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>>7578304

Depends on what you want. If you want a complete works edition, get the Riverside. If you'd like individual copies, Arden generally speaking have the best reputation, but OUP is good also.

>>7578304

First Folio. No exceptions.

Everyman's is actually good for Shakespeare. Hardback volumes with a couple plays in each. Lovelier and more durable than the Folger or Bantam mass-market paperbacks but just as portable. The best ones to get if you're not gonna buy them all are Tragedies vol. 1 (Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello, King Lear) and Histories vol. 2 (Richard II, Henry IV pts 1 ans 2, Henry V = the Henriad, a continuous saga and the best of the history plays; also includes King John).

No. Wind up bird chronicle is passable and that's about it

>>7578204
Only After Dark.

>>7578213
He's an idiot.

>>7578204

No. And neither has any other Japanese writer.

>>7578107

blog spam.

So here it is for those of you who don't want to visit that site:

>In the half a square mile of decay and demolition that was England’s Saxon capital, eternity is loitering between the firetrap tower blocks. Embedded in the grubby amber of the district’s narrative among its saints, kings, prostitutes and derelicts a different kind of human time is happening, a soiled simultaneity that does not differentiate between the petrol-coloured puddles and the fractured dreams of those who navigate them. Fiends last mentioned in the Book of Tobit wait in urine-scented stairwells, the delinquent spectres of unlucky children undermine a century with tunnels, and in upstairs parlours labourers with golden blood reduce fate to a snooker tournament.

>Disappeared lanes yield their own voices, built from lost words and forgotten dialect, to speak their broken legends and recount their startling genealogies, family histories of shame and madness and the marvellous. There is a conversation in the thunderstruck dome of St. Paul’s cathedral, childbirth on the cobblestones of Lambeth Walk, an estranged couple sitting all night on the cold steps of a Gothic church-front, and an infant choking on a cough drop for eleven chapters. An art exhibition is in preparation, and above the world a naked old man and a beautiful dead baby race along the Attics of the Breath towards the heat death of the universe.

>An opulent mythology for those without a pot to piss in, through the labyrinthine streets and pages of Jerusalem tread ghosts that sing of wealth and poverty; of Africa, and hymns, and our threadbare millennium. They discuss English as a visionary language from John Bunyan to James Joyce, hold forth on the illusion of mortality post-Einstein, and insist upon the meanest slum as Blake’s eternal holy city. Fierce in its imagining and stupefying in its scope, this is the tale of everything, told from a vanished gutter.

>>7578132
is this real?
feels like an old guy going as hard as he can to prove himself when he should have moved past that so many long years ago

>>7578132
Sounds dope af. Is Moore a good writer? I'd hate to buy this and then it turns out to be YA or something.

An autistic kid in one of my lit classes always referred to The Aeneid as "propaganda fan fiction basically!"

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>>7578025
is this the ultimate redditpost?

that isn't the divine comedy aka "i'm going to write this poem to hang with my bro virgil while we make fun of my enemies"

I have no mouth but I must cream

>>7577872
Yeah, something like this, I remember the game. Didnt know it was based on a short story though.

>>7577859
some philip k dick maybe? just guessing
bump for interest

Here's an interesting point: you should have read it and thought of some yourself, retard.

He rapes his sister, Phoebe.

>>7577784
>discussing this at a book club tomorrow.
>I need ideas for my book report /lit/ please help

UNDERAGE

I mean the actual conversations

What's the difference?

>>7577765
nice to know

yes, you're becoming proust.

now stop making casual references to huxley you fucking pleb

>>7577685

You're having a manic episode. It's only some time before you spiral into major depression and then all your precious aesthetics of life will make you nauseated.

I know how you feel OP. For me, this experince of what i felt was like an "aesthetic orgasm" would build up over several months, before reaching a drop point. Life would seem wonderful and beautiful and then drop to dry and bleek. I dont know why. Its like a wave woth peaks and valley. Currently caught in a valley and it doesnt feel so great.

Write a collection of slightly interrelated short stories...?

just write until you're not shite

>>7577531
Dunno mate. The themes I use to come up with are kinda intrincate, with multiple interrelated ideas and shit. I'll take as an idea tho.

>>7577288
Not as good as the book.

>>7577288
shit looks cash desu
some anon posted his take on the book a while back and it made me interested in reading the book, and this just solidified it.
unfortunately i am just starting on infinite jest so idk when i will get to this and finish it

>>7577312
Yeah me too, It might even be better to watch the show first I before start on the book

>>7577163
Pubis.

>>7577163
make me wet my g-string.

>>7577163

is good

>>7576909

Sucks.

you'll get assripped for liking him

i think he's an okay entry level guy. don't sweat /lit/'s opinion on him.

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>>7576909

>>7576788
Is shit son, SHIT.

>>7576788
A lot of lies mostly

so it goes

As a NEET I don't really relate to this thread.

Saged, Hidden.

>>7576588
World's most trivial problem

>>7576588
fuck women plebs, man!!
theyre intellectually inferior to a towering mind like yours.

I can imagine your reaction: "FFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!"

epic

>>>/reddit/

This board is for literature, not your autism

>>7576451
The Grotesque

>belief in archetype as something that actually exists, rather than a construction by pseuds

>>7576472
If something has been said or written, in a sense, it already exists