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Sick of asshole protagonists give me some books not like pic related where the main character is not a massive douche.
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More Russian Lit? The antidote is The Idiot by Dostoyevsky
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Came here to post this
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>not like pic related
???
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How do you write something unsettling (rather than just scary)? When I'm watching a film like Mulholand Drive or A Clockwork Orange I sometimes get this unsettling/disturbing feeling like its uncomfortable to keep watching. How do I achieve this when I'm writing. It seems so much easier to do it with with films because you can show images, I get stuck writing this sort of stuff because so much in films does not translate into the written medium.
Pic related. It's a little unsettling but not in a 'loud', 'spooky' sort of way. I found it somewhere on this board I think, I don't remember what's happening in it.
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Was thinking about this too. Like the dinner scene from Mulholland Drive, I think its hard to make that scene work in written form.
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Package your book with a recording of infrasound. Bingo bango boingo, instant anxiety.
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>>8484844
youre unsettled by david lynch because youre a pseud who is trying too hard to understand the meaning, yet your mind can tell it's all posturing. that feeling comes from the disjunction.
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Post lesser read books that are still /lit/tier 2016-09-08 01:34:59 Post No.8484838
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Post lesser read books that are still /lit/tier
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/mu/ loves to go on and on about "underground" hits that still have artistic merit. But we never do the same for books, until this thread.
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I can make two suggestions for occult literature which nonetheless are stellar exercises in poetic prose: Yeats's A Vision and Thomas Browne's Urn-Burial.
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there have been a few threads like this before, actually. Some anon in one of them recommended Ferdydurke and Insatiability. And now that I've read them I have to agree -- both, despite being relatively unknown, are excellent.
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>>8484838
Grendel by John gardener
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What is the greatest poem of the 20th century 2016-09-08 01:18:43 Post No.8484781
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What is the greatest poem of the 20th century
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in your opinion?
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The Waste Land
there are no other possible answers to be honest
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I'm inclined to agree with this. I hear many """""intellectuals""""" say Howl is but I thought that poem was actually garbage.
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Bluebird. If you have to ask yourself if youve read it give up you will never be /lit/
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Where do I start with him?
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the average atheist high schooler was more intelligent than this nut
where to start? in the garbage with him
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>>8484761
I'm even more intrigued now. Why was he dumb?
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>>8484756
Fear and Trembling is his only work I've read. Overrated Christian apologetics nonsense.
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>go to my university's massive library
>try to check out book
>"hang on dear I just have to document this because no one has ever checked this book out before"
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What was it?
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>summer's over
feels good man
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I know /lit/ loves to dog on Pound...but how good is this work?
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Harold bloom does not like it and neither do I.
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It's pretty difficult
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decent
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Best Tolstoy short stories collection? 2016-09-08 00:52:53 Post No.8484695
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Best Tolstoy short stories collection?
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Something that's relatively comprehensive, decent standard translations and has a decent build quality.
Currently reading a Wordsworth Classics edition which is infuriatingly cheap. Would be nice to have something that will last after I've read it once.
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James Joyce considered How Much Land Does A Man Need to be the world's greatest story.
I liked it, it's a parable though and it sort of reads like a kids book.
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Thanks but you misunderstood, I mean which book features the best collection of his work, not individual stories.
I'd agree, his writing comes across as didactic a lot of the time but the writing style and imagery is 10/10.
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>>8484695
The 2 volume everyman's library
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Describe your last bowel movement with the title of a literary work 2016-09-08 00:28:29 Post No.8484594
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"The Sound and the Fury"
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The Buried Giant
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A Slow Death: 83 Days of Radiation Sickness
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the spy who came in from the cold
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What made this motherfucker so great?
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No commentary on Hunter S Thompson?
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nope.
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His genuine intelligence and distinctive, highly vibrant prose style
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http://youtube.com/watch?v=roxzqaq0IMs
Is he right?
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he's wearing lennon's so i'm gonna have to go with no
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Sums up this entire board pretty well.
It's sad really.
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>>8484458
he needs a shave and a haircut. also, he's wrong. objectively.
Have there been any good non-fiction works written on school shootings as a general phenomenon?
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There was some really crappy pro-mass shooting book that came out in the 90s that analyzed a bunch of cases, but that was more around mass-shootings in general (I think it came out before Columbine).
It was called Postal, I think but I don't remember.
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is that the vidya
are you memeing me?
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>>8484509
No, there was a book of the same time (I read part of it back in like early high school). I just have no memory of what the title was.
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Do any of you guys have any book recommendations/tips for learning how to develop a keener eye for visual art, especially paintings? I've always wanted to understand visual art, but have never really understood how to. Of course, I still get emotional reactions from certain paintings, and one can say that this emotional reaction itself is an "understanding" of a sort, but I also want to develop a more concrete, technical sort of understanding.
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nice ivan the terrible and his son
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>>8484330
Buy an intro to art history book. Read it. Go from there. Google: prominent contemporary art critics and historians. Google: art museums near me. Go there. Too far? Read more books then.
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>>8484330 Read the following in order;
Contemporary Art: A Very Short Introduction - Julian Stallabrass
Why Your Five Year Old Could Not Have Done That: Modern Art Explained - Susie Hodge
Art as Experience – John Dewey
Ways of Seeing - John Berger
Design as Art - Bruno Munari
How to Write About Contemporary Art – Gilda Williams
Relational Aesthetics – Nicolas Bourriaud
Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship
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So what's the lit equivalent of mumblecore?
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probably Lena Dunham's books since she fits into that genre (allegedly)
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>>8484268
Kinda regret asking.
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dunham would be...the second or third wave of mumblecore (as in she was imitating an already established style, not creating it)
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What does she mean to you?
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A story to teach mortals about humility. Don't go a-boasting you're prettier than the gods or else they'll turn you into a gorgon and some faggot 'll cut your head off.
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hairy toothed vaginas.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medusa%27s_Head
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