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Rate my fiction.
I am currently working on a novel that is set sometime in the future. The plot that follows a farmboy growing up as he tends to sheep in rural United States. He keeps finding a sheep that doesn't follow the rest and is always making it's way out of it's pen.
We then focus on a young Syrian refugee at the same time, he ends up heading to the United States and ends up going to Yale.
We fast forward to 40 years later as the Syrian refugee has now become a great leader to the East and West. He comes as a man of peace after the defeat of the Islamic State and over those 40 years, he becomes influential in bringing peace to the world.
He is backed by numerous religious leaders across the world, including the new Pope. He is Jewish and turns Turkey into a blossoming country of finance.
Highly intelligent, he enlists the help of an Apple-like company that help him solve the economic crisis which has plagued the world for the last few years.
He solves it by introducing nanopay, similar to genecoin. Nanopay is recieved by injection and allows a person to pay or sell through a person's specific fingerprint and hand design, as well as through a person's face and eyes - eliminating fraud.
The economy booms as he manages to help the EU come together after their depression. Through the EU, and with the backing of the Pope, he manages to bring peace to the Israel-Palestinian conflict.
Meanwhile through out this, we follow an IDF female soldier and a US Marine, the farmboy from Minnesota who manage to apprehend a legendary Hamas sniper.
The three end up bonding over time.
The Hamas sniper is used in a plot by the US to assassinate him as they fear he has grown too powerful.
He is shoot through the right eye.
After three days, where he is supposedly dead, he comes back to life.
The world becomes in love with him but something's very different about him. He is much more serious... And that man of peace face of his, is gone. Now, stern-faced as the Jewish people build the Third Temple. He sits in it.
And proclaims himself as the height of human evolution and declares himself to be god.
There's a lot more to the story but I think some people here might understand what this story is about.
The title is called The Sheep That Trespassed
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If you're story is incoherent as your description I'm not interested
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It has the subtlety of a brick flying through a window and if your grammar is this disgusting for a summary, you have no hope of a coherent story
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Thanks for the advice, guys. I actually wrote it like this to see what was wrong with it - story wise, grammar I could not care at this moment.
I do know the three act structure and the hero's journey and I do know that I've written it so it's not subtle at all so I could get a reaction and change it (flashbacks in this case concerning the American protagonist).
You can choose one (1) work that is written for plebs and magically transform its simpleton's scheme into one with better words, sentence length, and syntax.
Which do you choose?
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Bible
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>>9074649
I'm not qualified to answer this question because I've never read a work written for plebs.
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>>9074671
it could be a movie you've seen that you just KNOW is written for plebs.
basically whatever story you would like to see fully decked out in style
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>author's name is bigger than the title
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Damn he's so good at writing sentences. How he do that?
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wtf i hate marketing now
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The man was insufferable
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Why isn't there any 21st century Manifesto of Futurism? The Fourth Industrial Revolution is happening right now after all. No poetry about automation, AI takeover and driverless cars, about becoming redundant due to AI?
Or is it only music and art that can express our fate in the digital age?
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>>9074452
>automation, AI takeover and driverless cars, about becoming redundant due to AI?
There are literally tens of thousands of novels about these things and they're all shitty science fiction books from the 60s and 70s
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>>9074459
But all of those 60s and 70s novels look now look silly with their predictions. Would like to read something based more on what we have now.
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>>9074483
Then get a subscription to Science magazine or whatever. There's no reason to read about some autist's made up technology when real technology is interesting and well documented
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Have I tricked you into reading any of these authors yet? 2017-02-07 06:55:10 Post No.9074348
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Have I tricked you into reading any of these authors yet?
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William H Gass
William T Vollmann
William Gaddis
Adam Levin
Peter Nadas
Joshua Cohen
Joseph Mcelroy
Robert Coover
Donal Barthelme
Raymond Federman
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>>9074348
Absolutely pathetic.
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>no Arno Schmidt
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>>9074348
>actually trying to find out how well your memery has worked
I'm literally dying.
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im writing a story about a depressive and sensitive girl that live in a block and believe in the encouragement of sadness (emo edgy but lovable (i know to some people is contradictory) (not hysterical anyway, most shut in reflexive type)
i write a half but i dont have a beginning. tell me a good start scene for this. if enough replys, dubs decide.
inspire me, guys.
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why live if you need to autobump?
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>>9074154
sounds like shit
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>>9074154
Only one enemy was left - two if you count depression.
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Favorite doorstoppers. Post em, bitches
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>>9074024
written by konstantin's brother? never knew they were real people.
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>>9074024
J R my man
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THIS. Also dumbfags prefer IJ over other works cause it makes them appear more intelligent than they actually are
What are the best novels about contemporary Europe, particularly in regard to the rising Muslim population etc?
So far I've read Submission by Houellebecq. Anything else?
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>>9073957
>etc
Etc what?
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>>9073980
etc=and the others
and the other growing nonwhite european minorities
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>>9073980
Etc as in things like rise of the far-right, modern culture wars (e.g. Redpilled autists VS SJW retards), property prices, etc.
You can write, right?
Then tell me the greatest and the worst moment of your life in a literary style.
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>>9073908
I never share my own experiences, only draw from them. Get fucked.
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>>9073908
I was with girl at the time, some strange misfit, a remnant of a former crush I had used her to replace. I had just spoken with a business interest and we had arranged on a settlement, but instead, my money was returned to me upon his quite literal arrest not two minutes later. I was beckoned to the town park, for the sake of selling some marijuana. A month or so prior, I had robbed a young man who at the time sold actual poison to the local school children of his laptop after he refused to pay me for a car trip well into the dangerous city for the purpose of him obtaining ecstasy.
The young man himself was at the park, along with several other well known individuals from the area. Unsuspecting I sat at the table with them all. The business associate who had just been bailed from prison had been standing behind me for a few moments before deciding to hit me. He hit me several times. I was locked in the table, a picnic table, it was difficult to jump out. Eventually I escaped, and I was pummeled to the ground by the business associate and the young man. The young man kicked me in the face after his muscle had taken care of the job, they had intended to simply rob me via the business associate, but the police had complicated things, and the business associate had some steam he wished to release. They took my newly gained marijuana, and left me laying in the grass with the rest of the local individuals piled into the car. The one left was the misfit, who I promptly took home. I retired to my home to nurse my wounds. This was just after a high speed chase had taken place around the same time of the robbery. That's a different story entirely, but the two events added to a sense of depression that followed me for at least a year after.
I don't remember the greatest moment of my life, I doubt there are any.
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>>9073908
>worst moment of your life
I've never had other moments
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How does one improves his reading comprehension other than simply reading.
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Try to comprehend what you're reading.
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>>9073738
ebiiikkkkkkkkkkkk
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Pay attention
Questions that don't deserve their own thread general:
Is there an example of a cooking book that would be considered a literary classic? Cooking is becoming a new hobby for me and I was wondering if there were any well renowned ones. Or at the very least, some cooking book recommendations?
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I think it's possible to find De Re Coquinaria, some old latin cookbook. Apart from that, Escoffier's Guide Culinaire seems to be regarded as the bible of cookbooks (lots of later authors refer to it).
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>>9073627
http://cookingwithcum.com/what a weird thread
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>>9073627
Are you looking for like the greatest cook book of all time or a book that weaves recipes throughout a narrative? I think another anon covered the first answer. To the second I offer
>The Basque history of the world
It's part history book, part op-ed, and a fair amount of recipes. It's good, but not literature in the strictest sense. Just a fun read full of great info you've probably never been exposed to b4.
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Is it accurate to say that Ishmael becomes Ahab at the end of this?
He's endured far worse at the hands of Moby-Dick than Ahab, losing Queequeg and witnessing untold destruction and the loss of an entire ship's worth of crew. Both experiences result in obsession, but manifested in different ways, Ahab with an unquenchable lust for vengeance and Ishmael with a desire to catalogue and understand everything there is to know about the whale, hence his writing of the book and particularly the cetological chapters.
Compare the ending of the chapter "Of Whales in Paint etc." where Ishmael claims he'd hunt the constellation Cetus if he could, "to see whether the fabled heavens with all their countless tents really lie encamped beyond [his] mortal sight" to the passage where Ahab claims he'd "strike the sun if it insulted [him]". Both quotations demonstrate their respective characters' angst when confronted with their insignificance and lack of control over a cruel and uncaring natural world.
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>>9073492
wrong, all wrong. it's just a big metaphor for gay sex. stop reading so far into it. Melville was just a communist subversive.
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>>9073492
Not sure if I fully agree with this. I could go into more detail, but I am unsure if I could reason my point well. Instead, I will focus on one aspect of your last line. You state that they are confronted with "insignificance and lack of control over a cruel and uncaring natural world," and they certainly are confronted with this. However, there are hints that this world is not so uncaring in Ishmael's case. One such example comes from the epilogue. Consider this line:
"The unharming sharks, they glided by as if with padlocks on their mouths; the savage sea-hawks sailed with sheathed beaks."
At least for Ishmael, nature is not entirely uncaring. His shipmates may have perished, but this line does resist against the idea that he lives in a completely "cruel and uncaring natural world".
I hope you understand my point, as I am not exactly a scholar and you have explained your argument better than I have explained mine.
Lastly, your conclusion ignores some of the subtler hints that Ishmael indeed conquers his death-hypos mentioned at the beginning. For further reading on this topic, see chapters 6 & 7 of The Salt Sea Mastodon:
https://books.google.ca/books?id=Kb6FdqTDOQIC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
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>>9073500
haha kek good point my man
upvoted
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Reading female romance novels gives you a really good insight on female nature and why they do the things they do.
They are absolutely nuts.
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>>9073430
Stop shitting up this board and fuck off.
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>>9073440
Time for a plug change, Aunt Flo.
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>>9073440
Then why would you bump my thread you autismo?
Has anyone here ever learned anything or engaged in a meaningful discussion about books on this board, ever? I've lurked and posted occasionally for maybe a year. In that time, I've had one short discussion about Infinite Jest that made me reconsider my distaste for it. I almost had a conversation about Henry James once before the thread imploded into pompous shitheads talking in empty, holier-than-thou greentexts. But those two instances aside, I don't think I've ever seen any meaningful content here. Even the attempts at expression boil down to vapid non-statements like ">tfw doesn't know Witty BTFO the Neech" or "Pynchon > Tennyson." Do you all do anything but guzzle redpills, ogle patrician stacks and mutter cliches based on what wikipedia says about Harold Bloom?
It's a serious question. I'd say put the hyperbole aside, but I'm not speaking in hyperbole.
Second question: When you inevitably answer that /lit/ is a cesspool of illiterates who haven't yet realized that postures mean nothing when the poser isn't seen, where do you go to discuss literature with people who actually read?
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Gotta move to discord or something
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>it took him a year to realize that 90% of anything is shit including 4chan and /lit/
Hide the retarded threads and you should be fine.
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I have stage IV non-small cell lung cancer (only ever a social smoker, but heavy as far as social smokers go you might say ;)) with mets to my brain and unless I have a great response to some exciting modern treatments I'm going to die pretty soon.
What should I read to make me feel better about dying young, and to prepare myself mentally for the whole process of dying in a painful way? In particular I have always been into futurism and dying just short of very exciting times makes me extremely bummed out, but I suspect certain perspectives could make a feel a little more at ease. Whatever happens I'm going to be in hospital a lot over the next few months so it can keep me occupied
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Terribly sorry to hear that, OP. I would read a lot of Rumi if I were you. You can start anywhere with him. Percy Shelley is also some essential death-reading. Hope you recover, best wishes.
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>>9073317
can't you go bang some hookers and some meth and do some acid and write your own book? literally what i would do, no joke.
i'm sorry anon, i hope you survive. try fungus (look up paul stamets)
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read the sticky and fuck off