I would like to buy a Shakespeare bust like pic related or similar (one of good quality).
I have searched Amazon, but their options are not very good. Do any of you guys know from where I could order a Shakespeare Bust for a good price and with reasonable quality?
Is there a shop in Stratford that sells this kind of merchandise?
>>8248954
this one looks more like him:
http://www.statue.com/Products/Authors-Poets-Philosophers-Physicians/Shakespeare-Bust-8-High_2.html
>>8248954
Tada http://www.giustgallery.com/products/shakespeare
>muh aesthetics
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>>8248869
there's loads of these pastas for authors and philosophers wtf are you talking about?
bumping for more pasta
Why is postmodernism so fun? It makes me wanna get up and dance
>>8248662
Postmodern literature for the postmodern heart. It freed art from many archaic constraints.
Why do you guys hate them?
Is it because they're popular now?
I remember when the first season was just about to air, so many people here were saying how good it was and that I should read the book and watch it?
no one hates them
>>8248659
why do I see people cussing them everytime theyre mentioned then?
>>8248657
Book 1, 2 and 3 are good. I can't read book 4 and 5, too much plot, not focused enough.
GRRM has set up so much things that aren't related in anyway to each other, and compared to the 1st three books, every plot had repercution on another plot, even Daenerys who was a sea across the other characters
What does /lit/ think of the works of Grant Morrison?
>inb4 pseud
P. good, got me into a lot of shit, like Borges, Debord, PKD, Rimbaud and english romanticism (from the top of my head), not to mention all the good comics shit. Probably one of my favourite writers overall.
Also, one of the few comic writers who has actually brought tears to my eyes (once with Flex, then again with ASS). Has a really interesting view of comic books, and his Supergods book is actually p. good.
>>8248507
His work is spiritually alive and a great example of what comics and graphic novels can be.
One of these days I'll go back and re-read The Invisibles. It was my favorite comic, but I haven't read comics in years. I also remember liking Animal Man, Doom Patrol, and The Filth.
Thoughts on this
https://www.amazon.com/How-Write-Like-Tolstoy-Greatest/dp/0812998308
>>8248407
It worked. I am now almost finishing a War and Peace like novel settled in the World War II epoch, with families from Russia, England and even Japan as the main protagonists.
Why would I ever want to write like a hack
>>8248653
>Tolstoy
>A hack
Either trolling or someone who did not read him.
Also: if you like DFW, Pynchon and Gaddis and thinks Tolstoy is a hack you should kill yourself.
Why can't I read this without having to jerk off every 15 minutes?
>>8248335
i want to fulfill my lust by consummating my relationship with the sow (incidentally the title character).
>>8248335
isn't it about dudes?
>>8248335
probably because you're a hormone-addled angsty teenager who doesn't have a girlfriend, watches too much porn, and has slightly psychopathic tendencies. you'd probably have to have a wank after looking at a piece of cardboard.
Why do most great female writers look like they just barely missed the test to pass as a man?
i dont know, why are you such a retard op?
cause psychologically they are men.
because men are their role models so they try to be like them
I'm moving to Texas this Autumn. Any recommendations on Texas-related reads? (Reading pic related right now)
>>8248233
Corncob Tortilla.
>>8248233
Is that book good? It got some pretty great reviews when it came out. I almost picked it up one day then decided to wait.
>>8248257
Not OP, yeah I thought it was good. I was hooked by chapter 4 (and the first 3 are very short). The perspective rotates between three different characters in different time periods, I found one of them much more interesting than the other two but none of them were bad.
I'd say give it a go if you like multi-generational stories.
>dante's inferno
>written language
>>8248232
>have a thought
tough luck.
>>8248238
IKR. It's 2016, who the fuck wastes time on """"""""""""""""""""""""thoughts""""""""""""""""""""""""?
What did you think?
>>8248220
One of my favorite books. The greatest anti-war story of all time.
>>8248220
The final ‘speech’ was wholly unnecessary and made the novella feel very cheap.
<the Metallica video
ITT: post your most memorable karl ove moments
Where he said his wife was as hot as a stove. Yaya dude, I get she was warm, I get she was pregnant. If you learn anything from Hemmmingway, it should be not to use a simile like that. Obvious and overused. If you need to say your wife was warm and tell us how pregnant she is for the fiftieth time, be either interesting or clean.
>>8248193
Repeatedly premature ejaculation in My Struggle 4 was hilarious.
sauce to pic related?
Can someone please recommend a book about French history that focuses on the Middle Ages? In particular, something that talks a lot about the crusades/crusaders/paladins and that sort of thing.
"I Templari" - Barbara Frale
>>8248197
Is there an English version? I can't seem to find it on Google.
>>8248208
Nvm, found it.
Hey losers, I've been going through a prolonged "Existential Crisis™" about the future of literature in this world of cutting edge entertainment. I've researched the topic a little bit but all I've found is Will Self being a whiny little bitch and some poet laureate suggesting that novels shouldn't bother describing what it's like to hike in Nepal because the internet can do it for them. They're both bad arguments and the second specifically seems kind of disturbing, as the crux of the Crisis is the ease with which other mediums can communicate concrete physical media, which the poet laureate seemed to have conceded as a given. Anyone wanna link me to an argument that can allay some of this angst?
>>8248145
>media
concrete physical detail was what I meant to say.
>>8248145
>Anyone wanna link me to an argument that can allay some of this angst?
No, but I'll offer some of my thoughts on the matter.
The world has always and will always need storytellers. Is the world changing? Yes, it always is. Is it scary? Yes. Are our modern world's changes particularly scary? Probably, yes. Is it a bad thing? No. It's just different. You only get yourself in trouble when you refuse to adapt and refuse to need to adapt.
Personally, I see a lot of potential in these new mediums that are developing. It's just going to be different, that's all.
The real challenge is finding what medium works best for you, and then becoming the best you can. If Shakespeare were born again tomorrow, would he become a playwright or a screenwriter or a blogger or a video game writer or a virtual reality story creator or something else entirely? Plays still exist, but Shakespeare wrote for the most popular thing in his time and place. The point is, we don't know.
Like Poetry? Write poetry.
Like Theater? Write plays.
Like Novels? Write short stories and novels.
Like Movies? Write movies.
Like Vidya? Write games.
Like them all? Write.
TL;DR: Just git gud at whatever you want to git gud at. Everything else will fall in line.
>>8248224
For example -- you can get good at writing sonnets. Remember, you should just first write a dozen lines on one opinion, then in the last line or two contrast it with the absolute polar opposite opinion. Everything else will fall in line.
So how does the cinematic universe of Greek plays work? I had never read any before outside of school, and I just started reading Ajax and I feel like I've been thrown into the middle of an on-going series. Like Odysseus is in it, he's a big guy, Homer wrote a book about him. They mention Achilles, I know he has a story too.
Is it like comics, how there are iconic characters and then different writers will add to their lore? Are there also shit playwrights that might have the mythical characters but have shit stories that no one cares about? Are there like weird obscure fan fiction plays about B-tier characters? (After I am familiar with the major stuff, I would kind of like to read these weird obscure fan fictions about B-tier characters if they exist.)
Is there like a comprehensive /lit/ chart for this?
Just read a book on Greek mythology
Basically most Greeks would be taught the different stories from birth, so they'd be familiar with the characters and stories if they were to watch a play.
It's (sort of) like how there's different retellings and interpretations of Snow White
>>8248075
>cinematic universe
When will this meme die?
But seriously, only some of the works Sophocles, Aeschylus, and Euripides have survived, so you're not going to be able to find B-Tier shit/weird obscure fan fiction from other contemporary classical writers, even if they most certainly existed at some point.
There's usually a reason shit doesn't make it. Just like 99.9% of the shit produced in these "cinematic universes" of today will not make it to the year 4000.
Just read something like Schwab's collection of Greek myths and you'll be able to orient yourself in these works easily.
>Is it like comics, how there are iconic characters and then different writers will add to their lore? Are there also shit playwrights that might have the mythical characters but have shit stories that no one cares about? Are there like weird obscure fan fiction plays about B-tier characters?
Yes, no and no. There probably were shitty writers but we don't know about them, since only the best plays survived. (inb4 some faggot starts shitting on Euripides)