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So what's the best English translation of Proust's In search of lost time?
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>>9497638
My unpublished translation.
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mi diario desu
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>mfw meme replies
I actually want help, should I go for Yale's publications, Penguins, or what?
Hi /lit/, what do you think of my nonfiction collection? Are there any other similars works you would recommend?
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the arrogance of power
and then for supplemental reading to all that commie stuff, the closing of the american mind
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>>9519493
>all that commie stuff
What commie stuff?
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HPG: / Harry Potter General /
>What is your favorite location in Harry Potter?
>Who is your favorite side-character?
>Comfiest memory of reading Harry Potter?
>Favorite Harry Potter book and why?
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please keep it in the children's book thread, or kill yourself your choice
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>>9518972
The lake in hp 3; lupin ; the third book
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>liking harry potter
instantly disregarded as a person
>the English produced Shakespeare and Chaucer
>the Irish produced Joyce and Yeats
>the Americans produced Faulkner and Melville
>the Australians produced... ???
Why didn't Australia generate any noteworthy national literature, /int/? Were they too busy shitposting?
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Colleen McCullough
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Patrick White
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Are sci fi books that bad 2017-05-17 03:39:49 Post No.9517473
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Hello faggots
I'm in college and havent read a book since the 8th grade. I wanted to start reading this month, how bad are sci fi books?
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>>9517473
Varies wildly depending on the author. Any you were curious about in particular?
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>>9517473
In your case the /lit/ sticky is actually useful.
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>>9517479
I have a bunch of shitty sci fi books that I bought and never read
Heres the main ones
>Edgar Rice Boroughs - Princess mars series or something
>Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy series
>Drew Karpshyn Star wars books
>Isaac Asimov short stories, Prelude to foundation
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oh nice thanks anon
for some reason i was under the impression that sci fi books are probably always terribly written, is this wrong?
What drugs did he use? All the information I can find about him going to rehab just says "drug and alcohol abuse"
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he snorted nutmeg. hardcore dude.
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>>9516808
Cocaine, meth, amphetamines, and probably a lot of psychedelics. That's the feeling that I get.
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>>9516835
are there any actual sources confirming this though? Also meth falls under amphetamines anyway
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>tfw just finished another short story
How's your work coming, writers of /lit/?
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good, polishing two short stories, working out details for a fourth novel, waiting for a piece of mine to get published this summer.
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I have hundreds of pages of incoherent rambling prose poetry but I have never completed a short story. What are your methods OP? How do you go about structuring a story?
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It's a wonderful feeling. I hope you experience it hundreds and hundreds of more times before you die, OP!
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Why do people hate her?
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>>9515995
Horrible writer, retarded ideology.
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People that can't defend their arguments always lash out in hate and anger
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>>9515995
I like The Fountainhead. I don't understand people saying she's a philosophette though.
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>"genre fiction is unoriginal garbage for plebs"
>reads yet another existential novel about a young disillusioned man wandering around a city
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>>9515861
how many of those can you name? ill wait
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>>9515885
Just from the top of my head:
Notes from Underground
The Stranger
Nausea
The Catcher in the Rye
Ulysses
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>>9515944
Most of these don't fit at all
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>he doesn't read a book twice in a row
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>>9515753
No but I take hella notes.
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not all people have enough time like you nerd
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>>9515753
I'm not gonna waste swipes on my eReader on a book I've already read
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>tfw our greatest writer was a son of a slave father and an açorian immigrant
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>our second greatest writer is a hick from MG who liked to pretend he was from the Sertão for whatever reason
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>>9515677
*ayaaaaaaaaa*
*manda beijo pro cavalo*
*uhuuuuuuuuuuuu*
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>our greatest poet is 6 years old
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A hundret years of solitude
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I'm a big fan of realist and naturalist movements, but hate most of modern literature and especially post-modern. Do you think I would find this novel interesting? Is Marquez a good writer in general? On a side note, I'm torn between learning Spanish and French so if I happen to go for the former I had better wait till I can read it it Spanish, I think.
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>>9515526
Fucking tabet!
>*hundred
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>>9515526
>Is Marquez a good writer in general?
No, they just gave him the Nobel Prize cuz he sucked off the committee
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>>9515553
Nobel Prize doesn't mean shit these days.
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So....does anything happen in this book? I'm like a hundred pages in, and I'm really straining to even pay attention. Entire book so far is:
>Banal, unlikable, unintersting guys get in a cab, have banal, unlikable, uninteresting conversation. Nothing really happens.
>Same unlikable, uninteresting people go to dinner, talk about dumb shit, nothing happens.
>Guy goes home, looks around his house. Nothing happens.
>Banal, unlikable, uninteresting brofags do drugs for 50 pages, nothing really happens though.
>Guy goes to drycleaners. That's about it.
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>>9515191
>nothing happens
this meme
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>>9515198
I could maybe get into the total nothingness of it if anything was interesting, or cleverly written, or any of the characters were somehow likeable or at least interesting. It's just awful, boring, uninteresting douches milling about.
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>>9515191
at some point, a banal unlikable unintersting guy kills a few banal unliakble uninteresting people
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Does any poet convey the European spirit as well as Whitman conveys the one of America?
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Imagine how much more you'd enjoy life if you lived in New England during the 1800s. Fucking hell, they had it set.
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>>9515144
does whitman speak for south americans?
does blake speak for slavs?
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There isn't a pan-Europa spirit to be conveyed. A German, a Frenchman and an Englishman are different entities, and each of their respective nations have produced poets who expressed their heart.
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What would Finch have done if he wasn't a lawyer?
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i never read that book, is it worth reading. im from america
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>>9515152
>I'm from America
Then you would've read it in high school.
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>>9515160
What a lofty opinion you have.