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This just came in the mail. What am I in for?
Steiner thread btw.
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>>8055473
Stirner, fucking auto correct
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>>8055473
Your bookmark is gay
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>>8055494
this
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Just finished the first chapter of Stoner. Fantastic so far. However, I an curious -
Was Stoner a fool for going into literature and leaving his parents some and not telling them about his change in major? Is the point that his life was insignificant at the university (as described in the beginning of the book) and had he gone back to the farm, he would've still been insignificant, but this time doing something he wasn't passionate about?
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why dont you finish the fucking book first retard
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>>8055389
this
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Is this worth reading or is it just a meme?
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you can find out by reading it
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>>8055365
Why is everything referred to as a meme?
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What a coincidence. I just picked this book up after finishing Notes from The Underground and other stories.
I wish I could write like Dostoevsky. He's so incisive. Like he can pull his words straight from the soul.
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why is breaking out into song such a staple of modernist and postmodenrist literature
it seems forced to me honestly, like everyone in fitzgerald's time was just copying joyce (i can believe joyce did it because drunk irishmen sing alot) and then the guys like barth and pynchon were mimicking them in some self consciously 'literary' choice
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>>8055315
Because singing is fun
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You never break out into a song with friends?
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I used to hang with these friends that would break into song at random.
It was fucking terrible it was like being on the goddamn Disney channel
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Hey /lit/, what do you think of Roald Dahl? He is my huge idol and I absolutely love his short stories. I write short stories as well and I get amazing ideas when reading his work. What about you?
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>>8055278
I enjoyed his children's fiction a great deal as a child and still have respect for it but his adult writing I thought was just ok, they're entertaining but they never stuck with me as anything great
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The only Roald Dahl books I especially remember reading as a child are Danny the champion of the world and boy, which I had to study in school, but I remember liking them a great deal.
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Roald Dahl and Shel Silverstein are patrician-tier children's authors tbdesu
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I want the sentence "Well then what are you?" to be spoken very quickly in one breath with no pause. Would it be grammatically correct to leave it as is, sans comma, or would I need to put one in? If so, where? After "well," or after "then?" I feel like both of those change the intonation of the sentence, the former placing stress on "well" and the latter on "well then," whereas I don't want either.
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why does it have to be spoken so fast?
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>>8055186
Why not just use dialogue tags, its you being faggy
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"I'm not sad."
"What are you then?"
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>at bookstore
>want to buy 1984
>see everyman edition and pick up that
>mom says why don't I buy the cheaper versions
>try to tell her those are cheap paperbacks which will fall apart in a couple readings
>try to tell her that Everyman hardcover editions are the most aesthetically beautiful books out there and will last me a lifetime
>she starts acting shitty and making a scene saying she won't pay that much for a book
>tfw she makes me buy a cheap paperback version
Why are plebs this clueless about books? They'll spend two hours shoping for clothes not letting me wait in the car, but for books it's just "get the cheapest one and let's go lol".
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>>8055159
>mom
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>>8055159
This is good bait. The elitism, the implications of mentioning your mom, the 1984, it's all there.
7/10
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eh 6/10, relies too much on predictable cliche
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Am I doing it right fellas?
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>>8055152
Reddit The Game: The Books
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Yes, you are effectively ordering from Amazon. Congratulations.
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>>8055152
both of those books are probably in the public domain.
Hello, /lit. I want to ask you about ZZ Packer. Well, not really. I want to ask you to point me to authors similar to her, or to works similar to hers.
I am a student of English (translation in particular), and I want to write my MA on translating the widely understood "Black English", and I may pick a book and translate it, and write about the process and the challenges. Problem is, I don't want to go to the obvious - Toni Morrison, Their Eyes Were Watching God, The Invisible Man, etc. I want to translate something relatively contemporary. I did a bunch of research, and came up with ZZ Packer. She seemed perfect -- a collection of stories, contemporary, includes a variation of English, didn't revolve about super dramatic events like sexual abuse or rape (which is quite common from what I've seen).
Problem is, she's already been translated. Digging through the goodreads lists is tedious, and I thought you could help me out.
Right now I am seeing if Krik? Krak! will do the job.
inb4 >ethnicity lit is trash
I just don't want to end up doing Sister Souljah or 50 cent or something
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>Has anyone on /lit/ read this?
no
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Here are your options:
a) Wardine
b) Cry
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>>8055134
what a trio of dross for endorsements.
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What are some other books where a heterosexual male character is in a homosexual relationship?
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your dads diary
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>>8055102
you would know tbqh
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>>8055101
women in love
You lied to me when you said it was a /r9k/ novel !
It's just guys getting drunk in a bar...
I read 40 pages and I don't know if I can continue, his mongoloid style is a bit too much for me.
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>>8055074
Who the fuck would call this an /r9k/ novel?
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Man up and read The Room, if Last Exit to Brooklyn isn't edgy enough for you.
Hubert Selby, Jr. can tap into the mind of degeneracy better than any other author I can think of.
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should've picked the demon instead
>caring what europe thinks of your literature
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>caring so little you make a thread about it
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>>8054986
Hey Europeans look at me!
Look at how much I don't care about you!
Over here, me with the beard, look how I totally don't care about your opinions.
What do you think of that eh?
Save it, I don't care lol
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>>8054986
More like
>caring about what people aged over 16 think of your literature
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weird/stupid question time.
has anyone ever written a book where you can't tell what era/year it is?
they leave out defining details.
we listened to music. instead of we listened to the record.
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>>8054974
lizards
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>>8054974
who is this semen demon?
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Random Oldfag Edition
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>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/
Any obscuremaybenotsogreat authors you'd like to share?
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>>8054973
First for Emperor Paul Muad'Dib Atreides, known to the Fremen of Sietch Tabr as Usul.
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>>8054892
>Write what you know, man. Don't write women at all. This is how we end up with Brent Weeks.
What do you mean by that, I thought he wrote pretty good women
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Just finished pic related. I thought it had some superficial resemblance to Haldeman's Forever War. In this case, a crew of two encounters different versions of the universe after every interstellar transition. Also, sexual mores were brought up every time. Originally written as separate books, it doesn't have the same strength of narrative, but was enjoyable none the less.
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>noticing your thoughts become more lucid, your articulation more precise and the breadth of your expressions greatly expanded after spending a time reading
YES...YES I CAN FEEL THE POWER OVERWHELMING ME
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M0nK3Y approves.
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>>8054925
I've noticed the same senpai.
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I get more tongue-tied and awkward the few times I am in contact with another human being after reading and spending so much time alone.