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>I only read for the prose
trully the mark of a pseud trying to mask his inability to appreciate the finer aspects of literature

>letting criticism, standards and the conventions of your peers change your enjoyment of a book
Truly the sign of someone that doesn't enjoy life.
>>8441322
>>8441243
Truly goes with only one L OP.

> I often read poetry out loud, and if not then I subvocalize it

Truly the mark of a pleb, poetry is meant to be read. If it was meant to be heard they would have recorded it or set it to music.

Brandon Sanderson generally writes coherent English sentences that even a child could read.

>>8441239

That's nice, but I was hoping for a little more specificity. "One of their works."

>>8441239
He's a decent teacher too. If only he practiced what he preached

What's some scary ass fucking Poe shit I can read right now that will scare the cock off my body?

I'm not talking some shit you lie to yourself and say it's scary, like some really obscure gothic horror thing where the whole scary part is that someone got murdered in the streets of London and nothing actually happens. I want a fucking ghost you piece of shit.

>>8441225
you get that on sale at barnes? I saw it today when I was looking around. I just wish it wasn't hard cover.

I love house of usher

>>8441235

i think if you live in this day and age, poe is not scary

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He is a very busy man

>>8441189
spooked

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>>8441341
he gets rid of the spooks that matter though

sporks are a social construct, this is a golf club

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Truth Is Relative To The Observer

It's a question without an answer, the antithesis of scholasticism.

>>8441128
>I think I could piss out a good imitation of Pynchon in a year or two
>I think I could

You and everyone else who's read him. But chances are none of us could. It's the effortlessness that forms the most impressive aspect of his style.

No the style is not timeless. It will age about as well as Dickens (I.e for the most part, like milk), simply because it is so wrapped up in its zeitgeist. Some of Gravity's Rainbow already comes off as a little naff and dated. This isnt really a bad thing though and happens to all authors to some extent. There are plenty of folk, here and elsewhere who love Dickensian prose and plenty of people in fifty to a hundred years time who will similarly love Pynchonian prose.

>>8441155
*seeming* effortlessness

>>8441160
Yeah

Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics

or you could just read schopenhauer

>>8440971
the greeks

>>8440971
how is suggesting you start with the greeks 'edgelord'

i'm not sure how you expect to fully understand Kant's philosophy without the proper groundwork

>>8440966
Started it recently too, i thought the preface was pretty awkward too, and the quality of the writing had me worried, but so far the writing in the stories is very good

>>8440973
This isn't my first Gass (I read some of his essay work first) but that preface was odd to say the least. He's a good writer clearly but like calm the fuck down.

>>8441034
i get you, and i really like gass's writing, but i thought it was really weird.
i think it was his incessant use of awkward similes

>>8440935
I was trying to figure out this image for too long

>>8440935
Haven't read The Waves. To The Lighthouse is brilliant, and was my first Woolf. I enjoyed it more the second time I read it; it yields more meaning by rereadings.

Most people recomend you start with Mrs Dalloway, but if I'd done that I would never have read another page of Woolf. Fucking hated that book. But I'm in the minority there.

>>8440952
Describe To the Lighthouse to me anon, and forget what people sually recommend. Only two options here.

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>Anyway, it's about this guy who decides he will give a flower (a rose?) to the first girl that smiles at him. But nobody does and there's a big fly that lands on it, symbolizing decay as he is doomed to be forever alone.

>My high school English teacher read it to me

>Anon, come to my office after school. I have something I'd like to show you.
>Oh boy oh boy she thinks I'm special, finally I have reason to live this miserable life
>School ends
>Hello, Mrs. Teacher
>Anon, this poem really reminded me of you. Do you have any friends outside of class? You seem like a butterfly just waiting to fly.

Uh I don't think it rhymed either.

It's a prerequisite to any literature
start with the Greeks

No. You should be able to derive all influences without reading the primary sources.

>>8440841
No, but you should at least read up a little bit on it and on why Joyce chose the title Ulysses

been wanting to read this, does the ending take away from the book at all?

>>8440995
I liked it and thought it made the book unique, but a lot of people hate it.

>>8440834
Lord of the Files - a tale of bureaucratic horror

>>8440825

>implying shakespeare isn't multiple persons

>>8440825
He drank beer because you'd fucking die if you drank the water. Basically what most people did who could afford it.

Therefore, if you drinking beer for breakfast and thereafter then you'll be considered the greatest in any language.

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you are doing okay

t. cc student

>>8440838
Cross country isn't so bad. ;)

rused you

>>8440822
gotta start somewhere. remember that your freshman year should be the easiest straight A's in your entire life.

Why would I care? I'm dead.

>>8440771
I don't care who they arrest just as long as he's black

>>8440771
Tyrone Slothrop