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You don't

>>7612995
read DFW and realize that there's no point anymore because he described pretty much everything possible on that condition

>http://www.samuel-beckett.net/whatistheword.html

Blake

Whitman

>>7612987
this desu senpai

Short answer: nah.

>>7612762
'real life' in the 21st century is needlessly complex and absurd as fuck. Fictional narratives have become integrated into everyday life, media shapes the course of events instead of simply recording them. If you want to describe the world as it exists today, you gotta deal with these things somehow.

>>7612762
Don't start to view fiction through the lens of these small scale isms. Leave trends and fads where they belong: in blog-o-sphere chatterings and manuscripts tucked under brooklyn apartment air mattresses

if you look at the trial and shylock's plea you will understand shakespeare again outdoes expectations

>>7612383
That doesn't answer why he makes Shylock convert to Christianity, basically going against everything he did in the play.

>>7612391
Shylock was being a Jew, trying to swindle people and damage them irreversibly over a few thousand shekels. He was unjust and Portia made him piss poor and forced him to convert as the ultimate punishment.

>>7612324
I only read his The Kite Runner, there are interesting tidbits of prose here and there, a coherent plot, bothered to use correct terminology in different languages (typical, given his background), but it just wasn't gripping. I hear ATSS isn't as good, either.

>>7612324
What do YOU think?

>>7612870
I just bought this book, mate. I'm barely 20 pages in. It's pretty good so far.

Thought you were gonna ask for passages on the beauty of the human foot

I lik eating my gfs feet

>>7612278

There's Steinbeck's meticulous, viscid depiction of the barefoot Joad women stomping the Grapes of Wrath.

>>7612225
good night lad

>>7612269
who sed i was a girl

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Left this board for about two months, and coming back I barely recognize it. Can someone explain what the hell happened? I've seen stuff about Hypersphere blowing up on reddit and a bunch of redditors flooding the board, is this the reason for how utterly terrible it is?

I read his Dunno Elegies and therefore some of the most profound and beautiful poems I ever read

>>7612215
Rilke is trash. Overrated.

>>7612215
Pretty good, only for artists to read, specially poets

>>7612011
>The Dead Parents Club
>Dead P____ ____
>Dead Poets Society
thats at least what i thought first

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>>7612011
it wouldn't dissuade me from reading it if it had been well received by critics I respect, but I'd pass it up at a bookstore without bothering to google it or read the dust jacket if it hadn't.

Hehe what is going on on this forum :)

The sot-weed factor looks so damn good, but I'm not too well read. What should one read before attempting this fine-looking work?

It's difficult and highly postmodern. I suggest you don't read it.

>>7612252
tried reading Lost in The Funhouse
felt like i was having a stroke, what a clunky and uncomfortable story to read

>>7611177
There's a world of difference between Ignatius and the /r9k/-dwelling anime-and-video-game-worshipping jug-pissers

is that mario

>>7611189
There is? I think the only difference is Internet access.

>>7611021
gtfo

>>7611021
is shit, sam

he really makes you think...

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Great books. Lot of great twists. Next book I'll read is Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.

>>7611003
androids is the only pkd book i've read and i wasn't really impressed. the characters were pretty bland, the plot was nothing to write home about, and the vocabulary was a little drab and repetitive.

maybe i'll try man in the high castle or valis

>>7610985
ubik is supposed to be his best so i read that but was underwhelmed
on the one hand, i read it straight through
that means it's good
but i was expecting to have my mind blown at least once and that never happened

>>7610909
i like monoskop
i wouldn't be angry to see /lit/ there
it's more of an announcement than anything
i was expecting a review

>>7610909
Slightly weirded out.

>>7610909
You did it, because you want to get traffic for your shitty blog and now you're necrobumping the thread (see >>7612408) as nobody replied or paid any attention.

>>7610677
ass

ill

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