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Is this the literature chat board? I'vebeen reading the james Joyce and I find his work finnegans wake very enjoyaable, i've also read the ezra pound and the cantos are very neat plus the archaisms, il ike those a lot. man I love literature vubt I never find places to disgust it, is this the rigt board? it says literature but it is also fulled with anime pictures and homer simpson and silly faces so im not sure are we talkers of ezra pound in there?
thnaks best regards,
J.E.
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Dude these 4channers will love this. Upvoted
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>>7582575
You found the right board
Shit-post away
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Bump. I only see one Homer Simpson and one anime, 99% of the threads are pictures of books and authors.
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stroke of genius or unreadable garbage?
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>>7582559
best thing written in the 21st century
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deserves to be on the meme reading list
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>>7582559
What am I looking at?
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Storytime
>be me
>want to read Martinson's Aniara for some years
>live in assbackwards third world country where it's out of print
>United States
>shitty condition used copies go for $150+
>find out glorious Chinese motherland translated into Chinese
>buy Chinese copy off Amazon (wtf why does Amazon sell Chinese Aniara?)
"Yay, it's here! I can finally read Aniara! Reading it in Chinese might be a bit weird but I'm sure I'll manage!"
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>>7582422
>Open the book
>see pic related
"Wait what? This doesn't seem right. Also why is it in English?"
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>>7582428
>keep flipping through
>Suddenly, Vietnam War
"Um..."
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>>7582435
>take off dust jacket
>mfw it's some book called "My Gift to You" by one Jerald "Jerry" Berry
>Amazon sent me the wrong fucking book in the right dust jacket to bait me extra hard
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>tfw the archive has been down for like a week now
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>>7582393
/lit/ is dead as well, we may have to read a book instead of shitposting about books
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>>7582414
I read every day!
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who makes these pictures
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I want to read Infinite Jest. The thing is, I get the impression (from both the foreword and general opinion) that I am not knowledgeable or skilled enough when it comes to understanding literature in general (in other words, I'm an uncultured bozo).
After a brief high school period where I read YA lit voraciously, I nearly put off reading completely. I don't think I've ever read something in it's entirety more complex than Camus.
Can I get some suggestions for books to read that can further evolve my capabilities for enjoying literature? I'm probably going to begin by reading either A Thousand Years of Solitude, or To the Lighthouse.
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>>>/REDDIT/
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>>7582292
Thanks, I'll check them out.
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what is yo ur favorite fantasy novel?
pic related for me
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Voyage to Arcturus
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Diary of Anne frank
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>>7582224
What does /lit/ think of Kurt Vonnegut?
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>>7582154
I read Slaughterhouse 5 and loved it, what other works of his should I read?
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go back to reddit
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>>7582185
Cat's Cradle, Breakfast of Champions
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name your'e favorite writer
name your'e favorite philosopher
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2016-01-13 22:02:22
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Burroughs
Breton
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Cobain
Cobain
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Will B
Hegel
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OK, about to make a start. What am I in for?
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>>7582073
Post pics, fag.
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>>7582073
I'm sure you could but then what?
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a man taking a photo of himself with the subject? now Ive seen it all
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Here goes something I wrote in Spanish.
http://pastebin.com/54KXzmAJ
Every critique is welcome. Also Critique Thread in Spanish.
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Vaya tío.
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Anon, te seré honesto, sólo leí el primer párrafo. Entonces, mi crítica va en función del estilo y no de la anécdota.
Me parece que eres innecesariamente descriptivo, creo que el texto sería más atractivo si las imágenes se dibujaran sin tanto parloteo. O bien, que el estilo fuese de la mano con la anécdota, pero bueno, eso no lo sé puesto que no lo leí completo.
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balbucía? no es balbuceaba? En que idioma habla Hakim con el portador del rifle (el "joder" me cayo mal, no soy español)?
Por que tiene el muchacho una remera tan informal si esta en el teatro?
Igual me gusta tu forma de escribir. No tengo mucho tiempo ahora pero lo voy a leer entero mas tarde
Literary confession thread
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>>7581905
This board is shit.
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I constantly post. I reply to every fucking thread. I can't stop posting. 40% of the posts you see are me. I post all day long, every day.
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>>7581912
>newfag detected
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>Try to read Lovecraft
>Slog through the shitty writing of At The Mountains Of Madness
>Finally builds up to a big monster reveal
>Reveal happens
>The monster is literally a penguin
>It's not even a hostile penguin
>The penguin completely ignores the explorers the whole time
Fuck man, is this the fabled spooky cosmic Lovecraft horror I've been told about? ,
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>>7581854
I couldn't get through that book. Weren't the monsters like black things...? Something about being barrel shaped and with spikes? I don't know but it sucked
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>>7581854
>he thought the penguins were the monsters
senpai you gotta work on your reading comprehension
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How do you guys give your characters motivations?
This is something I struggle with (partly because I'm not a very motivated person myself personally). I always feel like the classic motivations are trite; revenge, jealousy, social status.... I don't really feel a lot of these things personally (at least not strongly) so I struggle imbuing my characters with good, strong motivations that drive them to act.
Anyone have any ideas, suggestions, or similar struggles?
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...give them complex motivations? Multiple things? As a most basic example; wanting to be good people but also struggling to provide for their family when legal means aren't enough? This isn't complicated.
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>ask yourself what your character wants
>ask yourself what your character fears
Ta-da
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>wants to write literature with characters
>apparently has difficulty understanding a fundamental part of the human condition
Huh?
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Let's break the meme cycle and do something new.
What do you guys think about Italo Calvino? What book is your favorite? Who do you compare him to?
Personally I never know what to expect from him, every book is different.
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I love Calvino but holy shit you're exposing yourself as a newfag. Calvino is very commonly discussed, probably top ~20 - 25 (counting "the greeks" as 1 for purposes of this ranking) if you ranked the most talked about authors on /lit/?
anyways if on a winter's night is mad comfy
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The only thing I've read of his isn't really by him but adapted by him, Italian Folktales. Fucking surreal, really loved them. So, there's that.
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Let's break the meme cycle and do something new.
What do you guys think about [an author discussed daily on 4chan /lit/]
"okay"
anyways, he's great, obviously.
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Rate it for me /lit/ beginners collection
be nice pls
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>>7581605
>Homer meme
holy shit kid
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left to right
Hannibal by Theodore Ayrault Dodge
Alexander by Theodore Ayrault Dodge
Hellenism and the rise of Rome by Pierre Grimal
Homer's Iliad and Odyssey translated by Fitzgerald
Livy book IX Oxford edition (in latin)
Tacitus' Annals also oxford (in latin)
Caesar's war
Julius Caesar's Gallic wars (in Latin)
Cambridge Latin Anthology
Greek to Gcse by John Taylor
Oxford Classical greek dictionary
Latin Dictionary
Oxford Latin Dictionary
then my nice clock which needs new batteries
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>>7581608