What is final boss of literature?
>>9939459
Finnegans Wake is always memed here as The Final Boss of Literature but as someone else posted, it's probably more like the Optional Final Superboss of Literature where you need the best weapons to take it down
>>9939459
Wittgenstein and Heidegger
>>9939459
Tommaso Pincio.
https://youtu.be/ulUBDu_97z8?t=55s
>"We've all seen movies where the hero is in trouble, surrounded by 20 people but you know he will get away because he is the hero. I don't want my story to be that way. I want my readers to be afraid." - GRRM
what THE FUCK did he mean by this?
He has realised plebs care more about novelty and cheap surprises than actual substance.
>>9932039
dumb /tv/ cross poster
Like Akame ga Kill! GRRM wanted his readers not to know whether or characters will die, raising the stakes of the narrative
Also like Akame ga Kill! readers rebelled because it didn't feel like a hugbox and called it pointlessly edgy
What did he mean by this?
>>9939371
Gas the kikes
The sun was warm
kill yourself before your mother dies
Is panentheism heretical?
>>9939346
God is Satan
>>9939346
On the surface not necessarily.
But in certain readings where it denies and extinguished the individuality and independence of the human soul then yes absolutely
>>9939362
That's interesting because I would have thought the more heretical implications were the denial of the individuality and independence of the personified God. That is, in reducing the God as a character to God as a divine essence or quality.
I just read Pale Fire and realized how great this medium is. Who are some good poets. The only poems I know of and like are The Worm by Poe and Darkness by Byron
>>9932008
T.S. Eliot, (more) Byron, Whitman, Yeats, Dante and Milton, Shakespeare, (Me), Dickenson, Keats, Donne, Emerson, ...
>>9932035
>Reading la Divina Commedia in translation
no
>>9932008
>reads Pale Fire
>likes poetry now
The poem in Pale Fire is (deliberately) not that great, what about it impressed you so much?
I've spent the last eight years focusing on perfecting my screenwriting (all through college and the four years since I've graduated) but lately I've been really wanting to get back into prose. The problem is, for so long now I've been conditioned to emit all detail, character thought, and as much dialogue as possible, so transitioning back into the format of prose has been pretty hard so far.
How do you know how much detail is too much? How do you know if your descriptions are too wordy and slow down the read vs too barebones and uninteresting? For anyone who goes back and forth between screenplays and prose, how do you adjust?
Gonna bump this.
Sheesh I dunno. I've spent all my time writing prose and I'm now trying to do some screenplay stuff. I've got the opposite problem.
Honestly, OP, the most practical answer is probably read prose by authors whose style inspires you. Like gold tier platinum niggas. Read a few hundred pages of that stuff and it'll go through you like osmosis.
>>9932180
Yeah, I'm definitely doing a good bit of reading now and hoping some of it triggers the switch back over.
The good news on your end is, at least for me, once you figure out what you're doing as a screenwriter, the process of penning a script itself becomes very easy. Since most screenplays are very rigidly structured and focus much more on the visual aspect than the mental, you don't have to worry so much about the details as you do developing the characters. And learning how to create a moving character arc through visual means is really rewarding.
It seems like the author just burned out on it?
does anyone have the preview chapters of peace talks?
>>9931875
If I recall he started working on that other series and I guess that took time away from the Dresden Files. I know Butcher's said the series isn't over but I guess he's focused most of his attention on that. I guess the series is on informal hiatus as of now.
According to the website he is working on it, and it's getting closer. But it's taking so long... love that series.
Recommend good books from the last 5 years.
No genre fiction, no NYT best-seller
i've been interested about that book. what did you like about it? is it at all similar to cyclonopedia?
What book do you think about the most?
The Bible
>>9939342
Ulysses
>>9939344
Satan is God
This is what literature will look like in 10 years if the ongoing wave of savage, brute postmodernism is not halted by an opposite, equally bruttish wave.
>>9939226
Hi Lewis Powell.
I literally see no problem with this.
>>9939226
Suicide
Sup, /lit/
I'm gonna pick up some books with my Amazon credit, but I don't know what my next Pynchon should be. Should I read Vineland or V. next? I've read GR and TCoL49... Not ready for another mammoth tome, but I'll make my way to AtD and the rest.
I'm also gonna get Watership Down, too, so check the pic.
V or Mason & Dixon/Against the day.
>>9931905
I'll take it into consideration. Do you know about J. G. Ballard at all? Should I read Crash, or Atrocity Exhibition next? Or something else, I don't know much about him but I liked Super-Cannes enough.
Really didn't enjoy this book. Found every sentence and line cringe inducing cheese. Found the 80s retro vibe to be self indulgent and too much of the author's own voice. It was very lazy in sending out its social message to the world and the villains in the piece were so two dimensional and trite. There was little emotion and the teenage romance seemed put on. I was so disappointed with this book, I'm sure Spielberg will make a halfway decent movie but for me the novel was extremely bad.
>finishing the book
>starting it at all
you're obviously a self-hating redditor, so just go back there. if it was so bad why didn't you stop, you piece of shit?
>>9939352
>I can't stand people who bitch about a work they didn't finish.
this
Someone explain these damn books to me. There's every hint that there's a larger picture to it all that isn't explained in the text, but nothing online to explain what the hell it is.
That's the fun, you go back and read it again at a later time to figure out what it is. Knowing Wolfe though it's probably something to do with Catholic teleology.
>gene wolfe in the cover
nice
>>9931816
Holy shit I see it now.
Based illustrator.
so apparently all religions just plagiarized the story of horus. whats some essential literature about horus and *the* original religion
>>9939137
If you actually read instead of watching meme documentaries you'll find that most of the doctrines of the Abrahamic religions come from Zoroastrianism.
>>9939161
>meme documentaries
what? wtf is zoroastrianism? was he born of a virgin and does his story precede that of horus?
>>9939137
>so apparently all religions just plagiarized the story of horus
Wrong
All religions wrote in expectation of the Messiah, Jesus Christ, who fulfilled in flesh their imperfect prophecies
>mfw finding a way to shoehorn a semi-colon into a sentence
>>9931738
>finding a way
It's doable literally any time you want to connect two independent sentences that discuss the same topic.
>>9931742
i get rebuked at college for using semi-colons in lists
is it dying out?
>>9931818
>college
There's your problem.