I'm thinking of writing a sci fi book where the protagonist has no memories whatsoever.
She doesn't know what oranges are, or what rain is, or what her own face looks like, for example. She is provided with words for these things by an implanted computer, so she can communicate if necessary, but otherwise she has to blunder ahead with no knowledge or contextual understanding whatsoever.
Now, I'm writing this for economic reasons, even as I try to keep it as tasteful as possible, so I have to ask: is this a premise that average readers ('normies") can accept, or would they be unable to identify (self-insert) with such a character?
>>9627565
That sounds like a facetiously pedantic and absurd concept.
>>9627565 (OP)
Perhaps. The feeling of aloofness is one that normies tend to connect with on these narratives (think MC on Hunger Games or KStew on Twilight, they both are relatively socially inept).
I'd recommend you read and incorporate some aspects that you see on every YA novel (love triangle, mysterious background and dark secret, super powers, etc.).
Other than that I recommend you find some ""deep"" theme to insert in your narrative, like the intimate relation of the self with the conscious and the memory or whatever. Why you would you that in a YA novel? In order to give some rec with the critics (Seven reasons to read Anon's New Novel: "NUMBER FIVE, Its not just an action pack romantic adventure, it tackles deep philosophical problems").
You should make the theme obvious though. Open a chapter and comment on it. Speak directly to the reader.
Good luck.
PS. Your story reminds me of that netflix series of a tattooed woman who lost her memory but fights like a navy seal or whatever. Watch it and try to not make it exactly the same.
t. ghost writer for some YA second level author. Don't ask I'm not telling who it is. Take it or leave it.
>>9627691
Yes, if I spent the entire novel on that, instead of using it as a starting point. But I'm not sure if it should be my starting point.
>>9627693
This is something to think about.
I suppose it's normal for a protag to be "humble" in some way, while getting buried in glory and adoration and being very modest about it.
What's your opinion of large casts? Should I focus mostly on the heroine, or is more ever actually more? I'm tempted, but it doesn't seem like an economical use of the limited wordcount. I suppose I'm answering my own question, but I'd like to hear your opinion.
Are there any sources or individual pages that could provide me reliable information on natural and formal sciences?
I am starting to get interested in maths, physics, chemistry and biology and want to learn to solve problems in these fields
I am willful to learn but never truly paid attention in class, what I learned was because I was forced out of bad school notes, now that it's summer I wanted to catch up some material and most of all make up for the things I missed as I'm growing interest for them but can't find any pages where I could start anew from the very beginning and learn until I gain understanding to their different approaches, I think I speak for all when I say that most of my confusion comes from the fact that mathematics later take up a form where they don't use (understandable) logic anymore
I am also interested in astronomy, earth science, materials science, history of the universe, natural philosophy, theoretical linguistics, logic and theoretical computer science if there are any pages dedicated to these
Wrong board.
Try >>>/sci/
>>9627385
Just pick up a college textbook on any science and start reading the chapters and DO the problems if you really want to learn the material. And if ur not disciplined enough for that then take a class ya knucklehead. Obvious answer?
So I want to get into Lovecraft
Which book should I read first, what's the order?
start with this
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/On_the_Creation_of_Niggers
>>9627383
Penguin's three volumes selection of his stories is great, you could just pick up the first one and read they as come.
The Call of Cthulhu is the best place to be.
I have this in my collection of charts from this board. I can't experimentally vouch for it.
What do you all think of this book? all i can say is wow. he has a knack for describing those fleeting, strange, subtle emotions with a brilliant clarity and poignance. the arch of the story is simultaneously reminiscent of a beethoven symphony and a jackson pollack painting. 11/10, would read again. pic unrelated
Charlie M. Brownian Motion is still autocommitted to the crack halfway house, but asks for a tour anyway, which is enthusiastically conducted by Mrs. Benigna Polyp,1 dressed in a mauve Star Trek uniform with cargo pockets large enough to hold ammunition for her Kalashnikov. ‘We are really a house in utero, dedicated to the crack connoisseur,’ says Mrs. Polyp. ‘We were featured last month in Crack Aficionado magazine.’ Brownian Motion likes the curtains, a jaunty ensemble of synthetic rayon and polyester2 in Messerschnitt silver and black.
1. Not to be confused with Benjamin Plop, whose popular nautical shindigs often brought the fish police.
2. No actual need for a footnote here.
>>9627346
what the fuck is this shit?
The book isn't gibberish, and it isn't actually all that pretentious -- a lot of the people who like it are, and Wallace might have been a few years before he wrote it, but it's pretty good. A lot of the entertainment value comes from the fact that you can look closely at pretty much any clause line sentence paragraph page section or chapter and find that it ireally is working hard to signify something. A lot of energy gets spent on metafiction and decoration, but not like a huge amount. It's NOT a Pollock painting, it's more like Bosch.
>One room has twenty-nine Gauguins crammed on its walls. (I once again came
to the realization - inasmuch as this term is applicable to my rapid sampling
of this great collection - that Gauguin's paintings seem hostile to me, directing
all the hate against me that a non-Jew can feel toward Jews.) [Moscow Diary]
what did Walter Benjamin mean by this?
mental illness
jews HATE him. this painter channels antisemitic hostility with a simple trick.
>>9627353
whats the trick?
Who was in the wrong here?
>>9627026
Reading in bed:
>Do left
Reading at your desk:
>Do right
reading in the bathroom:
>only scrolls
>>9627074
Literally backwards
sup /lit/ do any of you like baseball books. I just read Class A Baseball in the middle of everywhere and really liked it. It was about an MFA fag who spent a summer traveling with this minor league baseball team in Iowa and I thought it was great.
Does anyone else know of elite baseball or sports books?
>>9627019
The novelization of "the sandlot" and "rookie of the year" by the trumpet book club is a great use of your allowance money.
>>9627038
I prefer non fiction books but i will look into them. I just like reading the human drama about guys slaving away in the minor leagues for just a cup of coffee in the bigs
>>9627046
I was just joking around. Those are childrens books.
Serious response: Have you read moneyball?
Who hurt him?
Reality and science and basic economics and actually working for a living and rationality and human nature and math and successful people and western civilization and traditional morals and master morality and individualism and
Max Stirner
is 4chan the heroin of the digital age?
>>9626851
no im pretty sure heroin is still the heroin of the digital age.
>>9626851
4chan is the Moe's Tavern of the digital age. In past centuries lonely dweebs would sit in dank shitholes and argue about nonsense while wallowing in failure and misery, now we can do that without even walking down the street and with far more fellow losers than anybody had access to before.
I think moot might have once made the Moe's comparison before in an interview or some such but I don't really remember.
[varg face] stop making vague comparisons which reveal nothing
what do your peers read, anons?
>>9626823
Trick question. //They] read what I read, have read what I've read, are wanting what I lack.
More or less.
>>9626823
the comments on worldstar hip hop videos
the headlines of default subreddits
the names of brands in advertisements
that's what they read
Anything other than books
1: The world is everything that is the case.
2: What is the case, the fact, is the existence of breakfast foods.
3: The logical picture of breakfast is the egg.
4: The egg is the significant proposition.
5: Propositions are breakfast-functions of elementary propositions. (An elementary proposition is a breakfast-function of itself.)
6: The general form of breakfast-function is: [G,R,E,E(N)].
7: Whereof Hazel cannot speak, thereof Hazel must eat.
>doesn't mention cheerios
eggs arent that good for us. you should be a real baller and have steak for breakfast every day. i guarantee this will get you laid.
>>9626779
>i guarantee this will get you laid.
how so?
also, op what the heck are you talking about?
A few days ago, another anon and I started doing these 'one off' writing challenges. The framework of the challenge was simple. Pick one setting , two emotions, and two nouns and write a short story around it less than 1000 words.
Would the folks of /lit/ be interested in something like this?
Also, is voice whoring something done on /lit/ boards (actual audio narrative)?
Story to follow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OD4hSJybyCY
Setting – Post Apocalyptic wasteland in a run down city Emotion – Elation and resentment Noun – Sword and Map
Wait.... …….did I actually find it? ……… Finally, I found it! I found some goddamn hope… finally!!
I'm so tired of living under the rule of a bunch of thugs. It was either go out and survive in this empty, brown, shithole that was once a city or just join a dirty tribe run by some street rat who got lucky with this whole bullshit nuke aftermath. Oh, he was offering free protection so, of course, I'll take that chance!
I'm tellin’ you, I feel like this guy was a fucking homeless nobody before all of this; he just gives off that feeling y'know?
The nuclear war gave him and everyone else a second chance in life which has its own benefits in a strange way, but no longer will I have to see that ugly mutt's face again! I've found all that I need in life on this little, dirty map. … … …
This baby leads a path to some weird sword only told in legends but… it's finally real!
I can just swing this thing and my problems…Gone! Like the hand of God parting the seas!
Hey, y'know what… maybe I don’t even have to live alone after this? Maybe I could just kill that scum bag that everyone keeps calling a leader. Now that I think about it, why do I hate him again? Oh, maybe just the fact that he's too nice to be a leader. He's too much of a pussy to be ruling over this many people. He doesn't deserve this! Everyone might agree with him, but I could see how much of a cripple he really is! All I need to do is execute him in front of everybody's eyes! YES!! After that, I need to do is intimidate and subjugate anyone else who is gonna’ stand in my way!
Well, I actually have something to look forward to… time to head out.
… … …
I'm half way there already! Hell yeah, I can taste the power already!
Weird though, nothing really attacked me so far....
It just seems so strange to finally be able to enjoy a nice drive for once. No raiders, wild animals, or anything like that. It almost feels like god himself is opening that path for me, and here I thought this would be some wild death race with others getting a map of their own.
I even brought my ‘shotty’ just in case, ha!
This is just too good, everything is just going so great for me and …I love it! I honestly deserve all of this! Everyone else could go to hell! No one understands how great I am, not even god himself, ha! Well baby… here I come!! I'm going to grab you so hard and swing you around a bit, ha! I crack myself up!
>>9626546
>Cont.
Heh.... Motorcycle broke down...
….just going to have to walk I guess….. Who needed that piece of junk anyways? It was bound to fall apart sooner or later, all I need is that beautiful sword, ha!ha!ha!
Aw hell I can't wait, I feel like I could sprint the whole way there! Why do I need it? I have no idea. I just know it's what I wanted for a long time... I can't even think straight with this heat cookin’ me alive, but again, all I need is that sword.....
This air just smells so good right now, even with the radioactive fumes floating around, I could still smell that hope, heh heh ha! ha!
Hey, I never knew I was so funny.
… … …
Finally.....I'm here....where the hell is it though? I'm at the right location...it should be here. Heh seriously, where is it! This isn't very funny! The hell...WHERE IS IT!?!
……."You really are crazy huh?"
Who the hell said that?
What the hell is going on?
Just....JUST LET ME HAVE THIS! WHO ARE YOU! GIVE ME THE FUCKING SWORD!
Heh heh heh, why are you…guys… laughing at me? Stop, you're going to make me start laughing heh heh heh.... This isn't fair! Let me just find some fuckin’ joy for once... Just give me the thing I was looking for! ….. please…..
….."What are you looking for exactly?"
....I'm looking for the....the thing I just said…
…."Why did you even want it?"
For.....hope, I think…
…"What are you even hoping for?"
To leave…
>>9626538
>Setting
Car, Outskirts of Chicago
>Two Emotions
Distant, Worthless
>Two Nouns
Traffic, Death
Pic related may be used to narrow down an emotion with ease.
What is the actual best book on how to live life? I always feel like I have to do 10 things at all times. I hate that I don't spend all my time in hedonistic pursuits and also all my time on hard work. I feel cucked either way. In actual fact I spend my time in an unenjoyable inbetween state where I do no work yet procrastinate actual fun.
I waver between morality and amorality. I waver between having a naturalistic approach to everything and trying to be efficient as hell. Everyone else's opinion feels like an attack. Self help wavers between insightful and trite bullshit (mostly the latter).
I really hate considering psychology. I want to believe I have a free will even though I don't even feel like I have a consistent will, only changing wants.
>>9625965
Git gud
>>9625965
not a how to book, but what you describe is the classic faustian conflict. Read Faust, if you haven't already
>>9625965
>only changing wants
That is typical. If you actually have a choice between morality and amorality; if you believe you have what it takes to act without morals, beyond good and evil, then you should.
>about to go into a MA in English literature
>haven't done undergrad major in English literature
How fucked am I, lads?
How much do you know about literary theory and criticism? Cause your professors will be able to tell pretty quickly if you have no clue what you're doing.
>>9625925
Yeah, you're fucked.
>>9625957
Not much.
What should I read?
what is some nazbol fiction
>>9625871
the question in pic related applies to you, try again
>>9625880
I'm taking you to take the redpill instead of this egalitarian cuck nonsense
>>9625887
and i say i dont care you zionist nigger