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I'm reading Hemingway's Green Hills of Africa there's a part in part 2, chapter 3 when he's talking about the books he's reading during his break from hunting buffalo.
Does anyone know which book he's referring to? I've never read Le Rouge et le Noir but after reading the synopsis the two don't seem to match.
This is also my first book by Hemingway but I have all of his classics on my bookshelf. Any suggestions for which to read after this?
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>>8440156
My suggestion is that you read The Recognitions and chuck all of Memmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmingway's "classics" in the nearest incinerator.
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>>8440222
I just wanted to read his books before going to Key West for winter break
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>Live in one of the Hunger Games districts.
>Convince all the other kids to submit their names numerous times
>Doing so will result in more food for everyone yet simultaneously keeping odds relatively the same
>Don't put my name in
>Safe forever
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Why did the manlet dress like a rock?
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>>8440148
Because he knew how by baking cakes
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>>8440140
I'm pretty sure you get more food based on how many times you submit your shit, so if you didn't put in your name you wouldn't get food
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I drive a lot and I need something more substantial than podcasts.
Can anyone recommend some good audiobooks for both their content and performances?
Some of my favourites recently have been:
>Speak Memory by Nabokov
Read by Stefan Rudnicki
>Ulysees
Read by Jim Norton
>Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
>Suttree by Cormac McCarthy
Both by Richard Poe, who's just amazing
Also, I like John LeCarré's reading of his own works, but they're nearly always abridged.
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>>8440128
Aubrey-Maturin series read by Patrick Tull
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>>8440128
do you have urls for the McCarthy ones?
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The Penguin History of New Zealand
http://www.audible.com/pd?asin=B00L1KJ2HK&
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>he reads the intro
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>>8440077
>he doesn't, so he makes this kinds of threads feel better about himself
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>>8440077
actually if you read the foreword of the Phenomenolgy of the Spirit by Hegel you can avoid the rest of it
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>>8440107
If you watch a documentary on Phenomenology of Spirit you can skip the whole book.
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"The Chinese think, act, and feel almost exactly like us; and we soon find that we are perfectly like them, except that all they do is more clear, pure, and decorous, than with us."
"With them all is orderly, citizen-like, without great passion or poetic flight"
"They likewise differ from us in that with them external nature is always associated with the human figures. You always hear the goldfish splashing in the pond, the birds are always singing on the bough; the day is always serene and sunny, the night is always clear. There is much talk about the moon; but it does not alter the landscape, its light is conceived to be as bright as day itself; and the interior of the houses is as neat and elegant as their pictures."
"Then there is an infinite number of legends which are constantly introduced into the narrative and are applied almost like proverbs ... There are innumerable other legends, all turning upon what is moral and proper. It is by this severe moderation in everything that the Chinese Empire has sustained itself for thousands of years, and will endure hereafter."
Is he recht?
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>>8440064
Since China is currently ruled by a Communist bureaucracy and spent part of the 20th century enthusiastically burning their own culture heritage I'm going to say no.
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>>8440069
Heaven smiles upon the Communist Party. They are enjoying its mandate.
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Hi, Americans.
I googled "modern poetry".
Are you not allowed to rhyme?
levelerpoetry.com
flavorwire.com/217118/10-poems-everyone-needs-to-read
poetrysoup.com/modern_poets
poets.org
loc.gov/poetry/180/p180-list.html
inb4 Pale Fire. Pale Fire is good, yes.
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google "poetry" first. its called blank verse
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but that poem uses rhymes
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Bump
you Americans must know at least one good modern poem
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I'm feeling pretty depressed, what are some good books for this feel? Preferably something not too dense because I always feel too tired of sad to read. Also please don't rec something that will make me kill myself like Céline.
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Read something from Paulo Cohelo
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>>8440010
Don't read right now. Go exercise or learn an instrument. Find a girl to talk to. Clean your room.
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essays by Montaigne
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English Romanticism vs French Symbolism
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Which movement is better? At what? And why?
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>>8439972
French symbolism was aping Poe, who isn't even a good poet, and who spent all his time writing poor imitations of the English Romantics. Not a contest.
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>>8439987
I dunno man, Blake's art looks pretty shit, and I've never read him, so his poetry probably is too.
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>>8439972
i would say English romanticism as it is more epic in scale rather than french symbolism which i find kinda dry
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How much prep do I need for this book? Thank you
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>>8439944
no need to prep your asshole a fair bit youngun
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>>8439944
Everything pre-Joyce.
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If I was able to make it through Infinite Jest and enjoy it thoroughly, should I be able to get through Ulysses without hating it/myself for reading it?
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Hey guys I read a comic where a name was "shortened" in a special way and would like to ask what the technique is called. It was a overwatch comic where genji got "shortened" to GN.G {GeNGe}.
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now this is shitposting
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10/10
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>>8439766
abbreviation/initialism.
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What do you think about this book and Henry Miller in general?
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>>8439695
this was supposedly (if I remember correctly) a purely pornographic piece he wrote by request. I remember enjoying it so some extent, but it certainly doesn't have the high level os the tropics and the rosy crucifiction trilogy.
He's in all, a very recommended author, particularly for a young reader around 18-20. It's like he's Bukowski's father.
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>>8439695
I haven't read that book, but read the Tropics and a couple of his essay collection books.
Overall, an interesting author when he was at his hedonistic peak. Tropic of Cancer I read in a single day, hooked me from beginning to end. The other books I had to fight a little with myself to finish.
The corrosive misanthropy of Tropic of Cancer, which is what I found the most interesting, gets somewhat diluted in the other books whenever Miller remembers his childhood with such naive romanticism. He's aware of his naivety, I think, but that doesn't stop him. His love/hate relationships with women are still interesting.
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>>8439695
I really enjoyed Paris 1928- the prose for the first part of this memoir-esk novella were very flowing and elegant. I didn't care too much for the second part when he goes into detail regarding a sexually deviant incident involving himself and two other women.
Can't speak on his novels, though there are a few on the backlog.
>english first language
>cant into english language
Find it so boring analyzing shit. I'm self aware of the fact I can't fully express myself through words.
It's like being a retard, I think so much but when I open my mouth all that comes out is HUR DER FUACK
That's what comes out when I try to flirt so i just give up now. At interviews all I do is nod and give plagurise from job interview youtube clips and movies
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you got the burger :DDD
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>>8439681
lol deee
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>>8439671
Talk to yourseld whenever you can about complex matters, it will help you be articulate in actual conversations
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Where does one find a librettist/lyricist in this day and age?
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>>8439651
Craigslist.
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>>8439651
soundcloud, bandcamp
pretty much anyone on there is willing to make music for peanuts
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>>8439651
Depends on what you're looking for. Songwriters are a dime a dozen, though skilled ones are hard to come by, of course. With popular music the focus is usually on creating lyrics that sound good with the melody. Librettists for operas or musicals are harder to come by, skilled ones again more so, and with them usually the focus is on adapting an existing work so that its text is flexible enough for a composer to work with. One mistake that newer composers can make is getting their librettos by simply lifting the text from the source material. The resulting libretto is rarely workable.
Whatever it is you need, lyrics or libretto, the techniques associated with them are very closely related to the techniques of poetry. You might look for them among poets, and in fact get into poetry yourself.
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Name a book with romance in it that isn't about a woman fixing all of a sad man's problems
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1984 is about a woman derailing a sad man's problems even further
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>>8439664
I was about to say this. Although thinking about it she does offer the prospect of fixing his problems. It just doesn't work out so well.
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Gone Girl
She makes the sad man have even more problems.
What books do people read who aren't just looking for some shallow pleasure, but are actually looking to gain something from what they've read, maybe something profound which will even change the way they think?
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>>8439609
>looking to gain something
Textbooks.
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Moby Dick
The New Science
any religious text
Critique of Pure Reason
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>>8439621
>the new science
>Vico
mah nigga.
also OP, that's the realm of poetry