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>>8936465
my diary desu~

I hated The Big Sleep. I'm the same, OP, it's pretty rare that end up with a real dud.

>>8936465
>Dropped it about halfway through.
>thinks he can talk about it's quality

yeah he also said to burn all his shit after he died, don't fucking listen to him dude

i expected better of norton tbqh

>>8936421
i thought depending on your original interpretation of the german, it wasn't even necessarily an insect? like maybe it was just a generic "unclean" animal?

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>>8936359
Storm of Steel by Ernst Junger
Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves
Poems by Siegfried Sassoon

>>8936370
Fucking this. Read "Storm of Steel"

Also "Company K" by William March
"Johnny Got His Gun" by Trumbo
"The Guns of August" by Tuchman

>>8936359
Keegan's treatment of the Somme in Faces of Battle is a classic.

>>8936306
Not yet but soon hopefully, I loved Siddhartha

>>8936306
I love Hesse, especially Steppenwolf, Siddharta and Narcisse and Goldmund but i have to read this one.
I hear it's different and kinda hard to decipher.

>>8936306
>>8936521
it's a solid 5/5 masterpiece.

it's helpful to read other hesse to build up to it since it's the final synthesis and culmination of all of his other major works

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*describes the pantry*

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*describes the food*

>>8936272
>>8936274
hivefat

>tfw no slut gf

It's a good feel

>>8936191
i-it was an accident, she's p-pure

She was just too naive for this world

*Shawn

I've listened to every episode of this and it should be said that most on /lit/ wouldn't like it. The three of them are all typically liberal MFA types (that's where they met). They were in mourning about Trump in the last episode.


Beyond that I find it quite enjoyable. It's true that they read a whole range of shit. Every so often they gush about some /lit/core like Stoner or Lolita or Faulkner or Melville. In one episode they read A Supposedly Fun Thing...

>>8936185

>The three of them are all typically liberal MFA types (that's where they met). They were in mourning about Trump in the last episode.

I was interested until this. I see enough of this shit in my day to day interactions on top of most of the media that I consume. For the sake of my mental health don't need any more leftist in my life.

Does anyone know of some /lit/ podcasts with a conservative lean?

>>8936185
is that you shawn

>>8936022
Stop horsing around OP, for Chrissakes. Jeez, you're really killin me here. You really are.

>>8936022
I didn't see Phoebe's sexual assault by Holden

>>8935697
also wondering this.

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I've read all 4 books. It's about a man who in his youth loses his best friend, but continues to meet him re-incarnated four times, each book is one re-incarnation.
It's the kind of books where the story is used to convey an aesthetic quality, and that quality is actually the meaning of the whole thing. With the exception of "Runaway Horses", where it's a bit too patriotic/edgy/sudoku for my taste, the books are unusually beautiful, especially the last one "Decay of the Angel".

Just bought this booker cheap second hand, came with a ticket stub from a waiting for godot theatre production someone was using as a bookmark

Sure. How much are you paying?

I'll send u a cookie and my english teacher's sex tape, sounds right ?

Alors comme ça on triche? J'vai l'dire à Morgan!

Read the Golem Lectures by Stanislaw Lem, as well as Blindsight by Peter Watts, and find out how you are most likely the playthings of cosmic beings far vaster than your comprehension.

Nothing is scarier than Hard Science Lovecraft.

>>8935557
Well thats comforting

>>8935557
Whats the basic argument for the existence of these cosmic beings?

>read horror
>pick up on genre conventions
>write book

Same with most genre

Think of what terrifies you (bonus points if this aligns with something that much of society fears), then create a metaphor for that thing and write about it.

>>8935561
>this spooky skeleton represents my mummy taking the router away

>roiding for this

>Moby-Dick or: the whale herman melville

Who thought putting the authors name at the top of the book in the same font and color was a good idea? Especially when the title also changes font size and is in all caps

is that cover done by the guy who did Drinky Crow?
the characters in the boat look like characters from it

>>8935460

No.

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>>8935460

>>8935460
Some of us have

>>8935388
Just use the web edition. It has the original text + 4 or 5 different translations.

>>8935388
>the Fleur de Mal

just try to read the original text. you'll get as close to it like this as you will by reading a translation.

>>8935715
I know very little French, can I have a version with the French translation side-by-side? I would also like a physical edition, I do not want to drain my phone battery when reading outside. Thanks.