does anyone know any good literature to read when you are angry at everything?
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>>9030506
Embrace love and empathy in their truest forms anon
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>>9030506
I, Claudius.
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>>9030506
On The Edge by Rafael Chirbes
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Just finished pic related. I enjoyed it a lot and am probably going to start the Count of Monte Cristo tomorrow. Is this considered real literature or just the 19th century's answer to action movies?
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Did you read 20 Years After?
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Dumas was by no means considered 'real literature' and got a lot of authors salty in its time because of his sucess in periodicals and such.
I love his works, and i am working on reading all (read 23 of his books atm).
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>>9030225
Its babbys first step in reading well received in retrospect 19th century French /lit/
Basically in progression
Dumas>Hugo>Zola>Stendahl>Balzac>Huysmans
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wtf i don't wanna have sex with women now
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>come back to /lit/ after a month
>still talking about rupi kaur
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Cool meme, but anyways, I wanna have an actual discussion about this book/this person.
So everything I've read by her I haven't liked for probably the typical reasons. But most of what I've read by her I've read here, so it could be bias. Is it really all that bad? All of it? Like just no metaphor, all pop culture "evocative" statements done "aesthetically" with no caps in Bukowski-like line breaks?
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This is the best book ever created to bless the literary world.
Try and prove me wrong
>proton: you can't
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>>9030171
is bretty gud fo sho
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>>9030171
I gotta say boxcar children beats it. Literally childlike imagination in book form.
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>>9030177
but losing your best friend makes for a better book anon
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>>9030018
Get back to me when he's finished all seven volumes.
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>>9030018
The4oyearoldemeltinggoblinfacemananonsgreatgranaugustus
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>>9030018
I'd say he's too weakshit to finish it but he's probably lurking this thread and he'll finish it just to spite us
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Is this guy the most overrated author of all time?
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I can think of a bigger one...
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Does anyone actually think he's a good author?
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hol up
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I'm thinking of spending the next 8 months studying exclusively Shakespeare, Milton and Joyce, extremely in depth. I will be rereading them (because I've read their complete works already) over and over, reading secondary sources about them, and also reading some of their crucial influences. Is this autistic? stupid? overly romantic? Will it be worth it? I'm trying to improve my poetic sensibilities and to improve my prose, and decided that it might be good to focus hard on the best of the best of the English language, but let me know your thoughts. Is quality and thoroughness or quantity of reading more beneficial in improving one's writing?
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Just do it.
Just do it, you wimp.
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>>9029903
Go for it.
I've thought of doing it but I haven't had the courage.
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>>9029903
Milton is fucking shit, there's nothing worth studying there. Only look at him to learn from his mistakes.
Start on Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Donne for English poetry.
Then, learn Ancient Greek, Latin, and French, and read the major literature of their respective cultures. Homer and Sappho for Greek, Virgil, Ovid, and Horace for Latin, and Villon to La Pleiade to Rimbaud for French.
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Read Nietzsche.
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>>9029858
Marry me and I'll consider it.
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>>9029858
she has such a dumb and smug look about her it's triggering me.
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>>9029932
t. bitter virgin
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give me best quotes you've ever read on courage, no cliches!
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Old soldiers never die, and they don't fade away.
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>sometimes the most brave thing of all is to fire a loaded gun into a crowd
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“We are born into this time and must bravely follow the path to the destined end. There is no other way. Our duty is to hold on to the lost position, without hope, without rescue, like that Roman soldier whose bones were found in front of a door in Pompeii, who, during the eruption of Vesuvius, died at his post because they forgot to relieve him. That is greatness. That is what it means to be a thoroughbred. The honorable end is the one thing that can not be taken from a man.”
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>The Canterbury Tales will never be finished, and we will never feast on the glory of all 120 planned tales
Feels bad man
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>Sappho's six volume book of her complete poems and music is lost forever
>tfw, at best, we will only know a few hundred lines of the Tenth Muse
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>>9029784
we can always find more dude
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>>9029784
:'(
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Can /lit/ recommend any books on learning the Russian language?
I love Russian literature, and their culture in general. I feel like I'd get a lot more from all of it if I actually knew the language itself.
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>>9029655
Bang out Cyrillic in an hour from Wikipedia. You'll get it immediately.
Duolingo
Graded Russian Reader I-V
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>>9029655
Fucking DL Rosetta Stone, bitch.
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>>9029655
Take a course. Assuming you're a native English speaker, learning from a book won't get you very far.
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I'm looking for a novel that captures the feeling of alienation. Not feeling like you're really connecting to people, feeling like you're doomed to never have a truly deep connection to another human being, feeling as though you're doomed at every interaction with another human being to be awkward and uncomfortable, feeling painfully alone and only having your imagination to look forward to a time when maybe things won't be so bad to keep you optimistic.
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Maybe I Malavoglia?
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>>9029562
No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai
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In DFW's infinite jest he had wacky names for years. ITT come up with DFW inspired years.
2017 the year of the Amazon delivery drone
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>>9029525
The Year of Trump Steaks[1]
[1]For reasons indiscernible to those of mediocre business talent, these Steaks were sold in high-end consumer home electronics stores
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>>9029525
The Year of the Bayer Male Birth Control Pill
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2018 - The year of the lightbulb up my ass
Is that how you do it?
Is this the year of old, white men?
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>>9029447
no this is the year of the Amazon delivery drone
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It's the year they all die.
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>>9029447
>He doesn't even know that white Gen Xers are more conservative than Boomers
This is the century of old white men anon
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Thoughts on this book?
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Negative
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> op goes to door
> "OP?"
> op stops, turns. "What?"
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> "Nothing."
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>>9029428
Kys