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Are you asking me?

What is the good?

>>7744020
>>7744024
samefag

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>>7743937
How old was the youngest?

>>7743901
I know you're poking fun at the notion that she's been horribly oppressed, but you have to admit that she's one of the tiny sub-handful of legitimately funny female comedians.

>>>/tv/

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>>7743912
You are the cancer that is killing /lit/. We finally get a thread about a decent book and you want to destroy it, shameful.

Men generally don't want to read porn. Judging from the way you wrote your post, I don't think there's a lot of hope for your novel in general.

you should probably just an hero now op you're hopeless

Write for yourself, not for a specific audience.

Also this, >>7743856

Generally it's agreed that the mythos he founded was good but his writing is mediocre at best, generally poor.

>>7743817
>is lovecraft any good

yes

> should i just google for the notes

no

> a couple chapters in and i just google the plot and summary notes just so i know the tropes and concepts

does anyone actually read a book for its own sake anymore?

if you scroll down a bit you'll see another thread on this.

these are the 4 /lit/ takes:

1) lovecraft is garbage

2) lovecraft was original hugely influential. he's good but not literary.

3) he's not good, but he wasn't trying to be good. a man's gotta eat

4) nigger

Today I Wrote Nothing, or Zettels Traum, may make it into memehood some day

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>>7743798
>You will never grow up in the 19th century on a poor farm north of London, read English at Cambridge, pen your magnum opus, and die of cancer leaving your penniless widow with 2 young children

Why live?

>tfw Joyce always looks sort of weak and emaciated in his photos
>tfw he was actually a living breathing person who got shitfaced with Hemingway and probably assaulted others regularly

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>>7743771
half these stupid things mean the same thing. Intending to read/ saving for later
will never read/ purely for show/will never read

what if I don't find stories in themselves to be engaging

Catcher in the Rye is a pretty engaging story. Persuasion is probably the best story of Austen, though Emma is pretty good in that front too.

>reading for plot

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>>7743742
He's just telling it like it is. If you think it's whiny, then maybe that's a you problem.

>>7743752
*tips cabbie hat*

>>7743752
Oh hai taniqua redcoats!

why don't you make a thread where you don't post like a retard

I don't know. I've seen it though, and it fucked me up a little bit. The scene where he tosses her boyfriend's corpse into the bed was impressively disturbing, and I thought I was pretty immune to disturbing films.

>>7744481
He thought she was missing him and had to make the point he is not gonna save her.
>>7743725
Do you speak any Russian?

>Cargo 200 (Russian: Гpyз 200 "Gruz 200") is a Russian thriller film from 2007 by Aleksei Balabanov depicting the late Soviet society. The action is set during culmination of the Soviet war in Afghanistan in 1984. The movie's title Cargo 200 refers to the zinc coffins in which dead Soviet soldiers were shipped home.
>Though it claims to be based on a true story, it is in fact based on William Faulkner's novel Sanctuary, which was set in Mississippi in 1929.
OC like the professor of atheism going religion was complete nonsense but funny if you know where the myth is from. A lot of atheism professors became theology professors after the collapse of the USSR and they would naturally tell stories about how they were undercover christians all the time.

Does /lit/ not read gay black books?

there aren't any black characters in it afaik

it's his best book

>>7743796
His best book is Another Country.

>>7743704
Sounds like you need to grow up and be more assertive. Furthermore, you have not yet matured to the point where you have learned to function in an institution.

1. Give your boss, teacher, or professor what they want how they want it.
2. Self motivate and educate in your own time or during allowed discussion groups.
3. Repeat as you acquire merit and awards.
4. Attain scholarship or promotion, or resume fodder leave institutional constraints for better situation.

Stop being a child.

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>>7743704
quit being such a bitch. just admit to yourself that you aren't some god-tier student and sometimes you are wrong. plain and simple. wrong. that's why in the beginning of some books, dubliners for instance, there will be an introduction to help guide you through the novel. no one expects you to get 100% on the first read through, but if you do, whoop de doo. congratz. you've gotten better at reading a book.

And as far as your teacher, she is just another thing you'll have to cope with. that's the way some people are. is it great? no. but deal with it and try to get through your course as best as you can. you're only really hurting yourself in this matter. worry about your own interpretations when it doesn't matter, like right now on this very board, where you could be creating a worth while post instead of that shit.

>>7743712
I did all of those things. that entire list was what I did when I saw what sort of teacher I had.

>>7743664
Wolfe, definitely.

>>7743664
Best short story writer is Chekhov.

Ward No 9, The Bishop and Rothchilds Fiddle are his best IMO

>>7743649
>no recycling your semen
dumb as a bag of severe dicks, op.

>>7743653
Does recycling foreign semen count? It's always so disgusting after I came and stale semen probably wouldn't have the same efect..