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So there's a War of the Worlds sequel novel coming out in a few days, an actual authorized one. This sort of thing triggers my 'tism, when a writer makes a sequel to something a different writer came up with a longass time ago. I feel like they usually miss the whole point of the original work. WotW in particular was more of a "makes you think" sort of thing, rather than a riveting story that needed continuation. What are your thoughts, /lit/? Are you okay with this sort of thing?
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>>8984281
I generally don't like it but Stephen Baxter is a well-known SF author who has written multiple good works and has a strong grasp of the historiography of the genre. I usually read these things more as homages than actual sequels though.
Honestly I didn't like authors setting works in someone else's world, authorized or not, until I read the Songs of a Dying Earth tribute anthology and most of the stories were pretty good.
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>>8984281
It was meant for Western Readers to realize what they were doing in The Scramble For Africa was rotten. It was meant to have a "How would you feel if someone did this to you" vibe.
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>>8984314
The Time Ships is the other big authorized sequel that he did, is that any good?
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If only I could stretch the night
I would lose to sleep with grace
And not lose sleep to fright
If only I could stretch the night
I would the sins of day
Boil away
In reflections of thanks
Id wash my spite
If only I could stretch the night
A month to opine the day
And a year to plan
From finders height
If only I could stretch the night
If the clock arms were broken
Yet time remain right
And stars who stould still
still burned bright white
I'd loose the hurry to bed
And be untied from mornings bite
if only I could stretch the night
Perhaps as death lives in me
So to does the chance I one day just might
Exist and persist in that long goodnight
A chance to hold times hands
And dance with the guilt of life
And the time I'd have before bed
Would I'd spend sundering my spite
It would eventually spring me cleanly
Into next life
May time my sins overwrite
And hell hold its flame from my sight
And give me more time
To turn my soul white
If only before my heart stands against me
I could sit it down and set it right
If only I could stretch the damned night.
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9/10
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Poetry is dead
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You posted this yesterday.
Start again from the first line. And stop trying to rhyme, it seems reaching and inauthentic.
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What does /lit/ think of Voltaire?
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>>8984229
Biggest pseud who ever lived.
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the sam harris of the 1800s
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>>8984229
He's the original hipster.
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What is your favorite children's book?
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Most Verne novels are top tier comfy
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The hobbit
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your diary desu
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is this a good bok ?
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No.
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>>8984163
No. Most of it is just the same material you've already heard on Seinfeld.
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>>8984163
Sein und Zeitfeld
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how to read bad, boring books?
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That's fucked up, I was just looking at that painting because it was mentioned in a book I was reading about the 30 years war. Those are dutch militiamen.
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Become a normie (have sex, get a bachelor's degree, etc), then you'll love bad books
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>>8984125
before some /pol/ rat goes on a tirade about muh degeneracy those kids are looking at an app the museum has which talks about the paintings
now please don't post in this shit topic thank you
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What are his essential companions?
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>>8984072
What do you mean?
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Logic and reason
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>>8984072
Pringles, for one.
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Which country has the best literature? If you wanted to learn a foreign language or two, in order to consume the best possible literature in addition to your already existing mental library (I assume English), which would you chose. Please answer
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Glorious Nippon!
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French, latin or russian
French sounds like ass, though
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Italian and Russian
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Are there any books where the reader is an object within the fictional universe? Not a living being either
Picture not related, just don't have much on my phone
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>>8983860
The Kamasutra
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>>8983860
fuck that's a depressing picture
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>>8984268
It's my diary desu
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Hey dudes so I'm a paper fetishist but finally thinking of buying one of these satanic devices, because can't afford all the books I want, and can't even get most of them as I need to read in foreign languages as well.
So here's my question: do I need to do anything with it after the purchase, in order to read books I pirated from the Internet? Because I don't want to pay "ayemason" for 2 MB of zeroes and ones if you know what I mean.
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>>8983828
No you don't. Except if you're dumb enough to buy an amazon-type one.
I'd recommend the cybook ocean, it's perfect to read pdf, which is extremely useful (you don't find everything in epub).
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>Swindle Paperweight
Most books are in epub format. You're going to have to convert them to azw3 if you want to read them on your kindle.
There's literally no reason not to get the Kobo Aura One unless you're a filthy subhuman poorfag.
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>>8983828
Nah dude. You might have to set up your profile or some shit but that's about it. You don't even have to get online with it ever. I never took my Paperwhite online until after owning it about five months.
Unless >>8983849 What he said. .txt documents will read fine, PDFs will work (though I don't like reading them on my Kindle). Any epubs you have will need to be converted with Calibre. Just download it and it's pretty easy.
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I'm writing a snobbish character and I'm struggling trying to figure out a very specific saying, it's a french term used by bourgeoisie suggesting a social slip up
pls help me /lit/
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faux pas?
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>>8983814
>faux pas?
that's it, here m8 you can have this
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....kind of on topic...I've been strugling to find a particular word too. It's said of something who has become the "go to" person for a concept, for instance: Judas is the traitor by ________. Anyone?
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ITT:
>Critique a book you have never read
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I dropped to kill a mockingbird when Dill is introduced because i couldn't stand the shitty prose
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I find your favorite book to be shallow, yet pedantic.
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That's all we do here OP. It's the sole reason /lit/ exists.
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ITT: The best non-fiction you've ever read
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my diary desu
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>>8983786
God, that book is such garbage.
>in greek epic poems everyone seems to be motivated by actions of the gods.
>this must mean that the greeks were not conscious in the way we are today and literally took direction from these figures which existed in their minds.
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>>8983861
The section concerning The Iliad isn't even 10% of the book. Stop pretending like you can form a counterargument to something from its Wikipedia page. Have you ever read a non-fiction book cover-to-cover or is it all secondary summaries for you? Share your favorite with me.
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when is it appropriate to use epilepsies?
I usually use them when I am hesitant or something...
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Frog woman desu
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>>8983669
"Ellipsis" is the singular form and "ellipses" the plural--"epilepsies" is not the word you want.
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>>8983734
holy FUCKthat made her hotter, though
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i love the early-mid century modernist/existentialist books of mundane even lackadaisical wanderings underpinned by lofty philosophical/theological thought, whilst being sort of travelogues for places i'll probably never visit.
like ulysses, like mrs. dalloway, nausea, letranger, to some extent a moveable feast, journey to the end of the night, dostoyevsky's white nights and even crime and punishment
i know this is not exactly a genre but i was wonderig if anyone had any recs?
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>>8983645
Would Steinbeck's Travels With Charley count as part of this?
All memes aside
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>>8983659
haven't read it, can't say
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>>8983645
Henry Miller - Tropic of Cancer...?