>It's an Orin chapter
>It an AFR chapter on the side of the mountain where nothing happens.
>It's a DFW novel
>>8499825
Those are the funniest chapters.
Dear /lit/ patricians, what do you consider important when just getting into philosophy?
I'm currently reading Citique of Pure Reason which I like a lot but I'm not sure if I lept too far with this one since I'm relatively new when it comes to philosophy
start with the greeks not even memeing
are you sure we shouldn't just talk about utena? "dear /lit/, what is the book version of revolutionary girl utena?" etc.
>>8499772
just read everything by Aristotle then skip forward to Wittgenstein, nobody in between is of any real significance
Looking for some Japanese literature recommendations.
Already read most of Mishima and Murakami's work, thinking about perhaps getting into Kenzaburo Oe.
Otherwise just any general oriental recommendations.
Soseki and Tanizaki
Ogawa, Izumi Kyouka (dunno if he's translated)
>>8499759
Soseki - Read him if you like muh individualism, social anxiety, and isolation in an industrializing world. Recommended reads are I Am a Cat, Kokoro, and if you're really interested the two thematic trilogies (of which Kokoro is a part of the late trilogy)
Dazai - Read him if you like muh suffering, muh loneliness. Recommended are The Setting Sun and No Longer Human.
Kawabata - Read him if you like muh aesthetics, beauty, and somberness at the changing of eras. Recommended reading is Snow Country, Thousand Cranes, and The Old Capital
Tanizaki - Read him if you're lewd and enjoy muh nostalgia for the past. Recommended reads include The Makioka Sisters, The Diary of a Mad Old Man, and if you want to see what the opposite of a weeaboo looks like, Naomi.
Endo - Read him if you like muh Japanese Catholicism and persecution. Recommended reads are The Silence and candal
Abe - Read him if you want a lesser version of Kafka and muh social anxiety in the postmodern era. Recommended reads are Face of Another, Woman in the Dunes, and The Ruined Map
What are /lit/'s thought on pic related.
I want to know if it's inevitably disliked or seen as genuinely good prose.
It has piqued my interest and I am wondering if it is worth seeking out.
something /lit/ would like if it wasn't written by a woman or contemporary. would fit right in with the meme trilogy bc it's memey af wiTh itS PunctuatioN and complete eschewing of grammar
On backlog still
I mean I opened the book to get a sample of it and what I opened to was "Sperm sperm sperm sperm. Blood everywhere. Open gash cascading with blood" so I'm unsure what to really make of that.
I really like Palahniuk's writing style. /rec/ me some more.
Just read more Palahniuk. His style is exactly the same in all his books and you'll get fed up with it pretty easily
>>8499758
I didn't. Where are your memes now?
>>8499755
BEE
Which one is grammatically correct?
>Until they arrived, Toni and Damir were to guard the place, probably until the end of winter.
or
>Until they arrive, Toni and Damir were to guard the place, probably until the end of winter.
Thank you lit
>>8499727
The first one is correct. The second would be correct if it were
>Until they arrive, Toni and Damir are to guard the place, probably until the end of winter.
>>8499733
Thx
What about this one? (last one I promise)
>Finally, he reached the page where answers should begin.
>Finally, he reached the page where answers should have begun.
>>8499752
I would say the second one. Frankly, cutting out finally would make that sentence better.
Mentally ill authors?
Any that are worth a shit throughout time are mentally ill to some capacity. Definitely depression.
me
>>8499718
Everyone has depression that doesnt count
In 1958 as he was writing the last chapter of Omensetter's Luck, the manuscript was stolen from his office. 4 years of work was gone just like that.
Any other similar stories about enormous literary setbacks? Could there be classics out there which were never published for reasons like this?
>>8499712
T. E. Lawrence lost the original manuscript for The Seven Pillars of Wisdom on a train near Reading, if I remember rightly. He had to write a second version from memory.
>>8499712
Stevenson's wife burned the manuscript of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde because she read and hated it. He had to rewrite the entire thing from memory.
One of Hemingway's manuscripts was lost when his luggage went missing on a train. It wasn't until years later that it was found. I can't remember which one it was though, I want to say For Whom the Bell Tolls but I'm not sure.
>>8499712
Didn't Joyce lose the original Ulysses manuscript on a bus?
>mfw I regularly check /lit/ to see whether people are talking about my book
>see a couple-dozen explicit mentions each month
A thread died for this
>>8499592
Go to bed Tao
>>8499592
Go to bed Gass
What are some cliches that should be avoided for the post-apocalyptic fiction genre?
>>8499570
There was some good answer to this before. Try warosu.
>>8499570
Read this
http://www.wipp.energy.gov/picsprog/articles/wipp%20exhibit%20message%20to%2012,000%20a_d.htm
Research it.
bad writing
What does writing do better than other mediums, such as film. What does it do worse?
>>8499557
Also, any book recs which cover this question?
>>8499557
Very extensive discussion. The baseline is that they're different mediums that can do different things.
I could go on for fucking pages cause I dig the subject, but the baseline in my head is that written word can be given qualities a visual medium can't--rhythm, diction in narration and description, aesthetic juxtaposition, etc. Abstract ideas and emotions can be conveyed more fully with connotative writing when they reach outside the bounds of visual media. CGI can only go so far in the recreation of things that can't even be seen or properly imagined.
Meanwhile acting in film can often do more for one's conception of visible emotion than a book--a viewer can more quickly gain an understanding of an actor's character just by looking at them, which is displayed better by better actors. Writing has to take more time through description to do this, and often the description can fall short of the fine details an actor can give. When a book describes something that exists, too, it's easier and can often be captured more fully on film, especially when talking about places and detailed structures.
In essence one relies on boundless imagination and the other relies on displays of skill to give impressions on the reader/viewer. Both work differently and can achieve all sorts of different effects. Shall I go on?
>>8500397
Essentially this
Just because of further time investment, books can more accurately describe and act as a simulacrum of existence (as well as a lengthened discussion of a complex topic) more than a film (look into the myth of total cinema), but a film can easily be more decidedly poignant and subtle
>be a serious read for 10 years
>literally run out of things to read
Learn a new language
time to become a serious anime
>>8499673
Boring
>It is what it is
I actually use this phrase all the time. its.good for conversing with normies. any alternatives that convey similar meaning?
I guess that's just the way cookie crumblin'
>>8499486
what else could it possibly be?
How do I win a Hugo?
You can't. You are not a good writer.
You write a story and hope it's good enough for people to spread by word-of-mouth
>>8499483
Metafiction about buttsex.
/lit/, which books changed your life? Must reads?
>>8499479
berenstein bears and dr seuss
got me to start reading for enjoyment at a young age.
>>8499479
Stirner freed me from a lot of conventional desires one is supposed to have. I've dumped a lot of dead weight since then and am capable of unapologetically just being myself now
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