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>>8146770
write about how scout was a racist asshole

dont

>>8146770
>200 word
what is that, half a page? what the hell is wrong with you?

>>8146538
the nude by kenneth clark
in fact most stuff by him

>>8146856
Thanks, I'll check him out. Anyone got any other recommendations?

I liked/appreciated art before reading this, but the biography of Cezanne by Alex Danchev made me better understand art and what it means to be an artist.
It's really dense though and if you don't have some understanding of late 19th century French art, there will be a lot of names you'll have to look up because Danchev takes it for granted that the reader knows who he's talking about.

>>8146528
A supposedly fun thing I'll never do again
Or the Tale of Genji

whatever you fucking want. what kind of question is this. I would recommend avoiding the cheap B&N paperback versions of the classics. Those fuckers immediately fall apart when u leaf through the pages

>>8146544
i want too many things tho. i was hoping you guys would tell me stuff and eventually someone would suggest something that sounded right and it would be my sign from the universe.

do they sell used books?

>>8146365
yo i go the collection too, i googled the most popular ones: oblong box, gold bug, case of valdemar, ms in a bottle, descent into maelstrom, murders in rue morgue, purloined letter,
black cat, fall of the house of usher, pit and pendulum, premature burial, masque of the red death, cask of amontillado,
imp of the perverse, oval portrait, assignation, tell tale heart, system of dr tarr & prof fether


oblong box was creepy

>>8146781
* i did read these all, pit and pendulum i sgood too, masque of red death and cask top notch

>>8146365
Israfel. The most joyful thing he ever wrote.

Money, yes. Time, no.

No redeeming qualities, the book

>>8146343
what

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pretty dank, i highly recommend this one

>>8146332
I've only read A perfect day for bananafish and For Esme with love and squalor. He seems like he was obsessed with children for whatever reason. For Esme was a cute story though.

>>8146333
One of my favourite short stories book.

Read it, is amazing.

>>8146157
i want to take it and post it online so you get fucked over for plagiarism but im not that mean.

just do footnotes and look at examples from previous years, guaranteed your school has some.

>>8146320
we were required to do footnotes, my instructor gave us many resources on how to format them and what should be annotated etc. i just don't know if it transitions well enough, if the audience would feel that my thesis statement has been answered, etc.

>>8146157
your school should have a writing center. you should use that. posting something here will just increase your chances of something weird happening.

I'm gay and an English lit major, only novel in English I've ever enjoyed with prominent gay themes was Pale Fire. Giovanni's room was disappointing, but I liked Baldwin's 'Notes of a Native Son', which is nonfiction.

>not knowing Jean Genet

my diary tbqh

i teacher i respect once told me that great literature is the question without the answer.

Answers that ask questions

>>8146092
I like books that answer questions. It's not that I soak up the answers and start believing them and throwing them around. But asking questions only stimulates so much thought. Reading people's attempts at answers makes me think much more.

What speech? Dammit OP I haven't read it yet.

>>8145913
why?

>>8145924
"Strange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas" etc.

>>8145944
it seems disjointedly floral and pretty for Thompson, and the subject, baby boomer nostalgia, is just gross. the 60s sucked and weren't special, but he's making it out to be the exact opposite, just because he was there

>>8145836
5/5 as far as I'm concerned, great prose, fun characters, neat little morality play.

>>8145836
It's absolutely excellent and one of my favourite novellas.

>>8145937
I agree wholeheartedly.

>>8145702
bumping for curiosity

>>8145702
Fried Green Tomatoes

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>>8145702

Some self-piblished erotic books appear to do very well. Particularly on the amazon kindle website. No experience with it myself, just observations.

There's some guy on Amazon who writes books like "Buttfucked by My Gay Tyrannosaurus Rex Boss" and "Turned Gay by My Hugo Award Trophy on Stage" and shit, he has like 100 of them.

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>>8145410
sounds like the work of chuck tingle

simply eric, my man

Literally shit thread -11/10 for making me reply

>>8145367
my friend, that book is almost 3000 years old

>>8145284
I have none to contribute OP but have a bump because I'm interested too.

Have two:

Plato - Symposium
Turgenev - Torrents of Spring

>>8145284
but if i recommend great books on /lit/, then all the despicable /lit/ poseur fags will pretend they're intelligent and actually able to think. and that will ruin it. much wiser to protect that which is dear to hearts, and not toss our pearls before swine.