I'm writing a book in an obsolete vernacular. thoughts?
I don't care.
>>8475979
>United Americans
>they're all fat
P O T T E R Y
>>8475979
Which 'obsolete vernacular'?
Good afternoon, my dear friends. I'd like to start saying that I have started browsing this board recently. I've read my share of books, but ever since I came here, I realized I've barely left the surface when it comes to literature, so I'd like to dive deeper.
I've gone through pic related, saw some books I had already read, but didn't really know where to start from.
Could you guys give me some suggestions? I know there s also something like "/lit/s starter pack", with Brave New World and Clockwork Orange and so on, but I'm not realy interested in those (and some of the other I've already read).
Well, thanks in advance!
don't follow the /lit/ top 100
it's a fucking meme
are there any genres/topics/countries you're interested in in terms of literature? I've got a good few charts.
>>8475983
I guess I could say I'm interested in books from eastern europe... I really enjoyed Kundera's books, specially The Unbearable Lightness of Being. I do, in fact, really like there books with deep dialogues and relationships, such as some of Murakami's work.
But thats just a guess. I would really like to go further in the world of literature, any path is possible. Just dont know where to start...
rolling for a new read
Why is Bukowski the greatest author of all time?
He is an average author. I love his short stories and poems for bleakness. But, in the novel he rehashes the same plot again and again, he possess no credible ingenuity and his characters lacks depth and cadence
He's a pretty good read.
>>8475971
I could never read this guy because of his reputation and fan base, even though I've enjoyed authors like him and I'm sure I'd like his stories.
List the books you plan on reading, roll for them, and read them.
1-3 Oblomov
4-6 Shadow & Claw
7-9 South of the Border and so on and so on
0 reroll
>>8475947
Looks like it's memeakami for me, thanks folks.
Pulled from the first ten books on my "to read" list:
0- re rooolllll
1- The Witches
2 - A brief history of seven killings
3 - Invisible Man
4 - Middlesex
5 - I am Legend
6 - Shogun
7 - Some Angela Carter collection
8 - Love in the time of Cholera
9 - Lives of girls and women
Let's do this!
>>8475982
heard that one's fun
"A Wrinkle In Time" is way more challenging than I expected. I'm surprised at how often I see this recommended as a children's novel, when it seems like a surprisingly challenging read. I've read Chronicles of Narnia, Harry Potter, and the Phantom Tollbooth all in my adult life and totally understood why they're good for kids - easy to understand, casual fantasy elements, not too abstract concepts, etc.
But I'm reading A Wrinkle in Time now and there's a lot of challenging material in it. The fantasy is more abstract and isn't cut and dry "We live in a knowable world, but here's a crazy hidden world with x, y, and z creatures introduced one chapter at a time." Instead, the very first fantasy chapter plunges you into a strange environment, where you get on a flying creature, pick flowers that help you breathe, watch your guides change shape and voice, and shifts the environment several times.
Additionally, the vocabulary is way above those other novels. The quotes in different languages are the obvious example, but even their english translations seem conceptually very challenging for kids. Even without those, here's a regular sentence:
"If you have some liniment I'll put it on my dignity," Mrs Whats it said, still supine.
I teach 7th and 8th grade and I guarantee my students don't know three words in that sentence in that context.
I initially saw the book recommended as a 5th grade reading level and thought "Oh, this will be a nice novel for my 7th graders to ease into the year with." 70 pages in and I'm wondering if my 8th graders can even handle it. I was going to do Hatchet with them, but am definitely considering it the easier read of the two and going to give it to 7th instead.
Anyone else feel this way? For those who read it when you were younger - did you get it?
>>8475879
I tried to read it in the sixth grade, I remember it being pretty boring. Should I come back to it?
I read it in fifth grade and I remember only the flowers and flying creatures. That was about, oh, 21 years ago.
>>8475879
Are you this guy?
https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/515y9w/a_wrinkle_in_time_is_way_more_challenging_than_i/
"David Foster Wallace struggled with inappropriate sexual behavior."
Is there any proof of this?
>>8475875
yes lots. he's a fucking nutjob man.
>Is there any proof of this?
the semen on your dress SENPAI
>>8475875
>Is there any proof of this?
check your mom's gaping asshole lmfao
What is your favourite word? Why? Is it the sound, the meaning, the possiblilities...?
Unbelivable
Catarsis
also
Smegma
Janitor, the etymology.
Bairn, the sound.
Globule, the sound.
Euphonious, both.
Ingratitude
I'm curious, does anyone on here like Harry Stephen Keeler? For this who don't know him, he's one of those forgotten pulp writers from the 20's, made interesting by the fact that his plots were endearing in how bizarre they were and how clunky his prose was. He's a bit like an outsider-artist who somehow got picked up by actual publishers.
Here's one of the most famous quotes from one of his books, by the way:
"It must be remembered that at the time I knew quite nothing, naturally, concerning Milo Payne, the mysterious Cockney talking Englishman with the long-beaked Sherlock-Holmesian cap; nor of the latter's "Barr-Bag" which was as like my own bag as one Milwaukee wienerwurst is like another; nor of Legga, the Human Spider, with her four legs and her six arms; nor of Ichabod Chang, exconvict, and son of Dong Chang; nor of the elusive poetess, Abigail Sprigge; nor of the Great Simon, with his 2163 pearl buttons; nor of - in short, I then knew quite nothing about anything or anybody involved in the affair of which I had now become a part, unless perchance it were my nemesis, Sophie Kratzenschneiderwumpel - or Suing Sophie!"
>>8475734
Sounds quite goofy. I think he might be an interesting fun read, but I don't know if he can be read from a philosophical lense, or socio-economical/political and psychological for that matter, since I never read him nor heard of him till now
>>8475785
He is definitely quite goofy. About half of it is from laughing at how weird/stupid his writing is, and the other half is laughing with him, since he does put jokes in and is at least somewhat self-aware.
I wouldn't ascribe much philosophical merit to his books, asides from their similarities with some modernist/po-mo literary features and experiments with form. His characters are usually pretty flat, as well, so unless you want to examine the author's psychology (he has a fixation with human skulls and they appear in all his books) you're out of luck.
Political stuff might be very interesting, since he writes a lot about criminal underworlds and themes of race in rather unique ways.
You can get some of his books for cheap on Amazon and there's one or two floating around online for free.
best books on the War of the Roses?
Big fat winter-is-coming guy recommended a book on this topic but I don't remember where.
interested on this topic too - try /his/ for an answer
A Song of Ice and Fire
>you guys love one of reddit favorite authors.
welp I'm out.
>you guys love one of reddit favorite authors.
welp I'm out.
>he will always be ours
feels good
WTF I hate lit now
Who here as written a book? All the way through, totally done and edited, even if you haven't gotten published. Not a short story or a collection of short stories, or poems. An actual full length book.
Tell us:
1. How many books?
2. Genre? Any titles you've pulled influence from for this book in particular?
3. Has it been published? Self or with a publishing house? (if no, have you tried to get it published?)
4. How long did it take to write, from initial concept to final copy?
5. How old are you? M/F?
If you've been published, make sure to link us to where we can find out more info about your book(s)!
I've personally never finished a book, but I have several books in varying degree of progression. I think this thread would be an awesome motivator, at least for myself because I'm the type of person that needs to hear about people doing well before I feel encouraged.
Thank you all.
>>8475633
pic related is a spook
>>8475633
Why is a collection of short stories not a book to you? I mean, if they are together in a book, why not?
>>8475633
None of us. Otherwise, why would we be here? (Although I've written 31 short stories)
One can find the English translation of the Welcome to the NHK light novel online very easily, but does anyone have a PDF or scans of the original Japanese version? I'd really like to have something easy for reading practice, but most light novels do not have subject matter that I am interested in. Posted this also in /jp/.
Much like meercats are not cats, "light novels" are not novels and not literature, try one of the anime boards.
>>8475631
>Posted this also in /jp/.
>>8475637
Next time don't post it here at all.
Fucking weeb.
I need a good novel written by a black author where race/racism isn't a theme
Les Trois Mousquetaires
If you're choosing a book based on the author's race then contextually it becomes about race.
Samuel Delany
August Wilson
Chester Himes
But this is a shitty /pol/ bait thread, so move along
ITT words that exist but you feel like they should not
>enthused
>edible
>pianist
>a lot of english words like gaffer, and bananas n mash, bender, bits n bobs, bigger, bobs your uncle, bollocks, chavs, chin wag.... I could go on all day
fuck nigels
shmoigle
what is everyone voting for on the next /lit/ top 100?
Me, myself... I'm keeping the meme alive.
Then I'm probably voting for Blood Meridian xD
xD
xD
>>8475564
lmao your voting for LMAO DUDE WHERE'S THE ENDING THE BOOK and MUH quickly glossed over violence, MO AR scenery wanking reddit tier cowboy book lmaoooooo. no thanks I'll be taking my vote semi seriously. J R, son & xon and the razors edge.