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Could anybody recommend me a good book with a post-apocalyptic setting? Read The Road recently, but I didn't like it much. I want rich descriptions of the abandoned facilities, I want it to portray a deep sense of abandonment and pointlessness.
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Riddley Walker, Book of Dave.
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these
Just read "memoirs of a survivor" by Doris Lessing and was blown away. Quite psychological
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Metro 2033?
Yes, it's a book.
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ITT: Novels with the best prose. 2017-07-14 10:43:24 Post No.9754624
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ITT: Novels with the best prose.
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Hard to beat Lolita really but this is a good contender
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Nothing will ever beat Moby Dicks pros
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+ the other two novels
Sorry to shitpost about the trilogy so much, but it's great desu
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>too anxious to be able to concentrate on a book or kino
>neurotically refresh 4chan for a quick hit of dopamine instead
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Step away and eventually the internet-brain calms down.
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>>9754621
how about your go off 4chan and at least try to alleviate your anxiety eh
i think that's what most people on /lit/ do sooner or later
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smoke weed
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What does /lit/ make of Granta's list of the 20 Best Contemporary British writers?
1. Naomi Alderman (Jewish Female)
2. Ned Beaumann (Jewish Male)
3. Adam Foulds (Jewish Male)
4. Joanna Kavenna (Jewish Female)
5. Benjamin Markovits (Jewish Male)
6. David Szalay (Jewish Male)
7. Adam Thirlwell (Jewish Male)
8. Evie Wyld (White Female)
9. Zadie Smith (Afro-Caribbean Female)
10. Kamila Shamsie (Pakistani-British Female)
11. Taiye Selasi (Ghanian-British Female)
12. Sunjeev Sahota (Punjabi-British Male)
13. Ross Raisin (White Male)
14. Helen Oyeyemi (Afro-Caribbean Female)
15. Nadifa Mohamed (Somali-British Female)
16. Richard Hall (White Male)
17. Sarah Hall (White Female)
18. Xiaolu Guo (Chinese-British Female)
19. Jenni Fagan (White Female)
20. Tahmima Anam (Bangladeshi-British Female)
Link: http://archive.is/xEzmM
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>>9754527
>stormkukoldry 1010:
>I decide who's a jew
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>>9754537
>I decide who's a jew
What do you mean by this? Which authors do you doubt are Jewish?
I would encourage you to be careful who you accuse of not being Jewish, as I take anti-Semitism very seriously and will not tolerate it in this thread. Thanks!
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>>9754527
I enjoy this new wave of /pol/ threads that technically aren't even /pol/ threads because you're just stating facts and remaining on-topic. Keep making them.
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What did they mean by this?
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They mean to save humanity.
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>>9754433
Don't make jokes with the name of Christ. God loves you very much, kiddo.
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Some free verse. Idk what else to say. 2017-07-14 08:58:45 Post No.9754409
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Some free verse. Idk what else to say.
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Hey /lit/, I usually stick to pol, but I was compelled to write some free verse, and just wasn't sure where else to put it. I'm sorry if I've hummed up you're board. I only wanted to share.
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The idea is to feel. Not to just experience the slight touch of emotion, but to truly feel. To embrace every thought that comes to mind. To grasp it in it's entirety, and try to understand it.
To be absolutely raw, and yet so structured and reserved at once. To see where every road is going, and take the one that best suits.
To go through the motions endlessly is to die a death that is simply prolongated. We are men. We are affected constantly, and yet unbound by the simple constraints of rationale. We only die when we can no longer afford to think about the unimaginable. We live when we follow that simple goal: we can be anything we set out minds to.
A life without restrictions is a life owned. A life of conquest is a life of accomplished potential. We fail when we no longer strive for anything; and therefore we must continue. I
We must see a new dawn in every day. We are obliged to endure every hardship, and overcome each mishap. We must continue, whether doubt or loss or hate overwhelm us; for this is why we are man.
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Our measure is not simply based around out accomplishments, but what we compel others to do. For our lives are but one set in a continual development of the human person. We learn, build and die based upon one another; and that chain is one of constant maintainence. Our simple desire for success is based on the betterment of the future; this is the unspoken truth. Whether right or left, our design has always compelled us to move forward. And in this endeavor, we shall not be stopped.
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>>9754415
It isn't bad OP, you should work on it over time and think about it when you aren't even working on it. The subject is quite profound so you'll want to give it a good amount of thought to get to the bottom of it. Also it wouldn't hurt to put some of your own lived experiences in there but that is my opinion only. I recommend reading some of the poems of DH Lawrence for inspiration, maybe TS Eliot too but his work can be a little intimidating I think, he was an Ivy League type.
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Is this (notes and also, somewhat all the guides etc) really necessary?
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>>9754396
No. It's a practical joke of a book. Don't bother. Read Beckett's Trilogy instead.
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>>9754513
I like it so far
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Are there any other writers as charming as Calvino?
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Bump for interest
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If we're talking about Italian writers, Montale is pretty neat. But Pasolini...he can truly be considered as a prophet
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>>9754312
Baron in the Trees is incredibly charming.
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No, I'm not going to read the KJV Bible 2017-07-14 08:00:48 Post No.9754249
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No, I'm not going to read the KJV Bible
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Why is /lit/ full of so many Christfags? I mean, it's a story not literature. The bible is literally cultural appropriation of mythos from other cultures, told in a shitty fashion and propped up as "real". Come at me, /lit/. Reals > feels
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>Reals > feels
>only reading non-fiction
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why do you care so much
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>A pitter patter batter pancake mix drips in drops on the splattered stove top burning fire from gas through wires and walls and tall doors separating maple wood floors from the kitchen and the red afghan spread opposite the ceiling chandelier dining room where it lays woven in intricate patterns scattered in symmetry, pancakes bubbling and burning imagery pussy feining and itching his scrotum before turning over the flap jacks on the stove top and eagerly waiting to eat pancakes and then jerk off up stairs where no one cares anymore besides no one occupies any of the floors anymore the place is haunted by friends whose names he didn't know anymore and this was no home but a joke where he brings whores to choke and fuck and throw out like his pasty plastic plate covered in generic maple syrup and small pieces of crumbs and kerrygold butter what a summer it's been so far, with dad so far, "I've been fucking like a pornstar" he says to himself oblivious to how worthless he feels himself not to mention the creeping suspicion on this whole business of Self because he's had much better luck when he pretended a self to get what he wanted and he would do anything to get what he wanted as long as he was never questioned what he wanted for getting what he wanted was enough to hide from the fact that he never could or would understand why he wanted what he wanted, taking cues was how he figured how he wanted, on the internet with other people he was able to follow what he wanted and what he wanted was to get it but not to get it you see wanting wants because it cannot see and of all things deaf dumb and blind was pussy fiend.
How's my prose
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How much corn it's in your diet?
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>>9754202
This is very unpleasant to read, what the fuck my dude.
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>>9754238
Thank you
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When will you plebs learn that Joyce matched and maybe even surpassed Shakespeare and Dante? That he is arguably the greatest artist of all time? The only reason people think otherwise is because they only read up to Ulysses. Stop getting sucked into the aesthetic of the "ancient writer." artists are not better just because they were in an ancient time. Joyce has come out victorious in his competition against the greats.
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>joyce = 1 masterpiece
>shakespeare = 15+ masterpieces
what did they mean by this?
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>they only read up to Ulysses
What else is there besides Finnegans Wake? Joyce wrote Chamber Music, Dubliners, Ulysses, and Finnegans Wake. Nothing else. Sure, it's mostly all brilliant, but Shakespeare arguably achieved more, simply because Shakespeare's output was much bigger.
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>>9753739
By that logic, Dante is inferior to Shakespeare, which is very difficult to argue. Joyce had 4 masterpieces, by the way.
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Finally copped a copy of The Gulag Archipelago V1. 2017-07-14 04:36:46 Post No.9753694
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Finally copped a copy of The Gulag Archipelago V1.
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All the Jordan Peterson memes got me hyped to read it. What am I in for?
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>>9753694
>copped
when did this meme start
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>>9753707
it's fucking hip-hop slang that's been around forever, what's next you will wonder where calling something "cool" started?
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>tfw moving and actually read so have a shit load of books to move
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that's the main reason i feel guilty for hoarding books, it's a bitch to move them, if i can get house/condo money then i can just fill a room with a massive library without feeling guilty about it
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>>9753588
When I moved into my new apartment, I bought one of those big "hefty" brand storage tubs. It weighed a fuck-ton and I barely managed to lift it in the back of my Jeep. I don't even feel like I have a lot of books. It's mostly old paperback sword and Sorcery novels.
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>>9753652
One of my teachers said something to me when I was in third grade or something- it stuck with me because it seemed like such a paradox at the time:
"Paper is heavy"
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I am 250 pages in. I appreciated C & P and Brothers Karamozov (likely understood only a fraction of their messages) but this shit is so slow. Maybe my translation is just garbage. Is it worth reading until the end?
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reREEEEEEEEEEEE i just bought this
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>>9753494
Ha, have you started it yet? What translation do you have?
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Yeah, its his hardest, slowest book. I felt the same way but pushed through. Towards the latter parts of the book it gets better. Once I finished it, taken as a whole, it was definitely worth it.
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So /lit/, was DFW being sincere when he committed suicide? 2017-07-14 03:20:44 Post No.9753440
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So /lit/, was DFW being sincere when he committed suicide?
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>>9753440
Out of all the misinfo I see spread like a virus on /lit/, nothing irks me more than the idea that DFW offed himself for any reason other than trying to switch his meds. He would still be alive today otherwise. Read his bio for Christ's sake.
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>>9753497
>le life's just a chemical reaction, bro!
maybe you should "switch your meds" if u know what I'm saying
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>>9753440
You're thinking of Sylvia Plath