>that fucking endless tedious rant by the drunk retired official in chapter 2 of crime and punishment.
>>8918597
we gonna go on for 150 posts about how dostoevsky is boring again?
>>8918612
he is p boring tho
>>8918613
Maybe stick to Marvel films champ
I have a billion ideas on my head but I can't organize them properly to make something coherent, and because my writing skills are high school-tier.
Any tips?
get off this board?
Me too OP.
>reading a regular book in english
>suddenly a paragraph in german/french/latin
>with no translation following
>>8918546
Edward Said kept doing this with French quotes in Orientalism
Maybe I'm a pleb for not speaking French but no need to rub it in
>>8918546
>Book starts with an untranslated quote in Latin
>Next 10 pages are simply criticism of ideas proposed in that quote
Why.
Tonguelets, when will they learn?
Is it me or is this book a bunch of shit?
I guess it's supposed to be about why these writers are great, and why their books should be in a canon, but he barely gives a proper argument and just says a bunch of random crap without explaining his ideas well. I often end up finishing a chapter and not knowing what the hell I was supposed to learn. He just says shit like, "Yes this is like Shakespeare," and then quotes a passage from the book saying it's great without explaining, and then quotes some other critics.
I guess I have to give him props for going against SJW teaching of literature, but because he can't argue, reading about his stance is useless to me.
>>8918514
Its a Big Book of Memes
You shouldn't expect anything more of it.
never read that but i read some of his writing about pynchon and gravity's rainbow, and i was like "ok cool this guy gets it!" which one would certainly hope since he is one of the more esteemed living critics, so i suspect if you have a problem with it, it's probably you not him
>American
>lists a bunch of worthless anglo tripe but shows an obvious lack of deep knowledge of every other countries' literature
>still feels he has the right to say his meme goodreads list is the western canon
Fuck this lardass
Why are the Irish the best writers?
>pretending the Spanish don't exist
>>8918516
>Cervantes, Lope de Vega... I could go on
Joyce, Beckett, Wilde, O'Brien, Yeats, Swift..
What is the best biography of Herman Melville and what are the best books of literary criticis on his work (especially about his language, his use of metaphor and his total immersion in Shakespeare's poetic style)?
Also, Herman Melville general thread
the best work on herman melville is charles olson's "Call Me Ishmael" which may be the greatest work of literary criticism of all time
Critical Companion to Herman Melville is the one I have. Is good.
>>8918464
https://newrepublic.com/article/122388/all-if-james-wood-life-herman-melville
the above article is one of the best things I have ever read on Melville
>>8918467
Interesting. What is the major argument of the author? Is more a book that deals with characters, or symbols, or language, or meaning, etc?
How does fiction adapt to technological advancement? For instance, smart phones would solve many of the problems written about in various novels during the 20th century. So, how does one write a story that won't be contradicted by technology?
I'm currently reading War and Peace. Smart phones would not solve any of the problems.
I think TV and movies have a harder time adapting. I've noted many times where now a person would whip out a cell phone or spend 5 minutes on Wikipedia.
>>8918454
There are countless examples of instances in which smartphones would drastically help the protagonist, like Less Than Zero.
In the aforementioned, with the existence of smartphones, the story would probably be shortened to 20 pages or something.
In order to avoid any inconsistencies, should would just base their stories before such technology even existed?
Fiction exists only in the setting you give it. Any failure to understand plot elements based on a difference between modern society and the setting provided is either the fault of the writer's chronological ambiguity, or the reader's own incompetence.
Any attempt to "update" a story for a modern era is only an attempt to further capitalize on the success of the original work.
Don't bother with trivial shit like this OP, if anyone actually complains about this they aren't worth listening to
Let's talk about American Psycho.
Why did no character actually care about what the other character was saying?
the cd reviews were spot on accurate
and the sex scenes gave me a boner
If you actually listen to the way people interact with one another, you will notice they rarely engage in true dialect.
One person will talk about something that happened to them. Instead of asking questions or showing concern over this, the other person will talk about something similar that happened to them, or bring up something tangentially related.
This mostly applies to small talk, but in general people are so self-absorbed that they will even converse about more major things in small ways like this. In this way, the interaction you speak of is realistic. You might think I'm a cynical elitist, but I'm not trying to prescribe any positive or negative connotation to all this.
>>8918371
they don't care about things that doesn't concern them personally
How do writers choose a setting? Why do fantasy writers choose their setting and scifi their's. Why cyberpunk?
How do you pick a genre? Wtf is a story? How do I write one?
>>8918313
The answer is easy, my friend, training, training and more training.
>>8918313
would like to hear a good reason for a particular genre
there's nothing particularly mystical about genre. its genre only means that it seems likely to appeal to a certain demographic. how this affects your decision-making all depends on your preferences and priorities.
Hi, /lit/
Which version of the bible is, in your opinion, best?
I'm stuck at 64.
>>8918266
Got pic related for Christmas and I'm loving it so far. The language isn't as poetic as the King James but the introductions and extensive notes more than make up for it.
>>8918337
Thanks for the quick reply! I'll see how the thread pans out, but this looks like the one.
My aunt is a nun, and she gave me pic related to read
hey everyone here's the_bookchemist once again
This dude seems like an ass just judging from that single screenshot. Unless he has a post-grad degree I wouldn't listen to a word he says about books.
>>8918250
> phd student
> has nothing to say about the books he reads
> terrible reader of pynchon
whew, not surprised
>>8918260
i think he said in one of his videos that 'the brief wonderous life of oscar wao' is either (a) his favorite novel ever written, (b) the best novel written, or (c) a combination of (a) and (b) i dont remember which
really makes you think
What are some books that have a surreal or abstract atmosphere/setting?
Paris Peasant
>>8918098
anything by antrim
Hello, I'm really interested in written fight scenes. But rather than a big army fight Im really interested in duels, in magic duels to be exactly.
So, whats the literature equivalent of a Stand Fight? Consider that Magical Pet fights wont be the right answer, but rather a fight were the two fighters win using his super natural abilities at its fullest and exploiting their enemies weaknesses.
>>8918075
Try not being a pleb
>>/co/
Just imagine it and then write what you imagine.
Read Gately's fight scene with the Nucks in IJ. Not even memeing.
Is this guy supposed to be good? Reading pic related. I could do better.
>>8918072
-tips fedora-
>>8918072
Good luck with that, troll.
that's one of the best books i've read, mindblown tier shit
Are entertainment people not allowed to write serious memoirs? Why do all of them look like such garbage?
You'd think, considering these are adults, they'd say something along the lines of, "No, in fact I'd rather not have my personal account of life called 'Booky Wook,' or 'Bossypants,' or 'So, Anyway...' with a giant shot of my quirky face on the cover"
because most of them are entertainment people
>My Booky Wook
What did he mean by this?
Related: What would you call your memoir?