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>>8129890
what is r9k and what do they stand for. I know nothing of this site outside /lit and the Hacker that did the fappening.

>>8129900

Its a place where the miserable go to reaffirm their narrow self-depreciating worldviews. If you've never been there, don't bother. There's nothing of value there.

>>8129890
There is no equivalence between the Underground man and the anime-watching and 'vidya'-playing resentful frog-posting autists from /r9k/.

You didn't understand the book

Don't just vote and say nothin!

Tolstoy was a french loving bastard who couldn't write a passionate scene to save his ass!

>>8129040
Its not even a comparison, Dostoevski produced great portrayals of the human psyche brought to its ugly stretched lengths, Tolstoy produced YA tier period dramas

>>8129040
Both.

Why are people so desperate to make art into a competition?

>>8125727
Potocki

>>8125737
Jan Potocki, or Count Potocki de Montalk?

>>8125727
Raymond Federman, Jacques Roubaud, Alexander Theroux--3 great nobodies that all of you should read.

Bran goes back in time and prevents white walkers from existing and in the final scene we see all the characters alive and happy and we think it's all fine until Ned Stark chops off that dude's head again and we realize nothing has changed.

GRRM dies, books are never finished.

What do you plan on doing with such a thing?

>>8136586
they're just like eight years of journals from age 14 on or so, they're always good to look back to just for shits and gigs and have also been indispensable for different creative nonfiction things i've done, ordering events and getting shit straight and all

>not having enough to throw some in a river
gg

An excellent story.
Read it.
It should only take a couple of hours,and it's incredibly revarding.

>>8136143
kind of shit
>mu introversion

>>8136143
One of the best novellas written. Have fun.

woops forgot you guys don't actually read books outside your yearly charts lel

>>8136247
you're not the op

There's an entire genre of this called "historical fiction", OP.

no.

>>8136036
Do you want to read dnd? If you do, yes, but you ain't getting literature.

>>8136065
so it's worse than song of ice and fire?

Of the Bible? Psalms. Why are you burning so slowly?

>>8135985
I don't think I'm qualified to pick one.
It's the same with any ither medium.
I haven't experienced enough of it to say that "yes, this is the best thing ever".

vurt by Jeff noon

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>>8135561
>I know better than an established author who has many published books and who has been writing for 40 years

>>8135561
le wrong generation xd

>>8135588

If you can't see his glaring faults, you shouldn't even be here.

>>8135589

Not even slightly.

>>8135415
Dislike him. Writer of corncobby chronicles. To consider them masterpieces is an absurd delusion. A nonentity, means absolutely nothing to me.

>>8135432
Pay no attention to Nabokov-sama. Faulkner is great. Start with Light in August, it's his most accessible of his "big four." After that, do As I Lay Dying, then you might be ready for The Sound and the Fury. Save Absalom, Absalom! for last, it's his most challenging and most demanding work.

If you enjoyed those, I'd also highly recommend Sanctuary and The Reivers.

>>8135415
>is Faulkner just a meme
this board makes me want to kms

>>8135211
My publisher sold one of my novels to foreign markets where it was translated. I speak a little German and I read that version and wanted to hang the bastard.

>>8135221
>things that definitely happened

>>8135221
wait someone here is published??

>>8135112
There are shitloads of Swedish crime novels, I'm sure some of them take place in winter.

>>8135112
miss smilla's feeling for snow

Despite not being set in Sweden, Ethan Frome develops it's major themes through snowy, icy, cold imagery. Pretty quick read too

>>8135109

It lessens as you read.

Don't challenge yourself with texts that you aren't ready for you. Work up to them. The main thing for you now is building your attention/retention levels up.

>>8135130
/thread

>>8135134
wow, now you're like a full-on completely assimilated oldfag.

if there is any threshold above which a newfag irreversibly becomes an oldfag, methinks, it's when they reply to a one-reply thread with /thread.

I'm gonna get in trouble for telling you this, so try and act surprised, but the boys are preparing you a surprise party as we speak. congratz man :)

andrew george's

also, what do you think were those humbaba's auras? and those golems of urshanabi...

>>8135152
Thanks. I've been thinking to read this. I've been starting with the Greeks but isn't this the oldest piece of literature that we have? At least there are no prerequisites, right?

>>8135285
Wait, what I really mean to ask is this: is the story of Gilgamesh really important for the understanding of many other works of Western literature, the way the Iliad and Odyssey are?