How do I become more interested in reading novels?
>>8329991
By looking up movements and/or periods that seem interesting to you and reading books by notable authors from them.
>>8330003
ok thanks I will try this
>>8329991
by keeping calm and loving reading
Hey /lit/ so long story short I'm writing a novel that takes place in the america's during 1692 aka the Salem witch trials but the problem is I can't come up with a location for it.
It needs to have these requirements
>small community
>not too populated
>small
>farthest from the colonies
Any help would be appreciated
>>8329966
Salem
Make up your own place. Do you really want to be cross checking your setting with the place's actual history every time you decide to add a detail? Make the whole damn thing.
>>8329966
>Location
>1692
Any New England town could work
Thoughts?
The prose is god-tier. The first hundred or so pages were comfy, and even after that it's a beautiful read throughout. I sighed entering each last half a dozen or so whale chapters, but Melville kept winning me over with how he ended each one. All the characters are riveting, especially of course Ahab. I loved the biblical stuff that I did catch (mostly stuff that was impossible to miss), and I look forward to rereading it.
Is everything else by Melville this good? What are some other good biblical reads (I liked Blood Meridian)?
>>8329922
Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off - then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can. This is my substitute for pistol and ball. With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship. There is nothing surprising in this. If they but knew it, almost all men in their degree, some time or other, cherish very nearly the same feelings towards the ocean with me.
>>8329922
Billy Budd, Sailor has God-tier prose imo. Bartleby The Scrivener is also worth checking out - it's sort of a precursor to some of the early 20th century existentialists, at least it seemed to influence Camus to some extent.
"Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me."
>>8329922
seconding billy budd as good, but i havent read anything else by him
About to start this. Any opinions? Is it worth it? I've heard many good comments about it.
Her name makes me think of tart cheese so that I may not read the books
Donna tart is excellent
her most recent book is one of the worst things i've ever tried to read. maybe the literal worst quote unquote 'literary novel.' literal harry potter tier.
What do you think of this book, /lit/? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Science
I think it puts forward an interesting model of social development, and is essentially Hegel without the necessity for anything transcendental. It is also a fairly hilarious read, utilizing the newest scientific findings at the time to illustrate ideas that Vico, as an educated person, could not have believed to be connected to those findings in any way (e.g., then-nascent archeology and paleontology used to justify the Bible and Greek myths). Seems to be an inspiration for Finnegan's Wake, which I haven't gone thrugh yet.
>>8329902
>Seems to be an inspiration for Finnegan's Wake
Have it on backlog probably on this basis, haven't gotten to it yet. Any more of this kind?
>>8329913
Well, I don't know, Imperium mentions it once, and has some strange ideas that I personally find to be related to colloidal computing (don't ask me how, it's a really fucking strange association), but I really know of nothing similar. Oh, maybe Editorhpa, which is also strangely related to colloids (its author invented Lloyd's reagent) and far-right (it's an American thing, to be a pharmacist, Mason and super-racist), but it's not nearly as exciting, unless you are good at speculative Freemasonry/are a high-ranking Mormon, of which I am neither.
>>8329941
>Editorhpa
Interesting
Are there any books about wanting to go to artschool but not wanting to be a burden to western civilization?
>>8329898
Mein Kampf
>>8329910
fuck i have literally become hitler
i need to get on ssri asap
why care about being a burden?
What are some good novels, besides Lolita, that revolve around a relationship between a grown man and a young girl?
Murakmi's characters often have very young female friends. Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, and Dance, Dance Dance off the top of my head.
>>8329857
What about books that involve the relationship between a grown women and a young boy?
read the stoics
Books like pic related?
>>8329850
The Atrocity Exhibition, and maybe some of Ligotti's more recent stuff
The Eyes: Emetic Fables from the Andalusian de Sade by Jesus I. Aldapuerta
What literature should I read to become a cyberpunk protagonist? Right now I'm reading network-security whitepapers and Witty's PI
>>8329842
The Oculus Rift SDK and SICP
Strange Attractors by Story Fielding
>>8329021
>>8329872
Nice 72
did he do it, /lit/?
in jest, infinitely
yeah
absolute madman
>>8329831
He did it alright.
He found the fabled banana bandana.
What is the most patrician book that you have read, /lit/?
>>8329814
Infinite Jest and Gravity's Rainbow
I'm an Intellectual BTW
>>8329822
>Infinite Jest
>Gravity's Rainbow
Which one's better?
you can't get more patrician than Ulysses
I'm not sure how to word this properly. So I'll just try. But, is there a word, or a phrase, for this particular feeling: when you try to approach something logically and/or analyze it, it hampers your enjoyment, and that the only way to truly enjoy something is to stop thinking logically, and just embrace the emotion and let yourself go?
Basically, when you feel that thinking logically actually hampers your happiness and enjoyment of art and life in general? Are there any writers/philosophers who explore this concept? I feel like in my life, I always go through this problem of wanting to be a logical, analytical person, but that this hampers my enjoyment of things, and I just want emotion to overtake me.
what?
pseudo-intellectualism
>>8329777
intuition ... lol
Alright /lit/, I've never posted on your board and I don't even know how you guys feel about Harry Potter but I've come simply to spoil it for you. My book store just got them in and I felt like sharing.
It may seem utterly retarded but screencap for proof
>Book/Script starts 19 years after last book and follows Albus (Harrys youngest son) Rose (Hermoine/Rons Daugher) and Scoripus (Malfoys son)
>Starts with sorting hat etc. Albus/Rose getting placed into Gryffindor and Scorpius getting placed into Slytherin with awfully written dialogue and no surprises
>Albus/Scorpius start off butting heads but develop a friendship
This really happens it's awful and hurts to read
>The 3 of them get a hold of some Polyjuice potion to sneak into the Ministry of Magic because Hermoine is a big fuckin deal there now
Not really sure why they broke in, in the first place, was just skimming
>End up finding the Time-Turner in Hermoines desk
>Albus and Scoripus use it because they're fucking stupid and end up going back 5 years
>"Oh no the farthest anybody has gone back is 5 hours we really fucked shit up" Ripples through time etc. Basic time travelling stuff
>Come back finally
>Albus is nowhere to be found
>Scorpius can't find Albus anywhere
>Professor walks up asks him wtf hes doing
>I'm just looking for Albus Potter!
>Potter? As in Harry Potter? One of Dumbledors terrorists?
That is literally in the book, they call him a terrorist.
>Harry has been killed trying to shed light on Dumbledors death, therefore Albus had never been
>End of Part one
>Part two
>Rose and Scorpius go and fix everything back to the way it was before
>Harry and Albus are reunited
>The end
Part one had a few neat scenes but after it ends you may as well put the book down, part two is a fucking disgrace.
I did screencap this, anon. If I'm still alive by the time the book comes out I'll be able to confirm if it's true. But I believe you.
This was all released by The Guardian months ago, I thought. But now when I search for the article, it's nowhere to be found. Did any of you see that?
Also, my impression was that the book was based on the play.
hasn't the play already premiered? are the spoilers not totally out in the open?
>want to read Stoner
>go to the library every week for several months
>only copy is always on loan
>book depository/amazon
>want to read Stoner
>check online library catalog
>only available to download free e-book
damn, oh well :) atleast I get to read it
does your library not have a holding system? or interlibrary loan?
How do you feel about books that have pictures in them?
lots of great authors utilize images in their texts. first that comes to mind is Vollmann who does it well, but i know i've experienced others.
>>8329711
Dantes Inferno is only exceptional
National Geographic is for middle schoolers who don't like words
Some are great
https://youtu.be/i8KtN1_exr8