ITT: Books with really good plots/characters/settings/whatever, but the person writing it fucking kills it
kills it in a good way or a bad way?
>>9610077
bad way
in pic related the author's writing style is so boring and inconsistent the book is litterally ruined
>>9610085
the writing is great tf are you on
What's the best way to understand how to write a believable female protagonist? As the only boy in a family of five yet having predominantly male friends I have always seen a couple of very subtle but important differences between the ways men and women make decisions and I wonder if there's any guide that considers this also
>>9609971
Just don't even think about it. No one will be able to tell.
my trick is to make them kinda like neurotic insecure dudes but with high moral expectations and a bit of naivete..
i would probably approach the character as the individual human being they are and try to make them believable as that. of course you have to consider gender influences but while all women are exposed to some of the same things (which you will need to think about and consider) different women deal with those in wildly different ways. maybe try observing how women behave in your environment and think about what their motives may be.
What separates a good piece of literature from a bad piece of literature?
cum
Opinions. And maybe grammar.
>>9609927
craftsmanship
Qu'est-ce que vous n'aimez pas sur les Anglais?
la poesie
>>9609859
Chez, not sur. Prepositions are hard, I know.
>>9609996
I feel like that response may be smarmy, but can you explain why chez instead of sur? I'm a wage slave trying to learn a language in my free time.
Hi /lit/. I'm an aspiring novelist and I'm looking for a company that can do animated novel covers. I recently paid a company muh hard earned shekels and the end product was some generic stock image bullshit (wasn't mentioned on the site but was mentioned in emails but I was a dumb ass and missed that). Regardless, the cover was offensively bad in quality and I'm looking for a new company that does good work.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Can't you do it by yourself or just ask a friend who knows that shit? fuck companies.
>>9609589
Don't have friends who know that stuff and I'm not very good with drawing, sadly.
>>9609570
>animated novel covers
wtf? you can print gifs now?
How do you go about finding books that are out of print, or ran in fairly small or modest printing numbers?
I love this book I got from my library, it came from a university far afield, and I can't find it available anywhere in doing a cursory google search.
Author? Title?
>>9609567
have you tried abebooks
>>9609992
the author is Erik Moltke, he was a premiere authority on runic study in Denmark
the work itself is the last one he worked on "Runes and their origins, Denmark and elsewhere," perishing some days after putting his name to the foreword
I have never read anything past harry potter in my life, lately I have found new intrest in literature but i dont know where to start. What are some must read book that everyone should read?
>>9609334
The Quran.
>>9609334
Well, what do you want to read? Do you want to discover the great fictions humanity wrote? Do you want to understand philosophy? Do you want a powerful aesthetic experience? You should read things you think you might enjoy and start from there.
I'll still give you my personal advice: people always say "Start with the greeks", and it's kind of a meme, but there's some truth to it. Plato is a great and fun introduction to philosophy if you want to go in that way. I should also add that, at least in France, a lot of young people who have an interest in literature read The Stranger (at least half of the /lit/ guys I know had some kind of "click" by reading The Stranger). Finally, I've always thought Confederacy of Dunces is a fun read and might be a good "newbie book". But that's only advices from my own experience, maybe they're bullshit.
>>9609334
Look up one of our charts on the lit wiki
Just watched this and enjoyed it. Should I read the book
why would you read a book
>>9609249
/lit/ in a nutshell
>>9609277
Most people here actually read plots from Wikipedia and enjoy playing the literary critic.
>Pip isn't allowed to learn the identity of his benefactor while pursuing his goal of becoming a gentleman but still keeps questioning their nature
This feels so Kafkaesque, I'm legitimately not surprised Kafka was a fan of Dickens considering Amerika kind of feels like a reverse of Great Expectations in a way, does anyone agree?
Great Expectations was shit and Picaresques are garbage
>>9609133
>"White males like Dickens are evil!"
fuck off feminist
>>9609133
I actually enjoyed great expectations. Say what you want about it but it was a every comfy read. The plot twist at the end was very good as well.
Worth a read?
>>9609095
It depends; what are you looking to get out of it?
Also, by "radical right", Mayer means strong Randian libertarian views, so if you're expecting to learn about the KKK or neo-Nazi groups, that is not what it's about.
>>9609095
I don't know that "the GOP is owned and operated by a handful of rich cunts" is really groundbreaking news
>>9609155
So are the Democrats, it's just a different handful of rich cunts.
And, really, the richest cunts are giving oodles of money to both of them.
I'm a liberal and a Democrat but it pisses me off hearing ill-informed friends bitching and moaning about "the corporations and special interests".
The GOP has Las Vegas Sands and the Koch Brothers.
We have Fahr LLC and the Sierra Club.
Literally the same exact thing, just on the left rather than the right.
Give me some guidance here, /lit/.
I just published a poetry collection on Smashwords. I can't find anything good on book promotion because Google only shows corporate garbage advice from shitty blogs that are advertising their own books.
Is there any good way to advertise my work without looking/being too jewey?
>>9609078
offer it for free
Holding back, or trying to cultivate a mysterious or even remotely self-aware image is the wrong thing to do in today's world. Do everything you possibly can to draw attention to yourself, I'm serious. Advertisement is everything, unfortunately.
>>9609084
it's name your own price
What do, /lit/?
>>9609074
I was raised pentecostal. I have "the gift of tongues". Just not what he meant, hehe.
>>9609074
"lick off the blacking"
>>9609074
'lick off the blacking'
>he reads originals
pic related
Is there anything more pleb than reading books in the original language?
>jealous monoglots can only read books in the original language
>patrician polyglots like myself can read the works of Goethe in French, the masterpieces of Proust in the superior Russian, Chinese and Japanese works in the opposite language, etc., opening up new vistas of interpretation and understanding
I tried reading a book in the original language once, just to see what it's like being a pleb, and it was a suffocating and nauseous experience. I pity those for whom there is no other option.
wtf I hate reading now!!
>>9609042
no anon you hate originals now
Shakespeare is best in the original Klingon.
Subverting the law, so that it doesn't realize that it has been subverted is an "art" that demands study, training, observation and sophisticated skills. Do not confuse the professional with the bandit, since the existence of the professional and his acts never reaches the general knowledge of the population or the law.
Pickpocket, lockpicking, manipulation of security systems, concealment of items, hitman methods, espionage, financial fraud, tax evasion, stock leverage, insider information, hacker, cracker and etc... all require specific technical expertise.
The study of these techniques so that any crime can be executed without leaving evidence and clues represents the maximum level of study of any method they involve (cutlery, electronics, programming, accounting and etc.)
Recommended reading:
>Hitman - A Technical Manual For Independent Contractors
Link: http://thehomegunsmith.com/pdf/HitMan.pdf
>MIT Guide to Lock Picking
Link: https://www.lysator.liu.se/mit-guide/MITLockGuide.pdf
>Social Engineering - The art of human hacking
Link: http://ricardogeek.com/docs/taohh.html
>The Book of Bad: Stuff You Should Know Unless You're a Pussy
Link: Unfortunately i didn't find any sites that hosted the book online.
The books posted on this thread are "solely and exclusively" for academic purposes and it is clear that such methods are not used against you, if any anon is to risk putting the knowledge presented here in practice, I wish you good luck (or bad luck in the case ), Just don't come to blame this thread.
This thread is also open for other book suggestions.
Would you have other books to suggest?
>>9608594
>Study criminals methods
.........Okay...
>>9608645
bumping this
>got a job at local bookstore playing the Harold Bloom
>tfw almost got fired for joking about DFW's suicide and making a kid cry
What's the fun of this job if you can't go too far?
Oh well, still a decent pay for sucking Shakespeare's cock and making fun of plebs.
>>9608563
>made a joke in pleb detector thread about local book store harold bloom's
>mfw it's real
>>9608563
>An inherent part of the universal aesthetic value is making plebs cry
You're doing Bloom's (and YHWH's, you know how he pronounces it) work, son.
I will never not laugh at the greatly deserved ridicule of this hack fraud. Why bother reading someone who couldn't even live with himself?
The only sincere moment in the life of David Foster Wallace was when he kicked away the chair. The rest of his life was a lie, the new sincerity was a joke whose punchline was the creaking of a leather belt around the rafter.
His literary career was a menagerie of self help lies told to keep his depression at bay - the audience pussy and drugs were the ghosts at that feast of hypocrisy.
The depression was warranted because behind all the gimmicks and the self awareness and the bandannas was no discernible talent