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ONCE AGAIN, /lit/ has finished another compendium of shitposts and storytelling. These dead projects have been revived, including once-lost tales such as The Hornet Storyline and The Ballad of Carl Hollywood in their entirety..
The Legacy of Totalitarianism in a Tundra 3: Tokyo Drift has been officially released in paperback and free PDF. All 440 pages. This has been released as a double-feature with the Kolsti's Adventure in the Everglades spinoff.
Below are links to all the Tundra books in PDF form
#1
http://expirebox.com/download/bfe5bf7f0b5c7252f0c32a6e1a2f174b.html
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Meme
My meme collection grows. This will make a fine collector's piece
>>7379130
i wish to be a poresionl meme
Last one died, critique thread. Post your poems, short stories, or the like.
>>7379123
I remember reading an explication/critique of this poem once that was based entirely on the premise that the speaker was a closet homosexual and insecure about it. The speaker, the writer of this critique argued, was so insecure about his masculinity that he projected it on to everything: the scene, the objects, the language - heck, he even imagines his own horse thinks he is gay!
To be quite honest family I seriously could not believe what that nigger was saying. All I could do was shake my head.
Is a brisk wind-
but the stirrer of leaves?
Is a sighing bough-
Evermore sighing
For none but a wren?
Or can the wind not pillage at will-
Rip the tongues off trees,
Bounce on their breathing boughs,
And chase the fleeting wren?
A man is not bound by his role
He is not a Grocer-
He is a Man-
He can howl or whistle-
He can dance freely-
Or raise his outstretched arms
To catch the silver moonlight
Little lost lambda, strayed from your home
Brave new worldly shits awaits
Dumping out from clamoring bowels
Verses of brown streak quilted northern sheets
Lid, oh lots lame, cover yourself with
Righteous dignity, though your wife,
A salted hand unmoving,
Still glistens with sinful glow
Lilting lowest l'amour, from within thighs
Send stiff impulses pressing
Denim inseams seamless meaning
To cover twinless tower erected
Lit, allots lamps, hoping to shine
Though unspilled fuel lacks fire
Lax wires link us in mutual curse
Curs...
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Where can I download spanish translated books?
>>7379114
isn't there a spanish torrent site ? I assume there's one since stuff like hispachan exist
also books are 0.5€ a piece at charity shops and good book fairs so why don't you go there first
>>7379114
>gen.lib.rus.ec
>gen.lib.rus.ec/foreignfiction
>papyrefb2tdk6czd.onion.link/index.php?i=A
>lolabits.es/
>epublibre.org
>ebiblioteca.org/
>At first I was happy to be learning how to read. It seemed exciting and magical, but then I read this: Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand. I read every last word of this garbage, and because of this piece of crap, I am never reading again!
>Atlas Shrugged is the worst book ever!
Hello reddit
>>7379099
>I'm triggered
Hello tumblr
So, do people hate Ayn Rand because of her philosophy, or because her books are long and boring?
What do you guys think about The Cantos and Ezra Pound in general? Is he worth my time?
No, he is anti-semitic and should be buried. It's 2015, we don't need that kind of influence
not worth your time but it has its moments
do NOT read his prose.
>>7379083
Didn't Pound himself say he was dumb for believing in that stuff anyway?
Opinions on Peter Green's Iliad? It came out a few months ago and it's getting tons of praise...
>Wrath, goddess, sing of Achilles Peleus's son's
>calamitous wrath, which hit the Achaians with countless ills—
>many the valiant souls it saw off down to Hades,
>souls of heroes, their selves left as carrion for dogs
>and all birds of prey, and the plan of Zeus was fulfilled—
>from...
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He's made a greentext Iliad? Seems like it's really getting there as a literary form
>>7379054
>hurrr durrr i dont like all the other translations i'm gonna translate it myself and change a couple of words here and there!
autism.
>>7379071
By that reasoning we might as well have stopped at Pope.
Who else here /remembersNothing/?
Why do I even bother reading when all the stories fade away in a month to a few snapshots
Because that's how human memory works you dumb frogposter
>>7379026
I remember everything I read, but somehow cannot do basic math. Long division has me completely beat.
>>7379035
same
I just started reading the bible and it has really bad pacing and slow character development with god in the beginning, but virgin mary is best waifu and the soundtrack is really, really good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlxsnEBL2do&feature=youtu.be&t=22s
what are your opinion on the bible /lit/?
That's not the right soundtrack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wwMcy4_Iwg
>>7379020
shit mane bach is gucci as fuck
I find the character designs to to be really good (especially the angels), and the plot twist where the protagonist rises from the dead was really well executed.
ITT we talk about old books.
Recently bought Tolstoï War and Peace, collection nombre d'or 1956.
>>7378935
I recently bought a brazilian edition of Zola's Germinal from 1979.
I really liked the cover, but mine doesn't have this hideous red dot.
Recently copped a UK first edition of Beckett's Malone Dies, 1958. I'm about thirty pages in, haven't read any of his novels before but I really liked Waiting for Godot. It's interesting that he translated the novel into himself, does anyone know of authors who did this? The only author that comes to mind is Nabokov.
I don't have any particularly old books myself, but my grandmother still has an illustrated 1915 edition of Don Quijote. Apparently, my gradndgrandfather bought it and it was my grandfather's favorite book.
I wonder how much that book is worth. Apparently it's the oldest DQ translation to my language.
Do you read the introduction?
Always.
Always at the end.
>If would be
I just finished The Stranger. I thought it was great. I especially enjoyed the final chapter and how the whole thing builds up to it. That deep sense of meaninglessness, I'm glad that's not my mindset most of the time.
If you've been reading my sad postings, you know that I've taken up reading mostly to be able to talk lit with a girl I really like. I'm enjoying everything I'm reading, but that was why I started. She's really great. I managed to bring up my new hobby in conversation with her. I mentioned that I read The Catcher in the...
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I'm almost positive this is bait so far. Yes I've read the other posts.
>>7378839
Not bait. I'm just very awkward.
Having common interests is fine and all for being friends but you need to start flirting with her
In which order should I read the Greeks? In which order should I read Plato's works?
Thrasymachus' Order
>>7378719
What sophistry!
Any chance of a real answer? Please /lit/.
Thread for any ideas on how to start threads about topics. Especially any guidelines or exemplars that have/could make better, more in depth, posts and responses.
I feel like there should be some sort of general outline for certain topics that would help posters make a thread which would lend itself to better responses and possibly be incorporated to the sticky if possible.
Honestly any time i see a response 1-2 sentences long I just filter it out, and it has made this board only rarely worthwhile. There's so many ITT threads and general meme posting only...
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>>7378511
1. Do not post asking opinions about a writer with no other context.
2. Provide citations. Passages best, followed by sections, followed by works. If you want to discuss something, be specific.
3. Don't try to be funny in the OP. You can't base a thread on a joke. Without something else to riff on, your joke will almost certainly be horrible. Jokes come later.
4. Always provide your opinion on something before asking for those of others. If you don't try, why should we?
>>7378515
5. /lit/ is not your blog. Namefags and tripfags are despised because they generally ignore this. Faggotry will be grudgingly tolerated otherwise.
6. Do not start threads to instigate emotionally-charged political debates and do not reply to threads that blatantly attempt to do this.
I heard u guys read books. I met this girl whos into reading shit paperbacks and i want to impress her. what does a good book that gets the ladys?
>paperbacks or hard books?
>
infinite jest
>>7378475
does that have a lot of words?
>>7378462
You should get a hardcover of the legacy of totalitarianism in a tundra
The image on the left is considered art, the image on the right is not.
Is /lit smart enough to explain why with its literature skills?
Both images are art.
>>7378212
the one on the right is just a photo of a sunset and is therefore not considered art. its just a documentary recording on an event.
Photography isn't expressed, go fuck yourself if you think photography is art
