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ITT: We post one of our favorite books or books we have read recently that we'd rec.
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That is a very good book OP. It's his best work in my opinion. That prison sequence, with the sugar cube. . . he is so good at cramming a novel's worth of subtext into one short story.
His short stories and novellas don't get enough attention, the BotNS is great of course but I love his Archipelago the best.
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>>8814531
My diary, desu
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Is this a book enthusiasts' shelf worthy?
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yeah, it's a classic
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>>8814457
>book enthusiasts'
>shelf worthy
fucking kill yourself
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>>8814475
Learn English before posting on this board, retard.
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Sorcery and Religion in ancient Scandinavia 2016-12-08 04:44:44 Post No.8814414
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Sorcery and Religion in ancient Scandinavia
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Has anyone read this?
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>>8814414
>Sorcery and Religion in ancient Scandinavia
sounds interesting...
>by Varg Vikernes
nevermind
varg is an interesting guy but his ideas about scandinavia are pants on head retarded.
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>>8814483
I agree that he can sometimes have a slightly warped and hypocritical view of history, but imo he has a pretty based interpretation of norse paganism.
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>>8814564
actually though? i read some of what he wrote about killing euronymous and he writes like he's doing so for a livejournal.
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Where should I start with Poe? Never read him before.
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I've only read Murders in Rue Morgue and it was kind of shitty.
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>Essentials
The Tell-Tale Heart
The Cask of Amontillado
The Fall of the House of Usher
The Masque of Red Death
Murders in the Rue Morgue/Marie Roget/The Purloined Letter
>Poems
The Raven
The Conqueror Worm
Annabel Lee
The Bells
Alone
Ulalune
>Stories I'd Recommend
The Man of the Crowd
William Wilson
King Pest
Ligeia
The Colloquy of Monos and Una
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
Mesmeric Revelation
The Black Cat
The Pit and the Pendulum
Descent Into the Maelstrom
The Premature Burial
>Some of his Satires, for fun
Never Bet The Devil Your Head
The Spectacles
The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq
Loss of Breath
Xing a Paragrab
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Did Poe created monsters and mythos like Lovecraft did or is it more like psychological terror?
Post the piece of literature that was most influential on shaping your opinion on how the world should be.
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How badly did this guy fail?
>Comics man an epic magnum opus that is just one big embarrassing purple prose exercise
>"I don't need an editor dude moby dick didn't have one."
>End result: no one gives a fuck
I love when arrogant people think because they succeeded in one career they are invincible then fall flat on their face.
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Yeah, I loved Spiderman Jerusalem's mangaka, but I couldn't bring myself to read Alan Moore.
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>>8814343
I mean it's obvious Moore is a very very smart man but yeah no you're right I think he tried to halfass it by saying it's 'his style' b/c to an untrained eye something Joycean and something Schizophrenic are just clearly the same thing which just isn't the case
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>>8814383
which is ironic b/c it's very common for untalented artists to hide their lack of skill behind it just being 'their style'
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Hey /lit/!
I'll start off by saying that I've never been a great reader, and I can count on one hand the books I've read this year. However, and this brings me to the point of the thread, I'm looking to change that. I figured I'd tell you guys my 3 favorite books I've read and also the reasons I loved them, so you can give me some good recs. Before you ask, yes, I've perused the charts. A little more holistic than what I'm looking for, though.
1. 1984
Figured I'd start off strong with the most "/lit/" book I've read. I enjoyed this book for its utterly nihilistic outlook. Explorations into human misery and suffering are very intriguing to me. I'll be honest and say that I didn't care too much for the political aspects, so don't tell me to read Animal Farm.
2. Ready Player One
The characters I found to be very strong and multidimensional, not like other characters I've encountered in film or vidya or what have you.
3. The Name of the Wind
I think this book is a bit controversial on this board so I'm a little hesitant about 'naming' it, but it's probably my favorite on the list. The world building and whole magic-science system really drew me in.
So go ahead an impress me, /lit/.
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>>8814235
I feel so sad that this is a troll post. I'm still going to rec stuff because I just wanna have the dream, man, y'know?
Ender's Game, Hyperion, LoTR, The Martian Chronicle, To Kill a Mockingbird, Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman, A Short History of Nearly Everything, Cat's Cradle/The Sirens of Titan, The Code Book, Lord of Light, Flowers for Algernon, World War Z, Perfume, Flatland, The Lies of Locke Lamora, and Stoner.
OP on the offchance this isn't a troll post I love you and hope you're happy. I mean that
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>>8814258
>tfw my taste is so bad people mistake me for a troll
Well, hopefully I'll be able to remedy that in the upcoming year at least. Thank you very much for the recommendations, I'm saving them. And thanks for the sentiments as well.
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Read the charts, read what's in the charts, etc.
It's difficult to recommend you something because I'm a firm believer that reading the same genre or kind of work again and again will never help you "expand your mind", so to speak.
Thus, go to the basics.
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I’ve been lurking /lit/ for years and I keep reading all these threads with publishing horror stories, and how it’s impossible to get published if you aren’t a trans-latinX-trans-womyn or some shit like that, and I believed it.
I can’t believe I did. You guys are fucking stupid. A creative writing professor encouraged me to submit a very literary story I wrote for her class to some magazines and I literally have 3 acceptances within 2 weeks, two of them are at publications you’ve all heard of. I can’t believe you self-defeating, pathetic losers actually think it’s cause of some conspiracy/decline of culture/anti-intellectualism/whatever the fuck that your work isn’t published. You’re all talentless losers.
I didn’t go through an agent, I’m not a “underprivileged minority,” and literally the only thing I had going for me is my last name (which they didn’t even look at; I had my dad check with his contacts and they confirmed that my submission was accepted without knowing my family background) and I got in on raw talent. You guys are fucking pathetic. Time to leave this board.
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>I literally have 3 acceptances within 2 weeks
>I’m not a “underprivileged minority,”
>a “underprivileged minority,”
>a underprivileged
REEEEEEETARRDDDDDD
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>>8814197
>I literally have 3 acceptances within 2 weeks, two of them are at publications you’ve all heard of.
proof or you're lying
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>>8814197
Where and what did you publish? I'd love to read it.
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Finally reading Notes from Underground. I've been avoiding it out of fear for some time, knowing the general premise and the Dostoevsky's characterization of the underground man. I just started Apropos of west Snow, and there's me, on the page, staring back. It's scary, /lit/. Anyone else share this feel? What hope is there for me if I identify with the narrator 100%? I'd like to think that my persistent desire not to be like him (like me) is what will (hopefully) allow me to change. I'm optimistic, but I have my doubts.
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>But enough; I don't want to write more from "Underground."
>[The notes of this paradoxalist do not end here, however. He could not refrain from going on with them, but it seems to us that we may stop here.]
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>>8814194
Considering many people in the world are similar to the narrator you will probably be fine.
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>>8814207
So the solution is to just stop thinking about it?
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English students in undergrad, grad, or working on phd, what are some particular areas or topics in literature you've considered pursuing? I'm currently working on my master's thesis on vietnam war literature and cultural perception through a military lens
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>>8814165
>vietnam war literature
waste of time, completely passe.
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>>8814337
mostly hoping to land a professorship where I can teach american culture studies courses on that topic
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>>8814387
post a mock course title and syllabus
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Would anyone like to share work via email?
As much as /lit/ is trash I have gotten some good feedback in the critique threads. The trouble is that if you put your writing up on 4chan, you can't get it published. I know this isn't a problem for some people; however, I would actually like to get my stories and poems published, so I've found I can't use the critique threads the way I used to.
What if some of us formed an email ring and sent our stuff to each other? It would be a little like how the Lost Generation mailed all their things to each other. None of us are that good, of course, but we could have the same camaraderie.
Of course I realize that people are even less willing to put their email addresses on 4chan. Maybe we can work around that by starting a chat or a common Google document.
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>>8814156
Why do you start off by saying none of us are t h a t good?
And if you only post a page in an image rather than in text do you really give up an opportunity to publish?
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>>8814156
start the document or put out your own email first then, a call to action on 4chan is like shouting at the night sky
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>>8814156
me on the right
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So which sentence
>they were probably put there by old people who HATE fun
>they were probably put there by old people who HATED fun
the sentence is past tense. Does this mean the description of the old people hating fun has to be past tense?
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Do the old people still hate fun?
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>>8814137
probably
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>>8814137
No they're dead
"The war that Tolkien wrote about was a war for the fate of civilization and the future of humanity, and that’s become the template. I’m not sure that it’s a good template, though. The Tolkien model led generations of fantasy writers to produce these endless series of dark lords and their evil minions who are all very ugly and wear black clothes. But the vast majority of wars throughout history are not like that."
Was he right /lit/?
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>>8814090
>>>/reddit/
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>>8814092
Not an argument.
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"Ruling is hard. This was maybe my answer to Tolkien, whom, as much as I admire him, I do quibble with. Lord of the Rings had a very medieval philosophy: that if the king was a good man, the land would prosper. We look at real history and it’s not that simple. Tolkien can say that Aragorn became king and reigned for a hundred years, and he was wise and good. But Tolkien doesn’t ask the question: What was Aragorn’s tax policy? Did he maintain a standing army? What did he do in times of flood and famine? And what about all these orcs? By the end of the war, Sauron is gone but all of the orcs aren’t gone – they’re in the mountains. Did Aragorn pursue a policy of systematic genocide and kill them? Even the little baby orcs, in their little orc cradles?"
What did he mean by this?
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ITT: We post book reviews.
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Infinite Jest
Can't believe I fell for this meme, 1/5 stars
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>>8814069
>Infinite Jest
Don't fall for the memes, friendo.
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Why were so many writers revered only posthumously?
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A lot of people don't live on the EDGE of the present, so a lot of work only reach people years after it's done, because 'intellectuals' > media end up writing about them
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>>8814017
Because dead men are much easier to glorify.
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>>8814269
This is also a good point, most people don't care unless they've been shilled something through education, media and so forth.