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>>8388694
love it

>>8388732
kill yourself

>>8388694
>>8388732
>>8388734
samefag

Why would it be impossible?

>>8388690
>Free verse
avoid this

>>8389228
A history of verse that doesn't include free verse would be like a history of Europe not including WW1

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I would be bored af if I were a person in that video tho. I've partied enough to know thst it's fun everyone once in a while but dumb sensory stimulation 24/7 gets old really fast unless you're not very smart.

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>Reading for insight

I bet you lift for women too

>>8388441
>Yes, I'm trying to make sense of a minor detail in HGTTG, don't judge me.


too late.

your name is Pizpot Gargravarr, isn't it?

>>8388441
He has a shitty name that's it

>>8388465
but it's shitty IN ENGLISH.
he's a Magrathean. why would he be shy to say his name to a member of nation whose rudeness conventions he has no idea of?

I would like to read it. I'm sure part of /lit/ will shit all over you for romantically following your dreams but personally I wish I had the means and honestly the cojones to do something like it myself. Good luck anon.

Sure

Just don't sell out to the publishers man, Norwegian publishing always makes you change a lot of shit.

Gjor Hamsun stolt din dumme jævel

My upcoming novel famalam

Hilary Mantel's "Wolf Hall"

Read it. It's good.

>>8388408
The Divine comedy
Song of Roland
Canterbury Tales
The Decameron

Honestly, there's not that much fiction with religious themes in that time, but there is a lot of non fiction.

>>8388399
Just listen to the myths and legends podcast episodes where he tells the stories of the Völsung saga. That should give you the plots at least. Then once you've got the flavour you can go off and read up on the deitis/heroes which most interest you.

He's also delightful to listen to.

>>8388399
start with the greeks

>>8388399
Just read a translation of the Eddas for Christ's sake. You guys and your "translations r BAD!" stuff.

>>8388377
Lusty Argonian Maid

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You'd probably be better off posting this in /v/

>>8388387
Something I considered. I feel more at home here, and I'm pretty sure /v/ has a higher noise to signal ratio.

dude, no one Actually reads this

>>8388366
It wasn't just withdrawal, it was caused by all the stress and ridiculous expectations from his parents and ETA and society at large (considering that ETA and the rehab were running a cooperative business).

>>8388389
That makes a little more sense, but compared to the hellish trauma many of the other characters in the book go through, Hal getting that fucked up from stress he had already grown up with comes off as, I don't know, lame. Anticlimactic.

pleb fodder

>>8388344
I enjoyed reading A Thousand Splendid Suns, very comfortable

>>8388344

The underage gangbang anal rape in Kite Runner was quite arousing desu.

>>8388310
As with all continental philosophers after Heidegger, he is a worthless charlatan pseudo-intellectual obfuscatory erudite whose absolutely meaningless thoughts are not worth the paper they are written on

probably one of the most intelligent people alive

it's only redditor normies with 'hurr dude coke xd' jokes comments on youtube videos who dislike him (or any philosopher because dude science lmao)

>>8388310
He's philosopher of the continental tradition. People who have no idea what they're talking about and who've read little will say all sorts of things about him because of this.

That's why you'll see people say "Zizek's a posturing moron with nothing to say" or what have you. They haven't read him or the basics of continental philosophy. He's a very very smart man with some interesting work.

I don't know about these books, so I'll just shamelessly shill my list like the egotistical jerkoff I am

>finished 1984 ending pissed me off

>reading Going Clear

>Reading The Rise and Fall of Rome

>Reading Neuromancer

>>8388294
I've only read 1984 out of these, and agree about the ending. However, I've not really found a dystopian book that focused this much on the way the system works *and* had a satisfying ending. Maybe I'll try to tackle that challenge at some point as a writer.

>>8388302
I read an article that basically said that G.O. did that to show the how hopeless a dystopia society would be, that all fine but I also think it was a cop out because G.O. had trouble finishing it.

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he is responding to Meagan's video project with details of his autistic day to day life.

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maybe the most autistic thing i've seen all year.
would you send your favorite author codes from bottles of soda in order for her to get a t-shirt, /lit/?

she's pretty cool. glad I subscribed

>>8388254
It doesn't end in a cliffhanger. In fact, it takes it's sweet-ass time making its point. Steven Moore (The History of the Novel) wrote on DQ:
>No character in literature has been more misunderstood than Don Quixote, usually because readers latch on to one aspect of his character and ignore Cervantes' multiple ironies, stripping the benighted knight of his sixteenth-century context and dressing him in their own ideals and aspirations. Thus he was merely a comic character until the Romantics turned him into a tragic hero, orthodox Christians proclaimed him an unorthdox Christ figure (and Sancho too!), and the dinner-theater crowd applauded him as a lovable eccentric with a good heart. In a novel that is primarily about the dangers of self-delusion...Whatever else it may be, DQ1 is unquestionably about the art of fiction, both writing it and (mis)reading it. It contains more discussions of books, literary theory, and advice on writing than any novel I know. It is not merely an attack on novels of chivalry, but an attack on bad writing, in any genre."
Even though DQ2 came out a decade after the first one, they are linked not just thematically but inter-textually because DQ2 is where Cervantes gets meta as fuck (at least, even more so: seriously, read the chapter on how the narrator of DQ1 explains the source of the text and how he managed to translate it). After the success of DQ1, the principal characters and scenes became instantly integrated into the popular culture of the time, and eventually became exploited. Between the writing of the two parts, Cervantes was able to develop into his stylistic maturity; meanwhile, a text purporting to be a continuation of the adventures of Don Quixote (without Sancho) appeared by another writer. This is now called the Apocryphal Quixote. When Cervantes learned about this, he set out to write a proper sequel, making this usufructuary text the jumping-off point and letting the inter- and meta-textual ramifications play themselves out (eventually, Don Quixote enters a bookstore in Madrid and reads of his own exploits).

>>8388346
Also, I'm sorry if that "it's" all the way in the second sentence makes it hard to take me seriously the rest of the way through. It's late.

>>8388346
>In a novel that is primarily about the dangers of self-delusion...Whatever else it may be, DQ1 is unquestionably about the art of fiction, both writing it and (mis)reading it. It contains more discussions of books, literary theory, and advice on writing than any novel I know. It is not merely an attack on novels of chivalry, but an attack on bad writing, in any genre."
What. A. Pleb.

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Fuck the memes, man, Pynchon is the greatest American writer, period.

>>8388205
you honestly couldn't compare the two on the same scale without overlooking everything that makes either of them great

>>8388213
This
>>8388211
He's definitely in the highest caliber, I don't know about best.

I will say though, that I think McCarthy more consistently writes better books, but that Pynchon's best are absolutely incredible.