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I'm a 7th grade English teacher and have to pretend I like a bunch of shitty books that we read every year including Hatchet, Bud Not Buddy, Diary of Anne Frank, Fault in Our Stars, etc. (I don't pick the books, it's a poor inner city school and we get whatever's donated)

We just got copies of Call of the Wild and I was ready for more of the same but holy fuck that shit was good. is it /lit/ approved?

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What do you call the equivalent of a joke that's meant to be sad instead of funny? i.e. a short thing you say with a punchline except its just sad, not funny.

Surely this is a thing?

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Thanks to the anon that recommended this when I asked about queer lit.

It was a rare thing to read about a man who lives in 1910 as a socialite in British high society who doesn't get horsewhipped for being himself. A subject manner that Foster goes into with some pretty deep thinking and grace. Sad to have found out Maurice was published one year after his death, when he actually wrote ten years prior. I can see where Downton Abbey got their ideas for their Thomas Barrow character. They pretty much copied page for page some of the ideas.

But where nowadays every gay man in modern dramas must have some tragic background or scandal surrounding them, especially in historical dramas, (back to Thomas' character as an example, he gets tricked, almost fired, blackmailed, is genuinely hated by everyone else because he is mean, he tried to fix himself with painful and crazy treatments, and then gets beat up badly, attempts suicide, and in the end for all his troubles, they allow him to keep his job and take care of the young child until he pretty much gets old and dies. Goodie) it was nice to read something that just told a story about a man who fully comes to terms with himself, falls in love with a man that doesn't love him back (no homo), a man that loves him back but then breaks his heart (kinda homo) and then an honest fellow whom he properly connects with (very homo).

It was a pleasant read from start to finish and I'm impressed that such a story, that was written in 1904 AND in England, was so interesting and it didn't have any murders, or family break ups, or even a punch to the face by someone's disgust. Just all English banter and witty remarks and just a guy trying to figure how he's going to live his life when people act like ass hats sometimes.

10/10. Would recommend. Onto my next queer lit that someone here also suggested, The Watchmaker of Filigree Street.

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>The son of Solomon was Rehoboam, Abijah his son, Asa his son, Jehoshaphat his son, Jehoram his son, Ahaziah his son, Joash his son, Amaziah his son, Azariah his son, Jotham his son, Ahaz his son, Hezekiah his son, Manasseh his son, Amon his son, Josiah his son. The sons of Josiah: Johanan the firstborn, the second Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, the fourth Shallum. The descendants of Jehoiakim: Jeconiah his son, Zedekiah his son; and the sons of Jeconiah, the captive: Shealtiel his son, Malchiram, Pedaiah, Shenazzar, Jekamiah, Hoshama and Nedabiah; and the sons of Pedaiah: Zerubbabel and Shimei; and the sons of Zerubbabel: Meshullam and Hananiah, and Shelomith was their sister; and Hashubah, Ohel, Berechiah, Hasadiah, and Jushab-hesed, five. The sons of Hananiah: Pelatiah and Jeshaiah, his son Rephaiah, his son Arnan, his son Obadiah, his son Shecaniah. he son of Shecaniah: Shemaiah. And the sons of Shemaiah: Hattush, Igal, Bariah, Neariah, and Shaphat, six. The sons of Neariah: Elioenai, Hizkiah, and Azrikam, three. The sons of Elioenai: Hodaviah, Eliashib, Pelaiah, Akkub, Johanan, Delaiah, and Anani, seven.

*skips a dozen pages ahead*

>Jeiel the father of Gibeon lived in Gibeon, and the name of his wife was Maacah. His firstborn son: Abdon, then Zur, Kish, Baal, Nadab, Gedor, Ahio, Zecher, and Mikloth (he fathered Shimeah). Ner was the father of Kish, Kish of Saul, Saul of Jonathan, Malchi-shua, Abinadab and Eshbaal; and the son of Jonathan was Merib-baal; and Merib-baal was the father of Micah. The sons of Micah: Pithon, Melech, Tarea, and Ahaz. Ahaz fathered Jehoaddah, and Jehoaddah fathered Alemeth, Azmaveth, and Zimri. Zimri fathered Moza. Moza fathered Binea; Raphah was his son, Eleasah his son, Azel his son. Azel had six sons, and these are their names: Azrikam, Bocheru, Ishmael, Sheariah, Obadiah, and Hanan. All these were the sons of Azel. The sons of Eshek his brother: Ulam his firstborn, Jeush the second, and Eliphelet the third.

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more like this?

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Short stories > novellas > plays > novels > poems

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>start reading more, searching authors and books on the archives
>realize that most good authors and books have almost no mentions over half a decade of posts
>realize that nobody here actually reads with any regularity

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reasonably speaking, if I intend to write a novella while working a full-time job and still want to have a social life, how long should I expect it to take and what should be my daily word goal?

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>verbosely using adjectives that end in "ly" in your writing

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china mieville's arms are huge

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Flannery O'Connor seems to be more praised for her short stories. Are her two novels worth reading?

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Looking for some recommended readings on how modern life conflicts with our primal instincts

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Why haven't you killed yourself? It's a thinly veiled secret that all our philosophers failed us.

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I'm currently reading Leviathan by Mr. Hobbes.

I studied Locke a decent amount in college, but have a question that was never addressed in my courses.

Hobbes asserts that there is a need for a single sovereign power, but was that ever actually disputed by Locke?

It seems the two are always posed as foil to one another, but from what I can tell, Locke agrees with Hobbes; they differ as to wether or not that sovereign power should be self-perpetuating.

Can anyone who knows a decent amount on Locke speak to this? Oddly enough, I sort of studied him in a vacuum. There wasn't much comparison between Locke and Hobbes in the classroom even though that seems to be how most learned of their philosophies.

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So, I wanna really get into literature, I got bored of reading non-cape comics and animu.

I really like non-fiction stuff, to be more specific, I started reading the Tibetan Book of the Dead (Bardo Thodol) and some of Carl Jung's text about the collective unconscious. I'm an atheist but this whole shit regarding "enlightenment" and "peace of mind" really attracts me.

Plus you could say I'm a drug addict that really likes acid. This whole new interest stem from me visiting a Narcotic Anonymouys group, quitting the group and relapsing again, plus the whole stress from work, plus 2 very real suicide attempts that ended up in ER.