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Weren't we supposed to talk about this book today? Went through all 15 pages and didn't see a thread.

>> No.757306

Who's we?

>> No.757370

/lit/ There was supposedly a "book club" and anyone who wanted to participate was supposed to read this by today. I read it out of curiosity. Found it interesting. Was hoping anyone else actually went through with it as well.

>> No.757372

>>757303

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>> No.759303

book club fails again?

>> No.759356

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GW0M2zEx-7g&playnext_from=TL&videos=v7RA5cbmTaQ

>> No.759360

I hate Faulkner. He's over-conventional.

>> No.759361

>>759303
Yeeeah. Failed pretty hard.

>> No.759363

baby pleaz wawm mah wenah

>> No.759369

I read The Sound and the Fury when I was a junior in high school.

The publishers really dropped the ball on this one. There were entire pages without punctuation. I went to the bookstore and asked for my money back, but they said Faulkner intentionally wrote it that way. What a load of bullshit! I wrote the publisher an angry letter but they never got back to me.

>> No.759373

You got drolled pretty hard YO

also
baby pleaz wawm mah wenah

>> No.759377

>>759369

Based on your post and the fact that you read it in middle school, I'm assuming you didn't get the book at all. The whole first part of the book is told through the perspective of an autistic boy. The lack of punctuation only adds to the brilliance of this book, as it makes the stream-of-consciousness that much more effective.

>> No.759395

>>759369
That's the way he wrote and that's the way it's supposed to be.
I really hope you're joking about asking for your money back....how embarrassing...

Also I read the book...and I pretty much hated it.
Maybe if they do it again they can pick a more....accessible piece.

>> No.759397

>>759377

I somehow get the feeling that you don't understand subtext all that well.

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759398

>>759377
>a junior in high school.

>middle school

Calm down, professor. I understood the book.

>> No.759407

See people read the book.
So the book club didn't fail...that bad.

>> No.759408

>>759369
trololo

>> No.759443

I remember /lit/ was trying to get a book club together when the board first went up and it didn't work... we had five times more traffic then, too.

>> No.759455

I tried reading that for recreation.

Dropped it after 20 pages. I guess I'm filthy uncultured swine.

>> No.759482

>>759455
You should be ashamed.

>> No.760831

so this fails? where th heck is OP who started this??

>> No.760871

>>757303

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>> No.760893

>>757302

a[www]b[.]c[anon]d[talk]e[.]f[se]g37fb47f6434aa1f9dd118301fd1ce852

>> No.760930

>>760831
I gave up and went and did other things today. I'm down for reading something else this week if people still want to. I didn't find it that taxing to read The Sound and The Fury. I enjoyed it.

>> No.761032

Harder than Absalom Absalom! but not as great of a story

>> No.761262
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761262

Ok guys i don't know what the heck happened to the OP who started this 'book club' a week ago with reading Faulkner's 'the sound and the fury', but i'm down with this, so i hope we can continue this with or without the initial OP, so if you're agree, let's make suggestions of books we want and CAN read, the book with more persons interested in will be the book to read. Let's not cheat if we want this to be succesfull. I'm making another blog just have to wait some time if you are still down with this...

And please, there are new guys here, i mean, yougsters maybe, and some of them DON'T like classics, so try to make a sugestion with more 'attraction' or fast-reads.

>> No.761277

>>761262
I'm afraid you will turn this into dystopian sci-fi discussion by abandoning the classics... just saying.

The original OP:
thelitbookclub.blogspot.com

Somebody e-mail him, he must have had at least some conviction.

>> No.761300

>>761277

i'm not saying that we CAN'T read classics, i'm just saying that youngters won't be SO interested in reading them...

>> No.761299

Read the book.
shit sux.
I suggest a more accessible book for this week.
can we start the voting now?

>> No.761305

>>761300
"youngsters" shouldn't be on 4chan so who gives a shit if they can't join your club man.

>> No.761317

>>761299
>>761305

OK very well, start suggesting books my friends!

I will go with something light, something of King short stories collection 'Nightmares & Dreamscapes' vol. 1.

>> No.761353

>>761317

i like king too

>> No.761356

>>759377
Actually, Bengy Compson is a 33 year old castrated retard born on Good Friday.

>> No.761375

>>757303

http://tinyurl.com/2c6m48e epic lulz 92d708a4c322f884ad3f686020530b1f

>> No.761400

Well, let me just say that I think Sound and the Fury is a very hard-to-read classic because the first two chapters are written by a retard and someone having a mental breakdown. The last two are written by an ambitious cotton seller, and the final chapter by a black woman.

The book basically details the downfall of the south through the eyes of a family living there - their second son, quinten, is sent to harvard after the family sells their land to send him, and he promptly kills himself. My favorite line is when Quinten's "I don't hate the South" episode.

My favorite Faulkner novel is Light in August.

>> No.761402

>>761317

Don't let this thread die my friend, 'cause the next time someone some 'book club', we won't want to start a new ONE AGAIN

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761418

I vote for this

>> No.761419

>>761400

nice synopsis pal, i haven't read it yet because some people told me that it doesn't follow a chronological line and there are some past-present-future stories that can make it hard to follow

>> No.761423

>>761418

who's the author i can't see it

>> No.761426

>>761423
Winter's tale
Mark Helprin


I've been told it's really good.

>> No.761433

>>761419
http://www.usask.ca/english/faulkner/main/index.html

This is fucking awesome because it GIVES YOU THE TIMES Benjy and Quinten are remembering and the hypertext will RESORT the times in chronological order.

>> No.761437

>>761419
yeah the first chapter time travels a lot.
I had a hard time...but I don't read that many "classics" .

>> No.761440

>>761426

looks good, so by now we have two books suggested, anyone else??

>> No.761443

>>761433

thanks!

>> No.761468

>>759356
baby pleaz wawm mah wenah

>> No.761647

Maybe let's start with the begining? What is the easiest to read of Plato, something short?

>> No.761685

>>761647

i haven't read much of Plato, say your suggestion

>> No.761779

>>761647

Read Plato's Republic
Then read Aristotle's Nicomacean Ethics.

>> No.763850

I'm in! There are only 2 suggestions?

>> No.763855

Plato?
gtfo with that shit.
I don't want to read that.

>> No.763870

>another book club failed

called it.

>> No.763883

>>761647

disregard the suggestion of the republic, though interesting to read it as a philosophical work that is all it is, and if you're interested in his philosophy you're better of with a college textbook that summarizes it because they have little value today (not denying his importance to western philosophy at all)

read something fun and of literary value, i'd suggest symposium

>> No.763928

I don't really have a suggestion
I'm reading 1984 and enjoying it.
I'm sure most of you have already read Enders game which is next on my list.
But I'm in for whatever we decide to read

>> No.766099

2dayoldthreadistwodaysold

>> No.766104

>>763870
It didn't fail.