What am I in for?
>>24832261Anon are you reading this novel for real, or will the lust filled sight of a husky goddess bring everyone around?
>>24832275It's about troons. That's a troon on the cover. Care to expand on this comment of yours about a "husky goddess?"
>>24832283Longlisted for the Dublin Literary AwardGritty and unflinching, yet also tender, fantastical, and funny, a trans woman’s tale about finding a community on the margins. In Sarmiento Park, the green heart of Córdoba, a group of trans sex workers make their nightly rounds. When a cry comes from the dark, their leader, the 178-year-old Auntie Encarna, wades into the brambles to investigate and discovers a baby half dead from the cold. She quickly rallies the pack to save him, and they adopt the child into their fascinating surrogate family as they have so many other outcasts, including Camila.Sheltered in Auntie Encarna’s fabled pink house, they find a partial escape from the everyday threats of disease and violence, at the hands of clients, cops, and boyfriends. Telling their stories—of a mute young woman who transforms into a bird, of a Headless Man who fled his country’s wars—as well as her own journey from a toxic home in a small, poor town, Camila traces the life of this vibrant community throughout the 90s.Imbuing reality with the magic of a dark fairy tale, Bad Girls offers an intimate, nuanced portrait of trans coming-of-age that captures a universal sense of the strangeness of our bodies. It grips and entertains us while also challenging ideas about love, sexuality, gender, and identity.
>>24832930I'd like to keep an open mind about the LIT quality but this appears to be classic Cluster B personality typeWhen I was a young girl, I imagined I'd do acting, theatre, films; I never imagined I'd make a living from it. I began dressing as a girl when I was 16, in a town of 5000 inhabitants. I know very well what it was like being a travesti in a town like that 20 years ago. It was twice as hard as it is now. Nowadays, those who dress as girls have no idea what we went through - it was very painful. Luckily, the way has been paved for them.—Camila Sosa Villada[4]
husky
Is this good?
evola strikes me as somewhat homosexual
>>24834703let's see the faces of the people who negatively review the book, starting with you
>>24834615That depends. Do you want to unravel the secrets of the cosmos and embrace your destiny as an aristocrat of the soul? Or do you want to have a chance at getting a girlfriend? Choose wisely, retard.
>>24834615>this, in book form.
nahstay away from evola
Is it possible to purchase physical copies of the original 1610 Douay-Rheims Bible without the 1752 Challoner revision?
>>24831015No, I don’t. I just really like Early Modern English.
>>24831517Impressive, but I think this is more of an edited digital scan than a transcription.
>>24832992It seems to convert the vs to us at least
>>24833278Bummer.
>>24827344I like Early Modern English.
>>24832990>47 ———>I on the B in M LGoogle is giving 46 and 48 but I'll take the chance47 inscriptions on the beams in Michels library
>>24832990>70 ———> Y I S A Q / A A O DAnd through elimination this has to be something Emily Dickinson The slash hints it is a poem and the only other it might be is the one I may be wrong about King LearBut that is Age of someone in something and I don't think Emily Dickinson wrote named characters in named works
>>24834794>>24832990Oh wait I'm dumbAge of Kent
>>24834851Blake is also still unaccounted for>>24834859I had this thought as well but Kent seems like far too minor a character for him to be brought up… unless there’s some specific line referencing his age in the play I don’t recall
>>24834886>Blake is also still unaccounted for??There's no Blake here >>24832990
Why the fuck are physical books so expensive?
>>24833934Very nice illustrated edition of Idylls of the King from 1859. It is a little beat up though. Also a cool illustrated collection of Poe stories from the same place.
>>24833934I found a complete edition of Milton's poetry for $5. It was paperback, but finding all his latin and greek stuff in print is hard. My Oxford Classical texts are probably my most treasured books, however, which I always find used.
>>24833934I found Mark Twain's "Mississippi Writings" for $1 in a random thrift shop in Wisconsin. It's not a valuable copy, but it's a good reminder of my year working in that hellscape of a place (Wisconsin, USA).
>>24832341Yes
>>24833934This edition of The Bell Jar. Paid $50 for it.
Is this any good?
>>24833021Don't you have squatemalans to be preaching to, Skorr?
>>24833021She looks like Ron Perlman.
>>24834576She is the most acomplished female author and she was inspired, with discernment, to fully explicate Daniel and Revelation. Napoleon removing the pagan roman church in 1798 and then the fall of the Ottoman empire has brought us to Jesus entering the most holy place of the heavenly sanctuary. The number of the man of sin is found in adding the roman numerals "Vicarivs Filii Dei" and the Sunday issue in the three angels messages. Responsible /lit/ should read her works for yourselves.
>>24834699So she was a numerology schizo? How good is God that even the insane can discern the error of papists.
>>24834699F is not a Roman numeral.
I'll start:
Diary of a Faggot by OP
>>24833156The real answer would be a self-published book a dude I know wrote called The Asperger Teen but that barely counts as a book so I will go with this.
It suckers you in by making you think it's a horror story about the Abominable Snowman but then it turns out it's actually about spies trying to recover photos of Adolf Hitler raping little boys, which causes the French character to exclaim C'EST ABOMINABLE!700 fucking pages
>>24833156Heller is a bad writer who struck lightning in a bottle with Catch 22.>>24833394Nah I liked this one quite a lot. It had a great rhythm to it.
>>24834757I genuinely thought you were trolling until I looked it up. Holy shit.I liked The Terror a lot since I am a sucker for stories that take place in the arctic but every other Dan Simmons book sounds just terrible.
Satanic panic edition. Old >>24736100
>>24832499The (uncut) version of the stand has more pages lmao. Google it, it’s long AF. Regardless “the weird” little has everything, I genuinely can’t think of a author off the top of my head who isn’t in it.
>>24832974Horacio Quiroga, Arthur Machen, Walter de la Mare, E.F. Benson, Sheridan le Fanu, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edogawa Ranpo, and John Langan are not present in the anthology. Probably more that, but you get the point. It does have a sick lineup though, great to see authors like Stefan Grabinski, Julio Cortázar, Jean Ray, Hanns Heinz Ewers, Ryunosuke Akutagawa, and Alfred Kubin, although I think it is a weird choice to include an excerpt from The Other Side.
Finna be bumpin
Bump, tho...
>>24833026There are some omissions no question. No idea how they could have included Beaumont, and no Matheson. Wonder if it was a copyright issue or something.
Why is it so underrated on /lit/? Is it the simple and profoundly sad answer that most /lit/ dwellers have never experienced love?
>>24834291I'd say the general response of female readership refutes your post soundly.
>>24834333Are you trolling? Your posts read as satire. "Well, Ashkctually, women preferring tall, dark, handsome, strong men is just your projection." Comical. Have you ever met a woman? Do you live under a rock?
>>24834617>>24834640Correct. It's been the standard of chick lit love triangles ever since, and has unironically led to the downfall of gender relations.
>>24834663literature from the time had no sex scenes, broski. Especially coming from the ultra-prudent British polite society. Emily almost definitely died a virgin like 99% of people who died unmarried, the silly conjectures in this thread have no bearing on the reality of culture at the time.
>>24834926Oh yeah, you're right. I have a pretty clear memory of reading that though, so I guess I did confuse it.
From a higher point of view, one of the main eternal truths is this: on this earth, which most resembles an infernal prison where all living beings serve an unknown sentence, we are all brothers and companions, for we carry the same curse with us—we are victims of existence, of life itself. We are all afflicted by the endless sufferings and misfortunes that plague this world. Our differences are merely apparent, for in our core, we are the same. We are, so to speak, brothers in suffering. We all derive from the same eternal, insatiable, irrational, and blind force. We are all Will.
>>24833260I agree in part. We are victims because none of us chose to exist. In this sense, we can only prevent suffering from spreading and continuing.
Tell me if this resonates. I'm trying my best impression of somebody. >>24828416Uranus, the embodyment of the boundless sky, possibilities without consequences was castrated by his son Saturn, also known as Cronos, also known as cause and effect, for trapping his children in matter, or the Earth, or Gaia's womb. He kept fucking the Earth and forcing his own children back into her womb. It seperated sky from earth and allowed for consequences, time, and limitations to reign supreme.His balls fell from the heavens to the Earth's ocean, creating Aethena, the physical manifestation of love, beauty, and pleasure. She is the final titan and first Olympian and what remains of the boundless sky and the earth's love for it. She transcends the cause and effect that tried to seperate endless potential from matter. Love, beauty, and pleasure, is what can weaken the restraints of existing like the way you desire, anon. The boundless sky is not invisible to us. In fact, consequences couldn't exist in the first place without Uranus, who begot Saturn. It just doesn't immediately influence matter now, as he is castrated. The sky remains only possibilities due to the castration. The seperation is why we have Aphrodite as Uranus's remaining reproductive joy and not the guy himself. If Saturn had only been more responsible to his father and simply trapped him in tartarus, like Jupiter did to Saturn, we wouldn't be so marooned. >>24833123We're all ultimately subject to decay and death. It is an affliction of Saturn onto us mortals. We all have to deal with our bodies and their ailments and whatever we rolled. Those who aren't suffering are already in line with Aphrodite. They have found either beauty, love, or pleasure, since such things are all that can transcend the misery of time. Not Jupiter is still born from Saturn, though he is the strongest force potentially rendering time and consequences irrelevant by our gradually mastering them as a species.
>>24833291>Aphrodite. They have found either beauty, love, or pleasure, since such things are all that can transcend the misery of time.Cool. Wagmi
>>24833291Based.
>>24833320>>24833400Ty anons.. I've been practicing. Though I do think work needs to be done on the call to action, revisiting this. How exactly to cultivate or find "love, beauty, and pleasure" is unclear and I could have expanded on that.
What did Kubrick see in Stephen King?
It's very telling that, out of all the slop that has been made out of his work, King is still seething, almost 50 years later, about the one film singled out as a masterpiece.
>>24834717Puzo also wrote the book as a potboiler by his own admission. He tried what he considered higher quality writing but then realized he could never making a living at that so he said he wrote the Godfather just because he knew it would make money that he needed to live on
>>24834737In 1988 Coppola's protege raped a child actor and Francis had the kid, who later killed himself, blacklisted from Hollywood for reporting it.
>>24833943I like the theory that Kubrick used the movie to explain he faked the moon landing
>>24834929Kubrick had no regard for King and only made a movie based on King’s work because he needed a strong success to keep him in good standing with producers and he knew an adaptation of King would sell. But he considered several aspects lacking including the strong woman facet which he said was not believable
The way Umberto Eco's family treated his library after he died was a travesty.
>>24834927>using htmllooks more like a Detroit library
>>24834927Who programmed this bot to spam this nonsense? It's been years... turn it off.
>>24834870you get more invested in the characters. more room for image repetitions and motifs to develop in to symbolism. the theme can be fleshed out more. to train your attention span in our attention-based economy. so you can use it as a doorstopper.
"why eat a full-course meal"because some people have an attention span wider than the time it took you to make this stupid fucking post
>>24834870Why look at big painting?
Someone might say, “Why watch a three-and-half hour film?” Seven Samurai is 3 1/2 hours. Someone might say, “Why watch a ten hour opera?” The ring cycle is over ten hours. I don’t read a book based on its length but on its quality.
>>24834870because the good ones are like watching an anime but its words on paper
Surely a great loss to the world.
>>24834706so true, that's why nobody's ever read pagan literature like Homer or Virgil, or pagan philosophy like Plato or Aristotle, and nobody knows what happened to the Parthenon or the Pantheon.
>>24834706>90% of the pagan temples of Europe and near Asia were destroyed at their hands.made the fuck up award
>>24834706It would be wrong to deny that that never happened, true, but I'm not as sure as you that it was as widespread as you make it out to be. The most notable exception is Alexandria, but Alexandria was violent and the Pagans were in on that too, with the Christians and Pagans having a constant Hatfield-McCoy bloodfeud. But otherwise, temples tended to be reappropriated for Christian use, and Christians were far from responsible for the destruction of 90% of them. Like, you know there were constant rebellions and wars and sieges that took down temples among other buildings, right? Plato's original Academy was destroyed by the Roman general Sulla, and the sacred trees of the site were chopped down to be used as siege engines for taking Athens. And for every Tertullian who rejected Pagan learning, there was a Basil or Augustine or Boethius who thought Greek and Roman literature could be useful and edifying, and it's absolutely the case that the bulk of the writings that survive antiquity were preserved and passed down by Christians. Practically all of our Greek manuscripts came to us via the Byzantines.
>>24834239>Such a fate would have to be malicious indeed to deprive us of Heraclitus, of the wonderful poetry of Empedocles, and of the writings of Democritus, thought by the ancients to be Plato's equal and, so far as ingenuity is concerned, his superior, slipping us instead the Stoics, the Epicureans, and Cicero.
>>24834706I think the Christian emperors should have gone as far as Muhammad and destroyed all the works of the Greek philosophers, creating a new wholly Christian imperiumI normally hate to even say this but those writings have only seemed to hurt people
>Harris What the fuck was his problem?
>>24834361He liked having a good time and looking at dourty pictures. Harris had no problems, he was living the life.
>>24834793What about the farmhand and his rat people?
Never read this one, was it good?Clicked on the thread because I remember reading Hatchet as a boy and recalled the name
>>24834855>>24834855Very different. This one is poignant and very funny. I read it as a boy many years ago. I was my favorite book until I came across Tolkien in middle school. I might re-read it soon for fun.
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