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>story finally stocks book I wanted
>it has the movie poster as a cover
>caring about covers
fuck off poser fraud
>Not getting the movie tie-in edition
Learn 2 postmodern irony you pleb.
>>7886534
> actually not caring about covers
> pseudopatrician
Opinions of those who've finished it?
I just finished the second essay, and I'm quite impressed with it.
>>7886480
*tibs phaedra*
>>7886667
It's quite shit, even by Austrian school standards.
>>7886688
Why do you think?
Has anybody read this? Has anybody read or studied under Scarry? I'm quite interested in her first work, and I'd love to hear some opinions.
>>7886464
I'm not a big fan of Wikipedia, but their article doesn't present her as someone I'd like to study under.
>>7886808
Why is that?
>>7886895
>human pain
>human values
>nuclear weapons
>plane crashes
>Elaine scarry is an American essayist and professor of English and American literature and language
she's sounds like a dilettante, a less accomplished female version of Malcolm Gladwell
Is there really anybody who "writes for critics, Professors and PhD students"?
I only see people write to reach many, may it be to send a message or to get fame.
plebs write for plebs
patricians write for patricians
>>7886378
That picture is some really juicy bait. 8/10
Barth
Am I the only one who uses audiobooks? Is it plebeian? It's basically the same content, but just listening instead of reading. Listening is good too, right?
I listen to audio books and podcasts while doing tasks that don't require much thought
if you're blind, or if your brain has that dyslexic disconnect with words, audiobooks are a godsend.
i can't stand them because my regular reading pace is entire paragraphs at a glance, and audiobooks are too slow.
So you're saying that your attention span is so poor that you can't even commit to reading words off of a page? End yourself.
How do we Make Fantasy Great Again /lit/?
>>7886367
Why did Patrick Rothcuck think anyone wanted to hear him talk? The audiobook is terrible and I tried reading it but it was very lame coming off the heels of Wise Man's Fear.
>>7886413
whats the audiobook like? like what are the specifics of its awfulness?
>>7886367
By reading and discussing the great works of William Gass.
What are some works AGAINST ABSTRACTION
why not understand it first before criticizing it? or do you need your arguments spoon fed to you instead
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJz-u8RJRhg
http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/827.Most_Difficult_Novels
Do you agree with this list?
>8. Crime and Punishment
>10. Infinite Jest
>13. The Brothers Karamazov
>49. Jane Eyre
>50. Tess of the d'Urbervilles
How the fuck is Dostoyevsky so high up? Why are Jane Eyre and Tess even on there?
Pic unrelated
>>7885713
They're long and don't have dragons.
>>7886248
Dostojewski is so high up because he's one of the greatest novelists of all time desu
Tess is relatively hard for the genre. Also a fucking masterpiece.
But no, obviously noone here agrees with this. I wonder why you even have to post it.
this book was just terrible
as a jew, i say don't waste your time
This is the Roth novel I almost always see at half price books
>>7886220
whatever kike
a friend of mine recommended it to me a few days ago
he said it's good
why should i listen to you over him, jewboy?
"The idea of leaving the familiarity of Washington to go live in Chiang Mai is crazy"
"is crazy" doesn't seem to fit into the sentence, or am I stressing over nothing
tl;dr:
I feel like my writing is clunky, how can I make it more fluid
bump you fucking memelords
I couldn't believe my ears. Chiang Mai? I didn't even know what country it was in, let alone anything more specific. I doubted he could point it out on a map. I had grown accustomed to Washington, it was my home, my safety net, my playground.
Idk f a m there's my 30 second take on it
What are some poststructural works that focus on the constitution of identity?
>>7886133
Maybe Butler
>>7886133
poststructuralism doesn't constitute anything. least of all identity. it deconstructs the concept.
orientalism by said
Let's have a screenwriting thread.
>tfw full of ideas but amateurish
>tfw will never film this even if I end up with something good
>tfw your pot dealers produce and film your script but delete the footage by accident because they're incompetent stoners
>Entire script in Portuguese
>write sluglines in English
>doesn't matter because you have no industry ties in your country
dat feel *hug*
>>7886299
kek
>tfw i'm brazilian too
What are your favorite books that have self-mastery/discipline as a major theme?
>>7885896
Thanks, but I'm mainly interested in fiction
>>7885889
a book about samurai training or something similar would be really interesting if anyone has any recs
Are there any authors similar to Michel Houellebecq and his books Atomised and Whatever?
Something that has to take place in modern society albeit dissaproving of it.
you want a writer to tell you how to disapprove of something you already disagree with in a clever way? nice brain you got there bub
>>7885860
he's like a bluepill reddit celine 2bh. Also check out Eduard Limonov's It's Me, Eddie
>>7885864
no hurt pls am frendly
instant classic
>>7885830
instant classic
Isn't it just one long episode of Vinyl?
>>7885830
I heard it was shite by some mfag who knew nothing about nyc, especially not the nyc of the time period he was writing about. Sounds embarrassingly pseudish, tbhfampire.
