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>>8413261
There is no need to add insult to injury

They invented the boomerang, which is like apparently some type of unfathomably complicated physical motion, and in today's artistic culture that is sort of like literature

Alexis Wright is okay, I read The Swan Book but it's steeped in so much Aboriginal mysticism I couldn't keep track properly.

>>8413261
top kek

the other day i go, "dad what's your plan? retire in a couple years and then what?" he goes, "i don't know but i've always felt bad for those natives in australia." "you mean aborigines?" "yeah, maybe i'll go do something for them. i heard of an organization in boston."

>>8413250
The Crucible is the obvious answer. The movie is a perfectly acceptable way to go about it.


Breslaw, Elaine G (2000), Witches of the Atlantic World: A Historical Reader & Primary Sourcebook, New York: New York University Press
and Cotton Mather's Wonders of the Invisible World (1693) are great

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem_witch_trials#Further_reading

wikipedia has a good source list

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>>8413250
>a novel with a very phsycotic yet intelligent character

not in the US, but The Devils of Loudun

Plato's Republic

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>>8413233

>>8413233
The decline and fall of the Roman Empire.

>>8413217
I make paintings of my poems and people always love the paintings, but they tell me my poems are 'manic'. I hate painting but now I do it because it seems to transmit the feelings better, but it's always just based off a poem

>tfw can't express myself through the art of painting

this one always makes me feel bad

>>8413249
Care to post some?

why does that stupid dinosaur meme anon keep posting about his dislikes? literally no one else cares.

each generation of genre fiction serves a different emphasis.

>>8413208
That doesn't imply that all emphases are equally good.

>>8413213
So? What a trite observation. Water doesn't taste as good as food but people still drink it.

>>8413162
It might be current

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>>8413162
You want to make informed judgements about the world around you.

>>8413162
BAIT

But if you're seriously asking: reading improves interpersonal and intrapersonal intelligence, so that is one reason to read anything that might be thought-provoking. Also, relevant fiction often conveys complex social and cultural ideas.

>>8413134
>2016
>Still reading sexist literature

Cool.

>>8413134
Use the f u c k i n g archive jesus christ

>>8413167
Kill yourself my man

go to university

>>8413066
Considering you probably just want to be a pseud, the meme trilogy plus Stirner.

>>8413066
Learn a language and read all its literature

>>8413064
what genre did you read as a kid?

I assume you're interested in Rome.

Try

Lives of the Caesars - Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

Have you read stuff from the /lit/ starter kit? If not you definitely should.

It's shit, don't read him.

Read No Longer Human, or Infinite Jest instead.

realized Herzog sorta looks like him

>>8413027
i worked with a guy that looked exactly like him

>>8412951
Why even bother reading it yourself when you can receive an easily digestible opinion from a complete stranger you'll never meet.

>>8412951
It's the only book I see in this thread

>>8412951
I feel like it's just slightly too unknown a title to really spark a good discussion here.

/lit/ has become really dreadful for discussing specific obscure works. The general pleb tier audience is too busy with their Game of Thrones shit. Same with reddit.

Goodreads is the only place left for a satisfying discussion.

>>8412936
She knew about the farts

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i'm sure it was just playful bantz

>>8412936
She's a woman. Why would she understand Ulysses?

You know when they make those 'women cannot understand the following' lists? Ulysses is on there.

For what it's worth, I have never read Ulysses.

yax2

not at all, and i generally care a lot about aesthetics. as long as all the pages aren't cum stained i will read it. though bad album covers and band photos do bother me

>>8412892
A book having an ugly cover doesn't really bother me. For example, I was able to get through the ugly ass Gabler's edition of Ulysses without really giving a fuck. However, if a book has a very plebby looking cover, like a picture from a live-action adaptation, then it will probably bother me and make me more prone to disliking the book to a very slight degree. also, if a book has a very nice cover, I might be more willing to pick it up and read in the first place. The Gravity's Rainbow blueprint cover is one of my fav's because it looks cool as fuck.

Source?

>>8412902
http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2011/07/05/memories-chekhov/

>>8412890
lmao Tolstoy's not even that good wtf

it's like being an ugly prostitute without a pimp. you're never sure where your next paycheck is coming from.

>>8414397
Woah, slow down there pal, no one asked for your mum's biography.

>>8414407
Zing

A writer at large is a man who is devoted to his art and is willing to live poorly at times until he has written a work that will bring him fortune, are we all not looking for our magnum opus