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Is there any literature about picrelated or are the sorts of people who become novelists never likely to enter this world?
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>>8178382
>these women are considered 10s in Bongistan
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This is gibberish to me
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>>8178410
Translation for those in the colonies:
Leicester Soccer-playing woman-beater Daniel Simpson engaged in coitus with three different models.
His conviction for assaulting his former girlfriend, Stephanie Ward, was not enough to deter the previously mentioned women from associating with him.
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Did anyone of you Shakespeare-fags out there buy a Yorick skull? If so, post pics. I'm thinking about buying one, too.
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Where do u get one
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>>8178229
You summon Shakespeare and join his wow-guild. It' s a welcome gift.
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When are we going to make another top 100 books chart for 2016? I'm running out of books to read on the 2015 chart.
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we should do one soon. except this time.
everyone gets 5 votes
2 votes can be for books on last tears list
the other 3 gave to be books not on last year's list
spice it up
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>>8177802
no no no that would be too much of a fiasco. 2016 will be different anyways because 2016 /lit/ is not the same as 2015 /lit/
>tfw the 2014 list is better than 2015
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>>8177815
no it wouldn't. it would work fine
Any Harry Crews fans? Found out about him recently and read almost all of his novels. Shame that the majority of them are out of print because he is definitely and author that deserves more spotlight.
Also, best jacket pictures ever.
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this is now underappreciated authors with excellent jacket photos thread
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I hope he paid GRRM to use that title . . .
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>>8177599
I've read a few of his. A Feast of Snakes was one of my favorites. Childhood A Memoir of a Place was excellent as well. The Gypsy's Curse is another great one.
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I saw this at my local bookstore and thought about picking it up, but I keep hearing everyone say how Edith Hamilton's book on Mythology is a bit better and more comprehensive. Is there any truth to that? This particular book would look terrific on my shelf, but I'd rather get quality reading rather than looks.
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>>8177540
Start with the Golden Bough.
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>>8177544
Does it just compare mythologies or actually translate them? I was looking more for a comprehensive guide to mythology that would go step through step of what Greek/Egyptian/Roman myths we know at present.
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>>8177540
I like Bulfinch's Mythology, but it's partially a nostalgia thing. I remember reading dozens of quips from it on Encarta Kids when I was young. Just remember, if you decide to get it, that there are 3 volumes.
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>"But Anon, the extremely narrow specialisation or subservience to the needs of the lowest common denominator induced by the ever more liberalised market on the individual is spiritually affirming," Global Capital seductively whispers in your ear while squeezing your crotch.
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>>8177397
This needs a feel warning
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>>8177397
>anon.. Get a job you lazy bum.. Your father and I had such high hopes for you, we thought you'd be a doctor or a lawyer.. Now you are an "activist" fighting for "class justice" while collecting social security... Your mother sobs tenderly into your ear
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>>8177397
me on the right
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well that wasn't very good....
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Feel free to continue listing your opinions.
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>>8176962
Where's Jack Green when you need him?
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>>8176962
The selling point of this book is that criticizes the same pseuds that praise it, exposing them.
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Quick! I'm going abroad for vacations in 3 days! give me a recommendation of books to read that I might download while I still have internet available!
DL links to Amazon's full ebook repository appreciated (there used to be a 30gb torrent with amazon's entire book library, but I can't find it. Any tips?)
PC will stay on DLing torrents for 72 hours. Give me all I can download!
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>>8176422
I'm mainly looking for novels . Not just any novels, the -best- novels!
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>>8176422
Go to Project Gutenberg.
Find Joyce and Dostoevsky.
Read Portrait of a Young Man as an Artist, Dubliners, The Gambler and Crime and Punishment.
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>>8176432
Thanks anon!
>sex scene
>author doesn't include/describe the rimjob
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Report frogposters.
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>sex scene
>"and they made love"
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>>8176109
Kek.
What's up guys, I just finished Dubliner's by Joyce and very much enjoyed (especially found "A Mother", "The Boarding-House", and "The Dead" to be fantastic) and decided to venture into Faulkner's works as I'm a pretty interested in the modernists (I love F Scott, Hemingway, and Ford) and wanted to take on an ostensibly "dificult" author before I went on to Joyce. As I Lay Dying is probably one of my favorite books now, but The Sound and the Fury is pretty tought to get through. The retard's narration is absolutely inane and his tenuous grasp of... time?.. is difficult to overcome. Is this just a book that takes very astute readings/multiple readings? Or will I never make it? Is Ulysses as difficult by comparison?
-As a note, I'm almost always aware of what's actually occuring within the novel, but the myriad characters + constant vacillations between settings/scenes is what's confusing me.
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>>8175997
I actually did not like Faulkner very much, especially compared to Joyce. Something about Faulkner's writing seems too labored. I recommend trying out D.H. Lawrence, though sometimes he gives off that same Faulkner vibe, as if he is weary of writing the page in front of you and is struggling to get it out. Joyce was probably a better stylist of the three, but I prefer the intensity of Lawrence.
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>>8176008
Thanks, I'll get around to Lawrence later in the summer, I'm sure.
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Bump, looking for some opinions on the difficulty gap between TSATF and Ulysses
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What kinds of novels would a vicious young aristocrat who sees the great lot of mankind as ignorant garbage deserving of death enjoy reading? Asking so I can have him quote them.
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>>8175745
Against Nature
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>>8175745
The Picture of Dorian Gray
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>>8175745
Matthew 7:6
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/Lit/ opinion on Polish literature? Also, any book recommendations? Previously I've only read Sienkiewicz and Mickiewicz.
//Learning Polish as a third language
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>>8175672
Bump
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>>8175672
Potocki's Saragossa manuscript. Based as fuck. Also spooky
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witkacy, schulz, prus, norwid, piasecki, grzesiuk, miłosz, różewicz, mrożek, żeromski, słowacki, wyspiański, miciński, krasicki, twardowski, kochanowski, morsztyn, przerwa-tetmajer, herbert, lem, gombrowicz, reymont, staff, kasprowicz
Poetry thread.
Tomorrow waits for me,
Not begging nor pleading
Upon its arrival
Of my conscious mind
And yet it further
Calls, steadfast, resolute,
Omnipotent in this
New day that is my own;
But the tide of the past
Leaves old worries upon
What could have been, what is.
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Damned be tradition, the corner-foundations
of the pagoda and mosque, the jurassic,
polished, well-varnished, in slow ambulations
round the bejewelled cathedral enclosure
understood; burn the commandments in classic
letters that cassocks in motley dipped foreign
fingers in ink to inscribe; let exposure
flake the decaying old virginal parchment
sheath and the papery helms of their horsemen
confident faces emblazoned upon whose
masks are the picture of vacuous assent;
let the remaining air bathe your lewd tattoos.
You’re weighed against a spurious ballast; knife
the ropes, free yourself—what can you lose but life?
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>>8175622
>Tomorrow waits for me,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29Mg6Gfh9Co
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End yourselves, this cannot continue.
I wrote a short story about a girl who tries to identification but can't because she's an illegal immigrant
Turns out it was Ariel and her Prince died of cancer and she has nothing and nobody and no skills and wishes she stayed a mermaid
Did you enjoy my short story?
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>>8175577
You should try self immolation, you'd be better at it.
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>>8175634
>being this pretentious
kys
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>>8175676
What is pretentious about thinking its a bad idea?
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Apart from reading the main /lit/ canon for well-roundedness, what reading suggestions does /lit/ have for songwriters? I think I saw a similar question a while back but it contained certain details which elicited mostly japery and memery, so hopefully I didn't say anything to trigger too many kys's.
Also, favorite musical settings of poems to switch it up from "favorite lyricists." I would pick Dictherliebe, which /mu/ might consider a pleb choice (just guessing), but that's cheating because I don't speak German. So in English it would probably be Songs of Travel by Ralph Vaugh Williams (pic related).
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*Dichterliebe. argh
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and * Vaughan....jesus...i'm tired or retarded.
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It doesn't matter who you read as a songwriter—first and foremost YOU just have to write so much that you develop your lyrical voice
Meanwhile just read ANYTHING and absorb ideas, possible allusions and lyrical ideas, etc
t. Lyricist of 7 years (only 3 of which involve making good lyrics)