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GRIEVANCE GENERAL
>Trying to introduce a friend to a couple new authors.
>Pynchon comes up
>Friend reads first page of GR remarks that it's "hard to read"
>ok, that's fair.
>I suggest a guide to assist him if he's really focused on reading the whole book
>exclaims, "I feel like a truly good author shouldn't need a guide to help the reader understand...
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>>7875693
>I feel like a truly good author shouldn't need a guide to help the reader understand their book
Well he's not wrong
> ex-friend claims i just read the same books everyone else into literature does, the same gaggle of classics
> says i'll never develop a distinct taste and spirit of my own, that i will be like a 'cultured machine'
> he mostly reads weird french comic books and mangas by taiyo matsumoto
> im so furious i almost scream at him
>walk downstairs after reading in my room for 3 hours this morning
>mom says, "have you been looking for a job?"
>I tell her she has some nerve bringing up such a subject- i'm visibly shaking in anger
>"if all you do is read you will never leave the house"
>im becoming more angry and ignore her
>"plus all those books are changing you into a person I don't...
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>>7875679
I have la sobre del viento in my bookcase, unread. Should I give it a try? Is it good?
>>7875707
It's not high literature but it's a page turner and a fun read, I'd recommend.
>>7875679
Invisible Cities. It may not be /lit/-patrician-tier but boy, did my puckered little brain go pfoooshhhhh!, like in that "mind-blown.gif", you know the one.
I am looking for a particular picture of the Discowrld fanart wherein Sam Vimes is holding an axe above a cowering Dwarf.
The dwarf is handing him a toy cow.
A nice little pic that shows the essence of a scene from Thud!, and I'm seeking it.
Can anyone who has it post it up? Also, Pratchett celebration thread if you like.
Whatever, nerd.
What is the best Discworld print for collection purposes? I want to one day own them all but I imagine, the series consisting of 40,000 million books, they're going to look like a fucking mess on my shelf. I just want them to all be the same height at least, preferably with consistent covers too. Also, RIP in RIP, Terry.
>>7876863
I find the black books with the single grey-ish item on the front covers are tasteful and consistently sized, but I don't know if they've done all the books that way.
Otherwise it might just be best to grab the original cover designs. They are usually the same size.
>>7877740
>I don't know if they've done all the books that way
That's the problem, really. I bought the Colour of Magic the day he died, and I picked the best cover I could see, but now I realise that I have no idea if they went through the entire collection or not. Or if they just did a few of them in that style/size.
Call me Ishmael
okay
But your name is Georgia
>>7875568
>georgia fuller
fuller shit aint she lads
recc me a comfy pen, so i can write 12 hour in a row
>>7875501
>writing in pen
Get a lamy and some sailor ink
>>7875501
If you want a ballpoint, anything from Uni-balls alpha gel grip series
Or literally any fountain pen and an ink bottle, they are the comfiest fucking pens. If you are a poorfag Jinhao X750 if not Lamy Safari or whatever your budget can get you.
As a Swede, this one stings a lot, we bent over for the Nazis and then had the galls to tell a blind old man . That he should have stood up and rebelled against the regime ruling the country. fuck the academy for the Nobel prize, this man deserver it more than most and you didn't award him.
>>7875470
William H. Gass
Michel Tournier
(19 December 1924 − 18 January 2016) was a French writer. He won awards such as the Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française in 1967 for Friday, or, The Other Island and the Prix Goncourt for The Erl-King in 1970. His inspirations included traditional German culture, Catholicism and the philosophies of Gaston Bachelard. He resided in Choisel and was a member of the Académie Goncourt. His autobiography has been translated and published as The Wind Spirit (Beacon Press, 1988). He was on occasion in contention for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
>>7875474
there you are, old dog, missed you
>called Divide Comedy
>Nothing "funny" happened in the whole book
Dante, you hack
you don't what comedy means pleb
The Divine Comedy, it was an irony of words.
That's the joke.
>thinking you're somewhat intelligent for being knowledgeable in the language you were brought up with
When you can read the literature of other languages, then I'll be impressed.
>>7875332
>thinks I read to impress him.
Why would you even make this thread? What is wrong with you?
>>7875332
>>7875377
>>>7875332 (OP)
>When you read in foreign language you are fucking TRANSLATE it in your head into language you were brought up with you bloody moron. What does make you think that you are doing it better than professional translator who has been doing it for his whole life
>>7875377
>>7875381
Jesus christ get your shit together. Can't stop laughing.
so what's the deal with Dover Thrift?
Are they worth getting or just objective shit?
The prices somehow seem too good to be true
>>7875092
They're the kind of books that would get passed out to you in class when you were going to read a book together in school.
They're just standard paperbacks.
Their biggest flaw is that they have very minimal critical apparatus - ho-hum introduction and almost no foot/end notes
>>7875119
introductions to classics are kind of like cum tributes.
>not collecting Wordsworth editions like a true patrician
"A nonhot boy stares at you relentlessly and it is, at best, awkward and, at worst, a form of assault.
But a hot boy . . . well."
does really females thinks like that?!
Yes, take a middle aged man's ideas of how a teenage girl thinks at face value. What could go wrong!
Yeah, that line kind of shocked me too. What happened to nerdfighters embracing everyone regardless of appearance?
Yep. My sister said it unironically last week.
Someone jokingly said #deep so I made up the following statement:
>A shallow mind may perceive something to deep due to the decreased maximum depth of said mind.
However, I'm having trouble formulating the inverse:
>Inversely, a deep mind is able to [...]
Help?
>>7874928
kill yourself?
>>7874935
I'm still compelled to stay alive (despite not a high effort case) so I don't think that's going to happen any time soon. Also pic not related.
>>7874928
Seriously, kill yourself you pseudo-intellectual cunt.
