Post your favorite short story collections.
>>8248036
Still working through it because of how many there are but enjoying it greatly
Dear Life, Alice Munro
booooooooooooooooring
I fell asleep just by reading Joyce's name.
Ya Dubs really pales in comparison to all his other work.
People like to jerk it to the Dead, which is good.
There are some conversations about whether that guy is jerking off or just taking a piss.
ring a ring a rosie
as the lght declines
i remember dublin city
in the rare old times
>I get what the author was trying to do, but it just doesn't work
>I get that here the philosopher does two things, but it just doesn't work
>>8247922
>Metal Gear Solid
>It just felt really formulaic
Was this quite shitty or is it just me who doesn't get it? What's all the fuss about?
The Manchuria parts were excellent.
Stuff like that woman licking his face and all the real estate bullshit was bullshit though
>>8247896
spot on review
it's his best book
he's a really shitty author
so yeah.
I just read the first 4 chapters of this. Why is Golding's writing so hard to follow? Am i dumb?
Should I continue with it?
>>8247870
Is English your first language, also how is The Inheritors? I've always been really curious about it since I liked Lord of the Flies a lot.
>>8247919
It is, but since he's writing from the viewpoint of a Neanderthal it makes the language he's using rather odd and pair that with his unnecessary and garbled descriptions of the terrain its down right confusing at times.
And i'm the same, really enjoyed LOTF so decided to give this a read. I'm enjoying it so far its just the odd paragraphs which I can't make sense of annoy me. Also i think i'm supposed to understand the positioning of the area they are in but I just cant picture it.
Has no one read this book or something?
Anyone got any good books which go on the topic of writing(essays,narratives,etc)
>>8247751
The dictionary.
Oxford Guide to writing
More for essays and shit like that. Good for fiction too since it gets deep into the technicalities of prose.
Charles Bukowski: On Writing
Does anyone have this edition of V. (Vintage Classics)? I want to buy this novel and the only options I have are this and the Perennial Classics which I will post the cover after this. But as far as I've researched, the Perennial edition is the 'unauthorized' uncorrected version, and the British ones are the more definitive versions of the novel. So, I'm leaning for the Vintage edition, but I really HATE that art cover, and also I wanted to get some input regarding the paper quality, font, book durability, etc
>>8247706
this is the Perennial Classics edition that apparently has the uncorrected version of the novel
>>8247706
The perennial one is better in terms of everything but the text not being the revised edition, those "where's Waldo" cover vintage editions have notoriously shoddy print quality.
But no one's actually done a comparison of the uncorrected text to the "authorized" version, so it's hard to say if the final version is significantly different from the one that got published in 'Murrica or not.
>>8247722
I've read a few diferences in an article and it seems like it's just minor details, but I'd still prefer very much having the corrected version. It just feels like the right thing to do. Damn, now I'm stuck
Okay, I do not go on this board, or 4chan, regularly. I am a high school student who has recently turned 18 and got kicked out of my old high school, leaving me with two misdemeanors that I have to take care of ( 1 year probation, community service.) I was dealing/doing drugs daily while attending school and while calming down and sort of clearing my mind or sobering up, I have just realized that I have no idea what the fuck I am doing. When I do read I usually stick with Murakami and Kurt Vonnegut, they just really grab my attention and distract me like another drug. Are there any books you think might help or just "enlighten" a lost man who has no idea what is even going on?
>>8247688
Start with the greeks.
>>8247688
My Antonia and Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather.
>>8247688
stay off the internet, go camping and hiking
Hey /lit/
I'll be on a plane for 12 hours, in two days time and I'd like to read a book (any book that is freely attainable on the Internet as an ePub file; preferably Gutenberg because it doesn't fuck with my iPod the same way some other sites do) for the entirety of the plane trip. I lost my eReader
charger here, my ereader is dead and I figured there's no point trying to buy a new charger considering I'll be arriving back home so soon anyway where I have a spare charger. I want to read some Russian non-Dostoevskian (because i strongly prefer P&V's translations which can't be freely attained online and I've already read all his shorts and I'm trekking through Brothers on my ereader anyway) lit that isn't horribly translated
and would fit to some nice extent in the timeframe of 12 hours
Thanks!
Just read some gogol short stories
>>8247675
This famalam. Throw in some Chekov and a couple of New Testament books and you're good.
>>8247672
Arthur Conan Doyle's nonfiction, like The Boer War and The Crime of the Congo are really good on PG.
Get posting faggots
read the wiki
>>8247667
wow what a great idea for a thread
and i really appreciate all the work you did in telling us your own thoughts before asking everyone to expend energy on your behalf
Le Comte de Monte Cristo
What does /lit/ think of Arthur C.Clarke?
Personally he's my favorite genre fiction writer and has pretty decent prose, my favorite works of his are 2001 a space odyssey, Childhood's End and Rendezvous with Rama.
>>8247646
the nine billion names of god is probably the best sci fi short story ever
>>8247652
wow that was a great read, thanks anon
>>8247646
I've read City And The Stars, and Rendezvous With Rama. The former was much more enjoyable with all of the exotic scenery, unusual robots, the intriguing aspects of a past being revealed, including its religions.
While Rama turned out to be an anticlimactic bore-fest; too dry, too uneventful, not profound, just a series of problems being solved prosaically. So my ultimate feelings about Clarke are of ambivalence. If I approach anything else from him it will be his short stories.
"You're rapping about homosexuals and vicodin, I can't sell this shit! Either change the record, or it's not coming out"
What did he mean by this?
>>8247603
>What did he mean by this?
what do you mean by this?
This thread is about a skit on an Eminem record, and it will remain on the literature board until it dies naturally in ten hours.
>>8247619
rap is poetry + music. i determine this thread to be completely on-topic
>read Phaedo
>Socrates gets asked how he knows the soul is immortal
>he says it's immortal by definition
>"omg Socrates, you've done it again!"
Ah well, it's a bit more canon cred but I gained no pleasure from this.
don't trust everything you read
>>8247600
What did you think about his theory of ideas/forms, theory of recollection, and his ideas about the qualities of the soul?
>>8247600
he gives like 3 or 4 arguments for it
Punctuation question.
What is it called when you ask the audience a question in a piece of prose and what is the accepted punctuation structure for this kind of writing.
Examples:
> "How?" you may ask? Well, let me tell you!
> You may be thinking, "Why or how or when," but that is beside the point.
> Do not presume to ask, "punctuation is of little consequence in this day and age!"
Those examples are what I think the punctuation should look like, but I can't be sure. Any help appreciated.
>>8247598
that's just a rhetorical question
first example is ok except it doesn't need the second question mark (after "ask")
second example is just missing a question mark
third example is not phrased as a question, it's just a statement
>>8247604
thanks
>>8247598
>you may ask
This is a statement. The "conditional element" you find in a question is in the "may," so a question mark would be redundant. The "How?" part is okay, because you're stating they may ask.
Also, some sentences take the form of a question that don't need question marks if they aren't interrogative.
For instance, "Who gives a shit," is only interrogative if you are legit asking who gives a shit. Most of time it's a statement, which is saying "No one gives a shit."
Other statements in the form of questions could be:
>"You're gay, aren't you."
(states that you're gay)
>"How dare you call me gay."/"How could you."
(accusation, not interrogative)
>"How gay are you."
(states that you're gay)
Is this a good introduction to postmodernism? I heard a lot about it, but the fact Jameson is a neo-marxist is a bit of a turn off. Is it objective, profound, or will I end up having a wrong idea of pomo?
>>8247577
I guess that one and "The postmodern condition" by Lyotard.
Sounds more like a critique of it.