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Do any of you participate in other literary forums on-line? I'm growing to hate 4chan in general, but I'd still like to be able to discuss books at a level above Goodreads or r/books. Are there any other places on the internet like /lit/?
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*unsheaths katana*
Looks like it's your curtain call
RIGHTNINGUUUUU STRIKEUUUUU
Lights out for you
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I spent a long time looking for some and have had no success. This shithole is the best.
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no
Is this good?
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Well it's based on a real story so it must be good
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Textbook post-irony
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>>8772107
Thoroughly enjoyed it. Very short, but in a way that replicates Norm's stand-up in that none of it wastes your time. There's a humility to Norm that permeates his work, even structurally you can see how he detests the over long confessional stylings of most memoirs and modern stand-up. I heard a quote from an interview that stated, "backstage by its own nature is inferior to on stage, because backstage you're just eating sandwiches and working to put stuff on stage." I'm paraphrasing, but it highlights the reverence Norm has for the show of show business.
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>Usually when you wake up to a loud Crash, it's not a sign that something good is happening- it's never "Crash, mom made pancakes!" or "Crash, we got a new golden retriever!"
I'm legitimately glad this hack offed himself
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>>8772078
>not seeing the subtle ironic critique of post-modernity in this passage
You're too pleb for him
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>>8772078
That man has done more for the world than you could in one hundred lifetimes. Kill yourself.
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What's so bad about that op? I think it's kinda funny, and true
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Re-binding/Getting custom book covers 2016-11-27 22:47:47 Post No.8772069
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So I've grown to love a few books in the past few years which started me on a journey of self-discovery that changed my entire perspective on my life and given me the capacity to experience things and meet others I couldn't have before. Problem is I bought them second hand and they are starting to look like old dog-ends,I was thinking of getting them printed and bound/have custom covers made for them to exude a little of the respect and veneration I have for them. I ask this because I already tried searching for nicer editions of them but there doesn't really seem to be anything out there which really appeals to me.
Anybody know where I can get this sort of thing done?
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Are you going to bind them specially because Des Esseintes did it?
Be careful or you will end up having real things that imitate artificial things that imitate life.
And you will succumb to madness.
On the subject of binding, surely that are places that do it in the big cities.
Just go to the public library and ask there or go to a small independent library because the people that work in these places generally know about books and are not millennials trying to earn a few bucks to spend on starbucks and YA.
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you can find people to leatherbind books even in pretty podunk towns
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Better do nice leather anon.
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Tips for reading philosophy?
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>>8772027
Stop spamming this board. We get it, you're 16 and you're trying to into philosophy. Limit it to one thread.
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>>8772027
1. go to http://gen.lib.rus.ec
2 search for "the texts of early greek philosophy"
3. download and read
4 stick with it the book may seem tedious at first (half of the book is in greek so its not as long as it appears) also I usually skip the commentary.
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>>8772027
buy a book
say the words that are on the page aloud or to yourself
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>Anon, only one question will determine whether or not I read your book: Do you have skin in the game?
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Taleb's concept of the 'intellectual yet idiot' is so relevant to this board
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>>8771982
I have a real fat tail?
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Just bought pic related. What should i expect?
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Sentimental cliched drama full of bullshit whining
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>>8771899
Whinging cuck
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/sffg/ - Science Fiction & Fantasy General 2016-11-27 21:50:51 Post No.8771831
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/sffg/ - Science Fiction & Fantasy General
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P.S Sanderson is Anime Edition
Don't forget
What Novel you read has the best Anime in prose?
What anime in novel form should be avoided at all costs?
Fantasy
>Selected:
>https://i.imgur.com/r688cPe.jpg
>General:
>https://i.imgur.com/igBYngL.jpg
>Flowchart:
>https://i.imgur.com/uykqKJn.jpg
>Beginner's Guide to Fantasy:
>https://i.imgur.com/fOGNfWK.jpg
Science Fiction
>Selected:
>https://i.imgur.com/A96mTQX.jpg
>https://i.imgur.com/IBs9KE8.jpg
>General:
>https://i.imgur.com/r55ODlL.jpg
>https://i.imgur.com/gNTrDmc.jpg
>NPR's Top 100 Science Fiction & Fantasy Books:
>https://i.imgur.com/IJxTQBL.jpg
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>>8771831
>What Novel you read has the best Anime in prose?
Oh, absolutely Red Rising.
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>>8771831
someone post the anime version of the last fight in WoR
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>Red Rising.
so does anime here just mean young fiction?
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How should the demeanor and outward appearance of an aspiring writer be like?
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>>8771792
>/lit/erary lifestyle posting
People like you are boring.
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>>8771795
>he doesn't want to live the literary lifestyle
Stay cucked, my friend.
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Haven't really been into Star Wars since Disney uncanonized everything. I finally watched pic related and had no clue what the fuck was going on.
What are some of the new Disney-canon books that fill in the backstory for the new films?
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my diary desu
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fuck off
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>>8771688
>I like reading books that are about things that aren't real, but not books about things are are not real but don't have the endorsement of some group as being officially not real!
Why does something have to be cannon for you to enjoy it? Goodness know you aren't getting anything more than that out of that genre shit. I remember reading some of the Yuzhan Vong novels when I was 9.
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How do I enjoy literature? I've only really read the stuff I was forced to read in school and the generic fantasy that everyone has read. Is there a type of mindset that is necessary to enjoy it?
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>>8771681
You don't actually enjoy most of it, you just read it and pretend you enjoy it and that you are truly patrician.
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>>8771689
But then what is the point of it all.
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>>8771711
To pretend to be superior to people who read for the fun of it because they read science fiction and you read "the classics."
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General writing questions/ books related to writing 2016-11-27 21:05:49 Post No.8771678
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General writing questions/ books related to writing
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Looking for books recommended general for writing fiction. I also have never conducted research for a novel before (pic related recommends writing the book, then consulting secondary sources to describe things in a more exact and correct manner. For example, using research to make your first draft more accurate and exact, and not to research before writing the plot). I've also never taken a creative writing class before, I always just read literature/ philosophy/ religious texts because it was entertaining and fun.
I'm kind of new to this whole thing, I just had an idea that I thought might actually be good and want to see.
Any tips, advice, websites, articles, videos, books, manuals, techniques, etc. are welcome.
I'll also try to contribute what I do know as people ask questions (if I can), as I've lately been researching writing pretty heavily and writing this thing.
My first kind of precise question has to do with research: I know my novel will require a vocabulary of a place and time I've never lived extensively but to work it requires that (I'm from Texas, and my book is about Texas, but I live in France right now). It's also about rural Texas and I'm from a big city. So I have to create a kind of false authenticity from the setting even though the characters are from real life. The opening and many plot elements and characters are, in fact, very solid in my mind (I'm going to let the plot resolve itself once I get past the point I'm currently writing), so should I just knock out the story and meat of the novel and consult secondary sources afterwards to make it more exact and refined?
Secondly, I have a question about the actual plot: I do try this technique I heard Nabokov used where you write down sustained scenes as they come to you, kind of like brain storming, and that eventually it pieces itself together. I kind of write several chapters in a kind of unintentional prose poetry to really flesh out how I want this particular scene to go, but there is no overall organization even though in my head it exists. But it seems "outlining" is more for genre fiction (I dont even mean this in a condescending way, it just seems Patterson, detective novel writers, thrillers, etc. are the only people who use them, and my story arch doesnt really have twists). Is an outline still suggested for organizational purposes, even if plot takes a major backseat to imagery & the like?
TL; DR: Curious about your thoughts on structuring a novel or novella & conducting research to make it on exact.
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>>8771678
Bumping in particular interest for the themes of plot. I've often found and been told, that, while my prose is nice and dialogue is fine, my work feels "vague" or "empty" and that there are interesting parts but no excitement. I think it's because my mode of thinking and recording life is rather abstract, and I have a tendency to philosophize scenes and themes over people and plot. I know this is a mistake, and I'm trying to change it, and really, learn plot like I learn prose, but I'm a young writer and I'd really also appreciate advice and books on how to plan a scene, how to stipulate proper drama. Perhaps it's genre and basic, and I'm learning the ropes again by myself, but something simple on moving away from vague imagery and more into relatable direct experience.
I suppose it's really down to just changing my mind.
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>>8771678
Bumping
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op, this is my first bump since i got 2 courtesy bumps
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European literature > American Literature
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>>8771675
I'm assuming you're comparing an entire continent to a single country, which just goes to show how great American literature is, that only the entire body of 51 countries' literature is better than ours.
Thanks.
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European literature from a long time ago maybe.
It's like european cathedrals. Yeah, they're really impressive, but they don't make new ones.
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Greek mathematics > Russian mathematics
:^)
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I steal audiobooks deal with it 2016-11-27 21:01:21 Post No.8771664
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I steal audiobooks deal with it
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I uploaded 6 new audiobooks today.
https://twitter.com/audiobookbay
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>op actually delivered the fukuyama book i asked for in the last thread
HOLY SHIT! Thank you so much, dude!
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>>8772202
We can request books?
A bunch of Ann Patchett audio books have disappeared from online in the last few years. It'd be nice to see some of those up and about again.
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>>8772202
no problem
>>8772223
yea you can request but only non fiction or very good fiction.
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THE EXPANSE- HARD SCI FI 2016-11-27 20:57:49 Post No.8771657
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Hello , i just finished the EXPANSE, while i wait for the next book, what good HARD sci fi can you recommend for me. If possible a recently written space opera which hinges on the most realistic space travel technology.
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bumpless self shame
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>>8771657
>space opera which hinges on the most realistic space travel technology
So what, an astronaut listens to an aria on the Space Station?
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>>8771657
blindsight is good hard sci fi but its not space opera at all
the author is also kind of a weirdo but who cares