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Does this get any better? Im about 60 pages in
It gets downright comfy near the middle when he's in that town, but it craps the bed soon after.
The hooker with the hungry vagina was alright though.
>>8108055
Shiiet
Seemed like a cool premise with gods and stuff.. but so far nothing really cool has happened yet
>>8108064
Its basically a road trip novel. If you liked the movie Road Trip, you should like American Gods.
If you dont like Road Trip then I suggest killing yourself.
>Best poetry
>Most essential poetry
>Best poetry for beginners
>Best poets
>Best poetry by poetry by movement
>Meme poetry
>Trash Poetry
what?
my question is--what is poetry, and why.
>Best poetry
Shakespeare, Milton, Dante
>Most essential poetry
Bible, Shakespeare, Dante
>Best poetry for beginners
Wordsworth, Hardy, Browning
>best poets
above
>Best poetry by poetry by movement
what the fuck does this even mean
>Meme poetry
Keats
>Trash poetry
everything post-1930
>>8108021
>Best poetry
The Book of Psalms, The Song of Songs
>Most essential poetry
LORD Byron, Tennyson, Shelley, Romantics, Heroic Epics, Shakespeare, Rubaiyat, Goethe's Faust
>Best poetry for beginners
Poe, Rubaiyat, Pope, Dryden, Spenser, Browning
>Meme poetry
Kerouac, beats, modernists, free verse, hip hop,
>Trash poetry
Hwalt Hwhitman
I'm looking for a book
A very specific book
it's got something to do with dragons
are there any popular dragon works to read out there?
Eragon, GoT
>>8108000
i used to read dragonlance.
i then read lotr, which sucked.
then i read the worm ouroboros. it was good.
maybe read that? it could be good. FFT was probably the greatest of the ff in terms of writing and gameplay.
>genre: beat
>genre: postmodernism
>genre: post-postmodernism
>>8107971
>not liking beat poetry
>>8107971
>thinking any of those words are genres
Even the trash is too good for you.
>genre: transcendentalism
Corncobby Americana - and not much else. I'm a superior poet to Walt Whitman, but where is my recognition?
Is this guys' work worth diving into? I always see On the Road receive so much praise in...pop cultures and their associated countercultures...
>>8107904
*guy's
>>8107904
It's supposed to be a fun road trip book and not much else.
magneto?
Is there a market for comfy books? No death, no epic adventure, no weird romance, just a comfy story about life in general.
I don't know many books like this but am very interested in writing something that goes into that direction.
I've heard that magic mountain by T-Mann is comfy.
>Cottage in the alps
I think
Tequila Mockingbird is the epic tone of what you're describing.
>>8107892
i started reading it in a barber shop on Adderall at around my 34th hour without sleep. great book so far at around 5 pages in.
and thats saying something, bc its a lot description. it starts with a train ride up through some mountains, and some description of whats going inside the guys head
Actual genius with great commentary on society or a simple author people give too much credit and respect to?
simple author with great commentary on society
>>8107805
Jew. He is published because he is a jew
under appreciated on /lit/
over appreciated elsewhere
> a book about a boy in a virtual mmo world
> fight scenes are just a bore to read
> best friend who disappears in the middle of story and shows up at the very end to help the MC
> a book for weebs to jerk themselves with
> hot girl loves him for absolutely no reason
> long scenes depicting their romance which is really just the Authors' fantasies
> the...
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>>8107771
>loves him for absolutely no reason
what reasons for love do you suppose?
>>8107823
Admiration, matching personality, curiousity, good looks...
>>8107833
wow its nothing
also which couple are we talking about again? Can't remember cause they're exactly the same
Memorial day got me thinking about the second World War. Anyone got recommendations? Looking for histories and non-fiction critiques specifically. Primary sources and secondary literature are both welcome. Thanks /lit/
>>8107749
also, reflection journals and good novels written by people who went to war are more than welcome
>>8107749
Italo Calvino-into the war, is a sort of fictionalised memoir of Calvino's time in the fascist youth in Italy kind of like Catcher in the Rye.
Rommell the desert fox, and Hiroshima i really enjoyed both.
Diary of Anne Frank, surprisingly not memey at all. Really good.
>>8107783
The Cannibal by John Hawkes
It's fiction but he was an ambulance driver during the war.
What is Shakespeare's best work and why is it obviously Titus Andronicus?
>Here me grave fathers
>I tell my sorrow to the stones
>Die die Lavinia
>Why there they are, both baked in that pie
10/10
King Lear or Hamlet
nice try, friendo
Henry 4 Part 1
Corialanus suckazzz
If AM has the capacity to create a reality of torture for human beings for all eternity out of existential despair, how come it does not just create a new being for itself? Or perhaps how come AM doesn't just destroy himself?
Spite.
>>8107600
well i guess that means that AM is just a fucking fag
>>8107588
We don't know exactly where AM is broken. It probably has self-preservation as some priority and maybe that's remained despite other priorities running amok. AM may also somehow be physically incapable of hitting some crucial part of itself (for all we know it's exhausted every nuke on the planet trying). Could be some hope of release as well, if hope is something AM experiences.
Hey anon, first time poster on this board.
I'm looking for some more hilarious books. After the most prolific writer left the Simpsons, Swartzwelder started writing absurdist fiction novels mostly about this Frank Burly character. They've been hilarious so far, but I've read 6 of them so far and I'm ready to move on to some other authors.
What are some of the funniest books you can recommend? I'm looking for some good comedic writing.
>>8107547
>>8107560
I'm an american and I don't know anything about New Orleans. Although I did thoroughly enjoy King of the Hill and I though I knew nothing about Texas. That sounds funny.
>>8107580
It is, is better if you know something about New Orleans but is pretty enjoyable in it own.
Also this one.
I thought this was mediocre should I bother with the sequel
I feel too much ennui to care what you do.
>>8107533
BEE's a mediocre writer in general. If you've read one of his books you've basically read them all.
Read the next one in the continuity, pleb. Rules of Attraction. Then American Psycho.
A book about pedophilia, alright, I get it, you wanted to confuse people and get them pissed off by writing beautifully about taboo, whatever. But Ada or Ardor is about incest? Yeah right, he's just your pervy uncle after all
>>8107434
that's really dismissive.
>>8107434
>pedophilia is beautiful writing about a taboo subject
>incest is "pervy"
u wot
A brilliant man of high spirit. An artist. One would have liked to watch him tickle fight with Vera.
Can you think of any examples? Pic related, Fagin from Oliver Twist
>>8107428
lol the Dickensian miniseries made him so much more Jewish than that pic
>>8107428
why the fuck do you care?
>>8107490
he's black dude
