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Best book covers thread
>>7905055
The book is shit though.
Brazilian Penguin's cover of Canterbury Tales.
>>7905058
Really? Fuck I ordered a copy yesterday looks like I got memed
Anyone else here fall for the Nietzsche meme?
please go back to /his/
>>7901792
never been, don't intend to now
hurrdurr nietzsche is a edgy meme xdddd
just because he's mentioned here so often doesn't make him less great.
he's still a dank philosopher.
Suicide prior to any meaningful accomplishments is one of the most ignominious ways to go out. I've known a handful of kids who have either offed themselves or overdosed in their late teens or early twenties, their lives having consisted of little more than K-12 schooling and banal, predictable partying. They are scarcely remembered. A few days worth of Facebook tributes and then nothing, because they leave behind nothing to remember. I thank God that this was not my path. The only time that suicide is meaningful is when a legacy is left in its wake. Think Hemingway, Hunter S. Thompson, Kurt Cobain, David Foster Wallace. Due to the sheer breadth and intensity of the creative endeavors these men undertook while living, they continue to influence culture even in death.
The same could be said of any manner of death that follows an unexceptional life, and eventually even those who have had a profound influence over the culture and society of their time will be forgotten.
>>7901436
Not so, because influence echoes
>>7901595
you really think anyone is going to care about dfw or hunter Thompson in a thousand years? how bout ten thousand?
what about a million years?
what writer do you identify with the most?
inb4 intelligent, nihilistic and with a wicked sense of humor
a less extroverted Tao Lin
You don't identify with a writer. You identify with things which are said in his or her book(s).
Faulkner
mostly because I had a somewhat similar upbrining/ grew up in the deep south
What does /lit/ think of this?
I thought it was awesome. Love the way the writing in the boxes always had some visual echo in the art, for example, somebody says "Chew on that" and there's a chicken leg with a bite mark in it in the foreground. Stuff like that. Also how parallel stories would comment on each other, like when Dr. Manhattan is in the TV studio and the dialogue there is "incidentally" commenting on Night Owl and Silk Spectre's fight with the thugs in the alley and the subsequent sexual tension. Lots of cool stuff. Not to mention the chapter that is, in a number...
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>>7891746
Good, but the sort of thing that achieves a bad effect, in that now a good 70% of comic writers are out there trying to deconstruct the nature of superheroes, with none of them even getting halfway to the success that Watchmen does it.
Write a poem about your college experience.
I'll start:
"I'm coming to get you. You need to be around friends. And family. I'm tired of you being lonely."
"Me too."
That's not a poem.
"This should be easy..."
said the dead man
This is a lot of work and not much fun
I'm getting fat; I should go for a run
So many girls here but I've had sex with none
I hope things get better after I'm done.
Biggest villain in literature?
>>7903747
Harold Bloom
>>79037470 Moby Dick, because the worst villain is inside all of us.
T. high school English teacher.
>>7903747
Iago.
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I'm a quarter into this and already I hate the human race and want to kill myself.
Is this supposed to happen?
humans are mostly terrible. you should know this already. you're on 4chan.
>>7900728
I thought they were just memes, anon.
what kind of name even is yuval noah harari? Is that jewish? watch out OP it could be a jewish ploy to spread the gay to you. You're already starting to post faggot threads.
Why is this allowed, /lit/? Shouldnt one expect at least an attempt at accurately depicting characters historically when performing plays?
BBC
no
also an interracial pairing of romeo and juliet does a lot to highlight themes of the play
Tell that to deconstrucionists!
What are some books set in a psychiatric hospital?
Has anyone here ever been to one and what was your experience like?
one flew over the cuckoo's nest
also be sure to read the anti-psychiatric works of:
r.d. laing
thomas szasz
david cooper
>>7899564
Could you summarize their views in three lines of greentext please?
Hey /lit/, why aren't you a famous writer like Orion yet?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmUDKjSR_KY
>>7899295
Is it weird that I want to fuck her while gouging her eyes out?
>>7899295
That's a trap lads
>>7899331
Write a stream of words about anything
stream of consciousness is shit-tier writing
>>7899138
THIS
name one great writer who did that shit
>>7899144
Joyce
Guys it's fucking happening
Holy shit, this is amazing. Now all I need is that fucking Women and Men reprint
>>7898742
i dont read nazis.
had it on preorder for months fampai
What went wrong?
9/11 changed the course of history, everyone lost hope in our leaders, we needed real heroes, we got the comic-book movie boom, but they were darker and grittier because everybody's worldview had been darkened, and they're all great movies and I can't wait for Civil War. So the century is going pretty damn well so far, I'd say, save the loss of David Foster Wallace.
outstanding shitpost, anon
10/10 points for shittiness, 8.5/10 points for postiness
nothing. people complain about things ruining these generations but on a personal level its all just spooks
>walk into local bookstore
>see this
Wut Do?
walk out because i realize i am in a bookstore and not on amazon.com or bookdepository
>>7898509
wow, thats triggering
Why would you even need one for Animal Farm, the book takes a morning to read at most?
