Rec me books that have prose like this. Thanks.
General /prose/ thread too, I guess.
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Eventually, I want to read a volume of literature in-depth. Given the circumstances, I need to know some bullet points about a lot of books.
Which would you recommend to read to learn enough in the next month to start on a trivia team?
For those unfamiliar,
>Must know
-Author
-Title
-Main Characters
>Like to know
-Plot
-Quotes
-Setting
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Jean de Meung > Guillaume de Lorris
don't even argue
also medieval literature thread
because 'classic' is not limited to the Greeks and 19th century
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for some reason this book is both easy to read but is taking me ages to read it, I just can't motivate myself
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ITT: Books you hold as a personal 10/10. We all have a book that is nothing but perfect in our eyes.
I want to hear about your perfect books, /lit/. Feel free to say why you love them so much - persuade us as to why we should read or re-read it, my dudes.
Here's my solid 10. English rural setting; rabbit societies; rabbit poetry; rabbit folklore; rabbit religion; rabbit migration; inter-warren conflicts; dictatorships; brutality; etc. This book covers so many themes and has such wonderful characters. I know it's probably a bit of an odd choice for a 10/10 for some, but it's perfect for me.
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> Diogenes is a crazy motherfucker you don't want to fuck with
> Patroclus is a dickhead who insults the dead
> Achilles becomes a bloodthirsty merchant of war
> Hector'stragic death and the inevitable fall of troy that is never depicted but is intensely alluded to
> Priam grovelling at the feet of Achilles for a truce for a few days
> Hector's wife tellingHector's corpseabout how their child will never reach manhood becauseTroy will fall
> no prisoners are ever taken
This book is brutal and beautiful in equal measures. It took me a little time to finish it but I'm so glad I did.
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It's beautifully written and feels very honest. More so considering the author also struggled with alcoholism. I first read it because I heard it's Ulysses-like, but I prefer it over Ulysses. A hint of sadness is found throughout the book, but really takes hold the last three or four chapters. I cried like a little baby at the end.
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i feel like an english lit schoolgirl who just got her first boyfriend for suggesting this one but yeah ok how about Wuthering Heights
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1. your're favourite author
2. would you fuck this exquisite ancestor-mama? also, what do you think about the concept of coupling with your ancestors?
no data mining lads, i swear!
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Can you recommend some books that focus heavily on the mental processes of a messed up person like going into detail about their thoughts and how they live their life, kind of like the weed guy in Infinite Jest or all of American Psycho etc
It should preferably somehwat contemporary which is to say they should at least have TV. I couldn't get into Ulysses because a universe without at least television feels completely unrelatable and alien to me like something that probably didn't even exist. They don't have to watch the tv but it should be there in the setting etc.
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I will be the gladdest thing
Under the sun!
I will touch a hundred flowers
And not pick one.
I will look at cliffs and clouds
With quiet eyes,
Watch the wind bow down the grass,
And the grass rise.
And when lights begin to show
Up from the town,
I will mark which must be mine,
And then start down!
(Edna St Vincent Millay)
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How do you decide if a book is not worth reading?
The only two books that I've dropped about halfway through are Inferno by brownie and Mink River by Brian Doyle. I could feel that there's something seriously unworthy of investment about them, but I can't exactly put my finger on it, especially when these aren't the only bad books I've read.
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reminder you'll always be a newfag until you've read /lit/'s Big Four
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ok what is this new "The Culture of Critique" meme book? I've read IJ and GR and I'm giving Ulysses the old college try just in order to finish the meme trilogy, and now this new book is added??? What is the value of it?
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it's the definitive book on the jewish question
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it's one loser from /pol/ with way too much time on his hands memeing it into oblivion.
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Literary Allusions in ASoUE 2017-08-31 04:11:41 Post No.9960248
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>The Tempest
>T.S. Eliot
>"This Be The Verse"
>Thomas Pynchon
>Tristram Shandy
>Tanizaki Jun'ichiro
and these are just the Ts. how can one kids' book series be so based?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25lhmnKwtwI
Ow0 whats this???
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William Blake's Marriage of Heaven and Hell
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I've been reading this lately after a recommendation from a friend, and man this poem has been a trip. But this illustration has been bothering me the most because I can't pinpoint what it's trying to convey with Blake's poem, is it trying to show the fall of man into desires? I also can't tell what's in between the man and the horse, or what those two balls on the sides represent.
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Is Einstein right? If you can't explain something to a child you don't understand it enough? Let's test it, /lit/. Write a 50 word story using an animal, elementary literary techniques, and short moral of the story.
I'll start:
>Meet Peep the Pig!
>He likes to roll around in the mud
>One day, Peep met Helen the Hippopotamus
>She likes to swim in the lake
>Peep and Helen are great friends now
>Except, Peep accidentally got mud into Helen's water hole
>How will they fix it?
>Helen wasn't mad though
>Peep apologized and decided to help clean the water, because that's what friends do.
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What are some good .mobi/.epub download sites you use?
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