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Thread Question:
What's your favorite work of Sci-Fi or Fantasy not written in your native language? What foreign writers have captured your imagination?

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has a book ever given you a boner.

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What makes this good literature?

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As you would in a novel
even if you're not gay

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What are you currently writing? Novel, short story, poem, screenplay etc.

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The play just had its first preview and the plot is worse than garbage fanfiction.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/06/10/harry-potter-and-the-cursed-child-spoilers-here-s-the-plot-of-the-play.html

Some highlights:
>This blond boy introduces himself as Scorpius Malfoy, son of Draco. Despite the kids’ open discussion that his real father could be Voldemort, Albus decides to stay.
>Albus is intrigued by this older girl with silver and blue hair
>Bane, the centaur,
>She tells him to get back to school or he’s going to ruin Voldemort Day.
>Every conversation in this alternate reality ends by people crossing their wrists and saying: For Voldemort and valor.
>Every girl at Hogwarts is hoping Scorpius—known as the Scorpion King—will ask them to the Blood Ball. The other kids do his homework.
>Snape lets him into a secret room where Hermione and Ron are in hiding. Hermione is the most wanted wizard in the world.

J.K. Rowling is already in full damage control mode and is calling anyone who discusses spoilers wormtails.

https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/741736176034418688

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So I've been reading Nietzsche, Dostoiévski and Bauman recently and end up concluding that I'm a nihilist who denies political institutes, moral values and the meaning of life itself. Hence, I see no point of spending time caring about life choices such as college courses, or a vague definition of success for instance. The result of all this scheme is a miserable, weird and hell of anxious 20 years old man. I'm slightly losing my interest in everything. What should I read, what would enlight me, what do I do? Not sure if I had to post on /lit/ or /his/, but here sounds good enough.

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Why does /lit/ hate Stephen King? Or at the very least not think highly of him?

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Something

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I want to read some non-fiction in between tough books.

Can anyone suggest a great biography? Something funny or something about war might be nice. But I guess the subject doesn't matter as long as it's interesting and well-written

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So I' m really intrigued to find out if anyone out there has entered the void or "another dimension" while undertaking recreational drug use or meditation... I have this theory that Psychedelics are able to alter our perception and cause us to see things that aren't or possibly are there. I have also asked a few people who practice meditation and rituals about this and every persons reaction is different.
I also believe that we are able to look into/control our being in these realms through our production of D.M.T (be it natural or not) and also through our R.E.M cycles although for many people they consider it to be Lucid Dreaming or Astral Projection.
Any thoughts on these theories?

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Why read literature worth reading if i will surely misinterpret it because i am uneducated moron? What is the even point in trying?

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What is the function of constant chronicles, names in Bible?

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Esteemed /lit/erati,

This is a question about storylines and what makes a good one, inspired by realising what the core thread of the SoIaF "trilogy" really is.

I have a question about some popular fantasy series by some guy with too many 'R's in his name, but, actually, it is a question about stories and storylines full-stop. I don't particularly want this thread to descend into "Martin sux" shitposting. I want reasoned thoughts about stories. While I've never read Martin's books, I'm now at a point in the tv series that the core thread of the story is coming to light.

See, I read somewhere that Mr RRRR conceived of a trilogy and while he was busy writing the first book – copying the whole thing from an English history text he borrowed from the library – he apparently realised, "Hey, this is good, I should do more of this," and ended-up turning his "first book" into three or four.

Yet, it does serve to distract from the core thread of this being a tale about the dragons, controlled by Brandon, saving the world from the magical White Walkers – a classic "dark lord" story if ever you've heard one. And, along the lines of the recent "Cliches" thread, doing something new and different is the way to rehash old storylines. Furthermore, it has kept the magical elements of fantasy to a minimum, thus attracting a large (tv) audience in who would normally be pretty wary of too much fantastic magic. Reasons I reckon LotR works, too. Concentration on the political war for three-or-four books, on making "The Tudors", Westerosi-style, dribbling out the core story thread in snippets and introducing ten thousand different characters all serves to distract and keep us from seeing the real story.

LotR was a pretty linear storyline and there's really not much, structurally, to it – Frodo inherits ring; Frodo journeys with some buddies to get rid of ring; Frodo is let down by buddies; Frodo worms his way through Mordor; Frodo is helped/hindered by Gollum; Frodo disposes of ring/Gollum; the end. It is a very simple storyline, and might have ended-up entirely boring were it not for all the … and here's that key word again… distractions from the core story.

So, we have Aragorn, an elf and a dwarf doing things in Rohan and then at a final battle that's really NOT the final battle but it serves as an exciting distraction, and we have a couple of comedy hobbits doing funny things (in the movies anyway) and destroying Orthanc. Again, while I appreciate it is all important threads in the story, especially Aragorn's slow acceptance of his future role in all this, the core thread of the story is Frodo and that damn ring. LotR's distractions are not as bad as quad-R's political/10,000-characters gumph, more like the whole Black Castle/Jon Snow storyline – definitely relevant for us to know all about the impending doom, but not being the core story.

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heyy people have you ever read books about magical realism like The House of the Spirits written by Isabel Allende.