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What do you think about dark fantasy /lit/?
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i liked the manga more.
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Why are you morons spamming this garbage so hard?
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This particular one I like, for the interesting mc (though it's a rip-off of Alex in Clockwork Orange).
Abercrombie is passable too. The rest tends to be shit.
This belongs in the SFF thread tho
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So besides O'Connor, Faulkner and McCarthy are there any other Southern Gothic authors worth looking at?
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Toole
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>>9148369
Forgot about that one. Gonna have to pick that one up.
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I like Carson McCullers
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>>9148021
You'll have to be more convincing than that, guy.
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>>9148021
Still Alive
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Where are the proofs
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Great Quotes from Literature
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>>9147716
what book is that?
bet is mid-core at best
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"You will have to take death like an aspirin"
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>>9147716
really hope you're being an ironicuck, because that is an infuriatingly fatuous epigraph
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Chekhov thread for Chekhov related discussion.
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The Black Monk is the best short story
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>>9146776
I rather like Gooseberries. Of the plays, Vanya. Back, when reading him, I thought Cherry Orchard a vast paring down of Three Sisters, which needed just that. His writing doesn't depress me, but, when I consider the life of this incredibly worthy human being, I get depressed. Generally, I avoid him.
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Do you think she posts on lit?
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>mfw I'm a black liberal from la and i post those pepes all the time
Christ, the liberals have gone quackers, haven't they?
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>>9130200
jk rowling is like the writing world equivalent of al bundy and harry potter is al bundy talking about how he scored that one touch down once in high school
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>>9130202
>and harry potter is al bundy talking about how he wrote the best selling series of books in history
ftfy
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He ripped down the flyer I had just put up and studied it with narrow eyes. "But, what the hell is a manga club?" he asked, pronouncing it "mahn-jah." "Does that mean 'vampire' in Swahili or something?"
"Funny no. It doesn't. But I wouldn't expect your pea brain to know any Japanese, so don't feel too bad." I was impressing myself with my witty comebacks. Who knew I had it in me? "ooh, you're so smart, Freak Girl. I wish I could be a nerd like you and start a mahn-jah club at school"
"It's manga." I corrected "Hard-G"
"I thought we would start with a little full metal alchemist" she said, reaching into a cardboard box and setting a stack of manga on the table "and if there is a little time, we could watch some anime, I brought in some Dot Hack Slash Slash Sign, have you heard of it? It's based on a video game sort of like Fields of Fantasy"
"Nice" I said impressed by her selections, and here I was worried she would whip out a Pokemon or Sailor Moon in a lame misguided addled effort to be cool.
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>>9150677
There are only two ways I can conceive you are aware of this work.
1. You are an irredeemable pleb that the book targets, and you are legitimately upset after reading it.
2. You seek stuff out like this to trigger yourself, and trigger others, a typical clickbait junkie.
As always, not all books are /lit/
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>>9150677
Why would you mispronounce it with a soft "g"? Wouldn't it be more likely to mispronounce the first "a" like the "a" in "sang"?
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>>9150677
this hurt to read
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What is one book everyone should read at least once?
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the bible
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The Art of War, although it takes many readings to understand all the nuances.
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Who is the Michael Haneke of contemporary literature?
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Musil, even if not contemporary.
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Tepid and anachronistic. I'm sure there are several
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I'd say Elfriede Jelinek / Peter Rosei but it would be partial and obvious.
We can go back to Dostoyevski, Zola, Chekhov or even Maupassant.
Today? Benedetti?
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is worth studying literature in college?
BTW not an american, education is free here.
do getting a lit degree ensures at least having a basic skill at writing?
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>>9147904
you should study literature throughout your life. Coasting on the essay you wrote about the connection of Imagism and Haiku won't make you a literature master.
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>education is free here
Don't say that. You'll freak out the /pol/stars who think it's impossible.
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no, judging by your post you're barely literate to begin with
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What are some good books against the alt-right, /pol/, and identity politics in general?
After hearing Jordan Peterson discuss the dangers of the alt-right, I've been looking for good books about this subject.
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>>9147717
any book that includes love and tolerance as themes. literature in general (besides Kipling and stuff like that)
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>muh alt right boogeyman
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>>9147948
*tips red baseballcap of dumbness*
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Did literature peak with Tolstoy? 2017-02-23 01:17:47 Post No.9145535
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Did literature peak with Tolstoy?
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What are some comparable authors or works?
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>>9145535
Fucking mickey mouse is more interesting to read than Bore & Peace
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>>9145551
>T. Brainlet.
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>>9145556
It's not my fault that he writes ten pages about how the army is changing and rechanging their clothes.
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Is the state of education, intelligence, highbrow culture, readership, etc, dying?
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netflix is time better spent
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>readig the paper jew
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>never before in the history of humanity have education and cultural goods and services been so widely accessible as today
>is it dying guyse?
kys yourself
>tfw you realise that philosophy and religion will never make life easier to live
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>>9142769
thats something good.
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>>9142769
that face when
>time-bound reaction
you realize
>you're reality from your reaction in time
that philosophy and religion
>philosophy and religion are carried in time
will never make
>philosophy and religion have an action on the reality of your reaction in time
life
>your realization of time is life
easier
>time is meant to be easy
to live
>self-deceptive reality
implying implications
premise is that life should be easier to live?
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>>9142853
>DUDE TIME LMAO
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Why do people like Jordan Peterson?
>Marxism lead to the atrocities of the Soviet Union!
>Derrida poisoned current society!
>Post-modernists say there are no such thing as facts!
The guy is a fucking idiot.
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>>9141619
All those things are literally true, though. Also he created a video about Pepe which is fucking awesome
Try the redpill
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How are those claims wrong?
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You misrepresented his claims and they still sound respectable