What degree do you have and what have you written/gotten published? What genre does it pertain to?
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>>8773269
>B.A in Chemistry
>2 papers in Nature on drug re-purposing and side-effect prediction using a computational methodolgy
>Natural Philosophy
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>>8773269
>B-Sci, MSci
>co author of five papers on bushfire resilience/ecology also two poems and one short story
>genre
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>>8773269
I barely graduated high school and the closest my work has come to being published is it being spammed on forums, message-boards, and IRC channels.
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>Hello /lit/,
New poster here. I need your help with book recommendations. I want to try and relax and read a great book. I'm sorry to say this but I rarely read. I have a lot of books lying around in bins that I had ordered from Amazon. The books range from Shakespeare to Go, Dog Go!..also I want to be a better with my grammar. please help me /lit/. Thank you for your time!
I want to become well read and relate to others in some way.
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my diary desu
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I'm not mocking, I am being serious. I need help.
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>>8773245
Go, Dog. Go! is based as fuck. Also Ulysses.
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Fuck this book. This shit is like trying to read a foreign language. Oh and fuck that cunt Shakespeare too.
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here is your reply
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>>8773176
Such a lazy attempt at baiting.
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Okay, Moby Dick is probably the most terrific book I've ever read, without a doubt. But my only problem with it is that Ishmael is just too fucking brilliant. It's hard to imagine that this one human individual can think and observe the word this way. Perhaps I'm just a brainlet and can't appreciate refined culture, and maybe there are really people who are this way. But I can't help finding it jarring. However, I still appreciate the way it's set. The prose is beautiful, really.
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>>8773165
>maybe there are really people who are this way
Such as Melville himself?
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>>8773169
I was going to say this. Melville was a seaman himself, OP. I don't know why it's "hard to imagine" when the book's existence itself is evidence it is so.
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Melville invented Ishmael's character, so he must have also invented or shared most of Ishmael's observations and viewpoints. This means that Melville is pretty smart himself, perhaps proof an individual as smart as Ishmael can exist in real life?
Btw, I'm reading the book now, excellent stuff.
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just came off a little break from reading. feeling like getting back into it and going hard in the memes. you guys ever do that? what do you think of this reading list. I have been reading English for the past year but more classic literature.
Europe central
the tunnel
life a user's manual
life and fate
the public burning
giles goat boy
the unconsoled
the pale king
I have a feeling I will feel very empty after those books.
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>>8773088
I think you'll grow tired of all those massive tomes about 1/3 of the way through your list. Good luck.
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>>8773098
the one thing I always found to be the greatest was a good long book. but never have I read so many in a row. ty
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>>8773103
Here's hoping you still have the endurance anon
so I just read
>In the Mountains of Madness
by lovecraft, I and I really want to know why this is considered one of his better works. It's at 100 page length with a short story plot at best
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>>8773079
shadow of innsmouth was best.
i felt mountains of madness was similar to dream quest of unknown kadath, and i happened to love em both.
maybe you weren't high af on acid
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>>8773079
Plot? Jesus Christ.
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>>8773079
It's one of my favorites from his, but it's not perfect. I like the set up and dread he builds up during the first parts, but once the plot gets going he wraps it up so quickly. Besides the staple lovecraftian prose, that's about the only gripe I have with it. It's a nice juxtaposition of man's fear of nature and then pulling back the curtain and seeing that there is more to fear blah blah blah and so forth, nothing really ground breaking for ol' Lovey.
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Where do I start with Robert Frost?
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I'd take the road less traveled.
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>>8773000
I'd probably just get the library of America one of him and start from the beginning.
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I don't know why everyone here needs someone to hold their hand just to read some fucking literature.
You don't need a primer, you don't need protips, and you sure as shit don't need a fucking flowchart. Just open the damn thing and read it.
inb4 umad
You're damn right I'm mad when the future of literature are in the inept hands of you lot.
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Books about the experience of depression? Similar to The Bell Jar and Catcher in the Rye
>inb4 reading books about depression won't cure it
>inb4 go outside
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>>8772989
>Catcher in the Rye
He wasn't depressed
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Noonday Demon is essential
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>>8772989
Catcher was about incest.
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Anybody know of any sources or books where I might find -Hard to Describe Sound Effects-?
Like, most things I can just look up on youtube and listen to the clip and figure out a way to put that in writing, but certain sounds are really hard to find, or I'm not looking for the right things.
For instance, I am currently trying to describe a character killing another character with a heavy lead pipe to the back on the head, but I don't know how to describe the sound of the pipe hitting skin and bone.
Also, is it necessary to describe that sound? Or maybe I should just say what I did in the above sentence? The reason I usually like the description of the sounds is because when -I- read descriptions, I actually can picture and -feel- what they are describing, and I wanted to try to do that as much as possible in my own writing.
So ya, any help or input is appreciated, and I guess just general 'Difficult to Describe' things thread.
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Who is your narrator? One of the characters, or very close to the character? If so, I don't think the sound is what you would notice in that situation.
If it's not the narrator, ask what the description of the sound is for. Add depth to the scene? There's probably something easier to describe you can use to do this, like the smell of whatever area they're in.
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>>8772961
>If it's not the narrator
I mean, if your narrator isn't one of the characters but an omniscient 3rd person
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So I'm a staff memeber for a certain university's annual short story journal. I recently read a submission titled "Drop Chad." It's about roofying Chads that try to pick up women. There were lots of memes.
I'm here to see if the author is lurking somewhere. Pic unrelated
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B-Bill...?
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Should have went with "The Stacepire Strikes Back"
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>>8772915
Or "Drop Chad Gorgeous"
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I know this basically amounts to a request thread, but has anyone come across a work of fiction where there is no division between speech, thought and narration? Where there is no punctuation to separate spoken words from either thoughts or narrative frame? I think maybe one of those books by Bernhard or Krasznahorkai might be like what I'm talking about, but I've never read them so I wouldn't know.
Actually, I believe Beckett wrote some of his works in the manner Im talking about, but I can't recall any specific ones.
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Check out The Beetle Leg by John Hawkes.
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>>8772861
"Blindness" by Jose Saramago
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>>8772861
Beckett did indeed write with this ambiguity, especially in the Unnamable. He inherited it from Joyce who utilizes it in Ulysses.
More recent major example is Gravity's Rainbow
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Why tf did i take a medieval studies course?
Why tf am i taking a chaucer course next semester?
Why tf am I in school?
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as a STEM guy i envy anyone taking a historical or culture based subject
its basically 4 years of fun story time, while im learning about about data management
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Took a Middle English class. Had to read Piers Plowman, never again
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>>8772893
Pretty much this. Code up a point region quad tree then come complain to me.
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Write a pseudo-intellectual sentence.
Then write an intellectual one.
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I am the ubermensch
I am an ubermensch
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>>8772781
I can't do that.
I can't do that either.
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>>8772781
Today OP was not a faggot.
Today OP was a faggot.
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Interested in reading the Koran, Qoran, Quran, whatever, however unsure which translation is optimum for personal study, and whether an annotated version would be worthwhile or not. What should I buy, /lit/?
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My humanities class for gen eds in college used the oxford world classics one, it did the job.
If you really want to study islam proper though look into the hadiths as no one is really a quranist in this day and age.
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>>8772792
(look into the hadiths as well as the quran, I mean)
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Is it worth the read?
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Read The Hobbit instead, but yes, it's worth it
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IDK bro
Is it worth the weed?
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>>8772687
only if you enjoy fantasy
there's a reason that the series is considered the epitome of fantasy