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The Tartar Steppe?

>>9479533
The Tartar Steppe - Dino Buzzati

>>9479533
Le Rivage des Syrtes/The Opposing Shore - Julien Gracq
spookily similar to Buzatti's work, by the by.

>>9479470
By reading more.

>look the words up in the dictionary
>definition contains too many obscure words
>look the words up in the dictionary
>definition contains too many obscure words
>look the words up in the dictionary

>>9479470
I tried to not have vocabulary of a 10 year old and succeeded. Now everyone hates me for talking more literate than they ever could.

Tread carefully when expanding your vocabulary.

>>9479441
He is lecturing, lecturing. He says he will never die.

>>9479486
He and Kissinger are immortal do to their evil

>>9479611
>chomsky
>evil

u wot m8

Bad film.

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>>9479419
April March by Herbert Quain

>>9479298
No, you didn't.

Go back to where you came from.

Lean in, I'll let you in on a secret....

Ready?
We all love the guy, but we pretend we don't! Don't tell anyone!

>>9479447
fuck off john

>>9479251
fuck forgot title. I'm never doing this again. a mod should delete this

Why the fuck did the other thread get deleted

I made this one, but I discarded the previous threads so we will nuke the ones with the altered selected chart

>>9479905

if mods dont like it they can delete it too

motorman

Revelation

A lot of Evangelion's ideas are lifted directly from Childhood's End. However, in the field of anime Evangelion is kind of considered postmodern while Childhood's End is considered middle brow or possibly even low brow as sci fi tends to be in the world of literature.

>>9479162
geniuses don't read, they eat pizza and go to the forum

my diary okii desu

>>9479162
Nothing, for they derive all meaning and knowledge from their own musings.

if you felt that way about TCoL49 you probably will not like Gravity's Rainbow, which is like a beefier better version of the same sort of novel

>or is he just a meme like DFW?
you also seem like a meme man so i doubt you're smart enough to even enjoy Pynchon

>>9479134
Every author that you don't enjoy is actually a meme and an elaborate ruse by the /lit/ board of 4chan to get you to read bad novels in stead of reading what is actually of high quality.

>>9479134
If you didn't like Lot 49, you won't like Gravity's Rainbow. No need to discuss his "meme" status, which is irrelevant to whether or not he is a good writer (he is).

START

WITH

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>>9479045
just go into it in ignorance. please.

Translation might be an issue if you're reading in English. There are several, and a bunch are stilted and difficult to read because they're from the 19th century or early 20th.

The most recent one is Edith Grossman and it's generally considered good, because it's extremely readable and preserves the colloquial and easy-going style of Cervantes. If you're reading along in something that seems dry, arid, stuffy, or just plain difficult to read without fading in and out, you might consider getting the Grossman as a full-price paperback instead.

>What should I expect?
It's an easy and very fun book to read and the first half especially will breeze by, especially if you're using the Grossman translation. It won't make you want to kill yourself. It's also one of the most important books in the history of literature for a variety of reasons, so it's a good one to read. It's kind of like reading Faust, Hamlet, or Homer.

>>9479064
This made me excited to read it. Thanks.

Although I just checked. The translation is by John Rutherford. Know anything about that one?

are you ignorant or immature?

>>9478995
angsty teenager

now read BNW

>>9478923
Because they're manchildren obsessed with Le spooky stories.

>>9478923
btw it's actually good

It does seem like pretty much everyone dabbling in horror has riffed on Lovecraft or his work.

>>9478758
>fagles

F

>>9478760
Is fagles the best translator for the english version
t. portuguese speaker

the iliad is the bomb diggy u feel me duke we come with that 90s tonite mother fucka

no but for real tho

>>9478706
"Write in the active voice" is a meme. For the most part, the way people usually write in the passive voice is fine. There are certainly instances where it detracts, but for the most part it's fine.

As far as the passive voice is concerned, your use of it here seems to be okay.

>>9478788
Alright. I appreciate it. The passive voice thing has always been in my ears, so I was worried.

>>9478880
The general rule is, that the passive voice tends to make writing sound sneaking, like taking blame off someone or something. Like you're writing in a sort of political blame-shifting type of voice. The passive voice will give more focus to the object than to the subject of the sentence. Use active when you specifically want to make the subject the focus of the reader's attention, which usually makes sense. It is the subject which acts upon the object in a sentence, so it often makes more sense for the subject to come first.