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Seems like I got a, partly, lit-related problem, feel free to harass and insult me if you consider the post inappropriate.
So, I'm struggling with the idea that what I'm occupying myself with (reading, listening to music, watching movies) has become a, albeit temporary - I've dropped out of college twice due to some difficulties maintaining mental stability but haven't given up the will to grant academia another shot but yet - surrogate for an ambitious, self-actualized pursuit of a socially respected career.
And why I may cling to the proposition...
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Rewrite that with a fourth of the words and then I'll consider answering your stupid question.
In the meantime, get over yourself.
>>7995675
You're not smart enough to be a literary scholar. Major in business or something.
/lit/ how the hell do I prevent this from happening other than wearing gloves?
>>7995657
what the hell do you do, put the book in a vice grip?
>>7995661
No, I just hold it in my hands. Sometimes my hands get clammy I suppose. It doesn't happen all the time. For instance I read a whole book in one sitting and it didn't happen, but I just read for like ten minutes and this is what happened.
>>7995657
Put it back on the bookshelf and it will heal itself.
What is the difference between Victorian era horror/science fiction/fantasy and genre fiction?
>>7995612
Mary Shelley wrote one of the greatest books of all time
It really doesn't matter what genre she went into.
One is good and the other is bad.
>>7995898
Explain how genre fiction is inherently wrong?
Does anyone else dislike early Yeats? yeah hes a master of form and syntax, that's undeniable, but his subject matter is horribly cliché. Dude has like six poems about waning love and autumn n shit.
>>7995522
nah, to me hes the perfect bridge between traditional poetry about love/autumn/classical imagery and batshit modernist stuff
Late Yeats is where its at bby
>>7995522
>Dude has like six poems about waning love and autumn n shit.
I agree that early Yeats isn't as good as late Yeats, but God damn I wish this meme would die.
Forgive me, people of 4chan, for I have sinned.
But I ask for your absolution, for sin was motivated by my desire not to criticize without knowledge of the facts, which is the form of ignorance I try to avoid like a conspiracy-theorist shuns scientific evidence.
I read the whole Fifty Shades trilogy. Downloaded from the internet, of course. Sin I'm fine with, but burning the money goes beyond absolution.
To give you an opinion on the books treating them as "erotic novels" would be almost useless, since in that aspect they're nothing special....
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Given these assumptions, it is easy to understand how the novel itself is worth a lot more from the sci-fi point of view rather than the erotic one, because buying Blake Lively is much easier than enduring the sillinesses and the needs of the protagonist.
However, I continued to read: being the sex-addict that I am, the idea of reading an erotic story from the female point of view attracted me a lot. I am a person that elevates to absolute dogma the desires of my partner and does everything to satisfy them, and the concept of "being on the other side", although...
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It is the embodiment of the desire of all those women who share their beds with a just average looking husband which has not the strength or the will to fuck their brains out properly: to find a wonderful man with few flaws, and be able to change them, with the biggest FUCK YOU to rationality, independence and freedom of will, and putting in between a dozen of cervix-shaking orgasms(an unknown thing for many women, unfortunately) and all those sexual experiences that, given the structure of the society (generally repressive towards women looking for a certain type of relationship...
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PS2: Sorry any mistake, English is not my mothertongue
I thought I'd be a /lit/bro and tell you guys that Thriftbooks.com is having a summer sale ending May 9th(?). 20% your order. One of you will probably make use of this.
Are you a '/lit/bro'? or are you a 'GUERILLA INTERNET ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN BY THE MAJOR PUBLISHING FIRMS AND AMAZONbro'
>>7995863
I'm a /lit/bro. I saw the deal when I woke up and thought someone on /lit/ mind find it useful.
Post one of your absolutely favorite books that you think everyone should read.
There are a lot of translations of the Bhagavad Gita out there, but Ranchor Prime's is one of the best and easiest to read.
It is a religious text, but you don't have to believe it to appreciate it. If Hinduism isn't your bag, just see it as an alternate way to view the world.
Whose got finals? who loves em? who hates em?
I'm especially curious as to hearing about projects that people feel passionately about for their finals, or that you've found what you're saying has become important to you otherwise.
People who aren't in school anymore get in here too; miss doing finals? are there any kickass papers you wrote that you remember fondly?
does anyone in academia here do creative work? I tend not to, but this semester I am for the first time and so far it's pretty terrifying.
finally (I think),...
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>>7995411
Praise the Lord by Sergei Rachmaninoff
>>7995411
quite the order but here we go:
>Just finished up finals for all my classes sans a 3 page paper on King Lear that i'm editing with my fiance tonight
I took a course on Early British Literature that really triggered my dick with early Catholic doctrine even more than it had been already. Also introduced me to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight which was a great read.
Next semester is interesting. One course on literacy and education, one on Existentialism (mostly...
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>>7995620
thank you!
I just spilled coffee on my nice new Blake book (from the library) and seeing a proper response was just what I needed.
I used to listen to a lot of Mingus while I did work, but I never got beyond that into jazz. I still have a few tracks of his on my writing inspo playlist on youtube, though, which is otherwise mostly old videogame music, weird japanese avant garde, electronic albums about space, and whatever peculiar black metal I can find.
I miss studying Shakespeare. I was really passionate...
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Name a more comfy narrative
I have had a wierd habit lately of putting this Titanic video on and reading until the ship goes down and I've been finding it pretty comfortable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rs9w5bgtJC8
Who are some of your favourite /lit/ reviewers on Goodreads?
My favourite is https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/4100763-hadrian
Just to check: someone's already written a story about a famous actor/actress who is tasked to save a world because aliens think our action movies are documentaries and can't comprehend the idea of fiction, right?
>>7995333
Galaxy Quest
>>7995336
Thanks!
I was pretty sure it wasn't an original idea.
>>7995339
You shouldn't let that stop you. Maybe you can do a better job. Maybe your version can be more famous.
What translation is recommended for the Iliad and the Odyssey?
>>7995302
Fitzgerald/Chapman
First/second read
pope's
Fagles, Lattimore, Fitzgerald
Sample these and pick the one you like.
Hi! Could you recommend me some good novels where the protagonist(s) is captured by some kind of "savage" tribe? Could be a desert island scenario. Thanks.
>>7995279
Typee
He wasn't captured but he lived among them.
The guy who wrote moby dick wrote another one that sounds like that. the name escapes me right now
How did this motherfucker get so based?
>>7995276
By eating organic, obviously.
>>7995276
what if Jon Scieszka wrote a Winnie the Pooh story?
He's a taoist sage m8 consult the literateur.
Who here has read Ada?
What did you think about the book and what was your favorite thing about it?
Was there any important things that a reader might have missed on their first read through?
There are a million things a reader almost surely missed on their first read-through
It's Lolita except instead of pedophilia it's incest. Also nowhere as good.
>>7995270
>Ada or Ardor
Pick one fucking title you pedo communist
