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I'm learning French, but only saw the wiki.
Recommend the best only. I probably won't catch up at first, but I will over the years.
This was the funniest thing I've read today. Thanks.
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What should I read next?
Principia Discordia
>>7607703
Manuscript Found in Saragossa
>>7607703
the god delusion
What are /lit/'s thoughts on "The Prince" and Machiavelli overall?
>>7607330
Sort of related to this: I bought the Penguin version online before reading here that Penguin translations are shitty. Am I missing out?
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/machiavelli/
https://www2.southeastern.edu/Academics/Faculty/jbell/strauss.pdf
http://www.mmisi.org/ma/31_3-4/schram.pdf
top tier satire :^)
gentlemen, I ask you if you know classic novels or poems about Satan. I love the story of Dr. Faustus and Mephistopheles by Christopher Marlowe. Share your knowledge about it.
>>7605920
Paradife loft
>>7605920
Milton wrote a poem about him IF I RECALL CORRECTLY. Lost Paradise or something
>>7605924
you;'re thinking of east of eden
What is essential DUTCH literature?
I'll start
-The Collected Works of Nescio: fantastic read and worth the try because all of it doesn't amount to much more than a novella
-The Discovery of Heaven by Mulisch: the closest thing the Netherlands has to a literary epic. It's scope is grand, it can be funny, exciting, original and it contains my favorite literary friendship. Do keep in mind though that the author can come off as a bit of a narcistist.
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>>7605636
I'd add diary of a young girl to this lisy
>>7605611
I really enjoyed Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians and am reading Disgrace next.
Hes sort of from two worlds tho
I know I might be retarded for asking this, but what the hell do people get out of this book that makes it a "classic of American literature".
To me it just looks like coming of age story #54663, but where the author is really good at writing as an annoying teenager.
It's early post-postmodernism
>>7598418
Captures the post-war youth and mindlessness of the the death and change plagued plagued society which evolves as fast as Holden's life, and in which people cannot remain innocent and stick to the old ways, just like Holden cannot remain innocent and childlike.
And yes, he knows how to write like an edgy kid.
It's esoteric eastern mysticism packed to a Christian audience
Is there even any money in writing novels anymore? Hasn't everyone kind of stopped reading books now adays.
Of course there is money if you can attract enough readers. The Girl on the Train sold millions of copies in the US alone.
Selling the rights to Hollywood is where the money is.
It's not that people don't read anymore, it's just that it's only middle-aged women who read nowadays.
Are you writing a novel? Can you talk about it?
>what genre
>plot
>how many words written so far
>are you satisfied with it
>name of your main protagonist
>etc...
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>>7589001
>what genre
Not applicable.
>plot
Not applicable.
>how many words written so far
50,000
>are you satisfied with it
No
>name of your main protagonist
Not applicable.
>>7589001
>short stories collection plus a side collection of flash fiction
>usually whatever weird ideas i have cobbled together from things i see or hear - no youre not having them
>3 short stories that equate to about 50 odd pages, though non will make my final collection and about a dozen flash fiction pieces that are each only a paragraph or two long
>my flash fiction that I'll put online is coming...
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>>7589001
>my diary desu
So, any of you read this? How is it?
>>7609660
>edited by a women
into the trash
>>7609669
How drool, anon
Requesting stories in which a car crashes either intentionally or unintentionally on behalf of the driver or passengers but they know it's going to crash in advance of it crashing. This asking for recommendation extends beyond literature to films and televisions series and anything else really.
Crash and the film, Crash.
>>7609610
Always Crashing In the Same Car by Bowie
I was going to be deliberately twee and suggest Snow Crash, but you've probably already read it.
Interesting concept, why don't you write it?
There's also a deliberate crash in Sideways, although I've only seen the film.
Do you guys have any good recommendations for books on Chakra or Ki (Chi)?
Yes I know it wont be like in video games or on the animus but Im still interested in reading about them.
The few books Ive looked at so far seem a little to... hippie for me, going more into the "whoa far out duuude" kind of shit i dont want to read about. Though.. perhaps thats inherently what Id be reading about.
Thanks for any help!
You want non-hippy books on chakras?
... will you listen to yourself?
>>7609573
There aren't any factual books on it because it's a spiritual subject, not a factual one.
This book is propably from either 1599 or 1522 or 1592 it is very old and faded away can anyone help me find more information for this ???
>>7609257
it's a comedy of Aristophanes - what do you want to know
Looks like it's in latin and about or by Aristotle.
No need to thank me, OP.
>>7609288
correction - aristotle
Post all your beautiful haikus here.
>Being serious is for pussies
Dank tree
Autism
Shitposting and dank memes
Spacecowboys
>Refined humor
>>7609188
>inb4
Ment to delete dank
>>7609188
OP you stupid shit
The first line should have five on
But at least you tried
>>7609372
You're the stupid shit.
6 syllables are in line one.
Eat a bag of dicks.
Shout out to the anon who said he was scanning the English version of this. How goes it, brother? The archive is down, what's come of this?
In interest of not emptily bumping this thread here are some artful literary titties.
I'm about 95% certain he hasn't been back since.
>>7609503
As am I. Couldn't hurt, though.
I actually found a supposed English copy online for a normal price. Pretty sure the description is accurate, but not sure I really want it on my shelf, especially since I already own Lolita.
Can we get a druggy thread going? What's /lit/ currently high on? I just smoked the last of the lemon haze I bought just after Christmas.
Currently reading True Hallucinations by Terence McKenna, a book which surprisingly touches on botany, linguistics, and sociology/socio-biology. It's also just plain fun, how the people in the book tramp through the Amazon Rainforest whilst tripping on all sorts of drugs. They meet mechanical transdimensional elves, UFOs, gods and goddesses, and the very nature of Time Itself. Definitely worth a read even if you like straight-up...
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I can't wait for weed to go the way of cigarettes; friends and family patronisingly telling you to quit, people looking at you annoyed when you stink up the pavement, being asked to leave the room to Indulge in your filthy habit because cracking the window open just isn't enough.
>>7608572
Get bent, square
Drugs books
Pharmako/Poeia
Pharmako Gnosis
Pharmako Dynamis
By Dale pendell
Doors of perception- Huxley
Game of life - Leary / Wilson
Tmac's stuff.
The pharmako series is top notch
>>7608716
Oh I should endorse pihkal and tihkal as well.
