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Tyrone Carrey's Epiphany 2017-09-12 12:17:51 Post No.10011531
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So... Is this what happened to Slothrop at the end of Gravity's Rainbow?
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The Culture of Narcissism 2017-09-12 12:13:11 Post No.10011521
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The Culture of Narcissism
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What books/authors are like An Abundance of Katherines by John Green? 2017-09-11 10:49:11 Post No.10011288
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What books/authors are like An Abundance of Katherines by John Green?
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My son really likes John Green books and he just read this one as his most recent. He did a book report on it, and wants to read something similar for his next book report. Any book or author suggestions?
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120 Days of Sodom
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How's the writing career coming, /lit/?
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>>10011246
I've been living off a half cup of rice every night for the last three weeks. I haven't even started my book, but I think I have an idea on what it will be about. Rent is coming and I WILL NOT be able to pay it this time around unless I do some disgusting things.
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>>10011303
if this post is true you should get a job or ask for help dude
it's not healthy
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>>10011246
terrible. thats it.
Great Expectations and a lie to boot. I'll find a way to get all that money back to you. I'll take out a loan, god damn you. Why would you do this? What in the hell am I supposed to think of this? I'm going to pay you back and there won't be another word, that's what you wanted right? Maybe I'll finally find peace away from your psychopathy. What the fuck.
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>He doesn't see the world as representation
ISHYGDDT
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>he thinks gravity and electromagnetism are manifestations of the will
o i am laffin
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Let those laugh that win.
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WoW lore thread (kind of but not really) 2017-09-11 09:50:37 Post No.10011054
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I've just started reading pic related and the first chapter talks about Wagner's Gesamtkunstwerk - concept of a total work of art, which he tried (and by many opinions failed) to accomplish with The Ring of Nibelung. It also talks about Volklore (or folklore) and Tolkien.
So WoW has a developed mythology that goes all the way to creation. It has a story, visual setting, music. Kind of like a total work of art, if we conceded on the "art" part, although at the rate we're going with virtual worlds, I don't see how video games would NOT be included into arts in the future. If a written play is the art behind the performed play, and a screenplay is the art behind the movie (again, I'm just laying this out there, I'm not sure where I stand on it myself), then video games are the next medium? I fought this for a long time but good God, it's not going away is it? Readers will be readers and consumers will be consumers.
And not only WoW, but video games in general, I mean if you played Age of Mythology as a kidyou've started with the Greeks
I'm not sure if I'm getting my point across, so I'll just stop here.
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just a bumpy
also, is it me or is this board extra slow this evening
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Wow, talk about a blast from the past. I remember reading this when it came out, back in undergrad when I still played WoW.
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>>10011054
Video games are an art, but they're a fledgling art form in some respects; in other respects, they borrow haphazardly from the established traditions of literature, film, music, etc. There's a Kurosawa quote to that effect, but about film - comparing a dog or something to many different animals, but ultimately saying it's a dog even if it resembles those others.
I'm more interested in the book you posted than the question of whether video games are art, though.
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>when your always right
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This is a good thread for a literature board.
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The
>translations
meme is probably my least favorite meme here. There are plenty of ebin maymays on /lit/ and they're usually somewhat humorous, but this one is probably the only one that has a real, deleterious effect on the quality of this board, in that it actively seeks to mock and discourage people from ACTUALLY READING BOOKS. People should not be mocked for actually doing things that would likely improve the overall quality of the board.
Of course it's not a "sincere" meme in its origins, but I'm starting to suspect a great number of newfriends are taking this meme way too seriously and immediately posting >translations wherever and whenever they can.
And I say this as someone who has reading fluency in 7 languages and read as many things in the original as possible. I will never ever discourage someone from reading a translation if that's the only option available to them, nor would I mislead them into thinking they should just expend their time on acquiring reading proficiency in new languages whenever they come across a new foreign book.
Pic related.
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>>10010977
since we started moving into modern English, the standard for translation has not elevated direct translation of any form. that's why the translations meme is serious because most translations in the english language have little bearing on the original, and the meme is to emphasize that every translation is a new work and at variable odds with the original.
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>>10010977
is this Bottom's Dream?
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>>10011004
Yes
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Am I really missing out on anything special by not reading anything by Chuck Palahniuk?
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intense homosexuality
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Rant and Survivor are really good.
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Stop shilling your shit on here, Chuck
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Any novels about rhubarb?
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Recommend me a book as unrelenting masculine as pic related.
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unrelentingly***
"The ables" by Jeremy Scott
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>>10010768
Sun and Steel
Homage to Catalonia
Most of Cormac McCarthy's stuff
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What would Peterson think of Deleuze? He rejects Derrida's rejection of essentialism which Peterson seemingly thinks is synonymous with postmodernism. Would he just write him off as a kook?
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NOT ANOTHER FUCKING MEMERSON THREAD.
Is the Quran a good book?
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yet another thread wherein the teen what made it bumps it for days on end
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>>10010639
The best
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>>10010639
Have only read it in English so I can't comment on it's Arabic poetry, but my reaction was mixed.
It contains some moments of fine imagery, and is successful in communicating its messages (monotheism, position of Muhammad, reality of the Judgement) but it is VERY repetitive. Pretty much every chapter ends up with depictions of the Last Judgement, the punishment of disbelievers and the reward of Muslims. Also, it really requires knowledge of the Biblical narrative, because it doesn't bother explaining who Moses, Abraham, Jonah (etc.) were, just retells snippets of their stories here and there. Worth reading for understanding Islamic civilization though.
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/books/ct-books-biblioracle-0910-20170906-column.html
>dude moby dick is so long and boring
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It isn't?
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>>10010537
To fulfill a university-wide requirement at my college I took a multicultural american literature course. The reading consisted primarily of native american literature and immigrant literature.
I don't remember the context but at one point the professor mentioned that she'd never read moby dick
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>>10010587
Why would be that?