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>>8740974
>is he a better writer than his japanese comrade haruki murakami?
Yes

>>8740974
He looks like HHH but a jap

>>8740974
Ishiguro is British not Japanese

Hope I understood you correctly. My strategy goes like this (only applies to intellectual books):
>if book is widely read
>high probability of me coming into contact with it due to interaction with other people or by reading other books
>thus in general not worth reading
This approach goes directly against /lit/'s philosophy.

>>8740979
Forgot, when I need to understand something better then only then, will I consider reading it myself.

Are you reading to impress others or for your own joy/betterment? That should answer your question.

Ginsberg blew Burroughs, Cassady, and Kerouac.

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>>8740949
Those blowjob lips though.

>>8740949
lol

Italian.

Spanish. The literary scene in Latin and South America is one of the few literary scenes that still has a pulse.

Russian

then try an academic search like on jstor or a library database

A lot of people here recommend (or used to recommend) Frye's "The Ode Less Travelled."

I've not read it, but I imagine it's decent.

Personally, I recommend Cleanth Brooks's "The Well Wrought Urn."

>>8740896
Uh, Aristotle's Poetics?

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>>8740861
>Leto

Because Herbert is a shitty writer

>>8740871
Both of them in fact.

>>8740836
>Any recommendations?
No. All I can think of:
Avoid journalists, search for historians.

>>8740839
Well then are there any historians you would recommend? Doesn't have to be that related

>>8740836
Henry Kissinger - World Order
Ahmed Rashid - Descent into Chaos: The United States & the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan & Central Asia

This list might be helpful
http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/11730.American_Foreign_Policy#3024831
Some of it is 20st stuff but you shouldn't let that discourage you - Diplomacy is a long term game, so it'll be good to understand the policy changes of the last 30 years.

>>8740808

Depends. Have you read James Joyce's other books? and have you read Hamlet?

>>8740808
Why would you want to read some ex-Catholic fart-fetishit's third book instead of the Divine Word?

>>8740808
Honestly, uylsses is so dense that even if you read all the books you're supposed too (hamlet, Odyssey, portrait, etc ...) You'll still probably miss somethings. Just jump in and read the book, and maybe come back to it in six months for a reread. I think you'll get more out of reading it again than doing any homework.

Although you should really read the Odyssey, hamlet, and portrait as they are all great books

Well, I guess you're just a fucking idiot, dude.

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>>8740800
>no plot or characters

>>8740805
Either this, or OP just hasn't even tried (which may be a product of OP being an idiot). Read some haiku poetry (Basho, Ikkyu, Ryokan), then Shakespeare, then find an anthology of poetry and you should be fine.

Gay sex does that to you.

Verlaine.

>>8740771
Why has he so cute, CUTE!

>>8740764

It's a little old but it's filled with fine advice and info. Most of the tips are variations on "write clearly and briefly," so all the /lit/ babbies hate the book and think writing should be about showing off your large vocabulary.

dude kill your darlings lmao

>>8740764
Its a useful tool.
It will make you a better writer, but it won't make you a good writer. It's mostly sentence composition and grammar.

>>8740704
Very

t. Definitely not Nick Land

>>8740704
>Is he a good read?
You need to check. First a question:
>Does it conform to your beliefs?
If yes, the verbose language won't bother you. If no, the verbose language will bother you.
Alternative question:
>Do you think verbose and cryptic language sounds highly intelligent?
If yes, you would find it a good read, but might still disagree with the message (which in turn could lead to you thinking it was a bad read however).

Seriously, I hold the belief that someone could have the most genius revelations while writing in indecipherable langauge, but the likelihood that is unnecessary and the message could be brought in much less words and much simpler words, is so incredibly high that I won't bother with it since I want to read many more books.

Such language does seem to have some cultish effects on a small but fanatic group of readers, think Nick Land, think Derida and so forth.

>>8740774
>Such language does seem to have some cultish effects on a small but fanatic group of readers, think Nick Land, think Derida and so forth.

Can you expand on this?

>>8740619
>white race
lmao

You also have no idea what liberalism is.

What would /lit/ be like if he hadn't?

>>8740615
The technical term is an Hemingwayed

>>8740606
I think the new Harry Potter is coming out soon

>>8740606
Meme here is synonymous with popular, or, something regarded as being much better quality only because it's more popular. More extreme meme examples are highly commercialized lit like Stephen King. I think most people who use it on here for IJ/GR/Ulysses are just a bit cynical because they have been to up their own ass with their status quo idea of what literature/art should be, and God forbid someone do something different in an artistic field where supposedly creative people work.

>>8740625

Can it be different without being convoluted/Dadaist?

Now she's a little boy in Spain, playing pianos filled with flames.

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>>8740592
sorry, i only listen to popol vuh, tangerine dream, and com truise.