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Can anyone recommended me a paperback edition of Moby Dick that has good footnotes and a cover that's not fuckin' ugly?
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>>8266517
The one I have is the library of literature (Bobbs-Merrill company). It has excellent footnotes and the cover is just Orange with black and white writing.
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>>8266533
What do the footnotes talk about?
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>needs help finding a book cover

It's getting worse.

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The last book I really enjoyed reading

Let's talk about Wuthering Heighs /lit/
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>>8266424
It's a nice book.
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>>8266440
>Prefer the song desu
song really hits you after you read the book tho

"Heathcliff, it's me, Cathy
Come home, I'm so cold!
Let me in-a-your window"
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Katy is such a fucking bitch tho.

I want my perfect blonde family but still my some gypsie cock on the size. The shit she does to her husband is fucking unreal. savage even

I do enjoy the ghost stuff too, I think Em had a special sense and it shows in the way she writes about that stuff, like a natural intuition about it, like probably helps she was such a fucking autist aswell

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worth reading y/n
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y
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Oxford Guide to Writing is also a good one if you're willing to treat it like a workbook and go through the exercises step by step.
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Read King's On Writing. If you use adverbs, ever, you are a literal idiot, and your writing sucks.

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Does anyone have a .pdf of this they can share? I can't find one anywhere online. I have the Joyce one if you want something in return, or a shitload of philosophy stuff.
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Have the physical copy but no pdf unfortunately. Will help you look after dinner.
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>>8266428
you have stickies in there just so you can flip to the right parts faster?
why do this?
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>>8266428
is it good?

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Fil de critique de textes en français.
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>>8265745
Visca Valençia gabachos de merda
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mais une fois le but atteint, notre monde à changé. radicalement. tout ce qui allait de soi, il fallait maintenant le maintenir avec un effort qui nous consumait, qui nous laissait épuisés et donc incapables de faire tout ce nous faisions si aisément auparavant... ou si l'on se donnait la force de le forcer, le résultat n’était guère proche de ce qui nous avait toujours fait remarquer, et le coût pour notre personne ne nous permettait de le faire souvent. du coup, on s'est demandé si l'on était prêts à nous en consacrer d'une manière si intense, tout en sachant que l'on ne ferait qu'atteindre la moyenne... et c'est là, en posant cette question, que l'on s'est rendu compte de tout ce que l'on avait toujours pris pour évident. le regard que l'on avait sur le monde et sur nous mêmes à été ébranlé et notre direction a changé... des nouvelles voies se sont ouvertes, mais les anciennes se sont fermées à leur tour.

cela m'est sorti de la tête comme ça :3
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je veux du l j'veux du v j'veux du g

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Who is America's greatest living author?
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>>8265507
>Gass
>living
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>>8265507
You posted him anon. This should be a gass thread now.
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>>8265507
Harlan Ellison.

What are the best Shakespeare works to read?

I really enjoyed Macbeth.
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>>8265454
all are good

my personal favorites are Dido, Doctor Faustus, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet and Othello
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>>8265461
The Tempest, not Othello, sry

fuck Othello
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>>8265461
Two of these are not liek the others

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anyone else like the thought/appearance of reading more than reading itself?
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Yes
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I only read in public when I'm sitting in the hallway waiting for class to start and I'm so easily embarassed by everything I read such that the cover is not visible. Incidentally, reading with the book in my lap where the cover cannot be seen is the comfiest way for me to read, but still.
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>>8265164
what do you think hes thinking ??

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What should I read first?
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Stop this meme
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K Y S
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I don't get it

hey lit im fresh out of high school, 18 and have been getting back into reading. i stopped at age 9 where i mostly read harry potter, then picked it back up at 16 with dostoevsky, gogol, pushkin. i didnt have a "YA bridge", hope that doesnt matter. anyway, are there any other related authors worth reading? pref. slavic. my other favorites right now are kafka and woolf
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>>8265048
finnegans wake
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>>8265052
would appreciate serious responses, thanks.
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>>8265048
Read the sticky

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Discussion relating to J.R.R Tolkien and his books. Am I the only one who found the Lord of the Rings to be incredibly boring?
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>>8265014
Nah, you're not the only one.

Not me though, you fucking faggot with a shit taste.
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>there will never be a fantasy series like LoTR again

I especially hate writers bringing up real life medieval Europe as their basis for their shithole of a medieval world. There are only a few who really feels like a fantasy world, like Earthsea for example. And God help if they go into medieval politics.
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I wanted to rip my hair out while reading the books. I like the story and everything but there was just too much detail. It was boring af

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>when you were a 'writer' in ninth grade and thought it would be deep to include song lyrics from cheesy 80's songs in everything you wrote
Lit cringe thread
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>>8264981
it wouldn't be deep. Funny maybe. "quirky" is a good word too. wry?

ill fuck off now
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>>8264981
the beginning of this year when i read infinite jest
i remember sitting in queen elizabeth park and reading it alone on a hill while a bunch of asian families played around me
that was a p cringey part of my life and it was this year

:P
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I was that guy who acted like a complete pseud in English/writing classes

I'm surprised nobody ever called me out

why do non-slavs bother reading this book?

worse yet why do non-slavs pretend to understand it?
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I bought the penguin edition because Amazon reviews said P and V suck. Did I fuck up?
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>>8264992
>reading anything other than the original

again, why?
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>>8264998
because I can't read Russian

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what does lit think of emil cioran
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completely irrelevant and unoriginal.
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My favourite writer.
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>>8266377

I agree.

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What's /lit/'s impression of Herman Melville and his oh-so-famous book?
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One of the unquestionable GOATs
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>>8264797
What are other unquestionable GOATS in /lit/?

Illiad?
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>>8264874
Divine Comedy
Michael Kohlhaas
Ulysses
Flowers of Evil

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