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Question for /lit/: How does >https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNI07egoefc tie into the quality of literature? Pic unrelated.
I swear this video has been posted here before.
I appreciate attempts to explain what has now become a meme opinion. Too many spout 'le modern art is about le poo, le degeneracy xd' without further explanation.
Excellent novels you'd like to recommend to other people
I remember reading this last year and I still think about it.
>>7588637
I was exposed to Hans Fallada mid 2015, started with Alone In Berlin and then The Drinker. All translated from German and all so beautiful and fucking depressing, just how I like my lit.
>>7588637
I liked this book a lot. If you're into female authors writing about the theater, I picked up Eleanor Catton's "The Rehearsal" off of a rec from this board and enjoyed the hell out of it. Lot of the same themes of life as theater and life mimicking art (and vice versa).
I also read Kent Haruf's "Our Souls at Night" off of this board - one of the few books I've ever read in a single setting. Beautiful book about two widowed old people that start spending nights together...
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I've rented this book at the local library, i've read like 10 pages, but i've kinda gave up, it seems to be a tipically romantic book where everything surrounds about a traditional love story. Am i wrong?, should i keep reading it or am i wasting my time?, what other japanese books are worth reading(no love stories pls?.
>>7588615
Yukio Mishima, Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, Kenzaburō Ōe.
Law Codes of Hammurabi
>>7588615
at least stick with it till the loli lesbian sex scene
What do I do if I read a short story on a writer's website and I really like their idea, and I want to take it and expand it into a book? It's not my idea and I would feel bad about taking someone else's.
Just do it...This is an extremely common practice.
It's fine to use the idea as long as you don't copy the words.
>>7588554
>>7588556
This is not common practice for actual published authors. Published authors are faced with tons of copyright/plagerism claims, and if they are caught have to pay out thousands. Famous authors in America literally have to throw out tons of manuscripts sent to them because if they accidentally write something similar, a lawyer will anally rape them. Very common in Hollywood/scriptwriting world too.
If you are unpublished and never going to make it,...
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So I never hear a about either E.L. Doctorow or Saul Bellow on here. Haven't read either, but I'm thinking about it. What're /lit/'s opinions?
>>7588482
hey, I remember that book, my uni had one of those "bring your excess books here and strangers can pick them up for free" and I got it from there. was a lot like goodfellas in novel form, haven't read much else from him though.
I've read a few of bellow's books but I really can't make any expert statements about them, I'm quite indifferent about his works. he's not a bad writer but it's just not my cup of tea.
>>7588482
Read Bellow's novella Seize the Day and decide for yourself. If you don't like that, skip the rest without a second thought.
>>7588507
I've got the Dean's December at home I picked up from Goodwill, but it seems dry as fuck. And by dry I mean really unimportant.
It's in the title, broskies. I read the first 50 pages of The Name of the Wind and thought the fireside scenes were pretty comfycore. Also The Hobbit and a lot of The Lord of the Rings is pretty comfy. Anything else like that? Should I just finish TNotW first? But what about sci-fi? What are some comfy books there? Thanks /lit/bros.
the master and margarita
>>7588472
Already read it tbqh.
>>7588477
100 years of solitude
9 books. the 9 books about philosophy hacker
http://ouo.io/Jn8VHq
>>7588396
Fuck off kike. That link earns him money.
>>7588396
That's a porn book.
I know you are here. Reveal yourself, don't be shy.
hey, how ya doin'?
>>7588392
I love your work please let me suck you
The archive isn't working for me. Someone recommend 21st century poets.
Ben Lerner is the best one from America who first started publishing his poetry in the 21st century.
The archive has been down for a couple days now. It's not just you.
>>7588147
Which collection is his best?
what novels would you teach for an introductory japanese literature course? which ones have the most literary merit?
The Japanese animation "Attack on Titan" is very deep and even though it is not a novel, I believe it has significant literary merit and would be perfect for your class. :)
But I do remember the story to an extent.
>its like the 1920s
>two twin or very near age sister & brother
>dad is some sort of sleuth or conspiratorial agent
>dad goes missing I think?
>kids look for him and find cool maps n' shit
>find him? I think?
>also found the treasure everyone was looking for too
These books also came with some really...
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bump?
>>7588059
Oh I remember these! Operation Red Jericho
>>7589954
HOLY FUCKING SHIT! THANK YOU SO MUCH ANON!
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So have any of you actually read all of it?
>>7587988
No one with any sense or taste.
Or sense of taste.
>>7588009
One of the few negative comments about it I've seen here, and there are many comments.
Not me - just the first two books, but they were some of the best two books I've ever read.
Why isn't Fight Club Po-Mo?
>>7587904
it is, pseudo-elitists-plebs just hate because it has a plot
pomo and terms of that ilk are fluid
fight club has a lot of characteristics of the postmodern movement, you wanna call it 'pomo' you can, but dig this man it's fucking terrible and palahnuik is shit, right? - so generally speaking when people say 'postmodernist' and want to conjure up the group of 60s 70s innovators they're not meaning palahnuik and they'll be annoyed with someone haplessly shoving him in with those who tend to define the term
>>7587920
>palahnuik is shit
but, no... are you one of the guys getting upset over an arbitrary term?
Hi /lit/, stupid question, but I need it answered kind of quickly: What should I buy, The Prose Edda, or Tolkien's translation of Beowulf? I can only afford one. Which should I buy?
>>7587883
Beowulf.
>I read dystopian fiction
>>7587842
all fiction is dystopic
>>7587842
>I limit according to genre.
