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>>7530639
mum read them to me as a young boy. Made for a pretty good childhood involving home-made swords and invisible dragons. Haven't read them in about a decade

>>7530714
you're mum was a good mum

as a children/teenage novel you can't go wrong with it. Reading it for relevance/fun is fine too.

>>7530588
>Christians have difficulty reading
And a tip for you, gentlesir

>>7530588
That is the most pathetic looking right hand I have ever seen. Why not just start the painting over.

>>7530588
>heretics

How is Umberto Eco? Seems very interesting, I know he's a professor of semiotics which makes me think his writing would be quite good.

because he's italian dan brown

>>7530336
this makes me think his writing would be quite bad

I'd ask /r9k/ desu senpai

Notes from Underground

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>>7530206

Both Mishima volumes in pic related are as r9k as they come.

My diary desu

>>7530095
Here's a good book on porn. Strictly non fiction, but you had me thinking of boobs

>Golden Goddesses: 25 Legendary Women of Classic Erotic Cinema, 1968-1985

>>7530095
The Three Musketeers and its sequels, obviously.

>>7531343
nice one

"Symptomatic of something terrifying, probably sociopathy."

I've been compared to Salinger and Kafka, told that my writing has a surrealist dreamlike quality. I've also been told that my writing is plane, sparse, lifeless, devoid of imagery. I've also been told that my writing is overwritten, stuffed with purple prose, filled with the unnecessary personalization of the environment.

I guess what I'm saying is I don't really have a style yet, but I suck. I'm pretty sure the complements were just from people who wanted to fuck me.

>>7531358
>I've been compared to Salinger and Kafka
>Kafka

You realize his works have been translated into english, right? Goddamn, kill yourself.

17 year old US-American / 10

Maybe learning can be fun / 10

You're on your way, kid.

>>7529995
Is it still worth reading though? I love Dostoyevsky and I've never read it.

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>tfw you learn your favorite book was written just to impress mary karr
>tfw you realize your favorite author wrote insincerely his entire life just to get audience pussy

I read an article somewhere about Constance Garnett and attempts at English translations of the Russians. It said Dostoevsky wrote with a "sloppiness" that is almost impossible to convey in English, and then went on to list a number of rhymes and plays-on-words that had been butchered in attempts to translate them. It just made me depressed.

lol the idea that you would need to know how to program to make these basic plot graphs is laughable

>>7529922
Pic related is the emotional trajectory of Portrait of the Artist...things start out ok, get good, go bad, go really bad, then get steadily better and end on a high note

thanks for clarifying that incredibly complicated graph tho bro, i thought we'd need a computer for that

>>7529932
don't you know that :^) is the universal troll smilie?

its pretty shit i watched it twice

if you want to you want to i guess go for it if you're curious not like you got anything better to do but its not great

It's well made and mostly enjoyable. could have been a lot cringier

sucks dick

>>7529811
/lit/ - literature

>>7529811

>>>/his/

Because we'd like more of the best stuff and willing to forgo some of the subtlety unique pieces that were just railing against the best to elevate the contrarian offshoots who couldn't or wouldn't compete along the rules that the more popular competition laid out for them.

>>7529885
>Construction of art is a contractually determined prethought and not a figurative element of the ahistorical method

I hope I become a really good artist one day so I can shit on people like you

>>7529773
Wordsworth>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Everyone Else>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Byron

Do you think his name being Wordsworth had anything to do with his becoming a poet?

Can death be sleep, when life is but a dream,
And scenes of bliss pass as a phantom by?
The transient pleasures as a vision seem,
And yet we think the greatest pain's to die.

How strange it is that man on earth should roam,
And lead a life of woe, but not forsake
His rugged path; nor dare he view alone
His future doom which is but to awake.

what did he mean by this?

He was a good friend.

And in the night, all tiptoes fall slight on eternity's ear.

>>7529639
The sun rose.

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>reading for the prose

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>reading for prose

aesthetics includes prose, but if you only read for pretty words you are a memey pleb. aesthetics also refers to matters of plot, structure, tone, style, etc.

>>7529473
Can't tell if you're baiting or not. If not, please link the article.

I didn't know there were people who thought he was straight...

Daily reminder that Proust was a gay woman Homer