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Is Allen Ginsberg the best American poet of the late 20th century? Even if some of the politics are dated, and his more sexual poems are cringey, the great body of his work describes the time he was living in. He had a great ability to take a mental picture and put it on paper.
No he was a fat pedo jew gay hack who never produced anything of quality beyond shocking people
Kind of like gg allin but less entertaining
Ginsberg saved American poetry from being uniformly shite.
Now it's just mostly shite.
>>7722751
I hate his politics, I think he was a really creepy faggot and an all around disgusting person. But his was a really great poet.
https://youtu.be/eKBAJYceQ54
>I kinda like that
Can't cuck the Buck
What do you do once you realise who you are?
I just feel really shitty about the people who go through suffering desu.
You embrace it.
Suffering is just a part of life.
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thoughts?
>>7721704
Julien Coupat is son of a high executive at Sanofi-Aventis (big pharm) and an MD.
Doesn't mean he's a bad person.
But he went on, after high school, to study business at ESSEC business school in Paris (a highly competitive equivalent of, say, Harvard MBA)
Then he has babby's 1st existential crisis, and acts like a hardcore anarchist.
Please...
I don't mind him, if we don't take him more seriously than Beigbeder.
I read The Coming Insurrection, interesting, but nothing...
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>>7721818
Theory of Bloom is the english translation for Tiqqun
How old were you when you stopped judging books by their covers?
How old were you when you resumed judging books by their covers?
A book cover is literally completely irrelevant. It's just used for marketing.
Frequently, the same book has multiple covers.
>>7721525
Marketing tells you a lot about the targeted audience, which itself tells you a lot about the book.
Harper Lee and now Umberto Eco? Too much sadness for one day.
>>7719340
damn rip in peace
>>7719340
All in one day the death of an amazing author and Harper Lee.
>>7719340
Bowie, Alan Rickman, Scalia, Abe Vigoda, these two.
Death is having a banner fucking year so far, some of these people have been eluding him for decades. The twentieth century is dying before our very eyes.
Post your favorite babbys first book
bamnp
>>7719302
This book is great
>short
>funny
>still a masterpiece
would love other similar recommendations
and no Cat's Cradle is not as good or better than it
this was my 11th english teachers favorite book of all time
he was 55, not sure if that means hes based or retarded
Appreciation Thread
Le juvenile xd
Who is your favorite Pynchon character and why is it Roger Mexico?
>>7710368
Wallace is a meme author. literally genre tier fiction. no discernible talent.
What translation of "The Tale of Genji," should I read. I have access to both Waley and Tyler.
are people really still reading translations in 2016?
>>7723232
Are you really a faggot?
How was English, or your own languages' literature classes, for you in school?
Mine was terrible. Our teacher was the principal and she was the kind of teacher where her interpretation was correct. She really turned me off literature for a couple of years. Even now I can still hear Ms. Leonard's shrill, shrieking, spinster voice telling me I'm wrong when I have a thought.
>>7723016
bad, we mostly just read shakespeare. it was patronizing
Elementary-middle school, awful. I remember having the same nigger african teacher for 3 years straight and she hated all white people.
High school was pretty great though. First two years had a pretty good female teacher, last two I had a fifty year old englishman that was relaxed and pretty straightforward. His favorite novel of all time was slaughterhouse 5, which is pretty based.
penis
Anyone else enjoy this book? It's been optioned by Scorsese and DiCaprio might play HH Holmes.
>Anyone else enjoy this book?
Yes, Reddit enjoys it quite a bit
Why are Dan Brown's novels so popular?
I mean Angels and Demons is alright, but The DaVinci Code and Inferno are just bad.
>>7722209
Why is any genre fiction popular?
Because it is easily digested and offers an escape from reality.
>>7722209
Things that are popular are bad.
More news at 11 folks
>>7722209
>Inferno
If read as a parody of Angels and Demons and The Da Vinci Code it is comedy gold; all the twists can be seen a mile away, and is even more insane and convoluted than the first two.
Just got the Lovecraft collection in a single volume. Is there a good place to jump in, or should I just start at the beginning and work through? It seems like a lot of the early stuff is general spooky stories from his teen years and not related to the rest of his stuff.
I'd recommend Dagon first. Pretty short, really nice imagery.
Don't just read straight through the whole book, you'll burn yourself out. I have the Barnes and Noble complete fiction and I save it for rainy days or spooky nights, mostly because I don't want to run out of Lovecraft to read
Haha! Looks like we bagged another one boys!!
Lovecraft is a meme
>>7721630
If you don't like giant spoopy monsters you can get the fuck out of my face fool
Thoughts?
>>7719905
it's YA, right?
my mother bought this for my brother; he didn't seem pleased
how are books marketed that a mother buys they for her generally non-reader son?
that's the interesting question
It's YA that tries super hard to not be YA
YA garbage
Easy to read books for non-native english readers. Can you recommend some?
I just finished 1984 and it was pretty easy.
>>7719691
Probably all the classics. To Kill A Mockingbird, Catcher in the Rye, Of Mice and Men.
The Stranger is french but the translation seemed pretty easy to me so that might be good too
>>7719691
what's your native language?
>>7719691
Agatha Christie's whodunits. I would recommend "Ten little niggers" (known today as "And there were") or "The crooked house".
So /lit/ I've had an idea rolling around since I read Uncle Tom's Cabin in one of my university classes.
Uncle Tom's Cabin was EXTREMELY successful. Iirc, the best selling book of the 19th century. Part of this success was due to the relevancy of its content and its unique approach to black characters.
My idea is to do a novel similar to UTC but make it about a family of Mexicans (or maybe Muslims) attempting to cross the border into the United States. It would be very culturally rooted in either Mexican or Muslim culture (though if Mexican, it...
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>>7719247
Good lord, had the cover artist ever even seen a black person in his life?
no because unlike catholic and mohamedan invaders, african-americans did not choose to come to america voluntarily. are you retarded?
>>7719247
It sounds like you just want to rebrand something from he 19th Century.
