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I think I read the first one a loooong time ago

All I remember is him and naked gold smugglers on a spinny space ship

The Martians were really tall and liked hunting fish

And something about there being no word for evil in the Martian language, so they said crooked instead lol

>>8075512
Second one is probably the best, I recommend checking it out

>>8075537

agreed Perelandra was not bad

It's not like Harry Potter. Though it would have been better if it were.
No, it's shit.

Someone post the excerpt with the Felurian sex or whatever it was. You know the one.

How the fuck people are saying this is good style ? It's really lame cookie cutter Fantasy. I've read 200 pages and I cringed non stop. Is Gene Wolfe the only good fantasy writer ?

>>8075349
Some examples?

>>8075377
Lord of the Flies

>>8075398
Have any particularly egregious excerpts?

>>8075093
That looks like it's some crazy avant-garde shit.

>The video game Mother 3 was influenced by The Notebook's major themes. Main characters Lucas and Claus are named after the book's narrators. The game's designer, Shigesato Itoi, a published author in his own right, compared the novel favorably to an RPG.
wtf

>>8075093
A great trilogy. Hungarians have some great literature. For example, Lazlo Krasznahorkai is one of the best writters today.

The first book was really good, very didactic in a way.
The second book is the one most packed with affects, I remember crying while I read it. Only a few books managed to do this. What is it that Kafka said- "An axe for the frozen sea in us.."?
The third one was the strangest one, the most "postmodern, if you will.

The Quran

"How to put a gun against your head"

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>>8075021
I got you bro.

>>8074816
because i can't fucking find it anywhere and i refuse to order books online

>>8074816

1. It's long
2. It's difficult

>>8074828
it was the only book I've purchased brand new. got it at chapters in Toronto.

there's no recipe except "read more and write more"; the more one reads the better one assimilates the language and carves a particular taste/aesthetic for prose

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>>8074746
I guess that's settled then.

>I'm shitter with my mother tongue than English
kys desu

This must be your first time posting here. I'd recommend asking >>>/co/ instead. /lit/ usually doesn't read things like this.

>>8074457
That looks like a comic book youd buy from some badly funded NYC comic meetup in a brewery by a chick with pink hair

>>8074457
No, you should read Soon I Will Be Invincible instead

i don't get it
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Are these... are these even jokes? What? Am I missing something?

you already know what the conclusions are
unless you feel you're a better sociologist and you're looking to criticise it then there isn't much you could glean from it really

>>8074289
>>8074314
Nonetheless, I can imagine intelligent people discussing the intellectual validity of this book on the basis of how the conclusions in this book were drawn. Personally I haven't read it but I know it causes a lot of butthurt on /lit/ and /pol/ but I have yet to hear a good argument on why the results and conclusions of 'The Bell Curve' were wrong.

>>8074332
realistically speaking it never has been proven wrong
there's a reason this sort of research is untouchable nowadays

One of the worst posts I've ever seen here.

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Everything is pointless.

>>8074180
shitpost. you don't even explain your opinion.

>>8074172
its cheap, why not?

>>8074172
Only depending on what it is

Their translations are trash. If you open up their Essential Kafka, the first line says he was changed into a "verminous, terrible bug" which we know to be objectively shit translating

Their english ones are okay if you can take the shit aesthetics and whatnot

>>8074172
I bought the edition of crime and punishment pictured and it's very poor. I couldn't tell you what's good but I'd recommend not purchasing that one

>>8074137
I think he's looking well actually, he seems to have a lot more energy and determinism lately

>>8074137
Is the full video available anywhere?

Is this guy retarded?

lame ass bait

>>8074115
Book is truly terrible.

>>8074115

Suffers from the same flaw of thinking that references are inherently worthwhile that cripples Family Guy and Ulysses.

>>8074045
are you an esl student? if so then don't sweat it

>>8074052
No, I'm not.

It's a very light book actually
What's thr problem thay you have with it, exactly?