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I actually liked the plot. What's your critic?

>>8158677

The last desperate gasp of a man on his way straight to Hell for conspiring against the divinely ordained holy monarchy of Russia.

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>mfw when Ilya rapes the maid

Posteen sus textos hijos míos.

You need to go back.

Justo ahora estoy trabajando en el primer borrador de un relato corto. Si vuelves a hacer un hilo así en un par de semanas igual lo posteo.

>Muslims overwhelmingly say that homosexual behavior is morally wrong, including three-quarters or more in 33 of the 36 countries where the question was asked

>Only in three countries do as many as one-in-ten Muslims say that homosexuality is morally acceptable: Uganda (12%), Mozambique (11%) and Bangladesh (10%).

http://www.pewforum.org/2013/04/30/the-worlds-muslims-religion-politics-society-morality/

Well played OP, a storm of shitposting is on its way.

>>8158624
>Uganda (12%)
Surprising, though there aren't sp many muslims there I guess.

>>8158530
The objective quality is not in the books but exists in the community of readers.

>>8158530
McDonald's is the best restaurant.

>>8158543
that sounds like the opposite of objective quality

>>8158527

Just say that they should not worry: I will save the honor of our nation in the years to come.

>>8158527
Pretty good m8, 8/10

>>8158527
Incafag pls leave

>>8158510
Keats and Yeats are on your side

~grabs book~

...but Wilde is on mine...

~teleports away~

>>8158798

what does that even mean? i've always wondered

>>8158510
I hate Morrissey so fucking much

It is better

neither is celebrated because bucktooth nigface is a shithouse writer who deserves eternity in hell for his awful contributions to the earth

I'm currently memeing myself. Just finished V. two days ago, read Crying of Lot 49 today, and Grav's Bow is my next purchase.

In what order does /lit/ prefer these three works?

>>8158449
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRNRV5iucSU

>reading foucault
>keep forgetting he's not an author, he's really a discursivity popsicle
>every time i re-remember what i am always knowing, i hear paglia whisper "turrrrgid" in my ear
>freak out
>erase foucault's ""name"" on every book i own
>make up fake names for all of them
>attribute some of them to real authors
>several were "written" (as "we" say) by roald dahl
>one of them was now written by a meta-collective of borgesian porous intersubjectivities from the future
>it's not enough
>rip out all the dates of original publishing from all the books i own
>have to destabilize every oeuvre
>only read continuously interpollated digital hypertexts while under the influence of ketamine
>have mental breakdown
>revolutionize general semantics by communicating only in grunts and gesticulations
>finally contacted by what is epistemically determined to signify "itself" (for itself, always in a series, at the intersection of THREE different kinds of grids[!]) as "the estate of Michel Foucault"
>allowed entry into his inner sanctum of unpublished works
>merge with the anti-oeuvre, the oeuvre which is displaced by the published oeuvre and which finds its "place" in "no-place"
>start sucking penises in states of quantum indeterminacy
>collapse the waveform
>universe is destroyed
>universe never even existed
>you never even read this post
>it was written by Michel Foucault

or was it?

he meant to say that (his) faggotry and all other social misbehaviors are not an individual pathology coming from the sun but are socially produced and maintained.

>>8158403
No.

>>8158435
How come you never see anyone talk about it, then?

People used to place it with Homer, and Shakespeare.

>>8158455
People used to give heroin to children too.

>>8158358
this is b8 right?
if not- it's because it's written by a black woman and those two words put together cause the sweaty mutants that populate this site to both rage impotently and masturbate furiously

>>8158358
Because it's the obvious choice for pseuds and /lit/ rightly recognizes Song of Solomon as her true masterpiece.

>>8158358
>author is non-white
>author is non-male

Yeah, they don't belong here.

Aristotle's Politics, Nietzsche's Zaratustra, Ingegnieri's Mediocre man.

>>8158258
Plato's The Republic and Early Socratic Dialogues are essential before you even get into other essentials.

Confessions of Augustine
The World as Will and Representation
Myth of Sisyphus
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Being and Nothingness
The Sickness Unto Death
Either/Or
A Short History of Decay

obviously im an existentialist

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>>8158258

956? What kind of extralarge print are you pullin?

>>8158196
I read it in size 72 font on my kindle

>>8158207
wew

>>8158120
Do economics and comparative lit, to be aytch

>>8158120
Economics and philosophy
I thought about applying for PPE at Oxford, but I just decided I could read philosophy in my spare time so I just went for Economics.
While you have the positive economics part of the fun is the normative part (I.e political philosophy)

>>8158120
the naivete in the post makes me want to clutch anon to my chest in pity and then slowly strangle him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2jbK6dGLGc

The Hobbit

>>8158056

Why do we always have threads like this? Why do people think they can change their entire character through a book? You need experience, introspection, and patience to change. Stop looking for easy answers.

>>8158084
no, i want easy fix

>>8158039

In terms of prose, he's pretty bad.

In terms of characterisation, he's legitimately great, for the genre at least.

In terms of overall storytelling, pretty good, easy to see why he's popular.

So I'd say good writer, but bad "writing" in terms of the meat and potatoes.

>>8158146
Legitimately awful. The more garbage he shats out the more I want to puke thinking about how this is what young people will consider good writing. Every book he writes is worse than the last. Spends entire fucking books building characters only to kill them off in the most retarded ways possible. I cannot see why so many normies enjoy his garbage.

>>8158146
For some reason most authors who are really good at creating worlds and characters also feel the need to describe it in about 20 times more words than necessary without adding anything positive to the whole mixture.