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Hi /lit. What is the best way to get good at understanding poetry? I've always been a big literature fan and shied away from poetry because it kind of pissed me off. Anyways, are there any books that can help me out or any recommended poets to start with?
>>7571204
Start with the Greeks.
Rhyme's Reason, or, An Ode Less Travelled
What do you guys think about this book?
>>7571140
Kind of depressing, but I liked it.. Haven't read it in a few years might reread it one day.
>>7571140
harrowing
fine. surprisingly comfy.
So where do I get my .epubs now
What did OP mean by this?
#bookz duh
What happened to the archive?
Hey guys. I just finshed reading Dubliners by James Joyce. Obviously I just finished reading the final story The Dead. Well I'm after a few points of discussion. Did you guys catch the vast symbolism the first time around? What did you find to be the most symbolic. Did you enjoy it?
no, I found all of the stories to be very dry "americana" (don't know what the irish/general equivalent of this is) type things at first. unless you really get into the nitty gritty literary stuff like pov/word choice/memory it's not really something that grabs you and shakes you.
>>7571137
pleb detected
>>7571138
when i first read dubliners, yeah absolutely.
>Anno Domini MMXVI
>Not appreciating the splendor of visual art, cinema, and music
>Exclusively reading books due to ignorance and arrogance
retarded thread made by an actual retard
>why does this book board only talk about books?
Sufjan is my favorite artist
I don't read much but DFW is my favorite author.
It's hard to name a favorite director but I guess PTA. My favorite movie of all time is probably Fellowship of the Ring though
you can call me reddit if you want but please hit the like and subscribe button
Can you ever truly appreciate a book that you've only read a translation of?
Yes, why not?
>>7571019
You're not getting the author's words - only some translator's portrayal of the original.
>>7571026
linguistic appreciation is not the totality of a book
unless the usage of language is part of the art like shakespeare, translating shakespeare would be a bit pointless
What are some good work, fiction or non-fiction, on the nature of women? I know about On Women by Schopenhauer or The Manipulation Man but I don't care if it's positive or negative.
>>7570682
Jude the Obscure
Stoner
Holly Madison: Down the Rabbit Hole
F. Roger Devlin - Sexual Utopia in Power
Chinweizu - Anatomy of Female Power
H L Mencken - In Defense of Women
Michelle Langley - Women Infidelity
Esther Vilar - The Manipulated Man
Is there a more based and cheaper publisher than Signet Classics?
>>7570665
>dover thrift editions
>wordsworth
Why has he never been translated into English?
English uninterested in supporting the losing side, Americans only interested in republican echo chamber
>>7570589
That can't be it, French translations into English are pretty fucking abundant. There's like 20 Madame Bovary and 10 Les Mis translations.
Maybe the French themselves haven't made enough fuss about him to interest the English?
>>7570594
Chateaubriand, De Maistre and De Bonald would be better examples
Are there any good books on learning how to influence people through speech/body language?
Yeah, man.
>>7570527
pls tell me senpai
>>7570518
>"Reading"
You can't learn it from a book. I would suggest LSD and a party
POST LIT GET HIT
Post excerpts from what you are currently writing and get roasted by other /lit/erary gentlemen.
Try to critique one before you post one. Lastly, PLEASE do not start a fifty post argument with another poster; doing this will ruin the thread for those trying to get and give advice.
This thread is all about trying to steal my ideas for a Novel. For example, I have a novel I'm writing, and its about our existence and experiences being controlled in all aspects by a computer system run by aliens that landed here because of black hole that we previously tried to enter in order to enable interstellar travel because our earth was turning into a dust bowl. Things looked bleak until two NYPD cops who don't play by the rules got wind of the human matrix computer and went in there and disregarded all constitutional conventions, all the while doing it while...
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>>7570613
Hi Tommy.
This is a portion of a short story I am working on.
http://pastebin.com/Brwb6mf2
and here is a tiny story: Sunset
Last evening, after a day’s work, I sat up on the hill at the end of the grapefruit orchid and watched the sunset; it got stuck. At first, I thought I was just weary from old man Harold’s task but after thirty minutes of gradually building suspicion, I knew for certain that the sun was stuck. I ran back to my house as fast as someone could after working for that old fuck, Harold. My mom wasn’t home, they let her off from work when...
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>its a 'murakami writes his main character as a mentally weak guy with low self confidence who thinks he is plain looking yet sleeps with girls and has a number of girls interested in him' book
i like him, but his books are all the same
He is nowhere near other western hack writers. Yeah, he is not worth the time, but the level of hate he gets here is out of proportion.
If he is your worst guilty pleasure you are doing fine.
Isn't that every anime?
>>7570525
as i said, i like his stuff and breeze through his stuff, but he has no range as a writer
Thought this might be an interesting read. I have always been fascinated by the guys making watches by hand and have begun writing a novel about a watchmaker. I want to be able to describe tiny details correctly and this book seems like a good reference. Unfortunately shipping to my country is insanely expensive.
>>7570420
>I have always been fascinated by the guys making watches by hand and have begun writing a novel about a watchmaker.
Heh, I've been plaing with the same idea. I'll be going for something around the thirty years war, and more for turret clocks.
>Unfortunately shipping to my country is insanely expensive.
Where are you from? Give me some details :-)
If you are German by any chance, stick to German and Swiss watchmakling literature. I recently...
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I own this and a few other watchmaking books - "The watch repairer's manual" by Henry Fried is really good.
WATCHMAKING is great but it's more to do with creating the parts, with a lathe etc, than repairing or maintenance.
What I suggest is first getting into repairing watches. You can buy broken pocket watches from ebay insanely cheap. I used to buy 20 of them at a time. During all this you'll have to invest in all of the normal watchmaking tools for repairing and maintenancing watches. When you start needing to lathe new parts for broken...
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>>7570420
>Unfortunately shipping to my country is insanely expensive.
no it's not
Hey guys, is there a good site to get used books from besides Amazon? I'm not in an area with a great used bookstore and I'd like to expand my library. I don't really have anything against Amazon, I'm just wondering if there's a good place I don't know about. Suggestions?
abebooks
This is a pretty good question, OP. Watching this thread.
>>7570205
fucking ebay
bookdepository.com
Hello.
I just finished Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian. Pretty crazy stuff; the evocation of atmosphere was very impressive. I sometimes found McCarthy's weird prose rules hard to follow but when they work they have sort of an admirable economy.
What is everyone's interpretation of the ending? Thoughts on the whole?
Was it rape?
>>7570167
well memed
>>7570175
It may very well have been raped. Although I would be curious about what the judge does to the kid I just took away that the judge has thoroughly bested him. Like there is no doubt that the kid has any dignity value left after the judge is done.
What I am more curious about is the part with the hole drilling in the epilogue. When someone recommended the book to me someone said that it was McCarthy's last word against the judge but I didn't understand that interpretation.
