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ITT: Writers that trigger /lit/
If I ever saw Franzen in my neighborhood I'd kick his ass up and down the block.
>>7656629
so it goes
Looking for a writer to rewrite the script of my quest game to make it more Lovecraftian and dark. Half of you is writing your own stuff anyway, help your bro.
Pic from my game.
What's the pay like?
>Half of you is writing your own stuff anyway,
You seem to be new here
>>7656153
>What's the pay like?
What's the skill like?
which hemingway book should i start with?
I started with For Whom the Bell Tolls, but I would recommend getting that with The Old Man and The Sea and reading that first.
You can start anywhere and go anywhere. I would recommend starting with his novels and of those the ones that were published in his lifetime. In my experience A Farewell to Arms is the worst received of his novels so maybe start somewhere else.
Well that was a fucking stupid waste of my time.
>>7654090
just burn it and post a pic, that's what i did.
>>7654097
Im not burning my phone
>>7654090
What's wrong with a short and entertaining book?
Describe the first time you saw her, /lit/
>>7650485
what rot, I don't remember the first time I saw the moon I was like 1 come on now
>>7650485
i came
we were smoking cigarettes and drinking coffee on opposite sets of steps one morning, I was 19 and she was 23. she came over the next night when my friends were around and it all went great.
What are some good books about colonialism from the white perspective?
OTHER than HoD
Source in pic OP?
Also Mondaugen's chapter in V.
Robinson Crusoe is arguably about colonialism as well.
Oroonoko kinda is
v.
lord jim
gravitys rainbow
mason and dixon
the sot weed factor
things fall apart
invisible man (ellison)
benito cereno
the invisible man (wells)
the last african
finnegans wake
Farcry 2: the novelization
l'esmiserables
>>7658425
from tumblr
Thanks for the suggestions but I don't want to read white men
Should I take any of them?
If you want. I don't care. Kill yourself.
>>7658279
I'd take the atomic submarine one. I'm always interested in that 50s propaganda that is targeted at children.
take damage and put down another staggerford
Rate my professors taste
We were given this list of "philosophers and thinkers" to help us find references for a paper in my natural resource controversies class.
>>7658039
>kierkegaard
he's ok in my books. is this a philosophy prof?
>Professor doesn't put Karl Marx right at the top
Is this the Twilight Zone? How did this guy get hired in Academia
>no Augustine
dropped
Hey /lit/, what's a good annotated copy of the Koran? I want something that's informative but doesn't try to shill bullshit like Islam is good or like any other religion.
bampu
I've been looking for the same answer for quite a while.
Finally settled on buying this today, as I've heard it's the best annotated version available for non-Muslims
http://www.amazon.com/Quran-Oxford-Worlds-Classics/dp/0199535957/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
>>7658094
Thanks. Do you know of any annotated collections of hadiths, both sunni and shiit?
I will never understand whats wrong with translations.
For example
Love which moves sun and stars
Lamor che muove il sole e latre stelle
Which moves you more? Of course this one in language closer to you....
There are big amount of books, and those books are famous and really old, and some peoples are spending their lives for work at this one work of art. Many years of research and etc, and they cant even translate a book? Come on
I guess you're just retarded then.
>Translations
>Ever being done right
Languages are so different from each others that executing completely correct translations are factually impossible.
You simply cannot transcript a text in another language without sacrificing significant portions of the word play that was done by the author of the work.
>>7657081
so what do
Is Spinoza worth reading? Nietzsche seems to love him...
>>7658134
yes. thats not to say he was right, but he's v influential.
Deleuze loved him too... and rightly so.
"Nature has no goals for itself."
“I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.”
>>7658134
Spinoza is my waifu
>Critic Harold Bloom said this of Walt Whitman: "I would go so far as to nominate him as Abraham Lincoln's only rival for greatest American"
Is this guy fucking serious? Lincoln was a dictator, murderer and set a new low for the presidency. He deserved to be shot. Walt Whitman was a not very exceptional American poet.
Is this what qualifies as an intellectual these days? These two as the greatest Americans that ever lived? Can't wait til this guy dies and just becomes completely forgotten and marginal.
If this is the only thing you know of him then sure why not.
>>7658021
This bait is quite poor.
>>7658021
Say whatever about Whitman, but if that's your opinion of Lincoln, you don't know what you're talking about. Or, maybe, you're just another clueless, radical hick
let's judge your taste in Shakespeare
favourite work?
>>7657594
You're*
>>7657596
Nice bait
Macbeth
Hey /lit/ters, I need help in writing the introduction for some essay I have to do.
It says to write a hook with a build (and I don't know what to write about)
my thesis is
>When analyzing David O. Russell’s Silver Linings Playbook, the film breaks conventions of the typical romantic comedy, since there isn’t a typical love triangle and the dialogue isn’t mostly wit-like.
I'm not asking you to write the intro for me, I just want you guys to guide me in the right direction since you guys spend your lives wrting...
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>>7657720
Your thesis is terrible. Rewrite it immediately.
Make sure to point out that you bow down to the Gods of Marxism and that you feel guilty for being white and male
>>7657731
the prof said we can steal the formula for now.
I just use it to include the two criteria easily
although, I don't see how any other thesis would be different, they're all going to address that the movie goes or doesn't go by normal romantic film conventions
What self help books will absolutely definitely improve someone's life? And I don't mean vague advice like "be yurself"
The Magic Mountain
How to Win Friends and Influence People
Epictetus, Evola
