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Hello anon, Gassposter here. Time is running out to read the 20th century's foremost prose stylist. Begin with Omensetter's Luck. Resume with The Tunnel.
>>8206152
Fuck that. He starts out strong then I realize I just want him to shut his stupid fat mouth.
>>8206160
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Opinions on Thomas Wolfe /lit/?
some folks were talking about a new movie about him on the radio a couple weeks ago but that's like the first i'd heard of him
have you read anything of his op
>>8206034
Midway through "Look Homeward Angel" at the moment. Nice prose, though a bit experimental for the sake of being experimental in parts.
>>8206026
I enjoyed Look Homeward, Angel and You Can't Go Home Again. His prose has a nice flow to it, especially LHA. Andrew Turnbull's biography is good if you're interested in his life.
What makes a good poem? How is a poem art when it's so easy for AI to make something which appears like a human poem?
Poetry is like music with lyrics, except the lyrics are also the music.
>>8206008
>AI to make something which appears like a human poem?
example?
>>8206008
Because art is constituted in its reception not its creation you knuckle dragging retard
Post your top 3 Faulkner novels
>Absalom, Absalom!
>Light in August
>The Sound and the Fury
Absalom Absalom was like, not very good. I love Faulkner and after reading TSATF and AILD I was like "shit this gonna be so good" but it wound up being more like "what is the point of this book"
why did you enjoy it?
>>8205991
Faulkner is too dry of a writer imo
>>8206048
Must have been all that sunbathing...
Edward Feser new book incoming
Topic is defense of the capital punishment, should be out in 3 or so months.
Guess it's Edward Feser general and by extension thomist, aristotelian and conservative author discussion is welcomed.
https://m.soundcloud.com/thomisticinstitute/prof-edward-feser-protecting-and-taking-human-life-6416?in=thomisticinstitute/sets/6th-annual-philosophy-workshop-aquinas-on-politics
>>8205845
I have a copy of Feser's Aquinas. Any preliminary reading I should undertake or can I dive into it?
>>8205926
None.
That is the preliminary reading.
bump. I've read most of Fesey. I'm not a theist or a conservative, but I've learned a lot from boel.
So I've recently picked up this book, now I'm about two thirds in but i can figure out if this book is just a meme or not.
The antagonist is a cuck and the main protagonist is a fucking autist.
please tell me if im just wasting my time getting jewed by meme books
>>8205839
what the fuck are you thinking? i mean seriously. what the fuck are you thinking?
>>8205841
sorry i dont know what you mean
i do enjoy this book, but i cant get over the fact that it seems like "scripted" or planned or something
>>8205847
i dunno, don't you think the problem might be that you're aiming a bit low on the lit totem pole? i mean, it's a mass marketed simp novel that has little imagination. I'm not trying to be pretentious or anything, but there's so much more out there, man. I mean, it doesn't seem like you're enjoying it, and I like to hope you're not baiting me, so maybe you can move into the realm of cooler stuff. I mean the book i'm reading, someone literally cut off their own nuts as penance...
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I've played the games, and I was genuinly pleased with them (played only DoW 1 with all expansions), and now I want to read about it more. What novels are good for introducing me to Warhammer's world, and where should I start reading?
Thanks in advance, /lit/!
>>8205809
>I've played the games
>played only DoW 1 with all expansions
so, you haven't played the game then?
Caiaphas Cain would be a good place to start. After that I would suggest Eisenhorn, Ravenor, Gaunt's Ghosts and Enforcer.
If you just want setting/lore shit, go over to /tg/ and get them to hook you up with the tabletop and RPG rulebooks.
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>>8205788
Any book with a utopian setting.
>>8205788
Anything where people overreact and after some time realize that it was worth it in the long run.
>>8205788
Just read some history books on the parts of Europe that suffered most during the medieval period.
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Here's to all Marxists in the house, what's your response to this paragraph from Capital Volume 1?
How do you folks, or rather, what makes you folks think that just because two things are equal in exchange value they have some other thing in common
In other words, what justification can you give for this para from Capital V1
"Let us take two commodities, e.g., corn and iron. The proportions in which they are exchangeable, whatever those proportions may be, can always be represented by an equation in which a given quantity of corn is equated to...
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>>8205718
Marxist here. Don't question Marx's teachings. Just take it all in, absorb as much as you can.
>>8205721
I'm sorry I'm actually not sure if you're serious because I've been told things along those lines before non-ironically. Care to explain the purpose of doing that so I know you have a point here?
Well, because there's nothing about one quarter of corn *in itself* that 'makes it' equivalent to a centum weight iron, nor vice versa. They are different 'things', with different qualities and different amounts, so on what grounds can we claim they are equivalent? Some third term must connect them.
metaphysical mystery narratives? novels that chase unanswerable questions and an abstract sense of mystery
The Man Who Was Thursday, kinda
Kafkas The Trial and The Castle
Borges
>>8205672
i've read the obvious ones like kafka and borges,
thank you for the suggestion though.
>read tons of communist works
>still can't bring myself to become a communist
I don't know, but despite the fact I love checking it out, I am unable to identify as such or even want to fight for their cause.
Anyone else know these feels?
i can't wait for this thread to go to shit
>>8205586
fuck off
I was in your position until I began reading the anarcho-communists. Then it clicked.
Anyone else find Middle English far more beautiful and pleasurable to ear, heart and tongue than Modern or Early Modern English?
No.
It sounds different to the english you grew up with, so it sounds better to you. People in general enjoy the sound of non-native languages more than the sound of native, I feel. Middle English also appeals to your pretentiousness.
>>8205710
So you don't believe any language can sound any better than any other language? All sounds are created equal?
>it's the eye of the dragon
>It's the thrill of the fight
>Rising up to the challenge of our rival
fucking really spielberg?
>>8205502
not literature
>>8205556
It's a masterpiece. Read it, OP.
>>8205575
>Written for his daughter as a scary fairytale story
>literature
I'll start. pic related.
Seinfeld
was
If you write fictional prose, does there have to be a story in it?
pic unrelated
Nobody is standing over your shoulder telling you what you need to write, anon.
I don't understand the question.
If you are asking if a work of fiction necessarily has to have some sort of plot of resolution or revelation in order to be marketable, the answer is almost certainly yes. You can always just publish online.
