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>I, for one,
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>>7433721
Not /lit/ saged
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>deigned to
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>>7433721
More like I for two you fat fuck. As in I eat for two cause I'm so fucking fat it literally looks like someone inflated a balloon behind my face.
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Give me the devastatingly obvious reason why Not Bill Murray could not have been Junot Diaz.
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He seems more intelligent.
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Because i wish I was dead
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>>7433596
NBM more intelligent than the Pulitzer winner and MIT professor?
My girlfriend is getting investors together to try to open up a small bookstore, but she's going to try for a different angle, it's going to be small and carry mainly great works of philosophy and literature in Norton editions and things like that, and she's going to have coffee and t-shirts and posters and busts and stuff.
Basically, her idea is to cater to hipsters, I think. Just wondering if you think it's going to be successful, because I haven't told her otherwise yet.
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>>7433528
>coffee
This is the only part of the draw that will really pull business. Just like gyms, the food she sells will be incredibly important, like it or not. She needs to really learn about good coffees (african, geisha, etc) and be able to put out really decent pastries and sandwiches. Also important is excellent wifi, USB plugs etc, comfy couches, ambience. Pure bookstores (unless you are at a beach community and own the property) have real problems without a service aspect.
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>>7433528
I'd happily shop there if they had any kind of loyalty rewards program or other discounts.
That's really the biggest draw for bookstores for me, to make them competitive with online sources. Most bookstores are able to order anything you want anyway.
>captcha is coffee
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>>7433528
So it has all of the viability of an independent bookshop in the era of Amaz*n, but with less appeal to mass tastes. I want to believe this can work desu. It depends on where it is located (i.e., a metropolitan area with a well-educated critical mass).
why didn't anyone tell me this was so comfy??? i'm like two hundred pages in. already excited for Odyssey and Aeneid.
Is Lattimore best for Odyssey too, or just for Iliad? I read somewhere that Fagles is best Odyssey and Fitzgerald is best Aeneid -- how accurate is this?
first and foremost though, this shit is cooooozy. Achilleus is being a dick to the Achaians right now and i'm just wondering when the trojan horse comes in (dont tell me tho)
pic related, translation i'm reading
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>>7433526
>wondering when the trojan horse comes init doesn't
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Lattimore is great, his Oresteia is the one I read it and I recommend too.
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Try this translation of the Odyssey
http://www.press.umich.edu/17212/odyssey/?s=look_inside
It's in dactylic hexameter
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ok I'm readin this and I think its OK. but i see everyone here thinks Murakami is a fucking hack.
so I have to ask: who does what Murakami is attempting to do better?
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bump
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Most people here are talking about/hating the rest of his body of work, which is more surreal.
This is a pretty cut and dry coming of age manic pixie romance, and I kinda liked it, but it's not like most of his other stuff.
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>>7433454
>who does what Murakami is attempting to do better
I'm sorry, what?
Post 1 out of 5 reviews of your favorite books. Pic related is a review of TBK.
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>>7433452
117 pages in 6 months, lol
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>>7433452
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>>7433501
>I quit after 50 pages
>I would rather eat 4 hashish brownies
0_o
Trying to re-learn Spanish. I took a few years in college nearly a decade ago, so I guess I'm just a little past beginner.
Any good books or stories to read in Spanish that aren't too hard? People have suggested I just read translated Harry Potter and stuff but that seems boring.
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Platero y yo
Pedro y el capitan
Borges is not that hard to read
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One of my favourites short stories in spanish: http://www.materialdelectura.unam.mx/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15&limitstart=3
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All memes and shitty lists aside... What 5 fictional novels do you think are the best ever written? Post your top 5.
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Moby-Dick, War and Peace, Hamlet, 1001 Nights, Ulysses
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>>7433165
Count of Monte Cristo, Brothers Karamazov, Petersburg, Ulysses, and though i havent finished it, The Recognitions.
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>>7433175
kinda wish i would have read moby dick right about now
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anyone out here got a literary agent? how'd you find them? what was the query process like?
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agents are really big on following each other on twitter
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I would also like to know.
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>>7433788
I think everybody wants to know
>sending out queries
>all no's if I get a reply at all
>keep trying
shit sucks
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Hey /lit/
My debut novel is coming out in March next year. However the publisher (the biggest in my country) have made it pretty clear that I will be "marketed" as a "hot young thing" (that is the translated term) and have turned down my initial request that my work be published pseudonymously.
What advice do you guys have about this?
I wish to publish my works anonymously is possible, and pseudonymously otherwise. Am I selling it out by accepting to their terms?
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>>7433042
m or f?
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>>7433046
Male. My book is to be called The Melancholy of the Defective Pixel or La melancolie du pixel mort in my native language.
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Can't offer you any advice but that title sounds cool.
>semicolon in dialogue
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>>7433024
The semicolon is the evergreen literary rebellion; it spanks the mind.
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>I thought your voice was familiar when I heard you on the hill-top; but when I saw you, I loved you from that moment; and then every other woman’s voice in the world went, for me, out of existence!
Thanks Brimstoker.
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>my dick in your moms colon
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i cant make myself read, my tiny brain wont let me concentrate on a book for more than 2 sentences and i have to force myself to read. ive tried reading anything, its just my lack of brain.
how do i make myself love concentrating on a book for long?
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im 20 and ive read 30 books my whole life
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Jesus Christ. Can we have an ADD general?
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>>7432963
how did add affect your life? did it come to suicidal thoughts?
Any books like this comic?
>inb4 lovecraft
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Haha, Johnny Ryan rules. Fuck books, just read Prison Pit instead.
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>>7432854
This, some Borges, I Have No Mouth but I Must Scream.
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>>7433250
Also Thomas Ligotti has some aspects of this as well. Some of Clive Barker's Books of Blood and the Hellbound Heart as well.
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Is this the most relevant novel of our time? The violence in Paris described in the book happened on the day the book came out. Now that the Front Nationale is the great winner of the regional elections the socialists are actually doing what Houellebecq predicted: Throwing themselves at the feet of anyone who has somewhat of a chance of keeping the nationalists from power.
Is there any active author that is more of a visionary than Houellebecq?
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>>>/pol/
racist, white scum.
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Why would you put your name twice in the cover?
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Pleb here, just finished this, probably the best thing ive ever read, cwhere do i go from here? Thoughts about the book?
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I'm just going to make this about me for a second: This was the first book that got me back into reading when i was 20.
OP, its a great read. This is my favorite of Tolstoy's that I've read (yeah I did W/P and A/K too and I'm not sure they were worth it), and as a short story it is the best I have ever read.
This is actually what the dying want... You're never fooling anyone when you coddle someone who is dying. They know they're going to die, just try to make them laugh, ask them what THEY want and most importantly LISTEN. I wish I would have read this before my dad's slow death from cancer. Great read OP.
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Been meaning to read it, what translation is the recommended one?
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>>7432735
Really get what you're saying. There is alot to learn from this book about how to be a better to people, both healthy and dying.
It's not quite a short story btw, most people consider it a novella.
One of my favourites by Tolstoy, excluding his "big" works (AK, W&P). As for recommendations, it depends on which of his books you read already. If Ilyich is your first, I highly recommend you read more of his shorter works. The Cossaks is the only one I consider as good as Ilyich, try it next, it's incredible.
Once you feel familliar enough with him just read W&P and AK, doesn't matter which first.