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Any chance of the cliffnotes on Blood Meridian?
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>>7511036
DUDE VIOLENCE LMAO
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>>7511054
Thanks i guess
BA DA DA BA DA BUP
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Can any of you recommend me any good books? (Pref Fantasy or Drama). And is Harry Potter worth reading or is it shit?
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Are those books a dry read or cool? I'm not that into historical books, I've read the odyssey and the iliad, and they where Ok.
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>>7510976
Starting with the Greeks is a meme here.
I suggest you read the book Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace. It is one of the best, if not the best, books of all time and I highly recommend it
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Find a really shitty review of a book you like and post it. Other anons state how much you agree or disagree with the review.
>"Alternatively, some fans may find it tempting to argue “Well this media is a realistic portrayal of societies like X, Y, Z”. But when you say that sexism and racism and heterosexism and cissexism have to be in the narrative or the story won’t be realistic, what you are saying is that we humans literally cannot recognise ourselves without systemic prejudice, nor can we connect to characters who are not unrepentant bigots. Um, yikes. YIKES, you guys.
And even if you think that’s true (which scares the hell out of me), I don’t see you arguing for an accurate portrayal of everything in your fiction all the time. For example, most people seem fine without accurate portrayal of what personal hygiene was really like in 1300 CE in their medieval fantasy media. (Newsflash: realistically, Robb Stark and Jon Snow rarely bathed or brushed their teeth or hair). In real life, people have to go to the bathroom. In movies and books, they don’t show that very much, because it’s boring and gross. Well, guess what: bigotry is also boring and gross. But everyone is just dying to keep that in the script.
>Yikes
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I don't think is person read the book.
Those books don't really shy away from talking about hygiene. It's not constant but that review makes it sound like there is nothing in there about how gross things are.
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>In real life, people have to go to the bathroom. In movies and books, they don’t show that very much, because it’s boring and gross.
>there's literally an entire 300 page chapter describing daenerys taking a fat sloppy diarrhoea shit
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This was a very weird book. It annoyed me how the perspective of the story changed frequently throughout the book. I was constantly confused whether Biblo was speaking in past or present. This book really got on my nerves for several reasons. Sorry, but I have to unleash some of my hatred for this book.
1) wow, I "love" how it is sooo convenient that they spontaneously keep running into giant spiders, evil elfs, goblins, giants etc. I know they need a climax and all, but seriously?
2. Okay, bilbo, you have a mother frickin wizard with you, why don't u ask him to like umm...help?
3. Biblo use your brain, I don't care if you have to build a plane, blimp, submarine or whatever. But really, don't you have a better way of transportation?
4. You are being counterproductive.
5. You are so self-conscious and un-confident.
6. Horrible character build up.
7. I have no idea what time period this is in? The future, the past? The present?
8. Use the stupid map bilbo, obviously we have access to the same, identical map.
9. Maybe you should of you know, done some research before you and your "friends" go stampeding into unknown territory?
10. Wow, how convenient that Gandalf happens to have elf buddies right where you and your missionary dwarfs are headed for.
11. Treasure? Really? Come on?
Idc if you disagree with my review, but I certainly hate this book.
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What's something productive I can do with my hands while listening to audiobooks?
I've been playing casual games, but I feel like my time can be used more efficiently.
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>>7510836
masturbation.
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Origami.
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>>7510836
draw
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One of these threads
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So you got exactly what you expected?
>I swear... 9/11 was just a coincidence
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>9/11 was a mistake
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Is he underrated in modern academia?
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no not really
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>>7510538
Most people dismiss him entirely, despite having many good ideas, and the huge consequences of those ideas.
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Because they don't realize that many modern ideas are based on his work.
They take him for granted basically
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Merry third day of Christmas, /lit/. Why don't you come join us in our chat and have a comfy time with some fellow patricians? We talk about all kinds of things, from literature to everyday life matters. We're also starting a book club soon.
That's #/lit/ @ irc.rizon.net
Don't have a client? Use http://chat.mibbit.com/?channel=%23/lit/&server=irc.rizon.net
Pic related; there are /lit/erary grills in here, but we don't let that distract us from our books.
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no thanks
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I like to read true crime stories. Heh.
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>>7510754
Why not, though?
We sometimes have tinychat chats that people seem to enjoy.
The IRC channel is just a more permanent version of it really. Lots of people idle there all the time and just check the window when they feel like reading/talking.
You're not committing to anything by dropping by.
An overrated classic?
A work of imagination and charm?
Thoughts?
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>>7510500
Probably important for its time but honestly I could not finish it and I had like 50-60 pages left. So boring
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boring af 2bh
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>>7510510
I will agree, it has it's very dull moments. Such as when they first pass letters between Mina and Lucy....However, the language is beautiful through out the book. Very poetic.
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ITT: funny books. No rules, really.
I'll start with Apuleius's Golden Ass. It's a story about a young man who plays with magic and gets metamorphosed into a donkey. The whole thing is hilarious. Lots of lewdness.
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John Gall (if that is his real name) is a total maniac.
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don quixote
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I paid 2€ for this secondhand edition of Ulysses. Printed in 1986.
Does it worth?
>PS: I'm really surprised with the printing quality, seems better than a lot of 2015 books.
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>1986
probably not, sorry bud
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Unlucky, you got the shitty Gabler edition- which was unanimously dropped for its numerous edits and changes to the text.
(hence the low price)
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Any copy is. Good luck ever really enjoying another book though.
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Has Sam Harris ever been wrong?
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>>7510234
Thank you for the honest answer.
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I don't agree with determinism or materialism
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"God don't real" - Sam Harris
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On the topic of intertextuality
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It appears to me, clearly and distinctively, that the majority (or a half, at least) of modern and postmodern literature relies heavily on the literary device of intertextuality, which is - in brief - 'building your text on the basis of another, rather significant, text'. For example - Ulysses by James Joyce exemplifies the use of a classic text (in this case - Odyssey) in order to create a brand new work of art by changing the context and, supposedly, fragmenting the meaning of the whole text.
Another example of this is the implementation of the medieval romance novels inside of Don Quixote or the rich system of references inside Faust by Goethe (which then served, alongside other works, as a role model for Doctor Faustus) and the memetic masterpiece known as Hypersphere (yes, this is a serious remark).
According to my observations - literature is heading towards the prevalence of complex, intertextual and the inferiority of original and 'crude' works. Am I blind or dumb, or is it really nearly impossible to develop a work of art that is purely new and free from the zeitgeist of intertextuality? Is it possible to create a new epic nowadays?
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>tfw you want to say "textual field" so badly
>tfw you want to make an entire shitty pretentious post just so you can include the phrase "textual field" somewhere in it like a big gaudy gem in a carolingian crown
>tfw the above reference was intertextual
BUMPING THIS THREAD LIKE DURIEL IN ACT 2
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>>7510226
a big part of this is simply that original ideas dont really exist
the entire canon is like one big conversation in which people continuously step on the heads of those who came before, and i definitely don't think this is new. the only reason we can call Homer original, is because we cant see what inspired him
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Ask yourself this: has there ever been a time when intertextuality wasn't a thing?
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>Main character has literally nothing to do with the plot
>the whole story is basically told from a side-character's view
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>>7510047
What is the first half of Star Wars: A New Hope?
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>>7510047
What is Moby Dick?
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>>7510202
pleb/10
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How can one man be so devoid of talent?
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>>7510043
Whatever HE considered unfathomable horror, it pales against the tenebrousness cuntmongering of his recent popularity.
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>>7510043
>And then.... the protagonist discovered... That he was of... MIXED HERITAGE
I like him
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>>7510043
>HP "Impugn the Coon" Lovecraft
>devoid of talent
then explain this masterpiece:
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/On_the_Creation_of_Niggers