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Alright guys need some help because I have shit tier memory on everything I've read, looking for a book and I only remember the syphnosis lightly. Had to do with like 2 or 3 kids who did some stupid shit and it brought on the return of some evil king(shadow king or ghoul King) and that's pretty much it, I'm sure it was a trilogy, like I only read the first one. Anyone got any idea what I'm talking about
Time for a new book. Which one should I read first?
read them simultaneously so you don't have to shoot yourself when you're bored of moby-dick. not kidding
Moby Dick.
Burn the other one.
Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance is a waste of time.
Like babbys first deep thought or something
>read nothing but mangas for two years straight
>finally decide to get back into literature
>start with Gravity's Rainbow
>"Wow, /lit/ was right, this doesn't make any sense"
>realize in the final pages of the book that I read the whole thing right to left, like my mangas
>"oopsy daisy"
Even if you read it left to right it still doesn't make sense.
>>7625381
I'd think it would make more sense if you read it like that
> oopsy daisy
You sound like a girl, fuck off from my fuckboi LIVE interaction discussion panel REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>yfw this is an interpretation
>>7625367
>Writer's block
u wot m8? i'll knock *your* block off in a minute
>black writers
op comedy gold hahaha
Shorter books recommendations pls
Hi /lit/,
As of late I've had a lot of free time in the Army of all places. I'm getting back into reading again... recently bough a kindle. I've been enjoying going through some shorter books.
So far for this year I've read
The Stranger
Lolita
The Old Man and the Sea
The Forever War
Illluminatus (first one)
Notes From Underground
and currently reading Siddartha.
Do you have any suggestions for some books on the shorter side> Like I said, I'm just trying to...
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>>7625249
There's literally (!) a chart on novellas in the sticky, you feminist cuck
Is it possible for a writer to truly not influence their writings by their own traits (like how black authors will almost always write about race)
Any good examples of authors not doing this?
Any examples of shit authors that do do this?
pic really kinda not related
>>7625089
By the sounds of it, pic might be very related, OP.
White people don't do it because white people are the Same. The Other (non-whites) does it because of ressentiment. In the long run, no one will remember any of the ressentiment shit, and it will come to nothing, and white dudes will keep churning out classics and further developing themselves. It sucks.
I'm black btw.
>>7625089
best works come out of interest in writing them
what interests a writer coupled with his ability is what makes the man
just finished reading pic related
is there more to it than dude wine lmao?
You'll get out of it what you're capable of taking from it.
>>7625067
>You'll get out of it what you're capable of taking from it.
fuck
that's depressing
if you read the original: yeah, a little
if you read fitzgerald: lol yeah the whole plot
Has anyone on here read Songs of Solomon by Toni Morrison? Where does it rank amongst her works
this same fucking faggot has been posting song of solomon threads for two weeks straight
fuck off and stop shilling this garbage
on the off chance you're a genuine poster - the book is shit don't read it. worst book i've ever read
>>7624690
It's written by a black woman.
That means it's utter trash
It's pretty good. I think Beloved is supposed to be better.
So, the ending went way over my head, guess I am too dumb.
Can anyone here explain to me what happened to:
1. Slothrop
2. The Counterforce
3. the 00001 and the 00000 (where did they land?)
i've literally explained this to you before, op ... you used pretty much the same wording
>>7624264
Slothrop lost his identity and so his character literally disolved.
The Counterforce went the same way, just sort of went crazy or whatever.
00000 is the missle pirate sees at the beginning. 00001 is the explosion at the end which lands on the cinema, I think, I dunno. I'm not sure about these things.
When Sartre is describing the lonely old proctor on the bench he states they feared him not because of how he appeared but because they thought he might be "shaping thoughts of crab or lobster in his head."
Is this some sort of french saying? I get the gist of it in the context of the text and i love the sound of it but what does it actually mean?
Didn't Sartre hallucinate crabs and lobsters following him around during a breakdown?
