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I read Crime and Punishment and Notes from the underground.
What should be my next one?. I really enjoyed those two

>>8711895
leo tolstoy

>>8711895

The Idiot, then Demons, then The Brothers K.

Read his other things as you please. The Gambler is excellent.

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>>8711193
Here you go boyo

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Was a left-leaning guy who expected to scoff.

Actually thought it was great.

Thanks for the existential crisis Ayn!

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Bring out yer charts!

You didn't put SFFG in the subject OP

>>8703119
Bloody hell anon. This might be the most shit OP we've ever had. >>8703035

>>8721366
Philosophy exclusively these days.

Whatever I feel like reading

>>8721366
When I'm in college I only read short stories to relax from studying. When I'm vacations (e.g. summer) I read philosophy and fiction.

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>>8721291

>authors preface
>author's preface from 1899 edition
>author's preface from 1910 edition
>author's preface from 1934 edition
>author's preface from 1955 edition
>author's preface from 1967 edition
>author's preface from 1977 edition
>author's preface from 1989 edition
>author's preface from 1995 edition
>author's preface from 2006 edition

and they're always all just variations on "lol I guess it's being reprinted"

I enjoyed the ones Borges wrote on Ficciones
Why is he so based?

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>>8721340
>author is 300 years old

I will do your homework for you for $20.

>>8721242
oh, and you will get an A, of course.

I'm reading it right now, the only help I can offer is that there's no e in Jim Casy.

>>8721091
Tensions

>>8721091
>>The biggest thing that added tension between the USA and the USSR were nukes.

>The tensest thing that intensified tensions twixt USA and USSR were the dank memes

>>8721032
Dude was tortured

>>8721032
They don't.

>>8721032
Because they are braver than most.
Facts.

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>>8720675
1- Play or Plea

2- Play-write or Demiurg

3- Scriptwriter = Writes exclusively in cursive or curlicue fonts
Screenwriter = Writes crime dramas for film such as The Departed or Pulp Fiction
Screenplay = What occurs in the movie screen
Script = What actors memorize and say for loads of money
Playwright = The opening night of a play, often confused with 'Play-write'

>>8720675

A play is any fictional story intended to be performed live by actors to an audience. This term describes a category of works. The genre of story, comedy, tragedy, history, and the manner of production and design all modify the basic term play. English being fairly lazy, terms are often simplified so rather than being a dramatic play; it's simply a drama.

The term play is also somewhat overloaded in that a play can refer to the performance, or it can be a synonym for the script. It has other meanings but we don't need to consider them here.

The other category word is "script". Anything that tells someone how to act and speak is a script. Even if it's not entertainment or performance it can still be scripted. Any telemarketer, customer service rep, and even many retail employees have their actions scripted.

A screenplay is a play written to be performed on a screen. It's a modification of a play to communicate a different medium of performance.

So a playwright writes plays to be performed live on stage. A screenwriter wrights plays to be performed on screen. A scriptwriter writes pieces to be performed, regardless of the medium.

If you want to understand these things, identify the broad category words first. Then the specific terms will be clearer.

>>8720675
>1. What do you call a book/genre (superlative) like drama

It's a play. "Drama" is occasionally interchangeable with the term "play", but drama usually just refers to the idea of drama: interpersonal action, character development, etc. without a reliance on melodrama, special effects, and extraneous things. The most apt place for drama to occur is the stage, with plays -- hence, "drama" and "play" sometimes mean the same thing.

>2. What do you call a person who wrote the piece with stage direction, dramatis personae etc?

Playwright. Dramatist means the same thing, but playwright is the older term and used more often.

>3. Diference between:

A scriptwriter is one who writes scripts. A script, then, is a collection of dialogue. Although "scriptwriter" is the most general term for a writer who creates dialogue for any kind of performance, it's not a widely-used term -- this is because writers usually do more than create a collection of dialogue.

However, "script" is used interchangeably for plays and screenplays. This is because "script" usually refers to the physical text of a play/screenplay, as it might be given to an actor to read.

Now, a screenwriter creates screenplays. Screenplays are scripts (plus other minor things like action, descriptions, locations inside or outside) that are for the screen -- either the big screen (movies) or the small screen (TV, internet shows, etc.). Note well that you might run into the term "teleplay", which is merely a screenplay for TV; also note that the term "telewriter" or such doesn't exist: if you write any kind of screenplays, you are a screenwriter.

A playwright creates plays. A play is a script (plus minor things like action) that is intended for live performance, usually on stage, in front of a crowd.

>>8720560
i feel he legitimately missed the point on the seven deadly sins. gluttony is not enjoying a meal gluttony is enjoying a meal so much that it is a central part of our lives and it isn't only regarding food it is essentially saying that god is more important than sensuality

get this cuck shit out of here

>>8720578
Russell is a legendary point-misser.
I think this is why his writing on religion doesn't have many rebuttals: to refute him would require explaining to him the things he's writing about, and that doesn't make for a good paper.

>>8720507
>There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our imagination. Therefore, perhaps, I need not waste any more time upon the argument about the First Cause.

> If you say, as more orthodox theologians do, that in all the laws which God issues he had a reason for giving those laws rather than others -- the reason, of course, being to create the best universe, although you would never think it to look at it -- if there were a reason for the laws which God gave, then God himself was subject to law, and therefore you do not get any advantage by introducing God as an intermediary.

>Do you think that, if you were granted omnipotence and omniscience and millions of years in which to perfect your world, you could produce nothing better than the Ku Klux Klan or the Fascists?

>There is one very serious defect to my mind in Christ's moral character, and that is that He believed in hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment. Christ certainly as depicted in the Gospels did believe in everlasting punishment, and one does find repeatedly a vindictive fury against those people who would not listen to His preaching

>There is the instance of the Gadarene swine, where it certainly was not very kind to the pigs to put the devils into them and make them rush down the hill into the sea. You must remember that He was omnipotent, and He could have made the devils simply go away; but He chose to send them into the pigs.

>>8720507
>it has chosen to label as morality a certain narrow set of rules of conduct which have nothing to do with human happiness
Common misconception. Name one.

tldr lol

Rewrite first pages without memes and overbearing past tense

>>8720565
What about the rest of it?

>>8721022
It reads like a first draft of someone who hasn't written much else. How far are you along in your process?

Joshua cohen

the guy who wrote my diary 2bh

Michel Houellebecq
Karl Ove Knausgaard
Thomas Ligotti
Mark Z. Danielewki

>>8720367
Bondage: fun for the (w)hole family

Delta of Venus

DEEP PLUNGING -- 28 Stories of Doing Just That!

>>8720364
(if you had it)

that looks like trash dude

one of the books of the bible
you could probably sell it to a museum for millions