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>Moliere
>A great writer
holy fuck pick one, look at pic related, it's cartoon-villain tier.
>doesn't like Moliere
confirmed for soulless fraud
>>7888115
its funny in the way johnny test is funny
did you even read this passage?
>>7888108
Molière is all about spectacle and fun. Not psychology. You don't understand him.
any books that portray Islam as the rational and peaceful ideology that it really is?
>>7888014
lol
>>7888014
Lets believe all this crazy shit a batshit insane person said after he had a hallucination inside a cave.
Lets also kill everyone who doesn't believe him.
Rational.
>>7888014
Not even the Koran, buddy
Just picked this up, enjoying it so far. Thoughts on it or the series as a whole?
>>7888005
The name is of this board is /lit/. For literature. Not books. Literature. Take a hike plebian.
>>7888005
Is the dilf on the cover the main character?
you might have a better time on r/books, people on /lit/ either don't read that stuff, or are just cunts as evidenced
Does Niven ever get any better than the first half of Bordered in Black? I've read at least two other collections of his not featuring this story and none of them are as dark or evocative. I find his "Known Space" universe kind of intrusive and his other stories only barely tugging themselves along by the premise.
If none of his other stories manage the same dark sci-fi, cosmically spooky feel, which is the kind of kick I'm on, any recommendations for ones that do? I've read Blindsight, which was interesting but brittle, I'm struggling through...
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I'm gonna bump this once with some cosmic imagery and then leave it, I'll deal alright wallowing.
>>7888003
i've never heard of a Niven story called Bordered in Black. his wikipedia entry doesn't mention it.
i gave up on him after the appalling mess that was The Mote Around Murcheson's Eye. too many minor characters.
>>7888003
>if anybody has more prescient recs.
... you do know what that word means, right?
>Can't read anything without seeing unexplored sexual tension between male characters who clearly aren't gay
>Sit there thinking of how you could manipulate said characters into fucking somehow
>Hatefucking, if they don't like each other
What's the male equivalent of a "fujoshi"? I think I am one.
>>7887925
Its called fundashi, mishima.
>>7887925
You are a degenerate
>really, really enjoy writing
>don't know what to write about
What gives?
Write about how you dont know what to wirte about :|
Read more.
Do more stuff.
Are there typically major differences between the Penguin "Modern" Classics and the Penguin "20th Century" Classics editions of a book?
The one I've bought (pic related) is from the latter, but it was published in the same year as the "Modern" Classics edition.
>>7887872
what an unfortunate cover
>>7887915
>being this pleb
>>7887915
I would chuckle if the cover were the only difference between the editions.
>charles fucking walker
my gf is giving me this for my birthday
what can I expect lads
>>7887849
a pretty apt and ubiquitous description of college life
a lot of existential angst
it's a quick read too, it's pretty easy to get into
>>7887814
What did you like about that creep?
Do you like elves /lit/?
i am angry
angry about elves
It depends on the mythos.
In general elves are described as endlessly beautiful whether man or woman, fair, knowledgeable, and blessed (or cursed, depending on the mythos) with long lifespans.
I like elves because they are very good subjects for homosex.
I want to fuck that old man.
not really, they are a lot more plot/lore-fluff than orcs, dwarves or otherkins
they are staple but their descriptions imprisons them, the type-cast ethnicity of fantasy world
Tell us about your bookstore. What do you like about it? What do you wish was different? Do you ever meet qt's there? How much money has this establishment taken from you over the years?
Harvard coop or Raven used books. Only person I've met at the coop was some dude that recounted the first page and a half of Finnegans Wake by memory and asked me for my phone number. Even if I sucked dick I would've shut him down.
>>7887743
I don't have a bookstore near me
every book I own is from ebay..
The Word in Montreal.
I like it's stock, I just wish it was larger. Haven't met anyone there, it's always very quiet and has a sort of Black Books atmosphere so it isn't really conducive for hitting on anyone. I haven't spent too much there since I didn't know if I'd be staying in the city or not, but now that I know I'm going to be here for at least a couple years all bets are off.
Post your 4x4 square.
>Can't beat reality and true history.
>>7887729
>American poolitics
>>7887729
Are you fishing for pictures of le hat man for your folder?
Convince me that this is good
It's a big fat meme and requires you to read everything that came before it and more
Now you listen here, The Cantos of Ezra Pound is good. It's good. And if you don't think so, everyone's gonna think you're a real dumbass. You want that? Didn't think so.
It is. Trust me.
Which word do hack critics use the most?
>numinous
>deeply felt
>the fact that
>so many books
>still name the Beatles
And so on.
>hack
Why is Lovecraft's phraseology (and that of his predecessors and heir-apparents) so cyclopeanly easy to mimic? In fact, is there a proper guide like you would have for journo phrases?
Even video games do it now-a-days.
>>7887676
Fuck that's annoying. There's nothing more cringeworthy than when level-headed anglos try to be ominous. It's like your math teacher telling a scary story.
>>7887773
You prefer Angloboos like HPL>?
What is the most /lit/ modern language to learn, aside from English? What language opens up the most literature worth reading?
>>7887541
German, Russian, or French
>>7887541
French probably.
Then Spanish.
I'd recommend the portuguese language for it has some pearls that are worth looking into.
>>7887541
Latin and Ancient Greek
