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Dubliners is my favorite book. I love the theme of inaction and paralysis.
Does anyone have a recommendation for books that have a similar message?
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my diary desu
also in-coincidentally the novella I've been working on and unable to finish for two years
just kill me desu senpai
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>>7607947
why would you post borderline pornography on /lit/ like that.
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Stoner amusingly enough though the ending is mich more optimistic.
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Did I seriously fuck up hard getting into Pynchon?
Five years ago I only had picked up Lot49 on a whim, thought less than three shits about him, then I checked Inherent Vice at the library, and how I have five of his novels and have only not read Gravity's Rainbow and Vineland, and I guess Slow Learner.
Im glad he only has so many, I feel I am spinning out of control in Pynchon. I am close to being a glutton for punishment and going through Against the Day for the third time.
Is Pynchon a drug for you guys too?
p.s. thoughts on pic related? I just finished it the other day and thought it was very comfy.
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Reminder that the Font sisters are a couple of disgusting skanks and you will never get to drink mezcal los suicidas with amadeo, ulises and arturo.
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Yes. I've read each of his books (except ATD) at least twice. Every time I start reading something serious and 'good for me', I just feel like cracking V. or Lot 49 back open.
He is just all too exactly the writer for a certain sort of young man. Slogging through a Henry James, I feel my mind wander to the jolly Sailors of Pynchon's world and the beautiful musings on the mysteries of existence made in it.
I can only hope in a way, that I eventually grow out of it.
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What are the most difficult books to read?
I want something that will really challenge me. I just finished this book and thought it was quite easy.
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finnegans wake
the voynich manuscript
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>>7607845
depends on what you consider difficult.
probably McElroy
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I thought Tristram Shandy was difficult but mostly because Sterne is a douche.
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good/bad?
genres?
specific songs?
links?
pic unrelated
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https://youtu.be/wzjWIxXBs_s
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>>7607792
isn't music but we're off to an okay start
https://youtu.be/2zFoOe__eb4
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So /lit/ what are some top tier nonfiction books to read? I wanna strengthen my reasoning skills and such and decided to take a break from fiction for a while. Any recommendations?
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>>7607740
Freakonomics
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>>7607740
One Nation by Ben Carson
Yes, I'm serious.
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Any good books on dreams/lucid dreams/sleep paralysis?
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>>7607727
finnegans wake
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>>7607727
I plan to write a book on advanced lucid dreaming. I see a real lack of in depth information out there.
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>>7607729
Sorry, nonfiction I mean
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>2016
>hasn't read Menexenus yet
Why not? It's Plato's best dialogue.
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>>7607666
stop this gtfo
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So it has been overlooked for Republic for the last 2400 years.
What changed?
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>>7607692
Kek. What faggot thinks Republic is the best
Tell if this premise works for a story, or is too cheesy: an Orthodox girl is very close friends with this gay guy in high school, and basically he's drawn toward the Church after talking with her, but he ultimately rejects it because he thinks it's wrong to for God to make some people oriented one way and say that sex for them is okay, but orient others the other way and say they can't have sex because of it. So the girl makes a promise to him that she will never have sex to share his burden, if he will consider getting baptized, which he finally does. And basically, the story is about the two of them growing very close and struggling with that for the rest of their lives.
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>>7607530
I've been the gay man in this story, and while not too common, I know of three other people doing the same thing. Write it, by all means.
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>>7607530
boring as shit. would not read.
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>>7607530
Seems good enough to me. What really matters is how you develop the characters and where you take the story.
Get writing OP. I think the premise has the potential.
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I'm looking for books that take place in a small town, modern times and maybe crime related. What do you have for me /lit/?
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>>7607474
A Casual Vacancy - Rowling
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What qualifies as modern? Read Breece Pancake. He only had 10 stories published, it wont take you long.
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>>7607477
I actually have that book on my shelf. I'll give it a go after I finish For Whom The Bell Tolls.
Just finished Part I and am pretty blown away.
General discussion thread?inb4 spoilers
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>>7607264
One thing I can say is that this book suffers in retrospect, and is much more enjoyable whilst you are actually reading it. A year on and I couldnt really give a shit.
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>>7607278
Yup, pretty much. But one thing i've noticed is if you pick it up casually for a few pages, it's very hard not to like it again.
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>>7607285
For that reason only I am going to hit Savage Detectives.
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Is this the new meme trilogy?
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sure why not
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>>7607252
gass isn't good
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No, this is.
>>7607284
Nice bait.
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I'm writing an essay on dystopian literature and the "what and why" of it. I've currently read the 3 generic classics 1984, Fahrenheit 451 and Brave New World.
I have a pretty good understanding of them but i'm trying sort through the monolith of essays and BS written on then to find some good cite-able essays anyone know any? On the dystopian Genre or any of these specifically
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>>7607210
http://bookzz.org/book/1237443/a1aaa0
The Cambridge Companion to Utopian Literature (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
Gregory Claeys (editor)
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>>7607253
The further reading has more shit in it, but there are three essays there that should be fine.
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>>7607257
Mark Hillegas, The Future as Nightmare: H. G. Wells and the Anti-Utopians
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1967
Chad Walsh, From Utopia to Nightmare (London: Geoffrey Bles, 1962 ).
Lyman Tower Sargent, ‘Three Faces of Utopianism Revisited’, Utopian Studies
5:1 ( 1994 )
Thomas Molnar, Utopia: The Perennial Heresy (New York: Sheed & Ward,
1967
All seem relevant as well.
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What's your opinion?
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First book is great. Love the mystery.
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Enjoyable read
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Really enjoyed the first book. I happened to be travelling through the Australian outback while reading it, so the fact that the story kind of ends there was a nice unexpected coincidence.
Haven't gotten around to reading the second and third books, and I have some reservations keeping me from doing so. Are they worth it?
Whats up with part 4
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The whole thing's just Lolita minus the good parts
Why is Zoeey such a bitch? Everything he says is extremely contradictory
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He raped his sister, Franny.
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>>7607067
>salinger
>>>/r/books/
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>>7607067
>Zoeey