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Have you guys seen these book reviews?
I am particularly fond of BooksAndShit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atnAagJAMf0
>>7701975
Ceit is that you? If so please fuck off promoting your qt gf.
why is her hair all wet in her latest review? Was it made post-coitus or something?
>>7701975
I am particularly fond of based John Dolan.
http://exiledonline.com/a-million-pieces-of-shit/
He is living the true literary lifestyle, currently on the run in Turin. Make sure John Dolan doesn't starve to death by donating to his patreon and subscribing to his The War Nerd Podcast.
If you support John Dolan please reply with "Thanks based John Dolan".
comfy books thread
all of austen
The Forest Path to the Spring - Malcolm Lowry
Hey guys, I'm trying to read Wolfgang Koeppen's A Sad Affair for free, but I'm having trouble finding the text. Does anyone have some sort of link or Pdf files? It would be very appreciated.
Can't help you
Have you tried the library?
>>7701982
I specifically need it tonight, and the library didn't have it.
Is naturalism completely dead or are there still such writers nowadays?
Oh snap it's le I WAS ACCUSED merchant goy?
Was it Asperger's?
>>7701755
probably, along with most other brilliant people throughout history.
maybe a little bit
>>7701755
That interview's a goldmine. I wonder if he banged that German chick who was interviewing him.
>Shipmates, have ye shipped in that ship?
What did he mean by this?
have ye shipped in that ship
shipmates [fellow fags], have ye shipped [jizzed] in that ship [[my] ass]
t. melville scholar and professional shipper
>>7701656
to have shipped is to have agreed to sail aboard a vessel and be paid in exchange for work over the duration of the voyage
but given the character making the statement, it probably means less like "have ye consigned yer body to labor" and more like "have ye consigned yer soul to damnation"
Pic NOT related.
whats with all the vonnegut hate?
>>7701619
/lit/ desperately wanting to appear patrician.
He's a great author.
So it's well established that most of this guy's work—The Trial in particular—is blatant commentary on the structure and nature of the church, right? Would anyone here actually argue that that wasn't the message he was trying to get across with The Trial and The Castle? It's basically unmissable.
according to him, the trial at least was based off of a hotel "trial" between him, his mistress, and his fiance
>>7701481
>the church
He was a jew so no.
i-isnt it about lack of accountability in government?
PLOT HELP
I've been stuck for the past few days on how to progress my plot
basically, my main character is the owner of a bookstore
he needs to realize that certain words/sentences/paragraphs in some of his books have been changed or have been completely removed
how the hell do I get him to realize this and begin his descent into madness as he combs through his books again and again?
looking for some suggestions/thoughts/inspiration pls
I guess if anyone else is having trouble moving their story forward they can post here too
buckle-up-borges-roos
ego-scrubber looks-up
Let him start a well-known book but redo or erase the first sentence. Then let him keep on reading while he ponders what's wrong with this copy until he gets it, but then he gets another copy of the same book from a different publisher and find out it's missing too. Maybe make poeple tell him there's no such sentence (the one he thinks it should actually be) and that its "that made-up sentence" or the second sentence of the book.
I jus tread this. Is it good?
>>7701319
No, it is not good. You shoul dnot have tread.
I just read it. Did I just read it?
I thought you were supposed to ask that before treading not after.
just finished reading this, stunning.
opinions?
Thoughts?
What did /lit/ think of this?
>>7701200
loved the welsh/cockney bard/slang being opposed and compared and it's actually a harrowing portray of war plus so much tea
Anyone read the short story viewfinder by raymond carver?
Thoughts on it's meaning, found some chump articles but I don't think they nailed it.
its*
>The book that most thoroughly shook and staggered me, owing to the intensity of its passion and its psychological accuracy in the handling of a couple of human beings who live throughout their lives at white heat, was Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, which I read with bated breath; which I have read many times since; and which, at every fresh reading, I have admired more and more.
>Here was a book which to my mind outclassed everything, French, English, or German, that I had so far read. I could not believe that...
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I don't read books by, or including, women.
I would only ever read a book by a woman if it helped me find her so that I could beat her for writing a book.
>>7700984
It's my favourite book, anyway.
