What universities are good for English in the UK then? I'm thinking UCL, don't really fancy Oxbridge. I want to avoid as much literary theory as I possibly can. Thanks
Fish swim in the lake and don't even own clothes
>>8611967
I think there's going to be a lot of theory regardless of where you go. I would advise you to brush up on your grammar, though. Comma splice here: "I'm thinking UCL, don't really fancy Oxbridge".
If you can get into an Oxbridge uni, it would be pretty cool.
>>8611967
Look champ, Oxbridge is going to be better than any other university in the UK. You will probably end up living most of your life in London anyway, so why force yourself to do that for anymore years than you must? You must be some kind of idiot.
t. Yank
>>8612089
This is true, I'm also an American who did time in Cambridge, and I gotta say it was the best years of my life.
Hello, /lit/. I'm looking for recs on books that deal with homosexuality, with characters that hate themselves for it, who cannot accept what they are, or with actual homosexual relationships. I want to read something like this that is not a fucking fanfic.
>inb4 kys
Mystiek lichaam: Een geschiedenis desu
>>8611945
Symposium by Plato.
Confessions of a Mask by Mishima
DAMN DAMN DAM GODDAMN DAMMIT DAMNIT DAM DAMN DAMN
>>8611932
>Boy
>She REALLY was
>He REALLY did
:REALLY handsome
>>8611932
I swear to god. I just don't get it.
I hope he writes stories that take place in the worlds he already created like what happens to mr pink or how Lt. Aldo Raine got his scar
Some slightly cuckish sploitation wankery like the last half of his catalogue
I don't get the hard on people have for this guy's movies
>>8611926
more than likely, it'll be vignettes of all the BBC trains that got run on his mom when he was a kid.
Hey /lit/, I'm looking for recs on books about alcoholism, and how it destroys someone's life. Could also be poetry. Thanks desu.
Don't think there are any. It always turns out good for people who drink in books
>>8611885
I suggest asking tumblr on this one.
>>8611885
Under the volcano
>be new to reading plen
>mom asks what do I want for my birthday
>ask for Dubliners
>mom comes back from the bookstore
>they didnt have the book you wanted anon
>feels slightly bad
>but they had this, is from the same author and the guy at the bookstore said it is good
>is actually Ulysses
What do?
Kill yourself. Or, if you prefer, read the book.
>>8611881
Will I get it?
>>8611873
Leave 4chan because you're underage
what contemporary finnish literature would you recommend, /lit/?
I personally know Arto Paasillinna and Johana Sinisalo. What more?
also do you still have swedish-language literature?
BURDO BORDO, hello
Sofia Oksanen, Kjell Westö, Monika Fagerholm, Henry Parland
All boring in my opinion
Kaj-Korkea Aho is ok I guess, his first book is the best amongst his works
ITT /lit/ feuds
>>8611809
>>8611816
and also this, he's a fighter
ITT minor squabbles between non-entities and twitter gossip.
Let's have a comfy thread to discuss this legendary book and the genius who created it.
Some thoughts and questions to kick things off:
>was Nabokov a pedophile?
All memes aside, I just can't imagine he wasn't. There is something so genuine and entrancing about the whole story that I'm certain he was at least partially inspired by real thoughts and feelings.
>Why is this book so cozy?
I think he really taps into something blissful and perfect with all of the driving through pointless American small towns while escaping the law and enjoyably losing his mind while taking so much time to just think and lie. I'm sure everyone is doing their own little version of this all the time but he really took the game of life to another level with this story.
>favourite part
I don't think I will ever find something in literature as hilarious as I found the phrase "the tragic eyes of unsuccessful blondes". Too real. What a bastard.
If you're taking CSE1729 I saw you reading this in class you disgusting fat pervert.
Nah I wish I had contributed to your discussion
>>8611723
My favorite part was end when hekilled the pornographer
POETRY SLAM THREAD
ME? philosophical.
I see the earth whole, in a sphere
And i look up from it
And i see the stars
I ask myself
What are they really
But i know what they are
Suns amidst a great shadow
Never ending
A chaotic storm too deep too follow
Like the roughest parts of the great deep ocean
The bane of demons
Littered with angels
The stars
Each one
A great big white crane
Big as elephants
Improv poem of "the book" the idea
From the perception of someone dark
A book
Is something full of information
And i know something about
Book people
And its something like
"Well you must not read"
And what I see
In the blue-blue eyes of someone whos a book
Is that I eat rich soup and you eat something lighter
Plain rice and oatmeal
So readable for pallets so light
For gliding over waves
Like seaguls
Yes im a fly
And we all die
And my hearts grey
Yours is too
But lets die together
And im tired
And homeless
Im always hungry
I chose to be sober
Which meant be lonely
But i didnt mind it
I eat from the trash
And im not abash
Because i know inside the hearts of peasants
Yes im a grinch
Inside a trench
I dont sleep on the bench
I sleep like a snake inside the bushes
Im a hobo
Not bum
And im not on the run
Ive seen all the cities
Because i hitchhiked the road
Learned it all
And came to see
The real image inside of me
And what i saw was a wraith
Mouth agape
Pouring with the sands of time
Gold and silver glitters
Dotted fractals
Into frugal hourglasses
Our bodies suspended
In time
Sands of blood
Food of demons
And i saw the wraith one last time
Before i became it
The siren of night
We all did drown
The wraith of who
Who wears the crown
Of arcane prana
Black magic night
Sleep my sleep
With no dreams tonight
But i do remember a night i had
Of nightmares great and big they were
AS DEMONS!
i dare you to read this on speed
>>8611606
i dare you to speed this on read
>>8611606
give me the speed.
i dare you ask a girl out sober
>tfw rejected for publication again
Apply paper towel to pizza
>current year
>publishers
>>8611580
have you tried writing something good?
If you have not read Clarissa, you are a pleb.
It's really that simple.
ok
My lit prof said Pamela is bad, so I'm gonna pass on Richardson.
>>8611530
Isn't that a children's novel?
Is Paul Atreides the biggest Mary Sue of all time?
>Royalty
>Highly intelligent
>Leader of men
>Skilled in the Weirding Way
>A mentat>Emperor of the Universe
>The Kwisatz Haderach
>Literally Jesus
>>8611523
>literally jesus
>endorses jihad
Shut up you dumb retard. You can call him a messiah, you can call him a savior, but he is certainly not the WORD made flesh. Jesus brought salvation to all, there is no comparison between a fictional religious figure and the Son of the LORD. How dumb are you that you compare a human to the Almighty.
Yes. That's why I hated Dune. Literally god tier main character that can never go wrong.
>>8611552
You know when people say "literally" on the internet they are exaggerating for effect 300% of the time?
I go down to Barnes & Nobles. I get the book I want, it's got straight pages. I get it home, put it on the coffee table sill fine. I then place it on my bookcase. I wake up the next morning and the pages have gone wavy? What the fuck Im I doing wrong?I keep my bookcase in a closet and I have moisture absorbing pads in there. What do I do?
>>8611521
>What the fuck Im I doing wrong?
>I go down to Barnes & Nobles
>>8611521
Where do you live? Is it wet? I've never had this problem
>>8611536
Seattle, WA.