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What are some genuinely good pulp novels/ novellas? Looking specifically for westerns but would be open to noir, detective, crime. Stuff with decent prose and alot of blood and seedy characters.
The Beetle Leg
>>8157489
I only know of fantasy, in which I would recommend the following works
Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser
Conan
John Carter (Princes of Mars)
Pop. 1280
Everything from Jim Thompson is amazing crime noir pulp, you'd have to read him in small doses because he uses the same themes over and over.
>and your question is:
>name 20 argonauts that accompanied Jason on his travel
This has to be an even harder meme than "start with the greeks". This mythological piece is older than the Greeks themselves!! Did you actually read this unironically??
>>8157485
it's written like 600 years past homer
>>8157492
Oh.
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I was thinking about the plot when I talked about being older than the greeks.
Jason
Hercules
That guy who hercules liked
The son of that king
Is it fair to say there are no books quite like this baby?
But there is.
>>8157321
>antinatalism
>>8157342
OP was evoking, I assume, the Book of Disquiet, so you can direct your edgy rash wail at that to begin with. Also, there actually isn't all that much antinatalism to Cioran (or any at all, even, if we're talking true sentiment).
(It's #1 because I haven't seen something structured like this here before.)
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>>8157248
I mentioned structure. This one is official like threads on other boards. I'm also not samefag.
Here, let me start
"fanning water on both sides"
my new expensive bicycle
completely unbecoming of me
is not meant for the craggy roads of this city
though it claims to be a "mountain bike"
hardtail, 21 gears (shorthand for 7x3,
though i would hardly know what that means
dipped in the filthy vapours suffusing this urban lung),
a titanium skeleton as sleek as an ocean liner.
when i pedal el poderoso through the undulating
wavy asphalt streets that line this rancid metropoliced hub,
my heart hops on every slippery slide, each jerk and skid,
each strangling strain on the wheels as i make a hairpin bend
fit to snap right down the middle.
yesternoon it rained and i found a microscopic honeycomb
growing off the plastic of my smoothly-hewn mudguards:
a present from mumbadevi for being born in her boggy
womb. my feet seemed dipped in ice, frozen nerves,
the skin perspiring dilute acid as i pedaled faster
than i should have over the slick cobbled lanes,
the rocks and stones and bits of road chipped off,
gnawed off by cats and hounds pissing over
the tiny clumps of grass that timidly sprout from spores
buried underfoot, then
the sonorous almighty nasal rumble
of rubber rolling over a metal drum embedded
in the ground. then the swerving, the shifting of weight
as we weave between cars many kilometres travelled to meet
here amidst a trumpet band from pandaemonium,
between men and women letting down their stringy hair,
the mask of water on their faces deepening the reds,
the sensuous browns of their pupils, and they stand back
and watch my bicycle chain pull us down the river and home.
What are some good books set and/or written in this period? Preferably from the POV of the revolutionaries rather than the nobles, but either is ok as long as it's well written.
>>8157183
read something shit, like rouge et noir
>>8157183
Evola
which revolution?
Anyone read it? Spoilers ahead. What's the significance of these two events at the end:
- The white dog barking at Elizabeth. Is this supposed to be John Kemp getting in a "last-word" against what she and Christopher represent?
- The poet whose home John Kemp drunkenly bursts into. He starts to read him a poem and then he interrupts, saying he needs to take a shit.
I can see the latter as Kemp never quite mastering his own destiny. He sought refuge in his creative works but could not harness this to bring about meaningful change in his life.
He talks about the bombing of Huddlesford as though it were a new start, "It meant no more to him now, and so it was destroyed: it seemed symbolic, a kind of annuling of his childhood... It was as if he had been told: all the past is cancelled." (202) His parents are essentially landless; their visit to Oxford is Kemp's opportunity to wow them with his new, re-energised, intellectual, post-war life. The only scene waiting them is Kemp's injured, feverish body.
The nurse says of Kemp, "He's in no danger. Really, he's never been in the slightest danger at all." This can be read as either Kemp being his own undoing, or of a kind of British sense of perseverance; an optimism that Britain will endure and recover from the pains of World War 2.
If you haven't read it, it's worth at least a read for the excellent last 50-60 pages.
>>8157159
>I can see the latter as Kemp never quite mastering his own destiny. He sought refuge in his creative works but could not harness this to bring about meaningful change in his life.
I should say, Kemp interrupting the poet is like a crass rejection of the peace and serenity he could have found in his creative works (the poet seems the only person not engaging in drunken revelry in the complex).
is there any particular reason larkin keeps showing up lately or is it just because you've all found a new person to prop up that the sjw establishment doesn't like
He wrote it when he was like 20.
I feel like I can't be creative without alcohol, and I feel like I'm not a real person if I can't create well. I'll start writing sometimes and just think "this is shit" and start drinking. I tell myself to work harder, study other writers more but it never seems to take. Can you be great without drugs? Or even good, I'd settle for that at this point
>>8157153
>Can you be great without drugs?
i fucking hate when people ask this.
yes, you can be great without drugs. drinking won't make you a better writer. only writing makes you a better writer.
>>8157153
Is alcohol + writing a meme? Or does it actually help with creativity and shit?
>>8157173
go fucking kill yourself
I'm currently learning French. What is some required reading for this beautiful language?
lay miz
>>8156956
Le petit prince,
L'étranger (prose nothing special for most of it but a good starter),
Godot
a couple stories from Maupassant,
Montaigne if you can handle it
>>8156989
>L'étranger (prose nothing special for most of it but a good starter)
I agree with this guy and cannot stress this enough. It was the first book I read in French and I found it much easier than le petit prince. After a year of French in college and prior knowledge of Spanish, I could read this book pretty easily with a dictionary.
That really sent me ages ahead. I also recommend that you read Françoise Sagan. All of her books are about bored bourgeois sexual deviants but it is a good level of difficulty for someone learning to read French.
I don't consider myself able to read good literature yet and I only really read in French and understand a little. For example I started Rousseau's Nouvelle Heloise and had to put it down. I did pick up some Ballsack and plan to read him later.
What should I add to this list? I am starting a reading group with some friends who are not exactly the /lit/ type and wanna go through some entry tier then maybe more advanced list of reading. We will have a poll on which books we will read. Im posting here wondering is there anything /lit recommends to a bunch of 1st uni with not very in depth experience of literature?
That's a weird ass list for sure. Why did you add gravity's rainbow ?
if you want to convert friends, go slower. most people are slow readers!
also remove mein kampf u edgelord
this group is gonna fall apart in <2 weeks guaranteed.
>10 pages in and its the best prose I've ever read
Well fuck.
>>8156763
>woman
>good prose
fuck off roastie pleb
3x3 thread
i see nothing but entry level poopy puffer shite tee bee eightch
>>8156550
great post thanks for contributing
God damnit. I've been memed. 956 fucking pages, and the whole thing was only an extremely elaborate way of saying "Just b urself ;)." Jesus fucking christ.
nva undastand u plot fegs.
>>8156490
>muh read for the shiver in your spine
go stick a dildo up your ass if you want a shiver in your spine
really should have known that from the beginning when Otto bases his life off copying wyatt.
Can somebody post that Dostoyevsky flowchart that has all his books in a trash can? Saw it earlier and it made me kek but I can't seem to find it in the archives.
Oh, and so this isn't a complete waste of space this thread can be a QTDDTOT thread I guess.
oh shit waddup
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what is the difference between ideology and hegemony?
How do you rate this book /lit/? How do you think it stacks up to Ulysses (which i see it compared to)?
I thought it was interesting. Bernard got to be a whiny bitch but Woolf nailed the pains of nostalgia and getting old, as well as ones inner thoughts. Very poetic. Wasnt much a fan of the waves metaphor but understood its usage.
Also:Was Percival adolescence? When he died it all went to shit for everyone and they still yearn for the time he was round.
>>8156169
It's a masterpiece.
>How do you think it stacks up to Ulysses (which i see it compared to)?
What's the point of comparing tobehonest
>>8156180
I just see people compare them as two modernist (or maybe pomo?) stream of conscious classics. Admittedly Joyces was on a grand scale but perhaps Waves had, overall, a little more heart.
>>8156194
>pomo?
no
What are you reading?
Everything is a spook.
I am reading Evola
>>8156020
Human, All Too Human.
