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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 their book"
>don't answer his text
>there is no hope
What has you aggravated today /lit/?
>>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 like"
>cant hold back anger any more
>"fuck off mom, you dont understand how much of a fucking pleb you sound like"
>threatens to kick me out
>scurry over to the fridge, grab 2 of my little sisters lunchables
>mom- "dont eat those they are for your sisters school lunches
>ignore her, rush up to my room, lock the door
>continue reading
>>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'AcadĂ©mie 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 AcadĂ©mie 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.
>lend best bud leatherbound copy of Dante's Inferno
>months pass
>I don't usually ask for books back but this one is special
>My dead dad gave it to me before leaving for Afghanistan
>He would never return
>"So, did you read the book?"
>"Oh sure Anon, I forgot. I'll bring it to you next time we see each other."
>fast forward to next time
>Leather binding has been grossly replaced with hard paper by his vegan girlfriend, the leather stapled to some cow in North Carolina
>EVERY footnote has been cropped with scissors
>Beautiful Doré illustrations have been painted with watercolor
>Dogears
>All the blank pages are missing
>Marbled inlays are now inexplicably pulp paper yellow
>Someone scrawled "Dante Alighieri" with a black pen and wrote "Dorkte Allegory" below
>Friend looks at me, a sincere smile on his face, as I look at the disaster that is my father's last gift
>He doesn't seem to understand what's happening
>Run away
>Years later, I see him begging on the streets and pretend not to see him
am I supposed to care?
cool story bro
>>7874833
>the leather stapled to some cow in North Carolina
What?
>>7874833
Killing him is the only retribution
Why is virginia wolf considered a good writer?
it's on account of her good writing
>>7874797
what makes it good tho?
>>7874800
she pulls off a flowing stream of consciousness aesthetic that dips in and out of impressionistic realities and musings of various levels of consciousness like an opiated faulkner. she's also noted for characters of great psychological depth, and, yes, she's even a woman which hate to say it accounts for part of her legacy
she really is fantastic though
Why do some women actually like Heathcliff? He's a piece of shit, and I'm about a sixth through with the novel.
'Greatest love story of all time?' What the fuck, if I wanted to read about sadomasochism I'd read Venus in Furs.
What did you guys think about this novel?
I thought the main character was a dislikable stuck up bitch, heathcliff an unbearable ugly asshole -even uglier at the end- and the priest guy also a piece of shit for wanting her to marry him. The only bearable people were her childhood friend who sadly passed away, and the two sisters who helped her through her stay in the little cottage with the priest guy who's name i don't recall.
>>7874618
>about a sixth through with the novel
Shut the fuck up and finish the book before you post about it fuck's sake man.
>>7874618
I can't stand this book
I'm entering university next year and hoping to study Classics. If I have a bit of Latin experience (Finished Cambridge Latin book 3), how hard will it be if I take Intro Latin and Intro Ancient Greek in first year? Will I be able to maintain a life or will I have to become a neet in order to do well?
>>7874494
Should be easy. Most classics departments assume no prior knowledge and often have programs that necessitate taking both. You may take fewer classes overall for the same number of course hours since some language courses require 5 hours/week in the introductory stages.
Good on you, anon! I wish I'd stuck with the classics major instead of switching to STEM. I wish you well!
I finished Cambridge 3, too. I found the Greek classes to be pretty easy. If you enjoy the act of learning grammar you'll be fine.
better start learning german now, faggo
