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So I'm really getting into noir/hardboiled detective stuff, and I need suggestions besides Hammett and Chandler.
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James Ellroy
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>>8098240
James M. Cain
Mickey Spillane
Jim Thompson
Ross Macdonald
John D. MacDonald
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New York Trilogy, if you want postmodern detective metafiction.
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This movie is adapted from a lost Pynchon novel. It has to be.
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I noticed that. Especially at the part where he was drunk and swimming after the mermaids and stuff.
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Is this movie about the kinds of nice guys who faggots on the internet get mad at
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>>8098710
No, obviously
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So, does /lit/ still refuse to accept that the King James Bible is the cornerstone of Western literature and the most important single text in the canon?
Don't tell me you haven't read the bible, anon, I thought you were 'well read'!
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>>8097421
There's literally a Bible thread every day.
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>>8097432
A bible thread and a Lovecraft thread, at least one of each everyday.
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>reading anything written before 1700
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>I have known her longer, my smile said. True, you have been inside the circle of her arms, tasted her mouth, felt the warmth of her, and that is something I have never had.
C U C K
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>>8097289
Oh boy I love these threads.
Here's another book in Cuckscript.
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>he finally gets some pussy in the second book and stops being a beta male
>ends up having a fight with her for no good reason
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>>8097327
What's cucky about it?
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"A bird can fly but a fly can't bird." Can you post here short sentences like this? 2016-05-29 13:21:01 Post No.8097077
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"A bird can fly but a fly can't bird." Can you post here short sentences like this?
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dude i was like what if i was a butterfly dreaming i was a man maaaan
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A man can fly
But a man can't bird
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for what purpose
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What would post-post-postmodernism and post-post-post-postmodernism look like?
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>>8096997
Just a reminder to report, hide & sage these /b/-tier summerfag threads.
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>>8097004
Shut up reddit subhuman.Just by this post I can bet that I have been longer on this site.
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>>8096997
It would look like something not so obtusely named
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/sffg/ - Science Fiction and Fantasy General 2016-05-29 12:33:36 Post No.8096947
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Animeedition.
What's /sffg/'s favourite tragedy of all time?
Snowcrashed.
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R E C O M M E N D A T I O N S
>Fantasy
Selected: http://i.imgur.com/3v2oXAY.jpg/
General: http://i.imgur.com/igBYngL.jpg/
Flowchart: http://i.imgur.com/uykqKJn.jpg/
>Sci-Fi
Selected: http://i.imgur.com/A96mTQX.jpg/
General: http://i.imgur.com/r55ODlL.jpg/ / http://i.imgur.com/gNTrDmc.jpg/
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First for Brent Weeks, Brandon Sanderson and Patrick Rothfuss
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>>8096952
Sanderson is unironically the only good one here (only SA though)
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Can you explain to me how Marcuse who's part of the Frankfurt School is so revered by the SJWs even though he's against the SJW bullshit and generally pretty reasonable?
>This sort of tolerance strengthens the tyranny of the majority against which authentic liberals protested. The political locus of tolerance has changed: while it is more or less quietly and constitutionally withdrawn from the opposition, it is made compulsory behavior with respect to established policies. Tolerance is turned from an active into a passive state, from practice to non-practice: laissez-faire the constituted authorities. It is the people who tolerate the government, which in turn tolerates opposition within the framework determined by the constituted authorities.
>Tolerance toward that which is radically evil now appears as good because it serves the cohesion of the whole on the road to affluence or more affluence. The toleration of the systematic moronization of children and adults alike by publicity and propaganda, the release of destructiveness in aggressive driving, the recruitment for and training of special forces, the impotent and benevolent tolerance toward outright deception in merchandizing, waste, and planned obsolescence are not distortions and aberrations, they are the essence of a system which fosters tolerance as a means for perpetuating the struggle for existence and suppressing the alternatives.
http://www.marcuse.org/herbert/pubs/60spubs/65repressivetolerance.htm
???
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>>8096930
> The group that makes hysteria a relevant pathological category again is ignorant
Well I'll be...
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>>8096966
I've actually seen him mentioned as the philosophical founder of SJW bullshit or something like that by people who don't like them too, and I just can't wrap my mind around it. Am I completely misunderstanding this shit or what?
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>>8096969
If you're referring to Cultural Marxism conspiracy theorists, then you're pretty much searching for meaning in a barren wasteland filled with shit flinging monkeys. Forget about Youtube philosophers and just read the authors. The Frankfurt School pretty much considered identity politics insufficient compared to class struggle (however we may define it as) and opposed the degeneracy of cheap entertainment for the masses.
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If you were to tell a person to read 1 book before committing suicide, what book would it be?
(The message of the book can be whatever - from "do it faggot" to "there's always hope" or anything else)
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my diary desu
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The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
that way it's easier for them let go
i'm trying to be a nice person
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The Holy Bible.
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Is Carl Jung legit?
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>>8096785
for psych, it's the long way round
for lit, yeah
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>>8096785
Yep.
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>>8096785
Sigmund Shlomo Fruad's bitch
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Can someone explain the 'prose' meme
I've been lurking here a while, but I still don't get this particular /lit/ meme of 'good prose'
Tell me /lit/, what makes 'good prose'
>I don't personally like a piece of literature so I'll simply attack it as being 'bad prose'
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>>8096735
It's simply if you think it's written well.
Many people hate prose stylists like McCarthy, although i've never met people who read a lot that don't absolutely adore him.
It just comes down to taste.
That, and not being boring as fuck, like Franzen.
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>>8096735
Do you go on /mu/ and ask people to explain the "good music" meme? Fuck off.
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Some guy will tell you something stupid like "good prose is 'normal writing' that pretends to be poetry",
but its not true
I struggled to reach page 90 of pic related and I just don't get it.
The book is boring, not very well written (cheap metaphores, silly dialogue), and the atmosphere feels like a cheap copy of Less than zero, but with iPhones and different drugs. This novel describes the lives of people who are representative of nothing. Rich drunk kids with ridiculous problems who are unable to communicate.
Thoughts on this book? Should I finish it, or would it be better to pick up something else?
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thats an attractive photo...
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his other stuff is better. I also disliked taipei. try to make it to the end though.
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>>8096577
What makes his other stuff better? What would you recommend? Thanks.
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are there any books that describe extreme alienation from society? It doesn't have to be super too deep for you stuff, like dostoyevsky or pessoa. It can be weird stories like the wasp factory, no longer human, child called it, the perks of being a wallflower, whatever. I just want a character that I can sympathize with. I'm looking for losers, loners, outcasts, people extremely alienated from society. I haven't read no longer human, but I plan on reading that eventually.
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And the ass saw the angel
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>>8095103
>2deep
>Dostoevsky
Stay off this board
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>>8095153
no you can't make me you fucking dick.
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>In the end, he realized it was the year 2666.
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>"What longitude is this sir?"
>"We're at the blood meridian"
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>And they all gathered to attend Finnegan's wake.
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>"I've now realized for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest"
>mfw
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Books about the narcissist way of life 2016-05-28 17:59:58 Post No.8093806
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Books about the narcissist way of life
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Any books on how to be more self centered/narcissist?
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You're probably already there like most people in this society
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>>8093814
thanks
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