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ITT: recommend horror books.
I want something that is scary and fast paced.
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Hell House by Richard Matheson
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>>8133724
House of Leaves is a pretty good horror book, but the concrete gimmick gets kind of annoying and gives authors who do it well a bad rap.
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>>8134519
This looks pretty good, i'll check it out.
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>Decide to engage literary giant, James Joyce
>Begin with one of his less dense works
>I buy a Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
>I open to the first page to begin my journey in to the world of great literature
>Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo
>mfw I got memed
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Who are you quoting?
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It's a parody of dickens
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>>8133694
Start with Duliners plebgot.
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>"Dickens? He's so overrated."
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Dickens is garbage in both prose, message, and setting development. His success is an emperor has no clothes phenomenon
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>muh upbeat olde brit tales
Who's the fedora here?
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Dickens isn't very interesting tbqh the only benefit in reading him is to get an insight on the period he wrote in
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Why didn't you like the Catcher in the Rye? The consensus on /lit/ (it appears) is that its shit.
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>>8133541
I thought it was alright. I also read it when I was 15.
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>>8133541
Because it was a bad novel.
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It's the archetypal YA novel, it singlehandedly killed literature.
guilty pleasures thread
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Why guilty? Did you just want to show off?
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>semiotext(e)
Pretentiousness incarnate.
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The Kingkiller Chronicles 2016-06-06 18:45:31 Post No.8132861
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have you read a better fantasy saga in the last 10 years?
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Yes:
The Great Book of Amber
The Inheritance Trilogy
Book of the New Sun
Urth of the New Sun
The Dark Tower series
The Dreamblood series
Lord of the Rings trilogy
The Prose and Poetic Edda
Ring of the Nibelung
I could go on...
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>>8132861
Yep.
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>comparing edda to modern day fantasy novels
Books with devastating endings
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> inb4 stoner
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Brave New World, Shutter Island, The Sun Also Rises, The Great Gatsby
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The Recognitions by William Gaddis 2016-06-06 17:45:44 Post No.8132656
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The Recognitions by William Gaddis
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100 pages in, and this is going to be a slog. Writing is fantastic, it's just long. I don't know about you guys, but the type is so small in my edition I have to hold the book right next to my face. I don't have bad eyesight.
Also, I get that this is partially about fraudulence, but he constantly uses this negative/false/descriptive technique (maybe there's a word for this I don't know) where he'll say something like, "it wasn't true what they said twenty years later at the Tabard Inn about his liking the homemade donuts or feeling up the girls at Smith Point, and it wasn't true..."etc. etc.
Maybe it's too early to feel strongly either way, but something about the over-use of this technique feels a little name-game-y. Thoughts?
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>>8132656
Finish the fucking book before you start these retarded thread
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>>8132663
Yeah that's fair - just think I'll forget by the time I finish in ten years.
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>>8132656
He uses the motif a lot, but there's a lot more to the book than "lol everything's fake". Read more of the book, you pleb.
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Want to buy an e-reader. What are you using and would you recommend it?
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>>8132244
> filthy carpet
> books just chucked into the corner of the room
> filthy shoe by books
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>>8132244
Kindle paperwhite
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>>8133269
This. Paperwhite is amazing.
ITT: Your favorite illustrations
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>>8132186
Tenniel in the Alice books
EH Shepard in the Pooh books
original and best
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Dore's
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William Steig's illustrations for Listen, Little Man!
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>guys don't read books
Why are books seen as girly? Or unmanly? Are they in fact girly and unmanly in the modern age?
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>>8131929
>wasting thought on what normaltrash thinks
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I don't know if I think the book brand is unmanly, but the passivity and introspection involved in consuming a book are definitely not traditionally westernly culturally masculine
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>>8131929
Its just an inferiority complex protection spouted by lower class wagecucks because they have neither the time nor the ability to get anything out of reading
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You have 5 seconds to explain why you haven't read it yet.
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because i'm not a pleb
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>>8130471
But you are a pleb, because you haven't read it.
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How long is that shit?
>Haha..started as a seed from the semen;
>Straight outta papa's nuts
>Lustin for creamin
>Bitches with big butts
>Curves make a nigga cry
>Tits 'n shit
>When I'm locked down beggin you for porno flicks
>- Tupac Shakur, Niggaz Nature
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>>8130188
No, its music that rhymes. Not even trying to be offensive, but you don't call lyrically focused rock songs "poetry," it's still music.
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>>8130188
rap is rap
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Go check the Warosu archives you fucking retard. This topic has been discussed to hell and back.
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Post a nice sentence that you recently wrote for your novel.
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>>8130155
A sentence is rarely enough, here is a short fragment.
Я шлa к бoльницe чepeз двopы. Чepeз дыpы в зeлeнoм зaбope мoжнo былo paзглядeть кopoбкy дeтcкoй плoщaдки, и дeтeй, пинaющих cдyтый мяч. Их pюкзaки и кypтки cвaлeны в yглy, нa плoтнoм, cтoптaннoм гpyнтe кoнcиcтeнции бeтoнa; иcкyccтвeнный гaзoн cвepнyт pyлoнaми нaпpoтив, oн пoбypeл, и плacтик нaчaл пoдгнивaть. Maльчик в жeлтoй кeпкe зaмaхивaeтcя и пoдcкaльзывaeтcя, пpoeзжaeт нa кoлeнкaх oкoлo мeтpa, пoкa нe тopмoзит лaдoнями. Я пpoхoжy тyт чacтo, я пoмню этих дeтeй, и кaждый paз ктo-нибyдь пaдaeт. Дoлжнo быть, oни вce в цapaпинaх и бoлячкaх. B peбячecкoй нeвиннocти мнoгoe пpячeтcя, a мы oтвoдим глaзa: хoлoдный бытoвoй мaзoхизм - я cдиpaлa бoлячки и ждaлa мaлeнькoй paдocти, кaк лимфa ycoхнeт, и блeднaя poзoвaя paнкa cнoвa зapacтeт кoжypoй. Дeти нa плoщaдкe пpизeмляютcя нe тoлькo нa кoлeнки и лaдoни, нo и нa лицa, cпины, гpyди, хoтя чepeз cкoшeнный зaбop нe paзглядишь шpaмнoй ткaни их тeл.
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I need to have sex
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>>8130155
It's about a guy and his love for chips
>Doritos, light of my life, cheese on my fingers. My hunger, my munchies. Do-ree-toes: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Do. Ree. Tos. It was chips, plain chips, during lunch, weighing one-point-eight ounces in one hand. It was Cheesy Nacho for snacks. It was Cooler Ranch at school. It was Salsa Verde in the shopping line. But in my mouth it was always Doritos.
What do you think of YouTuber books?
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>>8129989
I try not to.
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>>8129989
I don't.
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>>8129989
What do you think about contemporary Latin American literature ?