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name an author who writes sex in a non-cringe, and non-purple-prose way. pic unrelated
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nabokov :^)
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>>7790113
is he not flowery as fuck?
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>>7790107
Pyncho. Can be cringey, but when so it's not entirely by accident.
Anyways the least cringey literary sex is probably that during which you think about the novelist the least.
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Is this still the most agreed on collection of essential books to read to begin becoming "well read"? I'm in high school and am looking for a list of books I can read in my downtime alongside what's assigned for English so I can have some basis for exploring into some slightly less well known stuff. I just want to read stuff that's good, and will allow me to read other books more effectively. Sorry for being in High School, I know admitting to being that young is something of a faux pas on 4chan, but you guys seem generally constructive.
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This is the pleb reading list that may or may not help you realize you actually like reading and move onto better novels
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>>7789942
To killa mockingbird is bad and is worthless for anything past the political commentary
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Use this one
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Who here has read In Cold Blood and wants to talk about it?
I'm almost done with it, and I fucking love it. You really become attached to Perry--I can see why Capote was so fond of him, despite his actions.I've read up to the point where they have been interrogated, and are basically fucked at this stage. Perry and Dick have just given their testimony of the events of that night.
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It's so good but it slows down towards the end with all the monotony of the trial
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>tfw no Indian million dollar word spouting bf
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This is supposed to be against the dealth penalty, right? But they obviously deserve to die for murdering an innocent family for a dumb reason?
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What authors have you read from those who do not hail from any of the imperialist lapdog states ("1st world")?
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>>7789872
I'm having trouble believing this picture is real.
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jiddu krishnamurti
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>>7789872
Something about that seems vaguely un-Hindu to me.
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It's funny how when a true intellectual writes a novel, it doesn't need one single bit of obscurantism. It's funny how it doesn't use the references / depth as a passport to keep people out / "challenge them" (as DFW put it) but to add extra enjoyment to people who happen to have the knowledge, while doing nothing to deter more casual readers (similarly to The Simpsons, kek).
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redditors and millennials like DFW books and referential humour because it makes them feel like they could come up with the same thing
its so easy for instance to reference something for a laugh rather than figure out an actual joke with a coherent punchline that is actually funny
contrast your example, the simpsons to a reddit show like rick and morty which is just references or a man burping a lot and acting silly
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>>7789868
>implying art is exclusively for the observer
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>>7789868
But Borges was a true intellectual and many of his stories only seemed obscurantist. He probably embedded philosophical concepts and erudite knowledge in his writing more fluidly than any writer before him, and was without doubt more graceful at it than sf writers.
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Recently, I read Robert Alter's "Pen of Iron", which is an analysis of the KJV Bible's influence on American prose writing in terms of style, syntax, and diction. The works it focused on were neo-Biblical works like "Moby-Dick" and McCarthy's works, but I'm interested in the prose styles of writers outside of the neo-Bibilical tradition. I was wondering if anyone can recommend me any books about prose analysis, especially maximalist writers like Pynchon.
Also general literary criticism and nonficiton recs welcome
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>>7789845
bump
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Has Nietzsche ever been BTFO? Who has the best counterarguments against his philosophy?
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>>7789806
Start with the Aristotle.
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>>7789806
>his philosophy?
>his
kek
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Pope Benedict has gotten in a few really good blows.
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I feel a massive shit comin on. I have a book of rimbauds poems and songs of innocence and experience. what should I bring in?
(pic just sorta there)
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>>7789689
is this supposed to be before or after GINSBERG joined NAMBLA?
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Has /lit/ read the greatest poet of the Revolution?
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>>7789656
For an analysis of poetry in relation to the revolution i reccomend literature and revolution by Trotsky
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>>7789656
of course
how does /lit/ feel about leaves of grass?
personally i think the syntax is pretty weak and Whitman gets really indulgent at times but its still a beautiful and impactful epic.
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>>7789649
Hippie bullshit. Read Frost or Hardy.
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A wonderful novel about the joys of homosexuality. How freely one breathes in his marvelous labyrinths!
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>>7789671
>novel
Is that some kind of Nabokov-tier review?
So I'm currently reading this and lm confused so did frank get his hole dick bit off
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>>7789640
No not at all finish the book retard
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>send in a short story to a lit mag that claims 1-3 month response time
>it's been fucking six months
>"submission: in-progress"
AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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From what I've been able to gather, this means one of two things:
1) They've rejected it and forgotten to tell you
2) They're genuinely considering it for publication
If it's been SIX months, double their standard response time, it's fine to go ahead and send them an email asking about the status of the story.
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no 1 wants to read ur biography of ur gay orgy's dude....
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>>7789629
This happened once, and I ended up being rejected, but they gave me a good response.
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How to activate patrician mode. 2016-03-08 21:46:15 Post No.7789624
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How to activate patrician mode.
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The Ray Bradbury challenge.
>Read 1 Poem, 1 Essay, 1 Short Story every night
>Write 1 Short Story a week.
Do all that for next 3 years, no excuses.
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>>7789624
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A tree cannot produce its fruit year-round.
Write only when you want to write, or else you'll end up shitting all over sheets of paper to hit arbitrary targets.
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>short stories
>valuable
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>>7789624
Where do I find essays?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNgqpkZMjiw
He's all you ever wanted to be, /lit/
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I saw that on reddit too xD!
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>>7789623
I hoped in vain at least /lit/ will not fall for the anti-reddit meme because /lit/ wouldn't be visiting cringeworthy bullshit corners of reddit next to all the great academic ones.
/Lit/, please stop with reddit stuff. We're not /tv/.
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>>7789673
how's it going reddit
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CAN FEEL EXISTENTIAL CRISIS COMING HELP ME LADS 2016-03-08 21:40:22 Post No.7789609
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CAN FEEL EXISTENTIAL CRISIS COMING HELP ME LADS
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RECC COMFY BOOKS THAT WILL SAVE ME
>i dont want to feel this feel
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Nothing can save you.
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Immersive/fun books to distract
>Watership Down
>Hobbit / Tolkien
>Narnia
>The Black Company
>John le Carre (can be a bit depressing)
>Gene Wolfe
Books to find meaning if the usual existential shit doesn't work
>Emerson's Essays / On Nature / + American Transcendentalism in general
>Tennyson (In Memoriam)
>Western mysticism in general
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>>7789609
be a man and embrace it. then, again, you're almost certainly just another troll that doesn't even understand what the term existential means, so...
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