Leave this board and never return if any of these apply to you:
>you read any form of genre fiction
>you barely know your classics
>you tend to believe that if you like a given work, it is justified on an artistic level
>you think everyone's opinion should be accepted and respected
>you speak a single language
>you read contemporary versions of Shakespeare or Milton
>you read for the plot
>you read for solely for entertainment
>you rarely read nonfiction
>you don't have a solid grounding in philosophy
>you don't have at least have some understanding of the Three Tragedians and Homer
>you have little to no understanding of literature outside of your cultural horizon
>you have little to no understanding of literature within your own cultural horizon
>you mostly read contemporary literature
>you believe 'the author is dead'
>you make your literary analysis proceed from ideology
>you think intricate prose is 'pretentious' and that the author 'should just get to the point'
>your rarely read poetry
>you think Rhythm and Rhyme is just useless rules and laws restricting creativity
>you have a hard time explaining why you like a given work
>you have a hard time forming structured and relevant literary criticism
>you tend to refuse to judge works for yourself, rather relying on the opinions of literary authorities
>you rarely read for more than one or two hours straight
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>you read contemporary versions of Shakespeare or Milton
that's fhakefpeare to you pleb
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>you tend to believe that if you like a given work, it is justified on an artistic level
>you don't have a solid grounding in philosophy
but anon, your post is oxymoronic.
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I'm currently reading Max Havelaar and I'm wondering what Indonesian and Dutch people are thinking about this book.
Do you agree with what's written in there?
Was it a good read?
Or just say anything you like about it
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I correct myself; I'm also wondering what other people are thinking about it, not just Indonesian and Dutch
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>>9755625
It's a shit book God bless the King-Emperor and fuck Multatuli
Suffocate on coffee and disappear
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Multatuli was a hack
read Nescio instead
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Little past half year now /lit/
what have you read this year?
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>>9755518
there are like three of these threads.
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>>9755518
Over this half of the year I have read (on this order):
Animal Farm (average)
More Than A Game (fucking garbage that should be set on fire)
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories (bretty good, know it isn't too /lit/ though)
The Vegetarian (winner of the Man Booker 2015(?) and definitely good)
A General Theory of Oblivion (shortlisted for the Man Booker Award and I found it rather average)
Echos In Death (set it on fucking fire; this was awful. I went into a store and asked for that specific stores top seller, just to see what it'd be like.. didn't even realize it was the worst kind of trope ass police procedural bullshit until I got home.)
The Book Thief (a little above average)
Lord of the Flies (good)
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (very good)
Perfume (fantastic)
Death of a Salesman (a play.. but fantastic.)
The Alchemist (just above average, but goddamn.. what a meme)
Slaughterhouse-Five (personal favourite from early high school: fantastic)
Coraline (average by child standards)
Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions (bretty gud)
The Old Man and the Sea (really good)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (fantastic)
Crime and Punishment (holy fuck.. incredible - well beyond fantastic.)
Notes from Underground (fantastic)
The Brothers Karamazov (incredible)
That should be about 19 titles. That's more than two a month so I'd say a relatively good half year so far.
Name a more influential postmodernist.
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Cervantes
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>>9755352
Gaddis
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>>9755352
William gaddis
Joseph McElroy
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one of these threads
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What exactly do you want us to post on this thread?
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>>9755326
i don't get it
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Need to write a creative short story based on Katherine Mansfield's stories for school,
I suck at creative writing and I'm only in the class because the teacher is hot.
It's due tomorrow, can anybody help?
The story needs to have a symbol and express the views and values of Mansfield and be between 900-1100 words.
Any ideas for Plot, Symbols etc.
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>>9755243
We can't even write for ourselves. What makes you think anyone's going to help you?
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>>9755317
>we
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>>9755243
Hmm, she was a qt
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Stop it, just stop. Stop thinking. Stop having opinions. You are all wrong! You can barely sense a fragment of existence, how do you even have the audacity to think you are allowed to form opinions. Just fucking stop forever. END.
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ok
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Impeach Trump.
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>>9754760
Nice opinion.
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I'd like to get into film. What are good books about cinema and its history?
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>>9754635
skip books until you want to learn specific details. for orientation and general 'redpilling' use youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/user/everyframeapainting
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL5kBJmBUVFLYBDiSiK1VDw
a little more technical than formal, but good overview over film history:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSFAYalJ2Q7Tm_WmLgetmeg
also I'd like to mention that there are a lot of aspects to get into in cinema. you can start reading classic scripts like pulp fiction, you can get into photography to appreciate camera stuff, you can study editing and fap to satoshi kon, etc etc.
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Glad I found this interesting thread.
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>I'd like to get into reading. what are some interesting movies about books and their history?
watch movies.
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Does anyone in here do MDMA? If so, have you noticed it perniciously affecting your verbal abilities and therefore your writing?
I did it 4 times this year, last of it being a massive binge in the first day of June. It might.
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Yes it stops up your brain a bit
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Don't do it four times over six months you fuckin idiot.
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I have dedicated months to A Song of Ice and Fire reading the incredibly long books, treading through some of the more tedious moments, and spending hours of my day reading the series. Did I seriously waste my time? George R. R Martin is an old fuck and he has two more books to write and he usually takes years. I fear that he will die and the series will never be finished. He also made it clear that he would not have someone else finish the series for him in fear of decline in quality. I feel like he will die and the fear has escalated so far that I haven't finished A Dance with Dragons.
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>>9754009
Actually OP, you wasted your time by reading young adult pseudoliterature. It has nothing to do with Martin's age.
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>>9754009
>I have dedicated months to A Song of Ice and Fire reading the incredibly long books
Does it actually take people that long to read this shit? Has the education system in the first world actually failed this substantially that people can't read simple genre fiction at a reasonable pace?
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>it's not the destination, but the journey blah blah blah
Even if he never finishes the series, there's tons of tons of other books to read. No reason to get hung up on one author. Stop complaining, and start enjoying new things.
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What's missing from my short story collection collection?
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>>9753671
Hemingway
Henry James
Chekhov
Saki
Isaac Babel
D.H. Lawrence
John Cheever
Alice Munro
Edna O'Brien
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Chekhov
Tolstoy
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>>9753671
>A Sportsman's Sketches
>Winesburg, Ohio
>Complete Hemingway
>Complete O'Connor
>Go Down, Moses
>After the Quake and Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
>Chekhov
>Gogol
>Nine Stories
>Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
>Collected Stories of Ralph
>Flying Home and Other Stories
>Tolstoy
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Is The Bible worth reading in its entirety for atheists?
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>>9753443
Yep. Most culturally influential and historically relevant book to ever grace this planet.
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>>9753443
>atheists
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>>9753534
This. Read the bible to know what NOT to do.
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Is this book worth a read?
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its ok
avoid all of his other books at all costs
if you unironically think Danielewski has merit read Only Revolutions. Its the wankiest piece of fiction I've ever encountered. Emerson Lake and Palmer level wank.
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Is it published anywhere as a classic outside of its genre? If not, no.
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No.
Read Alasdair Gray if you want to see how to meld creative typography and experimental fiction together, in a way that's actually good and readable.
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Are you guys (Americans) taught about the definiton of concepts such as: character development, plothole, plot device, etc. in school? I ask because most english-speaking people I have talked to are aware of them while nobody in my country (even people who read) seem to know their meaning. Sorry for my bad English.
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In highschool
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Elementary school
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German.
Come to think of it, I never learned about plot holes in school. Did you really learn about that? I imagine it to be like riffing with a teacher.
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ITT: We call out a name and post a book. If your name is called, you have to read the book.
Hope you like shitty middle-aged white mom-core books, Henry.
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Read this Hank you piece of shit
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>>9749529
hank?
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Joshua, here's your book.