Why is Moby Dick white?
BIG
>>7553236
fuck off
>>7553237
JUST
Texts that can help me appreciate and analyse litreature
I'm looking for examples like How to Read Literature Like a Professor or An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory by Andrew Bennett
>>7553183
>How to Read Literature Like a Professor or An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory by Andrew Bennett
Why aren't those sufficient?
>>7553186
I haven't read either, I'm just looking for the best example akin to those
Bloom's got a whole series on the analysis of pivotal works by hand picked essays from both himself and other important writers.
His shakespeare is also worth a look i've also farted
Do you guys underline or annotate books while you read?
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>>7553147
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On your first read?
>>7553150
yes
makes subsequent reads better
>>7553141
Hardly ever. I treat even paperbacks with utmost respect.
I want to read In Search of Lost Time in French but I can't really read French. I can stumble through articles on Le Monde with a dictionary and I read Le Petit Prince mostly independently.
Do or not do? I want to do it as a language learning exercise too but I fear it might just be irritating rather than gratifying.
work yourself up to it you retard
you don't start training for a marathon by running a fucking marathon
>>7553114
This. What is wrong with people?
>>7553114
I did, went quite well desu.
A poem by John Keats, maybe left unfinished but look how strongly it creates the uncanny feeling:
"This living hand, now warm and capable
Of earnest grasping, would, if it were cold
And in the icy silence of the tomb,
So haunt thy days and chill thy dreaming nights
That thou would wish thine own heart dry of blood
So in my veins red life might stream again,
And thou be conscience-calm’d–see here it is–
I hold it towards you."
keats sucks, this is not romanticism. Start with Schiller or Coleridge, pleb.
are you reading Bennett and Royle or what OP
>>7553504
pleb detected
Do you like this book?
>>7552773
Did Melville write it?
>>7552802
is that a trick question? it's written by the guy who wrote Moby Dick.
>>7552813
Who's that?
What is the recommended erotic /lit/erature?
I'm horribly bored and I kind've wanna write some of my own but I wanna get a taste of what other authors are doing.
>>7552737
It would be more interesting if you went into it with no concept of what other erotic fiction writers do, honestly.
>>7552737
Anais Nin: Delta Of Venus, or any really.
Henry Miller: Any.
I like writing it and have had some top faps but it takes more effort than just looking at porn and I'm a lazy pleb. I'd also be scared if anyone found my "Special Writing Project."
did anyone else enjoy the hell outta this book?
i first read it while sectioned, following a suicide attempt. found it to be meh :/
>>7552380
>couldn't succeed in a "suicide" attempt
roastie detected
Are there any books with female characters who aren't degenerate whores?
ITT: books that have classy women characters.
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>>7552263
Antigone is the greatest female character of ALL time.
>degenerate
>eager to condemn women
/pol/ and /r9k/ might be more your scene
The Odyssey
Antigone
What's the most Borgesian thing that's ever happened to you, /lit/?
I have been every man, but not for many years.
>>7551867
I was reading a history book while in reality I was reading a book about myths.
I was in Argentina and pretended I didn't know Spanish. I only spoke English.
I once got lost in a library, thought it was endless.
I got drunk, lost my car keys and walked 5 miles to a friends house, knocked on his window and the fucker kept on sleeping bc he thought i was pranking him. Fell asleep underneath some shrubs
What's your opinion on Roberto Bolaño?
>>7551569
I only read 2666.
He appears to like the phrase 'vaginally and anally raped'
Fantastic. Strange shaped head.
Sorta looks like a Mexican Woody Allen. Overall I'd say that's pretty cool.
Hasing the reads reading of the books ofings Mistborn?
What?
>>7551263
Yous haves notings readings ofings book at the callings Mistborn?
Have you read Mistborn:The Final Empire?
/lit/ opinion on Vonnegut, any good? Recommend as a read? Best book/s?
Good
Slaughterhaus-5
Mother Night
Kekfast of champions
>>7551056
He is not good and I would not recommend him unless you are 13
Slaughterhouse-5 is good.
Pass on the rest.
So who gets the money from Hypersphere sales? Wait, so you mean you guys wrote somebody else a book, for free? Surely you're joking?
LtLL, motherfucker.
Living it. Loving it.
>>7550971
And it sold what, five sold copies?
>>7551034
I think it's getting a lot more than that, especially since it hit Reddit
I offer you a simple question /lit/
What's the single scariest novel written by man?
A lot of people tell me it's pic related, but I don't think I believe them.
Whats the deal with the gangbang in the end?
>>7550895
King has a weird sex scene in all of his books i swear it's a fetish
>>7550888
My
Diarrhea
Togejonest
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