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Have you read any poetry at all?

>>7634754
I read a ton of poetry, its what I mainly write. This is a bit outside my usual style

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>>7654497
so it's reddit tier? Use words faggot

There are some good ideas and an interesting story buried under a lot of lazy presentation masked as "quirk".

Read the first 2 chapters and decide whether or not to continue from there

>>7654361
because it's shit. pleb tier genre fiction, incredibly juvenile, and completely lacks any discernible talent.

>>7654361
Because /lit/ is for the discussion of literature

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Because everyone here is a Harold Bloom enthusiast.

what the flipping fuck

If I go to a bookstore it won't be Amazon. That's for ordering online.

I don't get it, what's so special about an actual bookstore?

>>7653270
> what Mersault felt when he shot the Arab on the beach in the sun

What did he feel? Tell us so we can tell you how you completey misinterpreted the novel.

>>7653277
Nothing, complete apathy to the absurd human nature

>>7653277
Hot

I'm gonna name my next dog laska desu

>>7652969
>hasn't read diary of a madman
pleb

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>>7652969
>It's a 'Greatest ambulance perspecitve in western literature' chapter.

>>7652911
No, they have interviewed women and ethnic minorities before. I don't support liberal brainwashing like that

>>7652919
Anon...

>>7652930
Wow, thought I was on /pol/. I apologize.

I don't find that funny at all. We're just starting by the beginning, perfectly normal.

why would I gamble on a new author when there hundreds of sure-things i've yet to get around to?

>aspiring authors
aspiring in a dim far away sense
i'm sure those here who are actually published or do actually have a novel in the works probably do read new authors

>>7650921
None, im not a faggot.
No seriously the only newly published things that i find are utter trash like soccer mom books.

Any recs? No alt lit shit either.

Masturbating to hentai.

>>7650206
That's not /lit/ related.

Horns
John Dies at the End
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Currently really enjoying The Fountainhead

>>7654111
cool cover, the movies sucked

everyone else read it when they were 8

>>7654272
The Great Illustrated Classics version doesn't count you pseudo-pat.

He is an entertainer. An autistic one, at that.

If you just read Zizek for the fun of it, ignoring all the inconsistencies and goofiness, there is no need to cringe over silly stuff like this.

>>7654088
no no no i'm not talking about zizek
dammit

>>7654093

I see. Pairing a reaction image of an autist with text describing actual autistic behavior is going to cause confusion. Would it really surprise anyone if he did talk that way about philosophy?

Are you trying to get literary fluency only or do you want to be able to speak/listen and read? I only speak Chinese so I can't help with Japanese, but if you want the whole package of proficiency, I think the best way to start is Integrated Chinese (runs 4 volumes and is a great series) and find a Chinese-speaking girlfriend. After that use the Readings in Chinese Culture series and the McGraw-Hill Classic Chinese reader. Also watch Chinese soap operas (there are also some good Korean dramas dubbed in Chinese), Chinese Rom-Coms, and use Popup Chinese. Any Asian language has a very step learning curve, esp. Chinese. You will have to beat your head against a wall for a long time before you get anywhere.

And I can't stress having Chinese-speaking friends enough.

Please tell me what your level of proficiency in Chinese or Japanese is. It's not like Latin where you can start working through any text with a dictionary and a grasp of the grammar. You really need a lot of base work (and knowledge of grammar and basic characters) before you can even think of jumping straight into a bi-lingual text.

>>7653336
Just do some anime or visual novels, it's pretty easy and it's free

Don't let the lib babies hear you implying the world isn't machiattos and retweets and that some of us gotta fucking hustle

>>7652995
It's an amusing book of history vulgarisation. Don't let boring fucks put you off this book.

(Didn't learn much by reading it, but some of the "lessons" were presented in an interesting manner--it's so outrageously cynical it made me laugh.)

>>7652995
the literally hundreds of rappers who shill that shit can't be all wrong

filthy dumb frogposting scum

ian fleming isn't all that french

>>7652679
please stop bullying frogposters

There's a Musil quote from Die Mann ohne Eigenschaften that says "Before the law all citizens were equal, but not all were just citizens", Kafka and Musil regularly corresponded by mail and used to read each others work.

As any Kafka story there's a pretty limitless number of reads:
Identity (Metropolitan Judaism set against the more Orthodox tradition that could be seen in the door keeper "long sharp nose and Tartar beard") but identity is usually much too simple and I tend to stay away from it, its as remedial as analysis gets, imo.

Bureaucracy-
Usually the go-to critical read for anything Kafka does, as this story is found in the Trial (near the end where the priest tells him this parable acting as if its scripture). The idea of limitless doors you have to go through.

There's a solipsistic quality to it, with the door only being open to him.

The quality of what the Law is, being this tangible object that everyone should be able to reach, but the people its meant to be for can't. (Seeing as though Kafka Worked at a Law firm, this isn't a bad read biographically-wise, and obviously pops up throughout his work, The Trial/In the Penal Colony.)

There's of course the nature of obligation and ultimate failure, that its seen as though the Doorkeeper is trying to keep him out, but really his job was just to watch the door that was meant for the character, he couldn't let him in but the man could go in if he desired. The doorkeeper appears to be more loyal and following obligation than the narrative might make it seem, whereas the man from the country is the one who shirked his duties and had no trust in the system. Whether you want an existential Sisyphean read out of that, free will debate, or the idea of ultimate failure, thats on you. These are only a few of the usual first analyses of the story.

>>7652664
>Die Mann ohne Eigenschaften
Der.

>>7652664
Good post. Thanks.