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What if Homer was really a woman?
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Does it matter?
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Homer was probably multiple people and at least one of them may have been a female.
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>>8254744
Like a Rat King but with ppl? Gotcha!
my unread books are growing out of control but I can't stop myself.
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>>8254726
Same here.
Just can't stop buying shit.
Money is not the problem,since I can buy a book for less than a dollar.
It's more about storage space.
Last purchase was pic related for 3~ dollars
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Can those who have read Delaney tell me if he's worth it or not?
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>>8254726
fuck yeah lydia davis
Apologize
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i'm sorry i fucked your mom, op
it was a rash decision, i was drunk, she was drunk, it seemed like a good idea at the time.
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Don LeDildo
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I'm sorry I didn't see what my cowardice would lead to. I promise I will enter any and all Delilo threads in the future, and not leave until I've made everyone promise never to read his hacky post-modern horseshit.
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>shitty concentration
>~40 pages into Lolita
>haven't read it in like a week
Do I start over or...? Do you guys start over after a certain amount of time has passed without reading a book? Feels like I've lost a lot of momentum, but starting over would make it worse. Probably just going to read from page 30 onward.
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reading doesn't help the world, you shouldn't do it if you don't want to
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A book is like your dinner man.
Eat it however you like, but if you're gonna slurp and drool do it somewhere private.
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>>8255514
Kek
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How do I increase my attention span? I'm trying to read more, but I always stop reading after half an hour. Any tricks you guys use?
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Coffee
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>>8254558
leave 4chan and never look back
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>>8254642
Hahaha, no.
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Official J.O.I's Filmography Power Ranking 2016-07-08 04:33:35 Post No.8254536
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Official J.O.I's Filmography Power Ranking
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>fiction
#1 - Cage III -- Free Show
#2 - The Man Who Began to Suspect He's Made of Glass
#3 - The Night Wears a Sombrero
>non-fiction
#1 - Poultry in Motion
#2 - Every Inch of Disney Leith
#3 - The American Century as Seen Through a Brick
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fucking love that passage about American Century and the lonely high tone D string, or whatever
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My favorite was The Jest.
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Obviously #1 is IJ. How about Medusa v. The Odalisque
Or the one where the old man cuts the prostitutes butt-hole
Dog Days is the best book in the DOAWK series. Prove me wrong
>protip: you cant
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>>8254470
>Unironically thinking Cabin Fever isn't the best
Kys
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>>8254470
None shall surpass the first isntallment of the series, as it was, thus, the pinnacle of Kinney's prose and themes: crude humour, cheesy scat, homoeroticism, and so on permeated every line and in between them, creating, methinks, one of the few literature oriented texts to match the transcendent and synesthesic eeriness captured in The Waves; which is now rendered unworthy of note, as The Diary of a Wimpy Kid takes it's deserved throne as the most enigmatical and experimental piece of prose ever written.
Ever.
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>>8254517
Call this thread the water in Rio, because there is a lot of shit here
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how would he feel about the current racial discord in the united states?
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he would be cry
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Who cares? He'd probably have the typical SJW opinions and describe himself as "woke"
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he'd hang himself
which of the classic books that are never Actually Discussed in depth is your favorite?
basically anything by
>Fitzgerald
>Austen
>Brontes
>Bellow
>Roth
>Dickens
>Hemingway
>Woolf
>Lawrence
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as opposed to the ones where the books are actually discussed sometimes:
>DFW
>Pynchon
>Bolano
>Joyce
>Gaddis
>Dostoevsky
>Tolstoy
>Melville
>Camus
>Delillo
etc.
>Philosophers
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i wish we could have threads about the tain but i suspect no one's read it
begorrah yall are bunch of bad sasanachs, this is like another potato famine
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Tender is the Night, just ahead of the Great Gatsby, which overdoes the symbolism a touch for my taste. I need to reread them both though, it's been a while.
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What is Hera's motivation during the Illiad? 2016-07-08 03:21:23 Post No.8254391
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What is Hera's motivation during the Illiad?
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Why does she care about fucking up Troy so badly? Is it because of Helen? I thought Helen was seduced because of the influence of Aphrodite.
She even tells Zeus she can fuck up her favorite cities. She doesn't care.
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Google Judgement of Paris
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She was snubbed by Paris after a crazy girl threw an apple at a party.
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>>8254410
Why doesn't she stop Aphrodite from helping Paris during his duel with Menelaus?
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>website has book preview
>it's only the cover and introduction
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>>8254337
>expecting the entire book to be free
This isn't music, sonny
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>>8254390
gen.lib.rus.eu
Books are free.
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>>8254390
I expect to be able to read atleast a few pages so I can have some idea of what to expect
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Are plays meant to be viewed or read?
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>>8254333
tf u think
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>>8254333
viewed unless they're one of the greats (Shakespeare, Ibsen, Williams, etc.)
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reading is viewing
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John Fowles Appreciation 2016-07-08 02:52:20 Post No.8254297
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Any authors similar to Fowles?
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>>8254297
The Magus tho0o0ugh!
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>>8254297
Herman Koch?
Auguste Poulet-Malassis?
I can find one Maria Goos ycleped, who however only wrote a screenplay...
If you are willing to go a bit more predatory than that there's always John Hawkes.
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>>8254297
OMG.
Finally a thread about a decent writer. Magus is G.O.A.T.
What are /lit/'s thoughts on the WSJ?
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>>8254282
>What are /lit/'s thoughts on the ((( WSJ )))?
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not to be trusted
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The Economist and NYT checking in.
>Not reading Krugman's blog.
The WSJ is pretty good though, you can't go wrong with it.
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thoughts on this guy?
i've liked "my struggle" so far -- easy, fun, addictive. is proust actually like this at all?
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stylistically no but kind of re theme.
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>>8254225
somewhat, but much, much better
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Not really. Proust is more interesting, less trite. Karl Ove writes like an 18 year old. He's the definition of a pseud.