You have until this thread 404s to explain why you haven't read the greatest book to come out in the last 7 years. I'm waiting anons.
>Levin's first novel, The Instructions, was selected by Powell's Indispensable Book Club[2] and The Rumpus Book Club.[3]
It's over, all other authors should just give up now.
>>9045439
>age 10
lel.
>>9045469
he gets older! the books 1400 pages
What are the actual intellectual/artistic benefits of reading poetry?
idk when im readin poetry or novels i feel like im wastin my time
not so with non-fiction
but i know thats a pleb way of thinkin so hopefully it goes away over time :)
>>9045348
It's just a distraction really, like women.
>>9045348
i dunno, inspiration, probably. that'd cover both bases i think.
What are some more modern Far-future science fiction novels that rely on poetic prose as opposed to Uber technical terms to convey (exa: The Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons).
Thanks in advance!
>>9045332
>wanting prose in an inherently utilitarian genre
what the fuck is the point? read sci fi for the ideas and cool shit. read FW for prose.
>>9045332
Favorite book ever!
I got Proust "search of the lost time" on my bookshelf. I need some motivation to read it.
Tried it a couple of time. Made it to page 54.
How do I finish this..?
It's In Search of Lost Time you knuckle-dragging philistine
There's some taboo censored shit that no one gets at the end that you won't get unless you've read everything before trust me.
>>9045367
You're cute
Ok, then..
Die. Just die. I hate pawnbrokers even to this day
>>9045197
>characters name is Raskolnikov
>character is a rascal
wow i thought hackstoevsky was supposed to be deep
>>9045197
fresh of the press
>>9045197
Is he trying to club her with the back of the axe, or is he too delirious to know the difference?
Just finished this. How the fuck am I supposed to spend the rest of my day? What do you do with yourself after reading something like that ending?
Sit and stare blankly in silent, transcendental contemplation.
Pick up something else if there's time, otherwise shitpost jack off and sleep.
>>9045079
binned that shit and moved on to the next meme
What's your favorite non-mainstream/outwordly writer /lit/?
alt-lit? you're asking about alt-lit?
well I'm going to have to go with my main man Tao then
dan brown lol
Does Gaddis count?
Which one do you prefer and why? What value do you think fiction provides that non-fiction doesn't, and viceversa? What do you think of books that mix both genres?
All of my life I've been quite balanced (I believe the majority of readers are), without paying too much attention to the distinction. But as of lately I've notice that some do pay attention to it: some think fiction is a waste of time, some think non-fiction is boring, etc.
I'm interested in your opinion.
>>9045006
>Which one do you prefer and why?
Fiction usually, I like a concise story that can deliver it's themes with an interesting and compelling story than a blatant book about X, there are exceptions though, I do enjoy philosophy texts but it really depends on a moon and focus
>What value do you think fiction provides that non-fiction doesn't, and viceversa?
Like said, I think it's about how compressed and concise it is, books like Lord of the Rings might be big as hell word-count wise, but it's still a compelling story about corruption and power with an interesting world made by a linguist expert
>What do you think of books that mix both genres?
I haven't read too many of those, I suppose Tolstoy stories could be seen as both considering they're fiction, historical and also examine Tolstoy's beliefs as an effect on the story, etc
I'm probably wrong about like half of this though im not very smart
The vast majority of what I read is fiction. I like the stories, different structures, and all that kind of thing. Usually I find non-fiction pretty boring, but I'd read history books if there wasn't the problem of being presented with distorted facts or complete fabrications. I guess with history you'd have to read many books on a single topic to get a clear picture of it, but with fiction it's sort of the point to be given the author's perspective.
>fiction/non-fiction dichotomy
it's all narrative, brother.except a lot of poetry and some drama, superior literary forms imho
What makes great prose-- vocabulary, long sentences, vast descriptions, etc.?
i hate all of that. for me it's crisp clear sentences that get to the point without unnecessary adornments or flowery language
Not meming here. Imo, it's being able to describe obscure or complicated yet relatable feelings in precise if unexpected ways, and making the mundane appear as beautiful without sounding cliche or melodramatic. It's all about that balance
post /lit/ pics
I have a weird syndrome that I cannot explain. I tend to avoid writing letters that go below the line as much as possible, letters such as: g, y, p and q. I find that my writing is repulsive when I include those letters. I don't know why. I often take hours to come up with substitute words that do not contain those letters. I don't know how to fix this.
Who else has weird writing syndromes?
nothing to do, but i write exclusively in upper case and have done so since i was a teenager. my lower case handwriting was hideous and almost illegible.
>>9044882
>I don't know how to fix this.
Try killing yourself
It's called obsessive compulsive disorder surely?
Hey, bought a new hardback recently and saw this symbol on the back. What does it mean? I've reverse searched and come up with nothing?
It means that Dear in the area will "turn up" without warning.
It means rocket might fly to doggo in the west
looks like a shaved anteater and a volume icon OP
I got curious but I gave up, even if you gave details I think the best thing would to look up the publisher and try to see if that's a common thing. My best guess would be that it's signaling there's an audio version of the book but who the fuck knows.
Pleasure is enemy of reason, as for example while having orgasm one cannot think about anything else. Do you agree with this statement by best philosopher Aristotle?
>>9044732
How can you disagree with it?
False equivalence fallacy
>>9044732
What? Sure you can. I've done it.
Is there a better post-modernist in South America?
>>9044669
Carpentier forever.
>>9044686
Carpentier wasn't a post-modernist. Literary movements work differently in non-English-speaking countries. There was a movement in LA called "Modernismo" during the 1880's through the turn of the century which was closer in spirit to a post-romantic late-Victorian (Tennyson, Browning) strain embodied by Rubén Darío. If anything, Carpentier should be classed with other Cuban writers (Lezama Lima, Sarduy, Guillén) who sought to incorporate the Imagist/Symbolist/Cubist technical aspects of Modernism (in the Anglo- sense) into the cultural milieu of the Afro-Cuban carnivalesque. Delirious, hyper-sensory, encyclopedic sure, but for some reason I can bring myself to call them "post-modernist" since they weren't working in that global-social vein, more historico-social. (It's like the old argument about how Sor Juana is "proto-feminist" or Rabelais is "proto-atheist" when those modes of thought were virtually unthinkable at that time.) Later Cuban writers have worked hard to show the forced nature of their works, how really everything was going to shit for a long time.
>>9044801
*can=can't
Well /lit/ im going to be honest I have never read a book in its entirety I get very invested in them leave of on a cliff hanger put my book mark in set it down to pick back up tomorrow then I never pick it up again. I'm not sure what it is but either way I ask for recommendations.
>pic is of the last book I read but didn't finish.
>>9044664
Start with the greeks.
>>9044683
Why should I start there?
>>9044701
This is how we roll here. No questions asked.