Give me your top 5 favorite writers and your 5 favorite works of literature so I can judge your taste
>>23549757You posted a pic of a sniveling jew who wrote one of the worst pieces of fiction ever. Post your top 5 first desu
>>23549763Bloom disrespecters should get perma bans
CarverLishSaundersJoyce Carol OatesBen LernerGarielle LutzEmma ClinePhilip RothGabriel SmithHonor Levy
>>23549757WagnerWagnerWagnerWagnerWagnerLohengrinDer Ring des NibelungenTristan und IsoldeDie Meistersinger von NurnbergParsifal
>>23549757>Writers:Charles DickensH.P. LovecraftCormac McCarthyHans Christian AndersonMervyn Peake.>Works:Moby DickThe The OdysseyTale of Two CitiesBlood Meridian Gormanghast Trilogy. Judge me.
>>23550049Happa?
>>23549767A segment of /lit/ is too dumb to recognize a good ally when they had one. Bloom spoke out against multiculturalism, feminism, and supported the cannon, taking heat in the process. Since he was Jewish he has armor of sorts. But retards just want to screech about muh early life section and don’t actually care for defenders of their interests
>>23549757MelvilleJoyceChestertonNabokovDumas All are fun to readMoby-DickThe Wind in the WillowsThe Napoleon of Notting HillThe Man Who Was ThursdayThe Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (I love this book and I like Dubliners a lot but I’m not smart enough to fully appreciate Ulysses, I liked reading it and there were parts I did appreciate like the Shakespeare chapter but it was very difficult to understand for me, I think that it could end up supplanting Moby-Dick as my favourite when I’m older after a reread with more of a guide)>>23549763FPWP>>23550032>t. Adolf >>23550049Seems good, having Dickens as a favourite is pretty based
The Bible Above all.Below that, Dunsany BlakeFulke GrevilleThomas d'UrfeySamuel wesley If I cannot simply say their complete works each, I will instead do this Certain Learned and Elegant Workes of the Right Honourable Fulke (Especially alaham)Jerusalem (or if a short work is wanted, the chimney sweeper.)Dunsany’s complete works (I refuse to choose, but if this isn’t allowable stanton coblentz’s time’s travelers.) While it’s obvious, the Divine comedy is still a favorite, and my fifth if I can’t pick all of d’urfey or wesley, I will pick Robert herrick’s Hesperides.
>>23550101damn haven't seen you in a while browelcome back
Frater is elephantanon
Stephen King Brandon Sanderson Steven EriksonGeorge R. R MartinHaruki MurakamiBooks:It by King Words of Radiance by BrandonThe Crippled God by EriksonA Storm of Swords by GRRMThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
>>23550101>Tripfag>Redditspacing >Desperately trying to appear interested, end up looking like an attention whore.
>>23550100Good Chesterton picks. I also really like The Ball and The Cross.
>>23550101Dunsany's best standalone work is easily The Charwoman's Shadow.
>>23549757Writers:NabokovKafkaGoetheGene WolfeHG WellsWorks:The Faerie QueeneThe Divine ComedyEugene OneginValis Madame Bovary
>>23550105Thanks man, been very busy with irl stuff.>>23550149Have you read his poetry? “The Year” is a really good work. But in terms of prose whenever I read him I’m forced to read a lot of it, I read him from the delphi ebook usually so it’s easy to just consider big chunks of him one work.
>>23550159>The Faerie QueeneDangerously based.
>>23550167>Have you read his poetryNo I haven't. I've read the first 4 short story collections, The King of Elflands Daughter, and The Charwomans Shadow. Love them all. I agree on reading him aloud. Love this excerpt from TKoED:>And winter came, and whitened the roofs of Erl, and all the forest and uplands. And when Orion took his hounds afield in the morning the world lay like a book that was newly written by Life; for all the story of the night before lay in long lines in the snow. Here the fox had gone and there the badger, and here the red deer had gone out of the wood; the tracks led over the downs and disappeared from sight, as the deeds of statesmen, soldiers, courtiers and politicians appear and disappear on the pages of history. Even the birds had their record on those white downs, where the eye could follow each step of their treble claws, till suddenly on each side of the track would appear three little scars where the tips of their longest feathers had flicked the snow, and there the track faded utterly. They were like some popular cry, some vehement fancy, that comes down on a page of history for a day, and passes, leaving no other record at all except those lines on one page.
WRITERS:Angie ThomasAlice ChildressAdiba Jaigirdar Angeline Boulley Ann BrasharesWORKS:Zweites BuchVoice of Our AncestorsThe Goebbels Diaries The Eichmann Tapes: My Role in the Final SolutionMiss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior
>>23550095When Bloom died all of /lit/ was mourning. I don't know where all these new users came from.
>>23549757Fyodor Dostoevsky KafkaGoetheLeo TolstoyHonore de BalzacThe Brothers KaramazovThe IdiotMoby DickFaustBlood Meridian
Tough to narrow it down to so few keeping in mind old favorites and newer ones. Some groupings I associate and can’t separate so I’ll list themWith no crossover between favorite writers and favorite books->writersHenry MillerDH Lawrence Franz KafkaWhitman/Emerson/Thoreau Sophocles>booksLetters of Van Gogh Memoirs- Cellini, Casanova Chinese- I Ching, Tao Te Ching, Chuang Tzu, Classical Chinese poetry (Rexroth translated specifically)The Snow Leopard by Matthiessen Conversations with Goethe by Eckermann I’m reading Life and Fate, and Flaubert’s letters now, think they’ll turn out to be a couple of the best books I’ve read this year as well
>>23550193>inb4 the ghastly crime and punishment and brothers karamazov ringamarole copypastaWho wrote that and why, its such a misrepresentation of his work I cant see it being done by anyone who's not spiteful towards Fyodor's work
>>23550196Kill yourself, you limp-wristed homo
>>23550193Your taste in books is pathetic and uninspired.
>>23550129>hey pal, you just blow in from reddit-town?
>>23550196Your taste in books is pathetic and uninspired>I’m reading Life and Fate, and Flaubert’s letters now, think they’ll turn out to be a couple of the best books I’ve read this year as wellDon’t think anyone asked. Fucking womanly behavior.
>>23550175Have you checked this out yet? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soPNwgWkBOIhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King_of_Elfland's_Daughter_(album)A favorite https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fu2hYcrLA-Q&pp=ygURQWx2ZXJpYydzIGpvdXJuZXk%3D
>>23550168I gotta say I was surprised how good and readable it actually was.
>>23550118Is that the guy who insisted that he’d only convert to a religion which would accept elephants into heaven, was advised that Catholicism suggests that animals will be there even if they don’t experience it as fully as humans and so decided for Catholicism?That guy was based, it would be a shame if he has become a tripfag
>>23550202I have a niche taste for horror, detective novels, light novels and sci fi but I cant think of a single one of them that can even come close to elevating itself to something like Faust
>>23550219No, just the jewish gyp from brooklyn who spams his faggy collector’s threads and posts his bug wife
>>23550129Most likely the most successful and intelligent anon ITT, as well as the most humble.
>>23550235Id agree if Murakami wasnt there, definitly humble but for fucks sake I cant stand that guy's work
>>23550190Yes you do.
>>23549757TolkienPlatoHugoFrank HerbertDumas The SilmarillionRepublicLes MiserablesChildren of DuneCount of Monte Cristo
>>23550248Are you a teenager or just an idiot?
>>23550118>>23550231Nope not me, I’ve never posted anything physical or from my camera, I’ve never posted myself, etc. I’m also not a Jew.
>>23550245plague of frogs.Bloom’s the man.
Bloom was a mediocre critic. Anxiety was pure dribble. The only redeeming quality about Bloom was that he was a catty, cantankerous jew who pissed off similarly situated mediocre critics who thought writers like Franzen, Smith, and DFW had talent
>>23550235Being willing to admit that one has awful taste is noble in a way but it doesn’t change the fact that he needs to read some better books by better writers, Martin and King are trash writers and you shouldn’t be reading them if you’re older than 16.>>23550248This anon’s genre fiction choices are more respectable but his inclusion of Plato amongst them makes me think he’s probably underage as well. And also needs to read more to escape from the prison of the pretentious teen
>>23550264You’re a pseud.
>>23550273Definitely underage.
>>23550262Bloom is a perfectly acceptable entry level critic
>>23550279Cope for middling dimwits with middlebrow taste. Stay mediocre, m8.
>>23550251I mostly read shitty LNs these days, and I can't call them high art. Plato is just comfy reading, not particularly deep.>>23550264>And also needs to read more to escape from the prison of the pretentious teenI'm planning to do that more, but I have to finish moving to my new place before that. Hoping the used bookstores will have some good selections.
>>23550264You have already been extremely humiliated in this other thread >>23543333
>>23550288> I'm planning to do that more, but I have to finish moving to my new place before that. Good for you, we only gatekeep because we want people to be better and experience better things.>Hoping the used bookstores will have some good selections.You’re looking in the right places at least, used bookstores or second hand online is usually the right way to go>>23550273>>23550285This reaction proves that you need to go back, those writers are the definition of middlebrow, it’s the kind of shit read by the flood non-genius STEM nerds who never invent anything new. Imagine listing Brandon Sanderson as one of your favourite authors and having such a lack of self awareness that you claim others are middlebrow and mediocre. I hope that you are underage because if not you have a serious problem because these are the kinds of books I read as a 14 year old, because only undeveloped adolescent brains can enjoy this kind of shit
>>23550291That’s not me and you don’t belong on this board. Stick to the genre containment thread. People are trying to gatekeep you because these are shit authors for tasteless immature nerds
I only read obscure stuff. Most stuff you anons would never have even heard of so no point in listing mine. Stuff like John Hawkes, Hiromi Kawakami, This Side of Paradise…
>>23550325Embarrassing projection, most trannies love genre-fiction and can easily be described by> non-genius STEM nerdsWomen, transsexuals and soiboys read that kind of genre shit.
So what’s this lovers’ quarrel about again? Oh yeah, jew, kike, midwit, pseud, troon. Might as well get it all out of the way and make it feel like /lit/ again
>>23550291The only people in that thread humiliated are the people defending Stephen King on a literature board. >>23549767On the bright side, and influx of King dickriders at least shows us why Bloom is being unfairly lambasted. They aren’t actually antisemites (which would be based), they’re just salty that he called out the trash they read as trash
>>23550369>unfairly lambasted This was so unnatural you certainly went you yout macbook’s thesaurus, you retarded troon.
>>23550376>thinks that lambasted is a word that would require a thesaurus>wants to defend genretrash>calls others trans while defending the books and authors that trannies actually readPure pottery, it’s nice to have confirmed that genre-fans genuinely are retarded, reminds me of why you deserve the verbal abuse.
>>23550201>>23550202>>23550206>>23550208>>23550231>>23550235>>23550251>>23550264>>23550273>>23550279>>23550285>>23550291>>23550323>>23550325>>23550333>>23550350>>23550369>>23550376>>23550389
>>23550389Many such cases. I don't even know why they come here
>>23550408Vaguely conservative redditors come to this site constantly. The issue is that they have absolutely no connection to culture outside of 20th century pop culture so they’re aghast when they learn that people think the artless escapism they consume is bad. This makes them cope and seethe uncontrollably because, despite wanting to be conservative, they don’t even know what’s worth conserving on a cultural level.
>>23550141Cool I’ll check that one out, I’ve not read it yet.>>23550159>>23550168>>23550216Got this on a whim, hearing this makes me really look forward to it
>>23550428>they have absolutely no connection to culture outside of 20th century pop culture so they’re aghast when they learn that people think the artless escapism they consume is badIt depends on that you mean by "bad". I've found trashy fiction great because it provides various windows into social moods and desires if you consume it critically and it provides plain fun if you turn your brain off. I remember it actually encouraged me to write, too, because I thought "I could do better than that."Naturally, it's not as deep or significant as books in the old canon. But many of those are merely the books that survived the test of time. Classics like Les Miserables and A Tale of Two Cities were serial publications, as vulgar and lowbrow as a web novel online.What matters more than the quality of the books read is the variety of them and the willingness of the reader to think.
>>23550264>>23550279>>23550323>>23550333>>23550350>>23550369>>23550389>>23550428God, this is embarrassing.
>>23550101>The bible above all elseHoly cringe.
>>23550459>Classics like Les Miserables and A Tale of Two Cities were serial publications, as vulgar and lowbrow as a web novel online.I don't know what reddit comment induced you to think this but you're embarassing yourself
>>23550459Sure, that’s a fair perspective, but the kind of person whose favourite books are written by King and Martin, and vehemently defends them by imagining the people who turn their noses up at him as transsexuals, are not keeping an open and varied perspective on their literary horizon.Serial publication formats or popularity alone don’t make an author mediocre or bad, but bad writing does. This anon chose this image>>23550264 for a reason.>>23550190Given the people in this thread defending Stephen King, GRRM, and Sanderson, I think you should know exactly where they come from.
Damn /lit/ just plain sucks now. There are like 10 anons who read books that aren’t exclusively on the end of year chart. It seems most don’t read. More just spew grade school level venom
>>23550514Then maybe you should leave.Ironically, it’s people who don’t read much that don’t understand why there is so much commonality in favourite books.
>>23550498>/lit/ pseud coping that his favorite classics aren't as highbrow as he thought they werelol. Dickens, Dumas, and Hugo are by no means bad (in fact, I think their works quite excellent), but their works were clearly shaped by the serial medium. Dickens often wrote purple prose to bloat his word count, Dumas filled the middle of Count with filler to continue the series, and Hugo often wrote editorials that had no relevance to the story until a footnote at the end.These were common stories for the common person, designed to excite and stir the imagination.
>>23550584NTA and you’re right, Shakespeare was another great example of a writer who wrote for the time’s popular format, but I think this rather makes our current crop of popular fiction look even worse.Something having a wide appeal doesn’t necessarily make it bad when the people whom it’s appealing to have read more.I think it’s also worth noting that some books were serialised just because that can be a convenient way to generate interest, Ulysses was initially serialised and that is not a book for the average reader at any time, this is a book that required analysis before people were certain that it was obscene enough to be banned
>>23550095Way to praise him on the least important and /lit/-related things you could have chosen, you braindead /pol/castoff.
>>235497571. Nietzsche2. Nietzsche3. Nietzsche4. Nietzsche5. Nietzsche
>>23550101>Frater posting outside of /pg/ with his trip onR A R E
>>23550132>t. he doesn't knowKek>>23550480>the profane literally cringe at the holy and call it a "holy cringe."HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
>>23550032>>23550049>>23550129Chad.
>>23550255>Frater is anti-SemiteI knew there had to be something wrong with you.
>>23550674>>23550677>is now part of cuckchan "culture" to be a simp for tripfagsthank God the other /lit/ still exist on the webring.
>>23550255No your just a disgusting pedophille.
>>23550231>bug wifeWho?
>>23550667You have to be 18 to post here, dont worry we have all been there
>>23550264>>23550279>>23550323>>23550333>>23550350>>23550369>>23550389>>23550428>conservative redditors come to this site constantly>seethe at STEM for whatever reason>deeply insecure and desperate for validationAt first I thought you were just shitposting, but it's obvious that you have genuine problems, almost a sperg, are you by any chance a NEET who spends half your day listening to breadtubers ?
>>23550687My opinion of the Jew is one half philosemitic one half they are the synagogue of satan. >>23550708This elephantanon seems to post the collecting/irl book threads or posts in them a lot, if I see one I’ll ask him about dunsany.
>>23550674>OMFG IS THAT A FUCK TRIPFAG HOLY SHIT WE ARE SO LUCKY TO WITNESS THIS MY P P IS SO HARD
>>23550687There's nothing wrong with that.
Bloom is so pathetic. Read better critics.Anyway, top 5 Authors>Pynchon>DFW>Gaddis>DeLilo>BorgesWorks:>Gravity’s Rainbow>The Crying of Lot 49>Infinite Jest>The Recognitions>JR
>>23550689>>23550742One individual does not a culture make, troglodyte. Frater is a very skilled poet in the making. Certainly one of the most skilled to grace this board. You can mock as you please, but I don't care. You're a nothing to me. >>23550735Ah, well, that's reasonable enough. Frater, I still recall from memory most of your poem which ends, "He that sees the King is Jesus damns damnation." Such a wonderful work. I don't often grace /pg/, but if I did, I'm sure I'd recall even more. "To the pipsqueak, pixie's pretty play," lol. Such a delight. >>23550746Obviously, I think there is. I don't care whether you don't.
>>23550785>read better authors>whole list is 4chan memes
>>23550838Put your trip back, zoomer faggot.
Jorge Luis BorgesHerman MelvilleGene WolfeJRR TolkienWilliam ShakespeareMoby-DickThe Book of the New SunThe Lord of the RingsLaurusThe Divine Comedy
>>23550631>I think this rather makes our current crop of popular fiction look even worseOn one hand, people judge too early. Many great authors go unpublished until their deaths, and cult followings take time to establish themselves. On the other hand, we have a real and problematic oversaturation of content, which can make it harder for the real gems to show themselves and forces said gems to compete against one another for relevance. What's likely is that as technology advances, it will take longer and longer for the good books of each generation to surface. Nevertheless, I am (perhaps naively) optimistic that we have good literature being written this very moment, and it will just take time to attain its deserved status.
>>23550785> Read better critics.>posts cringeHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAS
>>23549763>>23550032>>23550049>>23550129>>23550159>>23550193>>23550248>>23550667>>23550858Absolute Patrician>>23550101>>23550196Virgin Pleb
>>23550838Be curious to hear your thought on how I’ve progressed then, recently posted two verses, one with the rhyme fixation, one without. Here’s the one without much rhyme since it’s shorter.Tipherethiel: a meditation on beauty. Espied my mind divine beauty, Sky isles far drifting downstream a swift river,coalescing into undulating ripples, The curling combers of an auburn mane,A little while I remain,But then the visions change,I see the twilight rainbow, The Gloam bands from dim red and sweet orange,To bice blue and faint vi’let, Empty of all, without association save pure color,Unsure, I see another, As to oils that are stirred when suspended in water or alcohol, Mottle and muddle, motley and melange,But then the great amalgamate of tow’ring flame was placed, Again, a change, The waves return, all aureate, spectral as phosphene glistering,Or perhaps strange as the corse-luminescent which lights casket with its charge,A limitless boundless markless sphere which seems, with brocken glory, rushing to a common center,A Comet’s trail, a garment’s train, both,Of He, of body universal,Whose head is as the Seth animal for a moment,And then the next the emerald tree boa yawning, then delicate gossamer of stretched out copper burnished and beat mirror-like,Shifting returning, yet the eyes,The soft amber of precious resins, incense, the bodily sense of the summer night well wanted,Then deep cold icy jade green, shivering as feeble leaf,Ashes on the skin, Jasmine on the wind,Heavy, doubtless, substantial,Against the shifting image I grasped hard,And for a moment glimpsed a black star,And saw within a man’s heart, Engraved there was the mystery IAO,The name of God written by man’s fantasy.
>>23549757Authors:DickensDumasVoltaireGogolSwiftWorks:The Old Curiosity ShopThe Black Tulip (yes, I know, I chose the pretentious work)CandideDiary of a MadmanBattle of the BooksI am open to recs, though I find "Lost Generation" American works to be avant-garde drivel that has been masked in a nouveau riche guise. I cannot stand it one bit.
>Divine Comedy>The Nigger of the 'Narcissus'>The Mysterious Island>City of God>A Farewell to ArmsAuthors:>Joseph Conrad>James Fenimore Cooper>Robert E. Howard>Thoreau>Edmund Spenser
>>23550920I'm a LARPagan sissy btw if that matters, I want to burn in hell together with Robert E. Howard and take big barbarian cock together with him!!!
>>23550878This is very good, of course. You have a very good ear and a vivid mind's eye. You're far more knowledgeable on the structure of poetry than I am, but I will give you my impression. I think you hit your stride in the second half, but the early portions have some very compelling imagery and phrasing. There are moments in the beginning where the word choice feels excellent, but the phrasing comes a bit awkwardly to me. For instance, "Sky isles far drifting downstream a swift river," which feels like a broken or antique sentence, followed by, "coalescing into undulating ripples," which feels completely modern. Both have wonderful word choice, but their conjunction doesn't necessarily have the fluidity I think you're capable of. The next couplet of lines work so well, both in sound and rhythm (I really love "the curling combers of an auburn mane," masterful) but the next two revert almost to prose and I feel the rhythm broken a little. My general impression here is that you're in a sort of growing stage of your poetry. One in which you're discovering the way to blend the two voices—the antiquated English which you clearly love, and the more contemporary, prosaic voice. I think this is a wonderful idea which suits you completely, and it will just take time to strike the balance well, so that you may preserve your rare command of the cadence of sound. The way you write feels like skipping stones across water on a bright spring day. I read a lot of poetry and I've never seen anything like it. It's also interesting to see this new thing you've done—you use alliteration of sound a lot, but here you're also using alliteration of concepts in a more modern fashion, "Shifting, returning," "Heavy, doubtless, substantial," "deep cold icy," "limitless boundless markless," etc.,. I think its interesting. One caution, I suppose, there is so much imagery here that I could see it reading as very indefinite and therefore difficult to comprehend your meaning. I believe I followed it, but I read much more poetry than most readers may. All in all, I like it well, and enjoy the ending. I just have the distinct impression this is a style still in a middle stage, and I hope that isn't offensive.
>>23550970Your samefagging is getting more and more embarrassing.
>>23550873Go back
>>23550984What a weak reply, you are only showing how right he is.
>>23550844>>23550868what’s meme or cringe about pynchon? he’s literally the goat writer
>>23550968>Divine Comedy>City of God>LARPagan>??
>>23550970No offense taken at all, a key thing which is animating precisely why the rhythm at times feels shakey, is I am using meters very uncommon in English, The “Sky isles” line for example is antibaccius meter, the gloam band stuff is baccius meter, there’s also experiments with cretic substitutions.But on that mixing of modern prosaic and antiquated voices, to be blunt it’s because the ideal with that poem is an imitation of my own mind contemplating beauty mentally speaking, of course refining, but in reality I will go back and forth like that while contemplating it. I totally agree that narrative solidity, that stability is my weakest point, I’m actually forcing myself to write a long prose work to try to iron out that deficiency. But for the middle stage thing, Thank you for the compliment, i see refining and the capacity of getting better as the best part of art, if I were to plateau and reach a peak of my own ability, i would probably stop writing so much.Here’s a couple other verses I posted some days ago if you have interest.https://warosu.org/lit/thread/23513004#p23520051But for the assonance and flow, I genuinely credit the prosody of rap as fundamentally being why I can do that. Watch something like this and it’s an abundantly clear https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GnQpdRj9Dpc&pp=ygUUcmFraW1yd2FsIHNoaXQgcmh5bWU%3D
>>23549757I wasn't going to try and narrow it down. I hate picking favorites, but since I've been posting in your thread anyway, I'll do my best. >AuthorsShakespearePlatoAeschylus>Demoted Authors (full of men with my aesthetic sense, but without my morals)Yeats [demoted on account of his blasphemy]Tennyson [sidelined on account of suspected Luciferianism]Milton [sidelined on account of not knowing what to make of his faith]Swinburne [enemy of Christ]Blake [I'm undecided on what to do with Blake]>WorksI like myths and poetry a lot, but I don't think I'll list those because it's a bit more difficult to select.
>>23550972Why are you coping, you retard? Stop deluding yourself. How embarrassing. >>23550987I've never read him. I actually wasn't criticizing the authors, per se, I just find it amusing that you only listed 4chan-typical authors while criticizing a man who has read more than you ever will.
>>23550196>Chinese- I Ching, Tao Te Ching, Chuang Tzu, Classical Chinese poetry (Rexroth translated specifically)This is cheating.Might as well write "The European Canon" as one of your favorite books too.
>>23551036Anon, you're the only embarrassment in this whole thread, you're obviously the typical small dick energy guy who exudes insecurity and needs to act like a cunt to feel better about yourself, I doubt you're older than 30 and if you are, you just haven't matured.Create your own personality and try to lift heavy heights too.
>>23550584>Dickens often wrote purple prose to bloat his word countThis take is the ultimate midwit take. No he didn't. There is literally zero evidence for this. He wrote "purple prose" because he it was beautiful. No English writer composed more beautiful sentences then Dickens. The idea of reading a Dickens in striped down prose is insanity.
>>23549763>>23550100You guys unironically triggered the Bloom fanboy ITT, to the point that he has spent the last five hours attacking the other anons and defending his e-daddy's honor.
>>23551029I curse the Holy Spirit every day. Kys.
>>23550889>The Old Curiosity ShopThis very well might be the most based pick on the thread. Fantastic book that most people either never heard of or have a gross misunderstanding of it.
>>23551010>baccius meter>antibaccius meter>cretic substitutionsLooks like I have some studying to do. I have an friend of mine, ENTP, who once showed me some videos with breakdowns of rap like those. I find them fascinating, even if I don't really listen to rap. I respect the artistry which skilled rappers are capable of, but the lyrics keep me from it. >if I were to plateau and reach a peakDon't worry about that. Just keep going! Yeats, the wicked fool, was still improving even near 70. When God gives the gift, it can always grow. He is infinite, after all. I'll check out your other poems too, thanks.
>>23551055Then you will burn in Hell forever. Sorry to hear it, but you work to deserve it, so I can't be too sorry.
>>23551040>more copeKid, just shut your trap already.
>>23551060Thank you, I honestly was split between this and The Pickwick Papers, both are probably some of Dickens finest.>most people... have a gross misunderstanding of it.The same goes for a lot of literature sadly. I am sure you know the story about Bradbury walking out of a class at UCLA which he was invited to lecture at because the students all misinterpreted Fahrenheit 451's message.I can think of a few more examples (like people seeing deep underlying messages in works where there are none), even more so with poetry, though I know that a lot of people would disagree with some of my thoughts concerning the medium.
>>23551055You will trigger some manlet zoomer, bro, be careful, he will pray for his jew god to destroy you!!!
>>23550196I think you and I once had a brief conversation in a thread of mine about Rexroth's translations (or else there's a third Rexroth fan lurking about).
>>23551080>The best he has to offer is to continue acting like a pathetic zoomer.I accept your concession.
I fallow one jew, and his name is Bloom.
>>23551095You lack self-awareness to an extreme, lol.
this is too hard to answer. I refuse.
>>23551095it's always hilarious to see zoomers trying to pretend to be mature at the start of a debate only to then embarrass themselves and fall into "cope, kiddo, seethe, dilate, lol". you don't even have to try very hard to humiliate them, just give them line, it's like fishing
>>23551111>thinks he's humiliated meWhat planet are you retards on? I feel like I'm talking to two of the most insecure little trans-kids I could imagine.
>>23550986What a weak reply, you are only showing that you also should go back
In no particular order:JoyceHouellebecqShakespeare DostoyevskyMelville
>>23551124>deletes and reposts the same listWhy?
>>23551116>>23551117lmao look at this butthurt manchild samefagging and coping this hard, lol
>>23551127You need help. You actually do.
>>23551097Yes, OP is a faggot.
>>23551081Why not Bleak House? Also are you saying people gave a tendency to read too much into poetry?
>>23551111It's always hilarious to see someone too old to be typing like a zoomed typing like a zoomer (while criticizing them nonethless!)
>>23551111They genuinely have no self-awareness, the only second language they learn is to project their own problems onto others. They will simply never achieve spiritual peace or masculine vitality no matter how hard they (pretend to) try.
>>23551095Based Jack London enjoyer.
>>23551138>>23551143Fuck off with this off-topic shit. Get a life. No one gives a shit about your thoughts on the inner life of Zoomers, you imbecillic fuck!
>>23549757As of now, in no particular order:>writersJ.R.R. TolkienMark TwainTad WilliamsDostoevskySteinbeck>favorite worksThe Lord of the RingsThe Brothers KaramazovThe Dragonbone ChairThe LongshipsOf Mice and Men(Close contender was Discourses by Epictitus but decided against it cuz it wasn't fiction)
>>23551172Go back.
>>23551175No u
>>23550202>>23550206>>23550404Kek the tranny going insane in this thread is honestly pathetic. To the point where other threads are pointing anons here to witness the mental breakdown
>>23551225So OP is a tranny, not just a faggot? Lol
>the literature board>not a single person with good tastegrim
>>23551236Post yours, you sack of dogshit
>>23551236>stale pepe>criticizes lists but doesn't post one of xir ownembarrassing
>>23551133not that anon. Bleak House is great(just re-read it). But i think its weakened by its double narration. The third person narration is far more compelling then the first person one.
>>23551126i removed kafka and added Shakespeare
>>23551315Ah, I'm surprised I didn't notice.
>>23549757Franz Kafka Friedrich NietzscheCharles DarwinPeter Wessel ZappfeEdgar Allan PoeThe TrialAphorisms on Love and HateOn the Origin of SpeciesThe Last MessiahMurders in the Rue Morgue.
>>23551320Kafkaesque....
>>23549763/Thread.You made a midwit kvetch ALL over the thread.
>>23551327>tips fedora>twirls lightsaber
>>23550193>Honore de BalzacFavorite works?
Bloom here.I would like to thank the very dedicated anon who has been fellatioing me for hours.I love you, goy! As much as I allow myself to feel free to love a dumb animal.
>>23549757Anyone know of any good blogging sites to post my retarded ramblings and sporadic works of fiction? I want something simple, with a good tagging system, that wont ban me for mildly offensive opinions. I don't care about exposure, just want to post into the void really, if someone stumbles upon it organically its much more likely that they'll actually be interested anyways.
Houellebecq everything including his poetry Ben Lerner (Atocha Station) plus poetry Borges poetry Gabe habash - Stephen FloridaHesse - Steppenwolf Roland barthes - mythologies (essays)
>>23551673I'm a woman if that matters.
>>23551670I found a basic WordPress site the easiest to work with. I turned comments off, but still got "views" from within WordPress (I think it showed up in people's recommendations).I teamed it with SimpleNote from which you can post direct -- just seemed simpler.Used it for poems.(Also tried Google's Blogger which is also simple but with the additional things listed above). I didn't care about getting views or being in search results etc. the only way anyone found me was if I sent them the url.You can easily delete them so maybe play around with a WordPress and blogger site and just see what you like the feel of. I've had a few on both and just delete the whole blog when I got bored of it.Btw I read lots of reviews of other site hosting platforms etc but what I said seemed simplest to me.
>>23551677Actually I'm a gay male
>>23550095I don’t deny his importance but regardless he had opinions I’d still disagree with regardless of whether he’s a Jew or not. I would probably feel the same if he was a continental European.
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>>23551127Based Jesus enjoyer dabbing on the soulless.
Awesome thread on Bloom, guys.. Glad someone is finally writing about writers writing about writers. Feels like I got that MFA degree I could never afford.ShakespeareToni MorrisonMcCarthyClaire KeeganJames BaldwinSong of SolomonThe Last NovelAll The Pretty HorsesAs I Lay DyingRichard II
>>23551774you talk like: >>23551769
>>23551779Oh, really? Is your mom proud of your shitty meme? Wait for her to wake up so you can show her.
>>23551784nigger what i am just scrolling, or do you think anyone who references another post must have been the poster of said post? you have now not only exposed your age by expressions such as "based", "enjoyer" and "dabbing", while also mashing casual and careless language with religion, but also by referencing my mother, who has not been a relevant part of my life since the day she disowned me for fucking yours.
>>23551802What a beautiful sperging. But it's time for you to go back to your Stephen King general thread.
>>23551802>Says he's mature>Rant like a teen, starts with "nigger" and ends with something about "fucked your mother".There are times when I doubt whether they are just trolls or are we really managing to have a troop of idiots with a total lack of self-awareness.So I say, Discord destroyed imageboards forever.
>>23551802you will burn in hellyou just pretend to be a Christian to gain approval online but you don't have any of the Lord's lessons in your weak heart, kid
>>23551802Cringe
>>23551841fr fr no cape
>>23551172bussing bussin fr no cap
>>23550858I can't believe this was the first person itt to name Shakespeare. Wtf are you people reading?
BAP Mike MaEvola SpenglerWagner
>>23551918Maybe you should accept that he is in fact the most overrated author in all of history and that no one who actually reads really thinks he's special.
