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which feminist books are actually worth reading?
My Twisted World
Early Feminism and Suffrage Movement:
>Olympe de Gouge -- Declaration of the Rights of Woman***
>Mary Wollstonecraft -- Vindication of the Rights of Man*
>ead. -- Vindication of the Rights of Woman*
>Rebecca West -- Woman as Artist and Thinker
>Nellie McClung -- In Times Like These***
>J.S. Mill -- The Subjugation of Women*
>Friedrich Engels -- The Origin...
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>>7771877
>SCUM Manifesto
>3rd Wave
ITT: We write a modern Lovecraft story
>>7771409
His monsters were all metaphors for non whites taking over right?
Seriously though what are his best stories? I have only read Call of Cuthulu and Shadow over Innsmouth.
>>7771480
No.
>>7771510
He was racist tho
Good author regardless but he was racist
Newfag here, mostly lurkfag from other boards. What is /lit/s general opinion on this guy?
>>7770851
He's a pretty neat dude. /lit/ in general hates genre fiction tho
good shit as long as you're more interested in stoned out twilight zone episodes than actual scifi
is that neetch
So what was the meaning of this story? What does the fish represent?
Is the Old Man spearing God?
>>7769996
Terrible picture. The fish was barely alive when it finally got near enough to the boat to harpoon.
Anyway, the fish is just something huge and dangerous that the man feels a need to conquer in order to restore his masculine self-image as a successful fisherman. This need for such a self-image is so strong that he risks his life for it even after it becomes apparent that he will not profit financially from his risks.
>>7770035
In other words he's stupid as hell.
Has anyone read this? I just finished, and may kill myself.
>>7769136
Because of feels or because it's that bad?
Pleb-tier garbage.
>tfw don't understand the difference between former and latter
first and last
>>7768582
former is former and latter is latter
Are you literally brain dead?
Which great thinkers were most likely autistic?
Not you.
>>7767232
>the ramblings of a proto-neckbeard
>great
>>7767232
Me, though I haven't gotten checked *giggles arrogantly*
I'm thinking about buying:
The Canterbury Tales
The Faerie Queene
The Decameron
One Thousand and One Nights
Which editions and (where applicable) translations do you guys have or prefer?
What are some other great, lesser known (i.e. not Homer, Virgil, Milton, or Dante) books, epic poems, and story collections?
Get Canterbury tales in the original English
>>7766971
This, it's not even difficult once you get used to it and learn a few of the most frequently recurring archaisms.
Also, 1001 Nights is long as fug. Like, really, really long. Just want to make sure you're aware of what you're getting into.
If you're going to read the Decameron, you might as well read it before the Canterbury Tales, since it was Chaucer's most direct source anyway.
Faerie Queene is one of the most delightful things ever written in this language and I...
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>>7766966
Consider reading Orlando Furioso.
What was the greatest book of the 1960s?
>>7766888
DEFINE "OF THE 1960S"
V.
>"Why do you spend your money buying physical books when you can just download them for free, anon?"
>"Even buying an e-reader is cheaper!"
How do you respond to this?
"These are valid arguments, I bid you adieu"
>>7766805
I like the convinience of just opening a book and flipping through the pages.
They look good on my shelf.
Anyone got recommendations for lit {or movies or whatever} that is intentionally bad, and not in a 'ho, ho we're so funny' pseudo-ironic kind of bad for idiots who think the the room is of note, but I mean barely tolerable, something you really have to work through, not becomes it's complex or elitist but because its so shit.
Thanks <3
>lit that is intentionally bad
Le Cheerios Man
pynchon
C E N T E R J E N N Y
https://vimeo.com/75735816
Looking for some criticism for a work I wrote a while back. Don’t worry, the work is free; I’m not trying to profit off anybody. I’d like to have some literate people review the work and see what they like and dislike about it. You can download the epub or the pdf by following the link below. Much obliged.
https://books.google.com/books?id=5pgXAgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
>>7766360
I feel like this may have been relevant approximately 104 years ago. The point of Marcel Duchamp was that he was genuinely brave in his absurdity, forward-thinking, truly avante-garde in the real meaning of the term. To rehash this kind of stuff over a century later isn't necessarily bad or good, but just... irrelevant. No one wants to read absurdity when our entire culture is more absurd than your writing can possibly comprehend.
>>7766389
But your post only came 9 minutes after OP posted. You couldn't have read the work in that short amount of time. Or are you judging the book by it's title and cover?
>>7766389
>No one wants to read absurdity
Speak for yourself. This guy is literally giving his work out for free, and absurdism is still a greatly relevant genre (see the continued cultural significance of Kafka).
So I'm writing a book, the contents of which is not really important.
What I need is a good title. A really good title. One as well made as "The Sound and the Fury". It should sound like a classic novel.
Oh, and I'll credit the person who comes up with the best one, if you like.
>>7766016
Come up with your own fucking title, you hack.
>>7766016
"What Up Dudez"
>>7766021
chill, I just wanted /lit/'s opinion.
You get to pick any writer to write your biography.
Who do you choose?
Kafka. I'm sure he's gonna milk it on some way.
I think Pinecone would capture the tone of my life pretty well.
John Green. He has shown the world that anything could be made into a book.
I wanna read Infinite Jest at some point soon, does anyone have any recs for less complex stuff to ease me into that kind of literature?
ij is shit just skip it.
start with the greeks
>>7765348
Infinite Jest isn't difficult.
But read Homer's Iliad and Odyssey.
>>7765348
Shouldn't most threads on /lit/ be in QTDDTOT?
