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What are the comfiest books you've ever read?
>>7747993
Picaresques. So fucking comfy.
Anything by Faulkner.
Any Greek or Roman epic.
Also Beowulf, reading about the cold and cruel world in a heated home with a warm cup of coffee is very comfy.
Why do people insist on claiming the inferiority of genre fiction? When did escapism stop being a valid part of art? Why does everything to be considered good have to have some sort of supposed "message" that at the end of the day almost always seems to have been gotten wrong by those claiming to see it? Nine times out of ten isn't it just death of the author by people with egos who want to treat art as though it's objective in how it should be interpreted? If I gave Percy Jackson to a bunch of stuffy old fucks in a lounge and told them it was high art could you promise me that they wouldn't come back with pages of notes on the brilliant allegory at work?
TL;DR: is your art really better than mine or are you just better at pretending it is?
it's better dude lol
hahahahahahaha
Please stop until you get better at your shitposting. This is amateur stuff.
Why is Lolita romanticized/popular by teenage girls/young adult women?
Sources: Tumblr, Lana del Rey lyrics
Women are deranged.
>>7751736
Cause they wanna get fucked
>>7751739
Well the author is male, let's not forget.
I am, 33,000 words in so far.
>>7750747
What's it about?
>>7750751
It's about 33,000 words.
>>7750751
It's a historical novel set in Dark Ages Britain about the Saxon invasion.
i'll make this a general for others who are curious on what translation of a certain book is best
I'm wondering myself which translation of plato's republic would be best to read?
Bloom's
>>7753485
i'll get this out of the way.
>translations
You don't need a translation
You should perform a seance and talk to Plato himself and ask him what did he mean by writing the Republic
So, my copy just arrived from Amazon. Did I get memed or is this legit a good book?
Also, /gassposting/ general thread, I guess.
>>7741883
Read it and tell us. You'll be the second person here to read it.
>>7741883
memed. to death.
>>7741883
It's the most beautiful, most complex, most disturbing novel to be published in my lifetime.
What exactly is it that makes a book good or shit? If you were trying to be as objective and scientific as possible, what specific factors would you say have to be present in order for the book to be considered worthy of critical acclaim?
>>7753395
being written by Gene Wolfe makes a book good.
>>7753405
Those autists wouldn't know a good book if it slapped them in the face.
How difficult is it To get into an MFA all expenses paid scholarship scheme creative writing if I'm an international student with an undergraduate degree that isn't English?
Ideally an Ivy League
Thanks
This has to be bait right?
Like, someone in the position to ask this question would have google research skills to find better information that 3 shitty vauge posts on /lit/, right?
>>7756134
no way thats real
who is the goose with the spruce caboose?
Hey /lit/. I have to write an in Class Thesis Paper on the differences in the Mental State of the Characters Plato and Jim Stark in Rebel without a Cause and Holden Caulfield from Catcher in the rye. I'll be re-watching the movie but could use any similarities, differences, between the three of them and good examples of how they showed it.Anything you can remember really.
What's Rebel Without a Cause?
>>7755863
An Old Movie made in the 1950's about living as a troubled teenager. The main character had some problems in his life cause he thought he grew up without a father figure but thats only because his dad did the cooking and cleaning. Personally I don't see much of a comparison between Rebel without a Cause and Catcher in the Rye but it's one of least censored and only films made about teenagers back then but I did like how the bad guy in the movie was more than just a Greaser asshole and was given a bit more character which is a bit like Catcher in the Rye, I guess.
Hey /lit/, first time poster and I need help. Just how the hell do I enjoy Hemingway? Am I just missing something? I think that he paints a very descriptive picture but I just don't feel gripped and I'm losing all hope (I'm halfway through The Sun Also Rises).
Read his short stories.
The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
A Clean Well-Lighted Place
The Killers
>>7755724
How do they differ?
>>7755708
The Sun Also Rises is just young people drinking too much - the book
some witty lines here and there
some nice descriptions
the fishing trip part was a fun read and a nice break from the Paris drinks dinner then more drinks routine
a lot of beta orbiter cuck feels
Bret's a drunk slut basically
How old were you when you realized reality is just something your mind built out of your early recurrent experiences?
How old were you when I pulled out of your mom's ass, and a bunch of brown fluid came out and stained her mattress, and she still sleeps on the stain today but tells your dad it's a period blood stain?
>>7754966
lulzzz
>>7754952
Sounds quite plausible really. I have very frequent deja vu with perfect clarity and detail. Who said this?
https://artandobjecthood.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/cixous_the_laugh_of_the_medusa.pdf
>20 pages
Not interested
>>7753630
Relax, anon. I'll read it.
Girls should be allowed to go around topless. In fact, they should be required to.
So I'm trying to read Lévi-Strauss, I've decided to start with Tristes Tropiques. Is it worth it?
I'm more interested in the anthropological theory than ethnographical elements.
Why the fuck would you read Tristes tropiques if youre interested in theory, check out his "pensée sauvage" or something similar instead
Structuralism was superseded by post-structuralism and postmodern deconstructionism. Strauss’ theories are interesting, but no longer accepted by most academic establishments.
This is a much better read.
What books filled you with energy, with the desire to get up and start a riot?
Nobody?
Star Bellied Sneeches.
>>7750557
What a gaylord
>You ain’t nothin.
>You speak truer than you know.
What did he mean by this?
>spits and eats beans
truly the greatest author of our time
>>7749227
>they rode on
goddamn poetic
>>7749224
Why are they the state roads?
Because they used to belong to the states. What used to be called the states.
But there’s not any more states?
No.
What happened to them?
I dont know exactly. That’s a good question.
But the roads are still there.
Yes. For a while.
How long a while?
I dont know. Maybe quite a while. There’s nothing to uproot them so they should be okay for a while.
But there wont be any cars or trucks on them.
No.
Okay.
Are you ready?
The boy nodded. He wiped his nose on his sleeve and shouldered up his small pack and the man folded away the map sections and rose and the boy followed him out through the gray palings of the trees to the road.
