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Name ONE (1) talented young writer who isn't an MFA graduate.
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rupi kaur
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Name ONE (1) talented young writer
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Friendly reminder that English is the greatest language of all time. Get over it translationfags and nonAnglofags. The English language is just the absolute best way to convey idea and feeling. Accept it.
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>>9581192
agreed. if it isn't the greatest language then why did they write the bible in english? (rhetorical question, don't answer)
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how would you know?
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inb4 spics and uma delicia that is their "melodious" yelping
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What are some worthwhile Dutch books? I'm thinking of moving there in a couple of years and I want to learn some of the language since I already speak English and German anyway.
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You want books written in dutch or books about the netherlands?
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>>9581092
>worthwhile Dutch books
Don't exist
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>>9581260
Written in Dutch to supplement learning the language.
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Spanish language literature 2017-06-01 08:19:37 Post No.9581071
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Spanish language literature
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I've begun learning Spanish recently, and one of the several questions naturally arisen from such an endeavour usually is, how good is Spanish literature? So could you recommend a few worthwhile books? But, please, don't metion Don Quixote, Borges and Garcia Marquez. Thanks in advance.
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Cortázar's short stories
Bolaño's TSD and 2666
La Vida es Sueño by Calderón de la Barca
I don't read in verse but there's a lot of great poets that wrote in Spanish.
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Unamuno, CJC, Espronceda, Calderon de la Barca, Juan Boscan, Rosalia de Castro, Clarin, Perez-Reverte, and for poetry Quevedo and Gongora. Spain has the best literature bar none.
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>>9581071
Javier Pottero
El Bloodo Meridio
Los Gravitas Rainbolito
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wyd lit?
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>Perfectly circles the word 'cancer'
Hell yes I would
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autism
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>>9580827
Kek. Why didn't he cut one more page? he'd already trashed the book
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I think it was a Russian poet that once said something along the lines, "No amount of fantasy or make-believe will ever come close to the real horror that is created in real life." As in to say, that if you're writing a horror, even though you may have thought up of some edgy cool stuff like, like a crazy doctor that takes the limbs of homeless people, pales in comparison to the real history of what real doctors have done to real people.
So with that in mind, please rec some lit that left your skin crawling, and stayed with you after a few days, not because it was gross and weird, but more so because it was something that really happened. I would love to get my hands on something that is set up in a 1930 mental hospital or something. Because pretty much anything before 1980 in America, the hospitals were semi-torture palaces.
Stuff like where buildings that were supposed to house 400 people, housed 1,500.
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Bump, blyat
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>Because pretty much anything before 1980 in America, the hospitals were semi-torture palaces.
Remember that one mental hospital in New York back in the 60s that Geraldo Rivera investigated and the only light that highlighted the rooms and hallways, filled with retarded naked children, were from his camera? As if that was what inspired the Silent Hill games? And how he started crying when he would talk about it because he said it was the worst thing he had ever seen in his reporting career.
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Go work or volunteer at a hospital for a while. Try to get assigned to the intensive care unit if you really want to see people in miserable conditions. If it's realism you're after this is a better option than just reading about things that happened years ago.
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Books That Helped You Write Well
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>libgen and the new bookzz domain only have this in mobi
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http://www.online-convert.com/result/0447825d-6e5d-4b17-9add-112acdce8145
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One of my favorite book series when I was a little younger was the Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini. To this day, I don't think I have as thoroughly enjoyed any other work of writing. If any of you folks out there have read it, do you think its mostly nostalgia that keeps this as one of my all time favorite series, or did you enjoy it as much as i did? Besides that, just a general Eragon discussion thread
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I read the first one as a kid and was not captivated honestly. I was into historical fiction because nerd
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>>9580606
My favorite book in high school was an 800 page history of greece.
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I loved the books as a kid; then I went back and read them.
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Can someone give me the cliffnotes of Stirner?
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cliffnotes are a spookpls upvote this post if u liked my joke
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just b urself (the creative nothing)
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https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/max-stirner/
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why is this book held to such high acclaim?
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It has the most realistic depiction of rape in the history of literature.
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>>9580449
Because it captures universal feelings of adolescence in a relatively simple and short story.
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He rapes his sister, Phoebe.
I like to drink beer and read in my living room. Is there any one better than Bukowski to read and drink heavily to? Or at least as good? I can't read anything by him without cracking open a bottle of something.
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you clearly live your life on the basis of outward perception, and living up to certain archetypes. stop that.
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>>9580432
How so? People like to smoke and watch anime or drink and watch movies or enjoy other mediums. I'm just saying that Bukowski puts me in the mood to drink heavily and enjoy his stories and poetry. And I'm wondering if anyone else has any suggestions? Go back to your "clean" lifestyle devoid of any alcohol or substances and let the adults post
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>>9580470
whatever you say, you silly larper. I'm trying to help your pathetic ass.
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Why are there so few books where characters actually have to work? Seems like fiction is filled with people who have massive spans of free time or are students with magically regenerating pocket cash.
>but work is boring
>but muh escapism
ITT: books about people who work
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Moby Dick
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well i gather already you haven't read any classics
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>>9580252
Well the Dresden files he's a detective and each book follows his case.
Also The Name of the Wind Kvothe is dirt poor so he has to find money and do jobs to go to magic school
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Can you recommend a good book about a wizard, or multiple wizards?
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why do people keep recommending Gene Wolfe
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>Babby still reads fantasy books.
I'm embarrassed for you OP.
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Serious question:
Is this a tacit admission of DFW's pedophilia?
>the "entertainment" is CP
>uses the word "ephebe" casually like a pervert
>"I have become an infantophile" apropos of nothing in the initial ambulance scene
I am only on page 190 does he come right out and say it later? This is a tedious read.
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>>9579752
Also maybe this explains his suicide.
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>>9579764
Wow care to refute any of my points? Even your disagreement could help illuminate my question.
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This is the best living writer.
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>>9579317
Fuck off, Norm.
That's not Anne Carson.
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>>9579319
She's great too. Munro is the best living writer though, and the best short-story writer of all time.
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>>9579327
Flannery O'Connor shits all over Munro's stupid fucking face desu