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Frankenstein

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>>9713066

>>9712819

Haen't read/seen his plays, but I tried getting through that book and it was boring as shit. It's just meaningless rambling. I've been told it's meaning rambling because "it's like life, man," but fuck that I want to read something entertaining. Call me pleb, but I get bored with a lot in life already.

>>9712819
I enjoyed it but I dont think english profs get the unnameable. They go on and on about ontological uncertainty and the absolute unnameable, when it is just a dick trying to anthropomorphize its back story. Dimwits everywhere

>>9712827
I'll admit the rambling is at times dense and difficult to enjoy, but perseverance is definitely rewarded. Rather than simply 'its like life lol' something a bit more special is revealed. It is admittedly very human, but also sad and self-reflective. Its mentioning of aches and pains and fucking farts seems off-putting but idk i think it reveals something sort of tragic . whatever idk im soundling like a pseud, someone probably understands what im trying to say.

all of them

>>9712514
>this is so obviously true, and THE reason to keep at it.
/thread

>>9712511
Why are the eastern icons so much better than western icons?
I love the variety styles

>>9712388
>albert camus
>Faulkner
>Asimov
>Dostoevsky
>James joyce
>Franz Kafka
You look new.

>>9712397

Can't please everyone, I guess. Would you like to share the list of obscure and superior authors you've been reading from?

>>9712388
this isn't real

How is highschool going?

>>9712286
Are people older than 17 allowed?

I constantly change my favourite book as I continue reading.
My last three favourites were:
The Foundation part one
Stoner
V.

4 sentences? more like 4 words

>desire
>ontology
>control
>difference

yw

>>9712868
>there is no division between Reason and God
>Logic is necessary to contemplate the Infinite
>Theough Reason man goes beyond the actual to the potential
>Plato was right

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y8_RRaZW5X3xwztjZ4p0XeRplqebYwpmuNNpaN_TkgM/mobilebasic?pli=1

>>9710738
>https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y8_RRaZW5X3xwztjZ4p0XeRplqebYwpmuNNpaN_TkgM/mobilebasic?pli=1

OP here
Thanks, Lot of job there.

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>>9710741

>>9708371
If you like Last Man and Post-Apocalyptic stories, read this:
http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/tas.aspx

>>9708394

Thanks. I didn't know H. P. Lovecraft had done a collab. And it's pretty good too. Lovecraftian in its morale without resorting to non-euclidian monsters.

I like it.

>>9708371
I've wanted to do one for the High Rmance for a while, but I don't really have the software capable. If anyone wanted to put this up it would be real nice of them

History of the Kings of Britain->Arthurian Romances (Chretian De Troyes)--{arrow splits in two}
First arrow-->Le Morte D'Arthur->Idylls of the King
Second arrow-->Orlando Furioso->Faerie Queene

With a separate box with Don Quixote as the end-all.

Also if anyone has any other suggestions, feel free to add them in.

>>9704140
If you've never written anything before, your first works will probably be utter shit. Do not worry about that, practice makes perfect, especially regular practice. If you're seriously thinking about becoming a writer you have to write a lot and write often to get good. When you're just practising and beginning, do not try to create masterpieces or your dream works, just write whatever you feel like writing, regardless if it will be good, creative, deep or whatever. Quality will come in time.
If you have this one genius novel idea that you want to share with the world and which is supposed to be your magnum opus or whatnot, wait with writing it for a moment when you are absolutely sure of your writing skills and certain that you will do it justice.
Also write first, check, correct and edit later. You won't get far if you're going to be stuck thinking about how to make this one sentence perfect for half an hour.

>>9704160
This seems like solid advise.

>>9704160
ok, but should i "waste" what i believe its a good idea on a first work that will probably be shit?
i'm not op btw

"The Other Side" by Alfred Kubin
"The Melancholy of Resistance" by László Krasznahorkai

Be warned, they're both lit. No genre fiction

>>9703741
Look for William Hope Hodgson.

>>9703799
This

The House On The Borderland" was mindfuck that I expect, it managed to give me the creeps

"The Nightland " was an awesome cosmic horror adventure.

You might like Tuchman's A Distant Mirror?

>>9717273
Nice, but I also would prefer something in the style of those ages, or there was nobody to care enough to write anything about it and save it?

>>9717278
Uhhhh the Florentine diaries of Dati?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorio_Dati

so what? there's more than enough literature from history to keep you entertained for a lifetime

>>9717277
Yes. But it's just a bummer to me that our generation will likely produce nada.

literature doesn't have to be books

>>9717044

>their works seem mannered, pretentious, self-absorbed, and psychologically and intellectually shallow

you're thinking of the next generation of authors like Pynchon and DFW

Woolf, Faulkner and Joyce weren't pretentious, they were actually hitting as high as they were aiming

>>9717054
This. Woolf, Faulkner, and Joyce are literary titans. They are unparalleled in psychological insight and truth of character
If you had the top three works from each of them that's honestly a lifetime's worth of literature.

It's not good. Skip modernism and read the postmodernists.

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>He hasn't read Aristotle, Proclus, or the Gospel

>>9717034
he wasn't a versatile

>>9717045
And the end of the day, isn't it all just:
>dude, just be, like, good and stuff

>>9716669
You talking about JJoyce?

everyone prefers music you pleb, it's literally mental cheesecake.
The fact that you dont appreciate/understand literature for what it is says more about your "genius" than anything else (and this post says a lot about you [a retard]).

>>9716669
>born as a literary genius of mind-blowing proportions
dont break your arm jerking yourself off champ