Post them.
>>9476712
Not exactly in favour, but if you're interested in the current state of democracy in the world, check out Joshua Kurlantzick's Democracy in Retreat, about the decline of developing nations in the 2000s after a decade of relative peace and hope of development in the 1990s.
>>9476712
The US constitution
>>9476712
Fuck off with macaroni
Are there any novels focused on it because I want to write about it but maybe some has done it better already and would like to read about it anyway.
>>9476589
Nobody? And of coures no YA shit
>>9476862
the circle. it's not technically YA but it reads like one.
just do it my dude dont give a FUCK about whoever else. personally dont know how you could approach or incorporate it without it being forced but im also not a writer
For native speakers of English, is it not better that we start with Shakespeare and the King James Bible rather than the Greeks?
Shakespeare read the geneva bible though...
>>9476647
He actually read a lot of Bibles other than the Geneva.
Adding a map to a fantasy book is good idea?
No. It's good inside cover art, but I can't remember ever using them. I've tried, but you have no connection to the place, or the names, so it just ends up being jumbled nonsense. I'm sure some people use them,if they're autistic enough, but honestly, where the characters are doesn't actually matter. Each scene happens within the setting. It doesn't matter if the setting is west of Jambala or north of Kendra.
Why not? I mean it is a fun exercise in creativity but that is about it.
How to understand surreal/abstract literature?
Cum in a jar of olive oil and water and grow a brain.
>>9476526
read carefully
Is Gerald of Rivia- Witcher the best fictional character ever created?
No
>>9476436
Nah
>>9476436
>Picture is nice
>ruin it with shitty blood splatter
jesus, if you can't make it look nice
JUST DON'T PUT IT IN
Is his work even good?
How much of it was his?
>>9476411
I'd assume all of it, but who knows
Some people say that Rowling woman didn't write a line of Harry Potter
>>9476438
Of course she wrote all of Harry Potter. It's garbage, though.
James Patterson is known to hire ghostwriters, which explains how he releases a new "novel" weekly.
How /lit/ is your wishlist?
>>9476404
>ironic anti weeb posting on a website which was originally for animoos
why are there children's toys on your list?
>>9476386
>Yuri on Ice
Good taste my nigga.
I'm really considering a bohemian-loser lifestyle as the way to go. Like, don't ever marrying or having kids (which would most likely grow fucked up by the care of a mentally unstable father), renting some small and shitty apartment, sleeping on a mattress, feeding on pasta, rice and some chicken every now and then, delighting in the books I bought when I lived with my pops, in writing, in cheap alcohol, in the sporadic use of other drugs and in the Internet. I'd get money from shit like textbroker, maybe some lesser literary contests, smuggling small quantities of drugs (if I get caught with this one I wouldn't have to face a nigger infested prison since our jails, criminals and convicts ain't like those of you americans. I would have quite of a chill time if locked up) if necessary.
I'm useless and depressive. Both of my med-taking pops are chronically depressed and so seem to be me and my brother, so I guess we and our offspring are cursed. I cannot get myself to put any work on anything I don't want to. Only things I enjoy are art and drunkness, and I don't want to go through the struggles that getting into the market after I finish my useless degree will imply, while all my ambitions are having the time and calm to read on shit I'm interested on and, luckily, give birth to some decent writing.
Opinions or advices?
Living like a depressed junkie is not a fulfilling way to live.
>>9476370
For you
Bumpin on this bih
I hate how society tells me I have to read 500 Western canon books or else I'm dumb.
I hate how I'm not allowed to follow my own interests in reading. People love books because they offer a discrete experience and people love completion.
Why can't people just let me read what I find interesting? I think there is a large intellectual component to boredom and interest.
dumb frog poster
>read a sci-fi adventure book
>federal judge sentences me to 10 years in prison for funhaving
WTF I thought it was Murrika!
Requesting comic of neckbeard acknowledging the difference between pieces of furniture, art, and music, but refusing to see the difference in quality in literature.
Artists who look like they have extraordinary personalities based on pictures of them?
I heard he had quite the life
I want to write something to please the reader's eyes. What are some fancy english words I can use?
perambulate
Cunt
>>9476088
Dragon-born
when you're writing what do you do in this situation?
>a STD
>an STD
because S is spelled 'ess' which is a vowel?
S is no vowel. therefore it's "a STD"
>>9476075
An. Go with the sound of the word or the acronym considering how it's pronounced.
An hour. A history. Same letter but dependent on the sound. Why not google this?
Always go by pronunciation. It's 'an STD'.
Am I going to experience this vapid and disgusting existence over and over again? This is worse than Christian desu
You need to google "thought experiment".
>>9476073
How to google?
Time is a flat circle.
When does a novel becomes "too complex" that it just turns bad because of it?
Is there such thing as "too complex"?
There are no limits to art or expression. You could ask when a novel becomes too complex for its readership, or too complex to have a readership at all.
>>9476034
But how can we tell the difference between complexity for the sake of being complex and meaningful complexity?
>>9476028
Yes.
See: Works by Pynchon/DFW.
Then: Realize that this exclusionary complexity is why /lit/ likes these works and authors.