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Opinions on Robert Louis Stevenson?
Is he the greatest writer of his era?
Looks like a more modern Poe.
>>7640937
>reading genre fiction
How about you came back once you grow up?
>>7640937
fantastic writer for kids. A bit childish for adults but he wrote well and his works can be read by adults without them suffering through cliches of children's writing.
Please recommend me american modernist novels. (at least the modernist era, not necessarily stylistically modernist)
My List:
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Nightwood
Manhattan Transfer
Passing
I have a random urge to write stories in an idealized noir sort of urban 1920s. I need information to input.
>>7636460
These ones are from the 30s. Doubt they'd be considered modernist in style, but the settings fit with what you're after.
Appointment in Samarra - John O'Hara
Ask the Dust - John Fante
Turn, Magic Wheel - Dawn Powell
The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler
Fast One - Paul Cain
The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett
>>7636460
One character will be a german immigrant who excelled in math in his gymnasium and left germany during wwI and when to america. He translates books for a living and works as a janitor in a newspaper. Named Conrad. Skinny guy
>>7636539
thanks
Is suffering meaningless?
I mean, do you reach a certain point where it becomes clear that all of your suffering was for nothing? Despite all that they told you about suffering making you stronger and giving you a sort of insight into certain things... Is it all pointless? I suppose in a way it relates to integrity too but do people who have suffered a great deal in their lives still "lose" so to speak?
Do those celebrities and rich kids and all those who seemingly live comfortably... Do they win, in the end?
I mean, I've near enough read everything that Nietzsche and related folks have written when it comes to suffering and they speak of it as if its a gift but aren't they just justifying their suffering when doing this? After all, he went mad, didn't he?
Could it be that he realised too late that all of his suffering was for nothing? That no matter how much you will not bend and keep your integrity intact, you WILL eventually break?
Is there nothing redeeming or worthwhile in suffering ultimately?
I'd really like to know /lit/
>all suffering is the same
It depends, fuckwit.
>However, one thing that grave illness does is to make you examine familiar principles and seemingly reliable sayings. And there's one that I find I am not saying with quite the same conviction as I once used to: In particular, I have slightly stopped issuing the announcement that "whatever doesn't kill me makes me stronger."
>I love the imagery of struggle. I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient. Allow me to inform you, though, that when you sit in a room with a set of other finalists, and kindly people bring a huge transparent bag of poison and plug it into your arm, and you either read or don't read a book while the venom sack gradually empties itself into your system, the image of the ardent solider is the very last one that will occur to you. You feel swamped with passivity and impotence: dissolving in powerlessness like a sugar lump in water.
>>7639534
>doesn't contribute anything to the thread
>the meme author
Didn't see that one coming
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGYbfDwXOc0
>>7639156
You're not going to be a meme no matter how hard you try. We don't award memes for effort
>>7639156
>that pic
>autism shoes
>>7639180
I think they were ok in that age
It's lit as fuck in here
Lol
Get it?
>>7642262
dude, weed
>"And he realized after a moment, that it was all very simple...it was nothing more than an infinite jest."
healthcare? i bet he aborts babies
>>7641402
janitor at a hospital
>>7641399
>Hey girls, I'm like TOTALLY into consent!
wow what a desperate, thirsty faggot
Whats the best way to read House of Leaves? Chapter 9 is referenced early on, so should I skip to it or just read it straight through?
Also, I've heard that you don't get the same experience with an ebook version that you would with a physical copy. Is this true or just pretentious garbage?
Read it the same order you would any other book.
Physical copy if you can. There's a reason the title is called House of Leaves.
>>7640970
>There's a reason the title is called House of Leaves.
Are you referencing physical copy vs ebook, or the hipster garbage part?
>>7641050
The typography (which is a pretty essential part of the book) probably doesn't convert well.
ITT books about/for people whose emotional development stalled at 15
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P cute tranny tbhu
>have to pick a foreign language to learn for college
>want to pick one that will give me access to a wider range of literature
Is there even a point to pick a language on this basis? I mean, I probably won't ever be able to understand the nuances of any language I learn...
What do you guys think? We haven't had this conversation in a while.
Russian
Russian
Have it multiple times every day.
You're nearly wrong about anything.
Pick a language that has a lot of lit you want to read. Learning new languages is helpful on so many levels, really dive in to lad, feels great.
Does anyone else feel like they read better when drunk? It doesn't seem like that would be the case, but I find that when I'm drunk and reading, it just seems to "flow" better, I don't get so hung up on individual words. It's almost like, instead of seeing individual trees, I see the whole forest and how it all comes together. I think when I'm sober, I have a sort of mental block where I think too hard about the most minuscule details.
>>7641948
dude
alcohol
lmao
i'm a terrible reader unless i'm sober and well-rested.
i'll read poetry and short stories when i'm drunk, though.
What does /lit/ think of Morrissey's autobiography? Is it worth reading?
It's a modern classic, of course it's worth reading.
>penguin classic
dropped
if you like Morrissey, yeah. not sure why you'd read it otherwise.
V. or Moby Dick?
What kind of question is this? What kind of comparison?
If you force my hand I'll say Moby Dickbut secretly prefer V.
>>7640114
just which one do you think is better.
anyone?
1) Top or bottom (do you keep your books with or without the dust jackets)?
2) Have you ever hesitated or refrained from buying a book with an ugly cover?
3) What's the most aesthetic/fitting book cover you own, and what's the worst/most ill-matched?
>>7639597
reddit af
>>7639602
It's from pic related's blog.
>>7639597
I've always found dustjackets to be fiddly and annoying, but I don't throw them out. For antique books the dustjacket contains 90% of the value.
I need to write a short story for a small-prize contest in a couple of weeks.
Does /lit/ have any ideas, inspirations they wouldn't mind giving me?
Figure it out
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