when did you find out you were a shit or good writer?
>>7806149
you can never know that, OP
When everything I wrote was received with the same enthusiasm as the dead rabbit a dog brings you.
Who cares anon. They are all plebs anyway.
In Chapter Two Ignatius is writing on a "tablet" but I know they didn't have tablets back then since at first I thought he was updating his blog or something. Does anyone know what the author was trying to say when he said tablet?
stone tablets
I really don't understand the purpose of your thread OP
First paragraph, chapter 2:
>“With the breakdown of the Medieval system, the gods of Chaos, Lunacy, and Bad Taste gained ascendancy.” Ignatius was writing in one of his Big Chief tablets.
one second in google:
>The Big Chief tablet is a popular writing notebook for young children in the United States.
???
>>7806155
americans are weird
How often do you lie about having read something? I do often. I can not help.
op is a faggot
Never, I read for enjoyment, not social capital.
I FUCKING HARE IT when people do this.
really makes it hard to create conversation.
I bring something up in the hopes of getting their opinion and I have to sit and listen to them try and justify why they don't know what I'm talking about.
"Ohh sorry i onky read parts of that book not all of it! "
Will anyone ever translate this book?
>>7805825
Yeah, it's on Amazon, the English name is Bottom's Dream.
Pay up, scrub.
>>7805834
I mean... It'll be published in September...
Go pre-order, scrub.
Thoughts on the Millennium Trilogy?
>>7805815
this is a literature board
>>7805817
Negroid
>>7805815
No, none.
Is there a /lit/ approved version of the Bible? I've been wanting to read it from a more scholarly/historic standpoint than traditional editions but there's far too many annotated and translated versions to choose from.
>>7805773
the god delusion
The King James and Robert Alter's are the only translations which are considered great literature, afaik
>>7805773
If Harold Bloom is our Lit&Savior, then you wanna read King James, and if you want to read more than one, the Tyndale bible is beautiful in its own way.
Just started reading the first book and am currently loving it so far. I see Knausgaard talked about a lot on here but I am curious to see what you /lit/izens thought of the first book or series yourselves?
Also this thread can be a Knausgaard general thread as well.
Yeah, it's great. I've read three of them. The first and second books were incredible. The third was pretty good.
I honestly didn't like the first one that much. It was odd. I found myself drawn to reading it but not really loving it. A lot of the "profound wisdom" moments felt kind of forced and Karl Ove seems like he never outgrows the edgy teen he portrays himself as. I do like when he discusses death, and the scene where he has to get the beer to the party, but the last half of the book drags like crazy, and feels really formless. Yeah yeah, that's the point etc. But I felt like my time could have been better spent on other books. That's just me though, I know the book had gotten incredible reviews.
The part near the end where Karl Ove and his brother are getting drunk with their grandmother is great.
Theories and general I guess
I have this theory I've been working on lately:every book in the series sucks just as much as the last
Why did the resurrect rob starks mom. She only came back for like 1 chapter. Wtf was the point of that
>>7805769
Yeah me too, but was hoping something interestin came up recently
I don't understand the ending
Also why did he spend so much of the novel just referencing poets
>>7805668
Did not get that ending either. Think it's a riddle about freedom
What's this from
>>7806014
savage detectives by bolano
Do great, brilliant people tend to be miserable? If so; why?
>>7805656
Define "great". Not trying to be a smartass, but I suspect that most "great" businessmen and career-men tend to be fulfilled by their occupations in a really single-minded sort of way.
As for artists, authors, intellectuals and (smart) comedians, there is something to be said about the correlation between depression and these pursuits. I personally think that these endeavors involve tackling the Big Questions in life, and being sincerely, acutely concerned with the world around you. It is apparently difficult to wrestle with these things and not become completely miserable.
>>7805656
Because if you keep asking yourself questions, you'll never have answers.
We don't know what makes up everything, and I believe we will never know, especially if everything is infinite. Even if we were to discover the beginning of everything, we still won't be able to grasp the concept, naturally, nor will we know if we actually hit rock bottom.
Everything is a yes, no, and maybe. No definitive answer makes for no definitive base of reasoning to go towards everything, therefore.. we're fucked, not fucked, and maybe fucked. The world, beyond, and anything underneath is whatever we want it to be, f a m.
>>7805656
/lit/ - literature
Is it worth buying or should I go with some other publisher?
>>7805616
Harold Bloom autographed it? No discernible penmanship.
>>7805618
It's his personal recommendation, though.
>he can't speak French
Épique.
>reading philosophy
>combination of existential dread, confusion, and being overwhelmed by philosophy in general gives me an actual headache
>have to stop reading
help
Read Aristotle. He very profoundly lays out the philosophy which confirms common sense, our natural intuition.
Modern philosophy is bad for your health because it always starts with some baffling sophistry as a principle which leads inevitably to such bizarre conclusions. I believe it's said that one of Heidegger's students killed herself because of how confused he made her.
it means it's working
You actually got cucked by a book
/lit/ what is the first novel that comes to mind when you think of mind-blowing/complex plots?
The more mysterious the better. Bonus points if you couldn't predict the ending.
my diary tbqh
I don't read for the plot so I don't remember.
>>7805341
sames
>submit my short story to student journal using an oppressed-sounding name
>it gets kindly rejected
>submit short story to The New Yorker under pen name Zimbabwe Mabooga
>instantly get million dollar advance and six-book deal with Vintage Publishing
>oppressed-sounding
>>7805308
>oppressed-sounding
What are some hypocritical books? Like, books that advocate for a certain message, but the story advocates for the complete opposite. Books that advocate for something, but then realize that that something is impossible to achieve so they just tell you to do the opposite by showing how what they want would never work.
>>7805282
Most religious texts?
>>7805282
Most cookbooks, if you think about it.
>>7805282
i don't think you understand what "hypocritical" means
>Books that advocate for something, but then realize that that something is impossible to achieve so they just tell you to do the opposite by showing how what they want would never work.
if this is what youre looking for, animal farm