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What the hell was the point of this book?
Was this just vulgarity for the sake of vulgarity?
>>7832426
>Was this just vulgarity for the sake of vulgarity?
you say that like its a bad thing
but no I think its about alienation from community and how it effects the outcast
it's about a child of God much like yourself perhaps.
Well, God supposedly made us in image and likeness, so maybe the book is on to something.......
My friend gave me all his old Goosebumps books recently. I started reading them, and was overcome with nostalgia. These were a lot better than I remembered them (even with the now obvious shit-tier writing style that I was oblivious to in 4th grade). And I have a new found appreciation for those God-tier covers.
So, given the cool stories, great covers, massive nostalgia rush, and their massive popularity (I think they've sold over 350 million copies worldwide), and given the man child nature of this site, I have to say, there's really no excuse for not having a board dedicated exclusively to Goosebumps.
But that's just me. Would anyone else here be interested in such a board?
The pseudo-patrician neckbeards start tearing you apart in 3, 2, 1...
Sure OP. But most people on this site don't care enough about Goosebumps, so it's not gonna happen. You could start your own chan.
Like I said on the other thread, I would like a RL Stine board, sure, and I could even believe there might be a silent, dormant, unrealized want for the board from the community at large, just waiting to be aroused.
But don't count on Hiroyuki to pick up on it, even if we all demand it. Other than the history board he added, none of the board additions really make much sense, and there are more wanted boards that have not been added.
(Pic related was my favorite cover)
By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept
when we remembered Zion.
2 There on the poplars
we hung our harps,
3 for there our captors asked us for songs,
our tormentors demanded songs of joy;
they said, “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”
4 How can we sing the songs of the Lord
while in a foreign land?
5 If I forget you, Jerusalem,
may my right hand forget its skill.
6 May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth
if I do not remember you,
if I do not consider Jerusalem
my highest joy.
7 Remember, Lord, what the Edomites did
on the day Jerusalem fell.
“Tear it down,” they cried,
“tear it down to its foundations!”
8 Daughter Babylon, doomed to destruction,
happy is the one who repays you
according to what you have done to us.
9 Happy is the one who seizes your infants
and dashes them against the rocks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hwELsSesvE&ebc=ANyPxKqz-SeGURw5-N5vOTNkI4TjSoeVbMbc5EAqvBn-K-ipHHQJVx7fFIuNEUZLj-5YcIKQaUqpUpuIEzqGFIPIieOFVHG0-w
Without getting into the Christianity debate, how does /lit/ rate the bible as literature?
RA RA RASPUTIN
RUSSIA'S GREATEST LOVE MACHINE
bump
no biblelovers around?
> Happy is the one who seizes your infants
and dashes them against the rocks.
obvious Blood Meridian ripoff
thoughts on bunyan's pilgrim's process?
listening to the audiobook right now t b h
>>7832279
are you far enough into it to to answer the question?
>>7832285
no but i love any prose sprinkled with "wheretofores" and "vainglories"
rate my mildly suicidal stream of conscioussness
everyday wake up a bit more tired
everyday wake up feelin heavy entire
body lags and my brain dont react
like im stuck in a pit of mollasses
watch the people walk around the street
theyre all laughin
feels like theyre laughin at me
too funny to feel no pity
instead he just walks everywhere
collecting thoughts while he looks out and stares
dont worry nobody's aware
dont worry nobody cares
thats all ive got for now
it's really bad
sage and hidden
It's literally fucking stupid. Kill yourself.
Also who the fuck says "mollasses" in 2016? You aren't in Beat Happening faggot.
Where do I start with Walt Whitman? I recently purchased Leaves of Grass and was wondering if I just dive in? Or should I jump around, reading some of his more famous poems first?
What are /lit/'s favorite Whitman poems?
Just read leaves of grass. If you like it read some collections
Should one start with the first edition of the book or read the edited death-bed edition?
>>7833342
First edition.
Can someone explain why women can't stop making unfunny jokes about Jonathan Franzen?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuyhANXMj2o
If you're making youtube videos about Jonathan Franzen the likelihood that you are a funny person is about the same as that you are a billionaire.
He's the apotheosis of Clueless White Male. You don't even need to make up stuff to mock him because his books do it for you.
>>7832024
This.
Does /lit/ sometimes get curious about what the world looks like to powerful people, how their culture, social circles etc. are made up?
This anon is politely asking for books (does not have to be literature) on the topic. Yes I could go to /r/books, but instead of some affiliate marketers I wanted to ask you. I am especially not asking for fiction though because the perspective I want to gain should be as close to reality as possible - whether it is the world of high-end lawyers, investment bankers, politicians, criminals or just rich people in general does not matter.
Something in the vein of "The 48 Laws of Power" by Robert Greene would also fit the bill I guess.
The Theory of the Leisure Class
Rich, powerful people are boring and universally too stupid even to realize that they benefit from their wicked cool social networks, and too stupid to cultivate the POWER ELITE culture on anything other than an unconscious level, as evidenced by the fact that they're all turning their kids into spoiled Tumblr-using duds. High end lawyers in particular are all jobbers who think they're part of a cultural elite when that's only barely true if they're from a metropole and then they're still considered nouveau riche.
If you ever want to kill yourself, get in good with someone whose parents are millionaires, then meet that kid's friends and peers. Find out cool things like: The way to raise a good kid who will pass the SATs you've forced him to take 7 times is to let them have a limitless credit card and go on lavish vacations every time they skin their knee! America's aristocracy is universally a bunch of braindead hedonistic hipsters who care about Twitter hashtags! If that experience doesn't quite push you over, go to a charity event or mixer, or get invited to the country club. Bring your chosen suicide method with you for that one. You will need it.
It's completely unconscious. For how well they actually do groom their kids to get through the institutions, for how much money they're willing to dump onto their brats, it's pretty amazing how formulaic it is. They don't sit there and AUGMENT THEIR EMPIRES. All but the top 0.01% are basically nigger rich, bourgeois Gatsby garbage to the core. It was disappointing to find out.
I really, really like Ashenden, and also The Birthday Party, 2 excellent books that can be read many times, but most serious readers haven't even heard of them. Sad. I don't understand how some books get ignored.
Anyone?
Stoner
I wouldn't say that I love them or that they're basically unknown, but I've really enjoyed every Warhammer 40k book I've read.
How can I get a job on a desolate island research base? It would be good for my writing.
>>7831901
uhm... be a scientist?
>>7831929
This.
Learn to suck a mean dick. I'm sure even desolate research bases need a town dick sucker.
>Post sentences. Get/give horribly biased feedback.
"One time I stared at a wall for 43 years twice."
>>7831791
Such a man would likely be dead
"Don't spit the beauty of the world at my face; in the city, even the sky is stolen from us"
>>7831792
I actually like your response more than your sentence.
Why did philosophers in ancient Greece go walk or sit around a gym to do philosophy?
Was it because they were all gay as fuck and wanted an excuse to go see a bunch of /fit/ dudes?
mens sana in corpore sano
It's a convenient meeting spot.
There was little else to do than banter and mire fit dudes at the time because women stayed in the house and they had slaves to work.
That or war/going on the sea.
>>7831758
Cause cities were disgusting and filled with retards so you went to the equivalent of a private club to get some training and thinking and reading done with your bros.
Is Karl May worth reading? I read many books of him when I was a kid.
Also general Karl May thread
>>7831629
Those are some nice books
My dad has the same edition!
Try reading one book, they're good escapism from someone who's never left his village, but nothing spectacular if you're older than 18
>>7831629
>Is Karl Marx worth reading? I read many books of him when I was a kid.
>Also general Karl Marx thread
Jesus Christ, dude...
Man, that was on weak and disappointing book 3.
Still, I don't get the hate
Would recommend/10
>>7831602
nothing happens : the 900 page book
>>7831605
>a book is its plot alone
Ask me how I know you're American
>>7831607
I'm not American though.
But have it your way, let's move aside from the (nonexistent) plot for a moment. Prose? Nothing to write home about. And don't get me started on the characters, Tengo the boring asshole and pederast and Aomame the feminist ninja, give me a break.
To put the icing on the cake, the last 300 pages are the two blandest characters in the history of fiction doing fuck all while waiting for each other in two apartments within walking fucking distance, while Gary Stu Ex Military Badass and Ultra Rich Old Lady solve all their problems for them.
I don't get the hype, it was bland and boring when not outright obnoxious.
Great author or greatest author?
>>7831554
i've only read two of his novels but i think he's pretty great.
I've read a few of his books recently. Like him a lot. Does the impossible of making sci-fi patrician-tier.
does anyone know if his older brother used to beat him up when he was a kid, or is that just a recurring theme in his work?
