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Best Dostoyevsky book? 2016-02-19 08:11:47 Post No.7715125
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I've only read Demons, The Gambler and White Nights. My favorite is Demons. The next one I'm reading is Crime and Punishment. What are your favorites?
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>>7715125
Dislike him. A cheap sensationalist, clumsy and vulgar. A prophet, a claptrap journalist and a slapdash comedian.
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Notes from Underground
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Hey I've kinda been on a kick lately and I was wondering what /lit/ thought of Brett Easton Ellis? So far I've read American Psycho and Less Than Zero, I'm currently reading The Rules of Attraction. I think his writing style is neat, his characters seem to be very detached from humanity which is depressing and interesting at the same time. I would also welcome recommendations of books similar to Ellis'.
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>>7714876
Ray Carver, only he's not an edgelord.
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I read Less than Zero a week ago. I loved the majority of the book but found the climax extremely heavy-handed. What did you think?
And how is Rulea of Attraction going? I was thinking about picking it up.
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>>7715019
The issue I've got with Less than Zero is that it's got three different climaxes-- the snuff film at the beach, the date with Julian, and the child sex slave-- and only one of them is any good, with the first and third being obnoxiously obvious and BEE's first dalliances into grotesquity without cleverness. And that part where Clay just tells his psychiatrist the theme-- wew.
Unfortunately, it's still probably his best book. AmPsy comes close, but Glamorama and Imperial are both kind of shit.
Haven't read RoA sadly.
Fun exercise if you've got time-- get the audio book for American Psycho and listen to it on shuffle. Actually enhances the experience and makes the munatie much more bearable and fun (the chapter where Bateman spends the evening failing to make reservations elucidated genuine laughter instead of oblique boredom).
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How does someone go about becoming a political columnist?
There's a lot of people who have opinions, but what about those of us who want to share them in writing? It's not even something I'd want to make a career out of or necessarily prioritize in my life, I just want to have a voice that fills the deep void in media wherein the opposing opinion is becoming increasingly absent.
1) I'm not a completely shitty writer, and I like to think that I have enough self-awareness to know this
2) I have at least decently well informed opinions -- even so, I would never glibly opine about bullshit I don't know about -- I can into research, datum, etc.
Do I start with the local papers? Email pieces to small online journals? Barge into the campus media studio and demand someone print my work Kaczynski style? What do /lit/?
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>>7714562
pls respond
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>>7714562
Start a blog. If you can update it with a reasonable periodicity, and the content isn't complete shit, then I think you can apply for job as freelancer in a small news site even if you don't have a large following.
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>>7715945
How to start blog? Should I learn some kind of webdev, pay someone to do it, or is their a site already set up for this kind of thing?
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Post books you've never heard someone mention online or off
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>>7714555
Judging by the cover this book is complete and total garbage
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>>7714559
Here's your reply
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I thought it was pretty good, nothing like Demons or Crime and Punishment, but I'm sure it's regarded as Dostoyevsky lite
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What is the best book you've read that was published in the 21st century?
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>>7713293
A time for everything
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What was the last book you read?
What are you reading now?
What will you read then?
Judge others or give em recs.
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>What was the last book you read?
Apology by Plato
What are you reading now?
The Odyssey and El Libro De Arena by Borges
What will you read then?
Maybe a greek comedy and The Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O'Connor
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>>7713138
>last
The Lime Twig. I really enjoyed it, though I struggled to understand some of Hawkes' ideas.
>Now
Mason & Dixon. Probably the comfiest thing I've read in a long time.
>Next
Larva: a Midsummer Night's Babel.
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>>7713138
Just finished To The Lighthouse
Starting One Hundred Years Of Solitude
Next will either be finally getting around to Ulysses or The Idiot.
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thoughts on bukowski? (anyone wanna recommend writers similar to him?)
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edgy shit
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>>7710412
his work is good
don't let his fanbase of pseudo-intellectual, existentialist teenage girls convince you otherwise
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>>7710457
>bukowski
>teenage girls
Bukowski is reddit incarnate
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/Lit/erary confessions thread, or: How The Average Man Learned to Love Showing YOU as The Pleb
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>>7716479
Poor form, her name and face really ought to be blurred. How would you feel, anon, if your privacy were stolen from you?
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>>7716488
>privacy
>stolen
?????????
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Could anybody recommend me some nonfiction books pertaining to any time period in United States history? I looked in the sticky but couldn't find many specifically for the USA
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The Unwinding, or The Power Broker
You won't regret it
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So where do all the settings and characters in The Temple of the Golden Pavilion fit into Mishima's fascist, samurai-era ideals?
Kashiwagi - A personification of Mishima's own insecurities, or the degenerate spirit that led the Japanese away from the glory of their past?
The Temple - Obviously representing pre-war Japan, and its spirit.
But what about all the other elements? Was the girl that fell in love with Kashiwagi's feet a symbol for how easily people are led towards degeneracy?
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>>7715931
Mishima's fascist ideas developed near the end of his career, so they're not necessarily formed here.
The Temple represents beauty. Whether pre-war japan also represented beauty is a separate consideration.
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>>7716261
This. It's like analyzing Hitler's landscape paintings with Mein Kampf in mind. Mishima's early work is mostly autobiography like Forbidden Colors and Confessions. Golden Pavilion is significant because it's one of the first where he's projecting his ideas about beauty, which is THE major theme in his work, onto events that happened.
What are some good writers that are also simpletons
>muh experienze!
>muh if you try you could make errors
>muh do things and you will be good
>muh read and listen everyday
>muh funny :^) devil carnival :^)
>jus be yourself :^)
Faust was clear idea to ending age started by Divine Comedy, but seriously Goethe is retarded compare to Dante, his epic is progressively worse (DC is progressively better), biggest joke is ending - stupid, NAIVE ending (compare harsh mediaval morality with forgivable morality of Faust seen by eyes of weak, romantic character - jus do thing and you will be all right! - hi la rious) that does not leave reader with any thoughts afterward. Anyway, Goethe still is genius, and his this books has a lot of great memes. How he did it?
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whats with being simple?
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Did you even read part 2 lol or just the last scene?
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>>7715940All Faust faults does no matter cause he at the end he wanted to make good for others.How it is not naive and overly forgivable conclusion
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> “We can be reluctant to recognize how much of our culture was literary, particularly now that so many of the institutional purveyors of literature happily have joined in proclaiming its death. A substantial number of Americans who believe they worship God actually worship three major literary characters: the Yahweh of the J Writer (earliest author of Genesis, Exodus, Numbers), the Jesus of the Gospel of Mark, and Allah of the Koran.”
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>>7715780
>pic of J*hn Gr**n
autohide
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do Jews worship Yahweh?
how do they do that, hide under a rock?
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I always love guessing where the quote originally came from, even though 90% of the time it's Bloom
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To start with Dovsto, shoud i read first Memes From The Underground or Crime and Punishmement?
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Crime and punishment of course.
Don't start notes from the undergroundif you don't want to get depressed
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they're two separate books. it doesn't matter.
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>>7715675
>Memes
Stop before you start.
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Anybody know where I can read "Suicide As A Sort of Present" online?
Preferably in PDF form.
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No.
Sorry.
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That isn't actually a picture of wallace is it? That fucking pose is hilarious.
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>>7716015
Maybe if you've actually read DFW you'd realize he describes that pose many times in his works.
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Just ordered this book on Amazon. What am I in for? 2016-02-19 06:04:04 Post No.7714912
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Just ordered this book on Amazon. What am I in for?
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P.S. I ordered it because a musician I greatly admire mentioned reading it, in an interview.
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It's good if you can't seem to see the forest from the trees, also I don't know where I'm going but I sure know where I've been, girl.