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>he thinks flashy jumps and tomb exploring would translate well into book form

bump for interest though

>>8122391
Who dat?

>>8122401
Choose your own adventure schlock?

The old tomb raider games are shit tbph brw

5 hours a week of that? What is the plot!?

>>8122134
>>8122138
I want to see this.

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>>8122138
>>8122143
>Dota Player? Nah, they haven't done anything but Dota! Dota! Dota! They hardly have time for you anymore. That's why I told myself that I will never fall for a Dota Player. But there is one thing I didn't expect...it feels great when you are loved by Dota Players.

>>8122124
zlata
also,
hogg

>>8122171
i find that hard to believe

>>8122124
Considered getting the Selma Blair audiobook, because Selma is my waifu. But then I remembered I don't like her voice.

i think he was introverted unless impassioned by a feverish desire to express an opinion, otherwise, he was probably a very unpleasant man. what is it that you search for in the artist that you can't find in his work anyway, anon? the man will never be anything but the vessel from which his art pours. you will only be disappointed by his apparent emptiness.

i didn't know actual dwarves existed.

I've never read anything by him, but to answer your question: http://www.celebritytypes.com/infj.php


This means he was an extroverted introvert. No idea/disavow anything he says though atm

>>8122035
It's just you

How are you supposed to pronounce "Vonnegut?"

>>8122044
/ˈvɒnᵻɡət/

Is this book particularly similar to The Rings of Saturn by Sebald?

>>8121975
It is somewhat similar but with its own unique rhythm and direction.

>>8121985
Thanks, will probably check it out.

>>8121884
i picked it up a few months back, i read a few pages, then i leafed through it, noting that every
single
fucking
page
is lines and lines and lines and lines of dialogue. it looks fairly prolix and dense, probably a novel of ideas. I'm sure it's brilliant and all, I'll eventually get around to it, but It doesn't look like a book where anything actually happens. a vaguely hidden philosophy novel. but what do i know? nothing. don't ask me. i don't know anything.

>>8121898
thanks for the post I guess

>>8121905
what kind of books do you like?

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But the problem with this is that we learn who to be, too. And we learn not to be ourselves. We look at the successful people, the ones who played by the rules and we start to cut out the parts of our lives that don’t match.
And then we think surely we can’t still listen to punk rock or write open source software if we want to become star employees and make money. Or, if we really want to make it in a creative field, we have to fit what we’re doing into the mainstream.
We can’t be anything except the image of an employee or an entrepreneur or a creative that people want to work with.
We repeat this to ourselves either consciously or subconsciously and we start to feel embarrassed or ashamed of the way we were before we pushed ourselves into a shitty little box.

>>8121763
Well there's no reason to be weird just for the purpose of being weird. That's borderline hipster fetishism. A better message would be "if you're weird, and you've gotten to that point as a natural consequence, go ahead and stay that way" rather than just "hey be weird k?"

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When you were a kid, it wasn't like that. When you were a kid, you let your freak flag fly.

If he can't follow the plot of Finnegan's Wake you should consider putting him up for adoption.

Obviously (when the time comes)

-Narrative of Fredrick Douglass
-Of Mice and Men
-Catcher in the Rye, Nine Stories
-Lolita
-Night

>>8121511
Firstly I suggest you learn to write

It's not really that hard, you just need to get used to it. Get the Riverside edition; the textual notes explain all the things that won't be immediately appreciable to a contemporary reader. It helps a lot to read it out loud to yourself. But reading a modern translation is just retarded. Rather spend the hours acclimatising yourself and you'll enjoy it much more. It will also let you read other Middle English literature for which there aren't so often translations into modern English.

Yeah. If you can already ready English with ease, this is one occasion where the
>translation
meme should be taken without a grain of irony. Just be sure to get an annotated version and look into the pronunciation.

>>8121303

Start by reading it out loud, and look at annotations as mentioned above. Eventually you'll understand it like an accent or regional dialect. The rhyme structure helps.

É para falarmos em português?

A ultima coisa que li de língua portuguesa foi um dos livros de crónicas do Miguel Esteves Cardoso. Apesar de discordar de muitas coisas, nomeadamente na política, é um óptimo escritor e tem imensa piada.

Ando a tentar escrever umas letras para fados, mas não vou postar porque são merda.

(Respostando da última thread.)

Num grito invadia os pavilhões e nada se acordava por entre os bairros, guetos e baixadas que circum-navegavam os vapores calmantes do centro financeiro. No sono da indecisão os homens se atabalhoavam entre os pilares que eram também bússolas e não só aglomerados de convenções estáticas entre dois planos reais, correndo e pensando terem tido lembranças de algumas delas num dos sonhos que não nasceram e nem jamais haveriam de fazê-lo naquela noite. Por isso acelerava positivamente em direção à fechadura, querendo ser um camelo. Andava em passos largos, como a criança que vai de encontro à cova rasa não sabe que valas são comuns não pelo anonimato e sim pela frequência com que se cavam no solo virgem de algum povo que crê naquela terra um manto invertido ao qual devem tapar e cobrir com seus pedaços imundos e chorar com suas lágrimas poças de vida. No reflexo dos sais: essa é a história do conjunto, e conjuntos são a história.

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>>8121306
De preferência, anão; o OP é em inglês pela publicidade e o maior alcance.

Em relação ao que você leu, não conheço o autor citado. Recomenda algum livro dele ou alguma crônica em especial?

E, na questão dos fados, poste-os. Nada mais do que passar um pouco de vergonha num fio obscuro do /lit/ pode acontecer.

[...]

Quanto a mim, embora esteja lendo TCoL49, tive o prazer de entrar em contato, há pouco, com as obras do talvez maior ex-autor brasileiro vivo, Raduan "Lavoura Arcaica" Nassar. Não é preciso reiterar que o recomendo integralmente.
Em outros quesitos, tenho de confessar que fui memado e gastei oitenta Temers na edição meme do Infinite Jest. Alguém aqui já leu DFW? Eu sei que tem um anão de Minas, dono de uma estante de livros soberba, com a tradução do IJ, o que já é alguma coisa.

>>8121206
>Underrated
It's impossible to underrate Stephen King
>Overrated
Everything he's ever published

>>8121212
racist

OP, you're 13 or what?

black woman detected

>>8121181
I expected there to be a wave of resentment and idiocy, but I'm optimistic that it will die down and the adults can actually discuss books.

Go play in /pol/ traffick kid.

>>8121187
It still isn't going to go well. You tried too hard I think.

bump2

bump3

Fucking read it, man!
It's just a book, it's not bad (although unbearable if you take it as a burden). There are more difficult books to read if you have to pick; Palahniuk or Rowkling, Martin or Pratchett, make your choice, stick to it and drop it if you can't.
To misunderstand To Kill a MockingBird is not a great tragedy and you could do worse.
Read it and use a dictionary if needed.
(Argenfag here, Spanish is my mothertongue, studied English until it became easy and now I'm reading in Italian. Umberto Eco is making me his bitch)

Godot
God... ot

It's about waiting for God.

>>8121152
way to keep with the theme

go (dot) com