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So who here buying the superior new german language release of the month?
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That's not The Last Wolf
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>>8504970
I've read a small sample of the first few pages. It definitely gets you hooked from the get-go, like most of the other NYRB collections.
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>>8504970
They used to have an edition that called the collected stories that contained his best short fiction and was about 240 pages. That edition is now out of print. They broke up his short fiction into three very short books: Berlin Stories, Diaries of a Schoolboy, and the one you have there, each being under 100 pages.
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I dint believe you guys read.
Show me what are you reading at the moment /lit/?
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pretty good
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The universe is your will.
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The universe is my will.
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>>8504730
Then why is everything so shitty and why do I lack willpower?
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>>8504804
You spend all the willpower supporting this shitty world. You didn't have much to begin with.
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let the language evolve you retards 2016-09-13 19:00:48 Post No.8504691
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let the language evolve you retards
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you're = your
your = your
their = there
they're = there
there = there
this is the new way of writing. I am shakespeare adapt or die
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>>8504691
Better Yor and Yur
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>thinking a single person can effect linguistic evolution
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>>8504703
>shakespeare literally did this
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Goodreads thread! Make friends and yell at people for liking things you didn't.
Mine:
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/59224901-julas
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Why don't you finally get an ereader and just download all of Gene Wolfe? It's hard to believe you can't find him in bookshops outside Soldier of the Mist when even I could.
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This is probably the first Goodreads thread I've been in that Sebastian didn't start. It feels strange.
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/22494004-anna
I'm really afraid Jerusalem is going to be bad. I've been waiting so long, I just need it to live up to Voice of the Fire at least.
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https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/57922091-william
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Flash Fiction Critique and Advice 2016-09-13 18:20:50 Post No.8504581
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Flash Fiction Critique and Advice
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Do any of you write flash fiction? There seems to be a market for it.
I'm going to try writing some and I'm looking for advice on what makes flash fiction good. For example, how do you craft a story in such little space?
Feel free to post your flash fiction and critique others.
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Does anybody know of any good examples of flash fiction?
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>how do you craft a story in such little space?
Read Donald Barthelme. He'll teach you that you don't really have to.
>>8506196
Also try Flannery O'Connor's "Why Do The Heathen Rage?". That one story and basically everything of Barthelme's, I think about a lot.
>>8506251
Relax. Flash fiction predates this generation by decades and is still not very popular with people young or old. Millenials are consistently outreading their parents anyway, read a study.
What do English scholars do?
I don’t mean that in a “herf derf get a real job ya bookish nerds” sense, either. Academics study things. They write papers, they research information and further the field and generally contribute to the great big ball of human understanding. I get that and I love it.
But if you’re a professor of, like, classical literature – what do you do? What’s researched? What more is there to say about century/ies-old books that have been discussed to death by everyone in the country since high school? Whether it’s analyzing themes or appreciating prose, I can’t imagine what people write about old books in this current day and age. Post-modernism opens up the doors to an infinite number of “subjective but defendible” viewpoints, but has it fought its way into academia against a “stuffy’ old elite or did academia just shrugged its shoulders and said, “well, we’re out, so fuck it, let ‘em in?”
Is English academia just a bunch of saltines constantly debating the canon for no reason other than there’s nothing else to do?
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>What more is there to say about century/ies-old books that have been discussed to death
Congratulations, you've just figured out why every other paper is now titled "Modalities of Spaces in the Canterbury Tales: Perspectives on Gender, the Body and Queer Politics" -- almost all on your own.
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>>8504471
But is this a bad thing if the alternative is no one writing anything?
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>>8504542
Yes.
If there really isn't anything left to write about then academic criticism is dead and we shouldn't try to pretend otherwise.
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Whats a good publisher to read the bible? Uk amazon/ebay pref
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Too many to count. Go to a bookstore and and look through them. Most bookstores have a whole shelf full of bibles. Find whatever is more confortable for you.
For translation use either NIV for ease of reading, standard english version for the most accurate translation, and the classic king james version (not new king james) if you want the old thee's and thou's.
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>publisher
You mean translation? Go with NSRV. KJ will be too hard for a beginner.
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>>8504728
KJV isn't that hard to understand and it's by far the most universal and important translation.
I doubt you're going to read the Bible twice because it's yooj, so get KJV and do it legit the first time.
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How to learn to use words better for both writing and speaking 2016-09-13 17:25:27 Post No.8504386
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How to learn to use words better for both writing and speaking
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I know reading will obviously help and I'm doing it already but would be better if I get some recommendations in genres/writers and any other tips/guides/whatever. Feel free to say anything you think might work.
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read non fiction
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>>8504402
I don't read fiction in the first place.
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read fiction
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i'm looking for something zany, humorous, not too dark but not a YA novel.
last couple books i enjoyed were Crying Lot Of 49, Beware Of Pity by Stefan Zweig and The Girl With Curious Hair by DFW.
Any recommendations?
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Confederacy of Dunces - Catch 22
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Master and Margarita.
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Master and Margarita
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Can we just admit that she is the best writer 2016-09-13 16:19:02 Post No.8504165
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Can we just admit that she is the best writer
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of the 20th century... I mean Songs of Solomon, Beloved
both are much more ambitious works than Ulysses ever was
not even just the 20th century...she surpasses 19th century authors like Leo Tolstoy
Tolstoy had an inferior mind and skill to Morrison, Joyce was inferior as well
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yeah sure why not.
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Literally who.
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>>8504165
Morrison is good. Song of Solomon is a little hamfisted at points, but it reads very well.
If you're going to pull Russian liturgy into this though, Tolstoy isn;t the one to do it with. not to mention that he wasn't primarily 20th century.
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alright so It's out and I grabbed my copy. so far his writing is childish, shallow and yet also pedantic. it seems like overblown genre fiction. are his comics also this poorly written?
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>>8504164
>it seems like overblown genre fiction
Who'd a thunk it
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you're at fault for picking up something clearly beyond your level on the basis of memeposting
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Is this book still worth reading?
I'm already familiar with other transgressive literature. I also enjoyed the film, watched it like 5 times.
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>>8504074
It's an OK book. One of the rare books that the movie adaptation is better than the book. Ellis is a cock too so best not to fund his retarded lifestyle.
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>>8504097
Yeah, I don't really know much about Ellis, but he seems like a fag hack. Book is only OK, I'd say don't bother.
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No. It's an edgelord book for Milo fanboys.
Has anyone else read many oxford very short introductions?
I've found that they can be very variable in quality. Ones that were good:
>Aristotle
>Plato
>Kant
Ones that were bad:
>Hume
Absolutely guttural:
>History of Mathematics
Does anyone else read these, and which ones are good? I don't mind about the subject much, I enjoy reading about a lot of different things.
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>>8504045
Combinatorics and Kant were both good. They do vary in quality but mostly they're fun guides to have. Not a real source of substantial knowledge or insight tho
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>>8504054
Why is that though? Reading them, one gets the feeling that the writers and editors are intentionally hiding important/insightful information. They might be short introductions, but do they have to be so dickless? Compare 50-100 page manuals on drug making that show all and tell all.
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The one about Black Holes was great.
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What do you guys think of Guns,Germs and Steel? 2016-09-13 15:06:08 Post No.8503958
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What do you guys think of Guns,Germs and Steel?
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I don't think of it very much at all.
Meme history for plebs
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>>8503958
The book is really quite dumb. It is hailed by "anti-racists" as proof that Europeans were only successful due to environment.
Guns, Germs, and Steel all were brought about by European ingenuity.
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wtf i hate racism now