What are you reading today, /lit/?
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godel escher bach
war and peace
euro
when china rules the world
gender the sexuality in star trek
a few pages each
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Both are pretty cool, though Krasznahorkai feels a bit immature in this
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>>8583428
Will start Satantango soon. I hope it's decent at least.
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What story would you like to see written by a different author?
I'd like to see just about any of Roald Dahl's work redone by Steven King. Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The BFG, etc.
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Nothing?
Star Wars by Tom Clancy
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>>8583295
Reddit tier thread, kill yourself
also sage'd
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>>8583295
Infinite Jest redone by John Green
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Summarise Das Kapital in one sentence.
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>>8583244
What's the point?
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queame
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>>8583244
just fucked up
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What are your thoughts on Franz Kafka's work?
I personally find his literature stranger and creepier than, let's say Guillaume Apollinaire's works, which is why i'll also make a thread about him on /x/
"One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die."
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I'm reading his complete works.
So far the only thing remotely interesting was metamorphosis, the trial was ok but the castle was absolutely boring.
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>>8583795
gotten to Amerika there friend?
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quick tell me all the good authors I need to read before the site gets deleted. shit i dont know about. shit like
mcelroy
coover
federman
perec
hawkes
not shit like
McCarthy
joyce
woolf
dosto
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>>8583149
please this is all you were ever good for.
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>>8583357
I already did that
Any tricks for writing the perfect first line? I've been stuck opening this short story for a month, seriously I wrote the thing in a shorter period of time.
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>>8583117
open with a mention of the time of day, using two adjective in a row. in past tense.
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Don't try, just do what comes natural.
Most novels DON'T have perfect first lines.
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Finish the story first. Start without an opening line and maybe it will come to you.
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I'd like to read books on how to be more eloquent. 2016-10-04 17:37:38 Post No.8583113
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I'd like to read books on how to be more eloquent.
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Anything, ranging from working out your voice, to being more eloquent.
I just want to be a better talker, /lit/.
Do you know any resources corresponding to that?
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>>8583113
Watch Trump debates
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>>8583120
That's a transcript of his speech?
Yikes.
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>>8583141
Yes
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Is there such a thing as Shakespeare fanfiction?
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>>8583112
it called the western canon
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>>8583114
no that's bible fanfiction
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>>8583119
shakespeare is my bible
>Ulises Lima in Israel
I don't care.
>One maquila worker death after another
Who gives a fuck.
Am I the only one who finds Bolaño's two main novels fascinating at first, but horribly tedious towards the middle?
Also, general Bolaño thread.
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Amazing starts
First half of middle always dips hard
200 pages + of actually painful slog
Amazing finish
At least in 2666 it kinda builds up the premise. In savage is just painful mostly, but there are some interesting stories mixed in the boring shit. The German van escapade for example
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>>8583096
The encounter between Ulises and Octavio Paz, and the duel on the beach made up for the more boring stories.
And the last part was a great road story.
Same in 2666, there were parts of the Fourth books that made up for the overall boring aspects of that chapter. Such as the American Sheriff for example.
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I'm currently reading detectives. Towards the end of the first part I was starting to really get into it, but then he changes the format of the stories and I don't like them as much. I don't know, but I'll keep at it. I'll also go through a few shorter ones like nocturno de Chile before 2666, any suggestions?
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What are the most Radio4-core books /lit/?
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is that kikki danielsson
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>>8583066
Jenni Murray
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>>8583065
'we need to talk about kevin'
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"Ask /lit/ if they've read it thread" 2016-10-04 17:16:25 Post No.8583040
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"Ask /lit/ if they've read it thread"
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ITT we ask other /lit/fags if they've read what you're interested in.
Have any of you read anything by Du Gard? My local bookstores recommend him, but i'm hesistant to spend 30euros on huge books by writers i've never heard about on /lit/.
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Bottom's Dream
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libra
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Finnegan's Wake
Is it worth it?
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Need feedback on this anons
I am a crystal, intricately shaped
Of salt am I formed, sodium is my base
Scarcely visible to an eye nude
To which my beauty is made crude
Dainty yet vile, exquisite but also fragile
I stir in the cruel rapids, slowly disbanding
Expanding, disintegrating, perpetually fading
A death truly agonizing forever is beckoning
Who will remember me? Surely nobody
One crystal does not stain waters of purity
Utterly insignificant, I truly am
Like a raindrop in a strom, I truly am
Oh, the river! Great power indeed
Rapidly accelerating rapids, crisp yet sordid
Powerful and majestic you are, indeed
Severe and wild in fury, you are on me
And though none may be safe from your temper
There is one truth that is indeed a surety
When many like me perish together
We do make your water salty
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>>8583019
Needs more adjectives
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>>8583019
bad
cut out adverbs for starters, poetry is about interesting expression, and adverbs are really boring ways to express
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>>8583027
Feck, I thought I did well.
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Is it worth wasting my valuable time with any American Transcendentalism?
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Emerson is good senpai his essays are lit
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OP here.
Can I get more specific recommendations from somebody with proper punctuation, capitalization, and no weeb/nig bullshit (somebody other than this >>8582991
worthless wretch)?
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>>8583006
>There is a somewhat analogous situation with regard to the heterosexual seduction procedure in our Politically Correct times: the two sets, the set of PC behaviour and the set of seduction, do not actually intersect anywhere; that is, there is no seduction which is not in a way an "incorrect" intrusion or harassment — at some point, one has to expose oneself and "make a pass." So does this mean that every seduction is incorrect harassment through and through? No, and that is the catch: when you make a pass, you expose yourself to the Other (the potential partner), and she decides retroactively, by her reaction, whether what you have just done was harassment or a successful act of seduction — and there is no way to tell in advance what her reaction will be. This is why assertive women often despise "weak" men — because they fear to expose themselves, to take the necessary risk. And perhaps this is even more true in our PC times: are not PC prohibitions rules which, in one way or another, are to be violated in the seduction process? Is not the seducer’s art to accomplish this violation properly — so that afterwards, by its acceptance, its harassing aspect will be retroactively cancelled?
holy... i want more
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>>8582977
He's not wrong
Weird thread. Wha do you want to discuss?
>inb4 'Stacy', 'Chad', 'normie' etc /ressentiment9k/ discourse
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>>8582987
>He's not wrong
Elaborate
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>>8582990
Read the quote, retard
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>Morality isn't natural
>Ideology isn't natural
>Human creations aren't Nature
>Towns, Cities and other buildings aren't pat of Nature
>Nature is just stuff like Trees and Grass
What do you say to people like this?
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I, for one, believe in the natural law of the land.
If a nigger steals a head of corn out of your farm over night whilst yer sleepin', shoot 'em!
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>>8582869
>nature meme
Pretty sure this has been laughed out of philosophy for the past 70 years or so.
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>>8582881
Yes, but the spooky thing is to say that Trees etc. are nature and a skycraper is not. If you are de-spooked you will disregard the term Nature as an arbitrary term and accept that everything can be called natural