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Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis, Tertius

>>8424751
you

Faust, by Goethe. The more I ruminate on it, the more I enjoy it. And yes, I did read Part 2.

Make a visual novel lad

>>8424682
I would consider suicide

it seems very similar to a text-based RPG, and it would be an unnecessary challenge if you don't have experience doing single-line narratives.


I would map out a starting scenario and a few different endings. Since the reader is making the choices, the easiest thing to do is make the reader identify with a central character who is faced with several situations and allowed various choices.

Even if you have just 5 choice events (each with say 2 choices) that already creates 2^5=32 outcomes.

So the trick is to force several lines back onto the same final outcome. For this reason a lot of these kind of stories have "dead end" type outcomes. ("you chose the Axe, which broke on the alien's armor and now you are dead. Try again.")

Keep a table of each choice event and make sure you track each possible sequence.

TCoL49

The Red Book

WHICH WAY IS THE FLOOR GOING

toasting in ebin bread

>man, i'm glad i finally finished that game, i'll be able to die happy knowing i finally finished it. i think i'll leave my entire ps3 collection to my son, i taught him well, he'll thank me some day for the pro gaming skills i bequeathed unto him.

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>tfw you lived in the era that bedtime stories became bedtime videogames

Same question here, except English and German

>>8424576
>German
That's a no-brainer, go for English, it's the closest.
>Russian, French
Don't know about Russian, but with Spanish being a much poorer version of French in terms of vocabulary, despite the latin kinship, I'd go with English.

>>8424576
Portuguese, english and ching chong speaker here. I read borges in portuguese, lost a bunch in translation but was enjoyable. For german and french I'd go with english. (Otheer romance languages don't help understanding french past recognizing a few words, nobody really understands the french.) and I have a copy of "The Call of The Cosmos" here that is in english and it isn't too bad in english. So for Russian I'd still go with english.

>>8424556
A pseud is someone who thinks more of themselves then they are.

I've read every book in my life piecemeal. I often finish 2-3 at a time. Takes me months, and feels like I accomplished nothing nor gleaned anything of substance. Also, I'm ashamed of reading in public. Don't know why. I feel like people see me as being pretentious or something. Makes me lose focus on the reading I'm supposed to be doing.

>>8424556

This is going to sound extremely delusional, but in some ways I think I'm too "smart" for reading. My mind takes things in very fast, so it almost feels something slow to read a linear sentence in a single direction. I am capable of taking in a lot of things at once, and seeing the connections between them, so the linearity of reading often bores me.

I'd love to read Encounters With the Archdruid by John McPhee, or Independent People by Halldór Laxness

Bruh just megaupload it pleaseeeeee

>>8424381
middlemarch

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It's only down hill from there anon.

In Search of Lost Time
The Recognitions (not quite 1,000, but almost)
Miss MacIntosh, My Darling

Editors turn your book into their book.

>>8424361
gotta have an editor that's nigh the same level of genius as the author themselves, someone who really understands the message and works with the author, otherwise it becomes a battle of the egos, and the editor can really fuck up a book that may have otherwise been a masterpiece. plus if you didn't keep the master copy pre-editing, you're a dumbass. if you did, just compare the two, and see how the works are different, what makes the work worthwhile should stick out like a sore thumb and help you to communicate with your editor your concerns.

>>8424361
Is there a word command that can delete all edits done by someone else?

as i post this i become aware of the potential jokes to be made

Faulkner wasn't a retard

>>8424313
nabokov was such a genius, writing under the pseudonym of faulkner like that

>>8424277
Pout about there not being any ebooks on the internet to read

>>8424277
>not ordering hundreds of books at a time
not even dubs will save you from this stupidity, frogposter

why do you not have a stack of books that you bought but are unread and have been so for months/years?

also ebooks

OP's diary.

>>8424270
FUCK

>>8424270
Got im

>>8424230
I'm sorry OP, but you are a confirmed pleb.

>>8424236
Pls explain

>>8424230
I feel like the massive differences in grammar between japanese and english make the translations fundamentally awkward
But I know absolutely no japanese so I have no idea how accurate that is

>23
>Orlando
>book of disquiet by pessoa
It's decent so far, like 15% through it

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>>8424172
>20
>NJ
>IJ
its good. ardous, though. need to finish it before summer is over.

>>8424172

>28
> Colorado
> Foucalt's Pendulum. It's funny within the first 10 pages, so that's a good sign.

>>8424097
Google.com.

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portable nietzsche translated by w kaufmann
research a specific topic (ex. spd in germany/rosa luxemburg/kautsky/bernstein split during lead up to world war i)
idk
for wwi, hew strachan's first world war

>>8424119
i don't think my pic is virginia