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>>8637080
At a smug bastard's command, a qt virgin makes a brave soldier get a mouthful of literal shit.

A safespace in the form of a book for an author to circlejerk by himself.

>>8637080
hemingway

Feanor did nothing wrong.

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Can I get this title added to the general image for the fantasy sticky?

It's Mythic Fantasy and I think with some solid exposure people would come to enjoy it.

>>8636795
What's the plot behind this one?

>>8636582
i'm pretty redpilled but i wouldn't mind cuddling up in front a warm fireplace and sipping some hot cocoa while barry o read the wasteland to me and explained some of the religious references that i don't understand

Did people in beforetimes feel no nagging doubts about writing pretentiously, or were they just better than I am at ignoring those doubts?

Even when I'm emailing someone really smart I don't write
>Ah, but 'tis as Pound said -- life begets life; do you not agree, my bosom companion? ;)

God academia is disgusting.

Think about it, the people who currently rule the world are either engineers, traders/bankers, or fucking academics. Nauseating.

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>>8644785
>/b/
get out

>>8644785
>reading books

No thanks

I'm not /b/ senpai. The Kindle store.

TV ruined western civilization

No, it's enhanced the cinema for me, if anything. I hardly watch television anymore.

>>8644676
I stopped watching films several years ago and television when I was a child.

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It appears to be two words. First word is monosyllabic, probably "The"... Second word is likely 4 to 5 syllables, starting with an M or K...
Can't be bothered looking through a catalog.
The Metamorphosis?

>>8644632
Great guess, however when googling for penguin books covers of the metamorphosis I find no similar covers.
(The book will be in English)

I thnk the first word might be longer than "The"? Looks like at least 4 or five letters to me.

>>8644677
How about some background? Where is this still from?
Do you know what series of Penguin releases look like pic related? I'm a kindlefag, not too familiar sorry.

>>8644505
It's like 30 pages. Quit bitching and read it. Or did you mean is Niccolo memeing you? In which case the answer is maybe.

>>8644515
>Or did you mean is Niccolo memeing you?
i feel played

Kind of. The whole thing is pointless if you have a republic.

But anon, that's not the Iliad.

>>8644452
Oh, poor friend. You fail to realize that unless we speak the original language, of a poem, so if you are a fellow English-speaker, you are incorrect.

>>8644464

Isn't that sentence missing something?

I would read an autobiography by him t b h

The Tunnel would make a good enough magnum opus if it wasn't memed on

ASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

This is a Faulkner quote.

I read The Pedersen Kid by Willy G and I liked it. His prose is extremely good. I just found that he went on for a smidge too long.

He was a commie to boot.

You are boring
Ilike his poetry but i don´t find it particularly amazing

>>8644387
I have avoided his commie era.

>>8644319
>inb4 edgy books/books the poster doesn't agree with politically get posted for adolescence

The Little Prince for adolescence
The Iliad for late teens / young adult
The Odyssey for 50s-60s

>adolescent
Romeo and Juliet
>late teens/young adult
The Henriad
>20s/early adulthood
Much Ado About Nothing, Othello
>middle age
Macbeth
>50s-60s
Timon of Athens, Julius Caesar
>twilight years
King Lear, The Tempest

Gravity's Rainbow
Zettel's Traum
2666
Ulysses
JR
Underworld
Women & Men
War & Peace

>>8644313
Thanks man, I'll be sure to check em out

>>7628174

The Hungry Caterpillar

Several books of the New Testament.
The Little Flowers
The Life of St. Francis
The Interior Castle
The Story of a Soul

>>8644096
Lolita

People who watch Anime and marvel movies

>>8643882
What detriment does this have on the soul?

>>8643825
The unenlightened

>>8643742
>comparing Jakob von Gunten to Tom Sawyer
>calls author a failure cuz muh complex prose lmao

congrats son, you know shit about literature

>>8643817
I don't call him a failure, he was a failure, financially. if i thought he was a failure as a writer, i wouldn't have made this thread about him. Despite a surge of popularity early in his career, his mental illness and other personal issues made his works disconnected from the regular readers, leaving him to die in obscurity. Furthermore, the "resurgence" of his works that came with his English translations pale in comparison to Kakfa and Melville and other authors who were championed by similar academics.

And his prose isn't complex at all, and i don't know where you got that from.

They're both told in first person from a child's point of view, both the protagonists run away, both the books pretty much consist of their experiences and observations. i know Mark Twain wrote to capture that southern dialect, but the two books are rather similar when you account for cultural differences.

But what do you think of it?

>>8643742
He's kind of a more stylistically inventive version of Kafka. I've only read his short stories. By the time I got to his novels I was already tired of that sort of thing. I would recommend him to those going through the stages of nihilism. Luckily, I'm done with that :)