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>>8199866
post your face, I want a good laugh

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>>8199889

look at the top of his head! HAHAHHAHAHAH
LOOK AT HIS LIPS

>>8199850
Marlow definitely is not a racist. Throughout the novel, he equates Africans with Europeans, both directly and indirectly.

Readers get confused for two main- and understandable- reasons. First, his language often does "look down upon" the native Africans. BUT the important point to remember is that he has an equally bad opinion of the Europeans. It's a pretty cynical novel. Also, Marlow is telling the story to normal, racist Europeans, so his storytelling method bends a little bit to make his listeners more comfortable with the facts he's asserting.

>>8199850
Odd, i just finished this book a few seconds ago.
Joseph Conrad was not a racist, nor was Marlow.
If Kurtz was racist it wasnt explicit.
His plans were to colonize and expand the ivory trade within Africa

>>8199975
But, the idea that Kurtz (once-magnanimous) was broken down to depravity by living in the primeval heart of Africa suggests that the Congo and its inhabitants were less. Yes, he is saying that both Africans and Europeans can be equally sordid, but he also portrays that the nature of Africa is more conducive to savagery. No?

>>8199989
>His plans were to colonize and expand the ivory trade within Africa

obviously, I meant his plans that he alludes to towards the end. The "plans" that make Marlow so visibly shaken

A book.

The Last Day of Summer by Jock Sturges.

>>8199605
Finnegans Wake

>>8199579
pop culture circle jerk, except for when he actually tried to be original (see: the stacks). then it kind of works.

>>8199579

Reads like one really long bad Family Guy reference to pop culture

It's the Snow Crash of contemporary literature. It's just really bad. The humour is bad, the "twists" are predictable (Co-Founder dude lurking in their private server). I mean as something we're supposed to take seriously it's not any good at all, though entertainment-wise it's at least "tight" in terms of plot and tempo etc. It's essentially a non-reader's novel.

>>8199577
>http://archive.is/I4wLP

Not clicking that friendo

>>8199585
The point of archive links is not to give traffic to clickbait sites you fucking retard.

>>8199642
right lmao sure

because the fags from the scifi and fantasy general need more shit to read

Because the name alone means the book will likely make more money than some sincere young novelist's attempt at proper literature.

Buy the books somewhere else. Save some money.

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>rec thread
fuck off
>>>/wsr/

>>8199503
Why would I want Rec's for literature on a fucking general board? Get over yourself.

>Is Walt Whitman any good?
Oh, shut the fuck up.

>>8199469
Why?

Bumping because I'm sincere. Normally I go to /out/ and /tg/ and I'm new here.

Am I asking about meme tier writers or something?

>>8199097
muh anxiety
1/10

Was a rather exhausting read for me, because of those really long sentences. Everyone who read it must know what I mean. But other than that really good and the last chapter as well as the afterword have one of the best closing lines I've ever read.

Favorite novel.

Just Got my Kobo Glow HD today and I'm having a blast. Ask anything you want.

>>8199090
Kindle paperwhite, I heard kobo is better when it comes to epub formats though (as in; no need to convert the file)

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>>8199090
Kindle Touch, Kindle Paperwhite, KoboGlo HD are beloved here, and the difference is in pic related.

Calibre insta converts so Kindle and Epub are not a concern.

all the weird kids in middle school read it

Christ, I remember reading these. For a middle school kid, they were alright, but now that I think about it, they were just weird.

>>8199057

>What's your opinion on Warrior Cats?

They're much like Battletoads, I find.

>>8198932
What an idiot you must be if you still didn't get that all translations are bad and don't substitute for their original versions. Learn the language, that's the only way.

>>8198982
Cool and helpful response, faggot. Obviously translation loses some of the information and nuance in the process, but it is both incredibly time consuming and unrealistic to learn every language interesting books were originally written in.

>>8199343
>but it is both incredibly time consuming and unrealistic to learn every language interesting books were originally written in.
how about hanging yourself then?

Good luck. I've been shilling him on and off for years. Dog of the South is the correct choice for best book so good for you.

A bunch of my favorite authors are in their 80s now so I wrote a them all letters a couple weeks ago. I'll post if I get a response from Portis.

>>8198928
True Grit is awesome.

>>8198928
>i'm going to keep making

Don't do it. See what happened to Gass because of gassposter's obnoxious enthusiasm and insistence to promote him? Now we're starting to get all sorts of people who are clearly unprepared to read Gass making "I can't believe I got memed again, this book is not what I thought it would be, guyz" threads. Then we'll see another breed of smartasses taking cheap shots at his style the way they do about BM ("He crushed the infant's skull, wiped his face with the tortilla and spat."). Just give it time.

I haven't read any Portis. Still, knowing /lit/, I think I may have a point, don't you?

>>8198856
Not biting sorry. Sounds like you're trying to convince yourself more than anything. Good luck with that, whatever makes you feel better about your beliefs. Btw, the fedora meme? It's to poke fun at atheist elitism, your post makes it clear though it's not limited to one side of the argument however.

>tips fedora

>We've reached a truly remarkable situation: a grotesque mismatch between the American intelligencia and the American electorate. A philosophical opinion about the nature of the universe which is held by the vast majority of top American scientists, and probably the majority of the intelligencia generally, is so abhorrent to the American electorate that no candidate for popular election dare affirm it in public. If I'm right, this means that high office in the greatest country in the world is barred to the very people best qualified to hold it: the intelligencia, unless they are prepared to lie about their beliefs. To put it bluntly American political opportunities are heavily loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.

>I'm not one of those who wants to stop Christian traditions. This is historically a Christian country. I'm a cultural Christian the same way as many of my friends call themselves cultural Jews or cultural Muslims. So, yes, I love singing carols along with everybody else. I'm not one of those who wants to purge our society of our Christian history.

*tips*

>>8198865
>>tips fedora

All that resentment

No. Do some charity volunteer work.

Join the french foreign legion.

Find something and pursue it wholeheartedly. Or see a psychologist. Go to college, learn a trade, volunteer, and stop shitposting on an anonymous Congolese hemmoroid treatment Manga group.