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888728 No.888728 [Reply] [Original]

Well /lit/?

What am I reading?

>> No.888735

hrmmmmmm!

you are reading something very old for the first time, aren't you?

>> No.888732
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>>888728

>> No.888748

Samson Agonistes.

>> No.888762

>>888728

I HATE IT WHEN PEOPLE HOLD BOOKS LIKE THAT!!!

GODDAMN, look at what you're doing to the cover and spine!

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>>888762

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>>888728
>This week's Varney.

>> No.888775

>>888773

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Guys, if you knew anything about art, this is entitiled "The Intellectual" and what he is reading is basically a 1700s science magazine.

The artist intented the picture to convey the sense of bewilderment that many felt in that age of new ideas a discoveries.

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The summoner. What does /lit/ think of my tastes?

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>>888819

>> No.888825

>>888728

I HATE IT WHEN PEOPLE FOLD BOOKS LIKE THAT!!!

>> No.888827

>>888728
I've seen that painting in person

>> No.888831

>>888821
What? It's a fun book...

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>>888827

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>>888831

NO, it is not. Writers of the past weep ever time someone buys that.

>> No.888846

>>888839
*Blinks four times*
Why?

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>>888846

....Must I justify that claim? Isn't it obvious?

>> No.888857

dr johnson, thank you for visiting /lit/

>> No.888868

>>888851 *stares at you in confusion.*
I seriously don't understand what your telling me.
Why should all authors write like their predecessors?

>> No.888873

>>888888
ACQUIRE

>> No.888877

>>888868

They should IMPROVE on their predecessors. Those novels are nothing more than a copypaster of their insperation.

>> No.888881

>>888868
Because /lit/ is overrun with hipster faggots.

>> No.888887

>>888888
Get

>> No.888909

>>888877
I thought all authors copy pasta others to some extnet...

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>>888909

Certianly writers end up using the same language and phrases, but when the story, characters, setting, rules of the world, etc. are near the same as the novels that have come before, that is too far.

>> No.888968

>>888928
What books is The Summoner supposed to have copied?

>> No.888974
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>>888968

I'm tired of arguing this.

Basically, choose almost any fantasy novel written between 1900 and 1990.

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>>888928
There's no such thing as an original story.

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>>888976

I know....

>> No.888988

>>888974
Every fantasy novel of the last century has just been a rip-off of LoD, which was just bible fanfiction.

>> No.888994

>>888988
LotR, DAMNIT. But Diablo II: LoD is a close second.