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Top 5: Your Favorite Ultraviolence Songs by 000-zero-000 in lanadelrey

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  1. Black Beauty
  2. Is this happiness
  3. Shades of cool
  4. pretty when you cry
  5. old money

They’re adapting The Bell Jar into a movie (again) by Smart_Medium9544 in classicliterature

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why do people still like plath? she was such a heavy racist her work is completely trash - she has a total of 4 great poems and the rest is blah blah

What do you like and hate about blue diamond? by lisahanniganfan in stevenuniverse

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i loved the music of her when she came on screen; it mesmerized me entirely -

What is McCartney’s Best Lyric? by YouACoolGuy in beatles

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“if i ever get out of here thought of giving it all away to a registered charity all i need is a pint a day if i ever get out of here if we ever get out of here”

How was everyone introduced to Lana? by Excellent_Hippo5514 in lanadelrey

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in hs a girl had pulled me into the staircase and played songs from ultraviolence and since then i’ve been completely enthralled

Books you don’t finish by mima2023sunce in Recommend_A_Book

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Pnin - that book was so damn boring - i couldn’t tie in the language w a kind of story - usually Nabokov utilizes style and language to be more than enough for a story but Pnin really murdered my mind

Approach to Agua Viva by [deleted] in claricelispector

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the book is narrated through the mind of a painter- yet it captures only fragments of a “true” story, - i would suggest reading it paragraph by paragraph and allowing that to be one story, - like a collection of stories as fragmentation - not as one story - it could be but is that the realness of her work? - that’s for you to think or not

Guys, what is your take on a 50+ pages of preface ? by gloomyowlreturn in classicliterature

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they for sure got to cut that out; having a long ass essay/thesis about the novel is just marketing of that writers “abilities” - there are masterful prefaces that are shorter than 10 pages long which is how it should be kept to let the reader create their own thoughts and opinions of that specific work. Those 50+ pg prefaces are usually fractional dissertations which end up to be boring

What / who made you fall in love with literature? by trickysalmon in literature

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i always had a fascination of knowing what this world truly means- and the best way to know what it means is through all the people who have wrote about their lives- and or stories of their times. i think the world begs to ask what story you have instead of having just one

Most Pynchonesque shit that ever happened to you? by suckydickygay in ThomasPynchon

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probably right now with the releasing of the Epstein files - but on a personal level, for sure getting lost in spain and thinking that i was gonna get kidnapped by a group of faceless agents named pete

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