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Well, do you?
it's not a chart per se.
>>8147174
where to go from there?
>>8147174
Search the fucking wiki.
>Who's there?
>I am
Bravo Shakespeare, it only took 400 years for your joke to pay off.
He was an asshole. probably drank all the milk and only left enough for like a quarter of a glass.
I DO NOT GET THIS JOKE
PLEASE EXPLAIN NOW
![laughing-man[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/MwH9bkR.jpg "laughing-man[1].jpg")
>My own flesh and blood to rebel!
>Out upon it, old carrion, rebels it at these years?
Fucking Shakespeare.
What is the most though provoking or mind fucking book you have ever read /it/ that just blew your mind away?
Atlas Shrugged
I never read something similar OP
But i think that 1984 or Fanhreneit 451 gave me that feeling, i think
I have a final in my English class and I have no idea what to write about. The final is to write a poem.
good luck anon
Okay, and?
I can write its just that i have no ideas
What is the oldest story involving a gay romance ever told?
homosexuality is a modern invention
Plato - Symposium is the oldest one I can think of but I'm sure there's older examples
Herakles and Hylas in the Argonautica is fairly explicit in it's sexual romance between two men, in addition to the crush Orpheus has on one of the Boreads who join the Argonauts.
Help me /lit/ I've got a 200 word essay on to kill a mockingbird due tomorrow and I don't think I'll finish it on time.
What do?
>>8146770
write about how scout was a racist asshole
dont
>>8146770
>200 word
what is that, half a page? what the hell is wrong with you?
What are the best books to help me appreciate art? I've always felt that I didn't fully understand art and that there were some layers beneath it that I'm missing. Do I have to learn about the history of art, and if so, do you guys have any recommendations?
>>8146538
the nude by kenneth clark
in fact most stuff by him
>>8146856
Thanks, I'll check him out. Anyone got any other recommendations?
I liked/appreciated art before reading this, but the biography of Cezanne by Alex Danchev made me better understand art and what it means to be an artist.
It's really dense though and if you don't have some understanding of late 19th century French art, there will be a lot of names you'll have to look up because Danchev takes it for granted that the reader knows who he's talking about.
i have $25 to this place, what should i get?
>>8146528
A supposedly fun thing I'll never do again
Or the Tale of Genji
whatever you fucking want. what kind of question is this. I would recommend avoiding the cheap B&N paperback versions of the classics. Those fuckers immediately fall apart when u leaf through the pages
>>8146544
i want too many things tho. i was hoping you guys would tell me stuff and eventually someone would suggest something that sounded right and it would be my sign from the universe.
do they sell used books?
I'm reading right now. Has anyone read anything by Edgar Allan Poe? If so, Where do you recommend I start? What are some of your favorite readings of his?
>>8146365
yo i go the collection too, i googled the most popular ones: oblong box, gold bug, case of valdemar, ms in a bottle, descent into maelstrom, murders in rue morgue, purloined letter,
black cat, fall of the house of usher, pit and pendulum, premature burial, masque of the red death, cask of amontillado,
imp of the perverse, oval portrait, assignation, tell tale heart, system of dr tarr & prof fether
oblong box was creepy
>>8146781
* i did read these all, pit and pendulum i sgood too, masque of red death and cask top notch
>>8146365
Israfel. The most joyful thing he ever wrote.
Should i spend my money and time in this book?
Money, yes. Time, no.
No redeeming qualities, the book
>>8146343
what
How dank are J.D Salinger's short stories?
pretty dank, i highly recommend this one
>>8146332
I've only read A perfect day for bananafish and For Esme with love and squalor. He seems like he was obsessed with children for whatever reason. For Esme was a cute story though.
>>8146333
One of my favourite short stories book.
Read it, is amazing.
is anyone willing to read my final research paper for a women's history class? you don't need to agree with it obviously just wanna get second opinions on formatting and all that stuff. if there's a better place to post this, let me know!
>>8146157
i want to take it and post it online so you get fucked over for plagiarism but im not that mean.
just do footnotes and look at examples from previous years, guaranteed your school has some.
>>8146320
we were required to do footnotes, my instructor gave us many resources on how to format them and what should be annotated etc. i just don't know if it transitions well enough, if the audience would feel that my thesis statement has been answered, etc.
>>8146157
your school should have a writing center. you should use that. posting something here will just increase your chances of something weird happening.
What is some good gay literature?
I'm gay and an English lit major, only novel in English I've ever enjoyed with prominent gay themes was Pale Fire. Giovanni's room was disappointing, but I liked Baldwin's 'Notes of a Native Son', which is nonfiction.
>not knowing Jean Genet
my diary tbqh
Which do you prefer: books that answer questions, or books that ask questions?
i teacher i respect once told me that great literature is the question without the answer.
Answers that ask questions
>>8146092
I like books that answer questions. It's not that I soak up the answers and start believing them and throwing them around. But asking questions only stimulates so much thought. Reading people's attempts at answers makes me think much more.
anyone else think the "High Water Mark" speech in Fear and Loathing is bullshit?
What speech? Dammit OP I haven't read it yet.
>>8145913
why?
