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Can any of you anons please give me a pdf version or download link for With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa?
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http://libgen.io/book/index.php?md5=500EC108B72B23E0B8BCA18404282404
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>>8647450
thanks i guess but none of the download links are working
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>>8647441
nice i have this book. now im going to read it
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What's your personal preference when it comes to hardback or paperback?
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Hardback has more shelf swagger, paperback is easier on my wallet.
It's even, really.
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Epub
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>>8647408
for a collection, hardback. for comfortable reading, paperback.
i buy hardback when i can because i like my collection
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Which translation?
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I bought this book a little while ago but haven't started it yet. Should I start it right away or get to it when I have a chance?
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>>8647367
Pevear & Volokhonsky
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>>8647367
I read that translation, it's Sidney Monas, and I enjoyed it very much. It didn't flow quite as smoothly as Garnett, but it lacks the archaic terms that Garnett has. Holds to Dostoyevsky's intentions rather than the Russian wording; the passages I compared with P&V were notably better. I don't think there was a time when I got hung up on a passage or felt that it was awkward or poorly worded. Also I prefer the ergonomics of mass market paperbacks. I recommend it.
A revised Garnett translation is obviously good, and I've heard good things about McDuff.
>>8647373
It's my favorite book.
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Spanish poetry for beginners 2016-10-22 22:07:19 Post No.8647182
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Spanish poetry for beginners
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What author should I start with? Benedetti? Borges? (Spanish native tongue)
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Neruda?
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>>8647215
Try him out. Is it necessary to study the technical part of poetry to understand it?
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>>8647182
From Spain
San Juan de la Cruz and Fray Luis de Leon
Garcia Lorca
The greatest ones are probably Quevedo and Gongora, although they can be difficult to understand because of their Barroque style, and in the case of Gongora, heavy use of mythology.
With Latin America, I would read Ruben Dario, Neruda and Borges.
Neruda isnt hard to read.
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Is the golden age of literary theory over?
Will there ever again be disputes over theory or is everything we're left with today the "the text itself"? (whatever that is even supposed to mean)
pls i don't want to give up saussure
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Was reading Ricouer the other day. Couldn't find any value to it, thoufv I forced myself to finish the booke
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>>8647210
I have time and narrative vol 3 sitting on my shelf, can anyone chime in on if it's worth reading? The introduction was good
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>>8647210
haven't read him so far.
what's his point?
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Newfag reader's tracklist 2016-10-22 21:58:17 Post No.8647153
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Hi, /lit/ -- hopefully you are as obnoxious as all other 4chan boards (save /b/ that's a different story)
I don't read much. I like cold media a little better, but I feel it detrimental to not be reading works if I think I'm at all a writer.
What would you suggest is the "starter pack" of someone who is re-acquainting themselves with actually reading? I would want things that have qualities universally accepted as "good" so maybe some Shakespeare? I know Ulysses has some favorability, but is there something better to start with? Keep in mind I'm looking for more modern fare (So that might preclude Billy Shakes.)
TL;DR need to start being a book fiend what do
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start with finnegans wake
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>>8647193
try hardern, nerd
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>brother just killed himself two weeks ago
>going through his stuff
>he was partway through schopenhauer
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>>8647115
Don't kid about series thing
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>>8647115
kys
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>>8647115
Really makes your grey matter gears rotate.
People in Poland fighting for a new book of Harry Potter and its not bait.
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what new book?
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>>8648751
That 'Cursed Child' play I assume. Must have just been translated into Polish.
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>>8648756
It can't be that hard to translate a book into Polish all you have to do is smash the bottom row of letters on the keyboard
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Just finished reading this novel. I liked it, it was funny and well written, but I feel like I didn't really "get it" or understand it. Am I a lone retard or was anyone else confused by this?
So, let me get this straight. The ghostwriter Keane took the messages Norm gave him over his answering machine and wrote them into the book we read- including the fictions, which were flights of fancy Keane inserted to make it interesting to him, because he hates Norm.
While he's doing this, Norm is narrating the events of going to vegas with the retard and his gambling buddy. Meanwhile Keane is trying to get his novel The House Painter published. When that gets rejected he decides to commit suicide.
Norm comes back to finish the book as soon as possible, and catches Keane trying to commit suicide. He stops him and they continue writing the book. Keane dresses up as Norm and starts imitating him. But why? Then he finds some people who never found Norm funny on SNL, and Keane says "I like him!" So is that supposed to be the turning point? Then Keane goes "I can't believe life can still surprise me and writes the final chapter of the book- which is what we read, which is the chapter where Norm says he feels lucky getting to be semi-famous and doing comedy. That's actually Keane finally beginning to understand and sympathise with Norm.
Then the two narratives intersect with Keane being shot to death and Keane smelling the pizza. Where did the pizza thing come from? Did I miss something? He drops the final chapter, and it flies into the wind. So Norm never got the final chapter- which we just read. So how did it get published?
Then the final chapter with Norm speaking into the tape recorder as fast as possible is confusing- he says Adam found the novel, which I think is supposed to be Keane's tape recorder? But then how did the stuff about the restaurant with Keane alone get into the book? Where did Norm find this after Keane was murdered?
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>>8647045
Fuck you Adam Egret you fucking degenerate alcoholic faggot. Don't ever come back to /lit/ again you fucking anti-Semitic faggot piece of shit.
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>>8647059
He told me he was hypnotised by Hitler's eyes, which were "as black as crow's wings"
Do you think the entire Norm & Adam thing was a rip-off of Of Mice And Men?
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>>8647062
No but I think it's Adam Egret who keeps coming on /lit/ and posting shit about Norm Macdonald's book and I you to stop
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>Mom: "you know what book I think you would like, anon? Catcher in the Rye."
what did she mean by this?
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>Mom
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>>8647025
>not being able to enjoy descent discussions about literature with author mama
get rekt skrub
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>>8647016
She wants to fuq u
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Greatest pieces/authors of Russian Literature. 2016-10-22 20:35:10 Post No.8646969
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Greatest pieces/authors of Russian Literature.
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I've read Lev Tolstoy's War and Peace, and I was hoping for some world war 2 themed stuff.
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You won't find much luck in WW2 Era stuff that isn't eyewateringly vapid Stalinist propaganda, the master and the margherita is the one exception to that which jumps out at me.
The likes of Chekov, Dostoevsky and such are by far the best period in Russian litersture, read them instead tbqh
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Your bait lacks subtlety.
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>>8646969
Grossman's Life and Faith.
It's a masterpiece and i've only seen a few guys on /lit/ who've read it.
I agree on Chekov and Dosto being interesting, but anyone who doesn't know about Grossman and goes around talking about Russian lit, is a disgusting pseud and belongs on reddit.
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Where do you think he situates himself politically?
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Obviously a far lefty. And a proper one at that. He seems pretty focused on the cultural, historic and materialistic parts of society, and not so much on identetypolitics as it seems is what the left has degraded itself to. Actually, his contempt for that whole branch of the left is what I think makes him hard to "place" politically. But that's just a sign of how much the modern left sucks.
I'm happy to see that somebody else is reading his work.
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>>8646876
>Obviously a far lefty.
What the fuck are you smoking, nigga?
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>>8646876
>implying the id-pol "left" is not a creation of the alt-right to discredit the actual political left
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Beginning Game of Thrones. Never watched the series or read Martin before.
What am I in for?
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If you turn the page and see the word "DAENERYS" written in large font, skip the whole chapter. Trust me, it makes the story more interesting
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Which writers wrote the best prose ever? 2016-10-22 19:40:07 Post No.8646779
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Which writers wrote the best prose ever?
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If you could pick a single writer, who would it be?
DFW for me. The complexity and the quality of it haven't been equaled by anyone, before or since.
Runners-up: W Somerset Maugham, and Junot Diaz.
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Jane Austen
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OP again. I'm always surprised at how little most readers care about prose, like it doesn't matter or something. Of course, some casual readers genuinely can't tell the difference between good prose and abysmal prose...which is worrying.
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>>8646779
>the best prose ever
Melville.
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Are you an idealist or a materialist?
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idealistic materialist
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>>8646736
Metaphysically? Somewhere in between. Ethically? Who gives a fuck
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I am a dualist.