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>author tries to do some faux-English
>doesn't understand how -th works

>>7596131
Wherefore didst thy speakst 'gainst me, thou little swine? Thou art a gorilla warfare; art thou doth a retard?

>Copies Jack Vance's prose
>"Welcome, Here's your club card author number #999999"

Why short? Are you a pleb?

Brief History of Time

>>7596055
I need something short to alternate.

>>7595745
It's Arabian Nights you fucking peasant.

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>>7595745
>Arabian Knights

People have recommended the old Richard Burton version because it isn't too incomplete, though there was also something about it intensifying the sexual undertones whereas most other translators are on the contrary overly prudish...

unread

>>7595733
>"good"
I want a book to make me feel some real emotion or make me think in ways I usually don't.

Something happens on the first page, and things keep happening. That and accessible prose that's not too shallow and not too lofty, that middle ground just right conversational prose like an old, trusted friend is relaying a story.

>>7595722

That there is no inherent contradiction in eating breakfast for dinner.

This one is the the one that really gives me a headache though:

>The self is a relation which relates itself to its own self, or it is that in the relation that the relation relates itself to its own self; the self is not the relation but that the relation relates itself to its own self.

>>7595722
He writes for teenagers so:

Changing with age doesn't make someone's past or future self fake, just another part of one life.

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>>7595722

>Bloom says, “You know, I don’t want to be offensive. But ‘The Fault in our Stars’ [regarded by many as Green's masterpiece] is just awful. It seems ridiculous to have to say it. He can’t think, he can’t write. There’s no discernible talent.”

>“But Stephen King is Cervantes compared with John Green. We have no standards left. [Green] seems to have been a very sincere and troubled person, but that doesn’t mean I have to endure reading him. I even resented the use of the term from Shakespeare, when Cassius says to Brutus: 'The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, / But in ourselves, that we are underlings.' "

Rabelais is the pinnacle of what you seek.

>>7593444
If fart and dick jokes can be found in high-brow centuries old classic literature, does this mean crude humor is the most patrician humor?

>>7593444
The Golden Ass by Apuleius is genuine historical giggle-smirk-tier.

>>7592832

One of my favorites, something related from The Brothers Karamazov:
"Above all, don't lie to yourself. Tha man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love."

"It's not so big. It's regular"

Toru Watanabe
Norwegian Wood

We beat on, boats against the current, bourne back ceaselessly into the past

cliche I know

Beyond Good and Evil.

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>>7592402

Critique of Practical Reason.

> Metaphysics of Morals

isn't complete without it.

>>7592404
>not Genealogy of Morals

>>7592222
I have a 6s plus and it's okay for short reading. I mainly use it for the digital editions of The New Yorker to read the online stuff and various other news sources. It's decent size, but I wouldn't want to read anything of great length on it.

>tfw no pen in hand to write with on a phone
;_;

>>7592222
I often read on my 5" phone. It isn't ideal but I always have a bunch of books in my hand. I have a kindle too but my phone gets more reading use.

I tried using my iPhone 6 for reading.

It's fucking terrible, I don't see how anyone can read on an electronic device, even if the screen is bigger.

>>7590716
Once upon a time
I came upon a crime
the crime it seemed to me
was your awful poetry
I took your ass to trial
and beat you by a mile
You joined the prison thugs
the judge and I got hugs.

-Darin Skeks

>>7590726
Well, I laughed, so thanks for that.
I must apologize that I'm not the guy for peotry normally. But sometimes, when I just have the urgent need to express something, and I'm drunk, I try it anyway, although I don't really know about metric and so on. But that's why I don't named these thread 'Post your most aestetically poem'.

If the archive wasn't fucked, I would find/post some dank limericks about hot dogs I wrote while shitfaced. I was writing one for part of a job application and drunk/stoned me got carried away with it.

>>7591506
I think so.

>>7591514

Well at least you're right.

Nah. You have to have been depressed at some point in your life though.

>>7589759
You don't want to read that depressing shit.

I wrote a poem in my journal once that I liked. Posted it last month. I really don't keep up with writing in it as much as I should.

'find my icy bones
in the cold-drowned woods
where the air ceased breathing'

>>7589775
No but I doLet's all cry together

Anything written by Munro
>inb4 women
>inb4 short stories don't count
>inb4 Nobel who
>inb4 I can't read

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>>7588058
Why do so many funny people come from Canada?

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The secret prize on roll up the rim cups

Honestly I think Ondaatje is our best living writer but I haven't even read Munro or 90% of "can lit" so who am I to say? Rawi Hage is one of my favourite writers but both he and his books are decidedly hybrid Lebanese-Canadian. I guess being born in a war torn hellhole gets the literary juices flowing.

THANKS FOR THE REPORT.

SEE YOU IN A MONTH.

>>7587739
I WILL RETURN WITH MY REPORT IN ONE MONTH

>what has been read
Invisible Cities - Calvino
Einstein's Dreams - Lightman (aka Invisible Cities: Reddit Edition)
Kitchen - Yoshimoto

>what is being read
The Sportswriter - Ford
The Moon in Its Flight - Sorrentino
A Death in the Family - Agee

>what will be read
The Wind Up Bird Chronicle - Murakami
Simulacra and Simulation - Baudrillard
Chimera - Barth