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Why does this literary masterpiece have so many haters?
a woman wrote it
>>8114790
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>>8114790
Because it's not very good to anyone who has read books that are actually good.
Is there any good prostitute related literature? I'm considering selling my virginity to a whore and want to be prepared.
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I would think there's a shitload. Maupassant's Bel Ami comes to mind if you are looking for male prostitution, and you know he had an intimate knowledge of the subject.
William T Vollmann has lots
Which H.P. Lovecraft book do I pick up? I would prefer to have a hardcopy of his complete works without any caricatures of cthulu on the front.
>>8114678
What you want is ISBN 1435140370. It's cheap too.
>>8114678
Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales Of H.P. Lovecraft is the most complete and best bundle. It also didn't change any racist things so you can actually read the novels as the author intended it. And that all in a hard cover about the size of Infinite Jest.
As far as I know, the only affordable complete edition of Lovecraft's works (without ultra-gaudy artwork) is the second edition Barnes and Noble hardcover. Avoid the first edition because it's full of typos and other errors.
The Centipede Press 'Masters of the Weird Tale' is the GOAT Lovecraft volume but it's out of print and worth a few hundred dollarydoos.
>First act: God is vengeful and angry
>Second act: God is an omnibenevolent goody2shoes
...so what's with the retcon?
written one thousand years later probably when violence was more controlled under roman laws or whatever
The NT is Hebrew Bible fan fic
I've been seriously studying Bible as a Jew for my entire life and fuck do I hate any time Christians try to interpret "Old Testament"
>>8114591
The first act is a heavily revised history of the Jews designed to promote nationalism and cohesion amongst them.
The second act is a set of documents deemed important by the members of a cult surrounding a Jewish guru who those attached to the story and intent of the first act considered a subversive liar.
Do you think this is true?
>>8114407
I mean, the source of this picture is shitty, but to hell with authorial intent - this is to a degree true. Although the "beware" part is dumb, just write "take notice", it sounds like a veiled threat. Beware the quiet bookworm, it's not just books in his backpack.
>>8114407
Considering how much I masturbate, and how many books I read, then yes.
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Hello there. What are the English written books that I, as an English learner, need to read as well as some Russian novels for that matte? But except for Dostoyevsky, please.
ESL One Cologne will be pretty good, desu. I'm looking for the qualifiers next week. Hope Fnatic can come back stronger.
>>8114160
You could read Nabokov I suppose. He was also Russian yet wrote some of the best English novels of the 20th century. His large vocabulary could be a problem, though.
English is so primitive that it prevents you from enjoying good literature by far
Anyone else believe we are probably characters in some advanced civilization's video game? What is this philosophy called?
Autism.
>>8113975
Wow so clever
Are you the one who posted this thread on /sci/? The theory is both shite and trite.
>there will never be a Book of the New Sun anime
>>8113828
>there will never be a Deluge anime
>>8113828
Angel Egg is the closest thing that will we get.
>>8114399
The only thing they really have in common is a destroyed world & Bible references m8
BONTS dosent even need to be adapted anyway, it'd be a waste of time.
Writers general?
Submissions, first drafts, edits, rejections, habits, etc. I finally got my first acceptance. It was submitted roughly four months ago, way beyond their "we answer by" date, so I withdrew it to polish and submit elsewhere. Got this email after I withdrew.
Hi Anon,
I'd like to apologize for taking an incredibly long time to respond to your submission, "Insert Decent Title" We've been putting the finishing touches on our fifth print issue, so things have been a little hectic around here.
All excuses...
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Current workload/projects?
Out and about, waiting for a rejection from Apex for this horror story I created in a workshop. The teacher said I probably set my sights a lil high for submitting to that publication, and offered some alternatives for when it ends up getting rejected.
I had two flash pieces submitted, one pretty good, one kind of out there. Decided to let a local no pay, but credible journal run with the good one. It had already been submitted before I had vowed no more no pay submissions.
First draft of a short story is finished as of two days...
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I'm Scandinavian and it's unbearably hot right now. I have a time thinking with the heat. Is there any tips from experienced anons how to keep cold and lower your body temperature during summer? What I am trying right now is sitting in a draft with a bucket of cold water under my desk and dipping my feet in it occasionally.
>26 degerees celsius and cloudy
i am pathetic
>>8113764
I finished a third re-write myself a while ago. It's my first "finished"...
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Waiting for a literary prize result. I doubt I'll win, but who knows. I'd be happy to be among the finalists though.
Loeb vs Cambridge vs Oxford publishing and traslations, go
>inb4 translations lerl
Loeb is going to win no matter what since it has the original facing the translation.
>>8113682
And if it didn't have that?
>>8113678
translations lerl
what makes a book a 10/10 for you?
>inb4 emotional connection
im talking objectively what makes a book 10/10 for you?
plain, honest prose
huge moment of anagnorisis by main character
compelling plot
strong, believable character and setting development
I usually like a bit of action as well
>>8113614
Feeling of perfection, every word being somehow essential or worth going over again
>>8113618
what are some good examples of anagnorises in books?
I have quite a few books on my to read list. If someone could tell me which one of these books I should get and which ones are good and bad, I'd appreciate it. If nothing else, I'm just doing this for curiosity so I can get some sort of general sense of the opinions on these books. It just interests me, it may or may not shape how I view the book, it depends.
The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinski
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Crash: A Novel by J. G. Ballard
Atomised by Michel HouellebecqThe Temptation to Exist by E. M. Cioran
Moravagine (New York Review...
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>>8113583
Painted Bird is quite and experience.
The Classics on there like Lolita and Wuthering Heights and Steppenwolf are obvious.
Miller is boring
Suttree is McCarthy channeling Faulkner with all his power.
Hogg is pretty on par with literotica fetish works.
NYRB books are always worth a read.
