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/lit/'s opinion on Toni Morrison?
I want /lit/'s opinion on that shitty fuckin photoshop job goddamn senpai that shit is tacky
irredeemable trash
>>8076033
Overrated by libcucks but still pretty good. Song of Solomon > Beloved, and is also probably her only masterpiece.
Question: any well known autistic writers that are actually good?
Hard-mode: Except dead writers
>>8075966
daniel tammet
>>8075966
> tfw I cant say OP because youre not actually good or well known
Wittgenstein
What kind of pen/pencil do you use for writing on your books?
I only use pen as my thoughts should never be erased desu
>>8075942
i chuckled but i don't know why
>>8075937
I use a pencil. I'm too much of a pussy to use a pen, plus I'm such a retard that my hands get messy from the ink.
I'm interested in literary theory and criticism.
What books do you guys recommend on this subject?
norton anthology of theory and criticism
>>8075819
Literature and revolution Trotsky
What does this mean?
Why are his books so fucking expensive?
>>8075775
who?
why are books in general so fucking expensive these days? i dont have $15 to pay eveyr time i want to read a 200 page book that lasts 2 afternoons
fuck the world, please kill me
>>8075782
I wouldn't worry about it.
The last forty pages of this book were insane. Have any of you guys read this series?
I think I read the first one a loooong time ago
All I remember is him and naked gold smugglers on a spinny space ship
The Martians were really tall and liked hunting fish
And something about there being no word for evil in the Martian language, so they said crooked instead lol
>>8075512
Second one is probably the best, I recommend checking it out
>>8075537
agreed Perelandra was not bad
Tell me this isn't like Harry Potter.
Is it any good? Help me please. It's one of the few translated books of fantasy to my language.
It's not like Harry Potter. Though it would have been better if it were.
No, it's shit.
Someone post the excerpt with the Felurian sex or whatever it was. You know the one.
How the fuck people are saying this is good style ? It's really lame cookie cutter Fantasy. I've read 200 pages and I cringed non stop. Is Gene Wolfe the only good fantasy writer ?
>when you can tell the author used a thesaurus and none of the big words actually make any fucking sense in context
>>8075349
Some examples?
>>8075377
Lord of the Flies
>>8075398
Have any particularly egregious excerpts?
Your thoughts on this?
>>8075093
That looks like it's some crazy avant-garde shit.
>The video game Mother 3 was influenced by The Notebook's major themes. Main characters Lucas and Claus are named after the book's narrators. The game's designer, Shigesato Itoi, a published author in his own right, compared the novel favorably to an RPG.
wtf
>>8075093
A great trilogy. Hungarians have some great literature. For example, Lazlo Krasznahorkai is one of the best writters today.
The first book was really good, very didactic in a way.
The second book is the one most packed with affects, I remember crying while I read it. Only a few books managed to do this. What is it that Kafka said- "An axe for the frozen sea in us.."?
The third one was the strangest one, the most "postmodern, if you will.
looking for the islamic recommended reading. It was a green info chart
The Quran
"How to put a gun against your head"
>>8075021
I got you bro.
why are you guys so afraid to read this
>>8074816
because i can't fucking find it anywhere and i refuse to order books online
>>8074816
1. It's long
2. It's difficult
>>8074828
it was the only book I've purchased brand new. got it at chapters in Toronto.
What can I, as a young slavshit, do to achieve the same eloquence of prose a professional English writer disposes of?
I've taken to reading as much as I can and plan on writing intensively, but as of now I mostly end up procrastinated instead of doing that.
>inb4 just write in your own language
I'm shitter with my mother tongue than English and I fail to see how bothering with remastering it will be worth it since only five people would get to read my book if I published it here.
there's no recipe except "read more and write more"; the more one reads the better one assimilates the language and carves a particular taste/aesthetic for prose
>>8074746
I guess that's settled then.
>I'm shitter with my mother tongue than English
kys desu
is it worth my time as a superhero junkie/capefan or should I not bother with it?
This must be your first time posting here. I'd recommend asking >>>/co/ instead. /lit/ usually doesn't read things like this.
>>8074457
That looks like a comic book youd buy from some badly funded NYC comic meetup in a brewery by a chick with pink hair
>>8074457
No, you should read Soon I Will Be Invincible instead
Post Quality Joke Books
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Are these... are these even jokes? What? Am I missing something?
Is this just a meme or is it worth the read?
you already know what the conclusions are
unless you feel you're a better sociologist and you're looking to criticise it then there isn't much you could glean from it really
>>8074289
>>8074314
Nonetheless, I can imagine intelligent people discussing the intellectual validity of this book on the basis of how the conclusions in this book were drawn. Personally I haven't read it but I know it causes a lot of butthurt on /lit/ and /pol/ but I have yet to hear a good argument on why the results and conclusions of 'The Bell Curve' were wrong.
>>8074332
realistically speaking it never has been proven wrong
there's a reason this sort of research is untouchable nowadays
