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>>7851556
Guess you'll never know

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>when the flashman books were first published in America people mistook them for genuine memoirs

I have all of them on my Kobo, I've been meaning to get into them properly.

Pic related is a comfy AF read

Garbage

>>7851296

A very prolific writer of outlines

liberal

>>>reddit

Read a book based on where you'll be/ what your surroundings will be

why would going on a road trip mean you read different books than you normally would. just check the top 100 list we made

Well tell us where youre going so we can recommend some apropos shit

librevox

librixoc

libricocks

librvox

>>7851094
wew

>>7851094
>check youtube for audiobook of short story, to listen to during work/drive/whatever
>oh wow there are actually some by this author! cool!!
>don't see librivox anywhere, phew
>click
>nerdy fucking 14 year old, half a mile away from his microphone, speaks through a hailstorm of static "nnh this is a lirrifox recor'in nnnh all lirrifox recor'ins are in da public domein"
>starts reading hilarious story by saki in his nasal fucking voice
>can't help but picture this evil nerdy nasally-voiced pleb fuck on a ship distantly at sea in the middle of a hurricane, calling out barely audible passages of books i like
>try ten more times to find a story not by someone like this
>best i find is a woman with an actual cartoonish barbara walters lisp glibly reading lovecraft
>yell at my monitor WHY?? WHY WOULD YOU READ LOVECRAFT? YOU SOUND LIKE FUCKING BARBARA WALTERS!!!
>later that night have weird fucked up dream about barbara walters and myron from Fallout 2 following me around on a boat in a black-and-white storm, constantly harassing me through a scratchy 1950s ham radio

GO FUCK YOURSELF LIBRIVOX

>>7850902
What a poor soul.

I hope your life will be better one day anon.

I can solve it.

>>7850915
You're the archetype of [I don't know anything but I choose to ignore subconsciously anything that I don't understand]
>>7850922
Sure.

SJW shit that led to cuckolding phenomonen

to give them a good dose of white guilt. part of the indoctrination plan.

teachers only read it to their studednts as an excuse to say the word nigger

>>7850510
Moreover, if the line is not enough, here's the whole verse:

Now Jesse went to rest with his hand on his breast,
The devil will be upon his knee.
He was born one day in the County Clay,
And he came from a solitary race.

>>7850510
>does it just mean that he was a loner?
Yeah. Archaic use of "race", was common just to mean "solitary kind/sort"

>>7850522
Thank you!

>helped me immensely
>can't get anything out of the Epics.

It didn't help you then. What are you trying to understand? The meaning of the universe? Quit being lazy and retarded and read some more about them.

>>7850525
Yeah, what are you trying to get out of them? They're both relatively straightforward.

>>7850525
>>7850532
He recommended I start there and progress forward. I get why I should work through western literature chronologically.

I guess I'm asking those who have read or are reading western works chronologically if they consider the effort/project worth it? What sort of benefits are there from doing it?

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>>7850327

This book isn't all about music, it's a mixture of funny autobiographical stories and essays about music theory, politics, and other stuff.

But jeesh, when you read the section about music, you get a real sense of what a monster composer he was. It really changed my whole perspective on art and music in general.

Highly recommended, I usually hate autobiographies but this one is hilarious and extremely informative. He was a genius.

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What to Listen For in Music by Aaron Copland

Forgot to mention

/mu/ posters need not apply

>>7850262
t. cuck

>>7850262
It's too professional, and not showy enough, especially not for daytime news, and *especially* not for FOX.

>>7850733
How would you say it could be improved. I want it to sound right but not be horribly long.

God damn it, someone comment!

is this supposed to be a poem or something? go fuck yourself dude

>>7851267
La la la, can\t hear you

I'm a big fan of Thomas Wolfe. He was very well-known at the time as an intense, serious maximalist writer of roman-a-clef (i.e. thinly-veiled biographical) novels.

I suggest starting with "Look Homeward, Angel" and then reading "You Can't Go Home Again" and "Of Time and the River" if you like that.

For short stories I'd read "From Death to Morning" which is pretty neat.

He was one of the main influences on Jack Kerouac's writing and Wolfe himself published a book about his travel's west (can't remember the name but I've read it) and the style does resemble Kerouac's later writing to a degree in its lengthy sentences, emotional intensity, articulation of thoughts in a way that requires several adjectives to be employed, and a sort of obsession with articulating something until there's nothing left to articulate. Hemingway disliked his writing very much and accused him of being a self-obsessed amateur who couldn't express himself in an intelligent, terse manner.

lol more like gene wolfe

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>>7849802
I think you will enjoy.

Ludwig Tieck

ETA Hoffmann?

what has this board become

He was a pedophile.

>>7849172
agreed.
>>7849166
also, he supported NAMBLA.

https://www.ipce.info/library/miscellaneous/thoughts-nambla