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>just finished King Lear
Which other shitty tragedy by Shakespeare should I read?
>i wont read julius caesar, i already know how that shit goes
>>7838196
>King Lear
>shitty
Et tu, plebe?
>>7838210
King Lear has been nothing but complete shit.
Opinions about this series?
Read all 8. This is my favorite one.
>inb4 young adult
>>7838179
I remember it being marketed at Scholastic book fairs as being "the new Harry Potter." I judged it as a lame rip-off of Harry Potter stuck with Harry Potter, Artemis Fowl, and Garth Nix books.
>>7838179
I remember reading this series. Knock off Harry Potter, but I didn't mind at the time. I remember the books being designed so that they were the thickness of a Harry Potter book, but there was so much empty space between the lines that I could finish them easily and feel smart for having read a book with so many pages so quickly.
>>7838185
>>7838183
Knock off Harry Potter? You two are delusional. What does this have anything to do with Harry Potter besides length? Comparing all big books with spaced writing to Harry Potter is the most pleb thing I've ever heard.
books you fucking hate
This. It isn't funny or edgy nowadays. It's just diarrhea.
>>7838156
>>7838177
why do you guys hate it?
Burroughs' cut-up method is great in that it isolates and alienates the seemingly insignificant senses and gives them a chaotic sense of fragmentary beauty. His adoption of methods from science and detective fiction and then jumbling them up gives the language a strangely literary quality.
I also think its important as a book of speech-act theory, where language becomes a tool with a performative function of disorder,...
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It reads like book by someone who has been told they're clever their whole life, and feel the need to share their cleverness with the world.
Clever as in burger sense of the word, not bong.
Does anyone have The Complete Chronicles of Conan by Robert E. Howard? Couldn't find it on Bookzz.
Also discussion/thoughts on the stories Conan.
I fucking love the Conan stories. Such absolutely delightful writing.
There's a lot of creativity in them, too. You could tell that Howard was always trying to mix it up. Conan isn't even always right all the time.
>>7838256
As someone who has only heard of Conan in passing, were should I begin?
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What in the absolute FUCK is a "fantod"?
>>7838076
>a state or attack of uneasiness or unreasonableness
yes i googled it. yes i saged.
What are some good writings about friendship, its nature, maybe some portrayals of what good friends are like? Interested because I don't think I've ever had those; I don't even know what friends are, really.
>>7838653
Pinecone t b q h
Also Camus' Plague is about bros.
what do you do after you realize you are god
kill them all
>>7838007
Wonder what happened to the powers I was promised.
Why no water into wine and multiplying of fishes.
>>7838007
Grow up
Do you have any literary or philosophical role models? One of mine is probably Zhuangzi. The fellow was a total bro.
Ayyy Taoism circle jerk thread incoming
reporting in for zhuangzi circlejerk
You have an writer over for the night.
Who are they and how do you entertain them?
David Foster Wallace (AKA DFW, author of The Infinite Jest)
I entertain him by calling him 'Big Dave' and constantly mentioning the fact that I don't own a TV
lowkey cuck posting
Thomas Pynchon.
Weed, snacks, and an introduction to /lit/. We can take turns reading posts aloud and shitposting.
Has anyone ever thought about publishing an elite collection of 4chan shitposts? Gore and /b/ are not eligble
Buying shitpost would be pretty post post post ironic
>>7837916
Give it 10 years, kids born today will be listening to music about shitposting
>"Tolkien has become a monster, devoured by his own popularity and absorbed into the absurdity of our time," Christopher Tolkien observes sadly. "The chasm between the beauty and seriousness of the work, and what it has become, has overwhelmed me. The commercialization has reduced the aesthetic and philosophical impact of the creation to nothing. There is only one solution for me: to turn my head away."
>"They eviscerated the book by making it an action movie for young people aged 15 to 25,"...
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I'm patrician enough to think LOTR is just shit in the first place.
haven't read them. i will say the hobbit movies are pretty bad and dumb
Tom Bombadil is weeping somewhere in a forest :(
ITT: books for reading on the beach
FUCK THE SUNS TOO BRIGHT NOW I MUST COMMIT AN ABSURD ACT
vurt
City of God - paulo lins
the once and future king
So I've recently gotten into Tennyson. I loved The Lotos-Eaters, In Memoriam, and everything else.
But I got to The Kraken and I absolutely do not fucking understand it. I tried looking up what it meant on a whim, but there where no clear answers. Does the Kraken represent industry? Science? Religion? Nature? Because I have no fucking clue what this poem's supposed to mean.
If it is supposed to represent one of those things, then why all the ancient imagery, and why the fuck does it die as soon as it surfaces?
Am I just being stupid? Is the answer obvious?
bump
Anyone? I read some more stuff about it but now I'm just more confused. There are so many different interpretations, and none of them explain the death at the end.
he's sleeping until the earth gets fucked up by the wrath of god. i don't understand why he'd rise just to die either, though. anyway, cool poem, thanks OP if i have any miraculous insight i'll check back in
When I read about Crane's biography, I couldn't believe this moron. I feel bad for him. His degradation, his failures, and his suicide. I don't know how anyone can spin his life and personality in a positive light. He was honestly an idiot.
he was a good ass poet, at least.
>...nor ever trust beyond it
>spry cordage of your bodies to caresses
>too lichen-faithful from to wide a breast.
>the bottom of the sea is cruel.
god damn the gays can write.
also, his last words were "goodbye, everybody!" which is fucking great, to say the least.
>>7837685
he was a good poet since he was hyper-sexual, so his mind was pretty virile. being gay in that time period probably made him a little stir crazy, hence adding to the anxiety and passion to his writing.
he was gay, but then messed around with his friends ex-wife, then was confused even more about what the hell he was.
it was bad decision after bad decision.
>>7837639
>one of the greatest poets in all of history
>an idiot
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how valid would you say the critiques on the crit threads are? what kind of people usually give feedback on the pieces of literature posted - are they the more educated, experienced browsers, or just the cynics?
Something like hack the planet amount
Nobody here reads.
The best of them are pathetic firebrands, who even with generous advice, are ludicrously wrong in the broad picture. That makes up about 5 of them.
The rest are simply plain idiots/trolls, who should be ignored.
Cynics. Anonymity breeds them. You get the rare response that's genuine, but of all the pieces that get posted in those threads, the chance that they pick yours is pretty slim.
For book recs, I like this place, but as far as getting feedback is concerned, I'd rather stick to real life interaction, or even Reddit, over /lit/.
> >>/reddit/
Okay.
Hello lit, im buying a few books from a local website, so far i have in my basket:
-Moby Dick
-kafka's Metamorphosis
-The Dwarf by Par Lagerkvist
Can you recommend me some other good books for an entry level reader? (i started reading last year and so far i read entry level "classics" by camus, tolstoi, dosto, wallace, orwell "etc)
Thank you in advance /lit/
>>7837436
Lady chatterly lover
The good soldier svjek
>>7837436
I dont know. Can i?
>>7837457
not sure what to make of these two works paired together... u ok there m8
