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Worst Book You've Ever Read in yet is Popular for Some Reason 2017-09-05 07:29:37 Post No.9981947
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Worst Book You've Ever Read in yet is Popular for Some Reason
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What book is so bad that it makes you want to brutally murder someone, and why is it "A Wrinkle in Time?"
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>>9981947
But it's not.
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>>9981947
Thread is dead.
>21st century novel has multiple uses of hitherto
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Looks like he's smoing a cross.
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"Allies for 67 Years, U.S. and South Korea Split Over North Korea"
Is this ambiguity Syntactic Ambiguity or Polysemy?
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Polysemy or lexical ambiguity. Split carries two different meaning creating a pun.
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>>9981819
Im pretty sure its syntactic since the confusion is "split" vs "split-over", as in the latter becomes its own phrase
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Did you know that Mark Twain's name was fake and that it was really Samuel Langhorne Clemens?
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Sam Clemens was his slave name, Mark Twain is his proper muslim name.
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ya
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so what's the best thing you've read so far this year?
for me its laurus. very comfy, seemingly well-researched story that got me interested in russian medievalism. also nice to see an out-in-the-open, intelligent christian get published in a big way.
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Tfw you will never write like him.
This is the face of the inimitable. Master of fiction, plot, characterization, metaphor, imagery, humor, pathos, wit - all unparalleled.
Championed by Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Nabokov, Freud, Hardy, Kafka, Orwell, Jules Verne, Robertson Davies and innumerable others - inspiring every truly great writer from Benito Perez Galdos to Quentin Tarantino. Claimed by Socialists and Capitalists, Protestants and Catholics, Left and Right. Hated by Henry James and Virginia Woolf (AKA The Masterfully-Pretentious Yawn-Inducers).
Nabokov: "If it were possible, I would like devote the 50 minutes of every class meeting to mute meditation, concentration and admiration of Dickens."
Thackeray once threw a copy of Dickens' "Dombey and Son" across the room and complained: "There's no writing against such a power as this! One has no chance!"
Tolstoy even taught himself English so he could read Dickens in the original ffs.
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im with hj and vw
allnof those other authors are hacks
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>Quentin Tarantino
Don't tarnish Dickens' name by mentioning that hack in the same post.
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Literally pleb tier
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What exactly is the point of writing a book about a degenerate?
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my diary desu
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It's an attack on poetry. Bovary could never enjoy her actual life because poetic renderings of love, high society, etc painted a life that made hers unsatisfactory by comparison
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MY FACE WHEN ART makes life dull in comparison
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Does this book exist?
My Dad told me about a book he read called Go Tell the West. It was a personal memoir written by someone who had been sent to the gulags in Communist Russia in the 30’s, and the author was “warning” the West about what was going to happen here, in the future.
My Dad said he found this book when picking through a bunch of books the Los Angeles Library dumped back in the late 70’s. He said it had a copyright somewhere between 1936 and 1946, but he can’t remember the name of the author. He borrowed it to a friend, and has looked for it again since, but cannot find it anywhere. I too, cannot find any evidence the book even exists.
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With God in Russia?
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It's called Warning to the West, by famous Russian Solzhenitsyn - author of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Cancer Ward and the Gulag Archipelago.
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Hamlet it´s a 10/10?,if so,than i am going to do a thread for perfect and revolutionaries books.
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Post your favorite /light/ reads
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"Mind Heart Eye/Mouth" Director/Author Venn Diagram 2017-09-05 01:50:39 Post No.9981054
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"Mind Heart Eye/Mouth" Director/Author Venn Diagram
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Around 2014-2015 there was meme around here and /tv/ of a Venn Diagram containing names of popular directors divided between three sets of "Mind", "Heart" and "Eye", and another version for authors divided between "Mind", "Heart" and "Mouth" I belive.
do any oldfags have them or a link to them?
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bump
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Eyes see the future
Tongue, skin, and nose taste the present
Ears hear the past
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Need good Mystery recommendations. Genre: puzzle-type /whodunnit ( think agatha christie, sherlock Holmes)
tyvm!
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Agatha is pretty unHolmes. There's never much of a puzzle there. Holmes stuff can actually be interesting. But still, hardly a puzzle.
I'd love some puzzlers myself
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Why would you ask for a recommendation like this. There's billions of crime detective mysteries out there by Agatha and Holmes.
How about some pure mysteries which won't end with "oh, okay, interesting, so that's the perpetrator, that's why he did that and that's how he did that"
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If you've read everything by the authors in OP I'd recommend moving on to P.D James.
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Hey /lit/, I haven't posted here in a long time, but I need some recommendations for books. Looking for something I can read on a long layover in an airport. Specifically, I'm going to Iceland and Portugal.
I saw the /lit/ recommended page had some suggestions, but I can't tell if those are all good books that capture the spirit of the country, or books that just happen to have been written in that country.
I'm looking for something similar to the Sun Also Rises, though I'm not big on Hemingway. Just something good that engages with the modern culture of either Iceland or Portugal.
Any personal recommendations while I look into the ones on the recommended reading page?
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Is there anything more pretentious than reading on a plane?
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>>9981096
I said it's for a layover
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Is Pulp fiction worth reading? I'm look for some good adventure, scifi, pirate, mystery books. But nothing too serious. Pulp fiction seems cool, really authentic and old like.
http://manybooks.net/categories/PUL
http://www.thepulp.net/the-hunt/digital-pulp/
Found a few sites with pulp fiction converted to ebooks.
Was wondering if anyone had any recommendation or good resources.
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Conan started as pulp, and early era scifi, that's as much as I know about it. But the idea is that you pick something by the cover and throw youself into it. So just dive on whim.
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Also, thanks for the links.
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here come the reading for fun greentext masochists
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Where do I start with Borges?
How is his non-fiction?
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Start with The Aleph and Other Stories and then grab Ficciones (that's what I did)
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But isn't Ficciones a compilation of all his short stories? Arent stories from the Aleph already in Ficciones?? Otherwhise, what dumbass named it "Fictions" if it doesn't contain all of his fictions?
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>what dumbass named it "Fictions" if it doesn't contain all of his fictions?
Why do you think the title has to be exhaustive? Do you think Pensees contains every thought Pascal ever had?