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>>8920515

>sounds like a book some edgy school anime would be made on

that's because edgy school anime is influenced by it

To me the worst part wasn't Holden's edgy comments nor his snark attitude with everybody, the thing I couldn't stand was he molesting his sister at the end of the book.

I thought the "he rape his sister Phoebe" was just a meme, but when I actually read the book it made me very, very uncomfortable.

>>8920531
Rape victims are more inclined to rape. He was raped thus he raped.

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>Some topics for discussion

What is the relevance of Maximillian Morrel's appearance? What effect did he have upon Dantes?

How accurate do you find the description of Dantes as vampiric?

How do you suppose Dantes feels towards Albert?

Was giving Caderousse wealth a premeditated form of revenge considering what it did to him?

How are you finding Dumas' style of telling most of the plot and exposition through dialogue?


If anyone has any more feel free to post them. I never did any study of literature past high school level, so sorry if these aren't the best points for discussion.

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What is a good film or television adaptation to watch once I am done? Has anyone seen pic related, 2002 film?

>>8920453
Kill yourself

>>8920453

>muh scientism
>muh obsession with rationality and reason to the point of being totally blind to why the human mind even conceived metaphysics in the first place

how can these redditors miss the point so fucking hard

>>8920453
What are some of your favorite moments OP? Preferably with links.

I feel bad for you if you read Steinback aside from mandatory school reading.

Mein Goethe, I just read this one, and it is amazing. It is at the same time profound and tender. Made me want to read more Steinbeck.

>>8921526

>thinking that the pronunciation of Goethe is anything like English "God"

It's pronounced like Ger-tuh, jabroni.

>>8920375
wtf i hate magic mountain now

thanks for redpilling me to such degeneracy

>>8920375
Ζεῦ ἄνα.

wtf i love thomas mann now

>>8920312
It is the biography of a middle class woman in victorian England trying to express herself beyond the constraining norm of society.

Bruised Mouse: "A young girl grows up with an abusive father, but finds solace in taking a job at Disneyworld."

>>8920312
A fantasy series of romance set on seven continents with a cuck main character that enjoys cheerios. Co-collaboration between John Green and George RR Martin.

That should say 'meant to be'

>Scots
>A real language

>>8920407

When does a dialect become a language? I didn't even notice it was on there.

Wrong link
>>8912858

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Did anyone here read those award winners on goodreads for SFF? Like pic related

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First: i'm not trolling and don't want to start an argument, just curious.

Next: Could I get an idea of how many /sffg/ people use ereaders vs purchase physical novels.

My theory is that the answer will be different to people who never read series or genre fiction. The fact that many of the best series in /sffg/ are up to ten novels in length has to have an affect: do readers use e-versions to save space or do long series make readers more likely to want to collect?

>>8920123
She has certainly carved out a nice life for herself. And she's very good at writing books that sell well.

Yummy titties

>>8920125
And has had a great impact in culture

yeah kerouc is one middle class white guy who won't be missed

Because most people in academia and media are middle-class white people with shitty mindsets, duh.

>>8920046
[Citation needed]

being a publisher author is gay, what are you an attention whore?

i think you meant to say "guess who's a published author"

>>8920001
In two academic journals, yes.

koran desu

IJ

>>8919982
Ulysses

>>8919876
if you need to pay $40 to start woking on something, then you com on lit and cry about said product i can assure you with 100% confidence that you'll either fail at what you're going to do or you'll suck at it so bad not even you will appreciate the "work" you've done

>paying 40 bucks to write
You just got meme'd.

>>8919876
>buying software


you're the type of guy that no matter what you'll never write.

>I don't have the right software
>I don't have the right keyboard
>I don't have the write notebook
>but now I don't have enough time
>I'm not sitting comfortable enough

i know i was around when daveposting was its height, but to be honest, i dont recall what it was

>>8919722
Like hair. Always.

>>8919729
It was water.

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tolkien-type shit

that isn't tolkien

do you mean fantasy? try Fritz Liebers' books about Fahfrd and the Grey Mouser (if they ever met Aragorn, they'd steal his horse), or Poul Anderson's "The Broken Sword".

or:

"And then there was Twisk, who usually appeared as an orange-haired maiden wearing a gown of gray gauze. One day while wading in the shallows of Tilhilvelly Pond, she was surprised by the troll Mangeon. He seized her about the waist, carried her to the bank, ripped away the gray gauze gown and prepared to make an erotic junction. At the sight of his priapic instrument, which was grotesquely large and covered with warts, Twisk became frantic with fear. By dint of jerks, twists and contortions she foiled the best efforts of the sweating Mangeon. But her strength waned and Mangeon's weight began to grow oppressive. She tried to protect herself with magic, but in her excitement she could remember only a spell used to relieve dropsy in farm animals, which, lacking better, she uttered, and it proved efficacious. Mangeon's massive organ shriveled to the size of a small acorn and became lost in the folds of his great gray belly.

Mangeon uttered a scream of dismay, but Twisk showed no remorse. Mangeon cried out in fury: "Vixen, you have done me a double mischief, and you shall do appropriate penance."

He took her to a road which skirted the forest. At a crossroads he fashioned a kind of pillory and affixed her to this construction. Over her head he posted a sign: DO WHAT YOU WILL WITH ME and stood back. "Here you stay until three passersby, be they dolts, lickpennies or great earls, have their way with you, and that is the spell I invoke upon you, so that in the future you may choose to be more accommodating to those who accost you beside Tilhilvelly Pond."

- Jack Vance, "Lyonesse"

>>8919620

Don't read past God Emperor. GE is the natural conclusion for the series.

After that, it's LITERALLY space Jews. Yes, Jews in space.

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>>8920329