/lit/ - Literature

>>4625836

Tell it to TED, dude.

>>3984852
>The Prophet engaged me when I was a girl of six (years). We went to Medina and stayed at the home of Bani-al-Harith bin Khazraj. Then I got ill and my hair fell down. Later on my hair grew (again) and my mother, Um Ruman, came to me while I was playing in a swing with some of my girl friends. She called me, and I went to her, not knowing what she wanted to do to me. She caught me by the hand and made me stand at the door of the house. I was breathless then, and when my breathing became Allright, she took some water and rubbed my face and head with it. Then she took me into the house. There in the house I saw some Ansari women who said, "Best wishes and Allah's Blessing and a good luck." Then she entrusted me to them and they prepared me (for the marriage). Unexpectedly Allah's Apostle came to me in the forenoon and my mother handed me over to him, and at that time I was a girl of nine years of age.

Didn't you just throw a hissy fit about something not saying what was said? Funny that, in your case, that's an accurate accusation.

>>3795902
>I lern gfrom yootoob

Saw it. Did you read the statements from al-Qaida after the 9/11 attacks? Do you seriously, honestly think that the objective Jihadists have is to make the secular West into fundamentalist Islamist countries?

>philosophy in the last 50 years

>>3662390

Ok let's give this a go then

>Recently voted the greatest fantasy of all time,
OH MY GOD WHO GIVES A SHIT
>after The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit,
>>3661400
>Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun is an extraordinary epic,
Oh boy here we go
>set a million years in the future, on an Earth transformed in mysterious and wondrous ways, in a time when our present culture is no longer even a memory.
There's so much condensed stupid here I won't even bother with a witty response
>Severian, the central character, is a torturer,
DARK & EDGY 2DAMAXXXXXXX
>exiled from his guild after falling in love with one of his victims,
BUT WITH A HEART OF GOLD LEL
>and journeying to the distant city of Thrax
What was that again about violating show don't tell?
>armed with his ancient executioner's sword, Terminus Est.
So the sword has a name?
The goddamned sword has a name?
And this is somehow of such importance that it needs to be said in the blurb?

>mfw finishing The Trilogy by Samuel Beckett

God, what a fucking waste of time.

>>3242111
you must be new here

>>3170547
>lyl u guiz hav shit taste ill show u how
>pic related

>>2933923

> pic related

Also, don't say this is "the greatest piece of work ever created". This is for the readers to decide. To say something like this about your own writing is taking pretentiousness up to eleven.

What book was it that had a one-page chapter with one sentence on it that said something like "nothing happened today" or something?

>>2874137
You don't need a reason to go out and read in a public place where you get distracted every minute. Wow for someone who says that he understand something that's just.... nothing. Get back to reality.

>>2813007

>guys comes to /lit/ to talk about Faulkner
>someone immediately begins discussing Faukner with him
>he's gone

>>2710069

And clearly the Chinese, the Germans, the Polish, the Lebanese, etc. are taking over the US, since they form large portions of the population. MY GOD, Germans are the largest ethnic group in the US! It's all over folks!

It's time to grow up, kiddo.

>as voted by Dymocks Booklovers

i had interest in literature as a child, when it was forced on my through school,

but very little interest outside of that, i find the medium lacking in comparison to film

am i missing out?

I THINK I JUST FOUND A DEEPER MEANING IN A SYLVIA PLATH POEM THAT NOBODY HAS BEFORE DISCUSSED, HOW DO I PROFIT FROM THIS?

Hey guys, how much does it cost to write and publish a book about a thing you summed up in a 5 minute video full of memes?
Apparently over $17,000, according to this Redditfag.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgMCj1FeH6o
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/421072838/how-the-internet-reddit-saved-my-life

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>>2063509
> It shows how the form of the English perfect is formed. What it doesn't comp to is the fact that English doesn't really have a perfect,
>it shows how the English perfect is formed
>English doesn't really have a perfect
>how the perfect is formed
>doesn't have a perfect

What all of your butthurt and rage boils down to is just that you disagree with the majority of educated linguists on this facet of English grammar. You seem oblivious to the fact that although there may be different names for it across different disciplines (pluperfect, past perfect, retrospective), there is absolutely no debate as to whether or not it exists.

Nicholas Winsome (It means charming.)

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>after graduating with an English degree