C. J. Cherryh Appreciation Edition
Pride of Chanur audiobook:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nUi3DaWzGI
Fantasy
Selected:
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General:
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Flowchart:
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Science Fiction
Selected:
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General:
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NPR's Top 100 Science Fiction & Fantasy Books:
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Previous Thread: >>9156349
came to say hi to shrek
Posted too late in last thread
Can anyone recommend a book where someone just shows up out of nowhere and starts completely taking over the world singlehandedly by force? Like if Alexander or Napoleon had Supermans powers
>>9168117
sorry back to /sci fi / https://vine.co/v/eqYKadKauW1/embed/simple
What does /lit/ think of my favorite books? I'm halfway through The Forever War and I just started The Wanting Seed.
Uh, they're very trendy.
How about some classics?
Don Quixote
Meditations
Anna Karenina
War and Peace
In Search of Lost Time
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Middlemarch
A Hero of Our Time
You should not have made this thread.
>>9168131
Then I can only hope nobody else replies to it. Goodnight and fuck you
What's your favourite out of Yukio Mishima's work?
>>9168074
Hey buddy, I think you've got the wrong door, the leather club's two blocks down.Confessions of a mask, it makes my dick feel funny
>>9168095
fuck you
>>9168074
Death in Midsummer and Other Stories
Just finished Notes from Underground. Pretty good considering this is my second time reading it. However, Im still having a difficult time discerning its existential qualities from a Dostoevskian perspective. I know he definitely weaves Christian thought into his works, but I'm still at a standstill with reading him as "existentialist".
Anyone here feel similarly?
The Underground Man and his thoughts are not to be taken as facsimiles for Dostoyevsky.
I always imagine that the first half of the novel is just a stream of consciousness of the Underground Man as he is at the dinner with his classmates, which is why it seems so disorganized and contradictory.
As for the existential qualities, you have to see the focus on an individual's experience and especially an individual's suffering; it's kind of a continuation of Kierkegaard in this respect. The style of this and many of Dostoyevsky's earlier works had a profound effect on Kafka it would seem, as both of their works seem to have omnipresent feelings of claustrophobia and helplessness.
>>9168021
Ah that makes sense. What would you have to say about its ideological qualities. In my second reading I was attempting to locate the Underground Man's "ideology" by his "non-ideology". Undoubtedly the paradoxical qualities to his character give rise to this debate, and perhaps even notions of the psyche's capacity for the tragic results of existentialist thought. This seems to be evoked in the seeming disorganization of his (and ultimately Dostoevsky's) prose.
Additionally, what's your take on Liza? She seems to be a catalyst of some sort that also elicits a satire of Romantacism and other veins of sentimental thought.
>>9168039
>it's ideological qualities
I imagine Dostoyevsky is less trying to present a coherent ideology than just the method of thought for a large group of people whom he believes have been ignored in literature up to that point (hence the footnote at the very beginning of the novel).
>notions of the psyche's capacity for the tragic results of existentialist thought
I don't think this was focused much on a direct criticism of existentialism itself (after all, Dostoyevsky stuck with it until the end) but merely of the conditions that seem to lead to it.
>What do you make of Liza
Dostoyevsky tends to use female characters as purer manifestations of ideas than the male characters. I imagine Liza was a sketch of Sonia from C&P as both seem to represent a ind of purity found in a disgusting and very material situation. I think she was meant to be a serious character.
It's interesting to note that (iirc) the only other female presences in the book is the mention of Cleopatra torturing her slave girls
Literature! I Spy! Tomes!
https://youtu.be/tdKA0Il-Qo0
Know any cameos? ^^
p a r a d i s e
i spy
these are hard
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29844228-thirteen-reasons-why
Why haven't you read this masterpiece, /lit/?
I could give you thirteen reasons why
>>9167868
>realistic fiction
What's the future of literature?
What will the Kafka of the XXI century write about?
>>9167719
Probably technology.
my diary desu
He'll write about what a bunch of attention seeking, irrational vermin people are. He'll write about the essential brainwashing and trance like hypnosis of addiction to machines. He'll write about the impossibility of global peace and the arrogance of those who yearn for it. He'll write about the failures of science and its laughable futility and mock the idea of progression. He'll probably be halfway religious just to spurn the retards who claim to be privy to knowledge about the existence of this non sensical universe. He'll probably have been addicted to pornography at some point and have written a vulgar story about it. I'm done pooping now
why is writing so stressful?
All I wanted to do was write a stupid short story, but before I knew it the thing had ballooned into a novella. Then I started getting bad criticism so I spent months making no progress in the plot, instead revising it over and over.
Just when I finally started making progress again, I got another shitty review that hit harder than any other. After a few weeks of focus I'm coming to the conclusion that I might need to re-write the entire story to tear out a skeleton that's rotten with cringe, and I'm only about 13-15k words in.
It's been six months
It sounds like you're too concerned with the quality to make any progress, anon. You're only going to get better if you actually finish a project and move onto the next one.
>>9168004
Post the first page
>>9167675
1st draft - you write purely for YOURSELF. [NEVER share it with ANYONE until you have written "THE END" after finishing your piece.]
2nd draft - you edit the 1st draft to share with your BEST FRIEND.
3rd draft - you edit the 2nd draft, using your best friend's opinions, to share with your OTHER GOOD FRIENDS.
4th draft - you edit the 3rd draft, using your other friends' opinions, to send it to your EDITOR.
5th draft - you edit the 4th draft, using your editor's opinions to make it publish worthy.
Any good books about plants?
Leaves of Grass lmao
This is good
Gossip from the Forest is a pretty good book about British forestry and the sociopolitical history of forests in the UK, fairy tales, botany, and all that good stuff. Not Literary, but worth a look and very informative.
In addition, the Botany of Desire is good in that it is a handful of detailed essays about particular plants- tulips, marijuana, apples and potatoes- and how they impacted humans and vice versa.
And what a utopia entails for the human psyche.
I've read the Foundation series and Brave New World, but not sure how utopian they are as I have no other reference points
>>9167450
Tomasso Campanella's La Citta del Sol; you can find a full English translation of it online. It's short but seminal.
>>9167450
I haven't read 1984 but isn't that a staple?
This document is riddled with contradictions.
>>9167423
I contradickted your mom with riddles last night ;-)
>>9167426
Stop
>>9167423
>This document is riddled with contradictions.
You dont say... anything else to back up that claim like even one thing?
I admittedly picked it up because of all the press it's been getting because of steve bannon. It was published in 1997 and guessed that the end of the third turning (Unraveling period) would happen in the mid to late 2000's with a mild financial crisis (2008 financial crisis), and apparently we are in the fourth turning right now (Crisis period). We are either going to end in a catastrophe or enter a new golden age. What do you think about it? I'm only about 100 pages in.
Haven't read it, but I'm intrigued by it for the same reasons you were. How much mention do our favorite guys (Evola, Spengler, De Maistre, etc.) get? Because now that I think of it, the idea of cycles of history is rather Spenglerian.
>>9167316
>cycles of history
This concept seems frankly dumb as rocks, although obviously the illusion of knowledge/control it gives would be popular.
Lads I started this a few hours ago and so far I'm liking it more than bloodmeridian. if you liked that definitely check out warlock. I have a feeling this won't take a turn for the worse. I'll be back when I finish it. thanks to which ever one of you told me to get it.
>>9167145
I've been seeing stray recommendations for this the last couple days, and heard about Pinecone's praise for it. I'll definitely be picking it up, I'll also be checking/tuned in for your appraisal once you're finished
>>9167168
lonesome dove is good as well. actually if you like the first one you can have a good the whole series. I love me a good western. I tried reading the garbage gunslinger shit by Stephen King. holy fuck it sucked. he's a shit haha.
>>9167184
Just finished 'Butcher's Crossing' (which I know is a meme) and enjoyed it, have you read it; how does Warlock compare to it thus far, if so?
I like Western's but find they're often very trope reliant so it's always nice to find something genuinely novel.
Is pic related the spic equivalent of Dubliners?
>>9167138
no. delete thread
What? No.
No. It's better.
What should I read to embrace the vastness of human knowledge?
my dairy
>>9167088
It passes the time.
>>9167105
My bad, I thought you asked "why".