you can enjoy the occasional mystery you are doing just fine.
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How much money can you make self-publishing 2 novels a year?
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>>9496326
About 10 dollars
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>>9496326
Maybe a lot. Maybe not so much.
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bout 3.50
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What in the actual fuck is this babble? What is the bloody point? An excerpt from the first page:
>The fall (bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoord-enenthurnuk!) of a once wallstrait oldparr is retaled early in bed and later on life down through all christian minstrelsy. The great fall of the offwall entailed at such short notice the pftjschute of Finnegan, erse solid man, that the humptyhillhead of humself prumptly sends an unquiring one well to the west in quest of his tumptytumtoes:and their upturnpikepointandplace is at the knock out in the park where oranges have been laid to rust upon the green since devlinsfirst loved livvy.
All Joyce did was write down a paragraph of incomprehensible gibberish each night, then he published it and modern """critics""" drool over it. They praise as a 'masterpiece' something that is quite literally the definition of shitposting.
Why is academia today so retarded? Is it the leftists?
Discuss.
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My take on it is that the words themselves are almost meaningless.
Youre supposed to read it fast and the ideas and feelings you remember are the real value.
He's experimenting with the medium.
You might not understand as the whole concept seems kinda stale now.
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>>9496276
>I don't understand this book, is everybody except me retarded?
Just stop.
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>"Elf-besotted fans aside, why shouldn't Tolkien be granted admission to the literary pantheon? Well, for one thing, his detractors argue, his prose is unbearably archaic. >"Sometimes, reading Tolkien, I am reminded of the Book of Mormon," writes Bloom. Tolkien's verse--which litters the text of The Lord of the Rings--is generally accepted to be even worse."
You guys told me Harold Bloom was the good guy. He spoke of the evils of Harry Potter and I aligned myself with him.
It turns out he doesn't like the Lord of the Rings though? What in the hell could he have possibly meant by this?
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What really makes Tolkien is the depth of his world building. It's truly magnificent, and it feels deeply authentic to the reader.
He ain't the most exciting writer, and anyone who has sat through pages of Frodo and Sam in the snow will tell you that. The books remain fantastic despite this.
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You don't (and shouldn't) have to agree with him on everything, nor are his opinions law.
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The part where he compares it to the book of Mormon should give it away.
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Can literature even be scary? Can it convey fear through text and make someone actually afraid? I feel like writing "scary" short stories are a waste of time, since the only one scared would be the characters in the short story, not the reader.
Discuss.
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The scary horrible monster was unspeakably scary and I was unfathomably terrified of its scariness.
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>>9496239
that gave me shivers
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I think it can show horror and evoke some dread and unease but outright scary? I don't know.
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So, she's translated Flaubert and Proust, she has a huge collected stories publication that one numerous international prizes, she is considered one of the foremost prose stylists of our time.
How the FUCK does she get away with writing stories that are literally sometimes one or two sentences?
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Brevity is the soul of wit.
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>>9496127
Here is one of her stories:
Judgement
Into how small a space the word judgement can be compressed: it must fit inside the brain of a ladybug as she, before my eyes, makes a decision.
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>>9496127
>literally sometimes one or two sentences
For sale: baby shoes, never worn.
books for an 18 year who wants to become a good lawyer.I am looking for books on legal philosophy,jurisprudence and historical development of law.
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>>9494915
Greeks
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>>9494915
Oh man to be this naive again
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the talmud
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Was he full of shit?
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>>9494406
He has done way too much shrooms, LSD and DMT to lie like that.
I'm 99% sure he fully believed in everything he said.
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>>9494406
>Substance based esotericism
No thanks
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DUDE WEED LMAO
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If I buy this book will people look at me like I'm crazy and judge me?
It's a history book, that's all. It's like I'm buying Mein Kampf or something.
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>>9494404
??no. and its not really a history book
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>>9494404
Depends on what you look like IRL. If you look and dress like an edgy teenager, you might as well be buying Mein Kampf. If you look and dress like a mature adult, people will understand you're just into history.
Besides, Richard Evan's trilogy on The Third Reich is better.
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>>9494404
>1614 pages
>reading in public