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Did anyone else read this series as a kid?
I remember these books being really fucked up and creepy.
>>7893826
Loved the first two as a kid and just now saw theres a third book.
w o w
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blast from the past!
>>7893826
I just had the thought that the teacher turning kids into apples probably gave some people a really bizarre fetish.
Where should I star with the Norse myth and all that?
Poetic Edda
Prose Edda
Saga of the Volsungs
Grettir's Saga
Unrelated but what do the colours on that chart represent?
>>7893830
I've also wondered this
Is this a good book?
Table of contents-http://books.wwnorton.com/books/webad.aspx?id=11544
>>7893817
why is it good?
>>7893875
It pulls from all respected studies and books and compiles what has been reviewed by professors and other prolific figures. Many prestigious academic institutions use it in literature classes.
I used this in two different lit-crit courses. Yes, it's worth it.
why don't we talk about this?
I know it's required reading in most high schools but for some reason I never had to read it. I did enjoy Tender is the Night though.
>>7893697
What's left to say?
>>7893697
Because it's one of the few masterworks that most people have actually read, so there's no way that we can feel intellectually superior when we discuss it.
The sad thing is that it's one of the only works of literature that's easy enough to understand that the non-Lit major students here could probably actually have a decent discourse based on it.
This is a good trilogy and no amount of snobbery from /lit/ will change this fact.
>>7893674
It's just about as bad as a novel can get.
Horrible prose.
Exposition was anime tier.
No imagination.
Shit characters.
Boring.
Overall, the inquisitor was mildly entertaining and everything else sucked.
>>7893685
>he didnt like bayaz or black dow
>>7893674
I never even heard of this before but anyone with a last name like abercrombie couldn't have possibly written anything good.
I want to read the Pali Canon, what version should I get?
You do know how big it is?
>>7893679
Well I don't plan on reading it cover to cover, but I do want to learn more about buddhism.
>>7893670
>58 volumes
wew lad Proust ain't got shit on that
anyone wanna help me understand what's happening in that scene with everyone throwing food at each other and talking about pissing in sinks and where grampa was when James Dean died
Nothing at all. Otherwise, it would be symbolic piece ofshitliterature. It's postmodernity so it is what it is, a food fight. You didn't have much of food fight in classic lit.
>>7893656
They're talking about death in pop culture. They're also "intellectuals" throwing food like schoolchildren. There's another level of irony in the matter that this "New York crowd" studies what is, essentially, the effect of postmodernism. All this is incredibly obvious though. What are you asking? Did you read it?
Just read that section today, thought it was hilarious. Glad a fellow /lit/ poster is reading alongside me.
Do you think Orwell read We?
i-is this bait?
GREAT thread
>>7893567
Yes
whats the oldest antique book you own /lit/?
Just found a book that was printed in 1802
I own these old as fuck collected works of Goethe and Kierkegaard. Neither contains any of their greater works tho.
I actually have no idea when these are from, as it is not stated anywhere in them.
i dunno, shit shape is damn old. but good shape i got one from the 1860's i think
it's great because it's got a signature saying "to whoever it is, from whatever it was, on Christmas Eve 1868".
>>7893542
I could have bought an old Kirkegaard book like that but it had that dumbass print so i couldn't read it so i said fuck it. i already used almost all my money on other books
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Tao works quite hard on his books, and they're more than just "omg mumblecore alternative slacker" literature. /lit/ hasn't published anything because no one here actually knows how to write well. People here live in their heads, in their fantasies, in their pseudo-intellectual criticisms, in their ironic distance. They cannot do good work.
I have actually gotten a few short stories published. Nothing that pays yet, but it's a start.
Ive come to the conclusion that his writing is a sincere attempt at writing serious lit using vapid contemporary text speak. I guess he's progressing form? But taipei is so fucking boring, had to put it down
What does /lit/ think about pic related?
A woman wrote it.
it was ok when i was 15. don't remember anything about it. will never read it again.
>>7893450
So what?
Looking for literature about the discussion of Christianity's influence on western civilization, dating back to Christ to present day. Want some unbiased stuff, but ultimately I'm looking to build or destroy the argument that Christianity was necessary for the prosperity and superiority of the West.
>Want some unbiased stuff
good luck with that
>>7893362
Europe and Faith by Hilaire Belloc
will also accept documentaries/ youtube videos :^)
what's the appeal of this book? why did you like it? why would you recommend it?it reads like a paulo coelho novel
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/S7314697#p7324454
>>7893341
so that's it then
sort of disappointing
>>7893336
>it reads like a paulo coelho novel
You can't read.
ITT: words that you're sick of hearing to describe books
>sprawling
>>7893266
>essential
tour-de-force
page turner
>>7893266
>western
>canon
Since my journey with Dubliners is coming to an end soon,would /lit/ be so kind to decide what book should I move on to?
http://poal.me/9xu8bp
>>7893228
>lovecraft
>the art of snore
>>7893228
The Tunnel.
The Kalevala because I'm finnish. I can just hope the translation is as good as the original
