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The forced witticisms made me delete my ebook version after around 100 pages. Every character talks the same. Every time a character opens their mouth you might as well insert '>tips fedora' instead of actual text, the author put a lot of work in to try and make the dialogue 'spark fire' while all it sparks is embarrassment.

mouthbreathing tier

Mouth breathing fantasy tier for sure.

>>8521802
Point taken. Any recommendations for someone not all too deep into the whole thing? Other than "kek stay away from fantasy in general senpai".

i have read that
the art was neat
the joker's font was annoying to read
it's still /co/

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>>8521806
>the joker's font was annoying to read

I agree, but did you honestly not enjoy the writing?

I thought it was easily a big notch above the typical cape story, not necessarily in the story content (which it still is) but the writing itself is packed with poetic detail due to the short nature of the book

story itself is a tenfold more interesting than the typical batman vs evil supervillain x scheme

>>8521794
is it better than Pynchon?

it freaks me out that this book can advocate handing your children over to a rape mob in order to stop the mob from tearing your house down, and it hasn't been banned.

also ezekiel 23:20 heh heh

>>8521786
It was written by King James through divine inspiration, hence the name, ignorant heathen.

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I hope you realise how unreasonably sceptical that statement is. You really have no reason to doubt the commonly accepted authorship of the Bible, unless you're applying the same doubt to every other work of antiquity. The New Testament is literally the most reliable ancient text that we have. We have over 20,000 manuscripts of the New Testament prior to the invention of the printing press. Other ancient texts pale in comparison.
Also "anonymous person" doesn't make any sense because there were dozens of authors over hundreds of years. It's not a single book.

This board is full of awful people and you're the worst poster here, OP

>>8521783
Thanks for the contribution, appreciate your feedback

>>8521780
check sticky

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Disliken as he was to druriodrama, her
wife Langley, the prophet, and the decentest dozendest short of a frusker
whoever stuck his spickle through his spoke, disappeared, (in which
toodooing he has taken all the French leaves unveilable out of
Calomnequiller's Pravities) from the sourface of this earth, that austral
plain he had transmaried himself to, so entirely spoorlessly (the mother
of the book with a dustwhisk tabularasing his obliteration done upon her
involucrum) as to tickle the speculative to all but opine (since the Levey
who might have been Langley may have really been a redivivus of
paganinism or a volunteer Vousden) that the hobo (who possessed a
large amount of the humoresque) had transtuled his funster's latitat to its
finsterest interrimost

>>8521766
Either a formless and dull mass of phony folklore or the greatest masterpiece of 20th century prose.

>>8521766
He rapes his sister, Anna Livia, in an outhouse.

>>8521557
*finally ready to read finnegans wake

lmaoo ikr haha hard books its so funny haha my sides a re in orbit

>>8521557
I've read Bottom's Dream in German (I'm German) and it's easier than FW (which I haven't finished yet). It's a lot stranger, but I was able to read a great deal of it without a guide book or anything, whereas when reading FW, a guidebook is pretty much necessary for any level of comprehension. Also, please don't spend your time reading just for the sake of being able to read a difficult book.

I heard some activists were climbing up on the Peter Mans Bridge

God damnit I got out of Toronto law because it was filled with vapid boring careerists who only care about country clubs and gay status boosters, and I couldn't find anyone like this, ever.

Where was this broad when I was deciding between vocations? She's actually speaking as if she has convictions and cares about law. I'm not used to this from lawyers.

>>8521490
it's ok anon. you've found your lawfu now

Top effort bro. Just the thought was good enough. Any good content. Is this how to Hebrew for dummies

>>8521400
It is just short translations for efficiency ( showing real meaning)

Should upload it to archive.org

Maybe see if any colleges or Jewplaces would appreciate the digitization

>>8521347
>t. someone who doesn't study sociology

Isn't that kind of how it is in every field though?

>>8521356
no seriously there hasn't been any new grand ideas..its the same shit, a 19th century jew,

>>8521343
my diary etc.

confessions of a mask

>>8521343
your diary desu

>I posted it again!

Actually, I'm just now re-reading Lord of the Rings, and when Gwaihir the Wind-Lord rescues Gandalf from the top of Orthanc he basically says, "I just came to bring news, not to carry your ass, I'm setting you down." Then on top the silvertine he's like "not again, man, I'll set you down just over there." He seems to plainly not like carrying people, even though Gandalf now is "light as a feather" or something like that. Then, the eagles gather some knowledge of the Nazgul, and why would they want to fight these mounted ring-wraiths essentially unarmed, since their talons would be filled with people they don't even want to carry?

Throughout the books, it seems its pretty easy to get people to agree to token aid (i.e. giving food and a roof, or news) and pretty hard to get people to agree to actually join the war effort. And even so, who's to say they would be able to fly from the outskirts of Mordor to the mountain while carrying people in a day? Where would they stop to land? They'd surely be spotted, and possibly overrun on the ground. Not to mention the nazgul seeing them and stopping them in the air, or just sensing the ring. Honestly, going through the air seems retarded as fuck, no safer from detection or interdiction than just going on the ground, and requiring a large amount of life-risking concession from a free "people" who aren't likely to give that much concession, until they later become convinced of the threat of the nazgul and such themselves.

By the 3rd Age, the valor had agreed not to meddle in middle earth. They raised their undying lands into the sky, and made the earth round. (Yeah it used to be flat; and the sun and moon didn't exist in the 1 & 2 age)

So basically, I've heard it explained that the Eagles belonged to Manwë, one of the valor. They were kinda like Gandalf in that they were spirits on Middle Earth and were limited in the ways they could intervene.

Also, for all we know they could have been susceptible to the ring's corruption as well.

But the real answer is: it would have ruined the story, duh.

>>8521282
Has anything more embarrassing come out of 4chan than 'praise Le Lord KEK of meme magic and virgin frog xD!!'

Keep that shit on the other boards

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>>8521296
Oh, I think it's something more. That stupid fucking frog is capturing the youth vote. Something Republicans often have a hard time doing.
Are you really concerned about the posts made here? Running out of room? Too much traffic to handle, here on /lit/? Did you catch the reference that made it /lit/ related.
Go fuck yourself before I do.

>>8521355
I'm not American so I don't give a shit about your farce of an election.

And retards on /pol/ do not constitute 'the youth vote' I'd wager.

>>8521268
My diary desu

William Gass.

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>>8521268
You can't buy good taste, unless I tell you you can, but only from me, square.

>>8521253
Magazines, what is this 2002?

>>8521253
London Review is always a pleasant comfy read.

London and Paris Review
N+1
Jacobin (only the physical magazine, the website is rarely any good)
The Baffler (website is often good, physical magazine is always good.
Granta
Noon
Also there's probably some kind regional periodical you can support. Just search "your area + literary journal" or something like that.

>>8521233
Are those details that it's written by a nonwhite woman who talks about race and immigration?

It's a great book

>>8521261
More that I find I generally dislike stories about immigration. You can only say "I feel bad because I left my homeland and this new place isn't like my homeland" so many times.
Not that that's what this HAS to be, it's just a detail I'm wary about, like I said.

My professor is also beginning to talk about feminism and marxism and blah blah muh /pol/ opinions.

>>8521267
You must have read some poor ones then.