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What's the best academic edition for Hamlet and The Merchant of Benis?
Is Pynchon just shitty genre fiction with great prose? I feel like I'm having way too much fun reading Gravity's Rainbow.
How are hogarth's translations?
I just got dead souls off of gutenburg and I noticed he's the translator
Haven't heard much about him
What's with some science fiction novels being nearly great, but desperately in need of editing, considering the latter third or half of a story loses steam or compulsion? Why didn't they just retain quality by making it shorter?
I don't get it. We're past the sexually erpressed rea of the Big Three writers, and modern writers should have absorbed their strengths and improved on their weaknesses. Yet the state of science fiction is embarrassing, so what gives?
>inb4 impotent autist "reports" the thread.
Yes I made some embarassing typos, which only corroborates my point.
>>8390917
Sci-Fi books are created for an audience. You know who this audience is. The publisher cares more about plot devices and action scenes than thematic elements and such.
No doubt this is how Gene Wolfe got through the publishing scene (torture is cool man!) or Joe Abercrombie or Scott Lynch.
>>8390934
That's pretty insightful, I dont know how I missed that since Ive made that observation in the past for different areas of science fiction. Ah capitalism, you never let me down.
In defense of Wolfe, who I admire, Wolfe's story has almost nothing to do with the actual process of torture, especially not to the extent of Abercrombie. In fact almost none of New Sun could be considered filler, since many of the lengthy ramblings actually are key to answering the narrator's blind spots, or develop his character and validate his path to autarchy.
Wondering who here in Toronto is still interested in *ahem* being friends. Last thread there was talk about setting a discord server, honestly I haven't used discord so I don't know much of the details there. I just have an email [email protected] which anyone people in Toronto can email if they're interested.
Besides that, everyone is welcome to talk andor continue talk about meeting up from last thread.
sure i'll be there
Can someone in Toronto go shopping with me and tell me what shiitake mushrooms to get and which ones aern't spoiled, and also how to make a greek salad
sent ;)
Be me
>mid 30's
>stranded in foreign country
>horrible divorce after decade long horrible marriage
>said country does not recognize rights of foreigners to gain custody
>ex-wife stole all savings except $700 US
>devolve into high functioning alcoholism
>steady job but mind numbing
>drink at least 750ml of scotch per day
>meaningless sex with 4-5 new women per week
>chain smoke
>first novella published but does not sell
>novel deemed unlikely to sell so publication halted
>second novel deemed promising, publication date set for spring 2018
>drunkenly submit a shit Little Prince wannabe children's story
>published
>sells
>sells
>sells
>fuck me! don't let this be my legacy
Anyone else in this boat? Your serious work is ignored but some total shit work is selling?
>>8387801
what are you talking about dude?
I am talking about having your serious work ignored but something you never intended to be public being praised.
Maybe like The Wiggles. Imagine them. I am sure none of those guys thought, "I am going to be a super famous children's songwriter." They all probably had serious musical goals.
How do I have meaningless sex with 4-5 new women per week?
Ive been chatting with this bird i met off of tinder and when I asked her what her favorite books are this was her response.
Anyway she says shes open to recommendations and I want to ask you lads what should I recommend to her?
Also she prefers mysteries but like I said shes open to anything
>>8387354
"Guts" by Chuck Palahniuk, she'll love it!
>>8387354
Infinite Jest
Gravity Rainbow
Finnegan's Wake
>>8387354
>considering roasties in literature
just say some shit like 100 years of solitude and she will be all over ur dick
http://thephilosophicalsalon.com/the-sexual-is-political/
http://thephilosophicalsalon.com/a-reply-to-my-critics/
>>8379958
[gif of man opening chair and sitting]
Dis gone be good
Wow, I thought he would side with SJWs... respect.
Slavoj really BTFO a large segment of the Left in that article tbqh.
Are there any good books about Polyamory /lit/?
I just read the latest article by Laurie Penny and it really made me think...
>"Having been polyamorous for almost a decade, I spend a good deal of time explaining what it all means [...] It’s the conversations. It’s the texts with your girlfriend’s boyfriend about what to get her for her birthday. It’s sharing your Google Calendars to make sure nobody feels neglected."
>"There’s something profoundly millennial about polyamory"
>"People have all sorts of needs through their lives – love, companionship, care and intimacy, sexual adventure and self-expression – and expecting one person to be able to meet all of them is not only unrealistic, it’s unreasonable. Women in particular, who often end up doing most of the emotional labour in conventional, monogamous, heterosexual relationships, don’t have the energy to be anyone’s everything"
http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2016/08/many-my-fearful-frustrated-generation-having-it-all-means-opting-out-monogamy
That last quote holy fuck.
>>8388580
Why are you so shocked? It's 2016.
Can't you please fucking talk about this in /pol9k/? This isn't literature and you know it.
Is this even canon? I feel like it ruins the magic feeling of the original series. Honestly it almost seems like fan-fiction.
It's fanfiction that JK canonised.
I just finished reading it and what the fuck. That was the strangest experience. How did the initial idea for the plot not just get shot down straight away?
has jk lost her fucking mind
>>8387789
Tell me, does Harry die at the end? I read the synopsis of Part I on Wikipedia but I was too afraid to go on.
Does anyone here actually aspire to be a writer, or do you prefer basking in daydreams
Writing is about all I have. Suck at math which rules out the sciences. I'm not musically inclined. So yeah that's about it, I hope to write for the Vidya games, because I enjoyed writing DnD campaigns.
>>8384990
good luck anon
>>8384984
What a handsome man, who is it?
your life philosophy in two sentence
>>8379228
1) beautiful women
2) fast cars
>>8379228
Life is pointless but have a good time in the meantime.
I don't know.
And I don't care.
Do you agree with Stephen King that using adverbs is lazy writing?
>>8387006
I guess Stephen King would be the expert on lazy writing
>>8387006
Short answer yes
Long answer no
>>8387009
Gotta give him points for admitting his books are shit and moneyexctractors
Is book censorship ever ok?
>>8385596
Of course not. Silly question.
>>8386930
>posting hack "artists"
Well it's never necessary, but that won't stop it from happening.
Lets talk about chinese literature /lit/
What are your favorite characters and themes?
Im currently reading the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and was wondering why it mentions bribes so frequently? Are bribes common in chinese culture? How is corruption viewed in China? (in ancient and modern times)
When did Chinese people stop being human? Was it Communism?
>>8384126
During mongol rule, just like russians
>>8384119
asa dalai lama ching chong ding dong motherfucker
Why is psicoanalysis allowed?
>>8384105
I bet you think Freud is all of psychoanalysis.
>>8384115
jung, adler, horney, fromm, erikson... all hacks
>>8384145
>Jung
>Erikson
>hacks
I bet you hated Harry Stack Sullivan too, you miserable goblin
I have to choose five of my favorite books for a college application, what should I choose?
inb4 >"choose your five favorite books"
I know, but if I can find one that I haven't read that would fit better I would like to put it in
>>8379765
The trick is not to choose any dead white males, and make at least 3 of them females. And make sure to have maybe 1 or 2 plebby genre novels.
>>8379765
is it worth the spaghetti when they ask you about the one they haven't read?
>>8379765
put in john green and "my diary"