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  1. Coursework Help: Dostoyevsky and poetry recommendations?

    Hi,

    I'm currently doing A-level coursework and I'm looking for some poetry recommendations. My essay title is based around 'the search for a spiritual identity' and so far I've chosen two texts...
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    Books for 'the Dark Night of the Soul'?

    I'm looking for books that either address spiritual crises or are good to read when you're in the middle of one. I'm searching for books with more of a comforting message/resolution, so that rules...
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    Stream-of-Consciousness Poem

    Sunbright burstlike particles
    Particular electron, electronic vapour
    Sucks vapid ringrolls of tapering
    Matter, sheets of sparkbeams,
    Silent like time stretched out
    To everything, enclosing ...
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    Thank you for the advice and recommendations.

    Thank you for the advice and recommendations.
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    I saw a 'young adult' book with the title,...

    I saw a 'young adult' book with the title, ''Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You''. I thought it was quite nice.
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    I second this. If on a Winter's Night a...

    I second this.

    If on a Winter's Night a Traveller.
    Everything is Illuminated
    Love in the Time of Cholera
    The God of Small Things
    Brave New World (was this taken from The Tempest?)
    At...
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    How to write short stories?

    I stopped writing these when I started senior school, so I have no idea where (or how) to begin. I'd be grateful for any advice on length, plot/subject matter, pacing etc. My main problem is how to...
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    I cry all of the time when I read books. Not...

    I cry all of the time when I read books. Not always proper crying, but definitely eyes-filling-with-tears kind of crying. They don't even have to be sad or moving; most of the time it's caused by...
  9. Thread: A Poem

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    A Poem

    So...I wrote something. This is rather embarrassing, but it's worth a try. The poem isn't meant to make exact sense, it's supposed to be more of a descriptive thing.

    Ice it slips
    into a drip of...
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    I didn't know that. That's very impressive.

    I didn't know that. That's very impressive.
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    Pablo Neruda is fantastic. The Soviet...

    Pablo Neruda is fantastic.

    The Soviet Union/Stalin poems seem to be of lower quality than his other writing, and I'm sure it's not just because of the subject matter. If they were his earliest...
  12. I'm uncertain about all of these suggestions, but...

    I'm uncertain about all of these suggestions, but it's worth a try.

    Catcher in the Rye, Salinger
    The Immoralist, Andre Gide
    Notes from Underground, Dostoyevsky
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    Good list. I've only read about 27 of those books...

    Good list. I've only read about 27 of those books and the rest are ones I've got on my ever-growing 'to read' list. I'm SO glad to see Notes from Underground on there because I often feel it gets...
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    What is this short story?

    I was given a short story by an English teacher many years ago. I loved it, but now I've forgotten what it was called and who wrote it. But this is the information I have (or I think I have) about...
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    ''The sun shone, having no alternative, on the...

    ''The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new''. Murphy by Samuel Beckett.

    I also like Finnegans Wake's opening, ''riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay,...
  16. Thread: Hello

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    Thanks for the welcome! Rural-ish means I can see...

    Thanks for the welcome! Rural-ish means I can see cows and a river from my window, but not the Yorkshire moors Ted Hughes wrote about. Basically, it's a village which isn't too far from a proper town.
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    My username comes from Finnegans Wake! My...

    My username comes from Finnegans Wake!

    My advice would be to break it down into small sections (though I suppose you do that anyway when you read novels), perhaps read a summary before you begin,...
  18. Thread: Hello

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    Hello

    I'm Emily. I live in a rural-ish part of England and when I'm not reading I like music and visiting beautiful places with old architecture. I think that's quite boring for a teenager, but I don't...
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