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>SJW who tricked so many people is dead
best day of my life
>>7723172
it's all downhill from here OP
I really don't understand her book.
Its whole message is that stereotyping and discrimination is wrong, but then she goes and stereotypes a poor white man as an abusive drunkard.
>>7723172
I've never read her books, what exactly were wrong with them, other than you don't agree?
What are faulkners best works?
Where to start?
Someone should make a guide if there isn't already one
>>7722646
(From what I've read)
Sound and the fury > Collected stories > Absalom, absalom > Aild > Go down, Moses > Light in August
As for a starting point, aild seems best to get one properly acquainted to Faulkner's style.
>>7722646
>>7722646
Start with The Bear, The Old People, and A Rose for Emily. The first two are companion stories (long stories) that are printed together in Go Down Moses, although iirc they were originally published separately. They are incredible.
A Rose for Emily is a great short story that covers a lot of Faulkner's common themes, it's the story most people name as the quintessential southern gothic story, and it contains a lot of Faulkner's modernist stylistic touches without being difficult to penetrate (collective first person plural narrator, long sentences, non-chronological)
If you like those, I would say to next read Light in August. It is a bit longer than his other novels, but a bit more gentle on the reader in terms of vocabulary and fucklong complicated sentences.
After that, read Sound and the Fury. Two recommended ways to read it:
1. Easy mode -- by the Cliff's Notes and read it after part one so you will know what the fuck just happened.
2. Hard mode -- Read the book all the way through. Don't worry that part one makes no sense. After you finish the book, immediately read part one again.
Absalom, Absalom!
I think this is his densest, but it's rewarding and enjoyable if you like this type of book. I just remember there is one chapter that ends with a closing parenthesis, and I was like, wait, where the fuck is the opening parenthesis? Mfw half the fucking chapter is in parentheses. Mfw it actually makes sense though.
>>7722677
Thanks for the info man, I'll probably take your advice and start with AILD.
>>7722772
Thanks for posting, this is very helpful.
I've read the Bear and a Rose for Emily. I thought the Bear was phenomenal. I didn't have trouble with the language in either of those stories, how difficult are the rest of his works by comparison?
Hey /lit/, what are some good underground/underrated authors I should get into?
There are none
An author is either well known and worth reading or unknown and not worth reading. Possible exception is new authors.
Op, dont fall into the trap of reading nobodys book
>>7721745
Lovecraft didn't see fame until he was dead. I'm sure there are plenty of hidden treasures out there.
Shameful self bump. Take Sherman Alexie for example, his shit is top tier but it doesn't get as much attention because no one cares about Indians.
Who is your favourite contemproary thinker?
(Alive, preferably)
Don't even care about the why. Just state your favourite thinker.
pic related
Zizek
>>7720397
You misspelled his name but good shout.
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hello is reading fun
nope! not even a little
I read a book once and it was terrible
Sometimes I can't sleep at night because I am excited about reading the next day.
How do I pick between pic related? I'm moderately fluent in Spanish, and if I get Sabato's book I will read the Spanish and English translation side by side. So no need for ahurr 2016 and reading a translationcomment.
I'm looking for some honest and thoughtful opinions on the literary merits of these two books, how they compare, who an ideal audience is, et cetera.
>>7718687
Just read them both.
>>7718872
I obviously will, but my queue is long and I'm a relatively slow/careful reader, so really my question is which of the above ought to be bumped up further in my queue?
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2001070129/the-new-walden
>A newly edited, hardcover adaptation of Thoreau's masterpiece. Neither abridged nor dumbed down.
walden is a shitty book. it doesn't even deserve this treatment tbqh
>updating and simplifying a book that is already written in modern English
Jesus Christ
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I'm new here, I would like to hear your suggestions on what you would recommend for me.
I've read the catcher in the rye, and the house of tomorrow, those are the only loner-esque books I've read.
It doesn't have to have a loner plot, rather something you think I would enjoy.
>>7725025
Proust
>>7725004
Take any chart and read those books. Kill yourself afterwards.
The Cossacks - Leo Tolstoy
No Longer Human - Osamu Dazai
Why should I even read books if life is meaningless
>inb4 for enjoyment
>inb4 create your own meaning
You shouldn't if you really don't want to. Why is this even a question? Nobody's forcing you.
Because life is meaningless.
So you can shitpost about the books you've read on /lit/
Make it /lit/
Frogs will never be /lit/ since we are all chads here
>You must be this patrician to ride
And from top to bottom there are little pictures of
>James Joyce
>Harold Bloom
>Thomas Pynchon
>David Foster Wallace
>Stephen King
How do we fix English spelling?
Who's 'we'?
>prescriptivism in this thread
>>7724720
OP was elected Chairman of the Council of Correcting English Spelling's Deficiencies of Intuitive Pronunciation by unanimous vote and you've been appointed as his aide-de-camp in this unholy war against life's greatest and most dreadful evil. Saddle up.
I just finished reading The Stranger by Camus and I fell in love the detached way the main character behaved.
I don't know that much about literature, but what are some other novels with that kinda detached depressed/dark feeling ?
Ellis
Sartre's Nausea
Dostoevsky's Notes From the Underground
Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Freddy Nietzsche
My Twisted World by Elliot Rodgers
Well received.
You can leave now.
are you afraid people wont like you if you enjoy it without the /lit/ seal of approval?
's good
Is there an American Old West infograph? If not, what are some quintessential western stories, literature, and reference books to read if I want to about the reality and revel in the myths?
Just grabbed a few of Charles Siringo's books, and I've had Lonesome Dove in my backlog forever.
Run, don't walk, to Portis. Some of the best damn dialogue ever. Leonard's Westerns are all ace and top-notch. And Lonesome Dove is a shaggy dog, but one that quickly makes its home at your footside once you're settled in. You're in for a few good weeks. Gushes aside, good introductions are these:
'All the Pretty Horses,' by Cormac MemeCarthy (asides from 'Blood,' his best prose. Filament that shimmers and weaves)
'3:10 to Yuma and Other Stories,' by Elmore Leonard (these are tight, wirey, and rambling)
'True Grit,' by Charles Portis (neither film does justice does his dialogue [and thats saying something with how good those Cohen brothers are])
'Warlock,' by Oakley Hall (about the OK Corral gunfight, and a Pynchon rec., for whatever that's worth to ya)
'The Last Gunfight,' by Jeff Guinn (perhaps the best non-fiction overview of that same Corral shootout)
Indeed, you'll have trouble finding a good Western novel that hasn't already been adapted to film three or five times. Don't let that cheapen a genre that is at home among words like "cheap," as well as "passionate," "bloody," "mortal," "mythic." If anything, and if ya haven't already, you may just be set for a whole 'nother adventure with Western films (even tv shows. "The Rockford Files" plays like a western serial set and garnished in seventies everything). Enjoy
>>7722892
Very good post. This guy knows his stuff, even though he lays on the stereotypical Western lingo and persona a bit thick.
>>7722919
I'm sorry, don't listen to me. I'm on mescaline. I've been spaced out all day.
