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batman. hannah montana, bible

>>9630608
For a start, The Odyssey.

Next, all three Hesiod poems.

The Oresteia
Prometheus Bound
Medea
The Persians (maybe read Herodotus beforehand)
The Frogs

>>9630655
Also since you've read Oedipus Rex and Antigone, you may as well read the last of the trilogy.

>>9630554
I'll read you the colour out of space in a Glaswegian accent live over Skype, but only if you're a cute girl.

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>>9630589
I'm not a cute girl :(
(pic related)

also funnily enough it was a reading of that story that sent me on my Celtic-voice fetish

>audio book
>irish
absolutely disgusting, kill yourself

>>9630243
quality is relative

>>9630243
Akiha is objectively sexy!

>>9630243
Akiha is objectively best girl, but only because the others are trash.

>>9630186
Learning meter is great for free verse writers as well. T. Free Verse writer who does constant metrical exercises.

>The blades of Earth do sing to me of dreams.
your rhythmic hiccup (as I read) is the 'do'
the 'do' occupies this strange space of grammatical inversion that tries to overpower 'sing', but its a bit ambiguous. Try your best to avoid grammatical inversions like that until you can make converstional iambs:

>The blades of grass are singing me to sleep.
keeps the meter and the grammar is much more straightforward. I changed Earth, just cuz.

>>9630205
Alright. Sometimes I have a hard time deciding if a syllable is stressed or unstressed. Any way to fix that?

>>9630220
When I first started learning meter, I exaggerated my readings extremely and tried to listen to which sounded less silly. I also abused dictionary;com's pronounciation thing-y.

The BLADES of EARTH do SING to ME of DREAMS

THE blades OF earth DO sing TO me OF dreams.

I think the 'do' is still technically correct btw, I just feel is makes the rhythm of the line awkward.

nah

>>9630102
how come?

>>9630058
google motorcycle diaries + pdf and decide for yourself

book is All The Pretty Horses, btw

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Not even wrong desu

>>9630005
I always find mccarthy's books very easy to read.
The lack of commas makes it a joy

Almost definately

Probably not

>>9630025

Who is Chris's Sanco? A tulpa of Sonichu?

Nope, it's pretty basic just long and tedious

the entirety of the western canon that precedes it, pleb

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>>9629808
>really like a book
>give it one star on goodreads

>finish Infinite Jest
>not a single crack on the spine

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> "English major? Haha, prepare to work on Starbucks! LOL!"
> Finish college
> Got job at a publishing house two months after
> Professional grammar nazi
> Earning good money
> Like my job

I have, a couple of times. Not an avid reader of poetry but I've found it extremely articulate and existential; also, its treatment of "outsidereness" is one of the most touching and poetically rendtions of the theme I've ever read, along with Project X

>>9629679
Thanks! I'm trying to find more contemporary long-form/epic poems, and this looks like it might hit the spot.

I love Autobiography of Red, definitely give it a go. It is very touching, as that other anon said. It's weird, but it's good weird.

artsy pho genre fiction shit hopefully a la mccarthy

>>9629593
He's Chinese, not Thai.

>>9629585
Lots of desperate posting on /lit/ and going to bed sad
Speaking of which, go to bed Tao

He's a teacher? The Consolation of Philosophy.

>>9629533
damn this is the first nice suit I've ever seen him wear

>>9629541
I forgot to add these:
>It needs to be easy to find at my local library
>I need it in 2 days so I can't buy it online

>>9629299
Never giving below four or five stars. If it's shit leave it unrated.

Be overly critical to impress your peers

>>9629299

rate everything 1 star even if you liked it

>>9629273
Shit bait, shit thread idea, faggot op, just horrible. 0/10

How long has this constant posting of 1984 threads been going on? I only just finished it yesterday so it can't be of my accord.

I'm planning to read Taipei what do you think op?

>>9629330
absolute dog shit. his shtick is best consumed in short spurts.

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>>9629330
Read Yeats instead or something. Any time you spend reading Tao Lin is time you'll never get back, anon. Don't you forget that.