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/lit/ kids books? picture books or otherwise. other than le petit prince, i think we kinda overlook /lit/ children's books here.
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>>8782270
Great Illustrated Classics were my favorite
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Maybe you all can help me, I wanted to find this specific book from my childhood to give as a Christmas gift to my young sister. I remember reading it in 1999-2002, somewhere in that time period. It is a pre-teen novel, maybe 200 pages or so. It's a modern-day comedy, about a brother and sister who live on an island under control of a woman they call "dragon lady". Part of their duties is to feed her pet Komodo dragons. At one point they call the shack which houses the butchered meat, "bucket of blood," and reference the Sherwin Williams logo. In the end they are rescued by the Army.
Does anyone one else remember this pre-teen novel? Am I the only one who read this, or does it sound familiar to anyone else? Thanks in advance, /lit/
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Martin the Warrior
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So I want to start reading Lovecraft and other associated works. What would be a good gateway to the genre? Call of Cathulu?
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>>8782170
I'd start with Dagon. It's very short and cultivates the atmosphere, stylistic techniques and themes that permeate most of H.P. Lovecraft's later work.
http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/d.aspx
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Thanks Anon. Time too spook myself
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>>8782170
Just read the 5 Joshi and Turned-edited Arkham House collections in order.
The books are
- The Dunwich Horror and Others
- At the Mountains of Madness and Other Novels
- Dagon and Other Macabre Tales
- The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions
- Miscellaneous Writings (Lovecraft)
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Hi. I'm going to write a story about a guy that's been a depressed robot for a few years who meets a failed normie 17/18 year old girl who's mentally ill and has abusive parents. I kind of want to give the robot an illness that he hides from the girl and he kinda helps her out with getting a Chad that she's liked for a while and living a normal life despite it hurting him because he likes her.
Sounds good? What could make it more dramatic?
DONT CRITICIZE ME
WE ALL START SOMEWHERE
I'm A 19 year old grill and I love YA
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uninspired bait/10
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>>8782201
It's not bait
I actually want to write.
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cancer is hot in YA lately. diabetes might be cool too
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The Moon and Sixpence, Maugham 2016-11-30 09:49:40 Post No.8782090
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The Moon and Sixpence, Maugham
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This was a super comfy read and has seemingly countless quotable lines desu. Anyone else read this/other stuff by Maugham?
Recommended if you like books about art/artists/literature, deadpan humor about upper/upper-middle class society, and surprising moments of elegance and insight desu. Based on the life of Paul Gauguin.
(don't tell /pol/ but it's also redpilled af)
>“The faculty for myth is innate in the human race. It seizes with avidity upon any incidents, surprising or mysterious, in the career of those who have at all distinguished themselves from their fellows, and invents a legend to which it then attaches a fanatical belief. It is the protest of romance against the commonplace of life.”
>“She had a real passion for reading (rare in her kind, who for the most part are more interested in the author than in his books, in the painter than in his pictures)…”
>“Why do nice women marry dull men?”
>“Because intelligent men won’t marry nice women.”
>“It requires the feminine temperament to repeat the same thing three time with unabated zest.”
>“Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless passer-by to pick up idly? Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it. To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination.”
>“Each one of us is alone in the world. He is shut in a tower of brass, and can communicate with his fellows only by signs, and the signs have no common value, so that their sense if vague and uncertain. We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them. We are like people living in a country whose language they know so little that, with all manner of beautiful and profound things to say, they are condemned to the banalities of the conversation manual. Their brain is seething with ideas, and they can only tell you that the umbrella of the gardener’s aunt is in the house.”
I could seriously fill up an entire thread with lines from this book desu.
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Go away MZ
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>tfw no one reads maugham
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>>8782090
The pretentious pseudos on this board shit on him, but he wrote captivating and interesting stories exploring universal aspects of human behavior in specific settings. He was a great storyteller. His short stories are by far his best works, particularly life in English colonial East Asia.
There is a 3 book collection of his short stories that I highly recommend.
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Why do people enjoy reading literature?
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If you're too stupid to understand why, then maybe you shouldn't even try.
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>>8782020
if you type 'sage' in the 'Options' field, your post won't bump the thread
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>>8782008
I enjoy reading things that really make me think. I also enjoy well put together poetry or prose for aesthetics.
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What is the darkest work of fiction ever made? 2016-11-30 08:23:15 Post No.8781985
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What is the darkest work of fiction ever made?
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I honestly think reddit has pretty good taste in "dark" books.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/5fdwf3/what_is_the_darkest_work_of_fiction_ever_made/
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>posting actual reddit links
r u 4 real nigguh?
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Lol wow what an awful thread. Kys OP.
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Top posts are /lit/ esssentials
Really makes you think...
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what's the most erotic thing you have ever read on 4chan
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My diary desu
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>>8781970
this is what this board is all about
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A de Sade excerpt, someone did Stirner x Stirner, some of the text posts on /h/ or /gif/ are good but only rarely, maybe s4s] had it, those threads about wanting to be a girl, in extensive detail, that details into hilarious ERP.
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Is anyone else here a total fraud? 2016-11-30 08:09:06 Post No.8781962
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Is anyone else here a total fraud?
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I got into university on a forged recommendation letter. I lie about reading things like Ulysses - in truth, I don't read literature. I just skim the Wikipedia summaries and become well accustomed to various themes and inject them into daily conversation. And it always works. People view me as an intellectual. I'm getting published soon. It's all unrepresentative wank. Words.
It nets me pussy, though. I guess that's all there is.
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This is everyone here.
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You are below 115 IQ if you can read all the volumes of The World as Will and Idea and not get bored. You are probably smart if you have bullshitted your way this far.
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>>8781981
Not me man. I never touched pussy in my life.
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Don't know who to ask.. 2016-11-30 07:12:07 Post No.8781880
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Alright so I'm quitting my shitty job that I hate because I just sold my house so I'm gonna chill on that money for a bit. Anyway, can someone just look at my resignation letter and tell me if it's correct?
To whom it may concern,
I am writing to announce my resignation from xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, effective two weeks from this date.
This was not an easy decision to make, as Christmas is coming up, I’m sorry if this causes any inconvenience. I've truly enjoyed working for this company and have met some people who I will never forget. Although I have enjoyed working with you, personal reasons demand that I vacate my position and focus on improving my life outside of work. Despite having to leave, I deeply appreciate the opportunities you’ve provided with me during my time as an employee of this company.
I wish you all the best.
Sincerely,
xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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It's fine, anon. Why do you care anyway if you're quitting the job? It's not like you'll ever see them again.
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>>8781887
He'll go crawling back once he's smoked all that money away
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how do i learn to write well
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Look up when to capitalize letters.
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>>8781834
Put punctuation, such as periods, exclamation points, or question marks at the end of sentences.
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>>8781834
Check with a book every now and then.
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>want to get into 19th century philosophy
>don't have time for that huge chart of Greek philosophy
I've read the major Socratic dialogues, is that enough background to start with Schopenhauer and etc.?
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>>8781790
Too bad.
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>>8781790
>Wanting to get into Schopenhauer
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>>8781790
start with the greeks
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Is anyone else embarrassed to be poor? I know it's hip to not care and the /lit/ lifestyle is saying no to materialism but you really do feel inferior around rich people
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Being rich is nice because it affords you leisure time with which to work on your art. It's not a coincidence that lots of artists were either wealthy or sponged off of wealthy friends/patrons.
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You probably don't even know what being actually poor feels like. You are just entitled.
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>>8781789
Time to gain some class consciousness.
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has there been any writer who paid better writers to write novels based on his plot and direction?
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>>8781766
Lrond Hubbard, Andy Warhol.
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>>8781766
JFK
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Shakespeare
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What's the point of reading translated literature?
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>>8781749
I've found myself pondering this very same question lately. After reading some Nabokov and McCarthy I just can't read for anything other than prose. Now every time I pick up a translation of some book I've wanted to read I can't help but think about how stilted it must be compared to the original language. I wish there was a way to get over this.
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>>8781749
For ideas, themes, etc
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>>8781749
whats the point of reading untranslated literature
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Do you write fanfiction, /lit/?
Do you read it?
What do you think about it?
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>>8781745
No
No
Kill yourself
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>>8781745
Yes and yes, but I want to read what people can do with a medium instead of producing terrible pairing fics. Unfortunately 99% its the latter.
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used to read it as a kid. unfortunately as i grew up so did my standards, but the quality of what i could find stayed the same.