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File: Cervantes_-_Don_Quixote_-_ebook.pdf-(1.99MB, Cervantes - Don Quixote - ebook.pdf)
7276 No. 7276 Stickied hide watch expand quickreply   [Reply] [Gallery]
(It's not pronounced Quick Sote and it doesn't rhyme with boat). Donkey Hoe Tay.

Welcome to this, the seminal work of Miguel De Cervantes. Don Quixote is such an influential work that even today, some 400 years after the story was written, the word "Quixotic" can be found in the English Language, and that its meaning is based entirely on the characteristics of the fictional creation bearing the name from which the word derives.

(Can you imagine someone being described as "potterish" 400 years from now, because they are a bit like the creation of Moneybags Rowling?)

The book is a comedy, and a shrewd observational one at that. It rewards the careful reader, and a careful reader is what you will likely have to be, as the English in this translation is not entirely modern, and is a little more flowery and baroque than you will see in the works of today. Still, if you can parse my roadkill-mangled sentences, you should be fine with this vintage chorizo.

Note to the fucking lawyers who scour this page in masturbatory anticipation - the book herein was published more than four hundred years ago, so it's well out of copyright. Good day to you.
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>> No. 7386
>>7384
Heh. My translation simplified it to *the knight of the sorry face* which more easily lent to the original Spanish pun that Quixote was not only sorrowful, but also just plain ugly. Also, no need to be ashamed. At the beginning of the second portion of the book, the author has an insert where he mentions that a lot of people complained to him about the side-stories that drifted away from Quixote and his adventures, and Cervantes also pointed out that he's the author so fuck your opinions I did what I wanted to do. Despite the fact that he viciously disregards the reader's opinions in this, he SIGNIFICANTLY eases up on the side-stories and histories in the second half. Until then, pretend that you're reading 1001 Nights, where a story within a story within a story is commonplace. Also, the entire *relate your history* dealio is a common theme in most chivalric tales, and adds to the irony of the parody (in the place of princesses and knights sharing their histories, he has whores and madmen).

Personally, the one thing that really embarrassed me in reading that was how much I laughed when he made his curative elixir provoked projectile vomiting that was so well described and so horribly vulgar . I knew that the humor was juvenile and one level above a fart joke, but god help me I laughed for nigh on an hour straight.


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it gives me great pleasure to present for your use:

The Library of /lit/!

This library is where books live. It's here for two purposes:
1.) If you have books, post them here nao!
2.) If you want a book and it's not here yet, this is the thread for your requests.

POST SOME BOOKS!
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>> No. 7368
Thread is unwieldy now, plus I'm sick to fucking death of clearing automated spambot posts from it on a daily basis. So this branch of the Library is now closed. Locked but not forgotten! You can still take books out, you just can't add any. Another branch of the library will be forthcoming.


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7584 No. 7584 hide watch quickreply   [Reply] [Gallery]
Hey /lit/, I don't come here to often but I'd appreciate it if any of you can help me out. I need to read Sigmund Freud's The Wolfman, Adam Haslett's You Are Not A Stranger Here and Love's Executioner by Irvin D. Yalom. I'd greatly appreciate it if you guys could help me out.
>> No. 7586
Help you out with what?
>> No. 7588
>>7586

Perhaps he wants us to read them to him? I don't really know.
>> No. 7593
Can you guys post the books for me to download?


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7453 No. 7453 hide watch expand quickreply   [Reply] [Gallery]
This library is where books live. It's here for two purposes:
1.) If you have books, post them here nao!
2.) If you want a book and it's not here yet, this is the thread for your requests.
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>> No. 7583
File: Frank_Herbert_-_Dune_6_-_Chapterhouse_Dune.pdf-(701.61KB, Frank Herbert - Dune 6 - Chapterhouse Dune.pdf)
7583
>> No. 7585
>>7583
nice dune dump, appreciated.
>> No. 7592
>>7565
hilarious.


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7590 No. 7590 hide watch quickreply   [Reply] [Gallery]
So I just began reading Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk and there's a short story in it called Guts. I'm terribly sorry if this is a repost, but for the rest of us who haven't read it before, here you go.

http://chuckpalahniuk.net/features/shorts/guts


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7532 No. 7532 hide watch expand quickreply   [Reply] [Gallery]
What does /lit/ think of Tom Clancy? I have read "Patriot Games" and i am currently reading "Clear and Present Danger". I think he's pretty good, he handles suspense very well and makes you want to not stop reading.
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>> No. 7552
>>7550
I've a stack of nearly twenty books that take priority. Maybe after I've taken care of them, but I doubt it.
>> No. 7570
I've never have read any of his books. But when bush was in office he said there was no way to win this war. Saw him again after our new pres was in office his story was yes we can win this war? I don't put alot of stock in what he says but I thing he is a good story teller. I'm not downing him, but found him to be strange.
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7589
>>7532
Read and Loved Rainbow Six *the book not the game
worth a read for sure.


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Our ever-clever machinations are sure to grab hold the fascinations of those who grasp their potential applications, and the vast implications of the fact that they rose simply from circumstantial situations, whose conditions never ever once until now arose, and even now we in the nation's finest universities are not even entirely sure of exactly how the universe was capable of creating both this and the subtle scent of the supple rose, whose blossoms fall into our deft grasp and take hold of the daftness of our passions, and even now in their mansions, the captains of their industries are focusing their faculties and facilities on the reproduction and simulation of that peculiar stimulation, whose wonders know no bounds, and make lovers love in leaps and bounds, and drunks buy rounds and rounds for the mounds of their peers passed out on the barroom floor, for even now they know the score, all the scores and scores of them, drowning and yet thirsting for more and more and more, and now the barkeep hesitates to pour even one drop more, waits until finally they make for the door, and he hesitates no more and drowns himself and washes up upon the shore, naked and drenched, a giant among Lilliputians, whose tiny minds could not before comprehend what their eyes now find, and he makes his way toward a path that winds and wends away from the view of his eye, and with that and his mind, he peels away its subtle guise, and lays it straight among all the other sticks and splinters that comprise this world, as the snowflakes do winter, and the quakes of discovery do the splinters
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>> No. 7554
>>7553
I'm not saying that it necessarily has deep meaning, but the way that it was conveyed made me happy. I think that the more times I read through it though, the less awesome it seems. *Shrug*
>> No. 7557
>>7554
Nor am I saying that all writing done on acid is necessarily bad. This just fits the whimsical style of one who is writing in an altered state.
>> No. 7587
I felt like I was being pushed backwards by a flood of grey noise and then I stopped reading.

But don't be put off. Everyone starts somewhere.


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7569 No. 7569 hide watch quickreply   [Reply] [Gallery]
/lit/, what is your favorite author, and why?(without spoiling any books)

Mine would have to be Philip K Dick. His writing style and his ideas are incredible. And his endings - they are absolutely amazing.
>> No. 7571
Victor Hugo - His clever way of phrasing things, the manner in which he portrays the bleak absurdities of life as both humorous and despairing at the same time, and his uniquely twisted characters.
>> No. 7574
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7574
I have problems.
>> No. 7575
Micheal Crichton inspired me to be a writer, so I suppose him. Jack Ketchum and Edward Lee both became my entry into the horror genre, and the run a close second and third, respectively.


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7559 No. 7559 hide watch quickreply   [Reply] [Gallery]
Judge my first page for my book please XD

Arokos wake to find himself on the floor. Black smoke fill the room and he heard the sound of crying and screaming. Arokos choke on the smoke. Arokos felt some blood run down his face. Arokos try to make it towards the door but he couldn't.
“Don't worry Arokos, I'm here.” said guzz the dwarf.
“Guzz, I'm on the floor …. I can't move my legs.” Said with harsh breathing.
“Just hold on.” said Guzz.
In a few seconds, Guzz, the warrior remove the book case off Arokos. Guzz than to start to pull arokos out of the room. The greenish hue temple has become a fiery deathtrap. They hear a few cry out for help as they move down the hall.
“Don't worrie, Arokos... Were almost to the main gate.” said Guzz with a harsh sound. Guzz drop Arokos for a moment to open the main doors. Smoke fly out of the room and for a second. Arokos see something he wish he would never had seen. His teacher, Ike the master of storms was imple with a giant rod with the a skull on top of it.
“come on Arokos..” Guzz took Arokos once more and pulled outside. Arokos eyes widen to see his home is burning, half of the temp was destroyed. Some let the shields down. Arokos realize something. His order was murder from a ally.
>> No. 7560
I'm sorry, but that was terrible.

There are way too many grammatical errors for me to even list. I really don't think you have an understanding of verbs in the English language. Even if that was corrected, your sentences don't vary and are not interesting.
Is English your first language?
>> No. 7561
>>7560
So you CAN post negative criticism.

I recommend reading Doom: Repercussions of Evil (I still don't know why that story isn't a sticky here) to get a better grasp of this particular writing style.
>> No. 7572
The 'XD' gives OP away as a troll, you silly persons.


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I can't decide if this should go here, or /mind/. it kind of relates to both, i think.

Here's my problem: I want to be a writer. I'm most of the way through high school now, and I've basically considered no possible future *except* being a writer since the third grade. However, in that time, I've written basically nothing. At the start I wrote really shitty fanfiction, tried writing original short fiction, which, in retrospect, was equally shit, and never finished, and now I can't even make myself do that. So, my question is, how do I drop this stupid pipe-dream and move on? The idea of officially and completely quitting at this feels terrible, but it's just going nowhere. What should i do?
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>> No. 7566
I once quit my job so i could focus on being a writer...

Didn't happen. Ran out of the money I'd saved to attempt it, two years of expenses, and didn't end up writing anything of value.
>> No. 7567
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7567
"...these dreams reminded me that, since I wished, some day, to become a writer, it was high time to decide what sort of books I was going to write. But as soon as I asked myself the question, and tried to discover some subjects to which I could impart a philosophical significance of infinite value, my mind would stop like a clock, I would see before me vacuity, nothing, would feel either that I was wholly devoid of talent, or that, perhaps, a malady of the brain was hindering its development. "

-Marcel Proust

Since this is /lit/ I'm going to make a book recommendation: In Search of Lost Time. The entire novel's about the narrator's becoming a writer, among other things.
>> No. 7568
>>7567
I've Swann's Way sitting on my desk. I don't want to read it because then I'll feel compelled to buy the other five or so books in that series. I just don't have that kind of money right now.


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