What do you prefer /lit/ and why?
>Novels or short stories?
>Sci-fi or fantasy?
>The writing topic or the way to write?
(Many times I heard people talking about interesting topics, but they turn them into a boring and childish conversation. Other times I can see people talking about frivolities or average stuff, but they way to describe makes those frivolities sound like art)
>When the author tells or when he just explains?
(Obviously is not the same to tell a story than describe how it happens)
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evoke, is the word
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>>8377580
>short stories
>fantasy
>the way to write
>when the author tells
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>>8377580
Novels (personal range for me is around 200 pages)
Fantasy (though I enjoy it with sci-fi elements)
The writing topic. I'm pretty tolerant when it comes to prose so it has to be written pretty badly to put me off the premise
Usually when the author tells, I guess.
Do bookshelf videos make anyone else feel tingly?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lhu3JZhGUR0
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All girls should be spayed at birth.
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it's an asmr video, you're supposed to feel that way
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angry virgin basement dweller detected.
she's cute as a button and the sounds are neat, stop being a faggot for a day and just enjoy that people are outgoing enough to attempt to make worthwhile content unlike your spergy ass.
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Get the fuck off this board. Sage.
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Post em lads
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>>8377526
Source from the got image?
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>>8377634
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Hello dear friends and fans of 4chan. Recently I came across an interesting article about 4chan. It belonged to the Internet magazine that is no longer working because of complaints from visitors. I found this article on one forum on the books. This article tells about the users of 4chan and the sections of this site. It said that the website has malicious nature of of bad advice. But it's all the provocation the tabloids.I was outraged by what they consider 4chan a bunch of pseudo philosophers. Probably why the magazine was closed. What do you think about this?
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>>8377362
post the link, idiot
in general, there have been mostly bad, but some very good pieces on 4chan in the past
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Why call names?
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>>8377362
>It said that the website has malicious nature of of bad advice.
This is a meme, deleting system 32 really does speed up your computer and unlock a secret really cool desktop thememostly because it breaks windows and you have to install gentoo
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Antagonists that were protagonists prior?
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Can someone recommend books where the protagonist of an earlier installation becomes the antagonist of later ones?
I've been running ideas back and forth with a friend about such sorts of characters.
Inb4 Star Wars.
Oh also inb4 pic related.
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Kerrigan in the starcraft books
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>>8377361
Pretty spoilerific question---Dune---
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Where can I find a first edition copy of Child of God?
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Have ya tried Abebooks?
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Sorry if this seems rudimentary but I rarely if ever read anything hard copy anymore, mostly via PDFs or my mobile device
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I'll google it now
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>>8376980
I didn't see anything
Also I peeped eBay and this shit is going for obscene amounts of money, wow, didn't think this was such an expensive hobby
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DUDE 27 VOLUMES LMAO
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>>8376895
Dude a single letter on one entire page lmao
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What's the deal with this? Anyone read it? Seems kinda ridiculous to me.
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>>8378141
Idk how this shit water gets the funding
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Hey /lit/, I recently finished Portrait of the Artist as a Young man, and I loved it. It was the first work of modernist lit that I've read and I'm looking for more. What are some books similar to Portrait in terms of style and difficulty? I'm not sure I'm ready for something as daunting as Ulysses right now, which is why I want to enjoy more modernist lit as I simultaneously prepare to work further through Joyce.
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>>8376626
Dubliners desu
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>>8376641
well yes, i anticipated dubliners, but what about after that? is the work of Virginia Woolf similar to early Joyce?
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>>8376646
Yeah, I'd say Woolf might be your best bet. Check out "To the Lighthouse"
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"Wham! Niggers all over space!" - John Green
Tell me again why don't you guys like him? And how could he get away with this?
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The Martian Chronicles aren't written by Green.
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>>8376619
Source please?
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>>8376638
Looking for Alaska - John Green
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After reading and analyzing Macbeth, I still don't understand what it's main message is? What's your opinion on Macbeth /lit/?
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Don't kill the king or the universe will wreck you.
Isn't it great that James is our King? Scotland sure is cool, and it's a good thing his ancestors killed this bad guy giving him divine right.
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Behind every evil man is an even more evil woman.
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>>8376616
This famalam. literally just propaganda commisioned by the Scots to pussywhip their new English subjects.
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What would Aristophanes think about the 2016 US Presidential election
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>>8376413
this is a good thread topic
a+
i like it
try to answer your own question though
it stimulates conversation
you didn't do a good job at that
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>>8376413
>satirizing satire
Wouldn't touch it
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He would find the idea of a woman in politics idiotic.And he would be right.
I graduated last year with a degree I really hated. I've spent the past 14.5 months mostly wasting massive amounts of time on the internet, living with my parents, working menial part time jobs (less than 20 hours a week), and procrastinating instead of learning programming like I told myself I would. I don't even read books anymore. Also I have an existential crisis that I realise will never go away.
Has anyone been in a situation like this, constantly telling yourself that you'll work hard tomorrow? I feel like I have potential. I feel guilty when not working and I fear working only a medium amount and being guilty about not working more. When I get a full time job I know I will have no time to do anything substantial.
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Just fucking do it, Jesus Christ. Take a running leap and jump into whatever it is you want to do. Take the step from which there is no going back. You'll be glad you did.
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>>8376363
What did you get your degree in? Do you regret it? And it sounds like you dont even know what you want to do so of course you wont have drive to start anything. Figure that out first. And for your existential crisis: if you don't plan on being a novelist or philosopher just stop thinking about it. It'll go away
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>>8376363
If you have a degree at all you could move to an east asian country (I reccomend thailand, vietnam, or cambodia) and teach English. some of these jobs provide housing.
Even if youre not great with kids or anything, it might be good for you to try something so wildly different in a new setting. Worst comes to worst you can just come back.
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Best literary magazines?
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Valery Larbaud?
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Apex has been nominated for the Hugo.
http://www.apex-magazine.com
does anyone know of a book about tropes or the philosophy of tropes? looking for a survey that includes a catalogue of tropes, their etymology (or whatever the equivalent would be), essays about trends in their use, etc. anyone know anything good?
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Frye? Danto? Ricoeur on Metaphor?
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>>8376120
It requires a persistent readerly effort to de-ontologize everything you're reading, but with that caveat, Jung could fall into this category. Try reading Symbols of Transformation as a tropology instead of a psychology.
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Since when and why has the word trope come to mean narrative convention, rather than a figurative usage of language?
What's a poetic term which means discordant in regards to meter or rhythm. Like ametrical?
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mydiarytbh
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MyDIARYTOBEHONEST
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You speakin' of disconcordational rhythmicality? Dawg, the overall metrical discontinuosities of ametrical perplexities pretty much involves 'em falls into asentential auditory incoherenbilities. Careful out there, fridgin' poiesos rebelliesos