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>>7478822
It had its moments, but I'm not a big fan of it either.
Ulysses was a different matter, also Dubliners, but I cannot see the genius in Portrait.

>>7478897
it contains the best prose ever written in the english language

>>7478822
>>7478897
It's an autobiographical bildungsroman, so much of your opinion of Portrait will depend on how far you identify with Dedalus. I do immensely and it was one of the most exhilarating reads of my life. The epiphany scene on the beach had me leaping around my room in joy.

hey, birds

>>7478813
Goodbye, sausage.

Pusha T - Darkest Before the Dawn

some legitimately good and literary work which also achieved widespread success

like Atonement by Ian McEwan

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>>7478798
>A book about rape accusation!
>Merry Christmas!
honestly, anon

Dad: (auto)biography of someone he would find interesting (see anyone considered a major positive historical figure in the west, esp. USA, and esp. moderate conservative types), or else a "leadership" type book like 7 habits

Mom: a book she can read with her 2 year old granddaughter (my brother's kid, I'm not stupid or cruel enough to have kids of my own)

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>tfw writing collection of poems and new testament fanfic with mischievous Jesus and reading the Bible and Yeats' collected works

proper patrish desu

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>tfw I'm writing poems and a novella, learning everything about american modernism while listening to Gaspard de la nuit by ravel and eating poptarts

>>7478776

>eating poptarts

patrish AF, especially if they're the unfrosted ones -- no gelatin, baby

>>7478691
Yes I have. I love the period so I was an easy sell though. I understand the author did some similar works, "The Etruscan" and "The Roman", but I didn't read either of those.

>>7478691

I love ancient Egyptian stuff. What is this about? Is it a novel or what?

>>7478691
I haven't heard of it. If you want Egyptian lit, http://wisdomlib.org/egypt/book/the-literature-of-the-ancient-egyptians/index.html

>>7478638
me in the middle tbqh family

hamlet for the first one

>>7478638
Moby-Dick for the third one

>>7478444
>Translation

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Just get the mexican manga hombre

pls

no hype

>>7478529
yeah, no hype

only people who might hype that book are people who have read less than 10 books since high school

and maybe john green fans

>>7478365
Only if you are 14 and have pleb taste.

4chan.org/lit/catalog

>>7478342
yeah k

>>64310038
m89, if you consider de Sade porn then you have something seriously off about you.

He was pushing the limits of shock writing, just like Cooper is doing now!

>oh noez the heterosexual gender roles are inverted in my writing

>fight club
I assumed you never acutally read anything by Palahniuk

>>64310047
>good books
Yeah. That doesn't exist.

Yeah I read a bunch by McCarthy: sutree, blood meridian and child of god. But I only have so much affection for southern gothic shtick.

>ALso, Wittgenstein
What is up with you anglos and analytic philosophy? Its like figuring out what sex is like using a calculator. Continental philosophy > analytic philosophy

In all honesty, have you actually read Palahniuk or just assumed your lit professors snobbism because she is offended by antagonizing crippled children?

>>7478358
>good books don't exist

Only a Chuck Palahniuk fan would believe something as stupid as this.

a book of Rob Browning's poems

>>7478313
New York 1927 by Aleksander Alekhine.

Find one, read it. You do not need annotations, or guides, or to have read the Odyssey. If totally lost simply look up a section/chapter summary and continue. Enjoy it.

>>7478311
This, OP.

I might advise you read Dubliners / Portrait first, but I firmly believe you could read Ulysses without having read anything else and still enjoy it.

>>7478424
I dunno, man. I am usually pretty dismissive of people trying to foist companion texts or prerequisite readings on people for a book, but reading Portrait seems pretty important to understanding Stephen's state in the novel.

How well-read are you is the real question?

We don't need any more writers who don't read saturating the market with their semi-illiterate garble desu.

>>7478253
You're not too old to produce something meaningful, but you are too old to still be on this godforsaken site. Leave. Save yourself.

Allan Rickman didn't into acting until he was like 41.

As for me, I've only been published a few times.

>>7479134
tell us more

>>7479140
I've only been writing since 2012, and I'd submit something to a magazine once or twice a year.

I feel fortunate, because I usually don't have to wait that long for acceptances. I just wonder if some magazines even read my submissions.

>>7478077
he really is pretty business savvy isnt he

GCAH-LIT

>>7478077
Fuck off, if DJ Khaled is new sincerity then... wait holy shit fuck
successor to postmodernism confirmed

>>7478047
I liked that sex scene with Kristen Dunst.

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>>7478052
well yeah, it's Kirsten Dunst.

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>>7478052
>>7478167

What do you want to with Kirsten Dunst?