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In 2016, which is more patrician to speak? French, Greek, or Spanish?
English
>>7801131
among plebs? french
learn german if you want to be patrician
>>7801131
>Modern Greek
disgusting
>Modern Spanish
peasant vernacular
>Modern French
Still golden. In other words, the answer is French.
What's good to read before bed?
Books
>reading
>>7801040
4chan.org/lit/
i want to start reading his work but idk where to start
where would you suggest the best place starting with him is
chronologically. start with sartoris
Joyce did it better, family.
i've read as i lay dying and the sound and the fury. As I Lay Dying was the easier of the two, but i'd say start with his short stories. Specifically, A Rose For Emily will give you a pretty good feel for him before diving into one of his novels.
Does anyone on here read modern novels/fiction? Any beautiful books written in the past 5-10 years that you'd recommend, or that have become influential?
I read fairly consistently (though not as much as I probably should), but I realized the other day that almost all of what I read is relatively old; I rarely read books published later than the 80s. It's not really on purpose, I just feel a bit more drawn to classics. I'm content reading older books, but as someone who's realized that they're a bit out of touch I'd like to see what's...
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>past 5-10 years
>"modern"
You will never be patrician desu
>>7800908
>On an unrelated note, in your opinion must a good writer (particularly) also be educated?
If you're not educated you WONT be a good writer. It dosent necessarily have to be formal schooling, but if you have no education you wont be able to properly formulate and develop your thoughts, let alone express yourself in a meaningful way.
Where do I start with Nietzsche? What are his easiest works?
>>7800810
Start here and.....dive in Anon
You can start by thinking and deciding for yourself. That's the best primer for starting with Nietzsche.
I dove in by starting with Thus Spoke Zarathustra and wouldn't recommend this approach. I then started reading Will to Power and would not recommend starting with that either.
What does /lit/ think of the classics book tag?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRduTY5EWkk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_hxLxbdHN4
>>7800752
...what?
>>7800752
I like qt booktubers. But they're mostly ignorant plebs who read books because "Uh, I am so nerdy XD".
>>7800752
99% of booktubes ape shity plebs and shills
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I reckon you guys are here, to a part at least, not completely American. So what do you hold of this here map of world's best books with one for each and every country in the world? Has yours been represented well?
ideas.ted.com/your-guide-to-reading-the-world/
>>7800596
not france
The map doesn't seem to understand that England, Scotland and Wales are separate countries or that it's inappropriate to use a book set in Wales, by a Welsh person, to represent England. I've also never heard of the book or author.
The whole idea is absurd, nobody has time to read enough books written in all 196 countries to have any grounding to say which best represents that country, or the best of its literature.
>Ireland
>Ulysses
bet she listens to U2 as well. awful
Who else prefers Levin's story to Anna's?
Also what do you think of the casting for him?
>>7800595
that is the way tolstoy irl has asked his wife's hand
>>7800595
the casting was bad: Levin is described as robust and strong, and the actor, altough he is tall, is quite thin and has a face that expresses something of a fragile levity.
Check out "War and Peace" adaptation by the BBC. Great casting. Sticks to the book nicely. It rushes through the book a bit I must admit.
How much research do you guys do for your own writing? The writer of the Justice League movie said that he might not write part 2 because the amount of research he had to do for each character was exhausting.
I kind of feel like a lazy writer for not doing research. All that I write has always come from the gut. Do you think research makes you a better writer?
>>7800311
some research is needed to reassure the reader you know what you're talking about. research can be helpful to a writer to discover details he/she may be unfamiliar with, but it really depends on how the research is applied in the narrative.
to be frank, i distrust any writer who blatantly says he/she does not do any research when writing fiction. it tells me he/she is lazy and does not take the craft seriously. if he/she does not, then why should i pay any attention to his/her writing?
mind you,...
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>>7800311
Absolutely tons. And it is fucking exhausting. If you do any research, you quickly find even minute topics have whole fields dedicated to them, with intricate details.
>>7800311
All he would have to to is read shitloads of comic books and a few Wikipedia articles. If he finds the idea of that "exhausting" and not entertaining, then he probably shouldn't be directing a superhero movie.
should i read or watch Waiting For Godot? Is this a good version?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wifcyo64n-w
Do you guys think Godot is... God?!
>>7800284
when you read a book, you construct the characters and setting with a mental image in your mind due to your imagination.
when you watch a movie, it's all done for you beforehand. as such, you are getting someone else's interpretation.
as such, i would read it first, then watch the film.
>>7800310
yes.
Reading group for pic?
I've just started and would really like a cohort to bounce ideas / questions off; I don't want to have that nagging sense that I'm missing things. It shall be fun.
> we read 30 pages a day
> post thoughts and questions on here
? yeah ?
>30 pages a day of ulysses
>on /lit/
son i appreciate your enthusiasm but i don't think you quite understand just how little this board actually reads
how about Harry Potter?
So, he basically just uses Derrida's idea of ambivalanece to deconstruct the politics of identity, right, applying it to the framework of postcolonial studies?
Article from Location of Culture: http://faculty.georgetown.edu/irvinem/theory/Bhabha-LocationofCulture-chaps.pdf
why the fuck would u assume we know who this faggot is?
explain a little dumbass
Looks interesting enough. Would prefer him more as a political theorist to be honest.
>>7800149
This is why engineers make more money.
I'm just curious what /lit/s opinion of tolkien is
are you mega hipsters like /mu/?
thoughts on life of pi by dostoevsky?
>>7800083
My favorite in the Harry potter series
>>7800072
tolkien wrote good children's books, that's all there is to it desu senpai
So... I implore you to bear with me here /lit/. Of the books on my reading list I thought I'd give Lolita a go, however I was very tired, and thought I'd watch the 1887 movie first, having been directed by Kubrik and being a fan of Mr. Irons. I've just finished watching the movie and I am left... Bewildered and bereft. What concerns me is that I don't exactly know why. The ending was bizzare to say the least but it wasn't the most shocking film I'd ever seen by any means. Why am I left hurt? I don't understand. What I mean is why this movie,...
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Read the book or go fuck yourself, asshole.
>>7799418
>Why was he so obsessed with her?
the younger they are, the better the pussy is
let me tell you how this is gonna work from here on out kid:
either say something intellignt or shut the fuck up
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Hey, /lit/ let's talk languages. What languages do you know? How do you know them? Then post the shit out of any and all online resources you have
>Languages I know:
English, German, half way fluent in reading french
>How?
German from moving to the country (study abroad)
English cus born here
>Resources
Duolingo, dict.cc for dictionary in german and leo.de for pronunciation in German when it gets doubtful. Honestly, I also absolutely love the Der Spiegel for keeping...
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>>7799005
I know of most languages.
I only speak Danish, German, English, and a bit of Swedish and Norwegian, though.
>how
Scandinavian faggot. Was taught German and English in school
>>7799014
I agree with the redirect but you need to remember that learning languages to read literature is a different process from learning them holistically. That's why I'm posting on here.
