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What's the best way to start writing a novel?
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"Once upon a time"
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>>9161460
simply epic
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Be talented (Joyce-tier) or go home
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Anyone else read it?
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Honestly it was rather bad - The book tried to blend different genres- there was survival horror, some realistic parts then some more fiction and in the end it came out really patched up. 6/10 book.
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Heard a friend say it's bad because apparently it just goes from one place to the next.
So does the game, but it works really well there. One of the last games that I really got sucked into the world with.
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What does /lit/ think of comics/graphic novels?
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It's a great medium for readers who are not sufficiently mentally developed to consume and enjoy literature, e.g. children, intellectually disabled, American adults.
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>>9160504
The only good one is Watchmen otherwise it's a terrible medium.
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>>9160530
Is it impossible then to enjoy literature and graphic noivels alike? They both have their merits and both can be used to richly tell a story
Write what's on your mind
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We must become pitless censors of ourselves
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I want to twist off my head and offer it up to the lord. 'Please, send him somewhere else', I'll plead to thing.
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is really late here but im not sleepy and i think staying up late in this place makes me suicidal, or maybe it is because i started to take a higher dose of my meds because my idiot doc told me to do it
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/sffg/ - Science Fiction & Fantasy General
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Fantasy
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>https://i.imgur.com/r688cPe.jpg
General:
>https://i.imgur.com/igBYngL.jpg
Flowchart:
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Science Fiction
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>https://i.imgur.com/A96mTQX.jpg
>https://i.imgur.com/IBs9KE8.jpg
General:
>https://i.imgur.com/r55ODlL.jpg
>https://i.imgur.com/gNTrDmc.jpg
NPR's Top 100 Science Fiction & Fantasy Books:
>https://i.imgur.com/IJxTQBL.jpg
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what did you think of the blade itself
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I really want to visit Angland. Maybe visit Lundon where I can have a bit of fash and chops while watching Manty Pythun while sipping taa.
My point is it's dull and unimaginative, and I have no idea why /sffg/ recommends it so much.
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>Fantasy
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>>https://i.imgur.com/r688cPe.jpg
is the wheel of time /lit/ approved?
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Is it as good as people say it is? Is it comparable other modern classics (Harry Potter, ASOIAF, etc)?
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>s it as good as people say it is?
I may have been here too long, but all I've heard is that it is rambling genre fiction with huge tracts where the story doesnt move forward, and a main character that is not likeable, and is in fact a mary sue.
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>>9155885
it's awful
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no, even harry potter kicks the shit out of it
at least harry potter doesnt have much purple prose. harry potter had a functioning plot in which things happened, too
What's the one (1) book I read in front of a man to attract him? He's like you, /lit/
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The 120 Days of Sodom
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I'd talk a cutie that's reading Henry Miller
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Is reading the entirety of this book really needed to get into philosophy? 2017-02-24 04:28:48 Post No.9151254
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Is reading the entirety of this book really needed to get into philosophy?
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Is $60-$70 and 1800 pages really needed just to START philosophy? I'm not a very heavy reader but am interested in the subject. Every time I've asked or seen someone ask about it they always get pointed to this or to Aristotle's work (which there seems to be a lot more of)
Surely there must be a select few works that is required while the rest is "if you want more" tier
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You don't need to read every dialogue.
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>required
There's nothing required about the greeks, don't fall for the meme. Read Russell's summary on them from 'History' and move on, unless you are specifically interested in greek tradition and culture.
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Do you just want a intro to philosophy?
I'd pick up The Story of Philosophy by Magee if you just want to "get in".
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how do i recognize and eliminate overused/empty phrases and words?
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Strunk's rule 13: omit needless words
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ctrl+f
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>>9166040
omit needless words
avoid repeat the same expression to the point of redundancy
edit, edit, edit. Revise, revise, revise.
expand your vocabulary every once in awhile
revisit queer and unfamiliar words you learned lately to refresh them in your mind
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Holy... I want more...
>This is why people over the age of 16 should consider “young adult fiction” bad. This class of literature, which would be more accurate to term “teen fiction” or “preteen fiction,” encompasses pop-culture juggernauts like Harry Potter, Twilight, and The Hunger Games.
>The narrative is similar in such works. A teenager exists in a society full of mean and boring authority figures that deny his special nature. He goes on a journey of self-discovery to find that it’s actually his special snowflake-ness that ends up proving the adults wrong and saving the day.
>It’s no accident that this sounds like the daydream of a child pouting through a time-out. Her parents instruct the child to think about what she’s done, but in her mind there are no questions; the world is unfair for no reason. What is good is what makes her comfortable and what is bad is what makes her feel upset.
>To think this way is to be juvenile, something ten-year-olds cannot be faulted for. Neither can we fault the novels written with this audience in mind for being cartoons, archetypes stripped of any questions at all. Harry Potter is the good guy and Voldemort is the bad guy. Harry Potter wasn’t appreciated by his mean adoptive parents, but he showed them by becoming a magical hero. No amount of critical thinking can glean more than this.
http://thefederalist.com/2017/02/27/young-adult-fiction-like-harry-potter-taught-millennials-stupid-ways-view-politics/
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>amazed by that level of insight and analytics
Are you actually 16?
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That's the biggest sin of children's shit-lit imo. I've never been much taken in with the argument that simple prose, bad writing is going to be harmful. It's the emotional and moral shallowness of the works that's the real harm. People's world view is in part created by the fiction they consume, no matter how much you try to teach kids the difference between fact and fantasy.
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What a pathetic and bitter reduction of storytelling.
It's literally so generic it can be used against any piece of fiction.
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>Wild eyes were another sign. It is something I have seldom seen — the expression of an ecstatic state — though much is foolishly written of them, as if they grew like Jerusalem artichokes along the road. The eyes are black, right enough, whatever their normal color is; they are black because their perception is condensed to a coal, because the touch and taste and perfume of the lover, the outcry of a dirty word, a welcome river, have been reduced in the heat of passion to a black ash, and this unburnt residue of oxidation, this calyx, replaces the pupil so it no longer receives but sends, and every hair is on end, though perhaps only outspread on a pillow, and the nostrils are flared, mouth agape, cheeks sucked so the whole face seems as squeezed as a juiced fruit; I know, for once Lou went into that wildness while we were absorbing one another, trying to kiss, not merely forcefully, not the skull of our skeleton, but the skull and all the bones on which the essential self is hung, kiss so the shape of the soul is stirred too, that's what is called the ultimate French, the furtherest fuck, when a cock makes a concept cry out and climax; I know, for more than once, though not often, I shuddered into that other region, when a mouth drew me through its generosity into the realm of unravel, and every sensation lay extended as a lake, every tie was loosed, and the glue of things dissolved. I knew I wore the wild look then. The greatest gift you can give another human being is to let them warm you till, in passing beyond pleasure, your defenses fall, your ego surrenders, its structure melts, its towers topple, lies, fancies, vanities, blow away in no wind, and you return, not to the clay you came from — the unfired vessel — but to the original moment of inspiration, when you were the unabbreviated breath of God.
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gass is terrible
>inb4 nuh-uh
yes he is
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>>9163353
What a fat and disgusting ugly fuck
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Is it difficult being retarded?
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What are some good introductions to gnosticism?
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>>9162087
Manly P Hall
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>>9162087
I. P. Freely
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Rosenkreuz or bust
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What are some good books about adventure? So Far I'm thinking either The Hobbit, Moby Dick, The Illiad, or The Aneid.
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Watership Down
Cook, Hakluyt
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Gulliver's Travels
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>>9161993
Youth by Joseph Conrad
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Have you guys read any Romanian literature? Only asking those who aren't from Romania or Moldavia.
I always wanted to know what other people from other cultures think about Romanian literature.
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Romania has literature?
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American here. I don't think I've read any literature.
What do you recommend?
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Sorry op, but Romania is irrelevant.
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Why most of the male booktubers in booktube are homos? And most of them "review" the same YA shit.
Booktuber these days is like 80% female 10% homos and 10% trans and i would like to know if /lit knows some nice male booktubers
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reading books is a feminine activity
homosexuals have feminine brains go figure
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>>9160020
That guy is like 40/45 years old and still behaving like a fucking 15yo girl. Booktubers are just fucked up, they didn't grow and they don't want to.
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>>9160029
because people like to see the things they like on youtube to learn more about them and waste time. calm down faggot.