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On Camus' Myth of Sisyphus. Cute watch :')
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Thanks for sharingsincere btw
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Are there any other pre-Lovecraftian spook merchants worth reading?
THIS IS NOT A THREAD ABOUT THE LITERARY MERIT OF B-LIST SPOOK MERCHANTS
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Ambrose Bierce and Arthur Machen
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>>7707970
Ta hun i'll have a gander
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The collected works of Poe are worth reading once.
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I read a book, I can't remember the name. Some or all of this might be wrong. Halp.
It's fiction.
Two people (female/male) knew each other as kids/teens. I think they lose contact and regain it later in life.
She's beautiful, I think at some point she's described as being essentially physically perfect.
I think the dude's job has something to do with the sciences, maybe he works in a lab.
At one point there's a description of why skin ages, it's fairly scientific. I think this kind of sciencey explanation of something happens a few times in the book.
The guy doesn't the girl out when younger.
There's something about how the girl is so beautiful most men are intimidated by her, so only a certain dickish type of man asks her out.
I think she ends up living in a commune or some hippy shit.
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>>7707928
atomised
particules elementaires
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>>7707929
Thanks, it's been bugging me all day. I love you.
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>>7707930
i'm surprised you didn't remember it (or i guess you did in a way)
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Go read Craig Russel's Jan Fable novels 2016-02-17 12:02:56 Post No.7707914
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Go read Craig Russel's Jan Fable novels
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they're really good, nuff said
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>writes detective novels
>name is printed bigger than the book's title
>once wrote under the pseudonym "Galt"
>awarded a "police star" by the cops in hamburg
>Wears rimless glasses in 2016
>fascinated by contemporary germany
>probably would have browsed /pol/ if he weren't 40
i think you wandered into 4chan good buddy
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Anyone read Kybalion?
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>>7707902
Nope. But I have read pic related.
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>>7707903
interesting care to summarize/highlight?
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>>7707902
Yes. It's not super but you need it if you want to know where Paul Foster Case was coming from.
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I-is this legit? Was he joking?
http://www.openculture.com/2014/02/david-foster-wallaces-surprising-list-of-his-10-favorite-books.html
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He wasn't "joking." He genuinely loved The Screwtape Letters, liked some Stephen King, and taught Thomas Harris. He simply listed his favorite pop fiction rather than his favorite works of literature. Obviously, if you know anything about him, though, it was literature that was more important to him.
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/thread
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>>7707836
inb4 nabokov-dostoevsky
What are some books similar to this about dehumanization and such? I want to write an essay on the subject.
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>>7707802
Blindness by Jose Saramago
but it's also really shit too
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thank you
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Lord of the Flies
The Metamorphosis
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War and Peace Translations 2016-02-17 10:39:49 Post No.7707777
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War and Peace Translations
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I never read any classics in school as a child. I to be honest, I can't remember doing anything in English classes remotely useful- but I read a lot. Mainly fantasy.
At university I stopped reading for a while, but a year or so ago I began again, found Ursula Le Guin and Gene Wolfe; from there I realized I was dissatisfied by a lot of the writing in the fantasy genre. Now I have looked into the authors they were inspired by; I have now read around Borges, Woolf, Dickens, and am now interested in reading War and Peace.
Come on then /lit/. I want to read this for the first time, and would like to know which English translation you recommend.
I've seen the shit flung at the fantasy genre for its bad writing, sometimes unfairly, but often it is justified. This then, should be an ideal question for you all. The book's already there- it's just a matter of which translation has the best prose.I still like fantasy. But realized that I also like writing for the sake of the language, and that, sadly, is lacking- especially in more modern fantasy offerings.
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Briggs
Or the revised Maude's
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Maude, no question
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Learn Russian language, all the translations are a joke and you are practically not-reading Tolstoy but the translator
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Books you don't have to read 2016-02-17 08:04:18 Post No.7707739
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Books you don't have to read
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What a piece of shit. Read it on the toilet- I feel that my time could have been better spent staring at the wall
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i think so too
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>penguin classics for a contemporary autobiography
Genius or absolute madman?
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>>7707735
He most likely paid them off.
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both
moz always wins
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the only book to get the Classics label on its first printing, Moz is hilarious
the book is actually pretty good as far as rock star memoirs go
it's witty and bitchy and occasionally has these bursts of profusive and melodramatic emotion
I knew it was going to be good from the first page where he goes off on this spiel describing how pathetically awful his thoroughly average English upbringing was. There's a bit about babies being "mercifully aborted" and spared the hell of life. Great stuff, classic Morrissey.
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Where were you when Reality got BTFO by this champ?
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Still blissfully unconscious.
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I think I was a florist at that time.
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>>7707718
I was not born yet.
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>You will never live in Minas Tirith
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I live in Minas Gerais tho
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>>7707695
Minas Troni is better.
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fucking walking up those stairs all the fucking time
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I'm a chapter into this.
Does it get better? Is it just pretentious garbage? What's the point of the writing style? Am I just notpatricianenough to understand? I mean, I don't spend my free time annotating Dostoyevsky or shit like that, but I'm a smart enough cookie to wrap my head around most of the freaky shit you nerds read.
That said, this right here just fucking baffles me. What's the general opinion of it on /lit/? Is there a particular way I should read this?
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>>7707689
It might help to be familiar with John Dos Passos' USA Trilogy (42nd Parallel, 1919, Big Money), which Brunner lifts some stylistic ideas from.
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It's not super deep, just has a slow start. It's gets more interesting later on, and faster.
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This book is awesome. I wish /lit/ talked about it more.
Anybody have that copypasta of when Pynchon came to 4chan and redpilled everyone on TCoL49 and Breakspeare? can't find it.
pic unrelated
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please tell me tyler posted that
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just wait until the archive comes back up.
it'll all be there.
promise.
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It'd be a lot easier if the archive wasn't down
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Thoughts?
Ever heard of him?
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+ audiobook links
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NXRnkpJoO9g
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hV-7kwFjfTQ
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bs9htH_7hRk
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Nobody?
Okay...