Can we all agree that Hop on Pop is the best Seuss book?
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>>7654924
I've never read Seuss. We don't usually read him here in my country. What happens if I read his works at age 25?
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>>7654924
dude what? no. go dog go.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxny1aa2OTM
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>>7654937
Nothing. You'll have no nostalgic connection with his work.
They're excellent children's books for many ages, and you might take some enjoyment from the simple, profound lessons his more mature books teach. Nothing life-changing, just a brief, cozy immersion in the simple comfort his prose creates, and the imagery which accompanies it.
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Was François right to embrace the new Islamic order?
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He was right to wake up and redpill some cucks.
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>>7652654
Islam is the ultimate redpill
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It made as much sense as Huysmans becoming a Catholic. Houellebecq pretty much constructs logical arguments in each of the books he writes, each of which is embellished with some depressing Case Study in the form of a depressed character who sort of resembles himself. I like his books very much and consider him the greatest living writer.
Is this book /lit/ approved?
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>>7645063
No, it's Harry Potter- tier
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>>7645071
Pls. Comparing this gem to Harry Pooter is just laughable.
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>>7645063
The fact that they actually chose comic sans as the only font is a pretty good warning in itself
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Palestine and Israel had Jesus and Zarathustra
Nepal had Gautama Buddha
Germany and England had Shakespeare and Schopenhauer.
Am I missing anything?
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Yes, sense.
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>>7659856
How do you mean?
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>>7659860
There's no obvious link between those groups of names and places. What exactly is this thread about?
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What do you think of these books? 2016-02-04 14:47:22 Post No.7659813
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What do you think of these books?
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I was considering getting several of them. I don't know, though.
Rabbit is Rich - John Updike
Rabbit at Rest - John Updike
Binocular Vision - Edith Pearlman
The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt
The Fugitives - Panos Karnesiz
The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan
I'm not keen on John Updike, but I thought I might give him a third chance. Pearlman is pretty good, and Karnesiz is great, but hit and miss. Some of those books are famous, some obscure. What do you think of them?
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No opinions on someone like Updike? Or Donna Tartt? Seriously?
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I never understood why the first Rabbit book is considered so good. I thought it was weak.
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>>7659829
The Gold Finch I heard of on the classical radio station in my area, the DJ said that was her favorite book of the year or something. So I've been meaning to check it out.
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What's the best translation of Robert Musil's "The Man Without Qualities"?
If I'm going to read a 1,000 page book I want to make sure I'm not getting cucked by a poor translation.
Options:
Picador: three volumes edition
Vintage: two volumes
Picador: one volume edition
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>>7659543
You sound too stupid to understand Musil, faggot. Stick with the meme trilogy because that's all you've probably read.
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>>7659550
Thanks.
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there's two translations afaik. gass didn't like the older one, wilkins/kaiser, but the older one has better prose. probably jealous that it's better than his crap.
I am going to write a screenplay. Does anyone here have experience with Final Draft? Is there an alternative I should look into?
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WriterDuet is free and great. FD is the "industry standard" but many people hate it. Fade In is better and cheaper too.
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>>7659546
thanks brotha
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>>7659503
ed is the standard editor
It's funny, but it seems each time I read James Joyce's “Ulysses”, it's a different book, begging the question: Has the book changed… or have I?
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you changed, obviously.
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I've been sneaking into your bedroom and cutting out and pasting little changes, small but crucial
Glad you're starting to notice
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>>7659472
What do you think, genius? Surprised you even read it with this question.
Proof read/thoughts?
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its good, write more, get even better. Anonymous boards aren't a place for decent critique.
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>its good
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It's a'ight.
If you're writing this for some sort of assignment you should be just fine, but if you're taking this seriously, I guess all I can say is keep writing.
There were a few points where i thought your sentence structure was strange. How you set up your compound sentences for the most part worked well, but in a few points it felt like you were putting too much into one sentence, and your long dependent clauses seemed to contain more important information that the sentence's base.
I'm kind of peculiar about sentence structure and specific words, however, so you can take that with a grain of salt.
Just keep writing. Try different things, different tones, etc,
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Does anyone have any insight into the works of Leigh Hunt? Would like to get a copy of his collected works/a selection, and was wondering if anyone had any recommendations/any other info on Hunt.
Same Q with Ezra Pound, in particular to companion/"annotation" books.
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literally google "companion ezra pound" and you'll find a bunch to cantos and his work in general.
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>>7659299
i know im asking which are good/bad/first hand experiences
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Leigh + Johnny forever
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resuming with the romans 2016-02-04 08:05:06 Post No.7659242
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we all know start with the greeks, but what about the romans? I am trying to create a reading list both for future students, and myself as I go on. so far I have:
epic poetry
ovids metamorphosis
the aeneid
philosophy:
Epictetus discourses fragments handbook
meditations
letters from a stoic
dialogues and essays Seneca
basic works of Cicero
on the nature of the universe
history:
Plutarch's lives
the gallic war
the civil war
drama
the golden ass
(I don't really know any others)
what else to add?
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I sure hope you plan to read them in latin, right?
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>>7659259
I actually am trying to learn Latin so not right away but maybe at some point
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What does /lit/ think of writing whilst on drugs?
I'm writing a novella right now, but I know when I switch between plot lines and characters it won't suffice. That is, I need to change my style in certain chapters to really capture the character's development.
I want to experiment by trying different drugs, then writing pieces of the book while still high.
Who knows, do you think it'd be refreshing having this sort of stylistic change throughout a book? As long as it's coherent.
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DUDE
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>>7659078
If you're not stoned while you're writing, you're probably doing it wrong.
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>>7659099
Checked
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Was Camus an anarchist? 2016-02-04 06:23:26 Post No.7658998
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So I've read just about every bit of Albert Camus' writing I could get my hands on (save his writing in different periodicals which I'm still getting to) and I've pretty much come to the conclusion he was a full blown syndicalist. He seems to idealize different anarchist figures in Mythe de Sisyphe and L'Homme révolté, and his essays on Algeria (especially his proposed solution) in Resistance, Rebellion, and Death read as if they could have been written by Kropotkin.
Do you agree or disagree? Know of any confirming statements? Feel free to tear me apart.
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Stop posting those fucking ugly covers.
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>>7658998
no he was a hack
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>>7659509
>no
all anarchists are hacks
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What is /lit/ reading these days?
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not that hideous Russian shit.
I've been really into language learning the last few months, and I'm just starting to read "more difficult" children's books in the languages I'm studying.
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>>7658975
Power to you. I keep trying to read Harry Potter and losing confidence after too many uses of the dictionary per sentence. I am pretty sure I know the first page verbatim by this point.
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A Canticle for Leibowtiz
I hated it at first but it's growing on me. The prose in the first chapter or so is ridiculously overdone but it's getting better.
Other than that, I'm trying to get into Romantic poetry, so I'm reading some Byron and Keats.
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>THE Measure is English Heroic Verse without Rime, as that of Homer in Greek, and Virgil in Latin; Rhime being no necessary Adjunct or true Ornament of Poem or good Verse, in longer Works especially, but the Invention of a barbarous Age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meeter; grac't indeed since by the use of some famous modern Poets, carried away by Custom, but much to thir own vexation, hindrance, and constraint to express many things otherwise, and for the most part worse then else they would have exprest them. Not without cause therefore some both Italian, and Spanish Poets of prime note have rejected Rhime both in longer and shorter Works, as have also long since our best English Tragedies, as a thing of itself, to all judicious ears, triveal, and of no true musical delight; which consists onely in apt Numbers, fit quantity of Syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one Verse into another, not in the jingling sound of like endings, a fault avoyded by the learned Ancients both in Poetry and all good Oratory. This neglect then of Rhime so little is to be taken for a defect, though it may seem so perhaps to vulgar Readers, that it rather is to be esteem'd an example set, the first in English, of ancient liberty recover'd to heroic Poem from the troublesom and modern bondage of Rimeing.
Jesus, we get it, rhyming isn't important, noone is judging your wonderful poem for not rhyming. We also didn't need to get berated by an introduction defending your style permanently. It's ok. Calm the fuck down.
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You're worse a sperg than Milton.
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>writes epic poem without rhyme
>defends it in the introduction
>steals lines from rhyming epics
milton you hack
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>tfw this is old school "muh style"