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After a fairly unproductive first half, after six months i have finally finished my first short of the year. Disappointed for having squandered so long, at least i can begin working again.
Anyone else finished any lil projects revently? Anyone else had long bouts of block?
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>>8173496
I have long bouts of cock
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writing short story in biblical times
have some ideas for novel but very fragmentical, still dont know if short stories or poetry would be a better form for my duty
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>>8173583
Your duty?
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>mfw local library is having a book sale tomorrow
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>100's of books
>most comfy old paperback editions
>all paperbacks under a doller
>all hardcovers under $4
god im happy
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>>8173456
no one cares, faggot
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>>8173462
someone is jealous they are not gonna get 10 books for $5
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>>8173456
Post the haul when you're back family
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Be honest.
http://www.strawpoll.me/10511252
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>>8173384
yes I have. I read it before I knew it was a meme book. the way you can someone really read it is they barely remember anything about it
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there should be an option for "Yes, but I selectively chose which footnotes to read."
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>>8173384
Are you 12 or something? It's not even a difficult read. Just long and often slow going.
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Was hoping for some Molyneux-tier philosophy and provocative thought, not some sappy love story. Does it get better, /lit/?
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>>8173340
>Was hoping for some Molyneux-tier philosophy
That's exactly what you got.
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>>8173340
>Does it get better, /lit/?
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>>8173362
hehe got you on my hook, little fishy :^) seriously though this book is not what i was expecting so far
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Who wrote this short story
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A few years back I read a short story in a sci-fi short story collection. I can't remember who wrote it, and I was hoping the following summary would ring a bell for one of y'all
A colony was started on this planet, the people not knowing that every 17 years or so a second star comes into the system, making the planet uninhabitable except at the poles. so every 17 years all the settlers have to take everything they can carry and head north to the pole to wait it out. Over the generations they've been doing this they've lost a lot of technology, and now most people think the idea that their ancestors arrived at the planet in a big metal ship is just myth.
The main character is the only one in his village who firmly believes the truth. the time to flee to the north pole is coming up and he's mad because he can't take all his books, because there's only a limited amount of stuff they can carry
A guy who looks weird shows up in town, claiming to be from another village. Eventually he confides in the MC that he's actually a scout from the humans that live on other planets. He says that they want to come and help, but because of space problems it might be decades before they can. They definitely will tho. But the MC has to stop talking about the people who live on other planets, it just agitates everybody and isn't helping. The MC of course agrees with the spaceman, because he doesn't want to fuck anything up, and promises not to talk about the space people anymore.
The end is it turns out the spaceman is actually just some dude from a couple villages over that they mayor ran into while preparing for the poleward evacuation at a neighboring village. He set the whole thing up just to get the MC to stop talking nonsense about there being people in space or their ancestors arriving in metal boats from space.
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>>8173225
Who is this semen demon?
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>>8173888
I like the way you concentrated on the essential part of the opening post.
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>>8173888
Sara.
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Alright, i was never a great reader, but i've been getting involved with the reading for the last three months. I read Norwegian Wood, Kafka on the shore and Shantaram. I'm looking for similar books, so what should i read next?
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The Odyssey.
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>>8173224
Who?
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I actually read it in high school, but thanks anyway
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What should I read before reading The Word as Will and Representation? I already have a pretty solid background in Plato, if that means anything, but I'm looking to read this next. Can I just dive right in?
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>>8173129
DOIVE ON IN.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcbkwgnWt-A
If you know Plato and Kant, you're good to go; that's literally all Schopenhauer read.
He's the most direct/straightforward of all German idealists, so if you can't understand him then you're fucked.
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>>8173145
Ok sounds good. Do you think I could just read the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy thing on Kant, I'll be okay? Because I don't know if I'm up for reading all of The Critique of Pure Reason right now
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>>8173156
Yes, because page one of The Critique of Pure reason will make you feel like a retard; because Kant could not into straightforward prose.
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Is LoTR a 'classic' work of literature? Or just a gold standard for genre fiction?
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>>8172909
Neither.
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Who cares? Spend less time putting shit into categories and spend more time reading.
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>>8172917
I read a ton. However, I am unaware if LoTR is considered to have literary merit.
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Help /lit/, I got a Yeats infection.
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>>8172784
romantic Ireland's dead and gone.
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I read land of heart's desire yesterday and really enjoyed it wheres a good spot to go from here with him?
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Only even half-works when you mispronounce it.
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Why don't I enjoy poetry? Why does it just seem like prose cut into pieces?
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What poetry have you read?
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You're stupid. That simple really.
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I agree with you OP when I read a good novel I feel like I'm having a conversation with the author. Like I'm looking into their soul.
When I read poetry I have to reread every line 5 times and I feel like I'm trying to interpret a painting.
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Has genre fiction ever been close to literary /lit/?
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>>8172584
Please learn how to punctuate your sentences, you dense cunt.
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tolkienfags think so.
some detective shit is.
some literary shit happens to have scifi in it.
but for the most part, no, not even close.
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Lots of readers are unaware Fyador Dostoevsky was a genre writer.
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have you found any of Joseph mcelroys books in used book stores? I've been searching for a year and haven't found a single one. are they out of print? you would think you could find them in Toronto with the 15 different book stores I frequent. what are your favorite books by him, other than women and memes.
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oh yeah I forgot. you guys don't actually read.
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>>8173395
we just buy shit off abebooks and amazon and libgen instead of walking around like it's the stone age you inbred
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>>8172532
I actually saw Women & Men in Toronto at Re:reading a few years ago. Didn't buy it because I don't really care to spend a lot of money on a doorstopper meme book desu.
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After today's big news, I guess the question is what did you think of the first 550 pages?
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>>8172162
What's the news?
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>>8172165
I assume OP is saying it will be less incomplete somehow. I haven't heard anything tho
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It's the same guy that posted >>8169455, ignore this thread.
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Any books about ABSOLUTE FUCKING THERMONUCLEAR RAMPAGE??????
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It's impossible to convey thermonuclear rampage through writing
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>>8172114
Challenge accepted.
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>>8172101
Gravity's Rainbow
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>translation of a translation
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>>8172047
>frog faggot
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please, that is beyond frogs. if such a thing ever happens the world that allows it should disappear.
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>>8172062
I read that my country didn't have a direct translation for Don Quixote until 1957. Also, I'm not even sure we have a full translation of the Aeneid in verse today (certainly not to be found in modern book shops).