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>stealing books
Just buy them you criminal!

>>7790888
myanonamous

what's up with all of the fag talk? nobody here reads lol reading is a spook

Here's something you missed: nobody here reads anything but the 20th century pomo fiction and philosophy

>>7790802
I'd go with first person if you want to maintain a sense of intimacy. If you want that distant commentary style stick with third.

Why not both?

>>7790802
It all depends on where you're going with this, in third person it seems more cynical, ironic, the narrator has this detached quality, as if the particular, humane qualities of the character aren't of immediate importance compared to the greater point he's trying to make with the story, and in first person there's a similar detachment, but one which makes the character sound humble, as someone who sees himself as unimportant. It also sounds as if he's distant from himself or from a meaningful life.

Lovecraft?

>>7790788
A Study in Emerald is a a short story featuring a Sherlock holmes/Lovecraft crossover.

>>7790788
who is this erections fairy?

Peterson is based as fuck

>>7790749
He was wrong about many things but that doesn't make him less important.

Civilization and Its Discontents
The Interpretation of Dreams
Beyond the Pleasure Principle

>>7790749
reading Jung and not reading Freud is like watching the goodfather 3, without watching The goodfather 1.

>>7790719
The Odyssey, Penelope's POV.
Some feminist will do this one day, and won't be that bad if done well. If the feminist is a decent historian, she can fill in the 12 year gap that Odysseus is gone for.

>>7790728
It's not something a feminist could do, to be honest. The interval between Odyssey's departure and his return is essentially a society without its men, and the consequence is the subsequent generation lack discipline and virtue. They're either rowdy and cruel or timid and weak. It's not something a feminist could write. It's not something a feminist could admit. They'd have to change it to the women of Ithaca creating a utopia of peace and compassion without men. It'd be ruined by the next generation of boys becoming men and Odysseus's return.

>>7790728
Margaret Atwood - Penelopiad.

>>7790591
Derrida= Bluepill Jew Heidegger

>>7790599
>this meme again

>>7790591
There's nothing she says that I wildly disagree with.

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acquire the acmeists

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>>7790567

Fantasy/science fiction fag here.

I don't hate Young Adult Literature books but I lost touch with them after, well, I stopped being a young adult.

I fondly remember Harry Potter, Artemis Fowl, Abhorsen, Seventh Tower, and several other YA books. I don't retroactively hate them because I'm "smarter" now or whatever. I reread them every now and then for nostalgia.

Most of the genre fiction I read these days, is, well, for people in my age demographic.

A YA book would probably have to either have Harry Potter levels of hype behind it to get me to check it out (Hunger Games, Twilight, and The Fault in Our Stars aren't nearly as big pop culture phenomenons as Harry Potter) or a really interesting concept behind it (Hunger Games sounds like a boring world compared to the worlds in Mieville's books)

>>7790567
If I had to guess, I would say it's the laziness with which it's written that is insulting.

Take for example Twilight, or worse, 50 shades of grey. I'm guessing that you hate those things.

Just imagine that ALL YA is like that to /lit/, and now you understand.

What's the Fault in the Stars really about? "Bad things happen and you can't do anything about it"? That's a lame idea for a book.

There are fuckloads like Towel Inn, the problem is just that they aren't any good. It's easy enough to write
>rolled out of bed
>with nothing to do
>but play global offensive
>and post online about jews
-- the 4chan years

and call it a poem about gen-z angst or whatever, but actually elevating it to quality literature hasn't been done yet

>>7790552
Elliot Rodger. it isn't great literature, but its very telling when a complete autist is more honest about the soul-sucking banality of modern life than any respected authors would even dare to be

>>7790583
Hoellebecq

Its about stories.....

I don't get a lot of it either. I think much of it is just wonderous and beautiful without knowing exactly what Calvino is trying to say.

It's about cities which can't be seen...

>>7790526
Loved it OP. It was a very interesting and fun read. One of my favorite parts was when that kid wrote to his best friend's sister and she never writes back. It was nice seeing how the author wrote in a way that showed how you feel is truer than the truth and what actually happened.

>>7790526
It's the only short story I enjoyed in English lit. Wasn't overly pretentious, felt real and I had to put a lot of effort into controlling my facial muscles to avoid crying in class.

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>>7790672
*It was

>>7790514
Impossible to know if we don't know first what is your level of french

>>7790595
Two years of classes. English is my first language btw.

I'm curious to know some good books to improve my french with as well. I'm finishing up my second semester of french. I've heard Camus' prose is very simple, would that be a good place to look?