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They would be if anyone could write one well today. I think the problem is we all became oblomov and so no one can write about it from an outside perspective. it'd be like trying to make yourself a convincing character in a novel.

>>7569904
I have yet to read Oblomov yet but from what I understand is a much nicer character then Pechorin?

>>7569904
/r/lewronggeneration

>>7569790
>What sites do you use for an analysis of a book you just read?
i use this neat thing called my brain

>>7569798
I'm not as patrician as you. I didn't start with the greeks so I don't understand any of the symbolic references so well.

>>7569820
you won't be able to think deeply about something unless you practice. the best thing is to take a literary analysis class or have someone like a friend read the book and compare what you each took from it. assuming both of those are impossible for you you can try to google specific commentaries.

http://oyc.yale.edu/english/engl-300

I linked a free course that may help you.

You don't need context bro

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>>7569692
If you're interested in ovid's metamorphosis, this isn't bad.

Though -- if your Australian, you almost defiantly read it in Aussie lit.

Needless to say, it's a pretty easy read, but there's defiantly some good stuff in there

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>>7569729
I want it tho ;___;

>>7569676
Nice haircut.

The only worthwhile Canadian intellectual.

Read the classics until you are 50.

>>7569500
-Cut the crap, James, I'm not here to fall for one of your practical jokes. I really think my next movie will be a big one, you should -- but Alley couldn't even finish his sentence before James interrupted him again.
-I really think you should respect me, Alley. No? You know, we're friends, and when a friend tells you about his childhood, you... listen. With careful attention. With extra careful attention and focus. And love. Love is beautiful, no? It's what they showered me with when I was a kid... but back then I knew not what love was, oh no I didn't, and so I buried myself in those fantasy books.
-James... are you alright? This is starting to get weird -- Alley was faking a laughter, trying to put an end to a most strange situation.
-I AM ALRIGHT, ALLEY! JUST DON'T INTERRUPT ME WHEN I'M TALKING ABOUT MY CHILDHOOD, MAN! I AM AN ADULT NOW!!

Alley was in shock. The whole teahouse was staring at them. James appeared nervous, he was sweating, but grinning. Suddenly, he screamed again.

-ALLEY YOU KNOW NOT EVERY MAN HAS THE CHANCE TO THINK ABOUT HIS CHILDHOOD, DON'T YOU, YOU MOTHERFUCKER? YOU THINK I'M FUCKING PLAYING WITH YOU, MAN? PLAY WITH MY FUCKING FACE, I FUCKING DARE YOU FUCK.

At this point, two men from a table across the room started shouting at James, telling him to shut up and leave the Teahouse. A waitress nervously approached James and asked him to leave the place. Alley was also told to leave, but what he really wanted to do was to disappear completely from the face of the earth, to bury his head in the ground. The embarrassment was too much.

James looked back at the waitress.

-Oh, I'll sue you. You can't tell me to leave an establishment like that just because I was shouting. It's not fair. What if I was deaf or couldn't control my voice? Think about that, sweetheart.

The waitress stared at him in confusion, and couldn't manage to mumble any words before James got up and left the place. Alley picked up his hat and covered his face with it, and left the place immediately after James, without saying a word.

>>7569505
As soon as Alley left the teahouse, he felt someone grabbing his arm. It was James.

-Where are you going, boy?
-I don't want to talk to you anymore, man, that was emba-- Alley was so nervous he couldn't even finish his sentence. He couldn't believe what was happening to him. He had always been very shy, and what had just happened seemed to him like some kind of disaster. Worse yet, it had reminded him of a few bad things from his own childhood.

-You should've let me talk about my childhood, man.
-FUCK YOU! -- Alley yelled, quickly taking distance from James. James stared at him from the distance.

-You know when to call me, Alley. I got money, remember? Don't let your dreams die, Alley boy.

Alley ignored his words and quickly got into a taxi cab, asking the driver to take him to his apartment as fast as possible. He just wanted to get away from James and the whole situation.

James slowly walked across the pavement. He then smirked and thought to himself: "he'll come back. I got the money. I always got the money. I always get what I want. Except those elf ears."

He clasped his hands. "James, James", he thought to himself, "you know you're a stallion. A stallion who's thirsty for blood. For a good race. A good rush of blood. You're not one of those horses destined to pull the wagon until the muscles give in..."

James's eyes were fixed at an empty point in space about a thousand yards from where he was standing. He put his hands inside his pockets and walked all the way to his home, alone with his own thoughts.

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>>7569416
I have tried, but I can't (Woman). She sounded distrought and desperate. Why she turned to Catholicism is also a mystery to me. She was Jewish. And despite her conversion, she got deported to Auzschwitz and died there.

>>7569445
>I have tried, but I can't (Woman). She sounded distrought and desperate.
what do you mean?
> And despite her conversion, she got deported to Auzschwitz and died there.
not surprising, a lot of Catholics were killed in the holocaust

>>7569445
Jews were killed because of their ethnicity

The Jamaican fag's novel about the pothead singer getting shot is supposed to be pretty good. But I haven't read it so I don't know,

>>7569372
Tom McCarthy's Satin Island was pretty good

>>7569317
I'd argue we start to see this in the later Freud. Beyond the Pleasure Principle pushes in this direction.

>>7569354
todestrieb

>>7569354
Is this worth reading unprepared?

>>7569292
Why do you want to read a play? They're meant to be watched, silly.

Heathers is good, though the movie was better.

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

>>7569304
I have to present a script in my acting class for other people to do a short scene from. It will eventually be watched, but first read.

That's supposed to be funny retard. He's being fake humble while he masturbates to his egomaniacal fantasy of getting an award for the work his colleagues did

>>7569181
Lem maybe ?

>>7569223
Something a bit more updated, desu. Written post-2010. Something like The Next 100 Years or Abundance.

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>>7569128
Extremely

>Dostoyevsky - Crime and Punishment
queen Nab did in his lectures some iconoclasm over old Dosto being priggish regarding to lady Marmalade and her yellow ticket. He did complain it was stereotype that she was forced to pursue her profession by pure circumstance, it was a stereotype she had a heart of gold, it was stereotype she was put in one line with a murderer in contrast to "the holy book". His main complaint was the big narrative: that a strawman's "i am play God" results invariably in perdition or repentance. But: he praised old Dosto for some Hollywood style scenes. I found the novel far too slow and all his characters like cardboard cut outs: evil calculating protestant; a sadist Russian landowner; a dull and but wealthy Russian bourgeois; a supernatural policeman representing the law. It read to me much like a teenage fanfic where the main thing was the mood. Dunno why he is so cherished.

Tolkien - the Hobbit
Steve Gardner - Grendel
Nietzsche - Thus Spake Zarathustra
Camus - the Stranger (because Fuck You, rules)

>>7568881

Yes. The sticky.

>>7568881

Sylvia Plath, Frank O'Hara, Leonard Cohen, Allen Ginsberg are all pretty nice, easy to get into stuff you probably would like if you like Bukowski