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Recommend me a book based on this image.
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>>9722707
Girl with a dragon tattoo probably
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>>9722707
can i recommend a book i hated?after dark - murakami
How can I archieve a better hability to articulate the English language? It's my second language, and when I try to speak it it feels stale, artificial,unlike when I speak my mother language (spanish).
Are there any books on this, or do I just need to keep practicing? Ive known English for a few years now and I pretty much learnt it on my own, whith help of some books but mainly the internet (I know, bad sign)
Pic related, nonsensical English phrase, like those I do if I don't put a considerable amount of thought into what I write.
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>>9722691
And sorry for some mistakes I did, phoneposting, it's kinda hard to write on this shit
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Your english is pretty dank tbqh. 'Articulate the english language' sounds like something Joyce would throw in on purpose.
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>>9722691
were're yours from op?
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>Mfw banned from /tv/ and see someone posting a comment that's WRONG
Let's talk about Tolkiens work
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>>9722562
>Let's talk about Tolkiens work
its good
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>>9722562
Reminder that Beren And Luthien is out.
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>>9722618
It's just a collection of the already available snippets of text and not a children of hurin style novelisation.
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Hey /lit/, just gettting back into reading after a short hiatus. I enjoy the classic authors or the West and a few Russian authors, but I've not really delved into Japanese literature. What are some must-reads from their culture? No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai looks interesting.
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Woman in the Dunes - Abe Kobo
-Surrealism, working culture
Patriotism (Short Story) - Mishima Yukio
-Nationalism
The Temple of the Golden Pavillion - Mishima Yukio
-Beauty, Nationalism
Bocchan - Natsume Soseki
-Pretentiousness, Countryside
Tony Takitani (Short Story) - Murakami Haruki
-Is very Haruki without being a doorstopper
Literally anything but Norwegian Wood - Murakami Haruki
-Is very Muarakami
Norwegian Wood - Murakami Haruki
-Is not very Murakami but has top waifu
Snow Country - Yasunari Kawabata
-Read the first 15 pages and stop, it doesn't get any better
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Also have some ebooks
>Japanese literature:
>http://www.mediafire.com/?mcqbmfxjeisqpje
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I really loved The Makioka Sisters, by Junichiro Tanizaki (pic related). It's a lovely depiction of life in Japan around the time of the first world war, with some truly memorable scenes and character interactions.
I actually wanted to write a screenplay based on it at what point.
On a very different note, I've read a couple of Ryu Murakami (the other Murakami)'s books, Audition and Piercing. They're not literary per se, but they're very short and have a very pulpy, visceral appeal imo.
Poster above didn't like Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata, but I loved it. It's short, so maybe worth checking out.
Is this book difficult? I certainly think it is, but I want to know what real readers think. I feel like my reading level must be pretty low, because I can read at most like 15 pages of this thing a day; and I worked my way up from only reading a couple pages and putting it down for a while. I'm on a fast track to finishing it within the next week right now, because I'm getting faster. I don't really consider myself the same level of person as most of the people on this board, so whether or not I find it difficult doesn't really count.
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>>9722395
no, not really t b h my lad. just keep reading it gets easier
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>>9722395
I read it very soon after I started reading and it took me a long time to get through, especially for a novella. It's been a while since then I should reread it soon.
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>>9722395
Are you reading this in english? It might be easier to read in norwegian if you're from Norway. (they only seem to sell the damned english version in Norway)
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What are some good books to read to improve my prose?
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East of Eden and Perfume both really helped me in that area.
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>>9722379
Any book you think has good prose.
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>>9722379
Hume's History of Great Britain or Gibbon
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>My sweet little whorish Nora I did as you told me, you dirty little girl, and pulled myself off twice when I read your letter. I am delighted to see that you do like being fucked arseways. Yes, now I can remember that night when I fucked you for so long backwards. It was the dirtiest fucking I ever gave you, darling. My prick was stuck in you for hours, fucking in and out under your upturned rump. I felt your fat sweaty buttocks under my belly and saw your flushed face and mad eyes. At every fuck I gave you your shameless tongue came bursting out through your lips and if a gave you a bigger stronger fuck than usual, fat dirty farts came spluttering out of your backside. You had an arse full of farts that night, darling, and I fucked them out of you, big fat fellows, long windy ones, quick little merry cracks and a lot of tiny little naughty farties ending in a long gush from your hole. It is wonderful to fuck a farting woman when every fuck drives one out of her. I think I would know Nora’s fart anywhere. I think I could pick hers out in a roomful of farting women. It is a rather girlish noise not like the wet windy fart which I imagine fat wives have. It is sudden and dry and dirty like what a bold girl would let off in fun in a school dormitory at night. I hope Nora will let off no end of her farts in my face so that I may know their smell also.
>You say when I go back you will suck me off and you want me to lick your cunt, you little depraved blackguard. I hope you will surprise me some time when I am asleep dressed, steal over to me with a whore’s glow in your slumberous eyes, gently undo button after button in the fly of my trousers and gently take out your lover’s fat mickey, lap it up in your moist mouth and suck away at it till it gets fatter and stiffer and comes off in your mouth. Sometimes too I shall surprise you asleep, lift up your skirts and open your drawers gently, then lie down gently by you and begin to lick lazily round your bush. You will begin to stir uneasily then I will lick the lips of my darling’s cunt. You will begin to groan and grunt and sigh and fart with lust in your sleep. Then I will lick up faster and faster like a ravenous dog until your cunt is a mass of slime and your body wriggling wildly.
>Goodnight, my little farting Nora, my dirty little fuckbird! There is one lovely word, darling, you have underlined to make me pull myself off better. Write me more about that and yourself, sweetly, dirtier, dirtier.
What did he mean by this?
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>fart with lust in your sleep.
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>>9722336
that even Joyce's horny fart fetish letters were 100 times better than anything I will ever write and that I have no talent and will die in pathetic insignificance, alone and afraid
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He didn't "mean" anything. He understood what it is to be human and thus animal and embraced it.
God is a fart in the sheets.
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I have a question, /lit/. What do all of you think about this man's works?
>inb4 stephenking.2
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>>9722272
stephenking.1.5
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>>9722272
His comics are better than his novels. I'm going fucking spare waiting for him to write a new novel, it must be a decade by now.
His films suck except for Mirrormask.
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I was enjoying the sandman; but i stopped at season of mists. Because the art never looked good throughout the series, i didn't like most of the resolutions, and because it was a rip-off of swampthing anyway. Not even gonna bother with his books
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Would someone explain the appeal of Dubliners to me? It just seems like very plain stories, with very plain writing. Why is it rated so high on so many of the lit top 100 charts? I get that James Joyce is supposed to be this brilliant fucking artist; I read Ulysses and I admit, I didn't get past 15 pages. But Dubliners, it's almost as if the stories have no meaning.
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Are you a woman?
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>>9722237
I wish
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Save for "Araby" and "The Dead" the rest of the book did nothing for me.
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What are the first ten books you'd suggest to a novice reader
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Just print out a reading list of an honors high school curriculum and whing a dart at it.
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>>9722459
My list is pretty much the same lol
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What's the best way to end an odyssey?
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>>9722084
Kill suitors and fuck your wife
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>>9722084
>Kill suitors and fuck your mother
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>>9722084
>>Fuck suitors and kill your husband
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Has a book ever triggered an existential crisis in you? The works of pic related really messed me up
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All the time. That's why I stopped reading and only post on /lit/.
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Characters with crippling depression/midlife crisis are a little close to home. It's tough to put the specific emotions into words, but when someone manages to accurately describe every anxiety and problem you've been through it hits hard.
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>>9721908
je pense donc je suis -- ceci est nul
je pense, oui
je suis, oui
mais les pensées ne sont pas la raison d'être
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yes, you can have a very high iq and not get It. but is it required to get It?
i took an iq test as a kid and never knew my results but i have a vague memory of being disappointed when my dad told me what it was - like 98th percentile or something. not sure what that converts to - probably like 120? am i a brainlet?
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>>9721886
>utilizing a normal distribution application for outliers
yeah you're dumber than a 14 y/o
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>>9721904
yeah im dumb, sure - but the thread is asking what that means
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>>9721922
What does that shit has to do with literature? Go back to /b/.
italian fag here. I'm in love with litterature and after studying italian litterature at the Normale of Pisa i started work as a programmer, because i don't want to hate litterature cuz is my boring work.
have you ever read the commedy in italian?
it made me cry many times, i wonder how it feels like to read it in others languages.
cutting dante from the ranking for obvious reasons... my best in slot is Ariosto. if u haven't read it yet, do it: "L'orlando furioso".
thanks me later
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>Normale di Pisa
>scrive in inglese da cani
Direi che ho fatto bene a mollare l'università italiana per girare il mondo
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>>9721851
at least you tried
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Can anyone tell me precisely what merit Joyce had as a writer? I'm not seeing it.
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>>9721747
None.
Joyce was second-rate, ephemeral, puffed-up. A nonentity, means absolutely nothing to me. Awful.
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>>9721747
Try not being a plep.
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>>9721747
>I'm mentally retarded
Well there's your problem