What are your favorite books written in the first person perspective?
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>>8623131
My diary, desu
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Blonde on Blonde (by Bob Dylan)
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>>8623138
The Black Prince
>pay thousands for fake Amazon reviews for self published book
>still no one buying my book
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Stop crying about your shite book not selling and tell us the name of it so we can help you or crush your dreams some more
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You couldn't get a marketing firm to help for thousands instead of some random Chinese people with a few laptops?
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>>8623191
This. You need reviews AND marketing. Not one or the other alone.
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I don't know much about reading, but is the taste of the people on this board basically as shitty as the taste of people on /mu/ who are just getting into music? I look at some people on that board, and some people go off and develop their own taste and their charts won't look anything like the people who are obviously new and just listen to the exact same thing everyone else is listening to. I look at the recent vote that went on on this board and I see how it's the same chart as the chart of the last 2 years, I sort of wonder of when I look into the books that this board talks about if this is like, the entry level taste that you see on /mu/ but in book form.
I know it's probably better than most people who don't read books, duh. But there's always going to be that pocket of people with super patrician taste, like these guys in my city who organize avant garde music concerts, who I went to to talk to before the concert one time and they all sort of treated me like a creep and weren't nice to me at all; so I ended up never going to see any shows that they put on ever again. I just hate being so lonely sometimes you guys, I really hate living in total isolation, I don't have any friends and I haven't had any pretty much since elementary school, when making friends was as easy as inviting your whole class to your birthday party, or asking people if they want to come over to your house for a sleepover.
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What does it matter what people on a mongolian drawing board read or rate books as? Read what you want to read, simple as that. Don't live your life like a retard.
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>>8623116
I just want to find good literature. It's not easy.
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>>8623108
Fuck off, anime pedo scum
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>Turn your mind to, Meditations™
Jesus really?
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>I never thought I'd fall in Love in The Time of Cholera
What a fucking hack
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>Enter HAMLET
And we call this man the Bard...
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>As Maman passed, I've become The Stranger™
Camoo is a hack.
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Are there any literary subjects that you won't ask your family for as gifts etc?
For me, it is dinosaurs.
For some reason people just don't understand that books about dinosaurs can be for adults and can be fascinating non fiction.
I don't get it.
I asked my parents as a birthday gift for some 'dinosaur books'. I was hoping they might get me some non fiction, word heavy books discussing the Science behind dinosaurs and their history in this planet.
What did I receive?
Pic fucking related, along with about 3 other childrens books with cartoon fucking dinosaurs. As I opened the gifts they made mocking 'roaring' noises to make fun of me and instead of a card I got a drawing of a PS4's fossil because 'we were going to get you a PS4 but they had gone extinct'.
I don't get it- Dinosaurs are a fucking FASCINATING subject. Why are they treated like childrens entertainment? There isn't enough good literature on them to begin with but I expect people to understand dinosaur books do exist.
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>>8623048
>I asked my parents as a birthday gift for some 'dinosaur books'.
back to /r9k/
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>>8623072
What is wrong with that?
Do your parents not buy you gifts you fucking cunt?
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>>8623110
I only got money from my family for the last decade or so. I don't even need the money since I have a pretty nice salary nowadays. I would really enjoy a simple well thought out gift.
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ITT: Favorite DFW quotes
>When you acknowledge that there is nothing repulsive or unforgivable or shameful about yourself, it becomes easier to be that authentic person and feel like you’re living a less performed life.
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>>8623036
That's John Green, though.
Sorry to ruin your epic meme thread
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>>8623036
>She is peeling spliffs like peeling back foreskin. It's a hot-box in the way that a microwave is a hot box and I'm choking to death on a rooty-tooty-patootie ass-cloud of weed dust like crusting butt must. she turns to me, the folds in her pants churning like a thousand dick exposés, my eyes rolling back and way back chutes-with-ladders-esque down my throat and into my ass.
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>The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness.
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Post the last poem you wrote.
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not a poem but this is a sentence from a letter I wrote to a friend:
My table is a wooden balcony rising from a hill above a field. Pick a point on the lawn. Stare and see the butterflies flit above the grass. Micro Mirages. Shimmering cuts on the eye. Glass on the air.
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Pareces de marmol vivo
De ese que respira
De ese que exige olvido
Mis palabras se resfalan
Pretenden hacerte el amor
Tu piel se desentiende
Solas
Espiral de frustración
Tus ideas me son ajenas
Ignoro tu risa interior
Conocer?
Saber?
Tocar?
Probar?
Ver, pero solo una impresión
Y olvídate, corola sin flor
A una voz en caida libre
Solo piedra le hara frente
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Perderse en el jardín de tus manos
Es despertarse sincero sobre nubes de cielo sin penumbra
Oír el divino canto de otro segundo que descubramos
Sentir la tormenta que tu aroma vislumbra
Deseo contigo, amante empedernida, capturar éste momento
Plasmarlo en la obra maestra de tus labios de brisa
Inmutado, para siempre en mis sueños pretendo
Guardar el sol de tus ojos y la tonada que escapa de tu sonrisa
Encontrar en tu cuerpo la cura a mi delirio
El viaje de mi tacto en los reinos de tu piel
Trae celosamente el elixir de mi alma fiel
Aniquila el incesante acabar de mi martirio
Besar tu frente y ver desmoronarse la soledad que me acosa
El ave advierte la luz y en mi hombro posa
La canción que durmió desolada ha renacido
A tu lado, las voces se silencian y es hermoso el ruido
De tus pasos que sigo como esclavo
Alejado del mural que mis nieblas pintaron
Y en el fin del mundo encontré tu alma
Y tu voz dictó el comienzo de uno nuevo
Que ya no es mundo sino paraíso al partir el alba
Tus brazos acogieron mi sed de un dulce vino
La oscuridad ya es desconocida en la cadena que llevo
Al ver el regalo que frente a ti mis ojos han visto
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buena
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Would JK Rowling or Stephen King or a big name genre author winning the Nobel Prize be less controversial and more accepted than Bob Dylan winning?
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>>8623019
Since the problem with Dylan is really that he doesn't produce literature and won it, I'll go with no.
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>>8623027
but /lit/ would erupt into more of a shitstorm if either of those two won instead of what we actually got.
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Depends on the writer. Le Guin or Wolfe probably wouldn't draw the same ire. King or Rowling definitely would.
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Hey, /lit/. I have a weird request. I've been reading this sci-fi novel that has an incredibly minor side-plot about the characters in their early twenties having an affair in a sweet and awkward way. You see, I haven't been in love or even had a crush in a long time and it's like that part of the book let me once again experience those feelings of my youth. I'd really like to read something like that. As far as I know most of "serious" romance literature explored deeper themes about love and attraction than I think I want. Any of you guys know what I'm talking about?
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>>8622911
Stranger in a Strange Land?
I mean it's sweet and awkward up until the murder.
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>>8622911
you're talking about how you're not in touch with your emotions lmao
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>>8622913
I don't thing sweet and awkward is required. I guess I just want descriptions of people falling in love that are good enough to make me, an old neckbeard, wistfully look back at the time when I used to have that. It doesn't have to be sci-fi. It's just that on the top of /lit/'s suggested romance novels is Love in the Time of Cholera and I'm pretty sure it's about things way more heavy that I'm talking about.
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What's your personal favorite non-fiction, /lit/?
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>>8622891
THE MOTHERFUCKING BIBLE HAHA YOU FEDORA SHIT, YOU'LL BURN IN HELL
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Hey, thanks for the pitch for the thread. Some initial thoughts: It's okay, but at the moment way too general. We find that the most commenting activity happens on threads that have a particular angle or 'hook', ones which invite comments on a more specific topic. However we'd be happy to take a look at a revised version of your thread!
Best wishes,
/Lit/ Editorial Staff
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The Journalist and the Murderer, by Janet Malcolm
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Post cringey promps from leddit
Prompt:
You're driving a long, dark stretch of highway, when Death appears in the passenger seat, informing you that you are about to die. The car then spins out of control, flipping, and you black out. You wake up, hours later, in a deserted field. Death is laying lifeless on the side of the highway.
Response:
"WHO FUCKS THE DEATH NOW?" you scream at the top of your lungs. As the universe seems to all align to your whim, a Mustang appears with "If I Had A Trail" by qotsa blaring on its radio. "You ever dance with the devil in the pale moonlight?" asks the parchment-white driver with a Cheshire grin, and instinctively you know you've met Lucifer. "Get in," she says which you obey, limping, tracking blood on the red leather of the passenger seat. "Let me tell you about the emperor's new clothes."
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From the same thread (this is the top voted comment, mind you)
"You search through death's cloak and find a small card with print around the edges too small to read. You can barely make out the words. They say something about taking the sickle and putting on death's cloak. As you go to pull the cloak off of him it's mysteriously empty with no body inside. You drape the cloak around yourself and pick up the sickle, agreeing to a contract you couldn't read and becoming the bringer of death yourself."
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>>8622873
We already have several 'omg these people are so dumb, let's jerk each other off to make ourselves feel better'-threads.
Why don't you create a thread about some good writing prompts?
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>>8622876
Wow a very original idea
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I'm starting to think plebs putting down books because of "unlikable characters" is due to series fiction. Characters need to be "likable" in order to sustain people reading book after book of the same shit, so when they get to fiction that actually doesn't exist to pander to them so they may be milked for cash over multiple books, they get confused. And they flock to series fiction since from watching TV shows they're used to that as a format. Am I on the right track here?
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>>8622807
Wow what a deep analysis. You most definitely is not a 'pleb'.
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>>8622810
I'm starting to think this may be sarcastic.
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>>8622816
You're a shallow thinker. Stop thinking you're better than anyone.
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Is Smollett the best 18th century writer?
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>>8622762
18th century literature was a mistake. It's nothing but trash.
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>>8622776
i know i shouldn't keep being surprised this board is pleb as fuck yet it keeps happening
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>>8622786
it was though
france ruined it with bs rules they made up
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Went looking through the archive, catalog, and the Wiki that had herpes level of ads.
Can anybody recommend me some hard-boiled detective novels? I'm looking for a page turner, maybe a first person perspective, with plenty of fights, smoking, drinking, swearing, the works. Can you help me?
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Wrong sort of board for that kind of literature. It's all artsy fartsy here.
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>>8622740
Oh. Do you know which board would help me with that? I figured this would be the place to go.
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>>8622748
I wouldn't know though I don't think there is one on 4chan. This is the only book one and they try to a highbrow literature board.
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Writing my masterpiece here /lit/, and I have a quick query. If you're painstakingly going through documents to find out about something, do you 'pour' through them or 'pore' through them?
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>>8622685
It's pore but to annoy the diamond dozen I'll throw paw into the ring as well.
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For all intensive purposes, i prefer "ooze"
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I hate to play double's advocate, but Beyonce had one of the best homophones of all time. Of all time.