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>>8276819
DUDE

>>8276820
SAUCE

>>8276819
I drink a lot but I don't drink when I write. I usually lose control of my consumption, which doesn't end well. I write a lot hungover though, which is great.

you really care?

>>8276782
no

>>8276787
sweet thread guys

>>8276737
haha xD

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>>8276737
s-she's coming back, right?

>>>/mu/

>>8276721

>he thinks 19th century English is "archaic"

Good luck with your adventures in literature, kek

Magarshack is based.

https://www.amazon.com/Crime-Punishment-Classics-Fyodor-Dostoyevsky/dp/0140440232/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1468474385&sr=1-1&keywords=crime+and+punishment+magarshack

Avoid P&V translations at all costs; they're bastardizations.

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>translation

Explain what you mean by "Renaissance of the Medieval"

>>8276695
>I fear for its welfare
Russia's or literature's?

>>8276582

Sexual guilt + mommy issues

Its a very funny book. Roth was never as funny again.

>>8276607
He certainly wasn't as laugh-out-loud funny, but he wrote some pretty great books.

I had this problem when I was fourteen, but then I wasn't a loser and decided to finish it and it was great.

Thank God I had at least a few years of innocent reading before I discovered this place.

>>8276546
>Can I double check this with /lit? Thanks

People like you shouldn't be allowed to read.

hehe x)

I could be re-reading The Magic Mountain instead of what is obviously going to be the same predicament again

I like both Russian and French.

There are good literature in portuguese and spanish too. You should consider it.

>>8276541
I'm fluent in Spanish and read Spanish literature regularly. I can converse in Portuguese but usually read it translated to Spanish.

>>8276586

If you're fluent in one then there is no need to learn the other, unless you're a genius, then by all means, learn portuguese.

Portuguese is probably one of the best languages to write in and has a rather underrated literature too. Its really rich. But I believe most of the good stuff is translated already.

Try to find something translated from Machado de Assis! See if you like it, if you do, then consider it.

Between Russian and French... I'd pick french. Personal preference. It is also literally a pussy magnet, everything sounds better in french for some reason. I believe that most of the russian work is already translated to english, too...

The Divine Comedy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qt4bd1OaHTQ

>>8276516
A quick glance at the rules https://www.4chan.org/rules#lit would not be amiss, you festering carbuncle.

What I'm asking is - am I the only one that feels like this? and don't fucking mention bukowski you hacks. Who can i read that will give feelings of genuineness.

I also want to live in a cell and pray five times a day but I'm too embarrassed of that to go for a novitiate but that probably should be another thread

...that's just the drug deluding you. Drugs make everything better in the shallowest ways.

Just try to mature emotionally and you won't need drugs to appreciate it. What they give in pleasure they take in mindfulness.

>>8276487
>I'm not an alcoholic
the first step is accepting you're an alcoholic OP

>>8276454
Most people recognize it for the influence it had on genrefic which is second only to LOTR but few would call it high literature. People who either never read it or didn't understand it will call it sci-fi. It's really fantasy more than anything.

I think there are some strong literary themes though, it deconstructs heroism, kind of looks at the idea of the Ubermensch (at least in terms of a being who ascends to a superhuman status) as a curse and burden rather than a blessing and liberation from man's expectations. I think the series should end with the 4th book since the arc established in 5/6 was unfinished (KJA garbage isn't comparable).

Books 1 and 4 are the best, 2 and 3 are weak in terms of prose but continue the plot in ways that are necessary for understanding 4.

I love the book. Most considerate as close to "literary" sciene-ficition as anything from that sect of lit gets.

>>8276475
Like the anon above my quoted post mentions, the theme of heroism being a burden is significant and one of my favorite parts. I've read 1 and 2, and 2 is my favorite cause it dives into that theme in a really cool way after the events and the tone of the first book.

>>8276418
>shit raped out of her non-stop
Do you mean that figuratively, as in she keeps getting defeated in fights, or literally, as in non-consensual sex?

>>8276468
literally non-consensual sex. The first 15 pages or so are describing Tara's upbringing in a secluded castle and her lithe, sexy, 16 year old body. She leaves the castle to be a warrior and go on a great quest, literally the first people Tara meets are a bunch of dudes who surround her, take her captive without a fight, strip her, paw at her 16 year old boobs and and vagina, and take her to be a slave for the prince. Then follows about 50 pages of Tara constantly being drunk on aphrodisiac wine and having tons of lesbian sex with other sex slaves and occasionally getting fondled by the prince
Never penetrative sex, it's super important that she remains technically a virgin.
Then, through pure luck she manages to escape, and literally the first people she runs into after that surround her, take her captive without a fight, strip her, and take her to be a sex slave for a barbarian warlord. The first thing he does is demonstrate his evilness by raping a 12 year old girl in front of her.
Then Tara and the 12 year old girl are thrown in a cell together, and immediately start having sex.
That's where I stopped reading.

>>8276481
>Then Tara and the 12 year old girl are thrown in a cell together, and immediately start having sex.

excerpt pls

you might want to check out rhetoric

>>8276363
dont try to convince them, thats the best method

>>8276363
The socratic method. Google it, OP.

>look up st johns college great books program
>read the most well known book from the authors listed
P much that

Moby Dick should be the one American representative.

>>8276291
The Bible

>>8276288
>Japanese
>Gook

It's a sad day when even 4chan can't get racism right.

>>8276288
I'll sum it up for you

>we dindu nuffin 2 : tokyo drift

t. korean

Confession of a Mask