What's the purpose of a preface?
>>9141523
First impressions.
That's some nice boobs.
I'd put my <<preface>> between those bulky tomes, if you know what I mean.
I'm new to the book world. I've been at the library many times but I don't know what authors to look for. I used to watch a lot of films, and the ones that got to me recently are Funny Games (1997) and and Nekromantik. I'm looking for books in this style. Tense, descriptive, macabre, preferably about death. Very abrasive books. The equivalent of Harvey Milk. Preferably german authors since most of the books at the library I go to are written in german. However they could be others besides german. Can you guys help me out?
I can't but want to give you a bump.
>>9141491
If I could read German, I would read Paul Coelestin Ettighofer's Verdun, the Supreme Judgment. But I can't, so I havent.
>>9141843
Is the book related to my description?
Well my german is also bad, you'll see me with the duden nearby all the time
Has anyone else here been ostrichsized as a direct consequence of their intelligence. Since I was a child I have known that I am "different" in some vague existential sense that I have been unable to articulate until recently. But after years of routine rejection, dismissal, humiliation and underestimation I realized that I am simply fated to be counted among that post-posthumously esteemed minority of artists and other geniuses who often suffered in obscurity their entire lives before death granted them the adulation they so obviously deserved in retrospect. Does anyone even relate to what I'm saying here?
Are there any good books about this sort of thing?
"ostrichsized"
>>9141336
That's the joke, friend
>>9141333
>rejection, dismissal, humiliation and underestimation
If you were intelligent, these things wouldn't happen to you.
DUDE BOOZE LMAO
>>9141119
liberals and women BTFO
get the fuck off my board
>>9141119
How very dare you?
This reads just like a John Green book. or is it the other way around? How is this not YA?
- takes place at a school
- centers around a dysfunctional family
- socially awkward kids
- schoolyard fucking around
- DUDE WEED LMAO
Are you going to claim that Catcher in the Rye is a John Green book too?
>>9141134
no but it's definitely a YA book as well because of the themes.
DUDE FOOTNOTES LMAO
Any recommendations on books that teach you how to actually write poetry. I want to master different meters and develop an ear strong enough to pick out what is what from a few lines.
If you don't have a recommendation, pick a book near to you and write down a sentence or an assortment of words from the work and I'll try to produce a small metric piece about it.
Stephen Fry's The Ode Less Travelled is good if you just want a guide through major poetic forms without any fluff
Pound's ABC of Reading if you want a free verse advocate to tell you in pretentious 100 pages that you just have to b yourself and get educated in music
Coleridge and Pope. Read aloud.
>>9140904
What do the marks represent? Are the Pink U's vowels or consonants?
Are the Pevear and Volokhonsky translations just a meme due to marketing, or are they really the best Russian to English translations for Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky?
I feel like most people just say they are the best because they are the most recent, and they have had large amounts of money dropped on them for marketing in order to help that assumption.
I read that the Maude translation was approved by Tolstoy himself, and that P&V often simplify and modernize the text.
Thoughts? Is Garnett good enough for most people? Are we being duped by P&V?
>>9138370
I read the garnett translation and thought it was fine. It was pretty stiff but I imagine the russian version is pretty stiff too
Garnett is shit - anything is better. P&V are really good in terms of accuracy, but English text isn't spectacularly cohesive and the flow is not great at times. If you're OK with that, then go for it. Most autists here dislike it for these reasons, but then go over to next thread to recommend Lattimore for Homer, so you might as well disregard all the cocksuckers.
Garnett is unironically terrible.
So now that it is accepted fact across all peoples that Wittgenstein ended Philosophy, where do we go from here?
How should we live now?
>>9137950
In constant confusion, chasing language games.
>>9137956
Have you found yourself calm in therapy? Or has it failed you?
>>9137967
Let's have a look at these coloured spots and compare them with our mental image of the colour in question.
Can we talk about this? Have enough people finally slogged through it to hold a discussion?
Reading Jerusalem was one of the most satisfying literary experiences I've had in years. The dense, contemplative "day in the life" prose switching between characters and centuries every chapter, jumping to a jarring 400-page adventure novel establishing and exploring an entire cosmic mythos based on the inside jokes and imaginations of a couple thousand flat-squatters, basking in the extended picture of a band of children running around pinching pockets in the halls of eternity, only to reel itself in closing with a grand parade, and return the reader to even more dense, experimental, and laborious text that seems more a feverish love letter to Moore's personal heroes than a cohesive narrative. All of this condensing past a snapshot of crime and punishment in Northampton into a conclusive art exhibition and series of smoke breaks that wraps up the entire experience in a bow.
I can certainly see how people could be repulsed by his writing, given that Moore spent about 4 or 5 pages talking about the comic book hero Herbie Popnecker in the middle of what was essentially an ambling description of a woman walking around town yelling at people, but I enjoyed it wholeheartedly.
Do you think Moore succeeded? Where does jerusalem rank next to the meme trilogy? How long did it take you to get through the Lucia Joyce chapter?
Did youuuuu actually put the cover through GIMP's ink effect filter to tone down the cartoon vividness and avoid having all comments revolve around the picture and his having made his cover himself like a literal autist? It's a lovely cover though.
Here's what the 'Newlife' buildings actually look like
What's wrong with using Microsoft Word as your word processor? Why are some of you so adamant about using more expensive ones for your writing purposes? What gives?
uhh just use wordpad
>>9137477
Why?
>not using LaTeX for complete formatting control
Pleb
What are some good /lit/-based YouTube channels?
>>9136677
School of Life
Thug Notes
Crash Course
>>9136677
not this nigger
Contrapoints
Paul Joseph Watson
Learn Liberty
The Black Ponderer
Alright, so I'm a petty person and I forgot about this thread but was looking at it in the archive and saw this asshole had responded to me saying Gravity's Rainbow is better than Mason & Dixon with
>>9129927
>Beethoven may as well stopped after the 5th symphony
>all that is important is that people know I can casually rank books and non chalently metaphorically knock them out of existence with whimsy because it makes my intellect appear extremely supremely legit if it seems as if I have read 2 difficult books, and can say one was not as good as the other
>Shakesphere is not that good you know *at cocktail party, guest in circle says "what" and moves in closer* Shakesphere only really needed to write 1 play, his best one, I have read more than that though you know, but if I were you I wouldnt even read his 2nd 3rd or 4th best works... because I read them, and I think they are not that good, certainly not as good as his best, unfortunately, I actually visited his grave once (friends of the family) and I banged on the dirteth that layseth betwixt my bronzzedd feat, and pounded the Earth screaming "William, o' dearest Will... why, musteth you hath piqueth so soonth!" I chanted towards the heavens, and swear I nearly saw a ghost... in fact that would have been the 4th most inspired ghost I would have seen, hardly worth writing home about. So anyway, what do you ladies do?
"well I-"
"wait before I forget, let me tell you about this one time I went polar bear hunting on skis, here hold my drink for a second, I have to act this out"
Fuck you, asshole. I'm not saying you shouldn't read M&D or that it's not great, just that it's overrated here. Not only that, but I didn't even read your entire post, so fuck you and your attempt to be funny.
>>9135075
Please learn to greentext newfag. Also, Mason and Dixon is better
>>9135090
>Please learn to greentext newfag.
I've been here for 5 years, I know how to put a fucking carat before certain lines, I'm just not autistic.
I'm willing to discuss the merits of the book against each other, I even put GR was better "IMO" (in my opinion, in case you don't know, newfag) i'm just making this thread because I'm a petty person and couldn't handle not responding back to the butthurt untermensch.
>>9135093
>carat
by which i mean greater-than sign
Greentext the plot of your new novel, it's not like is going anywhere.
>>9134449
>fat nerd who posts on imageboard all day gets hit by car
>wakes up in an alternate universe
>he's no longer a fat nerd but a chad with a huge dick
>all the girls want to suck his dick and get creampied by him
>he beats up a bunch of guys with his big muscles
>becomes quarterback of his college football team and gets drafted #1 overall by the new england patriots to be coached by one of the greatest ever nfl coaches
>tom brady tries to murder our chadtagonist but chad knows martial arts and beats up brady and his goons
>brady's wife tries to get the d but she's kind of old now and our hero only fucks tight young sluts who can barely take his massive cock
>he wins 18 consecutive super bowls and goes down as the greatest athlete of all time
>the end
>>9134491
Absurdist fantasy is a vastly underrated genre, looking forward to your book anon!
>>9134449
>60s
>Black man goes insane and rapes the daughter of the white man he’s working for
>Goes to the court but it’s claimed insane by the judge
>Gets interned into a medical institution
>stream of consciousness in the madhouse
>White man spends all the money of his farm into trying of getting the black man into prison
>fails
>stream of consciousness of the white man
>Miles away in Paris Derrida uses his deconstruction to deconstruct both men and writes a book
>?????
>finishes book
>wonders why he wasted time on something that doesnt benefit him in any single way
>well.. my bros at /lit/ say its good so its a time well SPENT! :)))
drop the book and start doing something more productive
drop the book and go live life
dont fall for the reading fiction meme
DONT DO IT
DROP THE BOOK
>>9140652
>fell for the meme and read infinite jest
tick tock
youll die a virgin.. my dude!
>>wonders why he wasted time on something that doesnt benefit him in any single way
But I don't do that
> his book deal has fallen through and now they refuse to publish it
What will happen next, /lit/?
you going to >>>/pol/
Fuck off Milo, nobody cares.