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Was it gay?
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of course
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y tho
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>>7681829
It was the gayest.
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What are some good books for NEETs? Possibly about NEETs, possibly catered for NEETs, just anything you think would be good for NEETs.
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Can I get a link to this? I can't find it anywhere.
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Oblomov
Notes from the underground
Hikikomori by Saitō Tamaki
whatever by michel houellebecq
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Ideas/What you're writing about thread
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I'm writing a short story about a man who wakes up in an endless room filled with endless junk. As he continues walking through the room, he finds himself in increasingly strange situations, which he finds has already been painted, which eventually drives him to insanity.
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>>7681763
Isn't this just a little too obvious? I'd read it, don't get me wrong, it just seems like the allegory is too obvious
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Why make the room endless? Just have him wake up in a real room. You can do all the same things.
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>>7681903
OP here, you've come up with an allegory I haven't apparently, I don't know what you mean
what did they put shakespeare's corpse ina bardybag
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Saged.
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What's worth reading by him?
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Nothing. Check out Freedom if you feel you must.
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>>7681750
DFW's obituary
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>>7681757
Oh that's a good call. Read this and nothing else.
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Top 5 author thread?
I really want to discover new writers and good books but don't know much besides the classics.
My current favorites are Vladimir nabokov and Gabriel García Márquez. I read A clockwork orange and enjoyed it but i cant see Burgess as one of my favorites. I'm current reading Brave new world and Huxley seems ehh as well. I know Fyodor Dostoyevsky is praised but i dont know if i want to start with him yet.
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>>7681685
start with the greeks
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>>7681685
Start with the greeks
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read the fucking sticky
Reading more than one book at a time: yea or nay?
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>>7681601
I do it all the time when I'm reading something long. Sometimes you just need to take a break from one book and come back to it later.
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>>7681601
Last year I think I peaked at seven books at once. At least a couple of them didn't get finished but I think it's a decent way to read. Think of that old Pepe pasta, if you get tired of one book rather than stopping completely just pick up another.
It doesn't work too well if one of the books is by Joseph McElroy though, he requires your undivided attention.
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>>7681601
3 or 4 books at once.
I never read more than one book of a genre at once though. It's a history book, a pulp scifi book, something that's legitimate literature, and so on so i'm always in the mood to read, even if I'm not always in the mood to finish what I'm in the middle of.
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.I am not worthy to speak loudly of Adolf Hitler, nor do his life and deeds call for sentimental arousal. He was a warrior, a warrior for mankind, and a preacher of the gospel of justice for all nations. He was a reformer of the highest order, and his historical fate was that he lived in a time of unequalled cruelty, which felled him in the end. Thus the ordinary Western European may look upon Adolf Hitler. And we, his close followers, bow our heads at his death.
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>This is now a meme.
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>>7681587
What a nut, damn son.
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Can /lit recommend vampire literature?
Fiction, history, folklore, etc. I'm particularly interested in literary criticism/theoretical interpretations of the figure of the vampire (obvious approaches being class and sexuality)
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Dracula is a good place to start especially if you're interested in literary criticism
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Not OP, but any good vampire hunter books out there with a modern setting?
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This post triggered me so hard.
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I've never been to this board, and I have a feeling that asking about Audio Books might trigger some people.
But I want to go on a long walk because I have a general depressed feeling and want to get some endorphins flowing. I also dont want to be left alone to my own thoughts so I want an audio book to keep me company on this walk.
I've spent my entire life (only 21 y/o) reading high fantasy and some more abstract stuff like Lovecraft. But I want to finally try "reading" a book that is 100% grounded in reality, and may even teach me a thing or two I didn't know, while entertaining me.
I think what I want is a good Crime and/or Detective novel.
Let me get to the gist of it
TL:DR What are the best Crime/Detective novels ever written, and which would be the best to accompany a fat dumby having an existential crisis while he goes on a long midnight stroll?
(pic related: its the last few books I've read, and god dammit, I'm pretty tired of getting invested in fantasy worlds that provide me with information that is in no way relevant to my real life)
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bump?
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Also, sorry ahead of time, I really genuinely have no idea what the "board culture" is here. Sorry if I "trigger" anybody by going against the norms. I promise this is in no way bait.
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p-pls
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Any thoughts on Clarice Lispector's work?
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I've only read a couple short stories by her so I'm not one to judge.
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>>7681387
It sounds interesting but I never even heard of her until a few days ago, so I haven't read any of it yet.
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When would anyone arrange their books that way
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What are some tips for writing battle scenes? Are there any resources or books you'd consider a must read in order to have a handle on how to write combat well?
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>>7681348
War and Peace and LOTR are definitely must reads for writing battles worth a crap I'd say.
Not only are the battle scenes in both of those well-written, but both Tolstoy and Tolkien actually saw combat which lends authenticity that they knew what the hell they were doing.
Keeping your sentences as short and sweet as possible is advice I've regularly seen given when it comes to writing combat, and I'd agree with it. Poor flow sticks out in battle scenes more than most stuff, and if your sentences are going on too long it could make the reader start thinking that you don't know what the fuck you're doing and you lack the ability to write a battle concisely.
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>reading the Mahabharata
>fight scenes are basically:
>and then Bhishma showered them with hundreds of arrows and then the Pandus showered him with hundreds of arrows and then Bhishma cut off their arrows and fired back with hundreds of arrows, which the Pandus cut off, and then they fired back with
>hundreds of arrows
My advice? Keep the physical descriptions concise and focus on the emotional and sensory aspects of the battle.
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Just write like Ernst Junger would, it's the most realistic.
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What are some great philosophical works of this century?
Of the few I've read, Objectivity (Daston, Galison), Alienation (Jaeggi) and Systematicity (Hoyningen-Huene) rank all among the must-read.
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>>7681336
philosophy is dead bro
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E S C A L A T E
H E I G H T E N
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>>7681353
That was fast.
Have another one.
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>He bought into the Fagles meme
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Vernacular? In my epic Greek poem?
Who cares
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>>7681298
The fact that you're memeing about this speaks more about you than it does Fagels. These ballads were heavily improvised by poets/bards using certain repetitive anchors so they would all communicate the same story in their own way. Fagels is doing the same thing here, continuing that very tradition by translating the epic poem in his own way. A lot of people will say Pope did not translate the homeric poems but wrote his own poem. In a sense though, he did the greatest tribute to the epic by doing it his own way. These poems are unique in that the adaptations and translations do not corrupt the essence of the poem. This is why translations, prose and poetic are equally acceptable.
No other stands to mind with the power of God's word in imagery, logic, and metaphor, save St. John the Ladder
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