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Short, but good books. 2016-07-15 08:13:26 Post No.8280693
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Looking for good/must read books that are around 100-200 pages in length, that I can read in a couple of days.
Noteable short books i've read the last couple weeks: Machiavelli The prince, Nausea Sartre, The PLague Camus(didn't fancy too much), Communist manifesto, Notes from the underground, Hunger Hamsund.
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The Death of Ivan Illych
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The Turn of the Screw
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What are the best books for fully understanding the human condition and the depth of humans and the essence of being a human being?
I'm not trying to be pretentious or a pseud but i'm genuinely wondering after reading rainer maria rilkes novel and poetry. He seems to have a depth especially in his prose which is so beyond me at times or normal human sight that I wish to be closer to it.
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It isn't so much about understanding (rather it expedited my own interest) the human condition scientifically, but I really enjoy Stephen Crane; The Open Boat struck a chord with me few short stories have as far as man v man v nature and all that is concerned.
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What is this "human condition" meme?
Can't literally everything we feel, think and experience be told to be part of the human condition? I don't see how it means anything.
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Anything by William Golding
What are /lit/'s opinions on Terry Pratchett?
I read a lot of Discworld as a young man and I remember thoroughly enjoying them, particularly pic related.
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They are genuinely funny.
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read the first two and two others years ago and was indifferent to them
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>>8280678
t. reddit
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Man, I'm sick of seeing everyone saying "DUNE NEEDS A MINISERIES" or "HBO SHOULD ADAPT DUNE". I've been reading Dune books for two thirds of my life and the series is just not that fucking good. Nothing in the original books would really translate outside of a novel written in the 1960s. What draws people to these awful fucking books
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An unparalleled achievement of imagination
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Dune is good but perhaps a little heavy on the worldbuilding. It's not "awful" by any stretch.
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The onely dune I care about.
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Anyone else see cliches in their poetry? It might be original to the field at large, but something that you personally overuse,
My worst ones:
-writing about writing
-writing about drugs
-starting every poem by telling the reader its "4 AM again"
y'all got any of your own that you cant seem to break?
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I think in both my prose and my poetry I tend to be overly compact; hardly taking the time to build an image.
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I always compare manmade objects and nature. Or girls to fire/light its bad.
Are there any good ways to get out of writing habits?
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>>8280657
Once you're aware of them, just try different things.
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what's the chronological reading order of bible books?
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Start with the Greeks
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>>8280609
bible is greek iirc
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>>8280619
Bible is false. Platonism is where it all came from.
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Help me write a better first page, /lit/? I'm trying to write a high fantasy, dark story about an optimistic man and a pessimistic girl looking for purpose in a cruel world.
Any tips about the writing or how I could better streamline things would be appreciated.
The world blurs around me, in favor of the ever increasing tunnel vision that seems to be overtaking me, and i’m not sure how much longer I could keep my consciousness. I don’t feel anything as my movement slows, and I fall down. I shield the body of the girl as we tumble down the small hill that felt mountainous, with my glaive frequently digging into my back. I begin to reconsider my glaive carrying methodology, but my short lived contemplation is shattered as the pain searing through every part of my body further reinforces abandoning consciousness in favor of a sleep i’d regret for the rest of a very short life..
As snow white trees speed past me, reminding me of the ever looming threat of frostbite, i’m left slowly falling into slumber, and I feel my heartbeat continuously slow. I refuse the honey sweet voice of death with every last bit of my willpower, and keep resisting as we reach the bottom of the hill. The girl seemed to have succumbed to the very unconsciousness I was so bitterly fighting against, and likely has been in such a blissfully ignorant state since I saw her being forcefully carried off by the very same who were chasing us now.
Desperately searching for a solution, and rest, I slide onto the frozen lake, and place the dangerously cold girl on a nearby patch of grass. As the gallop of their horses comes into hearing, I take the chance to examine the injuries I couldn’t feel. My hope was quickly shattered as I saw deep cuts on my thighs and calves. I have to make the most of the adrenaline from the hill still pumping through, I think to myself, before the pain catches up and i’m left immobile.
The horses reach the edge of the lake, but refuse to continue forward. At least that’s going according to plan. No time to gloat on my minor victory, there’s still the problem with the 6~ or so vengeful men who were sprinting onto this frozen arena. A large gust serves only to remind me of my wounds, but I refuse to be hindered by simple wind. I take off my cloak and wield the very glaive that had caused me a fair bit of discomfort on the run from potential death.
I think of the long years i’ve practiced this glaive, I think of the many hours travelling with this glaive, and I think of the minutes to pass in which I will survive with this glaive.
I've also never been good at writing any sort of action, and as I was planning to proceed with confrontation of the two parties, I would like tips/tricks/whatever on how to write proper, or at least enjoyable, action in fantasy.
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I copy pasted from docs, so the formatting was destroyed.
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>the ever increasing tunnel vision
why always ever
>I shield the body of the girl as we tumble down the small hill that felt mountainous
have you ever tumbled down a hill? how would you shield a body and how does it "feel" mountainous? wouldn't you know already since you walked on it?
>I begin to reconsider my glaive carrying methodology
you got me have a nice life
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>>8280505
Glaives. So many glaives in that one sentence.
Keep fight scenes short unless you know what you're doing, it being long has a point, or you're getting off on it.
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Is this guy a fucking oracle or some kind of insider? It's fucking scary everything he writes about starts materializing after a few years.
Also scary Russians thread.
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JC Denton?
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>>8280473
what has he got right?
any other contemporary russian stuff you can recommend? in translation obv
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>>8280473
The guy who wrote that weird pokemon porn cover book?
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Who is the Antonio Machado of English language poetry?
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>>8280451
Probably Nicolas Cage.
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I'd say Robert Frost because of their similar register in regards to diction, although their poetics are not that similar.
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Show your /lit/ filters.
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>>8280429
>being biasedly exposed to discussions based on your prior interests
>>>/reddit/
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>>8280429
I don't even get on /lit/
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INFINITE JEST.
DAVID FOSTER WALLACEEEE.
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Infinite Jest or House of Leaves?
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>>8280419
If you slammed them together repeatedly I think Infinite Jest would hold together before blowing apart, then again House of Leaves has a thicker cover so you may have to just try it yourself
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>>8280419
Women and Men
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Infinite jest
House of leaves I got the impression that it used gimmicks to hide the fact that the core story is only so so.
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What's the best Bible version?
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>>8280303
KJV.
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>>8280309
/thread
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A friend recommended to me the book Hyperion by Dan Simmons said it was gonna fuck me up how true is this?
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yeah it will fucking piss you off with how shitty it is and when you get to the end it sucks balls even more and leaves you with a giant faggy cliffhanger forcing you to either give up (like I did) or read the next shitty instalment.
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>>8280255
Slap yourself, delete this topic, and post it again when you've actually got something to say about the book.
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>>8280255
fucking kill yourself for this thread. fucking drive erratically around some American police. when they pull you over, shout out your window you have a gun. when they tell you to put your hands up, only raise one. get out of the car before they tell you too. make sure your holding something in your hand that they can't see. start walking towards them and reach into your waistband and start yelling I'm gonna shoot you.
suicide complete
two days ago I lost a word and it has been eating at me
what is the word describing "the application of concerted physical force to a small area"
ideally something with physically penetrative connotations, like "prying" or "piercing"
maybe close to "concerted"
any help appreciated
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>>8280219
concentrated
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>>8280230
maybe that is it, I don't know
my problem is that I want to use concentrated or a word like it abstractly, to describe a multi-faceted approach to problem solving.
But when you use "concentrated" in the mental sense, it looses the connotations I find valuable
physically it describes a forceful and attempt to exert force on a small area
but mentally it's reduced to
"thinking hard about something"
"thinking about only one thing"
it becomes studious, methodical; instead of forceful and channeled
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Poke, bro.
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>be me
>boring life
>starts writing shitty short histories for escapism
>life gets interesting
>cannot write now
I've been trying for 3 days straight and my body still refusing to do.
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>writing for escapism
The worst meme to ever happen to literature.
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You should kill yourself
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I agree with >>8280209
If you need a reason to write at all then you probably shouldn't be writing.