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What books have ***almost*** made you cry? I mean, surely you've never actually cried because of a book... unless you're a faggot.
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>>8083980
>books
>emotion
Go watch a movie if you want emotion, faggot. Leave the sublime for the patricians.
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>>8083980
The Art of Racing in the Rain
There's nothing like the relationship between a man and his dog.
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>>8083982
Evidence that /lit/ doesn't read
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Me at 16: I'm going to be the next James Joyce.
Me at 25: I hope I'm good enough to be published by somebody.
How have your expectations changed, /lit/?
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>>8083371
In the similar fashion. I'm still determined I'll write something good, but I now understand the fatuity of comparing myself to or hoping one day to measure up to the likes of Joyce, Faulkner, etc.
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Me at 18: Got this awesome idea for a book; if I practice writing short stories then when I get older I'll be good enough at writing to do my idea justice.
Me at 26: Fuck, it didn't work.
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art isn't a competition
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Making my way through the Dune saga, and just finished Dune Messiah. I read in the introduction by Brian Herbert that Messiah wasn't well received, that people thought it went against Paul's character.
Why did people think this? I thought Paul's actions were perfectly in line with the original novel. He couldn't prevent the Jihad from happening, so he chooses a path that will (somewhat) minimize its effects and his role in them. Paul never wanted to see his banner planted in the flames of other planets.
I thought the plot continued from the original novel in a perfect way, too. All the elements involved are stated in the original novel, with Paul not wanting to bear child with Irulan and standing against the Bene Gesserit and Guild, so a plot against him should've been expected.
While the original Dune is still top tier and one of my favorite books, I felt this one was a deserving sequel. The conspiracy plot kept me from being able to put it down.
I'm in the beginning of Children of Dune now.Alia is my waifu.
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>>8081295
>muh hero
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>>8081295
>reading an star wars ripoff
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>>8081295
Messiah is the best written of all the Dune books IMHO, it has an elegiac quality and sadness to it which none of the other books achieved (or intended to achieve). It's also a great deconstruction of the hero myth, but you have to admit it's pretty unusual and probably not the sequel most people wanted.
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Portuguese Language Thread and Critique 2016-05-24 19:28:14 Post No.8079357
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Portuguese Language Thread and Critique
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Here we talk about stuff written in Portuguese. What are you writing/reading lately?
Also, post what you've been writing.
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Postando para avaliação e bump.
Pensamentos descreveram senoides, uma onda de rádio em alguma frequência desconhecida. Uma coisa disforme olhando para o abismo e que em seguida cai para sempre. O vento frio descortinou o palco onde residem as profundas reflexões e, por assim as serem, ficam escondidas em camadas de coisas triviais sempre ditas, anuências e respostas autômatas que se amontoam antes que a voz soe. Uma força invisível pareceu empurrar Estêvão para sabe-se lá onde. No céu Plêiades despontava timidamente seu sete-estrelo por detrás da neblina que começava a cobri-la com seus mantos vaporosos. Enquanto os olhos estavam presos na constelação que naquela noite possuía algo de inexplicável aos olhos de seu observador, uma chusma de brilhos surgiu na escuridão como cacos de vidro se esparramando, despedaçados por uma fúria insondável no silencioso, cada qual seguindo para uma direção riscando o quadro-negro do espaço com suas caldas azul-marinho.
“Estrela cadente? Chuva de meteoritos? O fim da raça humana?”, pensou ele, nutrindo esperanças de que o último tivesse algo de verdade. E como o resultado de algo que não se compreende bem, mas faz-se lógico acreditar que à sua conclusão uma explicação detalhada será entregue em um envelope dourado aos que nele meditam, assim os pontos faiscantes ao alto desapareceram, e se havia alguma explicação para tais, esta nunca foi dada.
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>>8079357
bump
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Amigos brasileiros, algo que venho pensando ultimamente e gostaria de compartilhar a discussão. Acham que as reviravoltas políticas que afligem nosso país nesse momento podem vir a desencadear um movimento artístico que influencia nossa literatura?
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Surprisingly enough, I didn't see one around so here it is. A thread for discussing and rating poetry you've written. Just post your poem down below and feel free to give a slight explanation of it.
You shant obtrude the fragile,
you, a deleterious pariah
with impact menial and agile,
skilled lasciviously in maya,
birthed to grapple with babel,
sprouting to internal vandal.
You, a grotesque psyche -
distorter of subconsciousness,
embracing yet spiky,
an excruciating phlebotomus,
awry begotten.
I wrote this to a friend of mine, a very manipulative and destructive friend if I may add. I guess I was angry at him, but I feel as if the entire text itself describes the features of a manipulator raw, as if it was an emotional dialogue. What do you think, /lit/?
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oh my god
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omg lol
i cant decide what would be funnier - someone actually wrote this to a friend, or someone went through the trouble to come up with this to make a b8 thread
a hearty kek/10 in either case
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I can see you're really impressed with multisyllabic words.
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I want to make my sister move on after the death of her husband. He died 5 years ago, but she keeps denying herself the opportunity to love again, and that despite she is a beautiful woman and is only 33 years old. I liked her husband and I know that they respected each other when he was alive, but I really feel she would benefit from start going out again, maybe seeing other people.
Although I know that literature alone is not the answer here, still I would like to talk to her and present her some passages of poetry or prose like the following:
Love Sonnet LXXXIX
When I die, I want your hands on my eyes:
I want the light and the wheat of your beloved hands
to pass their freshness over me once more:
I want to feel the softness that changed my destiny.
I want you to live while I wait for you, asleep.
I want your ears still to hear the wind, I want you
to sniff the sea's aroma that we loved together,
to continue to walk on the sand we walk on.
I want what I love to continue to live,
and you whom I love and sang above everything else
to continue to flourish, full-flowered:
so that you can reach everything my love directs you to,
so that my shadow can travel along in your hair,
so that everything can learn the reason for my song.
Do you guys have any excerpts to contribute?
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>>8090499
You can be honest here, are you trying to fuck your sister OP?
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>>8090499
>beautiful woman
>33 years old
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>>8090503
Doesn't seem like it. OP seems 28-ish and this would be an unusual dynamic.
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Does /lit/ like British comedy?
I just guessing here but I predict most of you here don't like them all that much, and consider their work to be literally /r/eddit.
I just finished both of Douglas Adams' and Terry Pratchetts' bibliographies, can you recommend me stuff that are similar in style?
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What's the best Discworld book?
What's the worst Discworld book?
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What's your favourite Douglas Adams novel?
What's your least favourite Douglas Adams novel?
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Monty Python unadapted scripts
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hey guys it's rpatz again
i notice a lot of you guys like to make threads where you laugh at others for their taste or opinion or whatever, but it's pretty annoying and takes away from my browsing experience. figured i'd make a general for all you guys to come and self-posture yourselves against all those spooky plebs out there
thanks, enjoy
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What's Eric Packer doing dressed so funnily?
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>>8090286
What's the difference between "self-posturing" and posturing? Isn't any form of a person's posturing also "self-posturing"?
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>>8090286
what book are you holding in that pic
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I didn't agree 100%
Do I have to stop sucking his dick now
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You aren't a writer tho
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>>8090109
he's talking about himself
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>>8090132
he wrote that post
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It makes me so irritated when plebs call grrm a "master." I mean his prose is decent at best and cliche and purple at worst.
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That's because you are a retard with too much free time who is bothered by stupid shit.
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>>8090079
And you're an anus, so...there ya go
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>>8090056
As much as this board shits on Grrm he did something the shitposters never can do.
He got published.
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Do you feel influenced by yours parents? I noticed that sometimes my mom says something and I take that without salt. I first thought this was bad but now I feel OK with this. Maybe I'm a good sheeple.
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>>8090010
My dad is an undereducated blue-collar pastor and my mom was born and raised in the Philippine jungle, so no.
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my mom is as mediocre as it gets, so she is definitely not.
i respect my dad, but i am not influenced by him either. perhaps in childhood, him having read a lot of books might have encouraged me to do the same, but i believe there are many other reasons to that.
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I'm inversely influenced by my parents. I don't want to become like them
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How long did it take you to realize that every author philosopher etc is just projecting his own personal experience on outside events? And that this projection is accepted merely because it is told in shared terms that make people think they understand/relate to it?
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>>8089823
not long at all, but every time I point it out the pseuds on /lit/ bitch and moan at me
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who cares
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>>8089823
What "personal experience" was Alonzo Church projecting?
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How do I purge my writing of the existential angst, Stirner worship, bitterness due to never having had female attention even through university, and r9k edginess in general?
I'm not capable of writing two pages without letting it show
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>>8089648
Just let it show then. Your writing won't be very mature, but not everyone is meant to be a talented writer.
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>>8089648
Write 1k more, you'll grow out of it. In the meantime, that is what you are.
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write about the life you'd have if you actually read stirner. pretend you ran away to venice on stolen money to fuck an immigrant hooker with AIDS who can sing. it'll be slated as a transparent rip off of dame aux camelias and donjuan but you'll be forgiven if you're young.
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where do I start with this chart, lit? Can someone give some basic guidance? I don't suppose there's any flow charts or something?
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Its surrealist shit, just pick one.
If you really need a jumping point then Street of Crocodiles will do it.
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>>8089378
>any flow charts or something?
here ya go anon
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>>8089378
I know its slightly unrelated, but Im halfway thru The ticket that exploded and I found out that its the second book in a series. Should I read The soft machine so I can understand it better?
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have you guys read this. I've never seen a book with such high reviews on goodreads.
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(((((((((((((((((((Goodreads Author))))))))))))))))))))))))
That's all I need to say.
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>>8089377
what exactly does that mean?
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>>8089377
what does that mean?