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Who's symposium is better, Plato or Xenophon?
Who's ulysses is better, Homer or Joyce?
Whats better /his/ or /lit/?
Who's letting the illiterates in who don't know whose.
Just finished pic related and have no idea what to read next.
Dubs may decide :3
>>8256270
welcome newfriend
please lurk more before posting
also here is a starter chart
>>8256270
Infinite Jest, be one of the few people who have read the meme.
Don't read anymore. Just drink and party , die destitute and unappreciated.
What do you call a word that's commonly associated only with one specific thing or phrase, but also isn't specific to that one thing?
The word on mind is "uncanny" which people only ever use when talking about the similarity of things, when the word just means "strange or mysterious"?
Pic obviously related.
Cliche. When cliches become longstanding so that the word is typically only used in a narrow way it is called a fossilized word: abated in "bated breath".
acerbic wit
>>8256250
>The word on mind is "uncanny" which people only ever use when talking about the similarity of things, when the word just means "strange or mysterious"?
Uncanny means something which seems both familiar and strange; it's the disturbance caused by something which seems to be imitating the familiar.
>What do you call a word that's commonly associated only with one specific thing or phrase, but also isn't specific to that one thing?
Metonymy
Has anyone here read anything by him? Is it worth reading?
he's my favorite author
>>8256208
how is War and War?
>>8256199
I might pick up one of his books.in original languagebecause I can
Who here /chuck/?
>pop culture musing
>90% of his ideas are actually interesting and entertaining.
>really good prose as well.
>goat books:
Killing yourself to Live
I wear the Black Hat
Downtown Owl
>alright
Sex drugs and Coco Puffs
Eating the Dinosaur
>meh
IV
>>8256192
t. rex are terrible
this guy is probably a hack
Insufferable cunt you pretend to like to get hipster chick pussy.
>>8256279
Can't comment on the author but T. Rex are dope and The Slider is a sweet album. Do you hate glam in general?
What dose Harold Bloom think of John Green?
>>8256128
he doesn't
>>8256128
Last night he dreamt of John Green tenderly fondling him while dressed as an anthropomorphic fox.
T. his psychiatrist
>>8256128
"Slide it." - Harold Bloom, on John Green threads
>In The Western Canon (1994), Harold Bloom criticized Thus Spoke Zarathustra, calling the book "a gorgeous disaster" and "unreadable".
When did you guys realize that Bloom couldn't read for shit?
>>8255988
I don't pay attention to any literary critics.
don't even try kid
if Bloom says something about reading then he's right, maybe not about texts, but reading itself he knows more about than anyone else
>>8255997
What's his best work on reading?
I'd like to have magical aesthetic experiences when I read
Is this book worth reading?
>>8255923
Give it a try. It's incredibly disjointed and I didn't like it, but people seem to rave about it so perhaps I'm the pleb here.
>>8255923
Fuck no. It's nothing but Burroughs' drug-trip word vomit. There's really no literary merit to it and seems geared to just shock the public with how gross it could be. Burroughs was ashamed of this piece and Kerouac and Ginsberg are shitheads for convincing him to publish it.
good god no. one of the worst books I've ever read twice
"The fucking fascists who call the shots haven't stopped needing races to hate each other, it's how they keep wages down, and rents high, and all the power over on the East Side, and everyrthing ugly and brain-dead just the way they like it."
>>8255912
I suppose that they're trying to get at rich people benefit from racism because it keeps the ignorant from looking at them and the marginalized stuck fighting millennia-old struggles when they could otherwise be ascending to better lives and threatening their dosh?
>>8255927
That's it?
>>8255929
Makes sense to me; I mean, the only people who benefit from low social mobility are those who are already wealthy and powerful.
I feel like today's Zeitgeist is truly one of ideological warfare; the rich and influential goad the poor and disempowered to take up tained ideals, then set them upon one another to keep them down.
Truly the only solution is to purge the political class, totally.
ITT: Books you love that everyone else you know hates.
>>8255897
This. I never got why it's so hated. It's pretty much the best book ever in my opinion. It's so fuggin' comfy and poignant.
>>8255913
you're retarded
In fairness, it's not that everyone I know hates it, it's just that I have never met anyone that has read it, but I love it to pieces. I don't think it'd go down too well on /lit/ though.
Holy shit the first Kim Clark chapter is so fucking bad and it's like 30 pages. Up until this point every chapter was very good... This chapter is unbelievably shitty.
Oh shit waddup
>>8255950
WHO'S BANE AND WHY DOES HE WEAR A MASK?
I thought a few lit people had read this?
In 1982, when I first read Marguerite Yourcenar's "The Memoirs of Hadrian," I asked Arnaldo Momigliano, the great scholar of the ancient world, what he thought of the novel. Italian to the highest power, he put all five fingers of his right hand to his mouth, kissed them, and announced, "Pure masterpiece." Now, nearly 30 years later, I have reread the work and find it even better than before. A book that improves on rereading, that seems even grander the older one gets—surely, this is yet another sign of a masterpiece.
(…)
Part of the mastery of "Memoirs of Hadrian" is in its reminder that the emperor, like the rest of us, remains imprisoned in a perishable human body. Hadrian's letter to young Marcus is being written at the end of his life, and so with a sure grasp of the inexorability of "Time, the Devourer."
(…)
Like most of our lives, Hadrian's—and so Mme. Yourcenar's novel—is plotless. What keeps the reader thoroughly engaged is not drama but the high quality of Hadrian's thought and powers of observation. Hadrian, through the sheer force of his mind, comes alive. That this most virile of characters has been written by a woman might be worth remarking were it not the case that the greatest novelists have always been androgynous in their powers of creation. With the dab hand of literary genius, Mme. Yourcenar has taken one of the great figures of history and turned him into one of the most memorable characters in literature in a masterpiece too little known.
Quotes of Joseph Epstein
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704116004575522281643976468
>>8255884
>Imagine Machiavelli's "The Prince" written not by an Italian theorist but by a true prince. Imagine, further, that he also let you in on his desires, his fears, his aesthetic, his sensuality, his feelings about death—in a manner at once haute and intimate, and in a prose any emperor would be pleased to possess.
Looks very good
>>8255884
This book is great; it has a marmoreal prose style.
I really don’t know why it is not talked about more often here on /lit//
>>8256180
Female author that is not physically attractive or deeply enmeshed in scandal. See also, Elaine Pagels, Svetlana Alexievich, Alice Munro, Joyce Carol Oates,Toni Morrison
That literary figure who stole your heart
Who is it and why did you fall for them?
Biddy.
I have a thing for intelligent, sisterly-type girls.
every dickens' novel got a female character that makes me feel some type of way
the merchant from merchant in venice
whats the "dadrock" of literature?
/mu/ posters should be banned
/sffg/
ITT: Books women can't understand
>>8255836
all the classics
>homers D&D campaign
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