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Thank god i have this chart

Bands:
Elder
Crystal Castles
Alt J

Movies:
Dune
Cloud Atlas
Insidious

Games:
Bioshock (all three)

Books:
Kybalion
Blood Meridian
Children of Lucifer
Naked Lunch
Life of Adam and Eve
Book of Revelation
Plato/Plotinus
Man and His Symbols
Hero w/ 1000 Faces

>>8398519
Dune is a great book, what do you think of the movie?

$$$

>>8398485
I didn't mind the parts with Danny dealing with his inner struggles and passing what he knows onto the girl, like Halloran did for him. I wish that was the whole book. The villians were fucking embarrassingly stupid and pointless and ruined the book.

>>8398501
But hes already loaded

>>8398511
I agree. I thought they would grow on me, but nope a roaming caravan of hippie "vampires" felt too cliche. You shine so we want yur steam! They never felt ominous, or looming in any way. It was such a deviation from the terrors that lurked in the overlook. Idk, its just not holding my attention for shit

homer Hitler and dfw

Can any worthy argument be made for not including Shakespeare?

I guess opinion is the keyword so

Nabokov
Joyce
Pynchon

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"I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse."
That's all u need to know boyy

>>8398396
>Karl V
>not Carlos V

German - the language of the great philosophers
French - the language of the great writers
Italian - the language of the great artists
Spanish - the language of great thieves
English - the language of great thinkers, the greatest thinkers the world has ever known and indeed perhaps the greatest it shall know for the next 5 centuries
Chinese - the language of great size and little value
Japanese - not so great

t. American

>>8398382

I have read both..its no where near as hard as Ulysses

its a great book

>>8398401
agreed

>>8398401

I couldn't get through Dhalgren but I liked Ulysses. I just didn't get what the kid was doing in the city, what the deal with the bbc guy was, why there was so much gross sex, stuff like that. I want to like Delany's books and they're well written but every one gives me a literal headache. They're also really gay, and that leather stuff doesn't appeal to me at all.

The only work of his I like is "Aye, and Gomorrah" but that's only a few pages.

>>8398352
Same question here. Also, it'd be great if the footnotes explained some of the archaic terms, and the dialogues included the full names of the characters instead of the nonsensical abbreviations.

Riverside or Norton

>>8398352
pelican shakespeare

>>8398349
Is the most respected novel of the twentieth century worth it? I don't know you tell me.

>>8398349
It's worth it in french

>>8398366
Most would say no.

>Pretty sure everyone knows by this point that David Foster Wallace and Bret Easton Ellis despised each other.
What's it like being a retarded person?

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Wallace is like a character out of an Ellis novel.

DFW in every way. I don't even think he's that great in general but BEE urself is a fucking hack.

Not remotely

lol
no

>>8398312
HOLY SHIT ABSOLUTELY DESTROYED
will kierkegaard ever recover?

>>8398276
I don't think it is bunk exactly. There have been advances in neurology that suggest he might not have had the physiological stuff completely right, but there is no question that he was on to something. I just don't think the research has been done to figure out exactly what. But his research and evidence is fascinating and enlightening, at least to me.

>>8398397
yeah, i think it would make good material to inspire a science fiction story (if it hasn't already). 40 years on or so it still is sitting in a field of neurology/psychology which is kind of mysterious.
On another note, I recall reading that Richard Dawkins thought Jaynes was either completely correct or batshit crazy - I'm positive that the reactions to this book sit mostly squarely in either of these two categories.

>>8398424
I think it is possible to accept the cognitive dissonance that comes with believing both. It's funny that Dawkins would say that because the only other time I heard that formulation, it referred to Jesus (from someone who thought Jesus was correct). It really sucks that Jaynes never wrote that second book.

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op should have been a qt grill I guess.

Yeah
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saki

Kafkas works are full of black humor too.
Absurdism is the name of the concept, I believe

>>8398252
What is Dickens?

>>8398248
My diary desu

1984 has YA-tier prose and themes, but it blows most modern YA out of the water

>>8398248
the catcher in the rye
the virgin suicides
Never let me go
infinite jest
rules of attraction
less than zero

>>8398194
I liked it a lot, but everyone in my class didn't get the absurdist undertones in it

>>8398194

I enjoyed the dragon

>>8398200
May I ask what class?

What about literary journals do you want to discuss, specifically?

>>8398340
As I said, just general experiences. The ones people like, the ones people have submitted to, opinions, etc. We really don't talk much about them here, so I thought we'd have a thread.

>>8398346
I have submitted to a couple literary journals (Harvard Review and Upstreet) and both have rejected my pieces because they prefered not to print swear words or obscenity, which is understandable. I have found this is the trend for most literary journals as it can isolate certain demographics, and would love if someone offered me a place that didn't mind stepping outside the lines a little more.

Personally, I subscribe to the Harvard Review, Granta, and n+1 (but I'm not sure you'd consider the latter a literary journal, per se). Granta is my personal favorite.

Generally, I think literary journals are a great idea and a good way for newer writers to gain exposure, but I personally don't find them enjoyable as I'd like, honestly.

Flipped through it at a bookstore once. Wish I bought it for meme cred but now it's gone forever. Seemed like a pretty straightforward retelling of the plot, just in manga form.

>>8398181
It's not worth it. Everything that made Ulysses great can only be found in ulysses.

I have it. It's shit.