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When I'm reading most fiction books, after a few chapters I feel a strain in my head. I find this especially with books written before WWII, they are so slow, like running sand paper over my eyes. The only books that have genuinely got me hooked are 1984, Wolf Hall, and the Space Odyssey series, by which I mean I could read over a 100 pages in one stretch without stopping or feel like it was a chore. It is different for graphic novels: I've read many of these and they don't bore me.
Is there anything I can do to help myself? What kind of book/author should I go for?
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old scifi is shit. we have different expectations nowadays
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get an adderall prescription then read philip k dick
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>>8037233
You also have to check if your editions have bad kerning/inappropriate typography/ bad structure/ poor printing. A badly structured book, no matter how good it is, will be almost impossible to read. Good structure means your eyes glide through the page. Reading should be effortless. When you buy a book, check it and see if you can read a couple pages without getting lost. If your eyes can't follow the sentences correctly, search for another edition.
>kerning: space between letters
>designer here
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Is this correct Shakespearean English?
Sounds kind of wrong to me
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>may you your peace discover
what does this mean?
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>>8037093
May you find peace
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>>8037081
Second person singular present indicative of may can be either mayest or mayst.
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Sup /lit/ looking for some some recs on great women writers. someone that writes like Pynchon but any style is fine as long as its good
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There are no females who write like Pynchon. It takes a man's intelligence to do so.
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>>8036959
Pynchon 79 year old self would slap the shit out of you for saying some shit like that next to him
>reading anything modern
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>Young girls to fuck!
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True, OP. I despise anyone that reads post-XIX century literature and laugh myself at those DFW, Pynchon etc readers. It's pretty fun to see the plebiness of "i just finished mason dixon guys its cool its cool" posters.
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>>8036843
>obligatory millennial muh dik-ing
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When did you finally realize you are shit writer?
For me, when I read Thomas Wolfe for the first (and only) time, and it was terrible but reminiscent my own writing.
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When I read "somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond" and realized that my poetry is stylistically similar in some ways but will never be as beautiful as Cummings's.
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Hey, i like thomas wolfe :(
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>>8036907
this
fuck you, op. the only thing bad re: wolfe is that it inspired kerouac to write
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I just sat down with my new copy of the works of Alexander Pushkin when it hit me. why the fuck am I reading this shit in English I fucking speak Russian . Problem is I haven’t actually read much in Russian for about 13 years or so.
What would be a good text to reintroduce myself to the Russian language ?
Im looking though my parents library and here is what I have to choose from
nikolai gogol - colected works
The Master and Margarita
the divine comedy (Dante)
Stefan Zweig - colected works
Alexander Pushkin - colected works
War And Peace
alexander griboyedov- colected works
ivan krylov- colected works
Velimir Khlebnikov- colected works
(there is more but its hard to reach without making a mess)
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PS:im not asking which is the greater work, im asking Russian speakers which would be the best to start with
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You should read the version that you'd get a fuller understanding from. If you're absolutely fluent in both, read the original text since It was good enough to be translated.
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>>8036847
well that’s the thing im not fluent in Russian, I used to be but that was 10 years ago. Still it would be a waste for me to lose it .
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I like Thomas Mann and Kafka, what else would I like?
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>>8036761
Jesse Ball - The Way Through Doors
Jorge Luis Borges - Ficciones
Andre Breton - Nadja
Dostoevsky - The Double
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krasznahorkai
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>>8036769
Knut Hamsun - Mysteries
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/sffg/ - Sword and Sorcery Edition
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>Fantasy
Selected: http://i.imgur.com/3v2oXAY.jpg/
General: http://i.imgur.com/igBYngL.jpg/
Flowchart: http://i.imgur.com/uykqKJn.jpg/
>Sci-Fi
Selected: http://i.imgur.com/A96mTQX.jpg/
General: http://i.imgur.com/r55ODlL.jpg/ / http://i.imgur.com/gNTrDmc.jpg/
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>>8036624
Take Sanderson to /a/
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How would you define the subgenres of fantasy, and what do you think are the best examples of each?
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Books that show life is worth living.
Do you have any? Preferably classics.
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>>8036555
Conan the Cimmerian
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The Stranger
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>>8036568
Really, really terrible choice. How does The Stranger show life is worth living?
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Writing with a typewriter
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What are your feelings towards writing with a typewriter?
I feel that you can better think about the permanence of your intended emotions to the page with a typewriter. The noise of the clattering keys seems to be a motivational one, allowing silence only for deep thought. You can't delete and there's the fantastic benefit of no internet (or even electricity!) to distract you.
But every time I say this to someone they laugh and call me a hipster. They think it's a gimmick. Granted, I could get the similar action by writing everything by hand, but somehow it's not as forceful. Plus my handwriting is horrendous and often causes confusion.
Pic related, a similar writer to my own.
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>>8036279
only if you have tits like clarice lispector >>8033550
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It has to be cool because Hank uses one in Californication, ask those people who call you a hipster if they would rather like you to sit in a starbucks with your macbook writing stupid short stories like everyone nowadays. Use what fits best for you and if a typewriter is your canalisator go and buy one.
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>>8036282
I bought my one for £6 in a charity shop. There was one fault which is now fixed which was the little bell didn't chime. Now it does.
Doesn't the author of Game of Thrones write with an 80's compter program?
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Who's the Orson Wells of /lit/?
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>>8036238
one should be 18 to use 4chan :^)
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IDK, Shakespeare?
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Orson Scott Card and H. G. Wells.
ITT We rewrite a scene or line from Shakespeare in the style of John Green
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This might have been fake, like a hurricane.
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>>8036220
Oh Juliett, I cannot love you.
Why Romeo?
There haven't been enough dicks in your cheerios.
Fin
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>>8036220
Who is John Green? I see his name a lot on here...
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He was right about everything. 2016-05-14 09:50:36 Post No.8036112
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He was right about everything.
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Anyone else regularly experience having some insight about modern life and then instantly realizing the very next moment that he got there first?
Here's how it works.
>thinking about a topic
>arrive at a seemingly original insight or conclusion
>one second passes
>"that's dfw"
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Could you be more specific?
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>>8036149
like when you realize you have no 'discernible talent'.
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you know youre not actually meant to read dfw right?
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All the non-native English speakers here: how did you start reading the greats? Did you read them translated to your language, in English or in their original languages(assuming they weren't English speakers themselves)?
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Prefer Ænglisch in 99% of cases unless I can read it in the original language 2bh
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>>8036002
Did you start like that? What is your native language?
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why is the robot from metropolis watching a slav protestor assault a guard with a swiffer handle while another guard stands completely at ease unnaffected by the whole situation?
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Daily reminder that poetry is the ultimate form of literature
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poetry is gay
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>>8035844
You're gay.
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>>8035845
everyone on this board is gay Anon