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What was his problem?
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Cocaine, if we're being frank.
What is your favourite Douglas Coupland novel and why
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>>9916150
haven't read him. what's yours?
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I've read Jpod and Generation A, Gen A is so so but JPod is hilarious
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Gen X was ok. I thought Microserfs was better. I haven't read anything else of his.
I used to know one of his superfans who'd go to as many of his readings as possible with other superfans and give him little gifts. Semi-stalkery yes but I don't think anything bad ever happened. They were just obsessed. (This is something I am a little worried about if I get some fame from my own writing.)
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Is it a modern classic?
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is it good? i have no idea what its even about.
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>>9916146
why would it be
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>kike garbage
Lol no
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What the fuck is china reading?
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Communist erotica with Chinese characteristics.
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>>9916145
Manga.
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>>9916145
state issued communist propaganda and bogus scientific articles
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What is absolutely the best book you have ever read?
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All novelists are failed poets.
". I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't, and then tries the short story, which is the most demanding form after poetry. And, failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing." - Faulkner
Discuss poetry vs. novels
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>people with short attention spans think their 20 page short story or 1 page poem is capable of the psychological depth or emotional range a full length novel can provide
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>the psychological depth or emotional range a full length novel can provide
>can
Better a great 1 page poem or a short story than a mediocre novel.
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“He chose The Metamorphosis over The Trial, he chose Bartleby over Moby-Dick, he chose A Simple Heart over Bouvard and Pecuchet, and A Christmas Carol over A Tale of Two Cities or The Pickwick Papers. What a sad paradox, thought Amalfitano. Now even bookish pharmacists are afraid to take on the great, imperfect, torrential works, books that blaze paths into the unknown. They choose the perfect exercises of the great masters. Or what amounts to the same thing: they want to watch the great masters spar, but they have no interest in real combat, when the great masters struggle against that something, that something that terrifies us all, that something that cows us and spurs us on, amid blood and mortal wounds and stench.”
Bologna also said Antwerp is his only work that does not embarass him.
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Hey /lit/
Ive always been interested in philosophy so i decided to tackle Thus Spoke Zarathustra.
And I'm gonna be real, I can barely understand "on the otherworldly".
Can someone give me the gist of it?
Also, am I retarded?
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read genealogy of morals first
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Oh, and is there a certain way to read this? Or philosophy in general?
It just seems like a lot to take in and remember. So Im wondering if I have to remember everything, or just get the gist of things to understand the book as a whole.
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>>9916023
Start with the Greeks. Jumping straight into Nietzsche is a meme that people will tell you is alright because they did it too without understanding what they're missing
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What's wrong with Mary Sue's?
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The nature of the Mary Sue is the lack of conflict. Thus, the story becomes just prose and description.
Which isn't really bad.
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>mary sue
>Literally "Loomis who" anatomy
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>>9915973
They take the suspense out of a story, line it up two by two, march it into the gas chambers, beat the shit out of it, and then gas it. Theyre overkill.
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Thoughts on this book? I just read it.
Personally, I can feel the deep biases the author has for Jean Louise. I don't feel she portrays the side of Atticus fairly or accurately.
Propaganda or good book?
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I like how at the end it's sort of like she is going through a tournament fighter anime, facing more and more deadly opponents in debate. Uncle jack, her fiance and finally her dad. I still go back and reread those parts, it is quite interesting, even though I'm not on the side of the segregationists.
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I think one could make an argument that Atticus isn't a racist
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Atticus was right. Jean Louise was to blind to see the truth
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So /lit/, I'm currently in the process of making up for my U.S. public school education, as well as my own shitty attitudes toward literature from when I was a high school student. I was going to read Adler's How to Read a Book after seeing it memed here, but after looking through its table of contents (as the authors instructed), it looks like it wouldn't be nearly as helpful in reading fiction as nonfiction. I've now come across pic related in my search for an alternative guide to not being a literature brainlet, has anyone here read it? Was it helpful?
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The Bible -- Mythology and folklore -- Proverbs -- Idioms -- World literature, philosophy, and religion -- Literature in English -- Conventions of written English -- Fine arts -- World history to 1550 -- World history since 1550 -- American history to 1865 -- American history since 1865 -- World politics -- World geography -- American geography -- Anthropology, psychology, and sociology -- Business and economics -- Physical sciences and mathematics -- Earth sciences -- Life sciences -- Medicine and health -- Technology.
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>>9915947
What's this?
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>>9915915
Check out the autodidact general from the archives.
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Would a detailed stream of consciousness first person perspective novel about the daily life of a self conscious, socially anxious, neurotic, r9k style autist be a valuable addition to the world's literature, or just rambling garbage?
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>What is American Psycho?
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It would surely be a landmark in the development of human spirit (I'm being sarcastic).
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>what is ulysses
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“How did scrambled eggs get stuck with breakfast exclusivity? You can put bacon on a sandwich without anyone freaking out. But the moment your sandwich has an egg, boom, it's a breakfast sandwich.”
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I wonder what a dinner sandwich would look like.
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>>9915850
I remember the last time this came up. Someone redpilled /lit/ on how jews brainwashed america into this shit. Basically John Green is trying to redpill teenagers very subtly.
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>>9915865
Just tried finding the thread on warosu. Jesus Christ, anon, I hope ALL of those posts aren't yours?
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Books about the western canon
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Is there a more based work about the story of western literature than the works of Carpeaux?
While nobody here, except for brazilians, would know who this guy was, his book covers the greeks until the first half of the XX century, including the major writers from every nation.
What are the best works in english about the subject? I've read some Bloom (The Western Canon) but he only talks about two dozens of authors, while Carpeaux talk about virtually everyone that mattered
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No one knows who Carpeaux is on /lit/, my fellow monkey. He's not been translated to English. Why bother posting this thread?
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>>9915860
to know more books about the western canon my fellow gay man
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>>9915849
Ford Madox Ford's The March of Literature. Begins with Confucious, however!
Embrace nihilism.
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>>9915823
Nothing to embrace, laddy. Not that this renders it any the less true.
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>>9915823
Embrace epilepsy.
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>>9915823
>I've read Notes and was too much of a brainlet to recognize satire the post
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I hate that I'm such a fucking slow reader. But at least I managed to work my way through a book, got like 10 minutes left of A Scanner Darkly. It took me several weeks to read, reading not every day but almost. Fuck my life, 33 years old and I have read very few books. Fuck this world.
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Quit bitching and just keep reading.