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>>8817443
this is fucking lit
how have you not read infinite jest yet

>>8817488
I'm reading Girl With Curious Hair currently because I have an autistic need to consume media in chronological release order.

>>8817443
Vineland

In a sense it's the proto-Infinite Jest.

>>8817432
I've read half of them and I'd say it is a good list, especially in the context of the problems we currently face.

>>8817432
Only read three of them (1984, Brave New World, Crime and Punishment), but i'd see why "every student should read them" ; they confort you (especially when you're a young studentfag), in a weird kind of way... But again, only read three of them. And from what i've heard of, Gulag Archipelago isn't any good (I either met rightyfags who went full "hurr durr muh gulag" or leftyfag calling it "imperialist propaganda")

>>8817432
not a good cross section, way too much repeat material.
like through some walt whitman or some other american literature in there somewhere

>>8817385

This sounds like the plot of The Nix

>>8817385
Delay. Ask for more time. Go live somewhere distraction free and blast it out in a couple of weeks. Drink coffee.

>>8817557

But everytime I try to write I have a panic attack when I realise how far behind I am and the only way to stop it is to put writing out of my mind. I'm too scared to check my emails in case one of them is from the publisher. I put off talking to my agent as much as possible and when I do talk to him I lie my ass off to him and get paranoid because I think he knows.

>>8817375
The Fault In Our Stars

>>8817375

My diary desu

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>>8817352
>tips where to start.
Start with the Greeks

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>>8817352
THis book is highly acclaimed, it helped me quite a lot. I'm not fluent or anything but i can read Russian literature with the help of a dictionary, which is all I really wanted

>>8817352
Same here.
So bumping out of interest

53. Adventures of Mr. Ledbury - 1844 - Elizabeth Sewell

54. Sybil - 1845 - Lord Beaconsfield (a. k. a. Benjamin Disraeli)

55. The Three Musketeers - 1845 - Alexandre Dumas

56. The Wandering Jew - 1845 - Eugène Sue

57. Emilia Wyndham - 1846 - Anne Marsh

58. The Romance of War - 1846 - James Grant ("the narrative of the 92nd Highlanders' contribution from the Peninsular campaign to Waterloo")

59. Vanity Fair - 1847 - W. M. Thackeray

60. Jane Eyre - 1847 - Charlotte Brontë

61. Wuthering Heights - 1847 - Emily Brontë

62. The Vale of Cedars - 1848 - Grace Aguilar

63. David Copperfield - 1849 - Charles Dickens

64. The Maiden and Married Life of Mary Powell - 1850 - Anne Manning ("written in a pastiche seventeenth-century style and printed with the old-fashioned typography and page layout for which there was a vogue at the period . . .")

65. The Scarlet Letter - 1850 - Nathaniel Hawthorne

66. Frank Fairleigh - 1850 - Francis Smedley ("Smedley specialised in fiction that is hearty and active, with a strong line in boisterous college escapades and adventurous esquestrian exploits")

67. Uncle Tom's Cabin - 1851 - H. B. Stowe

68. The Wide Wide World - 1851 - Susan Warner (Elizabeth Wetherell)

69. Nathalie - 1851 - Julia Kavanagh

70. Ruth - 1853 - Elizabeth Gaskell

71. The Lamplighter - 1854 - Maria Susanna Cummins

72. Dr. Antonio - 1855 - Giovanni Ruffini

73. Westward Ho! - 1855 - Charles Kingsley

74. Debit and Credit (Soll und Haben) - 1855 - Gustav Freytag

75. Tom Brown's School-Days - 1856 - Thomas Hughes

76. Barchester Towers - 1857 - Anthony Trollope

77. John Halifax, Gentleman - 1857 - Dinah Mulock (a. k. a. Dinah Craik; "the best-known Victorian fable of Smilesian self-improvement")

78. Ekkehard - 1857 - Viktor von Scheffel

79. Elsie Venner - 1859 - O. W. Holmes

80. The Woman in White - 1860 - Wilkie Collins

81. The Cloister and the Hearth - 1861 - Charles Reade

82. Ravenshoe - 1861 - Henry Kingsley

83. Fathers and Sons - 1861 - Ivan Turgenieff

84. Silas Marner - 1861 - George Eliot

85. Les Misérables - 1862 - Victor Hugo

86. Salammbô - 1862 - Gustave Flaubert

87. Salem Chapel - 1862 - Margaret Oliphant

88. The Channings - 1862 - Ellen Wood

89. Lost and Saved - 1863 - The Hon. Mrs. Norton

90. The Schönberg-Cotta Family - 1863 - Elizabeth Charles

91. Uncle Silas - 1864 - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

92. Barbara's History - 1864 - Amelia B. Edwards

93. Sweet Anne Page - 1868 - Mortimer Collins

94. Crime and Punishment - 1868 - Feodor Dostoieffsky

95. Fromont Junior - 1874 - Alphonse Daudet

96. Marmorne - 1877 - P. G. Hamerton ("written under the pseudonym Adolphus Segrave")

97. Black but Comely - 1879 - G. J. Whyte-Melville

98. The Master of Ballantrae - 1889 - R. L. Stevenson

99. Reuben Sachs - 1889 - Amy Levy

100. News from Nowhere - 1891 - William Morris

>>8817340
Well, in complete honesty, I havent read most of those books, so I can't really give my two cents. What do you want from me, OP? TELL ME.

Pretty pleb, almost all english and lots and lots of best sellers from their time.

Almost no foreign authors as well, must be Cause translations were harder to come by back then.

Probably because it was a dominant paradigm in poetry which had run out of steam and was producing shit, and in order to distance himself from the effects of Romanticism in his time, he felt the need to extend a critique to the Romanticism of the past.

Kind of like how Eliot's stream of modernist vers libre has also ran out of steam in the modern age and produces only shit. Such is the process of literary history.

I think a lot of Eliot's poetry is Romantic as fuck, especially the role of weather and that gothic burial stuff in the Waste Land. Which are the best aspects of that poem so it's p. interesting

>>8817354
>
I think a lot of Eliot's poetry is Romantic as fuck, especially the role of weather and that gothic burial stuff in the Waste Land. Which are the best aspects of that poem so it's p. interesting

holy

freshman literary analysis detected

It was too liberal. Classicism is to romanticism way orthodoxy is to heterodoxy.
And we all know Eliot loved classicism and traditionalism.

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>>8817293
There can be only one

Get off our board, autist. We have so many of these threads every day. At least learn how to use the catalog. Saged and reported.

Where do I start with Comte Joseph de Maistre?

They were all the same, man.

>...and then I saw an axe wielded by a maniac.
>I let out a blood curdling scream.
END OF CHAPTER

CHAPTER 2
>It's your turn to chop wood, Alex!
>C'mon dad!

>>8817258
Your dreams will be crushed by my intellect

>>8817265
>my intellect
(this means phallus)

>>8817258
try a dream journal, force yourself to write as soon as you wake up

>>8817203
m d t

East of eden bruh

>>8817203
The new testament

>>8817140
For Whom the Bell Tolls

>>8817140
The Book of Job (in the Bible)

>>8817157
I will take a look thanks
>>8817161
I have alredy read it. I love the Bible

All of them?

What do you think senile means?

>>8817063
Fuck off, Reddit

bump for internet

Introduction to the Oxford Book Of Modern Verse, 1892-1935.

>>8817027
"The Mad Ravings of a child"
Yeats on Ezra Pound's Cantos, as quoted by Anonymous, "Quote Locator", in 4Chan, >>8817027, [accessed 12/09/16]

>>8817012
I enjoyed that book so I guess you are mistaken

my man

It would be better if the geryon association was dropped though, too weak to add anything

>>8817012

Ulysses
Infinite Jest
Gravity's Rainbow
Moby-Dick
The Recognitions
In Search of Lost Time
Don Quixote
The Man Without Qualities