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A pretty accurate assesment

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>>7644709

>"Ser" instead of "sir"

This bothered me the most. Is changing the spelling that way really supposed to make it fucking fantastical?

I'm not even shitting you here but I just pretended that the characters were unimaginitive.

Humans have been bad at naming things for millenia, so why wouldn't the dumbass medieval people in these books follow suit?
Westeros isn't much worse than naming a place 'Greenland' or 'Iceland.' (Even though those names are deceptive.)

And Drogon is Khal Drogo + Dragon. A little girl picked the name. An idiot.

>>7644715
I didn't know what Ser was until I was mostly through the first book. Why did he do fhat??

what a disgustingly pretentious post.
saged.

>>7644636
>Right wing=Positive view of society
>Left wing=Intellectual

That chart isn´t even trying to look unbiased

It's cute when women try to write

>not a postmodernist
>not a Bloom favorite
>a woman
>a woman who is not
- young
- cute
- a postmodernist
>hasn't written a 900+ page doorstopper
>isn't associated with pynchon, dfw, or joyce

you expect anyone here to know who she is?

I just sold off her books Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant and The Amateur Marriage. I had such high expectations. I love realism. It seems like all her books are historical realism, which may be the least appealing type of book.

The least I can say is that he's got a very clear understanding of the way language affects people, and how to construct his prose to illicit a particular response. He ought to write advertisements, honestly.
Makes me wish William Bennett would write a book, but what are you going to do?

>>7644547
>Peter Sotos
holy shit
this man is a genius
thank you for bringing him to our attention OP
has he ever written anything about L&O:SVU? too easy a target?

>>7644584
>L&O:SVU
holy shit it's still on TV!!
on a major network! Ice-T investigates sex crimes, holy shit
you're fucked, america

Women like submission.

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>>7644387
> Anglo poetry

Nails on a chalk board! Make it stop, Mommy! Make it stop!

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>>7644387
Sylvia wanted an uncomplicated life where a man took care of her and told her what to do. Fascism for her was a desireable patriarchy, since being single meant fending for herself while subjecting herself to the whims of educated men, mostly phonies. She wanted a blue collar man to make her a housewife and exert his control so she didnt have to (badly) control her own life. She was the anti-feminist.

(tee hee)

>>7644024
Lattimore

We have this thread literally every fucking day just look at the archive, or even better look up samples of Pope, Lattimore, Fagles, Fitzgerald, Lombardo, Mitchell and pick whatever you like best.

>>7644240
I recently read a small bit of the Mitchell translation of The Iliad, and it was pretty good for an English translation. Is it recommended?

>>7643803
bumping

You forgot to specify a server.

>>7643577
it means nothing. it's bullshit. just take a shit in your friend's hand and smack him around a bit, and tell him that's post modernism.

and you know what's fucked up? you'd be right.
not even trolling.

>>7643577
weird for the sake of weird.

>>7643581
Quite to the contrary, the postmodern thesis would be that normality and "weirdness" are merely constructed through various modes of discourse, relative to culture, society, etc., and that they are, in and of themselves, meaningless terms.

Don't know you.

>>7643074

who is that cutie patootie

>>7643195
It is Plato you dingus.

>>7642521
>almost exclusively sci-fi
Still in the highschool i see?

>>7642527
For someone on a literature board you sure don't like reading.

>>7642532
Would you go to /ck/ and brag about liking instant noodles?

No, but it's more on the conventional side and it does not consistently flash prose at you.

If you're looking for something like Gravity's Rainbow then you'll absolutely hate it. It reads something like a detective potboiler with the occasional Pineconeisms slipped in.

>>7642470
What's a pineconeism?

>Wow, I turned into an insect (or "vermin," if you want to get technical) just like Gregor Samsa from Kafka's Metamorphosis!

Do any books actually do this though?

>>7642453
Camus in the Plague, though not exactly similar, brings up Dosto's 2 x 2 is 4 thingy. God Camus sucks dick.

>>7642453
Sounds like something Tao Lin would do.

>>7642317
The King In Yellow, Robert W Chambers. Big favourite of Lovecraft himself and referenced in some of HPSauce's stories.

>>7642317
Ramsey Campbell's "Who goes there?", aka The Thing. Published not long after " At the mountains of madness ".

>>7642317
Clark Ashton Smith's Hyperborian cycle.

tldr desu

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check out this meme I found on /pol/

Totally misunderstood Hegel.