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Good: Croatia
Evil: Serbia
Kebab: Bosniak

>I want to write a book
>I can't be bothered to do research, help me
kys

Maybe you should read a book to understand the subject you wish to write about instead of just watching a movie and hoping 4chan can crayon in the unimportant details.

>>8717152
Come back when you're at least 18 years old please. Also try reading it.

https://prezi.com/m/gfp6eejfzyyc/the-role-of-fear-in-the-crucible/
Fuck off

>>8717152
So how is high school

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How to Speak How to Listen. Mortimer Adler

Definitely not my diary, desu

>>8717144
Are we getting some extra /k/rossposting for some reason?

Perform some amdram bro, great way to get into reading and interpreting plays n shit.

I've only read Fagles.

I liked it.

>>8717128
I only read fitzgerald
I thought it was good

>>8717128
Every single Homer translation is non-perfect unless you decide to read in it's original Greek version. It's kinda usless to argue about them. Just take the one which seems the most plausible for your taste.

you gotta use philosophy to assess it

Have you read The Science of Logic twice? Then you know nothing kiddo.

When you need an entirely new langauge to express it.

4 to explain it 396 to counter "oh but what about..."

>>8717089
>the book has like 100 pages of intros/prefaces/essays

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I don't read books that have more than 275 pages and were published after 1990.

Maybe your story needed 400 pages. More likely your publisher wanted 400 pages. I'm not going to waste my time finding out.

>>8716995
"everyone"

>Is there a name for people who always give themselves the possibility of backpedaling whenever they speak by invoking irony or sarcasm?
4chan posters

>>8716995
Democratic men

Wow, this thread is complete dogshit. Why did you make it, anon?

>>8716967
It's easy to digest. It takes you on a journey. It doesn't try hard. It's not 17 volumes thick. Those who likes it, probably keep coming back to it every so often.

>>8716967
Wow, this thread is complete dogshit. Why did you make it, anon?

also, i liked it because it's a great book. i read it when I was thirteen and I could really relate to the main character, which made me feel less desperate and alone in my adolescence. i found it poignant and funny. something about it was very comfy.

>>8716946
Haven't read a fucking thing today.
But I will if I get a (You)

>muh stats

American please leave. Rather ask what have you concretely learned today.

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>>8716951
Have fun reading anon :^)

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>>8716903

Bumpity

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Pls respond

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sounds like you might like Robert Bloch
also check out his pal HP Lovecraft
and HPL's spooky successor Thomas Ligotti

they all mostly wrote short stories

Wut

I love Pynchon. Bought this after reading Inherent Vice, but didn't even reach the middle before quitting. It brettty bad for a Pynchon boom imho

>>8716609
Sorry about bad spelling, I'm on crappy mobile

>>8716491
was doing 4 last year, now i'm doing 3

english lit
english lang
psychology

only grade i got last year was for psychology, got an E

english A star
history A star
sociology A
failed AS physics tho lol

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>>8716491
Well I'm Scottish so I didn't do A-Levels. We've got an alternate system, of Highers (done in year 5, probably the most important of our grades, and slightly lower than a-levels in difficulty), and Advanced Highers (done in year 6, less important unless you're applying for a straight-a requirement course, and about the same level as 1st year university roughly speaking)

Highers I did English, Classical Studies, Geography, German, and Latin
Advanced Highers I did English and Classical Studies
I also crashed higher French in year 6

Ngl I got A's across the board, but it's pretty odd cuz I was never a straight A student till 5th year. I was pretty middling actually. Not sure what happened.

>>8716468
Frankly, I've found Apollinaire to be better--that is, more delightfully raunchy and less artsy-fartsy--than De Sade, Bataille or Henry Miller. I've heard good things about, but haven't read any, Pierre Louÿs (can't find any ebooks), Anaïs Nin and that other French chick whose name I always forget because I mix her and Nin together, they were more or less contemporaneous I believe.

>>8716746
What stuff from Apollinaire?

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Story of the Eye was breddy gud, I had a few boners and the writing was also good. It's been a year since I've read it.

I've picked up Blue of Noon a few minutes ago, and it seems much more stale than Eye.

Is Bataille just shitty, or is Noon indeed weaker than Eye? And why can't Troppmann stay 5 minutes without crying?

that translation is shit.

i think theres an older one, the path of light or something like that. and santideva is to be read after his precursors, he is one of the latest, if not the last relevant, from the prasangika school.

with these works i find it useful to read as many translations as one can find, of course coupled with some historical context and 2ndary sources.

>>8716359

>A new translation by Kate...

Nope.
Stopped reading right there.

>>8716601
>>8716608
OP's edition is a translation from the original Sanskrit. The other translation by the Padmakara group is a translation from the Tibetan.

The sex parts weren't about sex. They were incredibly complex, but at the same time I understood them on a level that can't readily be reduced to an explanation in language. The sex scenes were grotesque, but at the same time they were human, god! This story was so amazing. I'm glad someone else enjoys it as much as me. It's one of my favorite books of all time. The quality seemed to dip and dive for me, too... But on my fourth of fifth reading it dawned on me that it was not only intentional, but a stroke of genius. I once met a homeless girl who said she was a professional football player and tried to invite herself back to my house, where she would undoubtedly case it out and rob it later. If on a winter's night a traveler is kind of like that in a way, lots of promise, very intriguing, great fun, bitter ending.

>>8715982
One of the sex scene's, where Calvino describes what they both feel, what they expect, is one of the best descriptions of human intimacy i've ever read.

On a less serious note: how good was that story with the guy having a boner for mother and daughter?

>>8716037
OP here. Explain how the ending is bitter? I think it's an honest smack in the feels. I can see how you might think so with it's reduction of artifice ("the ultimate meaning to which all stories refer have two faces:..."

>>8716063
If I refer to the copy with the train cover ch. 7 pg. 154 has that sex scene. I think you have a point that he does a good job describing human intimacy but my first reading of it had me processing all the ideas in said scene which while reading them I wasn't agreeing with 100% at that time. I think this has to do with expectations for sex scenes to be five times more personal than generalized and voyeuristic. On my first reading it was like brain sex, removed from the bodies. On skimming the passage right now: it feels more truthful than forced.

The guy with the boner story was good. I think it the concept of the story comes close to home because I fucked a mother and daughter.

jay kay kay ooo eff core sis it's because you don't get to fuck who you want to and then paying the quiet consequences while everyone stares on as you drown in paranoia but also with achingly beautiful thoughts.