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>tfw spending more time reading about reading on /lit/ rather than reading books
Am I the only one with such horrible discipline? How do I fix it?
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Close the laptop, meditate, then read.
Meditate regularly and stay off the laptop.
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get better taste in stories
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Get some willpower faggot, just do it.
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Inspiration thread: post pictures that inspire you.
If you see something you like, write about it. Prose, poetry, dialogue, anything.
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Will Self to publish adaptation of Great Gatsby set in modern day 2016-04-24 15:22:39 Post No.7959936
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This is not acclaimed novelist Will Self's first rodeo. He is also the author of another modern-day adaptation of classic literature, Dorian, an Imitation. Dorian, an Imitation is a take on Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray. That adaptation takes place in the '90s and '80s and the main character is a looks obsessed man trying to make it in the London Art scene. "I wasn't going to play fast and loose with the story like I did with Dorian" says Self "and the time gap between the 1920s and 2010s is less than a hundred years, but I tried to make it very unique without changing the plot or the themes. It was a challenge, but the solution was writing it in a different way and writing it from a bit of a different perspective."
The book is slated to be published in early 2017. If, like many of us, you absolutely cannot wait to get a taste of Self's Gatsby, you can at least read the blurb that will appear on dust jacket:
"At first, I couldn’t understand why the media was making such a big deal of the billionaire’s death. After all, the people of Planet Earth had other concerns. The ongoing energy crisis. Catastrophic climate change. Widespread famine, poverty, and disease. Half a dozen wars. You know: “dogs and cats living together . . . mass hysteria!” Normally, the news- feeds didn’t interrupt everyone’s interactive sitcoms and soap operas un- less something really major had happened. Like the outbreak of some new killer virus, or another major city vanishing in a mushroom cloud. Big stuff like that. As famous as he was, Halliday’s death should have war- ranted only a brief segment on the evening news, so the unwashed masses could shake their heads in envy when the newscasters announced the obscenely large amount of money that would be doled out to the rich man’s heirs.
My name is Nick Garcia and I was the friend of this man: The Great Gatsby! This is his story..."
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>Will Self
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>will self
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>it's a modern day version of an old work adaptation
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>>7959803
welcome to da forum
KNiGHT_oF_FAiTH
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shut up manlet
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hi every1 im new!!!!!!! *holds up boulder* my name is camus but u can call me 515YPHU5!!!!!!!! lol...as you can see im very absurd!!!! thats why i came here, 2 meet absurd ppl like me _... im 46 years old (im dispassionate 4 my age tho!!) i like 2 push rocks up hills f/ eternity (im rebellious and don't need anything else if you dont like it deal w/it) bcuz it SOOOO meaningless!!!! its absurd 2 of course but i want to meet more absurd men =) like they say the more the happier!!!! lol...neways i hope 2 meet lots of absurd men here so give me lots of recognitions!!!!
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I wrote this recently. How is it? Give it a chance. Picks up halfway through.
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The sentences are a bit short and sharp but the grammar is decent enough to understand. To be honest I liked the first half more, I'm not one for plea endings.
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Did you paint the cover yourself or asked they guy who made it if you can use it? It's pretty cool.
Also you didn't post any links to the book expecting people to know were to get it.
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I just marathoned the first two pages and realised that it just isn't for me.
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What are the greatest books ever written?
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Probably the Overlord light novels.
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The Bible
The Iliad and the Odyssey
The Aeneid
The Divine Comedy
The Canterbury Tales
Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth
Don Quixote
Paradise Lost
what does zizek think of anime, /lit/?
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>>7958749
PURE
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I doubt he cares about it
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>>7958776
You would be mistaken. Retreat of the accepted Big Other and the absence of an agent who will give structure to our chaotic sexual lives.
I can only buy one book.
What book do I buy?
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Encyclopedia Britannica
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a big one?
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In Search of Lost Time
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What does /lit/ think about this little book? Is it the ultimate /comfy/ book?
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>post yfw when you realize it's a book about a retard playing with a piece of shit, pretending it's a bear.
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>>7958459
you're a samefag
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I never see Jane Austen discussed here, what does /lit/ think of her?
I've never read anything by her, here should I start?
Also, would you fuck her? Looks like a solid 8/10 if you ask me
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Brilliant prose stylist.
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I feel like I'm watching SOL anime reading her work, but I mean that in a good way, it's cute and comfy. And I don't find Austin's interjections as a narrator as annoying as I thought it would be.
Some chick thought I was gay because I've read most of her stuff
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>>7957906
Iirc that picture is actually a "beautified" version of an original. It appears that she wasn't very attractive, and she was never married. That said, I find her novels clever and very well-written, but if you aren't interested in Georgian England, marriage structures, and romance (lowercase and capital r), then you might not find them very enjoyable. I say that not to discourage you, that's just my opinion of her books.
I would suggest starting with either Pride and Prejudice or Northanger Abbey. Pride and Prejudice is her most famous, and it's pretty enjoyable, her writing just has this sort of airy, easeful quality that can be very soothing. It can also be boring as hell, though, depending on your taste. Northanger Abbey is much more witty and humorous (though all her books are humorous to a degree). However, most of the humor will be lost if you aren't at least a little familiar with the conventions of the Gothic novel (if this interests you, I would recommend The Mysteries of Udolpho or The Romance of the Forest, both by Ann Radcliffe, or The Monk by Matthew Lewis (which is very sensational and erotically charged, very notorious at its time)).
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ITT: Books featuring relatable main characters
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The Killer Inside Me, by Jim Thompson
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lolita is a dumb child so i can see how it'd be relateable to retards like you.
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Dodo in Middlemarch comes to mind.
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Recommend people their next 10 books. 2016-04-23 23:13:22 Post No.7957485
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Recommend people their next 10 books.
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Let's have a thread where we all get recommend books to read. If you have one of the books, read it immediately.
Just post 'Recommend me books' to get replies.
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Notes from the Underground
Don Quixote
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>>7957505
Recommend me shit to read. Preferably something that isn't 9000 pages worth of word salads.
I read Notes from the Underground earlier this month. I'm open to more books of the same sort.
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>>7957485
The Tunnel by William Gass
The Recognitions by William Gaddis
Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
Ulysses by James Joyce
Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon
Double or Nothing by Raymond Federman
Darconville's Cat by Alexander Theroux
The Public Burning by Robert Coover
Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany
I have more, if you want them.
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How can real life be this gripping holy shit
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It isn't, he is making it up and wrapping up in prose and sophistry to make it have an appearance of being interesting.
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>retelling of a story
>real life
THE FISH WAS T-H-I-S BIG
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Reading Book 5 now. It owns.
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For non-anglo anons, how is Shakespeare regarded in your country? Do you read him in school?
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The big guy who inspired everyone. Even bigger than Goethe.
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>>7956812
Yes, we do read him, but not a lot. Like three plays and one or two sonnets if I recall correctly. I believe it was Macbeth, King Lear and Romeo and Juliet, not sure which sonnets were read back in school.
General attitude ... hmmm ... mostly everyone heard of him, but I think only about 10% read some of his works, and of those 10% about 80% probably only read R&J.
tl;dr: Read in school, still generally unknown but for Romeo and Juliet.
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>>7956812
It was an optional author in my highschool. But lot of students chose Poe or Wilde instead. I read most of the tragedies in junior high - in spanish, then pick it up again in college (in english this time) and since then I've read and re-read Hamlet and The Tempest many, many times.
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Is French worth learning for literature, poetry and maybe some music? I probably won't use it other way than for reading or listening, since I'm not sure if France would be worth visiting.
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you have to consider the opportunity cost in your scenario.
how would you spend your free time if you weren't learning french?
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Yes it is worth it. French lit is the only literature that can stand up to English literature imo.
Also they have some really cool music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo7e0UkT4XA
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