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Why does /lit/ hate genre fiction so much? I don't think there's anything wrong with enjoying it. It has a purpose as entertainment and if someone is able to find value from it, then what is inherently wrong with it? Hell, even people like Pynchon are able to enjoy cartoons, and DFW was able to enjoy watching TV all the time.
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Genre Fiction is actually a meme that doesn't have much of anything to do with the quality of the writing and whose definition has been bastardized and redefined numerous times.
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>>8668437
This
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>>8668413
>DFW was able to enjoy watching TV all the time.
DFW enjoyed TV like an alcoholic enjoyed booze. He didn't own one because he found himself unable to not watch it.
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I fell for the meme and I feel like there is a lot of stuff I'm not getting, jokes and stuff
Do I need to study irish culture or something?
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>>8668404
you need to read the western canon and know late 19th/early 20th century irish politics.
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>>8668404
how far through it are you?
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Eh, a lot of the Irish culture stuff you're just not gonna understand unless you're Irish yourself(or at least Celtic), but that's fine.
There's stuff in Ulysses you're just not gonna get. Like there's a joke in an early chapter that relies on you knowing that the name of the horse that won the ascot gold cup in 1904 was called throwaway, so don't sweat it if a lot of stuff is going over your head, especially the less academic, common knowledge for Irish people type stuff.
Buy a good book of annotations, and above all enjoy it. It's not a stuffy academic book, and the really great stuff in Ulysses is the stuff a child could understand
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Teacher said this was an amazing book he rereads every once in a while. Recommended it. Should I read it? Its short anyway.
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>>8668380
>he
Just no
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I only read the beginning of that one but i've read the mage and i liked it, my vote is a yes.
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>>8668380
I loathed every second of it.
But it's short, so give it a try and see for yourself.
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>English proffesor pronounces "nhilistic" as "Neal-is-stick"
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and how does he pronounce nihilistic?
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>>8668350
Omg what an retard xD
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>>8668351
nail-is-thick
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My uni is taking common reading suggestions tomorrow. What should I suggest?
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Oh also it is supposed to be a recent-ish book
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>>8668341
Petersburg by Bely
Satantango-Kraznahorkai
Journey by Moonlight-Szerb
I vouch for all of these books
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Lolita and Sweet Guy
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ITT post your favorite war memoirs. Any period. Bonus for pre 18th Century (do these even exist?!).
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>Bonus for pre 18th Century (do these even exist?!).
Caesar
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>>8668330
Storm of Steel by Ernst Junger
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>>8668330
this is pretty good and I dont ever see it discussed here. Also noot really war memoir, more like war-times momoir
Why are some inanimate objects such as vehicles often referred to using a female pronoun?
Is it something that just caught on, or is their a literary reason behind it?
I don't know if any other language has this, but I do know that this also occurs in the Arabic language.
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Many languages have this, especially Spanish.
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>>8668318
>I don't know if any other language has this
dafuq
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>>8668328
It's not easy to know what other languages are like when I don't understand them.
Which books written this year will be remembered decades from now?
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Tortilla McCorncob's new book, whenever it comes out.
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>>8668293
thx 4 the memez
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Jerusalem
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Books that feel like this one
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The Waves by Virginia Woolf
>How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.
Comfy, intimate books, full of warmth but in a non-cliched way. And I know that this is not /mu/, but music recs to go along with the book are also appreciated. Something along the lines of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxPkCTAJ0dw
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The Inferno by Dante
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOErZuzZpS8
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Woolf's other books, namely Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and Orlando
YouTube: We All Complete composed by Rachel Portman. Too lazy for URL.
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To the Lighthouse is in my all time top 3. Something that's often overlooked is her autobiographical essay A Sketch of the Past. It's written in her characteristic impressionistic, time-fluid style. It's gorgeous and a fairly quick read!
How do I explain Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow to my parents/relatives/friends, my dear friends?
Having this certain book in my good old bookshelf will most certainly raise some eyebrows and questions
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>>8668165
Pomo trash with le epic pop culture references.
Destroyer of proper literature. A surrender to globalism and the eradication of whiteness and western literary tradition
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How is it different from the rest of your books? Is it the only non manga?
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>>8668165
You read it.
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pic related.
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>>8668083
Wew lad
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>>8668083
What do you mean by best written character?
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>>8668092
Inspiring, complex, realistic or whatever you think makes a good character.
What is the most /lit/ language and why is it german?
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What is this book? "Cooks without tongue"?
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>>8668428
Its a short book filled with quotes and notes from Kant
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>>8668070
Is it actually feasible to learn German? I really want to. There are lots of resources for Romance languages, but I don't like them as much.
Theoretically, could one exist in nothingness? Or does a conscious creature always need an environment?
Any book recommendations that deal with nothingness?
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A universe from nothing
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>>8668028
But nothingness and being are exactly the same thing
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>>8668041
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You'd probs go insane. Probs.
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Any essential Korean novels?
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none koreans cant write for shit, just look at their language
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>>8668006
Degenerate culture and lack creativity to create anything that can be considered art or literature.
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>>8668006
The man Booker International winter this year was Korean. The Korean government has been lobbying and screaming racism at International literature awards for the last two years so expect a few more
Hey guys it's me, Cormack McCarthy. Any other famous arthors browse /int/?
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Marcel Proust here, what's going on guys
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Phil Collins here, be sure to read my memoir Not Dead Yet!
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Hey everyone, it's me: Bob Dylan, the greatest writer of all time :^)