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I read "Journey to the Centre of the Earth", in the highly praised William Butcher translation. It's crap. All the characters are morons, Verne has never heard of "show not tell", and the science isn't even slightly plausible. And apparently the French think this is serious literature. It's laughable to think it could be compared to American or British meme-lit.
Is everything Verne wrote garbage, or should I try again with another of his works?
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Jesus fucking Christ
kys
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>>8594935
>And apparently the French think this is serious literature.
Absolutely not. Verne is light-lit at best in the french canon my man...
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>i didn't read the original version.
...est une bévue sérieuse pour tenter de lire Vernes -- les longues descriptions, en anglais, perdent de leur imaginaire original. Rachète-toi en lisant «20 mille lieues sous les mers», puis «L'Île Mystérieuse", son meilleur livre. En français, bien sur.
Or, in german.
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Did the Lestrygonians chapter give anyone else a boner?
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Nope, you're the first in recorded history.
Congrats.
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>>8594914
Does anyone else get a bone from good prose, like really good prose? Not even sexual, just feeling out the sound of a really well-flowing, beautiful couple of sentences.
I'm not the only one am I? Is this the literary lifestyle?
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Of course. I saved my fapping for the end soliloquy, of course, but it's a good start.
>implying this board understands Joyce
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Joyce is entry-level garbage.
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naw be boorha phooey
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>implying Joyce was even remotely as genius as Pynchon
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Just a reminder that a real nihilist would have no problem with creating a tulpa, seeing as how the end result is personal happiness regardless of "muh pride."
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>>8594901
>creating a tulpa
>I like my imaginary friend and find no reason to not do that.
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>>8594932
Do you see a problem, friend?
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Is anyone surprised that Nietzscheposters are also /mlp/ as fuck
>Neil Gaymanbooks ruined by unlikable edgy protagonistsand then later, when the protagonist becomes likeable, ruined with a "the REAL bad guy was that inconsequential character from chapter 1" twist
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His short stories are better and don't always have Gaiman Protagonist.
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>>8594875
Read it to my kids, its his best work
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>>8595484
His best stuff is all co-authored.
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What does /lit/ think of GK Chesterton?
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facist fuck who wrote good detective stories
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fat
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>>8594864
>fascist fuck
>implying that's a bad thing
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their faces when you read your poetry out loud
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>>8594845
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>>8594845
I'm gonna have to do this for my uni course. It's like actually part of the course.
Shitting myself. Some poetry ain't meant to be read aloud.
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Objectively speaking, Times New Roman is the single best typeface in the entire history of Latin script
There is no reason to ever use another.
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Well glad that's sorted.
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>>8594789
Times New Roman is shit and makes your eyes bleed. It is both unnecessarily hard to read and uglier that a dog's anus.
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>>8594789
Caslon is better.
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Does it hold up if you look at it as prose fiction?
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>>8594761
new testament philosophy is tip tier broo
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It disintegrates in your hands.
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>>8594761
This is a good version if you'd like to read the bible without the distractions of verse numbers and annotations (i.e. like prose fiction)
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Name exactly (1) woman who liked Moby Dick.
You can't.
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>>8594703
you're mom liked my moby dick last night anon
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>>8594703
I knew one who liked the beginning and end, but thought the middle was padded with unnecessary minutia. Does that count?
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>>8594714
lmfao
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>“There will come a time when all of us are dead; there will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything. There will be no one left to remember Aristotle or Cleopatra, let alone you. Everything that we did and built and wrote and thought and discovered will be forgotten and all of this will have been for naught. Maybe that time is coming soon and maybe it is millions of years away, but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever."
Why haven't you read Tolstoy's greatest work yet?
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>>8594648
>implying anyone on this board hasn't read TDOII
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i have
i'm glad you liked it friend
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>>8594648
Probably the best thing i've ever read, but that quote is terrible.
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What are the most beautiful English literature novels?
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What are some novels that are very rich in quality of prose, word use and choice, and also have very pleasant visuals and scenes? I'd like to read a novel that's as beautiful as the music of Erik Satie, particularly his Gymnopedies, or alternatively Frederic Chopin's nocturnes for piano. The closest I've gotten is Oscar Wilde and H.P. Lovecraft but they're nowhere near the level of beauty I'd like to read.
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I think this might be the most reddit post I've seen in my entire life.
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>>8594497
Ada or Ardor by Vladimir Nabokov
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which book has the best description of what it's like to listen to great music?
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A lot of JR has amazing descriptions of music/discussions of music. Same with The Recognitions.
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Marcel Proust talks a lot about Vintuelli's sonata. I remember it was in Swan's love. It was really impresive as i recall
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Perks of Being a Wallflower
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>he loves Pynchon
>he adores V.
>he hasn't read Stone Junction
Whats your excuse /lit/?
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Ever since finding out Henry Ford was an antisemite, I don't read anything by someone whose name is a brand of car
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>>8594457
This is our excuse
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>>8594482
It's certainly worthy of us
What are the most patrician (i.e. your personal favorite) plays?
IsawHedda Gabler some time ago (the Ingrid Bergman-version on YT) and at first it left me unimpressed, but it has stuck with me for the past months and the more I think about it the more depth of the characters I find, and I like it more and more. Has a female character ever be written this well by a man before?
I've seen Samuel Beckett and Sarah Kane talked about on /lit/ often. Is Beckett just a memelike James Joyce? Should 4.48 be read or seen optimally?
What about No Exit by Sartre, is it worthwhile? Or Three Sisters by Chekov?
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4:48 Psychosis is bizarre on the page. It doesn't really hold together until it's staged by a competent troupe.
Beckett is treated like a meme by know-nothing cunts that can't think for themselves and so let Nabokov think for them. Waiting for Godot and Endgame are widths of genius, but they are actor's plays; you can't really appreciate them until you've been through the rehearsal proceed with them.
If you like Ibsen then you'll probably like Chekhov, though his sense of humor might not immediately come across.
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>>8594465
Do you know of any good recording of 4.48?
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>>8594469
I do not. If you live in a major city, I imagine there is a company that is either producing the show or will be in the next few years, especially if you're in England.