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>>8448003
>the classics aren't that special
*sigh*

Look, don't be sad, this just means your standards have gone up. It'll make finding something you enjoy that much better. Just stop being a pleb and really think about what you're reading, because /lit/ didn't ruin shit for you

>>8448031

In my point of view, they're nothing special. I don't really get why people call them great aside from influence. I get why they're better than pleb shit, but I don't know why they're great. I just don't get it.

How do I get better at this? What am I supposed to think about when reading? I'm seriously ready to learn. I didn't learn anything in English class in school, which was just a big joke and we didn't learn shit from it.

I find that many classics have interesting qualities, and some enjoyable moments, but overall they give a general impression of integrity without being consistently enjoyable.

>>8447999
You kiddin'?

There's an entire chapter missing punctuation. No idea how that slipped past the publishers

>>8447999
well for one thing the publishing location got mixed up. it was originally published in scotland

>>8448279
As a scot, I'm really digging this new meme

infinite jest

>>8447909
Im not american so Im not sure if I would get it, it seems like culture would be something important in such a large book.

That's the default feeling you should have if you want to get anywhere, in terms of knowledge.

Reflections on the Revolution in France

>>8447952
>pamphlet

>>8448071
https://www.amazon.com/Reflections-Revolution-Writings-Everymans-Library/dp/0375712534

I'm not that Anon but I own this.

>>8447887
How long is a piece?

You'll find some people who will write for a penny per word. You'll do better offering more, to a point.

>>8447939
No hard rules, and thematically anything from clickbait to bona fide investigative journalism. The important thing is only that it's something related to or of interest to channers.

I have money to spend on this experiment and I think it'll be great. There is no voice like this out there.

>>8447957
There is.

Check out bunkermag for another (albeit socialist) "experiment".

>>8447883
Welcome to my forest of faggotry

Whimsy, you tit.

twas a bedtime story that he told his kids and put in his book cause he liked it.

>>8447863
I don't see how it is sustainable or edifying to read every author's works before moving onto the next one. If i am wrong about this, please show me your wisdom.

Why do you have to get over this self-imposed mountain, as you call it? Will you be struck down if you don't?

I liked Old Goriot by Balzac, which is part of a series but it is often read in isolation. But I guess you can't do that, I forgot.

>>8447900
It probably isn't but, for now, it's a habit I'm working through.

It's been profitable as far as learning to write, especially Joyce and Dostoevsky.

I suppose I mean Balzac is a mountain in the fact he has almost 100 written works, I just want to see if I can tackle that.

>>8447931
He isn't as forbidding as Joyce and Dostoevsky. You could do it, and by doing so you may gain a rarefied insight. Would it be an insight worthy of the labour?

>>8447841
*crickets chirp*

>>8447841
it'll turn you into a braindead zombie

>>8447841
and just to spare the time of those going to call me a manchild, I don't play games and haven't in a long time.

>>8447740
Stop this meme it's not like publishers ask what fucking race or gender you are

>>8447740
they don't know my personal information

>>8447740
victim complex

Pretty sure that's a line straight out of a John Green novel.

>>8447685
It would be recognized as being cheesy and cliche.

Pretty sure that's a grade A way to make life on earth impossible.

the bible, don quixote , the odyssey, the illiad, macbeth

Finnegans Wake
Nothing else matters anymore.

>>8447666
Don't know. I know which had the greatest impact on me
Book of the New Sun
Sickness Onto Death
The Brothers Karamazov
Orthodoxy
The Republic

>>8447654
diy

>>8447654
Take the redpill and become a National Socialist instead.

>>8447798
you're a dedicated autist

m3m3s

Trey Gowdy for president!

two wrongs don't make a right but seven lefts do

>>8447650
My Twisted World, by the most BASED redpilled philosopher since Schopenhauer, namely Eliot Rodger.

>inb4 angry roastwhores

My diary desu

>>8447650

The Bell Jar by Slyvia Plath

>>8447657
this is more adolescent sexual angst

>>8447454

It has a much more interesting selection than the Norton anthology. Tons of really good obscure poems in it.

>>8447454
It's buoyed by Bloom's insufferably pretentious but very well-read opinions. Bloom is selective while Norton is comprehensive. For the poetry newb, however, it's a good enoughplace to start if you take his commentary with a grain of salt.

I have it and it's really good. Poetry from Chaucer to Hart Crane. So if you want any contemporary poetry go for something else. Haven't read the Norton but I think it is quite a bit bigger, 1400 pages compared to 950 iirc.