Archived threads in /lit/ - Literature - 3598. page

>>8172951
Sounds interesting, and I'm always on the lookout for testimonies of bohemian/intellectual groups from the female members' point-of-view.

it sounds good

ill download it

thanks op

>falling for the nyrb pr made on this board
n1

I feel like reading anything less than 800 pages is a waste of time; it's always a fleeting experience.

>>8172937
And I feel like reading anything more than 300 pages is a waste of time.

>>8172939
But what's the point? What do you get out of a short book? There's no room for discussion of the events as it's over so soon.

None whatsoever

>>8172783
DSM

Memoirs of my nervous illness - Schreber

>>8172552
Pilar was the town whore wasn't she? Early in book it talks about how they would both visit her and have sex, so I guess since it's unknown who impregnated her the parentage of the children is shared by both of them.

>>8172552
Chapter 4

>>8172566
>Early in book it talks about how they would both visit her and have sex,
I only remember José Arcadio fucking her and talking with Aureliano about it.

>>8172571
Thanks, I have to read it again to remember that part.

>>8172296

probably missing a conflict or a reason for why the characters are doing anything at all.

shit happens

it doesn't matter what, it's an excuse to get characters talking.

>>8172301
Well the problem is my conflicts are all philosophical and thematic rather than concrete. Characters are upset by their place in society or struggle to reconcile their preconceived notions of reality with what their reality actually is. All that pretentious stuff is well and good, but it leads to nothing but characters sitting around talking to themselves, each one having their own private existential crisis.

>>8172306
Well no shit, sherlock.
You'd be hardpressed to come up with a plot where shit didn't happen.

>clickbait shill garbage

no thanks

>>8172035
>le /pol/ or /r9k/-tier bait article

Kill yourself

>>8172050
>>8172053
You should read it anyway because it's an opinion of someone relating to the area of literature.

if you want everyone to fail your course, sure

>>8171747
Depends on literature. 50 is steep for undergrad when they have 4-5 other classes to think about
should shoot for 200-250 a week (this lets them pace themselves and either do 30-40 a day)

>>8171764
Or binge during the weekend. But it def depends on the difficulty of the text.

>>8171669
It seems fine to me. Why do you ask?

is pevear and volokhonsky copy of the master and margarita acceptable? I have glenny as well but I heard that one is trash. Those are the only two I have access to,

Are there any authors that found their writing to be shit? Inversely any authors who were extremely satisfied and smug about their writing? Give me the extreme examples.

write me a six word story /lit/

For starters it's Hemmingway.

>>8171851
Pop pop pop watching motherfuckers drop

>>8171600
I browse /lit/ sensu depai.

>>8171634
Holy shit me too.

>>8171600
I would write lots of letters to other members but only rarely show up to the meetings themselves, to develop an air of mystique about myself. I would probably just discuss lit/philology

>>8171095
The Marquis de Sade has good stuff.
- Eugenie de Franval
- Justine
- Juliette
- Philosophy in the Bedroom

>>8171113
Thanks senpai

ulysses

>>8171010
Probably his more famous earlier stories
Then his middle epics
Then his pretty good later works

You can read them in any order, really, I would stick to shorter stories first like Rats In The Walls. Read all of his really great long stories like Call of Cthluhu and Dunwhich Horror. Mix it up with long and short, old and new.

Defiantly read all the short Dream Cycle stories before diving into Dream Quest For Unknown Kadath. Then read the two short sequeals that come after that one.

>>8171010
I feel like i've answered this question ten times in /lit/ but ok...
No special order but i would recommend you now read The Case of Charles Dexter Ward

He is barely readable. Cool ideas he presented and the sort of atmosphere he is known for are part of insufferable stories with bad storytelling, which makes them great for usage in movies and video games, but this literature itself is just appaling.
Some things really do age badly.

>>8170934
>tfw you learned what 'arch' meant from Always Sunny

>craythur
>samming

those are all I can remember

>>8170934
I like to look up words whose definitions I know already, for a couple reasons: to check how closely my internal definition matches the external, and to familiarize myself with the etymology, which often adds great depth to my understanding of the word.

One of the words I recently looked up was "moron"

the etymology is interesting: it comes from greek, and literally means "an adult having the mental age of an 8-12 yr old" if I remember correctly.

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Why choose only one?

>>8170904

Bachelors in philosophy is worth/more meaningful than a career as a writer. Writers are literally all just pseuds.

>>8170913
And philosophers aren't?

>>8170795
It's next on my to-read list

How are you liking it so far?

>hurrr look at me im reading this doorstopper you guys talk so much about, pls validate me!

You want a pat on the back or something kid?

are you reading it in russian?