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>Stephen King is a shitty wri-
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>>9167062
>tfw you see they are standing on different planes and will miss their swings.
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>>9167062
the cover art accurately represents the psychological complexity of King's characterization in the book
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Hadji Murat Reading Group 2017-02-28 12:50:10 Post No.9166986
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https://discord.gg/xNkqCKq
Today is the first day of the Hadji Murat Reading Group. Read the first 5 chapters with us!
Hadji Murat is only 212 pages, and papa Bloom calls it: “my personal touchstone for the sublime of prose fiction, to me the best story in the world, or at least the best that I have ever read."
This reading group has finished: Makioka Sisters by Tanizaki, Melmoth the Wanderer/Melmoth Reconciled, Middle C by Gass, Don Quixiote, Dante's Divine Commedy, Magic Mountain by Mann, Hyperion by Hoderlin, Walaschek's Dream by Orelli, Petersburg by Bely, Kappa by Akutagawa and others!
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Anybody interested?
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I'll check it out. What's the schedule?
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>>9167195
Head in the chat and ask. If Winston asks if you're vivec, say yes.
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has /lit read The First Law?
I'd like to know what you think about Joe Abercrombie and he's fiction.
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>>9166975
its liking having shit smeared on paper
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Anymore insight?
I really did enjoy this trilogy
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>Dude pop culture lol!
What do you guys think of Cuck Klosterman?
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He's fine, fun reading. His early books were written almost exactly the way he speaks, but his more recent prose is a little more...dense? Literary? These feel like weighty adjectives for what it is but there's a difference now.
IV is a great collection, t b h I would recommend it over Sex, Drugs & Cocoa Puffs.
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>>9166729
Never read anything by him but I sure like his podcasts with bill simmons
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>>9166729
he doesn't look very cool
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>take out some books at the library
>fantasize about the interaction with librarian
>shes just one of those older pumpkin ladies
>scans my books
>i low key initiation smalltalk but she barely audibly replies and i had to register her mumble a second time
>im tapping my fingers and she gets to the copy of infinite jest at the bottom and says, "oh wow. congratulations"
What did she mean by this?
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congratulations dude
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congratulations dude [1]
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>>9166726
She wants to suck your cock
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What are your thoughts on thia gentleman's oeuvre?
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Gentlemen don't have oeuvres, but testicles.
Learn basic anatomy, faggot.
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>>9166672
His work is an island of treasure
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Top notch. Severely underrated.
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Do you like Omar Khayyam, friends?
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>>9166669
Haven't read any, but I want to. Have any recs?
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>>9166669
i dont read terrorists, sorry
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been meaning to read his rubiyat or whatever it's called
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Does anyone like Wheel of Time? I don't know why but I like cheesy high fantasy, it's the escapism maybe.
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Also want to mention I only listen to the audio book, I haven't actually read a book for ages. Sorry if that triggers you.
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*pulls braid*
*sniffs*
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Would love to read more but I only got halfway through the first book, realised it was identical to Fellowship of the Ring, lost interest and stopped reading
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Serious question, boys:
How do I become unspooked? I've read most of Stirner and I'm still having a hard time because I am so spooked.
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Wanting to know things is a spook.
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>>9166589
Spooks are a meme. Only a true skeptic would be able to live unspooked. And the search of true skepticism is a spook too.
The people that say that spooks are inherently bad are retards.
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>>9166589
being "unspooked" is a spook my friend. might I suggest kys
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>German "idealism"? But anon you're so pessimistic!
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>>9166309
No one has ever said this to you.
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>give you a tongue kiss? But anon I'm only 10 years old
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DONALD TRUMP IS GOING TO COMPLETE THE SYSTEM
TRUMP IS A KANTIAN
HE'S GOING TO DERIVE
THE PERFECT SYSTEM
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Can anyone help me find this author?
>heard about him from an interview on NPR
>had a southern accent
>drew most of his books from his childhood experiences, which was sometime in the 20th century but probably not before the 50s
>told a story about growing up and how he had a dog
>a neighbor attacked his dog, and when his father found out he nearly beat the neighbor to death
That's all I remember unfortunately, pic unrelated
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John Green
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Back to the containment board. Saged.
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Jordan Peterson BTFOs Lacan and Foucault. How will postmodernism ever recover?
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> postmodernism
Oh cool....it's the early 90's again.
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Why does he look like he's on a major comedown?
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I love this man.
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Why should I judge books on anything other than entertainment? Bear in mind that I'm a proud Stirnerite.
Why is it that "literary value" or whatever seems so much like marketing pushed by the academia-publishing-media industrial complex?
Why should I take the social critique / philosophy / "insights" of fiction books seriously AT ALL when the authors only present it in a vague and half assed way? It seems like dilletante pseudo intellectual posturing to me. Nabokov would agree. Dostoevsky obviously couldn't hack it on a wet and windy Thursday night in any worthwhile Psychology department.
Why, in the age of the internet, should I only take books seriously if they have the stamp of a publisher with a large enough revenue?
Why should I instantly dismiss all new artforms as not even being art? Why should I instantly dismiss new artforms as not being art due to them taking advantage of technology?
When "high brow" authors say they like "low brow" stuff is that them admitting that they don't even have the willpower to stay within their bubble of ascetic snobbery? We all know the bubble is made of bullshit but they don't even pretend that it's not these days.
Do you think that books have been a failure in terms of comedy?
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>>9166014
>proud Stirnerite
Died from laughter here. Writing out of purgatory.
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>>9166014
"REEEEEEEEE
I haven't read any book for over a week because I'm 100 pages in to Nicolas Nickleby and IT'S SO FUCKING CRUSHINGLY DULL AND LONG WINDED but I'm a UKer who hasn't read any Dickens books before and I don't want to be seen as a pleb due to this.
I'm also starting to abhor art in general. I hate that I have to read for cultural capital reasons. I don't even enjoy genre fiction but I still feel the pressure to read.
I just fucking hate this pretentious academia-publishing-media industrial complex induced spin that books are a part of. I wish people saw books like chocolate bars or YouTube videos. Used and forgotten about, not heralded as containing profound insights / wisdom / anything"
https://warosu.org/lit/?task=search&ghost=&search_text=academia-publishing-media+industrial+complex
>he feels a pressure to read in order to consolidate his ego
>he then pretends that he's a stirnerite who really didn't need approval, just enjoying himself and feeling smug
>he invents a conspiracy and accuses everyone else of being ingenuine because he feels they can enjoy literature and so have something he's too dumb to experience
>frogposters
/lit/ is not your psychotherapist Mr insecurity complex
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Holy shit OP just got fucked.
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Halfway through
does it get better or did I fall for the hype
it's the tritest shit I've ever read plus the translation is extremely stilted and unnatural sounding
(also riddled with comma splices that annoy the piss out of me)
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His struggle becomes your own. There are some interesting, even great, passages, but read Writing the Beautiful with Ek-- it's quite good.
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>>9166006
>does it get better
yes
>did I fall for the hype
yes
>the translation is extremely stilted and unnatural sounding
which language?
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>>9166006
the second half (of book 1) is better than the first, i think it's his finest work out of the 3 i've read so far
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What is your opinion on Kerouac's prose? I think it's horrendous, very dificult to read.
On the Road was a easy read thougt. But The Subterranians is sucking right now
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Probably some of the best spoken word i've heard is from him, really beautiful actually, rare to find anything like it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oS4xa53MWSY
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>>9165989
Painted a house a few summer's back for a frenz gramma and listened to a few on BoT-- Dharma B was one of them, and was surprised that I liked it well enough..
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Dharma Bums had great prose, really matched the content of the novel