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Just finished pic related. I think it may be the most beautifully written book i've ever read. I know the prose is beautiful and overdone on purpose, however I still have an itch for other books that have a very "poetic prose". What would you recommend?
Thanks
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Also general "Lolita" thread
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The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde.
If you think Nabokov is a master of stylistic prose, wait 'til you read Wilde. Both are exceptional artists in this regard.
No competition. Absolutely incredible works.
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>>9015200
Pale Fire
Moby Dick
Suttree
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what are some cool books about drugs and stuff and how they are connected to religion and culture and all of that
do yall guys think there is any significance to drugs or is it just the brain being confused
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Don't be a degenerate, find jesus instead
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i like doing drugs
i don't like religion or culture. i don't like reading books about drugs. i don't like neurology or confusion.
idk if i can answer ur question. AMA
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>>9015082
The Doors of Perception
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I need some advice, I enrolled in software engineering because the pay is better and safer carreer choice.
But my passion is to be a writer.
Do you think It would be possible to combine them?
Do people even give a fuck about text adventures today?
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>>9014871
Programming and writing both use the verbal bits of your brain. There's some popular science fiction authors who are/were programmers (Vernor Vinge, Charlie Stross---though he's a filthy fucking commie).
That said "software engineering" is fake, read some Dijkstra (another computer scientist who could write like a motherfucker!) and get into a "computer science" or other "not bullshit" degree program.
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>>9014905
>filthy fucking commie
good boy
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>>9014871
If you dislike programming, quit. You will be fucking miserable.
Programming and writing are more similar than you'd think, however. So give it a chance. But it's an absolutely miserable career unless you're into it, because you need to do work outside of work constantly to have any hope of keeping up.
I'm getting it and i wonder what I'm getting into
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>>9014833
This is good but you won't find a decent answer here because this is 2 patrish 4 lit
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>>9015135
:( I am excited. H.D. is becoming one of my favorites
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>>9014833
serious prose. content is good too but you might have to read it twice to get back to that.
HD's kind of scarily good writing
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Has /lit read House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski? Is it any good? I got it for christmas but IDK if its worth my time.
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>>9014761
It's okay. The setup is interesting and the form is like a horror-themed Pale Fire but it lacks any long term engagement. A lot of it comes off as edgy for no reason and by the time you get to the 'WOAH UPSIDE DOWN TEXT XD' you'll already have gotten lost or bored.
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>>9014761
It's pretty good. The narrative is split between the narrator (Truant) and the Navidson Record, with the latter being the more interesting narrative, by far. The ergodic text was a neat gimmick that I haven't seen in many other works.
Just read it.
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>>9014761
The beginning story with finding the book and it being based of a non existent movie is great.
But the 'Documentary' style departures bored me, then the overall narrative kept me interested.
I might pick it up again one day.
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Do you have to read a lot to be a good writer?
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IQ90 here. Nah. Just speak what's on your mind.
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>>9014536
Caedmon, who composed the earliest surviving English (Anglo-Saxon) poem, was an illiterate peasant
All u need is some of that divine inspiration familam
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>>9014536
Life experiences and some decent vocabulary is all you really need. Telling a life experience is something that comes naturally, and most anyone can do it. Creating a fictional one that's believable and provokes emotional thought is an austere challenge in itself, and that's when you should start reading the work others once you cross over into that realm, because it's more easily criticized in the light of 'would that really happen?' especially if it's realistic fiction.
Depends what you want to write about, OP.
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Do you buy graphic novels in e-book form or print?
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I don't buy graphic novels at all.
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>>9014485
Mostly print.
Was re-reading Maus the other day in a bootleg pdf.
The feels in more than a few parts of Black Hole are kind of unbearable.
Where do you put a guy like Charles Burns on the artist scale? That's like a calculus problem I can't begin to solve.
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>>9014551
I read Maus my freshman year of High School, some random senior gave it to me out of nowhere. Was a great read, thanks for reminding me to reread it.
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>You are no longer a regular Gatsby... You now are truly, The Great Gatsby
How the fuck did this get published?
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>...that entity was called the Neuromancer, the novel that inspired the Matrix trilogy
wtf Gibson
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>Hi it's me, Jesus Christ, and this is the Bible
wtf God what is this pomo bullshit
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>Moby's Dick (and the genitals of other electronic musicians)
People pay for this?
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Quick /lit/ help me answer this question: If you could witness any historical event, which would you choose?
This is a life or death situation.
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the polish betraying the french in haiti
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Homer reciting the Iliad
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>>9014201
BUNNY!
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Admit it. You enjoy her books.
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>>9013911
When I was prepubescent they were my favourite.
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>>9013911
I enjoyed Harry Potter as a kid. Why wouldn't I admit that?
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>>9013925
This board hates everything written by a women.
It is infested with /pol/tards
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I can't get into long books, is something wrong with me?
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too many videogames
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>>9013882
But I don't play video games.
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>>9013881
Set goals for yourself.
5 pages a day NO MATTER WHAT
Or 10 pages a day no matter what.
Do that exponentially until you're wasting your life reading books until they kick you out of libraries and you go sleep under a bridge, reading the nutrition facts on the backs of chocolate bar wrappers.
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hey all,
i'm testing out the idea of building a digital library and sharing it with /lit. i've settled on dropbox;
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/281895i5t4yc5ot/AAAoZwyPDxHuUc0ZNXn64zMPa?dl=0
is the link for the following stories:
David Foster Wallace - Incarnations of Burned Children
David Foster Wallace - The Depressed Person
Donald Barthelme - The School
J.D. Salinger - A Perfect Day for Bananafish
Jamaica Kincaid - Girl
James Joyce - Two Gallants
Jamie Quatro - Demolition
Jennifer Egan - Safari
John Cheever - The Swimmer
Jorge Luis Borges - The Circular Ruins
Jorge Luis Borges - The Library of babel
Junot Diaz - Alma
Ken Liu - The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species
Kevin Brockmeier - The Year of Silence
Kyle McCarthy - Ancient Rome
Lorrie Moore - How to Become a Writer
Mona Awad - The Girl I Hate
Raymond Carver - Viewfinder
Raymond Carver - What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Stuart Dybek - Paper Lantern
Tobias Woldd - Bullet in the Brain
Ursula Le Guin - The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas
Wells Tower - Leopard
please confirm that you can access and that this works.
if this goes well, i will happily open up my full library for request/scanning/transference to free digital format.
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>>9013806
damn those are big ass books
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the format of the pdf itself is a little wonky but I only downloaded one of the files so the other may not he so bad.
But it works! Thank you for your effort OP, much appreciated
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>>9013822
ok, thanks. im going to periodically add to the folder, and i will start posting images of the library.
to all: please let me know what books/chapters/essays you most desire. again, more reasonable orders are going to be filled faster--links will be provided, either in this thread or otherwise.
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>age
>location
>what are you currently writing
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Moscow
I recently lost my keys, which inspired me to write a short story about a man who became obsessed with collecting 'valuable litter' such as lost keys, receipts, photographs, USB-drives etc.
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>France
Something about a sculptor who uses a man's corpse as model for a statue, and a boy's frustrating infatuation with it.
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Canada
Sonnets
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Why isn't this more talked about on /lit/?
I think it's equally as good as Stoner or The Death Of Ivan Ilyich.
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I ordered it but it didn't come
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seems obscure
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i read it in italian, a very dry prose. i didn't find it depressing, i think the ending was uplifting and almost hopeful
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Create a "deep" quatation that actually has no meaning 2017-01-23 07:35:32 Post No.9013094
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Create a "deep" quatation that actually has no meaning
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I'll start:
"We all grow our wings only after we die.'
"A heartbeat is the greatest music of all."
"Why are we so concerned about diamonds? There's a billion of them in the sky."
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>>9013094
>ITT: Rupi Kaur mining for ideas for her new book
go to bed Rupi
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It’s weird that pirates would go shore to shore looking for buried treasure when the real treasure was in the friendships they were making
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>"Why are we so concerned about diamonds? There's a billion of them in the sky."
Don't ever say that shit again