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Is Ignatius' clothing mocking Holden Caulfield?
Is a Confederacy of Dunces a reference to all the phonies?
>>7876466
the hunting cap tho
So, on a whim I started re-reading GR. I read up to part 3 in a day. It took me a month to read it the first time. I can't believe how much more enjoyable it is the second time. A lot of things still don't make sense but I didn't expect them to.
What are some of your favorite books to re-read anon?
pic semi related
>>7876351
Infinite Jest, of course
>>7876351
Game of thrones 7
>>7876351
The Tunnel and The Lime Twig are really fun to read over and over.
Why do women have such shit taste in books?
90% of the Fantasy out their is utter shit but are rated 5 star on goodreads by females. Every fucking booktuber shits out the same recommendations. Name of the wind, rated highly on goodreads, is terrible and utterly boring.
I can't trust any fantasy book to not have an OP highly egotistic narcassist as its MC.
>>7876034
>not disregarding females
Not going to make it, homo familaris.
>>7876034
Name of the Wind was great. Fuck yourself.
>>7876172
You know that Satan is the hero, right?
>>7875728
>babby's first pseud post on /lit/
>>7875735
kek
Pic related.
>>7875595
Generally no.
Looks like /lit/ is /aprilfools/ though. Is it supposed to be /goodreads/?It looks kind of nice.
Only on leap years.
how is the pic related roberto? stop viralling here
>tfw you fell for the flash fiction meme
>tfw no one respects you
End my life.
I have no idea what that picture is of (I assume your submittal to publishers) but I absolutely love flash fiction. It's a short story that cuts out the middleman and gets right to the point. Sort of like sex with a chick that knows how to push your buttons; you go deep and fast, bust a nut, enjoy the afterglow, and you go again.
I don't mean to insult you but have you ever thought that maybe your work doesn't fit the niche that the publisher in trying to fill? I'm not saying your writing isn't good but what if it just isn't what they're looking for?
>>7875548
What kind of works are you submitting?
>>7875596
I love it, too. The problem I've found with other writers in the genre is that they feel the need to drastically up the stakes in order to convey profundity in a very brief number of words. So every third or fourth flash fiction story is about someone dying, or someone getting cancer, or things of that nature. It annoys me to no end. People mistakenly believe that because their time with the reader is so limited, they can just "fast-forward" to an emotional connection by making the story SUPER SAD right...
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was it hedonism?
it was addiction
>>7875362
What the hell is up with all the hedonist posts lately?
>I suppose
No it's not hedonism. Once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can.
What are some good modern horror recommendations?
>>7875016
Anything from Joe Hill
>>7875475
He's Stephen King's son, isn't he?
Anyway, check out Thomas Ligotti, he writes a bit similar to Lovecraft, but less "monsters"
or Jack Ketchum if you want more brutality
>>7875482
Yup, he is. His stuff is much better than his pappy's current output.
Underrated books/series that you loved and didn't know anyone else who read them.
>Those illustrations tho
>>7874536
Read almost all of them and had trouble understanding all the ranks and sky pirate visuals and purifying crystals. I was in like 2nd grade or some sheeeit. This fosters some serious fantasy at a young age. Gotta have it/10
>>7874536
My brother had all those books. I never read them.
>>7874550
Yeah, I started reading these when I was a preteen, so it was a lot easier for me to understand them, but fuck if it doesn't seriously spark your imagination at any age. Like, what the fuck is a muglump? You keep hearing about them and you have no idea what one is, you just know where they live and what they do and then you fucking SEE one of those fuckers and it's like, that is not what I thought a muglump is. It's way worse.
>>7874558
I highly...
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Might be a bit of a stretch here, but I need help.
I just read the part where Aglaya recited the Pushkin poem to the prince, and in the foot notes it said it was an actual poem by Pushkin, but I cant find it anywhere online.
When I googled
>pushkin "the poor knight"
All I got were notes regarding Dostoevsky, I haven't read any Pushkin, but I want to find the collection this was published in because I very much enjoyed it.
>>7874018
>Pushkin
>foot notes
teehee
>>7874018
There was once a poor knight living
All alone in the wide world;
His appearance grim and livid,
But his spirit true and bold.
He once saw a saintly vision,
Something dazzling he did see,
And profoundly the impression
Cut into his memory.
For Geneva bound, he tarried
By the road; beside a cross
He beheld the Virgin Mary,
Mother of the Holy Christ.
Since that time, his soul on fire,
He at females never glanced;
Til his dying day drew nigher,
Didn’t address them...
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>>7874041
yeah didn't he violently masturbate to feet? like he wrote a snuff poem about it?
>it's a sex scene
>>7895649
They are incredibly awkward to read and should only be implied.
I literally put the book down if this happens. Same with any requited declarations of love or anything involving two people being affectionate towards each other. It just pains me too much to read a this point. It started with music and my unconsciously turning off or switching to another song when the lyrics were about being in love and so on. Then I realized what I was doing and why I wasn't enjoying music like I used to. This has since spilled over to literature, movies and even 4chan posts. If someone posts about their girlfriend or something my instinct is to instantly...
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What book could you just not finish and why?
Cloud Atlas
I read up to Sloosha, at which point I realised the author legitimately thought he was being clever, and I just couldn't bear it any more.
The Guild of the Wizards of Waterfire by Iain Reading with no trace of a doubt, I'm certain there's worse books out there but this one is my kryptonite. I found a copy of it on a convention floor, I tried returning it but nobody bit so I kept it. I've been reading a lot of younger fiction as its a genre I'm interested in writing for, but nothing will ever compare to the blithering shitpile that this book tries to pass as published material. I've finished books I hate just to say that through and through they are terrible, but this... this was different....
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>>7895546
The Brothers Karamazov
It was so long and slow and nothing important ever seemed to happen.
What's actually known for sure about his political positions besides that he voted for Reagan? What were his stances on things like abortion, homosexuality etc.? Was he really a conservative or was he just trying to be ironic by voting for Reagan?
>>7893089
New Sincerity is the policy of an emotional reactionary. Wallace spent most of his time eviscerating posturing and jaded young people hopped up on irony--in other words, leftists.
He was very tolerant of homophobia in his novel Infinite Jest. Most characters, even author stand-ins like Hal, casually use phrases like 'faggy' to refer to things they don't like. Homosexuals are portrayed as degenerates and objects of disgust. He refers to progressives as Hillary Clinton-supporting granola cruchers....
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He was probably a centre-leaning democrat. I read in a Vice obituary that he classed himself at one point as a member of the communist party of America and, if franzen is to be believed, he voted for Reagan because his neoliberal policies would hasten the downfall of capitalism in America.
In Up, Simba, while enchanted with McCain's personality, he wrote that his [1] jingoism and gun rights activism was kind of scary, and with regards to abortion, I think it was in a supposedly fun thing to do that he believed abortion to be morally wrong personally, but it was...
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>>7893159
>and, if franzen is to be believed, he voted for Reagan because his neoliberal policies would hasten the downfall of capitalism in America.
That would make sense to me. I can imagine him as a socially but not as a fiscally conservative.
why do we like it so much?
99% of authors give you a book that when you reach the last page, that's it, it's over, and you put it back on the shelf. Wallace, though, gave us an infinite jest, that goes round and round, never ending, never reaching a conclusion. So I'd say it's his generosity.
Because of that oracular foresight he stole from DeLillo.
>>7894652
LMand but s O
>Camus died on January 4, 1960 at the age of 46, in a car accident near Sens, in Le Grand Fossard in the small town of Villeblevin. In his coat pocket was an unused train ticket. He had planned to travel by train with his wife and children, but at the last minute he accepted his publisher's proposal to travel with him
Positively absurd.
>>7892030
Fuck off, pretty boy
>Caesar died holding a scroll alerting him to a plot on his life, he hadn't the time to read it
Positively absurd.
>>7892033
I don't get the Camus-is-super-handsome meme. Is it only in comparison with Sartre?
