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>>8020686
Whats at stake though anon? What is at stake?!

>>8020686
What is your underground man going to critique? Enlightenment philosophy is long dead. A narrator living out post-modernism could be interesting, but I imagine it'd just be infinite jest.

>>8020706
He will not critique anything. Or, well (wow, I will use that pun in the novel), he will express his desires in the ways the /r9k/-beta wojaks do all the time.

Besides, the underground man was unreliable to an extent where his "philosophy" stopped making sense and contradicted itself every second chapter.

stop reading memes you terrible fucking pseud

>he literally fell for the meme

>>8020560
Well give me some recs then. Does it make more sense to read some of the most celebrated works that people constantly talk about, or just pick books at random? I'll admit I'm not super well read, but everybody has to start somewhere. I figure the classics are probably the most sensible places to start.

just appreciate life, dude.

>>8020335
isn't this just like saying 'just be happy' it's not like a switch that can be turned on and off

>>8020343
dude just turn your brain off lol

It is great, and much more interesting than the american one. The lack of realism and the actual amount of fun picaresque/excellent poetic texts in pre 19th century english writing is surprising. I highly recommend it.

>>8020264
Dis

I was required to take early Britlit and late Britlit and the only textbook was all five volumes of this. Learned about loads of authors i knew nothing about

The edition i bought ten years ago came with a cd with recordings of some old english poetry, that was pretty cool.

>>8020116
>gf/bf
>implying

>>8020119
>>>/r9k/

No but my gf leaves handwritten poems in my lunchbox for work pretty often. They're usually childish ones (i.e. ones written for children) but I find them cute and they always brighten up my day.

It's too late for you. Work on your chemistry homework instead.

There is no human work of art that isn't about love and/or death.

One of the most important themes of the play is that you should do your own homework.

You've obviously never been in a NGE thread newfriend.

>>8020004

>in other areas art is judged soley for its entertainment value

What, retard?

>>8020004
There is no "right" way to judge art, dummy; it all depends on individual tastes, so stop fucking bitching.

my favourite is le raven poem

>>8019960
As someone who only read the Raven in high school, what should I start with?

>>8020001
The Cask of Amontillado, The House of Usher, The Masque of the Red Death,, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, William Wilson and then maybe The Narrative of Gordon Pym of Nantucket. They're pretty short except for the last one.

>>8019881
Rape is okay because the moon orbits the earth

Is the sub a tuna footlong?

>>8019885
dayum nigga now I want a tuna sub

Fuck, I found the answer pretty fast from google. The book is "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin, published in 1961

the man with the twisted lip

i dunno but there was a movie called gentlemans agreement where gregory peck, a goy, goes undercover as a jew to experience antisemitism

It's absolute garbage-tier stuff. It's mostly quirky humour interrupted every couple of pages by some hyperactive out-of-place "profound" passage written in a style that is obviously borrowed from DFW with the long sentences and the "not-quite-nights" and the use of several adjectives in the same sentence (e.g. "I had never felt so sad and confused and really-not-that-good and weird at the same time....").

But the idea that we are supposed to pity or identify with the protagonist is just repulsive. He mocks everyone around him for being dull, or popular, or athletic etc, often in a faux-Holden voice. Lara, his Romanian gf, barely says anything and just exists as this shy childlike girl who crushes hard on him despite barely ever talking to him. Alaska also falls for him somehow and when she dies he wonders whether she an hero'd because she liked him too much and felt bad for her bf.

Also the humour is sometimes clever or witty but sometimes it's so jarring and pathetic that it really is offputting. In the week after Alaska dies betafag and poorchad go between dry heaving in the showers and lying on the floor crying and making meatloaf-related puns and cracking "your mom"-tier jokes as if nothing had happened. It's such a formulate book populated by 2D characters who all have their own "thing" (Asian guy raps, Alaska drinks and reads, betafag quotes last words, Lara talks like zees about her being so foreign, etc). It's a bad book. Absolutely disgusting.

>>>/sci/fiandfantasygeneral

>>8019816
This is why kids take depression meds nowadays. Hell, after reading your synopsis I want some

>>8019810
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>>8019810
Most of his work is a crock of solzhenit

https://discord.gg/01016TZPAPULU3VTh somebody here would like to discuss Solzhenitsyn with you

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>>8019725

the mew of cats releases hurricane
the villages darkness mars the horizon
heat haze is eddying over dead lamps
and in the mid of day she doesn't smoke


guess reverting your poem i made it have just as much sense :^)

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>>8019725

>dusk of night

Please fuck me anon so that I can conceive your babies and then abort them for the benefit of humanity.

damn this silly english stressings, the second line should be

the village darkness the horizon mars

Yeah, it was way more interesting to read about human interstellar xenocolonialism than Ender's childhood.

literally /v/ - the book

Card wrote Sender's Game so that this book will be better able to understand. He actually had the idea for Speaker of the Dead first.

>>8019555
>People follow the phony sequel.

what's your sauce for this
I'm interested

>>8019555
that lookout giraffe is adorable, the foremost one, that one who checks the water for reefs