Has anyone ever won a Peabody, Pulitzer, and Nobel?
Baubles
>>8392429
What?
>>8392483
pleb
Is it worth learning a second language for reading non-English literature? Obviously two languages is better than one but is the effort of learning a new language worth the reward of being able to read some books in their native language instead of an English translation? How much difference does it make to read something in the original language?
>>8392360
Pick your favorite book written in English.
Would you still get as much from it if you read a translation or not?
There's your answer.
Poetry is basically useless in translation, so consider if the language you want to learn has a lot of intetesting poetry.
>>8392524
Well since I don't know any other languages I have no way to actually know if a translation would distort or spoil my favourite book in any way or not.
So, I keep hearing about the Frankfurt School and such and how it's a big Jewish conspiracy. What was the Frankfurt school really? Is there any validity yo the claim that Zionists had an influence in it? What literature came out of it and how did it influence education and politics? Was it da joos or not?
>>8392355
Bump
>>8392355
I've put together a little chart for you.
>>8392355
In regards to its usage by the alt-right, wikipedia suffices:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_School#Cultural_Marxism_conspiracy_theory
Don't tell me you guys actually liked this pretentious garbage?
and what if we did, faggot?
>>8392344
I'll do you one better: I didn't even read it!
>>8392349
Good. Save yourself the trouble.
This book is a year old already.
Have you read it and what are your thoughts?
>>8392343
Ugly people who think they are good looking enough to appear on the cover of a book are despicable.
>>8392348
Authors who put themselves on the cover of their book cover.
Inb4 I don't care that it's a memoir
>think i"m well-versed in the internets
>never heard of her except during the time that book was launched
>google her again to try if I remember her
>'From online entertainment mogul, actress, and “queen of the geeks” '
>what's an online entrepreneur
>check out goodreads
>number one review is from sperglord par excellence, rothfuss, my usual rothfuss-goodreads Fremdscham triggers
>reminded again that 'geekdom' has been appropriated by american capitalism to sell their crap
>reminded again that in all likelihood the internet was a mistake
You have one chance to prove pic related isn't some perversion of Derridean thought.
Hint: You can't.
>>8392338
>Ever since Galdalf wizards have been sages, mentors, and advisors supportING them on their quests
>never heard of Merlin apparently
>>8392338
After reading through that whole thing, only one question comes to mind:
Did a thirteen year old girl write that or some shit?
>>8392338
>Qb was evil
what a spooked image
How can you know whether you love anyone?
1) Do you feel you love anyone?
>>8392286
Maybe
That doesn't seem like a very definitive metric anyway
>>8392284
you care for them and crippled by that. stirner viewed this as bad.
which is why even his wife hated him although he dedicated a book for her. he also had no friends as he was seen obnoxious
Who is the Sam Hyde of literature?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K4fn7T-t7s
Chuck Palahniuk
also isn't Sam already working on a very succinctly titled book himself
>>8392253
Tim and Eric and Trump Hitler
>>8392273
triggered
Alright /lit, this article appeared on reddit and apparently they can't understand this quote that sums up the articles reasoning "1985 study found listening comprehension correlated strongly with reading comprehension — suggesting that those who read books well would listen to them well"
This argument is the closest to triggered I get, how can I fight it?
>http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2016/08/listening-to-a-book-instead-of-reading-isnt-cheating.html
>https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/4xejln/as_far_as_your_brain_is_concerned_audiobooks_are/
>>8392224
huh
>>8392224
>The decoding process does become automatic once you’ve passed a certain level of reading proficiency, but you can become even better at this well into adulthood — and the only way to get better is by reading. The improvements are small (“infinitesimal,” as Willingham put it) but they are there, and up for the grabs for a reader. Comprehension, too, is something that improves the more you read. And there are also, of course, times when you need to remind yourself of something farther back in the text, something that is no longer held in that one- to two-second echoic memory. (Which Greyjoy is Victarion, again?) You could pause the audiobook and hit that 15-second rewind button until you find it. But you probably won’t.
There’s also this question to contend with: Are you consuming the text the way the author intended it? (And how much does that matter?) The reader of Willingham’s own audiobook did a wonderful job, for example, but there were jokes stepped on, punch lines that didn’t quite land the way Willingham exactly intended. (This, incidentally, is why listening to one of those recent books in the funny female memoir genre — like Amy Poehler’s Yes Please — is often a much better experience than reading them.) “The idea that you are experiencing the novel in a way the author did not intend, that you’re missing out in some way — I’m much more open to that than ‘You listened to it, you big cheater,’” Willingham said.
>>8392224
In the comments
>Decent article but what is up with the "and others would agree" part? You linked to a Reddit post with 0 upvotes and only 10 COMMENTS. It's like the author didn't even try to find a popular discussion on Reddit and went for the first post that turned up on Google.
o/ /lit/ I'm here to promote my Discord Writing Group \ Server.
We're an active group of about 30+ but are looking for more users to join as we may trim off the ones who have never had activity after joining.
We support all types of writing and actively read and assist other's work. Thus far it has been a respectful and well-rounded community and we hope to have more of the same pleasant experiences with new users.
Here is the Discord link for those interested: https://discord.gg/rRH8v
>>8392215
>Discord Writing Group
It starts with
One thing I don't know why
It doesn’t even matter how hard you try
Keep that in mind, I designed this rhyme
To explain in due time
All I know
Time is a valuable thing
Watch it fly by as the pendulum swings
Watch it count down to the end of the day
The clock ticks life away
It’s so unreal
Didn’t look out below
Watch the time go right out the window
Trying to hold on but didn’t even know
I wasted it all just to watch you go
I kept everything inside and even though I tried, it all fell apart
What it meant to me will eventually be a memory of a time when
I was lurking for some days but the group is literally genre fiction garbage.
Damn. This is really well written. Who is the author? I'd love to read more from him
>>8392184
I don't know his name, but he has a sequel out.
but wait,
it's a trilogy!
>>8392184
A lot of it's by anon. You can check some of their other work on this very board.
> Patrick Rothfuss
I would very much like to know the opinions of others concerning The Kingkiller Chronicle and, in particular, the first novel in the series, The Name of The Wind.
I will be beginning chapter sixty-seven, A Matter of Hands, tonight.
At this point in the book, my only significant gripe is that I am just dying to finally come upon a stretch of at least the majority of a couple chapters' worth of action.
The pages keep turning, yet the most intense action so far revealed has been Kvothe's daring rescue of Fela from the fiery bone-tar in the Fishery - and this just last chapter at that.
That was a good chapter, but I want MORE! More fighting(any at all would do), eluding, arcanery, simple thieving or even more focused encounter between Kvothe and Ambrose. I'm aching for such conflict!
I push this ache aside when distracted by it by my baseless assumption that things will surely pick up.
I just hope it does soon, because, from my perspective at page 453, it is past due.
None-the-less, I am enjoying the book despite this failure to so far appease my partiality to more frequent physical/magical conflict.
But, it would be nice to know if I should continue to anticipate some volume of action focused reading futher along, or not.
Look forward to hearing others' takes on this specific topic, as well as on the whole book and series.
>>8392057
>I would very much like to know the opinions of others concerning The Kingkiller Chronicle
It's shit
Name of the Wind is solid fantasy, book 2 is where it really starts to unravel though
>>8392063
>Takes twice as long to tell half as much story as The Hobbit
>solid fantasy
is this kino?
it's biblio
biblio
literature
novel
fiction
writing
book
rag
>>8391946
no, this is dog.
>>8391984
dude nice!!! XD
>Wants to make the most realistic fantasy
>Doesn't include any form of drugs besides alcohol
Don't they talk about milk of the poppy a lot
Who needs drugs when you can get high on MAGIC
>>8391890
>Don't they talk about milk of the poppy a lot
Yeah, OP is a showfag.
>>8391877
Because it sucks and if it were by literally any other author it would be completely ignored forever?
>>8391877
Yeah I didn't enjoy it.
>>8391877
Bleeding Edge is Pinecone's senility manifested in textual form.
Still, Goodreads reviews are averaged by illiterates and plebeian interpreters, so I wouldn't trust any reviews from a website open to contribution from the masses.