Read Under The Volcano and now it's among my fav novels. Want to read more Lowry. Any recommendation?
More Lowry.
>>8050358
Specifically?
Do you aspire to steal the literary 'voice' of any particular writer? Who do you aspire to imitate when you speak and write?
>>8050348
Ezra Pound or Borges, easily
>>8050348
your a faggot
>>8050348
No one because I'll just bee myself.
Stealing and copying is for loser degens who will never get published
I want to know how to organize complex plots for theater. Let me give you guys some examples of what I mean by complex plots:
>A Midsummer Night Dream
>Twelfth Night
>The Comedy of Errors
>Volpone
>A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
>A Little Night Music
>Some Like it Hot
>A Fished Called Wanda
I want to know how I can organize a plot with disguises, change of identities, mistakes, masquerades, last minute inversions, revelations, and all that web of knotty lines of action that eventually converge on a single point.
Is there a book that helps with this kind of ploting? The books about plot I know focus more on simpler things, on how to gain ideas for the main plot, on the act structure, but not on how to organize yourself in so complicated labyrinths.
Just start with a straightforward draft. Then work backwards, changing and connecting things. Convolute every subsequent draft until satisfied.
>>8050382
That's a nice idea: I was even thinking in drawing things, scenes, making lines to conect characters, etc.
>>8050311
>Is there a book that helps with this kind of ploting?
David Mamet has written about this
is war and peace by Tolstoy any good? (i'm serious) yes/no + why?
Yes. I'm about 2/3 of the way in and I have to say it's probably the best book I've read. I was intrigued from the get go and the writing throughout is so profound and feels so powerful that I've truly enjoyed it all the way through so far. I don't agree with all the philosophical or political statements Tolstoy makes, but they're interesting to read. 10/10
>>8050290
One wonders if it would have been as popular if it were printed under the original title.
I don't like it. Too scattershot, too many plotlines don't go anywhere, and far too much apostrophe-essaying about how much Tolstoy hates the Great Man theory of history. (He's not wrong, but it's a quarter of the fucking book.)
Read Anna Karenina or even The Death of Ivan Ilyich instead.
look what came in the mail :-)
>>8050285
Can I have your Underworld?
I thought for a secondt hose were Wojaks on the bottom of the Take Five cover
Still looking for a pirated mobi copy of Zero K
Not on libgen or bookz afaik
What are the "hard bits" in IJ, some of the sentences are long but are there other bits that are HARD. DFW seems to talk about it being a difficult book, the only thing I couldn't do so far has been reading all of that fucking filmography, got it yesterday...
There arent any parts really that are locally "hard", his goal wasnt to make that type of book. The hard part of it really comes after reading it and trying to make sense of all the small and intricate details that are missed on a first read through.
>>8050287
OK, I thought it would be that, I was worried there were like weird logic puzzles hidden in the text or something - was gazing non-nonplussed, on here, at his thesis the other day - of that nature. Will continue to read.
>>8050269
>I'm so smart
nobody cares
How do you feel about Haruki Murakami's upcoming novel about 4chan?
hope it's better than the one he did on reddit
>>8050312
you mean every book he's done?
>>8050323
obviously, bucko
I want to start reading books but it's really hard for me to focus and not derail my head into other thoughts.
And i am not native english speaker so audiobooks are not always there
Are there any exercises/books that will help me?
>>8050252
Yeah, reading.
>>8050252
Don't hang around electronic devices, read in public spaces, libraries
Read everyday, set realistic goals for progress
>>8051323
>Don't hang around electronic devices
This basically, just to add that personally I've only ever been able to read from paper or a tablet.
Reading on a computer or a smartphone is impossible. I know, I've tried.
Hey /lit/
Fiction hasn't been holding my attention lately, as much as it used to at least. I'm looking for some recommendations on non-fiction, specifically essays or essay collections. School is starting to ramp up so I don't have a ton of time to read. Just read Voices from Chernobyl recently and loved it. And though I haven't read any of DFW's fiction I've really enjoyed his essays.
What good essayists or essay collections should I check out?
>>8050216
Sun and Steel by Mishima
>>8050216
>Voices from Chernobyl
I want more like this too, just not war reporting
why when ever I'm at the bookstore and I look up an NYRB book or a vintage contemporary book do they all have shit ratings and reviews? why publish these books?
>>8050183
Corncob Tortillas YeCarthy deserves all the shit reviews he gets. He's a fucking hack.
About 20 years ago my father returned from a business trip to New York with pic related having had it recommended to him from someone who worked in a Barnes & Noble. I've still got it, to this day.
>>8050200
Kill yourself faggot
shame about the failed coup, but his books were pretty decent yeah?
He succeeded at everything he set out to.
You pleb.
>>8050111
He did, but his apprentices spilled their spaghetti pretty hard.
Wtf did I just read lol
are you trolling? the title is literaly on the book cover...
>>8049932
Going by the cover, some artistic rendition of a man climbing a hill
mind flow of a syphilitic man
I want to effectively reach and love new pieces of art. I'm not asking you for your favourite works, but please post:
>books you like
>films you like
>albums you like
>a painting you like
Try to avoid posting works/masterpieces everyone already knows, and don't try to be pretentious. Let's make this useful for everyone.
Mine:
>Jesus' Son, Hearing Trumpet, Poor Things, The Willows
>Fallen Angels, A Serious Man, The Chaser, Braindead
>The Absent Coast, Cosmic Surgery, Ecstacy (Lou Reed), Ten Impressions for Piano & Strings
>>8049928
>Book of the Dead, Ecclesiastes, Dhammapada
>Enter the Void, Inland Empire, Moonrise Kingdom
>Pilot Talk 2, When She Closed Her Eyes, Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill, Airport Music, Somnium
>Sex and Character, Mulamadhyamakakarika, Hadji Murat
>Night and the City, Fallen Idol, Roman Holiday, Rosemary's Baby
>All Summer Long, ABC, Endtroducing
>>8049928
Major League I and II great films.
Paintings are for waiting rooms.
will i get smarter if i keep reading zizek? why doesn't he have any solutions to the problems he presents?
>>8049843
>will i get smarter if i keep reading zizek
no
>>8049843
>will i get smarter if i keep reading zizek?
If you don't even understand how fucking stupid that question is, no.
What is the best early catholic literature?
What is the best "dark ages" literature
What should I read in the gap between the romans and epic poetry of the midieval period?
Thanks ladfams
>>8049811
St. Augustine is pretty good. His Confessions are a must read, from there read the City of God. Also, look up: St. Teresa of Avila (I think I spelled her name wrong but it should give you hits on google), St. Thomas Aquinas (if you like the philosophy side of things) and Dante Alighieri.
Tank ye m8
Gday
>>8049811
>What is the best early catholic literature?
Chanson de Roland
Muslim smashing goodness.
>What is the best "dark ages" literature
The thousands and thousands of pages of saga and edda in the Icelandic corpus