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Just finished Mason & Dixon. I think it's one of my favorite novels now. The ending was so touching, I never thought this book would make me feel so sad for saying goodbye to those characters.
Also, Cape Town was really fun to read. The French attack while they were onboard the Seahorse was terrifying. There were some really crazy shit I can't even try to explain to someone who doesn't know Pynchon. The talking dog, the duck, those parts about the Hollow Earth, a were-beaver (?), Dixon's paranoia about something bigger commanding their paths, Mason's...
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The suddenly meandering chinaman-swedes-jesuits plot was the only point at which the book ever felt long.
Does it feel like the passages happening indoors are less crazy? Well the duck is everywhere and that tub was just par for the course, but I guess not...
>>7994202
>The suddenly meandering chinaman-swedes-jesuits plot was the only point at which the book ever felt long.
I agree. Even though the episode when he disguises as the Spanish jesuit he wanted to get rid of and then he starts believing he's the jesuit himself was hilarious.
That cover is shit tho
Why do I never meet these well-read and verbose folks you see on forums or news feeds online?
They're obviously out there, but they never enter my reality.
They're in NYC
they're at home reading and shitposting
>>8002218
This. It's the well-read, verbose intellectuals that are the most forceful of ironic memes and shitposting.
Butterfly in the sky. I can go twice as high
take a duck, it's in a suck
>>8002087
I still use their recommendations at the library for my kids
>>8002170
Librarian here, it's a solid list. You also can't go wrong with picking off the Caldecott and Newberry winners.
You're in the coffee shop and this guy slaps your Iliad's ass. What do you do?
I introduce him to Top Wo Nerae! also known as Gunbuster, an anime series that preceded Hideaki Anno's Neon Genesis Evangelion and had a red-headed character in it called Jung Freud.
I think he'll enjoy it.
>>8002235
why did you bump such a stupid thread from page 10 with such an asinine response
>>8001503
I assert a self-actualization theory of neuroses by saying that he clearly did this because he has repressed self-actualization urges. I then explain to him how he can sublimate his urges by actualizing his mother and typifying his father.
For the life of me I cannot find Calvino's "The Nonexistent Knight", I've tried Google and Bookzz, nothing pops up.
Can someone please upload it?
>>8000004
Buy a physical copy you fucking faggot
>>8000399
No money
Also nice dubs
I fucking love calvino. he is amazing. why don't we talk about him more. on a winter's night a traveler was genius.
Is Son of Saul worth seeing or is it oscarbait? Is Captain America worth seeing?
The worth in seeing is measured by those ephemeral economies of pleasure that only we know.
The person you should be asking is you after you have seen them.
>>8002169
Wrong board, unless you are going to Cannes you are wasting your time. Also
>paying money to see capeshit
>>8002169
Son of Saul is great. It is not anything close to oscar bait.
And don't go see Captain America. Capeshit is cancer of our society.
Got a 20€ bookstore gift card, what should i get?
>>8002137
Diary of a country priest.
On the marblre cliffs.
A Sleeping man.
I was thinking on writing a drama about a literature board were right-wing extremists takeover, spamming Ayn Rand and falsely asking for right-wing literature. But I though the reader will realize only idiots can not notice this right away and do something.
Maybe you think yourselves more clever and think how can things turn out to be different in this story and not just staying in the currently idiotic course of events, amirite?
>but there is no twist
How about false flagging or "left-wing" threads ring-wing spammers posts when someone suspects to pretend nothing is happening, that way they keep the sheep calm. Good enough?
How often do you get a book by one of these evil beings?
What in fuck is this post supposed to mean?
How often do you re-purchase Mein Kampf?
What should I read by Aristotle other than pic related (because I am interested in political theory)?
What else from him should I read? Is he a meme?
nicomachean ethics
Yo bitches, it's my birthday and i want the books
what shall i get? making a list here
>inb4 everyone calling each other plebs and hacks
also just finished Slaughterhouse 5 and am feeling disappointed in Vonnegut - am i....alone?
You're definitely not alone cause the Vonnegut hate on lit is near constant though I would say your expectations were too high. I quite like Slaughterhouse 5. The bit where he describes the war in reverse is very affecting.
You should at least read Sirens of Titan before giving up on him, it's his best. Just don't expect too much. It's very good existential science fiction, not Moby Dick or Shakespeare.
>>8002024
journey to the end of the night, snow country, a passage to india, the real story of ah-q, red cavalry, madame bovary, man without qualities
>>8002024
Vonnegut is overly praised in some circles, his writing is OK but it's not a masterpiece as it is claimed in some circles. His early stuff is better.
You should get some Dostoevsky.
>spend a lot of my time in my small city centre walking and going to the small library
>have to go to London for a day
>spend some of the time walking and being at a bigger library
>whatever I'm trying to find, I couldn't even find it when walking in London
>back in my old city
Cool blog, how to subscribe????
>>8001876
>sux4u that london's where everything is then dunnit
>>8001876
what were you trying to find?
if you couldn't find it in london, you just didn't know where to look
you know the british library has every book published in the uk, right?
Was in the hospital for 9 days.
Read:
If on a Winters Night &tc
No Exit plus 3, Satre
Falling Man, Delillo
The Pearl, Steinbeck
Didn't ask anyone what to expect and dont care how pleb I am.
Did you like The Pearl?
I love Of Mice & Men and Grapes of Wrath, but my literature teacher in high school told me The Pearl was trash, so I skipped it. Not that I took her word as law but I don't like spending too much time on one author anyway
The Pearl is a great read. It's about the noble savages and the evil white people so maybe your teacher had problems with that.
It's was better than Cannery Row and Travels with Charly which was the only other S.beck I have read
>>8001169
>The Pearl is a great read. It's about the noble savages and the evil white people
You're an idiot, quit spreading your lies.
hello guys,
to be honest /lit/ isn't one of the boards I usually frequent but I've got an inquietude and couldn't think of a better place to ask about it.
Pic pretty much related,
This phrase "Hope is the dream of a soul awake", I've seen it around for a time now, and it just doesn't click to me for some odd reason.
Now I must state, English isn't my mother language and I'm far from being proficient on it, and is likely the root of my confusion.
I just think that the phrase would sound better if it was written as "Hope...
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>reading a translation
Sweetheart, you have to learn French then read the quote to get the author's true intent.
>>8000958
is not like you couldn't enclose the author's intention in other language with a proper translation.
For me this looks like something that was translated from french to other (a third) language and then it was translated to english by someone that wasn't too familiar with the language in the first place.
>>8000958
I find that you have to be fluent in the original language to translate it yourself into Latin before fully appreciating its meaning.
Literature written in prison.
>>7998242
The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius
My prime of youth is but a frost of cares,
My feast of joy is but a dish of paine,
My Crop of corne is but a field of tares,
And al my good is but vaine hope of gaine.
The day is past, and yet I saw no sunne,
And now I live, and now my life is done.
My tale was heard, and yet it was not told,
My fruite is falne, & yet my leaves are greene:
My youth is spent, and yet I am not old,
I saw the world, and yet I was not seene.
My thred is cut, and yet it is not spunne,
And now I live, and now my life is done.
I sought my death, and...
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Le Morte d'Arthur
Mallory had quite an interesting albeit only loosely chronicled life. He probably wrote Arthur in prison for a string of robberies, rapes, break-ins, theft, extortions etc. AFTER he was a member of parliament.
