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I just bought a book of this cuck's complete works and I just kinda jump around because some of it is really, really bad, but there are some good poems every now and then.
Also if you post a poet I will try to recommend both short and long poems I like by them, if I know them.
>>7989797
Oops, should clarify, what are your favorite works of his?
>>7989797
>some of it is really, really bad
Which ones?
>>7989797
>some of it is really, really bad
What is your favorite poem /lit/?
Either Fra Lippo Lippi or The Lady of Shallot
>>7989775
you've made me remember my gcses
thanks i guess
right now, it's A Burnt Ship by John Donne
does it still hold up well in the 21st century?
>>7989748
It doesn't hold up well in the 20th century.
It was like the YA novel of its time.
I bet Capote was ashamed to have helped her out so much, and was even more ashamed when this hot garbage won a Pulitzer.
It doesn't even hold up by the fourth page.
My favorite authors are Thomas Pynchon and David Foster Wallace. My favorite novel is Finnegans Wake.
>1. Tell the truth.
“Now comes the big question: What are you going to write about? And the equally big answer: Anything you damn well want. Anything at all… as long as you tell the truth… Write what you like, then imbue it with life and make it unique by blending in your own personal knowledge of life, friendship, relationships, sex, and work… What you know makes you unique in some other way. Be brave.”
>2. Don’t use big words when small ones work.
“One of the really bad things you...
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>5. Read a lot.
“Reading is the creative center of a writer’s life. I take a book with me everywhere I go, and find there are all sorts of opportunities to dip in. The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as in long swallows. Waiting rooms were made for books–of course! But so are theater lobbies before the show, long and boring checkout lines, and everyone’s favorite, the john.”
>6. Write one word at a time.
“In an early interview (this was to promote Carrie, I think),...
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I just finished Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and I am so fucking confused, can we talk about it? I kept having to go back and reread things multiple times because I feel like I'm missing something. Why was Kurtz such a big deal? He wasn't even in the actual novel that long, why was Marlow so obsessed with him? What was the deal with the random African women that put her had in the sky? What's going on with Kurtz's fiancé why was she even put in the novel? She had no significance whatsoever, why was Marlow even bothering himself with her? Why was...
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>I really like this book but I really don't understand what's going on
>>7989720
I mean, I could appreciate the story telling and I could understand the first two chapters just fine but at chapter three I just lost it. The entire book he's talking about Kurtz and then you meet him and there is nothing defining him in anyway, Marlow doesn't even talk to him very much so why does Marlowe act like they where buddy buddy and that Kurtz was just the best thing since sliced bread?
The purpose for Marlow's journey is more or less that the Company is scared shitless of Kurtz. The reason for this is essential to understanding the entire book.
From the outset, Marlow detests the Europeans he encounters all along the way. He detests and mocks them, especially when it comes to their inefficiency. The trip with the Company is leading him to a complete rejection of Europe and civilized society.
Kurtz is what he moves towards along the river, both literally because that's the target and metaphorically because Marlow is becoming more like Kurtz....
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Hey /lit/ what do you think about Perez Reverte and his new book El Puto Venado
>>7989706
>Forzando memes de hace seis años
Debería darte vergüenza
The obviois thing about him is that he's so full of himself. So much, in fact, that it makes his interviews interesting if only in a perverse and comical way. You just wait in expectation to see what kind of crazy shit about himself he can come up with next
>>7989706
Spanish Dan Brown
Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are:
>tfw no gf
>>7989680
this was a really nice pun guys, c'mon
>>7989935
>>>/rk9/
>>7989941
what's on the cartridge?
>>7989448
The veiled women and a conceit of 'all men reincarnate and marry their mother/wife/killer' (the exact details escape me)
I don't know why this name popped up btw
>>7989448
The scrolling words of Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace in a never-ending loop.
That's a part of the book I never understood. What's so fatally compelling about a drunk guy shouting "David Foster Wallace!" from a car window?
Hey /lit/, I want you to rate my story. I've only written 1,000 words so far, and I'd appreciate it if someone could give me any criticism. Literally any. If it's good, so-so, plain shit or even give up and kill myself-worthy then feel free to give your honest opinion. Don't hold back.
>>7989444
Forgot to link.
https://www.wattpad.com/story/70147662-eden%27s-demise
>>7989444
Mate, can you chuck some of it in a pastebin or something. I'm not signing up to wattpad just to read something.
>>7989444
One does not itch. One scratches an itch.
Thoughts on audio books?
Its ok
Fine for consuming pleb shit for the sake of being able to talk to normies about books, but if it's a book that you actually at all care about, you should actually read it.
Idk
More images like this one please.
Dump what you have. I find these images so helpful when putting something in a time and place.
that picture is stupid
>>7989328
I'm pretty sure this leaves out a lot of movements
>>7989398
Why
What are some nice biographies that are easy to find epubs for/cheap for kindle (I like Nathan Miller's Theodore Roosevelt but can't find an epub for it and it isn't in the kindle store)?
I'm currently enjoying John Adams by David McCullough
>>7989287
Plutarch's lives, I'm sure you can find it for free easily
How don't I know this board is entirely a spook itself?
>>7989271
Poorly meme'd and atrociously philosophized
better luck next time
>>7989276
spooken like a true spook
SPOOKS GO HOME
How is Gene so good bros?
>Why do we love this forlorn land at the edge of everywhere?
Sitting before my little fire, I know, when the wind blows outside, moaning in the fieldstone chimney I caused to be built for ornament, shrieking in the gutters and the ironwork and the eaves and trim and trellises of the house, that this planet of America, turning round upon itself, stands only at the outside, only at the periphery, only at the edges, of an infinite galaxy, dizzily circling. And that the stars that seem to ride our winds cause them....
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What story is that from?
>>7989242
His novel Peace. It's about an old man reflecting on his life in the haunted midwest. It's very good and rather spooky in some ways. As with Wolfe's other work, it has many many layers.
>>7989233
Is his prose this good in BotNS?
Is Romeo and Juliet overrated?
>>7989227
More like misunderstood
People mumble 'muh greatest love story' when it's actually a tragedy about dumb kids doing dumb shit when they think they're in love
>>7989232
It's actually a black comedy desu
>>7989234
o hi mark
