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>>9393336
Shadow Over Innsmouth.

>>9393336

Just get any one of his collections at the bookstore. He's not that difficult to get into.

>>9393336

https://www.amazon.com/Tales-Lovecraft-Joyce-Carol-Oates/dp/0061374601

This is an affordable selection of H.P Lovecraft's better stories with a decent introduction.

Get this, or check it out from the library, and if you like it you can but the Collected Works pretty cheaply.

Purple prose is prose that's verbose but doesn't achieve anything with that verbosity.

>>9393321
Thomas Pynchon is purple prose

>>9393321
What do you mean by "achieve"? Like just masturbatory flourish? Or style for style's sake?

That's a pretty vague request. Can you be more specific?

I just need any good book that's thought provoking, but also gruesome. Something relating to existentialism? I can't be too specific because being vague also means there is a subjectivity, therefore allowing there to be many options of books to choose.

>>9393343
Bataille

hello

I can't tell you about the best, but I can tell you what I've enjoyed:

Endo - Silence
Agutagawa - Roshomon and other stories
Murakama - wind up bird chronicle

I read some Mishima but thought it was lame

Mishima, Kawabata, Oe are all amazing

Mishima - The Temple of Golden Pavilion, you'll send me money later

Most people on this board are too lazy to write their own ideas, let alone somebody elses.

No. I don't have any ideas.

>>9393239
I came here once a month so you guys do my job for me.

And you can't stop me, Mwa hahaha

http://4chanlit.wikia.com/wiki/Recommended_Reading/Literature_by_type#Doorstoppers

>>9393079
The meme trilogy

>wants a big series
>won't read genre
>kek

>caring about prose in your papers
bitch what the fuck
just clearly state what you're trying to state

>>9393050
>2017
>possible to get less than an A on a paper
What do you usually get marked off for? Hard to give you any advice without knowing what you're doing wrong.

S T U P I D
F R O G P O S T E R

>>9392949
The value of books continues to decline with every year that passes.

Anything I write will just be a rehash of an idea someone else has had. And my book won't be read by even 100 people.

>>9392955
If you will work really hard on one idea, it will not be a rehash

>>9392949
yeah true
thx

Tú tienes que regresar a Hispachan.

Es sobre communismo?

>>9392912
Less burgers más español. Duele leerte.

>>9392846

Read Akutagawa's short stories! They are the closest thing to absolute perfection in that form!

Read instead of browsing /lit/.

How would it be different to base a book around a mythology instead of a set story?

For example, having a book be a pastiche of Greek mythology instead of a retelling of something specific like Hercules' labors or Odysseus's return home.

>>9392835
Aeolus warns Odysseus not to open the bag of winds. His crew does it anyway, and the ship ends up getting blown away from Ithaca, which prevent them from returning home.

- Circe warns Odysseus not to eat the cattle of Helios, but his men get hungry to they eat them anyway. Everyone other than Odysseus drowns in a shipwreck as a result.

- The Suitors of are repeatedly warned to leave Penelope alone, but they don't relent. Eventually Odysseus murders them all and even rips the balls off one of them (no joke).

There's actually a whole book with every single example of this which you can easily find at any bookstore, online retailer, or even for free online.

>>9393123
Thanks so much anon.

>>9392810
Why are you angry, anon?

>>9392833
I appreciate your interest, but there's no time to get into that. Do you have an answer for me?

>>9392810
No. Just drink until you pass.

>>9392783
>speculative realism
isn't that oxymoronic

>>9392783
seems freeing

>>9392787
Is Platonism not speculative?

No one?

"Nanavira Thera - Clearing the path" is a good book on Buddhism. Read introduction and the letters first.

I know you’re looking for nonfiction, but let me quickly recommend Laszo Krasznahorkai’s works, because they are extremely good, and about eastern philosophy.

"Seiobo There Below" is probably the pinnacle, but if you want something shorter "From the North by Hill, From the South by Lake, From the West by Roads, From the East by River" is also very good.

As is "The Prisoner of Urga", which is probably the roughest one. Someone with knowledge on meditation etc. told me that she felt it accurately captured the painfulness of (trying) it.

The market for short story collections and novellas is smaller than novels. I'd say a shortish novel, maybe ~200 pages, would be the most common debut.

>>9392818
fpbp
>>9392732
First guy is correct but writing an encyclopedic novel is a good marketing strategy nowadays. Although I don't think anyone should be writing books that long.

>>9392732
why is it that nobody on this board discusses submissions to agents? has everyone been rejected by agents so they're forced to submit to publications?

also, why the talk about page numbers? word count is what matters.