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I posit that the fundamental inability for a middle aged woman to understand and create a realistic young male has contributed to the destruction of the idea of "male" and male-identity in younger generations.
>>8196829
I posit that OP is a faggot and sage goes in all fields
>>8196878
I'll fuck a guy and accept a blowie from anyone, but won't reciprocate.
The middle-aged woman can't create a realistic character of any gender.
Badly developed characters have existed in popular books long before Harry Potter.
"Destruction of the idea of "male" and male-identity in younger generations." This phrase is metaphorically a cloud. You sound like a /pol/ack who sees "degeneration" of your spooks everywhere. You can easily find the cause of this situation in a hundred other places.
Books can't influence a civilization's mindset that much anyway.
kys
Where can I download ebooks for free? I know of bookzz but it rarely has any books and when it does they're deleted by "copyright owner". What's the best way to download ebooks for free in this case? If anyone's wondering I'm looking for Dune by Frank Herbert.
>>8196818
literally just wrote "herbert dune epub" into google and found it on the first page it gave me
>>8196849
LMAOOO YOUMAD BAROOOOOOOO
>>8196818
gen.lib.rus.ec has mostly anything you want/
Soulseek is quite good also
There are these two young fish swimming along, and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says, "Morning, boys, how's the water?" And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes, "What the hell is water?"
If at this moment you're worried that I plan to present myself here as the wise old fish explaining what water is to you younger fish, please don't be. I am not the wise old fish. The immediate point of the fish story is that the most...
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By way of example, let's say it's an average day, and you get up in the morning, go to your challenging job, and you work hard for nine or ten hours, and at the end of the day you're tired, and you're stressed out, and all you want is to go home and have a good supper and maybe unwind for a couple of hours and then hit the rack early because you have to get up the next day and do it all again. But then you remember there's no food at home-you haven't had time to shop this week, because of your challenging job-and so now after work you have to get...
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The point is that petty, frustrating crap like this is exactly where the work of choosing comes in. Because the traffic jams and crowded aisles and long checkout lines give me time to think, and if I don't make a conscious decision about how to think and what to pay attention to, I'm going to be pissed and miserable every time I have to foodshop, because my natural default-setting is the certainty that situations like this are really all about me, about my hungriness and my fatigue and my desire to just get home, and it's going to seem, for all the world, like...
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Look, if I choose to think this way, fine, lots of us do-except that thinking this way tends to be so easy and automatic it doesn't have to be a choice. Thinking this way is my natural default-setting. It's the automatic, unconscious way that I experience the boring, frustrating, crowded parts of adult life when I'm operating on the automatic, unconscious belief that I am the center of the world and that my immediate needs and feelings are what should determine the world's priorities. The thing is that there are obviously different ways to think about these...
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I went to the bookstore and bought and read a copy of "Ulysses." I suffered a great deal in the process. The writing was dreadful; the book was terrible. As I read, I noticed that every time a character went for a walk, the author wrote instead that the character "stretched his legs." I began marking on the back of an envelope every time that phrase was repeated. I stopped only after I had marked the envelope several dozen times. I was incredulous. Joyce's mind is so governed by cliches and dead metaphors that he has no other style of writing.
Taking a pasta and simply replacing ~3 words doesn't make for a good meme. However, this is the first edit of this pasta I've seen on /lit/, and it might start a new trend.
2/10, one point for originality
I saw James Joyce at a grocery store in Los Angeles yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn't want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything. He said, "Oh, like you're doing now?" I was taken aback, and all I could say was "Huh?" but he kept cutting me off and going "huh? huh? huh?" and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw Joyce trying to walk...
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>>8197115
that was actually pretty fucking funny anon
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>>8196733
What's this about, a capitalist distopy?
>>8196733
WAS
>>8196733
Top tier book. It doesn't get the recognition it deserves.
What is the most highly recommended (English) translation of Dante's Divine Comedy?
>how highly does Douglas Neff's translation rate?
Bloom recommends Sinclair's prose translation above all, and Binyon's poetry translation for poetry.
>>8196714
i love this chart
Who here likes this book? Any thoughts on it?
>>8196648
reported
>>8196656
Newfag, I probably fucked up in some way. Any recommendations?
>>8196667
yeah, read zizek
Who is the most /lit/ publisher and why is it NYRB?
>>8196639
NYBR, Pushkin Press and Every Man are top tier.
I only own Skylark and Warlock when it comes to NYBR but do you recommend picking up anything else by them? I plan on getting a good amount but I own the Vintage edition of Stoner.
>>8196643
I've bought nyrb classics with no prior knowledge of the books and have never been disappointed. 12/12 so far with this method.
They're fine but jesus the circle jerk for NYRB on this board is unbearable. It's a way for hipster pseuds to get their "obscure" novels literally spoonfed to them.
What are some of the best autobiographies you ever read?
my book that I write bits about my daily what not desu
another bullshit night in suck city
I've signed up for a "Major British Writers" course for my next year at uni to see what it would be like; why not, ya know?
Listed authors are Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Swift, Pope, Austen, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Tennyson, Browning, Bronte, Dickens, Joyce, Eliot, Woolf, and Yeats.
Any recommendations for materials to read beforehand?
the bible
the greeks
the romans
>>8196418
>greeks
>romans
Specifics?
Read Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Swift, Pope, Austen, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Tennyson, Browning, Bronte, Dickens, Joyce, Eliot, Woolf, and Yeats most famous works.
Over the course of 5 years I wrote six shory stories, each and every one of the was distinctively pessemistic and usually had a cruel twist ending. I would like to hear your intresting ideas for a short story.
You can throw in a general description, or you can elaborate on the story as much as you want.
1) The first short story was more of an ode to Jack London. I borrowed a lot of the expressions and writing style from "To build a fire " and "The Love of Life"
It was a story about two gold miners. One of the is young and vigorus, leading the...
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>tfw I never get great ideas for short stories anymore
When I was younger I used to get that "Hey I should write about that" thought all the time
3) A monster a plaguing the village. It hunts down and devours peole, leaving horrible raveged remains.
Bounty hunters and monster slayers begin to gather near the village.
Story followes some of the brifely but all of them end up at the same night at the same tavern
It quickly tuns out that most of them are connected to each other:
(1) Ex - garrison commander almost hanged an (2) escaped convict, which also confessed his sins to the (3) Ex priest, who used to rape (4) girl who joined bandits, who robbed and killed family of an (5) ex soldier, who used to kill...
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>5 short stories in 6 years
prolific lad
So what does /lit/ think? We already know what reddit thinks.
>>8196289
/lit/ loves it for its descriptions being so vivid and lustful
>>8196289
It was a fun book overall, but some of the parts where he's describing them driving all over the country drag and feel like laundry lists.
They aren't vivid and lustful. They're extremely subtle. There's nothing overly obscene. What the fuck are they talking about.
>pick up this book because of the /lit/ memes
>not sure what to expect
>start reading it
>it's actually fucking incredible
I'm still reading it bros, I know some of you guys might see this as a shitpost, and it probably is, but I gotta thank you guys for getting me to read this book. Pynchon's writing is amazing, and the way the novel flows is incredible to me. This passage I was reading I really liked:
“And one...
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Damn that was nice
Now I wanna read it too
>>8196249
yeah its the best
>>8196249
After +- 500 pages Pynchon really gets on my fucking nerves.
philosophy departments with a continental focus
>populated by laid back, experienced students who come from a variety of disciplines and european states, who are generally well cultured and up-to-date with modern fashion and trends
>use of recreational drugs and alcohol tolerated and even encouraged between doctoral students and faculty, both as a means of social relaxation and facilitating research
>female colleagues generally more sexually free and promiscuous due to adhering to radical...
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>up-to-date with modern fashion and trends
>>use of recreational drugs and alcohol tolerated and even encouraged between doctoral students and faculty, both as a means of social relaxation and facilitating research
>female colleagues generally more sexually free and promiscuous due to adhering to radical notions of femininity
Are these supposed to be positives?
>>8196259
yes if you're a well-functioning human being and aren't socially crippled
Does anybody else move their head when they read? It's supposed to be really bad but I can't stop doing it. Whenever I try it feels like my eyes get really jerky and I read the words really unevenly.
thats a cute twink
>>8196222
>move their head when they read
wtf?
>>8196228
I know a lot of people find it really weird. I've been reading up on it and apparently it is something that is supposed to be stopped in early childhood when people just learn to read. However, for whatever reason no one ever stopped me and I'm so used to it now
