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What's the literature equivalent of this masterpiece?
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Infinite jest
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The Most Dangerous Game.
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Is this good? I like a lot of his lyrics, but does his talent translate well to literature?
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It wasn't terrible. I met him after a concert once and he signed my copy. It was great.
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It doesn't really have a story arc. But it's interesting to have a main character that is so self-aware. And refreshing that it isn't melodramatic, nor the opposite.
It's just sincere without being too matter-of-factly. Enjoyable to read, but ultimately easily forgettable because it's very short and lacks any real plot-driver.
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Legal Theory Reading List 2016-02-15 19:20:12 Post No.7700400
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I'm starting law school this August, and since I have a few months before I have to start studying, and some free time on my hands, I'm trying to compile a reading list of essential books on legal theory and practice (in particular American law) so I have a good grounding for when I start.
So far, I've got:
>Montesquieu, Spirit of the Laws
>Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England
>Kent, Commentaries on American Law
>The Federalist
>Oliver Wendell Holmes, the Common Law
What other works do you guys think are important for understanding the Anglo-American legal tradition in general, and doing well at an American law school in particular? Other thoughts on the study and practice of law, from a /lit/ perspective?
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Bump.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6cyDsuNx_U
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How to be a parasite
- any lawyer
What's your opinion on this book?
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It's not a book. It's a collection of books including holy scriptures (the pentateuch), history (the prophets) and literature (the final bits in the protestant and the jewish bibles) along with "the New Testament" which I know nothing about.
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>>7700309
>bible literally translates as "books"
>plebs still refer to it in singular
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>>7700309
>Iron Age goatfuckers trying to make sense of the world in the free time between fucking their goats and fucking their own underage daughters or just generally Yahweh ackbaring everything
>American evangelicals believe it's literally true
Wew lad
How do I break into the writing/publication industry?
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GIVE
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Started writing. Post book online. Book has a few regular readers. Worry book is just more YA bullshit.
What do I do?
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>>7700274
fuck tyour mother
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Should I even be worrying about this?
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>>7700274
Post an excerpt here and I'll tell you if it's YA bullshit or not.
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How to stoic?
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kill urself
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>>7700273
feel good
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be a roman emperor
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Best translation of Saint Augustine's Confessions?
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Just go with Oxford, Hackett, or Cambridge.
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Post Apocalyptic Fantasy 2016-02-15 17:53:56 Post No.7700193
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Do you know books set in a fantasy world , full of magic , mysterious creatures , etc. , as a result of an earlier nuclear disaster , as well as in " Adventure Time " ?
I know only, but I didn't read yet, "A Canticle for Leibowitz" (i know, It's a full fantasy) and the "Word and Void" series and the "Genesis of Shannara" books.
Thank you.
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>>7700193
Broken Empire trilogy is a good one.
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>>7700193
nightwings by robert silverberg
also try riddley walker
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>>7700193
Book of the meme sun
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Hey /lit/. I want to write a story, not necessarily a novel or a memoir at least not for now, but I want to do it anyway. It's a personal thing and I have no interest in getting money from it, probably no one will ever see it, dunno. This story has been with me for over a year and I have characters (with character sheets of sort for important ones), some scenes and a very loose sense of how the story will develop, but I have no idea where to start.
How do I organize myself? Ending first? How to write compelling characters? It's a mess of ideas so I'm stuck without having written much. I've read around for advice and some of it is good and most isn't, so I thought I'd ask what you think.
I have the time and motivation, just don't know how to make that first step...
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it's not that complicated: start writing, keep writing til you're done.
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This, basically.
Your first draft is going to be shit no matter what you do. No way around it, especially if you've never written before. Write ten drafts if you need to, with varying amounts of time between them. Then when you're satisfied run it by some people who might know what they're talking about and rewrite according to whatever criticism you feel is onto something
Might seem excessive but writing is hard, especially before you get used to it. But you don't need to take it too seriously as long as you're really doing it, no reason to give yourself anxiety about it.
Good luck friend
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Hi /lit/, I bought this for £1 in a charity shop. It's a hardcover from 1988, but I can't find any evidence of it existing on the internet. Any of you seen one of these?
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I'll double that.
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>>7700173
post publisher information
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>>7700173
Boy, that was hard.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Brave-World-Great-Writers-Library/dp/086307703X/ref=tmm_hrd_title_2?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish; First Thus edition (1988)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 086307703X
ISBN-13: 978-0863077036
Product Dimensions: 20.1 x 13.5 x 1.5 cm
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Survey time (just curious) 2016-02-15 17:16:04 Post No.7700115
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Survey time (just curious)
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Please, post your top5:
>Philosophers
>Novel writers
>Short story writers
>Poets
Rate each other if you want
Mine:
>Descartes
>Kierkegaard
>Aristotle
>Schopenhauer
>Montaigne
>Sebald
>Dostoevsky
>Beckett
>Bernhard
>Hamsun
>Felisberto Hernandez
>Walser
>Borges
>Kafka
>Turgenev
>Carlos Drummond de Andrade
>Rilke
>Pessoa
>Auden
>Rimbaud
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wtf is mouth
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>>7700136
I think it would be style, but I can't be sure.
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>>7700136
the thing your mom uses to suck my balls with
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Watched and rewatched this in the weekend, and I was floored.
So my question is, what us the /lit/ equivalent of Synecdoche, New York? What I seek is mostly similar themes and similar sense of weight in every moment and decision, wouldn't hurt if it was sad either.
Rec thread general
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infinity jest
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>>7700032
Borges for the Baudrilliardian part, kinda. Also Baudrilliard.
Ibsen for
> similar sense of weight in every moment and decision, wouldn't hurt if it was sad either.
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this t b h desu senpai
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I just finished reading this trilogy. Started off great but her pacing was off at times. The latter half of the second book and first half of the third were the best parts. Her ending was weak. I feel like she remembered she had to finish the book and just started wrapping things up as quickly as possible. I sensed a lot of feminist undertones from them as well. And while it wasn't a deal breaker, it kind of felt shoehorned (durr hurr women can lead too). Her characters (except for Regal) are fantastic and are what kept me going. Are her other trilogies better or are they more or less the same?
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The next trilogy continues from the previous one and improves the ending; other than that, I remember it being much weaker, although I was about twelve when I read them, so I do not remember it all that well.
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After the Farseer trilogy, she published the Liveship Traders trilogy. It's set in the same world, but in a very different setting. I enjoyed that series as well. After that there's the Tawny Man trilogy, which returns to the setting of the Farseer-trilogy and is a good read too. I've heard that the other series aren't that good, but I haven't tried them.
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About 70% done with Assassin's Quest.
Fuck, the part in the mountains just keeps dragging on.
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Literature on the Franco-Prussian war 2016-02-15 16:16:44 Post No.7699999
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Literature on the Franco-Prussian war
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I know very little of this time period and would appreciate some recommendations.
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Fuck.
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>>7699999
Iron Kingdom by Chris Clark, it's a general history of Prussia but its based as fuck. Go read it.
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>>7699999
I don't know too much either, but go check Maupassant and La Dernière Classe by Alphonse Daudet.