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Is it a good or bad thing to read more than one book at a time? Do you guys do it?
this picture is so upsetting
in answer to your question, i like to have one or more collections of short stories on the go as well as whatever longer work of fiction i'm reading. i can balance multiple narratives. i can even keep up with multiple television shows at once as well
>>7804195
lol lion got rekt
>>7804203
>i can even keep up with multiple television shows at once as well
I kekd
What books celebrate the inherent glory of war and the greatness of conquest? I'm tired of pacifist borecore
>inherent glory of war and the greatness of conquest
You've never been in a real battle, haven't you?
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>>7804041
have you
Does any anons have this edition?
I don't have it but I saw one in a book shop and it had really unevenly cut pages. Is this true of all of them?
>>7803940
was it used
>>7803950
Nope: brand new, and ordered in from the USA to Europe.
Why do Socrates and Alcibiades refer to eachother as lovers, when, according to 'Symposium', they never had sex? What is the significance of the way the word 'lover' is used in Plato's dialogues?
Probably just a shit translation.
>>7803807
Im just guessing here, but maybe he ment it in a platonic love way, between 2 intellectuals - because they discuss and shit
ps. never read shit
>>7803807
Fucking questions like this are what happen when you don't start wth the Greeks and get a shit edition with zero critical apparatus.
This is literally the origin of "Platonic love."
>buy a used book
>previous owner left a piece of notepad paper of poems in it
>>7803789
Were they good?
>kevin_hart_reads_manly_tears_novel.jpg
>>7803789
post them
>A book has been banned in Ireland on the grounds of obscenity for the first time in 18 years because of the nature of its content.
>"The collective view of the board was that it was a vile publication as it contained graphic descriptions of the rape of a minor. It was not singular.
http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/books/book-news/censor-bans-first-publication-in-ireland-in-18-years-34533300.html
Everyone in the comments is all for it.
Who do the Irish hate freedom?
>>7803768
must suck not to live in a free country
The "funny" thing is that Priests and Pakistanis do the same thing and no one is allowed to talk about it. Same in England, France etc. Look at how much trouble Houellebecq gets for writing about what's happening. A lesser known writer would just be flatly banned or would fail to be published. It's a shame, but there has never been total freedom of speech, press, or publishing. You want the freedom to lie and slander? I don't, but the irony is that this sort of rape is happening in the streets and the government are more perturbed of a fiction! The whole...
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bump. To arms lit!
> Stephen King
> Huraki Murakami
> random stuff like Catcher, Perks, A Game of Thrones, etc.
I don't spend time hanging around with plebs, so I don't know. Well...maybe I have a rough idea.
>>7803730
id shove all those books up my ass sideways merely to hear her fart through a walkie talkie
The love dove? I guess. At least you wouldn't have to read them.
>>7803739
She looks like a 12 year old burn victim.
nothing is sacred
>trailer
It's short stories right?
>>7803720
Why is cultural appropriation bad?
>>7803835
>“Borrowing” is a key component of cultural appropriation. In the 1950s, white musicians borrowed the musical stylings of their black counterparts. Because African Americans weren’t widely accepted in U.S. society at that time, record executives chose to have white recording artists replicate the sound of black musicians. This led to musical forms such as rock-n-roll being largely associated with whites in spite of the fact that black musicians were pioneers of the art form. This move also...
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I started reading this and I'm about 40 pages in and so far it's really weird. I read The Trial and Metamorphosis and loved both but this one is significantly tougher. What does /lit/ think about it?
I thought there was some good imagery in it and it was enjoyable enough but the fact that my edition ended abruptly, mid sentence, kind of made it somewhat a waste of time. The trial was unfinished but at least had some sort of ending. The castle is a book that just builds literally to nothing because it was so unfinished. Enjoy the ride but don't expect any closure at the end, I guess is what i'm trying to say.
>>7803653
>my edition ended abruptly
Are there editions that don't end mid sentence, or what?
>>7803475
I had to write an exam on it in school and for the first time, got a bad grade because the teacher told me my interpretation was wrong and it was all about him wanting to fuck his dad or something.
So fuck that story.
What does /lit/ thinks of this piece of literature?
Probably the most doctored book of all time. You're better off reading David Irving's stuff.
>>7803296
Rniggerk get the fuck out
>>7803296
Business student 2nd year,apparently this is pretty popular among them.They read it for motivation somehow.
I've been learning Portuguese on Duolingo, and want to apply it.
What are some good pieces of Portuguese literature? (Something not too advanced would be nice)
>>7803152
Simple book:
https://www.skoob.com.br/livro/resenhas/9776/mais-gostaram
O Poeta e o Cavaleiro (The Poet and the Knight).
It is the brazilian animal farm. It portrays how a dictatorship operates from the creation of an enemy to be confronted to the censorship, etc.
It is not great and the hero is a poet, which denounces that the author is biased towards the artist class's power and brazilian intellectuals tend to be. Even though the artistic class are all bought rhetoricists to the federal...
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Nevermind, download link doesn't work anymore.
I'm sorry.
Saramago won a Nobel I'm pretty sure.
Why is my writing get ridiculously worse and worse?
This is how I wrote a month ago
>you just can’t help but feel like you should lie down on your favorite chair next to the fire sipping a mug of coffee that was made the way grandma used to, and once in a while staring out the window to see rain drops and listening to a favorite Woody Allen soundtrack while watching The Accidental Tourist under your childhood blanket.
This is how I do these days
>The term “Big Bang” was coined in 1949 in a BBC Radio...
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Rewriting is the key to writing
>>7803343
This. If you become dissatisfied after a single run-on sentence, how will you ever make it to the end of your GREAT NOVEL?
Why don't you start by writing one-page fables involving monkeys and birds?
They are both high school tier tb h
Find a flaw
Female POV/sex scene was awkward and kind of unwarranted. Beginning/ending wide open for bitter memesters who don't enjoy anythingI love the book
Lost more subtle nuances that made the begining half so satisifying as it progressed for the sake of wildly spinning to higher and more ridiculous levels.
Kind of the point, as Calvino's work are just showmanship of playing with narrative structures see: Invisible Cities.
The main plot, despite some interesting characters, is pretty weak. Fantastic book though.
I'm considering reading this one. What are your thoughts on it?
By the looks of it I can already sure it's shit
It's funny, but of no literary merit.
Also, do you think that he is popular outside of America? It's often Americans you see championing him, to say nothing of the fact that (I think) American high schools still teach him.
I don't understand why Hemingway is considered a good writer.
I have never read anything by Hemingway and recently decided to correct this by picking up The Old Man and the Sea. I must say that I'm disappointed. The frequent run-on sentences, lack of commas, and nonexistent transition between thoughts is incredibly distracting. Here's a direct quote from the page I'm reading:
"He settled comfortably against the wood and took his suffering as it came and the fish swam steadily and the boat moved slowly through the dark water."
If...
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I know, his prose is odd. I mean...it's alright, but not great, like people say. But I mostly read him for content and history, not prose. His writing about wars, especially in Europe, is interesting. Plus, unlike modern writers, he actually lived through the things he was talking about.
A board that drools this much over the Greeks and the Romans should think highly of Hemingway. Without fail the idea of Virtus is present in his novels. Hell, even his telegram style is concise and 'manly'. Death in the Afternoon comes to mind. This quote from The Old Man and The Sea embodies it: 'Man can be destroyed but not defeated.'
