https://drive.google.com/open?id=1-DnLPfDs8_eKn-y1u7x5P0CVUzuDfAouZLLvKZ99kxc
heres my story for an english project. post yours
lana is so qt :3
>>8015405
Now I know the age old saying goes: 'correlation does not mean causation', but you just gave my grandmother cancer
>>8015405
i didnt understand that shit at all
I wrote some prose poetry, if you're interested in reading it, or calling me an uncultured fag--either works--I'll post it below
>>8015306
Do it. I'll read it and call you an uncultured fag.
>>8015306
You're a fag but not for the reasons stated above You are a fag you couldn't be bothered to find the appropriate topic for your shit poetry.
>>8015306
Who you think you are? I dont want to read poetry by a fag
Do you ever read while drunk?
Drinking is for people who can't controll their emotional state
No, because I am not a filthy disgusting violent smelly druggie degenerate. xXxStraightEdgexXx for life here, you have been pwned.
>>8015232
But it feels good to drink, regardless of how I'm feeling prior.
Any good horror books /lit/ can recommend
Already read
Carrie - Stephen King
Edgar Allan Poe's Collection
Dracula - Bram Stoker
Interview with the Vampire - Anne Rice
Let Me In - Jona Ajvide
The Vampires Lestat - Anne Rice
Dead Until Dark - Charlaine Harris (gay)
Why are you reading the gayest fucking horror? Try some Shirley Jackson.
>>8015220
>Dead Until Dark
Stookie Stackhouse is good pulp and not gay, you take that back.
Read something by Clive Barker
Ambrose Bierce > Poe
From iwkwipdeia:
H. P. Lovecraft characterized Bierce's fictional work as "grim and savage." Lovecraft goes on to say that nearly all of Bierce's stories are of the horror genre and some shine as great examples of weird fiction.
Gentlemen and "ladies" of /lit/, behold--my shitty compilation of the hardest English novels. Cower before the complexity and the sophistication of these works, and relinquish all hopes of reading them.
>pale fire
lmao
>>8015150
>comic sans
>>8015150
Really no Infinite jest? Are you saying that to make yourself sound smarter or admitting to us you cant read?
Discuss
>>8014847
This seems all sorts of b8
>>8014847
>Marx and Nietzsche so low
>Proudhon so high
Nigga no one knows who the fuck Proudhon is
This has to be bait.
This is a thread for the serious discussion of literature particularly by the famous author J.K. Rolling. She is my favorite author. Who is your favorite author?
fuck your shitty b8, but roll for this gutenberg shiet
I very much enjoy the works of Thomas Pynchon.
don delillo
Hey /lit/. what are some good books challenging that climate change is caused by humans, or anything along the lines of that?
step one: www.google.com
step two: click the box
step three: type "climate change denial books"
step four: castrate self
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Kuhn is a good place to start when attempting to survey any scientific discipline. After that, as long as you have accurate data and evidence you should be able to produce independent evaluations of scientific theories, especially if they're apt to always be wrong.
>15 years and stagnant global temperatures unlike what every climate model predicted
>but climate scientists still receive huge public funding
>the discipline seems just as corrupt as economics
anyone excited for when he does actually publish his delillo inspired masterpiece ?
don't know who ben rhodes is?
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/08/magazine/the-aspiring-novelist-who-became-obamas-foreign-policy-guru.html
>>8014599
interesting
He's a square. He sold out already. Fuck him.
>>8016375
what do you mean by this? or are you meming?
it seems to me like he's probably going to end up writing a real great american novel. he's right in the thick of things and stays meme free by reading delillo. he can save american literature from the cormacs and tommys
>>8014155
I will fill your mountains with the dead. Your hills, your valleys, and your streams will be filled with people slaughtered by the sword. I will make you desolate forever. Your cities will never be rebuilt. Then you will know that I am God.
Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
- Matthew 10:16
The fact that so many books still name the Beatles as "the greatest or most significant or most influential" rock band ever only tells you how far rock music still is from becoming a serious art. Jazz critics have long recognized that the greatest jazz musicians of all times are Duke Ellington and John Coltrane, who were not the most famous or richest or best sellers of their times, let alone of all times. Classical critics rank the highly controversial Beethoven over classical musicians who were highly popular in courts around Europe. Rock critics are still blinded by commercial success. The Beatles sold more than anyone else (not true, by the way), therefore they must have been the greatest. Jazz critics grow up listening to a lot of jazz music of the past, classical critics grow up listening to a lot of classical music of the past. Rock critics are often totally ignorant of the rock music of the past, they barely know the best sellers. No wonder they will think that the Beatles did anything worthy of being saved.
Nabokov on the first moon landing
New York Times, 1969
>>8014005
>Vladimir "Corncobber" Nabokov
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>utilitarianism
Who translated his Metamorphoses the best?
What is your opinion of him /lit/?
What am i in for?
Dunno about translations, but Ovid is universally considered one of the 3 great poets of antiquity alongside Homer and Virgil (and many prefer him to the latter). He's more witty, ironic, more psychological.
Metamorphoses is easily the single most influential book in western art. Until ~ the 17th century and the rediscovery of Greek the western tradition got *all* of its classical mythology from Ovid.
Can't help you with translation but you're in for sex stories which are beautifully told.
Who the fuck fits an S&M pun into a calendar in poem form? Ovid, that's who. Metamorphoses is way more openly bawdy than that one though so you shouldn't lose too much in translation compared to some of his other shit.
Learn Latin if you want to know just how slick his shit is, but I think he should hold up if you just pick Oxford classics or some shit. They might gloss some of the perverted shit in older translations but they have to left half of it in for there to be a book too. Sorry, not much more help than that.
minime, delet this
>he buys hardcovers
>>8013774
I love hardcovers. I want to be able to reread certain books after a few decades too. What's wrong with that, anon? Are you in a love affair with your yellowing pages, loose binding and creased spines?
>favorite books: oyasumi punpun, fight club, slaughterhouse five
>>8013774
If I'd buy paperbacks, I might as well just rent books from the library. I buy books because I treasure them, in addition to just reading them. Fuck me for attaching value to something, eh?
Books on story structure?
That story is structured like me eating your pussy
Crisis = me saying dumb unsexy shit
that story is structured like me making a shitpost
climax = someone sends me a "here's your (you)" pity post
A talk, a kiss, a hit, a break, a murder.
That was easy
Hey /lit/, this is my reading/writing set up. Try to beat this.
I read on my balcony with a comfy skyline view
>>8013443
>>8013447
I read in a big bed with my wife
>>8013450
I don't like doing that because I get distracted