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Is this book good?
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no read book of the new sun instead its much better
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>no
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My name is Ishmael.
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A screaming comes across the skies.
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A shooting goes through the sky! There have been rockets before, but noone remembers them now. It is late. The lockdown is still attempted but it's all in vain. There is no light inside the bus. No lights anywhere. Above him lift burgers old as a string bean, and light somewhere far above to let the glass of night through. But it's day. He is afraid of the way the rocket will fall. The fall of a silver mansion. But coming down in complete silence without any sound. Only loud, opaque, smashing.
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chubby statesman, buck mulligan walked down the stairs shaving like a fool.
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>tfw have to read The Hobbit/entire LOTR trilogy for class this semester
As someone who mostly just likes classics and dislikes Harry Potter, what am I in for? Is the plot/prose intriguing enough to keep me entertained?
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>>7639366
>comparing Tolkien to J.K. Rowling
If this is bait then im afraid its got me on the line
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>>7639366
Well he created his world on the back of scholasticism. Attention to history, geography, lingustics, cultural development, poetry and folklore, it's all clearly written by someone who spent years in academia studying these sort of things and applying them in a fictional environment. And as such it almost sometimes occasionally has the "found document" feel that someone like Borges comes across. However this staggers off in the second and third books. And his prose is over-quaint and occasionally irritating, his dialogue in particular is horrendous like some public domain translation from the 19th century. And besides The Hobbit, which is just a straightforward adventure novel, he has some serious pacing problems. His world and particularly how he develops it is interesting but other than that I have no idea why it would be assigned reading.
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What do you think about this man?
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his head was probably very shiny
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Here's a photo of him in hell.
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>>7638766
He was dead the whole time
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Opinions on Word Runner? Anyone uses it? I actually liked it because I focus alot more but I think its more suitable for fiction mostly (its kind of annoying to get back to few words if you don't understand in the first time, which happens quite a few with philosophy dialogues for example).
>pic related Kindle app on android
> "Palavras por minuto" = "Words per minute"
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What's the point ? Yeah you save a couple of minutes but you probably don't need them anyways
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>>7640597
If possible, why not try to improve?
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> Book ends with the protag revealing that he's writing a biography named [book's title.]
What"s your book dropper?
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>dropping the book at the end
kill yourself filthy dumb frogposting scum
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>>7640413
How could I avoid it? Tell me, HOW?
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>>7640411
turn the book drop into the "through line" that pulls the reader to the end of reading your Mcliterature with fries. You have to give the reader something to go on that will get them to go past chapter 5
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Hey /lit/.
I could really do with some inspiration right now so can we be like /ic/ and attempt a progress thread?
I'll start:
>2011
Early morning sunlight rippled over the gently stirring waves, as a small merchant vessel sailed softly northwards on a vast ocean. The red semi circle of sun over the horizon was pleasant, whilst a small breeze whistled in the salty air, calling forlornly to no one. There were no clouds in the slowly illuminating sky and in that strange transition period between night and day Aisha’s immense dual-moons were still perceivable.
>2012
To say my arm stung would be an understatement. The pain was immense and I felt light-headed; I could already feel fevers fickle fingers beginning to cling to me. I had bandaged it up as best as I could, but I wasn't a nurse, and a foul mixture of pus and blood had began to seep through. I could literally smell it festering. Or maybe that was my over active imagination, everywhere and everything smelt dead and foetid nowadays.
>2013
The doctor span his lustrous Fryer quill between his fingers, the front foot in his cross legged position swinging idly. His crisp slacks revealing a pair of thin beige socks. Behind him, through a wide spotless window, Trent could make out lanes of unique airships depositing and loading their wares in the docks. In the quiet moments he could hear their collective drone; a comforting sound.
>2014
As we settled down to sleep, crushed amongst the confines of our one-man tent, she kissed me. Full. On the lips. It was a short kiss, careful and delicate. My lips stayed unmoved. When she had pulled away, she settled down, curling herself against the lines of my body, embryonic. I held her tightly, lending her warmth and comfort. I watched her fall asleep, her form rising and falling slowly, a dirty hand clutched to the corner of her mouth.
>2015
As though an echo she had returned to places of note, drawn not by logic but something more elusive; a thread unwinding from the hem of her dress that she followed to and beyond lost locations, focused entirely on the evanesce of the silvery wisp.
Despite the undisturbed nature of the island, the trail she took was well worn into her mind, and she had returned to the spot where her home had once been or would be, to where she would lay her head and watch the stars, to the small patch once round the back where an old nag would bristle and bridle as the sun fell and now the grass grew knee-high.
>2016
Below the bridge at Whitehall, there is an alcove. If you take the stairs at the hours when the tide is lowest you can reach it, pressed upright against the wall and mirroring a crab with your toes in the sludge. Once there, swallowed by the recess, you can climb the concrete slope and, in the damp seclusion, breathe.
If you care to look for them you will find memories there, in the old stone walls, imprinted in chalk. Entwined names of entwined lovers, merging together to form an enduring, oddly intimate orgy.
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I don't understand the plot.
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No discernable progress.
Just read two books about failing marriages, and I'm looking for some lighter reading. What does /lit/ think of Journey to the Center of the Earth or the Invisible Man? Which is best?
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The Invisible Man is not cheerful reading. Go with Journey.
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>>7640350
Thanks, senpai. I enjoyed Stoner and kind of enjoyed Beautiful and the Damned, but they were downers to say the least.
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Is it possible to major in literature even when English is your second language?
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It's not even feasible to aim a poo into a toilet properly if English is your second language.
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>>7639993
Epic XD
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>>7639961
Depends how good your English is, obviously.
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How was this man so amazing at poetry?
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He could close and open me up any day
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Why are there cum and sweat stains all over his shirt. This image makes me want to vomit
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thats just
like
your opinion,
man
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Literature for 400
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>>7639256
What is daveposting?
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>>7639256
Postmodernism
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What is Holden raped Phoepe?
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Reading pic related at the moment
> "... with great rapidity!"
> " ... it was indescribable!"
> fish lists
> fish lists
> fish lists
> fish lists
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>>7638832
i just want to read it because the master read it
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>>7639132
which master?
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>>7639132
joyce?
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Why is A.E. Housman so widely ridiculed in the poetry world? 2016-01-30 01:20:13 Post No.7638683
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Why is A.E. Housman so widely ridiculed in the poetry world?
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There's parodies from the likes of John Betjeman and Ezra Pound, though mostly he just seems to never be talked about anymore compared to contemporaries likes Yeats.
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Housman once discussed the rememberance of sublime verse during such mundane acts as shaving. The combination of words would cause goosepimples, such sincerity is grand and superior to such hack representatives as Nabakov. My appreciations for sincerity ultimately leads me to be thankful that writers such as Thomas Pynchon are so popular. Irony can only work within a sincere framework.
Favourite poem by Housman:
On the idle hill of summer,
Sleepy with the flow of streams,
Far I hear the steady drummer
Drumming like a noise in dreams.
Far and near and low and louder
On the roads of earth go by,
Dear to friends and food for powder,
Soldiers marching, all to die.
East and west on fields forgotten
Bleach the bones of comrades slain,
Lovely lads and dead and rotten;
None that go return again.
Far the calling bugles hollo,
High the screaming fife replies,
Gay the files of scarlet follow:
Woman bore me, I will rise.
Victorian Poetry is excellent.
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When I was one-and-twenty
I heard a wise man say,
“Give crowns and pounds and guineas
But not your heart away;
Give pearls away and rubies
But keep your fancy free.”
But I was one-and-twenty,
No use to talk to me.
When I was one-and-twenty
I heard him say again,
“The heart out of the bosom
Was never given in vain;
’Tis paid with sighs a plenty
And sold for endless rue.”
And I am two-and-twenty,
And oh, ’tis true, ’tis true.
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And malt does more than Milton can
To justify God’s ways to man.
Ale, man, ale’s the stuff to drink
For fellows whom it hurts to think:
Look into the pewter pot
To see the world as the world’s not.
And faith, ’tis pleasant till ’tis past:
The mischief is that ’twill not last.
Oh I have been to Ludlow fair
And left my necktie God knows where, And carried half way home, or near,
Pints and quarts of Ludlow beer:
Then the world seemed none so bad,
And I myself a sterling lad;
And down in lovely muck I’ve lain,
Happy till I woke again.
Then I saw the morning sky:
Heigho, the tale was all a lie;
The world, it was the old world yet,
I was I, my things were wet, 40
And nothing now remained to do
But begin the game anew.
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The Thibaults: Anyone here ever read it? Is it worth it? I found pic related for a very reasonable price, should I get it? Also buying from the same store:
>The Count of Monte Cristo, Dumas
>Memórias Postumas de Brás Cubas, Assis
>A Christmas Carol, Dickens
>Heart of Darkness, Conrad
>Around the World in Eighty Days, Verne
All those, in brazil's currency: R$ 42,00 + R$ 35,00 from The Thibaults if I get it.
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OP here, complementing: That is the cheapest book store (both physical and online) I have ever seen, and those are the most 'conceituated' literary works I found there.
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>>7637981
Albert Camus liked it, so maybe.
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>>7637981
Bras Cubas >Thibaults>Monte Cristo>HoD>>Christmas Carol>80 Days
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Favorite Books From The Last 5 Years? 2016-01-30 06:33:20 Post No.7639673
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Favorite Books From The Last 5 Years?
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I want to read something newish and you guys have good taste.
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lol no we don't
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David Foster Wallace - The Pale King (2011)
China Mieville - Embassytown (2011)
Jonathan Franzen - Purity (2015)
Harper Lee - Go Set a Watchman (2015)
Joyce Carol Oates - The Accursed (2013)
Thomas Pynchon - Bleeding Edge (2013)
Tao Lin - Taipei (2013)
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Dallas, TX