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It's 13:20 in my time zone and I literally did nothing since I woke up. My hangover isn't even that hard. I neither wrote shit yesterdey.
Encourage me to write after lunch, /lit/
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read instead. isolate yourself completely, and pore over an idolized author. do this for 3 weeks. then, write. write something, and gaze in awe at your newfound ability. next, go back to that same author, and pore over that same work until you know it by heart, 1 entire year for one book. dream it, breathe it, eat it and shit it. now. write something, and notice how easily your mind is framed by that author, every word is one of his, every thought a continuation of his. write and write and write until you lose sight of him, and you'll notice that you have something new.
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>>7753594
alternatively, after the first year is up, forego the writing, and then move on to another single book and repeat the process. when i say isolated, you must remain completely alone, hear no one, speak to no one, become a monk, essentially. do nothing but read the book over and over again until every bit of meaning and prose washes over you.
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>>7753594
what you write will never be read by anyone
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I'm a good ways into this and I am starting to feel overwhelmed with everything that is going on. At one point I thought getting into this may have been a mistake because of how dense and massive it is, but it is turning out to be one of the best reads I have had in a long time.
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>>7752413
cool blog post
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>that shit
>dense
sage
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>>7752413
Sounds like you are on books 2-5.
"Enjoy" the rest.
Also, it always turned me off that it was written around a card game that never came out.
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The most successful GoodReads group is a feminist coffee table appreciation society.
GoodReads thread? Do we even want to use this site anymore? What are you currently reading? Your target for this year? Etc, etc.
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https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/50993735-emma-watson
> biggest book group on site
> only read two books
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it's rym for books, only with far more stupid teenagers. what else is there to use?
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>>7753856
We don't really have much choice for literature-based communities…
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Has there ever been an author as bad as this when it comes to retconning their own work for really no reason?
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Yes... the authors of the Bible.
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>>7752474
nothing compares
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>>7752474
Well played, well played.
Dante > Shakespeare
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Interesting proposition. Care to explain?
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Me > Op
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>>7749459
Dante isn't boring like Shakespeare.
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maybe we'll see again a specimen of pedovoreorum austisticus
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The Sibyl - Pär Lagerkvist
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Can we have a /lit/ guide thread?
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>>7744525
Bump.
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what are some books that will inform an involved social justice warrior, rather than a social justice craft dodger/tumblr-core bourgeois-feminist?
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>>7755000
*draft dodger. fucking auto correct
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Just kill yourself
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What does /lit/ say is the simplest/dumbest/most-accessible/most-plebian/lowest-reading-level book to still hold a decent amount of literary merit? I say it's The Outsiders.
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>stay golden, pony-boy
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>>7752563
What is that from originally?
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>>7752543
Of Mice and Men.
Gatsby did the death of the American Dream much better.
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I'm reading a lot of Mishima's work right now and I'm already worried I'll reach the end of it soon.
Can you recommend me any authors who share his aesthetic vision? I want to read about beautiful death and violent elegance. The Japanese historical context is also interesting but not necessary.
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>>7729643
>beautiful death and violent elegance
Try any edgy teenager's diary.
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The Iliad
Storm of Steel
The Saga of the Volsungs
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>>7729685
Well if you can point me to any published ones I'll check them out.
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It seems like your suggestions are all about historical, factual accounts of war. Obviously I haven't read them, so maybe I'm mistaken. But I'm more interested in the conflict of brutality and elegance that defines his style.
I'm sorry if my words don't adequately describe it.
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>Bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk
What did he actually mean by this?
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its supposed to be a really loud noise. Its literally "lightning" in a bunch of different languages "kammina" being japanese. If you are familiar with the song Finnegan's Wake then its the part where he falls off the ladder
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there's an image that got posted here that blocked each letter off and said something meaningful about it.
about all I can remember is that it is the thrust-together result of many language's word for thunder, and yet is an onomatopoeia for thunder.
there's more to it, but that's the gist.
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>>7755479
thunder I mean, not lightning. the sound of him falling from the ladder and crashing down
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Poem thread time. I need to present one of my choice to a class of twenty so make it count.
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Fleas by Anon
Adam
Had 'em.
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Paradise Loft
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>>7755458
I've got a fucking shelf life here.
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The Divine Comedy, all of it.
In Italian, don't be a fucking pleb.
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How To Prepare for Ulysses?
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I have read Dubliners and will read Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man before I start Ulysses. But what books should I be familiar with before I start this?
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>>7754226
The Iliad, Odyssey and Aenid, obviously.
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>>7754226
just fucking read Ulysses.
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As long as you love the sounds of words you will enjoy it.
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GUYS! I got an essay to write a book report about the book "Where There's Smoke" by Ed McBain. The problem is that I've forgotten a LOT of the names, literally every name in the book... If someone has read the book I would gladly receive a list of some of the names.
And also, can you give me some tips of some plots or other moments in the book that I should include to make it better?
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Bain?
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That's a big assignment...
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Bain?
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I noticed this on the new arrivals shelf at the library today. I honestly never thought I'd see Martin Luther erotica.
>She was a nun of noble birth. He, a heretic, a reformer…an outlaw of the Holy Roman Empire.
>In the 16th century, nun Katharina von Bora’s fate fell no further than the Abbey. Until she read the writings of Martin Luther.
>His sweeping Catholic church reformation—condemning a cloistered life and promoting the goodness of marriage—awakened her desire for everything she’d been forbidden. Including Martin Luther himself.
>Despite the fact that the attraction and tension between them is undeniable, Luther holds fast to his convictions and remains isolated, refusing to risk anyone’s life but his own. And Katharina longs for love, but is strong-willed. She clings proudly to her class distinction, pining for nobility over the heart of a reformer. They couldn’t be more different.
>But as the world comes tumbling down around them, and with Luther’s threatened life a constant strain, these unlikely allies forge an unexpected bond of understanding, support and love.
>Together, they will alter the religious landscape forever.
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>>7752650
is it erotica, or is it just some historical romance shit?
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>>7753496
Looks like it's just a historical romance, for women who like bad boy catholic reformers.