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>>8813989
one of my hobbies is reading bible passages in an exaggerated, hysterical southern drawl sometimes for hours at a time; the neighbors once called the police for disturbing them

The historical books are interesting, but to get the most out of them they should be read side by side with contemporary sources. Ecclesiastes is probably the high point of the Old Testament. The prophecies are fun. The poetic books are either shit, or shit in translation. I don't speak Jew.

The New Testament, overall, is a step down. The sermon on the mount is powerful, and getting a first person account of life in Rome is neat, even if that first person happens to be a retard who can't appreciate what he sees around him. But it's not until Revelations that you get any particularly juicy language.

>>8814013
lol'd

>>8813940
Why is this bad writing?
What constitutes good writing?
According to you, of course.

Not disagreeing with you, just curious about the criteria you use to evaluate.

Someone's bitter about tfw no gd

>>8813940
I'm taste and can confirm that's good writing.

Green Mars and Blue Mars :^)

What are your thoughts on the book?

I read the first chapter or so so far

>>8813917
this book is shitty. no thanks

why would you survey literature by gender? that's like servicing your car by doing all the round bits first and coming back for anything that has corners; it's profoundly retarded.

>>8813806
that girl is pretty
i like the way her face looks
i bet she smells like vanilla and pronounces the letter s in a sharp way
brown girls are great

>>8813873
>i bet she smells like curry

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>>8813791
It's a secret, OP.

>>8813791
I don't think I have ever really liked a novel. If I had to choose it would be Salammbo by Flaubert due to the language, but I still don't like most of it.

>>8813791
Baudolino is sitting on my bookshelf and I am fairly anxious to read it. Did you like it all that much, OP?

How much money have you spent already? I think you're fucked, buddy. Good luck.

>>8813783
I've taken out 70k in loans already. I could probably switch to Math and finish in 2 years. I just feel like I've already wasted 3 years

I'm graduating in the summer with my degree in English Literature and it does feel useless, but I'm going to community college for IT in the near future. Luckily my parents payed for my BA so I have no debt.

Seriously...I can't believe people take out loans for a fucking arts degree. The general rule is that your debt shouldn't exceed the salary of your first year of post-school work.

>>8813741
I diagnose you with Special Snowflake Syndrome

>>8813741
give me one unique observation you made today. dont be a pussy, tell me one thing you thought about today that you thought was unique

>>8813762
Ding Ding Ding

>>8813700
Sizes and Bloom aren't pseuds

>>8813700
IGNORE ALL IRONIC-FROGMEN

>>8813700
Stop.

>>8813688
self absoprtion

>>8813688
>holy shit this book is boring
>i cant wait to read the next one on line
>the same thing happen

EVERY FUCKING TIME

>>8813695
>wow this book is amazing, I don't want this to end
>it ends
>can't stop thinking about it

Such is life when working through Russian literature

>>8813640
Flannery O'conner came from there, and Carver went there briefly.

>>8813640
>Is it actually good or am I just in an echo chamber here?

Guess It depends on your perspective. But yes, Iowa is considered by all of academia to be the best/most prestigious creative writing program in America for whatever that is worth.

I'm highly skeptical of the writer's workshop/MFA system in America in general and I think contemporary American fiction is in a pretty bad place. I'm willing to wage that in Iowa as anywhere you're going to find the same shitty uninteresting MFA students writing shitty uninteresting crap in a shitty, easily imitateable style about shitty solipsistic nonsense where nothing happens.

>>8813870
>But yes, Iowa is considered by all of academia to be the best/most prestigious creative writing program in America for whatever that is worth.

Huh. Do you think that's based on the history of writers it's produced, or a current sentiment of recent batches?

>>8813630
Just read the three major tragedians and Aristophanes if you want

There are many ways to go, but I recommend starting with the Theban plays of Sophocles. As mentioned before, Sophocles, Euripides and Aeschylus are the core of the greek tragedy.

>>8813682
>>8813641
thanks lads

>>8813563
>kierkegaard in the same category as sartre
top kek

>>8813568
idk senpai it's put together by our professor

care to elaborate?

I'd say you can construe the teachings of any major philosopher to be compatible with the ethics of journalism, if you're creative enough.

Think outside the box a little.

>>8813528
An anarchist, Christian, peaceful society, which taxed land according to Henry George's book.

>>8813536
so he was an idiot?

>>8813543
He was a genius.

>“The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits.”

>-G.K. Chesterton

It's the smartest people who take their ideas so far- they have to try to make the world make sense, they want a complete, perfect system.

Tolstoy just took his ideas too far. I love reading him, but I'm not a Tolstoyan anymore.

it's lost on you

>>8813509
You must be a women

If you were living in the 17th century, then yes it would be a common response. Have you tried reading other non-rhyming poetry?

iain banks is trash man, but since you're into edgelord sadistic xd stuff read Story of the Eye

heres a revolutionary idea that will make your hat spin around on your head and then fly away into the sky: more books..by the same writers...?

pynchon