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temperature warp the books not the sun per se

>>7614671
Discoloration is also a problem.

A few books of me warped in summer while being on a room of the house very vulnerable to changes of temperature. They just went back to normal when the weather cooled down.

>>7614684
Yeah, discoloration is what I'm worried about. I worry that the courtains won't be enough since the sun's light is still going through them, even if not as strongly.

>>7614586
Understand that Wolf was an author who experienced tragedy and suffering early on in life. Her works are best read when one is feeling anxious and somber. She allows you to experience another's dread through her work.

Also, the waves is her magnum opus.

>>7614606
Can you explain why you liked The Waves? I enjoyed To The Lighthouse but found The Waves super disappointing
I'm not 100% sure I 'got' it, but I think I did, and I think what I 'got' was stupid

The characters were really noncharacters too .. and I think that was intentional, I just don't know what to take from that

>>7614618
The waves was Woolf's transcendance from Lighthouse as a modernist writer, leaving the human characters behind, moving into a more spiritual sequent. In the waves, the monologues are not seperate characters, they are "facets of consciousness for continuity". What makes the waves so exceptional is that it challenges the very definition of what a novel can be; many critics unable to distinguish it between an exact story or poem.

ok

He was good friends with Clark Ashton Smith, they both liberally took myths from each other

Crime and Punishment is your book.

>>7614409
Sweet. Thanks m8, found a the penguin edition for $5, is it good (in english, although I am brazilian)?

>>7614419
I think that's the McDuff translation. If that's the one, it's excellent and the same I read. Highly praised.
Avsey's translation is another option.

>>7614357
Fat people should go die

>>7614116
A) The NY Times is absolute garbage and you shouldn't read it.

B) Painting completely degenerated into shit after the photograph

>>7614116
I've seen a few young writers claim television influence. IMO it won't matter much
in the future because the "golden age" is over. You had new platforms forced to take risks, giving full control over to creatives (first cable, then pay channels, then streaming). The function of these programs is no longer about selling strictly "quality" since the platforms have become ubiquitous as well as mature fully formed business models. They need to reach their now wide audience and with that comes conventions, imitations, watering down, and heavy creative oversight aka Network Television. There will never be another Sopranos, Deadwood, Mad Men, The Wire, etc.

>>7614116
>The novel should only do what the serial drama could never do.”
and it has for ages

>influential and important?
yes, probably

but the more important question should be
>insightful?
and the answer is yes.

read it.

I read the first chapter for a class and it was pretty riveting.

>>7613569
Where do you go to school?

>2016
>click "/lit/ - Literature"
>/mu/ opens

>>7612889
so?

>pynchon book
>weed
>unknowable supernatural systems
>'limp cock'
>drunken sailors
>digressions into science that use formulas for poetic association

no complaints

>>7612785

Depends. Did you read it in French? In English translation?

In French: read Jules LaForgue, Baudelaire, and if your french is strong enough, Mallarme. You might move on to Apollinaire after that. After reading LaForgue in French you'd do best to read TS Eliot's early lyrical poetry. It's the bridge between the french symbolists and the english modernists.

>>7612801
I read a translation; my french isn't too good. Thanks for the detailed answer.

>>7612785
Read Illuminations, imo better than Season. Then you can go to a lot of poets (Jacob, Reverdy, Char, Michaux, surrealists etc.)

Laforgue imo isn't the best advice here (even though I totally love his poetry).

It's a literal meme book. Not like people here claim that Infinite Jest or Ulysses are "meme books", because those are actually great works of art. This is literally just a book filled with memes.

>>7612717
Download link?

Of course not. How illiterate are you to even ask?

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>book is a tour de force

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>>7610373
>book is a tour de France

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>book is Pynchonesque, Lynchian, Dostoevskian, Homeric, Turmeric
>book is a work of art
>book is a daring poststructural synthesis of metamodernistic & neo-traditional lit
>book is a discerning eye and a warm heart towards zeitgeistic multicultural anxieties
>book is a page turner

The Alchemist

>>7607926
Lord of the rings

>>bonus reading: hero with a thousand faces

This one isn't specific to quests though

>>7614018
A great film and a great piece of music are better than a great book, but books generally tend to be of better quality than the average movie or song.

>>7614030
>found the virgin

>>7614030
we got a live one

define 'good'
define 'book'

>>7610080
Is it worth my time? Is it illuminating? Will it enrich my life?

>>7610082
No

Aight here's the deal

Voltaire is public domain so you can use google to read most of his works. This is really helpful when you're bored and want to find the odd letter or essay to peruse.

Of his major works, Candide is the most major of his fiction (though Micromegas and Zadig are worth the reads) and besides that I would recommend his Dictionnaire Philosophique -- 120 mean, pointed essays from ya boi Voltaire.

There's plenty of biography on him -- there's a good one in the public domain by John Morley -- and it's always a blast to read about his times.

I would check into his correspondence with Rousseau and Frederick of Prussia as well, if I were you.

Enjoy it m8 I wish I could read Voltaire for the first time again

>>7614066
Nice answer, appreciated. Any insight on translations?
I'm looking for physical books but it's nice that he's public domain for the reason you mentioned.

>>7614075
I've read Candides from translators Frame and Cuffe, both were good enough. My Dictionnaire Philosophique was translated by a Besterman

the translations come less into play with his letters, which are not to be slept on