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>>8604662
Narcissus und Goldmund

>>8604662
Cioran

>>8604538

Not lit related but a new comic was released this month dealing with cannibalism spreading like a virus similar to Zika or Swine flu. It's called Cannibal by Image.

>>8604538
Book of the New Sun

>>8604545

Wait, which sections of BOTNS had cannibalism since I haven't read the last two yet.

>>8604535
Underrated if anything, since so many people only remember "that really long book that bored me in primary school" and don't revisit.

>>8604535
The king of the novel, there is no other.

>>8604535

He is unmatched when it comes to character creation
His prose is delightful once you develop an ear for his verbiage
Pickwick is hilarious
Bleak House is his masterpiece

>>8604464
Really would just be a list of the first 'good' books I've read. The magic wanes

For me, it was Looking for Alaska. My girl friend could not let me put it down.

Probably the three Dostoevsky novels that I like the most: The Idiot, Crime and Punishment, and The Brothers Karamazov. Other than that, Don Quixote and The Iliad and plenty of ancient Greek works.

>>8604089

bump

>>8604089
Rhyme is only a single element in poetry and one absent or far less prevalent in other languages than English. Poetry is so much more than just metered text with rhymes.

There is no advantage. One uses either depending on what the work demands. They are also very different from each other. Just because blank verse doesn't have rhyme it doesn't mean that it is equal with prose, or that prose is just blank verse without line cuts.

Borges

>>8604043
I gotta be completely and truthfully honest with you, my main man: a real real good example of the sort of text that you're looking for gotta be my diary, journal, personal notebook, whatever you want to call it, and to reiterate, this is in all honesty, just what I personally believe to be the complete and utter truth.

>>8604043
I think there's a chart on the wiki
also: Manguel - Dictionary of imaginary places

His basal notions are something I tend to agree with in spirit, but my practical arm is always pulling.

his name is le mememan spookbuster supreme

This man, in my land he is nothing.

They suck so bad, trying to rip off Radiohead and Queen.

>>8604022
Dante saw Beatrice twice in his entire life.

No excuses!

>>8604055
She must have been a divinely qt.

>>8603942

wattpad.com

Throw it in the trash with the millions of other shitty Star Wars fan fiction.

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>>8603942
Let the garbage men take care of it for you.

>>8603932
Like last time, if you'd please, BE CONSTRUCTIVE. Tear me a new asshole, fine, fucking burn me, but at least give me some balm or tell me how to fix it.

>>8603932
For those who want to compare the new letter to the old one:

Hello!
I’m writing because I am in need of someone to represent my 87000-word literary novel, War Within.

The story is told from the perspective of three characters: Max, a scrawny obsessive man, his burly soldier of a brother Luke, and Mercy, a bookish genetic engineer satisfied with living a serene life of solitude. It starts with the events that would change the characters and their worlds forever: Max losing his family after an airstrike turns his neighborhood to black rubble, Luke deserting the army after receiving an assignment that involves the murder of civilians and breaking international law, and Mercy, who has neither relatives nor friends, losing her job at the lab and finding nowhere to go in the war-ruined economy of Rune.
They all escape Rune and the war to the outskirts soon thereafter, and find themselves at the independent Grafted City, unfinished due to the war’s start. In it, Max and Luke embed themselves in a society of survivors who refer to themselves as the Sustainers. While Mercy, having been forced to kill and steal to live, becomes a cold-hearted leader of a group of people who’d also been forced to turn to the extremes, their weapon a flock of gigantic genetically-engineered birds.

The lives of Max and Luke and Mercy mingle into a situation in which the group she leads and the one they’ve joined are warring. To shorten a long story; Max’s once mild issues will become full-fledged disorders, the most important of which dissociative personality disorder; Mercy will continue to struggle with losing her humanity; and Luke will have to face the consequences of his new-found pacifism.
The story has a prominent anti-war theme, and showcases how a world gone wrong can affect its people, especially those who have lost so much and so many that they cannot define themselves anymore. It also deals with empathy, and how even those who do the unthinkable time and again remain, beneath all, flawed humans.


Late in the story, the stakes will rise until personal decisions of mentally-troubled characters decide the lives of the entire remaining population of the Grafted City.

>>8603932
Provide substitutes if you would please.

Thanks in advance. I know I seemed butthurt in the first thread, but I just (I'll just come out and say it) got triggered by the replies that criticised without specifying the reason or how they'd fix it.

Which is the best Junger, the conservative revolutionary or the anarch?

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>>8603915
What an awesome question.

I'm reading Eumeswil right now, and I'm all in on the anarch. All fucking in. It's like if James Bond was Bruce Lee, Ernst Junger would be Ip Man. It's a stupid comparison in many ways (conflating literary and historic figures from across cultures, etc.) but...well, whatever.

But I think that his concept of the anarch one of these concepts that really makes sense coming from a conservative-revolutionary background - moreover, one that actually sees the war, as Junger does, the craziness and the transcendent dimensions of it that he describes.

How about you? Which is the best Junger?

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>>8603957
Put another way, becoming the anarch - this transition from soldier to worker to rebel to anarch - just makes sense, as an intellectual evolution of a person who lived in and through those times the way that EJ does.

I've read some of the thinkers from in and around this era - Heidegger, Spengler, Nietzsche, Stirner - and Junger seems...I don't know, just unique.

And then, of course, he says shit like this. So I need to balance out my raging faggotry on this subject with some commentary and criticism. In the meantime I will supply some more based quotes.

Yeah.

Read them and find out, you dingus.

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you mean her books?

I want matfak to leave

>>8603845
Why do you ask here an not on sci?

>>8604125
Because /sci/ is filled with even more pseuds than lit. Not OP, but I don't really read much literature. I'm mostly into pure-math and linguistics. Nevertheless, I prefer to browse /lit/ because most people on /sci/ seem to be pretentious engineering majors who think they're the shit because they passed Calc III and Differential equations with an 82% and then they shit on stuff like biology because its not a "real science".

>>8603709
Go back to your containment thread, thank you.

>>8603709
I'm liking Lem's Cyberiad and I usually can't stand Sci-Fi

>>8603713
if you mean /k/ i don't even go there i just posted a random gif to start the thread because i don't have many, i thought it was funny but obviously i caused you emotional distress, my apologies

>>8603718
i will look it up

is completely acceptable.

i ditched infinite jest like 20 pages after having started, because it was a dumb and boring drivel i couldnt be fucked to get into.

>>8603703
It's ok. You don't have to eat trash and you don't own them a thing. Why would you even feel guilty in the first place?

>>8603749
There's always those faggots who insist that you can't really judge it without reading the whole thing, or that the author put a lot of work into it and I should respect that.